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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

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Sex is good and all, but have you guys ever had a fic update while you were re-reading it?

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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

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i really didn’t think it could get worse, and then-

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Obi-Wan Kenobi in his robes is hot, change my mind

it literally always blows my mind when people tell me they don't like Kenobi. Kenobi, which I have watched the whole way through at least five times since it released and remains to date the best among the Star Wars media besides The Clone Wars and Rebels.

Kenobi, which has Vivian Lyra Blair.

Kenobi, which has Ewan McGregor, who came back to the role after years of being away from it. Plus... have we seen the man?

Kenobi, which jumpstarted Hayden's career again, and gained him the love of the public he deserved to begin with.

And speaking of Hayden.... Kenobi, which gave us literally the most terrifying version of Vader EVER, AND gave us one of the best fight scenes between Obi-Wan and Vader EVER.

Kenobi, which gave us Alderaan and THE ORGANAS. LIKE... COME ON. WHO DOESN'T LOVE JIMMY SMITS.

Kenobi, which gave us Child!Luke. He's so cute. Come on. I love the Skywalker twins, don't get me wrong, but being able to see young Luke was so satisfying.

Kenobi, which gave us the first Live Action Clone appearance since Revenge of the Sith. A live action clone who, by the way, just HAPPENED to COINCIDENTALLY be from the 501st.

Kenobi, which showed us the Inquisitors and the Fortress Inquisitorious we'd only ever seen in Jedi Fallen Order.

Kenobi, which gave us emotionally tortured Obi-Wan dealing with the effects of his PTSD and the choices of his past that haunt him throughout the entire series.

** BONUS: Kenobi, which was the first time I can recall seeing disassociation and recognizing it for the first time in TV... ever,

Kenobi, which is the only piece of Skywalker Saga media not focused on Luke or Anakin, but on Leia.

I could literally keep going. I am ALWAYS baffled when people tell me they didn't like this show. Did we ever watch the same thing????

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hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

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Reblog if you are less advanced than a jumping spider

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I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”

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“But even that desire to remain neutral is a political act. As scholar Ramón Grosfoguel explains, the idea that politics can be separated from art or knowledge is itself a political stance. It frames one worldview—typically that of the dominant class or culture—as neutral or universal, while casting everything else as deviant or "other." In doing so, it legitimizes hegemonic power structures by masking them as objective truths (Grosfoguel, 76).”

This is not a direct citation of Grosfoguel it’s quoting an essay, that quotes him. Hope I made that clear by putting the quotation marks after the citation.

The Grosfoguel paper is called “The structure of Western Knowledge” it’s kinda dense, but a really interesting read.

I'm only saying this for your sake, but objectively, it's not a smart idea to bring politics into normal hobbies. You might lose supporters of your blog just because of your political stance, and that would be terrible since you're so amazing!! It's only a suggestion, but I really reccomend not bringing politics into anything.

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Rewatched Obi-Wan. I will fight anyone who hates Reva, nails snapped and wigs snatched and everything.

Do I wish they had done a full series focused on her with the Inquisitors and maybe that would’ve been better received? Yes. There was so much going on in Kenobi that it’s hard to say the show is about Obi-Wan at all. But her character is fascinating and complex, a survivor from Order 66 who lived under the Empire, knowing that Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, who hated him and ultimately walked away from that life by choosing mercy, not to kill Luke when she saw herself in him as she tried.

Where did she go, what happened to her 😭

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Talking with writers online

Their stories: Amazing grammar, soaring vocabulary, beautiful imagery and prose which flows like a river.

In chats: no capitalisation or punctuation, swears like a sailor, misspellings everywhere, acronyms and abbreviations every five words, idek

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(Badly) Summarizing Classics:

“The Dead” from James Joyce’s Dubliners

Middle aged man discovers empathy for the first time.

Nice GuyTM figures out his wife is a person.

Man get’s horny hearing about his wife’s ex-boyfriend.

Also he’s Irish.

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It pisses me off to see the way some Star Wars fans are so dismissive of Reva, Third Sister.

She's complex. She's interesting. She's clever. She's intelligent. She's strategic. She's conflicted. She's traumatized. She's scared. She's angry. She's a survivor.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series literally opens with her and her friends watching one of her Jedi mentors get gunned down by clone troopers during Order 66.

She was a FUCKING CHILD!!! They were in the middle of a lesson when the clones walked in and started shooting everyone!! These were Anakin Skywalker's troopers and they were executing every single Jedi around them.

