Anonymous asked: Ok. Going off the Padme could have been Boba Fett joke. There could have been a great story. Like Padme's death was faked which is why Boba never takes their mask off and through necessity of trying to find her children she becomes a bounty hunter.
OH MY GOD FRIEND WHAT I WOULD DO FOR ALL THE WEIRD VADER/NOT-FETT UST AND TENSION ALL LEADING UP TO THE INEVITABLE MOMENT WHERE PADME SHOOTS HIM IN THE RESPIRATOR AND RUNS OFF WITH THE REBELS ALL “I AM YOUR MOTHER”
(Side note: I had to sit through almost 20 minutes of
trailers, none of which were new and almost all of which were terrible or dull;
still saying the Nerd Prayer for Suicide
Squad)
When you take the reins of Star Trek away from J.J. Abrams, Robert Orci, and Alex Kurtzman and give it to Justin Lin, Simon Pegg, and Doug Jung you get:
Every character having a plot-purpose and a
highlighted moment where they shine
Prominent casting of non-white actors
Women who kick ass, fix spaceships, and don’t
have a camera leer at them
No sexist jokes
A deeply touching send off to Leonard Nimoy
Hikaru Sulu taking charge of the bridge
Hikaru Sulu having a husband
Nobody making a big deal of Sulu having a
husband
James T. Kirk, infamous lady’s man, looking at
Sulu with his husband and daughter and clearly wishing he had that kind of
close family to come home to because heteronormativity is dead in the future
Cast being listed in alphabetic order in the end
credits so that John Cho goes first
I guess what I’m saying is that with both the director and one of the writers being Asian-American, there was clearly a push for Sulu to get
the honor he deserves in this
So many possible couple pairings from all the
scenes together, and I ship them, all of them, just a big free love
multishipping orgy onboard the Enterprise
Creative fight scenes that incorporate futuristic
sci-fi tech and zero gravity
New plot instead of recycling the end of Wrath of Khan
Kirk riding a motorcycle, but in a completely
plot-justified and clever diversionary tactic
Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” being used in one of
the best scenes in the movie, I kid you not, it actually makes sense in context
Lots of humor and witty banter
Trek’s
traditional shining optimism about unity in diversity and human potential for
good
Continuity references
The best Rihanna song in a long time for the end
credits
So yeah, I really liked it. In fact, I think I liked it
better than the first in the reboot.
So I got this ask from my darling @twistedangelsays and I wrote this entire thing, and then realized that I’d written five thousand words for a headcanons ask. Soooo now it’s getting posted separately. I might crosspost it to AO3 if Adler hassles me into it and/or there’s interest in that. Once again: Tarsus IV warnings, and even thought this is…pretty calm comparatively speaking, it’s still under a cut.
lathori asked: Okay, so I just saw Star Trek tonight and spent an hour talking to you about it. I literally cannot believe I am doing this. I am already suffering because of your other Star Trek headcannons but I guess I'm just a fucking masochist. So, my dear Bones, give me (at least) five headcannons on how Tarsus IV happens in the alternate new Star Trek trilogy universe. <3 Your Kirk
HA, and people say I’m the twisted one.
Fortunately for you, I am a wee bit of a sadist, and I love talking about
Tarsus IV, so heeeere we go. I WAS going to do five people finding out about Tarsus, but that turned into a five thousand word monster so instead here are just some headcanons. For those of you who aren’t aware, Tarsus was
a famine and genocide, which Jim Kirk survived as a kid—basically, if you can
think of a content warning, it applies, thus: everything is under the cut.
What I really love about Roald Dahl’s books is that the villains really didn’t have any tragic backstory or any redeemable qualities or character development.
Like I admire authors who develop their villains and show all of the aforementioned things, proving that we’re all human, and all of that.
But I just really love the fact that Roald Dahl was like, “You know what? Some people are just assholes.”
Anonymous asked: I want to learn so many languages but it's like next to impossible and there is so much I want to do with my life but no way to get to all of them....
I feel you so much, my friend. If I had the money to be a perpetual student, I would be one of those people who was just an expert in everything with zero real-world experience. I don’t really have any advice for you (I mean, unless you’ve never heard of Duolingo, which is a great language-learning system that also has an app and is free, unlike Rosetta Stone), except that it’s completely possible to learn a bunch of miscellaneous crap on your own.
The Wikipedia spiral is treacherous, but a good default.
Get a random book from the library or troll the free books on the internet, buy one if you have the money.
For languages specifically, Duolingo is fantastic and they have an ever-expanding collection of languages, including colloquialisms. I’d start with something that’s spoken in your area so that you can get some practice with real people (Spanish is a dominant language in a lot of the US, so that’s a good fallback because it’s also useful). Google it, make an account, even if you don’t know if you’ll use it. It’s free, take advantage.
Yep. That’s pretty much what I got. If you figure out a way to get to more stuff, or get more hours in the day, please make me the first person you tell, because I would love to have six more hours in the day to get stuff done.
