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axvoter · 1 year

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Blatantly Partisan Party Review XIII (Victoria 2022): Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews

Prior reviews: None, this is a new party.

Hoo boy here we go!

It is very funny to me that a party with “restore democracy” in its name is right in the thick of manipulating the utterly anti-democratic Group Ticket Voting system to distort the will of voters—and, now, it is right in the thick of just one of the many controversies this election has unleashed.. Basically, the Animal Justice Party pulled a hilarious and righteous sting on “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery and his cabal of parties that exploit Group Ticket Voting system to distort the will of voters. They strung along Druery and will receive preferences from his cabal, but lodged their own group ticket with preferences that align with party ideology and they are now calling for the system to be reformed. In doing so, they spilt some tea, claiming that Druery and Adem Somyurek (DLP, ex-Labor) set up Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews (RDSDA).

The Angry Victorians Party then leaked a video in which Druery claimed that RDSDA is “one of mine”. He goes on: “Every other party was (saying) sack Dan Andrews, sack Dan Andrews, sack Dan Andrews and I was like, ‘Ah ha. We are going to call them the Sack Dan Andrews Party’. And we did. We, me and my allies.”

So, if we accept Druery’s leaked account, this party is simply on the ballot to grab the attention of cookers (notoriously low-info voters at the best of times) and then funnel their preferences to the cabal’s preferred parties. It’s noteworthy that the actual cooker parties seem to have very little to do with RDSDA, giving some credence to Druery. I can’t say I’m too sad about cookers being hoodwinked, but it’s the principle of the matter here.

It gets even more interesting, though. The leader of RDSDA, Tosh-Jake Finnigan, rejects Druery’s claims utterly and says that Druery had “fuck-all involvement”. Who to believe? Welcome to the messy world of micro-party shenanigans!

It doesn’t really matter too much, because this is not a party you want to support. It’s either a Druery front or a revenge party—indeed, it’s probably both. Why do I say it’s a revenge party? Because Finnigan was the whistleblower for the “Red Shirts” scandal. The upshot is that Labor paid $388,000 of public funds during the 2014 election to casual electorate staff who were actually doing party campaign work, but earlier this year the Victorian ombudsman determined that Dan Andrews had not “designed, propagated, or facilitated” the scheme. Now, say what you will about the scandal—and frankly I felt like it had very little cut-through, with almost the only people who cared about it being Labor opponents who wanted something to shout about—but the whole experience appears to have left Finnigan extremely angry and their chosen path for revenge is this micro-party.

Guess where you’ll find RDSDA’s website. No, go on, guess.

It’s not Restore Democracy dot com dot au, no, RDSDA snaffled up viclabor dot org. You can just about feel the grudge.

And what sort of policies do RDSDA offer, anyway? I dunno if policies for a chip-on-the-shoulder preference-harvesting-front are worth the site they’re posted on, but RDSDA promises they will “drain Dan’s swamp” (spot the Trumpian language!) by… uhh… a few lazy bullet points posing as policy. They want a royal commission into and greater oversight of IBAC and the ombudsman (i.e. “they ruled against me therefore they will suffer”). And most of the rest of the bullet points are childish rants about “Ending Dan’s Inner City Woke Agenda”, whatever that is, “Ending Dan’s Dictatorship”, which is tied to anti-lockdown cooker rhetoric, and “Stop[ping] Dan lecturing, screaming at, and bullying working-class Victorians”. It’s puerile stuff—but you expected that from a party with a personal attack for a name, didn’t you?

My recommendation: Give Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews a weak or no preference. Remember to vote below the line on the large ballot for the Legislative Council so that your preference goes where you want it to go; all ballots with 5 or more preferences marked below the line are valid votes.

Website: https://viclabor.org/

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femmedefandom · 1 month

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so I actually really enjoy the OG SQQ, he is such an angsty and dramatic bitch absolutely stuffed with trauma and terrible coping behind that ice cold veneer and it’s a shame we didn’t get more of him. there’s just so much to explore with him and he gets cut out and missed by his sect exactly 0% which is pretty heartbreaking.

#svsss #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #og!sqq #a guy that had the outline of a protagonist but the realism of life #orphan child taken living on the streets that has seen too much darkness to be naive but he cares for the other children in his own way #tries to survive the streets and being sold to an abusive family #his friend is saved and brought to a better life leaving him behind #he’s stuck playing the gentle toy for an oblivious girl as her brother torments him regularly #he’s abandoned by his friend and he decides to take fate into his own hands #learning cultivation from a rogue and breaking free of his chains the only way he’s learned how #with brutal and efficient violence…all by himself #he murders his abusers and the rogue who pushed him further into darkness and crime #he makes his way to a righteous cultivation sect to see his brother who he thought was lost to him in death…#…doing apparently just fine as the future sect leader of the top sect with nothing but a bright shiny future and no worries #his past and betrayals have turned him bitter and cutting and closed off but more driven than anyone else #he suffers from qi deviation and likely issues being around other men and substandard education to become head disciple and later peak lord #but no matter how high he goes all he sees is that little beaten and abandoned boy who was good enough for no one with no future #all those fancy worries and honors mean nothing to someone who did anything to survive #all the vague apologies in the world do nothing to ease the suffering he’s experienced #all the rumors and snide remarks are worth him trying to explain himself constantly - to justify his existence #and all the self loathing that has built up could have done nothing but explode upon meeting the blessed protagonist #don’t mind me #just in my feels about sqq again #mxtx why did you make this man only to throw him away??

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fly-away-flynn · 9 months

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Hi!

