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I had a client tell me she was in Ponta Delgada during the 25th of April and saw the celebrations there, and while there, she took a tour. Unaware of what the fuss was all about, she asked the tour guide what were the celebrations all about. And, of course, the answer here was that it's the 50th year anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship.

For some reason, the tour guide told my client "it's the day the colonies became independent"

Which is not right, but also not 100% wrong. I asked if the tour guide had said something else but the client said that's all she said about it, and now after MY explanation of what the day was about, my client was a little suspicious this girl's political views might align with a certain system.

I'm utterly confused, and admittedly I'm not too familiar with the developments of the 25th of April on the islands, so my Azorean friends, would you be able to shed some light into this for me? Like, is there a reason for this or was the guide just straight up either a fascist apologist or perhaps an idiot?

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I'm writing all of you a prescription for at least one little bit of joy today. It can be tiny. It can be something you don't think anyone else would count. It doesn't have to negate your depression, your sadness, your trauma, or your pain. It can be a single sparkle. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon, sparkle 3:19 PM · Apr 28, 2024

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Optimus Prime contemplating life by a babbling brook is now available on society 6 as a print and the original painting is available on etsy! A great repurposed print of a farmstead made infinitely better by 80’s robot warrior/statesmen.

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sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

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Now that the trailer is out, it's probably best that I get this out of the way before acolyte releases

The Jedi are right about the Force and the dark side

The Jedi did not lose their way

The Jedi were not corrupted

The genocide of the Jedi was not their fault

The Jedi are not wrong for being part of the Republic, it is in fact a good thing

The Jedi are not arrogant for thinking the sith are gone

and while we're at it the sith are evil, always, end of discussion

The Jedi do not steal children

If someone wants to leave the Jedi, that's allowed, no one will stop them

The Jedi are right about attachment

Attachment is not love (SW uses the Buddhist definition because Lucas is a Buddhist and the Jedi are based off Buddhist monks, Buddhism defines attachment as being possessive or unwilling to let go of people or things)

The Jedi do not forbid emotions, they forbid being controlled by your emotions, you must control them

The Jedi are not forbidden from loving people, nor are they celibate, they just can't get married (big whup) because their duties must come first

Being peacekeepers doesn't preclude the Jedi from fighting in war, sometimes to keep the peace you have to fight back, especially when its against tyranny, see WWII (or Ukraine today)

Gray jedi are not a thing

The Jedi are not slavers or complicit in slavery

Oh and of course, the Jedi are not elitists for not training non Force sensitives, (Han voice) that's not how the Force works, dave filoni broke the rules so he could shoehorn sabine into a Jedi (to give the benefit of the doubt, I do believe sabine's role as ahsoka's apprentice was meant for an original character but things got condensed by executives, so maybe filoni isn't entirely to blame here)

Feel free to add anything I forgot

Do not, DO NOT!! add anything Jedi critical, I'm done with it and won't hear it, don't have something nice to say? Then go away, I will block on sight, either reblog without comment (either in the reblog or the notes) or don't interact at all

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ABOUT TIME!!! for those out of the loop homeowners’ associations in the US 1. suck horrendously in every way 2. were the beginning of the end of urban biodiversity

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People across two-thirds of the political spectrum have been taking the piss out of "I'm not racist but" for decades, and now you guys - who are supposed to be progressive - are unironically doing that with antisemitism

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So I saw a post that just rubbed me the wrong way

So the post in question basically went along the lines of complaining about the sequels "destroying Anakin's legacy" and being angry about how HIS lightsaber was buried on the planet HE hated

And I gotta disagree with this

Destroying the Sith, bringing down the Empire, establishing the New Republic, that's not Anakin's legacy

That's the legacy of Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, 3P0, R2, Lando and all the Rebels who fought and sacrificed to make it happen

