And yes, Heirloom Daughter lives rent free in my head now

I guess this is how AUs are made

my only regret is the Romania jokes being lost in translation

the way obi-wan is the first to hold the children, the one who actually welcomes them into the world, it's the way he looks at baby luke with SUCH WONDER, HOPE, DEEPEST SORROW & LOVE

something something the way obi-wan & padme are each other's proxies which enables the transference of motherhood and how obi-wan is the one who gets 'cradling a new born child' close-up shot usually reserved for the mother instead.

*foaming at the mouth in utter derangment* isn't it....isn't it ironic how lucas said he needed vader as the father but needed a father figure so he created obi-wan for the OG trilogy, but the prequels accidentally (and unintentionally) place him in the narrative position of the mother.

by have him directly take over from padme; both LITERALLY and SYMBOLICALLY. their similarities in demeanour, personalities and their relation to anakin - as apologists, as devotees, as those who believe in him- makes their narrative roles transferrable.

how making padme die in childbirth and obi-wan be the first to hold the children to - figuratively- be the one who brings them into this world, keeps them safe and watches over them makes him a mother figure in exile, in direct opposition to anakin.

maiden -> mother -> crone

quotes from:

time of death by cavan scott

lone wolf by abel g. pena

It was brought to my attention that despite trolling about the damn mount, I did not shitpost about it after getting it. So here we are, with one of my fav meme formats except I can't be bothered to work on the twitter interface because I wanted to keep this rather quick

AEARYN I WAS THINKING JUST MY SWTOR MOUNTS (and definitely not all of them either) not like.... nine fucking humdred animals i am concerned thEN AS WELL

1. quoting my tags because they're relevant,

okay but can you imagine the cultural shock between an agent and the Alliance? Like, the agent crew is... what.... a murderous alien sociopath, an alien ant-human man, a wererakhgoul, a runaway force sensitive, and a murderous ancient robot, like, you could just... bring a giant lizard onto the ship and they'd be like so what's the catch with this one? Your biggest worry would be, I dunno... wondering if maybe you need to keep this one alien locked in the bathroom a few days while the crew smells it through the door and accepts it, idk. And then you have the sane people of the Alliance, doing things by the book, being, you know, normal, and Theron is doing his thing all "Commander, I found this contact, but they've got no paper trail, no documented names or past, several hundred murders on record, hangs around with rakghouls" and the agent would be all "oh that's my buddy Lokin, he likes his tea black and no sugar." Or Koth is like "so this murderous robot, I don't trust her, what if she takes the ship over?" and the agent is all "Listen... she definitely will, she's done it to mine." "How did you solve that?" "Oh I just hit on her..." or you go meet Kaliyo and she's all "You son of a bitch you're still alive? What the fuck, piss off or I kill you" and Theron is all "uhhhh I take it you know each other" and you're all "yup we were married (◕ᴗ◕✿)"* and like two hours later you inform him you've blown up the city and oh you're married again and he just .... he just.... look, he's trying REALLY hard not to judge you... but damn, he's done some stupid shit in his life, but you're making him feel better about his choices right about now.

It's just a really hilarious realization I've had while sketching this shitpost out, lmao. *obviously optional but that's like 2 points for normal if it's missing

Tweet by dumbbeezie: Gif your birth year and that’s your Met Gala outfit 

The one on the right, obviously.

I am forcibly escorted from the Met Gala

Or maybe…

Celebrate Rogue One 2021 / Day 1 : Home

Rogue One will always be my favorite. Thank you for you guys always!

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Some trans guy tips from your dad

@shyguyshiloh @kuchenkat

Spread the word, especially for the board shorts thing!!!!!! They do WONDERS for making hips appear slimmer!!!!!

@cloudstreamer

for my masculine children :-*

Adding a couple things. 

-Patience is a virtue you need to come to terms with. Even on T, things take time. My voice dropped immediately, but my cycle continued for 6 months. We’re all different. 

-In the summer, HYDRATE YOURSELF. A binder is an extra layer, and mine have always been very warm. 

-When its not too hot, layers are your friend. You’d be surprised what even simply an undershirt can do to smooth out your look. 

-You are going to get misgendered. This is a fact, and it sucks. Learn to politely correct people. Remember you might be the first (openly) trans person they meet, so be a good ambassador. 

-When you start T, your smell will change. You will sweat like you’ve never sweat before, and it WILL STINK. Adjust your bathing habits accordingly. 

*coughs in direction of my trans friendos*

If you have a really large chest you might do better with Underworks binders. They aren’t pretty, they’re not soft, but they do a good job and were the first on the market for a very long time. I couldn’t stand gc2b so if you’re like me, try Underworks.

Don’t double bind.

DON’T USE DUCK TAPE. I still have scars from a dumb decision I made as a teen and I’m 31 now.

