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Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.

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the notes are broken 😂

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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

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I am now picturing him stumbling into the Alliance War room in that state AND a hangover. Lana would be to decide if she's annoyed or wants pictures to embarrass him with later.

Theron shuffling around his house in a red bathrobe and a pair of old man slippers, datapad tucked under his arm, looking absolutely wrecked and disheveled as hell.

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That is definitely justified. But if you are not being supervised by government or other authority breathing down your neck, then don't do it.

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

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Fictional stories and inside your imagination are the only places where you explicitly do not have to be responsible, careful or thoughtful of others.

Do whatever you want in fiction and your imagination forever. No one is harmed. You are not harmed. No others are harmed.

The rules and laws of real life do not and never will apply in fiction or your imagination.

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There was a prophet who said it better than I could:

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

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"I find this kind of person attractive"

"That's sexualizing and objectifying and dehumanizing"

"Okay I don't find this kind of person attractive"

"That's racist and sexist and 'phobic"

That's it that's social media culture.

That's it summed up.

The only way to win is to stop trying to please them.

You're welcome I love you.

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Atton is an ass. And it's one of the reasons I play male Exile. Because between Atton talking to my chest and Sion being a creepy ass stalker? No thanks.

HOWEVER. I do not get the accusations on Carth. Especially since I play a squishy little Consular and...yes, Carth is tanking and being all protective. He's a soldier, protecting is what he does. His dialogue actually isn't much different if you playing a dude.

BioWare making the KotoR games

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the state of literary analysis in fandom is tragic

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Fandom Problem #4826:

When someone who thinks they're oh-so-progressive accuses an author of "child coding" a character and accuses anyone attracted to said character of pedophilia....when in reality that character is disabled.

They just equated mental disabilities to children, and claimed it's unnatural to be attracted to someone with a disability.

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I mercifully forgot that part. Seriously, Karpyshyn?! Seriously?!

Thank goodness he was smart enough to outsource writing women when he worked at Bioware

i was gonna save everything for a master bitchpost to not spam but holy FUCK

THEY PUT THE EXILE IN A SLAVE COSTUME. OUR EXILE. IN A-

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I will toss a couple out here.

1. There was no attempt to my knowledge of the Jedi trying to negotiate or at least use diplomacy to address the Separatist concerns and avert a war. If they try and fail, that's one thing. But it looks like they didn't even try to begin with. For a group that talks all freaking day about how they're about peaceful harmony and not resorting to violence, we never see them even half ass diplomacy. I see more diplomacy out of Ed Mercer on a freaking si fi spoof (Orville) than Yoda who is supposed to be playing it straight.

2. Did they even debate the Clone Troopers? Or acknowledge just how fucked up being overseers of a slave army would be? The Senate gets all the hate for signing off on it, but at least there was an argument. These alleged paragons of morality? No debate at all. Not even a complaint of acknowledgement that this is an army of slaves.

Again, one thing if they try and fail. Another if they do not try at all

Genuinely - what were the Jedi supposed to but join the war, under the circumstances they started and given the things the Separatists were doing?

Genuinely - what is your proposed alternative for them that would have magically saved everything?

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She was when Harriet didn't work out (Harriet was Season 1, Babs showed up on Season 2)

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What I gotta ask on this one is that he did have a chance to tell his bosses at the Council and debrief them about that funny fellow with the red saber and the kid who breaks the midichlorine scale.

Why didn't he say "Hey look. This slave woman did us a solid and saved my bacon. Can we at least sweet talk whatever Hutt owns the overgrown housefly and see if we can give her proper compensation?"

"Why didn't the Jedi help Shmi after TPM?"

Why didn't Padmé.

Ignoring the expanded universe stuff about Qui-Gon sending the expensive lens or Padmé dispatching Sabé years later, so long after that Cliegg had already met, wooed, and saved up to free Shmi himself, why did Padmé not include "paying back the slave woman who helped me save my planet" in her post-invasion plans?

The Jedi have budgets that are regulated, to some unknown degree, by the Senate. Sure, there's probably some discretionary spending, but an Entire Slave would be flagged. Not a purchase you can hide easily! They're also NOT supposed to operate in Hutt Space unless undercover OR as official Republic envoys.

Padmé? Literally a queen. In the same galactic neighborhood. Has inherited wealth. Probably has room in her staff for a mechanic or something. Can easily justify freeing Shmi to her cabinet as payment for services rendered; remember, that Nubian hyperdrive was paid with Anakin's winnings, meaning they came at the cost of Shmi's freedom.

The real answer is that George Lucas needed Shmi to still be on Tatooine in AotC, and never bothered to expand on how Shmi was freed, himself, so other people took up the slack.

But if we ask why the Jedi didn't free Shmi, then I think we also need to ask: why didn't Padmé?

(I love Padmé. I fully believe she would have sent someone to free Shmi after Naboo was in order post-Invasion, and that it was just an oversight or even plot necessity from G Lucas. I just dislike the double standards of hating on the Jedi for not helping when Padmé is right next door and has That Cash Money.)