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let me guess 🙄 you're tired 🙄 it's too hard 🙄 it's too much 🙄

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kleya marki character of the century. everybody else shut the fuck up

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It was probably for the best that Fox wasn’t a force-wielder, he thought, when he reached the coffee machine and realised that no one had bothered to refill the carafe – because he would definitely be a Sith, and he would absolutely do some horrible Force-assisted things to whoever was responsible. As it was, all he had to work with was a handful of wooden stirrers and a spork.

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I think if someone left multiple long comments on my work I would die of joy.

I really really really don't know who to ask and I'm new to AO3😢😥😥 Is commenting too much awkward??? I'm socially inadept and interacting with people online gives me an overload of anxiety and recently I've found this fic and fell super deep in love with it and commented massive messages on each chapter. The author replied to me at the beginning but recently they just stopped (hi I understand it's not the author's job to reply and they're likely busy with their life too) but I can't help but be kind of worried that I somehow had put them off (because my comments sometimes involves analyzations and if I get into something too much I can be too excessive) I plead for advice is this normal???

while I can only speak for myself, I as a writer absolutely LOVE it when people give me long comments (the longer, the better lol) and, for me personally, there’s no such thing as too many comments.

love love love love these long comments, they help motivate me, especially when my readers give me deep analysis on the characters and/or their actions.

anyway, fellow writers, reblog if you love long positive comments

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A couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that a lot of American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads that some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep (and all this in spite of the fact that there's no good evidence that assigning homework actually improves academic outcomes at the pre-university level), but now we're hearing stories about those same schools struggling to stop kids from using ChatGPT to write their essays and suddenly It's The Children Who Are Wrong. Like, do you think maybe there's a certain level of cause and effect in play here?

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In Lego star wars you can go into obi-wan's house and he has a framed photo with Cody and Anakin up on the wall. I'm going to go CRY

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Documenting the Damage: 100 Harmful Policies from the First 100 Days of Trump's Second Term

The second Trump administration has had the busiest first 100 days of any US presidency in nearly a century. Since January, I've been keeping a spreadsheet documenting 900+ policy changes and political developments. I then bundled many of the most important changes into 100 topics areas and wrote a summary of each of them, providing a semi-comprehensive account of the tremendous changes to US politics which have occurred.

PDF version of the full report

Website version of the full report

Medium versions:

Introduction + Part I: Democracy and Government

Part II: Civil Rights and Liberties

Part III: Economy and Public Services 

Part IV: Environment and Energy

Part V + Conclusion: Foreign Policy

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TIL that Don Karnage from DuckTales (the original) and Hondo Ohnaka from Clone Wars are the same person.

Honestly, I don't know why I'm surprised.

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Annual reminder that copyright as a concept like we know it in Britain and then America really only began in 1710 (though it’s derivative of other traditions). Yeah. It’s that young.

And the Berne Convention only happened in 1886, establishing international copyright guidelines.

So like…yeah.

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Agreed. I feel like Slick’s characters suffers from the same shit all villains that have a suspiciously good ultimate point do: they do something so morally reprehensible that they remain evil to the narrative.

That and George Lucas himself never seemed to think of the clones as slaves.

Like in general I think Slick's words have been purposely misconstrued or disregarded due to his actions, and fandom fully believed that because the actions attached to his words were wrong (which they were), that the clones must have believed he was lying about the Jedi, or must have disagreed with them.

Only for Rex to say, "well maybe his intentions were good." Without jumping to defend the Jedi. And don't get me wrong, I don't think the Jedi are 100% to blame for what the clones have gone through.

But I think it's nice to see that Slicks' intentions weren't entirely damned by Rex of all people, and that he acknowledged that there needed to be a change in relation to the Jedi dynamic.

I think the clones are allowed to have complicated feelings about the Jedi leading them into battle, and I think it's realistic that even though the Jedi were put in a very unfair space, the clones would have mixed feelings about them.

Even Rex. And it's nice to get some confirmation about that.

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Friendly reminder that most clones didn’t know about the inhibitor chips. It makes Cody’s ”we make our own decisions, our own choices, and we have to live with them too” hit a bit harder.

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Vicious Appreciation Post

Definitely one of the great classic anime villains.

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bear the weight carried / by all the world's star-crossed fools / to kill and live, or die

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I quite literally bought a Spaceballs: the Face Mask during the pandemic and I still consider it my finest purchase

It's Finally Happening:

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Me @ the Spaceballs 2 premiere:

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That is the healthiest centenarian I’ve ever seen

Proof positive that being a happy person keeps you young while being a hateful bitch pickles you

SPACEBALLS 2 — The Schwartz™ Awakens in 2027