#this was a great couple of minutes

[smashthegiantkiller]

Moments before disaster.

[wetndwildsstuff]

OMG GUYS. sammon confirmed that the nose kissing/biting wasn't scripted.... It was improvised.

This makes me giggle....

No wonder it looked so natural..

[st4rking]

tfw you, as a mind reader, have to team up with a man who thinks too much

Slight spoilers in tags

[thatsitso]

15 minute paintings I did the other day :] each using a different brush

[hotasfahrenheit]

okay y'all so i'm not saying the tattoos won't have significance to the story in 4Minutes, but if no one else has broken it to you yet, at least some of those tattoos on Bible's leg are actually Bible's real tattoos.

one of the easiest places to see them are the video that he and Build did back during KinnPorsche airing and promotions where they took a pole dance class together (yes really) and you can see the main three runes on his right thigh throughout as he practices and spins on the pole. i couldn't find any shots that show anything above those, but he was already wearing pretty short shorts and there might be evidence elsewhere that i'm not hunting down.

my very low effort goog searches aren't pulling up anything on the symbol in the corner of the screenshot from the trailer, but it's not an actual rune from the Futhark/Futhorc alphabets like the other runes are so it might be something made up for the show if it's not a real tattoo, i have no idea.

for what it's worth, Bible has another tattoo on his left thigh but i have no idea what it is and couldn't get a clearer shot of it than this, but there you go!

the runes he chose and their orientation are interesting, as ingwaz, the one that looks like two Xs stacked, is the same up or down, but the other two are both upside down when you are looking at Bible but would read right side up to Bible when he looks at his leg. i have had discussions in the past with friends who know more about runic things that have told me that orientation can be very important for what the runes mean and what energies etc they can bring into your life, but who knows if Bible got them for any of those reasons or if he just got them because he thought they looked cool.

so yeah, speculate away! but also know that some of those are just Bible being his extremely attractive self with tattoos already there.

[crispywizardtale]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I just finished The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton, and I have to say---there's nothing like setting your novel among the youthful and arty to confuse a reader as to whether you're being overly pretentious and sticking monologues in characters' mouths, or if you're cunningly and accurately parodying how the most annoying Art Teens would like to speak every moment of every day, if anyone would let them.

[calamitys-child]

My purpose and singular mission in life is to make sure queer and/or neurodivergent kids know that sometimes it really is their parents who are stupid and other adults are on their side. This, unfortunately, does not make me popular with their parents. Gonnae keep doing it though.

[skrunksthatwunk]

it's so crazy how toguro (and genkai) were like yusuke you're repressing your emotions you need to watch someone important to you die to realize. something. (you need to LOSE a MAN you CARE ABOUT to STOP REPRESSING your TRUE FEELINGS...?🤨🤨🤨) and when toguro's like yusuke i'm gonna kill kuwabara.. since you seem the most protective of him. when did. wh. how did he come to that conclusion. what gave him away what did toguro see

[pigglepiephi]

So the straight couple crumbs ended up having a more coherent romantic arc than the leads…

[vimbry]

[theygender]

This is your sign to get back into playing that video game that you love but put down a long time ago and never picked back up again for no discernable reason

[torchickentacos]

No more ‘family asking me about my jobs or my social life or if I have a boyfriend’. Ask me about pokemon. Ask me about snakes. Ask me about local plant life. I promise it’s going to be a much more interesting conversation for everyone involved.

[lynxfrost13]

I feel like there’s hands trapped in my chest clawing to get out but that’s okay! We stay silly!

[heyclickadee]

The more I think about it, the more I think Ephraim and Mira Bridger knew their son was different in a way that would make him a target if anyone noticed. They probably would have stood up to speak out against the Empire anyway, but imagine them just just going about their business, watching what’s happening, maybe listening to whatever state mandated message is playing non the radio, thinking that someone has got to do something; and then one of them turns around and sees that their three year old is levitating a jar of cookies across the room, and their heart sinks.

Because it’s not as though force sensitive people stopped being born after Order 66. They kept popping up, kept being born, but they had to be hidden, they were hunted down and killed, or hunted down and taken. And if they were hidden well enough, they’d grow up with no framework to understand that part of themselves, even if they were born into a culture with a force tradition separate from that of the Jedi, like the Nightsisters or the Lasat, because they were wiped out, too.

And most people probably knew very little about the inquisitors, if they knew anything at all, but people still talk. There had to be rumors, even early on in the imperial era. And the genocide of the Jedi was a public event; everyone knew about it. So there had to be a general sense of knowing that the force was a very, very dangerous thing to have, and those force sensitive kids who just kept being born would have suffered for it. There would absolutely be abusive parents trying to beat it out of them, absolute monsters abandoning their kids or handing them over the second their kid showed any signs to avoid being targets themselves; even well meaning parents begging their children to please, please hide it, you can’t do things like that, otherwise they’ll come and take you away. Who? And those parents don’t know, but they do hear that nothing good happens to children like theirs. So they hide, or pick up the entire family and run, find a new life, and hope that no one ever finds them. Or they just don’t acknowledge it, and hope it dies out quickly and that no one notices. Or they fight back, because they want the galaxy to be safe for children like theirs as much as the parents who hide their kids do, and they get themselves taken instead.

I sort of wonder if that’s part of why the Bridgers were so adamant about pushing back. Not the entire reason, of course, because the little we see of them really does imply that they’re just the kind of people to stand up for people who can’t. But knowing their son would always have a proverbial ax hanging over his head for being what he was probably made the fight a little more personal, assuming that they knew.

And I also wonder if that’s part of why no one took Ezra in after the Empire took Mira and Ephraim. If they knew, Tseebo probably knew, or at least suspected, and their neighbors might have, too. Because…I mean…when we meet Ezra in Rebels, he’s very obviously force sensitive. He has no training and he’s very casually using the force without knowing it. And, yes, a lot of that was probably brought out because he was basically a second grader who was going to starve to death if he didn’t start fending for himself and survival instinct kicked in, but there might have been reasons for the people around him to be suspicious before that. Because if they were, then he wasn’t just dangerous to take in because his parents were un-personed political prisoners of whom the Empire chose to make an example, he’d also potentially be that weird kid who might have the same thing the Jedi did, and everyone knew what happened to them, and the empire may very well come for him, too, if he is and if they notice. There would be people who’d see adopting little seven-year-old Ezra as too much of a risk. And most everyone in Ezra’s life did see taking him in as too much of a risk, because he was on his own until the ghost crew showed up.

Aaaannd this is getting away from me, but, tl;dr: I want to know if Mira and Ephraim knew their son was force sensitive, because I suspect they did.

[000marie198]

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