When the time comes for top surgery, shop around. Find someone who will tailor your chest to your needs. Look at their portfolio. Compare surgeons. See if you can find someone who will work with your health insurance if you have it.

Be safe. Be healthy. Take your time. It’s not a race or a competition.

*incoherent screaming* MY TRANS MEN/ TRANS MASCULINE FOLLOWERS, L O O K👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

I know a lot of my friends are Trans men so look!!

@romeo-appreciation-squad @sxft-bxy-mlm @existential-pasta @undervaluedagent hey guys look

If you don’t mind, I’d also add

(EDIT: This only really works- safely- if you have an overbite. I didn’t realize not everyone haves one, so I didn’t think about it causing an underbite if you have ‘normal’ teeth. Please don’t try this unless you actually have an overbite, unless you want to deal with possible lasting effects).

These are all I can think of at the moment, but they really helped me

so here i am talking to @worstmagicianinfillory about swtor getting graphics updates like other mmos, supposedly, and there she is, making the joke that Kaliyo will get a tradwife look and well i should not be told things like that while i have hands and photoshop

me @ canon.

That being said I do support Anduin/Wrathion but as with every ship there’s Things out there

Tabloids are a war crime, too.

It’s only gonna get worse from here

I need more cats on my dash. Or dogs. Wombats, even.

How about this hedgehog that walked up to me at the park 2 nights in a row

or how fat Jomo got a few months after the tooth extraction

Or this other cat (Moony) sleeping in the cargo compartment of my kid’s stroller

Or this one stray tom (which we suspect was thrown out by previous owners since he is super tame) whom my kid LOVES to take photos of/with and who is suckling his own titty at sleepytime

or this funky colored pigeon

or this photo of Moony which my kid took because 1. she loves stalking the cats with the camera and 2. she loved that the cat was “camouflaged” (one of her favorite things to notice nowadays - when animals are camouflaged)

Unfortunately I have no wombats

But I offer -

A duck hiding in a tree

Lazy Chihuahuas

A fluffy asshole

Lunatic who really wants the tv birds

And a good goofy boy

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

Westworld did this as well. Storytelling is dead!

IF FAN THEORIES ARE RIGHT IT IS A SIGN YOU HAVE TOLD A WELL-PUT TOGETHER AND FOLLOWABLE PLOT, NOT A SIGN YOU NEED TO MAKE UP SOME BULLSHIT FOR A TWIST ENDING. FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT.

No wait, I’m not done here:

If the fans get where you are going and ARE STILL HAPPY, you KEEP GOING THERE. It shows they’re invested and your story craft is setting up and paying off properly. 

It is not a sign you need to M Night Shamaylan things until narrative is fuckin dead and “surprise endings!” reign supreme. If no one can guess what will happen, you don’t have a plot, you have deus ex machinas strung together like a child’s macaroni necklace. It might be endearing and beloved but its hardly a fuckin masterpiece. 

To be utterly frank, this is where “NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS EVER! NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BREATHE ABOUT THE PLOT UNTIL IT’S BEEN OUT ON DVD FOR FIVE YEARS” attitude has left us – And the studios ACTIVELY encourage that shit because first week viewing numbers are their whole lifeblood.

Sure, an “oh shit” moment is great, but if you’re doing it well, I should have that moment watching the show the second, fifth, or hundredth time, knowing how it will go. If being surprised were truly so important to a narrative, why even make a Shakespeare play? Is anyone out there still hoping Romeo and Juliet still get together at the end? Why make mystery novels into movies? Spoiler warning: Hercules Poirot gets the bad guy. Movies that directly follow historical events? Clearly worthless.

Come on, now. Sure, try not to spoil shit for people intentionally, don’t be a dick, but can we calm the fuck down and can Hollywood stop pushing this shit both in social media and with business choices like this?

When I started writing my longform fanfic @pixilicious guessed the ending within two chapters. She threw around a few guesses based on hints she’d picked up and one of them was completely right. Not only that, she also correctly guessed a couple of red herrings before they were thrown in the narrative.

Been joking all this time I should obviously pull a cool writer move and write away from that, into twists that were never foreshadowed etc.

But you know what? I love this. I love that someone already sees the arching plot, because it means at the end, it won’t feel asspulled. It means at the end, the other 5 readers will look back on the narrative and go “oh my god, it’s true, I thought these were unrelated events but they’re foreshadowing”. It means out of the other readers, some may catch on before I reach the end, as I add more clues. Some are already catching on, telling me x is obvious red herring before I get there, and y feels like filler but absolutely has a reason to be there doesn’t it?

And it means that whenever I finish writing this, those that were along for the journey will probably feel satisfied. Satisfied that they guessed correctly. Satisfied they picked up on small things. Satisfied because all the attention and time and emotional labor they put into reading paid off.

