#less than 10y

[rosebushjhj]

Bad omens new stuff gets so much love so this is a checkpoint for everyone who loves their older tracks

[anarchywoofwoof]

i'm running low on political takes, but i have one more regarding an important topic.

for everyone who is talking about the climate and dooming regarding the future of a world where we won't stay below 2C, i really need you to understand that was never going to happen anyway.

rather than try to explain it myself, below is a comment from reddit that mirrors my thoughts and expertly breaks down the timeline over the last 4 years with sources and dates. long post below.

I see that it is once again time to remind partisans, apologists, and deniers in this subreddit that they should not blame leftists, immigrants, young folks, disengaged folks, migrants, or whatever outgroup. Place the blame solely on the party that was supposed to run Joe as a one-timer in the name of stability before ponying up a progressive leader. Instead they spent four years jerking off fossil fuel companies. By laser focusing your attention of identity politics - intersectionality without critical analysis esp class struggle - they accomplish ghoulish feats such as drastically expanding fossil fuel extraction and juicing the military industrial complex. No, the democrats aren't better or even less bad with respect to the environment.

Somehow, absurdly, this timeline has produced a political party that denies climate change, but through their own ineptitude is less accomplished at greasing the wheels of business. On the other hand, the party that softly acknowledges climate change has produced outcomes that are significantly, horrifically, catastrophically worse for the environment. Biden's presidency saw massive fossil fuel expansion despite his explicit promise not to. Harris promised to continue that and expand fracking. Please read below links carefully and ask yourself what job you're going to do in very near future economy: soldier or field laborer

2020

Aug 6 - While campaigning for the presidency, Joe Biden promises to ban the expansion of fossil fuel exploitation on federal lands as part of his $1.7 trillion climate plan. "This plan will commit money towards renewable infrastructure development and tax incentives for individuals and industry while establishing governmental agencies tasked with battling climate change."

2021

Jan 20 - Biden takes office

May 11 - At Cop 26, Biden promises to transition out of fossil fuels, calls climate change an existential threat to humanity.

Aug 30 - Biden admin to resume drilling auctions, immediately reversing campaign promises and dealing a huge setback for climate activists.

2022

Jan - Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year

Feb - Russia invades Ukraine

April 27 - US Energy Dept approves increased LNG shipments from terminals in Texas and Louisiana.

March 22 WH Nat Sec Advisor Jake Sullivan announces plans to boost and redirect LNG to Europe in response to Russian invasion

US energy Sec J Granhol announces significant increase in domestic oil and gas extraction.

Aug 16 - Biden Signs IRA $18bn over ~10y which includes preventing leasing any federal waters offshore to wind until first making 60 million acres available for oil and gas. WHAT.

Aug 16 Federal government resurrected two previously canceled sales to meet this requirement. Go IRA?

Oct 1 - Biden admin & US Army Corps of Eng approves repair & restart of CA pipeline which caused disastrous Huntington Beach incident.

Dec 14 - US Energy Dept changes carbon capture budget to now be inclusive of fossil fuel ‘enhanced oil recovery’ at request of Manchin, Sinema

2023

Jan 24 - Biden admin approves 6,430 permits for oil and gas drilling

Mar 29 - Biden admin auctions 1.6 million acres of gulf lease to fossil fuel companies

May 12 - Biden breaks G7 promise, approves $100m financing for Indonesian oil refinery

Mar 13 - Biden admin approves controversial Willow drilling project. The project (extraction period) will span 30 years , pump 600 million barrels of oil, and produce 258 million mm/t CO2 into the atmosphere. Equiv of ~57mm cars, this damage outpaces all our other climate promises and actions twice over

April 14 - Biden admin approves exports of LNG from Alaska LNG pipeline. It is being framed as a competitive move against Russian LNG due to the war in Ukraine (Europe’s dependence on Russian LNG)

May 24 - BLM land auction in New Mex, Okla, Kansas. (still researching details, cannot find PR)

May 25 - SCOTUS rules against EPA regarding definition of ‘wetlands’, limiting EPA authority in key locations

Jun 26 - BLM oil and gas lease in NoDak nets $2.4m (19 parcels ~8061 acres)

Jun 29 - Biden admin leases over 100k acres of federal land in Wyoming for fossil fuel exploitation

Jul 27 - US DoI issues rejection of calls to phase out fossil fuel use on public lands

Jul 27 - SCOTUS rules in favor of Mountain Valley Pipeline. Project moves forward

History of MVP issue:

Apr 21 - Biden Sec Energy sends letter to court in favor of MVP

May 16 - Biden admin grants key permit for MVP

May 30 - WH officials frame the MVP deal as inevitable, washing their hands of blame despite vigorous efforts moving the project forward.

June 2 - Senate passes debt ceiling deal, inc MVP approval

Jul 21 - US Solicitor Gen (DoJ) files amicus brief in support of MVP

(End of MVP)

Sept 20 - Biden launches Climate Corps

Sept - Biden to skip UN climate summit

To be continued ...

Hot take / Summary

Using the war in Ukraine as an excuse, Biden WH does a complete 180 on environmental campaign promises, becoming an extremelly pro-oil admin

A conservative scotus came in hot with TWO wins for a liberal administration contending with leftists activists and lawers.

A dysfunctional and gridlocked congress was unable to pass meaningful legislation, watering down key portions of the IRA

The emissions from ONE single project (2023 willow pipe, above) will outpace ALL of our other climate pledges by 200%, rendering them pointless/performative.

The items outlined also present a disturbing example of the executive abusing congress and the judiciary, resulting in three branches that collude together rather than operate as checks and balances.

[angel-egg-egl]

i would love to see the cost breakdown for producing a handmade item!

well if you insist (infodump voice)

so it does depend a lot on the item itself-- at least in my case. Tiered skirts use up more fabric than a standard gathered skirt. in my case, the body fabrics i buy usually have a width of around 100cm (give or take 5cm-10cm), and so i can do easier math. if i wanted to do a basic 50cm long skirt, that would take about 120cm of fabric or so. something like the dear rose skirt with a double tier and tucks (note: tucks can use up a lot of fabric!) is more like 350cm. a lot of print fabrics i buy are sold by the metre, but most of the solids (and laces) i use are actually sold by the yard (~90cm), so that's also something to keep in mind.

another thing to keep in mind is wholesale vs consumer pricing-- for small brands like mine, you can't always get wholesale pricing or justify purchasing the minimum lot size of a fabric, so fabric can end up more expensive than if you were a brand producing larger product runs. for example, the burberry fabric i use is around $17/y, but is $4/m if i purchased wholesale (50m or so), but then I would have to count on being able to sell that many items and store the extra fabric while i made them. the my dear rose fabric is about $10/m (not counting fees, shipping, and customs) consumer level, but wholesale it's $5-$7USD (under current conversion rates) depending on the lot size i buy (6m minimum, up to 18m). some fabrics are more expensive (gobelin, velveteen, silk, and corduroy, as well as discontinued fabrics i purchase secondhand) can run $20-$35/m, while the lawn fabric i buy is extra wide (150cm) and runs as low as $5/y for 5y(for reference, i can get 6-7 liners out of each 5y pack).

so you'd be looking at around $25 in fabric for something simple (ie, a Burberry Basics skirt, which i'm using as my baseline for a cheap to produce item), but as much as $105 for a tiered velveteen or discontinued print skirt. for something like my (as yet unreleased) rose petal tiered skirt (the red velveteen one with cotton lace in my first post, which i'm using as an example of my most expensive to produce item), which uses more like 6m of fabric, it can get up to $180 for the body fabric alone (i did make a version out of inexpensive linen for ~$60 though)

this is just the body material though. (liners come out to, say, about $5 each?)

trims are where things get really complicated and at times really pricy! a lot of laces I get come out to something like $1-$4/y (and come of packs of 10y to 50m) but that can get pricy quick when you're using a lot of it-- i need at least 200cm of lace for an ungathered lace hem on a standard skirt, but sometimes as much as 400-800 if I wanted to add lace to the hem of a tiered skirt (my record is 16m of lace on one item). i won't get into braids and ribbon trims right now because they're not used as often and the prices are way more wildly variable.

so you're probably looking at anywhere from $15 of lace (200cm x 3 rows = 600cm or just under 7 yards) for something like the burberry basics skirts, or as much as $30 in lace for something like the aforementioned rose skirt.

elastic is negligible, thank god-- i get 20m rolls for around $10 which adds up to less than a dollar per skirt. i also won't include thread, since I can't really calculate how far a spool goes.

so to recap, that adds up to around

$45 in raw materials for a burberry basics

but more like $215 in raw materials for the rose tiered skirt (velveteen version).

so depending on your fabric and lace choices, you end up either saving a pretty good amount of money, or getting to where you understand why Burando is so expensive (lol)

but this is all before labour! (note: cost of labour is kind of only relevant if you're selling your work-- if it's for yourself, there's no need to bother with this step)

if i go for quick and dirty techniques (result looks fine, but won't be machine washable and will need touch ups on the future) i can get a basic skirt pumped out in 2 hours if I'm in the zone, but 4-8 hours is often more realistic if i'm doing french seams and rolled hems, a ton of gathering (ie, tiers), or adding a ton of trims, tucks, or other special details. some items like OPs may take me several "workdays" to get through.

the min wage in my area is $16, but most jobs start at $20. since i consider myself an amateur, i use that as my starting rate, and go up if I'm doing anything especially fancy. so that's as little as $40 in labour, or as much as $160. $80 is about average. (I do sometimes lowball my own labour costs, though, because I would prefer to keep items relatively affordable and this is all extra disposable income for me rather than smth i do to survive.)

which brings us to $125 or so for a burberry basics (materials + labour-- though I'm currently selling them for $100 because in the future I should be able to buy the fabric at wholesale amounts, which will reduce the cost of production by quite a bit-- but for the average person $125 is more realistic) or as much as $375 for my most complex design. ofc, for a person hand making something at home, the cost of labour isn't actually money you pay, you're just paying your own time-- i just added cost of labour for posterity here. factories and production lines can probably cause this number to vary, because professionally trained seamstresses or groups doing different levels of assembly may be able to work faster than I, one person doing every step myself, can, and likely don't follow californian minimum wage laws.

that's not to say handmade is INHERENTLY expensive-- the cheapest option I covered here is still cheaper than a branded item, and there are cheaper ways to go about things (for example, if you found a fabric you liked on sale, that $45 material cost could go down a bit-- or like I mentioned, the material cost for the rose skirt going down from 180 to 60 by simply swapping the fabric type. likewise, if wholesale fabric is an option, prices can be reduced even further).

These are all for main pieces, too. accessories can be made on the cheap (i can usually get 2-3 rectangle headdresses out of 1/4 yard of fabric, ie like $5 a pop. wrist cuffs are even cheaper to produce).

all this to say:

but also if you just want to make something for yourself and not like, producing items for commercial sale, it's definitely more affordable than big name brand, and i honestly recommend trying it at least once, bc then you get to decide things like fabric quality, construction type, and sizing all for yourself AND you get the massive dopamine hit of making something yourself.

as an aside to close on: yes i do have plans to post some of my original patterns for public use. and yes i am willing to share sources for some of my materials if they're available on a consumer level.

i hope everyone got something out of this because it was kind of fun to write about!

[sourpatchslayers]

Of course as a dragon, you live for eternity. But Neuvillette never knew that his eternity with Wriothesley had ended only just as it had begun.

A statue was built in the Fortress of Meropide in remembrance of him, with new lakelight lillies everyday.

The day the duke died, the storms in Fontaine began, and for fifteen years, they never let up.

Neuvillette knew he wasn’t coming back. He had lost many friends, lovers, and family over the course of his infinite life, but he couldn’t cope with this loss.

He expected to be confronted by the people of Fontaine about the situation years ago. But it never happened.

🌊…

“Hydro dragon, hydro dragon, don’t cry!”

The thunder and lightning ceased in a second. That voice, it was all too familiar, but it wasn’t his. It was the voice of a child. (9-10y for reference)

The image of his lover was pasted onto this child, and the storms in Fontaine calmed to a mere sprinkle.

The chief justice did not believe in reincarnation, but in that moment he would believe you if you told him that Melusines lived in liyue.

The child’s name was Rio, and he was an orphan.

The ludex “adopted” this child, taking care of him as any “father” would do.

He often thought about how similar the two are, The child and the duke.

The rain in Fontaine let up after a few months, children finally happy the hydro dragon wasn’t “crying” anymore.

🐺…(4-5 years later)

“Dad, why did you adopt me?” Rio asked as he picked at his dinner. “Finish your food, then ask questions.” The dragon huffed. “But why? I’m not special!” The teenager whined. “I’ll give you this; you know that statue we visit every morning before school?” The chief justice gave in. “Yeah? What about it?” Rio called in question. “You remind me of him.” Neuvillette finished, standing up to rinse his plate. “Thats it? I remind you of him? No secret backstory or anything?” The black haired child protested, to no avail as his father was already heading to bed.

