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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@rangeredacted
Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley? I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.
The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth
Imagine Anakin absolutely losing his mind as it’s explained to him that his marriage is literally illegal because of article whatever subsection b and it’s because 400 years ago there was an entrapment scheme and that’s why Padme is being sued by the republic
Funniest possible set up for a fix it.
Padme dragged before the courts bc you had to know this was illegal there’s literally no way you didn’t know this was illegal. Naboo under a microscope bc the former queen/current senator married a jedi – and not even a real knight jedi at the time, a baby jedi!! – and is naboo trying to entrap the jedi order??? sources say: MAYBE!
Anakin, losing his mind and opening his mouth to cause more problems, says something – on live broadcast, beamed to every corner of the galaxy –about his good buddy the chancellor knowing and saying it was totally fine🤬🤬🥺🥺🥺.
“Oh, so it’s definitely an attempt by naboo to entrap the jedi order and/or claim ownership of them and/or do any of the other things we have that law to prevent huh” says literally everyone in the galaxy, “chancellor palpatine 💯 wants to Rule The Galaxy Forever and is going to extort the Jedi to do it”
which. yes, but also, no.
something something, investigations into everything naboo has ever touched, something something, hey, chancellor, why the fuck do you have a red lightsaber in your desk actually??
M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S
It’s not Christmas unless this giftset has appeared on your dash at least five times.
It’s back 💕
it’s not christmas without wilf on your dash
Annual Wilf reblog.
I must also reblog Wilf
something i really liked about the obi-wan series is the universal acknowledgement that obi-wan isn’t just a central figure by dint of being the main character of this show, of being tied to the skywalkers and organas, he’s a central figure because of his position within the jedi order.
“you were once a great jedi,” says nari, devastated that obi-wan won’t protect and help him. haja is shocked to learn not just that he’s a jedi but that he’s obi-wan. nobody except sidious (and reva) needs any reason for vader’s fixation on hunting down obi-wan kenobi - he’s obi-wan kenobi. master-in-waiting of the jedi order, third greatest master of the end of the jedi age after grand master yoda and master of the order mace windu, the master of soresu, jedi high general, leader of the third systems army.
obi-wan coming back into his own doesn’t just mean protecting people, or even regaining his way with words - coming back into his own means that in a room packed with other force-sensitive people, including multiple other jedi, he is the undisputed figure in command.
looking at the message wall on daiyu, he properly comprehends there are other jedi survivors. looking at the message wall on jabiim, he properly comprehends that he is their leader. he is a member of the high council, he is now (with mace likely dead) the master of the order, and his work for them isn’t over.
you don’t need purity in the material you consume
you have a brain, you are capable of critical thinking, you can sift through the material and keep what is edifying for you and discard what isn’t
flaws don’t necessarily make material worthless
all right i queued this last night because i was already posting a lot and didn’t want to flood anyone’s dash but you guys i need to talk about this more.
like, okay. i grew up REALLY STRICT christian. like. every piece of media i consumed underwent a fine-toothed comb by my parents to be sure there wasn’t anything “sinful” in it. I got into a tearful, screaming fight with my mother over whether I was allowed to watch a piece of educational children’s material on PBS because one of the characters said “damn” once.
(I’m still not sure they did. In retrospect, I think my purity-focused mother misheard something and, having her suspicions confirmed that you couldn’t trust any “secular” source not to be sinful, reacted accordingly.)
(Pay attention, that parenthetical was also relevant.)
Do you know what my teenage rebellion was? Listening to the oldies station in the car when I had my driver’s license and could go places on my own. That was my big fuck-you to my parents: listening to the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and the Fifth Dimension when they couldn’t tell me how I shouldn’t be listening to them because the creators of that music were drug-addled, free-loving atheists whose own disregard for God and religion might just infect my impressionable spirit. Like I was gonna listen to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and go do LSD and become an atheist. This was my teenage rebellion in the year 1999.
I’m 35 now. And all right so I became agnostic. But I didn’t become a drug addicted prostitute because I loved listening to psychedelic rock music as a teenager. (And you know what? Even if I had become a drug addicted prostitute, I’d still have worth as a human being, so dissect that one.) And it wasn’t even the psychedelic rock music that turned me agnostic: It was Christianity itself. But that’s another story altogether.
My point here is: Y’all are on here acting like my goddamn parents, “don’t watch this” and “don’t listen to that” because this character does XYZ problematic thing and this author said ABC ignorant thing two years ago at a con when they were put on the spot in an interview. If you watch this movie where a teenager falls in love with someone five years older than them, you’re going to become a pedophile! If you read this book by an author who once used an outdated term for someone in the trans community, then you’re a transphobe!
