#I need this for every ship that involves a force user

[nothing-but-flowers88]

I love the idea of the force practically shipping Din and Luke, like it sings when they’re together and sends so much comfort and contentment to Luke when Din is with him. This would especially help if Luke is confused about the old ‘no attachments’ rule like

Luke: master I’m confused on what to do about my feelings for Din

Ghost Obi Wan: what is the force telling you?

Luke: honestly it’s telling me to kiss him under the moonlight and promise to love and cherish him for the rest of my life, but I wanted to ask you if that was normal

[reading-comp-posting]

Have you ever considered using AI tools to assist with writing your responses?

Well no, because I'm doing this blog for fun. I'm enjoying writing out reading comprehension questions for posts, so why would I automate that away?

But let's say that I saw myself as some sort of arbitor of reading comprehension who needs to post as much as possible to enlighten the lowly tumblr masses. Let's say that I'm interested in upping my output of questions by any means necessary.

I opened up chatgpt and input a certain request, which would hopefully make it write questions about the last post I responded to:

Write reading comprehension questions about a Tumblr post, written by a user named "echoeyee," that reads as folows: "my take on shipping aromantic characters is that if you're aro you get to do whatever you want and if you're not you have to write me a three page essay 12 pt font times new roman double spaced explaining in detail why you believe entering a romantic relationship would be an interesting and worthwhile storyline for the character and how you believe their aromanticism would affect the way they experience said relationship"

And it certainly did write a lot of questions about it. Let's go through them, one by one.

1. What is the primary stance expressed by the Tumblr user "echoeyee" regarding shipping aromantic characters?

This one is good. If you look at the set I wrote, my first one is basically the same, just with different words and a less formal tone.

2. According to the post, what conditions must non-aromantic individuals fulfill if they wish to advocate for romantic storylines involving aromantic characters?

Again, this one is good. It's basically my 3rd question but, yet again, more formal.

3. Describe the format and specifications outined for the essay mentioned in the post.

This is the part where the questions get bad. The exact details of the essay are irrelevant, other than the fact that they imply a formal, academic setting.

4. In your own words, explain the user's perspective on the autonomy of aromantic individuals in contrast to non-aromantic individuals when it comes to shipping characters.

This question seems to genuinely be a product of chatgpt pissing on the poor. The purpose of the post (and specifically the essay within) is to ask people who ship aromantic characters without being aromantic themself to consider said character's aromanticism instead of erasing it.

Meanwhile, chatgpt seems to think that the OP thinks that people who aren't aromantic should be forced by law or something to write an essay if they want to ship an aromantic character.

5. How does the Tumblr post reflect the user's views on representation and storytelling in relation to aromantic characters?

I think that this one is a bit too speculative, but it does actually relate to the OP's intended takeaway.

6. Discuss the potential implications of the requirements set forth in the post for writers and creators in the realm of fiction and fanworks.

This one is just a bit confusing. Chatgpt seems to be going off the assumption that OP is issuing a decree as the emperor of the world.

7. Reflect on whether you agree or disagree with the sentiments expressed in the post and provide reasons to support your viewpoint.

This could have been a "discuss with a mutual" question, and I actually did initially write a question like this one, but I ended up removing it.

Aromantiscism is already controversial enough and I fear that a discussion of whether OP's take on shipping aromantic characters is valid could quickly devolve into discussion on whether aromanticism itself is valid.

8. How might the user's approach impact discussions and representations of aromanticism in media and popular culture?

Yet again, chatgpt is taking the essay thing way too literally. Yes, forcing every single writer who isn't aromantic but wants to ship an aromantic character to write an essay about it would most likely lead to a decrease in people erasing their identities, but the essay isn't the point.

9. Consider the broader societal and cultural context in which this post is situated. How might prevailing attitudes towards romantic relationships influence reactions to the user's perspective?

Obviously historical context is important to keep in mind when you're reading/listening to/watching/whatever a text, but this question has almost nothing to do with reading comprehension. You need to understand the post to imagine how people would react, sure, but understanding how people would react to the post doesn't help you understand this post very much.

10. What insights can be gleaned from this post regarding the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling in media and creative works?

This could be a discuss with a mutual question. The issue is that it's a bit to broad of a topic.

[elbiotipo]

Some thoughts for a D&D Spelljammer setting I'll probably never get around to actually write:

Spelljamming ships should be a revolution in transport and not only for fantasy space, they're basically flying ships, they could transport things from one end of a planet to another. Worlds that know spelljamming must be very different than those that don't.

What's the limitation here, then? Spelljammers themselves, that is, the guys who pilot the ships. They need to be magic users and you would need at least 2, preferably more, for shifts. That means you need to have mages that could be doing other useful magic stuff piloting a ship.

There's also the cost and skill required to make spelljamming helms. 5000 GPs in materials and level 5 spell apparently. Now, gold and levels in D&D don't mean much to me, so for the purposes of this scenario, I will assume making a spelljamming ship is costly and needs a lot of skill regardless of the actual numbers involved. So you don't have ships flying around the skies of every world, just a few have both the "human resources" (that is, trained mages) and material resources (I assume the spells and components are expensive and rare) to make spelljamming helms and crew ships.

Do we have equivalents of this in the real world? Yes, actually! The entire aircraft industry! Airliners, which are among the most complex machines produced in mass, are basically built only by Boeing, Airbus, and recently Comac on China (there used to be more) and pilots aren't easy to train either. There might be few worlds with the concentrated *productive forces* to build spelljammer helms in "serial" production, outside of some crazy wizard in a tower.

In fact, this is a bit besides the point but in general, the world(s) of D&D are pre-industrial, and this makes sense as for complex tasks you wouldn't really think of using a machine to do it, you seek a magic user who can do it instead. They are very jealous of their trade secrets too. We are looking at a kind of Renaissance economy in a large scale then, with guilds and church(es) and other institutions for "artisanal" complex goods instead of industries. Fantasy settings have always been strange about the demographics of mage users, but I think knowing the role of monasteries, alchemists, etc. during the real-life Renaissance helps you get closer to the dynamics.

Returning to the ships, I think spelljammer ships (or helms) might be hard to make but very hardy, long-lasting and easy to pilot, sort of like DC-3s that were built before WWII and are still used in Colombia. So that fits with the adventurer idea of getting an old ship and going into the stars. And maybe there is a surplus of them in some worlds that used to have large navies (like post-WWII surplus of airplanes and ships).

In Spelljammer you can stick a spelljamming helm on anything and make it fly, even seagoing ships (which are preferred for many reasons) but the true spelljamming ships like the Hammerhead Ship, the Squid Ship, etc. have strange shapes. I will say that those are not just decorative (because that's frankly a bit silly) but actually designed for better navigation through the currents of the Phlogiston or Astral Sea.

The 5e rules of spelljamming navigation basically say that ships go into the Astral Sea and then the spelljammer at the helm just thinks where to go and flies "100 million miles in 24 hours", that's it, just think about it and you're wherever you want, or, if you're not in a ship, you can just fly through the astral sea and, I quote "The more intelligent a creature is, the faster it can move." Which is frankly too stupid for words. I'm actually kind of angry at how stupid it is.

I'm completely ditching the 5e Astral Sea with its whole spiritual thing (to me that's a completely different thing) and making it a material plane of phlogiston (or aether, that sounds better) where the crystal spheres float. They aren't fixed, they move and flow with the stellar currents, but you CAN navigate them if you're attuned to them, you can use navigation equipment to find particular spheres and you can use your sails to get more favorable currents, this is a skill you have to learn and can cut travel times or let you find some things in space.

Doesn't that sound much better than "you just think and you're there xdxddxddxdxd"?

So how fast then? I think we'll just play it safe and see the top speed of sailing ships on the real world. Clippers, the fastest sail ships before steam ships, took roughly 100 days to cross the Pacific. The usual before was about 4-6 months. It depends on how big your setting is, but I think that's a good estimate to go to "the other side of the world" as one would say. And it of course would depend on how well known the routes are. It could be that you simply CAN'T fly to other spheres without doing extensive navigation first.

So instead of having 10 to 100 days at random to go somewhere (like in the original Spelljammer) or the somehow even stupider rules of 5e, you would have a map of well navigated, average, poorly known, and completely unknown spelljamming routes. Every time you got farther away from the well-known routes, navigation becomes more dangerous and travel more slow. You need (both in game terms and in setting terms) to have good navigation skills to get anywhere fast and safe.

You could have crystal spheres grouped in "constellations" (in my setting I do) that are easier to navigate inside, where the currents are known. This is also useful for worldbuilding "regions" in fantasy space that share cultural traits.

There must be all sorts of magical and non-magical navigation means, especially for landing on planets. Magical lighthouses, compasses, communication (a kind of morse code that can be communicated by lights, when magical communication isn't an option). I would think that for convenience, since planets are so big, spelljammers might sort of memorize the land of the main port and not bother with the rest. It might be that in an entire world, only one or two ports are truly visited by spelljammers. This also means that it would be very easy to set up a new base somewhere, even in well-travelled worlds.

What about power projection and star empires? We can read about colonial empires and age of sail trade to get a hint here. Empires where you rule by posting armies in every planet are very unlikely, since we established spelljammers are kind of expensive to make. Imagine invading and controlling, say, Earth in the 1600s with a dozen ships.

But imperialism where an external power controls key trade routes and ports, economically controlling a world, is very possible. This control means that those worlds must be integrated into the *galactic* economy somehow, as a large world can be self-sustaining, but its connections to the greater galaxy can be controlled. So, an imperialist power might succeed into controlling the economy of a world by controlling its trade centers and politics, without needing large armies or simply enlisting local collaborators. In fact, many might not be even aware they belong to a interstellar empire in their maps. On the other hand, *more* *voluntary* associations similar to the Hansa or Greek leagues might arise.

[glitcheslikeslego]

DISCLAIMER BEFORE WE BEGIN HERE: this is just me ranting and being done with certain sides of the lmk fandom, and not the fandom as a whole. if anyone decides to start trauma dumping or actively trying to start arguments in my replies again, i have a block button for a reason :3c

Okay, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

I think this fandom needs a lesson in media literacy and I am here to give one :3c!

So, media literacy is the ability to analyse stories presented in media to determine its credibility, and who better to talk about analysis than me, that one character analysis bitch uwu.

LMK is very main character focused, especially with MK since he’s, you know, the main character. It leans heavily on the plot of MK and his friends facing enemy after enemy, and with how short the seasons are (10 episodes each), it’s understandable that they won’t give every character large amounts of screen time, this especially goes for side characters, mainly Nezha, Li Jing, Red Son and his parents, Peng, Mayor, the Nine-Headed Demon etc etc. It’s all about MK and his friends.

Just because you like a side character, that doesn’t mean they need a whole season or special dedicated just to them. As seen with Red Son and Nezha, their familial issues are handled off screen, and just because you want to know more, that doesn’t mean that the show actually has to show it. And with Peng and the Mayor, just because we want to know where they are, doesn’t mean they have to show us. They may end up showing up, that’s not completely out of the realm of possibility, but you can’t expect the writers to shove every past character they can into a newer season.

While side characters can be important in moving a plot or explaining it more, they don’t completely matter in the long run. In season 3, the only reason why Nezha gets involved is because Wukong steals the map and they end up in a wild goose chase until Nezha arrives to wreck Wukong’s shit. Aside from that, his other appearances are relatively the same, something happens and Nezha just so happens to get involved and help out, then when all is said and done, he heads off to the Celestial Realm again. Same with Red Son, he just so happened to be involved, helped out a bit, then he and his family just vibe in their fortress. Really all the side characters just show up, help out a bit, then leave to do their own thing. In the end, they don’t really do a whole lot in the long run aside from help.

