#boarding ramp

[sw5w]

Maul Flips Over Qui-Gon

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:17:21

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine if you were a gay or bi man who tried a certain firefighter show because of all the attention it was getting for one of its mains having a later in life bi awakening.....and between seasons you ventured into its fandom in search of material to tide you over til the next one. And you're greeted by a deluge of posts and fics that are just cheerfully homophobic towards one half of the newly out bi character's canon relationship on the basis of 'well he's not the RIGHT gay guy' and pushing the idea that actually its fine to cheat on him because Reasons and he's sexually predacious based on......behind the scenes implications people have divined like they're reading fucking tea leaves.

But don't get it twisted....this fandom, like all fandoms, really cares about representation!

Sorry not sorry, but we really need to kill this idea that fandoms are welcoming and inviting and inherently progressive when they're frequently insular and reductive as fuck. Every single fandom I've been in has had major trends of people doubling down on their own headcanons and fanon interpretations of the characters and willfully enacting trends aimed at running off people who like the 'wrong' characters (usually characters marginalized along one or multiple axes), like the characters in the 'wrong ways' or other bullshit.

Scott is a Bad Friend fics overtaking Teen Wolf fandom was not incidental, it was a FEATURE of the fandom, because the vast majority of that fandom did not want to share its space with anyone who had the nerve to like its main character. Survivors complaining about or criticizing the prevalance of rape fics in a certain fandom has in my experience always led to a reactionary UPTICK in those fics, with gems like 'this character can, will, must be raped' in the tags making it crystal clear that some of these fics exist because how fucking DARE anyone try and push forth a narrative not agreed upon by Fandom Main.

I could cite examples for so many other fandoms, with the commonalities always being that vast majorities in these fandoms are explicitly reacting defensively to being asked to be more mindful of fandom trends revolving around or exacerbating racism, homophobia, transphobia, rape or abuse apologia, ableism, etc....

With the most prolific fucking rallying cry across countless fandoms being "No the fuck we will NOT be doing that," because lolololol.....

Fandom is an inherently progressive space, didn't you hear?

[homoeroticgrappling]

So as we know, Jack's scapegoat bus has a little dashboard hula dancer

But there is new important information:

I know they aren't the same one but I choose to believe that Darby snuck off the bus with it while Jack was sleeping broke into the bus to steal it and now they will have a heist war of them repeatedly stealing the hula dancer off each other in increasingly ridiculous ways all while pointedly ignoring that anything is amiss when anyone asks

[abrahamvanhelsings]

going fucking insane why is everyone i talk to 100% on board with the rapidly increasing militarization of our society. 'yes but russia! we need to protect ukraine and europe' listen i understand the sentiment. but has any situation in this world ever been resolved by an arms race. no. in fact things have always gotten worse. meanwhile you're advocating for the further establishment of the state's monopoly on violence and the expansion of military activity in every single aspect of our society, physically as well as ideologically. get well soon i guess.

[lost-technology]

I don't know when I'm going to have the energy to do my Trigun fanwork, so just a heads up if I am a bit pokey-slow on it. I... happen to also be in the American Politics fandom and it's a pretty horrible fandom right now. (This because I happen to live here, cannot afford to escape / have no way otherwise of escaping). We've just hit despair-levels surpassing the Couch Scene. *Sigh.*

[puckpocketed]

re; zegras trade rumours for all you girlies panicking (and because i have no time to do my usual write-ups)

reading the room on the guy who floated the idea: he should not be taken seriously, and is not being taken seriously by most on twitter

ducks-wise: the drysdale trade for gauthier was explicitly explained as an effort to bolster scoring. zegras is top 2 playmaker along with carlsson, and has made considerable strides in his efforts off the puck post-benching.

he’s shown that he is willing to change and is following through with it (imo why his stats have looked a little lopsided, besides injury), but the rest of the team — and i’m sorry to say this if you love them but i mean it with respect — do not have it in them to finish on the chances he gives them.

what verbeek was cooking with this trade:

1) let go of some of the defensemen surplus that the ducks have (lot of good prospects upcoming, and minty is on fire rn)

2) get a guy who has a lethal shot so the ducks playmakers can actually do something

tl;dr the drysdale-gauthier trade was 100% for zegras to have a guy to pass the puck to, and zegras is solidifying himself as a coachable player with some depth. no reason to trade him — unless it’s for something really fucking huge.

[what-grace-has-forgiveness]

Hey United quick question but what the fuck does this mean?

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than a 1/1000 chance

Blue commons, and another rare I had an idea for

Blue and black together cover all 4 modification themes in the set, so a card that rewards you for using all the different themes is obvious! Unfortunately, treating +1/+1 counters and keyword counters as different kinds of modifications would be confusing, difficult to word, and wouldn't even match the usual reminder text for modified, so you don't technically need to use all 4 themes. But still, this is some great untapped design space, perfect for rare!

[santanartista]

PIXEL ALBUMS (1-3) - My Music Taste

[fridayiminlcve]

ONE OF MY EX CLASSMATES LITERALLY TOOK A FOUR DAY LONG TRIP TO USA FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SEEING TAYLOR YESTERDAY NIGHT IM GOING TO KILL SOMEONE

[sw5w]

...Has Saved...

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 02:06:15

The "Fake Windu" in this scene might be Samuel L. Jackson's stunt double Oliver Wilson. Can anyone confirm?

[cappurrccino]

the fear and dread that lurks within me right now, because i accidentally used my last large dreamstone, do not immediately have the 1,500 shells needed to change a small one to a large one, and have a pretty rare t-rex on my wishlist that probably won't spawn in the couple days it'll take me to get that dreamstone but sure might

[alittlegreekreader]

obviously i should have finished the research ethics module which has to be finished for me to pass year one before Now considering the new year starts in like 3 weeks. but perhaps if my uni really wanted me to finish the research ethics module they should've considered making it less boring.

[loverboybitch]

Camp 30.//.

[sashasparrow]

john (dies at the end) 🤝 eiffel (doug)

being so very very That Guy

[cesium-sheep]

hm. it was always the plan for any other partners to be involved in the party wedding in some way, but I was rewatching tyler and safiya's wedding vlog and I think perhaps maybe since it's already not a legal ceremony anyway (since we did that part) and we're all kinda tangled up together at this point especially if he does get to move in with us next year, I think maybe. it might be worth considering making it a ceremony for all three of us. the only people who're likely to be invited who don't already know what the deal is are the pattys anyway afaik, and obviously all my people are totally chill with it (besides patty who flat out doesn't know) and should be down to play gentle enforcers if anyone gets weird.

anyway I'm gonna read some blog articles about throuple weddings and keep this thought to myself for a while longer. won't be relevant for at least 6 months, probably more like at least a year and a half, on account of arin's demanding residency schedule making her unable to like, even think about planning a wedding lol. and it's good to sit on these ideas for a little while anyway just to make sure they're shelf-stable.

it does mean we'd probably have to expect a number of children there tho, as he's very fond of his assorted niblings and would probably like having them there. (I only have one friend with a child rn and she's got many loving relatives to look after her if she didn't want to come, so.)