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Alderaanian marriage equality confirmed in Leia flashback scene!!!

"The sword is a symbol of the monarchy," Breha continued, "and a reminder that it is not blood that chooses the ruler of Alderaan. It is choice. Your father and I, we chose you to be our daughter and our future queen. And I want you to know, my love, that even though you are a part of a family that has many obligations and duties that come with our privileges, you always have the right to a choice. Whoever you marry, it is your choice. And when you marry, I will strap this sword around your waist before you go to meet your husband or your wife. That is what the Rinden sword represents to all of Alderaan, but to the rulers especially: that we have the freedom to choose our own fate, and we have the skill and the weapons needed to defend it."

Chapter 4 of The Princess and the Scoundrel, by Beth Revis 2022

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I think a lot of how I look at ART's relationship to the University is informed by Crux's insane rant to Gideon in the first scene of Gideon the Ninth, where we really get to see the stakes of living in a necromantic economy for the first time. Gideon is trying to argue that her running off to join the military should be fine, because she'll bring more honor to the Ninth house that way, but Crux doesn't give a shit what she does with her life. He's upset because if she dies in the cohort, the Ninth will potentially lose access to her /body./ Theyre in a closed ecosystem. They need her body - her fat to make soap with, her skin to make books with, her skeleton for labor. And so she's trapped forever, because no amount of their belief in her personal autonomy will override their economic interest in the physical material of her body.

And that, I think, is very reminiscent of a certain bot pilot whose personhood seems to be respected on paper, but who is still held captive by the fact that even if the University doesn't own its mind, they very much own its body.

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"Listening to the SecSystem's audio, I heard a crew member in the corridor say,"I've never seen one out of armor. They really do look human." I made a gesture in that direction that I had only seen in the shows that were rated high on the obscenity scale. Gurathin saw me and made a choking noise."

No thoughts. Only Murdybot.

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Time travel au where all the Jedi wake up in Attack of the Clones after dying. The ones that died sooner just walk it off like it’s a weird dream. Everyone who died in order 66 is confused but maybe it’s a vision? Most of the inquisitors either panic or run to the nearest mind healer and burst into tears or trauma dump. Caleb Dume/Kanan is absolutely convinced he’s dead and this is the after life and no one can convince him otherwise. Obi-wan Kenobi sees smol Anakin and goes ‘shit just keeps happening huh’.

Ashoka Tano is disturbingly wise and knowledgeable for a youngling. Cal Kestis jumps up from class, yells “not today satan” stabs his crechemaster and jumps out the window (he thinks he got caught by the empire and drugged or something), he steals a ship and makes it all the way to Bogano and picks up BD-1 before Cordova find him getting his ass beat by local wildlife and drags him back to Coruscant. Cere is doing her best to comfort Jaro Tapal but he’s not reassured that Cal jumps out of windows all the time.

Plo Koon and Shaak Ti are scheming to get their sons back. Anakin is busy having a breakdown. Grogu just keeps asking for his Buir. Yoda, always ready for drama, let’s Caleb tell him all about his life and his family, asks what his padawan would want him to do. Caleb thinks about this for a minute and nods to himself. He builds a pipe bomb and duct tapes it to the bottom of Palpatines chair. And steals all the credits stashed in his desk.

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This She Ra design got a refresher! The design was my betrotheds that I put it into digital format.

A good reminder: You're worth more than what you can give to other people.

It's on Redbubble and Teepublic if you'd like it on a variety of cute stuff!

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You know, i could complain that the world is made for couples-- and I'd be right! But how does that help me, to despair over a reality and a system i can't change?

So instead I'm going to find a way to work around it, to do what I want to do by myself anyway. I've already gotten over the hurdle of not caring (most of the time at least) if I look odd buying stuff at home depot as a woman by herself or going to movies or a restaurant by myself.

I just need to make plans like couples do and treat myself like I would want a significant other to treat me. And the best part is I don't have to compromise. And I need to treat it like an unbreakable commitment. Like if a family member asks me to do something, I tell them I have plans already, or if I'm feeling froggy just straight up say I have a date with myself and I don't want to disappoint myself.

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Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

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everything is a mermaid if you're brave enough

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my weirdest hobby is re-creating memes in html so i have a crisp, HQ version of them to use and edit whenever i need

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I'VE EVER SEEN.

It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.

IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.

The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

This fic is criminally underrated go look at it!!!

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Really funny to see the trajectory of fanworks over the course of tmbd being released because every time there's a new installation with ART and MB people kind of fan out in how they're extrapolating on their interactions, and not only is it consistently the people who are exaggerating and going in a more extreme, intimate, fucking weird direction who end up being closest to the next installation of canon but canon tends to be even weirder and more intense than they imagine.

Like, I've read a few fics from pre-system collapse that involve ART having to interrupt MB to ask it to come save some member of its crew or whoever and therefore speculate on how ART would feel asking for help and how it would approach the situation, and literally none of them came close to what ART actually said in canon when it had to interrupt murderbot to have it come save some humans, which was "I need you"

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Kind of a hot take but i dont think we can solve the issue of marginalized people being treated like children without asking ourselves why we treat children like subhuman objects incapable of thinking and undeserving of autonomy

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Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences

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well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

egg

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the seal at the bottom of 瓷器 ciqi/chinese porcelain is handwritten

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It is so annoying when people respond to "the queer community has an anti-masc problem" with "well society loves and praises masculinity!" Okay... yes... but that's not what we're talking about 😭 The queer community ≠ society as a whole. Also? The society that praises masculinity does NOT praise queer masculinity. Cishet society does not praise butches, masculine trans people, or anyone who is masc in a queer way. And unfortunately, many queer people have this same problem.