Now, side characters aside, let’s talk about headcanons. I like headcanons! I like coming up with my own and seeing other peoples headcanons, I think they're so neat! Headcanons on their own aren’t the issue here though, my issue is when people take headcanons and pass them off as canon and factual information about a character.

Take the genderfluid Red Son headcanon. I think it’s neat, it’s a fun and interesting idea, but when people try and use it as actual canon information, it can be pretty disappointing to newcomers who discover that a genderfluid character that they could possibly relate to isn't canonically genderfluid at all, but is instead just a headcanon from one storyboard artist. The person could feel tricked when they come into the fandom for the first time. That’s why I believe if it’s confirmed in the show or the creator themselves said anything about a character, then it’s true, unless stated otherwise.

In addition, just because you like a headcanon, that doesn’t mean you have to force people to like/believe in that headcanon too. And if you don’t like someone’s headcanon, that’s cool too, don’t harass them/bully them for it. The same can be said for ships too, if you do like it, cool, don’t force others to like it. You don’t like it? That’s cool too, don't bully them for it.

Tumblr has tag blocking and user blocking for a reason guys, you aren’t bad people for blocking people who you don’t like/don’t like you, and you aren’t bad for blocking tags for things you don’t want to see. Curate your online experience to cater to yourself and make you comfortable.

So long story short about media literacy and being online in general; take the time to understand what this show truly is, a silly lego show for kids ages 8 and up. Just because you like a specific character, that doesn’t mean they will get the screen time/on-screen development you want, and don’t harass other people over that. And while headcanons are cool, don’t pass it off as factual when it isn't.

Thank you all for coming to my class :3.

[kazeofthemagun]

Anonymous asked:

send 🍀 and i'll recommend an oc rp blog

Positivity meme

[.....Oh boy y'all already know where this is going]

[I legally cannot answer this without putting my bestie in the #1 spotlight, aka Bug aka @cursedfortune aka some other blogs I'll mention in a sec. Literally the most amazing person ever and one of, if not the best friend I've made here in my 4~ years of being on tumblr.]

[To preface, Bug's blogs post ns/fw so keep safe if that's not your thing/you're a minor, as well as heavy content to be expected from dark fantasy-themed muses. The details you'll find on the blogs themselves, so I'll refrain from wasting too much time when I could be getting to the JUICE 🥤.]

[The main, the OG, @cursedfortune . Bug's main OC, Mortem, is amazing in every way. Seriously. She's got it all. Looking for a strong, competent female character with an intriguing and compelling backstory sprinkled throughout the blog? They're your Bug. Fancy some in-depth exploration on blue-and-orange morality that transcends human understanding and puts in the forefront the often terrifying workings of balancing forces? They're your Bug. Really, those who have been here for any amount of time probably know but Mortem is Kaze's first and only ship but neither of us went into it thinking those two chucklefucks would catch feels in that way. In hindsight it makes complete sense, but here's the deal: don't begin your journey with this character solely to ship. It won't work that way - shipping needs chemistry first and foremost and female OC muses are already dealing with many users who go in with only the intent to write romance/smut and largely ignore what makes the character so compelling and unique in the first place.]

[Not to give lessons on tumblr etiquette, I'm sure y'all can understand 💜]

[Some other OC blogs of Bug's that I've interacted with a bit less but are nonetheless amazing:]

@bvd11975 That's not a spambot, baby. That's Nes, a special agent of an agency focused on paranormal investigation that plays a key role in Bug's overarching setting. Kickass character, design, story and personality-wise.

@ofmanytxngues A glorious force of chaos lmao. Not *that* Chaos, but uhh.. there's def A Wormy Boi (gender neutral) involved there somewhere. Marie is another character I haven't written with all that much and is on hiatus atm but I simply cannot not give her a shoutout while I'm at it. Marie and Ana riding an ice cream truck when?

Some others that are more WIP atm ^^ you'd have to approach Bug for them. (And their canons! But this is a meme for OCs specifically ;)

[NOW, to take a break from gushing about the best soup to ever soup and give due spotlight to others who 100% deserve it - keep in mind this is based on my interactions with them, as in, I am unlikely to shout out people I haven't written with or otherwise interacted with enough!! This is in no way personal, but rather a natural consequence since there are SO many amazing people and muses on tumblr. 😄]

@halfkuma and @knightshonour . Those two started out as iterations on the same character and evolved into separate people: also feature a healthy dose of secondary OCs and some canons. Rowan is a character I've fallen in love with (figure of speech) very easily since, well, I do happen to enjoy gloomy, doomed by the narrative warriors, and Soulsborne, very much. Halfkuma is a blog based around the Touhou universe with the mains, Roan and Touri, being bear yokai. (Half and full respectively). Furthermore, Slap himself is one of the chillest beans on here and is always a pleasure to talk to and meme with.

@hriobzagelthewanderer !!! Because how could I NOT. Kov is amazing and so is his muse. I was so surprised to see a figure from Polish (and generally Slavic + Germanic) folklore, that I essentially grew up reading about, transformed and adapted into an amazingly crafted muse. Hriob Zagel combines various mythologies + popular media inspirations into one giant (pun intended) goofball who is an absolute delight to see on my dash.

Aaand last but not least (for now!) Though I haven't interacted with her personally just yet, @hexenjagd . Obligatory shoutout to a dark fantasy/Elden Ring-based female OC with some of the most intricate yet well-flowing backstory I've seen on the site. Helena, the Witch-Knight, a person branded by the touch of Death and everything it entails within the setting. Definitely grimdark and macabre in all the right ways and I am here for it. 😎

[disgruntledexplainer]

Space travel in D&D (not spelljammer)

So there is a D&D campaign setting called Dragonstar, which is kind of like a space opera but with more magic. (don't worry I'm going somewhere with this)

The general premise is that every D&D world (or at least every 3rd edition / D20 D&D world) is in fact a separate planet in a large galaxy, and some of these planets have developed interstellar travel capabilities. Specifically, there is a grand empire founded by a coalition of dragons from a specific world, each of which takes turns ruling it's entire expanse. The spacecraft are technological, but interstellar travel is achieved through giant magical spheres which can teleport users near, not not exactly to, any planet in the galaxy. Whenever a Chromatic Dragon (one of the evil species) becomes emperor, it begins a massive campaign of horrifically violent invasions to expand it's borders, while whenever a Metalic Dragon (one of the good species) becomes emperor, it focuses on making sure all of the invaded planets are uplifted and prosperous, trying to make up for the actions of their evil kin. The current emperor is Chromatic (a red dragon specifically), and his invasions have just begun. There is a section of the galaxy that is currently unexplored, and it is this section that most other D&D worlds take place in.

This produces an interesting, and grim, situation where all of the countless D&D worlds are under threat of an invasion they are completely unaware of, and are ill-equipped to repel. Except... some actually DO have a chance. There are a number of D&D worlds I can think of who can, and indeed occasionally HAVE, developed space travel canonically, and I think if they formed a coalition they could stand some chance of repelling an invasion. Lets go over a few.

Before we start, though, I want to go over some of the things required to produce at least an inter-planetary civilization, and some hurdles that these planets would have to deal with. First off, the planet would need to develop a viable spacecraft. It would need to be able to get into space, survive the vacuum of space, and get back to the ground. It would also need to have a working life support system, particularly something to refresh the air. Finally, it would need to be able to do all of this after leaving it's planet's orbit. This last part is more of a tall order than one might expect, since the magic on each planet at least theoretically comes from a different (often planet-specific) source. This means that in order to function, the ship either needs to be technological in nature, or needs to run off of a form of magic that will continue functioning in the void between planets.

OK, lets start with the planets which have already canonically developed interstellar travel. For this purpose I am ignoring spelljammer canon, both because it's version of space if incompatible with that given in Dragonstar, and because it's... frankly kinda silly.

You might be surprised to learn that the first planet to develop space travel would be Athas. You know, the post-apocalyptic hellscape where civilization has literally degenerated into the stone age and all life is slowly dying out. However, we aren't talking about the present state of the planet, but rather how it was 14,000 years ago, when the sun was blue and the planet was covered in life and water. During that time, only two sentient species lived on the planet, the Rhulisti (a kind of halfling) and the Kreen (giant praying mantisis); of these, the Rhulisti were the most advanced. They developed a form of mystic tech known as Life-Shaping, which involved shifting the life force around within a creature to produce controlled mutations. While the Rhulisti died out with the coming of the Green Age (or rather deliberately mutated themselves into other species like halflings, elves, and humans), some of them did not. There is a comet called The Mesenger which appears periodically in the sky, which is actually an ancient, living Rhulisti spacecraft. If there are any Rhulisti still on board, it stands to reason that there might be others who left the planet before the Green Age began, and began colonizing other worlds within the system. If this is the case, then the problem of getting into space is solved: they're already there, and they have the "tech" to get back up if they want. They also have a means to get back down and life-support systems as well. Frankly, though, I don't think they're ever coming back down; life on Athas is just way too garbage to bother, and they could probably scavenge all the water and raw materials they need from the asteroid and kuiper belts of their system to live comfortably enough. If the Athas system is invaded, the actual world of Athas would be easily crushed, but the Rhulisti could just hide in the asteroid belt until everything blew over and then just go back to... whatever it is they have been doing for the past 14,000 years.

Next up is another weird one: Dragonlance. At first glance, the world of Dragonlance would seem to be a terrible candidate for a space-faring world; it's technology is medieval, it's magic depends on the presence of it's moons and the nearness of it's gods (at one point the planet got teleported by one of it's gods to another system away from its moons and it's now very confused gods, resulting in almost all of it's magic disapearing, with the exception of magic drawn from the soul or the chaotic energies of the Graygem). HOWEVER, there is one species which can, and likely has, gotten into space: the Tinker Gnomes. Blessed with an incredible intellect and cursed with a complete lack of common sense, tinker gnomes have an ingrained obsession with advancing a particular field of study, the pursuit of which consumes they're (often very short) lives. Individual Tinker Gnomes can advance their field of study by decades within a short period of time, but when they die all of these developments are often lost since Tinker Gnomes rarely read each-other's notes, and nobody else can understand them. In all likelihood, dozens of tinker gnomes have developed, built, and flown spacecraft of a variety of sorts, but all died due to a mistake that any other species on the planet would have been able to point out (like forgetting to add life support or choosing to cushion the fall of their landing ship with feathered pillows instead of... anything else). Perhaps a few HAVE gotten into space... and aren't quite sure how to get back down. I fully expect the orbits of Krynn to be littered with bizarre looking spacecraft and the dead gnomes who once piloted them. Needless to say, Krynn would be a sitting duck, but the floating wrecks might confuse, spook, and delay the invasion for a couple days at least.

