yourcousin-vinny

[yourcousin-vinny]

POV: You've woken up Captain Sisko in the middle of the night to ask him for a runabout 🥺👉👈

(Best quality version without weird colour shifting)

Stills below

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

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blorbo feelings emotes for your discord server. feel free to use/edit/whatever

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favorite part of the episode tbh

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favorite part of the episode tbh

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I imagine that Coruscant has a vertically stratified society, and I think a lot of people clue into this subconsciously, making the people at the top very rich, and the people in the lower levels very poor. However. If you look at the way Coruscant is actually portrayed, there are plenty of poor people on the surface, so I think each level is individually stratified further. So there are upper level rich, upper level average, and upper level poor, mid-level rich, mid-level average, and mid-level poor, lower level rich, lower level average, and lower level poor. So each subset of Coruscant's stratified society is internally divided as well.

Now, I will admit that this is in part inspired by my love of underground cities. You know how everyone has a YA dystopian series they loved as a kid? Mines The City of Ember. Does anyone else remember that or is it just me? In any case, I don't want to take him out of the underground simply because I think underground cities are cool, so I AM biased, but I think I can make it work.

I think he's fits best in the mid-level rich category. So he is wealthy. Like, wealthy, wealthy. But not as wealthy as the upper level rich class that his family is desperate to reach. So, morals? None. Nothing that will stop them from reaching their desired social class. I'm giving them all Estonian names because I will die on the hill that the Kallus' are Estonian. So Maarja and Aarne Kallus have two children, Alexsandr and Tatjana. Alexsandr is their oldest and yay! Their first born is a son which is good because rigidly enforced gender roles, I don’t fuckin know, don't ask me what that's about. The problem is, their son is a troublesome child.

First of all, I do think that Kallus is autistic, and that makes being born into a family where he has to small talk and network his way up a social ladder a fucking nightmare for everyone involved, ESPECIALLY for this young neurodivergent child who has little to no support. So he lashes out and gets into trouble outside the home. He's out with friends getting into trouble and his parents enable his bad behavior by paying off damages and legal fees that he accumulates through the years. Boys will be boys, after all. So he never has to face the music. No one's ever looked at him and said 'no, this is your mess. You clean it up.'

He's also gay and I imagine his parents are constantly trying to find good marriage matches for their children - good as in, will make us look better to the uber richy riches, so they're trying to marry UP. And Sasha is proving difficult because this boy cannot sit through a date with these rich girls his parents need him to marry for their sake, but he keeps flirting with their brothers. And his parents absolutely know what's up but they put their foot down and shove this already drowning boy further underwater.

His antics are eventually too much for them - and he's making them look bad - so he's shipped off to military school, where he immediately almost fails out - if it weren't for Jovan.

His parents finally lay off a bit, because, for the first time, he's succeeding at something and he throws himself into his training because people are finally proud of him.

His sister, underestimated at first, ends up their parents golden child. She loves to be social, she doesn't mind dating rich, she's ambitious, she's everything their parents wanted Alexsandr to be. Tatjana works in fashion, co-opting alternative styles to make a name for herself, without really understanding the underlying politics associated with those alternative styles but hey, at least she's fashionable. And as we know, popular fashion and fascism go hand-in-hand. She dresses some of the most famous upper level richy riches and makes a name for herself among them, exactly what her parents wanted and she eventually marries the wealthy son of weapons contractors - who are absolutely in bed with the Empire. The Kallus' are more than happy to align themselves with Imperial aristocracy if it means socially advancing. The haughty attitudes and polished accents are all part of the game. They stop speaking their native language at home - some kind of Old Coruscanti (Estonian) that no one speaks anymore, anyway, so who really cares? (There is in fact a thriving community that continues to speak their language but they throw them all away so they can conform to Imperial social standards, instead of risking standing out). And they finally have what they want. A favorite daughter who married into the exact social class she was supposed to, elevating her parents ambitions, and their son, who was worth something after all, and is one of the highest ranked members of the ISB.

Until Sasha finally snaps, abandoning the Empire for the Rebellion, and the Kallus' carefully curated image crumbles around them.

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

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As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

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I live in such an unserious state. Hateful and spiteful just to make a point.

All because of a bogus claim from a fringe alt-right "news" sites that schools were keeping litterboxes for students who "identify as animals" (it was actually buckets of litter meant for if a student needed to use the restroom during a school shooting)

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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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making a separate post about this too just to ensure visability--The Day the Earth Blew Up is being pulled out of theaters as early as THIS WEDNESDAY--NOT EVEN A FULL WEEK'S RUN BTW 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃--so if you're still on the fence, you'd better go ASAP

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My vibe about ships since forever tbh

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I ended up doing Rex in my insta stories

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sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

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happy st. patrick’s day, here’s a reminder that the english invaded and colonized our country, attempted genocide, when that didnt work punished us for speaking our own language and enjoying our culture to the point where precious few even speak Gaeilge as a primary language, brutally crushed those who attempted to rebel, ignited a civil war intentionally so they could keep the north, fanned the flames of the Troubles, allowed prisoners to starve to death on hunger strike to send a message, treated us like 2nd class citizens in both our own country and in the UK for years, CONTINUE to fuck over the north, and now attempt to profit off our national holiday by getting really drunk even though the alcohol issues that my country is famous for are due to the above reasons. have a good one