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I am really enjoying reading about the University of Wisconsin chancellor fired after the university discovered all the pornos he and his wife were making.

Generally when someone has a public sex scandal (or “scandal”) you get the standard “I am sorry. I regret it. It was a misjudgment on my part” but this guy is like “fuck you I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t violate conflict of interest clauses, you are violating my first amendment rights”

Violating the codex alimentarius vis~a~vis cookie production- so manslaughter on a mass scale.

duality of man

anti-jedi side of fandom loooove to be aphobic like they just spout off bullshit at the drop of a hat with zero awareness or critical thought

saw a post describing jedi survivor’s story and like a quarter of it was devoted to how Cal rebels against the ‘failures’ of the Order and stops ‘repressing what makes him human’ since that’s what the Order taught him to do, of course! 🙄

which first of all

IF YOU DESCRIBE ROMANTIC INTEREST AS WHAT MAKES A PERSON HUMAN YOU ARE BEING APHOBIC. fullstop. forgoing romance or sex, whether because of orientation or a matter of choice, is not inherently repressive or inhuman.

and i’m certain that’s what they were referring to, because Cal’s relationship with Merrin is the only thing that could be construed as going against the ways of the Jedi Order.

…other than his blatant quest for vengeance and near-Fall after the deaths on Jedha.

but somehow, i don’t think that’s what they meant by Cal rejecting the Order’s dogma! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so here’s a good time for the reminder that jedi do not teach ‘repression.’ They are allowed sex and encouraged to love others, even their enemies. They don’t get married and they don’t have kids because they don’t do attachments, and they don’t make commitment that they couldn’t realistically keep while serving the Republic and the Force above all else.

SECONDLY

that’s not what the story is about. not even a subplot. Cal has a single line about the jedi ‘not being right about everything’ and yeah it’s in regards to his potential relationship with Merrin. But is breaking from the traditions of the Order a theme/subplot?

no! wanna know how i know?

literally hours after he says this he’s betrayed by Bode, his brother in arms and (until then unknown) fellow jedi, and what was Bode’s justification again? oh that’s right, he doesn’t want vulnerable refugees and rebels on Tanalorr because he won’t accept even the smallest risk towards his daughter. IN OTHER WORDS HIS ATTACHMENT. Bode was attached to his wife and daughter and was willing to give up everyone on the Secret Path and murder Cordova*** in cold blood because his wife got murdered by the empire and he was so afraid of the same happening to Kata that he was willing to sacrifice everyone else. No thought for their loved ones. their spouses and siblings and children. Nope. just Kata. That’s not even getting into the work he did and people he got killed for the ISB before also betraying them!

like Bode is The warning against attachment. willing to trap Kata in isolation against her own wishes. saying screw the rest of the galaxy. unable to notice when his own actions nearly get his beloved daughter killed. He’s so aware of his choices too, unlike Anakin who was unhinged by the end.

god i love Bode. a more grounded and…relatable(?) realistic(?) look at what attachments can lead a person to do. as opposed to choking to death the person you just created an empire to save anakin lmao

***and speaking of Cordova and Cere. Their whole storyline is about rebuilding an archive of the order’s knowledge and culture. and the tragedy is *The Empire’s* violent repression of their way of life and the destruction of that accumulated knowledge.

the Order didn’t repress their members ffs

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

Look, just make the man a cat boi, and nobody get hurt. He don't gotta be this soft, but c'mon, make the disaster twink man a disaster.

give him back the cat ears.

Cyborg x aviator(in aviators) pog

Actually heavily augmented neural link mecha pilots that jack in to their mechas and old fashioned buttons and levers controlled mecha pilots who become one with their machine in a less literal fashion shouldn’t be pitted against each other. They should make out sloppily I think

One of the things that irritates me so much about the Elder Scrolls fandom is people taking literally any of the things that Mankar Camoran says when he is very obviously a weird cultist writing cosmological propaganda.