Apologies for my absence. I was extremely overwhelmed by the hate in this Fandom, so I left for a little while. Simply to get settled into college and find joy in my life once more.

My advice would be to leave people alone and let them do what they want. The discourse posts in this Fandom are FAR too high for something as specific as this Fandom is. There is a problem with alienating people because they are not the same as you. Just leave them alone. Your interpretation of the book may be different than someone else’s. That’s okay. Don’t harass them for it or make wildly vague posts about it.

It all comes down to posting the content you like. Not posting about things you DON’T like.

#lotf #lord of the flies #The good thing about being back on Tumblr is I can post art!#Im excited for that #But you all act like children so the Fandom/Book is hard to enjoy and consume content for #I am not joking it is like pulling pigtails on a playground you guys are better than this #Great News once more: I don’t live on campus so it will be easier for me to post #Perhaps a hypocritical post but I’m hoping you all stay in your lane after this just as I will be doing

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hopeinthebox · 10 months

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i was tagged by the effervescent @cordiallyfuturedwight and i bow to her selections once again. magnificent stuff. somewhat delayed but tagging some favs @aprylynn @thvinyl @banghwa @yooboobies @pauls-mccharmly @kimchokejin @kithtaehyung 💜

#here's the debrief (if only for myself):#unknown/nth. i saw hozier live this weekend and it was a biblical experience. i achieved apotheosis during this song and at least six others #and have been Changed because of it. for better or worse- it's too early to say #02 folk malone got to me. what can i say #i loved northern attitude last year and i must've missed the stick season train but good lord did it total me this time round #feathered indians.. look. every so often i fall victim to the bluegrass and this is one of those times. lord forgive me.#maggie rogers' tim mcgraw is masterful #and annie lennox has never once missed eurythmics or otherwise #the lilo and stitch soundtrack is something that can be so personal #kamehameha schools children's chorus for artist of the year except they're all probably pushing thirty now #springsteen i will always keep coming back to. nebraska is an album and a half #dolly needs no explanation #olivia dean hasn't been around too long but oh my god she's got IT. whatever it is #dial drunk my stay toxic anthem. it's a good one. see also: the rest of the album #as for the artists - can i go a month without abba in there challenge FAILED AGAIN #also honorable mention ryan beatty. i've only just discovered calico and it's a masterpiece front to back #that's all folks. if you read all of this i'm sending you a big kiss <33 get help #tag #receiptify

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nonuggetshere · 10 months

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So they didn't become void, they were "born" that way

In FaaF there are different species and kinds of higher beings (still a MASSIVE work in progress tbh, trying to figure out how these cunts work, but for now I'm thinking they're extremely rare species with far greater abilities and lifespans than a normal bug's that have a chance to ascend to true godhood (but even if they don't ascend that doesn't stop mortals from worshipping them as they're already very god-like from a normal bug's perspective)), "pale beings" being one of these kinds/mutations.

Well, there was also a different kind once, "void beings", but they all went extinct a very long time ago by the beginning of the story. Shade Lord was one, and last, of them and it lost its life in a fight with Radiance - the same fight that drove her to make her permanent residence in the dream realm out of her new-found fear of death (which backfired spectacularly ngl). Its body was buried in the Abyss, where it broke apart and decayed, or decayed as much as a non-living thing can, before it was unearthed many ages later by the pale wyrm.

Not much is known about them since they've been gone for so long, and the vessels are the only void beings remaining, but since they're not "pure" void beings it'd be foolish of anyone to assume that the ancient extinct species behaved the same way as these ones do. But they were generally greatly feared thanks to the void's freaky, dangerous properties, which partly lead to their extinction as some of the other higher beings purposefully attacked and killed them whenever they stumbled across one out of fear. Now the only thing remaining of them are the rare void sources, where their former bodies still refuse to fully die.

Shade Lord does get accidentally resurrected in the story bc of all the tomfoolery happening with its body before almost immediately getting killed again by Ghost who inherits its title and reign. Don't ask me how that works, haven't figured that out yet. Magic god shit or something idk LMAO

#thylacines can talk #faaf au #I read somewhere once that if we close mammoths they wouldn't be true mammoths but more like a mammoth elephant hybrid? Idk how accurate #that is but that's essentially what the vessels are. A hybrid species that behaves and looks a lot like the extinct one yet the differences #are significial enough that they're technically not the same thing. And since nobody knows how void beings were like its anyone's guess #which of their traits originated from Shade Lord. You know they could have probably asked it if it didn't want to violently take over #and kill all other gods in rage filled revenge. And then tried to kill its so called children when they didn't want to participate in that.#PK 🤝 SL 🤝 WL parent of the year award #The vessels can't have even ONE good parent sorry #Well SL is less of a parent and more of a...DNA donor? Its kidneys got stolen and turned into babies #Currently in FaaF Norel and PK we're the only ones who studied void so a lot of its properties and origins are a huge mystery. And PK #slowly stopped after the vessel plan began. After Flower/Pure Vessel was taken into the palace the extent of his studies revolved around #them and their health. He only created new moulds when the old ones got destroyed. Guilt played a big part in his reasons for that.#Norel would know a bit more simply because PK's source sample was limited while Norel travelled across wasteland looking for void and #experimented with different sources. And he was considerably more...unethical about them. So he probably knows what void does to a mortal's #body while PK doesn't know much about that bc he was careful to not give any of his citizens and staff void poisoning after he realised it #was dangerous. Also thinking about Norel once having a mole in the White Palace which is how he found out about Floeer and the origins of #vessels. And maybe said mole broke into PK's workshop and wrote down some things before leaving Hallownest 👀 Bc it does feel a little #weird for Norel to know more than PK just like that. And he's a little snake who WOULD steal other people's work.#Like I mentioned previously Norel makes his own constructs which is something I wanted dabble in. Maybe he stole that idea from PK? His #ones are far worse and fewer than PK's but they serve their purpose and he's just starting dabbling in that. By the time he shows his ugly #mug again to terrorise Flower's kids and grandkid he'd probably be MUCH better at that 👀#I love my fucked up little moth #My one true talent is getting wildly off topic whenever sh asks me about my as #Aus*

