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me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

#signs and labels

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On the one hand, it's so weird to me that every article like this I see leaves out Rupert Grint, since, to quote the BBC (emphasis mine):

Rupert Grint has become the latest Harry Potter cast member to speak out in response to author JK Rowling's recent comments on transgender issues. In a statement, the actor - Ron Weasley in the Potter films - said "I firmly stand with the trans community". "Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment." Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have also voiced support for trans people following Rowling's remarks. So has Eddie Redmayne, star of Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and its sequel. Grint, now 31, told The Times: "I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers."

And The Independent (emphasis mine):

In a new interview with Esquire, Grint said: “I am hugely grateful [for] everything that she’s done. I think that she’s extremely talented, and I mean, clearly, her works are genius. “But yeah, I think also you can have huge respect for someone and still disagree with things like that.” On why he decided to weigh in, he added: “Sometimes silence is even louder. I felt like I had to because I think it was important to. I mean, I don’t want to talk about all that… “Generally, I’m not an authority on the subject. Just out of kindness, and just respecting people. I think it’s a valuable group that I think needs standing up for.”

On the other hand, I'm sure Grint appreciates flying under the radar and not being dragged into the perpetual news cycle blender of JK Rowling's bullshit.

This is fascinating for two reasons.

1. They haven’t actually apologised for anything. She’s pre-emptively rejecting an apology that they have no intention of giving.

2. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are extremely well-liked. A lot of people are more attached to them in their roles as they are to the actual characters in the books.

What does JK Rowling gain by coming out with this?

#rupert grint #jk rowling #transphobia #current events

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wyllstarion and so on

#baldur’s gate 3 #astarion ancunín x wyll ravengard #astarion ancunín #wyll ravengard #art #bg3

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A collection of Gale dialogues I think about fucking hourly.

Bonus:

#baldur’s gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3

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so apparently in the earliest drafts of phantom menace, lucas had anakin at 12 years old, but eventually knocked it down to 9, because anakin leaving his mom at 12 "is not nearly as traumatic" as it would be at 9. this separation really is a foundational trauma for the tragic character, and he needed to make it hit as hard as possible, so he found the sweet spot of bad timing for qui-gon to find anakin. it makes me think of AUs where he is both older and younger and able to handle separation and transition better, both help avoid the problem of his psychological misfit with the jedi. his age of discovery is a vital part of all the things that had to right (for sidious) and wrong (for the jedi) for darth vader to happen, like the deck was intentionally stacked against anakin's happiness from the beginning on purpose for dramatic reasons. lucas's design of the backstory for such an established villain was really an archaeology of trauma that led to such a disaster, scraping away layers of the adult psyche to see the damaged child inside. many didn't like that the movie was about a whiny kid, but it's fascinating to me that lucas wanted vader to be understood as having that child weeping inside.

#star wars (franchise) #anakin skywalker | darth vader #star wars (prequel trilogy) #the deck was intentionally stacked against anakin's happiness from the beginning on purpose #lucas wanted vader to be understood as having that child weeping inside #an archaeology of trauma

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Obi-Wan being Like That™ .

#i am looking respectfully #star wars (franchise) #anakin skywalker | darth vader #obi-wan kenobi #star wars (prequel trilogy) #anakin skywalker x obi-wan kenobi #gif set #he walk like this 'cause he can back it up

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literally only watched the first episode but good lord the vibes between owen and obi-wan are just SO rancid i love it so much its even more painful than i imagined kenobi didn’t just make a sad little model spaceship, he was inspired to make it while sadly watching luke from sad little space bincoculars AND he spent like all his none money on it, and he bought the parts from the jawa who regularly steals from him AND he delivered it in the middle of the night!! it was so sad! it was so sweet! and then OWEN THREW IT BACK AT HIMasfdjlkghadlfkfm dying. that’s right owen!! fucking kick him while he’s down!! i love it so much!!!!

