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Tender

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Fav scene in the opening theme redraw :3

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Doodles 🫰

I have no idea how to use tumblr btw

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Two older Pinecest things; I've been thinking about them a bit again

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any game that let's you dress up the grizzled, battle scarred murderer like he's your own personal Polly Pocket belongs to the girls gays and theys sorry I don't make the rules

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"memes that would kill arthur morgan. egirls that would kill arthur morgan. songs that would kill arthur morgan." arthur morgan drinks swamp water and eats snake & skunkmeat stew that has been sitting out in 1899 satan's ass crack humidity for 2 days. arthur morgan has to breathe in criminal musk and cowboy gland secretions 24/7 in the zero a/c southern sun while drinking sugarless coffee blacker than hot melt asphalt. you cannot kill arthur morgan in a way that matters. one sip of liquid from arthur morgan's nasty little travel cup would kill you instantly

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extremely random thought i thought doing some flower sketches: we don’t really know Mileses birth dates, so i couldn’t google their “assigned at birth flower” to draw, but we still have 42 and 1610 numbers, 42 is the most connecting of two as far as i’m concerned, so i turned it into a February 4th (04.02). not sure about specific dates, but February’s symbolic flowers are violet and primrose, and it’s extremely fitting color palette for baby Moraleses. just look at it… i know Miles is a sunflower boy, but still i find it endearing. violets having this little speck of yellow inside them makes me think of hope, and little joy, and love that Miles G still has deep in his heart, and Miles 1610 is more of an open heart of gold.

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Can miles 42 stop killing people in fics now? We all learned that he's a vigilante, let me repreat, VIGILANTE.

definition:

Vigilantism is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority.

A vigilante (borrowed from Spanish "vigilante", which means "sentinel" or "watcher", from Latin vigilāns) is a person who practices or partakes in vigilantism or undertakes public safety and retributive justice without commission.

Evidence

Here he's seen stealing MEDICINE for a sick kid in the hospital

SO, can we PLEASE stop writing him like he's some merciless psychopath? sure, i'm ok with him being morally grey but when I see someone writing something with him killing a guy because he said something to/about his girl OR just mercilessly killing someone in an alley it gets annoying. PLEASE STOP!

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selfshipping is soooo beautiful we are all out here like "this fictional character DOES love me actually and we ARE dating and they KISS ME" and everyone is like YEAAAAA LET'S GO!!!! THEY LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! there's just something about Allowing Yourself To Be Loved. i think it's nice :)

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It fucks me up the fact that Narcos Mexico made an episode paying homage to The Godfather; referencing one of my hyperfixations. I’m deceased. Like the wedding? The dealing with shitty business partners before dinner? Diego Luna getting baptized as The Godfather through death and loyalty? The “bitch you thought” moments? And the fact that they referenced Al Pacino and gave Rafa his Scarface moment. And all of it color graded like the sunset just threw up onscreen. Magnificent. Iconic. Lives in my mind rent free.

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Since I'm not ready to discuss the finale as an episode yet, I want to pitch in on the discussion of Diego's skill as Cassian's actor.

I work in theater and have, off and on, for fifteen years.

I have learned to watch different ways actors perform their roles. Some rely on vocalization. Some, body language. Some, their entire physical being.

Not enough, in my opinion, rely on emotion. On the way a quirked lip can change the meaning of a line of dialogue. On the way a raised eyebrow can make the audience question the reality of what they're being told. On the way a small gasp can elicit empathy almost immediately.

Diego Luna has this down pat. I don't know how he learned to, say, turn off that light behind his beautifully expressive eyes, to show Cassian's loss of hope. Who taught him how to let the stoicism of the burgeoning Rebel spy fade so fast into a broken, scared little boy left alone with just a slight relaxation of his face. Why he can make you cry with just a whispered, "Everything okay" and a still, calm look.

I truly fear that he'll never get the recognition for this, because soft emotion is often overshadowed by sheer explosiveness, but I hope Diego realizes just how loved and appreciated his work has been, not only in Andor, but throughout his career.

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[Please excuse any typos or errors or rambling in this post. I'm working with a dislocated elbow on my dominant side as well as some fairly strong painkillers.]

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a lot of people aren't going to want to hear this, but if you actually want trans men to stop "playing up" our assigned sex/"female socialization" or "walking back" on our manhood in conversations, here's what you need to do:

accept that it is possible for men (yes, 100%-men-and-nothing-but-men) to experience gendered oppression, including misogyny. accept that it is entirely possible for captial-m Men to have a lifetime worth of experiences with misogyny. accept that it is possible for men to be not just hurt by but systemically oppressed under the patriarchy. accept that being oppressed for one's gender does not require any proximity to womanhood. accept that it is possible for men to experience the things you call "women's issues". stop calling the misogyny specifically directed at us "misdirected". stop acting like our manhood somehow cancels out the oppression we've experienced. stop considering yourself more of an authority on our oppression than we are just because we're men and you're not. stop supporting activist spaces that expect men to "shut up and listen and be good allies" while everyone else task about their oppression. stop simplifying the complexities of gendered oppression to "man = privileged, woman = oppressed". you would distance yourself from your identity too if people used it to gaslight and silence you about your lived experiences.