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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 months

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though i eventually got to read some, in earlier years goosebumps books would be the kind of series where i'd just ponder the cover art, and i always liked the drama of the monster blood illustration (the lighting/colors....sure nothing's happening in it but i felt it evoked the drama of "what if you're downstairs and something's upstairs" much like "what if you're upstairs and something's downstairs") like well too bad i guess i never got around to reading i at the time. but as of a recap yesterday i'm surprised to now be at least 90% sure i read part if not all of it, and thinking i hadn't may be due to how kind of nothing happens in it

#absolutely nothing familiar until ''there's a dog named trigger & the kid at one point has to rescue trigger from choking'' like Aha #for sure still remember various Events & Details from gb books i Know i've read....#welcome to dead house; the ghost next door maybe my most well absorbed ones lol. lot going on in those definitely #let's get invisible. some choose your own adventure varieties. calling all creeps. oh the haunted mask ofc; all time classic....#definitely hadn't read the phantom of the auditorium; reading it as an adult was a delight #things on the other side or the middle of the stairs it's just like skinamarink heck for real #itself like well that's absolutely the horror of being kids if not ''kids' horror'' lol #but that aspect is always inherently present in kids' horror...always surrounded by mysteries & lack of power/autonomy & fairly isolated...#anyways had a parent whose Disapproval Mode could be set off by various media available to kids my age so that was a minefield #(same parent thought it was inappropriate for some tv 14 rated programs to be available in a house solely ft. adults so there you are)#at least at first was of the ''horror for children?? inappropriate'' approach about it. i didn't check the books out of libraries ever #but eventually must've calmed down abt that b/c we Did own some & that's how i read most of ones i did #too late i was always a kid intrigued by / seeking out horror materials....john bellairs books which got pretty wild....#much less so as an adult b/c horror gets worse (& not in any good way) aimed for teens / adults like lord. You Do Not Get It #anyways turns out monster blood is probably riffing off the blob mostly but it's like not thee blob until way later #so most of the book wouldn't really be that memorable if it's 80% ''and then here was another weird thing abt the gunk''#but i would remember like oh no the dog is in mortal peril :( nooo trigger (trigger was fine)#sure didn't misremember that in welcome to dead house the dog went missing & was implicitly killed over Sensing The Deadness #appreciated that element in phantom of the auditorium where they're hanging out at zeke's & he has a dog #& secret but really just chilling painting sets & very corporeal ghost brian is like ''aw cmon...'' at that dog Not Liking Him #which is some barking & not being enthused abt brian's efforts to play fetch w/a ball lmao #but only to a mild degree like yeah he's not doing anything. brooke & zeke witnessing this simply like lol lmao #that trio is sooo funny. ghost just hanging out; So nervous; ending up dragged into the friend duo absolute menaces hellions lmao....#the paint on his shirt bit. just the way the whole back & forth of 4 ppl goes; it kills Me....

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merrysithmas · 2 years

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You know there seems to be a lot of fighting within the fandom about the Jedi Order and weather or not they were flawed. It seems people go with one of two extremes.

The Jedi were THE good guys who never did anything wrong and if you criticize them your attacking the real world religions GL pulled from so yours bigot.

Or the were their the worst, weren’t any better than the Sith and, were a people who “needed” to be wiped out without any redeeming qualities.

As a SW newbie it’s very intense and a lot to take in. It gets feather confusing. Not to mention difficult to discern which claims have legitimate backing.

I feel like I can trust you not to be aggressive as well a more full picture person. With a trustworthy opinion. So I was wondering what are your opinions on the Jedi? Were they flawed? Why or why not? And how did those any flaws affect them especially in relations to training Anakin?

(That seems to be the biases for most arguments I’ve seen honestly. That either it’s all Anakin’s fault and he was ungrateful and this didn’t deserve to be a Jedi. Or the Jedi are his villain origin story)

Aw anon! Thank for your good faith and please also do not let anyone's pushy fandom opinion get to you. You are 100% entitled to your thoughts on any fandom topic and those that try to monopolize the stage in fandom and cruelly cut down others are truly not worth attention or energy.

Everyone is allowed to think what they want on any topic (including hardline positions such as the "The Jedi were the Ultimate Good", or "The Jedi were useless and should end") - however the second anyone who thinks those things crosses the boundary of demanding others also follow those opinions or be branded "bad" "misinterpreting media" etc it's just nonsense. Don't feel intimiated by anyone to change your opinion.

Everyone comes at media from a different place, different background etc. Which means everyone has a unique and important perspective on its lessons - none of which are more true than another.

I feel like people take those hardline opinions in SW, prohibiting any other, because they look at SW through a single lens (like say, as an allegory for politics Freedom vs Fascism). That is valid, but Star Wars can be see as much more than a political story, or a political story and a spiritual story simultaneously if one chooses.

It can also be seen as an exploration of our inner lives- our duality. It can be seen as a story of Balance. It can be seen as a story which focus on themes such as those of Fatherhood, masculinity & femininity, passivity & aggression. Or as a story of opposed Good vs Evil - but what makes up good and what makes up evil? Everyone will have different versions of an answer for that. You can hold all these thoughts of SW together at once as well!