Y’all need to sit the fuck down and stop acting like nobody ever taught you to think for yourself, because I know damn well that you’re capable of critical thought and you don’t need your media chewed up and spit into your mouth like a baby bird. And I’m an adult and I sure the hell don’t, so stop telling me I’m going to choke because I’m consuming something complicated, complex, and not already pre-morally-dissected for me.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Hard agree with this.
I grew up the child of two black-sheep theater kids who came from religious families. Mom and Dad’s response to any media was “We’ll watch it first.”
Then they would sit us down and watch it with us. They never declined anything, that I remember. Why did they watch it first, you may ask? To prepare. There’d be Dad, pausing the VHS and going “Okay, first bathroom break. Have we spotted any foreshadowing?” We’d have Mom going “Does anyone have any questions?” They would remind us of other works with similar themes, they would ask us to make predictions, and if something had really, just spectacularly adult content, they would ask us why we thought the creators made that choice. Was it to shock? Was it part of the theme of the piece? Was it expressing an idea or telling the audience something important? Was it there to distract us from something else so we could be surprised later?
Were my parents tremendous nerds? YES.
But they let us watch stuff other kids never got to see, and though sure, it was absolutely homework to get through it with them, if somebody like, say, our creepy Maude Flanders religious neighbor or a teacher asked if we’d seen this or heard that, we could speak intelligently about it and as such, other kids trusted our opinions above all else. If we panned a movie, nobody else saw it. If we said a movie was great, even the Mormon moms let their kids see it. Mom and Dad were that good.
As a result, we kids were able to intelligently dissect the ever-loving crap out of absolutely anything, our English teachers adored us and the time I turned in a scholarly paper with a two-page bibliography for World Cultures class discussing the impact of religious repression on American teenage culture and citing O'Brien et. al not only won me a small scholarship, but beat out six other AP kids for the research paper contest and got four other parents to relent and let my friends come to a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We saw three teachers there in costume. It was epic.
And yeah, we know that it’s a problematic period piece, but so is Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure,’ which one of my same friends who saw it that night chose to write a comparison paper on. Her discussion of how the sexual mores and transgressions for 1977 have made ‘Rocky’ just as much a problem play as the 1604 norms make ‘Measure,’ and for much the same reasons was shockingly well received, and the class period where she presented her paper, comparing the very nice community theater actress who had portrayed Mistress Overdone (a classmate’s mother, as it happened,) to Magenta, Angelo to Brad, and so on, why, we still talked about it at our ten-year reunion.
Of course she’s a professor now. Everyone in this story is either a teacher, a professor, an adjunct, retired or owns at least six pair of fishnet stockings. Several both.
Academia is really quite a lot spicier than people realize, and purity culture has never had any rightful place in the theater, the classroom or the humanities. Purity culture trying to infest academia? Outside of mathematics, no. Just no. Math alone may be pure. The instant we see a puritan of any kind, therefore, we must chase them right over to the STEM side with field hockey sticks and let the engineering majors logic them into insensibility, the physics majors contradict them unconscious and the geologists finish it with a rock. I trust the chemistry majors to clean up the resulting mess with optimized efficiency.
The humanities are by, for and about humans. We don’t do purity, darling. Have you met people?
Names between these two are fascinating, because whenever Vader is talking to him, he calls him “Obi-Wan”, whenever he’s talking to Luke in the OT, he calls him “Obi-Wan”, but when he’s with the Inquisitors or officers, he calls him “Kenobi”. At the same time, Obi-Wan knows his Sith name but cannot call him “Vader”, he can only call him Anakin, the only time he doesn’t do so is around other people, when they’re trying to get the Force-sensitives off Jabiim, he says “Vader”, but it’s not that he has come to accept that Anakin is only Vader, because he still calls him “Anakin” on the nameless rocky planet. The names between them have power and vulnerability and are a tether to each other. “It’s about you and him.” “Perhaps your feelings for your old Master have left you weakened.” They call each other by their names because that bond between them is still there, no matter how twisted and painful and ugly it has become, they are still weak to each other. The way Obi-Wan says “Darth” in the final moments, when he has let Anakin go, he has freed himself from the pain they inflict on each other. He would accept Anakin back, if he truly came back, but Obi-Wan has truly let him go. Yet Vader cannot do the same. “Obi-Wan!!” he screams as Obi-Wan walks away from him, he cannot let go. Sidious tries to force him to do so, threatening his place if he continues this obsession, and Vader reverts back to calling him “Kenobi”, hiding his weakness, hiding his vulnerability, but we know it’s still there. We know that he will still call him “Obi-Wan” all throughout the original trilogy. Because Vader cannot let go of Obi-Wan, just as he cannot fully kill Anakin Skywalker within himself. He’ll try desperately hard to, he’ll maybe even convince himself that he has, but that connection, that ember remains inside him. Their connection and the way it’s expressed through names tells us everything about what’s between these two.
Gotta hand it to Ms Chow for how she does not ever insinuate that Obi-Wan was in any way responsible for Anakin’s fall. She even had Vader spell it out for everyone: “I am not your failure, Obi-Wan. You did not kill Anakin Skywalker. I did.”
