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spoilmesweetieforficssake · 1 year

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hiii, can i place a request?

I wanted one where the reader and Melissa are teachers. The reader is pregnant and Melissa becomes overprotective

Thanks 💕

Hiii to you too! I hope this is what you were looking for (but apologies if it reads a little off - kids/pregnancy isn't something I generally write, but I tried!)

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“I’ll get that!” says Melissa as you start to head towards the fridge to grab your lunch. “You sit. I’ll heat it up. And what about tea? I made sure there was decaff?”

You force a smile as you halt in your step. She’s trying to be helpful, you tell yourself. Just like she was being helpful this morning making you fresh juice and making sure you took your vitamins. “Tea would be great,” you grit out, turning to take your usual seat at the table with Barb, the red head’s currently empty as she becomes a human tornado in the small kitchen area of the break room.

Barb offers you a supportive smile. She’s tried to politely tell Melissa that you didn’t become an invalid the day you got a positive pregnancy test. That you are in fact able to carry your own bag and that your feet are indeed still functional and you are allowed to stand on them. So far her gentle attempts at intervention on your behalf have fallen on deaf ears.

You’re barely allowed to brush your own teeth these days.

It’s sweet. It’s thoughtful. It’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you. It’s driving you insane.

You force a smile once more as Melissa returns to your table, setting out your lunch in front of you, napkin and cutlery included with your tea next to it in your favourite mug. She’s trying so hard and you don’t want to hurt her by telling her to stop. How can you crush that beautiful, pleased little smile being aimed at you?

“Thanks, ‘Lissa,” you say, your own smile becoming more natural in the face of her own. “But remember about your lunch.”

She waves you off. “Yours is more important. I’ll get mine in a minute.”

You raise an eyebrow at her. “No, yours is just as important. And I won’t eat until you have yours.”

There’s a hesitation, a sigh and a dramatic rolling of eyes before Melissa stomps off to collect her own lunch. “Better?”

“Much,” you smile. You want to take care of her too, but over the last few weeks the best you’ve been able to manage is gentle blackmail. Any attempts to physically do something for her has the red head in a near panic attack as she tries to make you stop and sit down. Ideally with your feet up.

You smile as you hang up the last of the afternoon’s paintings to dry. It’ll never cease to amaze you the range of pictures your kids are able to create from a single subject. Today you had been talking about animals and pets. In asking them to paint their favourite animal you had everything from a T-Rex to a valid attempt at baby Grogu with the usual sprinkling of cats and dogs and hamsters thrown in.

You’re just about to start clearing up when Melissa finds you, her greeting immediately falling away in favour of telling you to leave it and that she’ll sort out the mess.

“Melissa!” you hiss as she tries to take the tubes of paint from your hands.

She stops, frowning at you, hurt in her eyes.

You sigh, putting the paints down before reaching for her hands. “I’m fine, okay? Nothing bad is going to happen because I picked up some paints, or I bent down.” You can see she wants to say something, but you gently squeeze her hands, silently asking her to listen. “I love that you want to look after me, but I don’t want you running yourself into the ground.”

Leaning in, you press a gentle kiss to her lips, leaving your foreheads resting together. “I’m gonna need you when I’m as big as a house and can’t see my own feet so I can’t have you exhausting yourself now.”

You can practically feel the heat radiating off her cheeks. “I just don’t want anything to happen to you. To either of you,” she mumbles.

You smile. A real smile. “It won’t. Or at least, not because I collected by own craft supplies or made you a cup of coffee and stole a sip.”

She pulls back at your last admission, fully ready to scold you. Instead, you lean in and kiss her again.

“We’re a team here, Melissa,” you say softly as you pull back. “Don’t make me feel like the useless kid who’s been benched for the season.”

A smirk tugs at her lips. “That your attempt at a sports analogy?”

“I think I did pretty good,” you chuckle. “But I’m serious. I don’t want to sit around like some pampered princess. Let me do what I can while I can. I promise I won’t go and do anything crazy, but I can carry my own handbag.”

You watch as the red head raises an eyebrow. “With the weight you have in that thing?”

“I’ll be carrying an even bigger bag around when the baby gets here, consider it training,” you argue.

“I’m not gonna win here, am I?” she huffs, pouting adorably.

“Afraid not beautiful,” you smile. “But just think. This is the easy part. Just wait until I get cravings for pickles and ice cream.”

Melissa shudders at the thought. “Your cravings are going to make me question everything I know and love about food, aren’t they?”

“As long as they don’t make you question everything you know and love about me?” you chuckle.

“Never,” she answers without hesitation and with no small amount of conviction.

That night in bed you feel Melissa’s hand sneak under your pyjama top, splaying out across your stomach. She’s always been tactile, especially at home, but this is a new habit. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out why.

“You know you’re not going to feel anything for a while yet, right?” you ask softly in the darkness.

“Yeah, I know,” she replies, her voice muffled where she nuzzles into your shoulder. “I’m just, you know, getting my arm in.”

You press a kiss to the top of her head, smiling in the dark. “I love you.”

“I love the two of you too.”

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callsigns-haze · 3 months

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Pretty like a crime

Chapter 5

Pairing: Agent Jake 'Hangman' Seresin x Singlemom! Agent Y/n 'Cobra' Y/l/n

Summary: Cobra is finally back on the agency and is finally back in the job. With Kai at home she has to jumble being a mother and a agent. She's sent to her first U.C mission but never thought that she would meet a blonde, green eyed Texan...

Warning: Mentions of gun use, ptsd, mentions of death, mentions of shooting, flirting, mentions of abuse, description of dead body, death, blood, undercover work, alcohol use, smut, kissing

Part 1/ Part 2/Part 3/ Part 4

"So how are you meant to figure this out?" You ask leaning back on your fiancee's lap as the two of you observe the overwhelming and exotic papers that lie in front of you in his private home office. Matt has been toppled with work assignments recently, which have been overwhelming for him at home and works. Matthew sighs into the back of your neck. This is tiring for him; such a thing like overtime hours at home.

"I don't bloody have a clue anymore, darling. I'm on the bridge of throwing this out the window," he murmurs into the croak of your neck, leaving delicate kisses up to your ear. He rests his arms which wrap around your body, while slightly rubbing your lower back. "Oh daddy, let your darling help you," you say with a slight tease at your tone but this much more focuses on actually trying to help without knowing too much. "Darling, calling me daddy while sitting on my lap will only earn you an extra task," he smirked into your neck and you let your cheeks blush at the comment.

"Cobra, baby, sit still… I truly hate working on people like this." Matt had a valid point these people were unbreakable, any evidence you have against them is either invalid or destroyed in seconds. Nobody had a hook on them and nobody dared to mess with them. People who had anyone on their side due to money, relations or fame. "People like us," you mumble.

"Amen to that…amen to that."

His lips against your skin were flaming, with passion and a side of love. If anyone asked you how to describe this sensation the only thing you'd manage to choke out is 'euphoria'. That's the only way of putting it as his mouth leaned to kiss your chest, right where your heart beat, right in between your plump breasts. He started sucking on the nipple of your right hand breast into his mouth.

