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Harvest festivals were held on most planets, but they were especially important in the outer and mid rims. Each planet’s festival celebrated something different, but ultimately they ended up looking relatively the same. Naboo’s festival celebrated those who survived the terrible journey to their new home, and honoring the goddess who brought them to safety. This is all that Luke knew about Thanks day. He may know more, if he bothered to pay attention in class.
But Luke was a dreamer. He gazed out the window and tapped his foot on the floor, thinking about spaceships, roasted duck, space battles, mashed Chak-Root, Phineas and Ferb, pie… he may be a bit hungry.
After what felt like an eternity, the bell finally rang, and Luke was the first one out the door. He grabbed his backpack from his locker across the hall and sprinted for the exit.
“LUKE AMIDALA!” Bellowed a school guard. “SLOW DOWN.” Luke complied sullenly. Though his spirits were lifted when he recognized two figures approaching.
“Hey Luke.” Sir said. “Are you taking the transport with us to my place?”
Luke smiled sheepishly. “Nah. Mom says I need to get my grades up before the festival. I can come over after I finish my homework?”
Sir nodded elegantly. They took their noble status, and thus school reports, very seriously. Intulu didn’t feel the same. “Ah c’mon Luke! They can’t be that bad!” he pouted. Luke winced. “Well, I guess we’ll see you later then.” The pair moved on dejectedly.
“Yeah, see you.” Luke said as he turned to start the walk home.
When he arrived at the senator’s estate the building was quiet. Luke’s mother was still on Coruscant for another week pushing another demilitarization bill everybody knew wouldn’t pass. She took C3PO with her this time, and Luke was left with only a maid and the cooks preparing for the festival. He knew that his mom would be calling him in a few hours, when standard Coruscant time lined up with Theed time. He needed to have his homework done by then if he wanted to go to Sir’s house. He changed out of his school uniform and got to work.
He started with math, since it was pretty easy, but he quickly grew bored. He tried pacing to burn off some energy so he could focus, but that made him hungrier. The hungrier he got, the harder it was to focus. Finally, he decided to sneak down to the kitchen to grab a snack.
Luke went down in bare feet, measuring his steps to make as little noise as possible. The kitchen was bustling. They were making extra food to send to the shelters around the province. Luke tried his hardest not to be noticed, and he was successful for the most part. All the workers must have been too busy to notice the ten year old darting around their legs and carts. He arrived at his goal quickly. A crate of lightly roasted Chak-roots sat cooling in the corner. Later they would be mashed, but Luke suspected that one wouldn’t be missed in a few days when they started preparing the casserole.
“Oh, what’s this?” Luke felt a rough hand land on his shoulder then spin him around. The head chef stared down at him. The middle aged man had a number of grotesque scars criss crossing his face, making his sneer all the more terrifying. Luke swallowed his bite of Chak-root and hid the rest behind his back. “You’re not supposed to be down here, runt!” Bits growled.
“I was hungry.” Luke stated, just managing to keep the quaver out of his voice. “I couldn’t concentrate, since I was so hungry. This is where the food is so this is where I am too, I guess.”
Bits’ expression softened a tad. “And no one noticed you sneaking around? Not my staff, or a single guard?”
Despite his nervousness Luke felt a flash of pride, which translated to a sharp grin on his face he couldn’t suppress no matter how sorry he tried to pretend to be. “Nope! I’m the sneakiest person in the house! Maybe the sneakiest person in Theed, even! Much better than the other kids anyway.”
Bits let out a great laugh. “Oh, we all should’ve expected you’d turn into a terror! But a Chak-root isn’t a proper reward for executing a mission with such skill at your age. Wait a moment, I’ve got something better.” That wasn’t the reaction Luke expected. He’d overheard that Bits was a veteran while eavesdropping on a couple of maids, but he’d assumed that meant he be a no-nonsense kind of guy.
When Bits came back, he was carrying something wrapped in a napkin. When he handed it to Luke, Luke had to hold it with both hands. “What is it?” Luke asked as he unfolded the napkin, revealing a squishy, half circle of a pastry.
“It’s a frypie. I dunno where it’s from, but I do know that they’re delicious!” Bits chuckled. Skeptically, Luke takes a bite. His eyes light up as the fried dough, warm fruit, and jelly hit his mouth. Luke starts scarfing it down. “Don’t make yourself sick kid.” Bits huffed.
“It’s the best thing I’ve ever had!” Luke cried.
“I’m flattered. Think you can get your homework done now?”
Luke nodded, his mouth full of frypie. He runs off, clutching his prize.
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Prompt is the title
prompt is from the same place the last one was
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Cinnamon toast. my dad would make it for breakfast before school and I cheered whenever I found out it was his turn to take us.
Hey guys be cool and normal but reblog this with the homemade meal that would get you the most hyped as a child. I need it for reasons.
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@mah99moud reached out to me to spread awareness of his fundraiser for his family. As of posting this (12 november), the fundraiser is at €803 of €15,000.
Please share and donate if you can! Let's get them the help and shelter they need!
(He's #232 on @gazavetters's list!)
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I don't have stable income, so I'm not in a safe position to donate. If you have disposable income this holiday season please give some to the needy like Ahmed. The Gaza refugees are in a really tough place so if you can help please do!
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🚩⬇️Updateon Ahmed's condition. 🚩⬇️😭😭
Thanks to your simple support to my family and my child, we were able to provide Ahmed with treatment over two sessions and his health condition improved a little
but now :😭🙏we do not want to resort to the third stage of treatment and I hope that we can overcome ittogether, my friend... Your donation, even if it is small, means a lot to me.🫂🥺
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..Do not hesitate, 😭🍉
.. even if it is 10 euros.🙏
Please be merciful😭 and kind and help me. I want to buy treatment for my child Ahmed, who was burned in massacre. His treatment Does it cover the amount or part of it? 💔😭😭
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A Quick Snack
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
John breezed down the stairs. The kids were asleep, Terezi wouldn’t arrive until the morning, and most of the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner were waiting in the fridge. Surely no-one would notice a few crackers or carrots missing. He smiled like the fox that found out about chickens as he walked silently over to the fridge. John opened the door and pulled out the cheese waiting to become part of a platter.
