all I ask for in the new star wars films is leia with a lightsaber
I don’t think they give non-force sensitives lightsabers, but I also don’t think they’ve established Leia as force sensitive or not, so who knows
leia is anakin’s daughter. if she’s not force sensitive, I’ll eat my shoe.
The heck do you mean “they haven’t established Leia as Force-sensitive?”
Have you not seen Empire Strikes Back? The movie where her Force-sense was pinging every five minutes? Or in Return of the Jedi: “The Force is strong in my family. I have it. My father has it. My sister has it.” “In time, you’ll learn to use that power too.”
Leia is just as much a basket of potential-Jedi as Luke is.
“No, there is another.” HOW DID YOU MISS THAT
Because girl.
“In Expanded Universe materials set after Return of the Jedi, Leia is portrayed as a founding member of the New Republic. Although most of her life is devoted to such matters of state, she engages in limited study of the Jedi arts, with Luke as her teacher. Notably, she wields a blue lightsaber that she built herself.” [x]
fake geek boys
Even the dang trailer SPELLS “My sister has it”
“I’m sure Luke wasn’t on that thing when it blew…” “He wasn’t. I can feel it.”
fake geek boys
this post is golden
reblogging cause one of my followers tried to tell me Leia isn’t force sensitive
Who TF thinks Leia isn’t force-sensitive???!?!?!??!?! It’s literally right there, in the original trilogy. She has just as much Force as Luke. I don’t necessarily think she needs to develop it, really, because she is just as badass as a General/politician, but she certainly has it.
I think she has developed it. Just not by following the path of the Jedi.
One of the things I think Star Wars should explore goes back to “Bring balance to the Force.” As much as the prequels sucked, what they did give us was the Jedi being messed up.
The Jedi having degenerated into this dogmatic, insular mess of repressing emotions at all cost.
They misunderstood the prophecy. Anakin did bring balance to the Force - by destroying the Jedi. Oops.
One of the things we see in the new movie is the character of Maz Kanata.
She is clearly Force sensitive. She is clearly not a Jedi.
Leia - strong in the Force, not a Jedi. Because she knows she can do more good for the Light as a general and politician - that’s where her skills are.
Rey is going to be a Jedi. She’s probably going to be the one who works out how to bring them back without it happening all over again.
But what is Finn going to be? There’s pretty solid evidence that Finn is Force sensitive.
Will he be a Jedi or something else?
Will we finally see that there are many ways to use the Force.
“That’s not how the Force works.”
Isn’t it?
Anakin joined both orders, Jedi and Sith, to learn how to protect what he loves, and then he burned both orders to the ground when they wouldn’t let him love.
The Jedi rejected love as being insufficiently selfless; the Sith rejected love as being insufficiently selfish. Anakin brought balance to the Force in two steps, tearing the dogma of each to the ground around him, for love.
The balance point of the Force is love.
Luke uses it, guided by love, to be a warrior, knight, and teacher.
Leia uses it, guided by love, to be a stateswoman, general, and visionary.
Rey and Finn will use it, guided by love, to be whatever they want to be.
The imbalance was everyone, Jedi and Sith alike, who sought out children, took them from their lives, and told them, because you have this power, this is the life you must lead.” Balance means keeping you life and keeping your loved ones, and letting your heart show you the proper path.
The best thing about TFA is that the main heroine and the main villain are Star Wars trash, they’re cosplaying, they have merch and they’re competing for fandom domination. It’s so lit.
Listen. Sometimes when a girl has insomnia, she goes to drastic lengths to entertain herself. Then she closes her computer, falls asleep, and gets on with her life. Then, two months later, she’s cleaning up her desktop and finds THIS nonsense, and even though she knows it should never see the light of day…she just…can’t…delete it.
& not to distract from the video’s genius but can we also take a moment to appreciate LMM’s dad [x]
So this whole Rey Mary Sue thing just keeps twigging me (and not just because the whole bullshit, sexist concept of the Mary Sue knots my knickers like nothing else)
Because while this fuckboy opinion is probably motivated from dudes being, well, fuckboys, it may also be mired in them being MEN.
Because like, I and every single female friend I have walked out of Star Wars with absolutely zero doubts that Rey had earned every inch of her scrappy, badass survivor mantle. It wasn’t until dudes online started whinging about the “believability” of it that I even contemplated the issue.