"Matthew."

"Hmm?" He questionly mumbled against your nipple which caused you to let out a sigh. "Your phone." You both knew who was calling and what they wanted. Matthews father has run a business for years, quite close friends with Tom. Matthew father has a weird source of trust and his own way of trusting people. He makes them his family. A trust that no one dares to break, no one tries to ruin but yet somehow you were added to this trust, ages before marriage.

He picks up the phone from your night stand and answers the calling number. "Mhmm…. yeah… she's with me…. no we don't have it… give us thirty minutes, we'll be there." You look at your husband as you rush to your shared wardrobe and quickly grab a long dress and flat fancy shoes. "Matt, what happened?" You ask as your husband unsuccessfuly tries to sped dress on one of his work suits. He looks over at you with the look, the look he asks you to tie his tie.

You hold the slick red material and start tieing it slowly and carefully. "My dad got into business trouble again. He wants everyone there. It's about some past incident, he wanted to know if you were with me." His father never asked if you were with Matt, just expected you to always be there and you were. You slip on your shoes and ask, "Why would father specifically ask for me?"

Valid question one that should have to be considered. Why would he ask for his daughter-in-law specifically. "I don't know, darling, thought it does have to do something with a past situation."

- "Etienne, calm down! There has to be a valid explanation to this!" Penelope said calmly, trying to soothe the man but that did not work with her will. "Penelope, if they find true evidence behind this, I'm done for!" Etienne rarely raised his voice at people close to him. He was married twice and now is single but all you believe that he sleeps with Pene, his advisor.

You and Matthew stop listening to the conversation and Matt announces your arrival, "Dad, we're here!" The two of you walk into the elongated and widened hallway. "Jesus, thank the lord you're here, darling," Your father in law says as he quickly makes his way to you and wraps his arm about you. "Y/n/n we have a situation that has your parents involved." It felt like all the weight has been dropped on your shoulders. Where they ok? What happened?

"Are Sarah and Tom okay?" You ask as your voice is on the bridge of breaking. "It's not about them…"

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"I'm gonna take a quick shower," you say in your and Jake's shared hotel room. Due to Mavericks choice and Justin's help the two of you are now disguised as a married, ghost gun selling couple. It was a fit role for the two of you. It was buyable.

"Yeah, go ahead. I'll order us something. What would you like?" Jake said, his green eyes twinkled slightly as you looked at them, the tiny twinkle that glistened your day. "Just order me whatever you're getting."

You enter the bathroom. The two of you were disguising as a rich couple but this is one of the fanciest rooms you've occupied in ages. The marbled walls, the enormous white bath, it felt like a distant home.

You strip off your earlier awear and it pools around your feet. You grab one of your slick black hair ties and tie a quick messy bun to prevent your hair from getting soaked. Bending over the white bath, you turn on the water and overload it with bubble solution. You wait until there's a right amount of water till you sink in.

Jake lays back in the big king sized bed that fills most of the room. There was only one bed. To make the disguise believable, there had to be one bed. He didn't know how to feel about this. His feelings for you existed; pumping through his veins with passion and for not knowing how long, he'll have to share a bed with you pretending there's no feelings involved.

He lays for a little longer, untill there's a knock on the door with a young man screaming from the other side, 'Room Service!'. He opens the door and thanks the young lad taking the plates of him and lays them on the small table in the room. He knocks on your bathroom door and says, 'Hey Cobs, room service came!'. Your response was a simple 'coming' but that knock was a bit to much for Jake.

He sat on the bed and only noticed it now. When he knocked the door opened slightly, even the small gap was euphoric. He didn't think much of it until your naked back filled the frame he was looking through. As you reached for your towel he saw every detail of your back, each of your curves and your ass. He was going hard and he knew it. All of this turned him on marvelously.

There were scars that covered your back slightly, each that had a different, cruel story to sob through but to Jake they didn't cause you to lose any beautiful, just enlight it.

As you dried yourself, your hands run up and down the indented skin. To him it seemed like you weren't used to them, a sort of shame due to having them. As you turn to the side more, he clearly sees more of the side of your body, the curves, edges are presented to him as some sort of painting, a sort of fantasy. He's seen many women naked and done many things but this, this was making him hit a rocky bottom.

"Ooh you got good food!" You exclaim to see the delicious dishes that lay in front of you. Jake knew what you liked, he had similar taste but also was really observant. He was wearing only sweatpants as he went to shower before you.

You shouldn't have looked down, you shouldn't even look in that direction. Jake's frame leans against one of the walls but the bulge in his pants was solid hard. 'Keep it professional!' you tell yourself as you're about to scream, feeling like being part of some teenage dream.

Every ridge, every indent was shown through the gray loose material. You were raised that it was rude to stare but was it rude if it stared back at you. You've never been in such situations, not ones that you've felt this flustered with a coworker.

You were married young, your first time spent with your ex husband; back then he identified as your secret boyfriend, so from the start it was the same old game, but now this was a different guy, maybe better than the last but you couldn't control yourself.

"Emm… So what's the plan layout?" "The what?"

"The plan of action?!" Jake does a weird hand signal while expressing his speech. You were so stuck in thought basic words weren't making sense to you anymore. "Ummm…well… Tomorrow is when everyone arrives, apparently they have a reservation at 8.34 exactly where they sneak into a private area of the opera house. As long as I know all the opera part is set up just as a distraction during sales." That's exactly all the information you were told off by Justin. That was the dealing plan. All you had to do is just ruin it, if you managed to do so the whole organisation plan goes down and you finally get rid of them all as they enter behind bars.

"So we don't strike till tomorrow?" Innocent question, innocent answer. "Yeah, we have nothing for today." Jake smiled at you. This was the first time you two were truly alone; not in work or meeting, not when the two of you met in the park, this was the first time with peace.

The two of you enjoyed your food in peace, just a peaceful silence. It was filled with thoughts, both from you and Jake. You two looked up at each other, gaze locked. You've never been so peaceful or awkward with each other. Usually this was all filled with little arguments or teasing but this was a calm and nice dinner, one that it seemed like you both needed.

"So, you nervous?" You ask him, quite interested in if the blonde Texan has been much undercover in such types of missions. Usually all you've seen Jake work in is patrol and here he is, pretending to be some fake character with a fake identity. "I mean yeah, but I much prefer to be here, then have you doing this all alone," that smirk , that Texan smirk never leaves as it shouldn't.

"Well thank you for your generosity, but I'd much likely thrive," he knew you could, he knew that with your skill you were truly capable of taking care of yourself without his help or anyone else's.

"Here let me take this off you," Jake suggests, taking the empty dish from beneath you and putting it beside a empty windowsill. Gentleman. A man you can determine his anger from how he cuts a cucumber.

Soon after he walks over to the bed and takes away his pillow placing it in the small sofa in the room until you grab his wrist and quickly stop him in his own actions. "What are you doing?" You should know, it's quite obvious but with Jake the answer could be unbelievable. "You can take the bed and I'll take the couch, I know we act a married couple but I thought you might be uncomfo-" You quickly cut him off in his next words by placing you delicate finger upon his lips and wishpering. "The beds big enough for the both of us, and trust me I'm quite comfortable."

