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[phoenixyfriend]

Aayla: Haha, let me show you this meme I just found.

The meme: [If you press the button, you have a 99% chance of getting a million dollars, and a 1% chance of being turned into a girl]

Anakin: That's so stupid, who wouldn't press the button?

Aayla: I mean, we don't really need the money, as Jedi. You're not on Tatooine anymore, you know?

Anakin: Yeah, but why wouldn't I press the button? What's stopping me?

Aayla: ...not wanting to be a girl, mostly. A lot of guys would refuse to press it on principle because they don't want to risk even that 1% chance.

Anakin: That's dumb, everyone wants to be a girl, some of us just have to accept that we can't, duh.

Aayla: ..........................

Follow-up: five hours, compilation

[notedchampagne]

i love and respect butch lesbians so much. i hope they bite and infect me

turned off reblogs because radfems got to this post. get fucking away!!

[felassan]

(๑•ᴗ•๑) if your Dragon Age elf OCs were elves that had manifested from being spirits rather than elves that had been born, what kind of spirit would they each have been?

[pillowprincessherbertwest]

asking "where is my little boy?" and clapping gleefully when a haunted middle-aged man appears onscreen.

[vault--of--amber]

“bury your gays” is going right up next to “gaslighting” in terms of phrases that enter the common lexicon and immediately get used completely incorrectly as a shortcut to prove any point ever. a gay character dying in a show with multiple other alive gay characters is not bury your gays. a gay character in a tragedy centered around their identity is not bury your gays. a gay ghost in a show about ghosts is not bury your gays. unless you want your gay characters to be immortal and invincible then the aforementioned examples WILL happen and you WILL have to accept that this is not the creators soft launching being homophobic, but, in fact, how stories work

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

Hot take: Mandalorians don't speak Mando’a in the Clone Wars not because of anything that Satine or the New Mandalorians did, but because it's a kids show and it's unreasonable to expect kids to read subtitles for dialogue in another language for entire conversations.

Death Watch does not speak Mando’a either for this exact reason. It's also why the Nightsisters primarily speak Basic to each other and not Dathomirian, even though they do know it.

Like, yeah, I understand the desire to create in-universe explanations for real-world creative/practical choices, but that is a very hit-or-miss approach. Sometimes you do just have to suspend your disbelief and accept that this was done for the benefit of the audience and not for some deeper hidden meaning that you have to extrapolate from nothing.

[desultory-suggestions]

Sometimes you have to commit to being wildly happy against all odds. Even in the face of terrible adversity we can find joy, beauty, and hope that will carry us forward.

[chongoblog]

Limitation breeds creativity. That creativity can inspire others to transform it well beyond that original limitation

[gayvampyr]

one thing i hate about being “out” as autistic is suddenly all communication errors are your fault. unclear directions were given? your fault for being autistic, you must’ve misunderstood directions that were “probably perfectly clear.” not enough actionable information was provided for you? it must just be your autism, you should’ve picked up on what wasn’t said. they didn’t actually tell you what you were supposed to do and expected you to read their mind? your fault, not the allistic’s for not accommodating you or just saying what they want. because apparently it’s a one way street where autistics have to bend over backward to conform and placate allistics. its your fault even when they’re 100% culpable. i hate it

[angelic-odette]

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I'm job searching, Jiraiblr! I'm officially an adult!🥲 (kill me please)

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[theodysseyofhomer]

i get a lot of questions about which homer translations i recommend and what's the most "faithful" and it's kind of funny because you are asking a lay reader, so to speak. also you are talking to someone who grew up with biblical literalism and is constantly, actively deconstructing that approach to ancient, translated texts. i really think my personal fascination with translation is inseparable from that context. but since i can't completely step outside my context anyway, who's to say?

all this to say—being "faithful" to a text doesn't mean what i thought it meant, what i was taught it meant, when i was a child. translators have a lot to balance—how do you translate the meaning of the original, while also translating some of the feeling the original audience might have had, while also translating the metaphors of a world removed from the present? different translators put different elements forward. they may sacrifice what another translator would consider more important. to be sure, not all concerns put forward by a translator have equal merit. but they have to make choices, and they can't help but make choices. because they aren't separable from their context, either.

if you're interested in ancient literature, i don't think you should be searching for unbiased translations (which don't exist). i do hope you seek to understand what a translators' concerns (conscious or not) may be. and if you do that, and you care enough about translation work to read widely, you will intuitively learn more about the compromises and failures and successes of translation than i can describe to you, in my muddled way.

[orcatnip]

hhiiii .... hiiii. i adore your stp art forever and it was one of the main driving factors for me to get into the game, since my boyfriend kept showing me them!! is there any chance ii could humbly request seeing some more hunted or contrarian ?? or even opportunist ^_^

thankyou so much, and of course! 😸😸

I had an absolute blast drawing these three.. I just started a new sketchbook, and I'm in the midst of another hyperfixation, so I was surprised at how much fun I had with hunted, contra, and oppy ^^

hunted being a big kitty/rabbit thing 🤞

I gave him a forehead crest... veery slight redesign lol (featuring stubborn 😻)

hehehe chicken contra, im gonna cook him in a big stew

[thou-babbling-brook]

Smth smth endless cycle of war for a purpose that exceeds your understanding smth smth

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[dewwshi]

can't remember when i realized i was in love (la-la-love) can't remember who it was i was thinking of

[uncanny-tranny]

To new parents: maybe waiting on getting your child/ren's names tattooed on your body might be a good idea in many cases

Signed,

I'm trans now