#How uncivilized

[hauntedwonderland0964]

Could you imagine what would happen if Obi-Wan "Blasters are uncivilized" Kenobi met Ezra "Merging a blaster and a lightsaber would be so cool" Bridger

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Currently designing this sopping wet cat of a dinosaur ✨🪞🧿

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

yeah man I'm sure that's it and not the Spaniards burning and destroying as many codices and other religious artifacts as they could get their hands on

[aliciavance4228]

Given Cadmus' background he would've been extremely educated and speak multiple languages along with different phoenician dialects. There were the ancient greeks who had to learn from him, not vice versa.

[jaeyunologyy]

cant people just be decent anymore these day?????? like hello????.whaf happened to being civil???? and having critical thinking and maturity????

[coolboxofcandy]

- Master, do you know what people call me? - Why don't you tell me. - I think that's an exaggeration, but they call me "Lightning-fast Allucia."

[nukacourier]

The way people talk to the Chosen One in fo2 is making me remember how kids talked to me for being Native American in public school lmao

[bitegore]

Some usamericans are so accustomed to imperialism and foreign interventionism in the name of "good" or "justice" that they will unironically argue against things that improve some situations in some places without engaging in foreign interventionism for the sake of "fixing" imperial violence, apparently entirely unaware there's any reason why one country shouldn't be exerting control over other random-ass countries around the world.

[etirabys]

@lovelanguageisolate and I were cuddling and I called him (as I sometimes do) an ugly bug. And then, according to him, I started giggling and spontaneously told this story:

Once upon a time God made the beautiful insects, like the butterfly, the ladybug, and the sparkly caterpillar. And then he decided to make an ugly bug, too.

The ugly bug would sting people and scuttle away to the dark moist underside of rocks. And when children picked up the rocks to look at what was underneath, they would exclaim, "Oh, what an ugly bug!"

(at this point he was laughing hard enough that I put one hand on his chest and one on his back, to better enjoy the movements of his thorax)

It happens that one of God's other creatures was the shy hippo. She lived in muddy waters and caused all sorts of trouble. As hippos did, she would trample people and break their legs, but then rush away because she was shy.

One day, the ugly bug landed on the waters where she lived and said, "You look like the kind of person who would enjoy a reading group of Donald Knuth's classic computer science textbook, The Art of Computer Programming."

So she attended the meetup but barely said anything, because she was a shy hippo. Something made the ugly bug think, "This lady is trouble." But she wasn't! Yet. The coronavirus pandemic hit soon afterwards, and the ugly bug moved away to Denver to live with the ugly bug parents who had spawned him. He was quite safe from her rampages there.

Once he was vaccinated, he came back to Seattle where she was going to bars and playing boardgames with his friends. And then he was in a great deal of trouble indeed.

[aleatoryw]

why was Dooku teaching Ventress makashi anyway. that's his preferred style but it doesn't suit her, she should have been learning ataru imo

I have so many thoughts about her just in terms of her combat style... like she trained as a padawan when she was a teenager and presumably learned the basics, then picked up jar'kai when she was using her own saber and her dead master's. assumedly taught herself how to do that. but depending which version of the story you follow, she was either forced to be a gladiator in an arena before breaking out, or on a killing rampage driven by the need for revenge. neither of those things lend themselves to makashi, which is a duelist's style made for saber-on-saber combat.

maybe it's an overcorrection issue. Dooku picks up Ventress age 23 and agrees to train her bc he saw the absolute carnage she was creating on rattatak, and then she starts boasting that she's "entirely self taught" and "made up her own style of fighting" and oh god, she's clearly never fought a duel in her life and has abandoned the core principles all padawans learn, what has he gotten himself into. she's so good at killing and violence when she's up against a hundred people with guns but now she wants to kill Jedi and he's aware the second she gets near a Jedi she'll get her ass kicked, so we are DRILLING those makashi basics damn it

but fuck I love the idea of Ventress who is hard for Jedi to fight because she's good with sabers but entirely untrained in expected forms, impossible to pin down because she switches tactics on a whim and incorporates elements of unarmed combat when you least expect it. the same way a novice chess player beats a champ by deviating from known playbooks, Asajj Ventress will fuck you up by being an orphan with anger issues from a trash planet. she's not above kicking as an opening move.

anyway she loves jumping around and being aggressive she should have learned ataru.

[strawberrymeriadoc]

“Do you think we shall see anything of those Riders?” asked Pippin cheerfully…

“Yes, probably,” said Frodo not liking the reminder. “But I hope to get across the river without their seeing us.”

“Did you find out anything about them from Gildor?”

“Not much - only hints and riddles,” said Frodo evasively.

“Did you ask about the sniffing?”

“We didn’t discuss it,” said Frodo with his mouth full.

“You should have. I am sure it is very important.”

“In that case I am sure Gildor would have refused to explain it,” said Frodo sharply. “And now leave me in peace a bit! I don’t want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!”

“Good heavens!” said Pippin. “At breakfast?” He walked away towards the edge of the green.

—the Fellowship of the Ring

[beforethesunsetends]

...so is there really no one who's made a comparison between the zoo the tributes were kept in in tbosas + the capitol citizens treating them like subhuman spectacles, and the real-life concept of human zoos/human exhibitions in earlier centuries, or am i just not looking in the right places?

[barbatos-sama]

minette in this...

[antihibikase]

I've never felt unsafe in this site until recently . Thanks for that, I guess!

[castelias-cat-queen]

hey what’s up. im a citizen of castelia, hope you dont mind but ive got a bit of concern about your latest policies. mostly though, i want to know what kind of garbage you have to have in place of a brain to treat eebydeebies like that. is it food waste? snot covered rags? my bet personally is that your head is full of human shit.

[@rashzangoose]

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