my central padmé take is that she is someone who constantly and increasingly feels like she has blood on her hands that she can never wash off. this is the core of her deal to me. ever since i started seeing her like this she has never ceased to make perfect sense to me

this is also a core facet of her relationship with anakin to me btw. like of course she’s excessively understanding of him doing mass murder when she’s had the weight of the world on her shoulders since she was fourteen and people die for her left and right and at a certain point that’s gotta start feeling like murder. and then OF COURSE it utterly breaks her to the point of giving up on living when anakin does a bunch more murder and burns down the galaxy in her name. like of course that destroyed her completely!!!! you cannot convince me that didn’t just feel like more blood on her hands to her you just can’t

tags from @galactic-rhea because I think they are also essential to the conversation and put into words everything I think about this better than I can explain it

fantastic things happening in my tags rn. also wanna highlight these from @cheesenames cuz they also bang

My last two braincells

Oh yeah, along with the Haurche pin PO, I will be restocking A Grades of these pookies as well, so feel free to grab one via pre-sales, it will help along with the funds ^w^

Skating through Harar, Ethiopia

Courtesy of @ethiopian_girl_skaters

Pennant-winged Nightjar (Caprimulgus vexillarius), male, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, South Africa

photographs by Manfred Suter

Different chemicals in meteors produce different colors; the faster a meteor moves, the more intense the color may appear(x)

recently we were out on a hilltop taking photos of the comet and suddenly some car's headlights blind us from across the bay. literally four miles away.

who the fuck is out here with these nuclear fusion powered headlights. who puts naval searchlights on their fucking toyota tacoma.

Sodus Point, east of Rochester, NY

mystery solved

"Thou Shalt Not", 1940 photograph by Whitey Schafer, made in protest of the then-current motion picture censorship Hays Code. The photograph deliberately breaks many of the "rules" of the code, listed in the upper right corner.

anyway going back to star wars. i feel like ppl sometimes forget this bcos it's such a staple of the series at this point but on first viewing some aspects of Return of the Jedi are kind of hmm. jarring & uncomfortable? and i must stress that this is a compliment.

i watched ROTJ for the first time aged i think around 10? and i remember enjoying it less than the other films bcos i found Luke's whole story arc actively unpleasant to watch. anyone else have this experience ldkgjhdfkghfdkj

its an all-round slightly discordant film bcos the other half of the plot is 'lets just do the death star again' and 'han and leia make friends with the teddy bear people' and then Luke is. acutally i know how to represent this.

ITS LIKE THIS. THE WHOLE MOVIE IS LIKE THIS.

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

asjkdfbgn adding @toast-the-unknowing’s tags:

Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

sometimes you do just have to lie to children.

If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”

If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.

So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”

Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.

See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.

you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.

You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter

[ID: tags: "#that wasn't a lie though the big ball did go night night #it went to the great night night that awaits us all" /end ID]

🐯 🐯 🐯

good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose

It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.

The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)

this is all in all an adorable video 10/10

SHUT

actually you’re completely right that the original lion is a juvenile, but it’s a male! his size and the fact that he still has some baby spots left also indicate that he’s a very YOUNG juvenile, equivalent to a human preteen!

so really what’s happening here is a fantastic mother dashing outside with a broom to defend her 13-year-old son from the angry opossum that he just found in the trash can while taking out the garbage.

And quite clearly neither know what to do, really.

I love how mom looks into the camera like “are you SEEING this shit?????”

Wow — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3hiS1uP

A very useful thread on Bluesky:

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

"snakes dont have personalities!" Leliana, after 11 years of life: "OMG water is wet??" Watch until the end 😂

Congrats buddy that's the worst any one has ever drank water.

@bricky-b

what happens to nitrogen when the sun rises

it becomes daytrogen

I’m going to bed.

good nitrogen

sleep tightrogen

don’t let the bed bugs bitrogen

this post is a fucking graveyard