"Y/n, it's truly o-" You cut him off again this time the distance between the two of you barely existing. You're so close that you can feel him against you, which causes you blushing and makes you want to fold over but you had to keep strong here; 'no funny business'. "Take the bed with me Jake."

It was 23:11, but Jake couldn't sleep. His mind was elsewhere; engulfed in the beauty and passion that the woman beside him held within herself. He didn't know how to feel about this at all. The woman that made him stop the feelings he felt towards anyone else was sleeping beside him with no clue of his deeper feelings.

He turned to his left to see your sleeping figure lightly spread out on your side of the enormous bed. So peaceful, he's never seen you look this calm in all the time the two of you spend together. You even seem nice when you sleep.

This may seem like he's some sort of pheodofile or physcopath but he loved the way you slept. The way your light breaths raised your chest delicately up and down as the soft sounds, that barely exists, exit your lips. The way it seems like your heart skips a beat when you lake a long breath or the way your hair falls.

It was so careless, calm and free. It opened around you like a.lions mane, showing off the power it holds within all the fluff; where else there was one loose strand of hair across your face.

Jake preps himself up against his own elbow and delicately puts the strand behind your ear, while the softest whispers leave his lips, "You don't know what you do to me, Cobra. You have absolutely no clue."

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thatonewatching · 10 months

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What irks them?

Slenderverse

FEAT: Jeff t.K, BEN Drowned, EJ, Masky, Hoodie, Helen Otis/Bloody Painter, LJ, HABIT, Slenderman.

Jeff t.K- He hates when people give him weird looks. Like, yeah, he knows he's weird looking and all, but won't you give him a break? It doesn't hurt his feelings or anything, but it just pisses him off. It only pisses him off, however, if it's someone in the manor or someone who serves under Slender. If someone, someone like him, gives him a weird look, whether it be of disgust or apprehension, he does not appreciate the judged feeling he gets. He feels that the only person allowed to judge him is himself. Also, he hates people who talk over him. He feels like his words are just as important, if not more, than anyone else's.

BEN Drowned- He hates when people touch his stuff without asking and when they treat him like a child. If he allows you into his room, he expects you to respect his boundaries, whether you're close or not. He trusted you, so he expects you to not to break that trust. His items are his property, so why can't you respect it? He feels like it isn't that hard. (I'm not projecting, I promise) And if he were to tell you that he's upset with how you're acting and what you're doing, and you invalidate his feelings, he doesn't like you, anymore. He'll tell you to get out, once you do, he'll pace around and be a little storm cloud for a bit till he's calmed down. He won't be the first to reach out to you to make things right, however. He'll wait for the wrong doer to apologize. He knows when he's in the wrong, and can act mature about apologizing, though it may hurt his pride.

Eyeless Jack- Hates when people don't listen even after countless reminders and warnings, also hates being called 'Eyeless' Jack. Despises that he's known for being a scary demon man that patches people up, despite being one of Slender's favorites, due to his convenient skill. His hearing is exceptional, and he can pick up on more things than an average human can. He will have to confront you if he hears you talking about him, bad mouthing or not. Doesn't allow certain people to return time after time to his infirmary, especially Jeff, Toby, and Jane. They often return multiple times a day, and he doesn't tolerate people abusing his kindness and dedication to his work.

Masky- Loud people or people who don't respect his boundaries. If someone is continuously being loud and obnoxious, he will lose his temper and begin to yell. A bad habit of his is throwing things or punching them. If he has reminded you at least once to be quiet or calm down and you haven't listened, he'll go off. Or, if you don't listen when he tells you to back up or stop touching him and you don't, he'll lose his temper, too. Doesn't like when people don't listen to him, really. That's mainly what it boils down to at the end of the day. God complex 🤷‍♂️ what can ya do about it? Also, weird thing, but he hates people who use the word 'like' in a sentence too much. (Ex. "And he, like, told me about what she said, and I was like🧍‍♂️! Can you believe that?) Lastly, he hates people that twirl their hair or play with it constantly. Finds it a sign of stupidity and incompetence. Thinks that women who do it are bimbos with no brains and men that do it are gay or stupid. (I'm sorry)

Hoodie- Doesn't like being treated like a child or with condescension. He is a grown man and expects you to treat him like one. Or if you demean him and try to gaslight him into believing he's in the wrong. Has the patience of a saint and will make sure he's in the right before confronting you. Does not tolerate him or his friends being insulted or demeaned. Will confront you if you try to manipulate or gaslight anyone, whether he's close with them or not.

Bloody Painter- If you bother him while he's painting or cooking, he'll remind/warn you to leave him be. If that doesn't work, he'll shove you away, but not hard enough to leave a mark or make you fall, just a slight warning. If you bother him again, he'll grab you and force you out of the room by your wrist, shoulder, or upper arm. Doesn't deal with constant interruptions or irritation. Doesn't often yell but will deprive you of entertainment or distractions. Occasionally, he will deprive you of food for hours to up to a day and a half.

Laughing Jack- Being disrespected or walked on. Though he might be malicious and hundreds of years old, he doesn't like being treated like he's below anyone, especially someone who he finds below him, like a human being. He will quickly put you in your place, seeing as you can do nothing about it, considering his size and strength. He views himself as something of a God or something to be worshipped. Looks down on those he views below him.

HABIT- People who disobey him. He also looks down on everyone, but he will actively make sure you are obeying his orders. Do not disobey him. You will die. He doesn't tolerate disrespect or questioning. He expects nothing but loyalty and devotion to him and his goals, and if you aren't willing to provide that, then he'll find someone who is. You are disposable and easy to replace in his eyes, and when you don't act as such, he will put you in your place. Don't cross him.

Slenderman- He, much like Habit and LJ, sees himself above you, because he is. He is an eldritch, all-powerful being who will not hesitate to kill you the second you disrespect him, seeing as he can find anyone to take your place. You are something to toy with and use for entertainment and selfish purposes. You are going to know your place, whether he has to teach you, or someone else. Just obey. Simple as that.

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humanitys-strongest-bamf · 9 months

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i had a nightmare, so naturally i wrote about some related to it lmao

My Pleasure | BFF!Levi Fluff

✧ word count ➼ > 950 ✧ notes ➼ fluff, bff!levi ✧ cw: mentions of gaslighting, mentions of invalidation

The breeze was pretty significant with how high up you were. If you looked under you, you could see the night lights. You weren't on that tall of a building, but it was high up enough that you were hidden from prying eyes. Your legs dangled off the edge of the building as you stared off into the distance, doing what little you could to regulate your mood.

Although your head was swirling with chaos, you wore a blank expression on your face. Your eyes seemed empty, and you had been masking for so long that it seemed like second nature at this point.

You didn't even remember what you were upset about, but all you remembered was that you were with your group of friends and had gotten upset about something. When you brought it up, instead of having a productive conversation, your friends decided to invalidate every other thing you were saying. You felt attacked and pushed away, and ended up deciding that the best thing to do was to shut up and mask.