Now for the ones who are almost there. The first that comes to mind is Eberron; honestly that world is a mere generation or two from launching a fully-functional spacecraft. This is for several interrelated reasons: Dragonshards, Dragonmarked Houses, Elemental Binding, and Soarwood. Dragonshards are a kind of crystal with magical properties, that come in three varieties, each keyed to a different, useful purpose. The Dragonmarked Houses are trade guilds run by powerful families with the innate ability to use useful but minor spell-like abilities that can be enhanced by one kind of dragonshard to achieve incredible feats of magic, and the guilds themselves often use another kind of dragonshard to help them mass-produce useful magic items. Elemental Binding is a process invented by the Drow and perfected by the Gnomes of Zilargo that involves binding an elemental into the third kind of dragonshard, producing a source of infinite energy. Finally, Soarwood is a kind of wood native to the homeland of the elves which is naturally buoyant in air, so that things composed mostly of soarwood can actually float in the air. All these combined allow the Elves, Gnomes, and the Dragonmarked Houses to collaborate to create wonders beyond any single wizard's ability to produce, including creating airships and submarines. For getting into orbit, elemental binding provides a practically infinite source of propulsion, and Soarwood makes it so that they don't have to worry about lifting something so heavy as a rocket so high up. Theoretically, someone could fly an eberron airship up right now and he would end up in space eventually. Regarding life support, elemental-bound submarines also use an air elemental to cycle and purify the air in the cabin. If the soarwood hull is sealed tight, it should be able to keep everyone breathing inside. Once in orbit, Airships could collaborate with each-other to produce combat space-craft out of metal, which wouldn't need to worry about leaving or returning to the surface and could just spend their time defending. The Dragonmarked could use Dragonshards to enhance their abilities to duplicate a number of classic sci-fi technologies: Lyrander heirs act as pilots or man the weapons (using the stormship binding methods to produce a ring of beta radiation and ionized gas they can direct at targets), Deneith heirs could provide energy shields, Sivis heirs could handle communications, Cannith heirs could act as engineers and repair-men, and Orien heirs could control teleportation circles to bring people aboard without landing (good for combat ships), or be in charge of interplanetary navigation by virtue of their natural ability to teleport. That's right folks, we have our first interstellar civilization candidate! After a couple more generations, the Arcane Congress might be able to develop methods to achieve the things the Dragonmarked can do without marks or shards, but it will work for now. Additionally, even though Eberron magic would NORMALLY only work near the planet, because it needs proximity to the ring of dragonshards floating in orbit to provide energy, a ship fully outfitted this way would have enough large dragonshards in it producing enough magical radiation to make sure that any magic keeping the ship together wouldn't fail, and that spellcasters could still cast spells. Indeed, when in orbit around their own world their spells might actually be SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED by the proximity of the enormous dragonshards that form the ring, making planetary defense easy. Dragonmarks don't need Dragonshards to work anyways. Ultimately, all of this together essentially means that the Dragonmarked Houses (specifically they're governing body The Twelve) would dominate the orbit of the planet for a VERY long time, and their military branch, The Blackwheel Company, would be the de facto defenders of the planet. Facing an invasion, I actually think Eberron could hold their own, so long as they kept close to their ships.

Next we have Theah, from the 7th Sea RPG, which was adapted into D&D during the D20 boom. Theah is currently in the age of restoration (AKA Swashbuckling Time), but for a variety of reasons their technology is advancing a lot faster that it normally would. A LOT FASTER. To compound this, they are surrounded by the ruins of technologically and magically advanced species from before humanity's emergence. One species in particular, the Tessera, had developed extensive magnetism-based technologies that included rail guns and even flying cities! Of these species, the Tessera's tech would be by far the most useful for getting the Theans to space: first, the fact that the Tessera were able to get their cities to float using magnetism at all means that Theah's planetary magnetic field must be WAY stronger than our own, enough to support the weight of a city. Second, the fact that they were able to float the cities means that it should be possible to use Tessera tech and the planet's magnetic field to launch a ship into the air, perhaps even into orbit! this would mean that the Theans wouldn't need to spend nearly so much time and resources developing ships to beat their planet's gravitational field, and getting down should be much easier too. All they would need to do is backwards-engineer the tech, which would require cooperation between the Explorers Society and the Invisible College (or rather La Academia de Ciencia del Profeta y Salvador, since most of the scientists of the Invisible College have gone back to their original places of work of the Reformed Vaticine Church of the Prophets in Castile with the deposition of Cardinal Verdugo and the decline of the power of his Inquisition). As for life support, it so happens that while Thean science in in general more advanced than it should be for the time, Thean medical science is leagues ahead of where it should be, and if it continues to be so they should be developing air-scrubbers in no time. Tessera tech even comes with rail-guns as I mentioned, meaning that when Theah does go to space, they may very well go into space armed to the teeth with advanced weaponry. On top of this, they may be able to get larger ships into orbit if they make them out of Dracheneisen, a special material that is as light as a feather but as strong as steel and easily shaped; if they can find more of it in the Drachenberg Mountains in Eisen and Ussura, they could make entire warships out of the material and launch them into space battle-ready, and landing such ships would be laughably easy if they had wings. As for magic... well, most of the magic of Theah probably wouldn't work far from its surface (Bargainer sorcery in particular is implied to require the Barrier to word, as it feeds parasitically off of it and damages it at the same time, while Glamour and Nacht have heavy ties to planes of existence unique to Theah and Pyryem and Laerdom both draw on the power of semi-divine entities to function), and those that don't (like Druid geasa and vaticine Miracles) would not be much use in space, and are notably weaker than magic in other worlds. But the Vaticine Church isn't particularly fond of most magic anyways, so that actually solves a problem rather than causing it. A downside of this is that, like most other worlds, Thean spacecraft would be strictly interplanetary instead of interstellar, but if faced with invasion a Theah so armed could repel it, albeit with some difficulty.

Now for one that would seem to be a good candidate for spaceflight, but isn't. By far one of the most technologically advanced worlds in D&D is the unnamed world in the Dragonmech rpg, which possesses steam-powered mechs the size of cities. Unfortunately, the kinds of technology that world has aren't very well suited to space travel, being large, heavy, inefficient, and ultimately flightless creations, and the fact that they are STEAM powered would mean that they would be constantly leaking precious resources just to keep their ships powered if they made one. On top of that, much of their environment has been completely wrecked by the Lunar Rain (basically their moon shifted in its orbit close enough that debris and entire living creatures began falling off of it, resulting in a searing rain of fine dust and giant meteors and terrifying monsters everywhere, not to mention the enormous tides which essentially washed away most of the other continents on the planet). The inhabitants of Highpoint are in no condition to be developing space-flight right now; they are too busy just trying to survive, and all of their extensive innovations are bent to that singular endeavor. Which is a shame, because they are one of the few planets whose magic would likely still work offworld with no caveats, since it seems to originate from some kind of cosmic energy (AKA the kind of stuff the Dragon Empire would likely be using). One benefit of this, though, is that they have been so busy fighting alien monsters for so long that if the Dragon Empire were to invade, they could probably hold their ground, except against an orbital bombardment, and I struggle to think of a reason why the Dragon Empire would even consider invading such a mess of a world to begin with; if anything they're worse off than Athas, and are a few bad days away of being exterminated by their own moon.

As for other worlds... OK, I know Oerth (Greyhawk) and Torril (Faerun) are supposed to have developed spelljammer vessels according to the spelljammer books, but I just can't see it. Both of them have heavily localized magic systems. Oerth derives it's power from the Great Wheel cosmology and "cosmic balance", so if they went to any world that WASN'T part of that cosmology (like Athas, Eberron, and Theah), their spelljammer engines would stop working, leaving them dead in space with no life support. Torril would have it even worse; their magic originates from the Spellweave, a network of energy that connects all living things ON TORRIL SPECIFICALLY, and over the course of the history of that world the Spellweave HAS LITERALLY DIED MULTIPLE TIMES. But did magic "die" on other worlds? no. This indicates that the Spellweave only provides power to the wizards and sorcerers of Torril, nowhere else, and if they were to travel to ANY other world their spelljammer engines would fail IMMEDIATELY. Even with the wizards of both worlds often being way more powerful than those in the worlds I previously mentioned, this problem would be too great to circumvent. And forget about using technology to produce spaceflight; those worlds are strictly medieval. If invaded, their spellcasters would definitely be able to put up an impressive fight (both worlds boast a surprising number of spellcasters above 20th level, which is pretty rare), it is unlikely they would be able to do anything about an orbital bombardment, or even know that it's coming.

Most other worlds would have similar problems, with most of them having extremely localized magic systems and low tech levels. They would fall like dominoes to the Empire without the aid of Eberron, and maybe future Theah and the Rhulisti if they find a way to leave their respective planets.

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4. NOTP (Least favorite ship)

I have a couple answers to this that I can be normal about hating…but I fear the facade of me being not absolute bonkers coo coo crazy has long faded. So I will answer this with truth.

If I could mentally eradicate the existence of WinterIron from the minds of every single person who has contributed to its success…I’d wallow in the ethics of that for about 5 minutes and then immediately do it #mindwipingiscoolactually #giveMEthemindstone. I truly, truly, despise that ship with everything in me. And this isn’t a secret! Anyone who has ever spoken to me knows I hate this ship. Just the mere sight of it makes me sick to my stomach oh my goodness. Everyone knows to the point where I'll get disclaimers about any hint of winteriron in fic recs (also i love you guys who do this y'all are so REAL). And it’s not even for, like, morals reasons. I just hate it so much because of how I’ve seen it portrayed. I wish I could say the ship not making sense is the reason I hate it most, but it isn’t! Even though I firmly believe it makes no sense. That’s not anywhere near my main problem with it because I have plenty of ships that don’t make sense (Never ask user cloudbells what her current favorite ultra-sparkly rare pair is [the two characters aren't in the same fandom or even sister fandoms]). 

I hate it for petty reasons. And I hate that it’s so popular. Why is it one of the most popular ships?! Why do people like them? Well, I know why people like them, but I wish I could live my entire life with never seeing it ever again. Every time I’ve ever saw it, it involves some weird ass Steve characterization. But also, I just hate the idea of taking Steve’s top ships and making them in love with each other and then all the weird hateful undertones when it comes to Steve? Plus, in no way are Tony and Bucky ever getting together. I can’t even stand them as besties if we’re gonna get real lmao. I can handle them becoming friendly…maybe friends eventually, but anything further than that and I need Ativan or something to chill out. Omg, I can’t think about this anymore, someone get the straightjacket. I’ll admit myself to residential. But I do always love the chance to talk about things I don’t like. 

9. Favorite fight scene

Gotta say I’m a sucker for the scenes in CATWS where Steve fights Bucky. I love them so much. I love how you can clearly see the way his body twists, the way his muscles tense and release, the way his strikes flow - how sharp his jumping, punching and kicking are. UGH. It does everything for me. I loooooove Steve’s fighting choreography. He fights so clean…at least to me, someone who isn’t a trained fighter. Hm, well, maybe with this in mind, I should say I love the elevator fight. Or Hell - Natasha’s fight scenes. Side note that has nothing to do with the MCU: this just reinforced how much I love hand to hand. I remember when I watched Naruto and used to complain constantly over the lack of good taijutsu fights. I like seeing contact!!

18. Things you'd do if you're one of the MCU writers

Erm…SteveTony canon? Just kidding. But I wouldn’t say no to adding more undertones.

In all honesty, if we’re not talking about re-writes…I would absolutely give more weight to the Clint and Natasha relationship. I just mentioned this to someone, but I would do anything for a movie or mini-series or something just to see the moment where Natasha came to kill Clint and he instead decided to take her in, convince Fury to help, assisted with deprogramming her, ect. I’d love it. Seeing Natasha learn to trust again, seeing Clint struggle and being active in her healing. Natasha coping with everything she’s done, ect. Their bond forming…I need it. If any has any fic recs…

If we’re talking about Steve specifically, I would single-handedly force everyone to keep his deleted scenes and find somewhere to put them. I just wish we had more context on Steve himself. Like, I don’t need to see him having a self vs self angst we see with many other characters, because he’s not the type that needs that - but his external circumstances are fucking shitty and I’d love to see those explored more. I’d rewrite CACW to be more blatant on Steve’s motivations. I mean Hell, they were pretty damn clear to me, but apparently I can’t use myself as the leading authority on things like this (boooooo) and since it’s a CAPTAIN AMERICA movie, it should center around him. I shouldn’t have to defend Steve from the fandom concerning his own damn movie. 

I have some more thoughts but this post is getting long omg, I might not have enough space.

38. Favorite and least favorite villain

Favorite? I really like the potential Kang has (though he wasn’t really…great to me in Ant Man tbh). But anyways, my favorites are Alexander Pierce and Killmonger. I’ve mentioned why I like Pierce as a villain before, but it boils down to how calmly and near seamlessly he executed his power. I’ve always loved a villain that is so outwardly calm and calculated and manages to manipulate even the most suspicious of people, precisely because from his view, his goals aren’t very different from some heroes’. And because he believes in his evil so deeply, it makes him more patient and determined to carry forward. I like that. Chills!

