#star wars wiki meme

[itsclydebitches]

Okay, so I saw this RWBY meme made by a fan and I can't remember it completely but it was about Emerald switching sides. What stood out to me was the language used and how Ruby's group was specifically referred to as "The Good Guys side" and if that doesn't show how broken this show's morality is then I don't know what does. Emerald switched to the side of good, not just Ruby's side. The side that is specifically good because it's Ruby side. You're either with Ruby or against her with no in-between. Compare this to Aang's group in ATLA, affectionately called The Gaang by fans. A term that collectively refers to the group without proclaiming them as THE good guys. We know they're good because their actions show they are good. It isn't just a title grafted on because they're the stars of the show. And while they have an official grouping in the form of Team Avatar. It still isn't used in the same manner as RWBY fans calling all who agree with Ruby "The Good Guys".

Decided to start answering backlog asks! We've officially entered the post-RT discussion era. Fun! 😬

You know, RWBY is compared (unfavorably) to Avatar a lot, but this comparison is particularly interesting to me because Avatar is, well... Avatar. That's a title. And it's a title built into the fictional world, one that's so significant it's worthy of being the name of the show. The Avatar is a combined destiny/job description that, in the words of the wiki, is the "human embodiment of light and peace." Obviously free will still comes into play - I'd never ignore the significance behind Aang's personal choice of how to bring balance to the world - but there's an element of fate here, of self-fulfilling prophecy, and fourth wall-breaking knowledge. In-world, benders are (presumably) not chosen if they're unsuited to be this embodiment of peace. Once someone knows they're the avatar, they can more easily find the courage/determination to meet such high standards because this is how it's "supposed" to be (regardless of whether anything cosmic is actually ensuring their success). And the audience knows, by virtue of that title and our opening, how we're meant to view Aang: as the Good Guy of the story. All that already exists outside of the actions he takes within the show, helping to soften anything potentially suspect with a "Well, he's just a kid" or "Well, everyone makes mistakes," or whatever explanation that's technically true in any harrowing story featuring a young protagonist... but continually falls flat with Team RWBY.

Because RWBY didn't do that same work. RWBY doesn't have a handle on its own identity the way Avatar does. It laid some of the groundwork early on but then never capitalized on it, which is why I'm endlessly groaning over the failure of not doing anything with Ruby's status as a SEW/simple soul. Those could have easily been titles the way "Avatar" is a title, something that the people of Ruby's world see as cosmic evidence of her purity and inherent ability to lead them in this war. Instead, it's just a one-off, ambiguous statement and a very badly used skill.

So yeah, Emerald joins The Good Guys, which wouldn't be bad if, as said, the show had shown the group unambiguously being Good people in a war with black and white solutions. Or, if we had some reason to believe that Ruby is The One True Leader, destined/worthy of bearing this burden no matter the number of mistakes she's made. But RWBY even undermines the title aspect by making Ruby herself fairly inconsequential in later volumes. Yeah, the show is also named after this team/our protagonist... and yet that began to feel incidental as the cast grew AND many of the characters brought new - arguably better - perspectives + powers into the fray. Avatar made the simple but VERY important decision to say, "This is the ONLY GUY who can do this job. Sure, he's going to need a lot of help and saving the world is absolutely a team effort, but that team revolves around him because he is, again, the ONE PERSON who can accomplish this." RWBY failed to set that up and (arguably) failed to show the group being The Good Guys, at least to the extent that the whole world would understandably put their faith in a teenager who, frankly, just keeps making things worse. Like, that's a big consideration imo. Ruby's intentions have always been good and most fans are fully on her side regarding justifications for her choices, so in that sense she is absolutely The Good Guy, but beyond that she's just really bad at saving the world. So if she's not somehow ordained to do it and continually shows a severe lack of skill in this regard... why are the characters/the viewer rooting for her again?

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

(1) For those who don’t know, Hayden Christensen was in a show called “Higher Ground”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Ground_(TV_series)

(2) “Of course he was never gonna be Rey’s dad. He’d probably piss off his new partner by shouting Satine’s name during sex!”

(3) “Ah yes, it is very wise to send your horny padawan who clearly has a crush on Padme to Naboo aka the planet of beautiful scenery that’s perfect for a date. Good plan!”

