[reasonandfaithinharmony]

…and the vet was like, “You know the thing with geriatric cats is—” and I was like, “What do you mean, geriatric?! It’s a little baby, look at her!" Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025)

[song-of-the-spheres]

I'm re-reading the Vorkosigan Saga for the first time in a long time (I think it's been maybe 15 years since I read the earlier books) and I remembered how much I liked them, but I forgot how feral they made me. sorry to anyone in my general orbit for the next 12-14 months.

Lois McMaster Bujold really did go: here have space opera shenanigans paired with an exploration of societal upheaval and intergenerational trauma, told from the perspective of a family composed entirely of people who are deeply unhinged. A+, no notes.

[song-of-the-spheres]

I think Tumblr is sleeping on Aral Vorkosigan tbh. fascinating set of life experiences that HAS to fuck one up in new and inventive ways.

witnessed most of his family being murdered at age 11 and two years later his new emperor hands him a blade to help chop up the old emperor who ordered it. obsessed with honor and yet is constantly either flung into situations that force him to override it or lapses in his attempts to strive for it. bisexual and almost certainly weird and repressed about it at first given Barrayar's general cultural milieu, his upbringing, and his first(?) boyfriend turning out to be a sadistic sociopath. kills his first wife's two lovers in impetuous duels and twenty years later confesses this to to the next woman he proposes to within days of meeting her. repeatedly escapes consequences for the times he genuinely fucks up - and he knows this! - and gets ripped to shreds for things he tried to prevent. keeps getting handed increasing levels of political power and he hates it so so much. there are several things wrong with him but crucially I don't think they're the things he thinks.

and we never get his POV directly. 10/10 guy to me, I want to study him under a microscope.

[song-of-the-spheres]

Cordelia kind of wins the award for Most Normal by default, but a) the bar is on the floor, and b) this is also a woman who has, in order: risked her own life to help resolve an attempted military overthrow of an enemy commander that she met like a week ago, left her entire former life behind in part to protect the political secrets of a planet she had one single personal connection to, charged into an occupied city in the middle of a coup for a guerilla raid with THREE people to rescue her kidnapped son, ordered the extremely mentally unwell guy who follows her every order to chop off the head of the guy who did it, and tossed the head in the middle of a conference table to make a point.

I do not think Miles got his impulsive streak from Aral, is what I'm saying.

[song-of-the-spheres]

Often in books, especially with a younger/teenage protagonist, there's an inciting incident, something external that either gets the narrator into trouble or gets them involved with the plot. everything that happens in Warrior's Apprentice is the direct result of Miles just deciding of his own free will and with zero provocation to do the most bonkers shit imaginable. yeah I'm gonna go rescue this random drunk-off-his-ass pilot I've never met who's holding an empty ship hostage so he can keep flying. he has diplomatic immunity now. yeah I'm going to mortgage my family's irradiated land to buy the ship. yeah I'm going to take a cargo run and now the client thinks I run a real mercenary outfit. at no point will I correct him.

this does make sense for him as a character because he has a complex family legacy to live up to AND a girl to impress, however. the entire plot of this book happens solely because of who this ADHD 17-year-old is as a person, and that is kind of beautiful.

[inadvertently-biblical]

THE GOOD PLACE - 2x07

[niwandajones]

Bail Organa: "I must play the long game, the quiet game, subtly undermining the Empire from within using mostly legal channels."

Also Bail Organa: "I was Yoda's getaway driver after he tried to murder the Emperor."

[aleatoryw]

we poke fun at obi-wan for saying "sith lords are our specialty" and then getting his ass kicked by dooku, but in fairness, he was at the time the only person in living memory to have actually killed a sith. he showed remarkable humility honestly.

[mayflower-gal]

OP these tags are amazing, please

[filmtvtoday]

The Good Place (2016-2020) Derek (S02E07)

[gaytanic-panic]

[gaytanic-panic]

#what do you mean harrison ford was a pot dealer in real life. you're kidding. is this real

What do you think actors do before making it big in show business?

[gaytanic-panic]

I was like damn these tags are too real until I remembered sw can also be used as an acronym for star wars

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

The key to understanding history and geopolitics is to remember: just because one side is bad, doesn't mean the other side is good

[thepartyponies]

Just because an official narrative is suspect doesn’t mean the most popular counter narrative is automatically true

[whoops-junk-drawer]

Bail: hey, Breha, I have something to show you :)

Breha: is that a kriffing baby?

Bail: yes! You were saying you wanted one! :)

Breha: where did you get it from??

Bail: uhhhh, well…

Breha: Bail, did you steal a baby?

Bail: no!! She’s uh, she’s the daughter of a Jedi.

Breha: Obi Wan got laid?

Bail: no!! A different Jedi.

——————————

Breha: What are we going to tell the press?

Bail: what?

Breha: how are we going to explain the spontaneous baby?

Bail: she’s ours, obviously.

Breha: Bail.

Bail: adopted.

Breha: from where?

Bail: from- ah.

Breha: yes, ah. Bail Prestor Organa, the Galaxy is going to think we stole a baby.

Bail: …is Kamino still open for business?

Breha: I’m going to stop you right there.

[datasoong47]

You know, if you're going to dye a fountain for some cause, you might want to think seriously about what visual effect your choice of color will have when added to water ...

[bophtelophti]

Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Yellow does has more positive connotations than negative. Yellow is associated more with happiness, creativity and hope than pissing on the poor.

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

You hope we're pissing on the poor? What's wrong with you?

[victusinveritas]

[coffincoitus]

a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

[camille-lachenille]

[figofswords]

i miss my beautiful wife joann fabrics it feels as if eons have passed since i last saw her. this guy michael keeps waving her visage in front of me and saying she’s living in his house but he is lying to me. i know this because i went into his house and found only fragments and memories of my beautiful wife joann and pictures of her shadowed face labeled “online only”. michael won’t even let me order swatches from him

[aquaflv]

when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience

[aquaflv]

AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!

[aquaflv]

And next time you're there in person you're like please. Please. I'm begging you. can I just put a credit card on file. Can I just give it to you now and you just charge me whenever you want. It's actually kind of ruining my life how you do this to me. And they're like no we could never take responsibility for keeping track of your financial information that's too private

[aquaflv]

And then you schedule your follow up visit anyway

[transmortifried]

what's important to remember with the high ground scene is that obi-wan is the man who trained anakin. note that anakin tries the same overhead flip that obi-wan used to recover from a height disadvantage and cut darth maul in half, a move that obi-wan probably taught him. but obi-wan knows that he taught him that move, and would know from training him that that's the move he'd go with, and also knows the counter to it (cut him in half while he's flipping over you instead of being distracted by the cool flip like maul was).

[moofahdrome]

unfortunately this also proved be obi wans undoing. he should have known by this point that people don't die when they're cut in half, they just come back as cool moody cyborgs. classic blunder that he can't stop falling into

[bigbooenergy]

he really should've done the guy hotdog style

[unamusedsloth]

“Vicious” Leopard seal tries to keep national geographic photographer alive by feeding him penguins.

[bendablebananas]

@maculategiraffe tags

[thememedaddy]

[perpetualpilgrimzone-deactivate]

What a shock to the ego.