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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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i do want to say, the pope dying is not Good. like haha on easter, we hate the churches and religion, but pope francis made real change within the church. he cared. he was willing to listen.

the next pope will hopefully be better, but there is a very real, very imminent chance that the next pope will turn back everything pope francis stood for. the next pope could very very well be a an extreme right leaning pope.

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Friendly reminder that you should

Write that fic

Draw your OC

Redesign that blorbo

Plan that comic how you want

Create the content you want to see

Be cringe

Be free

The only thing that matters is you having fun! Not what others think!

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dont play defense

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New Jedi Order Concept: "Rey's Rangers"

(not the biggest sequel trilogy fan, but I liked this concept so much)

As the last surviving Jedi in the galaxy, Rey Skywalker (as formally adopted by Leia Organa before her passing) sets out from Tatooine with BB-8, Chewbacca, and the Millennium Falcon to continue the work that the late Luke Skywalker began. She revisits Jakku, Ahch-To, and Ajan Kloss, and her travels take her to the Graveyard of Alderaan, Yavin 4, the forest moon of Endor, Ossus, Dantooine, and the depths of Coruscant itself.

In her travels, Rey seeks out “beacons” in the Force to guide her way. Her rule becomes, “One to follow, and one to leave for others.” On every world she visits, Rey leaves something of her journey for others to find, making it less of a trial in the war-torn galaxy for Force-sensitives to find her. She sees herself not as a teacher, but as a collector and a guide. In many ways, Rey goes back to her roots as a scavenger in the dunes of Jakku, but this time, she isn’t alone. The Force is with her, and so are the spirits of the Jedi, from Yoda to Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke and Leia.

Rey calls herself a Jedi Knight, but she doesn’t have a Republic to defend—only the survivors of the Resistance and various worlds that rose up against the First Order. In time, others come to help her, no matter whether they’re Force-sensitive or not. They join her in digging up artifacts, reconstructing ancient texts, cleansing traces of the dark side, and doing good for others. Beyond friends like Rose Tico and Jessika Pava, Rey attracts a motley crew of archaeologists, explorers, starfighter pilots, historians, and young people who joined armed revolts against the First Order. Rose provides them with Resistance insignia rings to mark them as friends of Rey, and they soon adopt its symbol as their own.

They wear no uniforms or robes, and only Rey has built her own lightsaber. She teaches them about the Jedi Code and the exercises she faced with Luke and Leia. Soon enough, someone suggests a name for the fellow scavengers and scouts who aid Rey: “Jedi Rangers.” They live simply, focused on preserving knowledge across the galaxy and helping others in need along the way. Rey uses her philosophy about “beacons” to guide her allies in their ongoing mission.

A Jedi Ranger usually wears a brown coat, cloak, or poncho over some white tunic or shirt (or any similar garments as befits their species). They carry whatever personal weapons they need, a comlink, an encrypted S-thread beacon, enough credits to make it from one port to the next, and a datapad full of records on the Jedi that Rey is trying to constantly keep updated in the HoloNet. The Rangers do not have a headquarters or a temple like previous iterations of the Jedi, and there is no distinction between those who truly feel the Force and those who don’t. Anyone who is willing to serve can serve, and anyone who serves takes a vow before Rey and others to honor the memory of the Jedi and resist the temptations of power and destruction.

There is no new Jedi Temple. Instead, on Jakku and a dozen other planets, the Rangers set up Waystations. They rely on these prefabricated structures to find temporary lodging, collect data and artifacts, offer meals and first aid, and offer shelter to the poor and the persecuted. Soon, beings across the galaxy begin to see these Waystations as shrines to the Jedi and safe havens. Gifts and flowers are left outside the entrances, and some even offer up orphaned children to the Rangers. Like the Rangers themselves, only a few of the children are actually Force-sensitive. But Rey and the other senior members have trouble saying no to such offerings, so they do their best to help out and care for the children on each world they visit.

Every six months, the Rangers hold a Congregation, a full gathering of their numbers in person and by hologram. For security’s sake, they hide the location of their members from the galaxy at large, relying on their S-thread beacons to keep track of another. At the Congregation, Rangers share what they’ve learned, what they’ve found or rediscovered, and what help they’ve rendered on different planets. The goal is to encourage one another’s progress, not to compete or one-up each other.

Rey’s dream is the Library of the Jedi, a successor to the Jedi Archives that once existed on Coruscant. However, it is a shadowfeed on the HoloNet, untouched by either New Republic or First Order security protocols. Some of that information is backed up in Waystations and mobile databanks, but the rest lives and breathes on the HoloNet for Rangers and their allies to access and update. Some Rangers retire from their journeys and dedicate themselves to being archivists studying and classifying each new record. Rey herself looks forward to being a librarian when she’s ready to leave the wider galaxy behind, especially as younger, more enthusiastic Rangers emerge from every corner to aid in her mission.

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I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

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And now we're getting into foreign policy disputes over basic access to visas and government-issued documents! Wonderful!

So, in Brazilian, USAmerican, and LGBT+ politics news, transgender Brazilian congresswoman Erika Hilton has received from the USA a visa marking her gender as male.

Hilton canceled a trip she was going to make to the US this month, where she was going to participate on Saturday (12) in a panel at the Brazil Conference, and says she will take action against US President Donald Trump at the UN (United Nations) because she considers the case to be transphobic and disrespectful of her Brazilian civil records.

(x)

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Tfw you pick up a mask on Malachor and decide to make it your whole personality, aka Temple Guard Kanan

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the eu really struck gold with the solo kids (+ben) idk what else there is to say. all richly compelling with interesting dynamics between each other and their family and i think it’s very neat that you can follow the whole trajectory of their lives from birth up to a point. it gave us something fresh in that they were the first generational jedi family with the weight of a legacy that they grew up knowing and fully aware of. and i love them all dearly.

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The neurodivergent feeling of being like AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH on the inside and 🙂 on the outside

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unveil your heart

the whole irony poisoned way of seeing something unusual and reacting with quips of 'kill it with fire' or 'i just lost brain cells' is such a muted way of trotting through this beautiful timeline, and such a common reaction from those raised by the internets depths. i hear this a lot with my books

and it just makes me think, 'do you realize that you have trained yourself to experience shock as dismissal?’ so many irony poisoned buds have wired themselves so that something 'unusual' equals disgust instead of wonder and curiosity and joy at the strange corners of our timeline.

i should be clear, this is not really a complaint. everyone can trot their own trot and these buckaroos often still buy or share my books out of curiosity, but i cant help but feel bad for them. there is so much wonder in this existence and some of it IS WEIRD. i mean A LOT of it is weird.

but by training yourself to react with an automatic veil will create such a haze across your experience. maybe you read a tingler and DO enjoy it. maybe you eat a food that seems unusual. maybe you listen to a musician with a video that people share to make fun of and YOU find something powerful

there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.

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snoopy of the day

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my three favorite genres of dropout dot tv shows:

the person running the game (i.e. sam reich, brennan lee mulligan) torments their players

the players in the game (i.e. emily axford, vic michaelis) torment the person running the game

there is no game or players, paul robalino just torments his coworkers for fun with the concept of spworm

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Moments That Define The Star Wars EU For Me ↳ The Fall of Coruscant to the Yuuzhan Vong (Star By Star)

“This is not the end,” Leia said.  "Two years ago, the Yuuzhan Vong entered our galaxy. They came not as friends and equals, though we would gladly have welcomed them as such, but as thieves and conquerors. They saw a galaxy at peace and mistook the strength of our convictions for the frailty of arms, the wisdom of compromise for the timidity of cowards. They attacked without provocation or mercy, slaying billions of our citizens, enslaving entire worlds, and sacrificing millions of beings to appease the bloodlust of their imaginary gods. They believed that we would be easily defeated, that we would surrender without a fight.

“They were wrong.  We have fought at Dubrillion, Ithor, the Black Bantha, Borleias and Corellia - we have fought them every leg of the way from the Outer Rim into the Core. We have lost untold numbers of loved ones, my own son Anakin and my husband’s dear friend Chewbacca among them, and now we are battling in the skies over Coruscant itself. We are still fighting.

“Soon, the enemy will be on our rooftops, in our homes, roaming the dark underlayers of our city.  To those able to evacuate and to those trapped behind, I say the same thing I would tell my twins - were I able to reach them behind enemy lines: Keep fighting.

"This is not the end. Twice already, Jedi-led forces have decimated Yuuzhan Vong fleets, and we enter each battle with new weapons and better tactics. We have prevailed against ruthless enemies before, against Palpatine, against Thrawn, against the Ssi-ruuk. This is a war we know how to win.  Keep fighting until you can fight no longer, then exhaust the enemy chasing you, and turn and fight some more. Keep fighting. I promise you, we will prevail.”