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sunnypogue · 4 years

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jj visits you at school (headcanon)

ok so i took a very innocent prompt and turned it into my old ass reliving my college days (this is an ode to college football + texas food)

(warnings: nsfw-ish, drinking, cursing)

after high school, you decided you needed to get the hell out of north carolina

didn’t even consider duke/chapel hill/state

applied to schools all over the country before deciding on university of texas

(jj was sad because you were leaving - and he wasn’t - but it was closer than cal, which was your next choice)

as soon as you settled in, you bought him a flight out for a home football game

basically a religious experience in texas

you swooped him late thursday night from austin-bergstrom, borrowing your big’s boyfriend’s chevy silverado

yes you had joined a sorority. yes you lowkey loved it.

you could barely see over the wheel, and were basically falling asleep because you had to book it to the airport right after your 2 hour bio lab

but you got so excited when you saw jj - he was all amped up from flying for the first time

he waved you down, holding his beat up duffle bag on the sidewalk outside of arrivals

laughed at you as you tried navigating the truck (it was HARD okay, your big’s boyfriend owned a ranch - it wasn’t meant for the streets of austin), swung open the door as you rolled to a stop, slid into the passenger seat, gave you a “howdy, ma’am” before leaning over the gear shift & tongue fucking you.

woke ya right up!

you welcomed him to texas the traditional way - honey butter chicken biscuit from whataburger

he inhaled it - “god, what the FUCK is this?”

y’all spooned in your twin xl bed - you elbowed him in the chest, twice.

took him to your gen ed history class the next morning - y’all hid in the back and sent each other dirty texts the whole time (nothing new there)

gave him the full tour of campus after & rewarded him with torchy’s after - peg leg margarita + trailer trash tacos.

he had never had queso before - blew his fuckin’ mind

“why is the food here so GOOD?”

took him to your sorority mixer that night - 70’s themed, so y’all blew it out of the water with some very authentic ABBA costumes that you coordinated with your best friend + her boyfriend

jj let you round brush dry his hair & wore the classic all white outfit to match yours

y’all fucked in the costumes later that night - you couldn’t stop laughing, and he wouldn’t stop humming “super trouper”

woke up at the ass crack of day for game day - 2pm kick off meant 10 am tailgate

jj let you dress him (you were worried about getting him into the tailgate - you weren’t really in the mood for him to have to answer the “who do you know here?” question a thousand times)

of course, you had the frat boy game day uniform all ready for him - black ut polo, wranglers & cowboy boots.

he drew the line at the cowboy hat, opting for a backwards baseball cap

he wasn’t excited about the boots, until you handed him a flask & told him that was the only way he was sneaking alc into the game

jj immediately filled it with jack, before slipping into the side of his boot - “alright alright alright”

shockingly, getting him into the frat tailgate was no problem (you wisely chose to bring him to your big’s boyfriend’s frat - while he wasn’t pledge master, he had a lot of pull, and didn’t bat an eye as you brought your semi-incognito boyfriend into the house)

and of course, he made friends with literally EVERYONE he met

shotgunning beers with your best friends and their boyfriends

betting people to ride the mechanical bull in the middle of the backyard (because what the fuck)

sharing his boot flask (“yeah, my girlfriend got it for me - yeah, she’s pretty great.”)

of course, you taught him how to “hook ‘em”

and suckered him into a picture

literally y’all only got one good one, you on his back, throwing the horns, him grinning at you as he half-assed the horns

he was flipping off the camera in every other photo

when y’all got to the stadium, he lost his shit

easily the biggest place (with the most people) he had EVER been in

completely took it in stride - learning all the chants, (“we’re gonna beat the hell outta you!” was his favorite) cheering as pledges were forced to chug whatever crazy shit the older frat members smuggled into the stadium between the student section bleachers, going absolutely apeshit when texas would score

jj didn’t know football could be fun - football was synonymous with his dad betting big and losing hard, which meant he got the brunt of...that

after the game (horns win!), y’all headed back to your dorm for a shower & power nap before hitting sixth street later that night

you changed your outfit three times and your panties once, because SOMEONE thought it would be funny to finger you while you tried to do your hair

you weren’t really complaining, tbh

y’all walked to a pregame, jj wearing his boots & sipping from his flask, arm slung around you

same group y’all tailgated with earlier, so jj was like an old friend at this point

(he even got the invite to the fraternity mardi gras trip in the spring - he asked if you were going to be flashing for beads - you smacked him on the arm)

wrangled him into an intense game of rage cage (you won - he bragged about you for the rest of the night)

laughed as you and your friends sat in the uber to the bars, memorizing your fake id’s

jj had the same one from high school - he had a whole life story for his id at this point

let you drag him to a country bar - he kept your drink full as you & your sorority sisters drunkenly line danced to “any man of mine” and “cottonhead road”

you even got him to two step

he ended up half-carrying your wasted ass home - you passed the fuck out the second you were back in your dorm

being the good boyfriend he is, he helped you take your makeup off and change into your pj’s

you woke up in his cutoff coors shirt, and nothing else - for revenge, you woke him up with a blow job - obviously.

you both had mind numbing hangovers (he refused to admit it, but he was feelin’ a lil rough after a game day + night out on sixth), so you dragged him to brunch - hair of the dog, baby.

knocked a couple mimosas back & made plans to lay out by the pool - nothing like getting absolutely fried by the sun to revive your hungover ass

as you were falling asleep on the lounger by the school’s outdoor pool, you heard him mumble something

“you know where austin community college is, baby?”

you nodded, not following the conversation whatsoever, playing around with his baseball cap (you forgot your sunglasses, he offered it up to protect your eyes from the sun)

“lookin’ at it” he shrugged, holding his phone up, home page for ACC on his browser

you sat up a lil bit. “you’d consider leaving the outer banks?”

he didn’t respond right away - you poked him with your foot a couple times

“I don’t think I’d ever leave the outer banks for good - but for a few years? maybe.” “for me?”

he poked you back “nah, i’m coming for torchy’s + whataburger. you’re just an added bonus”

you nailed him with the hat, square in the face. “shut up.”

he laughed - sat up, swung your legs onto his lap, “i’m coming for you. you shut up.”

#jj maybank #headcanon #outer banks #outer banks fic #outer banks imagine #jj maybank fic #jj maybank x reader #rudy pankow #she writes #obx #jj obx #jj maybank imagine

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onlinemarketinghelp · 5 years

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The Guide to Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness http://bit.ly/303eCmH

If you’re a public servant — a teacher, a nonprofit worker, a public defender, a government worker, or another — you might have cheered when you heard about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. This program, in theory, allows borrowers to make 10 years of income-driven payments on their loans and then have the rest forgiven.

But the program’s rules are complex — so much so that we have a whole training course dedicated to getting it right — and when the first borrowers became eligible for forgiveness 10 years after the program’s start in 2007, hardly anyone who applied for loan discharge was able to get it processed.

In fact, as of September 2018, only 206 people out of more than 40,000 applicants had had their loans forgiven.

Not good.

Quick Navigation

Why Was/Is PSLF So Hard to Qualify For?

What Is Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF)?

Where Did TEPSLF Come From?

Who Is Eligible? Part 1: Type of Repayment Plan

Who Is Eligible? Part II: Procedure

What Kinds of Loans Are Eligible?

What Do I Need to Do?

What About Taxes?

Does This Actually Work for Anyone?

What Else Is Going on with PSLF?

Why Was/Is PSLF So Hard to Qualify For?