[nineratsinatrenchcoat]

Intro/Info Post

Heyo!! I'm Rat (or infinitetailwag on ao3), shiny goods scavenger and fandom freak. Be kind to each other and enjoy your stay on my blog :P

Some useful bits about yours truly under the cut:

How I tag my stuff:

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These 3 languages will appear on this blog, in this frequency order:

English, español, português.

Speak to me in any of these // Háblenme en cualquier de estos // Falem comigo em qualquer dessas

I blog about these fandoms a lot:

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, LEGO Monkie Kid

(Sideblogs for these coming soon, hang on tight!)

I blog about these fandoms sometimes:

Amphibia, The Owl House, Avatar (Last Airbender + Legend of Korra), Star Wars Rebels, Carmen Sandiego 2019, more!

I reblog these topics:

memes, general tumblr culture, antisemitism on the left and elsewhere

I've got a fic glossary! Check it out here:

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Ooh, I'm also a tag wrangler for ao3!

What does that mean? https://fanlore.org/wiki/Organization_for_Transformative_Works/Tag_Wrangling

So what fandoms do you wrangle?

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Big City Greens

Shaun the Sheep

Liberty's Kids

Twelve Forever

Wonder Pets

Journey to the West (and most of its adaptations, including LEGO Monkie Kid)

Madagascar Franchise

Adventures in Odyssey

And that's all! If you're curious about anything at all, feel free to send it through an ask. I don't bite :D

<3 enjoy your stay <3

[its-to-the-death]

Fictional Weapon War Round 1

Now that our preliminaries are over, we're ready to fight!

Here is our bracket:

It is kind of ugly and I used the names instead of pictures because I did not want to figure out the logistics of fitting all those pictures (that are probably a bunch of different weird sizes) on here together.

I still need to get all the pictures together for the matchups but I am planning for round 1 to start on Tuesday, July 25. All polls last a week.

Propaganda is always welcome as long as you are being nice. Have fun!

Matchups below the cut. I'll link them to the polls once they start.

Bridget's yo-yo (Guilty Gear) vs Sasha (Team Fortress 2)

Myrtenaster (RWBY) vs Funkfreed (One Piece)

The Wabbajack (The Elder Scrolls) vs Frostmourne (World of Warcraft)

Portal gun (Portal) vs Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)

The Punisher (Trigun) vs Orb (Pondering My Orb meme)

The Spear of the Non-Believer (SCP Wiki) vs R.Y.N.O. (Ratchet and Clank 2002)

Bat'leth (Star Trek) vs Nightblood (Warbreaker/The Starlight Archive)

Ness' bat (Earthbound) vs Kendal (Aurora webcomic)

The Throngler (Twitter) vs Shardblades (The Stormlight Archive)

Kurapika's chains (Hunter x Hunter) vs Kenji Kon's butter knife (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous)

Jack/Sumarbrander (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) vs Xena's chakram (Xena Warrior Princess)

Soul Evan's scythe form (Soul Eater) vs Lightsaber (Star Wars)

The Master Sword (The Legend of Zelda) vs Ryuko's scissor blade (Kill la Kill)

Riptide (Percy Jackson) vs Rapunzel's frying pan (Tangled)

Riz Gukgak's Arquebus (Dimension 20 Fantasy High) vs Ichaival (Symphogear)

Meta Knight's Galaxia (Kirby) vs Aang's staff (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Piecemaker (Discworld) vs The List (Critical Role/The Legend of Vox Machina)

Sailor Moon's tiara (Sailor Moon) vs Batarangs (Batman)

Bit Stave (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) vs Oathkeeper (Kingdom Hearts)

Meowmere (Terraria) vs The Sword of the Creator (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Splattershot (Splatoon) vs Amy's Piko Piko Hammer (Sonic)

Pit's Sacred Bow of Palutena (Kid Icarus) vs Sokka's space sword (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

King Dedede's Hammer (Kirby) vs Shingou-Ax (Kamen Rider Drive)

Gideon Nav's two handed sword (The Locked Tomb) vs Needle Whip (Fear and Hunger 2)

Crescent Rose (RWBY) vs Sting (Lord of the Rings)

Kingdom Key (Kingdom Hearts) vs Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

E.G.O. Weapon Mimicry (Project Moon) vs Dangeresque's Nunchuck Gun (Homestar Runner)

