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Bat baby bat baby bat baby bat baby bat baby bat baby!

Gave Konrad a lil warp baby because why not (inspired by that necklace of baby bat memes)

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Reblog to trample Pong Krell with an AT-RT.

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it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them. of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

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Day 50– Gerudo Desert

Promises are kept, food is made, and monsters resettle in their ecological niches. And so the arc comes to a close, with our heroes riding away into the dusty afternoon.

(End of the Lightning Arc)

(This totk au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

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Not mine (i just don’t know how to post ao3 link) just a good story i tought needed more visibility.

Star Wars Fandom Friday Interest Check...

Hello everyone...

Please pardon my interruption, but I think I might do something a little different this week: Submissions from the Fandom!

This means that, if you have a SFW story that hasn't received a lot of attention and you would like to drop it in as a suggestion, mmmaybe now's the time that I open things up to the public to make things more interesting.

So! If this describes you at all, and you're willing to help me find 9 more stories to promote this week, please vote in the poll below! Thank you!

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<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/40104384"><strong>Desert Species</strong></a> (144823 words) by <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/V_Evergreen"><strong>V_Evergreen</strong></a><br />Chapters: 13/15<br />Fandom: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Wars%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Star Wars - All Media Types</a>, <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Wars:%20The%20Clone%20Wars%20(2008)%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types</a>, <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Wars%20Original%20Trilogy">Star Wars Original Trilogy</a><br />Rating: Not Rated<br />Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings<br />Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Luke Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Leia Organa & Ahsoka Tano, Leia Organa/Han Solo<br />Characters: Ahsoka Tano, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Bail Organa, Breha Organa<br />Additional Tags: Protective Ahsoka Tano, Ahsoka Tano raises the twins<br />Summary: <p>Ahsoka wasn't entirely sure how it had come to this; all she knew was that she was seventeen years old, in possession of two human infants and she was running for all of their lives.</p><p>Alternately:</p><p> <i>[Even now she could trace Anakin in their features— Luke’s eyes, Leia’s chin. She tried imprint this moment on her mind, the moment before the truth she had kept from them their whole lives.</i></p><p> <i>It was time.</i></p><p> <i>“I need you to believe one thing, no matter what I tell you,” she started. “No matter what you think, I need you to believe that there was a time when your father was a good man.”] <i></i></i></p>

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40104384

Star Wars Fandom Friday Interest Check...

Hello everyone...

Please pardon my interruption, but I think I might do something a little different this week: Submissions from the Fandom!

This means that, if you have a SFW story that hasn't received a lot of attention and you would like to drop it in as a suggestion, mmmaybe now's the time that I open things up to the public to make things more interesting.

So! If this describes you at all, and you're willing to help me find 9 more stories to promote this week, please vote in the poll below! Thank you!

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In the time travel au for TL4J, how does Ahsoka react to the fact that she is physically older than what most of the clones ever got to be?

SHES WAY OLDER THAN PADME AND ANAKIN EVER WERE TOO and i am feeling FEELINGS about that

(commission info // tip jar!)

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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

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I don’t like wading into Ao3 debates, but I want to give my professional opinion on Ao3 with regard to archives vs. libraries.

I am a professional librarian (MSLS) and I have worked in both archives and public libraries and a lot of the confusion and concern I see surrounding Ao3 is a fundamental misunderstanding of How Archives Work.

An archive is a collection related to a subject. That subject often a person but sometimes a field or concept or project. And the purpose of an archive is to keep everything. And I mean everything. I was going to say “short of biohazards” but since I know there’s a sealed R. Crumb Devil Gal chocolate bar in the UNC Chapel Hill archives, we really do mean everything.

When a collection of materials–which are usually unique and original and can be photos, manuscripts, letters, recordings (audio and/or visual), notes and notebooks, objects, published books, whatever–on and/or from the subject arrive at the archive, they are examined, preserved for longevity, accessioned and cataloged (added to the archive’s records), and added to the archive. You measure collections in linear feet. As in, once it’s all preserved and boxed and secure, you note how many feet of shelf space it takes up. And some of y'all on Ao3 have a lot of linear feet to your name (and I’m proud of you).