For instance, of course Star Wars has a obvious political side: Freedon vs Fascism. As an audience we nearly always side with the sympathetic rebels... no one wants the Empire to win in reality.

But we are allowed to be interested in the characters of the Empire... what led them there, what are their cruelest intentions? Are some brainwashed? Were some strong armed? What parts of them have humanity? None? Most? What about characters like Finn who were kidnapped and conscripted? Ventress who turned her back on Dooku? Reva who murdered families to ultimately avenge her family? Kylo Ren who was manipulated? Galen Erso who became an Imperial to save others, likely while killing many more during service? Han Solo who became as an Imperial conscripted soldier, who was a scoundrel and thief but was imperative to Luke's success? Vader who was a Sith but ultimately saved the Galaxy? Maul who realized the cruelty of the Sith? etc We are allowed to empathize, cheer on, and identity with all of them because they represent pieces of us, too.

The same can be said for the rebels & "good guys". Cassian Andor who used violence for good? Jyn Erso who was indifferent until it became personal? Rey who ran away from responsility and truth? Anakin Skywalker who used his unmatched power to kill thousands for the Republic and was cheered on as a hero of freedom? Saw Gerrera who was an insurrectionist but did what many thought "needed to be done"? Boba Fett who eventually sought to protect the people of Tatooine under a criminal empire? Nightsister Merrin who tried to kill Cal Kestis only to eventually see him as an ally? etc.

Thinking about things like these helps us to understand the world around us, and helps us better understand the human condition.

Star Wars is also a spiritual story. As a buddhist witch myself I do not see it as a story of diametrically opposed "Good vs Evil" but a story about Balance. People are free to see it as hardline good and evil, but in my view of the world those two things don't ever exist in a vaccuum.

The energies of dark and light coexist in all of us, giving us continual hope and trials. I even feel labeling them as "dark and light" is a misnomer. It is more passivity and aggression. Both of which can be used for good and bad intentioned acts.

The way I see it the Sith and Jedi, in their dogma, missed this with their constant opposition and fighting. The Force is one - there is no dark or light, only the whole unified Force. To me, it is the individual that chooses the intent of their actions: we can use passion to inspire peace, violence for protection, attachment for inspiration & as an anchoring good. Or we can use all those things for bad.

Our guiding light for well-intention is our principles of tolerance, acceptance, compassion, and understanding. The Jedi espouse these views and often act on them - their code is certainly a pinnacle of philosophy which can inspire well-intentioned deeds- however they are imperfect, like us all!

Yoda once said fear is the Path to the Dark. The way I see it, the Order unintentionally taught fear of emotions which had no alignment- emotions are inherently neutral. Yoda realized this in RotS. Simply having certain emotions don't make someone "closer to the dark side"... it is how we handle them that does that. By fearing passion, attachment, anger, we do not learn how to face and embrace them. By seeking always to "control" them and not act on them, express them, embody them, free them, alchemize them, we miss out on what they have to teach us. And that need for control over them gives them power over us and our inexperience.

In The Jedi Path, a jedi textbook, we learn of the extremism of the early Jedi which to me, when taken to certain extents - was distasteful! I am a Jedi fan and I disliked it.

Though they were an Institution which strived for good, the early Jedi were warsome, conformist, and frighteningly strict with no room for natural evolutionary growth through the ages. It's akin to say... people who insist the US Constitution written 300 years ago must be abided by at all costs, when many feel it should be a living document open to growth and change. Or like the language or French which prohibits official changes in its structure to include slang from different languages etc. It doesn't grow or change, and sometimes this weakens institutions - not strengthens them.

The Sith on the other hand embraced these emotions without a code of ethics - they feared a Code because of what they saw as the suffocation of the Jedi rules and regulations. Unfortunately this caused them to go hog wild in the other direction, leading to chaos. They used these emotiona (and the power that came with them) to crush, kill, dominate, and destroy. Their perverse beliefs were to weed out the weak in society and obtain a "rightful" position of authority. Truly evil! However if we look at this as a microcosm of our inner duality, it makes sense. We often seek to weed out or kill what we see as weak in ourselves - for good or bad.

In the Book of Sith, we see the Sith develop many incredible skills the Jedi lack because of their unwillingness to change. Sith alchemy, although used for evil by the Sith - can easily be drawn as a comparison for things like IVF, medicine, science, cloning, vaccines etc. Things that "go against nature" (the Jedi on the other hand insisted "nature" was the final say of the Force on one's reality).

In fact, Darth Plagueis' writings on the midichlorians and the "ability to manipulate life" and break it down to its bare essentials VERY MUCH screamed modern science to me. It screamed self-determinism and rising above our "natural"-born state. It screamed a "challenge" to the will of "God" (The Force). Dr Frankenstein stuff. The Sith argued nature was also a prison - one that our minds & intellect can propel us beyond. I believe in Christian mythos this would be like the Apple eaten in the Garden of Eden. Sure, it opened the couple to the evils of the world, but also gave them free will and intellect.

Simple things like glasses, medicine, X rays, cars, etc. The Sith are rebuking acceptance of "nature" as a lack of ingenuity and an insult to the free will and mind - a stagnation. They despise the Jedi for their inertia. Interesting stuff!

Unfortunately, again, the Order of the Sith and its leaders (such as Plagueis) uses this knowledge for selfish reasons. Hurts others to obtain it.

