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male entitlement in academic spaces is so boring. can’t tell you how many times i’ve been in a class and a girl gives a short, insightful analysis, and then a dude raises his hand and says “jumping off of that…” then says literally the same thing she said but longer and worse.

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DualityReboot AU

After dramatically passing out, Anakin is carried back to the ship by Obi-Wan and the clone troopers. There, they try and figure out what's causing him to breath so erratically as well as what's causing his eyes to bleed.

While the medics fuss about, Obi-Wan can't help but sit there in stunned shock, replaying the day's events in his mind over and over again. He knew Anakin had been behaving rather odd lately, acting almost like an entirely different person in some occasions, but he had simply assumed it was the result of the increasing stress of the war.

The battles had taken a rather brutal turn as of late and even Obi-Wan was starting to feel strained, so Anakin acting off kilter was understandable, but falling to the Darkside? Obi-Wan couldn't believe it. Even though he felt that oppressive darkness strangle him, even though he saw volcanic gold eyes looking back instead of blue, he still felt Anakin.

Most of all, all Obi-Wan could feel was his pain.

Especially right now. It wasn't even the physical pain that was troubling Obi-Wan, it was mental one. Anakin had tried to block their bond earlier, but the barrier he had put up was now crumbling, allowing Obi-Wan to peek through and see what was causing Anakin so much mental anguish.

What he did not expect was to suddenly pass out as his mental consciousness was ripped out him and shoved straight into Anakin's vision/dream.

It takes Obi-Wan a minute to adjust, he's stunned by how clear and vivid this vision is playing out around him. He's on some sort of Starship deck, one that he's never seen before, and standing right next to him is a tall masked figure dressed in black. The only sound that can be heard from them is the haunting echo of a strained respirator

It's Anakin. Obi-Wan has no idea how he knows this, he just does. He tries to say something but no matter how hard he yells, he can't make a sound. Anakin doesn't seem to be able to see him either and anytime he tries to touch something, he just phases right though it, like a ghost.

So he does the only thing he can do, watch and try and figure out what is going on. What plays out it is a typical day for Darth Vader, force choking position hungry admiral, interrogating rebel spies, and lastly, receiving a call from Sideous, the Lord of the Empire.

Obi-Wan cannot see the shadowed Sith Lord, but he can still feel the darkness pressing down on him like a physical weight. Even as Anakin answers his master faithfully, he sounds so hollow, barely able to hide the anger and resentment he clearly feels towards his teacher.

Then as Vader goes to meditate, both Obi-Wan and Anakin wake up at the same time.

Both of them are gasping for breath as they are violently brought back into reality. Obi-Wan cannot take his eyes off Anakin, who's gold eyes are rimmed with angry tears. "You saw it all, didn't you?" Anakin hisses out. "I couldn't see you, but I could feel you. You were there."

Obi-Wan nods and takes big breath before he gently grabs Anakin's arms and gives him a pleading look. "Anakin please, please tell me what going on."

Tired and knowing the gig is up, Anakin spills his guts. He tells Obi-Wan about his dreams, about the monster called Darth Vader that lurks just underneath his skin, that he was destined to become the boogeyman they all feared.

"I think...that you should kill me." Anakin feels utterly defeated when he says this to Obi-Wan at the end of his explanation. He can't see a way out of this, he's doomed. What he does not expect to feel is the hot surge of anger that explodes out of Obi-Wan when he says this aloud.

"Don't you EVER ask me to do that! I will do anything for you Anakin Skywalker, but not that! Never that!" Obi-Wan vehemently declares, much to Anakin's shock and wonderment.

After a small talk the two agree to keep this between them and not tell anyone, not even the Council. Anakin also gives Obi-Wan permission to view his dreams with him from now on, in hopes the other may uncover a clue on how to stop all of this.

For the first time in months, Anakin feels a faint spark of hope.

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Today I was helping run the booth for the local queer non-profit at the farmer's market and a woman told me that she would like a flag, pointing to our little bucket of flags. So I picked up the bucket and I brought it over and asked her which one she'd like.