Days passed, and the pestering never ceased. The dragon had years of patience, but it had seemingly vanished within a week. “But dad-“ “Enough, Rio. We will talk after dinner.” The ludex huffed as he began to eat his food.

Soon after, the hyperactive adolescent waited for his father to start explaining.

“There was a dragon, a very lonely dragon. He had lived for hundreds of years before he found a wolf. The wolf loved to get in trouble, and the dragon had to get him out of it. They were very close, and they had a lot of fun together.” The teenager didn’t understand what this meant in relation to why he was adopted, but he listened anyway.

“One day, the dragon realized he liked the wolf, but not how you like your friends. No, he loved the wolf, and wanted to be by his side forever. He told the wolf how he felt, and the wolf loved him too. They were happy together, but they had to keep their relationship a secret. A dragon and a wolf couldn’t be together, no, that was forbidden. So they kept each other company in their own privacy. Holding hands behind their backs, sneaking off together, and spending time when no one else was around.” At this point, Rio was invested. He started to wonder how his almost expressionless father could come up with such an imaginative story.

“After a while, the dragon started to wonder what it would be like if they weren’t a secret. What would people say? Would they hate them? Would they love them? He was happy, yes, but he wanted to be more than a secret. The wolf wanted the same, but he couldn’t lose his position to the public. He cared for the dragon deeply, much more than he cared about his job, and that’s why he couldn’t be seen with him. He was afraid people would treat the dragon differently, and he knew the dragon was sensitive.”

“A few weeks go by, and the two are happy. They still are secret, but are a little less shy about their public acts. One night, they get into a fight. The wolf was talking to another wolf, and the dragon didn’t like that. He told the wolf and the wolf got mad. He said the dragon was jealous, and the dragon admitted to it. The wolf yelled at the dragon, and told him they weren’t together so he shouldn’t be jealous. The dragon felt betrayed, and ran away, but the wolf was sorry. It was too late though, the dragon was gone.”

“It had been days before the wolf found the dragon, but the dragon didn’t want to see the wolf. The dragon repeated what the wolf said and turned away, causing the wolf to feel worse. The wolf apologized and said he didn’t mean it, and asked the dragon if they could be together, for real this time. The dragon was overjoyed, he immediately said yes and hugged the wolf.” A small tear rolled out of the Ludex’ eye before he could catch it, but before the teen could see it, he wiped it away.

“A few months after they became public, the wolf had a very big job to do for his people, and had to leave for a few weeks. The dragon understood and said goodbye and wished him good luck.”

“The wolf never came back. Days, then weeks, then months, then a year before the dragon heard anything. The wolf had finished the job and was heading home when he got… uhh…. shot by hunters. The dragon was devastated. He didn’t believe it at first, then he was furious. At the hunters and the wolf. He promised to make it home safe, so why had he gone and died? The dragon found and killed the hunters out of rage. Then the dragon was sad, so sad that the place where he lived was affected by his depression.”

“It rained so hard it could crack a wine glass, and the dragon didn’t care. The world would pay for its mistake. Years went by, and the dragon stopped feeling. Love, pain, sadness. The storms raged on but the dragon didn’t mind. The dragon couldn’t live anymore, he just survived.”

“Then one day, one of the few when he would go on walks to watch the storm, the dragon found a puppy. And when he saw that puppy, the storms relaxed into a soft rain. The puppy looked just like the wolf, sounded like him, smelt like him, just younger. Of course he knew it wasn’t the wolf, but he didn’t care. The puppy didn’t have any parents or friends, so he took him in.”

“As the puppy got older, the dragon realized how similar he was to the wolf. The dragon almost cried tears of joy the first time the puppy called him dad, but how could he cry when he couldn’t even feel? The dragon knew he couldn’t replace the wolf because that was his lover, but the puppy was his child.”

Neuvillette sat up from his slouched posture on the couch to watch his son’s reaction, only to find a tear streaked awe-struck face in return. “What is the matter?” The chief justice asked the teen. “You’re the dragon, and Wriothesley is the wolf, isn’t he? And I’m the puppy?” He hugged out before another waterfall of tears fell down his face. “How’d you know?” The Ludex smiled. (somewhat) “Dad you don’t try very hard to hide the fact that you are most definitely the ‘hydro dragon’ of Fontaine. And Wriothesley looks like a wolf, doesn’t he? Do I look like a wolf? No, I look like a dog, and young dogs are puppies!…..” The dragon watched his son lovingly ramble about anything and everything, hoping that his wolf could see him too.

authors note-

A lil short story I thunk up while looking at fanarts! 😋 angst. Story.

(I’m deeply obsessed with this ship to the point where it devours my every waking thought.)

[mbti-notes]

Anon wrote: It would be helpful to hear your perspective on this. I’m a 20y INFP female. I’m single and I’ve always been single and i fear relationship for various reasons. Anyway this is not the issue. I feel like i have social anxiety and i don’t have friends. And that’s also not the issue. Few weeks ago I decided to try to meet new people and leave my comfort zone. It was difficult but worth it to an extent, i feel more brave and made some new friends. This is not the issue too.

The issue that’s bothering me is, in this experiment i developed a crush in a very short time on a guy i met just because he called me a princess and flirted sweetly. I feel pathetic a bit but I really like being called a sweet things. However one time I refused to do something he wanted me to do and he got really dry and gave me the silent treatment. I’m aware that the sweet things he say and the “princess” are probably manipulation. But now I’m attached and i feel eww.

I realised that i have a pattern of CRAVING VERBAL validation, it’s not just him. I fly high whenever someone compliments me. They say give yourself the love you want, i really love myself, but what can i do here? Do i call myself a princess? I really love myself but i want to be loved by someone else and want to be called sweet things. On the other hand, nothing bothers me as much as criticism does, any type or amount of it, it pisses me off and it’s one of the reasons I push people away.

For more context, i have an unstable relationship with my parents. My mum is nice but she’s very critical, she always finds something negative to comment on or suggestion for improvement. With my dad it’s more complicated, we used to be very close, he used to spend time with me and chat with me he even wrote love letters for me.

One day he changed, forever, he and mum separated and me and him got so distant (around 10y). And he got worse when i was a teenager, he start to be angry at me and the only kind of conversation we have is fights. I miss the loving version of him but it’s gone forever. I don’t know what to do.

