okay I know that there are terrible terrible people out there but listen
I also know that there are people who stop and smile at tiny plants growing out of sidewalk cracks, people who laugh so loud they snort, people who compliment others randomly, people who take pictures of their friends because they love seeing their friends happy, people who ramble about things that theyâre passionate about, people who blush and stutter, people who are kind, people who are warm, people who love and love and love and love.
Last night I dreamt that Channing Tatum nervously presented me with a dress heâd knitted for me. He clenched his (big, work-roughened) hands in anxious fists while I unfolded it.Â
âYou donât have to wear it,â he said, before I could say anything.
The dress was perfect. It was beautiful. It could turn into a skirt.
âYou like it?â Channing Tatum said, smiling crookedly.
Itâs a silly and groundless headcanon, but Iâm pretty convinced that Luke keeps listsâin his head. on his rebellion-issued datapad, just because heâs always done it. He still calms himself down by reciting his daily chores on the farm, meditates by running through preflight checklists.
And since war is essentially crushing and repetitive boredom interspersed with the very urgent fear of dying, the lists get very elaborate:
A list of rumors about the Rebellion, overheard in cantinas on intelligence-gathering missions
A list of non-human species capable of sexual compatibility with humans as described by Han Solo, when very drunk
A list of Captain Commander General Han Solo and Princess Commander General Leia Organaâs top ten fights, according to frequency, duration & volume (compiled by L. Skywalker, with contributions from W. Antilles, L. Calrissian, C. Bacca, and assorted droids)
A list of pilots lost on missions L.Skywalker planned or commanded
A list of times Leia looked at Mon Mothma with thinly-veiled hero worship and then vehemently denied anything of the sort when confronted
A list of lies about Tatooine (as told by L. Skywalker) that Wedge Antilles currently believes are true
A list of previous criminal activities undertaken by Han Solo and Lando Calrissian that may or may not be true
A list of every time L. Skywalker made Leia Organa his sister laugh
An list of every time L. Skywalker has been genuinely happy in the last five years, abridged, because it was longer than he expected.
In an interview entitled âTed Cruz Embraces Economic Populismâ a very slick Cruz says:
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  Now the point that I often make, and just a couple of days ago in Wisconsin I was visiting with a young woman who said she was a Bernie Sanders supporter. And I mentioned to her that I agreed with Bernie on the problem.
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This has always been the American right wingâs clever little take on âpopulism.â Sure, sure, folks, those  rich guys and big business are bad, very bad. But itâs all because theyâre bribing politicians to give them what they want. The best thing to do is slash taxes, reverse all regulations and get rid of consumer protections so they wonât need to bribe politicians because theyâll have everything they want! Then the power of the markets will be unleashed and you can be rich too!
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Throughout the interview, this wily Ivy League educated lawyer presents himself as the champion of the working class, the guy whose only concerns lie with the single mom who works as a waitress and the dad who lost his job down to the plant and canât get ahead. Â But in reality his record on economics is one that only a Koch Brother could love. And even they canât stand him.
âIt is a gross distortion to suggest that black people wanted billions of dollars slashed from child welfare, housing and other public benefits in order to fund an unprecedented prison building boom. It was Bill Clintonâs deliberate political strategy - one he championed along with the âNew Democratsâ - to appeal to white swing voters by being tougher on struggling black communities than the Republicans had been, ramping up the drug war and gutting welfare.â
- MICHELLE ALEXANDER corrects Bill Clintonâs revisionist history of the 1990s
Petition to sit down all the people who make coma theories about Adventure Time and tell them âlisten, this fucking show is about the last human living in a post-apocalyptic world where deadly magic has been reawakened following a global thermonuclear war that wiped out the rest of the human species, how much fucking darker do you want it to beâ
Even though I thought my first Creative Writing professor was kind of a douche, he made a good point about this. One of our first assignments was to write in this eerie, otherworldly style (we were mimicking a specific author whose name escapes me), so we had to write about eerie otherworldly things happening. Itâs no exaggeration to say that more than half the class had a âbig revealâ where we find out that the storyâs strange events and themes are all in the mind of some person in an insane asylum, or someone having a drug trip.
My professor said something like, âyou just successfully wrote a world that feels separate from our own, but got frightened last minute and shoe-horned in normalcy. You showed that you were afraid to commit to something different and interesting.â Though Iâm typically a contrarian and a piece of garbage, I am inclined to agree with my professor. I feel like people who write coma theories and the like are afraid to accept that the world of the story is separate from our own. They like everything wrapped up in this crazy little realism box where nothing out of the ordinary happens in fiction.
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This pretty well hits the nail on the head as to why I generally hate coma/dream theories and people who think theyâre so fucking deep for coming up with it. In my book itâs LAZY, plain and simple.
I get this, and I sometimes think this way, BUT... I think that part of the problem that people have with "feminism" is the desire to distance themselves from anything associated with femininity or womanhood. So I kind of think it's an important first step, a test even... are you willing to call yourself a feminist? Are you able to look past the culturally ingrained habit of recoiling from associating with femininity? If not, then maybe you are still sexist and genderist after all.
