ArgentSheWolf

29 Female

[tara-the-star]

i love the phrase 'i dont go here but...' like you're so in awe of my work you have decided to trespass into a fandom you dont belong to just to appreciate it. i love everyone who doesn't go here

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[dogpuppy]

[plslemmedie]

Ok, consider;

Superhero Mira, pressured on all sides to start killing villains by her peers (most of whom do so) her parents (legacy hero’s) her brother (who is a jerk) and the media.

Civilian (no powers) Zoey is the only one who tells her not to kill the villains, instead arresting them and putting them through the courts via gadgets she makes/info about their powers.

Rumi who’s a “Supervillain” (who targets corrupt hero’s and takes away their powers) runs into a burning building and saves Zoey. (Zoey was caught in the crossfire between Mira and Rumi.)

Zoey is obviously working with one of the hero’s, so Rumi takes as much of her gear as she can along with Zoey to get info. (She intimidates but won’t hurt her.)

Mira assumes she kidnapped Zoey and is planning on torturing her. She ends up finding them a week later where Rumi is literally on her knees begging Zoey to leave her secret lair, no, stop, why are you taking apart my sunlamp, WHERE DID YOU GET URANIUM?? Stuff like that.

So Mira ends up just casually walking up behind Rumi and hugging her (her flame powers would let her burn Rumi to a cinder, and Rumi’s teleport wouldn’t work while someone’s holding her). She asks Zoey if she’s ok, and Zoey starts rambling about how nice Rumi is and how she refused to torture Zoey “even though she wanted info about *insert transparently corrupt hero’s name here* which I do have.”

For Mira it clicks really fast that Rumi isn’t targeting hero’s as a whole, specifically corrupt ones after she sees the meticulous notes Rumi has. (She let go of Rumi and started rifling through them despite her protests.)

(“Did you color code your notes about hero’s costumes?”

Rumi, who is blushing and stuttering and trying to grab the papers Mira is holding out of her reach and flustered in a way Mira’s never seen:)

Basically, the two of them adopt Rumi into their little group of “no-kill hero’s-villains-civilians”.

I dunno, I just think it’d be really funny cus before this all happened Rumi was known to be terrifying for the way she’d cripple or strip hero’s of their powers, with the exception of Mira or hero’s she knows are actually good people.

[who-needs-words]

I’m of the firm opinion that the Jedi are like a small town where everyone knows everyone.

Your average padawan will be like “this is my older padawan-sibling, and this is their favorite crechemate. And this is their favorite crechemate’s usual mission partner. And this is their usual mission partner’s platonic life mate. And this is their platonic life mate’s grandpadawan. The grandpadawan is also my Huttese tutor.” And it goes on and on and on.

[oatmealdoodles]

new crackship unlocked holy hell-

so like… were NONE of you guys going to tell me this?!? I found out just now

dammit now I have to make human designs for both Tumblr and Ao3, which is gonna be hard cuz I don’t read fanfiction and my stylus is STILL BROKEN

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

Wait what? They actually got married??

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

concept: the Jedi Mind Trick can persuade someone to do anything you could convince them of over a friendly drink, maybe after they've gotten lightly drunk so they have fewer inhibitions. "C'mon, bro, those aren't the droids you're looking for." "Elan. Buddy. You don't want to sell death sticks to a guy with a lightsaber. You need to go home and rethink your life, man!" It can't do anything this kind of one-off persuasion can't do, it's just a shortcut. This also makes sense for how i.e. Jabba's hatred of Han Solo is too great for anyone to persuade him to give it up. I don't have anything to say about Toydarians

[mooncustafer]

I figure the Jedi Mind Trick only lasts an hour, or until a third party says “wait, they told you to do what?!” So it’s useful for escapes or for situations where you’ll be long gone by the time your mark snaps out of it, but it can’t be used to sway opinions or change behaviour long-term

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

listen…do not take this wrong way because i have absolutely nothing against you guys…but “x reader” writers NEED to start tagging their writing with the general “x reader” tag or im gonna start losing my shit

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

I was going through some Wookieepedia pages, and it dawned on me just how few Jedi there are. 

10000 may sound like a lot, but it’s such a ridiculously little number ever by our standards that it becomes completely laughable on the galactic scale. 

I know numbers in Star Wars are wonky and don’t really make sense. Most of them are made up by EU writers trying to fill in the gaps in Lucas’ admittedly scarce worldbuilding - as a result, none of them match and even numbers accepted as “canon” don’t mean all that much.. 

Still, they at least give us something to go on from. 

According Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know and Ultimate Star Wars, two books held as canon within the current continuity, there are 1 trillion people on Coruscant. According to some Legends sources, it’s 2 trillions. 

1,000,000,000,000.

That’s how much a trillion is.

A trillion seconds is 31,709 years. A trillion square kilometers is about 2000 Earths. 

A trillion people is 130 times Earth’s population. 