Tissue Compression Eliminator (Doctor Who) vs Spider-ham's mallet (Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)

Sokka's boomerang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Knife (knife crow)

Gungnir (Symphogear) vs Baby 5 (One Piece)

Oblivion (Kingdom Hearts) vs Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle)

Martin the Warrior's sword (Redwall) vs Morgoth's mace, Grand (Lord of the Rings)

[rin-tezuka]

i'm trying to read about yakub/yakubian religion, is this seriously actually what people are defending? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam) or am i looking at the wrong thing here

Nobody is defending it. The nation of islam are completely insane people but it's been a meme in like commie circles to claim that the myth that all white people were created by a big headed african scientist is true, because it is obviously false but extremely funny. Certain people seem to think by making jokes about that myth, especially ones comparing him to star wars, i am being antisemetic and/or am an unironic believer in it.

[daisychainsandbowties]

What are your favorite old memes?

alright then fuck me

disclaimer: i have no concept of time. also a loose grasp of what a meme is. i'll do a detailed top 5 & then some honourable mentions

charlie the unicorn. asked my mum today if she remembers me being 10 & liking that yt video and she said "shut the fuck up casper". so u get the vibe. cursed, brilliant.

2. mr happy face. also a youtube video. i won't link it because you shouldn't watch it please god. but also, there's a story behind why i like it. i joined boy scouts when i was 11 & there was a girl i had a crush on (yes girl butch babies in boy scouts)

& she LOVED knives (i have a type) but her parents wouldn't let her have a penknife so i decided i would, in true mating-ritual style, give her one of my knives. it was stainless steel and had this fat curved blade and she adored it and for one fleeting moment i had all the girl game on the planet. but she also decided to name it (as you do) & it was called Mr Happy Face.

3. any and all star wars memes tbh, but especially any involving my boy the gender euphoria himself obi-wan kenobi.

the GEnErAL KEnObi meme. this is imo the funniest version of it

also this one

4. any lord of the rings meme BUT have to genuflect to the king the one the only

it's 16 yrs old GOD i was 9. spamming the melty face emoji

my man sean bean. he can hit but like, he'd die before he got to 2nd base. sad.

5.

i still play skyrim & every time i hear this i want to eat my controller so this is clearly the beef stock cube of memes

honourable mentions

the itachi thing where it was like sasuke going 'hey, itachi' fucking 20 times and itachi going WHAT!!!!!??? & then sasuke goes '.... hi.'

the world ending in 2012 (you laugh but a boy in my class cried)

the fucking!!! millennium thing. where they were like 😱 computer code will BREAK (idk) my dad made like 300 euros just sitting in the office at midnight on NYE 1999. it was called the Y2K scare here look . to me it is a meme bc my dad breaks down laughing every time he forgets he already told me about it.

grossly misspelling benaflick cumbersome's name

centipedes in my vagina. salute queen.

none pizza with left beef

blue waffle (purely for the hysteria it caused in my friend group. can u guess i did not hang out with the most reasonable the less-prone-to-drama girlies?) DO NOT LOOK IT UP. i never have and i am so happy.

dividing by zero. my friend once fully slapped my calculator out of my hand bc she thought we would both die

gaia online is a meme to me. fuck that place fr. had my first online girlfriend on there though. and my first death threat. let's call it a historical monument then

again. not a meme. but does anyone else remember freewebs? where you could just make ur own website? & host ur own little forums. i THRIVED. made like 15 websites for my favourite video games that these days would be called wikis.

look shoot me if you want but potter puppet pals was fucking hilarious.

people's bios on ff.net. you really had to put every single quote you like from anything ever up on ur home page.? why.

the jelly donut meme from pokemon.

ask ketchum being 10 for 25 years

the math lady meme. she is so real for that.