desperately want an au where owen and beru and obi-wan survive, and all go to yavin together. all i want from this au is owen and obi-wan having to spend time with each other, because, you know, luke. and i want owen to NEVER let up on Obi-Wan. Just constantly ruthlessly drag the famous jedi in front of the entire rebellion and the force itself

owen: you fucker. you absolute fucker. ben: i assume you’re talking to me. owen: I TOLD you to stay away from luke! look what you did! look at what you’ve done! ben: to be fair he came to me, and— owen: so you immediately gave him a laser sword??? what the fuck is wrong with you? ben: I— owen: this is why i didn’t want you around! literally the first time you talked to him my house burnt down! ben: that— owen: and then you IMMEDIATELY told him that DARTH VADER killed his father? is that even true? you never even mentioned vader when you first brought him!! ben: ah— luke: you brought me to my aunt and uncle? owen: and then you fucking put him in the SAME ROOM AS VADER? Are you trying to get him killed or are you just a moron? ben: that wasn’t…that wasn’t— owen: get off this planet and stay the hell away from my family ben: right, right, i’ll just—i’ll just go— mon mothma, general akbar, luke skywalker, etc:  mon mothma, general akbar, luke skywalker, etc: WAIT DON’T ACTUALLY LEAVE— Owen: stay out of this!

#star wars (franchise) #star wars: kenobi #star wars: disney era #star wars (original trilogy) #obi-wan kenobi #luke skywalker #owen lars

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Luke: you killed my father! Vader: I've killed a lot of fathers. Luke: Obi-Wan's other apprentice! the one you betrayed and murdered! ringing any bells? Vader, internally: ...was Ahsoka trans? is this guy part togruta?? he doesn't look like it, but fuck if I understand how togruta biology works? who did she (he?) even fuck?? when did she (he??) even have the time???

#star wars (franchise) #anakin skywalker | darth vader #obi-wan kenobi #ahsoka tano #star wars (original trilogy) #star wars (prequel trilogy) #star wars: clone wars

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something something everything that happens in jedi apprentice is just the rumors that periodically get circulated around the crèche about Obi-Wan by all the younglings

All of Obi-Wan's incredibly dangerous adventures did... sort of happen? Bandomeer happened! But Qui-Gon was supervising for most of it. Melida/Daan happened! But it didn't last quite as long as the creche says it did, and Obi-Wan got to keep his lightsaber, and Qui-Gon did in fact come back after Tahl was stabilized.

Etcetera

#star wars (franchise) #star wars: clone wars #star wars: prequel trilogy #anakin skywalker | darth vader #star wars: jedi apprentice #star wars: books

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Steve Harrington | Lucas Sinclair Stranger Things (2016 -)

#gif set #narrative parallels #stranger things #lucas sinclair #steve harrington

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for castiel’s bee day party

On the Head of a Pin (4x16)

#gif set #supernatural (tv) #castiel #supernatural (cw)

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The reason they sent Luke to face Darth Vader instead of Leia was because they knew she’d emotionally destroy him beyond salvation.

She’d take one look at him, with his lightsaber ignited, and say something biting like “you hide behind a mask because you fear the monster you’ve become” and he’d just cry.

#leia organa #luke skywalker #star wars (franchise) #anakin skywalker | darth vader #star wars: original trilogy

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You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him?

#doctor who (franchise) #nu!who #captain jack harkness #the doctor #the ninth doctor #the doctor (nine) #torchwood #jack harkness x nine #the doctor x jack harkness

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here is a fun little star wars scenario that has been pinging around inside my head like a screensaver:

so let’s say there’s some very zealous, very low-ranking fresh young Imperial officer on duty the day they take the Senator from Alderaan into custody. 

and he is very very nervous because a) he’s been here for like a week and b) none of that week required him to be in a room with Darth Vader. which he now is. so he is trying to focus very very hard on Doing Everything Exactly According To Protocol, as a means of not focusing on the seven-foot evil wizard standing fifteen feet away.

and part of the protocol for processing new prisoners is to make a new file for them in the prisoner database, and enter all their biographical details and vital statistics and a gene sample and their known associates and the nature of their terrible crimes against the Empire and so on. which he does! very meticulously!

except the computer keeps throwing an error message. the stupid thing keeps beeping at him, this awful grating little noise that makes his shoulders ratchet up tighter and tighter every time it honks at him, and he can’t fix it and Darth Vader is right over there—

except oh god oh fuck the beeping noise must be annoying Darth Vader, too, because he’s coming over here and our poor junior officer is convinced he’s going to die before he even lives long enough to send his first paycheck home to his poor widowed mother —

he stammers out an apology. Vader just stares at him. he swears he’ll figure out the problem right away, sir, it’s probably a bug in the system, it’s just that for some silly reason it keeps saying this gene sample doesn’t match the one on file for the Senator so he can’t get her logged as a new prisoner just yet —

“Dismissed,” says Vader. the poor kid flees, gratefully.

