Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
May 25
Since my damn state just hopped on the fucking bandwagon against the new law protecting the right of a trans individual to use their preferred bathroom, I want to make a quick announcement.
To any trans, genderfluid, nonbinary, or agender followers, I want you to be aware that I believe in your personhood and your right to a personal identity and everything that is implicit in that, including your right to marry whom you like, your right to be safe on the street and in your home, your right to be treated well by a medical professional and by any other authorities you encounter, and your right to use a goddamn bathroom. If anybody argues with you on the subject, feel free to visualize me (or my icon) beating the ever-loving shit out of them.
High five, you’re awesome, and everyone who doesn’t believe it is worse off.
I’m pleased to be represented by Godzilla, but we need more than one ace character, even if he is the size of 500 non-ace characters.
Hate to be that person, but that screenshot is from Godzilla ‘99. The Godzilla in that film is a mutated, pregnant female lizard looking for a place to lay her eggs, which happens to be New York. Now, I know aces can have sex, and Japanese Godzilla is, as far as I know, pretty asexual, but maybe that one (‘99) is a better example of single mothers having badass representation.
Okay, but the ‘99 Godzilla is able to reproduce without help from another one. Asexuals get a lot of really distasteful jokes about ‘reproducing asexually.’ That Godzilla is a solid tongue-in-cheek joke. I mean, yes, the other Godzillas also work and I 100% support representing asexuals as nuclear-energy-breathing creatures of great and awesome power, and representing single mothers as world-conquering beings both terrifying and excellent in nature, but…yeah.
Oh, I didn’t remember that. I guess she’s now an asexual single mother with nuclear fire breath. I can definitely get behind that.
Not in front of; that’d be deadly. Nuclear fire breath and all.
ok but has anyone considered… stormtrooper memes. stormtroopers with injokes. stormtroopers quietly passing along little nudges and references while they’re standing guard or patrolling endless hallways. hux pausing halfway through a speech, suspiciously— he just heard a very tiny, staticy giggle. like,
(standing in front of blank wall or empty box) nothing to see here, move along
let’s just put that in the back pocket for now mmkay
*eats ration bar* mm mmm tastes like [dead comrade]
you can’t be mean to me on my birthday
*force chokes a problem*
(between heavy darth vader wheezes) i’m not mad, i’m just disappointed.
(when something falls over) rebel scum!
*points at large machine* mom
it’s party time (everyone stands perfectly still for at least a minute)
(when friend come into the room) you’re surplus to requirements
they put a worm in him
*picks up thing that is not a phaser* pew pew
i’m matt the radar technician
millennium falcon as a code for “mother fucker”
Sending troopers new to the unit on an ruffleluff hunt
spreading the rumor that Hoth is secretly the main base because that’s the only place their uniforms make sense as camo
tagging other trooper’s helmets with mysterious substances when they’re not looking
radioing sanitation to ‘come take out this trash’ when dragging another trooper
there’s coffee and doughnuts in the breakroom
*does something dangerous* eat me ass first
healthy habits start at home
well, as we all know, [lie]
*gives someone a pinecone* (very difficult to pull off)
i can’t go out dressed like THIS!
my morale is so [genital adjective] right now.
does anyone need to stormpooper before we go
fun is illegal
*puts foot in small box* i live here now
doubletime sleeping
*points at captain phasma* mom
*humming Vader’s theme tune when someone’s in trouble*
Jedi are a myth
Kylo Ren is a myth
*explaining damage* It got KRed. (Kylo Renned)
KRUBAR Kylo Renned Beyond All Recall/Recognition/Repair
Calling helmets faces (a relic from the clone days)
Backtalking superior officers “begging to be spaced”
Kylo Ren is having a moment as an acceptable excuse for deviating a patrol route
General Hux is in a good mood as an acceptable excuse for deviating a patrol route
And Captain Phasma is smiling at us under that helmet (synonymous with “bullshit”)
Finn accidentally slipping into stormtrooper memes while with the Resistance and getting some odd looks.
Finn trying to explain to them why their Force-using manchild deadly enemy destroying property in a rage is funny and getting some more odd looks.
Finn feeling a little knot in his gut when he realizes he’s never going to be able to tell these jokes again. How’s he even going to connect to these people enough to make them laugh when they’re all scared shitless? How’s he going to carry his entire squad around in his head when he can’t even speak their language anymore?
Meanwhile Rey’s standing there squinting suspiciously at a pinecone.
Okay but Rebels who see Finn being upset and making a concerted effort to figure out meme culture. Rey and Jessika talking it out while Jessika is teaching Rey the cultural miscellany of Resistance and pilot culture.