“Ehem.” Shit. He’d considered every person except the worst one to be caught by. His mother.
John straightened up and spun around in a swift motion. He closed the fridge door with a barely noticeable gust of wind and tried not to look guilty.
“Hiiiiii, Jane. How’s it going?” Jane was almost 4 inches smaller than him, but her raised eyebrow and shared age did not take away from her air of disappointed mom. She stood there in her nightgown, with her arms crossed, one eyebrow raised threateningly.
“What, do you think you are doing John?”
“Well, I couldn’t sleep, and I thought it might be because I was hungry. So I figured I should eat something and then I might be able to sleep?” A short pause, then:
“How long have you been planning to steal food from me?”
“Since I woke up this…yesterday morning.”
“I cannot believe-! I invite you into my home. After everything I should have known you’d do something like this. You know, I wanted to reconnect for your children but-”
“Hey, why’d you come down here?” Jane was silent for a moment. Then,
“Split it in half?”
“Sounds good. Wanna watch Friends reruns while we eat?”
“That sounds fantastic.”
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⚠️❗️VERY IMPORTANT POST, PLEASE READ!❗️⚠️
everyone. on christmas day, december 25th, we all search up “halloween” to make it a trending search. it would be the FUNNIEST thing ever to see halloween be a trending search on christmas day. tell all your friends, repost this, do everything you can to make sure we can do this. REBLOG AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
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And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins
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Say goodbye to your freedom boys.
its time
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Happy 10th Birthday Five Nights at Freddy's!!! I'm gonna try to draw something for it but no promises. This francize is so nostalgic for me and still means so much.
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I'm only reblogging this because the notes made me upset. Don't ask me what kind of upset I am, it's a complicated feeling.
I, in the most literal sense, could not draw as a child. I could barely write, and my hand shook from the struggle of trying to use a fork or a toothbrush until I was in highschool. drawing simple shape took so long and hurt so much that I developed a deep hatred for drawing at a young age. As I got older (and because of ableism in public schools) I was forced to write for assignments despite pain and the time it took and much of it being genuinely illegible till 9th grade. Because I had to exercise those muscles they got stronger and my handwriting got better and one day I was bored and fidgety it class and thought: you know what? what the heck. and I doodled for the first time in my life. It took all of my focus, and 2-3 class periods but when it was done I showed it to the kid next to me and he knew what it was supposed to be. I started crying because I was 15 and had finally finished my first ever drawing. I was so happy it was all I could talk about for weeks. It wasn't good by any definition, but just being able to make recognizable marks on a piece of paper inspired me to continue.
90% of what anyone makes is hot garbage, tossed sketches that don't end up online because the artist isn't proud and wants to put their best foot forward. Make garbage, choose which garbage you like best and make more of that. Rinse and repeat for eternity. And be proud of your garbage. The act of creation is something to take pride in no matter the quality. You did that, you made a whole thing. I'm proud of you, you should be proud of you too.
And if you don't like drawing then don't???? I don't like birdwatching so I don't???? If creation doesn't bring you joy (or catharsis) then Why waste your time??
Look at what y'all did. Got me up on my soapbox. how dare you.
"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....
#And if someone tells you to try harder#punch em#Especially if your disabled#it's not a crime if they're being mean
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Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!
Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.
There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.
I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:
Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.
The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.
The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.
If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.
Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.
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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21
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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.
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I just want to note this because no one seems to be talking about it at all. I've seen a lot of people spreading antisemitic and anti-Islamic sentiments but the real problem here is Netanyahu and those that are loyal to him. Netanyahu will keep this conflict going for as long as he possibly can because the rest of the Israeli government can't oust him if their country is at "war". Netanyahu is currently on trial for corruption and will go to jail as soon as he is no longer president anymore. It is not surprising that he's doing this.
Ramadan is coming up and I can’t stress enough how much Palestinians have never got the chance to experience one normal Ramadan for 75years
You may not have been subjected to this, but as a person from an Arabic country, every Ramadan from every year there’s always headlines of Israeli iof soldiers or Israeli extremist settlers attacking Palestinians during Ramadan, especially Palestinian worshipers trying to pray in the al aqsa mosque
It’s happens almost every single year
Ramadan is suppoused to be Muslim people’s month of worship, of Baraka and it is very important to Muslim people
But Palestinians never ever experienced a normal Ramadan because Israel attacks them Viciously
Almost
Every
Single
Fucking
Year
And I will dare and say that Israel does it on purpose, it does it every Ramadan on purpose
And now, this year, with Ramadan being only a few weeks away, I doubt that they’ll have a normal Ramadan, not in the West Bank, and not in Gaza
All what I have to say here is that Israel will still follow this trend, something bad is gonna happen this Ramadan, keep an eye on Palestine during Ramadan
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Because my last post about this didn't get much traction, I'll say it in a text post.
There is an upcoming global strike for Palestine. February 18th to the 25th. Talk about Palestine and other injustices, call your representatives and email them, boycott companies and limit spending during the week. Get your grocery shopping in now and only buy essentials during the week, please. Limit interaction on posts other than injustices around the world. If you can, skip work or school, though this is a privilege not everyone has.
Edit: It is 18th-25th not 18th-24th!! If you've already reblogged this, please reblog this version instead, edits don't show on past reblogs
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As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
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