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[kiwi]

anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??

[same-pic-rick-roll]

Do you ever see a complicated meme that expresses a very specific feeling, and while you wouldn’t have said it that way, it instantly resonates with you?

[thats-ee]

@jedijune Week 1 : A Choice Not Taken

Don’t be fooled by Dooku being in this one, I’m dedicating June to Mace Windu

What can I say except I LOVE this guy. I love shatterpoints. I love that he’s burdened with being the guy who has to make the unpopular decisions. That he chooses not to kill Dooku, the shatterpoint of the Clone Wars, because of love. That his choice torments him for the rest of his life. He’s carrying the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders. I LOVE Mace Windu.

[short-wooloo]

#so you think that's what he was thinking off when he was holding palpitante at sword point#do you think when anakin was arguing for palpatine's arrest#he was thinking “i failed once before out of compassion. not this time”#and then it was the wrong choice again

No, it wasn't

Mace Windu did not make the wrong choice, Anakin did

killing Sidious was the right thing to do, killing Sidious would have stopped him, stopped the purge, stopped the empire, saved the Republic, ended the sith, it was objectively the morally correct decision, and Mace chose it

But Anakin chose not to kill Sidious himself, he chose to save him, and then Anakin chose to obey Sidious' commands

Mace Windu did not fail, he was backstabbed

[youngprofesser]

In the book Shatterpoint, one of the overlying arcs Mace goes through is going is "Not killing dooku was the wrong choice" (literally the opening page) because he saw the shatterpoint and knew it would have made the war go very differently if he had killed dooku at the expense of his own life and the the lives of the trio captured in the arena. In the beginning he attributes this to his attachment to who dooku used to be and refusing to see/beelive that he ahd fallen (true in my opinion).

Then at the end of the book he has changed his mind, believing "Not killing dooku was the right choice" because it was the (in his assessment) "Jedi choice". At the same time that killing dooku would have given the republic at a major tactical advantage for the war, it would have let three prisoners (kenobi, amidala, skywalker) die.

So i really dont think Mace would see any parallels to Geonosis in his final moments with Sidious. He was not unarmed, he was not innocent, he was not redeemable. There was no ethical conundrum, no goodness (inherent or from a Jedi POV) that would come from leaving Sidious alive.

Sources:

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[plaguedocboi]

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

2. Yeah. Duh.

[mortalityplays]

opened the comments on a post and tumblr somehow had a half written comment already autofilled from the last time I saw that post. which was at least two years and several computers ago. what does this site's back end look like

[mortalityplays]

tumblr is going to gain sentience 100 years before any fuckass genAI comes close. this site runs on mold spores.

[starcatboy]

Dooku is that person who when asked his “body count” gives his kill count and it’s astronomically high. Someone out there thinks he’s a massive slut.

[thats-ee]

Reblogging with @charmwasjess tags bc I need all of this on my blog thank you

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@lyumia also just casually adding gold in the tags

[gallusrostromegalus]

Your post about domesticated coyotes and the problems that arise with the idea includes a specific phrase that I *could* look up myself, but I feel like you could phrase it very interestingly.

"Re"-domestication of cheetahs?

With reference to This Post In ancient Egypt, Cheetahs were sometimes used as hunting animals like greyhounds, and kept as housepets by the royal family and later, many wealthy households.

Now, there's an argument about how "domesticated" these cheetahs were- the majority of them were captured from the wild as adults and tamed/trained to tolerate humans and obey hunting commands, mostly because back then and still today, cheetahs are extremely hard to breed in captivity. Some were bred and raised from cubs, and there was not a shortage of cheetahs living in and around human habitation for them to replace stock with.

Even today, cheetahs are... weirdly comfortable around humans, if those humans know how to mind their manners. Game wardens in Kruger National Park sometimes sleep next to young cheetahs they are re-introducing into the wild, or have had female cheetahs who are familiar with them drop their cubs off on their feet to 'babysit' while she goes hunting.

Here's a pair of San hunters from the Naankuse Wildlife Reserve in Namibia bow-hunting while a wild local male cheetah hangs out with them (the angle makes him look much bigger and closer to the men than he is, but he's still VERY close). The male's name is Aiko, and is well-known to these men- they're not worried about his presence because they know how to respect his space and he knows not to go after game they've downed. Game they miss is free for him to run down, and game he flushes from the bushes are much easier to shoot- a mutually beneficial partnership. It's extremely similar to how the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea hunt with their dogs, some of the most recently domesticated and most similar to ancient 'proto-dogs' alive today.

So, cheetahs aren't domesticated the way dogs and housecats are- they haven't been selectively bred for generations, they're not dependent on humans, and they can and will attack people that bother them.

But like Coyotes, the remaining cheetahs we have are VERY habituated to humans, arguably even moreso than coyotes are, and we've made a lot of progress in getting them to breed in captivity- Ironically by pairing them up with highly domesticated dogs, who teach them domesticated animal behaviors like "not worrying about everything".