Tumblr: No she isnât! There is a perfectly logical explanation as to why she mastered everything she touched perfectly on the first try.
Star Wars fans: âŚ.how then?
Tumblr: She used the Force.
Star Wars fans:
that is literally how the force works if you can use it have you never seen a star wars movie before or
anakin never finished a race, then wins one first time out
anakin never flew a starship before and manages to do what the other pilots couldnât: blow up a droid control ship
letâs not forget luke
luke never used a lightsaber or piloted an x-wing before, then the second he uses the force, bam, perfect first time out
lmao look at this person tryinâ to call rey a mary sue like itâs 2004
That and like. She has better reasons for knowing this stuff than the above dudes do.
Like, of COURSE she knows all about mechanics- sheâs been scavenging starships for parts most of her life, so knowing whatâs what and how it works is a crucial life skill.
When she handles a lightsaber, sheâs very obviously using it like she would a staff (and spends most of the fight running away from Kylo anyway). You know, like the staff she carries with her all the time for self-defense in the desert hellhole she grew up in.
Everything we see her do with the Force is stuff Kylo did in front of her- he invades her mind, and she invades his and then mind-tricks a Stormtrooper (which still takes her three tries). He Force-holds her and later tries to Force-pull a lightsaber, and she Force-pulls it to her instead.
Practically everyone in the Star Wars universe is casually multilingual, and the only character in TFA whoâs shown to be unable to understand at least one of Chewie or BB-8 is Finn, who was raised and brainwashed as a Stormtrooper (and neither the Empire nor the First Order seems to be much of an equal opportunity employer when it comes to species). Given her scavenger history, Rey having met astromech droids before isnât just possible, but likely.
Her skills are better-established than either Lukeâs or Anakinâs before they matter, but nope, sheâs the Mary Sue, apparently.
For godâs sake, if you take Episode 1 at its word, Anakin was a goddamn virgin birth caused by the will of the force, and has an extensive prophecy about him being the Chosen One.
Like. Seriously.
Anakin is literally a Jesus Allegory Jedi but somehow Rey is the Mary Sue
but we all know why Emo Jesus is ok but Rey Sue isnât âŚ. because woman.
Itâs so weird that Daisy Ridley is eyeballing that Lara Croft role in the Tomb Raider reboot, like, sure Star Wars was really big but you canât just be a beloved space hero in one franchise and also be a big name as some kind of combat archeologist. Whoâs ever doubled up like that?
Haircare brand SheaMoisture, founded in 1991 in Harlem by Liberian refugees, released an ad on Tuesday. The ad depicts the ways in which women of color are often neglected by the beauty industry. âBreak the walls of the beauty industryâ is the message to black women everywhere.
I wear my hair long because if it's long I can a) tie it up so it's the fuck out of my way, and b) only go to get a haircut twice a year. Regardless, I have been known to threaten my hair on mornings when it refuses to behave.
Honestly, I've always wanted to see neutral Jedis. I think Rey would make an awesome neutral Jedi.
Luke: Rey while I understand the desire to experiment and outdo Kylo Ren could you perhaps stick to a lightsaber staff? A lightsbaer trident is just .....wrong
Luke:Rey when I told you about my training with Master Yoda I did not mean that you should do the same things. Could you please let me down before I break a hip. I am not a young man anymore
Luke: While I am both proud and very disturbed that you managed to discover Force Lightning on your own could you please not use it to cook sausages? We have a perfectly good fire
Luke: While I understand your anger at the Senator after the way he insulted Leia you cannot use the Force to make him punch himself and then gleefully ask " Why are you punching yourself" This is not how a Jedi is supposed to act
Luke: I agree that it's effective but in an honorable duel a Jedi is supposed to use The Force and their lightsaber to defeat their opponent not land mines
Luke: I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK THEY ARE ADORABLE! SPIDERS ARE NOT SUITABLE PETS REY! OH GOD THEY ARE IN MY ROBES. GET THEM AWAY FROM ME
Luke: Rey we are facing a Sith Lord! Now is not the time to make fun of Supreme Leader Snoke's name. Rey stop laughing
Class: *talking loudly*
My chemistry teacher: Ladies and gentlemen
Class: *continues to talk loudly*
My chemistry teacher: Small, ground dwelling rodents
Class: *goes silent*
My chemistry teacher: Really? You responded to that?
[hundreds and thousands of women/POC/LGBT, etc, talk about their experiences]
White dude: Well I havenât seen any hard data, so. Itâs not a problem.
*twitch*
Good job on LISTENING TO THE WORDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. Iâm sorry we
donât do a goddamn funded study every time we dare to talk about our
own lives and experiences. I didnât realize my LIFE needs a stamp of
âactual studyâ approval for you to listen. Fuck you.
I am so
sick and tired of just SAYING something about my experiences and some
one asking for a fucking source/citation/etc. Iâm not an essay. Iâm not a
paper. Iâm a person, TELLING you something and wanting you to fucking
listen. Fuck you.