And again she pinned the blame where it’s due regarding Reva and the younglings. She makes Reva tell Obi-Wan (and the audience) about how they thought Anakin was there to save them and how they were betrayed in the most horrible way.
I am absolutely in love with how Reva and Vader are both antagonists and foils of each other. They both start out with an unhealthy obsession with hunting Obi-Wan down. But at the end you clearly see how Vader cannot see beyond his own rage while Reva, in the end, looks at herself and says “No, this isn’t who I want to be. I will not be what I most despise”. And you see how Obi-Wan kneels before her and treats her with kindness. And you can’t help but think that this is the gentleness he would have shown Vader too if he had been willing to let go of his hatred and rage.
im pro children having privacy but if you think parents should give kids unrestricted internet access...its not 1999. in 2022 thats legitimately neglectful. do you know how many kids are out here like. watching gore and porn. its not normal or healthy. its traumatic.
Using parental controls to block sites and seeing what websites your 13yo goes to- legit.
Using apps that monitor every text conversation your 17yo has with their friends- fucking invasive and creepy
Adding @androed ‘s tag bc YES. I’m not a parent but YES
look I don’t live in America but as that country continues to claim to be the power of the fucking world and likes to try to effect it as such I’ve been following y’all’s politics closer than my own country’s since 2016. Perhaps not smart, or strategic, or selfless or whatever, but instinctively that’s where my focus has been. Insistently. Non stop. For fucking 6 years now.
So if you can listen to this outsider’s perspective…
Joe Biden fucking sucks, the Dems fucking suck, that’s all incredibly clear. We all know it. They’re shit. They’re a disappointment, they’re weak cowards, and they clearly, like all the dems before them, give more of a shit about winning the next election than actually making an influential difference, and yes, sometimes you do need to prioritise one over the other.
Anyway that’s my long-winded way of getting to the point which is you still have to fucking vote, and you still have to FUCKING VOTE DEMS. THEY SUCK. I KNOW. I FUCKING KNOW.
But everyone who doesn’t vote for the democratic party is an advantage to the republicans. Your third party isn’t gonna fucking win in this two party system. They’re not. You can be on your high horse about it and vote for someone you feel is better than the Dems, but they’re a third party. They’re not going to win.
And you can choose not to vote at all, because everyone is shit, and they ARE, but what the fuck are you doing to help there. You’re leaving it to everyone else to try and win what has truly become a fucking war. You’re foisting the responsibility off yourself and onto everyone else. That’s not gonna help.
Vote. The fucking. Dems. Because they are shitty and useless, but the Republicans are evil, and will go out of their way to hurt everyone who isn’t them. Anyone who is queer, poor, has a uterus, a darker skin colour, a different belief. The republicans are the ones voting to make teaching about sexuality illegal, voting to make letting your kid be trans illegal, voting to make it illegal to have an abortion. The dems are fucking shit but they don’t go looking for those results, they don’t go trying to spread fear and hate and actively damage the lives of everyone they don’t agree with.
You HAVE to vote and you HAVE to vote Dems or you will be actively allowing the country to fall back into the hands of Donald Trump and the ghouls that have risen up in his image. You will be making it easier for the fucking demons that make up the republican party to get away with everything they want, and that means hurting everyone else.
Vote for the goddamn democratic party if you have any kind of hope at all left that your country won’t fall into complete ruin.
the secret to being a cool adult is to wear things that your younger self wanted to wear but couldn’t and to do things that your younger self wanted to do but couldnt
Oh fuck, oh shit. I’m nonbinary
This is FUCKING hilarious and I don’t know why… “Pretty sure I’m cis and I don’t have a gender, therefore cis people must not have genders”…. classic
This is like my ace ass and being very confused as a teenager/twenty something about why all the people in my life were like “safe sex! abstinence! use condoms if you do have sex!” and me being like ...who even wants to have sex?
What a quirky little recipe
“I’m going to eat all of these :)”
The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful
@deadcatwithaflamethrower
*sigh* FFS.
Why do people buying female-gendered clothing hate shopping?
This is fucking why.
Every single pair of jeans in this photo is a US Women’s Size 12.
A woman’s jean pocket compared to a TODDLER 18 MONTHS size pocket:
Decorate Fake Pockets:
To anyone who’s thinking this way
alternate take on “But I did everything right!”- people who say that are not moralizing. They’re lamenting.
They denied themselves things they wanted to do, like going out or not wearing a hot, uncomfortable mask, or not seeing the people they love for important events- including funerals. And now they are sick. They gave up the things they wanted and they’re still sick and they’re exhausted by all of it.
anytime we try our best it is crushing to still fail because of what feels like the whim of the universe or worse, someone else not being careful. It’s okay to be angry about it.
The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
