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making a collection

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ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

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Sansa Stark in House Tully colours

there should be Arya in the back screaming 'A woman is important too!' as Sansa is dressing in their mother's colours

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“That girl and her people are a bunch of zealots,” Zallah said, going to the bags Kevmo had brought in and beginning to unpack them. “Lady Jara told me their cult lives outside of town on their own compound.” “Really? Their ideas seemed pretty good; it was just the part about not using the Force that was odd,” Kevmo said, thinking about Marda and her night-sky eyes. “I suppose the ideas of the Sith also seem good in the abstract,” Zallah said, her tone bland.

- 86-87

Like I said in an earlier post, I’m already pretty spoiled for how the Marda Ro books go, so I know the Path of the Open Hand is in fact a dangerous cult, but Zallah saying that about a sect she knows basically nothing about and ostensibly has no reason to believe isn’t ultimately harmless is just… Wow. Wow, lady, you really did go out of your way to delegitimize your own point by using such a grossly disproportionate comparison while making it. Except you don’t realize that that’s what you did, and you likely have no idea how self-righteous and incurious it makes you sound.

Okay, my big problem with Phase 1 of The High Republic was how aggressively black and white the morality was in everything of it that I read. My hope right now is new book, new phase, new opportunity for some, literally any shades of gray to turn up in here that aren’t ultimately dismissed as irrelevancies. Please. Please, book, I beg you, don’t let me down. Please don’t let this be another book of dyed in the wool good guys and card-carrying villains. Please let the narrative have some room for shades of gray.

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leia's attitude towards vader 🤝 mae's attitude towards sol

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REAL personality test: do you use the left shift key or the right shift key on your keyboard

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i’m sick and tired of people pretending that burger isn’t delicious just to clown on americans. america deserves the ridicule, but why��s burger catching strays? burger did nothing wrong

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couldn’t have said it better myself.

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I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

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Amandla Stenberg as Verosha Aniseya in The Acolyte 1.08 “The Acolyte”

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"what have i done?"

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Still discovering layers under layers nearly a year later: I’ve recently realized that maybe part of the reason Mae’s fate in S1 still upsets me so viscerally is because I may have unresolved Donna Noble trauma???

Their stories, at least where Donna’s original run is concerned, are in certain respects eerily similar. They’ve been living really empty lives for a while without any real sense of purpose. Donna gets that sense of purpose back through traveling with the Doctor and having this close friendship with him. Mae gets back the sense of purpose she’s been missing when she discovers that her sister, a member of the family she was so devoted to, is still alive. And then the sense of purpose and meaning they’ve regained is brutally stripped away from them—in the same way!—leaving them in a worse position than they were in when we first met them.

Donna’s given no choice to keep her memories, told that it will kill her if she isn’t stripped of them. She isn’t allowed to try and think of other options, isn’t allowed to use the massive intellect she’s gained to try and consider a solution that lets her keep her memories. All her agency is stripped away, and she ends the episode having apparently been regressed back to right where she was when we first met her.

Mae is given no meaningful choice about being allowed to keep her memories. Qimir says ‘there’s no room for you in my ship,’ and she’s not allowed to float the idea of trying to get back to Sol’s ship and escape on it. Technically, she gives her consent, but in practice she’s railroaded into this “choice,” given no time to consider what she’s agreeing to, and the implied alternative very much is that if she doesn’t agree to it, Qimir will kill her. (Whether he actually would now that he has an in with Osha is an open question: my opinion is that he wouldn’t, since if he does that, Osha will never, ever, ever let him hold her hand train her, but the twins don’t know that, and Qimir is counting on them not knowing that.)

And then she’s reduced to a worse state than what she was in at the beginning of the series. The scar tissue has been ripped up from the wound of her family’s murders, and that scar is now once more a fresh wound. But she doesn’t get the solace of knowing that her family’s murderers faced down the consequences of their actions in the end. And she doesn’t get the solace of knowing that she actually has family alive out there, somewhere in the galaxy. The wound is fresh, and as far as she knows, she will never have justice, and never have family, ever again. As far as she knows, she is alone, and will be for the rest of her life.

What was done to Donna upset me really badly when I first watched that episode as a teenager; the incredible, almost mean-spirited unfairness of it stuck with me for a long time. We were left so long without a resolution for Donna, left so long without even the barest glimmer of hope that she could get her memories back. And with The Acolyte cancelled, I am similarly left without the barest glimmer of hope that Mae could get her memories back and be anything but the one discarded by the wayside, unworthy of going on to bigger and better things and gaining the sense of purpose and meaning that comes with it.

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The damn thing thinks I'm sixteen. Two weeks from this date I will be twice that age. Accuracy? Your mileage may vary.

30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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For the record, for anyone who has ever wondered: The reason I enable comment moderation on all of my new fics these days is because of the proliferation of spam comments on AO3. No other reason than that. I much prefer to be able to filter out the spam comments such that they never actually hit my fic comment sections.

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit