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.
“The home is no longer seen as a space of personal expression or comfort, or as the backdrop of everyday life, but primarily as an investment and as an asset—meaning that enforcing one’s aesthetics is a financially detrimental decision. Those with the capital to become homeowners (already a diminishing segment of the public) conceive of their houses as being for selling before they even live a day in them.”
it is never too late to retroactively slap some fat on a character
do you think im joking? do you think im a clown? do it right now. retroactively slap some fat on a character
okay people seem to be misunderstanding this a little bit- you SHOULD make gaining weight a sign of healing by all means but i don’t mean “have your characters gain weight later”
i mean take one of your favs right now and make them fat and say they were actually fat the whole time in their story. because fat people can and do perform all the same feats skinny people do. fat people deserve to be perceived as the fuckable badass protagonist or the fun villain or the femme fatale or the tortured brooding hero
literally any character type you like - effeminate men? terrifying girlbosses? weaselly little nerds? himbos? - can also be fat. you assuming they MUST be skinny is a you problem and rooted in your perception of what the defaults are. the default isn’t skinny white boy - you just think it is.
anyway if you’ve reblogged this you’re obligated to take one of your favs and make them fat right now. don’t change anything about their story just make them fat. they were fat the whole time, they were fat when they started the story and they were fat when they nearly died and they were fat when they got their love interest’s attention and they were fat when they did incredible things. and they’re fat when it ends.
I’ve been invited to play dnd with two different groups, but they play at the same time, so I have to choose one or the other.
One is a very experienced game/group. I had to go through a pretty extensive process to get in, and managed to, despite a LOT of applicants and not having a lot of specifically 5e experience. But it was initially going to be players I had met but didn’t make much of an impression on me in that meeting, and now it’s gonna be other people who applied. They have a great setting, but that’s really the only bit I know about. But the one player I have gotten to know is so passionate and lovely, and assures me the others are likewise.
The other group is pretty much the opposite. I LOVE the players already, but the world is… a bit beginner to me. Stereotypes abound. The setting/game as described thus far is not my favorite, but is ok. But they’ve been really welcoming and excited, and open to me bringing in new ideas. And they picked me essentially unanimously.
But I’m completely divided on which one to choose, and I have until tomorrow. And I’ve been sick all night. Halp. T^T
I think a lot of people spent their childhoods being very deliberately forced out of their comfort zones by parents / teachers / whomever in a way that was just deeply unpleasant and degrading and so, when they reach young adulthood and are finally allowed real control over their lives, become set on only doing things they know they’re comfortable with forever. that’s a really important thing to be able to do, especially if you’re so used to having your boundaries routinely ignored that you aren’t even certain what you like vs what you can bear, so I absolutely see why a person would have a negative reaction to being told that discomfort is good: it can very easily sound like being told that all that work they’ve been doing to prioritze their needs for the first time ever is Bad and Selfish, actually. and to that I will say two things:
one: as long as you aren’t hurting or, like, being a dick to anyone, just staying in your comfort zone isn’t an immoral action. if you just want to read one type of book (or just fanfiction), or just eat one type of food, or just watch one type of movie, or not go to new types of social events, you aren’t being a bad person for that, and if people say that, they are soundly wrong and just trying to get a self-righteousness kick.
two: trying new things because you want to expand yourself feels a hell of a lot different than trying new things because you’re being forced to. you’ll feel better about trying new foods if you know you have a back up familiar one in case you can’t stomach the new one, it’s easier to read new books if you can experiment with audio versions or reading it in little five-page chunks by yourself, you can breathe a lot easier going somewhere new if you aren’t chained there for three hours because your parent is your ride home, etc.
tl;dr: new things are good. I get why you might not want to try new things, and that’s fine, but it’s also more comfortable to try new things as an adult with your own agency so, yeah, what have you got to lose by trying a weird old art film?
Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
This is the thread that will likely get me to watch The Orville.
It’s so fucking good. The first few episodes are a bit so-so as it’s still finding its feet and thinks it’s a normal sitcom in space, but it very quickly settles into its role of “Star Trek, like proper actual Star Trek, not the modern series they try to pass off as Star Trek”