So now, three viewings in, the second two spent ACTIVELY SEARCHING for signs that Rey may have suffered New Powers as the Plot Demands I have this to say:
The moment the film opened on Rey - a young woman living and operating ALONE on a world in which literal survival depends on who can scavenge AND EXCHANGE the most goods for food rations, I’d wager every single woman in the audience went, “Holy shit, this girl is capable as fuck.”
We didn’t even need to see her owning the thugs trying to steal BB-8 to know she could handle herself physically. We looked at her environment, her position in that environment, and we knew that to be where she was - just to have lived as long as she had - she had to know how to fight like whoa.
Because here’s the thing: woman don’t walk through life the way men do. Just living in our world is dangerous enough for a woman - to grow up young, alone and female on a world that would brawl over scraps and sell anything that wasn’t pinned down? That’s fucking terrifying.
Women look at Rey at the beginning of TFA and see every single hard-won year of survival. Every year of losing to fellow scavengers stealing her take before she could trade it. Every year she had to not become the very thing they were trading. Every year she was an easy target. And we see every year she had to fight to make sure she wasn’t one anymore.
That had to take guts, not to mention a healthy aptitude for combat and weapons training. The ability to pick up languages and social niceties on the fly would have been essential because my enemies enemy and all that.
Every single “unrealistic” ability these dudes are wanking on about was obvious as fuck to me within the first fifteen minutes of the movie.
So welcome to the party, boys - this is what it feels like to have to identify with someone outside of your own experience. And hey, who knows, if you take the time to ask why Rey was so capable instead of whining about it, you may just learn something.
Something very important to remember the next time you’re feeling a little hesitant about blocking someone who’s harassing you online. Your mental well being always comes first.
Give a man a compliment, on anything from his hair to his drink choice, and the assumption is usually that you’re looking to get horizontal with him. Give a woman a compliment, and she’s more likely to deflect it, for fear of being thought vain or full of herself.
if i give someone a compliment on anything except a mastered skill they had to work hard to achieve and they respond “I know,” i’m going to assume they’re a big bag of dicks and not invest any more time in them. y’all trip too much.
Well, leaving aside the matter of how much of a woman’s looks are a mastered skill to achieve a desired (or required) aesthetic effect…
You’re saying you wouldn’t waste time on someone who said “I know” after you complimented their looks. But that’s not what’s happening here. These dudes aren’t just “not wasting their time”. They’re taking extra time to castigate the women for not playing along.
And most of them would do the same if the women said “thanks”, albeit a bit less forcefully. Because that’s not the answer they’re looking for, either.
There’s a context to this, to men complimenting women they don’t know, and in this context, the only correct response is something demure, like “Oh, no really?” or “Stop!” or “Do you really think so?” or anything else that demonstrates that you as a woman are both properly humble and properly appreciative that this man has touched you with his words in a way no one else ever has (foreshadowing!), and if you do anything else then you’re vain or slutty or a vain slutty slut.
The point of this social experiment is that you’re supposed to be the mousy librarian who never knew she was beautiful, for each and every man who tells you that you are. The good feelings they gift you with are supposed to make it easier for them to woo you, without making you any more confident generally.
I have to add: it’s not just “I know”. Look at the response that was “I know, thank you, so are yours!” She not only expressed gratitude, she complimented him back. And still got called a bitch.
Somehow just being aware that she’s beautiful canceled out the rest.
Did you ever forget something someone told you, and then get irrationally irritated that you couldn’t just use a ‘Search’ function to find it in your memory?
Danny is an excellent example of a character whose difficulties in life are presented as consistently comedic. Several of these unhappy panels are punchlines to a strip, and the fandom make fun of his hopelessness constantly. Not a lot has gone well for Danny but he’s Danny, so the universe laughs.
His whole view of whether he’s successful in life is constructed around getting a girlfriend, which seems to be his parents’ standard. This means that a) he doesn’t seem to believe he has any intrinsic worth, and b) he’s willing to put up with anything to keep a girlfriend, including following her to college, keeping it a secret from everyone, or voluntarily okaying being verbally abused.
Aaand now it’s no longer funny.
Danny has few people to turn to. He goes to Dotty about his attraction to Ethan because the alternative is Joe, who flees at the first sight of ~~feeelings~~, or Amber, who isn’t stable enough to give him any kind of support, needing too much of it herself. If his relationship gets any more unhealthy, he’s not got a lot of places to go, and besides that, he’d probably put up with it. Even today, he turned a conversation about him and respecting himself into one about Amber’s issues.