[peekintoeternity]

omg i think im so out of loop (never check any naruto blog aside from ones ive followed tbh for the past 2 years lmao) that i didnt know people have pointed out the similarities between vaderkin and tobito?? damn i thought i was all alone LOL 😭 (psss id be more than willing of course to listen to your take on their similarities and differences)

hi there! so i think others have done this extensively, i usually find such jokes / mini "thought pieces" on reddit (you can try r/naruto or r/dankruto and search relevant keywords) or youtube comment sections, and especially the YT vid from Death Battle, although other (smaller) creators have also posted (more serious) video essays about Obito, where Anakin / Darth Vader has been mentioned as a parallel to Obito's character :)

unfortunately i can't remember the exact video & all the information is a bit scattered, even in my brain lol, so the best i can do is point u to some sources 🥲

for instance, there are many YT video essays & even reddit posts on Obito's character & how misunderstood he is, like Swagkage's "Dissecting Obito Uchiha", "How Strong is Obito?", "Leave Obito Alone" (lol)

i'm not sure i can ever make a post listing all their similarities, esp when the Death Battle vid has already pretty much done that, and more comprehensively than any comment / reddit post at that, haha

you can also check their wiki for a detailed breakdown of the vid, but perhaps go straight to the Trivia section to see a list of their many similarities! :D

(of course as with all sources, there are some things i disagree with, for instance DB lists Obito as having "less combat experience" than Vader, but we actually don't know what Obito does during all those nigh 20 years that he was living as "Nobody" / "The Masked Man" / Tobi, i mean he could've been training and participating in duels, espionage, skirmishes, battles, etc., i mean he was the secret leader of the Akatsuki, the real Fourth Mizukage of Mist/Kiri, also basically the real leader of Land of Rain too ("Amekage" if you will?) since he is the reason Pain & Konan were able to overthrow Hanzō and the two take orders from him even if they are not loyal to him, so there could've been countless of combat / military and political missions he was involved in that happened "offscreen", and add to all that the fact he was a child soldier starting from around age 9 (when he became a genin and began taking on missions) and that, of course, he was a main player (war criminal! lol) as both fighter and strategist and military commander in Narutoverse's Fourth World War—but hey, the whole point of fandom & media is that there will also be multiple interpretations, so i see no point in "nitpicking" a fictional fight analysis lol)

maybe something new i can add is the meta parallel of how, in real life, vader's identity reveal was a plot twist that shook the whole of star wars fandom and beyond, shocking audiences & remaining iconic to this day

similarly, though i wasn't there (in the fandom or following the anime), at the time, when obito was revealed to be The Masked Man ("Tobi") in the anime, apparently sooo many streaming sites straight up broke down due to the sheer number of people immediately going to see the episode (guess there aren't that many manga readers compared to anime haha)

so yeah, vader broke cinema (insert martin scorsese meme), and obito broke the internet, quite literally 🤣

and these are just accounts from english speakers, who knows how much potentially crazier things got on chinese & japanese & other non-english sites lol

i might add some stuff if i have the energy to organize my thoughts more later on, sorry if this isn't the answer you were hoping for, but i hope the links & sources above can be helpful to you! :)

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.5

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Who Let The Dogs Out, Baha Men (youtube)

Guards! Guards! official synopsis

Monty Python

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Baldrick; character from Blackadder (1983-1989)

Chris Evans (imdb)

Chris Evans is a dorito - Buzzfeed explains here s

I’m not mad i’m just disappointed (tvtropes)

Himbo (urban dictionary)

Drinking your respect women juice (urban dictionary) e

Blackadder (1983-1989)

Thin Blue Line (1995-1996)

Pixar

This scene from Shrek 2 (2004)

D&D

Rose Tyler; character from Doctor Who (2004-) - referencing this post specifically

Beowulf (our episode here)

Square-cube law (wiki)

How To Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

Separating vortices (wiki)

Supersonic shockwaves (wiki)

Reynolds number (wiki)

Greebo, Tiffany Aching; Discworld characters, Terry Pratchett

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I have a duty!”,  The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

Vimes as an urban witch courtesy of this post

Headology, Discworld (wiki)

Klatchian Foreign Legion, Discworld (wiki)

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

Jingo, Terry Pratchett

"There was a clink as Vime's badge was set down neatly on the table.

"I don't have to take this," Vimes said calmly.

"Oh, so you'd rather be a civilian, would you?"

“A watchman is a civilian, you inbred streak of piss”.