stop acting like being a man makes someone somehow "less trans" or "less queer". learn how to view all trans people as equally trans and equally part of the community. unlearn your tendency to view manhood and masculinity as inherently less queer than other gender expressions. stop talking about how trans men are "the weakest link" or making "jokes" about how much worse we are than other people in the community or blaming us for all of its problems. stop acting like being men means we have less of a right than other trans people to speak on what it's like to be trans. you would distance yourself from your identity too if you knew that doing so would mean being more accepted by the community you rely on.

deconstruct your belief that cis manhood is the gold standard of manhood. stop telling trans men that it's transphobic for them to assert that their experience of manhood might be different from that of a cis man. stop trying to pressure trans men into never acknowledging how their transness makes their experience of manhood unique by accusing them of "misgendering themselves" or "saying trans men aren't real men". accept that trans men are not cis men and never will be cis men and are still 100% very real men anyway because cis manhood is only one type of manhood. understand that if you hear "trans men are different from cis men" and think that means "trans men aren't men", you're the one who's actually saying cis men are the only real men. you would distance yourself from your identity too if people said that claiming that identity required being exactly the same as a group you're not a part of.

get yourself a personality that isn't just talking about how much you hate men. stop telling all the men in your life how much you hate men and acting like their willingness to just take it is a measure of their moral goodness. stop making "jokes" about how trans men are "joining the enemy". stop talking about how much you wish you weren't attracted to men, or how much of a shame it is that someone else is. stop acting like womanhood and femininity are inherently pure and good and harmless while manhood and masculinity are inherently gross and evil and dangerous. stop acting like there's something inherently corruptive about existing as a man that fundamentally changes someone the second they come out as one. stop acting like it's funny to say you want to kill all of us as if there aren't countless people actively working to eliminate us. you would distance yourself from your identity too if everyone you knew spent their free time talking about how much they hate it.

help put spaces and resources into place that take trans men into consideration. stop getting mad at trans men who "call themselves men but still want access to women's spaces" and start looking at the world around you and asking why we want access to those spaces. open your eyes and realize that there is nothing out here for us, that all of the spaces and resources catered toward our experiences are marketed for everyone except us. ask yourself where the hell we're supposed to go when every clinic specializing in care for our bodies is a "women's clinic", when the only men's shelters are really just for cis men and the people advocating for "inclusive" shelters see all men as a threat to be warded off, when no one is willing to make an actual place for us and we have no choice but to just find the place that looks the least risky and hope they let us stay. put some effort into making this world more hospitable for us. you would distance yourself from your identity too if the resources you need to survive were offered for every identity but yours.

actually show trans men some fucking love for once in your life. find it in your heart to actually give a shit about trans men, to see us as real whole people who are deserving of love and community, to see our needs and feelings as worth your time and energy. care about us, care about our lives, care about our health and happiness and well-being instead of abandoning us the second we come out as men. start valuing our presence in the community and realize that we actually have a lot to offer if you could just listen to us. ask yourself why you're so comfortable leaving us to fend for ourselves in a world that wants us dead and is currently being very loud about that fact. you would distance yourself from your identity too if the community that supported you for years suddenly stopped caring about you the second you embraced it.

y'all will spend all day talking about how horrible it is that some trans men emphasize that they were assigned/raised female but nobody actually cares why so many of us do that. no one actually bothers to ask why we would put so much effort into being recognized as men but be afraid to fully claim that identity. no one wants to consider that they might be part of the problem, that they might be partially responsible for the thing they're complaining about.

if you want trans men to be able to stand firmly in our manhood and not undermine it with a million disclaimers, you have to actually put in the work to create an environment that's less hostile to trans men who do stand firmly in it.

because right now, regardless of my own personal opinions on the ways some trans men talk about their experiences as "afabs" or their "female socialization" or being "men but not like that", regardless of what issues i personally have with those kinds of statements, i can't blame them. not one fucking bit. and if you actually looked at how the world treats us - how our own community treats us - when we do fully own our manhood, you would feel the same way.

and if you aren't willing to do these things - which are literally just basic respect and care for other human beings, by the way - you don't get to complain about the ways trans men deal with how people like you treat our manhood. you can't expect a problem to disappear when you won't even acknowledge the part you might play in causing it.

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no one talks about original trilogy boba fett no one talks about the guy whose whole life is his job who’s simultaneously running from the shadow of his father’s legacy and doing all he can to be worthy of it no one talks about the care he puts into building his reputation or the loneliness he’s backed himself into no one talks about how he hasn’t been touched kindly in years no one talks about how he hasn’t had a single interpersonal connection that wasn’t to some extent transactional or how he looks in the mirror and sees his worst nightmare and yet everything he wants to be but never can achieve. no one talks about what a fucking hottie he is

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»There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. it occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they have already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And then remember this. The imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.

And know this, the day will come when these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and there will be one too many.

One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this.

Try.«

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Din is wearing a flight suit underneath beskar. It took me eternity to realize it and now i’m just a puddle of tears and love. When his armor is off, when he is not a shiny knight, he is so soft and domestic? I can’t explain why, but this type of clothing hits me hard and i love it so much, it screams comfort, convenience, even diligence, all at once. And Din in a flight suit is gorgeous, he is everything.

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Living in a country that is so familiar with the Galactic Empire i feel like a young Cassian. Should i turn politically feral at the age of 21? Because i think i should.