#swan stuff

[knucklesex]

do white people know they can talk about #worldbuilding and #speculative fiction in their own posts and not, you know, where an Indian is talking about people in their country dying

[swan2swan]

Okay, so, I think we've found the problem here.

Now how do I burn this Firefox stuff?

Because that right there is a megabyte in one minute. Less than a minute, probably.

[swancomplex]

My favorite shoes🩶🩷

[proatimperfections]

[swan2187]

The Force Awakens made me angry, but it also made me hopeful, and my disappointed anger eventually turned into excited acceptance.

Rogue One just straight up made me hopeful--it saddened me, it made me feel loss, but 2016 had already done plenty, and the thrills and joy it provided and the knowledge that everything would go well for me filled me with, well, a new hope.

The Last Jedi has straight-up pushed me off a cliff of depression. Like, it pushed me down several rungs I had climbed over the past few months. I’m not even being artsy here, there are things I haven’t done for a while, feelings I haven’t felt for a while, that came back today. Nothing too extreme, mind you, but...a lot of apathy. And exhaustion.

This was supposed to be my escape. Times are rough. I don’t need to spend two and a half hours watching lifeboats and hospital ships be blown up by gleeful Nazis who are being used for comic relief and redemption arcs. That’s...not what I need.

Maybe I’ll go watch Coco sometime soon. I need a feel-good film, and Black Panther is a few months out.

The Last Jedi was just super-stressful, and it failed to alleviate that stress. Every time it seemed like you were safe, like you could breathe, it took that breath right back. If I want that kind of feeling, I’ll look up news about world politics. I wanted a movie where things went right. Where things were hopeful. Where we didn’t have a message about “maybe the white boys who are Nazis are just acting out because they feel scared and threatened and you should sympathize with them for that.” Stop being racist. Stop hurting people. Stop being Nazis. Then you don’t have to be afraid.

Except that you do have to be afraid, because if you’re a decent person, you’re going to get blown up. If you try doing the right thing, if you try resisting the inevitable onslaught of autocracy and industry and authoritarianism, you will be blown up. One by one, you’re going to fall. Your friends will fall. Your comrades will fall. You will tire. You will run out of energy. You can’t escape forever. You need to wait for a hero to emerge, because you, the everyday person, are powerless. You’re not strong enough. And everything you love will fade away and disappear.

Bullcrap.

I don’t need that message. I don’t need that garbage. 

But as a certain spacemom once said:

“We have hope. Hope that things can get better. And they will.”

[swan2swan]

gosh I still wanna play that character concept i had

"He doesn't know it but he's actually a Giant Spider that got brain-swapped with Character. So he has no memory of who he is, he's in a human body, he's an amnesiac idiot but he's learning, and also occasionally he eats bugs and starts to have an affinity for spider-spells, also there's a super-intelligent giant spider running around out there".

I bet a DM would love that one.

[swan2swan]

Okay @sniperct let's try sniping this next level.

[knucklesex]

okay yeah will graham has that autistic swag but you know who else is on the spectrum? hannibal lecter. as evidence I give you: his sensory issues.