"Haven't seen you here in a bit."

You heard a familiar voice and looked up, seeing probably the only friend you had right now that you didn't resent.

"Could say the same to you."

Levi took a seat next to you.

"Friends say you've been acting different."

You were looking down towards the street below you, holding your hands together as you twiddled your thumbs as a way of fidgeting. It was ironic that your friends even said anything, given how quick they were to push you aside.

You were upset and you couldn't deny that, but you felt you didn't have the right to be upset. You had internalized their beliefs that you were 100% in the wrong, and convinced yourself that any negative emotion you were having should just be pushed away and that you didn't need to bother anyone else with it.

"I'm fine."

"Bullshit," Levi said with a scoff. "Look at me."

After a few seconds of no response, he tutted in disapproval and shoved at your shoulder a bit.

"Look at me," he repeated.

You finally turned and lifted your gaze to meet his. You could see the deep level of concern in his eyes, and he was immediately able to see past your mask, and see the pain in yours.

"What happened?" he asked quietly.

His soft tone made you tempted to break down and cry on the spot, but you couldn't. You still felt like you weren't allowed to.

"...I got upset about something," you said after a long pause. "I don't even remember what it was to be honest, but they kept on insisting that what I was saying didn't happen..."

You trailed off, pausing for a few seconds before continuing quietly.

"...or that I was overreacting, or that I was being dramatic. It seemed like every other word that came out of my mouth was just getting shut down."

You emotionally withdrew from the situation as a method of protecting yourself. Levi was able to tell that immediately. It was a habit of yours that he had picked up from day one, and he couldn't blame you, as harmful as it was.

"I'm questioning if maybe they're right," you continued. "Maybe I am just seeing things that aren't actually there, feeling things that I have no right to feel-"

"Cut that out," he said sternly, cutting you off.

You immediately stopped talking and looked at him in confusion.

"Are you not hearing yourself?"

He sounded annoyed, but the look of concern in his eyes remained.

"You're allowed to feel how you feel," he said with a frown, as if he was astonished that you were even doubting yourself. "It doesn't matter what the fuck other people say happened or not, how you feel is how you feel and there's no changing that—and they're fucking idiots for trying to tell you otherwise."

You looked away, pondering over what he was trying to say.

"And they're assholes for trying to tell you that you're not allowed to feel a certain way or invalidating what it was that got you upset."

Your cheeks began to heat up as he spoke. As always, every word that came out of Levi's mouth hit you like a truck. The validation from him alone brought up something within you, although you couldn't tell exactly what it was. It made your heart pound and your entire body heat up. It was just the effect he had on you.

"...really wish more people were like you," you whispered.

"Yeah?" he said, glancing down at you.

"Yeah," you affirmed, looking down at the ground again. "Sorry for being a pain in the ass."

He shoved you again.

"Didn't I say to cut that out? Quit pitying yourself."

The pout returned on your face as you slightly stuck your bottom lip out.

"You're valid and allowed to have emotions or get upset over things. I don't give a shit what the rest of your friends say. They can fuck off for all I care."

You quickly found yourself leaning against him with your head resting on his shoulder. This wasn't a new occurrence and it provided you an oddly comforting feeling.

"Thanks for always being there," you mumbled as you shut your eyes.

It was always Levi that was there, no matter how shitty your situation was. If you were a little less distracted, you might have been more willing to explore whatever it was that was going on between the two of you, but neither of you were emotionally aware enough at the moment to do anything about it.

"...my pleasure."

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expiationist · 10 months

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just a little stem vs humanities student story, since that seems so be a controversial topic in the academic world:

as a language and business double major, i absolutely think stem majors are another breed. hear me out. my best friend of 10 years is a biochem major, and she has always taken the hardest calc/physics/chem classes. she would get As on bio tests like it was first grade math. her knowledge eludes me. i have to try exponentially harder than her in every class we had together, and we barely even had the same classes! she took regular calc freshman year, got an A pretty easily. i took business calc, got an A because i was so close to an A and my professor saw how much effort i had put in and felt bad. i have always thought stem was much harder than anything i was pursuing.

until i heard her pov.

she is also pursuing a spanish minor, and has been taking spanish classes since 8th grade (we took our first spanish class together). i took spanish in 8th, 9th, and 10th grade, then stopped taking it through classes and started self studying japanese my junior year of highschool. she continued to pursue spanish and has taken in every year and every semester since 8th grade. shes studying abroad next semester, and we thought it would be a good idea for me to pick up spanish so she would have an opportunity to teach me and talk in spanish together. however, i picked it up pretty fast after not taking it for four years.

i noticed she felt ~some type of way~ about it, which prompted a conversation between the two of us.

to spare the mundane details, she thought it was insane that i caught up to where she was within weeks, after not having taken a class higher than high school spanish 2. i told her i thought it was insane that she got an A in every calc, physics, bio, and chem class, which i was never able to get a single A in (until business calc in college). she has a 4.0, taking what i thought were WAY harder classes than what i was taking. hell, i couldn’t even get an A in astronomy. astronomy.

she then talked about how i had rarely EVER gotten less than a 93 on essays, even if i had written them the night before, while she has to spend weeks on essays to get a good grade on them.

the moral of this story, is that everyone has their own talents. science comes natural to her. languages and humanities come natural to me. i find her talents way harder. she finds my talents way harder because humanities tend to be subjective, and business requires a certain personality and being good with people, which she doesn’t see those qualities in herself.

personally, i think anyone who pushes the “stem is objectively harder” agenda is probably just insecure in their own abilities to do arts/humanities/business. a real mature student can see that everyone has their own talents and a field that is suited to them! there is no need to invalidate peoples academic pursuits. college should be about finding what YOU love and want to pursue, not invalidating everyone and making them feel dumber because they chose a different path from you.

do what you love, and study hard if you love it! just because someone studies humanities subjects doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of succeeding in stem. and just because you study stem doesn’t make you smarter than someone who doesn’t choose to pursue that.

HOWEVER. from my pov, stem is like actually shit from Mars that i will never be able to wrap my head around, so to be humble ill admit i could NEVER study stem subjects beyond general education requirements. kudos to you guys! but that doesnt apply to every a&h kid out there!

#study blog #studyblr #studyinspo #stem aesthetic #stemeducation #stem academia #arts and humanities #art #art student #humanities #academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #university #langblr #japanese langblr #japanese #japanese language #langblog

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bliss-wily · 2 months

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More headcanons because I’m sick and have nothing better to do~

This post? Raditz! Radish boy shall receive some love~

Very silly and of course it’s just headcanons so please don’t take these too seriously.

•Raditz is a tsundere through and through both for relationships and friendships.

•He’s the outlier of the group of 3, the other two being Vegeta and Nappa.

•Doesn’t get stronger like the others because he is too much of a coward to pick on anyone stronger than him.

•Grouchiest of the three, yes, even more so than Vegeta.

•His tail is super sensitive, most definitely his weakness.

