#Umbrella: Orientation

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Should be clear that claiming Padmé and Anakin only got to be friends/married because her and OWK were good friends from way before is bizarre and absurd thinking. Padmé and OWK weren’t at any point ever friends before Anakin & her married, they were only allies with limited interactions that you can count on your 5 fingers. They only got to become real friends because of their shared connection to Anakin. Padmé met OWK when she was 14, and never saw him again till AOTC and mind you that she hardly interacted with him in TPM for him to be considered her good friend, their alliance was 100% mission oriented. Don’t just conveniently leave out the fact that Anakin and Padmé actually become friends upon first meeting in TPM and their bond has 0 to do with OWK.

Palaptine refers to OWK as an “old friend” of Padmé’s in AOTC, (and just to inform you that “old friend” doesn’t mean “close friend.”) but it’s clear that Palpatine only refers to him as such because he aided Padmé alongside Qui-Gon during the Naboo blockade, and because he’s now a Jedi Knight instead of a Padawan (mind you, knowing full well that Anakin was his Padawan at this point too) that Padmé has worked with in the past, it just seemed like the right choice to consider him to bodyguard her. (Obviously Palpatine may have indeed had his own ideas since he knew Anakin would be tagging along as well.) His words are not in any way insinuating that Padmé and OWK have been in touch all these years or that they’re even close - getting down to it: in these situations, “old friend” really just means “ally you can trust”, not a personal friend. And it gets even worse when Palaptine literally had to remind Padmé of who OWK was in the AOTC script:

“I realise all too well that additional security might be disruptive for you, but perhaps someone you are familiar with... an old friend like... Master Kenobi...”

“You must remember him, M'Lady… he watched over you during the blockade conflict.”

Indicating to us that the last time she had contact with him was during her planet crisis when she was 14, which makes sense why she says later on: “It has been far too long, Master Kenobi.” upon seeing him again. Also the fact that she calls him “Master Kenobi” with such formality that lacks the familiarity that close friends would typically have and on the contrary, Padmé unironically calls Anakin by his nickname: “Ani.” showcasing that level of familiarity that exists between “close friends” with herself and Anakin instead. The result of this is only because they met years ago and formed a strong connection that lasted for 10 years and that bond only enhanced when they reunited again, not because Padmé and OWK were friends and that’s why Anakin and Padmé got a chance to become so close. Don’t give credit where it’s not due, especially when the reality is the opposite to this claim.

Cards on the table, you can’t make something out of nothing. Padmé and OWK just aren’t what a lot of people want them to be.

If it weren’t for Padmé marrying Anakin, OWK and her would’ve reminded the distant allies that they were before Anakin came back into her life (which they still technically are even after she married him.) they’d hardly ever come into contact unless it’s convenient or necessary. As I said before, they were never friends, they were only allies. Anakin on the other hand, is the one who was always Padmé’s friend and the only reason why her and OWK are even associated to each other and get along beyond all the professionalism is because of their love for Anakin. Don’t get it twisted.

I’m fully aware that there’s a certain chunk of the fandom who prefers OWK above all with an obsession for wanting to completely erase Anakin from the narrative, and would’ve loved it if he just dropped dead first, so they can replace Padmé’s relationship to him with OWK, because they feel that would somehow make Padmé and OWK’s already independent characters more “independent” from Anakin, but that’s just not how the story is written. It’s not Lucas’ vision, it’s your preference. No matter how you spin it, Padmé and OWK’s major relationships are Anakin, and they don’t need to be separated from him for you feel like they’re finally independent characters. They’re not Anakin’s “accessories” as some people have said, they’re just not behaving the way you would like them too.

Maybe it’s about time to make peace with that. You can remove Anakin’s importance to Padmé and OWK’s characters in your headcanon, but don’t try to pass that off as reality or try to insinuate that if they were separated from Anakin, they’d be more independent characters. It’s all just prettier words because you can’t come right out and say that you just don’t like Anakin and how much these two characters love him.

[rwuffles]

ROSEAN．   ➷

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DEFINITION ⠀✦⠀ a word to describe any attraction that falls underneath, describes and / or relates to (one's) romantic & / or sexual attraction. a counterpart to fragarian. thank you to @stickerhearts for helping with the term name!

pt: definition, an umbrella term to describe any attraction that falls underneath, describes and/or relates to (one's) romantic and/or sexual attraction. a counterpart to fragarian(link). thank you to @/stickerhearts for helping with the term name! end pt.