The Sith mantra remains somewhat inspirational: Peace is a lie; there is only passion, Through passion I gain strength, Through strength I gain power, Through power I gain victory, Through victory my chains are broken, The Force will set me free.

In a way, they are correct! Where does peace come from but from our passion to obtain it? If we weren't so intent on our will to meditate, relax, self care... we wouldn't achieve it. Through this passion and the benefits we reap from it we can gain strength of character. Through that, personal power of will. And through that, freedom from our egos or circumstances.

You'll see the Sith and Jedi codes are literally complimentary- there is a reason for this! It is because the Force is not split into good and evil... people did that. Institutions did that. Luke, in TLJ, tries to teach this to Rey in his first lesson on Ahch-to. That is a very "Good vs Evil" Christian-influenced morality which I don't personally find applicable to the concept of the Force.

In my opinion the Jedi Way is Goodness, but the Jedi Order is an Institution run by people - who no matter how much they profess to be good, are always corruptible. We see this example many times in canon from Jedi. The jedi Path is goodness. However the Order and its rules often equate themselves to the Path, which is their folly.

Conversely, the Way of the Sith is self-realization, but the Sith Order is an Instituion run by people - who no matter how much they profess to be seeking freedom, are often unstable in their confusion and pain. This corrupts their actions to violence and evil. However, as they are only people... it means they are capable of redemption. We see examples of this as well in Maul and Vader.

The Jedi Order did not "deserve" to be obliterated by any means. But I think focusing on "deserve" is a little misguided. In the SW mythos, by creating the Chosen One the Force presented a litmus test to all Institutions in the Galaxy - the Sith, the Jedi, the Senate, the individuals involved, the people of the Galaxy at large. How they reacted to and treated the McGuffin of Anakin was essentially cementing their fate in stone. Like the Prince in Beauty and the Beast turning away the Old Woman at the castle and being condemned by it.

The Jedi neglected his special needs, the Sith manipulated him, the Senate used him as a weapon for war victory, Padme married him despite knowing he was grieving his mother and wanted to be a Jedi, Obi-wan often fumbled with him because of his own inability to self-analyze, the peoples of the galaxy murdered his mother, enslaved him.

In the eyes of the Force, the galaxy failed its child.

That is not to the say the Jedi were not overwhelmingly good intentioned, they were! Some in the Senate also desperately wanted peace. Padme was struggling with her own lack of childhood and nervous breakdown. Obi-wan had been derailed his entire life by Qui-gon's death. Anakin was continually abused and used for his abilities in every direction. The tragedy of Star Wars is: They were all good, but they failed regardless.

All those institutions were built on some kind of instability which pervaded as tiny cracks to their ethics. Letting evil seep in (how Sidious slithered through). They were all going to fall eventually, it was just a matter of when and how.

Which I think leads to the important number one lesson of Star Wars (to me) whether you look at it as Good vs Evil, a political story, a tale of inner Balance, a metaphor for the soul, a philosophical exercise on duality, or a spiritual story... the main lesson is:

Hope.

That you can be good and fail. And start over.

You can be bad and succeed in your badness - realize it is wrong, and start over.

We can see our passion as power and be free.

We can see our passion as an enemy and have peace.

It depends on inner wisdom, love, and support. It depends on sometimes reaching out in compassion, and other times turning our backs. It depends on our will to fight, and other times our wisdom not to. It depends on killing the past and other times accepting it and letting it guide us.

It depends on many things but most of all, empoweringly, It depends on what we want.

And as for your question about how I feel Anakin was influenced by the Jedi and whose "fault" his fall was - in my opinion, as per textual on-screen canon, it was everyone's. The Jedi, the Sith, the Senate, Padme, Obi-wan, many many others, and of course also Anakin himself.

However... it is those very same people and systems, The Jedi, the Sith, the Rebellion, Padme (Luke), Obi-wan, many others, and of course Anakin himself... which also redeemed him. And saved the galaxy.

Intention. Choice.

Duality.

😉

#ask #anon #sw asks #anakin skywalker #i could go on and on and on further but ill #but ill spare you lol #the only true evil in SW imo is Sidious (the devil figure)#aka the sith Lord of which no one ever is except sidious #when vader killed sidious and by defacto finally became the Sith Lord and not a slave he killed himself to free luke #proving his ultimate goodness and destroying evil and bringing balance to the force #he had a chance to finally have ultimate power inherited from every sith for ten thousand years and all they passed down teachings #and he threw it away in 1 minute for luke and leia his children and their future in a kind galaxy #also sidenote anon if someone wants to fight you in fandom just block them thats what i do #we are all here to have fun #dont feel bad about block block block #the tldr of this ask is it better to be good or authentic? the answer is both and the space in the middle

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bunting27 · 1 year

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rb or dm to stay in touch / start being in touch (?) during the off season <3

#yelling in the tags cause why not #i am SO PROUD OF MY CHILDREN #ALL OF THEM #michael bunting you beautiful beautiful rat specimen no matter what happens this season i will be rooting for you #offseason*#the day you draw a four minute cause you’re bleeding i will be there #joseph woll. good lord.#you could not have walked into a building more on fire if you tired #and you did SO WELL #have a year next season <3 #16 34 88 91. you guys are so spectacular and people like to be up your asses cause you’re hot. love u #sammy my boy #you were godly #i love the no filter thing keep it up #more goaltenders should start stating their level of not giving a fuck #reeser you and carl keep fucking it up (what is it you may ask? idk man)#morgan rielly you both simultaneously deserve this break cause you worked your ass off #and don’t cause you also deserve to be prepping for g6 #jarny i am so glad to have you got the next many years you were SPLENDID #LILY!! such a good season. kisses #rasmus sandin and pierre engvall you are so missed #SO MISSED DUDE #i’ve run out of brain cells it’s 6am #i just got home from an 8 hour shift #time to sleep so hard i’m dead to the world #moots ily #violet talks nonsense

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combeauferre · 1 year

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going to rip apart the next customer who is rude to me with my teeth. had enough

#it's been quiet all week and suddenly everyone wants to be in the fucking store with their loud children and their stupid grumpy faces #i am sorry i dont have a bag for you but you do in fact not have to look at me like i am dirt on ur shoe 💖#i am so fucking tired and fed up today good lord #incoherent rambling

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elainemorisi · 2 years

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what the hell do people define as a date night, babysitting-wise?