•Relies on his scouter too much as he doesn’t trust his own instincts from constantly being invalidated by Vegeta and Nappa.

•Seeing as he doesn’t really have friends, befriending Raditz would mean him being quite insecure and likely having him being very possessive or having a fear of abandonment.

•If he’s extra grouchy, get that man food asap and lots of it.

•His tail reveals a lot about his feeling and emotions in the moment - that’s if it’s not wrapped around his waist.

•Struggles with human technology, so imagine you’re living with him (platonically or romantically, doesn’t matter) and you wake up to noises at 3am with the man trying to get a microwave to work. So yes…the man can use Saiyan pods and scouters but microwaves stump him.

•You know what, technophobe when it comes to earthling tech, you would see many phones destroyed because he can’t manage it.

•Or hearing him argue with Siri/Alexa/Google because everything isn’t working how he wants.

•But by no means does this make Raditz stupid. He’s smart but just doesn’t get the opportunity to really say anything.

•Looks up to Vegeta and Nappa, he just wants some form of acceptance goddamn it.

•Acts mean because it’s all he’s ever known - how he’s been treated.

•Of the three remaining Saiyans in the Frieza Force, I imagine he gets the least amount of name calling as the other two as he’s just kinda there? Raditz strikes me as someone who’s closed off.

•And due to ill treatment from his teammates I think he believes that being mean in the best way to communicate with people he’s interested in.

•Also…maybe a bit promiscuous. Frieza did assume Gohan was Raditz’s son so…I’ll leave that open ended, as I tend to stay relative SFW on here.

Someone socialise this man, he deserved to be around longer. So did Nappa to be fair.

#dbz #dragon ball #dragonball #Raditz #headcanon #just silly thoughts #but yes a grumpy radish

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nothorses · 2 months

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sorry to bring this to your inbox but i got nowhere else to bring it and i need a yell. I was going through the transgender tag for more information on the CEO's transmisogyny debacle and came across a post that started out by stating that transmisogyny has been on the rise on tumblr as a whole; reasonable and true. but they started their list of examples with "1. The entire concept of transandrophobia" and I just.

What the goddamn hell is wrong with you*? (not YOU you THEM you) Why the fuck are you throwing your trans brothers under the bus for the actions of a pissbaby CEO? There's a wave of false reports and deletions - TARGETING TRANS WOMEN - and your response is to try and shift the target to transmascs for... talking about their experiences? Your response to outside harassment is to try and spark more infighting? What's your fucking problem????? We need to be coming TOGETHER not picking a fucking target to spit on!!! Christ alive. And people wonder how it's so easy for terfs to turn us against each other. God.

Ok rant over thanks for listening

I just want to challenge your wording here a little bit; did you check this person's blog and how they identify? Do you know if they're a trans woman, a trans man, nonbinary, etc.? Even what they might have said on their blog about how they identify should be scrutinized- we don't actually know who this person is, and they could for sure be lying. It's really, really useful for people outside of our communities who want to stir shit up to pretend they're not outsiders at all.

The post you're describing is horrible either way, and you're 100% right that it's stirring up harmful infighting. I think it's really easy to see that kind of thing and think, "oh my god, people are falling for it! they're actually fighting each other now!!"

It's a scary thing to see, and it's incredibly hard to ask critical questions when we're afraid, or otherwise emotionally activated like that. And there's nothing wrong with being emotionally activated, either; of course you are! That's some really hateful, really wrong, and really dangerous shit! Sentiments just like that one have caused so much harm to our community, and so much harm directly to individual, vulnerable people- probably people you know. Certainly people I know.

But it's reactions from that state of emotional activation that lead to the success of these kinds of infighting campaigns. We get activated, we make assumptions and act from that activated place, other people get activated and do the same, and the cycle continues.

What's worse, you're the only person who saw the post in question; I can only react to what you're telling me. I can't go look at the post, check OP's blog, and answer any critical questions about the nature of the situation. I have no way of knowing whether this person might be transfem, or just a TERF trying to stir shit up. I don't even know if the OP was an anon ask sent to someone else. I don't know how many notes the post got, or how big OP's audience is; I can't really conceptualize the amount of harm the post has done. I don't know if anyone has debunked it in the notes, or if OP has since posted an update denouncing that original sentiment.

Again, that's not to invalidate your emotional response, or even really question how honest you're being here. For all I know, you did check all of those things, and this is worse than I think it is. It certainly seems pretty realistic to me, just based on my own experiences with these kinds of conversations.

I just want to push back on that wording a little bit because like... as much as it is a real problem that a lot of transfems really firmly believe that Transmascs Talking About Cis People Being Transphobic To Us is the most serious & urgent form of transmisogyny facing the transfem community today, it's also a real problem that transmacs will jump on that same line of thinking in an effort to paint themselves as "one of the good ones".

Cis women will often throw transmascs under the bus in the same way in order to avoid Cis Guilt, oftentimes avoiding talking about their cis positionalities- which leads people to assume that, because they're talking about trans issues so much, they must be trans themselves! Which, again, perpetuates this illusion that "the trans community is full of infighting" and that much more dangerous to various trans people.

(Granted, this is a complicated issue; I don't think it's wrong for cis people to talk about these things, and I don't think trans people should have to out themselves in order to do so, either- but I have absolutely seen this pattern taken advantage of by hateful anons, TERFs, radfems, and cis women who revel in being called "honorary trans women" for bashing transmascs frequently enough.)

Is this post demonstrating the success of cis people's efforts to stir up infighting in the trans community, or is it just an example of cis people trying to stir up infighting? And if you know it's the former, how do I know? How do all of my followers know? Is it better to understand it as one vs. the other?

I'm sorry this got so long and off-topic; I'm sure this isn't what you were looking for when you sent me this ask, and I'm sorry for criticizing your wording over providing the emotional reassurance you probably needed a lot more than this. And also, I do feel a responsibility to think about the people reading asks before I think about the people sending them (particularly if they're on anon), and I felt this was the message that most needed to be received from anything I could say in response. I hope you're able to find the emotional reassurance you need regardless, and I appreciate you bringing this to me in the first place. 💙

#transunity #trans unity

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emeritus-fuckers · 8 months

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papa's x asexual reader hcs?

Primo

When you first told him you were asexual, he made a pot of tea from scratch. You then sat all evening and talked it all over.

He completely accepts it. He is very understanding and open. You find it really easy to talk to him.

He picks flowers for you from his garden. The flowers change with the seasons, but they are always colours you love.

If you've had a bad day, he’ll put an arm around you, and listen to you. He'll give advice if you ask for it.

He enjoys the deep romantic connection you both have.

He is very secure in himself, so he never pressures you or anything. He knows its just how you are, its not because you don't want him in that way.

One evening he sets up a large screen for you to watch films in the garden. There are fairy lights everywhere, and a blanket on the grass covered in cushions and blankets.

Secondo

He sees you around the ministry. He notices that you always pause to look at his paintings.

Something about you just makes him want to get to know you.

He approaches you and asks you out for a drink. You tell him you are asexual. “Yes, I know." He replies with a smile "I would love to get to know you, if you want.”