I feel like i want love, acceptance and being called a princess, but I don’t know how to get these things, not from myself to myself, and not from others. I’m confused too because sometimes i hate when people do nice things to me it’s not satisfying i only want words and I DON’T FUCKING KNOW WHY

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The problem with being neglected or deprived in childhood is that it's easy for children to jump to the conclusion that the pittance of love they received is all they deserve, so they go through life with extremely low expectations. They keep unconsciously replaying the unhealthy parental dynamic with their romantic partners, always settling for less, because they'd rather have a little than risk losing everything by daring to ask for more. Does this apply to you? What kind of "love" do you believe you deserve?

Children are innocent and shouldn't be blamed for the sins of their parents. It's not a crime to want love, especially when you feel as though you were shortchanged in childhood. When you're a child, your well-being is largely in the hands of adults. You have little control over whether they help you or hurt you. As an adult, though, you get to make a decision about what kind of person you want to be. Do you want to keep being that helpless child forever, always at the mercy of others, always stuck in wishful thinking, always depriving yourself of love in the same way your parents did? Or do you want to be an independent person, in charge of your own fate, taking the necessary action to live a good life through maintaining your integrity, fulfilling your needs, and promoting your well-being?

The human need for love is legitimate, i.e., love is a necessary ingredient for living a full and meaningful life. As a general rule, when people neglect or repress their psychological needs for too long, their thinking and emotions about them become more and more distorted as time goes by. Unfulfilled needs, stuck churning around in the background of the mind, can slowly turn uglier and uglier, e.g., from a naive preoccupation, to a desperate longing, to a visceral craving, to an obsession, to a compulsion, to an addiction, to a mental disorder. It sounds like your need for love has gone unaddressed for too long and now your thoughts about love (e.g. what it is, how to get it, etc) have become distorted and misguided.

Addictive tendencies in INFPs are often a sign of Fi-Si loop. Healthy Ne grants a person optimism, confidence, and adaptability, which are all necessary for bravely confronting life's problems. With underdeveloped Ne, immature INFPs allow life's problems to linger, fester, and accumulate, eventually resulting in a slew of insecurities. In a helpless state, they grasp for things that feel good or have felt good to them before, as a way to self-soothe or create a distraction from their insecurities. However, this means that the insecurities only get worse over time. And constantly feeling triggered turns the grasping for feel-good moments into a reflexive/repetitive habit.

For example, it feels good to get verbal validation when you've felt so starved of it, right? When you're basking in that high, it doesn't matter to you in the least whether the words are true or false. The feeling is all that matters to you. And that's how you know that Fi has entered dangerously extreme territory.

Losing all control of yourself and even willing to sacrifice your integrity by rejecting the truth, how can you have healthy self-esteem and feel proud of who you are? When you're willing to do anything for a fleeting feeling that only crudely resembles "love" but you know isn't really love, you've got an addiction. And when you aren't getting that "high", you suffer "withdrawal". The high always dissipates, and then up comes the dull ache of emptiness, an emptiness that was forged through years of denying yourself opportunities to love.

Emptiness is a real problem. But what's the best solution? When you aren't psychologically healthy, you have too much emotional baggage and old pain lingering in the unconscious and influencing your decision-making from a dark place, so you aren't able to use your functions in a healthy way. When Ne is unhealthy, you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, so you can easily convince yourself that temporary quick-fixes are enough. Then, life becomes an endless cycle of chasing highs that never last.

When Ne is healthy, it tells you that there are always better ways and better possibilities, and you should pursue them with everything you've got. This experimentation you feel compelled to carry out is likely about Ne development. The question is: Why have you waited until now to do it? The auxiliary function should ideally develop throughout adolescence. If you resisted development, it's now up to you to make up for it by developing Ne properly, see the Type Dev Guide. Remember that "experimentation" is about running multiple trials so that you can observe a very wide range of results and get a fuller understanding of things, the bigger picture. Settling for the first result you get is a sign of desperation, of thinking so little of yourself that you don't believe you can do better.

Are you going to listen to Fi when it tells you the difference between right and wrong and then make good decisions? Are you going to listen to Ne when it tells you that life is full of opportunity? Are you going to disrupt the Fi-Si loop of instant gratification and, instead, put in the hard work to find the right people and use the right methods of building healthy and loving relationships? Or are you going to keep settling for scraps from terrible people until the pain of your unfulfilled need for love becomes so unbearable that you drown in misery and self-loathing? To finally grow up into an adult is to realize that you have a duty to yourself to make the right choices.

[il3x]

What's the Kenzie Reboot thing? I was going to reblog asking for clarification, but the post stopped existing.

oops! It's a crossover I rotate in my head sometimes, dumping pre-canon or early-canon Kenzie in the world of cyberpunk dystopian podcast REBOOT.EXE.

My first and latest attempt at a blurb is:

After the interdimensional carnage of Gold Morning, ten-year-old Kenzie Martin finds herself mistakenly portalled into a very different time and place. Melbourne, 2090. A divergent Earth untouched by Scion, where technological ingenuity, rather than alien superpowers, pushes the envelope of ‘humanity’ - and drives the world into conflict. To find a team and make herself useful, Kenzie first has to survive. But the Venn is a tough place to land, especially when her Tinker power paints a target on her back for slum gangs and City elites alike. It’s sheer luck that she finds allies.  A friendly medical drone, who Kenzie’s sure she can upgrade! A hacker on the run from the worst of humanity - she knows the perfect countersurveillance. A wealthy academic, who seems to be searching for something… The perfect team! She’s indispensable!  Kenzie’s determined it won’t be only luck that keeps them.

but this is kind of misleading, because it looks like the story is about Kenzie's clinginess, and even 9-10y/o Kenzie is only slightly more messed up than everyone else in the Reboot main cast.

She befriends a sentient robot with baby-fever psychosis. The team's hacker becomes her role model the instant he starts doing cocaine and becoming a cyborg to Sleep Less And Hack More. She gets in an intense info-warfare nemesis-ship with one minor antagonist, a bioengineered kid with an eidetic memory. She also slips him invisible cameras under the guise of bugging him and hints real hard that he should use them to blackmail his abusive parents. She also cyborgs herself almost immediately. Good times!

[rrskinny02]

WHATS GOING ON IN MY LIFE AND WHAT DIET AM I DOING

I’ve never been less than 81kg in my life. Last time I weighed 60kg I was 10y or so…

My current weight is 90,5kg

I was 85,3kg in march this year but then I went on vacations multiple vacations. And I tried recovery and healthy weight lost. But it al let me to gaining 10kg.

