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Honestly this con has the most costumed people I've seen in one place 💙 We don't have an official table here but Dave Lalley was super prepared and has put up a poster and logistics map for us ⭐️ * * * #worldcon75 #helsinki #finland #summer #cosplay #costume #convention #sciencefiction #sfcon (at Messukeskus)
C-3PO makes me laugh because you have to remember he was assembled by a child out of things from a scrap heap. Everything about him makes sense if you bear that in mind. Anakin wanted a droid who could help his mother, but the only AI package he could find was one somebody threw out for being too fussy. The combination of tweaking to give him a worried/caring personality makes him constantly anxious. A protocol droid comes with a fair amount of language packages, but why stop there? Somebody threw out like, three different galactic language dictionaries because they weren’t the recent edition. Just load ‘em all up. all of them, even the packs that contain things like ewok and a thousand variants of different manufacturers’ droid codecs. don’t add half the other requirements most legal protocol droids have included at the factory like emergency wipe protocols or shutdown failsafes, or programmed obsolescence. Build that sucker out of non-commercial materials that are already over a hundred years old and still good, tweak it to withstand tatooine of all places.
so now you have this droid that is over thirty years old and it could never be obsolete because it was never manufactured by anybody but a kid on a sand ball somewhere, it’s never running down because it was built to last on tatooine and there’s nothing programmed in to try and urge you to buy the latest model because there is no latest model. 3P0 is simultaneously totally useless yet hyper functional because he was not made according to any specs except “the best most toughest things possible to help my mom for a long long time on a hot desert planet”
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The Doctor: is 2000 years old
Also The Doctor: is offended he could be a 20yo's grandfather
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someone literally just reblogged my gif and said “the tumblr shipping of kirk and spock has begun”
i dont even know how to begin to react to that statement
alexander siddig is cuddled by avery brooks and then gets excited about seeing terry farrell for the first time in 3 months
from this charmingly 90’s e! documentary (x)
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look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good
There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.
The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.
But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.
All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.
The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.
The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?
tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.
When you encounter anyone passive, complacent, or indifferent to the global affairs of theirs and equally, subsequent generations, remind them of this briefest exchange in Rogue One which should reverberate through our past and echo into the future:
Saw Gerrera: “You can stand to see the Imperial flag reign across the galaxy?”
Jyn Erso: “It’s not a problem if you don’t look up.”
In this life, you can unfortunately choose to disengage from the uncomfortable truths of our human history still unfolding before us. But there’s nowhere you can escape to. Ignoring the causes of human stagnation places you in opposition of the cause.
Disengagement is tantamount to treason against your own species and the conglomeration of biodiversity we exist and thrive in partnership with. There are a multitude of tools at our disposal available for our choosing we may arm ourselves with; the finest of which is knowledge, the underpinning of awareness that feeds our sentience.
We are defined by our actions and our impact on others’ lives; whether or not we live to see them ourselves. You do not have to place the entire world and the misdeeds of others upon your shoulders. Simply acknowledge your talents, skills, interests. Acknowledge your own failings and shortcomings; confront your insecurities; make peace each day with your idiosyncrasies that make you ‘you’. Embrace every breath; as the brief moment in the sun of your existence belies an opportunity for influence toward change.
“What chance do we have? The question is what ‘choice.’ Run. Hide. Plead for mercy. Scatter your forces. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power, and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. The time to fight is now. Every moment you waste is another step closer to the ashes of [humanity].“ – Jyn Erso
“We don’t have the luxury of deciding when or where we want to care about something. Suddenly the rebellion is real for you; some of us live it. You’re not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it.” – Cassian Andor
Recognize the significance of your ‘now’.
so like i was saying [taps mic] reylos need to understand that you dont “love” finn if you erase him constantly like…yeah you may say you love finn but words dont mean shit most of the time
i mean..some of you straight up white wash him? the reylo who made that one edit and used the excuse of “i got it on youtube” still hasnt apologized for her actions. i dont think you realize how awful it feels to look at a picture of finn where he’s cropped out and replace with a white dude. that proves you dont actually care about him.
im tired
That’s not whitewashing, go look up the definition.
Also the antis who erased Kylo from the poster haven’t apologized either, so… *smiles innocently*
[taps the mic again] anyway susan replacing a POC with a white person is called whitewashing. Making a POC skin lighter(white) when they are dark is whitewashing. Newflash, replacing a white character with a POC isnt racist, so get your reverse racism, racism excusing “*smiles innocently*” ass off my blog.
Let me google that for you:
“A term that now has also come to refer to the entertainment industry’s attempt at making ethnic characters more appealing to the white, money-spending masses by making exotic characters less ethnic and more “white.” “
If Finn was canonically supposed to be a black character and they had cast a white man, that would be white washing. If someone had photoshopped Finn to be a white guy just to suit their aesthetic, then yes, that would be whitewashing and racist, but not this. People cutting him out in an edit and replacing him with another character is just the fandom having fun. Stop creating problems where there are none and go outside some more. You’re welcome.
All I saw was “Im racist and enjoy speaking over POC because I don’t give a shit”
what ever lips you have left arent keeping you from saying this ugly ass racist shit. Stop talking over POC when they tell you something is racist. “Boo hoo someone cropped out my white fav kylo” get tf over it. yall arent oppressed in the slightest.
dont you have some land to steal or something? go do that then and again, get the FUCK off my blog.
DON’T YOU HAVE SOME LAND TO STEAL OR SOMETHING DFJKGNSJKDVNJKSDBFJKSDNFMNDS I’M SCREECHING
A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad
#this is team skull
The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!” One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?” He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!” Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?” And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits” And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.
I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He’s a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like “hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your’s is so small I think it’s a good place to start.” Ofc I was like “yes he’s very friendly!” So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks “can I pick him up?” And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two’s lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes “hey man, it’s okay just relax I’d never let anything hurt you. He’s a good boy.” I’ll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me (5'3 , glasses, probably wearing a sweater vest) and my dog (kinda goofy looking little thing) and was like ‘ah yes the two least intimidating living things I’ve seen in Boston all day he’ll feel relaxed around them’ and went out of his way to help his friend. It makes me so happy
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Five Times Astronaut Peggy Whitson Made History
On April 24, 2017, NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson established the new record for the most time spent in space by an American astronaut. She’s spent more than 76 weeks of her life floating in microgravity! It’s not the first time in her career at NASA that Whitson has established new milestones: here are just a few.
First NASA Science Officer
Peggy Whitson was the named the first NASA Science Officer aboard the space station in 2002. The position was created to work with the United States research community to understand and meet the requirements and objectives of each space station experiment.
First Female to Command the Space Station… Twice
Whitson became the first female to command the space station during Expedition 16 in 2008. Then Whitson became the first female to command the station twice during her current mission on April 9, 2017.
First Female Chief of the Astronaut Office
In 2009, Whitson became the first female and first non-pilot to achieve the most senior position for active astronauts, Chief of the Astronaut Office.
Most Spacewalks for a Female
On March 30, 2017, Peggy Whitson broke the record for most spacewalks and most time spent spacewalking for female astronauts. Suni Williams had previously held the record at 7 spacewalks.
Most Time In Space By A NASA Astronaut
At 1:27 a.m. ET on April 24, Peggy Whitson set the new record for cumulative time spent in space by an American astronaut. Jeff Williams previously set the record in 2016.
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