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just a heeeaaads up that some of these art commission scammers are upgrading their technique

they will now actually take notes of things that really happened in your fic, they make it sound personalised and genuine, but there's a way they talk that feels weirdly artificial, there's always a vague mention of some 'ideas' they have, if it raises your hackles trust those instincts and tread carefully, because ultimately-

they will ALWAYS LEAD YOU TO A SECONDARY LOCATION

suddenly changing up their writing style is a big red flag, wanting to take you off platform to some other site showcasing their 'art' is an even bigger red flag, REAL ARTISTS DO NOT DO THIS

no matter how genuine they sound, trust NOBODY advertising their art in your comment section, trust NOBODY who wants to take you off platform, NEVER go to that secondary location

STREET SMARTS!

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If you're reading this you need to tell me the name of your favorite black character NOW‼️

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu illustrated by Ana Juan, 2016

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Tesla is overstocked with Cybertrucks, the PS1 graphics-looking mobile monument to Elon’s deep lack of creativity. With over 10,000 unsold units just sitting in dealerships, the stainless steel monstrosity has become more burden than an automotive revolution.

Despite Musk’s grand claims of selling 250,000 Cybertrucks annually, and a million reservations that may as well have been scribbled on crumpled cocktail napkins, Tesla barely eked out 6,400 Cybertruck sales in Q1 of 2025.

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I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.

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STOP this is the feminism checkpoint. you have to comment something you like about a flawed female character. or explode

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Neither Living Nor Dead – Chapter Seven

Fandom: The Acolyte Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Mae Aniseya, Sol the Jedi, Vernestra Rwoh Pairings: SolMae (subtextual)

Summary:

“I told you to stay on the ship,” Sol said, helplessly exasperated. “Yes,” Mae agreed, “yes, you did.”

If either Mae or Sol went to Coruscant expecting to find the end of their troubles, they are destined for disappointment.

[Continuation to Anamnesis, post-canon AU]

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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alba_r_art on Instagram | Alba Real

The Hound babysitting the Stark wolverines cause I'm rewatching Game of thrones with my sister! 🐶🐺🐺✨

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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There is an absolutely fascinating moment in the Obi-Wan and Padme and Anakin confrontation on Mustafar that I kinda want to spin like three full-length fics off of.

Anakin’s Force-choking Padme. Obi-Wan orders him: “Let her go! Let her go, Anakin!” and Anakin - Anakin who has already pledged fealty to Darth Sidious, who has already embraced the Dark Side, who has disclaimed loyalty to Obi-Wan - obeys the command.

He genuinely doesn’t seem to drop Padme because he’s processed yet what he’s doing; it really does look like he’s instinctively obeying Obi-Wan’s orders even when he’s fully off his rocker, out of his mind from everything from accumulated trauma to elemental-evil-exposure, and has officially denounced any hierarchical relationship between them.

And there is SO much to be unpacked there.

I’m guessing that what’s going on, for the most part, is a decade of conditioning as Obi-Wan’s Padawan (and subsequent years as his partner-but-subordinate) to follow his orders reflexively. Combined with Anakin’s overall instinct to obedience, trained into him by everyone from Watto to the Council to Palpatine. And that’s so powerful it overrides everything else, when even Anakin’s protectiveness of Padme couldn’t break through it. Underneath it all, he's still more Padawan than Sith Lord, at an instinctual level.

(It’s not the only time obedience to Obi-Wan takes precedence over the protectiveness of Padme that is otherwise his driving trait, by the way; Obi-Wan orders him to leave her alone and injured in Attack of the Clones and follow Obi-Wan instead of rescuing her and, though he argues a bit, he obeys.)

And what does it say, too, that that’s what Obi-Wan defaulted to? He considers Anakin a brother, at this point, sees them as equals in many ways. But in an urgent situation, he doesn’t plead or reason - he barks an order expecting to be obeyed. Because, in the end, he is a Master, and Anakin never was. And all the weight Anakin gives that fact? The near-meltdown he has about it in the Council chamber? He’s not getting that from nowhere.

In an AU, if Obi-Wan had, instead of fighting him, said “Anakin, I’m going to take over the Republic now and you’re going to be my attack dog. Sit. Stay. Now bite.” Would that have worked? Based on both this scene and how frequently Anakin offers to betray Palpatine for other people so they can rule the Empire in Palpatine’s stead with Anakin as their iron fist, it seems likely!

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…Not good. (And not legal, if I read the situation correctly.) 😡

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I think my one and only complaint about Revenge of the Sith is how it reduces Padmé to a by-and-large extremely passive character. The Padmé we got in TPM and AOTC was extremely proactive. She was a driver of action, rather than simply responding to it, but that has completely vanished in Revenge of the Sith, and I don’t think her pregnancy is a good enough excuse when it comes to trying to explain why.

‘Her deleted scenes!’ you say. Yes, I know about Padmé’s deleted scenes. I know that she’s portrayed as a more proactive character in the deleted scenes. The problem is that they are just that: deleted scenes. They were chosen to be cut from the version of the story presented to audiences in the official version of this film. On a metatextual level, Padmé as a proactive character was considered unnecessary to the story of Revenge of the Sith, and it’s just a real shame? She is allowed to lament the death of democracy, but not allowed to struggle even once to try to save it. Her one and only real action in this film is to go to Mustafar to try to convince Anakin to turn aside from the path he’s set upon, and that is certainly not nothing, but it’s not enough, either.

There is one thing that could easily have been inserted into the finished cut of Revenge of the Sith that would not have fixed the way Padmé has been rendered so passive in this film, but would at least have given her something active to do, something that would make sense for her character. Consider the scene where Bail goes to the Jedi Temple to try to figure out what’s going on. I don’t want to take that scene away from him, but Padmé should have been in the speeder with him.

The Padmé of TPM and AOTC would have gotten in that speeder with him even if she was heavily pregnant. She would have gotten dressed, gone to the Temple to try to figure out what was going on even at personal risk, and from there you could have a subplot where Bail goes off-world to try to prevent the Jedi from walking into a trap while Padmé stays on Coruscant to figure out why this is happening in the first place. I think her love for Anakin and her mounting dread and anxiety about the way the Republic and her life are both falling apart would be reason enough to explain why the rest of her behavior would not deviate from the film.

Just. God. Give her something to do.

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Most characters in the acolyte are on the grey area in terms of morality ,and I like the show both gives them grace and show us their failings .

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It is so true though that The Acolyte doesn't draw clear lines between good and bad. To misunderstand that is when you get things like, "How could the show present Master Sol as a good person the entire show and completely change that in episode 7?" Well, that's not what happens. Master Sol is kind, and he does love Osha. But he also makes a bad choice in killing Mother Aniseya based on unfounded fear. He does not become the "bad guy" the hero has to kill. Osha killing Sol is not celebrated by the narrative or shown to be a "good" thing. It's painful enough for her to bleed a kyber crystal - a literal and symbolic transition to the dark side. The Acolyte does not say the Jedi are bad people. It says the Jedi are not perfect. And that there might be more to the story than your preconceived notions. Mae isn't just killing Jedi, she's seeking revenge for her entire coven. Qimir is the killer who bandages Osha's wound, makes her soup, holds her hand, etc. We don't know his reasons yet, but who's to say they wouldn't be as nuanced as Mae's? Does that justify the killing? No. It's not about justification but exploring the complexity of motivation and intent. Or, the ways in which that makes good and bad impossible to cleanly divide. So yes, if you watch The Acolyte and think it's saying the Jedi are bad, or the dark side is good, or whatever else, of course you're not going to like it. You're not watching the story being told.