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Hi! For the tricks for treats thing, I would love to see a continuation of Gravity Well! (It's probably my favorite of those AU oneshots). And as for a new reveal……not sure if this counts, but imagine the night Leia fights Jango in Alderaan, Bail and Breha wake up with memories from the future (all the way up to the aplit second realization of a laser beam hurtling towards them). This also means they remember their daughter……..just in time for her to smash into a wall and almost die : )

Answer to the new reveal prompt, as requested. (More Gravity Well will come later.)

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Sometimes we have kids read nonsense words to practice their knowledge of letter sounds and how they interact without them attaching meaning to it. These are some good ones I came across today

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I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

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Eugenides Attolis

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Tricks for treats prompt: Rys gets to talk to any other clone who's worked with Leia (honorable mentions include Ponds, Rex, Cody, Stone, and any/all the survivors of her death star recon mission). Or Shmi (not a clone but similar theme of Getting Alternate Perspective on Leia, Yes She Used To Be Worse About Her Personal Well Being).

Thank you for bringing this back!

Poor Rys...

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leia organa truly has one of the best bait-and-switch character introductions of all time because when you meet her she's this brave, stoic picture of elegance and justice and always knows just what to say to vader and tarkin and is clad in white like an angel and is this perfect two-dimensional archetype of pureness of heart. and then approximately half an hour later into the film she meets luke and han and she IMMEDIATELY shows her true colors as a sarcastic, bitchy control freak with a massive impulsive streak and a deep mine of hyperspecific insults. 10/10 character design i'm obsessed with her

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what is the POOOOIINNTTTT in turning off reblogs to a good and popular post. I wanna reblog that. it was funny. it's my god given right to reblog. that feature was meant to use from the jump so people didn't reblog your personal shit. yall are just being mean when you see a post start to resonate and then you PULL THE TABLECLOTHHHHH

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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Tobey Maguire Spider-Man "it's a hard knock life" fancam hours

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There is a parallel universe where Tumblr is actually a great functioning site

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Games the Leverage crew is not allowed to play and why

Clue, because Nate always figures out who's who immediately

Poker, because everyone but Hardison has an incrediblely good poker face

Operation, because Parker always puts the pieces back in when no one's looking

Pictionary, because Sophie can neither draw nor act out helpful hints

Hungry Hungry Hippos, because Eliot accidentally broke their last board set in a fit of extreme passion

Chess, because Nate always wins

Checkers, because Hardison always wins

Guess Who, because Nate always gets it after one question and Sophie likes to add complex backstory to what ever character she is

Battleship, because not even Nate can figure out where Eliot hides his ships

Monopoly

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Genuinely, what happened to “feminism is for everyone”?

That’s the feminism I grew up with: encouraging people to recognize that fighting sexism and restrictive gender roles helps folks of every gender. We’d push back on the idea that feminists hate men, pointing to inclusive feminist literature and how many men are feminists.

Now, there are so many people insisting that the solution to patriarchy is to openly hate and ostracize men no matter what. Why? What is the benefit? It’s certainly not effective in fighting oppressive structures to exclude half the population from your cause on the basis of immutable traits. It may feel cathartic to say horrible things about men and try to punish them for your frustrations with patriarchy. But the only actual effect I see is the increasing right-wing radicalization of young men, who are being told that the left hates them for the way they were born and presented with an abundance of proof that it’s true.

Why are we going back to treating men and women as different species? It doesn’t fix things to say “well women are the good gender and men are the bad one” this time. If you sincerely want to dismantle sexism, you’re going to have to unpack and let go of all sex and gender essentialism—even that which considers women inherently pure and men inherently immoral.

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Have you ever seen a feature film (60+minutes) that was released before the 1970s?

(Originally wanted to ask about anything older than the original Star Wars, which is 1977, but I realised we're on tumblr and the purpose of this question might have been slightly defeated if people vote "yes" because of having seen something like 1975's Rocky Horror Picture Show, which I feel is a bit too close. So I just rounded it up for the whole decade. A movie released in 1969 or earlier.)

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If a felon is president, every felon needs to be able to vote immediately from this moment forward