So last week I was back at 95kg 😟 and you could tell I was my pants didn’t fit me anymore… I was having trouble walking, exercising, doing daily things. I was being a fatty.

Now in a week I lost 4,5kg hopefully by tomorrow morning 5kg.

But I hope I can be 83kg before October 1st. That means I have to lose 7kg in 3 weeks that’s 2,3kg a week and if I could lose 4,5kg in a week that 2,3kg should be doable. I’m doing the “getting worse diet”

That means first high cal deficit around 1400-1200 for the first week than 900-800 calories second week then you start incorporating liquid fasts and your calories are around 800-600 calories for the 3th week, than you start doing water fasts and eating around 500-350 cals and the last few days you’ll be consuming 200-110 cals + lots more fasts.

And I try to walk 7-10k steps daily. Depend on how tired I am from not eating. I try to walk 3k steps in the morning and the rest after I had my meal for the day. I try to also only eat once a day so if I have 900 cals I eat that in 1 meal so I eat soup with a protein bar 1 piece of gluten free toast and a home made almond banana peanut butter cookie.

In the morinings I’m allowed 2 coffees max being 80 cals each. Sometimes I don’t want coffee or just 1 and other days I neeeeed my coffee.

And eating less than the planned or allowed calories for the day is allowed but not over.

[jedi-valjean]

Now the Jedi are all but extinct— or are they really?

There's been some doubt as to the accuracy of Ben Kenobi's lament that the Jedi are all but extinct. But the Jedi are a culture as well as a people, and the cultural genocide against the Jedi has driven the religion completely underground. So the number of Jedi is necessarily different from and almost certainly less than the number of Order 66 survivors.

List all the Order 66 survivors we know of at the time Obi-Wan says this.

Add Jedi who started their training after the Purge, like Ezra.

Do not include people like Luke, because Luke hasn't started training yet.

Do include Ben and Yoda because even though they die before the end of the Imperial reign, they're still alive at the time of Ben's assertion.

Subtract the number of non-practicing Jedi like Ahsoka and Cere. (And, obviously, all fallen Jedi like Vader and the Inquisitors.)

Subtract all Order 66 survivors who have died by this point (like Kanan and Nari.)

So basically, all living, practicing Jedi at this specific time.

The list is already short by virtue of the audience only becoming aware of surviving Jedi as we're introduced to them. Also, the rate of introduction limits the current number. Any time a group of Order 66 survivors are introduced in a group larger than two, most of them usually die. Obviously, the list is much larger than just the survivors the audience is made aware of, but even if most of that list constitutes surviving, practicing Jedi at the time of A New Hope, I don't think we'll reach a point any time soon where the number of individuals on that list strains the credibility of Obi-Wan's assertion.

What would that number be? Well, most cultures on the verge of extinction have populations under 1,000. I doubt we'll ever get to a point where the canonical list of practicing Jedi survivors alive at the time of the Battle of Yavin enters the quadruple digits. It's not just about how many are left either, it's how fast they're disappearing. I think we can assume the Empire is tracking down and wiping out the remaining Jedi fairly quickly. But if guesstimates aren't enough, we can use the extinction criteria for animals to find a more concrete upper limit of surviving Jedi. From Wikipedia:

To be defined as Critically Endangered in the Red List, a species must meet any of the following criteria (A–E) ("3G/10Y" signifies three generations or ten years—whichever is longer—over a maximum of 100 years; "MI" signifies Mature Individuals):

A: Population Size Reduction

The rate of reduction is measured either over a 10 year span or across three different generations within that species. The cause for this decline must also be known. If the reasons for population reduction no longer occur and can be reversed, the population needs to have been reduced by at least 90% If not, then the population needs to have been reduced by at least 80%

B: Reduction Across a Geographic Range

This reduction must occur over less than 100 km² OR the area of occupancy is less than 10 km². Severe habitat fragmentation or existing at just one location Decline in extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, area/extent/quality of habitat, number of locations/subpopulations, or amount of MI. Extreme fluctuations in extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, number of locations/subpopulations, or amount of MI.

C: Population Decline

The population must decline to less than 250 MI and either: A decline of 25% over 3G/10Y Extreme fluctuations, or over 90% of MI in a single subpopulation, or no more than 50 MI in any one subpopulation.

D: Population Size Reduction

The population size must be reduced to numbers of less than 50 MI.

E: Probability of Extinction

There must be at least a 50% probability of going extinct in the wild within over 3G/10Y

A. The rate of reduction is measured over 10 years or 3 generations, which ever is longer. Well, by the time Order 66 survivors could have had a mature grandchild, the Jedi are definitely still endangered— especially because Luke's Jedi Order was wiped out and Rey's is only just beginning. But we're limiting the timeline to Ben's statement, so we only have less than 20 years to go on. Either way, drastic reduction.

If the reason for the population reduction no longer occurs and can be reversed, the population needs to have been reduced to 90%. Well, Order 66 was a one-time thing, but the Empire is still hunting down and killing Jedi, actively seeking to prevent their regrowth, so I'd say the reason does still occur and reversing it is almost impossible (though the Jedi try.) In that case, only an 80% reduction is needed to qualify. The Legends estimate, less than 100 survivors out of 10,000, is less than 1%. Canon has not given an estimate, but if we carry over the number of pre-Purge Jedi to be 10,000, then an 80% reduction leaves 2000— 20 times the Legends survivorship estimate. So the number could be anywhere between 100 and 2000— before you factor in non-practicing Jedi, Jedi who began training after the Purge, etc.

B. The reduction must occur over less than 100 km² OR the area of occupancy is less than 10 km². It's a big galaxy, I don't think this applies.

C. The population must decline to less than 250 mature individuals, and either 1) undergo a decline of 25% over three generations/ten years, or 2) undergo extreme fluctuations, or have over a 90% reduction in mature individuals in a single subpopulation, or have no more than 50 mature individuals in any one subpopulation.

Let's break that down, using 10,000 as our number of Jedi. Obviously, some Jedi are minors, so this isn't a perfect estimate by any means. We could also argue that Jedi only become full Jedi once they are knighted, so only Jedi above Padawan rank count as mature individuals. Or we could say that because we're dealing with a culture and not a species, this doesn't necessarily apply. Because we don't know the amount of immature individuals, let's assume all 10,000 individuals are mature. In order for this criteria to be considered, there must be 250 mature individuals left. Thus:

After being reduced to 250 individuals or less, 62.5 (rounded to 63) Jedi are killed within ten years or three generations. (Again, our timeline is much shorter than three generations.)