Anakin chose to be a sith, he helped establish the Empire, he spent the next 23 years choosing to be a Sith while building and enforcing the empire, the defeat of the sith/empire does not get to be called his legacy when he only changed his mind at the last minute

Oh, and the only reason he changed his mind was because Luke was there

Which is to say that he would not have done so on his own, since y'know, he didn't for 23 years

Therefore defeating the sith and bringing balance to the Force is Luke's achievement, Anakin was just a tool

And I will argue that the sequels are his legacy

The first order was formed from the remnants of the empire that Anakin made possible and wants to succeed it

Kylo Ren chooses to be like and tries to outdo vader, trying to be a galactic conqueror/ruler and trying to wipe out the Jedi

So regarding being pissy about Anakin's lightsaber being buried on the planet he hated, I feel like this is people missing the point of being a Jedi and another case of people wanting the narrative to go out of its way to please Anakin

Being a Jedi means you need to let go

This is why Jedi don't have possessions, because things are temporary

And this is also why you need to let go of feelings, especially negative ones, because they will drag you down to ruin

As a Jedi (and also as a person who has been dead for 31 years by the time of ROS) Anakin should have let go of his saber and his hatred of tatooine

Besides, that lightsaber hasn't been Anakin's for a long time by that point

Its 57 years old in ROS

Anakin had it for a grand total of 3 years

Luke had it for just as long, and actually I'm going to argue he had it for longer

The way I see it, Obi-Wan was holding the saber for Luke in the same way a legally appointed guardian would hold onto the property/money of a child's deceased parents

Just keeping it safe until they're old enough

Furthermore, while Rey had the saber, she never considered it hers, despite repairing/rebuilding it and healing the crystal

She tried to return it to Luke in TLJ

And in ROS, Rey outright calls it Luke's lightsaber, and borrows it from Leia, indicating that Rey views luke or his closest (non dark side mass murder) kin as the lightsaber's rightful owner

Slight off tangent, but the above is kinda funny because at one point there was a toy of the saber which referred to it as "Rey's lightsaber" and that had some people (y'know the ones) up in a tizzy over it

But the films itself never call it Rey's, and affirm that it's not hers, it's Luke's

Oh, and do you know what? I'm gonna add the year Rey had the saber to Luke's 3, so that's four years in the possession of people who didn't use it to murder children, plus the 19 Obi-Wan held onto it for Luke

And that murdering children part is important

Because in my eyes, Anakin betrayed the lightsaber and forsook any right to call it his

That saber was created by a Jedi as a Jedi's weapon

To be a weapon in service of truth, justice, and freedom, to be used to defend the weak and innocent

And Anakin used it for the exact opposite at the very end of having the saber

Anakin used it to cover up lies, committed injustices, enslaved people, and was used to murder the weak and innocent

Kyber crystals are alive in their own way

And through that lightsabers are alive

And what Anakin subjected that saber to was unforgivable

He has no right to that saber

What he thinks of it being buried on tatooine is irrelevant

That saber deserves its rest

If it ever should be taken up again, it should be to do what it was built for

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If you were upset by deaths at the Pulse nightclub shooting but not by deaths at the Nova Music Festival, you’re an antisemitic hypocrite.

Not that it should matter because people are people, but, oh hey, look, Pulse shooter Omar Mateen said the mass shooting was his retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed, among others, IS militant Abu Waheeb.

Don’t like it when radicals hate governments and use that hate to hurt your community?

Then stop your own radicalization process. Stop hating. Everyone.

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I wonder how many of the reblogs on that post are just people wanting to save a quick ref to a few of the main maps

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one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife

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Y’all can be sympathetic to Aphrodite while not making up some (low key ableist) bs about Hephaestus, it’s insanely easy actually.

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I would like to note that contrary to popular belief, tuxedo cats are not little businessmen!

tuxedo is formal party attire, if you wore one at a business function, you would be inappropriately dressed!

tuxedo cats are, instead, lil fancy guys, darling socialites, even