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[charlie-lottie]

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Prefallazi | Префаллази

— A term for those who are attracted to more than one gender, and their gender preferences change.

For example: You are gay. Today you are more attracted to men and tomorrow you are more attracted to non-binary.

Etymology: "allazi" is taken from the Greek "αλλάζει", which translates as "changes"

"isn't this the same as Abro?"

In Abro's orientation, only the ATTRACTION to genders changes, in Prefallazi, only the PREFERENCE to genders changes. Please, don't confuse these things.

If you are going to use my flags and terms for something, I ask you to mention me as the author.

— Термин для тех, кто испытывает влечения к более одному гендеру, и их предпочтения к гендерам меняется.

Например: Вы гей. Сегодня вас больше привлекают мужчины а завтра вас больше привлекают небинарные.

Этимология: «аллази» взято с греческого «αλλάζει», что переводится как «меняется»

« это не тож самое что и Абро? »

У Абро меняется только ВЛЕЧЕНИЕ к гендерам, у Prefallazi меняется только ПРЕДПОЧТЕНИЕ к гендерам. Не путайте эти вещи, пожалуйста.

Если вы собираетесь использовать мои флаги и термины для чего-то, то попрошу вас упоминуть меня как авторикс.

Mentions / Tags: @radiomogai @acronym-chaos @kiruliom @rwuffles @jiiamp @noxwithoutstars @vndead-pvppy @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

[archive-of-ire]

Pt: Repulsal "Attraction": Describes the feeling of intense negative repulsion towards another person; aka hatred!

Here are some labels!

1: (far left) Allorepulsal: Describes someone who has the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred!

2: (middle) Arepulsal: Describes someone who does not have the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred! This does not necessarily mean they don't want to experience those feelings, they just don't. (The spectrum would be referred to as arepulspec)

3: (far right) Hyperrepulsal: Describes someone who experiences feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, on a level which is higher than allorepulsal.

1: (left) Acrirepulsal: Describes someone who has the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, but feels wrong, as if this feeling shouldn't happen to them.

2. (right) Apothirepulsal: Describes someone who does not have the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, and is disgusted by/heavily dislikes the feeling. Someone who is apothirepulsal may refuse to engage in discussions about hatred, hateships, intense negative emotions, and whatnot to avoid discomfort/disgust.

Anyone can make alt flags or other repulsal orientations but please do not recoin my term because it is not exclusive to anyone! :End Pt

Coin coin coin coin! :3

Explodes. (Very self indulgent. I'm arepulsal)

I'm genuinely super super proud of this, so I WILL come back and do IDs later, bare with me!

REPULSAL “ATTRACTiON”: Describes the feeling of intense negative repulsion towards another person; aka hatred!

Here are some LABELS!

1: (far left) ALLOREPULSAL: Describes someone who has the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred!

2: (middle) AREPULSAL: Describes someone who does not have the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred! This does not necessarily mean they don't want to experience those feelings, they just don't. (The spectrum would be referred to as arepulspec)

3: (far right) HYPERREPULSAL: Describes someone who experiences feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, on a level which is higher than allorepulsal.

Below are some microlabels

1: (left) ACRiREPULSAL: Describes someone who has the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, but feels wrong, as if this feeling shouldn't happen to them.

2. (right) APOTHiREPULSAL: Describes someone who does not have the ability to experience feelings of intense negative repulsion towards other people; aka hatred, and is disgusted by/heavily dislikes the feeling. Someone who is apothirepulsal may refuse to engage in discussions about hatred, hateships, intense negative emotions, and whatnot to avoid discomfort/disgust.

ANYONE CAN MAKE ALT FLAGS OR OTHER REPULSAL ORIENTATIONS BUT PLEASE DO NOT RECOIN MY TERM BECAUSE IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ANYONE!!!!

[tedloveshisbed]

HomoflexiBi ; a flag for folks who are primarily gay but occasionally are attracted to dissimilar genders in addition to similar. Under the homoflexible umbrella, but i've never seen a homoflexible flag with a Bi stripe!

Can also be described as primarily gay and sometimes bi/fluctuating between the two, but always gay. Or, any experience you have that you think falls under this term + flag!

--- coined by me

tagging: @radiomogai

↑ Gay Man and Lesbian flag HomoflexiBi flags ↑

[kailuxes]

☩  ‿ ARKAEN / ARKA [X]𓎟

��⸝ An umbrella term for those who feel that some part of their identity (gender, gender presentation, attraction/orientation, alterhuman, etc.) or all of their identity was given to you because of [X] or by [X] ⸝⸝ tagging: @secretmogaistuff @radiomogai (ask us if you want to be removed or added to our taglist!) also ask me for permission before reposting my terms on other sites/wikis/pinterest. template flag under cut.

[daybreakthing]

Nauticaean

(pt: Nauticaean /end pt)

Nauticaean; a neoumbrella term based on the nautical & dark nautical aesthetics; this umbrella is connected to anchors, appreciation of nature, beaches, boats, coastlines, exploration, fear of the unknown, fishing nets, isolation, lighthouses, sailing, sea life, sea monsters, serenity, simplicity, storms, & the sea! it can also be connected to the colors blue, brown, cyan, sea green, & white, but doesn't have to be!

etymology; nautic(al), “aean” meaning one that does or deals with relating to, belonging to!

Terminology;

nauti/nautine/nautinity; nauticaean gender quality, equivalent to fem/feminine/femininity!

transnauti/transnautine/transnauticaean; one who has or is transitioning towards a nauti/nautine/nauticaean identity!

nautic; nauticaean gender alignment, equivalent to xenic!

ganymedian (based on ganymede); a galactian alignment term; a gender for non-binary individuals who are nauticaean and/or nauticaean-aligned!

marie (based on marine); a nauticaean individual!

thalan (singular)/thalen (plural) (based on thalassic); a nauticaean adult!

nava(s) (based on naval); a nauticaean minor!

ntcin; nauticaean in nature!

ntcingender; an umbrella term for genders that are nauticaean!

droserian (based on drosera); a term for nauticaean-loving-nauticaean, or a juvelic/GLG term for those who are nauticaean attracted to others who are nauticaean, exclusively or not!

caean(s); a nauticaean gender!

for cam!

tagging; @radiomogai!

[okiimii]

what's the best cat breed in your opinion....

the ones you find all icky and crusty in a dumpster and then you adopt them

[rynchoso]

people : its important to be inclusive, yes even of identities you don't understand ! support he/him lesbians !

these same people when its about using multiples contradictory labels because identity is complicated and fluid : if you support this you're actually evil

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Pt1 : Spite Lesbian/Vincian/Gay :End Pt Pt 2: pite Lesbian || Spite Vincian || Spite Gay :End pt

Spite Lesbian/Vincian/Gay

Hey tumblr I made a spiteful lesbian, vincian, gay flag on my twitter.

For when you're a spiteful inclusionist and love trolling exclus and proving them wrong.

Spite Lesbian || Spite Vincian || Spite Gay

(Yes I made them just to kick the hornet nest of "Mean Lesbians" on twitter. I''ll be filtering replies and stuff but yeah. They're coined as lesbian/vincian/gay but generally are all inclusive to who wants to use them, specified on the original coining tweet.)

[prettyvintagehouse]

[bizarreaizen]

me when i found out that sex is actually something that people do: (°д°) /sarc

[archive-of-ire]

Pt: spite lesboy flag! spite lesboy flag- :End Pt

spite lesboy flag!

spite lesboy flag-

a flag for those who identify as the term ‘lesboy’ to spite exclusionists, and/or a lesboy who is proudly spiteful to exclusionists, a spitefully prideful lesboy flag!

[Image ID: A flag with nine equally-sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colors are red-orange, pale blue, cornflower blue, medium blue, deep purple, hot pink, orange, pale blue, and red-orange. End ID.]

flag by me, requested by no one, tagging @rei-does-stuff​ :)

[charlie-lottie]

[ Created by me ; Can be used ]

— An umbrella term for those who are unsure of their gender/don't know what gender they are/don't want to identify their gender/etc. who are exclusively or non-exclusively attracted to women.

UNLW—unlabeled/Uncertain/Undecided loving women

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— Зонтичный термин для неуверенных в своем гендере/не знающих какого они гендера/ не желающих обозначить свой гендер/etc. которых исключительно или не исключительно привлекают женщины.

АНЛВ—анлейблед /неуверенные/нерешительные любящие женщины

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Mentions / Tags: @radiomogai @acronym-chaos @kiruliom @rwuffles @flutteringwings-coining

[mogai-teamup-archived]

MOGAI Teamup Archive!

