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[sailahina]

I get why people are bummed about Twitter but the longest I was active on Twitter was for like...four months? And I kept waiting to enjoy it but all that happened was I'd fight with strangers online and find things to be angry about.

I know losing it as a journalistic/news source is shitty, but honestly I'm glad to see it go. It's just a breeding ground for hatred.

[skyburger]

venn diagram of these guys

[aduck8myshoes]

you know with all the disk horses surrounding modern Star Wars I think one of the takes that pisses me off the most is people excusing mediocre writing and production design by saying Star Wars has always been bad/cringey and that it's never been high art, it's meant to just be dumb entertainment

A New Hope was nominated for Best Picture along with 10 other categories at the 1978 Oscars

Empire is on most review sites' top movies of all time lists

yeah there is the prequel dialogue. the holiday special and a bunch of wacky eu stuff exists. there is plenty of legitimate criticism to be made across the spectrum of SW content, and any real fan will admit that (and probably have their own essays ready to go)

but people fell in love with Star Wars in the first place because it was really fucking good

stop excusing the painfully mid, disorganized, and just plain lazy quality of a lot of the new stuff just because of previous flaws in the franchise!

[antaripirate]

soft kellila as cats i found saved in my camera roll:

the ‘rhy and alucard made us come to this event, we do not want to be here, please leave us alone’ :

the ‘kell watching lila touch stuff in fletcher’s shop after he specifically told her not to’ :

the ‘kell ‘i know i’m an idiot but idc bc i’m your idiot’ maresh’ :

the ‘i don’t need to sleep with my back to the wall and a knife on my knee anymore’ :

the ‘you’ve been steering the ship all night and i’m half asleep and don’t know much about sailing but i’m here to hold you for moral support’ :

the ‘finally arrived back in london after a long ass journey, time to collapse’ :

and finally, the ‘anoshe’ :

[running-in-the-dark]

I think I mentioned that I was looking into getting a better sewing machine? well, it arrived today 🙈 that happened much faster than planned. I found the model I was looking at at a (relatively) local sewing machine store, for 30% off because it had been in the shop window, so the plastic has yellowed.

I wasn't sure how I felt about that (the website only said it was a floor model or something similar, then someone from the store called and told me the specifics and asked if that was still okay), but honestly? I never ever would have paid the full price, it was just too much, I couldn't justify that. but this reduced price was only a little more than the ones I had been looking at before (that were not great quality and probably wouldn't last very long).

I am very particular about things like this but I'm trying to make myself accept that it really is not that bad. it actually looks kinda cool. I just have to get my brain to accept that it's not a flaw, it's just a completely superficial and insignificant thing that doesn't affect its function at all. it's good that this machine that works perfectly won't end up in a landfill just because it doesn't look brand new.

I only got to try it a little bit today because I wasn't feeling well but damn, the difference to my old machine is huge!! it's so much more fun and easy to use - I love having the needle threader and that it can automatically cut the yarn when you're done. and with the start/stop button it's actually really fun to wind bobbins!! I always hated that on my old machine.

I skimmed through the manual earlier (and put page markers in it so that I can easily find anything later) - it did seem somewhat overwhelming at first. I've never used or even seen (irl) a computerised sewing machine, so of course it did! but it already felt much more familiar after just using it a little bit today. I love it 🥰

(also, I think the fact that it doesn't look perfect and brand new actually helps - I'm not afraid to use it in case I 'ruin' it!)

[arctic-hands]

Related to my tags on the Irish American reblog, how long have bastardized "Celtic" crosses been neo-Nazi symbols? I wasn't aware of this stupid use until I was an adult and my father was equally unaware until I learned about it, and in our Celtic (American) Pride we often used Celtic cross imagery in decor and accessories. Granted these usually did resemble actually woven/knotted crosses (which by no means meant they were authentic. At best a few came from local Celtic Pride fests–which as I said in those tags was plagued by Confederate and Nazi imagery), but most of them came from like JoAnn's or Michael's or Walmart whenever Saint Paddy's Day rolled around. That said, the woven pattern of a Celtic cross is a bitch to draw especially when you have yet to nurture or be nurtured in any art skills, so when my borderline-Gothic ass would doodle graveyards in my school notebooks I would often doodle simplified Celtic crosses as grave markers, which unfortunately just meant a simple cross with a simple circle in it, unfortunately reminiscent of the neo-Nazi symbol.

Me and my family were staunchly Indiana liberals (to be fair that wasn't that shocking in our democrat enclave city) and have only become more leftist as time goes on, so those who knew me well would know I didn't mean anything by it, but like I have to wonder/worry that those who didn't know me well (like most of my classmates. I was pretty lonely in high school) or people who would briefly visit my home or come across us while we were wearing Celtic pins that day or something came away with the wrong impression. I'm especially dismayed at the thought that the kids I knew to be actual neo-Nazis might thought I was one of them

For the record I left school in like twenty eleven and had been doodling graveyards for years and wearing Celtic imagery for even longer. I can't really find out when the "Celtic" cross became a dogwhistle

[communistkenobi]

I feel like anyone who claims their political opponents are a cult is just doing tautology bullshit. “trans people are bad, cults are bad, trans people are a cult” like what is the use value of saying this aside from claiming your enemy sucks. that word has no descriptive power. like cults are real obviously but I’ve never gotten more insight into a group of people or understood a sociological phenomenon better by applying the word cult to them. It’s one of those things that feels like it has value to study in an academic capacity but the moment it enters general discourse it becomes completely meaningless

[ruvviks]

this man gets it

[ryusaidate]

i made an. aitsf only ship list a while ago and i won't post the whole thing because it's basically the same as my aitsf + aini one however i will post this part

because 1: all three of the ships in 'good :)' tier exist in vastly different ways in my brain but not having any other ships in that tier makes it look like an ot3 and 2: all of the ships in the second tier were originally in different tiers but i wanted to recategorize some things for brevity

[tariah23]

Whenever I go to get my brows waxed/threaded, man, these ladies be acting like they don’t know what to do with my brows. My brows are naturally thick like really, REALLY thick, and the lady threaded a little off one brow and was like “I won’t cut more off because it wouldn’t fit your face because it’s much more rounder-“ then I looked into the mirror and was thinking to myself “um, I can barely see a difference 🫤,” and asked her to cut more off and I heard my sis from the back saying that “she wants her brows to look like they were actually done.”

[gamdaughter]

Nabu Malikata once bled into the barren earth, greenery springing forth from her feet.

Now her descendants do the same.

[fragmentedblade]

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[victory-cookies]

trying not to have a breakdown over stupid shit. why am I like this

[safifonhasstrel]

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[byanyan]

anyway yes, in case u can't tell i absolutely will cram mentions of sol into every thread i possibly can

[carrotpiss]

This is a bunch of sad lost and confused and frustrated and lonely sludge, advise not reading