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I personally subscribe to the theory that Leia is a natural prodigy at shielding herself in the Force (explaining why Anakin only sensed one baby in the womb, why she grew up on a Core world and worked in the Senate undetected, why Vader didn’t clock who she was while interrogating her, etc.).

But it just occurred to me that there’s a — technically canon-compliant? — story idea that I don’t think I’ve ever seen explored: what if Vader *did* figure out who Leia was at some point, maybe during the interrogation on the Death Star. And he confronted Palpatine about the survival of his child. And Palpatine messed with Vader’s mind to make him forget.

(Of course, then there would need to be an explanation for why we never saw Palpatine directly exploit that knowledge, I suppose…)

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When you accidentally summon every Loth cat in a 5km radius during Jedi training.

This one is for the first week of @therebellionevent (yay!)

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Rb if you want your mutuals to alert you if you accidentally reblog AI generated images

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People who re read and re comment on fics deserve a special treasure in heaven 😘😘

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the line between not going out as an act of self-care and not going out as a symptom of depression is but a gossamer thread

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You know your drunk art post about love and personhood from 2019? Every night at bedtime my late cat would lie on my chest, and her little heartbeat would be right on top of mine, and I'd think about that piece of art you made, and have a similar sort of image in my head. Anyway, yesterday I finally put the image to paper, and idk where this is going, just that that piece of art you created means a lot to me. Have a cool day ✌️

OHHHH MY GOD!!!!! EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS. ITS ALL BEEN WORTH IT

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many on here need to be learning this lesson

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A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies

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Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

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A cool Fibonacci’s clock design

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"I don't believe Tarot is real, but it does work"

Expand on that, king (genuinely curious)

I feel like…

okay, so it’s a lot like conceptual art, or like introspective meditation, at the risk of sounding pretentious

Like. It’s not so much about “the cards are a portal to a higher wisdom that knows more than me” thing- it’s more of a, “given the symbols drawn, could I interpret them posing a question or possibility or suggestion?” Followed by, “is this applicable to my current context? COULD it be?”

Like.

I don’t lay out á tarot hand and say “ah yes, the devil and the tower, I am about to be betrayed”

But I MAY lay out a hand and say, “okay, devil and the tower. Something treacherous and danger. Am I approaching a treacherous or risky situation in my life? What might be a tipping factor? Am I being deliberately reckless? Maybe I should spend some more time working on X project I’ e been thinking of before spending money on it” or “you know what, I HAVE been kind of uncomfortable with X thing, I should say something” or “yeah okay I KNOW Tom from work sucks to work with, I KNOW, yeah maybe I should consider ways of handling that”

Less of a magic oracle, more of a tool for doing literary analysis on real life. Like simplifying everything and laying it out flat so I can gain some distance to untangle my problems without in-your-head crap like projected feelings and social obligation getting in the way and muddying the waters.

So like. I don’t think tarot cards can legit tell the future, but I DO think that self-reflection, mindfulness, and consideration sometimes allow us to predict and calculate our own circumstances.

So, IMO- It’s not real. But it works

If that makes sense

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Lizardfolk merchant NPC who, if offered a good enough trade deal, will sell his own tail as an edible health-restoring item.

"Eh, it grows back anyway", he says afterward

­This is a central part of the Lizardfolk economy.

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Modern AU where all of the Sith that are obsessed with Obi-Wan are his cats.

Maul is a street cat that hates EVERYONE and bites a lot and people keep begging Obi-Wan to get rid of him for his own safety.

Dooku is an old-as-balls purebred that used to do show competitions. Very refined, but does occasionally get into fights with Anakin.

Anakin was a kitten with Qui-Gon, who died, so Obi-Wan inherited an adorable ball of fluff that kept escaping and one day had a fight that really fucked him up and now he runs hot and cold and Obi-Wan struggles to figure out how to help (you can't communicate 'this is why I kept telling you to stay inside' to a cat, they don't know most English).

Asajj came to him via cat-sitting; her owner (Ky Narec) died and Obi-Wan was just like Whelp. Mine now.

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When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

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When the inspiration finally hits.