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Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clark’s upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.

Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"

"Why Clark, we need a machine--"

"Run along now."

Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*

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Sneaky boy

(via)

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Huge fan of when my speech patterns rub off on people enjoy when thay happens

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One of my favorite pointless headcanons is that Korkie isn't a Kenobi, but specifically because Satine had a pregnancy scare while she was with Obi-Wan at age eighteen, and they never risked anything that could result in a pregnancy again because of how much the almost-baby freaked them out. Korkie was born to a Kryze cousin a few years later, and ended up in Satine's care shortly after due to assassination of the cousin. She needed an heir anyway.

(It is, of course, entirely plausible that Satine was on BC but missed a dose because of Getting Shot At Syndrome, or had to take some medication that negated an implant in order to recover from Having Been Stabbed Disease and, well, shit happens.)

(Padme had no such excuse.)

But anyway I do really like the idea of Satine and Obi-Wan having had a pregnancy scare Once as teens and then when, twenty years later, Anakin tries to delicately broach the subject of Korkie's paternity with Obi-Wan he just gets an amused "Trust me, the timing doesn't work out" because Obi-Wan's been getting these questions for years.

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best thing tumblr ever did for me is the term "rotating it in my mind". it's really true that sometimes you think about something real hard but you can't tell what the thoughts are exactly. it's revolutionary stuff, i might even say

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we hunt the mighty pasta BEAST

and breadsticks are its BONES

ALFREDO FLOWS inside its veins

its organs are CALZONES

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anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

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Today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when German Nazis coordinated a nationwide attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues. The attack was inspired by the murder of a German diplomat by a Jew in Paris. When Hitler heard the news, he got the idea to stage a mass uprising in response. He and Joseph Goebbels contacted storm troopers around the country and told them to attack Jewish buildings, but to make the attacks look like spontaneous demonstrations. The police were told not to interfere with the demonstrators, but instead to arrest the Jewish victims. Firefighters were told only to put out fires in any adjacent Aryan properties. Everyone cooperated. In all, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned or destroyed. Rioters looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. Many of the attackers were neighbors of the victims. The Nazis confiscated any compensation claims that insurance companies paid to Jews. They also imposed a huge collective fine on the Jewish community for having supposedly incited the violence. The event was used to justify barring Jews from schools and most public places, and forcing them to adhere to new curfews. In the days following, thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps. The event was called Kristallnacht, which means, "Night of Broken Glass." It's generally considered the official beginning of the Holocaust. Before that night, the Nazis had killed people secretly and individually. After Kristallnacht, the Nazis felt free to persecute the Jews openly, because they knew no one would stop them.

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so much of what people attribute to like inherent biological differences between age groups is a lot more just the result of having different amounts of life experience. is that teenager functionally brain damaged because their brain is "underdeveloped" or have they only been alive for 14 years and thus do not have the same amount of practical experience + wisdom to draw on when dealing with difficult situations.

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u know something that must have happened a lot w the OT star wars trio

Luke: *insisting something that's very obviously latent force sensitivity is a 'totally normal experience' that 'happens to everyone*

Leia: *strenuously backing him up*

Han: *outnumbered and getting more & more mad about it*

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One of those "Qui-Gon only almost dies after Naboo, spends time in a coma" AUs, but the blood loss was bad enough to impact his memory because IDK oxygen deprivation? Anyway, when he wakes up, he DEFINITELY doesn't remember Anakin or why he thought Anakin was The Chosen One, and possibly doesn't remember the last few years of Obi-Wan reaching competency for knighthood.

IDK what the point is other than making Anakin sad that the Really Nice Jedi Who Saved Him doesn't remember who he is. Qui-Gon's still NICE to him, because Anakin is a small child that Obi-Wan seems very fond of (a future grand-padawan for Qui-Gon, he guesses), but...

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i love sith!obi-wan as much as the next person but also, consider: obi-wan being the most stubbornly light-side jedi of all time

through a holocron, anakin and obi-wan come face-to-face with the darkest versions of themselves. anakin, of course, sees a monster. darth vader at his most extreme, murderous and even sadistic in his cruelty, not just violent but enjoying the vicious power his violence grants him. he's like a demon brought to life, the dark side in its purest form, malevolent and evil

meanwhile, obi-wan is still obi-wan just slightly worse. obi-wan but with like a bit of a drinking problem and he's let himself go a little. obi-wan but he's gotten addicted to world of space warcraft and is chugging more space mountain dew than might be ideal. The Darkness Within is just obi-wan indulging his self-destructive tendencies and maybe being a bit more of a bitch than he already is, turning up scruffy and less well-groomed than og obi-wan but still absolutely, unmistakably in the light

dude is incorruptible. a beacon of light, stubbornly staying light no matter what life throws at him.

(naturally, obi-wan is still horrified by "evil" obi-wan. dude is listening to his albums on speaker phone. he is so inconsiderate)

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DRAWTOBER #10 - don't let the madness change us by stardustandswimmingpools

“Parker,” Eliot hisses at the ceiling vent, “what the fuck?" Aw, shit. “Aw, shit.” Hardison grimaces, rubbing his head. In the…excitement of the night, he completely forgot about Parker. “Parker, why are you in the ceiling?” There's a long pause. “I don't understand the question,” Parker says.

this is essentially relationship negotiation: the fic, but it's also a lot more fun and cute and lovely than that sounds! Hardison and Eliot have a conversation trying to figure out what spending time together in the bedroom means for them, and uh. also Parker is there. in the ceiling. because of course she is.