Vader considers the matter. in fact, his underling was correct: the gene sample, which he saw taken through his very own helmet lenses, does not match the official record of Senator Leia Organa, heir to the throne of Alderaan. so: perhaps the sample on record was falsified. not impossible, but very, very difficult. and ordinarily a crime attempted by the lowly and desperate. he cannot see any need for it, in the daughter of a queen.

another possibility presents itself. Alderaan has no history of using royal doubles, as some worlds do. but Bail Organa has worked closely with royal houses where the practice is long-established. perhaps he was inspired. perhaps the girl they captured is not Leia Organa at all.

Vader runs the gene sample against the ship’s database. it is woefully incomplete, of course, containing only a fraction of the Empire’s billions of citizens: the ship’s own complement, a selection of known criminals and Rebels they might encounter, high-ranking officials whose identity must be confirmed should the Emperor require their presence. unlikely that this girl, whoever she is, would have a record here, or even a partial match—

the computer beeps at him. it’s a cheerful beep, this time, not the error message that stymied the junior officer. the computer reports that the gene sample is a partial match for Pooja Naberrie, the Senator from Naboo. they are, with eighty-nine percent probability, first cousins.

and Vader just. kind of stands there. for a minute.

when he goes to Leia’s cell, there’s no interrogation droid with him. he goes in. he shuts the door behind him. he stands there, silent, for frankly a worryingly long time, until Leia has run through her entire stockpile of  “how dare you, I’m a member of the Senate on a humanitarian mission” and “whatever you want, you can’t possibly think I would be of any help” and “well, if you’re going to interrogate me, get on with it already” and “are you even listening to me?” and  falls silent herself. 

Vader has been listening to her. he has also been listening to the Force, which seems to think that she’s not lying. obviously the humanitarian mission part is bullshit, that goes without saying. but the “I’m Senator Leia Organa” parts and the “I won’t help you” parts? yeah. he searched his feelings. he knows them to be true. the Force is singing in his head, bright and clear, in a way it hasn’t for nearly twenty years.

there’s still Tarkin to deal with, though. Vader turns and leaves the cell without a word.

Tarkin wants to blow up Alderaan. this is unacceptable, obviously, and Vader forbids it on the grounds that the Queen and the Viceroy possess vital intelligence, not disclosed to their daughter, that must be acquired. said intelligence being, not that he’s saying this out loud, how the fuck Bail got his hands on his daughter, and who else knows about it.

“the fate of the galaxy rests on it,” is what he does say out loud. from the way the Force harmonizes with his words, that might even be true.

so the Death Star just. parks there. in an incredibly threatening orbit around the planet. they issue a demand that the Organas surrender themselves, or else, but apparently the happy couple just left for a low-tech weekend retreat in the mountains, what awful timing, they’re sending someone to fetch them right away. Vader shuts himself up in his quarters, to seethe and watch the surveillance feed from Leia’s cell. he’s not really paying attention to much else. 

and it’s not like a random freighter getting tractored in for being an incredibly obvious smuggling vessel is the kind of thing you’d alert Darth Vader over, anyway. 

so he’s still sitting there, one great big thought filling up his whole entire head, watching Leia take a frustration nap, when her cell door opens. 

and a trooper comes in.

and the trooper takes off his helmet.

and he says, “I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.”

#not!fic by not!me #star wars (franchise) #star wars: original trilogy #luke skywalker #leia organa #anakin skywalker | darth vader

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hob & matthew teaming up to convince dream that "birds aren't real" is 1) a real conspiracy a large percentage of humans believe, and 2) something both of them PERSONALLY believe

dream: matthew, you are a bird

matthew: and I'm not real, am I? the dreaming made me

hob: he's literally a government drone, dream. YOUR government drone!

#the sandman (gaiman) #dream of the endless #matthew the raven #hob gadling

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Nice lady. – Yeah, for a cop. dean + authority

#acab baby #gif set #dean winchester #supernatural (tv) #supernatural (cw) #victor henriksen

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This post really spoke to me so I decided to post something different as a New Year celebration! Thanks for following, everyone :)

#gif set #taskmaster (uk) #greg davies | the taskmaster #little alex horne