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He went looking for a soul to STEAL not a soul to WIN.

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It's obviously Rum & bathtub gin that makes you go blind.

I've always thought Margarita would be a beautiful name for a little girl

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Big news everybody! It's back in stock!

This is a quality product I have enjoyed for over ten years and I plan on buying more for the other rooms of my house!

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If you told me that this isn't the real Justin Bieber but instead is a hyper realistic ventriloquist dummy that John Waters had commissioned I would automatically believe you.

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69 cities in the united kingdom and forty seven thousand pubs

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This isn't even the Ant RP website.

tumblr is probbly like, the third biggest site for anthropomorphizing ants.

watching a video of a guy make a miniature model of a hydroelectric dam outside and like. just imagine that youre an ant living nearby like youve been helping in the colony for a few days so you decide to go to the pheromone trails to get some food but the path is now blocked by the fucking hoover dam

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OP is 100% accurate according to this documentary I found.

On jeopardy

Me: "I'll take major cities for 500"

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it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

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I read "olympus" and was like "is this a PJ reference?"

the olympics seems like more trouble than it's worth and we wouldn't need it if we all just valued and congratulated each other more day to day

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Merry Clownmas and Happy Harleydays from your favourite court* jester ❤ 🤡🎄

(the court refers to a court of law because, uh, crime and stuff)

HARLEY QUINN (The Batgirl Adventures #1) - cosplay and photography by @bodyprintmachine; please do not remove caption or repost without credit

❄ for more, find me on instagram & tiktok, both are @/ghulinterrupted ❄

🖤♦️ please check my Harley videos on TikTok ♦️🖤

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@yubsie @aprillikesthings aaaaaand @grimreapersprint

do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable

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Kids today don't know the difference between "cops" and "feds" anyway.

Hello. You and GFFA are probably the two most reliable blogs I know when it comes to what GL actually intended with star wars and also have the most on point finger on the pulse of fandom and such without letting the discourse get to you. So I just have to ask. Where does the idea of the jedi being space cops come from in canon? Especially in more left leaning circles. Haven't they seen that there are indeed actual cops in SW? And who are portrayed like how leftists view cops?

Hey there!

Firstly, it's always an honor when someone puts me and Lumi in the same sentence 😃 been a while since I reminded people, but my blog started because I read hers (and a few others) and I was like "oh shit she makes great points!" and started doing the research on my own.

I mostly attribute my rediscovering my childhood love for the Jedi to her early meta posts. Like, you think I'm good, wait til she gets started again! So thank you, for that!

Onto the subject itself: I've seen the notion pop up in all circles. And it's not exactly wrong, it's just not entirely accurate.

You can find a large collection of George Lucas quotes here, about the Jedi's place in the Republic.

You will see that he uses varying terminology and that's what I think partially muddies the waters.

For example, early on, Lucas describes them as "police officers", but years later he says "they're not cops, they're Marshalls of the Old West" but actually "they're mafia dons" or "intergalactic therapists."

But the one that explains it best, for me, is the following:

"They're not like [the kind of] cops who catch murderers. They're warrior-monks who keep peace in the universe without resorting to violence. The Trade Federation is in dispute with Naboo, so the Jedi are ambassadors who talk both sides and convince them to resolve their differences and not go to war. If they do have to use violence, they will, but they are diplomats at the highest level. They've got the power to send the whole force of the Republic, which is 100,000 systems, so if you don't behave they can bring you up in front of the Senate. They'll cut you off at the knees, politically. They're like peace officers. As the situation develops in the Clone Wars they are recruited into the army, and they become generals. They're not generals. They don't kill people. They don't fight. They're supposed to be ambassadors." - The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020

Bottom line: yes, they're authority figures. But they're not "beat cops" chasing after robbers and criminals.

They're, first and foremost, ambassadors/negotiators/diplomats. They're police for planets and their governments, not the people of the Republic. Again:

They're peace officers.

Now, they can investigate and take more active "police-like" roles during their mandate, but they're not gonna be called upon to investigate a murder (unless that murder is very strange and local authorities are unable to make sense of it).

It's why, when Anakin is talking about "we'll search for the killer, Padmé" Obi-Wan is like "uuuuh... no we won't?"

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I haven't watched an episode in a long time but I still observe the day the pilot aired every year because that's when the world met ROCK THROWING GUY.

Okay, so, just wondering, is the Stargate Fandom still a thing? SG-1 is my favorite show, and I was just wondering if there were still Gaters out there.

All SG teams report! I want to know you're still out there!