As stated previously, most Jedi refugee groups the audience are introduced to comprise of one or two people, or else have most of their members killed off. If this is how we define a subpopulation of Jedi, I think it's safe to say there are no Jedi subpopulations that consist of more than 50 individuals, factoring in "maturity" or not.

D. The population must be reduced to less than fifty mature individuals. This could be the case. We do not know of fifty Order 66 survivors, and we certainly do not know of any Order 66 survivors who are still living, practicing Jedi. This would square with the Legends estimate of less than 100 individuals surviving, although 50 is significantly less than 100. However, there could also be more than 50 Jedi left.

E. There must be at least a 50% probability of extinction within over three generations or ten years. I think this one's a no-brainer. We've seen time and time again how difficult it would be to rebuild the Order anew. Unless every single survivor, practicing or no, took an apprentice and trained them to completion without said apprentice dying or falling away, the Jedi religion definitely had at least a 50% probability of dying out entirely.

Remember, only one of the five given criteria have to be met to qualify for near extinction, which the Jedi definitely do. We're also operating on Obi-Wan's limited knowledge here. Both he and Yoda have been in exile and have had not had much contact with other survivors, and in the case of Ezra, neither have any reason to believe one way or the other that he's still alive since they last interacted with him. So Obi-Wan could still be wrong and it wouldn't be a plothole (although some argue that the story is made cheaper somehow by Obi-Wan's statement being untrue, as if the plot of the original trilogy doesn't hinge on Obi-Wan being an unreliable expositor of literal truth.)

The list, by the way, as far as I could compile it, is comprised of the following individuals, assuming all individuals are alive and practicing unless established otherwise:

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Yoda

Cal Kestis

Ezra Bridger

Quinlan Vos

Oppo Rancisis

Coleman Kcaj

Ka-Moon Kholi

Selrahc Elous

Gungi

Djinn Altis

Roganda Ismaren

Valin Halcyon

Tiberius Anderlock

Qu Rahn

Rahm Kota

Uvell

Seventeen individuals. Out of, at the absolute lowest estimate, fifty surviving individuals. And this is assuming all of these individuals are living practitioners at the time, which some of the must almost certainly not be— only the first four are confirmed to qualify. All others listed could have either been killed since escaping Order 66, or no longer identify with or practice the Jedi way. (We know that some individuals on the Empire's list of survivors, like Ahsoka, had already left the Order before Order 66 was given, and many of these individuals left the Jedi path at some point in Legends.)

"All but extinct" has a degree of subjectivity to it, but personally, I think it could be much higher than fifty without becoming an inaccurate assessment. We're less than 40% of the way from reaching 50 named surviving Jedi in canon, and less than 10% of the way from reaching 250. I think we can comfortably place the number of known and unknown survivors around 250 without having to worry about exceeding that estimate for decades' worth of Star Wars stories. And as long as the survivors or next-generation apprentices are killed off or leave the Jedi before A New Hope, or else don't become Jedi until after A New Hope, they won't count towards that number, so suffice it to say I don't see this line of dialogue being invalidated any time soon.

[rakkikuroba]

Minthara can’t be Yvonnel’s daughter because each of Yvonnel’s 15 daughters were high priestesses and Minthara wasn’t a high priestess.

Also in 1484DR, Quenthel and Sos’Umptu are her last alive daughters so it eliminates everyone. But Quenthel’s first daughter is only around 70 when the events of the game occurred and Sos’Umptu feels like the less realistic choice (because the description of her mom doesn’t fit with Sos’Umptu less ambitious personality).

And Minthara can’t be one of Yvonnel’s son´s daughter because the drow society is a matriarchal society so the man get their wife’s last name so Minthara wouldn’t have been a Baenre if it had been the case.

Also. The Baenre had a Mindflayer advisor. Why would the Absolute want to put his hands on Menzoberranzan if they already had an Illithid advising in the city?? (I mean yes by 1484 bro is crazy but still)

My theory is that Larian forgot about the timeline (again) and that they didn’t really think about that. You know, like the fact that 10 years before the game you have Returning Day happening where you had a Slayer wreaking havoc in the streets of BG. But theoretically, that doesn’t make sense if the Durge or even Orin for that matter, were alive at that time period. Because Durge is supposed to be the favorite for probably more than 10y therefore they’re the one granted the Slayer form but there can’t be two Bhaalspawn with the form, that’s why Orin only has it if you refuse it and she doesn’t if you get it!

Also like isn’t Sarevok supposed to be dead?

And don’t tell me but they maybe don’t see the book as canon or smtg because they mention Drizzt multiple times, Jarlaxle is mentioned twice !!

[figula]

two separate things from today: 1. this evening i was thinking about my goals for the next 10y or so and id like to buy some land + buy one (or two) tiny houses to go on it (maybe off grid but at current time id vastly prefer mains/water connections - i just havent done any research so unsure what's feasible)

think the "tiny house" movement specifically is overhyped and overpriced but if you look at insulated garden buildings you get a lot of similar options for half the price

would like to buy some acres in northern rural wales, but the highlands of scotland would also do me fine. (this next bit is extremely pie-in-the-sky hoping) would like to have a large amount of land so we could host friends or family who wanted to come and hang or camp or build their own tiny house nearby on our land

ben likes this idea a lot and would probably be on board financially, could possibly shake my parents down if i had a well-evidenced plan of action + offered them staycations free of charge etc

i dont want to live in a tiny house permanently (i actually like my life here in worcs) but i think it would be great to have the option of a nearby retreat, esp bc i dont own any part of this house + owning something of my own would be v helpful if this all went tits up somehow

2. i am going to apply for the next UK BJD con - i wanted to do last year's, not sure if i said here, probably did lets be honest, but i didnt in the end bc i was stillr eally anxious about covid (and honestly i probably will still be next year but we move) but ive done enough reading now that i am convinced it's much less of a threat than it was

i think selling wigs on the con circuit would be really lucrative and hopefully by next year i'll have my eye processes a lot better as well and they'll be sellable too

[rslashtriadmom]

UPDATE; She knows

Originally posted to r/nonmonogamy (BIG MISTAKE) on October 12, 2024

Recap, my Fella and I's 10y/o daughter accidentally walked in on Fella and our now-boyfriend (LB), when we weren't planning on coming out until we'd made it as a triad for another four months. All she saw was them both topless and kissing, both still had pants on and legs were under the blanket.