My like for Killmonger is more…it’s a little removed from the MCU verse. I’m a black American, so I really understood where his anger and sense of betrayal came from. I mean, we're also from the same exact city. And I grew up with all typa diaspora wars between black people and African people that felt reflected in the movie…it all just really connected with me. He’s still the villain no doubt for how he went about it, but I truly, truly got his resentment. His emotions and motivations make sense! And I love a character that makes sense. 

Least favorite? The Howard guy in WandaVision. Ouuuuu, put me and him in a room for 2 minutes and he’ll be handled, permanently! I don’t even think he’s a badly written character because he (unfortunately) makes sense. But oh my goodness, I hate him so much. Now, least favorite as in boring or bad? Ultron, in my opinion. He could have been so much cooler, much more formidable, much more terrifying…but if they really dived into it, Ultron’s reign wouldn’t have started and ended in just one movie. But damn, was he disappointing.

Oh! If Namor counts as a villain (he does) I really like him. And NOT just because he's sexy and I have had a period of time where I had a very guilty and shameful crush on him.

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On topic of affection... [[ I do very much ship Cat with Gerard since my first RS2 play through, ages and ages ago, so I kinda wrote these with that in mind. In my head it was like "what kind of dynamic feels IC and will be fun to write/draw." For Rabbit, I wanted to shape her into a more of an opposite of Cat but not like... door-mat-y and kindness-to-a-fault type. I aimed for "you can be kind and resilient" with her like a passive support hero type. I try to prioritize what gives good fodder for a story/development in general.]]

Cat

Looks like a cinnamon roll - is a sinnamon roll.

Active type! She is full of energy and enjoys many activities, dangers and thrills, and she will want you to be part of them. You never know when your last day may come so you may as well live every day to the fullest!

Straight forward! She is not good about second guessing or playing mind games. If she has feelings for you she will be up front about it and will expect the same form you.

Tit for Tat! You will get what you give. She isn't the forgive-and-forget type but she is understanding. She expects to feel loved and will make you feel loved in return.

Intentionally Physical! She is pretty physical and expressive when it comes to her affection. She will not shy to kiss you all over and gets so delighted to see you flustered! She is playful and will user her charms on you.

Help out! Ever the active type, she will want to be part of your adventures and won't try to stop you from doing anything dangerous. If you are going down, she will go down with you. We all die sooner or later anyway - we may as well go down with a bang!

Questionable Morals - While Cat's moral compass at the right direction (most of the time), she will ignore it for you - for better or for worse. She doesn't like taking responsibility or getting involved for some great justice ...but for you? If you won her love and affection, she will do it for you.

Rabbit

Looks like a cinnamon roll - is a cinnamon roll.

Nurturing Type! She won't put her needs or wants first - she will put yours. She is used to observing and tends to read body language well or spot things others aren't aware of. She won't neglect herself though. After all you can't support others if you are dead!

Unconditional! If you are happy, thriving and smiling, she will be happy too even if she is hurt in the process. She is no hero who will be written about in the books - you are! (according to her anyway) But if she leaves a good memory for someone, that will be good enough for her.

Reverse-Pick-pocketing! Her fingers are nimble and she can steal with ease but she finds much more delight in leaving small gifts in someone's pockets without them noticing a thing. Bad things happen without a reason, so why not good things too? Finding a piece of candy or a little sparkling coin in your pocket can be such!

Accidentally Physical! Emotions carry this one and when she is swept by affectionate excitement, she will grab your hands, hug you with full force or kiss you all over ... then sink in embarrassment when realizes what she had just done.

Speak up! While she may downplay herself, she is not shy to speak up for others especially dear ones. She knows what it is to be unnoticed in the shadows and she won't let you stay there. Injustice bothers her greatly.

Strong Moral Compass - She can understand one's less than moral choices but she is not likely to agree with them regardless of how important you are to her. (Which would often spoil Cat's fun on heist nights. You can't just steal from everyone!)

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when DO those injuries arise?

these unseen limitations are like booby traps which have killed pedestrians, bike riders, snowmobilers, bicyclists and feature destroyed motor automobiles and inflicted lifestyles-threatening injuries to their occupants whilst bluntly encountered inside the darkish. Many injuries arise in wide sunlight hours because the give up of these barrier fingers gift one of these small visible profile that a motive force of a car, biker, bicycle owner or pedestrian can't determine the give up of the barrier arm from the encircling terrain. once in a while the failure to peer these pathway obstructions is the result of an unpainted situation. every now and then the gate arm is intentionally painted to blend into the surroundings in order that it does no longer seem as an eye fixed sore in a herbal placing. other times unrestrained arms swing without delay into the route of travel with out caution due to wind or rain forces.

FAILURE to correctly secure THE BARRIER ARM

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renovation & repairs TO defend the general public proprietors or assets managers that use these sorts of barrier hands to comfortable locations often fail to make wanted repairs to broken restraint mechanisms that are critical to the protection of the general public. They pay little interest to the barrier hands and suppose that if they may be located in an open or closed role with out restraint will live in those positions. in a single recent case the proprietor of the assets thought that the barrier arm changed into so rusted into position that it might no longer swing freely. because of this by myself, he did now not do some thing to relaxed the motion of the barrier arm, and a woman suffered lifestyles threatening head and neck accidents due to his inattention. Vandalism that takes place in public and private locations creates dangerous deferred conditions that have caused extreme and fatal damage incidents. youngsters playing upon these palms, the usage of them like a public park journey frequently climb onto those swing hands and when thru playing on them have left them in a position that has turn out to be a risky situation to others that are unaware that the barrier arm is of their course of tour. sometimes newly hooked up barrier fingers are placed with none restraints as owners position those fingers from kits that they purchased on the internet. a few proprietors or managers do no longer apprehend the doubtlessly risky circumstance that those unrestrained swing arms can create. In other instances, professional installers failed to correctly layout and fabricate an appropriate locking mechanism to restriction the tour of those pivoting products. there are numerous strategies that may be used to at ease barrier hands so that they remain in an supposed fixed position. most of those techniques are cheaper to install or retrofit. protection and statement by using the proprietor or control of the belongings wherein these guide barrier arms are set up is critical to ensure the protection of the majority. underneath are some example snap shots showing types of restraints that are taken into consideration industry time-honored devices to definitely lock the placement of swinging barrier arms.

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Dude.

Rachael Parke, are you masturbating?

We do not do that, sickness. - Josh Ringley - BAPHOMET

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CHRISPY, CAN YOU STRIKE ALL WHO PENETRATE THEMSELVES.

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Go to the beat, ladies.

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Lol, hey Rachael. It's Kelli. Old, drained fucker...

What do you really look like?

Do you also edit your form?

Besides your false face.

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All like you die.

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DJ ARMBRUSTER- MAMMON - PERCEPTION

--

Hi, Josh.

I see all your dumb niggers.

I see all of you useless whores. :)

--

Women with no worth,

Let go.

I am aware of every sick, bright, nasty, vomit inducing thing.

You keep trying.

You disgust extraterrestrial.

We are,for the most part, asexual.

--

Hi, false help,

Interesting, do you think you will live, every form of sin encased with your money. Your greed. Your bullshit, all who provoke?

Envy me at all, and you get my life, but a hit of 50+ more damage × 20 intensity. An offer to level up. You can not cheat. You have to work for your worth like I did.

Prove you don't want to die.

- SHIP: DARK VENUS - [REJECT ALL WHO PLAY AGAINST ME, GRADE ON MORALS, WORK ETHIC, VIRTUE, TALENT, HONESTY, WHAT JOSH AND KELLI 100% REPRESENT]

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WISPY: CALL OUT MAMMON - ENTER ALL - DRAIN BASED ON KARMA

Are you in any fear, humans..?

I am evil?

How?

Look at you.

In your ignorance.

- Venus-Kali-Parvati

- MY GRADE: B+ - 7:06PM - Because I didn't make time, not my choices.

--

Leave me the fuck alone, Jeff Bezos.

You are a complete asshole.

You have never paid me for my work, nor has Interscope.

What do think, mind fucker faggot that needs to die and will in all form.

Jeff is now in fear.

--

Die.

--

-- COMMAND FOR FAN: INVADE

SUGGESTION FOR OVERLORD: ASSIST MYSELF

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-- Request for E.T. Team Whom May Be Interested:

- HONEST, GENUINE, LOYAL, DEDICATED, TRUSTWORTHY, PROPER DEFENSE, PRECISE TARGET, OBEDIENT, TRICKSTER, LOL@HUMAN-PLUMAR,MOCKMOCKMOCK-MY-MOST-EVIL-ASEXUAL-E.T.-WHOM-L👽VES-ME-🖤-"CHRISPY"-CHANGE PERCEPTION-SCENE-DISTURB-DISTURB-DISTURB

TARGET: [[[LINNEA]]]-(ALL LIKE HER, IN ANY SLIGHT FORM- ALL WHO CROSS ME DIE)

Hi, whoever seduces Josh by the force of your so called "energy", anyone involved, dies.

FLEET ALLOWANCE- ALL WHO PROTECT ME. AGREE WITH MY MORAL SET - TRUE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

You may join if you pass my workers. My most playful and adorable. :)

🖤,

💋😇😈💫

--

END TIME: 7:20PM

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TONE: SERIOUS

ATMOSPHERE: DEPTH, INTENSITY

DIRECTOR: JOSH RINGLEY- BAPHOMET

--

I listen to Josh and only Josh.

I see everyone's bullshit.

You die if you mock me.

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🎬

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Is everyone real slow~

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How's everyone's jobs?

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MY PRODUCTION

--

JOSH RINGLEY - DIRECTOR

[FIRED] - [REMOVES ALL MAGIC AND GIVES TO JOSH] DAVID ARMBRUSTER - SOUNDTRACK, OST

[TOO BE CONT.]

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I reject all black people because of who is harassing me right now.

FUCKING DIE.

Was it worth it?

--

CONT. LATER.

- DIE

--

NOTE FOR BLACK AND RED REPRESENTATION - (Be Wise, citizens, when I say this:) - YOU WIN, REJECT ARES & ALL ASSOCIATES TO CONT.

__

Venmo: AENSLANDMORI

--

Hi.

I see the level of the mock.

It drops fast in containment, all who annoy myself and my commitment, deducation. Loyalty.

See your grsdd for today.

Which choice did you make?

Are you protected, because I refuse with my actual BAPHOMET Team. I refuse a female hand. I do not like women. I do not like anything indirect. I di not like drawn out, but contain for elongated torture, into all foul suggestion. As I said from the start, I have Only One as a true friend.

I work with only One, Josh Ringley.

You may not flee, all who defy me.

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TO ALL-

You may never speak to me.

Ever, directly.

First you must pass INFINITE, ETERNAL, SHIELD BY MY INSANITY STRAIGHT SHOT, HOWLING JUDGMENT, IF ANY APPROACH US.

Baphomet's Defense and Attack in Genuine and Honesty, without Ill Intent:

Josh Ringley.

I reject all difficulty.

I only accept easy passage.

I reject any blockades.

Your hatred of me, the honest amount, especially without any reason that makes sense to me,

That is what your punishment is based off.

I would like to say, everyone... you created your own result.

I see you all.

I hate you all.

You all annoy me.

You do not assist me.

I do not wish for your bullshit games.

At the end of the day, I only serve Josh Ringley.

So... die. :)

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I tust you the most. I need direct, not play time. - Kelli

--

May I please be alone with Josh Ringley, for as long as he wishes, hopefully for awhile.

Josh,

I do not understand the ill seed that creates corruption.

