#with edits

[icarusinterlude]

berry <3

#bystay #staysource #createskz #jypartists #mara talks shit #with edits #skz #stray kids #staycompany #malegroupsnet #this is ofc all about berry <3 #and not at all about one (1) arm and one (1) neck vein #bang chan #chris bang #i love arms

[plainshobbit]

First posted the original version of the this for the 2021 12 Days of Rexsoka event. Was never quite happy with the ending and I think I finally found the extra bits I needed.

Regrets and Second Chances

Rex had never wanted to part ways with Ahsoka. Given the choice he would be by her side at this very moment – and every moment after – until he took his final breath.

But she had made a compelling argument.

They were just too recognizable together.

Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex of the 501st. They had a reputation that spanned the systems.

And the Empire would be looking for them.

Faking their deaths could only last so long.

He had told himself that by parting ways, they were keeping each other safe.

She had been weary of war – the fighting, the death. Ahsoka just wanted to leave it all behind – to slip into an entirely new life. She hadn't said it, but he could tell. He couldn't really blame her.

Rex convinced himself that he had no right to argue that they stay together.

If he did, it would only be for his own selfish reasons.

So he had let her go.

************

Rex hadn't been done fighting yet. A part of him had to believe that the Republic could still be saved.

All their lives he and his brothers had been told they were created to fight for and protect the Republic. Instead they had been used to destroy it and enslave its citizens. He had to find a way to make that right.

He would find and free his brothers. Together they would restore the Republic. They could still fight for the Republic and create a safe galaxy again for Ahsoka and those like her.

But Rex had ignored one of the most important lessons he had learned during the years of fighting the kriffing war.

Things were always better when he and Ahsoka stayed together.

Things always went osik'la when they were apart.

And things had.

So many brothers lost!

It still made him sick when he thought about it.

It had broken him.

He had retreated to Seelos with two of the brothers he still had left and they had spent their days slinging for Joopa.

Many a night he had slipped out onto the deck of their modified AT-TE home as his vode slept. Rex would stare up at Seelos' night sky and ponder all the "What if's" . . .

What if he had refused to leave her?

What if together they could have made the difference?

What if together they could have saved his brothers?

What if he'd had the gett'se to tell her how he truly felt about her?

And the years slipped away -- more swiftly for him than most.

************

When the VCX auxiliary starfighter touched down outside their AT-TE, Rex wasn’t sure what to think. Seelos was not a place where one expects visitors.

He definitely was not expecting a young Mandalorian woman (in the most colorful armor he had ever seen) and a Lasat. Even more surprising were a Jedi and his young apprentice.

When this extraordinary little group had revealed they had been sent by Ahsoka herself, it wakened hopes he hadn’t let himself acknowledge for a long time.   

After so many lost years, Rex was finally going to see her again. 

He walked into the passage – trying to look like a confident and experienced Captain and not the nervous Shiny he felt like.

It really did feel liked butterflies flapping around madly in his stomach. He'd never understood the expression until this moment.

Hopefully none of them are Sheyash Kyrham.

Then again – if I kriff this up perhaps a touch from “The Yellow Death” would be preferable. 

All thoughts of deadly Mandalorian swallowtails were swept from his mind as the tall figure with blue-striped montrals and elegantly swaying lekku came into view.

There Ahsoka Tano stood.

She was magnificent.

And he was a di'kut.

"You got old?!"

THAT'S your opening line? 

Yep, send in the Sheyash Kyrham.

But Ahsoka took it stride.

She launched herself into his arms and for a split second, Rex thought he might never let her go.

He released her, but he made himself a promise. This time would be different. He wouldn't hide his feelings and he would always be there to have her back.

He'd gotten a second chance, and he wasn't going to let it slip through his fingers.

*************

Prompts for Day 8: Alone/Regret and Day 9: Fix It/Second Chance.

Originally for the 2021 "12 Days of Rexsoka" event on Tumbler. Also now on Ao3.

