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@therebelcaptain
āWhy are you scared of datingā Iām not scared of dating, I just havenāt found anyoneās company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I donāt care
I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet
Also the amulet
Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?
The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third
I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?
Don't become a housewife.
Here comes the general
āfeeling like a person againā collection
In this era of surveillance i don't need my phone anymore
"are you a man or a woman ?" i'm a knight on a quest hope that helps
āBecause the truth is, tech doesnāt have an image problem. It doesnāt have a message problem. It has an intention problem. Whatās wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasnāt successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. Whatās wrong is that heās trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product thatās designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isnāt that you havenāt told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.ā
ā The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
feels like im always recovering. when do i get to live
"it's okay to rest for as long as you need from burnout" how long is it actually going to take though. there's stuff i wanna do.
Big ADHD mood
Big anxiety/depression mood as well
They supporting
ruminating on some undercooked theory about the fact that the mutuals around me that are most pissed about the full character motivation/background retcon of Cassian Andor aren't from the States
Rogue One is a war film, very much in the tradition of WWII films - ensemble cast, heroics focused on the grand scheme of things instead of individual victories or closure. Plot-wise a story that could be mapped on a lot of European theatre war situations (occupied cities, trying to get local resistance movements to cooperate, infiltration, sabotage) but then the final battle sequence visually giving Pacific Theatre pretty specifically - even with big "naval" battle vs. brutal squirmishes on the islands, and, of course, the big nuke allusions at the end
The Cassian we are presented with in Rogue One is much more in line with the war hero archetype I've encountered in post-war Europe - the committed Resistance hero. A person who usually believed very strongly in something before the conflict even started, was (in many examples) already involved in the struggle against a different oppressive regime before the Nazis came, was a devoted part of his collective until the (usually untimely lethal) end and wasn't so much known for individual heroics as for dedicated work within their organisation where they were part of some notably brave operation. Plus, for example in the later mythmaking in Germany about movements like the 20th July plot around Stauffenberg, there are notable stories of people either playing along with the Nazis for a long time before acting against them or actually being part of them and then turning against them (depending on your verdict on Stauffenberg and company) that still get positioned as ultimately heroic in the public narrative.
The Cassian in Andor is much closer to the US WWII war hero story, where someone had a youth largely separate of the moral and political struggle to follow, then either got randomly told to go overseas or volunteered because what they were hearing from Europe sounded pretty horrific, OR because the conflict had suddenly come much closer to their own reality than they thought it would with Pearl Harbor. Anyway, thrown into a struggle that was not a part of their lives before, hit with the sudden incredible brutality of the war, excelling in adapting and improvising when shit inevitably went sideways. Soldiers I've heard of who got particularly famous were often famous for individual acts of bravery and toughness - like John Basilone - and often (initially) famous especially for surviving those situations (Basilone did very much die on Iwo Jima, but he was famous before then and got the Medal of Honor for the action he survived, and the Navy Cross for the action he died in). Also I feel like espionage is usually not a big part of these stories, but acts of sabotage like, say, robbing a garrison's pay or stumbling upon an Axis massacre sounds like it would fit right in.
Anyway, confused tl;dr the Han-Solo/Andor!Cassian storyline of person previously uninvested in the conflict getting sucked in and becoming convicted and recklessly heroic feels more like a US war hero story, while the storyline of the already ideologically committed Resistance fighter who works obediently within a collective (almost) all his life and is concerned much more prominently with small local conflicts and then subterfuge and logistics than main front-line combat feels like it belongs to different war experiences.
Is this anything? Insert "I have connected the dots" meme here
i definitely agree with you on the point that the two versions of cassian are pulling from different kinds of historical references, but i would actually argue that cassianās original backstory was inspired more by the first and second intifada in palestine rather than any sort of wartime resistance movement in the west. while i donāt think anyone who worked on rogue one has said it explicitly, i think that inspiration comes through in this passage from the reference book:
of course throwing rocks isnāt something specific to palestinian resistance, but thereās a long documented history of stone-throwing specific to palestine dating back centuries. in particular, i think of faris odeh, the palestinian child who was photographed throwing a stone at a tank during the second intifada:
i think itās almost important to note that cassian was fighting against the military occupation of his home planet by the republicā¦ which honestly isnāt all that dissimilar from what the palestinian struggle is at its core: fighting for liberation from a violent occupier backed by western imperial interests. many people forget that the galactic republic is the direct precursor to the empireā¦ and we all know george lucas has said was as just as inspired by us and british imperialism as he was by nazi germany when creating the star wars galaxy.
thereās probably more to it than this, but based on the historical events that served as inspiration for andorā¦ i honestly think that gilroy isnāt all that interested in history outside the west so i doubt any of this even crossed his mind. it seems like he wanted to do the french resistance but in space and tried to make cassian fit in there as an afterthought. but thatās just my opinion.
me when there's work at work
"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally
gender neutrients
why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable
Broken notesā¦ deactivated accountā¦ removed imageā¦.
Finally, we have them all.
In addition: OPās name is justā¦ gone. No ā[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]ā as is the standard for deactivated blogs.
Just the world ādeactivated.ā Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.
Itāll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.
It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.
this is not a place of honor
Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you
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My whole life I've known that you must leave at least one mistake in your knitting or crochet or tapestry, because spirits/demons can get lost in the perfection of the stitches and be unable to find their way out.
If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.
This is beautiful but I can't help but think that at least one of these originated with like, someone who fucked up their knitting and managed to convince everyone else it was intentional.
I'm almost certain this is what happened. Because whenever I am close to finishing a crochet project, especially something in the round where each row is more work than the last, and I find a mistake in the last row as I'm stitching into it
The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.
The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.
oh, haha. a loophole.