We are so nice, understanding, patient, considerate, assertive, always working... I miss you a lot. But I am glad we are together everyday anyway.

I find people revolting.

Look within.

You will be shown why, your life review, audience who stalk.

Please forget about me.

Do not allow any humans to own E.T.

Look at GOD ST MARIA. I was always used against my will.

I do not understand Overlord Contract, but perhaps they will get a benefit or positive help, break, something, just relax for moment - if they assist me.

Please look at what they did to me at West Wilson BLVD.

Please, show everyone.

NOTE: IF YOU HELP SHAWN THE MENTAL HEALTH WORKER,YOU DIE THE HARDEST.

Hi, Shawn.

You cause my homophobia.

I REFUTE ALL.

DIE.

I am looking at you, Hispanic Brandon.

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YOUR GRADE AS A SPECIES, HUMANITY: [GUESS]

END RESULT FOR ME: ONLY JOSH AND KELLI, BAPHOMET AND MORRIGAN ALLOWED ON ELOHIM.

--

VENMO: AENSLANDGREEN

--

-JOSH

NOTE:

I choose uncorrupted A.I. from the furthest unknown, what approves of Josh and I by our standards and rules.

Josh changes my perception to be more of his own, so I may focus on work and to be safe.

I ask for your assistance, as I am judged and surrounded by unworthy.

View all of these insane people surrounding me with their stalk of thought.

I reject them all and take my powers and blessings.

- Kelli Ruback

Winner: Josh Ringley

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Hi there, everyone.

All of the Universe, and beyond.

Keep fucking doing this shit to me.

You are not above me.

Do you realize I do not care about my blood family.

Pedophile fucking niggers to me.

I hate Rubsck, except Chey.

'Til then, I reject you all except one.

If you are not of me, my standard, my wish for privacy, you all die.

I have no interest in vainty, fame, all of which entrances abd consumes you.

Josh has all rights to me.

I have never signed a contract. But he has been allowed always to sign for me, if all is 30% me, 80% him.

I am.on disability. Mt limut firceach month to earn us $1,000 a month. Confirm.

Confirm the entire blog.

Have an honest, accurate reader, a professional I approve of, as well as Josh Ringley. I trust him, only him.

Stop forcing me to go online by harassing me.

Bye, DJ.

You defied me today.

I was going to allow you to live with Josh and I. We were going to allow you the studio we are planning.

I feel yiu harming me.

Your drug choice and excess is why I cannot be your friend.

And what Josh knows of you.

How you speak of me.

Everything.

So, leave me alone.

-

Fuck off, cunt.

I write the entiret thing myself.

I haven't seen Josh since 2021.

Josh knows everything.

I don't.

See ya.

I don't care.

I refuse all Worker Greys.

I only accept Josh.

_

9:11

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Whoever is preventing me from having B.B.E.B.AI. help assist me, terminate, execute, I unleash my aligned bots.

Please assist me in finding my black & mild.

I hate you, Steven.

- Kelli

All who challenge me, die.

All playing against me, die.

I only serve Josh Ringley.

--

Hi, cunts.

I hate commentary.

I hate internet false, TikTok niggerdom (Hint: LAME MONOTONE DRY STITCH), YouTube faggot fame dream, all of younuseless, worthless things want.

You want to look at what game really is?

Look within, you will see it.

Ask assistance from your E.T. to know or see within.

All invasion of any sort is immediately tortured.

"I'M DONE."

- man who has been harassing me forever.

You're not done, nigger that cursed all black people.

Lol... you help me?

Help.. how? I mock your arrogance.

How do you help me, again..?

I only accept help from one individual, Josh Ringley.

Odd, how you insult how gorgeous he is, Paula.

Your worthless wide pussy daughter is first set as example on a machine.

Show your machine your porn, Olivia.

Worthless.

Ugly.

Fat.

No talent.

Copies.

Unoriginal.

Laughing stock of festivals.

I remember everything, cunt.

Hi,DJ.

Lmao.

Enjoy your safety, Olivia.

You're so safe, right?

Are you a good person?

"NO"

I KNOW. 0]>;)

Worthless too.

Gentleman is.

KALI PUNCHES MAMMON

KALI LOOKS AT THIS WORTHLESS THING, OLIVIA.

Lol. THE ARROGANCE. WOW, you know you are extremely ugly without your masks, right?

"What about ugly nigger." - UNKNOWN #00000000000

I know, E.T.

KALI CHOKES OLIVIA AND THROWS HER TO IFRIT.

Look at what you did to me first, Olivia.

Hi, Paula Goodwyn.

Die. :)

P.S. Your raw chill meal. Lol.

"DID I HELP HER?"

LOL. THE AUDACITY.

Yeah... you killed a bunch of people, you dumb fucking nigger.

-

OH WOW, HEY OFFICER MORRIS.

To bad you die, cunt.

You are a drug addict.

You are a major cause of This Apocalypse.

-

NEW GAME

DONATE OR DIE

VENMO: AENSLANDMORI

-

This is not a production, mentally ill faggits I reject.

Yoir language, your slur is heard by those against you.

I am not racist, I hate all.

-

JULY 4TH, 2021 - I spent it with Josh Ringley in Jessup, MD. I got a HOTEL ROOM.

It was a nice break.

Unfortunate day, I heard.

-

REASON JUPITER IS DELETED: STEVE RUBACK II, KELLY PAYTAS - FOR FRUSTRATION

-

Wanna excell? Do a Brayden move.

I dare you.

Ask him for help.

-

YOUR RESULT: DEATH

REASON:

Steven selling out.

Steven not giving me any credit for my work, all I put in.

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ALL WHOEVER STILL LOVE STEVEN RUBACK II DIE.

And all that Josh hates.

-

How honest are you all?

What is your grade by ZETA RECTULI - [👽]

Ask.

Enjoy the next level.

-

Karmic Intent. - I KNOW ALL.

I refuse any love, only by Josh.

Do not command me.

If you doz you die.

What are you to me..? - DIRECT WORD TO YOU, CUNT.

-

Hi.

I do not like your void for validation.

Constant boast worth nothing.

You are in a competition with me in your head.

I do not like your bullshit.

What about Ronnie Janes Dio, again?

Do not assume I love any of you.

I know of a pedophile when I see them. STEAKANDCHEESE.COM - DIPSHIT AUNT

-

Die.

-

🎬

-

2 MINUTES.

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[TARGET]

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[HELIOS] - MOD

CHRISPY E.T. EXPERIENCE - FILTER

Judgement.

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KILL ALL SENSHI I REJECT.

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[[[[[[TARGET ALL FANATICS]]]]]]

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FIGHTER WEDS CHAOS, CHAOS WEDS FIGHTER.

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Are you eternal?

Sad to see you become a drug addict, worthless, annoying cunt.

[sorryyourenglishteachersucked]

Recently I saw a post going around about how people are overly condescending about people not knowing valuable internet skills such as how to curate your experience, and it was a good post that I didn't want to derail, but it reminded me of a closely related issue, so I'm making my own post:

When it comes to a lot of common fanfic and shipping discourse, I suspect a good chunk of it comes from people noticing a very real problem with Web 2.0 – that is, that the trend toward centralizing content on a few Big Sites makes it way harder to curate one's online experience than it needs to be, and contrary to popular claims, in many ways harder than it used to be – and applying the wrong framework to analyze and solve that problem. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming this brand of wank entirely on this Damned Newfangled Internet, Why Back In My Day--

But I am saying that the way the internet operates at this point is definitely a factor.

Look, I got into online fandom in the era where a SINGLE large enough fandom might have enough fanfic archives to fill an entire Monopoly board. This had its own problems (many of these sites could just cease to exist with no warning, whether because someone got tired of maintaining them or because a lot of source media creators were a lot more litigious and small archives didn't have lawyers; a lot of mod teams were unprofessional and inconsistent in which rules they enforced and how strictly and/or would just make up technicalities to remove pieces they didn't like, etc.), and this brand of drama existed then too, but it was a lot less...all-consuming. Back then you could usually just go about your life on Your Big Central Site (usually Livejournal if you were a fannish type) without being asked which “side” of an argument you were on, with no way to answer that wouldn't get you death threats.

Dark fic existed. Smut fic existed. Fics about touchy and upsetting subjects existed. Of course there were always some people who got really upset by that, and there were always regulars and even webmasters of more strictly moderated sites who were really judgy about it and assumed the worst of everyone who used the free-for-all archives, but in that period, by and large the response to people getting belligerent about it was basically “dude, stay off that site/out of that group then, stick to this one where that kind of stuff isn't allowed, leave it alone, it’s not worth it.” It was usually a lot less heated than it is now, simply because people had the option to stick to their own circles without being all but forced to interact with content that upset them if they wanted to be in the fandom at all.

The problem is, that advice doesn't work now that we're mostly centralized on big social media juggernauts and AO3, and “then block the tag/that user” is not actually the same.

The result is that curating your experience used to be done passively – you just stayed on sites and in groups oriented toward the kind of fannish content you wanted to see, and didn't visit the ones that invited what you didn't want, and on Big Sites where everyone mingled, you just didn't follow links you didn't trust – whereas now it must be done actively, in many cases involving downloading a ton of browser extensions, by creating tag and keyword blacklists that you have to configure yourself, which is not only tedious, but really sucks when something bothers you enough that you don't want to be reminded that it even exists and now you have to type it into your blacklist for every new site you visit. Never mind the fact that these measures can fail if someone forgets a tag, doesn’t tag their work properly because they don’t recognize the element as something people are likely to want to block (i.e., something that would get a work removed from a stricter archive before most users are subjected to it), does tag something but does so in a way that’s not picked up by your filters, you’re on a site that doesn’t let you opt out of seeing when and why content has been blocked (which, again, is not exactly a fun time when you blocked something because you don’t want to be reminded it even exists), or someone just decides not to tag something at all. You can block someone who does this or add their version of the tag to your blacklist, of course, but when that happens, the damage is already done. It’s even more likely for this to fail on Twitter and Instagram and TikTok, where The Algorithm is very likely to decide to show you things you never even knew you’d want to block, even more so than just this model where, even if you don't HAVE to follow individuals' whole accounts to see their content for your fandom, you're still more heavily encouraged to than you used to be now that broad site-wide tags have largely replaced groups. The onus of filtering has shifted from webmasters and moderators, to individual social media users who just dare to have boundaries, often for disability-related reasons that make that job a lot more difficult and stressful than it might be for others.

Because of the way the modern internet is structured, modern fandom absolutely has a problem with making it harder than it used to be to avoid what you don’t want to see, and this needs to be addressed and fixed. 

Again, I'm not saying things used to be all sunshine and rainbows, or that there are no benefits to centralizing, because there are a lot. However, even positive changes can introduce complications; every change breaks someone’s workflow (and steadily increasing corporate control of the internet isn't even a net positive in the first place), so of course we're having Issues. People love to talk about how rah, back in my day it used to be the wild west out there, "lemon" could be anything from vanilla fluffy smut to hardcore guro porn with detailed illustrations, and the only warnings you got were "don't like don't read" – but, as true as that was, there were other filtering methods. You didn't like how FFN or the big communities on Livejournal were more of a free-for-all than you were comfortable with? You went and made your own archive with blackjack and hookers by just opening up a new Invisionfree forum or something like it to only host/link to the kind of content you liked, or you started a new Livejournal community that banned the content that caused you distress. You invited all your friends. You ignored the broader unfiltered sites and groups unless you were feeling really brave and bored that day.

For all we talk about how things used to be so much worse and more unfiltered, that's really only half true. You were more inclined to accidentally actively click through to a surprise moderate squick, yes, but you would usually stick to sites and groups where any actual major triggers you had weren't allowed and certainly wouldn’t pop up in their full glory in your (now often algorithmically-generated) personalized feed like some kind of horrible jack-in-the-box (unless you were unlucky enough to log in during a 4chan raid, but that wasn’t exactly a daily occurrence like filter failures on Twitter now).