He makes sure he knows what your boundaries are. He also checks consent on anything he thinks might be near them.

If he even hears anyone so much as try and invalidate your sexuality he’ll appear next to you in full on terrifying papa mode.

He gives the best hugs ever, and he saves them just for you.

He offers to teach you how to paint, or improve if you already know. He would be so happy to share it with you.

Terzo

When you tell him you asexual he thinks for a moment. “Thank you for trusting me enough to tell me, to be yourself with me.”

He’s honestly slightly surprised you wanted to go out with him, what with his reputation... But you do want to! This makes him so happy, he realises you see him for who he really is. You see past the front he puts on while onstage.

He relaxes completely around you, he is just Terzo not Papa Emeritus III.

You love his warmth, his quick wit and flare when he tells a story.

He will ask a lot of questions to make sure he understands right.

He’s still jokingly flirty but never does anything that would make you uncomfortable.

Copia

He shows intimacy in so many different cute ways.

He'll leave cute notes around your rooms for you to find. "I am so lucky Amore, I get to be with you."

He’ll make you playlists for you to listen to of his favourite songs or anything he thinks you would like.

He also loves it when you play him songs, that you enjoy. He'll make a playlist of them to listen to when he misses you.

He honestly thought when you took him aside, saying you needed to tell him something, that he'd done something wrong or upset you. You looked so nervous. You told him you were asexual.

You were rather surprised that he started grinning “but cara you do not need to worry about telling me such things sÌ? I love learning more about you! Just tell me what I can do to make this relationship work for you? To make sure you comfortable and happy.”

Old Nihil

It doesn't matter how you identify, he'll still stare at you lovingly and simp.

He would never judge you, he's just happy to be with you.

When you go in to see him he greets you with a wide grin and says "Yello?"

You try your best to explain it and he just happily nods along. "Yesss sibling... you are looking very well."

If you have the patience, and explain it enough times, something will eventually click. He'll actually respond "Wooow, I see sibling, asexual, that is good! I'm glad you told me."

Even though he is old and struggling to understand most things, he realises this is important to you. So he makes sure, as best he can, to understand what your boundaries are and how he can make you feel safe and comfortable with him.

Young Nihil

"Sorry babe, come again?" He's not really listening at first as he tries to work out the chords to a song on his guitar.

You tell him it doesn't matter, slightly annoyed after it took you so much courage to say it the first time.

He realises from your tone and puts the guitar down apologising "no, please, tell me again, I'll listen."

So you patiently explain again and he replies "Oh, that's not a problem, in our religion all sexualities are accepted!"

You explain to him that you're worried since he seems to very much enjoy having people in his bed.

"I prefer to be with you, I made a mistake once before, never again." He takes your hands in his and kisses them. He looks you in the eyes and says "I love you."

Then after he thinks for a second, the questions start. It might take all night, since Nihil can sometimes be a little slower to catch on and he wants to make sure he knows exactly what you need from him.

Written by Nyx.

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bengiyo · 5 months

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Last Twilight Ep 2 Stray Thoughts

Last week, we set the table and met Mhok and Day. Mhok is a mechanic down on his luck because of his legal troubles, who is looking for work to take care of himself and keep his deceased sister's beloved vehicle. Despite his past, he's trying to stay away from trouble. Day is a national level badminton player coping with rapid vision loss, whose family is looking for a caretaker for him. Day was amused by Mhok's attitude when he barged into the interview and suggested they hire him. After initial resistance, Mhok decided to take the job after a second encounter.

Y'all should have been more explicit about the dress code for Mhok, though it is amusing to consider that his style of dress in the house only matters for the family.

8 to 6 six days a week??? WTF

I'm glad Mhok is pleased with his salary because this is basically all he's going to do.

The entire scene of Mhok looking around Day's room is fantastic. It lets the audience learn a little about Day, but we also learned about Mhok because we see what catches his attention. Mhok is so tactile and literally sticks his hand in the fish tank, but touching and rearranging things in a blind person's room is going to cause frustration.

Mhok tossed a cigarette in their yard! That's a good character detail.

I'm with Day. I don't like the smell of cigarettes wafted off someone.

I really like Porjai. I said this last time, but I like how their relationship feels behind them that she can discuss it so casually, even if Mhok doesn't get her lesson.

Aon had so much personality. I am charmed. I love the handshake he has with Day. Whatever Day is working through, I'm glad he has a friend.

Closing the door on Mhok was good comedy.

Unsurprised that Day selected Mhok as a way to make his mom give up on a caretaker.

Ah, the show is continuing to connect the experiences. Mhok's perceived reputation is being presented as similar to Day being considered invalid.

I like day taking Day's expectations as a challenge.

Of course Day needed help and Mhok has to take off his shirt to not smell like smoke. We even go to see him crawl around from behind. Oh, BL, never change, except in the ways I demand of you.

Yes, touch his tiddies so we know they're real.

I wonder how the eye drops help to give him limited improved vision.

Yes, Mhok, make him help you save his fish. We got him out of his room!

Oh, they were having fun, but it seems they haven't disclosed his condition and Night brought friends over.

Curious if they follow up on that terse declaration later for Mhok to give up his eyes. I hope not!

Oh no. Rung flashback. Trigger warning for suicide aftermath.

Yeah, that seems about right for Mhok. Also glad this show is doing nonsexual nudity. Anyone required to care for another person is going to have to be engaged with someone beyond what others might consider polite boundaries.

Porjai jumped to fix this quick!

Oh, I really like that the gift is goldfish slippers. We can feel assured this is something Mhok picked out.

I may be gay, but Namtam looks so goddamn good in this show.

Omg Mhok is trying to understand how Day has to do tasks while wearing a shirt that says FART PROUDLY.

There he goes joking about Mhok's body again.

They just dumped the fish into the tank?? Are they trying to shock and kill it???

Ope. Said the name in the preview. Finish your drink!

This is working for me so far. I'm enjoying a straightforward premise being taken seriously. Really appreciating the lack of slapstick about the situation and dynamics.

#last twilight #thai bl #bl series #Ben watches

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Using an ex Jikooker as an example to try to disprove Jikook, esp one who went from thinking JK is a couple with his male bandmate, to changing their mind and not even thinking JK's queer anymore is wild as fuck. So she's queer, but invalidating someone else's closet? Interesting. Cause anyone who understands queers or are queer and understands closets would not just flip script like that. What caused her to think Jk is queer in the first place, but not queer anymore? Was it the she/her lyrics in the songs he picked? The video of him with a woman in his apartment? Him sitting with a woman in Jeju? But him using a queer love song with queer lyrics on a Jimin video, him cooking for Jimin in his apartment or him with Jimin in Jeju is now platonic by her standards? Cause being attracted to both men and women at the same time is unheard of, according to random on the internet. He can't possibly sing songs about finding women attractive while being head over heels in love with one particular man and want to protect his closet. GASP that's just unheard of. GEORGE MICHAEL AND RICKEY MARTIN CALLED AND THEY SAID SIT THE FUCK DOWN.

