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Saw a tiktok today that was captioned 'Ruminating on why so much of queer media is tragic' and one of the top comments absolutely blew me away and I need everyone else to see it too

Link to the original tiktok here

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So I was recently on ao3 (famous last words) looking for some Star Wars fanfics (pls drop some good recs for me btw), and Im a bit confused about a ship that keeps popping up as Im looking through the pages.

Obiwan x Anakin

For other ships I can see the reasoning for them (haha CodyWan my beloved) but... Anakin and Obiwan???? Didnt Obiwan basically raise Anakin?? Im actually so confused over where this ship came from, because like wtf???

Is this like a weird fandom thing, or is it like a 'back in the day' ship that was popular? Someone pls explain, because I am genuinely so confused how ANYONE could see Obiwan and Anakin as a romantic pairing. Its just so.... no. Just no. Any explanation is much appreciated (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠)

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Just watched ColeyDoesThings (one of my FAVE youtubers) EPIC: The Musical review and feel as if now if a good time too mention that I am literally obsessed with the musical.

Like, listened to the whole thing back to back NUMEROUS times, so much so that I know the lyrics to practically every song.

Like Im not even joking when I say that because all my friends are SICK of me bringing it up at this point.

So yeah, nothing important to say here just a ramble about how much I love EPIC lol (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

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Just rewatched the star wars prequels and omg i love Obi-Wan, like he is literally my new favorite comfort character (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤! Like the sass and everything is just so perfect and exactly what I love in a character lol

So in that aspect, does anyone have any fun Obi-Wan headcannons to share? Cause I would love to hear them!

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Alrighty then! Thanks so much to everyone that provided insights into DinLuke and where it came from! I really appreciated it and it actually did help me understand that pairing a lot better lmao

And you know what else? I ship it, theyre cute together (⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

(Am also a real big fan of the whole two dads and their child trope lmao)

Quick question for the mandalorian fans: where tf did DinLuke come from?? Because I've seen the show, and those two barely interacted. Like not even five minutes of screen time together.

I feel like this ship came out of literally nowhere, like how did it even start?? Do they have more interactions in another show?? Someone pls explain ʕ⁠´⁠•⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠•̥⁠`⁠ʔ

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Quick question for the mandalorian fans: where tf did DinLuke come from?? Because I've seen the show, and those two barely interacted. Like not even five minutes of screen time together.

I feel like this ship came out of literally nowhere, like how did it even start?? Do they have more interactions in another show?? Someone pls explain ʕ⁠´⁠•⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠•̥⁠`⁠ʔ

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Finally watched the star wars saga (the original 6 movies) for the first time ever and OMG i get it now, these movies are SO GOOD!! Like whereeee has this been all my life ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

Currently watching the Clone Wars, and the star wars hyper fixation is in full swing lmao

(Also ANAKIN SKYWALKER GOD DAYUMMMMM + obi wan but specifically him in attack of the clones)

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Not even joking, when I first got into the tts fandom, I hated varigo

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so now that it's been confirmed "voltron: legendary defender" will be leaving netflix on december 7, i'm here to share all of the seasons & episodes for download on google drive so that you don't have to give money to netflix (which you should stop doing anyway, really): all right here, in one mega link!

credit to instagram user scenepimp via this post

as with most pirates, it is asked for your own (and others') benefit that you save this media on a physical device; i.e. hard drives, DVDs, SD cards, etc. this way, it's yours forever and cannot be taken from you by a greedy streaming service.

EDIT SEPTEMBER: i have been made aware that the entire show is also on the internet archive, which is convenient! with that being said though, i still strongly encourage what i said in the last paragraph since that's a guarantee that you'll never lose access ─ especially since the internet archive has been facing some legal trouble recently and its resources may not always last.

EDIT OCTOBER: the internet archive’s services are now (temporarily) closed. please see above paragraph and download your own copy of the series so that it will always be available to access for yourself. cheers!

EDIT NOVEMBER: since some people are having trouble figuring out how to download from mega with its free limit, i uploaded everything to google drive! i got super lucky too ─ despite using a burner gmail account, the base storage given is 15.0MB... and the series takes up 14.5MB! anyway, i hope this helps make it easier for some of you.

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"tragedies: the love was there"

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watching you (please look at me once)

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The funniest part of Ekko going to the alt timeline is how he casually and accidentally reminds everyone of the most traumatic things to happen to them

Like imagine you go to your future-son-in-law's graduation party after presumably knowing him for years and just not seeing him for a couple months and the FIRST thing he says to you is "remember when your husband tried to fucking murder you" LIKE???

Also, imagine your bf/situationship/lab partner/ best friend, who has spent time with you nearly every day for years and KNOWS how your sister died just starts suddenly being like "Your sister died? How did it happen? DID YOU MURDER HER?"

I love you Ekko you are very smart but "reading the room" is not one of your many skills lmfao

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first dance

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This Tweet was too good I had to repost it

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It's home cinema manufacturing time! 🏴‍☠️ Gonna put my pirate show on my shelf! (I'm doing an Arts and Crafts Project and I'm making it everyone's problem.)

After seeing how much they cost, I abandoned the idea of getting a Blu-ray writer for now. For the time being, good old DVDs is what it's going to be! My TV is old and not very big, so DVD resolution is gonna be fine.

It's been ages since I last burned a DVD. For the full experience, I'm gonna create nice menus and pretty sleeves for the boxes. Graphic design is my passion! Um.

Well. First needed to find a program to do stuff with. I'm a Linux guy, so I'm using Devede. (Which is free, btw. In case someone else wants to do a low cost spot of putting pirate show on the shelf.)

DVDs fit a maximum of 120 minutes of video. So, four episodes, I thought. But after a quick attempt, the program refused to do more than three (maybe because of the menu also taking up space, and four episodes cutting pretty close to the 120 min mark?). Anyway, three episodes per disc it is. It's a pretty nice runtime for watching the entire disc, IMO. An hour and a half, and then you can return to reality to realise you should probably eat something, or go to bed because it's midnight.

OFMD with its current two seasons has a total of eighteen episodes, which is divisible by three. You get the following setup:

Disc 1: Pilot, A Damned Man, The Gentleman Pirate - That's pretty good, Stede's introduction to piracy all on one disc!

Disc 2: Discomfort in a Married State, The Best Revenge is Dressing Well, The Art of Fuckery - All bangers. Great to watch together, our boys meet and shenanigans happen!

Disc 3: This is Happening, We Gull Way Back, Act of Grace - Many romantic moments, lots of great scenes, shit hits the fan at the end there. Alright!

Disc 4: Wherever you go, there you are, Impossible Birds, Red Flags - ... Pain and angst! What have I done!?! The disc of horrors. Gotta make sure to have tissues at hand when I watch this. But hey, it also has messy bun Ed! Small mercies.

Disc 5: The Innkeeper, Fun and Games, The Curse of the Seafaring Life. - Another disc with all winners. I love all these episodes so much! (You can watch this disc to recover from the trauma of the previous one!) But seriously, this one slaps.

Disc 6: Calypso's Birthday, Man on Fire, Mermen - Great combination again. Season finale! Love and excitement!

... Honestly, except for the psychological damage of putting all the most painful episodes together, this is coming out pretty cool. Says a lot about how good the show is. I actually really love all the episodes (yes even the painful angsty episodes of massive depression). Thinking about this little project really reminded me how much I love this entire show.

So, we got a tracklist, now menus, then we can burn this stuff!

I did the menu backgrounds in GIMP. Realised I have a big folder full of screenshots I took myself, screenshots someone else took and posted on Tumblr, official promo pics for the show, and I have no idea anymore where most of them are from, because I named the files according to what's on them. Which is useful for when you want to find pics (Need a picture of cursed suit Stede? I have files named that, easy peasy!), but not so great if you wanted to give credit to whoever took a given pic you used. (It's probably @sherlockig or @ofmd-ann or @blakbonnet. Please feel credited, your beautiful screens and gifs brighten my day, and some of them are now probably part of my DVD menus. Shrunk down and cropped, but, yeah.)

I originally wanted to structure my menus as having the title of an episode, then some pics from it, then the next episode, then pics from that, and so forth, but I couldn't convince the program to give me the necessary padding between the menu items, so I ended up just putting the episode images below the menu. Still like it.

Anyway, DVD menus can also play sound! Behold a crappy video of my beautiful creation (provided entirely for sound):

It plays Gnossienne N°5!

More crappy pics of my other disc menus:

Gonna make them some nice sleeves next. Some day. Gotta make sure they all work properly first. So. I'll be on my sofa, watching my DVDs. With menus!

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Tumblr I need a favor. Can someone please explain to me the Batfamily (DC Comics)?

I've seen a lot about them everywhere, but only know the gist. Can someone explain to me the members of Batfamily and their dynamics please? Thanks! (⁠づ⁠￣⁠ ⁠³⁠￣⁠)⁠づ

(Please I REALLY don't want to have to read the comics I just cannot-)

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the suffering never ends