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𝑼𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳)

immediately thought of those questions to flesh out your ocs. who would your tav have behind them? maybe no one at all? maybe multiple people? a concept, a feeling rather than a person?

bugfossil

this is one of my favorite calvin and hobbes strips ever and i just need to preserve it on my blog

Yunalesca in FFX

Been playing FFX again recently, and I've had a thought. A lot of people judge Yunalesca for wandering around Zanarkand in her underwear, but honestly? Kind of relatable. If I was all alone in a dead city, waiting for a Summoner to show up - where it's always at least a decade between visits - and no one else comes in between, I'd be wandering around in my underwear, too.

#ffx

evilbuildingsblog

Bethlehem PA during an evening snow storm

posthumanwanderings

waitingforthet

Check my Patreon out if you’d like to support the comic, even a little bit helps. Or just to check out the reward tiers, there’s some neat bonus stuff and I tried to make them fun: https://www.patreon.com/waitingforthet

the-bar-sinister

Actually, the reason to write that rarepair longfic that no one else is going to read is so you can go back and re-read it yourself when you're sad.

the-bar-sinister

Or horny.

yesornopolls

Do you kinda hate AO3?

Yes

Voting ended onJan 31

frontmansdefender

imagine hating a non-profit site created by fans, for fans, with excellent tagging system, no censorship, no ads, no algorithm, no capitalism bullshit — just fans creating and sharing their art with other fans for free, out of pure love and passion — couldn't be me

tyramir

I have some minor quibbles with A03, but they're minor (I don't like them cracking down on any author that advertises paid work, even non-fanfic stuff, for example), and I also understand the necessity for why they exist. So while some parts of A03 annoy me, I still forgive them and love the site as a whole.

betyoudidntcatchthat

the night before they steal the pay roll on Aldhani, Nemik can’t sleep and wonders why his strong conviction doesn’t calm him, commenting that Cassian sleeps like a stone

but then later, the night before the prison break, the scene opens with Cassian lying wide awake in his cell, showing that his beliefs are growing and he is starting to stand for something

betyoudidntcatchthat

how heartbreaking is it that these are some of the last words that cassian hears from some of the most influential people to him

“climb!”

and always just before they die

lilwitchylilbitchy

A Little Rant About Star Wars

okay, so i was thinking earlier this week about Andor (as usual), specifically about the final line from the segment of Nemik's manifesto we hear: "...Remember this; try."

and it got me thinking about the other times we've had the act of trying, of attempting something, in Star Wars, decades earlier: "Do or do not; there is no try."

these two statements and the characters they represent are so fascinating to me. from the perspective of Yoda's philosophy, Nemik is a naive idealist fighting against a system he cannot hope to overcome, which consequently results in his death. Nemik tried to do the impossible, failed, and died. and then, we have Yoda, a relic who chooses to lives in hiding because he knows that there is no way he can take down the Empire, ultimately allowing him to survive the 18 years after Order 66 and train Luke. Yoda survived because he chose to not try, and lived.

however, from the philosophy of Nemik, their positions are radically changed.

Yoda lived alone for almost two decades because he knew he couldn't win against the Empire. he took no action, offering no support to the Rebellion, despite the fact that he is quite literally the most powerful Jedi who has existed in centuries, despite his wealth of knowledge that can be used in the fight against fascism, despite his knowledge of other Jedi that existed in the galaxy who needed his help (ex. Ezra speaking with Yoda in the temple). Yoda didn't try, despite the myriad valuable contributions he could have made to defeating the Empire, because he believed that he couldn't.

meanwhile, Nemik is a freedom fighter. his whole life's work is trying. against the Empire, a single person is meaningless. it is a hulking monstrosity of cold bureaucracy, impersonal massacres, and dehumanization. and above all, it functions on fear. the very act of struggle is a massive undertaking that shakes the very foundations of the mass of the Empire. trying is the whole point. the point isn't to succeed, it's to amass and gain momentum, to fail and fail and fail and try and try and try and hope and hope and hope until- the wall breaks. Nemik's pure love for freedom and his struggle against a tyrannical creature more powerful than himself inspires Cassian Andor to join the Rebellion, whose later actions go on to enable the destruction of the death star by Luke Skywalker. if enough people try, they can do.

Yoda ignores the profound impact that the simple act of trying can have. if enough people try, if enough people have hope that things can get better... they can. the act of trying is the most valuable act of rebellion the average person can take. hope is always the enemy of fascism, and really, the act of trying is an act of hope.

scomplink

Andor Appreciation Day 2 - Everyone Has Their Own Rebellion

@andorappreciation

There needs to be an easy way to report accounts on A03 for peddling AI slop art. Yes, I am aware there is a way to do it. I want an easier one. I'm lazy, and the amount of them I've been getting is like playing whack-a-mole. Gimme a quick hammer button.

#a03