What was her reaction when Jk said he doesn't have a girlfriend and then uploaded a tiktok right after with girl names playing and titled the video, I go the other way. A trend that he decided to do the opposite of, then quickly deleted, cause I can tell you right now queers clocked what jk was saying right away. Y'all act like this man is out in Paris taking hand holding strolls with his girlfriend of 2 years. Instead he's letting Jimin suck on his neck mole and you wanna act like that is normal between men. Okay. I'm sorry, but going from he's queer to I don't think he's queer anymore, is next level invalidation, cause you are basically admitting you think he was queerbaiting all along, if you felt at one point he was queer with his bandmate and not anymore, cause obviously something JK was doing made you feel he was queer in the first place. Make it make sense. To be honest, Jikook don't need people like that supporting them. You can say I don't want to say they are queer or not, without flip flopping and invalidating them cause you wanna act like you seen the light and feel the need to announce it. We don't care and I doubt Jikook cares that you changed your mind about them or if you think they are queer or not.

I mean if that's her logic, then I used to believe the earth is a globe but now I think the earth is flat and Nassa never went to space and I know this because I'm an alien living in outter space subconsciously 👽

Giving mutilated third eye energy 😹

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Now, I gotta say, I find it interesting how there are some people that target you for stating your opinion on fiction. I've had this same Jedi-stan user sending me tens and tens of comments which are based on denial and opinion rather than any logical argument. Now, they're telling others not to read my arguments because... what, it's too scary? They literally reblog my post with a quite insulting argument and then quickly block me because they don't want me to respond.

Well, too bad.

This isn't even an argument based on logic. You just stated your opinion and acted like it was a fact, anyone else who believes differently is doing so "foolishly", more "foolishly" than a child apparently. Because despite much evidence to the contrary in children's media, apparently 'villains' never have any depth or say the truth ever, according to you.

Slick: "Yes, she offered me money. But she offered me something more important, something you wouldn't understand: freedom!"

You know the one thing Slick doesn't actually have? It's freedom. Because, he is a slave, that is a fact. Let's go through the fact that slave isn't a title you award but a state of existence and being, a slave by definition is: "a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person." That is the clones to a T. Just because Slick was selfish doesn't just invalidate he described a situation which still has not been refuted and instead has been only proven over and over again.

Now, you say "the clones are property of the Republic", and they are under the command... of the Jedi, who are generals and part of the Republic command structure. Legally, the Jedi may not have a say in the fate of the clone troopers other than being in charge of their daily actions and organisation for years, but illegally? Are you claiming that the Jedi could not even think to organise a mass desertion? When the law is unjust, you challenge it, you break it. Now, you try to absolve them here by saying that they had no choice because the Separatists were a threat to the Republic, an institution that supports slavery for its own ends. You may hate it but "Cool motive, still slavery" still applies here. Any institution that supports having an enslaved army does not deserve to exist, and that includes the Jedi Order's support of the Republic.

As for your non-sequitur on the placement of the episode, this is just pointless. There is no basis to discount an episode just because it wasn't in Season 4. This adds nothing to your argument and is just a complete fallacy.

You can't really make this argument on a number of basises. One, the writing intentions have clearly changed since that initial George Lucas' quote decades ago. Not only this, but George Lucas doesn't even own Star Wars anymore and Disney are now in charge, with Dave Filoni and a number of other writers making significant contributions.

Dave Filoni: "So I think that trying to draw these paths of the Jedi and the choices they make and how they wind up good or bad … Yoda isn’t afraid in the prequels to say the Jedi are flawed and that they’ve become greedy and self-interested and arrogant. That helps you understand why they’re going to lose the Clone War and why they’re so ripe for the picking."

I think this quote speaks for itself. Also, I think it was very clear that George Lucas, a man well-known for changing his mind and who was still the executive producer, was on Ahsoka's side in the Wrong Jedi Arc. Otherwise at some point the narrative would have refuted her assertions on the Jedi Order, that's just basic storytelling.

Now, onto the clones. You essentially admit that the draft is essentially slavery in the clones' case. The clones are property and are referred to as such, they can't leave, they can't vote, they have no rights and this has been the case since they were fetuses in tubes. Let's look at Umbara again.

Fives: "We did it. We took Umbara."

Captain Rex: "What’s the point of all this? I mean, why?"

Fives: "I don’t know, sir. I don’t think anybody knows. But I do know that someday this war is gonna end."

Captain Rex: "Then what? We’re soldiers. What happens to us then?"

Considering the fact that the Senate are voting on whether to "decommission" the clones like a product in the Bad Batch, I think it's safe to say that Captain Rex's fears were confirmed. Senator Riyo Chuchi, an actual good person in a bad system, is literally fighting to give the clones any rights at all in the Bad Batch, and she is a lonely voice.

Riyo Chuchi: "[The Clones] are not droids to simply be shut down. These are soldiers who defended us, defended our worlds"

Meanwhile, when the Jedi wax on about the end of the War, they just assume they'll be fulfilling the same duties they did before the war. This is because the Jedi are privileged and are treated as citizens during the War, able to walk around completely uncumbered and engage on a conversational level with the elite. They can also leave the Order, especially if they break the code, which is not something allowed for the clones. They may be servants, but they aren't property, and they have more tools to push back and fight the Senate, which they can walk around freely in a venerated position. You practically say this throughout your argument. Over all, the Jedi are drafted, the clones are slaves. There is a difference in the power dynamic.

The Clone Wars waived the right to be dismissed solely as "It's just a superificial kids show, don't criticise" when it decided to deal with dark, serious topics, including the Republic's growing authoritarianism, political maneuvering, slaughter and murder. All those cases of the Jedi challenging their leaders simply make it more egregious that the Jedi never advocated for the clones to the same level. The fact Mace Windu is willing to fight tooth and nail for the Zillo Beast, however demonstrates no passion to fight for the clone rights, who are slaves soldiers under his command, is actually a pretty bad look. There are also clones that died around the same time as Even Piell, yet they get no rites either.

It's funny you mention Qui Gon Jinn because his opposition to the Jedi Council has been noted previously and it is a critique of the Jedi Order.

Dave Filoni: "I think Qui-Gon in a lot of ways represents the kind of path the Jedi are supposed to be on. He’s the one that’s the most compassionate. But he has no ambition to be part of the council. He feels he can’t do what he needs to do if he’s a part of that. That thinking and that philosophy is from what Dooku taught him. Dooku was a free-thinker and was looking out for people."

Oh, you know Dooku too? The guy who said "The Jedi blindly serve a corrupt Senate that fails the Republic it represents." Looks like he imparted some spirit to his Padawan. Ultimately, this actually supports my arguments that the Jedi Order have lost their way as an institution. Now, earlier you say it "sucks" the Jedi can't allegedly speak out because of the draft, at the same time you... have Jedi speaking out on every topic that isn't clones. Hmm.