Rust's brain erased the sounds that his ears could not possibly have heard." p. 169, Jingo, Terry Pratchett

Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

Rincewind the Wizzard; Discworld character, Terry Pratchett

Swords and sorcery (wiki)

The Mended Drum/The Broken Drum, Discworld (wiki)

Raymond Chandler

"Of all the gin joints in all the world," Casablanca (1942)

Disney

Unable to find the origins of the "x o'clock and all's well" formula but the wikipedia page for "Watchman (law enforcement)" mentions that part of their job was to call out the hour. Also see this scene from Disney's Robin Hood

Robin Hood (1973)

The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis

Aladdin (1992)

Alas, there does not appear to have been a Carry On Robin Hood film (Carry On Robbin'! it practically writes itself!)

Robin Hood (2006-2009)

Errol Flynn (imdb)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (our episode here)

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (our episode here)

Language localisation (wiki)

" "One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." " Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Lady Sybil; Discworld character, Terry Pratchett

"And Susan was bright enough to know that the phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'. But someone ought to do something, and right now the whole pool of someones consisted of her, and no one else." , p.115, Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Elon Musk Neuralink (wiki)

Mansplain, manipulate, malewife (meme)

You are like little baby, watch this (meme)

Temeraire, Naomi Novik

Star Wars

The Clone Wars (2008-2020)

Coruscant Guard (wiki)

Epistolary genre (wiki)

Kubernetes (official website)

Whine About It (youtube)

The Lion King (1994)

To Be Or Not To Be, Ryan North

Dinosaur Comics

Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus (wiki)

Our planning episode here

Cat Rating

8.75

What Else Are We Reading?

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Daisy Jones and the Sixth, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Sixth (2023)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Shadow and Bone (2021 - )

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Next Time On Teaching My Cat to Read

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

[lori133]

GOT I - Prologue and first few chapters

M first impression right off the bat is that the chapters are so short, barely anything happens in there and thus it is super easy to go through five or six without noticing. I was planning to do one chapter per day but not only would that take me more than a month and my librarian will protest, but also it is quite poor as far as content consumption goes.

I've read around one tenth of the book, ie seventy pages, and hopefully, I'll be able to keep this rhythm till the end.

Prologue

Man that prologue still slaps so much. I remember reading it and being hooked and not puting the book down until it was almost morning (the day after was not much fun).

This is a clear proof on how good Martin is at weaving a compelling narrative. Straight to the point, drama ahoy and then bang action and death. By surverting the standard narrative of a handsome noble dying when you'd expect him to succeed, makes you want to know more about the world and about the others.

I remembered Waymar as a contrarian character and as someone clearly in the wrong. But all of his comments are correct, there is something going on and as someone from the Vale, he has no reason to fear there is something magical going on, as iirc the Others are but a myth at that point in history. To a perceptive young lord northern superstitions must ring as true as the runes inscribed on his house's armors. Still he is young and hasn't developed the sense for the eerie his companion's have and thus they are doomed.

Bran I

Great start for the book, I am that B99 Rosa meme only instead of the puppy it is the puppies and the Stark children. I love Bran already, he is so tiny and earnest and cute and only seven. I remember reading this and thinking: yasss a magical pet, nothing bad will happen ever.

Knowing what lies ahead, it makes me so sad to see Robb and Jon's interactions. They have such an easy camaraderie, and are so warm in their interactions and area also so obvious in leaving Theon out of their own small intimacy bubble of brotherhood. For some reason I was not into Asoiaf fanfiction at the time I read this for the first time (i was in my star wars/terra e era I believe) but now I want to read a fanfic where they remain together and nothing hurts.

Last thing as a question for english readers. What tree is mentioned on these 2 chapters? In spanish it is a tamarind tree which grows only on warm weather? As a tamarind lover who suffers its lack on a non tropical country, this really took me out of the immersive read.

Catelyn I

Another tamarind tree, wtf! Also, when fifteen year old me read that Ned had built a septon for Catelyn I thought it was a romantic gesture; some two decades later my first thought was: Surely Catelyn cannot be the first follower of the Seven that marries into Winterfell, right? A look at the Stark family tree later, and indeed the only time the Starks married southern houses it was to descendants of the first men like the Blakwoods of the Royce. Why would Rickard break centuries of tradition?

Goes to read the wiki page and aha! The first hint of a Maester conspiring arises, as according to Barbrey Dusting, the Stark's maester (a Hightower bastard, le gasp!) was the brain behind the two Stark cross religion engagements.