He literally claims Lorkhan is a Deadra and that Nirn is a realm of Oblivion, which would make absolutely no fucking sense at all and HE CAN'T EVEN GET THE NAME OF MERIDIA'S REALM RIGHT

I am BEGGING TES fans, BEGGING YOU to understand the one thing that Oblivion makes unbelievably clear which is that he is diegetically a propagandist making up absolute horseshit to justify why he's helping the Deadric Prince of Blood Oceans and Turbomurder invade Nirn, please TES fans it's like the most obvious thing ever I am begging you please understand that

Please do cite the deep magic to me actually. I may have been there when it was written but I am very forgetful

You know what I don’t get?  When fanfic authors apologize for long chapters.  It’s like?  You gave me bonus content, for free, and you’re sorry about it?  Bruh.  I have already named my firstborn after you.  Dude.

how do (fluid) ounces fit into this system?

Indeed

I am so normal about this

Good pic, based on a great fic. Very much the vibe. Also, hunk!Heero is something that I should've seen coming, but was unprepared for.

Some drawings of Hunky Male Lead Heero for @thaiteaaddict ‘s isekai AU  ♥

(The second drawing was referenced directly and shamelessly off a romance novel cover)

Love C-Span’s “due to the fact that we are ruled by the Lord of Chaos here in the House of Representatives and there are NO RULES our cameras are allowed to ROAM FREE and provide you HOT GOSSIP of who is talking to who and how many ugly-ass ties are present on the floor” 

sulemio × gurren lagann eyecatch style ✨

Something I haven’t seen much discussion about but I think makes Lady Prospera so interesting as a character is just how we simply don’t get a good sense of just where she stands as a mother to Suletta.

Like I’ve seen a number of people theorize that at some point Prospera will drop some ‘It was all a lie’/’I never loved you’/’You were never my REAL daughter’ bombshell on Suletta and try to kill her or just abandon her. Or simply read Prospera as the shitty, manipulative parent as Delling, Jeturk, Piel and Grassley.

But the thing is, that is simply not the case. Unlike basically EVER other parent we’ve seen in a position of power, Prospera seems to display some surprisingly genuine care and affection towards Suletta. Certainly FAR more than Delling, Jerturk or any of the others.

Now it’s certainly possible that this is all some act. But if it is, Prospera has put a surprising amount of time and effort into this act.

We’ve seen multiple instances of Prospera going out of her way to check up on Suletta to see if she’s alright or putting other work on hold when Suletta calls her to talk about something. Not exactly the behavior we’d expect from someone who sees her daughter as nothing but a tool.

Now of course that’s not to say that Prospera hasn’t been SUPER shady and manipulative towards Suletta. Or that she hasn’t still been using Suletta as a pawn in her grand schemes. Rather, while it’s easy to look at Delling, Jeturk and the rest and say ‘they see their children as nothing but tool in their schemes’, with Prospera things seem to be a lot more layered, nuanced and generally complicated.

Like even as we approach the final episode of Part 1, I’d say we still CAN’T tell for sure just how exactly Prospera views Suletta. Is Prospera’s care and affection sincere, or does she truly see Suletta as nothing but a pawn?

Though if I had to guess/hope, I think the most unsettling/interesting option is essentially BOTH. That Prospera Mercury genuinely DOES love and care for Suletta, and Aerial as her daughters. Daughters that she is still using as pawns in her grand scheme for revenge.

lean on me

I now have to re-examine my love of that film. Still pretty good, tho.( The music is a bop. )

I know when we talk about ~men writing women~ we usually focus on the “she breasted boobily” variety but can we just acknowledge that in The Sound of Music, a mother abbess sends one of her young, naive charges to go and work for a rich, single older man and when said young naif flees back to the abbey and refuses to speak to anyone about what happened to her except to say “I can’t face him again”, the abbess’ first reaction is “are you in ~love~ with him?” when any woman’s knee-jerk reaction would be “GIRL WHAT TF DID HE DO AND SHOULD I CALL THE POLICE”

I know that people are starting to calm down with the whole situation surrounding John Mulaney, which is good, but I just wanted to get this off my chest.