Well, mademoiselle-cookie, you have crossed into antisemitic territory here and it's shockingly disgusting of you. The Jedi should not be considered an expy of Jewish people, because that would be really racist of the writers and very misrepresentative. Jewish people are not a fictional order of magic monks that wave lightsabers around, fighting wars with state-owned clone slaves, believe it or not. Going through your argument until now has been bearable, but this really takes the cake. I've warned people to stop using real-life minority groups as meat-shields for their fictional favs, however it seems that privileged people will often use minority groups instinctively for their benefit. The fact you accuse me, a mixed race gay man, as being the type to fall for Nazi lies because I critique the Jedi Order is just the icing on the cake.

Also, you argue "it's a kid's show" and then it's a direct allegory for the Holocaust, one of the darkest periods in human history, at the same time, huh? If this were the case, it would mean it's portrayal is even more important to critique without exception.

But, moving on from your just completely inappropriate allegory. So, the Jedi have a "choice" as you just state. That's much more the clones ever had and that is a privilege. You're essentially arguing for the Jedi to stand back and do nothing by choice while earlier you also argued that the Jedi had to do something in regards to the War as it was the moral choice but also that they 'don't' have a choice. Meanwhile, the Jedi were shown to be willing to overthrow Palpatine given the 'proper motivation', but due to their lack of compassion I guess the enslavement of millions of men such as the clones just wasn't important enough. Your argument falls apart because the Jedi did try to overthrew Palpatine in the end, just not for the slaves.

Using the "Bad guys lie" trope in an absolute capacity is also not an argument. You're just stating your opinion as a fact again and it's very 'convenient' your metric. I could reply "Good guys can be wrong and don't always tell the truth" and we'd, like your point, get nowhere.

Finally, an interesting point. There's no denying that Ahsoka did not make the situation as squeaky clean in her desperation, however ultimately my point still stands that Mace Windu, and I quoted him, said "I understand your sentiment, Obi-Wan. But, if the council does as you suggest. It could be seen as an act of opposition to the Senate. I'm afraid we have little choice."

At the end of the day, the Jedi do have a choice despite what Windu says. The choice was political. The ruling isn't unanimous, because doubts are expressed, but as Mace Windu says what they view as important in response to Obi-Wan saying things don't add up regarding Ahsoka is to focus how it looks to the Senate, a Senate that supports authoritarianism, corruption and slavery. The Jedi arguably lie to themselves and say they support justice, but they don't ultimately. As Jedi Master Dooku, the described "free-thinker", says: "The Jedi blindly serve a corrupt Senate that fails the Republic it represents."

Hmm, you don't seem to understand what an "unreliable narrator" actually is. With your use especially, every single character ever could be described as an unreliable narrator, I can describe Mace Windu as an unreliable narrator or Obi-Wan. I could literally flip your argument and claim the Jedi are unreliable narrators who only think they're doing good because they were raised in an environment which told them this from a young age and ultimately they were propping up a failing, authoritarian, corrupt 'Republic'.

I don't think you realise that Ahsoka's story would not have been presented the way it was in Season 7 if the narrative was not on her side. There were key cues in its structure and quotations that were critical of the Jedi Order, who were mostly in opposition to Ahsoka narratively.

Ahsoka: "This is why the people have lost faith in the Jedi. I had, too, until I was reminded of what the Order means to people who truly need us.”

What a coincidence that Obi-Wan, a man gifted with the gab, fails to counter this criticism as well. Just like Slick.

We literally see the Jedi propping up the Republic system for the near entirely of the War. They allowed "the destruction of innocent life-forms", the clones, men brainwashed and forced into combat. They also conducted military investigations, deferred to the Senate, and I think it's very telling that Rex did not reveal Cut Lawquane's location to either the Jedi or the rest of the Republic. As Generals, they are a part of the hierarchy, and they support the Republic, a hegemony of laws and demarcations. Also, last I checked, Satine isn't a slave, I only wish Obi-Wan had gone out of his way to protect the clones as people, but I guess he only does that for citizens.

As for Order 66, again, this isn't an argument on your part. I'm well-aware of events, nor did I say they deserved to be murdered. The Jedi Order, specificially their leadership, made "poor choices" and it screwed them over. I also find your Nazi allegory more disgusting personally, but whatever. Now, let's see what the Jedi are actually doing.

Dave Filoni: "They’ve, as an institution, existed for a very long time. It doesn’t mean they’re evil or bad, but they’re making a lot of poor choices, and they can’t get out ahead of things in part because they’re desperately attempting to do things the right way and take an even stance.”

The centrist stance the Jedi take on most matters clearly contributed to their downfall. They made "poor choices" and I am critiquing them for it because allowing slavery at the heart of the Republic is not just a poor choice, but a stupid and immoral one. They are 'desperately attempting to do things the right way', but they don't, and this is why actual criticisms are levied at them. Again, I never argued the Jedi were evil, I argued they should be held accountable for their flaws and mistakes, like everyone should be.

I like how you completely misunderstood my point here despite many other people getting it. The problem is that the Jedi do have a choice, it's just a difficult one. However just because doing the right thing is difficult does not mean you shouldn't do it. The problem with the Jedi allowing countless clones, who are slaves, to die for years and that not prompt them to confront, combat or even overthrow the Republic is it makes them very morally bankrupt. As soon as the Republic said it was going to utilise slaves, the Jedi should have realised the Republic was the enemy of human decency itself. But, as we know from just watching Star Wars media with basic critical thinking or this exchange in Rebels...

Ezra: "Master Yoda, you’re powerful. You must know a way to destroy Vader and his Inquisitors.”

Master Yoda: “Padawan, thousands of Jedi once there were. Then came war. In our arrogance, joined the conflict swiftly we did. Fear, anger hate. Consumed by the dark side the Jedi were.”

I think you need to add more depth to your idea of "good". The Jedi were complicit in their own downfall. The fact you have to jump through so many 'logical' hoops to 'explain' and 'absolve' them is evidence enough. The fact you also dismiss all criticism of the Jedi as anti-Jedi propaganda, even when coming from its own members, from Yoda to Ahsoka, who clearly the narrative sides with. Now, as for your 'the citizens did nothing too' whataboutism argument? Yep. So, if you're arguing the Jedi are as bad as Republic citizens who also enabled clone slavery, then sure, a little 'harsh' of you, but that's what you're actually saying here. Plus, you keep both stating the Jedi have a choice and don't have a choice when it suits you throughout this argument.

And, regardless of whether the SW writers verbally acknowledge the word slavery, it is the story they present by saying the clones are "property" who "have no representation in the Senate". You should watch the Riyo Chuchi episodes in Bad Batch again, because this should be impossible to miss in the discussion of "clone rights". Your attempted use of 'rhetorical' questions instead of an actual argument is also pretty uninspired.

You literally didn't "debunk" anything, mademoiselle-cookie. As usual, you used ad hominem attacks, misused terminology, made antisemitic allegories, and now you're upset someone expressed an opinion you dislike. The fact you warn other people not to read my opinion as if you're the guardian of Jedi stan tumblr and they couldn't bear having someone make a post they don't agree with is also hilarious, I would hope people are full of sterner stuff. After all, people always have a choice, whether to read or not.

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