Good question. This is a program that was started with good intentions. But many of the people it was supposed to help didn’t read and/or understand the fine print, and loan servicers didn’t help; it seems that many of them gave borrowers deliberate misinformation or failed to inform them of something that could have helped them.

Basically, to meet the original requirements, you needed to have a specific type of loan (or consolidate your existing loans in order to get the specific type of loan), to be on a specific type of repayment plan, to certify that your employer qualified as “public service” every single year, and to make 120 payments under these conditions (not 120 payments overall, or 10 straight years of payments, but 120/10 years of payments while having this kind of loan and working for this kind of employer).

That’s a lot to keep track of, and being in the wrong kind of payment plan in particular seems to have bitten a lot of people.

Plus, FedLoan Servicing, the only servicer that handles PSLF loans, is pretty terrible overall, which doesn’t help.

What Is Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF)?

TEPSLF is, well, a temporary opportunity to access a (slightly) expanded eligibility pool for PSLF. It’s controversial right now because congressional Democrats are arguing that the Republican-controlled Department of Education hasn’t expanded the pool enough. Maybe it’ll expand further and maybe it won’t, but for the moment, the “expanded” part refers to the types of repayment programs that are eligible for forgiveness.

Where Did TEPSLF Come From?

Remember, it took 10 years for the first possible qualifiers to apply to have their loans forgiven, so that was in 2017. When news started to break that 99% of PSLF applicants were being denied due to not meeting requirements, it became a major scandal.

Due to a big push from Senator Elizabeth Warren and other student-debt advocates in Congress like senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tim Kaine, the 2018 U.S. budget included a pot of $350 million to aid borrowers who hadn’t met the PSLF requirements, but would meet an “expanded” definition.

The money is finite, and will eventually run out — so it’s on a first come, first served basis. Hence, temporary. However, not much of it has been used so far due to another round of eligibility issues, so there’s a good chance that if you qualify, you’ll be able to use it.

Who Is Eligible? Part 1: Type of Repayment Plan

First of all, you should know that TEPSLF hasn’t gone so great so far. Nearly everyone who applied for it in 2018 was rejected — and I do mean nearly everyone. Only a couple hundred out of literally tens of thousands of applicants were accepted.

In other words, there’s still a lot of difficulty in getting your loans forgiven under the new rules. Before I go any further, here’s a link to the Department of Education’s TEPSLF website, which addresses some of these issues too.

The current focus of TEPSLF is on people who were in the wrong kind of repayment plan. Original-flavor PSLF required that borrowers be on one of the income-driven repayment plans: PAYE (Pay As You Earn), REPAYE (Revised Pay As You Earn), IBR (Income-Based Repayment), or ICR (Income-Contingent Repayment).

All of these plans tie the amount of your payments to your income, and since public service incomes are generally lower, it made sense that lots of PSLF applicants would be on one. But it turned out this often isn’t the case and lots of people were rejected for being on another payment plan.

TEPSLF expands the kind of eligible repayment plans. If you have been using a Graduated Repayment Plan, an Extended Repayment Plan, a Consolidation Standard Repayment Plan, or a Consolidation Graduated Repayment Plan, you’re now eligible as long as you meet all the other PSLF requirements.

Who Is Eligible? Part II: Procedure

It’s not just the kind of repayment plan you have though. You also have to go through a very specific procedure to have your loans forgiven under TEPSLF.

So here’s the skinny. In order to get access to TEPSLF:

You must submit a PSLF application for forgiveness and have that application denied (even if you already know you’ll be denied, you have to do this anyway).

The denial has to be because some of your payments were not made under a qualifying PSLF repayment plan (and not for any other reason).

You have to have 10 years of certified qualifying employment.

Your recent payments have to have been at least as much as they’d have been in a qualifying PSLF repayment plan.

You have to have made 120 payments that qualify (they need to have been made after October 1, 2007; to not have been more than 15 days late; and to have been made while employed by a qualifying employer). If your loans were in a grace period, a deferment, or forbearance when you made a payment, it won’t qualify. Also, the payments need to have been made on the loan(s) you’re seeking forgiveness on. If you consolidated halfway through the 10 years, then the payments you made on the unconsolidated loans won’t count.

Then you can go on to apply for TEPSLF.

What Kinds of Loans Are Eligible?

As with PSLF, only Direct Loans qualify for TEPSLF. If you had other loans but were able to consolidate them into a Direct Loan, that’s ok, but only payments you made on the Direct Loan will count.

Parent PLUS loans, FFEL loans, Perkins Loans, and private loans are not eligible.

Direct Loans in default are also not eligible.

What Do I Need to Do?

First, if you haven’t already made 10 years of payments while working for an approved employer, applied for PSLF, and been denied, you’ll need to do all those things.

That means your first stop should probably be FedLoan Servicing to ensure that your employers have been certified.

Next, you’ll need to apply for PSLF and wait to be denied. The denial has to be because you were using the wrong repayment plan for part or all of your 120 payments.

Then you send the Education Department an email. No, really! You do! I assumed there was a form to fill out, but nope:

Email [email protected].

Subject line: “TEPSLF Request.”

In the body of the email, use the sentence, “I request that the Education Department reconsider my eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.”

Include the same name under which you submitted that PSLF request that got denied (if you’ve married, divorced, or changed your name for another reason in the meantime, include the old name in the email).

Also include your date of birth in MM/DD/YYYY format.

Then, wait for FedLoan Servicing to reply to you. They’re required to confirm that you are eligible and to email you back with a determination. This might take several months (they say 60 to 120 days). You may be asked for additional information, especially about your income in the last 12 months, your family size, or your employer.

(They might want to know about your income or family size because they want to determine whether or not your recent payments were at least as much as they would have been on an income-based repayment program, which is one of the markers of eligibility for TEPSLF.)

If they do ask you for more info, move on it quickly, because you’ll need to provide it in 21 days or your request will be canceled.

If you’re denied, you may need to follow up with more information if you want to appeal. The denial ought to come with a reason and also an explanation of what you should do next. That may include submitting a PSLF application, making further payments (if you don’t have 10 eligible years’ worth), and/or getting your employer certified (which means following up with FedLoan Servicing and your employers during the 10-year period).

If you’re approved, that should be it. Your loans will be forgiven, along with any outstanding interest, and you can log into your account and see a $0.

What About Taxes?

This is a big deal! If your loans are forgiven under either PSLF or TEPSLF, the forgiveness amount is not considered taxable income.

Does This Actually Work for Anyone?

Like I said, the implementation of this program has been messy and contested. But it has worked for highly organized, persistent people who do meet all of these requirements. Here’s one story of a woman who not only got her loans forgiven, but got nine months of “overpayment” refunded to her. That ought to be inspirational!

One thing I really noted in that story is that while it’s really frustrating to deal with servicers, it can have benefits to keep pushing them. The woman in the story called her servicer maybe 20 times to check on things, insist that they look further into her situation, get documentation, and so on.

That sounds awful and it really sucks that it’s this challenging to access the program. But on the other hand, which would you rather do: call FedLoan Servicing 20 times or pay on your student loans for another 5 years when you don’t have to?

Here is another takeaway from that story: If you can afford it, it might help to hire a professional to assess your situation and help you make a plan. The woman in the story used a student loan lawyer. She still had to do a lot of the work of calling the servicer, etc., but it must have been comforting to have an expert on her side.

What Else Is Going on with PSLF?

As of April 2019, the Trump administration and several congressional Republicans have proposed eliminating it altogether.

