#yes i know i'm very original

[dangerous-advantage]

jin guangyao: (villian monologuing) clever of you, sneaking into my hidden study like that. my fault, of course. my lack of vigilance comes back to bite me, i suppose. well, no matter. by the time your lan wangji follows after you, i will already be- wei wuxian, neck covered in hickies: actually, we broke up jin guangyao: wait. wait. stop. hold it. everybody stop. jin guangyao: jin guangyao: jin guangyao: what

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[bakingblues]

Everyone tell me why you support your sports team/sports person!

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[sanshinexx]

Here's part two of drawing my family pictures as the Bad Batch because I can and you can't stop me

[uncanny-tranny]

Don't talk to me; I'm still recovering from the fact that the first computer-synthesized voice to sing in 1961 - the IBM 704 - sang Daisy Bell, a love song.

[tazabel]

Ok, Odysseus, the raining* king of Ithaca, is my Roman Empire.

And I don't particularly mean all the "adventures" he went through or the wrong he might have done.

It's the pain of a parent who has not been able to watch his child grow up.

He remembers him as a baby. He was once very close to home, to be able to see (and raise) him still as a child, but that too was taken from him. If it weren't for the right circumstances, he might not have recongnise him in adulthood.

* I apologize for this silly joke that still makes me smile.

[chiropteracupola]

steadfast sailor, paper captain...

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

honestly it's been really healing being back to actively contributing things and writing out thoughts on tumblr the last week or so, because while twitter tends to be easier for me to write out Thoughts on without getting overwhelmed, the environment in the twitter fandom circles i'm interested in is not only infested with antis but cliqueish in a way that is caustic to the fucking soul if you try to express a thought that's more than three sentences long--a hundred times over if you're autistic in slightly the wrong way--and it's incredibly reassuring to come back to an environment where the very kindest and most inclusive people toward you are not clearly thinking the r-slur the entire time they interact with you lmao

[sysig]

Handplates and haircut and more Handplates after that (Patreon)

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Adorned by stars | Changing States

When he hits the I-70, Jeremiah slots George Michael’s Faith into his ’98 Accord and drives with the windows down. His mother would chide him for two reasons: a) he’s wasting fuel and b) it’s begun to storm. But he likes the way the wind shears through his hair like a nail breaking drywall and he likes the way spats of rain settle on his skin like constellations because on the road, he isn’t just a hand for someone else to hold, a body to handle, a man who looks at another man and fears how much of himself he’s lost in his reflection. No. On the road he is the sky, adorned by stars of his own making, relentless in his abundance, blinking in the absence of any other light.

A little Changing States aesthetic & excerpt!

i'm so normal about him i'm so normal i'm so normal i'm so-

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

No teen farewell is complete without embarrassment.

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[dollsahoy]

I keep thinking about that post that keeps thinking about the post about the origin of cheese where people were guessing it was rotten milk eaten out of desperation, and the other post says No! It was probably natural experimentation from mixing acidic things with milk and saying Oh That's Neat!

because historical reconstruction says it was most likely milk transported in an animal stomach turned into a storage vessel, and the natural rennet in the stomach plus the extended and continuous agitation from walking would have caused the separation of curds and whey https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586535/#sec2-nutrients-07-05340title

so my main takeaway is "why are all of you just speculating when genuine research is right there"

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i'm gonna be honest, seeing gifs and stuff and the so far positive reaction to the wicked movie is sort of tempting me to want to watch it, but at the end of the day, for me it just feels like i won't be able to see the actors (any of them) as the characters. not because i think they'll do a bad job, but fiyero might be the only one i will be able to really believe bc i don't really know jonathan bailey and never heard of him before this. cynthia erivo tampoco pero the marketing of the movie and general Hype has felt a little much about the actors themselves for me rather than about wicked. it's like it's about There's A Wicked Movie rather than Wicked, if that makes sense? it's too aware of itself somehow, at least to me. and i don't really like ariana grande and i already know (and maybe that's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but oh well) i won't be able to see her as anything but ariana grande, no matter how convincing she might end up being. i could make the effort w her, but i feel like even making the effort would just make me aware that im making the effort and make me Know its ariana grande even more. idk it just seems too "wicked-on-purpose-look-at-us-Big-Good-Actors-axting-in-Incredible-Iconic-Wicked-Movie" and not "this is wicked"

[isitaviv]

For the people who obviously don't know them ofc. Shoutout to all my lovely friends who do know but you are biased ✋🥺