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MON "CRASH OUT" MOTHMA in ANDOR | S02E03

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“villain attempts to go back in time to kill superman as a small child, gets shot in the face by ma kent, who buries him behind the barn with the others” would probably have niche appeal as a comic but i don’t care, i want it

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i think we need new types of sprees. i'm tired of shopping and killing

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Nothing could be dryer than a jolly caucus race.

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Steve Irwin in a Jaeger would be entertaining.

Look over there. There’s a Catergory 3 Kaiju. Biggest one yet. 

Ah’m gonna wrassle with it. 

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Elizabeth Dulau in Andor S02E05

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The final episodes of Andor S2 really nailed how little of a chance there was for the Rebels to be able to destroy the Death Star in time.

Even in a New Hope, the chances were slim. Vader almost caught Leia with the plans in the beginning. R2D2 could have been stuck with the Jawas for too long (if you read From A Certain Point of View, you find out how he very nearly didn’t get bought by the Lars family). The shot Luke made was one in a million and just seconds before the base would have been blown away.

When we got Rogue One, we learned how many more chances and sacrifices there were along the way before A New Hope. To get the flaw in the structure, to get the plans in the hands of the Rebels, to transmit those plans to a ship that could actually bring them somewhere.

And now, in the Andor finale, we learn that Kleya almost couldn’t get the message out. That if Luthen hadn’t put in the work to keep Jung safe in his spy position for so long, he may have never discovered the energy plan cover up. That if Dedra hadn’t been scavenging for Axis information, the information would have never been available to Jung.

So many what ifs.

Jyn’s “we’ll take the next chance and the next until all our chances are spent” comes to mind. Andor really, really makes you think about how long that line of chances was. How much groundwork had to be laid, how many sacrifices had to be made, how far the Rebellion had to climb

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Genevieve O'Reilly in Andor S02 episodes 4+6

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Favorite "humans being human" history posts, please

I've seen the collections of favorite tumblr fiction posts; now I'd like to see what your favorite "humans being human" historical posts are. (Because sometimes it is Nice to be reminded that compassion is not something easy for us to lose; we laugh at the same bad jokes; there are entire fossil records of our kindness.)

Here are my favorites-- add on yours.

The story of the RMS Carpathia, with a follow-up (aka one of if not the best pieces of short nonfiction historical writing in the modern age and one that reduces me to tears every goddamn reread)

Bronze-age grave of teenage gamer girl lovingly buried with her sheep ankle bone collection

The 1st-2nd century CE Roman tombstone with a bar joke that reads like a Dril tweet

And even earlier: A 4500-1900 BCE Sumerian bar joke

"Please know that there's an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that's beautiful to you"

Reconstructing Otzi's shoes

The Paleolithic grandmother and the child's fingerprint

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons

Ice-age children played in megafauna-footprint puddles

There once was a little boy who loved ducks

The oldest human burial found in Africa is a toddler; they made a pillow for his head

Henry Kenelm Beste's father loved him very much

"A Timeline of Humanity"

"I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them."

"I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today. It's right-handed. I am right-handed"

A 3rd century dog carved on a marble tomb; a 1st century dog lovingly described and named for posterity

Patrice, a 1st-2nd century dog, was dearly loved

And: we found a Paleolithic dog, buried with its bone

Humanity, unified across time by everyday experiences

The Golden Record sent into space in the 1970s

Ancient Egypt had archaeologists

Egyptian figurine of a woman waiting for her bread to finish baking

The graffiti of Pompeii

Ancient Greek tourist graffiti at the tomb of Ramses V

Hidden messages on circuit boards

The earliest examples of someone chewing on the end of their pencils

"im having feelings about the uffington white horse again"

The vast relatability of Medieval marginalia (and cats peeing on things)

Potoooooooo

What our ancient ancestors would think, seeing us prosper

Engage with older art; it keeps you from forgetting their humanity

"They were just like you and me. They write don't forget eggs, and wondered if their neighbors secretly hated them or if they are reading into it too much. They loved and were loved and they wondered. They wondered about you."

"Why do you study history" web-weaving

And ending on a high note: Ea-nasir and his shitty copper

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I mean, it’s cute and I guess I am not really the target. But yeah, from my PoV, the PWHL hype machine has reached cry-wolf levels.

Could not care less about the Barbie thing and honestly a little offended that PWHL thought it deserved that much hype

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something something murderbot and the barbie movie are parallel stories of a thing, a construct, becoming a person in every slow and awkward piece of what that means but especially in their conception of the self and self-determination in a world where their identity has always been crafted and defined by people’s use of them

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