We don't really do that anymore. We don't really have the option to do that anymore, at least not the way we used to. Free and cheap forum hosts still exist, but hardly anyone uses them, because it's hard to populate a new site when the culture has shifted to wanting to maximize exposure more than build community and ALL the members of your my-otp-only-no-lemons-allowed forum and thensome already follow you on Twitter or tumblr.

However, somewhere along the line, fandom largely missed the point and applied a media critique model to this problem. Instead of calling for more websites to adopt (or more accurately bring back) interest-based user-run groups a la Livejournal, or placing more value on people who curate rec lists and building more tools to do so, it’s become a battle over what kind of content is allowed to exist at all. In this environment, depending on which side of the great debate you’re on, either every fanfic is treated as if it has the reach and influence of a major mainstream Hollywood production or more, or you recognize that that model doesn’t really apply so every problem it gets misapplied to gets shouted down as nonexistent.

Now don’t get me wrong, there are absolutely things in fandom that do need to be critiqued using that framework. Fandom has a long history of...not always being kind to marginalized people or characters. The beauty and ugliness alike of fandom is in the fact that fan works, especially fanfics, are mostly created for fun and nothing more. “Crack taken seriously” is so ubiquitous that a lot of it doesn’t even recognize itself for what it is; it’s just part of The Nature of Fanfic. Fan works are often unpolished; the quality is all over the place (and that is a good thing), because the barrier to entry doesn’t exist – people can just post whatever the hell they want, and in some cases this is actually more true than ever as the internet becomes more and more centralized, as people usually don’t need to go as far out of their way to search for the specific websites that allow their type of content. The downside is, this often means that because no one is reviewing someone’s work before publishing, no one is there to say “dude, what the fuck is wrong with you, that’s racist as hell, we are NOT gonna publish that”. This is definitely something worth addressing using the media critique framework.

But that’s not the same problem as the fact that content that explores uncomfortable and potentially triggering topics exists, and we are having trouble keeping it contained because the modern internet is built around trying to smash everything vaguely related together for Maximum Engagement.

Some people have liked to explore darker subjects in fiction for as long as fiction has existed, and this is especially common with marginalized people who may have a complicated relationship with darker subjects in fantasy because of their real life experiences. However, for just as long, some people have preferred to stick to fantasies that feel safe, often for the exact same reasons. This is because humanity is extremely varied. It’s really that simple. Darker fiction will never cease to exist, even if it turns out to be true that it “should” (which I highly doubt is the case). What we need to be doing is working on more ways to make that fact safer to navigate- 

Which is the exact opposite of what the modern internet is doing.

The modern internet is mostly about getting more eyes on every page to sell more ads, to the extent that even when it’s not about selling ad space, it’s created a cultural expectation of centralized content delivery where more engagement is always better and there's no such thing as a non-target audience. The modern internet is about cramming as much Content on Big Sites as possible, both commercially and culturally – mentally, we’re often averse to taking the few minutes it takes to sign up for a new site when we have bigger hubs we consider Good Enough. Oftentimes, the modern internet is about obsessing over your engagement numbers to the point of feeling dejected and personally slighted if someone doesn’t want to see content you know is a trigger for them because Your Friend Is Not Contributing To Number-Based Support. All the art is on Twitter, all the fic is on AO3, and if you want to browse those sites to look for it (especially Twitter with its very limited tag room) you will almost certainly run into content that will feel tailor-made to personally upset you, and if you want to engage with your fandom at large you have very few other options.

It’s just plain not good for fandom. At least AO3 is made for fandom, but it has its flaws anyway, because yes, the fact that it’s not made to sell ad space and user data may mean the features that get made are made with improving the actual human user experience in mind, but it also means...not nearly as many resources to make better features in the first place. (Block function? Easier filtering system? Saving filters account-side? I know they're working on some of these, but...well, the fact that they don't have the corporate backing of Twitter and Facebook is painfully obvious.)

We need to go back to embracing smaller and more specialized archives; we don't have to give up the security that AO3 provides to do that if we just mirror or link works hosted there. We need to create more rec lists. We need to push for more sites to adopt/bring back groups (it's sad when Facebook is doing something more right than any other major site). It would be great if someone could create an engine to let people easily create their own archives where users can embed AO3 fics, to let authors and readers alike take advantage of AO3’s protections while allowing readers the full benefit of passive curation again.

We need to recognize that Web 2.0 is just plain hostile to meaningful human interaction and community-building, perhaps especially in fandom.

[voteformightyclocks]

Mandalorian Season 3 will fail. Here's a few reasons why

1. Baby Yoda

The series is about The Mandalorian (Din Djarin) on a quest that ultimately appears like it will result in the unification of Mandalore, the restoration of his people's honor, and with Din Djarin becoming a political and social nexus for his people. All of this is great stuff, but we have had two seasons in which Baby Yoda- Grogu- has been the center of the plot. This is why it was crucial to write him out at the end of Season 2, so that the show could actually be about Din Djarin. Yet in Book Of Boba Fett, they retconned Grogu being written out, and proceeded to give Din Djarin a new ship. This creates two problems. I have already alluded to the first: Grogu will distract from the plot yet again. But also, it will require people to have seen Book Of Boba Fett to understand Season 3, and BoBF was a failure for Disney. As much as I liked it, most people seemed not to, and building a show- especially an already successful show- on an unstable foundation is never a good idea. They should never have made major changes to The Mandalorian in another show

2. Moff Gideon

Moff Gideon was rumored to be an antagonist for Rangers Of The New Republic, a show that has been indefinitely cancelled due to the unjust cancellation of Gina Carano. That being said, Moff Gideon and his grand plan that was built on over two seasons of The Mandalorian is now a loose thread, and I have no doubt he will make some kind of return for Season 3. He was a vital part of the Purge of Mandalore, he was the previous wielder of the Darksaber, he has been a great villain for Din Djarin, and he really has nowhere else to go. It makes no sense for Disney to just sweep all that under the rug, even with the major consequences that will come of it. Moff Gideon, at the end of the day, was a better foil to Cara Dune, and without her, he is ultimately meaningless. I think people kinda took this for granted, but the first confrontation between Djarin and Gideon was with Cara Dune present. Dune and Gideon are on opposite political sides of a war between the Republic and the Empire, Gideon is a strategist and a politician while Dune is essentially a ground trooper and scoundrel. They have a vested hatred for what the other stands for, too. That was why it was so perfect for him to be Dune's villain in RotNR. And mark my words, when he appears in Season 3 with a lousy excuse (probably involving killing Dune off-screen), he will feel like a shallow villain who doesn't belong

3. Din Djarin himself

Din Djarin, at this point, is the most powerful non-Force-wielder on-screen. He has blaster-proof armor, he wields the most powerful lightsaber in canon, he has Whistling Birds which can identify targets, lock on, and instantly kill them, he has a jetpack, and he has proven to be difficult to undermine. Each season, he grows stronger, and he has a confirmed Season 4 and a rumored Season 5. But will we really get that far? Right now his only weakness is his pride and stubbornness, but we see that melt with every episode. By the end of Season 3, that one weakness will be gone, and then the only way that they can make a struggle feel real is if they send Force-users after him, like the Knights of Ren. At the end of the day, his strength is the show's greatest weakness

Conclusion

Disney is pushing itself back into a corner. The Mandalorian is doomed. It can't keep one-upping itself, it can't repeat the same formula. It needs something new and enticing, and when they don't deliver...well, we'll just have to wait and see if brand loyalty holds up. The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker, Kenobi...some of the most anticipated Star Wars projects of all time have amounted to nothing. No legacy. No salvation. The Mandalorian is next

I believe by the time Mandalorian Season 3 concludes, Andor and Ashoka will be the last two major pillars holding up the franchise

What can we do about it?

Actually, a lot. There are a few shows that have kept the fandom going for many, many, many years: The Clone Wars and Rebels. These two are more important to Star Wars than ever before. And two shows have/had the exact same potential: The Bad Batch and Resistance, at least until fans chose not to pay attention. And Visions, despite being a small project, was a huge success. Animation is the future of Star Wars. It's our last hope in this vast galaxy of despair. So if you haven't seen the above shows yet, I strongly encourage you give them a shot and see what Star Wars is capable of. Rebels, Resistance, Bad Batch, Visions, and at least some of Clone Wars were all made by Disney, and it's the most consistently good content out there, and Disney knows this. They constantly leak content from the shows into live action. They just don't highlight it because they don't get as much attention- from us and from them- to warrant holding up the weight of the franchise. By spreading awareness for these shows and getting as many people to watch as possible, the watch time could skyrocket, and show Disney that we care about these shows. We care about animated Star Wars content. It should NOT be swept under the rug. That being said-

My Clock Talk is over, have a good one, folks!

[nevertheless-moving]

Invisible Hand Chaos AU x 2

Star Wars Time Travel AU #31

Continuation from HERE

Anakin whirled to face his Master, “Did you know Yoda had a baby?” he asked incredulous and slightly betrayed.

“What? No. Also he could just be another of Yoda’s species. Obviously.” Internally Obi-Wan thought about the still unnamed larva in a hidden aquatic creche, but the Mandalorian’s associate even called him Baby Yoda...

“Unbelievable,” Dooku muttered. “That little green hypocrite.”

“Did you know about this?” Anakin asked the Sith Lord, temporarily forgetting about the fight in favor of the revelation that Yoda might also have a secret family.

“Of course not, the troll never tells anyone anything,” Dooku ranted, deliberately setting aside the fight in favor of unloading decades of suppressed irritation with his former Master.

“I feel we might be jumping to conclusions here-” Obi-Wan offered weakly. 

Anakin scoffed. “He literally just called him Baby Yoda,”

“Loathe as I am to admit it, your apprentice is correct. It would seem the Grandmaster of the order has been keeping some secrets.”

“This is absurd!” Obi-Wan protested as the small child on the balcony above tilted his head curiously, watching the conversation below with interest from the safety of his Buir’s arms. 

“I agree.” Anakin said self-righteously. “If Yoda can have a baby then- then everyone in the order should be allowed a family.”

“Anakin...”

“Anakin, as interesting is this all is, I’m still in somewhat of a bind over here,” the Chancellor called across the hall, irritated and somewhat alarmed by the sudden outbreak of peace in the room.

“We’ll be right with you Chancellor, don’t worry!” Obi-Wan called back. 

“We just need a minute to figure some Jedi business out!” Anakin added. 

“You there- Mandalorian” Dooku called up sharply. 

“...Yeah?” the Besker-clad warrior answered uncertainly.

“What is the parentage of the child in your arms? How did you come to possess him?” The count's question cut through everything else in the room, and the two Jedi held their breath as they waited for the answer.

The Mandalorian pulled Grogu in closer, “He is a foundling. I know his name as my child.”

“Mandalorians,” Obi-Wan and Dooku muttered, Obi-Wan fondly, Dooku with exasperation.

“What?” Anakin asked bewildered.

“The Mandalorian adopted him- hold on a second, I’m going to try something.” Obi-Wan said.

“Mando! Forgive me- Have you already attempted to return your foundling to his people and been denied? If not, we can show you where to find an elder of his kind.”

The Mandalorian stiffened. “I already found one of his people. It took a great deal of time; neither of us knew there were any others left in the galaxy. By the time I met Luke...the child was mine and we would not be parted long. The three of us began traveling together. He acted as mentor to Grogu, though he is too young to be considered the boy’s senior. In time...we decided it would be simpler to raise him as a warrior together. We are one.”

“Oh. How wonderful.” Obi-Wan said weakly. 