Meanwhile, the major Democratic presidential contenders have mostly signaled support for a bill introduced by one of them, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, which would expand the types of eligible loans and payment plans permanently and reduce the payment period from 10 years to 5, among other things. (There are also some requirements for better information from the Education Department to students and an online application system that would be easier and clearer to use, etc.)

It definitely seems like PSLF has become a partisan issue, with Democrats trying to expand the program to more borrowers and Republicans trying to prevent borrowers from accessing it. This didn’t used to be the case — PSLF was signed into law by George Bush and the Obama education department didn’t exactly do a great job of keeping servicers from misbehaving — but unfortunately, it does seem now like the program has become a political football, meaning that its future probably depends a lot on who wins Congress and the presidency in 2020.

The post The Guide to Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness appeared first on The College Investor.

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In fact, as of September 2018, only 206 people out of more than 40,000 applicants had had their loans forgiven.

Not good.

Quick Navigation

Why Was/Is PSLF So Hard to Qualify For?

What Is Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF)?

Where Did TEPSLF Come From?

Who Is Eligible? Part 1: Type of Repayment Plan

Who Is Eligible? Part II: Procedure

What Kinds of Loans Are Eligible?

What Do I Need to Do?

What About Taxes?

Does This Actually Work for Anyone?

What Else Is Going on with PSLF?

Why Was/Is PSLF So Hard to Qualify For?

That’s a lot to keep track of, and being in the wrong kind of payment plan in particular seems to have bitten a lot of people.

Plus, FedLoan Servicing, the only servicer that handles PSLF loans, is pretty terrible overall, which doesn’t help.

What Is Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF)?

Where Did TEPSLF Come From?

Who Is Eligible? Part 1: Type of Repayment Plan

Who Is Eligible? Part II: Procedure

It’s not just the kind of repayment plan you have though. You also have to go through a very specific procedure to have your loans forgiven under TEPSLF.

So here’s the skinny. In order to get access to TEPSLF:

You must submit a PSLF application for forgiveness and have that application denied (even if you already know you’ll be denied, you have to do this anyway).

The denial has to be because some of your payments were not made under a qualifying PSLF repayment plan (and not for any other reason).

You have to have 10 years of certified qualifying employment.

Your recent payments have to have been at least as much as they’d have been in a qualifying PSLF repayment plan.

Then you can go on to apply for TEPSLF.

What Kinds of Loans Are Eligible?

As with PSLF, only Direct Loans qualify for TEPSLF. If you had other loans but were able to consolidate them into a Direct Loan, that’s ok, but only payments you made on the Direct Loan will count.

Parent PLUS loans, FFEL loans, Perkins Loans, and private loans are not eligible.

Direct Loans in default are also not eligible.

What Do I Need to Do?

First, if you haven’t already made 10 years of payments while working for an approved employer, applied for PSLF, and been denied, you’ll need to do all those things.

That means your first stop should probably be FedLoan Servicing to ensure that your employers have been certified.

Next, you’ll need to apply for PSLF and wait to be denied. The denial has to be because you were using the wrong repayment plan for part or all of your 120 payments.

Then you send the Education Department an email. No, really! You do! I assumed there was a form to fill out, but nope:

Email [email protected].

Subject line: “TEPSLF Request.”

In the body of the email, use the sentence, “I request that the Education Department reconsider my eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.”

Also include your date of birth in MM/DD/YYYY format.

If they do ask you for more info, move on it quickly, because you’ll need to provide it in 21 days or your request will be canceled.

If you’re approved, that should be it. Your loans will be forgiven, along with any outstanding interest, and you can log into your account and see a $0.

What About Taxes?

This is a big deal! If your loans are forgiven under either PSLF or TEPSLF, the forgiveness amount is not considered taxable income.

Does This Actually Work for Anyone?

What Else Is Going on with PSLF?

As of April 2019, the Trump administration and several congressional Republicans have proposed eliminating it altogether.

The post The Guide to Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness appeared first on The College Investor.

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Kids and FAQs

And now for my best Terry Gross Impression: If you're just joining me, my guest is Ashley Bass. Ashley moved with her husband and two children from Seattle to New Zealand in May of 2018. In early 2019 she started blogging about her experiences as an expatriate, parent, and regular person living life in a different part of the world. The blog started as the best way she could think of to tell lots of people at one time how the family is doing and what the move had been like, but it turns out it’s also serving as a way to consider and learn from her personal experiences. In this segment, she’ll try to answer some of the Questions she is Frequently Asked by her friends and family.

Welcome back to the program! I started this set of blog posts a few weeks back with “how we got here” and moved on to “where we are.” Now we’re in the “what we are are doing” part of the blog, and to be honest, I have struggled with how to approach it because I have so much to tell you about. At least, so much to tell you about if I work under the assumption that you’re interested in fairly mundane details of a day-to-day life that sounds pretty standard...school, work. travel. sport. exploration. drinks. food. Although, it seems like a fair assumption that you want to hear about it all since you’re reading this blog and anyway isn't that what facebook and Instagram are all about -- constant insight into nothing and everything all the time?!? Well, blogs may be old school but they give me lots of room for detail.

Or maybe you just read this blog for the pictures...? You could just follow me on Instagram (_ashley_bass_), but we live in a world of instant gratification and high expectations, so here!

That’s Jason and James playing header ping pong on a cement table with a soccer ball. Didn't expect that, did you? Me either. And yet it makes so much sense.

As part of my effort to tell you what we are doing, I was drafting a summary of the places we have been and the things we have done/seen since we’ve been in NZ. It was pages long...we’ve done a lot. When I think about writing it all in a blog post I can only think of a phrase James uses all the time: “oosh.” Or maybe it’s “ush”? I guess it’s more of a sound than a phrase; it’s a kind of a take on the traditional “oof” but slightly less physically pained and a little more overwhelmed. I like it, and it works in this case, and is one of the only terms I could steal from James and use in a blog. Another option for using a James phrase would have been “butt cheek,” because he's a 17 year old boy with a vocabulary that has been stripped down to the modern version of caveman. His catch phrases are “butt cheek” (usually used confrontation with Anily); “bot” (used in confrontation with Anily but also safe enough to apply to me and Jason when we do something he thinks is stupid, which is most things); and a wide variety of aggressive sounds that spill from his room during an especially frustrating moment of playing Fortnite or FIFA -- he has headphones on and is playing online with other people so he’s especially loud and shockingly vocal and foul mouthed. Apparently he plays with a guy named “Monkey” on the regular and seems to be either super annoyed by or excited about Monkey at any given time. Lots of yelling. Ooosh.

So I guess he’s a pretty regular teenage boy. For example, I suspect it’s regular that he SUCKS at doing dishes but THINKS he is convincing when he argues about the relative fairness of his doing dishes versus Anily’s job of taking out the trash bins but UNABLE to comprehend the fact that we actually don't care at all about fairness. But listen, he’s still sweet and he’s overall a really good kid. And he got great results on his first round of NZ High School exams!

So one way I can think to report on the goings-on is to try to report on the Qs people ask me pretty F(requently) when I have the chance to catch up on the phone, or the Qs I imagine you’d ask me if you had extra time to wonder about my life, the Qs I would ask you and sometimes ask myself about moving so far away to a brand new place. For example, here’s one I have been asked more than once: Do you have an accent? Well, yeah, duh -- an American one! Seriously, I sometimes realize that when I think people are listening intently to what I have to say they are literally just trying to figure out what I am saying. I haven't yet adopted a new way of delivering sentences but small common Kiwi expressions are starting to creep in to my vocabulary. James is the most Kiwi of us all when it comes to speaking, probably because he has the most consistent exposure to it from school and from online gaming. E.g. “Oy, Monkey, what the fuck?!” Or “Good one, mate, go Monkey go!”