Rey being the first one to get it, because she synergizes what Jessika’s telling her and what Finn’s explaining and realizes, this is all communication around communication, the key point is shared understanding, and then she starts making her own, with Jessika, and Finn picks it up, and soon the whole base is in on this bastardized mix of stormtrooper meme and purely Resistance meme and a ridiculous combination of the two.
And then they interact with stormtroopers and something goes on in the background on the First Order side and a Resistance soldier asks, “Is Kylo Ren having a moment?” and there’s muffled laughter and an absence of blasterfire from the stormtroopers.
Pretty soon there’s a whole code that stormtroopers and resistance soldiers can use to communicate. “Nothing to see here, move along” means “I’m ignoring you on purpose, don’t shoot me,” and “I’m KR’d” means “I want out, please capture me.”
From the Rebel side, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi” becomes “throw me a bone here” in either direction to ask for a favor; “That’s no moon” means “you’re walking into a trap here/we’ve got a secret weapon you won’t like.”
Okay, I was expecting someone to pick this up, but damn, this is even better than I hoped.
I’m pleased to be represented by Godzilla, but we need more than one ace character, even if he is the size of 500 non-ace characters.
Hate to be that person, but that screenshot is from Godzilla ‘99. The Godzilla in that film is a mutated, pregnant female lizard looking for a place to lay her eggs, which happens to be New York. Now, I know aces can have sex, and Japanese Godzilla is, as far as I know, pretty asexual, but maybe that one (‘99) is a better example of single mothers having badass representation.
Okay, but the ‘99 Godzilla is able to reproduce without help from another one. Asexuals get a lot of really distasteful jokes about ‘reproducing asexually.’ That Godzilla is a solid tongue-in-cheek joke. I mean, yes, the other Godzillas also work and I 100% support representing asexuals as nuclear-energy-breathing creatures of great and awesome power, and representing single mothers as world-conquering beings both terrifying and excellent in nature, but…yeah.
“Someday I will kill the man who wrote keep the home fires burning—they play it in the hottest weather, too.”
—
Siegfried Sassoon in a letter to musicologist Edward Dent, 1915
Remember when I blogged this? So I just found out who wrote “Keep the Homes Fires Burning.”
Ivor Novello.
With whom Sassoon had an affair in 1924. (via larazontally)
I’d say Sassoon clearly can’t hold a grudge, but the first time he met Ivor Novello he DID flat-out ignore him in petty spite because he hated that song so much. Clearly he got over it though. (via outoflullabies)
Anonymous asked: Not gonna lie, REALLY into the one where Vader survives Mustafar and Padme does what needs to be done to save her children ('Kill him for me, then' wow that is SO MUCH MY JAM) and honestly even if you never write another word for that 'verse, thank you so fucking much for that, that is EVERYTHING I am here for.
yeah no I was literally already going “wow I hope someone sends me an ask about that AU where Obi-Wan’s life sucks even worse than usual so I have an excuse to talk about Padmé/Vader as a ship, I REALLY DO”, trust me, buddy, you tied your wagon to the right star here, you REALLY did.
Because Vader went and killed Palpatine for Padmé, right? SPECIFICALLY for her. Like, he OFFERED, originally, but when he actually goes and DOES it, it’s because she tells him to do it and he is immediately like “anything for you, angel!!” and then not only does it, but does it and DECLARES HER EMPRESS.
You know. The person who all the clones answer to. The person HE answers to. THAT empress.
There are only ever two Sith, okay, and because there are only ever two Sith there have to ALWAYS be two Sith. Vader killed the apprentice, so he became the apprentice, and then Vader killed the master, so therefore he should be the Master, and should be attempting to pluck Ahsoka off some backwater planet all “I HAVE SO MUCH TO TEACH YOU, APPRENTICE”.
Except instead he goes back to where he left Padmé and is like “??!? WHERE IS” and then proceeds to chase her down, and the moment she finds out he’s the survivor she puts on a smile and opens her arms to him and reels him RIGHT in.
Sith apprentices kill Sith masters to BECOME Sith masters, but Anakin did not actually care about being a Sith master–he wanted to be a JEDI master, yeah, but Jedi masters are one of many and still answer to the Order, and it’s a very different thing. And really, what Anakin ACTUALLY wanted was always just Padmé and Luke and Leia (and Obi-Wan, of course Obi-Wan, but–well, three for four is better than canon got him, so yeah). So Vader killed Anakin and got (nearly) everything Anakin wanted, and Vader killed Palpatine and got everything HE wanted, and he is therefore ENTIRELY CONTENT with what he has and would quite happily go along with anyone who’d let him keep it.
And he killed Palpatine in Padmé’s name. In EmpressAmidala’s name.
So yeah. Vader is definitely not the master in this scenario.