My thanks to all y'all's comments and advice, I truly appreciate it. I wasn't able to leave work for another three hours after the initial incident, so I wasn't able to explain things to our daughter until then. She'd fled the house with her best friend (Beege) and spent the afternoon hanging out in their fort (I told Fella and LB to let her be and let her Beege calm her down). It fucking sucked ass to have to sit there and worry my ass off about her, but I am glad I had time to formulate an explanation in a way she'd understand/as autism-friendly as possible.

Boo was very upset when I got home (naturally). Beege wouldn't leave her side, so I ended up having to explain things to BOTH of them; I'm just eternally grateful that Beege happens to be my godsister (her mom is my godmother), so she's known everyone involved her whole life.

My poor, poor sweet girl. She was absolutely convinced her entire world was crumbling around her, that her beloved daddy was cheating on me, that everything was going to shit. I assured her that no, daddy isn't cheating on me, we're not gonna break up, that everything was just fine. Boo had no knowledge of non monogamy prior to this - not because Fella and I actively tried to hide it from her, but it simply never came up. Before we decided to become a closed triad, LB was Fella and I's FWB off and on for five years. We only decided to become boyfriend-girlfriend-boyfriend only two months ago (our two month anniversary was this week, ironically). We wanted to wait until six months to come out to Boo, because we wanted to make sure that things were working for us, and that everyone was happy and secure. But literally damn near everything that could possibly go wrong this year went wrong, so we really should have seen this coming.

I managed to calm her down. I mostly explained it as Fella and I had fallen in love with LB in the same way we loved each other, and that LB felt the same way, so we decided we wanted to try dating him in addition to each other (Fella and I aren't married and don't plan to be). That we didn't want to tell her for a while yet because we wanted to make sure that it worked for us. I explained that sometimes people choose to have more than one partner, and that there was nothing wrong with it, so long as everybody knew and had permission from one another. That her dad and I didn't love each other less because we're dating LB now, that we all loved each other equally.

Thank christ, of course she was still rattled, but she was receptive to it and understood without much confusion. I do believe it helps that LB has been Fella and I's best friend our whole lives (there's photos of us as babies playing together), that we've always been close, and that LB's Boo's godfather and they're also very close. There's no friendship quite like that of a girl and her queer godfather, lol.

I alerted my godmother that Bestie would be coming home with Interesting news and that I'd explain it all to her later on, and we all went home. Boo had called Fella a whore when she first walked in (autism and foot-in-mouth syndrome), and she felt absolutely awful and was sobbing when she apologized. Boo's daddy’s girl, so this was particularly awful to her. Thank FUCK Fella knows her, the way her brain works, and he knew he’d fucked up (he’d forgotten Fridays were half days at her school so she’d be home early), and he was extremely apologetic to her. That he loves her more than anything, and she hadn’t hurt him. He got her calmed down, and all’s good between them. LB also profusely apologized to Boo about his role in it all. He did say that he ‘wasn’t sorry for smoochin’ your cute daddy’; we’re pretty chill in that we can joke and banter with each other, so he didn’t mean it maliciously - if anything, it got a good laugh from Boo.

So…yeah. Not really much else to say, other than we all had pizza for dinner that night, and everybody’s a-okay now. Thanks for taking the time to read this haha, and for your advice on my previous post <3 

[ethernalium]

But the thing is if honkai ends, we will def get the offline version since hoyo already have saved data bank for like more than 10y I think, differently than dffoo, square couldn't care less about it, maybe they erased because of mistakes, but seriously these mistakes could easily be fixed, everything can be fixed, and mistakes happens, it's crazy they have lots of games with deep meaning and they can't even follow one path bYE

[evan-algore]

I haven't been active on any pro Ana anything in a while.

I haven't gotten diagnosed with any ED as of now (if I were to self-diagnose; it'd be EDNOS/OSFED) though I'm finally talking about it in therapy.

I haven't acted in any ED related behaviors in a while and the intrusive thoughts are near non existent. It's been almost a year since I've stressed over my meals and I've lost weight from it. Ironically, I expected this. (See; EDNOS/OSFED)

From 10y/o to 19y/o, I stayed between 147lbs and 130lbs despite destroying my digestive system and heart trying to be 118.13lbs (BMI of 18.5) or less. My eating disorder had been such a central part of my adolescence.

I don't know how, but around 2020, I guess I just had bigger fish to fry than my body, or maybe not having lost any real weight over a decade disillusioned me. Mentally; I was at my worst over quarantine and still kinda since so its primarily due to that. Just a temporary shifting of tides realistically.

These days, I struggle to remember the calorie counts of this, that, and the other thing I used to have memorized like gospel. I've been working as a cook at a restaurant for almost 2 years and find myself being able to sample the foods I make without anxiety.

I still had a lot of anxiety when I started the job but it feels like forever ago now.

I'm officially underweight as of a couple days ago. I put on a few gw cloths and I feel nothing. Not gratification nor shame. More like casual acceptance. (I think it was my 3rd gw that was 118.13. I remember it was my ugw up until I was 14y/o)

My mental health is still ass but the personification of ana in my head has since taken on a far more realistic and accommodating character personality.

I've reverted back to my old eating habits in which I easily forget to eat and never seem to be hungry anyway. It always bothered me how this went out the window when I started trying to restrict. (Again, see my assumption on EDNOS/OSFED lol)

Oily and greasy foods have always made me nauseous so that hasn't changed but, otherwise, I have no fear foods anymore. Milk was a fear food but I find myself drinking it as a meal replacement when I don't have an appetite or otherwise can't stomach solid food.

I've finally mentioned it in therapy but, all things considered, it's a low priority. There's still a risk of it coming back (I know that ed's can't just get up and walk away) so it will be addressed soon. It's kinda nice not having to deal with it so I want to make sure it stays that way. It's distressing how much of my day and life revolved around it.

I never expected to be in this position. I don't know how to feel. I was always terrified of being taken off my medication once I got diagnosed with an ed and I'm still terrified of that happening now (I've been taken off them before; long story short, an ed would be the least of my problems). I can only hope I can prove to my doctor's that I'm presently well enough to stay on my regiment and maybe being an adult will allow me more influence on that decision. I may be required to gain weight for that and another reason anyway so even my cw is likely temporary. Regaining the weight may summon my ed back into existence but time will tell.

Time will tell.

I figured I'd post some kind of update even though I didn't get much interaction on this account when I was active. The fact that this account still exists keeps popping up into memory and it feels weird to just leave it as is.

I just changed my bio from; "Male-19-cw:130lbs-hw:152-lw:128-hight: suffer.__I'm mostly posting memes (like my last two deactivated accounts lol) and not much else. I'm also five foot seven lol. I'm not that insane."