[pt: mogai teamup archive. /end pt.]

Welcome to the archive blog for @rwuffles & @vampitsm's event MOGAI Teamup! This archive is run by @flutteringwings-coining!

Event Info (link) / Prompt List (link) / Teams (link) !

MOGAI Teamup Masterlist [link] - organized alphabetically!

Tags We Use:

#team: [xyz] -> the name of the team #type: [xyz] -> gender, orientation, etc. - term is just for general or unspecified. #prompt: [xyz] -> the prompt from the event #term: [xyz] -> the name of the term #term -> the name of the term, again

[noahsbookhoard]

📚January 2025 Book Review (Part 1/2)📚

I am cramming as many reading time in January and February because from March to May I will be back in school and I won't have as much time. This is driving me insane just thinking about it.

Part 2 here

Les Fourneaux de Crachemort by Raphaël Bardas

Four friends, comedians and thieves in their spare time, may have robbed the wrong house: now they are fleeing the city with nothing but the cloths on their back and the items they stole, a theater mask that makes every audience laugh, a quill which can rewrite history, a talking but cowardly rapier and a coat that can create a winter storm. They join an itinerant merchant cart, selling sausages and entertainment, and fleeing from the people who want them dead. But the items they stole might be more important than they first thought for the Witch Crachemort, which was thought dead for a thousand year, is coming back.

Weirdly enough with this premise, the book is kinda grim at times: there's massacres and beheading and just an awful lot of deaths. No plot armour for protagonists whatsoever. But the book is really good and the story is gripping.

One tiny reproach: when you put Magic Items in your fantasy book with a Big Bad Villain, your reader will expect the Magic Items to be of use to beat the Big Bad Villains. No spoilers here but they don't exactly do in this book, so the ending felt a bit odd to me. Good job challenging the reader's expectation but the reader (me) was still expecting that stuff.

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Jam lives in a city free of monsters since before she was born. But accidentally releases a monster hunting feature from her mother's painting who reveals her terrible news: there is a monster, and it dwells in her best friend's house. How do you fight a monster who isn't supposed to exist? Who do you tell when it's one of the adults you are supposed to trust? How do you convince people when everyone believes monsters are all gone?

It's so nice to have a young trans protagonist and not have the plot revolving around her identity. She is who she is and there's no problem because the monster who would have challenged her are gone. Or are they?

This part of the book is what feels so important, especially today: you might arrest people and change laws and put better people in charge but the monsters and their ideas are never truly gone. Pretending that they are leads to granting them entry again because no one would believe the victims, after all there's no such thing anymore, right? Fighting for rights never stops, it sucks but it's true.

This is a middle grade book and a very good message for any young reader to hear.

Le Crime de l'Orient-Express by Agatha Christie

It's such a classic among classics I barely need to introduce it. It means that I already knew the culprit and therefore could try to focus on how Christie did her thing. I don't if what it says about how good she is or how bad I am that even with all the elements in hand I missed key evidences. She is brilliant and I'm loving it. 10/10 it is one of her best novel for a reason.

You Look Like Death (A Tale from The Umbrella Academy) by Gerard Way

Klaus is my favourite from the main comics so I was excited for him to have an entire spin-off. I loved it more than the Hotel Oblivion arc and maybe even the Dallas one.

I was worried at first because the trap seemed too obvious for anyone to miss but hey! It's Klaus we're talking about! But it was fun to see how the situation somehow backflipped to being in Klaus' favor without him doing anything, in true Klaus fashion.

A fun read, I really like the universe of the comic so it was good to see it again.

Les guerriers de l'hiver by Olivier Norek

This is a historical novel, I haven't read many, especially lately. And it deals with the war between Finland and Russia from 1939 to 1940 and especially with Simo Häyhä, who is considered to be the best sniper in history. This is a period I know absolutely nothing about, but I saw this book absolutely everywhere all summer and autumn last year so I caved.

It is really interesting, and apparently the author did extensive research so I trust the setting and events are accurate. I was a bit worried at first about what the tone would be like (with a war novel it can go overenthusiastic really fast) but while it faithfully represents the soldier's did it never goes around praising war.

The writing is good too, I believe the author is primarily a thriller author but the style suits historical subjects. A very informative book.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Oh this was lovely!