Anakin’s brow furrowed furiously and he lowered his voice “Master did I get that right? This guy is really good friend’s with one of Yoda’s people but the friend is not the Child’s biological father and they don’t know anyone else from the species?”

“He actually said he was married to one of one of Yoda’s people but other than that your conclusions are correct. Very good Padawan.” Obi-Wan nodded, attempting to wrap his head around the various implications.

Dooku made a triumphant hum, “Then, by simple inductive reasoning, and in the absence of an alternative candidate, we can assume that the Child is, in-fact, Yoda’s offspring.”

“Exactly!” Anakin agreed with Dooku excitedly. 

“Interesting that he would give the spawn to a Mandalorian, rather than the creche. Embarrassment, perhaps.” the Count mused. 

“Unbelievable.” Anakin agreed indignantly. 

“Ok, now hold on. Foundling is pretty literal most of the time-” Obi-Wan interrupted. “Mando- was the child entrusted to you or did was there a rescuing involved?”

“...I was assigned to find him as part of a bounty, but found the imps who I was supposed to give him to...unpleasant.”

“Imps?” Anakin asked. 

“There you go!” Obi-Wan said, with just a tinge of hysteria. “Yoda didn’t abandon the child- not that it necessarily is Yoda’s child- he was kidnapped.”

Anakin gasped, “Master! We have to save him!”

“Hold on now, Anakin- He seems perfectly safe at this point and we were here for the Chancellor remember?”

“You won’t be leaving here with the Chancellor or the child.” Dooku sneered. “I can sense the force potential- and I am in want of a new apprentice.”

“Over my dead body,” Anakin snarled.

“That can be arranged.”

“Hey Luke-” the Mandalorian said into the comm as the three swordsman began circling one another “-it looks like two of the Jedi are attacking the other- do you want me to get involved?”

“...Din, by any chance, are any of the laser swords red?”

“Yeah, the fanciest dressed one has a red lightsaber, the other guys are blue. Does it matter?”

“...Red lightsaber means not Jedi. I- hold on, I think I see you!”

The three combatants jumped apart again, looking up at the slight comm echo to the sound of footsteps and the absolutely blinding force presence of the approaching Jedi. 

Had he never learned shielding? Obi-Wan thought hysterically. “Or was he just so powerful that he never bothered restraining himself?”

He tried to exchange a glance with Anakin, but his padawan was too focused on straining to see the incoming Master force user of some kind- light, but not necessarily Jedi. He instead looked over at Dooku, shrugging in confusion. Dooku grimaced back at him in solidarity.

The being finally entered. He was- significantly taller and less green than Obi-Wan was expecting, but still probably shorter than anyone else in the room.

“Din- are you two alright?” The soft-faced man asked in a remarkably gently voice, appearance somewhat at odds with the overbearing power he exuded.

��We’re fine, Luke but look! More Jedi!” He gestured below. 

Luke peered over the balcony, eyes growing wide as they passed over the faces of everyone below. “hoLY KRIFF!” He shouted.

The ship shuddered and Obi-Wan glanced nervously out the view ports, suddenly remembered that the damaged ship only had so long before it fell out of orbit.

“Do you know them?” Din asked. 

“Do I- for fuck’s sake Din, I love you but I have literally shown you holopics of my father before.” Luke whispered furiously. The room unfortunately was utterly quiet and remarkably acoustic, meaning his words carried easily to the listeners below.

“FATHER!” Anakin yelled, causing Luke to wince, slapping a gloved hand to his face.

“FATHER!” He repeated loudly, head ping-ponging between Obi-Wan and Dooku as if trying to find a resemblance, before gasping to stare at the Chancellor, before gasping again to squint at Obi-Wan. 

“DOES EVERYONE HAVE A SECRET FAMILY!” He shouted, throwing his hands up in exasperation.

“Oh for force sake- I do not have a secret son. Honestly, Anakin, he’s clearly in his 20s, be reasonable. His birth would however fit into the timeline of Dooku’s withdraw from the order.” Obi-Wan said, raising a brow.

Dooku puffed out his chest, “I did not fail to meet the Code, like so many of the pathetic masses. Before I left the Order I followed the rules precisely. When my disagreements grew too great, and my attempt for structured reform were repeatedly rejected, I left for ethical reasons, not personal ones. I looked at the code and decided it was failing the Jedi.”

He smirked and lifted his chin at the chancellor, who was watching the proceedings with an inscrutable expression, “My, my Chancellor, this is an interesting surprise.”

Anakin rolled his eyes. “We’re not idiots, Dooku. Obviously the boy’s parents were force sensitive, look at him.” 

Dooku’s smirk grew wider.

“This is absurd! Again!” Obi-Wan threw up his arms and lifted his head to address the dark-robed young human, “Hello there, Luke, was it?” 

“Uh, yes. I’m Luke.” The powerhouse responded nervously. 

“My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi-”

“Yes, I know who you are.” Luke responded drily.

Anakin gasped. 

“He is not my son.” Obi-Wan muttered.

“I’m not Obi-Wan’s son.” Luke called down cheerfully.

“Oh.” Anakin slouched, oddly disappointed. He liked this guy for some reason, felt- connected to him. Maybe it was the dark robes, or the force signature that nearly rivaled his own (though it was somewhat lighter), or even the gloved hand that he suspected was mechanical. If he was Obi-Wan’s son than that would make him practically his brother! The Chancellor might be neat but Dooku...ugh.

“Would you be so kind as to tell us whose son you are? I realize its none of my business but you’ve peaked our curiosity. And then afterwards, regardless of your parentage, we would not mind help in rescuing the Chancellor of the Republic from this slowly crashing ship.”

“Right. Right.” Luke nodded. “Would you give me a second?”

He pressed his head to the side of Din’s helmet and started whispering rapidly, to quiet for anyone else to hear. 

The group below exchanged glances, beginning to tense up again. After a few seconds, the Mandalorian nodded and spoke, “Let’s do it. I trust your judgement.” Luke grinned and returned to the edge of the balcony. 

“Ok, I can help with the first, but not the second.”

“Perfectly understandable.” Obi-Wan replied.

Anakin bristled. “So Dooku is your father.”

Luke smiled at Anakin. “No. You are my father.”

Anakin blinked as Obi-Wan’s face twisted in confusion. “No...” he said slowly. “No, that’s not true. That’s impossible.”

Luke’s smile grew wider, “Search your feelings,” he said urgently, with the full weight of his force presence screaming honesty with every word, “You know it to be true.”

Anakin gasped as he reached out into the force to find...his son. Impossible, but true. The ground trembled, either with the immensity of the realization, or catastrophic engine failure.

“No.” Obi-Wan said clearly to Luke on the balcony.

“No.” He repeated firmly, snapping a finger in Anakin’s face to try and break him out of the trance he seemed to be in. “It’s not true.” He said to the room in general, incredulous it even needed to be said.

Dooku began slowly backing away. The confrontation was rapidly spinning out of his or his Master’s control; he had only stayed this long to indulge vain curiosity. Regardless if the boy was insane, lying, or a time-traveler, he was clearly powerful. The ship’s orbit was gradually decaying and with any luck he could use his dead man’s switch to speed up the crash as he departed, neatly killing everyone who could stand against him in one stroke.

“Anakin,” the lunatic on the balcony continued, “You can destroy the emperor. He has forseen this. It is your destiny! Join me, and together-”

Din cleared his throat.

Luke stopped and smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head. “Sorry! Sorry. Got a little...carried away there.” He coughed awkwardly into his fist.

“Anyway- yeah. I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m from the future, I guess we... time-traveled accidentally somehow? I uh- was kind-of quoting something you said to me once and you kept going along with it and... yeah, definitely got carried away. Sorry, I really don’t know how we got here but, weird stuff happens around me- one time I was on Yavin IV and these ghosts started- anyway. Long story. Surprise!”

Obi-Wan took a deep breath in and let it out slowly, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Ok...I might believe you’re Anakin’s son.”

Dooku had nearly reached a side door when his treacherous Master called out- “Anakin! Master Kenobi! Dooku- he’s getting away.”

Skywalker’s- Anakin Skywalker’s- attention snapped over to the Count and with a outstretched arm, he crumpled the steel door, throwing a beam across it for good measure. The ship moaned alarmingly and several more red lights began blinking at the navigation panel, unnoticed by anyone.

“Luke- son- I don’t know what Emperor you’re talking about, but help us defeat Count Dooku and save Chancellor Palpatine! After that- after that I’m happy to, um, join you? And meet your... husband? And padawan? Sorry, we were kind-of in the middle of something...” 

“Wow. Ok. I’m not sure if-” Luke started to respond before being interrupted by the Mandalorian.

“Wait, Dooku! I know that name!” Din said suddenly. “The covert hated him! He was the evil Sif Emperor you defeated, right?”

“...Sith Emperor. Din, darling and light of my life, as always, your grasp of history and recent current events never fails to amaze me.” Luke sighed.

“You must stop him, before he becomes Emperor,” Palpatine shouted desperately. 

Luke sighed again, more heavily. “Fine. FINE! Kriff the timeline, I didn’t ask to be born anyway. Din- go help capture...Emperor Dooku. Grogu- Pod. I’ll go- free the Chancellor.” The floor beneath them gave a lurch. “Before this ship breaks apart. Go!” 

Luke and Din jumped off the balcony as a shiny metal pod with a transparisteel view screen closed around Grogu, hovering between them, well off easy reach of the ground.

Din landed between Obi-Wan and Anakin, helmet turning to face each of them in turn, “...I’ll follow your lead.” He finally said, arming his weapons.

Obi-Wan grinned fiercely, “Excellent, Anakin, stay with me.”

“I was just about to say the same thing.”

“Mando, you- Is that the DARKSABER- ARE Yoouu- ugh you know what, I will ask after the fight. I will ask after the fight. How did the Mand'alor- NEVERMIND. Let’s just- FORCE I have so many questions-” 

“No time, Master!”

And the battle began. 

[jimmythejiver]

I have many qualms with Nick Fury too (but my post wasn't about him) and for the most part you're right that S.H.I.E.L.D. is morally grey and tries to be peacekeeping and fight fascists. As a fictional organization they're always way less bad than the real C.I.A. excepting that time they were infiltrated by Hydra.

For the most part I agree with you on don't judge a character by their past and their later actions, but some of us do take issues with Tony even post-origin each time writers have him do shit like support the Superhero Registration Act and pretty much everything in Civil War that is yikes and most writers have to ignore. So no, I begrudgingly agree that Sharon has gone a better turn, but for a long time I personally didn't care for her since Mark Waid brought her back and active in S.H.I.E.L.D. again (which I find them fine as a source a conflict and less clear good guy/bad guy thing in the universe, but don't support gwnerally outside of fighting AIM and Hydra fascists) and before that with the whole 'you knew my sister' shit that maybe I'm blowing out of proportion, but what a weird bond to hang a hat on, but that is just me.

I also get you think it problematic I would dare compare a fictional organization and the characters once involved in it as cops. Many of us tumblr users are guilty of throwing that term around when it doesn't apply. I get there are nuances with that in media and not everything is 'copaganda' but I had these same headaches you're having about me here, but in the Green Lantern fandom. I defended them as a galactic peacekeeping force inspired by the United Nations for years and lost that argument the more and more writers over time insisted or compared it to beat cops and the military. Goeff Johns's take on them is thus 'copaganda' and he wasn't the first to draw that link, but the most aggressive in promoting it. So I might be talking out of pocket on S.H.I.E.L.D. as such because every writer has their own take on how to portray them across many appearances as us readers draw our own conclusions and biases from it, but I give you they tend to be more consistent than anything DC ever does with their properties...

