we've always been enough

vika | she/they | late 20s | also known as eighthbrothers

[vividsunset]

ct-hardcase > vividsunset

[abigailspinach]

Elizabeth Grullon’s line delivery of “Outstanding” deserves a full page spread.

I love her ducky 🦆 helmet

[mrkestis]

The Kenobi show has its problems but Reva at her core isn’t one of them. A Jedi youngling surviving the purge at the Jedi temple and becoming an inquisitor to get revenge on the man who took everything from her? A journey to let go of hatred and turning away from becoming the very thing you swore to destroy? I love that actually and I want to see more of her.

[changes]

Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later

We’re making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and we’re really excited about it, because this is something that some of you have been requesting for… well… a literal decade.

Before today, when you deleted your Tumblr account, it was immediate and permanent. Occasionally, this resulted in Very Sad Times. Even though we’ve tried to make it super difficult to accidentally delete your account, this is something that still happens a lot. Like, a lot. There’s also plenty of folks who delete their account on purpose, but then regret it shortly afterward. Worst of all, if your account was hacked, and then deleted by the hacker, there was no way to get it back. 

All of these problems are *poof* no more. As of today, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. Your account will remain recoverable during that time, and you can contact us within that 30 day window if you’d like us to restore your account.

Eventually, we hope to make this process a bit easier, and allow you to restore your account with a single click of a button. For right now, though, you’ll need to contact us via tumblr.com/support and choose the category “Account Access” > “I have deleted my account or blog by accident”. 

FAQs

How do I delete my account? Does that process look different now?

You can follow the steps here to delete your account on the web or through the mobile app, which works pretty much the same way as before. You’ll notice we’ve updated the confirmation screen to reflect the new process, though.

Does a deleted account still appear on Tumblr during this 30 day window?

Nope. As soon as you submit the request to delete your account, all of your blogs will no longer be accessible (they’ll 404), no one will be able to message you, your posts will no longer appear in search results, and you won’t be able to log in anymore. This happens right away, not 30 days later. Deleted accounts still behave exactly as they always have.

What about my email address and username? Will those become available again immediately after account deletion, like they did before?

Notably, no, they will not. In order to make it possible for the account to be restored during the 30 day window, the username and email address must remain associated with the account during that time. So they won’t be available to register again until 30 days after you’ve deleted your account.

If you’re deleting your account, and you already know that you’d like to use the same username or email address on a new account immediately afterward, we recommend that you change your username and email address before deleting the account. That way, they will become available right away, instead of being on hold for 30 days. 

What if I’ve accidentally deleted one of my sideblogs, but not my entire account?

If you delete a sideblog, it will be deleted right away, and cannot be restored. We can only restore an entire account (which will restore all of its blogs along with it). 

Is this feature retroactive? Can you restore the account I deleted two years ago?

As much as we would like this to be possible, the answer is no. We still haven’t perfected the art of time travel, so all accounts deleted before today are still deleted for good. This new change will only apply to accounts which are deleted after this announcement is posted.

Where can I learn more about the account deletion process?

You can check out our support documentation and Privacy Policy. Both have been updated to reflect these changes.

[cilceon]

The stupid ads that take up the entire screen that you can’t scroll past because they’re touch sensitive and they want you to slide some vacation juice at a pyramid of ice or walk Party City Burger King through a field leave me alone I am not organizing your colorful sand I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I h

[vividsunset]

tumblr playing ads that cover the whole screen upon opening someone’s blog is hell actually

[lioncourtz]

JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac

An Inside Look at 'The Vampire Lestat' x

[trycijacks]

husband come home the kids miss you

[jesncin]

my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters". And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point they feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

[jeniferprince]

I've got a crush on you 💘

patreon // buy prints here

[ddeck]

as always happy pride to people that are not out. happy pride to people that dont plan to come out any time soon. happy pride to people for whom it is not safe to be out. happy pride to people that live in a homophobic environment and happy pride to people from countries that criminalize queerness

[vividsunset]

was making soup late and I’m done and that’s all fine and good but now I need to refrigerate a pot of soup that was previously boiling. I’m going to lay down a bunch of hot plates and pray

[vividsunset]

It makes me feel things that every time Terec gets to make a decision or have agency the story rips it away from them (Issue 10 and the subsequent retcon causes an implication that they had to go back on severing the bond for the sake of Ceret/the mission, and then their being the chronicler during Trials and knocked out in that same story is its own thing).

I pointed this out in my meta last year but while it parallels Keeve, the fact that the way the writing is structured is pushing back on what they want, for Terec specifically it feels a bit cruel, since Keeve at least got to address her pain points at the end of her story. Terec did get a wrapup at the end of Trials, but it felt a bit stilted having read their story in the comic, then watch it get reset for a general audience, then sort of resolved offscreen?