One of the most Frequently Asked Questions I get (both from US friends and people I meet here who find out that we moved across the world in the middle of the kids’ most formative school years) is “how are the kids doing?” The short answer is that I think they are doing really well. I can't say whether they like it better here than Seattle, but they do like it, and they don’t hate us (at least not too much or too often, and this would likely have been the case in Seattle too). They miss their friends in Seattle, of course. They miss American Ketchup. They miss American Netflix. But they have friends here and they're doing well in school and playing soccer and futsal and indoor soccer, so in a lot of ways it’s business as usual (but less likely they’ll get shot).

A few things are different: For one, Anily and James will go to school together for the next two years. IN UNIFORMS. Including a kilt for Anily which is just heinous. if I’m honest. Although having uniforms is great -- no need to think about what to wear, no pressure to buy certain clothes or shoes; it’s actually super weird that the US doesn't do uniforms, when the rest of the world pretty much does. But anyway, they would never have gone to school together again in Seattle, but because the school year is January - December and high school is 5 years, James is about to start the equivalent of junior year and Anily will start high school at the same school next week. She says she’s too small to go to high school but as far as I can see, she's gotten pretty big!

Since we have been in NZ, James turned 17 and Anily turned 13. Yeah, Jason and I had birthdays too. So not only are we OLD, we are re living in a house with two teenagers. And even though they are quite teenager-y, one of the best things about moving to NZ is how much time we spend together and how much we have shared in this journey.

Here’s a fun story, and one of those times I wish I’d been recording the world around me: On Anily’s 13th birthday we went paddle boarding down the Avon River. For those of you from San Antonio, the Avon is kind of like the San Antonio Rover -- it winds through town, creates some nice views, and is probably 2 feet deep and 15 wide in it’s largest parts. It’s lovely, but it’s leaning pretty heavily on the creek side of “river.” But it’s water and we have paddle boards and it was a super nice day out and I had decided on the previous Friday while I was having beers at the Craft Embassy and looking out over the river that it must be floatable. I was pretty sure we could handle any rapids we might encounter and I might have felt a slide need to redeem myself after our recent canoe trip down the Whanganui River (more later). So I was pretty intent on making it happen. According to the city, the Avon is a “great source of recreation for walkers and boaters.” But the only official information I could find ANYWHERE about how to recreate in it was a suggestion to go punting, aka have a guy in formal clothes and broad brim hat push you with a pole though a section of the river that goes through the botanic gardens. Which I think probably is nice but can you see me on this flat thing when I could be controlling my own destiny with some light paddling on a just-slightly-underinflated paddle board with James on the front of it and Anily and Jason beside me on another, slightly-better-inflated one?

No! We parked a car at one end of town, drove to the other, put the boards in the water without a clue as to whether it was legal, and floated past the punters (take that punters!), through the traffic jam in the botanic gardens (learn how to paddle forward, people!), got out with the eels at the Craft Embassy, drank some beers and ate some snacks, got back in and kept floating. It was only when we made another stop at the park that things took a dramatic turn. Anily slipped on the way off the board onto the landing. Jason held out the paddle for her to catch her balance, she slipped, the paddle knocked her tooth out. Like, into pieces. There was a Japanese tourist looking at the eels (yes, more of them!) and I heard him say “ooh shattered!” as pieces of enamel flew through the air. Oh, and I lost my keys. Is this why we were the only people on the entire river -- is it cursed?! I’d do it again, we did not get to finish and we only had to walk once or twice. So when you visit, let me know if you’re up for it and I’ll put some air in the paddlboards and buy you a mouth guard.

We did get to file our first ACC claim as a result -- ACC covers everyone in New Zealand with a no-fault scheme if they've been injured in an accident. A little more Kiwi by the day.

Eels in the river:

Anily’s tooth:

Oosh (Ush?) is right! Real, truly, though, we’ve had a lot of family fun here and the kids are both pretty awesome. At least they go along with my crazy ideas some of the time (Jason almost always does, which I really appreciate, because he’s much better at execution on these things. Like, with the river, he's the one who suggested wearing shoes, which turned out to be very useful). I’m happy to be able to spend so much time with the kids, more than I was able to figure out how to do in Seattle, and I think this has been a great learning and growth experience for Team Bass. One thing we learned? Don’t be too close to a paddle if you’re on a slippery boat landing in a river full of eels :-)

Oh also! Anily got a cat for her birthday:

#sendmeyourFAQs!

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Hi! I love your works! What got you into writing and theater? How and where did you start? Just very curious because you are so good! Thank you!

Vaguely long answer (extremely long way too long I’m so sorry I think this is the most I’ve talked about myself on tumblr in years) under the cut because I ramble a lot about my own life and these two things have been stupidly important in my life?

Writing!

So I was a very solitary kid because ew what was being outside, that’s boring, which meant I spent every single day from about fourth grade, when I was finally allowed do this, to eighth grade, during recess and lunch, in the library reading. (Same in high school, except we had different periods and breaks and by that time I was in enough AP classes that it was usually homework I was doing.) I read so much as a kid. Then there were also the classroom libraries that were just, like, two shelves of books that you could read during class if you were done with your exercises, those I’d read every single book on the shelf since, like, second grade, although each grade new classroom new shelf so new books, but by third or fourth grade I was on my third read-through of everything on that grade’s shelf and was so bored of books that I’d read already and decided then and there that if there were no new books for me to read, I was going to write my own book to read.

I don’t think the .docs exist anymore of this really shitty story that I started in third grade that I’m pretty sure were about three triplets who were princesses and the Chosen Ones and had all sorts of magical powers but it was a world where everyone had different types of powers but theirs were more powerful because they were Special with a Capitol S…I think one could manipulate all water, one could make force fields (which, of course, she could use to fly, you can do anything with forcefields if you try hard enough) and I forget what the other one could do, probably control energy/electricity? It was somewhere between 30 and 50 pages of Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced. The Princesses had to run away from someone trying to assassinate them and take over the kingdom and train and learn to use their powers and the only thing I remember is that their powers kept getting more and more ridiculous as the story went on as I got more and more creative with applications of them (like the water one made a boat out of water and they escaped in the ocean sitting in this water boat as it propelled along like that scene from The Incredibles except the boat was all water instead of Mom and Dash), it was a mess but it was a beautiful mess and now it is gone forever probably because I think my mother’s computer has crashed and been replaced a couple times since then. RIP.

I’ve never really stopped writing, like. I wrote a shit-ton of fanfiction in high school because I found a show that I really liked the world background and felt like not enough of the characters were explored so I just hit the ground running, I think there’s, like, 550k or so of fanfic I wrote on an account that I have buried at the bottom of fanfiction.net and will never reveal to anyone ever. There’s a draft of a novel from high school too, this one, like, 95k, and I still have it. I may or may not have been re-working it as a part of a 7-novel biblical apocalypse in space idea that I had for a while, but that all got put on hold when I started it feels more like a memory. Um. Since high school, I did NaNo four or five times and have vague half-drafts sitting around from a bunch of those, too? Then there’s an immense amount that Wayfinder has played into my writing, which will be covered in the theater section, but I’ve probably written somewhere around 200k for Wayfinder, and then I’ve participated at this point in 102 Wayfinder games, I’ve kept a list, and those feel like living in a novel for anywhere from two to five hours and are just…all life-changing in terms of gaining perspective. But yeah, there are a dozen half-finished drafts of this and that that I’ve got on my computer that maybe one day will become something, maybe won’t, they keep me warm on a cloudy day type deal.

