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I am here to find cool things and reblog them. That's pretty much it. Anyway, welcome, hope you find something that interests you (if you like Middle-earth you probably will). (Formerly hasami-hime. Will still answer to Hasami.)

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you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.

[grelliam]

#oh it raises money thru ad revenue and ur click confirms the value to advertisers. neat

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Proceeds are donated to the UNRWA, which is one of the major funding agencies providing aid to Palestine. Recently, the US and other major countries have escalated genocidal efforts by cutting funding from the UNRWA, as AlJazzera reports : Which countries have cut funding to the UNRWA and why?

This is a direct action you can take to say fuck you to the government directed genocidal efforts, bookmark the tab, add a calendar notification daily, do what you want. Or if your prefer: Donate Directly to UNRWA

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The more violence your mutual wants to inflict on the character the more they love them

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Cara Dune, The Mandalorian AU

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Can’t sleep so I’m going through my scraps folders (as one does) and I came across a few story sketches I completely forgot about. One was this…

AU where Cara is The Mandalorian and Din is a humble healer in quiet little Aq Vetina. (Yes, Cara’s got the never-remove-the-helmet-for-anyone-but-family rule. Yes, she’s a bounty hunter providing for the covert. Yes, she found Grogu just like in the show. Yes, she has the Razor Crest (but she actually gave it a name)

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It was just supposed to be a glorified pitstop.

She needed to lay low and rest, hide herself and the kid from Karga’s bounty hunters and whoever else the Client could afford to send after them. Besides that, she literally did need fuel for the Old Rascal as well as a restock on rations or some other food-equivalent (and if she could find someone trustworthy to watch the little green tyke so she could heal up after that mudhorn nearly reduced her to a teal smear on Arvala-7, well, all the better).

She had picked Aq Vetina mostly at random.

She narrowed the navicomputer’s search down to planets skirting the fringes of the Outer Rim—places that didn’t have starports, places that possibly didn’t even have a Holonet connection. This little planet with its alternating fields of green and gold, its dry air and shallow seas, wasn’t exactly unknown, and it did have some cities and starports, but they had pushed away most industry and there were a number of little settlements out in the middle of nowhere.

Aq Vetina was the settlement furthest from anything else on the planet, surrounded by farms and orchards, filled to the brim with folk who had never gone off world—in fact, according to the one news report featuring its name, the most exciting thing they had ever experienced was a troop of Separatist droids marching through the public square one day thirty years ago.

There was something… familiar about it…

Farms… orchards… peace and quiet…

Those were the things—frankly, the only things—she remembered about her hometown on Alderaan before…

Well.

Anyway.

It seemed like a nice place to bum for a while.

And it was.

The people welcomed her and the kid, let her hide the ‘Rascal in an old barn and even offered accommodations.

They treated her with respect, something she saw too little of in this galaxy. Oh, they were curious, sure—anyone coming along with a teal helmet seemingly glued to their shoulders was bound to raise a few eyebrows—but they never tried to get her to remove it; they never even asked.

But that was the thing.

They never asked.

Yet this was the first time ever she herself had thought about it…

She wanted to blame the settlement’s resemblance to her hometown, to the place she knew before she was rescued and taken in as a foundling. She could probably get away with writing it off as the calm pace of the last few weeks getting under her skin and dredging up desires and goals she assumed long-dead.

Maybe those were contributing factors.

But if she was brutally honest with herself (and she tried always to be just so)… it was the stupid healer.

She didn’t have a “type” but, if she did, she didn’t think shy and sweet would be it.

He couldn’t hope to match her in a fight; he hadn’t been trained for combat from the tender age of six like she had been.

A band of raiders (essentially glorified bullies) were harrassing the settlement, trying to steal their harvests and goods, and Cara wouldn’t stand for it but she was just one single fighter going against a band roughly forty strong, so she decided to train up the locals. They weren’t totally useless—a number of them had sharp hunting skills, providing the settlement with meat and keeping dangerous animals away. But none of them knew how to organize an army or how to melee fight. She had her work cut out for her.

At first, the healer refused to learn.

He was a healer, he told her, putting emphasis on the job title. He could do no harm.

She had heard the sentiment before but it always confused her. Mandalorian medics were not bound to such a creed.