"Well, tell me about them!"

"Oh! Okay! This one is the inclusion flag- its for everyone, including allies."

"What's this one?"

"That's the bisexual flag: it represents people who are attracted to two or more genders."

"Hmm... what about this one?"

"That's the nonbinary flag: it represents people whose gender isn't strictly 'male or female.'"

"Hmm... what's this purple one?"

"That's the asexual flag: it represents people who may not feel sexual attraction the way that others do."

She put her hand to her chest and got this really curious look on her face. "Tell me more about that!"

"Oh, happy to! So like if you're out with your bestie and someone real fine walks by and she's like 'omg look at him' and you're like 'girl get a grip?' Or like you just don't get what the 'big deal' is about sex or why everyone is so weird about it? But there's also room for like- you don't fall in love with the way someone looks, you're attracted to the person- their sense of humor and their kindness, or there's something about their personality that just makes it click for you? That's asexuality, too!"

And she got real quiet and seemed to think about it for a minute. So I grabbed our little informational sheet about different queer identities and handed her a copy. "If you want to do some research, this is probably a great place to start."

She thanked me and took an ace flag, stuck it in her hair.

Sometimes when you're online all the time, its easy to think that 'everyone knows about (topic), there's no reason to keep talking about it so much.' But while the people on the internet are real people, the internet ISN'T real life. And there are lots of people who do need to know that they do have community!

One of the jokes is that I'm a lot of people's 'patient zero' for discovering that they're queer. This is why.

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recharging

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my favourite part of the apothecary diaries is jinshi freaking out over maomao's impulsive freaky tendencies (but he's lowkey into that)

jinmao in a nutshell:

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man i really love meowmeow and master jinsheesh

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Superman

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What if Bucky hadn’t been captured?

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still can't get over the fact that my two bes ships are literally this . m

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I'm a very big fan of the “one of the ways Batman fights crime is by making the bad guys afraid he could be anywhere”. The “he’s not in every shadow, but he could be in any shadow” thing.

I think it would be fun to mix that with the way the rest of the batfam is drawn when they're in shadows:

the glowy eyes and splashes of vibrant colour, especially with Nightwing's symbol looking like it's actually reflective.

So now I'm thinking:

imagine if Gothamites realized that dangerous people get really uneasy when they keep seeing things that, out of the corner of their eye, might look like a vigilante. To the point that they avoid areas where, let's say, an old poster on the wall is just that shade of yellow that keeps jumpscaring them every time they turn. Or that old trash can that still has a patch of green paint that hasn't peeled away yet. Not even realizing what makes them nervous, just knowing that a particular place makes them jumpy. Stuff like that.

So to keep themselves a little safer Gothamites just start… adding little things like that in their neighborhoods. Nothing that outright references the Bats - stuff like that might get vandalised or just lose the effect if it's recognised, but things like:

- plants on window sills in flower pots or vases in bright colors

- little shiny trinkets in the windows that just might be mistaken for a flash of a utility belt

- colorful curtains get very popular for children's bedrooms

- someone sticking a piece of blue reflective vinyl on a chimney visible from the street, so that as you walk you see a little flash of electric blue when the light from streetlights hits it just right

- people painting a pair of dots with glow-in-the-dark white paint high up on walls by fire escapes or in dark alleys, that look like glowing eyes

So basically I want Gothamites to invent protective charms and amulets which have exactly zero supernatural properties and aren’t intended to have any, but still very much work lmao

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Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

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in a world where a prominent branch of anti-trans activism focuses on fearmongering about "parents' rights," trans rights and youth rights become inextricable.

trans kids deserve to be called the right pronouns and the right name by schools and doctor's offices, regardless of "parental consent." trans kids deserve to undergo the right puberty at the same time as their cis peers, regardless of "parental consent."

the very concept of "parents' rights" is a smokescreen that enables the abuse and dehumanization of children by adults. this is bad for cis kids, too.

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Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

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Guys do you think she’s excited

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The Geraskier to Lambden to Guxmir pipeline is really hitting hard guys.