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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

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Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

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A winter reminder

English added by me :)

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What do you mean Goncharov isn't a real movie? I remember seeing it in theaters a few years ago

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I had a dream that Critical Role retroactively changed the names of every episode of their show to throw shade at Brian Foster

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tumblr i did it

an actually accurate “what greek god are you” quiz

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My (Late) Take on the Mandalorian Seasion 3 and Who Owns the Darksaber

So I've come across a fair number of people who disagree with the path of the Darksaber throughout the end-of-second and third seasons of the Mandalorian. As an amusing thought experiment, I followed the Darksaber as it changed hands to find its "true owner" by Mandalorian culture.

The interesting note that defines this analysis is that to claim the Darksaber, one (whether Mandalorian or not, technically, since Maul led Mandalore for a while) needs to "defeat" its former owner. Defeat being the keyword, rather than simply kill: yes Maul claimed it by killing Pre Vizsla in the Clone Wars animated show, but at the end of season 2 of the Mandalorian Moff Gideon is clearly not dead yet Din Djarin is recognized as the owner of the Darksaber. Prior to Pre Vizsla, we don't actually specifically know how he came into possession of the Darksaber, though we can speculate it had been in his family for generations. The course of events is thus:

Maul kills Pre Vizsla and claims the Darksaber. From here, the concept radically spirals out of control pretty much immediately.

Palpatine defeats Maul and Savage Opress on Mandalore, so should he have been the Mandalorians' true leader? If so, he is later defeated in Return of the Jedi by either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker (depending on your interpretation). If you choose to believe it belonged to Vader, then its reasonable to assume his son would inherit it; thus, up to this point Luke is -as far as we know- undefeated, and is the Darksaber's true owner.

Or when Ahsoka Tano defeats Maul during the final season of the Clone Wars, does she become the Darksaber's true owner? If so, you then have to ask if the Twilight of the Apprentice arc of Rebels counts as a defeat for her. If yes, Vader technically owns the Darksaber (return to previous); if no, Ahsoka presumably is undefeated and therefore still owns the Darksaber.

Or maybe you say Maul still owned the Darksaber until his death; so Obi-Wan is the Darksaber's true owner. When Vader kills him, we then come back to his defeat of the Emperor; the Darksaber passes to Luke (in theory), who is now the rightful ruler of Mandalore.

What we see in the Mandalorian (both directly and mentioned), Bo-Katan Kryze ends up with the Darksaber, but she never won it; Sabine Wren didn't even own it, she just stole it from Maul herself and later gave it to Bo-Katan. Thus, when Moff Gideon took the Darksaber (without actually defeating Bo-Katan), he was never its owner, so neither Din Djarin nor Bo-Katan could have won it from him.

According to this (in my opinion) true accounting of the Darksaber's story, its ultimate fate falls eventually into the final confrontation of Luke, Vader, and Palpatine, which is where the last complication arises: thanks to the Rise of Skywalker, we know Palpatine didn't actually die then. Thus, does his defeat in Return of the Jedi count? Do either Vader or Luke then technically own the Darksaber, or does it belong to Palpatine either through his original defeat of Maul on Mandalore or through his killing of Vader?

It's probably better not to ask these questions. The whole thing is complicated enough as it is.

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if i had to choose two colors to hate, you know what they would be? vermilion and chartreuse. why? because vermilion feels like a green word and chartreuse feels like a red word. guess what color vermilion is. guess what color chartreuse is

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hello who's a Homestuck in 2022 please reblog

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happy This Day you shits

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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I am asking this for an essay. Try to answer honestly.

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be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight

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Getting really sick of all the "There's No Place Like Chrome" ads on youtube. There's Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn't like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it's borderline sinister.

Anyway, download Firefox.

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hey 🐌🦪

tumblr app updated today and replaced the account tab at the bottom right of the screen with the merch store

account is now only accessible on the dashboard tab and u cannot save your place scrolling on your own blog while scrolling the dashboard, a change that has made this app nigh unusable for me. i’m posting here because this blog has thousands of followers, please –get publicly furious about this! send emails complaining to staff! write bad app store reviews! this change is literally so evil and signals worse things to come, i really cherish the space and community this site provides and i’d hate to see it become half buggy and unnavigable tiktok/instagram knockoff #52 and half ugly merch store. thank u for reading.