Throughout this, I did gain a lot of experience about how ed's tend to work. I'll end this with some advice that made it a little easier to live;

----If the alternative is a feeding tube, just eat something. If it works to threaten your anxiety with a 2k+ calorie feeding tube being shoved down your nose if it doesn't let you eat a can of tuna, do it.

----Eat or drink dairy before purging to neutralize the stomach acid and prevent stomach ulcers and tooth decay.

----Keep safe foods on hand when you can in case the anemia or protein deficiency becomes impossible to ignore.

----However much you'll eat that day, always make sure to eat after a workout, even if it's a small amount.

----Keep some kind of emergency kit somewhere you can reach in the event you can't physically get out of bed or get sick beyond management. (I kept aspirin, vitamins, tuna packets/protein bar, water, and an electric heating pad)

---- Otherwise, have an emergency plan if things go wrong. You know your health and you ed better than anyone else, take advantage of that for the sake of your life.

Listen to your body and take care of it for the long term.

Don't let your ed out-live you.

I don't know exactly what's going on with me or why it is the way it is so please don't think you can do the same one day; I still remember very vividly how powerless I really was to my ed when it was at it's prime.

Stay safe out there. I love y'all.

[lemongingerart]

Tag Game - Fandom Edition

I actually love these tag games, especially to learn more about the people I follow! Too bad I always have a hard time filling these in 😅 so I'm going to *try* this one...

Your Name: Sofie (you can pronounce it just like Sophie it's just a regional version)

Your First Fandom: Star Wars.

Your Current Fandom: Star Wars.

I have been obsessed in the past with Rurouni Kenshin and Fullmetal Alchemist, and been in the FMA fandom for a long while too before I got stuck in Star Wars again thanks to - is anyone surprised? - general ginger 🤔

How did you get into fandom? There was no social media in 1999, but we did have these things called MSN groups? Also, I became a member of the national Star Wars fanclub. Like, a real club with physical meetings because we only had some hard to read phpbb forum as an alternative? (also, internet was paid by calling in with a phone line, so yeah... different times :-) )

How long have you been engaging in fandom? Well, I started 24 years ago? I did have a 6 year long pause (thanks, post-partum depression). But I'm back, in a different less time-consuming way, trying to find balance.

How often do you read fanfic? Hmm. Before I had kids, every night during 8 years or so. I've been reading a LOT of FMA fanfics actually, but not a lot of SW fanfics. And still, due to the lack of time, I don't wander around looking for new material. I have 25 works in my AO3 list of things I need to read because someone has sent them to me. The list just doesn't get smaller 😅 and the thing is, I don't want to influence myself too much for my own writing, if that makes sense?

Top three characters from your current fandom? General Hux, Obi-Wan Kenobi (he was my first crush 🥺), Quinlan Vos (but, like, the dark and broody version from legends)

Have you ever written a fic for a fandom and if so, shout it out: I only have one fic I published, and that's the one you'll find at my dash because I need moarrrrr Hux all the time prrrr....

I once had an attempt 10y ago to make a fan comic and accompanying fanfic for FMA. But I became a mother and lost so much energy there lol. Hope that this time, I can finish my way too ambitious project lol.

Oh yeah! And the 14yo me has also written a whole book of 14yo rubbish, but not in English eheeheeee... my OC Laëida Ylena is an artifact from that period though!

Have you ever drawn fan art for a fandom? Uhmmm yes, whenever I can, I will draw, it's my lifeline!

Share a personal headcanon that you feel strongly about: Hux headcanons? I've got tons of them! The one I feel strongly about is, I think, his need to control and understand things because if he doesn't, he's reminded about his childhood. And I think what Brooks did to him is even worse than what his father did, otherwise he wouldn't have killed Brooks personally. I also think he's ashamed of who he really is, because of what happened in the past, and he builds up this mask with fancy words and faked high self-esteem. I also think that for similar reasons, he hates the Force.

You’re trying to convince a friend to get into your current fandom(s) with you. What episode, clip or scene are you showing them? Well, I'm still trying to find the most ideal way to start watching star wars with my (non-english speaking) kids. So I honestly don't know... Depends a bit on the friend I guess? For some I'd say episode 1, others Mandalorian, others Clone Wars?

And finally, what does fandom mean to you? It's going to sound stupid and cliché but Star Wars has saved my life twice. I need to be able to run to this galaxy far away in my head so I can decompress and find a way to get those little stories and ideas form something I can handle. And if that's done, I will share whatever bursts out of me - if it's ideas, drawings, stories, just rubbish, I love to share in this community and make new friends to be geeky with!

I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you want to, please do so I will be reading these!

Tag Game - Fandom Edition

Thanks for the tag @daydreamsofthrawn 🥰

Your Name: Sami

Your First Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Your Current Fandom: Star Wars, LOTR, The Sandman, Vikings.

How did you get into fandom? Tumblr

How long have you been engaging in fandom? About three years.

How often do you read fanfic? I used to devour it but now I don’t have so much time I really need to be tagged in something to draw my attention to it. If I come across a lovely one shot on here I will read and reblog straight away or I’d forget.

Top three characters from your current fandom? Tech, General Hux, Boba Fett 😏

Have you ever written a fic for a fandom and if so, shout it out: I’ve written so many 😈 Sanctuary is my current ongoing fixation. A Boba Fett mini series is creeping up on me though.

Have you ever drawn fan art for a fandom? No, I wish I could draw. @lemongingerart does the best Hux drawings though, I have some original pieces 🥹🥰

Share a personal headcanon that you feel strongly about: Unpopular opinion maybe, but I don’t think Tech would ever nickname his SO.

You’re trying to convince a friend to get into your current fandom(s) with you. What episode, clip or scene are you showing them? Anything with clones in! Men in aRmOuR.

And finally, what does fandom mean to you? Friendship. I adore talking to people about the fandoms, to scream and holler and encourage over our favourite characters. And it makes me feel less alone.

Tagging anyone that wants to join in!

[gay-impressionist]

birthdays when you're an adult are so anticlimactic, it sucks

[ja-khajay]

today I was riding home from school to get a package and I got stopped in the street by a kid who was also using a scooter because he wanted directions to a clothing store... I'm used to kids/teens being mean at me but that guy was so nice n polite, I stopped to look up his store on my phone n he was asking me if I liked to ride my scooter and in formal tense the whole time :') lovely encounter in general tho it felt weird to be called a "vous" for that long...godspeed my fellow scooter ginger