#facebook groups whining about hourly rates #I sympathize (not that it's sufficient) if we're talking daytime/fullish time childcare; it is indeed economically impossible #but is even a $5 hourly 'increase' (above expected) rate for a date night... a big deal?#or am I just assuming a much higher 'appropriate' in these folks' minds rate than they actually have #it's like... five hours absolute tops?#isn't it???#anyway the comments about the rates one charged in the 90s are just the cherry on top #a) 90s b) holy christ do teenage babysitters undervalue themselves #I understand why but good lord somebody needs to teach these children to not take jobs without discussing compensation first #'oh I'd just take whatever they paid me' NO! NO CHILD!#oh my god AND they object that it's under the table so the babysitter keeps it all #like wtf? care about what you pay that's your business #the FUCK does it matter that it all goes to them???#that's a... good thing? the christ?

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earlyspringtranscendence · 2 years

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accidentally started re reading arcane ascension & now i’m thinking abt an arcane ascension wrestling au. corin & sera youngbucks type beat. corin hates it deeply and wishes instead that he could be like hook but unfortunately corin is by no means cool enough to be hook

#corin you're a loser and a nerd you tag w ur sister and thats IT #but actually the feud that could happen btwn a faction of the cadence family v the new faction of corin & sera #like magnus cadence sends corin out to go train and be better with sera they join up with fucking uhhh #god what is his name. see this is the problem w audiobooks absolutely 0 sense of what someones called. hold pleae #DEREK thats the boy anyway they join w derek its all good and well then magnus wants corin back n like #gets voiceofthetower (once again i do not know names) to whisper mean things in corins ear #abt how theyre his Real family and he'd never be good enough to be part of sera's family #also at some point keras accidentally stumbles into the hartigan faction he really has no idea how he got there but doesnt leave #everyones like WOW fucking KERAS SELYRIAN is taking these youngins under his wing !!!#in reality its derek who's taking all of them under his wing and keras was just kinda in the wrong place at the wrong time #and now he has children #(ough keras' Storied Past could be such a moment too. i still havent read the last book in his series but ugh <3)#his series being like. weapons and wielders i mean. cause ive read broken mirrors #ANYWAY. last thing i'll say on the matter for now is the lord teft face turn we're all patiently waiting for in canon anyway #like i feel like at this point he's made it there but yk.#dont magnus and teft know each other ??? the face turn of teft beating the shit out of magnus w his cane ugh <3 love it <3 #hey mr rowe are you interested in writing about wrestling for a bit? i love you #recently read #<- putting it in that tag bc that tag really only exists cause of AA it might as well be my AA tag in general #OUGH . KERAS & PATRICK TAG TEAMING . OGUH !!!!

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gemini-in-tauro · 7 months

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Existing right now on fandom twitter is watching fancops trying to explain to you why depicting war crimes, (child) muder/manslaughter, animal abuse, cannibalism, psychological warfare and so on is morally permissible.

But the moment you add incest to it? Yucky. Because apparently it will make you incestuous irl.

#fandom #shipping discourse #there was someone explaining that 'haunting ground' was a good option of a horror game instead of the incestuous cannibalistic sibblings #then. they added rule of rose. the- the lord of the flies boarding school girlies. that has implied non consensual and rampant lesbianism #gosh i am so tired they come with new discourse every. single week. i am just in my 20s and it feels like fighting against children #personal #what part of 'horror' did you all not understand?

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wileycap · 6 months

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Selected Excerpts From The Fire Nation Royal Palace Servants' (Unofficial) Handbook

Or: Revisions To Normal Protocol After The Ascension Of Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko

1. Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko should not be referred to by his full titles and styles, no matter the context. This appears to annoy him. "Fire Lord Zuko" and "Lord Zuko" are acceptable, as well as "your majesty" and "my Lord".

1.1 "Lord Hotman", however, is unacceptable.

1.2. Even if the Avatar specifically requests you to address Fire Lord Zuko as that.

1.3. In fact, any attempts by the Avatar, the Lady Beifong, the honorable Tribesman Sokka or even Master Katara to get you to address Fire Lord Zuko by anything other than his proper title should be disregarded.

1.4. Referring to Ozai of the Fire Nation (titles rmvd, dishon.) as "The Loser Lord", however, is acceptable.

2. Fire Lord Zuko is aware of the concept of mortality, but does not seem to understand how it relates to His Majesty. Following activities should be discouraged: Free climbing, glider usage, contact with exotic animals larger than a turtleduck (or smaller, if the animal is known to be venomous), amateur theatre productions, cooking, sailing, spelunking, botany, please see full list in the Matron's office.

2.1. It should be noted that His Majesty's belief that mortality does not apply to him does not appear to be completely unfounded. After several "close calls", it has been decided that upon his demise, Fire Lord Zuko should lie in state for at least two weeks.