But a lot of big name writers fail to see this angle nowadays. All they wanna do is surprise the audience™. And if the only way they can is by changing the original story or killing someone unexpectedly or changing the tone and story towards the end because they didn’t like people paying attention or having educated guesses, then I’m sorry, but those are shit writers.

Forgive me.

only if you forgive me

His world now

HEY YOU

YOURE FINALLY AWAKE

Oh sweet Jesus.

i am so sorry for this

     “Cats are cold, detached & unloving.”

     “Cats are not loyal.”

     “A cat will not greet you at the door.”

     “You can not train a cat”

     “Cats aren’t that smart.”

     “Cats aren’t that good with children.”

     “Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone.”

     “Cats don’t comfort you when you’re feeling down.”

What a load of crap !!!  One thing for certain… cats don’t give a rat’s ass what B.S. you tell about them. They refuse to care less, either about what you think of them, or about the people they love.

“Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone” is a ton of bs. Whenever I leave to go anywhere, I can hear my cats meowing at the door within moments trying to find me. They sit in the window watching for me to come home and they are at the door to greet me almost every single time.

Cats also grieve. This cat watches a video of their owner who had passed away and he tries to cuddle up with the phone. The look on his face when they zoom in on him brings me to tears every time.

One of our cats comes and sleeps next to me when he sees that I’m not feeling well. If he’s in the kitchen when I come down for food with cramps or with a cold, he’ll follow me back upstairs and lay down on me and purr.

Cats are aloof animals who don’t put up with nonsense, will defend their boundaries with claws, and sometimes like to push things down to see what happens, but they aren’t jerks.

when you try to upload a pic but there’s an error message so you try again, and again, and again– and again

i’m sorry @windwyrm for spamming you 14 times with the same pic who could’ve known 😂😂😂😂

I had zero alerts on discord so I manually enter your convo anyway to see wtf you’re on about

the more i scrolled the funnier it got

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omg you even screencapped the first thing i didn’t yasdawdawdadbLESS

@pixilicious halp b/c IDFK lmao

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Last we saw her, our Warrior Maiden had decided to singlehandedly and rather foolishly invade Stormwind, atop her ruthless, black beast of blackness absolute, dark evil blackn-

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omg you even screencapped the first thing i didn’t yasdawdawdadbLESS

@pixilicious halp b/c IDFK lmao

And thus, armed with a missive from a dragon that has not yet discovered dragons can fly, and the very useful information of ‘mountains’, Warlord Zaela set forth in her quest to locate Garrosh.

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omg you even screencapped the first thing i didn’t yasdawdawdadbLESS

@pixilicious halp b/c IDFK lmao

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how many other elementary schools had compulsory square dancing lessons

why the hell is this so universal

I’m sorry you had WHAT

k so I happened to run into this Twitter thread late last year, and following up, it appears to be true, despite the fact that it sounds outlandishly ridiculous. Here it is: The ubiquitousness of square dancing was actually a plot by Henry Ford to eradicate jazz, which he believed was a Jewish conspiracy.

So, first, article, if you’d like to read up on it.

To start, here’s an actual quote by Henry Ford in a book he wrote called The International Jew:

So…yeah. In order to prevent moral decay in America, Henry Ford started pouring a lot of money into the promotion of square dancing—and that included schools. From the article:

At this point, schools have compulsory square dancing simply because they’ve always had it, but originally they had it because Henry Ford wanted to save white America.

So hey, if you think the whole square dancing unit at your school is totally lame, informing the school about its history might be a way to get rid of it!

What on fucking earth

I was partnered with this girl I specifically didn’t get along with, maybe because adults are just sadistic.  I think I was less than ten years old at the time.  When they made us perform the dance for the school and the moves brought me close to the curtain, I ducked out and left her hanging.

The principal had to do the police chief thing with me and I told her why I thought making me dance was embarrassing and making me dance with someone I didn’t like was cruel and stuff like that.  I barely remember this stuff because it’s from so long ago, but I think she actually was sympathetic and I didn’t get in much trouble.

Looks like my personal anarchism there was well justified.  Eat shit in hell Henry Ford, you antisemitic garbagehole.  Also this sucks for innocent people who like square dancing, for you to associate it with your nasty beliefs.  Lemme end my bit on a positive note.

A square dance at my elementary school drove the gym teacher into a raging meltdown in which he said we would all be crackheads in prison by our 20s because we have “no self control” and today he’s a gamestop manager a town over. I’m sorry my addition to this wasn’t more important.

Where did you all go to school that you had the option of dancing in gym class instead of dodgeball?

I went to a christian school K-8th and we did not have square dancing, we had LOTS of dodgeball. Seniors had a banquet instead of prom because dancing was a tool of the devil and would lead to carnal thoughts. Clearly, violently hurling objects at each other was more wholesome and christian than dancing...

(I went to a public high school and was subjected to square dancing there instead)