So since Mark Hamill is the king of voicing amazing evil characters, I have the headcanon that after the Battle of Endor part of Luke’s job for the alliance was making voice calls to various moffs and other ranking imperials pretending to be a recording of the Emperor saying THEY were in charge of the Empire if he died and letting the infighting speed up the imperial collapse.
Luke: Urgh, Leia, do I really have to do this?
Leia: I’m sorry Luke, you’re just too good at sounding evil.
Luke: Fiiiiine. *puts on incredibly evil voice* Hello, Grand Moff…
Han: *whispers* That is just freaky.
Chewie: *nods*
This is the best headcanon I’ve ever heard in my life
[Scene: a nervous-looking older man meets with a millennial in a darkened alley.]
Millennial: what's the target?
Man: I don't know if I want to do this.
Millennial: people don't come to us until they've made up their minds.
Man: Alright. Styrofoam cups.
Millennial: Six months and they're gone.
Man: Can millennials really kill styrofoam cups?
Millennial: we can kill anything, but not cheaply.
Man: I can pay. I work for a plasti-
Millennial: I don't need to know and frankly I don't care. One of us will deliver a routing number to a Zurich account. Two billion euros, then we start.
Man: Al..alright.
Millennial: It will be your last chance to reconsider. Once the money is processed you'll have no contact with us again.
Man: I understand. It has to be done.
Millennial: then it's sealed. The cups will join chain restaurants and diamonds in the void.
Man: Thank..thank you.
Millennial: We don't require thanks. Participation is its own trophy.
So, I’ve been getting the whole unwelcome “You should have kids” message from people for awhile now, but I recently got it from a direction I didn’t expect - a kid.
After spending a day together at the amusement park, my youngest cousin declared that he wished I was his mother. Though flattered, I politely declined, which he graciously accepted. But then he insisted “Okay, but you should really have a kid.”
Me: I don’t want a kid.
Him: But you need a kid! Who else will keep you company?
Me: My husband, my 2 roommates, my 3 cats, my large extended family and my dozens of friends!
Him: But who else?
Me: I don’t need anyone else! I hardly have enough time for everyone already!
He persisted in trying to convince me I needed spawn of my own. But I finally got through to him:
Me: Having a kid would really cut into my X Box time. Tell me, how often have you seen your mom play a video game?
Him: … never.
Me: Exactly! It just wouldn’t work. I have a demanding gaming schedule.
Just because you did something wrong in the past doesn’t mean you can’t advocate against it now. It doesn’t make you a hypocrite. You just grew. Don’t let people use your past to invalidate your current mindset.
“Women live a life of sustained fear. Which is not to say that most women exist in a state of heightened anxiety at all times, but is to acknowledge the reality that our lives are fundamentally different from men’s because of a real threat of rape/violence at the hands of men, mostly men we know. (And because we are stupidly and wrongly tasked with its prevention.) Men’s and women’s lives are very different in that way.”
While we’ve already seen some amazingly creative graffiti before, there seems to be no end to the possibilities a plain building wall presents. Now multiply that by four, and you understand the challenge Chicago-based street artist E. LEE faced. A challenge he dealt with brilliantly.
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Lee used the four walls harboring two restaurants in Chicago as a clever tribute to what he calls “the consummate failure” – a Looney Tunes character, Wile E Coyote.
“It was a challenge creating a story-line using two corners with so much distance between them. But I was really happy to do this Wile E Coyote piece,” Lee told Street Art News. “The consummate failure is my favorite character of all time. I love him for knowing what he wants and going after it; for being creative in the pursuit; and for always getting up after he falls and trying again. He’s inspired… and a hell of a painter. A huge thank you to Soho House and Threadless for allowing me the opportunity.”
If you ever get the chance to land in Chicago, head over to the Soho House in the West Loop, where the quadriptych graffiti can be experienced in its full glory.
I think one of the most inhumane acts is the monopolization of water. I can’t believe (rich) people are having debates on whether or not water is a basic human right. There’s so many people (poor black and brown) that don’t have access or funds to attaining clean water and I think it’s appalling.
If you ever feel pathetic, just remember that you will probably never be as pathetic as a fascist pretending to be an “attractive young woman” in his own comment section.
But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s
real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly
by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents
these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that
“the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries
is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median.
Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and
working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often
self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest
egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can
envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They
haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the
hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again,
they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”
“the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries
is about $72,000,”
lets finally kill the bullshit statement that economic anxiety got Trump elected and just call it racism like it is.
Are they food safe? Would I still be able to use them for my morning tea? What paint did the artist use, and can I find it myself so I can make something similar?
So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.
Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.
“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”