These children had NO idea what was going on. They were scared and they tried to run to safety.

We remember this scene from Revenge of the Sith and we all immediately knew what it meant.

These are the same bodies that Obi-Wan Kenobi found when he and Yoda returned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant after having to kill so many of Anakin's clone troopers just to survive.

These are children that the Jedi Council wasn't there to save.

Palpatine snuffed out the light of the Jedi in one swift act of terrorism and then blamed the Jedi for their own genocide after taking over the entire galaxy.

And in times of war, the weakest among everyone always suffer the most.

This is what Reva, Jedi youngling, remembers most about the end of the Clone Wars.

Anakin Skywalker, hero of the Clone Wars and former padawan of the great Obi-Wan Kenobi, murdered all of her friends and injured her.

She had to play dead amongst the dead bodies of her friends, and that's how she survived. She witnessed Anakin Skywalker murder all the Jedi in the temple with no one there to stop him because the other Jedi Masters were being executed in a war they had never wanted to enter into in the first place.

She blames herself for not being able to save her friends because she wasn't strong enough to fight back. No youngling was ever going to be strong enough to stand against Anakin Skywalker. She wanted revenge against Anakin Skywalker, and she was just as desperate to get to Obi-Wan Kenobi as he was. She wanted to kill Anakin Skywalker just as badly as Darth Vader wanted to kill Obi-Wan.

She was alone in a galaxy that tortured and executed surviving Jedi. She spent ten years plotting her revenge against Anakin. She was angry at Obi-Wan for not being there to stop Anakin, and rightfully so.

The Republic fell. Reva and her friends were left unprotected. She was the only person she relied on because everyone else failed her. She was only a child when she lost everyone.

And it's clear she was conflicted by her role as an Inquisitor. She doesn't have the training the other Inquisitors do because she volunteered to be an Inquisitor while all the others were tortured and terrorized into falling to the dark side. She only wanted access to Anakin so she could get justice for what he did to her and her family.

Unlike Anakin, Reva couldn't find it in herself to harm a child. She was seeking revenge solely against Anakin Skywalker. Luke and Leia are the same age she was when she watched her friends and family die in front of her.

Yes, she was prepared to torture Leia, but she consistently hesitated, and when Tala walked in, Reva turned away. She stopped. Yeah she was mad, but she didn't have to go through with it. She'd already planted a tracker on Lola. She was already planning on allowing them to escape so she could locate their secret base. She just needed to bait Obi-Wan. Her plan worked perfectly, and she didn't even have to hurt this child who was annoying the shit out of her (not realizing she was dealing with Anakin Skywalker's offspring).

She went to Tatooine to kill Luke, but she couldn't. She hunted him down without bothering to kill Owen or Beru. She only cared about one thing. Getting justice for what happened to everyone she had been unable to save at the end of the war. She was only a child, and when she realized she was about to kill a defenseless child just to get revenge, she couldn't do it. She saw her face when she looked down at Luke and cried when she realized she couldn't do it.

She was so horrified by what she had been prepared to do and returned him to Owen and Beru alive. She fell to her knees and sobbed because she thought she failed her family in the end.

Obi-Wan was there for her this time. He reminded her that by showing mercy, she was giving her friends and family peace. She was not going to become the monster that Anakin Skywalker was.

Obi-Wan helped her and reminded her that she gets to decide who she wants to be from this point forward. She refused to become Anakin Skywalker, and a weight was finally starting to be lifted from her shoulders. A weight she had been carrying for ten long years.

She did what she thought she had to just to survive. She had only been a child with no guidance because everyone she loved died. She survived by joining the ranks of the enemy so she could plot her revenge. Obi-Wan showed her mercy at the moment she needed it most. He wasn't angry with her. He was compassionate. She survived Order 66 just like he did, but she had been defenseless when they were thrust into a galaxy that tortured and killed Force sensitive individuals and those who helped them. He had failed Reva during Order 66, and he wasn't going to fail her this time.

She is getting a second chance at finding her path in life despite the bad things she did. Everyone deserves a second chance. She was robbed of her childhood and had to grow up overnight. She had to learn how to survive. And that's exactly what she did. Just not in the way she expected.

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been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

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The post in question in question in case you don’t want to click on the video.

In case you’re wondering why Jews are so mad in the comments this is like if I did a merry Christmas post covered in Easter eggs. There are only 3 images on there that are Passover related the other things are from a hodgepodge of other holidays. Most of the food we actually can’t even eat on Passover.

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They both act like the same and have the same reaction