With Coyotes, the obstacle to domestication are mostly practical matters like "getting a coyote farm funded, zoned, built and insured.", whereas with cheetahs the problem is "there are almost no cheetahs left to practice domestication on and the ones we do have are already inbred". There IS a lot of commercial interest in domesticated cheetahs, so I think a good way to get the funding for species conservation and genetic re-diversification of cheetahs would be to frame it as a prerequisite to "Re-Domestication" and pet cheetahs.

We've done much larger and more complicated things before.

[temporoom]

Okay but Kataang genderbent is so funny to me.

Because in canon you got this powerful being whose also just a small kid who's really in love with this pretty girl he met once because she is inspirational, brave, and what's there not to love? Sadly she's only interested in bad boys who are older than her but that's alright, kid will learn to be worthy of her! (he's the most powerful being on earth)

And then you genderbent it and it's about the most powerful bald girl on earth falling for a fuckboy who's into bad bitches. And I think that's beautiful.

[worm-strung-string]

Utterly obsessed with your Tooka Troopers!! I'm just like, picturing Obi-Wan sleeping with a lil Cody cuddling him. My cat does this adorable thing sometimes, where he curls up in the crook of my arm, and rests his cheek against my cheek and just falls asleep like that. I can absolutely see possessively cuddly Cody doing that to Obi-Wan.

Also, just thinking about the Bad Batch. Mama Echo grooming his little kit Omega, cleaning her scruffy little face. Wrecker and Omega gently play fighting, and Wrecker let's her win. Crosshair likes to pretend he doesn't like her, and will nip at her sometimes, but let's her groom the top of his head and cuddle on top of him. Tech teaching itty puff ball Omega how to hunt by ironically hunting Hunter, who knows what's happening the whole time, but plays along. And of course Hunter is her favorite cuddle buddy.

I just really love the idea of Tooka Troopers🥹🥹🥹🥹

Cody has prime realestate and everyone can tell he knows it 

The badbatch has Echo, who’s used to grooming within a battalion working over time between Hunter and Omega, with how shorthair or bald the others are those two have enough fur for them all!

Tech pulls one of these on omega

[dontcallmebymyusername]

Does this count as finding a walrus at your door?

[baddywronglegs]

Absolutely, and definitely less surprising than a fairy

[existencebringsonlypain]

I will concede, in this specific circumstance, it makes more sense

[prinnay]

2016:

2026:

I'd like to think I improved a little bit over the last decade ;u;

[komaedalovemail]

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

[butterfirefly]

for the uninitiated

[worm-strung-string]

Palps getting Dooku as an apprentice after a point in the Lil’Nil universe is actually funny as hell to me. He’s finding out about some parts of the Sith plan as this apprentice and playing the other side of the war. He knows about Maul and all that. He then finds out about Obi-Wan technically being Palps apprentice. Dooku’s having a meltdown over this, he’s building up this image of Obi-Wan in his head that is a genius master manipulation playing the Jedi Order and the Senate. Obi-Wan isn’t, he does not have serious ambitions beyond getting the clones and him wants(needs) met. He doesn’t manipulate the senate, he doesn’t need to, when he is more than willing to beat the brakes off of senators to speed shit up. He’s the most high maintenance but most hands off Sith apprentice.

I love how even as a sith, he is still pissing them off.

He's spoiled, he's lazy, he has to much jedi in him and it is so obvious how unloyal he is to the cause, yet seems far to comfortable in the jedi way!

Dooku: Master! he's clearly half assing his dwelling in the dark!

Sidous: Darth Nihilus half assing the dark is still more darkness then you can ever fathom

Nil-Obi at 6: the Jedi council forbid more then 3 tooka's be in my dwelling but i want their warmth so I force compelled fellow Jedi to ignore the tooka march I led through the temple

[sharkfiinn]

i would kill Rocky for Prism

careful he has great hearing

[apolladay]

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

No pet

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

[birthofcassiopeia]

uhm... a little more bloodymary ....? pls? humor me ;-;

this was inspired by this post by @bulkhummus

which was inspired by this post by @penny-anna

neither of which are bloodymary i've just got the iorn lung brainrot ;-; also guys im dyslexic, if i spell ts wrong i am so sorry

rocky is just trying to understand humans better but now he's got these idiots figured out and can consequently cause as much mischief as possible as they approach erid.

the reason he didn't ask directly is that he's concluded that humans don't give accurate descriptors of themselves for some reason.

ALSO IK SIMON SOUNDS RLLY OOC BUT-

....its cuz i'm referencing the Ryan Reynolds gay scale meme, which is like; you ask a guy ''on a scale from one to ten how hot is Ryan Reynolds'' and his answer lets u guess if he's gay,

1-7 ; he's gay bc apparently that answer is too specific idk

8-9; straight

10; ...kinda fifty fifty

and this one girl i watched asked her boyfriend the question and zero hesitation he says 11, so thats where that came from lmao

[mrlovenstein]

Secret Panel HERE 👻 patreon.com/posts/54470189

[trashfishhh]

bloodymary swap au

Can't get this out of my head.