It’s not an unrealistic large number, because if a planet the size of Earth was covered in buildings from sea level to above the peak of its highest mountain, it would very reasonably host 100 times the world’s population. It even seems a bit of an underestimation. Estimates vary wildly, but the most densely populated cities in the world have between 30000 and 80000 people/km2. Average that to 55000p/km2, multiply it by the 510 million square kilometers of Earth’s surface (Earth and Coruscant having almost similar diameters) and you get TWENTY EIGHT TRILLION PEOPLE. And that’s without accounting for the fact that Coruscant’s density would necessarily be higher because of its thousands of levels that are several kilometers high.

Even if we say that Coruscant is smaller than Earth and somehow less densely populated, 1 trillion is still a bare minimum.

Ten thousand Jedi living on Earth (7,7 billion inhabitants) would mean 1 Jedi out of 770000 people. It’s a really, really small number. (And that’s assuming there are 10000 Knights. Because that number could include the children, the elderly and those who aren’t on active duty for one reason or another.)

Ten thousand Jedi out of a trillion? 1,000,000,000,000 vs 10,000?  It’s ONE JEDI OUT OF A HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE. There’d be seventy-seven Jedi on Earth with that ratio. There’d be three Jedi in the USA! There’d be eleven Jedi in China! 

(And a trillion isn’t even everyone in the Galaxy, it’s just everyone on Coruscant.

We know other worlds have at least millions of people, even without pulling numbers out of nowhere - Obi-Wan feels millions of people die when Alderaan is destroyed. (Keeping in mind that a million people is a ridiculously, unfathomably small number of people compared to a trillion.) We also know that there are thousands of worlds in the Republic - the delegation of 2000 is just a small part of the Senate, and the Neutral Systems (a really small part of galactic politics) number 1500 systems according to Satine in TCW. Millions times thousands equals = more billions.

It’s insane. Imagine blaming Palpatine’s rise to power on the Jedi. Like, do you blame three senators for the Orange One? Do you blame three well-connected evangelists with (disputable) influence but no actual political power? Do you blame three high-level cops, no matter how corrupt, how bad, how “set in their ways”?

Do you blame a faith of 77 people for the state of the world? Or the 2000~ billionaires heading gigantic corporations that hoard wealth and trample human rights.

Are you currently telling people to vote, or are three people in the USA responsible for keeping the system together? 

The Jedi weren’t enough to defend the whole Galaxy. It’s outright stated several times in the movies and the cartoons.. There were fewer Jedi than there were Senators. Even irl they wouldn’t have the power to fix the world, short of taking over governments. When they do try that in SW (to save the Republic from becoming a fascist dictatorship headed by basically Satan), they get wiped out in one afternoon tops.

The Jedi could only be the shield that protected the Republic from the outside force of destruction that were the Sith. Only the Republic could protect itself from its own evil. 

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

My college has over 20,000 new students this year. Expecting them to solve every issue in the galaxy is absolutely ridiculous.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

was reading your faq and it said " are you a moth prince apologist?" and somehow I read that as "are you a pride month apologist?" making the answer to the faq actually hilarious

I suppose I am something of a pride month apologist

[antianakin]

I really love that Padme is simultaneously the best person everyone knows and the one of the worst people everyone knows.

Like Queen Amidala was one of the most beloved Queens of Naboo in history, to the point that they literally wanted to overturn their own CONSTITUTION in order to keep her in power and only her refusal to allow it or to even run if they did kept that from happening. She's remembered as being kind, intelligent, brave, and beautiful. She is almost literally perfection incarnate.

And Senator Amidala is primarily known and remembered as someone who fought against war and corruption, someone who was willing to put her life on the line when it mattered and one of the few who was willing to speak out and fight against injustice. She's remembered for being powerful and clever and strong and moral.

There's never any real smear campaign against her the way there is against, say, the Jedi. Palpatine wants to stop Padme sometimes, sure, but he never sees her as such a big threat that he needs to turn the entire galaxy against her. In fact, her pristine reputation probably ends up helping him by proxy since he was her mentor. Even the reveal of Padme's pregnancy after her death, something that would've exposed that she'd had a scandalous affair, never seems to tarnish her reputation as a paragon of moral perfection. Even decades after her death, she seems to still be remembered extremely positively.

But the REALITY of Padme is far different. She's a corrupt politician, she's willing to help cover up several different crimes committed by her own husband, she's potentially going against her own planet's rules by having gotten married at all, she's going against some other rules by getting married to a JEDI. She's a liar and a hypocrite, she's selfish and greedy, and she's more and more willing to let herself be convinced into doing things she knows are wrong by the end.

But no one seems to truly know that person. The one person closest to her who does know about some of these choices often refuses to acknowledge or accept the reality of her because it obviously benefits him that she is this way and he's choosing to see what he wants to see. And everyone else is kept at such a distance that they don't get to see the darkness that lies beneath the pristine lie she wears.

So Padme ends up being someone that everyone remembers as being one of the best people they've ever known, but the reality is that Padme was likely one of the worst people they'd ever known, that she had in many ways become one of the people she constantly claimed to be fighting against.

