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For real, all the discourse is making me rediscover and appreciate what IS so great about nearly all the characters and writing decisions of the original. It's legit cemented it as one of my top favorites now.

Something about the way remakes/adaptations often highlight all the amazing intentional story choices in the originals by showing us how bad the new writers misunderstand and neglect those moments and details.

Literally the only good thing that came out of the live action Lilo & Stitch remake is how it's rekindling everyone's love for the original with fanart and such. Which does cheer me up about it quite a bit! :D

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Something I'm curious about for Clone Wars fic readers and writers

please feel free to elaborate as much as you want

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Shout out to the guy I saw cosplaying Lieutenant Dan at Phoenix Fan Fusion! Top 10 coolest cosplays I've ever seen

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Murderbot, a construct that was built and used to do extreme violence it's entire existence : I hate talking to people but I will try to resolve this situation peacefully if I can, threats only make people panic and then they take irrational decisions. Extreme violence is sometimes unavoidable but last resort.

ART, a peaceful research transportation : I love talking to people because I can threaten them with extreme violence right off the bat and it makes them do what I want (ads more totally-not-weapons to it's research equipment)

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bharadwaj sneaky giving mb therapy is so good. shes like lets do this documentary about secunits and your experiences to change the public perception of constructs and bring forth positive social change. and also discuss your feelings :3

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I know right! I'm so curious

found this in the episode commentaries too:

"The simplest way to keep clones, or even the Bad Batch, separate, is to attach an adjective, maybe two adjectives, with that clone. I will go through [the script] and write out that adjective. With the Bad Batch, I made a symbol for each one that would indicate which of the Bad Batch it was. A circle with a dot is Echo, because the circle echoed the dot. There's a jagged line for Wrecker, because he likes to smash things and there's just an energy to that. Tech would just have a single line. He's simple and direct and linear. Hunter, I would just kind of 'scoop' around his lines, to make it like a cave, because he's like a cave animal--like a wolf or a canine of some kind. I think Crosshair was probably just a cross or an X"

Apparently Dee Bradley Baker has an individual word for each clone he thinks of when doing the voices. Rex’s is solid iirc, imma need a list of these attributed words please 😭

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good point😂

Now to ramble a bit lol

Oddly enough, to me it is empowering though. I think bc I grew up always hearing the same versions, and these more modern retellings definitely seem to be in reaction to that, only to read the Italian and earlier versions and discover that the ones we are most familiar with actually depower her in comparison.

It's kinda like the options are 1. Avoid the situation entirely by not trusting strangers (Perrault, which is kinda victim blamey to me, at least the way that he does it), 2. Someone strong and armed will come save you (Grimm), or 3. Become strong and armed to protect yourself (retellings).

Which isn't a bad thing, it's obviously the best option out of those 3, and it has it's place (like don't get me wrong werewolf red riding hood is cool!). But to me, versions where she outsmarts the wolf to escape on her own are really cool bc it empowers other weapons besides just strength and violence, in this case strategy and trickery. It shows that there are other ways to survive and prevail.

Fairytale retellings are always like 'how do we empower little red riding hood?' How do we make her badass instead of a helpless little girl? What if she wears the wolf's pelt after its dead! What if she *gasp* has a weapon! Or what if she is a werewolf!' And that's all fine and good, but like what if we just go back to earlier versions of the tale where she outsmarts the wolf on her own?

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A really important thing, from my observations, is recognizing that there is no one way to be ace and/or aro.

Our identities are a spectrum, and contain a lot of diversity and complexity. One person or character will never be able to fully advocate for or represent the entire community, and they shouldn't have to.

On the rare occasions we get rep (and as someone who wants to include it in my own writing), I get worried sometimes that people will take off with a bunch of assumptions about aro/ace-ness. Even if they aren't necessarily inaccurate or harmful and may be true for many, it's still not universal or required for everyone who identifies on those specs. But it's not like every representation should have to come with a billion caveats and a tedtalk about all the different preferences and experiences. (And there's a lot of pressure on any aspec representation bc there's so little to begin with)

Just don't assume, I guess. Especially if you know or are in a relationship with someone who is aro/ace. Just ask them what it means for them.

Asexuals and Aromantics, can you list ways Allosexuals can help your community?

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the make up industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. im doing none of that in fact

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Update 4: I've been stuck on the 'make the phone call to set up an appointment to hopefully get medication that will hopefully make setting up appointments easier' stage for uhh almost 6 months and I finally just hacked the system:

(they said yes btw)

Do you think the fact that ‘get screened for adhd’ has been on my to-do list for over a year counts?

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this one AMA

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Exactly!

Like there are seriously people on threads rn dead set that it is "just headcanon." I've seen them quote her, going "She said 'I'm not anything' but that doesn't prove anything, she could be lesbian!" 😑

Honey

1 No that's not what lesbians say??

2 If you look at literally the EXACT SAME speech bubble, you will see that what Yelena actually says is: "No I'm not a lesbian, I'm not... anything"!!

It's really not that hard to just let us have representation for once

Male character: I'm not attracted to women.

Fandom: Oh, he's gay.

Female character: I'm not attracted to men.

Fandom: Oh, she's a lesbian.

Any character: I'm not attracted to anybody.

Fandom: Well, we don't know that they're ace/aro/aroace. It's open for interpretation. They're not canonically ace/aro/aroace unless they specifically say they are.

Hmmmm. I wonder why we're so frustrated in fandom spaces. I wonder if there's a reason.

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*taps megaphone*

*clears throat*

JEFFREY WINGER

everytime you headcanon a character as aroallo the world gets about five times brighter btw

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okay pinterest, calm down!

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idk why some people have decided that Cody is mean/scary/intimidating etc. Lol like are yall confusing him with Wolffe or something? He's the one with the death glare, Cody's the one who canonically says 'heck' in the same episode the shy rule-following shiny says 'hell'

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SecUnit: I don't even have time to explain how stupid you're being

SecUnit:

SecUnit: Here's 4k high-res footage of what happened last time you were stupid

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My maybe unpopular opinion: I like the phase 1 helmets a lot better than phase 2

Pointy > bulbous imo, also phase 2 looks closer to stormtroopers and I like the clones being more distinct from those guys

(though I will also admit movie and 2003 phase 1 > 2008 phase 1)