This is an archive: it is designed to preserve the original materials related to a subject. That is its purpose. Archives are how we have the original scroll manuscript of On the Road, for example, or the Lomax recordings of American folksongs, or Tijuana Bibles, or James Joyce’s loveletters to Nora.

Now you, a member of the public, can access some archives. Some are easier to access than others. The one I worked in was open to the public; good luck getting into the British Archives without a good reason.

So now apply this to Ao3–which is an archive both in name and in purpose. It is intended to preserve fan-created content long term. And this means everything, whether you personally like the materials or not. It is a repository for as much as possible.

And the “whether you personally like the materials or not” is important, hence why I mentioned Jim’s loveletters and Tijuana Bibles in particular. (RIP Jim, you would have loved pegging.)

If it’s made by fans and it exists, we should keep it to document the history and progression of fandom. That is the point. We have lost enough materials related to the subject of fans of media and we don’t need to lose any more.

The fact of the matter is that Ao3 is only one facet of the OTW, which preserves other fan-related materials (convention booklets and zines, for example). Somehow Ao3, an archive on the subject of fanfiction, has been divorced from the rest of the project, mostly by way of “purity culture” and panic over “dangerous” fiction.

The fact that you can go through an archive and find interesting information is the other side of archives. No, they shouldn’t be like the banker’s box of old letters stuffed in my closet. Yes, they should be organized and as accessible as is appropriate for the state of the materials.

It’s really, really cool to find stuff in an archive, I’m not even going to lie. I have done it before and I will do it again. And yet there are other items in an archive that I might not want or need or be interested in at all–but they’re still there. That’s the cataloging and accessioning: to keep up with what’s there, to stay “on topic” with collecting, and to be able to find things in that archive. Bless the tag wranglers who are doing the cataloging at Ao3.

The pearl clutching seems to come from 1. the creation of “dangerous” fanworks and 2. public access to those “dangerous” fanworks. These are issues of “purity culture” and opinions on censorship and should not involve Ao3.

Ao3, under the umbrella of the OTW, is a documentation and preservation project first and foremost.

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YOUR character lives rent free in your head. MINE pays the rent by being my court jester whenever i summon them to entertain me.

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Day 46– Great Gerudo Basin

Road trip! One’s sleep deprived, one’s haunted by ghosts, and one’s hungry.

(This totk rewrite au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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Time: I don’t want you to see this. Look away, kids, and try to remember me smiling.

Twilight: Looks like this is where we part ways. Never forget—you’ve already made me proud.

Warriors: You’ll have to find it in your heart to forgive me. I don’t think I’ll be able to give this back to Legend.

Hyrule: I’m not going to say it again. Run.

Legend: I don’t want to do this, but someone has to. And I refuse to let it be one of you.

Wild: Come on, I was already living on borrowed time. It was bound to run out eventually. Looks like the rest is up to you, now.

Sky: I have too much to say and too little time. Just look after each other. It’ll have to be enough. I’m sorry. I have to go.

Wind: So there’s no cure… good. That makes this easier.

Four: Thanks, everyone. It’s been fun. I’m going to do something exceptionally badass, now. Don’t die, or I’ll just look like an idiot.

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Last words.

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DAY 43- GERUDO TOWN SQUARE

Say hi to Riju’s Bagzapper 9000!

(This totk rewrite au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

((Wanna support me? Check out my patreon, with my throw away sketches and references! Remember to use web or android folks, apple charges 30 percent tax.))

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Barrissoka but Ahsoka got drunk- Barriss isn’t mad just slightly concerned

yay i’m so glad to have finally finished a barrissoka piece after what feels like way too long 😭 please enjoy! my commissions are also open!