I remember when I first entered college four and a half years ago I was really proud because I’d passed the landmark of having written 1 million words of fiction so far in my life. I’m probably around a million and a half now? I stopped counting. But I was obsessed at the time with the 10,000 hours rule which when applied to writing was the 1 million words rule so I officially thought I maybe Wasn’t Crap™ after that.

But, yeah, writing has always been a huge part of my life, and a mostly private part of my life? It was just something I did in my free time for me and if I ever shared it, it was fanfiction, and in high school that meant it was anonymous in that it was under a pseudonym and disconnected from me as a person in every other aspect and thus very compartmentalized. Never something I had to worry about confrontation or being judged about. As a kid I always wanted to be a novelist, like, do science and math and then publish cool science fiction on the side. I still want to do that, write and publish and original novel. Although it’s less of a life goal and more, like, if it happens it happens. I was worried for so long about getting a manuscript accepted by an agent or editor but as I’ve gotten older and older I’ve started hating capitalism more and more and would want anything I write to be available for free online, and my friend @ink-splotch has been talking to me and giving me advice about what self-publishing is like, (also go read her books) (they are the best in the world and I’ve gotten a ridiculous amount of inspiration from just aaaah the writing style and the world mechanics and the casual folklore and treatment of side characters), but, like. Yeah. Maybe I’ll publish one day. I’m considering writing a sequel to it feels more like a memory and writing it as an original novel because the main things that the sequel deals with are the consequences of “what does a Seer mean in terms of modern physics” (as in our modern type modern, maybe even a bit in our future) and, of course, our favorite cast of characters still appears but it’s not terribly important that they be the specific historical characters and there’s a lot of issues surrounding “any story about these historical characters is a story that is intrinsically exalting slave owners” that at this point, like, if I’m writing a story that’s no longer set in the historical setting, why should I stick so solidly to the names of people that at this point have evolved very much beyond their historical counterparts and will probably eventually evolve past the direct musical interpretation too, when I could just change names and then have it be my own original fiction that could either stand on its own or be read as a direct sequel, and then it’s not connected to the atrocities that Hamilton characters are connected to, and also just I really do want to try my hand at original fiction again. So that might be on the horizon.

Um, writing. Yeah. I’m really only used to doing it for me. To be honest, it’s ridiculously weird to me the following that it feels more like a memory has gotten, and kind of uncomfortable at times? I mean, I wouldn’t change anything, I’m really grateful for the massive response and how much it’s mattered to various people, it’s not mine anymore, it’s a collective experience this attitude almost definitely also comes from my experiences at Wayfinder and mostly it’s just really weird to me how big of a part of my life this has become? Like, when I look back on 2016 and 2017 and maybe 2018 decades from now, they’re going to be the years when I was first doing math and physics research and publishing papers in scientific journals and applying to grad school and working on my cool shiny space thesis but also the years that I was writing it feels more like a memory, like, literally, there are pages and pages of handwritten scenes scrawled in my personal journals right next to mathematical calculations and notes and research and grad school lists. This fic has kind of really changed my life. It’s been a huge part of what I think about on a day-to-day basis, I’ve put an immense amount of time and energy and resources into it, I’ve learned so much about a bunch of subjects that were never relevant to my life before, I’ve made friends, I’ve started talking to people, also just, like, bouncing ideas around and going back and forth about the musical Hamilton and writing plans and writing techniques and James Madison has been one of the reasons I’ve gotten really close with a person that I consider to maybe be my best friend today. Even this blog has gone from “my Wayfinder friends and maybe a few campers follow me” to “holy shit a whole bunch of people that I don’t know, like, an entire order of magnitude more than the people that I do know, follow me now,” and it was just really…unexpected. I started writing it feels more like a memory for me. It was an experiment, it was just curiosity of trying to reproduce the sense of inevitability and growing doom caused by Aaron Burr’s dual role as narrator and character, it was never supposed to become…this.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really grateful, I think it changed me for the better, and this isn’t me going “I wish everyone would unfollow me so I could go back to being a hermit,” I’m just kind of…still in shock. That it’s grown bigger than me. And that maybe if I keep doing this writing thing, life won’t go back to normal, this is the new normal.

Anyways that was probably way more deep and introspective than you asked for, let’s move on to

Theater!

My father is a tenured professor at UCLA in the math department, he got a joint math-physics PhD from Princeton, he taught me how to do algebra over the summers before I learned to read, you can see where I got my math genes from.

My mother, who is an accountant and a damn good one too so also does a shit-ton of math, was really really into musical theater before she settled down to do taxes, and did a bunch of theater and singing, like, she was a Madonna impersonator once and totally toured Japan with an Elvis impersonator giving shows, she and my father met at a singing competition that she won and I don’t think my father ever got over it, she and my dad are divorced now but the person she’s currently with and has been her ~soulmate~ for forever she met because they were in a production of Lancelot and he was playing Lancelot and she was playing Guinevere.

(It’s really funny because actually the woman that I’m in love with and that if I believed in soulmates would defs be my soulmate, it’s scary how in sync we always are it’s like we can legit read each other’s minds, literally, and we consistently call each other at exactly the same time not having planned it and finish each other’s sentences and have been on the same page about everything for as long as we’ve known each other and also literally dated the same dudes vaguely in reverse order before we went “wait what if screw guys, we were dating instead” and she maybe hopefully will become my fiancé when I’m in a stable enough position financially to ask, I also met her through theater camp after we kept being cast in roles in which we were romantically connected to one another until we went “what if we did this in real life too.” So I guess it too runs in the family.)

I was in choir from, like, first grade on all the way through high school, religious choir in 1st-8th and then “we perform cool arrangements” choir in high school. My father coached me in signing lessons so I could be in the school-wide talent show in first grade. I was a total ham, I loved the spotlight. I took piano lessons for a little while? So I can sight-read. But, like, the theater side of things, I was in every single musical I was allowed to be from 7th grade, where they first let you into the drama program, through the three years I was in high school before I technically dropped out of high school. I ran lights and soundboard for a bunch of events in college because wheeee work-study jobs, so I was in on the technical side of theater too for a bit.

The real theater thing that I’ve actually been really involved in and really active in has been a summer camp called “The Wayfinder Experience”. It’s…I call it “gay theater camp” a lot because it really is, like, the amount that it is a safe space for LGBT kids is ridiculous, I’m pretty sure there are more non-straight and non-cis people in the community than not, and Wayfinder is just…absolutely unique in what they do. I found them when I was 15, a counselor from AstroCamp that I was absolutely enamored with went “you should really come to Wayfinder, I think you’d love it,” and I did mostly because I was absolutely enamored with them, and it changed my life.

