#making gifs on company time

[whoatemyshoe]

Everyone else: Wednesday no!

Wednesday: Wednesday yes.

Enid: Wednesday no!

Wednesday: Wednesday no... :I

[christakisbang]

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | 1x06 → 2x06 → 2x08

[tiger-balm]

"I think it's the shoes. I have bad shoes for sewer" | nick robertson | blue room episode 8

[lesbianredhoodedmercenary]

have a great refraction railway thursday everyone

[astragatwo]

I miss her!!! So much!!! :(

(Static UTC)

[captainsavre]

[rexscanonwife]

Its day two of the valentines event put together by the wonderful @cherry-bomb-ships 💖🫶💖 platonic f/o day!! And for me ofc that means being focused on Anakin!!

I'm stuck at work so I probably won't have time to draw something like I wanted to, so aside from the queue I just wanna gush about him for a second 🥺👉👈 the concept of platonic soulmates has never made more sense than it does with him! I've had characters I liked and wanted to be friends with before, but I've never had a fictional BEST friend the way I do with Anakin.

He's so irrevocably entwined with Brea's life, the way she is as a person is in part thanks to him and the love they have for each other. 💖💖 they were together from the moment he stepped into the Jedi Temple and they were inseparable to the day he storms it. That's not the thing I wanna talk about tho! I wanna talk about all the good times, the late nights sneaking through the halls as tweens so they could sneak extra snacks, the way they even made punishments like scrubbing the temple steps top to bottom fun as long as they were together, the way they always knew that if they had each other's backs during the war that they'd be ok.

Trusting each other to the point where they'd let in their deepest secret, the loves that they have for their partners and knowing that their whole LIVES would be upturned if anyone found out. Yet still telling each other, because they'd never ever do anything to hurt each other...

Anakin is my platonic soulmate. That scrawny boy from Tatooine will always live in my heart

[luckiestplant]

when the piece of media gets purposefully sabotaged and/or cancelled for literally no reason and a shitty animated/live action show gets renewed for it’s 10th season

[firebreathingcatss-blog]

[the-force-awakens]

hi :) I saw thst you reblogged that what's your main spin poll and I wanted to ask if you wanted to elaborate what yours is I love to hear about it!! <3

 🥺 aw thank you!! I always enjoy having a chance to infodump a little bit (btw i love ur icon...daphne what an icon)

I do technically have a handful of spins that I consider my main spins because I'm constantly rotating between them (star wars, doctor who, moon knight and spidey) at any given moment, but my strongest spin is definitely in Poe Dameron from the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy!

I kind of instantly fell in love with him when my dad first took me to see The Force Awakens when it came out, which was a huge surprise for me because Poe was maybe the character I was the least intrigued by at the time (Rey and Finn had me asking far more questions, anyway) and none of the descriptions for him really jumped out to me. But after actually seeing him, I was positively in love, and then quickly downloaded accompanying novels that featured him (Before the Awakening and the TFA novelization) to read more about him, and then in April of 2016, they came out with a comic series for him and that really helped further cement my special interest in him!

It took a huge hit in 2018-most of 2020 because of all the fandom negativity (especially around Poe) but at the end of 2020, I rewatched the sequels back to back for the first time and it flared back to life without me expecting it to and I did a huge deep dive into uuuuuuuuuuuuuh every piece of expanded material he'd appeared in 😅

Basically (I'm not super sure how familiar you are with Star Wars) Poe is one of the best pilots in the Resistance, which is lead by Princess (now General) Leia Organa, and he's her right-hand man/protégé/surrogate son. Barring the Resistance's bombing fleet (which is teeny bc the Resistance is teeny and held together by duct tape) Poe is essentially in charge of its only flight wing and (as far as we know) all* of its squadrons. On top of that, he's also an active intelligence operative, and even helps oversees the reports from the Resistance's spies so like...he's kind of already helping run the Resistance even prior to officially co-running it by the third film with Leia/when he's finally named its official leader.

Poe is super important to me for a lot of reasons, but one of my favorite things about his arc is that it's not centered around romantic love/tension unlike a lot of the other dynamics in the sequel trilogy (altho Oscar did play Poe as being extremely smitten for Finn and who can blame him, and we do meet an ex girlfriend of Poe's in the third movie, I stan a bisexual king). Poe's whole arc is about his duty to the Resistance, his struggles with keeping hope because he's afraid that everything they've (and him) endured and lost will have been for nothing if they lose the fight against the First Order. If there's a love story for Poe's arc, it's his love for the Resistance and his friends, and that's so wonderful and profound in my eyes.