Besides name dropping a few characters and the news of Jon Arryn's death and the royal visit, not much happens. It is insteresting, however, that despite Catelyn being the one following the least magical religion in Westeros, it is her who fears and respects the portents and religious places. Also loving that Ned is such a good dad and always asks about the kids, he just loves them so much.

Daenerys I

For some reason I thought that Harry LLoyd being such a good looking Viserys was going to make Dany's chapters less painful, but I was lying to myself. She's thirteen and being molested by her brother and sold to a man more than twice her age like a hot comodity and it is terrible to read as it was the first time.

Apropos to nothing, whenever I read about her house in Braavos with the red doos, I think of the song "paint it black", it is such a Dany song.

Eddard I

Ah, the begining of the L+R theory, right here on the first Ned chapter. Robert goes to appoint a new hand and for a bethodal; he is al least courteous enough to do it in person, but like, Sansa is only 11 you monsters :'(

Jon I

I had forgotten how Jon's chapters were half self pity half plot. I had also not noticed the first time, but there is a lot of Targaryen Tyrion teasing going on here. His hair is almost white, his gather considers him a bastard despite Jon pointing out he is suposedly true born and that kinglike shadow hmmmm.

[ursae-minoris-world]

9 people you’d like to know better

I was tagged bu @bavariansugarcookie (thanks you!)

To be perfectly honest I was nervous about this because…. I think most of the time it’s for the purpose of bonding over common interests… but if I answer the questions honestly I often come up with random niche things, or even things that are well known in my country but not to people outside of it, and it’s often expected that your response will be something, well, that USA-Americans will have at least heard of (or can find with a quick search if they’re interested in it). So often I will end up talking about a book that wasn’t even translated in English and hear crickets. Or a lot of the music I listen to ends up being small local stuff or random youtube instrumental playlist I put on as background music while writing / drawing instead of a cool song people will know… Like, genuinely, what do you do about these memes if you response is something weird no-one will know? Do you just go for the closest answer where people will get the reference? Especially if you’re not USA-American or if you have other roots? (genuinely curious! you’re welcome to answer in the comments, just don’t reblog pls).

So. Sorry I’ll probably over-explain and speak of things no one really cares about…

1. 3 ships: sheith, Ineffable Husbands, Imodna

2. first ever ship: Lol, I’m not even sure what that means. I think the first (non canon) ship I was invested in was the main characters from a Belgian comic series called “Les tuniques bleues” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Tuniques_Bleues). They kept acting as if they didn’t like each other while CLEARLY caring a whole lot and saving each other’s lives and I had a lot of feels about it that I could not really explain! Like I started reading this when I was like, 10, until high-school lol. I had no words to put on those feelings, and no idea of the concept of shipping but now I can quite confidently say that I did ship them lol.

But idk. I also liked Leïla and Han in Star Wars as a kid for example. It’s hard to pin, really.

If you want something you’re more likely to know, and from a time I was in fandom, Kyo and Tohru in Fruitsbaket? (but I was not in the English side of fandom so ships were not such a big deal, even here for a shojo that had a love triangle lol). If you want more like, non-canon ships you’d have both Nana in, well, Nana (by Ai Yazawa).

If you want the first ship where I actually looked for fan content, then probably L x Light in Death Note ?

And then the first ship I actually got involved with (English speaking) fandom was sheith.

But tbh while I realized—late—that I always had ships, I don’t always care about ships in the stories I like.  I’m just as much likely to get invested in platonic relationships, friends, found families, or actual families.

3. last song: see, after going to the movies (see next question), we went to grab a beer and there was live music band. They did some classic songs (the first one was “Don’t Worry Be Happy”, and I remember Toxic and Hotel California), but mostly it was original songs they have composed. They do have an online presence and I thought about sharing a clip of one of the songs they played, then I remembered it’s a small local group and people on the internet are weird and creepy  (and I mean ants just as much or even more than your regular creep) so… 🤷 Ask me in dms if you’re a moot and interested I guess.

4. last movie: went to see Everything Everywhere All at Once for the 2nd time tonight. It was great.

5. currently reading: For the reference most people will get, I just finished Exit Strategy from the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, which I loved (super fond of this series).

I’m also reading “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine”  by Gail Honeyman, we have a book-club for it in one of my discords. I wouldn’t have picked it up myself and I’m glad I am actually reading it because I’m enjoying the way the main character is such an unreliable narrator and am curious of seeing things unfold.