Wayfinder is technically a LARPing camp, I guess, but they’re so much more than that. What they do revolves around these “Adventure Games” that are run, but there’s a huge amount of improv workshops and community-building exercises and spending time in nature and ridiculous games like Blood Rush which the best I can describe it is “Vampire Murder Football” but everyone hangs out, gets to be silly, gets to play all these really cool different things during workshops, but then also there will be a writer for any given week of camp that has prepared a whole world with its own mythology and history and geopolitical landscape and religions and important conflicts, we range in genres from high fantasy to cyberpunk to apocalypse settings to Westerns to just…anything that anyone can imagine. And the gamewriter will, over the course of the week, lead workshops where they tell everyone about this world they wrote and cast people as characters in it and everyone will do character development workshops where they flesh out their own backstories and make connections to other characters and are led through exercises that is everything from “how does your character walk” to “what are slang words that your little friend group uses” to “what do you dream about at night”. And then for game, the Sets and Props department turns the entire campus into an area in the world that the gamewriter designed, and everyone gets a full costume designed for them from the costuming department and then just for, like, three to five hours, we all enter the world that we’ve been learning about all week and just…act. Improvise. Like, there’s “flow,” or quasi-planned events that staff members who are cast as characters that generally have some power to shake and move things (i.e. politicians, respected scientists, mad wizards, evil Lords of the Dead) will be told “okay about an hour after game starts if these things happen do this or move things in this direction,” but otherwise it is the campers who are kind of deciding the fate of the world by their actions and their choices that they make fully in character.

So yeah. It’s like living in a novel. And I’ve gotten to do it 102 times at this point, for the first summer as a camper and then pretty much immediately I got hired as a staff member. I’m every once in a while a Workshop staff, aka leading forty-to-sixty kids in theater games and improv games and run-around games outside etc etc, I’m usually costuming staff which means wheeee so much sewing and organizing from our pre-existing costuming, although I’ve done Sets and Props a fair amount of the time too. I also was involved in the founding of the Frontier Adventures, which is an off-season year round program that every other month on Saturday runs a full day event and all proceeds go to the Hero Fund where kids who can’t afford to go to camp can get to go for free and so I was doing, like, directing and hiring and renting the land and organizing the schedule and just running those events for the last two years. I retired for the 2016-2017 season to concentrate on applying to grad school.

And then, of course, I’ve done a lot of gamewriting for Wayfinder. I’ve written and run four pretty serious games that I’m stupidly proud of—The Old Land, Octagon House, Requiem, and The Wishing Well. Writing a game is like nothing else in the world. It’s kind of like writing a novel, it’s certainly as much work as writing a novel, except you get to watch your novel come to life. You have to know your world inside and out—in the world background workshops, you’re going to have fifty kids throwing questions at you that are anywhere from “how’s the gay thing going” to “so you know your werewolf world has seven different moons for the seven different tribes of werewolves, and the sixth moon has an irregular orbit, first of all I’m assuming this is a rocky planet because it holds life so it can be at most four times the size/density of Earth but then also all of these moons are large enough such that their gravity makes them spherical, what does that do to the tides? As well as are tidal forces strong enough to affect volcano patterns on this planet, like it does on Jupiter’s moon Io? Also how in the world does the sixth moon have an irregular orbit, was it created more recently than the others or tugged into the gravitational well of the planet within the last few millennia, or—“ to, you know, more answerable questions like “how does [this part of the mythology] affect [this geopolitical issue].”

But it also just—it makes storytelling such a collaborative process. You write something, you dream up a whole world and the unique incredible people who live in it and the thousands of stories that make up their lives and the bursting potential of where a story can go, and then you hand it over, you give it to a community that you know and you trust and you’ve just met, you gift each of your characters to someone new, and then you watch as their bring your world to life. Your story isn’t your story. It’s the story of everyone who has experienced everything along with you. And it’s so incredible to be on the other end of it too, to be gifted a character and given the fate of the entire universe that rests on the decisions that you and your friends make in the moment. You live and you die and you laugh and you sacrifice everything and you find bravery within yourself that you never had before, and when you come out of it, you’ve…you’ve got fifty or sixty new best friends that maybe you haven’t known them in the real world for so long but you’ve bled (not usually real blood, we’re a summer camp for kids, after all) and sweat and cried and changed the world next to them, over and over, and it forms bonds of trust and a community in the real world unlike anything else.

So, yeah. Wayfinder has been a huge part of my life and my worldview and my experiences for the last…six years now? They’re my community, they’re my best friends, it was where I turned when I was scared and hurting and didn’t know where I was or how I was ever going to get through life and it was just…everything. And it sort of still is. So yeah. Gay theater camp. It’s the best.

I learned about Hamilton through Wayfinder, actually. I was Patient 2, but, like, I learned about it one day after Patient 0 learned off of an add on Amazon.com, Patient 0 showed it to Patient 1 who the next day when I was driving him and two other staff members to the cleanup for a Frontier showed it to me and then I infected, like, 100 campers within the next two months so I feel like I really deserve the title Patient 0 but technically I’m Patient 2.

I kind of really miss doing musical theater, like, theater on a stage type deal for an audience, I’m just way too busy now with math and physics things to consider that. But, yeah, theater, it’s great, it was a huge part of my childhood and then gay theater camp was the biggest influence on me during my formative years.

Hope that answers your questions!

#my life #my fic #anon #personal #gay theater camp #Wayfinder #The Wayfinder Experience #in which Sidus answers a question with way more personal details than probably intended #read this if you want to learn a shit-ton about who I am as a person I guess #long post

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throwingideasatthewall · 4 years

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Clone Wars Episode 9

(Cloak of Darkness)

[Title Scene!]

Quote; Ignore your instincts at your own peril

Oof

Acc o un tability Instincts

And

Conscience

Valid

But also sounds like a vague threat to the viewer

“Vice Roy,”

This is where we’re starting off on?

Not the best episode

The first one to get a strike from me

Who knows maybe it’s just a bad starting place and they make something out of it

Er-

“Luminara And Ahsoka,”

Interesting, that is a good start

Showing that Anakin has no control of his Padawan

And opening the door for New dynamics

Sounds interesting

Honestly, I don’t know much about Luminara so this will be a good For Her

“ under heavy guard,”

It’s two people

Face Trial

And Get Acquitted

“For his many war crimes,”

Why don’t you just kick this bitch from society

Make him deal with himself

What did the other prisoners do to deserve his Company

Oh This character

Also - still don’t get the close-ups on her face

Is this like the second time it’s happened?

Don’t think it happened with any other characters though Obi wan is a glory hound

“ have you made contact with the cruiser?”

Good leadership (Kinda)

Assumed authority Kind

Good scene

But those dude’s eyes

Blink

Professional

Bull shit

Scam art ist

I’m glad it seems to have the awareness not to have the clones fall for this

“Generous,”

Fuck off old man

Also Luminara just called him ‘Subtley’ a piece of work

Good for her

Dude don’t respond to him

Don’t let him have any control or say in your life

“Tempting offer,”

“ I have a gift for you,”

Snarky little shit

Also; I thought he was going to go for the gag

What have really been the tea

“Finally,” Nope Tone is already out the window

I’m starting to think it’s a problem with female characters

But Lumi nara hear sounds perf ectly fine

Maybe it’s just child female characters...

Nice

Really Like The Design Going Here

Ooh Sweet columns Here

All around the sides give it abstract value

Like salagtites

Why doesn’t someone muzzle him?

Like I know the moral reasons why

But if you’re going to enable Please do with the utmost care to your safety

And at least bring some of ear phones

So... you don’t have to listen to this tox

Lit igator

On one hand playing by your own rules

On the other hand, accountability

And how it lends itself to vigilante justice

“Keep moving,”

Assault’s not cool

Hahaha

I’m sorry

WHAT

Is with the dude’s design?