But also the bridge of Poe's arc, from the daring hero we see in tfa and the start of tlj, to the cautious but courageous leader we see at the end of tlj and all of tros, is Poe being forced to accept that his role in this story isn't that of a martyred hero. He's quite literally grounded (his X-Wing is destroyed) and he's pushed into the role of the leader his mentor wants him to be, and TLJ (in my eyes) is the story of someone who full heartedly believed the most he had to offer was a noble self-sacrifice realizing he actually wants to live (and that he can do far more for the Resistance/galaxy by surviving.)

I love Poe a lot because he's also very simple. He's, as Rian Johnson described him, a good guy hero. Unlike other characters, you never doubt whether he's gonna be tempted or corrupted, you know that he's going to do the right thing and remain true to the Light side, you have faith that no matter what obstacle he faces, he's gonna overcome them and come out the other side that much better for it.

The Age of Resistance comic analysis of Poe breaks it down the best, I think:

Poe's inherent humanity is what makes him a great character. He's not someone who struggles with right and wrong or good and evil. Instead, his struggle is more with his tendency to need to be the person who pulls off some last-minute, thrilling heroics in service to the greater good. Because Leia's right: you can't solve everything by jumping in an X-Wing to blow things up.

I could talk for days about Poe (I've spent the last three years doing just that) about the nuances of his character and the depths that largely go unexplored because of Lucasfilm's inexplicable disrespect and dislike of him, the fandom often reducing him to a love interest with no other personality traits, or complete bastardization wherein he resembles Hangman Top Gun more than Poe Dameron (often when people want to oversexualize him).

He has so many qualities that I adore: he's snarky and hot-headed and can throw things (metaphorically) in people's faces when he's particularly upset, he's impulsive, but also kind and compassionate and patient with people. He sees the potential for more/good in folks that most wouldn't. he truly deeply values people, and that's what makes him such an amazing leader: he inspires loyalty because of how much he believes and takes risks in the people around him. He's often the first person to give someone a second chance, or to lower his blaster, but he can also be vindictive. He's confident in his abilities as a pilot to the point he's often mistaken as arrogant, but he never puts anyone down and always lifts people up, and has a lot more insecurities than anyone would guess, and is really sensitive to rejection.

He's also kind of canonically a prince, thanks to the TROS novelization, so you know. I think that's neat and I'm so totally normal about it (when Leia passes away, she leaves her Organa legacy to Poe...the Organa Legacy would be the Royal House Organa - as well as the Resistance. So...Poe is in some ways a prince).

(*which is...three, they only have three squadrons)

[velvetineblue]

lynnie mentioned a "tseng family barbecue" and i'm so obsessed with the image of that akjhjkaj it's an incredible picture in my mind everyone is having a good time. tai's dad is grilling premium kobe beef steaks like 'who wants some MEAT', looking super sexy and dilf-like at the grill ... meanwhile tai is in the corner like

i hate you i hate you i hate you, i'm crushing you with my MIND

[emerraldstar]

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh

[mitamicah]

(Possibly last) Sticker update:

This morning I just paid toll for the original stickers package after yesterday also changing the address so the postman wont come knocking on the door monday when I am still flailing around in Helsinki.

With that out of the way hopefully this means I will have the last bit of homemade merch on monday.

Ngl I am a bit grumpy about this whole experience. Sure, I could've chosen not to add keyrings to the order thereby making it more complicated and expensive. At the same time having the order miss me by one day (for the Helsinki concert) is annoying me to no end.

So after this weekend I'll have 100 Helsinki stickers I don't know what to do with. I will keep one of them myself and put at least one each for the little bundles I want to make for the JO guys (if by chance I can meet them) but that still leaves 90+ stickers.

I could take them with me to Malmö or Böle and ask if somebody by chance was at Helsinki as well and want a sticker ... although the chances are they might have gotten a sticker anyways :'D

I could try to sell them like I've already planned to do with the extra keychains and yet I am not sure if that is foolish given there's a date on the sticker and so ruins the whole purpose of the sticker :'D

Idk, if you have any ideas what I could do feel free to let me know :'D

I will try to shelf my annoyance and just focus on the upcoming exciting weekend for now :'D

[calebwittebane]

what it feels like when im in driftveil or viribank in their industrial areas and the workers just descend upon me to battle me :(

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

Did I wake up in time to do my workout? No.

Am I taking an early lunch to do it during work? Absolutely.

Update: Worked out, blasted Hamilton, boosted my mood and crammed my lunch down. Now I kinda wanna take a nap. But I must power through my meetings.