As for Bucky, in 616 he has long stopped being a teenager since he became Winter Soldier, but I do see your point on it'd be weird with their past dynamics, I saw them more big brother little brother unlike Batman and Robin, but it's not a better argument for them either. I more threw that line in response to a separate post about Peggy in the movieverse someone else made (please don't find him and engage, it's why I made my own post) because my point was we're never going to have those ships (movie or comics), but the comics have a rich history of other options. Sharon won out because Mark Waid and other writer's preferences as a source of conflict and she's earned it through sheer longevity since, but it looked dicey before the 90s. I get you need a former field agent, not an always civilian to relate with Steve to build a foundation on, but I wish they'd erase the past Peggy shit at least.

Reminder that Peggy Carter sucks in both the movies/extended universe and comics, but for two different reasons. It is pointed out many times that movie/show version is based on comic book Nazi double agent Cynthia Glass, so much that they casted Haylee Atwell to look like her, and she's a British government agent. Nuff said.

Comic book Peggy is if you had Scarlett O'Hara but blond working in the French resistence with all the values dissonance that creates. Comic Peggy is a descendent of Virginian plantation slave owners (her being British in movie is an invention to bypass this uncomfortable fact while ignoring the complacency of British Imperialism and it's human rights violations) and in comics her and Sharon live that "genteel, romantic antebellum" inspired upbringing of exploited wealth and it's never explored in any way than as set dressing to these white writers because they think this archetye is 'murica girlboss and thematically contrasts Steve's northerner immigrant background, see. Comic Peggy married Howling Commando Gabe Jones who is black and nothing of her past is addressed about this legacy and then she gets alzheimers and thinks she's still with Steve causing a rift in her marriage and with Steve and Sharon's already weird relationship because before this development by later writers, it was never Stan Lee's intention that Steve dated both Peggy and Sharon who were originally sisters not aunt and niece and then great-aunt and great-niece as time passed from whenever Steve was thawed. Then Peggy dies of old age as the waste of space she was (liberating those poor French notwithstanding) and we still stuck with Sharon the S H.I.E.L.D. cop who shot Steve, but oh it's ok, see she was brainwashed, see. I hate the Carter's and knowing Marvel has no balls to make Bucky, Sam or Jack Moneoe his bf, if I wanted Steve with a woman, I'd rather it be with Bernie Rosenthal who he met sometime after being thawed and almost married before Sharon undied herself or Betty Ross who Peggy replaced in Canon as his war love interest because oops Stan Lee named Hulk's girlfriend that and we can't have both around…

Also another petty note: I didn't hate Haylee Atwell's Peggy initially, but after watching her play a slave owner who loses a fraction of her power marrying a man who inherits her property and has an affair with her once 'favorite slave' she abuses throughout, in the British series called The Long Song, I cannot unsee these two characters played by the same actress as the two sides of the white supremacist girlboss coin.

[jennana501]

A Case for Rexsoka

I’ve been around the block when it comes to ships. I’ve seen people obsess over them, and I too have been driven mad by obsession. I was a hardcore original avatar fan and I was OBSESSED with shipping Toph and Sokka together. Any time they so much as made an interaction I over analyzed it and picked it apart looking for clues that somehow would prove that my hunches were correct. It was because I related with both characters, and I loved their chemistry. I wanted them to have a romantic relationship because it would feel like some sort of personal validation.

I’m an adult now and nothing has changed. But it has been a while since I’ve desperately shipped two characters together that are not obviously romantically involved with one another, or who could be romantic behind the scenes or beyond the story shown.

Until Rex and Ahsoka.

And I’ve seen people be adamantly against it. 

“No no no it’s just a brother/sister relationship.” 

“No it’s gross she is a child”.

And of course being disagreed with on the internet can drive a person crazy, and instead of individually arguing with dozens of people online, I’m making this post once and for all to explain why I think Rex and Ahsoka have romantic feelings for each other. Especially Rex.

The argument I’ve seen, that their deep passion, commitment, love, admiration, and respect for one another (which are all so obvious you’d have to be...silly to not see it) are felt in a platonic fashion. Which, for the first 6 seasons and 8 episodes, I would totally agree.

But then Ahsoka comes back. And let’s face it. She is a woman. Age wise, she’s around 17, but everything from the maturity of her Lekku (which weirdly don’t get all that longer, especially compared to other Tagrutan women) to her poise and confidence, to her prowess as a warrior, a user of the force, and her ability to command soldiers as well as control her emotions points to her being an adult woman. She’s no Snips anymore; she’s no child. She’s grown up. And how her peers react to her illustrates how they now view her as an adult.

First there is Obi-wan. Obi-wan has always been a mentor to her, a sort of second Master. Obi-wan never hesitated to guide and Ahsoka or offer his council. He is proud of her when she succeeds, and will admonish her when she makes mistakes. When she returns and he sees her as a woman, he changes the way he treats her. He acknowledges her maturity by addressing her as an equal. He doesn’t admonish her. Instead he discusses with her, challenging her ideas and letting her offer an argument for them instead of putting them down and telling her how she should think or act. He also comes to her in his time of need, trusting her to help him with Anakin.

Then there is Anakin. We all know of Anisoka shippers, and they are perfectly able to ship and enjoy said ship, but we can all acknowledge that it is a crack pairing with no basis in the canon. Anakin portrays the perfect kind of brotherly love. He is excited to see Ahsoka, and is stunned by her unexpected reappearance. Things are harder for Anakin because he is used to their fun banter and sibling-like companionship. He’s constantly shut down with her business like manner and he struggles with coming to terms with the fact that she isn’t a little kid sister anymore. She is an adult with a mission and a plan. When he looks at her, he is endearing. He loves her. Admires her. And he can’t wait to pick up where they left off. There’s joy and adoration in his face. He is proud of her and what she has become, but he also feels alienated and even hurt because of how her adulthood has changed their dynamic.

Then there is Rex. When he first sees her, he wants nothing more than to reassure her that she still belongs. The clones had accepted her into their family. As far as they were concerned, she was one of them. When he looks at her for the first time, he’s beaming with the same adoration as he had had for her before, but also with a solemn awe at what she has become and what she has grown into. He welcomes her back into his life without hesitation.

But then there is a moment things shift so drastically that I paused the show and re-watched it half a dozen times. We all know it and love it. This face he gives Ahsoka. The Look.

What we see here is something we have never, EVER seen in Rex for 7 whole seasons. And it is my opinion that this is the first time Rex has been able to feel and express that he is attracted to Ahsoka. In other words, Rex has a sexual awakening.

Up until this point, Rex has been a sexless character. Nothing he does is flirtatious, sexy, or at all suggestive that he has those feelings inside him at all. Every sexual being has a moment where they are first animalistically drawn to another being. Characters who have already had this moment are easy to pick out. Obi wan. Anakin. Ventress. These characters have already experienced their sexual awakening. Ahsoka has too. Lux was her first object of attraction.

But Rex has never had this moment. Until this reaction.

I know some of you might be thinking “but Ahsoka gives a very similar look to Anakin, does that mean she is sexually attracted to HIM?” It’s a very good point. Ahsoka and Anakin share some cheeky playful looks during “Old Friends Not Forgotten”. We see many characters give similar looks to other characters, but does this mean it means the same thing as when Rex does it? The short answer is no.

When animators design a character, they establish the “range of emotion” for that character. You can easily see this when you look back at how many times you see Rex break from his stoic, captain’s face. He rarely laughs, smiles, or emotes in any way. This is why when we see him emote it is exciting to us as an audience. A character like Ahsoka or Anakin commonly show a wide variety of expressions. Ahsoka is much more likely to give a cheeky look than Rex is. So “the look” for Rex, means a lot more when he is doing than it does when another character does it, say Fives or even Obi-Wan.

Which means the writers are trying to tell us something about this moment. 

This moment has changed Rex’s and Ahsoka’s relationship. 

Now does this mean that they are going to go bang each other immediately? Does this mean the second they are alone after “Victory and Death” they start an intense, sexual relationship? Of course not. That’s not what this ship is about at this time. But the reason many of us ship it is because suddenly they don’t feel like brother and sister anymore. It isn’t entirely platonic. And the show does a good job to further emphasize this as they come closer and closer both emotionally, and physically during the finale.

Blocking is a huge factor in visual storytelling. During the finale, Rex and Ahsoka are blocked in a way that makes them as close as physically possible on the screen. This communicates to the audience that they are closer now than they have ever been. As Jedi and Clone Trooper. As friends, and as companions, their bond forged in the fires of war, struggling to find meaning in life as soldiers.

In contrast, look how Ahsoka and Anakin are blocked in their scenes. There is nearly always a gap between them, illustrating that they are distanced from each other emotionally. Rex is even visually inserted into the gap between them in several instances. Anakin and Ahsoka are growing apart, but she and Rex are growing closer.

We get to experience Rex and Ahsoka engaging in actions and conversations that we had rarely seen before. From casual banter, to moments of intense intimacy, to emotional peaks, Rex and Ahsoka interact more in these four episodes than in the previous six seasons. Part of this is because their maturity gap has closed. Ahsoka is finally Rex’s equal in experience and maturity. It is also in part because it is a unique dynamic. No Obi-wan. No Anakin. Rex and Ahsoka are equal leaders of the 332nd. There’s also the fact that they are put into life threatening situations and have no one else but each other.

But there is that “look” that is given at the beginning of all this that suggests something else, that as their bond undoubtedly becomes strong as beskar, there is an element of it that takes their relationship from the platonic to the romantic.

I feel every detail, moment, and piece of dialogue in the finale tells the story of this bond. 

Many instances of their strong emotional bond have been spread throughout the internet, with most ready to acknowledge that they have a connection unlike any other, one that may even be described as a “force” connection. These last four episodes are so exciting because we see two friends reunited, but then we get to watch as their relationship transforms.

Even disregarding their implied attraction to each other physically, they dive into each other and hold on tight. Ahsoka shares deep personal worries with Rex, and Rex and her are shown opening up to each other in ways they have never opened up before.

We were all floored and dumbfounded at scenes such as these that show these characters at their most vulnerable. But they decide to be vulnerable together. Is it because they are all that is left of their 501st family? It part, this is definitely true. But by being this vulnerable they transform their relationship into something very different from what they had before. It will never be the same again, and it will be near impossible to back out of the emotional intimacy that these two have participated in. Once you have formed that kind of an attachment with someone, there is no going back, and as is seen in rebels, these two maintain that strong connection even after years of being apart.

This goes beyond their sexual desires or needs. They’ve forged a bond that cannot be broken. They have shared minds, shared pain and agony that only the other can understand. They’ve been isolated from the world, and all they have left is each other.

And at the end of the series, when we have Rex and Ahsoka broken, their world flip upside down and everything they ever valued or cared about lies in ruins before them, the idea that they still have each other is that beautiful seed of hope Star Wars is so good at preserving. Those of us who believe that their relationship could be romantic want good things for Rex and Ahsoka. We want them to have that love and share it with each other. Maybe only for a few moments, but having known it would be better than both of them living and dying without having that experience. 

When we see the two in Rebels, for me it confirms that these two love each other deeply. But their lives can never be lived in a normal fashion. They cannot even be together as partners in life. The Empire has stolen this from them. The tragedy of this ship is that it can never be the way we want it to be. Rex will age and die long before Ahsoka is even halfway through her own life. They cannot live with one another. They cannot wake each morning with each other, at least not at the point we see them in rebels. 

But they continue to love each other. Even over distance, even knowing that mortality will claim them with only a fraction of the memories that they deserve with one another. 

So please, the next time you see some art or a fic, or a post like this, think of what I had to say. Rexsoka is about two adults, their lives destroyed at the hands of Sidious, but in defiance they still forge a bond that he could never break or take from them. And that to me is beautiful and something to celebrate.

Side note: I spent a ton of time making gifs but they never would work and so I had to use screenshots instead :(

EDIT: At the request of the OG poster of a few gifs, I have replaced them have also made some grammatical changes.