He looks like a guy out of an old Timey story book

“His locks shimmered in the breeze like Golden sunlight,’

He looks like his name is to be Valor Mic -do -good

I’m sorry that’s enough roasting of his design

(It’s not that bad)

Traitor

Commander Gre-

“Let’s move,”

Right Into His Ear

Gree doesn’t give a fuck

Getting revenge for getting his ear talked off

Just tossing him off

Oh no wait they’re following him good

I expect some treachery to go down

(Specifically-)

Senator Commando s

“Rate all security,”

A) he’s a war criminal

They want to make a show out of him

And show they can handle it

It’s a propaganda move

Secondly they operate under the enabler, “Several people dec ided to enable him so clearly only he’s the problem and the others were just poor souls lead astray,”

(Despite the fact that this completely un dermineds the ability of choice

And paint them as well-)

Actually children does work in this analogy

Since they will just do orders And that’s why they’re not accountable

(Only wish “Uncle” Eeroy Was up There)

If I can twist that episode into any positive light it’s showing how adults will try to use children to validate themselves (And their bullshit)

Don’t let your overconfidence give Gunnar another advantage

She’s a child

Gunnery already has the advantage

As an adult

Sure she has a gun

That.... expression is more along the lines of what I was expecting

We’re going for dull

Ahsoka wouldn’t really care

Also, ships

Don’t look like Republic ships

And intimidating music is playing

What’s the scoop?

Hologram?

Sidious

Dooku??

“Vice Roy,”

He’s going to escape ?

I have already put a plan into action my Lord

Also cloaks just coming back in style

Also glad we’re getting to see more of the other villains

Having focused on Grievous for hours

* They wore it better

“ my best apprentice Asaj Ventress,”

Oh we’re getting a bit of a re-introduction to her

And (Kinda) an answer to who that person he was communicating with earlier are

*was

* or silence him

Rough

“ Ventress,”

I like how they keep the diagonal lines On Sidious’s face

To make his chancellor persona

That’s good attention to detail

“ you are putting a lot of faith in an operative that has failed us in the past,”

Call back

“She’s a gifted assassin,”

Aww, he looks so innocent here

Also, complements

“ you may proceed,”

Off, Sidious sounds pretty old in that last line

Oof

“Master,”

“There is no margin for error,”

“Child,”

Okay, woah, woah gross

She supposed to be a grown woman right?

Because otherwise holding her to the completely Wrong standard

That’s not how you do over sexualization of children If Not that that’s just a standard tox

Comparing a grown woman to an undeveloped-

Let’s just hope they don’t go down that lane

“ being my apprentice,”

Being my sub-servient

“ I am worthy,”

“ As you shall see,”

Having to prove your worth to others

Tox.

Ship!

Dressed Like Cen turons

The design in this episode is very goofy

Oof

Walking towards a normal clone

How goes the interrogation

Oh that’s an interrogator

(Also his voice sounds surprisingly normal)

Then again he seems to be special ops / FBI Degree of enforcing

So maybe more initiative

“Has Vice Roy cracked,”

Yes screw accountability and making them deal with themselves away from society where they can’t hurt anyone Or having faith in society that no one will enable

Let’s go Third degree

Nice

The Jedi will wear him down

🎵 The Jedi are complicit in torture 🎵

“ your thoughts betray you, Vice Roy,”

Aka I saw you do it

I can sense your concern

your fear

That you will lose the power and the wealth

Falsely accumulated!

Also no being has authority over others

“ I have no idea what you’re talking about,”

Dude...

You hide great many things

Asoka’s showing too much emotion

Also what’s the betting that Asoka breaks the trial completely irrationally

She’s tapping her fingers

The locations of their bases

“ I am an innocent pawn in all this,”

Bull. shit

You. Made. A. Choice

“ if you are merely a pawn then who are you protecting,”

Don’t enable this

Hold him accountable

And if you stumble across the bastard

Hold him accountable

Just... Hold people accountable

[Also, Asoka’s there like yes I’m helping,”]

No one I know nothing

Bullshit enabler

“Liar, Liar,”

Told ya

Ahsoka

Padawan

Well At least they didn’t Pretend Ahsoka Was capable of doing bad cop good cop

Still a completely unrealistic outburst

[there’s a reason why the people in bad cop- good scenarios are adults

This is why

Literally applying unnecessarily emotional, mental, and physical stress

Instead of holding him accountable

Bullshit, M’lady

Just as guilty

Asoka just brought to a new extreme

And what would’ve been a good scene about how Anakin and by default Obi-Wan’s ‘abuse’ Or lessons to do so

Intensified

We get a scene with an irrationally angry Ahsoka That shows unrealistic child- like Behavior

More befitting of an adult

This could’ve been a good scene about Luminara getting slapped in the face with the things she’s enabling

And Asoka not realizing (Not able to realize) The harm in her robotic automated action

And that considering Asoka and Anakin are both under 22 The fact that she can technically Unfuck the situation (at least for the next generation) And the conscientious decision, to not to

Despite all the bad signs

Don’t know about the toxicity level it’s looking pretty tox

“ I wasn’t serious,”

You were unrealistically unchildlike

And, by adult standards , you’d be had for toxicity

But this is just bad wri ting

“ The only way he’ll talk is if he’s scared enough,”

Or if he wants to

Literally, only if he wants- to

Em, perhaps I was too hasty

Let us negotiate

He just decided to do that

Ahsoka

[I really hope they aren’t going the direction of the last episode

And blaming all the adult problems on the child

Ah!

Captain

“Status Report,”

Good captaining

[Weird animation with flailing arms]

Fighters in -coming

They brought boarding ships

Hey actually doing some thing

Prepare to repeal the enemy

Action

Off

Tough Bastards

Right through the ship

Off

Right there thing is droids

Neat

Ok how are they going to hold off tanks

That requires some kind of explosive

There’s another gun

They get shot down

Again, explosives

Oh, immediate fill in

[they didn’t even take that guy to the medic!]

Also yeah stand in the same spot with no cover

Oof

They got one

[are we sure that Guy didn’t just die from exhaustion?]

Oh, yeah cannons

Get some explosives

Lot to go

Seriously get explosives

Super battle droids

I just called him tanks

Whelp

Jedi are you waiting for Cue?

Whelp

They’re headed for the detention level

“Aight,”

Night buddy

“ we need reinforcements- oh,”

That was the most disinterested scream of getting shot

I’ve ever heard

[are we sure he didn’t get hit by a stun weapon?]

Also, no, you need more grenades

Throwing bodies at it clearly isn’t helping

Commander: I’ll need your assistance

Why?

Also; now you help

After everyone’s dead

Sat there listening to chatter for about 5 to 6 minutes

“You stay here with captain Aguyis,”

What?!

Also, no how about better idea

You stay here and deal with the negotiations

Asoka and the captain go to deal with it

So you don’t leave a child with a manipulative maniac

(Not encouraging child soldiers)

Nor do I think Ahsoka can take them

“ Guard the viceroy,”

Guard the manipulative maniac with no muzzle

[But

It’s a terrible idea!]

Hopefully the captain a more responsible Guard

OK maybe will get a look into who’s ordering Ahsoka and their general ideals

“Master,”

Is it Master used just for apprentices

Shouldn’t Ahsoka be calling her something like my lady, or some other high old’ medieval title

“Lord”?

“Lordess?”

“Mistress?”

It appears you are no situation to negotiate Padawan

Dude...

She has

A light saber

Also this is the problem with leaving children with toxic adults

Rescue

Never mind they’re going Full on unchildlike with Ahsoka right now

Screw interesting narrative

Ack

That ended quickly

There she is

Oof

That dude is still alive

Seriously, was that the dude that got shot over the Coms?