2.1.1. We do not want another incident.

3. The turtleducks in the Western Pond do not need to be fed by the servants any more.

3.1. However, the turtleducks should be rotated out at regular intervals in order to prevent overfeeding.

4. At any official social functions, at least three servants should be vigilant in case His Majesty tries to tell a joke.

4.1. It should be noted that there is no concern for His Majesty's jokes being offensive, crass or otherwise contrary to good taste. They are simply very bad. His Majesty always ends up embarrassed.

5. Any children left unattended in the Royal Palace for more than 15 degrees can be retrieved from the Fire Lord's office.

6. Should His Majesty go missing, the following places should be searched: roofs and any high places, cellars and secret passages, the fur of the Avatar's sky bison (which is surprisingly deep), and every place that an ordinary five-year-old would think to hide in during a game of "Hide and Explode."

6.1. All of the Imperial Firebenders as well as any soldier who wears a mask during the course of their duties should be questioned.

6.1.1. Important note: Some of the soldiers who are especially close to His Majesty can perform a passable imitation of him. Efforts should be made to prevent an uneducated soldier from, say, conducting a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture.

6.2. After the recent incident, that list is expanded to include the Kyoshi Warriors and any other groups that might wear concealing full face paint.

6.3. If all of these measures prove ineffective, a letter should be sent to The Dragon of the West, Prince Iroh, asking His Highness to return His Majesty.

6.4. If a ransom note is delivered, it should be immediately checked against the handwriting samples from the honorable Tribesman Sokka as well as Avatar Aang, before any other actions are taken.

6.4.1. Replying "Good luck, he's your problem now" to a ransom note is absolutely unacceptable.

6.4.1.1. To further drive home the point, the Royal Archives are required by law to preserve every single piece of royal correspondence. That thing will end up in a museum.

This handbook will be updated should it prove necessary.

#atla #atla zuko #atla aang #avatar aang #avatar the last airbender #atla spoilers #zuko #atla fic #crack fic #fire nation #sokka #fire nation palace servants' handbook

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hohuios · 10 months

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Tag drop: 2/2

#[ visage. ] you know another man as good looking as i am? the correct answer is no; by the way.#[ mini study. ] is it decided from when we're born then? ones born without much power are fated to be stamped out by you?#[ meta. ] one who's let his soul rot can't measure up to someone with a real soul just by getting power. that's not how it works down here.#[ essence. ] it’s a cruel and random world. and yet the chaos is all so beautiful.#[ humans. ] you think humans are weak. yeah; their bodies lack the physical ability of demons; but they posses something that demons don't.#[ demons. ] he understands love; so he'll make it fine as a human. the only things i choose to exterminate are demons.#[ rebellion. ] i always wondered; why did my father give me the rebellion? if the yamato can separate man from devil…#[ sword of sparda. ] he split his power in three parts. one bore his own name; the second blade was named to embody retaliation...#[ yamato. ] ... and the final blade was named to embody a god of death.#[ sparda. ] why do you refuse to gain power? the power of our father sparda? / father? i don't have a father.#[ eva. ] she loved humanity; a demon and her children. it's far out of reach now; that warm smile from my childhood.#[ vergil. ] jackpot! -- why you gotta leave me hangin'? we used to love saying that. / i have no recollection.#[ nero. ] i should thank you. / that'd be out of character. maybe you should just throw an insult my way instead. / that sounds better.#[ patty. ] well patty; if I'm not mistaken this is one time that i might owe you a little thank you.#[ trish. ] if you get sick of it; you can always come back here. / why that's uncharacteristically kind of you.#[ lady. ] can i come along? / do what you want. but don't expect to get paid.#[ morrison. ] damn; you make me wait forever and then you go making selfish requests. / sorry.#[ v. ] for a second there I thought you were gonna shish kabob me. / i know how stubborn you can be.#[ mundus. ] again i must face a sparda. strange fate; isn't it? / strange and ironic that it will end the same way.#[ syd. ] well then strong and gentle lord dante of the 'real soul.' you'll let me live even now; won't you? just like you did before.

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raitonsfw · 3 months

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𝓈𝓎𝓃𝑜𝓅𝓈𝒾𝓈: | 1 | Gojo wanted to make you a mommy more than anything in the world... and he was fucking determined. | 2 | You couldn't even begin to fathom the feeling of Gojo's blindfold shielding you from existence, his hand tracing up your spine and you knew he wasn't going to make this easy for you.

warnings: 18+ mdni, smut, fem!reader... | 1 | breeding kink, husband!gojo, positions (doggy style, missionary, over his shoulders), many creampies, dirty talk, praising, begging, slight fingering, body worship, p in v intercourse (obvi), rough sex, feral!gojo, talks of having his children, petnames (mama, babe) lord i have sinned cuz this downright filthy... | 2 | blindfolded reader, bondage, doggy style, fingering, p in v intercourse, dirty talk, teasing, cockdrunk!reader, rough sex, praising, pet names (baby, sweetheart, princess, good girl), mentions of riding and switching positions.

a/n: | 1 | i was posessed writing this one, i swear- wc: 600ish. | 2 | i think i'll make this thirst a staple, think we need to see more of reader wearing his blindfold... wc: 600ish. v-day list | m.list

thirst count: 2

divider credit: @hitobaby & @firefly-graphics

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“So good for me… yeah that’s it, mama.” Gojo praised, patting the side of your leg with oomph as you whimpered out his name. He had your legs high in the air, over the mounds of his broad shoulders and you could barely see straight, the entirety of your brain mush as he drilled into you– his cock ramming up against your cervix every time he managed a deep thrust.

