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Qui-Gon Jinn: [over comms] Master, this is Qui-Gon. There is something down here you'll want to see. Count Dooku: I'm on my way. [Dooku arrives; Qui-Gon holds up a cardboard box] Qui-Gon Jinn: It's kittens!

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Mara Jade supremacy

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Luke Starkiller, a Divination Wizard/Psi Warrior, comes across Mara, a former Asssassin Rogue who's lost her place in the World. She wants to kill him for overthrowing her evil master the King. After taking down an insane Storm Sorceror, Mara started to see Luke's way of things and began training as a Psi Warrior. etc etc they fall in love, have a son named Ben who will become a powerful Devotion Paladin.

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Mara Jade will always be my favorite female character. Strong, independent, fierece... and YES SHE'S HOT. I love redheads and she's why. Sue me.

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30 years of the blue dude 

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Why I Still Believe — and Why I Left the Baptists Behind

I’m not a Christian just because I was raised one. I’m not here out of habit or blind tradition. I don’t follow Jesus because it’s easy or convenient. I believe because I’ve seen things — experienced things — that no science, no psychology, no skeptic could ever explain away.

I’ve seen spirits. I’ve seen the shadow people — felt their presence, their awareness. And I’ve had dreams so vivid, so lucid, that I don’t even call them dreams anymore. I’ve spoken with my grandfather, long dead, and it wasn’t just memory or longing. He looked at me. He spoke to me. And I remember every word.

I can’t prove what I experienced. I’m not asking anyone to believe me. But I know what I saw. I know what I felt. And that’s why I still believe — because something beyond this world touched my life. And it changed me forever.

But belief in God is not the same as loyalty to a church.

For 23 years, I was part of the Southern Baptist tradition. I grew up in that world — 1990s, early 2000s — hearing the usual sermons: “Love thy neighbor,” “Love God,” “Jesus saves.” And as a kid, I believed that. I wanted to believe the message of love and grace.

But by the late 2000s, something shifted. Or maybe I just started seeing things for what they really were.

Suddenly, Jesus was being used to justify hate — hate against Muslims, against the LGBT community, against liberals, against Obama, against anyone who didn’t fit their mold. And sometimes, the racism wasn’t even subtle. I started to ask: how can a church preach about the love of Christ and turn around to spit venom at “the other”?

Then came 2015. Obergefell v. Hodges. Gay marriage was legalized across the U.S., and Protestant churches — after decades of saying they’d “stay out of politics” — exploded with rage. The sermons were full of condemnation, not compassion. I’m not gay, but the hatred they spewed sounded exactly like the hate I used to hear from the bullies who tormented me in school. The same tone. The same cruelty. And I thought: I can’t be part of this anymore.

The last straw? The way churches like Westboro dragged the word “Baptist” through the mud, turning it into a symbol of bigotry and cruelty.

By 2016, I felt like I had no place in God’s world. I felt alone. Like maybe faith was just another excuse people used to hate each other.

But then I started hearing the voice of someone different. Someone who didn’t sound like the preachers I grew up with.

Pope Francis.

In 2013, he said five words that began to change everything for me: “Who am I to judge?” When he spoke about compassion, about the marginalized, about embracing the broken and the different — even gays — something inside me stirred. Even though I’m straight, his words touched something in me that had been ignored by the church of my youth.

He sounded like Jesus.

So on February 5, 2017, I walked into a Catholic Church for the first time in my life.

And I’ve never looked back.

That church, that moment, that grace — it reminded me why I believed in the first place. Not because of fear. Not because of tradition. But because God is real. Because Christ’s love is real. And because I have seen and felt things no one can take away from me.

I can only hope Pope Leo lives up to Pope Francis’ example — of humility, of kindness, of mercy.

I didn’t leave the Southern Baptist Church because I lost my faith.

I left because I found it.

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This is a Migrant Holocaust. Full stop

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#LukeAndMara

Luke Skywalker: You don’t have all the facts about Mara.

Mon Mothma: Which are?

Luke Skywalker: I love her.

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As an Irish American, the only English monarch i would swear fealty to is Mary I. She knew how to deal with Protestants.

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Same here, pal...

I wish i didn't...

No child should have to be exposed to that.

It blows my mind how vividly I remember 9/11/01

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Children of September 11

Shadows in the sky so high As the towers screamed to the ground Fear in the eyes of a child Echoes of silence all around

World turned to gray that day Memories in a young heart stay Flames and smoke lit up the screen Haunting dreams don't fade away

Hearts breaking everywhere Lives lost in the burning air I can't forget the screams and fire Living now in fear's desire

8 years old with eyes so wide Innocence lost deep inside Watching the world come crashing down Nowhere safe in my hometown

Years pass but the scars remain Living through this endless pain Trying to heal what's broken within Strength to rise and begin again

Hearts breaking everywhere Lives lost in the burning air I can't forget the screams and fire Living now in fear's desire

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For those still scarred by that dark September, even if you were just a vulnerable 8 year old child watching in horror at the television listening to teacher scream at the top of her lungs

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#LukeAndMara

There is a significant lack of fan art for this glorious couple so I guess I’ll be putting my two cents in every now and then. This is from a (hopefully soon to be published) fanfic of mine. 

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The 2020 Election was not stolen

But even if it was:

What the fuck are you gonna do about it?

Consider us even for 2000.

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For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Deuteronomy 15:11

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They've should've used this footage and just CGI Christopher Lee's head on Dooku

Anakin & Dooku original Revenge of the Sith fight choreography with lightsaber effects [x]

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Not all Republicans are racist

Not every Republican who opposed Obama was racist.

However if you were born between 1946-1964 and you're white, I'll just assume that's why you opposed Obama. And you can't change my mind.