How?

Whelp

ouch

Also no one going to notice that?

What have you found?”

Some one noticed

“Copy,”

Clearly Not

And she has the cuff

Guess she liked it?

Good for her?

Battle droids are everywhere

Guess she likes the radio

Also, Luminara didn’t kill those droids?

‘Cause there were way more than one

“ we have to protect the prisoner,”

That literally didn’t change any thing

Also so Luminara is right back where she started

Whole scene was pointless

Whelp

How do they stand -?

Also hope clones get good health coverage

Again Cannon

Unnecessarily dead

Whelp

How long does it take her to walk?!

Also who killed all those dress setting battle droids then?

Think it was the authors

Could’ve done this five seconds ago

Also, sneaking around in vents

Off

Why are you here?

This is not where prisoner

Is it the security core?

[is it to ship hyperdrive?]

Whelp

Poor

Skeletal~ *Shivers*

Droid

Sorry am I supposed to like this droid

[I’m trying but it looks like a human spine]

Whoop

There she goes

Whelp

See anything

People are getting massacred and you just switched back to everything’s all right mode that quickly

Whelp

Creepy Roomba

Engine room seems clear

We’ll lock it down

Seriously everyone went back to normal real quickly

Shouldn’t you be hauling someone to the medic

Or PROTECT ING the Priso -ner

Seriously no one can seem to keep the consistency and the battle scene was over way too quick without any confirmation

And I’m on guard

Not for Ventress

But the droid things

Seriously!?

[only two of them in that hallway?!]

The enemy is approaching towards the prison level

You- do realize how much that doesn’t fit up

[” oh yeah Joe I’m just grabbing some donuts

“ oh good the enemy is about to capture the very important prisoner we have,”

Isn’t that always how it is?

[Laugh track]

“We’re on our way,”

Keep watch 327

Ok 327 T

IRONY

Also cute

Even if it does look like a dismembered spine

Do you know droids never like to be called by their nicknames

Pretty sure that’s like calling you by your last name

Nicknames are different

Beeping

Oof

Again I wasn’t too worried about her

I’m worried about those droids

[Though do you like the sass they gave her in this frame]

Neat

Well...

Shit

S’up

Really playing around

with the droid

S’up

Again,

Looks like the last of them commander

But I sense our troubles are not over

Maybe because you left a child soldier do with a mani-

S’up

Well

Sounds like your rescue-

Nope

Cocky Ahsoka

Don’t mind me as my brain just slowly numbs out

[Your child shouldn’t have more cocky and sass than your adults]

I am ready to discuss our bargain again

This dude goes back -and- forth like a top

Padawan Tano may I have a word

Why?

[if I leave you won’t go anywhere will you?]

Argh

The enemy has been repealed

Why are you telling her this??

Where is Luminara then?

[Seriously how long does it take her to walk?”]

Whelp

And, subtlety just went out the roof

[almost literally]

Whelp, really showing off

“If it isn’t-”

Again, child

No sass

This should be Un knowledgeably Terrify- Ing

Hey, some snark

“ Skywalkers little pet,”

If only...

More so Skywalker’s unchildlike abomination

Currently

So this is a child vs adult

This isn’t a battle of equals

It’s an ass beating waiting to happen

“ i’ll give you a merciful death,”

Ahhhhhhhhh

Skip

“The Padawan,”

The unchildlike semi abomination

That’s not a child

If so it would Follow the rules of writing a child

As such I have no Commit -ment? Invol vement?

Interest?

In the fight

It could turn something into a toaster and I’d just have to accept that

Clones never help

Again, ass- beat

This a curb stop battle

waiting to happen

Whelp See

Also that Guard has plot armor

Whelp -yet

Hard pull

You Know-

“ Skywalker’s not here to save you now,”

Again she can just pull a toaster out of her ass

This is the problem with breaking the rules of writing

“I don’t need saving,”

COMPLETELY UN - realistically

Seriously, movie

Children for the Woobies

Adult for a bad asses

Get it right

Any way...

Still repels

“Over Here,”

She’s not getting repelled by a literal child is she

“Buy you a planet,”

Whatever

Heck

Oh, no she can just the phase through the doors....

My sense of suspension isn’t really broken

But it is very well damaged

(Especially with Ahsoka)

......

Blah blah tempting taunting whatever

“Irony,”

Irony is when an adult, one that can be held accountable, does something This is poor writing

With no investment

(You didn’t earn that)

Ventress stick him for double irony

(Actually deserved irony)

Youngling

NEVER-

( I’m filled with so much anger)

Argh-

Whelp

Why would you check there

Whelp

Finally got there

Whelp Heck ed

Blah, Blah

Surrender

Dude got away didn’t he

There’s too much riding for this to be a success

Whelp

Bull shit

I watched that animation!

She didn’t press a button!

What?!

And they all died

That dude’s a weakling

Whelp

Frick That

Heck

Whelp

There You Go

[Dude left behind without even a scratch]

[Or he disappeared in a cut scene]

Cause he’s not there

Blah Blah

That power’s kinda of neat though

Okay

What are we waiting for?

Survival

Protecting the prisoner

Common sense

Everything running haywire

The engine got blown up

Shouldn’t you be busy

Should someone be switching on the back up power

[Shouldn’t the power been off for a few seconds?]

That wouldn’t screw with the buttons

Also there he is

[I’m five seconds from calling bullshit-]

Whatever

An explosive bomb Caused-

[Frustrated inhale]

Okay-

Don’t

Gunnery

-No

I’m-

Too Tired

To yell at enable(r) logic

Whatever

[oh so yeah there clearly are explosives!]

[Fru strated]

.....

....

[i’m getting a damn tox headache from this ]

Damn

.....

Argh

Argh...

Whoah

But...

Cool

Whelp

Tal king

.....

OMG

What ever

Neither do you

-What

Why-

Argh -

Oh-

Just-

Argh-

Well-

Hmm

ARGH

Bull shit

Alright

‘ superior my ass’

Droids

Right.....

Whatever

Nice fight scene

I don’t care

‘cause it’s overshadowed by Asoka’s bullshit

Whelp

What- Ever

Hmm

They’ve got it all reversed They’ve given Luminara all of Ahsoka’s helplessness (And reactions) Asoka has ended up with all of the Luminara’s Self-assured confidence (One of which can be switched because an adult react (Almost) as much as they wish (Child-like naivetè absolutely not) Does not work the other way

That’s what’s wrong with this cut scene (Scene)

And It Gets Worse...

Count Dooku

Whatever

Blah blah blah

Whatever That’s Cool

“I can’t dis-”

Back to this again

Stop saying

start doing movie

Also you know what would be great?

Having Luminara Have This Con versation Debating if she should disobey her previous handlers, as she sends a child to their very literal death Giving the watcher some hope when she decides to eventually decides to rescue Ahsoka

Or the feeling of dread as she continues to follow orders cutting with Ahsoka getting her ass kicked to contrast the wrongess of the situation

Ventress, eventually leaving her out of pity

The Future now with a lot more distance to cover

If it ever wishes to recover ...

Wasted potential

It even Has the Line Over stepp ing Bound aries

Argh

And Gene rational Back Stab...

It does everyt hing wrong

For the common courtesy of not Blast - ing My Ears Off Try ing To Ma -ke An abus -i ve Mom ent- A Nice One

It Gets No Tox (Though it Certainly Te sts The Boundary)

(Even a moral about how you’re expendable to enablers...

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