Which was every time, mind you.

Gojo had you in so many positions already; doggy had by far been the best for you, your moans muffled by the sheets you were thrown against and you arched your back through every thrust. It was heaven sent, you felt as his hands groped at your thighs, your waist, your ass. But he was indecisive– that fucker, and he wanted to see your face as he shot his third load into you so he flipped you over. His other two had dripped out of you and he cursed under his breath when he noticed, his fingers trying to plug it back up into you.

“Fuck…! –got my dick in a chokehold babe...” He groaned out, his voice breaking at the end of it and you tilted your head back into the feather of the pillows beneath you. He was being absolutely ruthless with you and you couldn’t help but clench around him every time he plunged into you roughly– it made him feral, his bright eyes wide with desire.

“Your body’s so fucking perfect–” He breathed out as your hips started to meet with his own, his eyes rolling back slightly and his love laced words slipped off his tongue with ease. Your breasts bounced prettily on your chest and your back had arched back up towards him, your tummy poking out slightly– which fed his urges. “Need you carrying my kid… Gotta see how sexy you’d look– how fucking gorgeous…”

Your mind short circuited, practically screaming out for him to breed you because, holy fuck that’s all you ever wanted in your lifetime– a kid, his kid. You wanted nothing more than to carry his child, a bond so strong no one would ever threaten to break it and you cried out in ecstasy as he glided his tongue against yours. He swallowed your pleads, rutting into you with pure purpose now and all you wanted him to do was fill you up– again and again and–

“God yes– you wanna have my children, hm…?” Gojo teased in between thrusts, your body trembling as your orgasm crept up your spine. “Can’t get it out of your head huh, with your pussy squeezing me like a vice– shit…! I’ll make you a mama if you ask nicely.”

“Please, Satoru..! Need it–” You babbled, too worked up to care about anything else– you needed his cum painting your cervix white, nothing could sway you out of this now as you yearned out his name over and over.

“That’s right, beg for it.”

And you did, with utmost obedience. Your vision became fuzzy, tiny bursts of color surrounding it as you felt your release harrowing through your body. Gojo’s thrusts faltered, stalled within you and a deep groan filled your ear as he pressed down onto you– trying to bury himself inside of you as he came. He held you against him with his moans panting out against your neck as he lazily rolled his hips into you, fucking his cum as deep as it could go.

“T-Think I’ll stay inside you for a while..wouldn’t want this batch dripping out of you too.” He muttered into your skin as he caught his breath, planting kisses down towards your collarbone. A broad hand laid against your tummy as you reveled in his touch, relaxing into the feeling of being close and full– so full still it made you shiver with anticipation because…

“Think she’ll take after her momma?”

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You wished you had the dexterity of his six eyes; you couldn’t see shit through his blindfold as you zeroed in on the shifting behind you against the bed.

Gojo had you pinned, your wrists tied delicately together as your as tilted up against his pelvis. His hands ran down your thighs, spreading them apart with a simple motion and you could already feel the cold air against your exposed cunt. It wasn’t the best position for you– you wanted to see Gojo, you longed for his beauty inside and out. But at the same time, this thrilled you immensely.

The thought of his blindfold holding you hostage and maybe one of his old ones tied against your wrist – you couldn’t tell – but it was intoxicating to say the least. That he’d go to the lengths of letting you wear it, letting you wear something so sacred to him, to the abundance of his entirety. At that moment, you felt his fingers swipe through your arousal and you whined out in frustration.

“Patience, baby. Don’t gotta wait too long– I got you.” Gojo hummed, plunging two fingers in simultaneously and you keened into it. “Arch some more for me– let me see that pretty pussy, hm?”

And you did the best you could, fucking yourself back on his fingers in the process; you were pleased with yourself when you heard his breath hitch behind you. And the precious sound of his clothes shuffling around his knees. God, you were so drunk for his cock– your entire cunt was dripping for it, messing the sides of your thighs.

You whined out again, not realizing how close he was to you. You jumped slightly at the sound of his voice against the shell of your ear. “You’re not very patient. Here, this feel better?” Gojo pressed the crown of his cock against your entrance and a sharp gasp fell from your lips, mixing with his own groan. “Ah– Of course it does... Ass up, sweetheart.”

His hands gripped the sides of your waist, positioning himself at just the right angle to fuck into you. Gojo didn’t give you a chance to breathe, to even slide yourself wider on the bed to take him– he just fucking sunk right in with no remorse and hoped you wouldn’t break underneath him. As he stretched you out, you couldn’t help but moan out his name and clench around him as he bottomed out.

“That’s it, princess. Go on, take my cock.” He huffed out, thrusting into you roughly and you laxed from the pleasure that coursed through your pussy as his cock dragged deliciously against the warmth of your walls. He filled you up so nicely in this position and it took everything in him to not just manhandle you– to not just straight up hold you against him and rut into you.

You could hear nothing but his harsh pants and the wet squelching of your cunt being abused and it fucking turned you on more than it should’ve– his blindfold brought so much more of your other senses that it nearly drove you wild each time his hips snapped into you. His hands roamed each and every crevice of your skin as he leaned over you, pressing his chest flush with your back.

“Such a good girl… sucks you can’t see me, huh? Betcha reallly want to.” Gojo panted in your ear, kissing behind it with a quiet groan overtaking him when you inadvertently squeezed around him– his voice just caught you so off guard, your senses totally obscured and you couldn’t help it.

“Next time, we can switch– you’ll ride me while I’m tied up, yeah? I’ll even close my eyes for you, level the playing field a bit…”

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