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You look like mama❤️

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sorry folks! no gifs for you- been on the road for a while and I DID prepare ahead but I’ve had far less time/wifi than anticipated. but as a consolation prize here’s a small part of a Rube Goldberg machine I spent like two days building

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eleven year olds need book series filled to the brim with violence and crime. it's like enrichment for them

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Guys what if.

Lunar Chronicles animated show in an art style very similar to Arcane.

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Dark Matter (2015) // four swingin' around

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I miss when sci fi was allowed to be goofy and weird and long running, with a lot of daily life plots and silly costumes and fun real sets.

nowadays it's trying so hard to be prestige television, and intelligent, without realizing that the best sci fi could be that AND ridiculous. it's all CGI and brooding and people being sad on sad looking gray planets.

I also dislike how modern sci fi is dystopian this, dystopian that.

you know, farscape is technically a dystopia, but it still let itself be a fun one.

maybe your dystopian sci fi needs puppets.

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How well would the starship crew cope if stuck with no technology on a remote island?

Star Trek TNG: they definitely have a practised Stuck on Remote Island protocol that they implement effortlessly. They're too antsy to get back to work to have a good time, but they're having an alive-and-well time.

Star Trek Voyager: absent the technology part, this has basically already happened to them. Essentially no change to their interactions. If the island has tropical fruit then maybe they eat a little better than usual.

Blake's 7: hardly any of these people know how to forage for food or improvise a shelter. I give it 24 hours max before Avon suggests eating Vila.

Farscape: honestly, I think they're fine. They have a decent amount of practical skills between them and experience of being stuck in a confined space with each other. Nonetheless, they hate it, and the bickering is audible for miles.

Firefly: like Farscape, but with less actively trying to wind each other up. (They wind each other up regardless).

The Expanse: Holden loves an improv camping trip. The rest of the Rocinante crew tolerate it. If it's later in the series, they're quietly charmed by how much Holden loves it.

Star Trek DS9: the kings and queens of being stuck on a remote island. Sisko is cooking; Bashir and O'Brien are singing campfire songs; Kira is teaching Dax how to put up a shelter; and Quark is foraging for bugs. A great time being had by all.

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Found on a friend's FB.

Favorite comment:

"Also, John is so Gen X that he's narrating his slow descent into madness by insistently and continuously making Pop culture references for literal aliens."

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📣🦈

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then YES. we ARE a couple.

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He's fine, don't worry about it :)

character by @comicaurora

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Padmé and Sabé

Vestigial | /vɛˈstɪdʒɪəl,vɛˈstɪdʒ(ə)l/

(Of a limb or organ) that which has become functionless in the course of evolution.

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BEHOLD! THE FINAL PRODUCT!!!

*sobs in corner* I actually did not terrible lighting for once in my meager artist life!! I feel so fulfilled!!! 😭😭😭😭

I was going to make this available for purchase as a print with my others, but due to stupid copyright issues, I no longer sell fan art on Etsy, I just do commissions. However, if you would like to purchase this or something similar in the future, I can either create a commission of it (LOOPHOLE!) or I will do my best to figure out a solution regarding prints of this and other fan art I've already done.🥲

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The big problem with the Padme trilogy is that, instead of looking for interesting things to mine character wise, the author was more interested in 'fixing' Padme and making her more of a girlboss tm

(I'd also say that the author was much more interested in Sabe as a character - as she could build her basically from scratch)

i honestly don’t know if i’d describe the queen trilogy as really “girlbossifying” padmé but it definitely felt more concerned with making her a Good Female Character than like, a character who feels interesting. and maybe ekj was more interested in sabé but even sabé felt more like the foundations of a good character than an actual good character. in my opinion these books are mostly held back by being aggressively, aggressively young adult and therefore extremely surface-level and juvenile.

it frustrates me because you can tell they’re trying to do padmé justice and trying to expand on a beloved concept and set of characters. people love padmé and naboo and the handmaidens so books in padmé and sabé’s pov centering around their relationship where sabé is actually allowed to be queer should rule immensely. but these books try to sell us the most uncomplicated version possible of it’s presenting: naboo really is as idyllic as it looks, padmé suffers in her role as queen but only in the obvious ways, her handmaidens are all her friends and she gets along super well with all of them like they’re one epic girl gang, even the juicy stuff with sabé feels so muted and despite the tension between them they always end on good terms. and i really do think a level of subconscious gender essentialism is a component to why these books largely about teenage girls are unwilling to make their relationships with power and each other complicated despite being almost entirely about a girl who was crowned queen of a planet at fourteen and her decoys who are subservient to her to the point of death.

and it’s extra frustrating because there’s something there with a lot of what it’s presenting, it’s just not really committed to quite as much as i feel like it should be. and i feel like a lot of that is how they’re written—everyone has a very bland narrative voice including padmé herself and that makes any internal exploration feel shallow. but on top of that it’s just like, these books are so largely about all the roles padmé and her handmaidens play, about the extreme lengths they go to lose themselves and each other in padmé’s personas, and all these complicated themes about power and identity and loss of self are like right there and it feels like in this whole trilogy the surface was barely even scratched. even sabé, who i think is the best written character out of all of them, seems to have far less complicated emotions about padmé than i’d expect from someone who has spent a decade devoted to her at great cost to herself, quite literally loses herself in her, and is on top of that in unrequited love with her. like there’s enough there to intrigue me and worm its way into my brain and make me post shit like this but it’s not very substantive. i don’t feel like i know padmé much better because of them, just her circumstances. and i also think a handful of those circumstances are a bit stupid.

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Me: reading your recent posts

Me:

Me: fangirling over Sabé because finally someone gets it!

sabé makes me go CRAZYYY bc like at age 14, she changes her name and pledges her life and death to another 14 year old girl, and she is willing to stand in as much harm's way as needed to protect this child-queen. and sabé should know padmé better than anyone, but how do you pledge your entire existence to someone and NOT think she's some kind of saint, some sort of myth? even long after queen amidala's term ends, sabé is still padmé amidala's shadow first and sabé/tsabin/a person second.

but after padmé's death, she has no idea what she is. shadows aren't supposed to exist without something to follow. her existence is wrong. sabé was always supposed to die first, sabé was always supposed to protect her queen, but... padmé's gone. padmé died first. and sabé's left to live in that perverted version of the galaxy where padmé died first and there was nothing she could do but avenge her, like a shadow-turned-phantom.

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sabédala is awesome when you lean away from viewing it as the healthy alternative for padmé and lean towards how deeply psychologically weird everything about it is. i love you inherent hierarchy i love you dog/handler dynamic i love you coexistence of romantic desire and sisterly devotion and straight up power imbalance i love you unhealthily losing your sense of self in another person i love you unequal investment

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@dinlukeweek day 2: Meet on Tatooine AU / Marriage Vows

slight culture difference on the weddings front...