The reader can infer what happened—Terec was working through their thoughts on the bond and clearly wanted some sort of connection to Ceret throughout Trials, and felt bad about making Ceret feel bad, and you can infer that a near-death experience helped give them clarity about the future they wanted with Ceret—my issue isn't not understanding, it's that after roughly a year both in their world and ours of this being their Phase III story, I wanted some on-the-page payoff. The issues above with their agency throughout the story compound the frustration.

[chilewithcarnage]

when the treat you treated yourself to is mid

[bifauxnenarmand]

[knightsickness]

love this image bc what did the princess do to make the crowd shout and throw tomatoes at her. i know it wasnt nothing

[tremendouskoalachild]

prominent non-dead star wars moms, a non-exhaustive list

for @hoennechidna, who asked for examples other than Hera, Venisa Doza, and Lina Soh. not in a reblog because this got long sorry

criteria:

not dead at the end of their own story (revealed to have died in the years/decades/centuries since in a different story set later is fine)

part of the main cast of at least 1 story - defined loosely of course but if there's a list of the principal cast they have to be on it

must be shown as a mom in a story, not merely be stated or assumed to have had a kid at some later point (i.e. a character who has descendants in stories set in a later era)

any canon and medium goes

in no particular order:

Legends!Leia Organa

has 3 kids and outlives 2 of them as far as we know, and stays part of the main cast for all of the many post-Return of the Jedi book series, including during her pregnancies. her eventual death has not been shown and quite likely never would have been, even if the Legends continuity hadn't been discontinued in 2014.

Satele Shan

one of the main npc characters of the mmo-rpg The Old Republic. prominently featured in the game's marketing and tie-ins. has more of a presence in some class stories than others but all players interact with her eventually (if the finish the campaign). has a son who is also a major character - they have a distant relationship due to Satele being a jedi. Satele has not died, although the game is still receiving story updates (i don't expect her to die at this point though).

Nomi Sunrider

one of the main characters of the Tales of the Jedi comic series and protagonist of one of its 8 arcs. (the series takes place 4 thousand years before the films and is unrelated to the animated tv miniseries.) she becomes a jedi while already a mom and ends up leading the order, becoming one of the most celebrated jedi in history (in the old canon).

Tenel Ka Djo

we meet her as a teen jedi in Luke's order, part of the generation (and friend group) of Leia's kids. she grows with them across the many books in the now non-canon post-return of the jedi continuity. it's true that she has less page time once she becomes a full-time queen of her people, which is somewhat related to her becoming a mother, but she remains a part of the main cast in multiple stories set after that.

Mon Mothma

she had a teenage daughter introduced for the tv show Andor. their relationship and eventual fate is open-ended for now. she also technically had a daughter in the old continuity but it wasn't terribly relevant to anything. Mon is an important character across much of the franchise, though her motherhood doesn't really come into it as the daughter's story is a recent addition.

Ghirra Starros

an important politician character throughout the high republic story line, becoming a major POV in several novels, especially in Phase 3. she has a strained but loving relationship with her teenage scientist daughter Avon.

Kyong Greylark

a chancellor of the Republic during Phase II of the high republic publishing initiative, major POV character in two novels. she has an adult son, who is one of the main characters, but also has her own role in the story unrelated to the relationship.

Mirax Terrik Horn

smuggler who becomes close with the rebellion, and later New Republic, heroes in the years post-Return of the Jedi in Legends. she eventually marries one of the jedi in Luke's order and has two kids, who also become jedi. she is a minor character later in the timeline but continues showing up in the main cast of several novels.

Norra Wexley

one of the main characters of the Aftermath trilogy of novels, set shortly after Return of the Jedi and setting up the sequel films. she has a teenage son at that time, who grows up to be one of the supporting resistance pilots in the sequels. Norra has not died, and indeed has made it into the sequel era as well.

honorable mentions:

Bix Caleen and Pikka Adren. are important characters but only become mothers in the epilogues of their respective stories. also not to get overly subjective but Bix shouldn't have become a mom imo.

Eedy Karn. definitely a non-dead mother but her only role in the story is as the mother of a side character, and i've decided she is under the cutoff for "main cast". love her though.

Baynoo Ongwa. too minor of a character to include her fully imo but she definitely fits. appears in several stories starring her teenage daughter Crash.

i know the Skeleton Crew kids, and at least 1 of the Young Jedi Adventures kids, have moms. i don't know them but if fans of those shows remember their names other than [character's mom] then they count.