Sometimes I honestly feel so bad for how much I hate on certain characters within my fics because I'm writing from an oc's perspective. Half the reason I include different characters pov's is to show how unreliable some of my oc's opinions and inner monologuing is. I'm writing a short Luke pov right now in the prequel for my solo oc, because I feel like I've done him so dirty from her pov, the same as Han. In the prequel Han's a good dad, really solid parent and is the one meeting those emotional needs when Leia puts pressure on her, although he can be questionable in his "you got expelled? did you make it worth it? here have a beer" parenting style. But he really just wanted her to be happy more than anything else and trusted her to find her way through life and understood that screw ups were a part of that. He set her up with an illegal hyperdrive, had a blaster made for her and sent her on her way knowing she was capable. So I do feel bad that Hope keeps dragging him to filth in the main story after the family broke up but they'll reconcile.
But in the final chapter of the prequel... honestly Luke's pov is just a solid mental breakdown right before the temple's destroyed. Hope lowkey tried to kill Ben (he had it coming) and they both just threw each other under the bus for a range of crimes from attempted kidnapping to actual murder and he is simply exhausted. He's been doing his best but his best just isn't working for the solo kids. At this point he's praying to Obi-Wan for some guidance on how to handle anakin and ahsoka jr (like obi-wan ever figured that one out) and I can summarise his thought process with "I love my niece, I truly do. She is the best of both her parents and I admire how passionate she is but oh my god she needs to chill tf out for five seconds, learn some emotional regulation and tone down the skywalker dramatics. She just threw her brother straight through a wall, which I'm sure he deserved, but she is proving every point I've ever made about her training. Leia please hurry up and get here before they try to kill each other and me." Cough she doesn't.
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I hope so too!
neither of them got along with Wednesday, but he also went out of his way to start physical confrontations with them.
but when Marmaduke was still around, they'd all lie together peacefully (even though Marm had TERRIBLE social skills with other cats, and would walk straight at them making intense eye contact! which in cat language usually means "I am about to start a fight")
and then with my mom's construction site kittens, Pangur isn't overly friendly, but will also follow them around in fascination, lie near them, and parallel play while they're playing. so she clearly loves their company, even if she's not willing to be best buds
I think the kitten will be initially annoying to them, but will eventually be a source of entertainment, and possibly even a friend.
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"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage.
It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.
“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”
But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.
Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.
National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...
The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.
If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."
-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023
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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!
Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.
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