[thesobsister]

Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.

"Wikipedia is in peril.

In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

In Wikipedia’s 25-year history, it has never had to fight this hard." -----

Interesting, alarming article.

tl;dr: If you use Wikipedia every day, like your sobsister, or even regularly, and you have a few bucks to spare, think about a donation to help it fight off MAGA/Musk, AI, and authoritarian governments around the world.

[anneriawings]

OKAY CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE FUCK YOU SHIP A PACKAGE OF COOKIES TO A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN NEW JERSEY, ONLY TO HAVE IT NOT GET THERE ON TIME BECAUSE IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN GUAM?

I JUST

GUAM?

[phantomrose96]

IM CRYING REAL TEARS MAH DUDES THE COOKIES ARE IN GUAM

KATIE TRIED TO SEND US COOKIES OUTTA THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART AND JUST

“OHHHH THESE COOKIES WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO NEW JERSEY, PHIL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID

[anneriawings]

12/27, 8:37PM CT

ITS STILL IN FUCKING GUAM

[anneriawings]

12/28, 12:18PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE IN HONOLULU GUYS THEY ***FINALLY LEFT GUAM***

[anneriawings]

12/28, 10:22PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE FINALLY ON THEIR WAY TO NEW JERSEY

GO COOKIES GO

@phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper​ @homebeccer GET READY

[anneriawings]

lol i was looking through my history to find the tracking number page and

[anneriawings]

12/30, 12:39AM CT

@phantomrose96 @homebeccer @cupcakecreeper

holy fuCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

THE COOKIES ARE ALMOST THERE

[phantomrose96]

The saga of Katie’s Guam cookies is my Anime of the Season

[anneriawings]

THEY’VE ARRIIIIIIIIIIVVEEDDDDD THEY’RE ON THE FRONT DOORSTEP

[anneriawings]

COOKIES ACQUIRED

[homebeccer]

THE THRILLING CONCLUSION

also as a bonus visual here’s a rough approximation of these cookies’ journey

[anneriawings]

how the FUCK did this blow up and get so many notes

[anneriawings]

SO FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, @homebeccer @phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper AND I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD ACTUALLY COST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO INTENTIONALLY SEND THESE COOKIES FROM TEXAS TO GUAM TO NEW JERSEY AND???????????????

AND 

IT’S

IT’S

IT’S NOT AN OPTION IT’S NOT AN OPTION I CAN’T I-

I COULDN’T EVEN HAVE SENT THESE COOKIES TO GUAM EVEN IF I’D HAVE TRIED 

[phantomrose96]

Cant believe we uncovered the Guam Cookie glitch folks

Its not even an in-game feature

[crowreys-wormstache]

Oh my god it’s back

[anneriawings]

H O W

[anavar-immela]

I’ve had this sort of thing happen.

At least it explained why the package took so long to get here.

[phantomrose96]

I appreciate that they have an Entire Stamp for “Missent to Nepal”

No one said “hey let’s stop missending things to Nepal” they just said “let’s make a stamp for this” and called it a day.

I’m gonna get Missent to Guam tattooed on my arm in commemoration. 

[terrainterrain-pullup]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[offonaherosjourney]

Get Moist von Lipwig in charge of the US postal service ASAP

[korasonata]

Ok I know this is super old now but I work at a post office and I was curious about the price so I did some digging and I still don’t have a definite answer because THE REASON it says “no shipping services available” is because all shipping services were actually suspended to Guam at the time. As in no packages, parcels, letters, or mail or any kind could be sent to Guam. So not only is it mind boggling that it got sent so far in the wrong direction of its intended destination, but because nothing should have been able to get in to Guam period.

You QUITE LITERALLY could not have sent these cookies to Guam if you tried.

[faemorrigan]

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

[faemorrigan]

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

[tastefullyoffensive]

Portals to Hell by hrmphfft

[marchqueen-deactivated20161002]

IT’S BACK

[lady-dirtbag]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

[2ndratewig]

ITS BACK 

[trumpetnista]

This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.

[lyninabin]

it’s from 2013 with 2.4mil tags how the fuck have i not seen it before?!?!?

[krakencran]

“We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.”

*beheads a single father with his son watching*

“PEACE, MOTHERFU-“

[mace-windu-appreciationweek]

I love the idea that Mace is at fault for attacking a man who was shooting at him while he was unarmed. Kept going when he rearmed himself and was literally part of the plan to genocide Mace's people.

Maybe Jango shouldn't have taken his kid to an execution and left rather than kill several Jedi and try to kill Mace.

Boo hoo, he got what was coming to him. How dare a guy not roll over and let a bounty hunter kill him? How dare a man not check all the holes in the wall to see if a child is hiding in them before defending himself?

[cilantrhoes]

[liquidpaperfoundation1]

both? Both.

[soulsistrin]

We have to choose?

[j-in-the-north]

[hopefulmisanthrope]

If a lesbian killed him, I might not know what to do with all my delight.