I was tasked by my friend @nebulousmistress to design a wasp/humanoid hybrid and this was so incredibly up my alley.

I'm always happy to draw insectoid designs and I really gotta do more of em!

gay tv shows to watch during pride!!

• star trek: the original series

me remembering that luke and rey didn’t even have a good relationship and we didn’t get to see them as a parental relationship or even as friends

cant believe they expected us to believe luke saw rey; a lonely kid from a desert planet dreaming about finding her parents, struggling with her identity, and dealing with the weight and pressure of bringing back the jedi…. and he didnt want to help her. not only that, they also made them argue the whole time. SICK

the real luke skywalker would meet rey and be like oh i know you. i’m your dad now. i can teach you three things: how to Force, how to make the perfect cup of hot chocolate, and how to destroy fascists. let’s go do barrel-rolls in x-wings

the way the real luke skywalker would have taken a single glance at that feral desert girl and been like. "my child now." come here girl I'll teach you how to build moisture vaporators so you never have to exploit yourself for water. yes this is more important than jedi training. yes we can cover that later. oh you want to fight kyle? oh you're struggling with the idea that he might still have a soul? ok learn from my mistakes and don't lose a hand in a fight you can't win, but also did i tell you about the time i beat my dad's ass so hard he bounced back to the light side? funny story actually,

all of this in the 10 minutes after she gives him anakin's lightsaber

Rey: i was abandoned by my family on a backwater desert planet and waited for them for most of my life before a droid and the man who would become my best friend showed up and i chose to leave everything i knew behind in order to help save them and help the rebellion. i am very strong with the force and want to learn in order to protect the ones i love but my own capacity for darkness scares me. i need help understanding who i am and what my power means

Luke:

the force: here, have an apprentice who's a metaphorical narrative mirror for you. she needs guidance and a mentor figure.

luke: oh you mean my new daughter

the force: what

Rey: here dad meet my friends

Luke, meeting orphan mechanic rebel rose tico, pilot with a flair for drama poe dameron, and man who chose goodness in the face of overwhelming evil and is powerful in the force finn: oh you mean all my new kids

luke, talking to the force ghosts of the jedi council: so my first apprentice grogu has a mandalorian dad right? and he told me about how he rescued him and adopted him and how that's custom for mandalorians, right? to adopt the children they rescue. so THEN i got hit with a tax bill for religious organizations and i thought you know what doesn't get taxed? children. like when you have a child. you're not paying the government for having a child. SO i thought you know what i ain't payin the government shit-

force ghost obi-wan: but isn't leia the chancellor?

luke: EXACTLY imagine paying taxes to your sister!!! i'd rather die. anyway that's how i ended up with 15 children. they're all skywalkers.

yoda: force-sensitive, some of them are not.

luke: yes. your point?

the real luke skywalker is a devoted father and a tax evader that’s all there is to it

Yet another way we were utterly ROBBED with the sequel trilogy

some of yall are like two steps away from regularly reblogging actual evangelical propaganda

i’ve straight up seen multiple posts cross my dash saying you can’t criticize the catholic church unless you, yourself, are an ex-catholic and have been personally victimized by this massive religious institution. i wonder who might benefit from claiming the only reason people might have to be suspicious of powerful institutions are individuals with personal bad experiences and that said institutions are otherwise immune to structural critique. must be a mystery

You mean stole my language and my culture? And instilled a tradition of teen pregnancy and rampant physical abuse that I became the first to break out of only by refusing to have kids?

Literally everyone has been personally victimized by the Catholic Church.

I’m convinced Disney released the information that Rey’s dad was a Palpatine clone to stop everyone on social media from talking about Palpatine getting jiggy.

Probably.

It won’t work, though. You can pry the “Palpatine fucks” theory from my cold dead hands.

Palpatine fucking is focus of an unpublished WIP of mine because I left all my shame back at the Catholic school I got booted from for writing porn.

Palpatine’s lightsabre was canonically disguised as an “art object” so nobody would suspect. Of course this is why it looks like a high quality dildo. No other reason. Right?

Exhibit A:

Bitcoin is a terrible idea on its face, I’ve tried so many times to understand why people are so supportive of it and the honest conclusion I keep coming to is that it is literally a cult

What if we made a currency that doesn’t work as a currency due to constant and unpredictable shifts in value? People could use it as an investment, even though its value is exclusively speculative and tied to nothing at all! We can meter the supply by making computers solve puzzles that take up enough electricity to power the average neighborhood for weeks if not months, while also ensuring those energy costs rise exponentially over time!

I’m also baffled by the idea of transactions being “untraceable”. First of all, physical cash was already untraceable. Second of all, nothing you do on the internet is untraceable! Even if the transfer of bitcoin itself is somehow invisible to authorities, your conversation with someone on the internet where you discuss buying drugs is obviously not! The NSA can see all that shit. And then when you have the drugs mailed to your house that’s pretty traceable lol.

Not at all a fan of cryptocurrencies, but the issue as I see it is that governments are doing everything possible to kill cash and cash-like transactions in favour of those that allow them to monitor long transactional chains and freeze accounts arbitrarily, which actually does suck. We’re already in a place where makiing significant transactions in cash is presumptively suspicious, to the point where you hear of civil forfeiture cases where cops just take a bunch of cash someone has with them because why would anyone even have that much cash? So while an official electronic equivalent to cash would be good and I’d almost say it’s a responsibility of the government to provide such a thing, they aren’t going to; the modern sentiment is that the anonymity and bearer-control aspects of cash are undesirable. And at least in North America, all the monitored and locked-down e-pay options are also privately owned and skim money off the top, which is ridiculous.

So I think this is a real problem; really, all the problems Bitcoin is meant to solve are real problems. It’s just that Bitcoin is an extremely bad solution to those problems, for the reasons noted above! It’s less like cash and more like a commodity investment driven by speculation rather than inherent value.

Bitcoin is so untraceable that the IRS just gets copies of all of your transactions now because they are taxable exchanges.

Stop deluding yourselves. You’re not hiding. You will get audited. I might be the one doing the auditing. As in me personally. And I am a horrible person.

3rd kylux pic!

3 in 3 days! 

Need new AU, will you help? 

well i woke up at like 8:45 this morning and the sky was as dark as if it were night time because of all the smoke and its raining ash.  living through the apocalypse sure is wild anyway time to get back to color palette challenge pieces  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

That’s how it looked here this morning in NorCal,just a bit lighter. Sky is still pale orange and my car has been coated in ash for a while now.

YEAH! I’m in NorCal too, the sky is a different color depending on where I point the camera. Very cool and apocalyptic it’s great I love it

As a former Californian I have to admit I miss this. You’d be disturbed to realize what a human being can get used to but I miss ash falling like snow, the sky turning red like Hell, and the air smelling like wood/grass smoke.

Much better than the heavy metal ash that used to fall when the refinery blew up (again). That always sucked.