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can’t really remember where I was going with this but I thought it might be cool to share as is. @desertbeskar I know you’ll appreciate this one ☺️

[greyeyedstranger]

Doesn’t really look anything like him, but I had fun!

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[theawkwardqueerturtle]

this is the one meme that manages to age like a fine wine

[gaylor-moon]

An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, leaving you with no excuse whatsoever to keep wearing that Hufflepuff scarf, sources have reported.

Jack Harrington, 38, grew up reading the popular children’s stories, and soon developed an intense fascination with the world of the books, including knowing all about the suspiciously depicted money-hungry goblins, and that one time it was revealed that slavery is commonplace and accepted in the wizarding world.

In spite of this, however, Harrington has recently worked to redirect his interest towards media created by someone less troublingly focused on his friends’ genitalia.

“It was hard to do,” Harrington said. “I really love collecting things, and there’s so much merchandise to collect! But once I realised that it’s possible to collect things in a way that doesn’t make it harder for my mates to go for a piss when out and about, it really was a no-brainer.”

At the time of publication, Harrington was marvelling at the sheer amount of fiction available in the world that doesn’t actively contribute to material harm, and questioning whether you specifically really need that copy of Hogwarts Legacy for your PS5.

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[slackster]

Yearly Star Wars rewatch just occurred

I always thought that General Grievous was underutilized in the movies. He’s so freaking cool looking. 2003 Clone Wars satiates my hunger for more of him tho.

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i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[fibfoolingart]

science teacher besties!!

i feel like they would get along SO well plus ms. frizzle could solve the petrova problem in one episode easy

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KATARA AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2026)

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there’s just something so awesome about a character you love getting really badly hurt

[calellon]

i'll forever miss how the internet felt before you had to second-guess the authenticity of every single piece of media you came across. silly videos used to be just silly. fun was coincidental. wonder was just wonder. digital art had character and soul. AI has taken the taste out of everything and irreversibly poisoned the creative sphere and the people still pushing it forward are the doom of both joy and the quality of being.

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Emily Wison, whose translation formed the basis for Nolan's version of The Odyssey, is brutal and unrelenting in her review of it.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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[alysvolatile]

All the food looks horrible!

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

Wilson also wrote a 14-post thread on Bluesky about it:

1. It's a fun action movie. A line that got cut but sums up some of my overall feelings: This Odyssey is not a rich, satisfying Homeric banquet, but sometimes in the heat, an ice-cold Philly water ice is all you want - even it's mostly sugar and food coloring, and makes no nutritional sense. 2. Adaptations can do whatever the creators want with the source material, and in many cases, the more they diverge from or push back against the original, the better. e.g. I love Wild Sargasso Sea (and I also love Jane Eyre). 3. It's also totally fine to use American actors and a diverse cast. The costumes/ armor/boats are a mess, but who cares? Homer is also a mishmash, and see point #2. 4. It's less fine to waste your expensive diverse cast by terrible screen-writing, giving them zero convincing characterization or attempt to make us care about the relationships, and tokenism. 5. Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out - so, for instance, the movie "The Return" seems to me both a much more radical departure from the original source, and also a more successful film. 6. Nolan tries to pack a lot of Incidents and Big Ideas into this film, but they do not seem to me to hang together coherently on the level of his own plot and the movie's constructed system of values. Instead, it's foisting a didactic point about Our Times onto the plot without integrating it. 7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one moo 7. I liked Nolan's low-budget early films - have seen Memento 3 times - but I think the money is a trap. It's easier to suspend disbelief if the actors are less famous. The huge budget leads him to attempt grand jam-packed epics, when he's better at taut, very premise-y small films. 8. I wish I liked this film more. I tried very hard to like it. I also felt it was valid to write about why it didn't work for me - especially since so much of the coverage has been so very positive, and I'm hardly punching down. 9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it. 10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities. 11. Was I too mean? Or not mean enough? I went through my first draft and tried to take out the snark. To quote the great poet: "Though much is taken, much remains... That which we are, we are." 12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population. Yes, it is Wide Sargasso Sea and yes, the Tennyson line is “though much is taken, much abides”. Many apologies and thank you for correcting. And thank you to all who read and engaged. I am very happy that some people respectfully disagreed with me, or had different feelings about the film from mine.

[jamillias]

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herblore in Dagorlad is………… different

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