I’m also reading “Le château des poisons” by Serge Brussolo (Castle of Poisons), because a friend lend it to me super long ago and I want to give it back when I see her next week. I’m meh about it: the setting (a mystery set in medieval France) is interesting and I want to know how the plot with be solved (if it will be), but this sort of gritty representation of medieval times is not my cup and the characters are a bit cliché.

For fanfic, I finished “Heart Nailed Open” by Perfchan this morning and I loved it so so much!!! I also have a bunch of books about art from the library…

6. currently watching: Trigun stampede (I’ve been procrastinating the end because I need to be emotionally ready lol). And Critical Role campaign 3 (also need to catch up with Vox Machina s2).

7. currently consuming: ...easter chocolates

8. currently craving: tea (always lol)

9 people to tag: I… didn’t follow who got tagged already so… if you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged!)

[allatariel]

Star Wars Wiki Meme

@callioope, thanks for the tag! This is a great idea!

Here goes!

How to Play:

Name the current or most recent tabs you have/had open in Wookieepedia 

Post the passages of your WIP they pertain to (one paragraph per tab)

Tag as many people as tabs you have open

Wookieepedia Tabs:

Vibroblade

Chadra-Fan

Troo-tril-tek

Bacta

Excerpt from Chapter 1 of A Radiance that Travels (working title):

“I can’t believe you stabbed yourself with a vibroblade!” Cassian’s scowl had only deepened in the ten minutes since their encounter with that little Chadra-Fan bastard. Little was relative, he’d actually been quite tall for a Chadra-Fan, and old.

“It wasn’t turned on,” Jyn snapped back as she shifted her left arm slightly over his shoulders so whatever that pointy thing was in Cassian’s backpack stopped digging into her arm. The sky flashed bright, Jyn saw that muscle in his jaw twitch and continued before he had a chance to, “He was going to shoot you!” Their attacker had come up under her jacket and vest. One clawed hand had dug into her back and gripped her shirt tightly, bunching the fabric in his fist and exposing her left flank to the chill. The little rodent’s blaster had been trained on Cassian’s head and his blaster, though in his hand, hadn’t even been raised for some reason. She had just acted. “And you didn’t have a line of sight that wasn’t through me—his hearts just happened to be behind my kidney.”

~~~

“Yes sir, Captain, sir.” Jyn smirked lazily at him and he subtly rolled his eyes as she took the datapad. After carefully rolling onto her side away from Cassian with his help, she set to slicing into the datapad. She felt the cool, bacta-laced cleansing towelettes soothe and numb the wounds, the cloyingly sweet smell of the bacta overlaying the tang of blood and the damp, minerally smell of the cave. The Chadra-Fan’s security was pretty tight, maybe he was a bounty hunter or mercenary? Not tight enough to keep Jyn out, however, and she had bypassed the last of the encryption before Cassian had told her he was ready to pull the vibroblade out. ~~~ Jyn heard the tell-tale click and hum of the vibroblade igniting as it instantly became ember-hot, without the buzz that accompanied the vibration feature, unnecessary and dangerous for this use. Cassian warned her again before cauterizing first one wound and then its twin, waiting for her to nod each time before proceeding. She smelled the burning flesh, but felt little more than a warming in her side and knew the bacta had entered her bloodstream, lulling her into a state of serenity. The sound of bacta bandage wrappers ripping open filled her ears and she felt Cassian press the bandages over her wounds. He eased her onto her back and she smiled up at him, reaching for his hand.

Tagging: @skitzofreak, @brynnmclean, @crazy-fruit, and @gloriouswhisperstyphoon, if you would like, no pressure :)

[not-active-strangepurson]

[its-to-the-death]

Fictional Weapon War Round 2

So many close matches already in the first round! RIP to the butter knife, you will be missed. Here is the bracket updated for next round:

I'm planning for Round 2 to start on Saturday, August 5. I'm going to include some information on each weapon for the next round which I still need to put together and may take some time but I'm also done with my summer class now so I haven't exactly gauged how much free time I have.

Anyways, matchups will be below the cut as always and link to the polls once they begin. Propaganda stays friendly and we stay cool. Have fun!

Bridget's yo-yo (Guilty Gear) vs Funkfreed (One Piece)

The Wabbajack (The Elder Scrolls) vs Portal Gun (Portal)

Orb (Pondering My Orb meme) vs The Spear of the Non-Believer (SCP Wiki)

Nightblood (The Stormlight Archive) vs Kendal (Aurora webcomic)

Shardblades (The Stormlight Archive) vs Kurapika's chains (Hunter x Hunter)

Xena's charm (Xena Warrior Princess) vs Lightsaber (Star Wars)

The Master Sword (Legend of Zelda) vs Riptide (Percy Jackson)

Riz Gukgak's arquebus (Dimension 20 Fantasy High) vs Aang's staff (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Piecemaker (Discworld) vs Sailor Moon's tiara (Sailor Moon)

Bit Stave (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) vs Meowmere (Terraria)

Splattershot (Splatoon) vs Sokka's space sword (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

King Dedede's Hammer (Kirby) vs Gideon Nav's two handed sword (The Locked Tomb)

Crescent Rose (RWBY) vs Kingdom Key (Kingdom Hearts)

Dangeresque's Nunchuck Gun (Homestar Runner) vs Spider-ham's mallet (Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)

Sokka's boomerang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Gungnir (Symphogear) and Baby 5 (One Piece)

Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle) vs Martin the Warrior's sword (Redwall)

[mixelation]

🤔 What is the hardest part of writing fic?

fanfic ask game

Tbh I think my fics would be higher in quality if I held back on posting until they were done (including long multichapter fics), I had some "cool down" time, and then I could do better rewrites and editing. But I usually just want to post IMMEDIATELY for a sense of being done and also nice comments, so you're lucky I do go through and at least to a re-read. But this is also sort of a double-edged sword because getting comments as you write chapters helps keep interest in writing more......

Oh, that AND trying to keep canon straight when canon either makes no sense, or keeps getting retconned and added to by sequel series and bonus content. Like I go on the Naruto wiki sometimes and the abilities of a lot of characters are like ??? now because Boruto did some..... stuff.

[sunknight1142]

“average Jedi youngling joins the Order at 1.95 years old (or species equivalent)" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Jedi joins at 1.91 years old. Anakin Skywalke, who joined at 9 years old, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We've Yelled About This Episode #3.15

Disco Elysium

Good Omens (2019-)

Nimona (2023)

Nimona, N. D. Stevenson

Gingerhaze (tumblr)

One Piece (2023 -)

One Piece, Eiichiro Oda

Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan

The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023 -)

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (2010)

Power Rangers (2017)

Jane Austen

Temeraire, Naomi Novik

The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis (our episode here)

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (our episode here)

Emma, Jane Austen (our episode here)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (our episode here)

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (our episode here)

His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik 

Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (our episode here)

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare (our episode here)

The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (our episode here)

The Old Kingdom, Garth Nix

Lirael, Garth Nix (our episode here)

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir

The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells

Curse of Strahd (wiki)

D&D (wiki)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (wiki)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula, Bram Stoker (our episodes here and here)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (our episode here)

Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl (2020)

This infamous line from Avatar: The Last Airbender:

Chuck Tingle

Monstrous Regiment, AMarguerite (ao3)

George Eliot

The Brontës

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (our episode here)

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Sheltie the Shetland Pony, Peter Clover

Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Star Trek

Odd even rule (trope)

Eragon (2006)

Robin Hood (2006-2009)

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Andy Serkis (imdb)

The Andy Serkis audiobook can be found here

Tom Bombadil; The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tolkien translation (our episode here)

Adapting The Locked Tomb by giving it to Steven Moffat is a reference to this post

Wheel of Time (2021-)

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Merlin (2008-2012)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014)

Benedict Cumberbatch’s name (meme)

Benedict Cumberbatch (imdb)

American Gods (2017-2021)

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Discworld; Terry Pratchett

Going Postal (2010)

Going Postal, Terry Pratchett

Thin Sybil is a reference to the BBC The Watch adaptation of which we speaketh not, we’re still very angry about that

Sybil Ramkin; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Nobby Nobbs; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Glup Shitto (meme)

This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud

Bartimaeus, Jonathan Stroud

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse (our episode here)

Howl’s Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones (our episode here)

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (our episode here)