Okay guys this is kinda important. GQ just came in the mail and for the first time in a long while it had a really important article…
I just sat here for like the last half hour reading this and I’m incredibly appalled at our justice system in regards to the military. The article interviews about 23 men who have all been sexually assaulted in some branch of the military. The PTSD from sexual assault in the military is more prevalent than PTSD from combat…
If you have a chance I suggest reading this article…and the title is a quote that one of the victims Doctor told him…
Hey guys! I’m very impressed and extremely happy to see this post gaining a lot of speed over the last few days! A few people have requested it, so i’ve gone ahead and scanned the pages of the article for those who want to read it, to read.
Wow. Very powerful stuff. I’ve had quite a few friends from back home enter the military and this is never something we bring up in discussions. I’m glad it’s garnering more attention.
Some quotes:
“The moment a man enlists in the United States armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten. Women, of course, are much more likely to be victims of military sexual trauma (MST), but far fewer of them enlist. In fact, more military men are assaulted than women— nearly 14,000 in 2012 alone.”
“Military culture is built upon a tenuous balance of aggression and obedience. The potential for sexual violence exists whenever there is too much of either.”
“Trent Smith, Air Force, enlisted 2011: “He was a senior aide— he had a direct line to the top. Being invited voer to his house, I just took it as I should go. Looking back, I as myself, Why didn’t you do anything? It wasn’t like he held me down or tied me up. I didn’t want to cross him. I really didn’t feel like I had any choice. I had just turned 19. It could be my career. I froze and went along with it.”“
“Rsearch suggests that the military brass may have conspired to illegally discharge MST victims by falsely diagnosing them with personality disorders. “The military has a systemic personality disorder discharge problem,” write the authors of a 2012 Yale Law School white paper. Between 2001 and 2010, some 31,000 servicepersons were involuntarily discharged for personality disorders. It is likely that in many cases these were sham diagnoses meant to rid the ranks of MST victims.”
“Jeremy Robinson [name changed], Army, 1970-1972: “I have very little memory of my time in the psychiatric ward, because I was so heavily drugged. I stopped eating. I became suicidal, and I made three attempts. They gave me shock treatments against my will. The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia. I bore that label for forty years before the VA finally admitted they had misdiagnosed me.”“
“Above all, MST victins keep quiet because they do not believe their attackers will be punished. And they’re almost certainly right. The conviction rate in MST cases that go to trial is just 7 percent. An estimated 81% of male MST victims never report being attacked. Perhaps it should astonish us that any of them do.”
“Mike Thomson, Marines, 1997-1999: ”I wasn’t “afraid” to report it— I was ashamed and disgusted. Guys aren’t supposed to be raped. I didn’t want to tell anybody about it. I didn’t want to say anything.”“
“Men develop PTSD from sexual assault at nearly twice the rate they do from combat. Yet as multiple research papers have noted, the condition in men is egregiously understudied. This is because so few men tell anyone. Those who do often wait years; many male participants in therapy groups are veterans of Korea and Vietnam. At Bay Pines’ C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Florida, the country’s first residential facility for men suffering from MST, the average patient is over 50 years old at admission.”
So GLAD the word is spreading!
How to talk about really important issues without derailment
Tbh all of these fake stories going around and they’re so obvious but if any of them said “so I work in retail” id be “okay yeah” because the weirdest shit goes down when you work retail. It could say “so I work in retail and today Jesus came in and turned all our water bottles into wine” and I’d be like “shit that’s wild what’d your manager do”
Sophie’s parents tapped their friend, Megan, to turn a Chewbacca doll into a Princess Chewbacca birthday cake, using the “Barbie cake” method, and making Sophie’s third birthday just the bestest.
Text that reads: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day’s work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drinking and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: “What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.” People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion.“ End text.
Raccoons never got a proper education in science and so they do not understand that some objects such as cotton candy will dissolve in water.
please put them in school so that they will know
I feel so bad for this baby
Excuse you, gentlefolk, but this fine raccoon is doing science all by himself. He first made an observation (”my food has vanished”), then formed a hypothesis (”water caused this”), then tested the hypothesis (”I will wash this type of food one more time”), before drawing a conclusion (“cotton candy is a ‘Do Not Wash’ food”).
He is a scientist raccoon, doing god’s good work.
I’m surprisingly pleased that the raccoon did eventually figure out how to eat the cotton candy