The way that people reacted to the news about John Mulaney going to rehab, getting divorced from his wife, and dating someone new really speaks volumes to the taboo that surrounds recovering addicts and the unhealthy way we view celebrities. 

John Mulaney has been pretty open about the fact that he is a recovering addict. He has joked about it plenty of times in the past, and nobody seemed to find anything wrong with that. But after he relapsed, I’ve heard tons of people saying things like “I can never look at John Mulaney the same again!” or “How can someone who seems so smart and funny actually be so fucked up??” and many other things in that vein, and it’s just really upsetting. Addiction is a disease, its not something that can be easily overcome. Relapsing doesn’t mean the person is weak or no longer deserves respect.

The fact that people have reacted so negatively to the news that John is going through a divorce and that he has started to date someone new really shows why parasocial relationships are bad for everyone. There is nothing wrong with divorce, and there is nothing wrong with seeing new people, but so many fans are acting like John has done something horrible, when in reality all he did was make a decision that his fans didn’t want him to make. We need to remember that no matter how big of a fan you are of someone, you still don’t know them personally, and they are going to do things that you personally don’t want, understand, or agree with, and you just need to accept that. 

Overall, I just wish people would understand two things about this situation: 

Addicts are human beings, they deserve respect, and there is nothing about being an addict that makes them any lesser then others.

Celebrities are normal people just like the rest of us, their personal lives are really none of our business, and you can be a fan of someone without feeling like you are entitled to knowing everything about them. 

Seems legit. I just want to remember this, so I may one day take the plunge.

some highlights from my writing seminar with honestly one of my favourite authors of all time who shall remain nameless bc i dont want her to know i was spilling her secrets online

The first trick is to detach yourself from your idea. You don’t have just one novel inside you, and it’s not a big deal if you don’t finish this novel.

She was skeptical of the common advice “just write!!1!” - she talked about how long ideas for her most popular novels were marinating inside her before she properly wrote them

As a continuation of that, she was a big believer in knowing what you want to write before you write it. Not what you’re going to write, what you want to write. 

The first thing she decides about a novel is what the mood is going to be, and this informs every other decision (e.g. the mood for Shiver was bittersweet)

Ideas should be personal, specific, exciting and they should exclude secondary sources. A personal idea isn’t necessarily autobiographical (which should be avoided), but it speaks to your emotional truth. 

She said she had been read Ronsey fanfiction and she couldn’t view her car in the same way since. 

Story is the thing that seems most important to reader but is most changeable to the author - story is subservient to your mood and your message. Change what you like in the plot as long as your book retains its sense of self.

Story is conflict, exploration and change. A good story has active tension -the characters want something, instead of just wanting something not to happen (e.g. wanting to kill an enemy instead of simply defending a stronghold against an enemy) 

A story needs to have a concrete end, something to be done. 

Satisfaction is important - deliver what you promise to the reader. The other shoe has to drop. Ronan Lynch doesn’t ever talk about his feelings, so its rewarding when he does. 

Earn your emotional moments (she threw shade at Fantastic Beasts lmao)

Forcing a character to be passive is dissatisfying to the reader. 

Characters are products of their environments, consistent/predictable, nuanced and specific, moving the plot, and subservient to other story elements. 

She always starts with tropes for ensemble casts like sitcoms. Helpful for building good character dynamics.

Write scenes with characters saying explicitly what they’re thinking and then go back and make them talk like real people in the edit. 

An action can also prove what they’re thinking, instead of making them say it or another character guess it (e.g. Ronan punching a wall). 

Move the reader’s emotional furniture around without them noticing. 

All her books follow the three act structure. Established normal -> inciting incident -> character makes an Active Decision -> fun and games -> escalation -> darkest moment -> climax. 

Promise what you’re going to do in the first five pages. 

Read your book out loud. Record yourself reading it. 

If you have writer’s block, it’s because you’ve stopped writing the book you want to write. She likes to delete everything she’s written until she gets back to a point where she knew she was writing what she wanted to write, and then carrying on from there.