Mando’a Reference

The Shyeyash Kyrham or Mandalorian Swallowtail is the invention of author independent_variables (currently known around here as @thesunlikehoney -- Please forgive me for using this in a Rexsoka ficlet, friend!) as featured in the amazing Bly story Butterfly as found on Ao3.

di’kut: fool, idiot, useless individual; context-dependent: can mean jerk, moron, etc.

gett’se: courage, nerve

osik’la: messed up, horrible (impolite)

vode: brother, sister, comrade

#clone captain rex #ahsoka tano #rexsoka #the clone wars #star wars rebels #ficlet #rerelease #with edits

[bokkerijder]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

#rambles '24 #ok to reblog btw #all my posts are ok to reblog #if not i would make them unrebloggable lmao #edit: i am a fool #i said that thinking this would maybe get 5 notes or something #and now we're here lol

[sirompp]

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

#me tag🍭 #i might make more if anyone asks for them #EDIT: no im not lol #aro #aromantic #aroallo #alloaro #aroace #aromantic asexual #ace #asexual #<-WOWIE!! thats a lot of tags!!!

[snakesinsocks2005]

Pin for survivors

#snake hisses #Not putting this in my art tag #boop #scheduling this for midnight #edit: huh so its still going huh. oh well have it early

[bloodstainedmuzzle]

Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023) Leon S. Kennedy [ 1 / ??? ]

#Resident Evil #Resident Evil 4 #Resident Evil 4 Remake #REmake4 #Leon S. Kennedy #Leon Kennedy #RE4 #survival horror #residenteviledit #gamingedit #video games #videogamemen #dailygaming #my gif #my edit #loyal guard dog ~ ♥ #*LeeleeRE

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[thinkingabout-girls]

40k note oli theorionsound

#theorionsound #thats right bitches i’ve done it again (edited a post to be about empires oli)

[lautakwah]

EDIT: CHECK MY LATEST ADDITION BEFORE YOU START SHIT IN THE NOTES, THANKS.

warning for discord users

If you're on the app, immediately go to your dms and then "add friends". After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it's unchecked!

This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I've also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven't been able to find any mention of it, so either it's not a "feature" (yet) or they've hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!

[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this "feature". 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the "add friends button", 3: in the add friends page, the "allow contacts to add me" checkbox. /END ID]

#ling.txt #discord #fascinated by people seeing the edited post and then not even bothering to click on the bolded underlined capslocked link #in huge letters at the start of the post #tumblr is full of idiots god bless <3

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere #I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but #langblr #duolingo #duo #language learning #language learning apps #mandarinblr #resource #reference

[jemmalynette]

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

#legit the first thing i thought of when i heard this speech #barbie #fight club #margot robbie #brad pitt #crossover #gifset #parallels #my gifs #my edits #colouring by daily-hundred #barbie 2023

[vamprisms]

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

#like majority of the time kids are not just 'being naughty'. they have big feelings inside little bodies it's a lot #also like. #it should be illegal to dye your hair fun colours if you aren't prepared for kids in public to ask if youre related to a my little pony #EDIT: the notes on this post are an absolute cesspool. i don't care about your reasons for hating kids you sound like a disney villain

[spiribia]

personal injury lawyer billboards are all like INJURED?

#talks #EDIT: I DID NOT MAKE THIS IMAGE. #This is the “people with blue eyes” meme originally posted by twitter user @Pubby_Kat.

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments

[seagiri]

Im sorry I do this to every fandom im in

#my art #dungeon meshi #marcille donato #laios touden #falin touden #senshi #chilchuck tims #MEXICO NUMERO 1 DEL MUNDOOOOOO #dunmeshi #edit: i forgot to paint senshis collar in his profile view

[moxley]

all my advice about using real athletes to learn drawing bodies beyond hard abs, and my particular pref being wrestlers, also applies to women btw. you can draw women who r strong and not an hourglass shape. fucking do it.

kris statlander, rhea ripley (look at her SHAPE), willow nightingale, ruby soho, these r just four off the top of my head that have obvious musculature and different body types. skye blue and julia hart have more slim cheerleader style bodies as well, i REALLY wanted to put emi sakura who is fucking STOUT (adoring) in this post but i couldn't find a good demonstrative pic, the list goes on

DRAW DIFFERENT BODIESSSSSSSS

#tal.png #edit: muting notifs now. goodbye <3