I loved the ghibli movie a lot as a kid and heard about the book through here, and how it was crazier even than the animated movie. So now I've finally come around to reading it and I was absolutely charmed!

Sophie is so nice and clever! I can't believe Howl managed without her at all. Calcifer and her bickering and plotting was a lot of fun. Howl is such a drama queen I love him too!

I was kinda skeptic about the whole Wales Is Real Actually part but it works! I was confused about quite a few aspects along the way but let the book do its thing and in the end I had this moment of oh, that's why.

Also the romance between Owl and Sophie is adorable. I loved that ending so much it really made the book from a good read to a favorite.

Yellowface by R F Kuang

Getting from Babel to this was kind of a leap but a good one! I really liked this.

The entire story is told through the perspective of a white woman stealing an Asian American author's work and desperately trying to get away with it. I don't know anything about the publishing world so this is a good if sometimes disturbing insight.

The unreliable narrator really is the best feature about this book, it's a malicious pleasure to see her try to work out a reason why what she did is good, actually and people are just being mean for no reason at all! As a reader you are mostly waiting for the author shie to drop.

On that part I found the ending a bit wanting. Maybe I was expecting a more spectacular downfall for June, the main character but maybe she doesn't deserve the publicity.

Cent millions d'année et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea

I had read his latest book Veiller sur elle last year and I loved his writing so much I wanted to revisit it.

This one is the story of a palaeontologist chasing a dream, the story a man told to children of the skeleton of a dragon he saw twenty years prior when he was lost on the mountain. The evidence is thin and the localisation is hazy but he and his team went on the adventure anyway.

I don't want to say too much because just like Veiller sur elle there is a twist. This is both a really sad and really hopeful story and I was amazed once again at how right the character felt, they feel so human in all the good and bad. It is also a story about deep and long friendship and what you can sacrifice for your dreams and the dreams of those you love.

I definitely found one of my favourite authors. I can't wait to read more.

Les Chants de Nüying by Émilie Querbalec

I was so so so disappointed. The back cover was talking about exoplanets and first contact and alien whales and I was super hyped!

And the book begins and it's chinese-American Elon Musk (with lack of charisma and overinflated ego to match) dragging several hundred scientists to a new planet so he can test that brand new reincarnation technology that's only just for him and no one else. It goes so badly that 2/3 of the people die in space and the rest crashed on the planet and starts dying there too for good mesure. And when FINALLY the story starts giving us the goddamn aliens I was promised the book ends. I think you can sense how salty that made me feel.

The problem is that even the story the book actually tells could have been good! The ethic of cloning and transfering of consciousness of a person to a clone is interesting. And bringing the bouddhist perspective on this question could have been really refreshing! But instead we get the "religion bad science good" spiel which is as fresh as thrice over reheated leftover pasta.

Now we get to the part that made me want to tear the book to shred with my damn teeth, that's how angry I was:

The book is saturated with technical science terms which are 1) never explained or defined and 2) never repeated they are just dropped out of context and never serves any purpose in the narrative (for example there's a sentence that says something like "they set up the hydroponic farm before retreaving the subaquatic beacons and then they had dinner." and none of those shits are plot relevants. And she does that. All. The. Time.) Cramming lingo into the text don't really make your book look more scientific but whatever, that could have been a mi or hindrance

BUT

and that's why I am so mad, the book is also factually wrong on so many easily researchable aspects! There's "vapor shower" in the space ship: this is not how you shower in zero gravity. They eat strapped to chairs with plates magnetised to stay on the table, one tiny problem is your fucking lentils won't stay politely on the plate just because you said so this is zero G they'll fucking float. This is why astronaut don't eat with forks and plates in zero gravity. Checking this took me 10 minutes on YouTube, the author cites her sources at the end with like 6 or 8 books on Bouddhism and Tibet, which is cool I guess, but you are writing a sci-fi novel, research your fucking sci-fi! Another example: Two characters go on a three day trip on foot through the polar climate and unbreathable atmosphere. At some point they pause and have lunch. Quick question: how do you eat lunch with you fucking suit that you can't remove or you die? How do you do that for three fucking days? They have nothing but a camping tent how do you carry three days worth of breathing air? This is stupid as fuck. The book isn't even consistent enough to set how long a day on Nüying (the exoplanet) last!

So yeah that's not a recommendation from me, there's far better stories out there.