#for like 14 thousand years

[mando-jetiis-blog]

Ancient Mandalorian

Mephisto Pax - ancient mandalorian warrior, Aliit'Alor Pax, of taung blood.

[jedi-starbird]

APLAP (Assigned Pathetic Lifeform at Padawanship)

New padawan Obi-Wan trying to figure out how the FUCK to make his master listen and not abandon him to go running off following "the will of the force" when it hits him. Qui-Gon is perfectly happy stopping and taking care of pathetic life forms, but not Obi-Wan. That's it. He's always been prepared, always been dutiful, strong, self-sufficient.

He's cracked the code. He needs to be more pathetic.

The next time he senses Qui-Gon's about to run off he coordinates a scene of utmost pathetic-ness, that is, he throws himself into the nearest fountain. He trudges up to his master sopping wet, water-logged robes swallowing him, with hair sticking to his face and containing bits of algae from the fountain. He mumbles out an apology for being clumsy before looking up at Qui-Gon with the biggest, most woeful eyes possible to ask if he happened to bring any spare robes (he didn't, Obi-Wan knows this because he is usually the one to pack spare robes for them both). His wet hair is dripping water into his eyes that's beginning to turn them an irritated red, and there's algae sliding down the side of his face, it really is masterful work.

"Oh...I'm sure I'll be able to find something by myself, it's okay Master, I know you had important work to do."

Qui-Gon visibly hesitates. Obi-Wan starts shivering. He turns to walk away. He's stopped by his Master's hand on his shoulder. His Master, who walks back with him, who gets clean clothes from their hosts, who has folded like wet flimsi and even explains his stupid, stupid plan before choosing to hotwire a hoverbike with a passenger seat! Oh, Obi-Wan really has cracked the code!

Afterwards, Obi-Wan stages an increasingly pitiful accident for himself every time his patented 'Qui-Gon Jinn Bullshit' detector goes off. Eventually, his Master stops leaving him behind at all, even giving him funny looks when he turns around and Obi-Wan isn’t next to him. It never fails to make Obi-Wan grin and run to catch up. Sure, his reputation as a perfect padawan is in tatters, alongside his dignity, but it’s a small price to pay for a place at his Master’s side, for him to remember there’s a place for Obi-Wan there.

When the ray shields come up on Naboo, Qui-Gon doesn't charge ahead and leave his padawan behind, he hasn't for years. He waits for Obi-Wan because it feels wrong to do otherwise, his padawan belongs at his side.

Much, much later, when Obi-Wan is drinking to the end of the war with friends, Commander Cress will ask him how he kept General Jinn from running off for entire decade. Obi-Wan laughs, informs him, and resolutely ignores the scene Quinlan is making as the man cackles and pulls up a book to shove at them both, titled Classical Conditioning 101: A guide to subtle psychological manipulation.

[soracities]

People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.

ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.

At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.

And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.

i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.

but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.

[bonetrousledbones]

btw in case anybody's wondering what i've been working on as of late i've mostly been redesigning this guy for the 4th time because sometimes good ideas are bad

[writnwolph]

I just need to say this:

I was anti-Iroh as a child, and I recently finished watching ATLA again as an adult, and I'm still anti-Iroh, possibly even more than when I was as a child.

The most blaring issue with Iroh for me is his sexism. I cannot overlook it, even for a second. It affected me as a child.

As a literal child who didn't know words like misogyny or sexism, I still knew that he made me uncomfortable, and that was enough to make me hate him.

As an adult, I'm now able to verbalize why he made me so uncomfortable as a child and it has only made me hate him even more.

Now, I'm not going to go off into a rant about why I hate Iroh (the anti iroh/iroh critical tags do that for me) but I just literally had to get this off of my chest because this fandom's near worship of Iroh was suffocating.

Y'all can never make me like Iroh ❤️

[melonthesprigatito]

I've been hurrying to finish my Breath of the Wild playthrough, so I stopped off at Rito Village to get the Great Eagle Bow again and I happened to run into Saki and I like her, so I talked to her to see what she had to say

And uh…. Hoo boy, this dialogue hits different knowing what happens to Tulin in the sequel 😬

[novococain]

🦴

[xx-justsomeguy-xx]

trying to figure out where I wanna take how I draw and render through accepting who I am as an artist in terms of preferences and skill. Tired of aiming for something so far out of reach and forcing myself to conform. I’m not aiming for a studio job anymore so why should I keep forcing myself through the agony of working tirelessly towards “industry quality” when 1) that word no longer means anything in a world where PS1-style and pixel art games can reign king and 2) again, what industry am I even part of?

but I think it’s still hard to let go because I thought I wanted this for a long time. Tbh sometimes I still do, and I guess I genuinely did want to be That for years. But I changed, the world’s changed. My tastes have changed and so has my outlook on how I want to handle my art.

I struggle to create because I keep trying to be someone I’m not. The fun is taken out of the process and I set myself up for disappointment. Idk.

[usmsgutterson]

if 13-14 year old newbie writer me knew I preferred to write either established relationships or relationships where they were broken up for a loooong period of time before they reunited, I feel like he'd either glare at me, hit me over the head with the nearest frying pan or ask me what the fuck happened.

[tiffanylamps]

pure poetry being waxed on reddit. The UK general election was an historical event- the tories are out... and now we wait to see what the labour party will do (i haven't got my hopes up, but it's more hopeful than enduring any more years under a tory government)

Here's some funny shit that happened

Bigot cunt standing next to a fellow mp candidate that has a baked bean mask on

(fuck rishi sunak) YouTuber niko (who ran for the seat) holding up an L behind sunak during sunak's winning speech. and there's the dude with the puppet and of course, Count Binface

Count Binface is really out here with his Official Monster Raving Looney Party, and I respect it

it's kind of a shame that this (election) isn't being spoken about more on tumblr

[boneless-mika]

I don’t care if kids watch 18+ media but I really don’t want them to be interacting with the fandoms relating to that media or talking to any adults about it in general

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

yaz, somewhere between 25 and 30 years old she lost track a while ago, watching from a distance as 10 tries to impress a 20-year-old, the moment hes sent her away and rejoins yaz: shes too young for you mate

[box-dwelling]

If I could get over my internalised ableism and be like 5% more organised and do shit like use my fucking support aids and take my fucking meds I really would be unstoppable.

[funkbun]

cannot imagine being 20+ and like.. getting into internet fights with or posting screenshots of teenagers being annoying or "cringe"..

the block button and hobbies exist my guy, nobody needs to know ur beefing with a child

[04tenno]

To make the QRTs worse on that Mine vid, one of them is from a subreddit user I see frequently. He’s been complaining about not getting a constant stream of news about Gaiden and 8, I’m pretty sure I remember him being strongly against the characters being seen as queer, so on and so forth. I think RGG should bring back Mine and make him wear a big rainbow with sparkles

Imagine My Shock

[batemanofficial]