Honestly the scene at the end of The Homecoming Job where the doctor says “that’s not the way the world works,” and Nate replies “so change the world” fucks me up so bad because that’s it, that’s the show, that’s the premise of the entire damn show
these thieves and criminals changing the world the only way they know how, with the skillsets they have, and sure, maybe they are criminals but they’re doing what they can, how they can to change the world.
Leia can fall asleep any place relatively quiet that isn’t actually moving under her.
She did not—contrary to Han and Luke’s teasing—pick that up during the Rebellion; she learned how to hunker down and drop away from the world when she was Alderaan’s special diplomatic envoy to the Imperial Senate. Long nights spent poring over complicated trade agreements or debating the exact credits necessary for the revitalization of the Hosnian Sector (read: extermination of non-humans.) She learned to steal what sleep she could because they would be back there come morning with the same dry texts, the same dull men; the same compromises made while she carefully didn’t think about her father; somewhere in the galaxy quietly fostering rebellion.
(Something she doesn’t talk about all that often: not all her memories of the Empire are war and blood and running and terror. There was paperwork too; and state dinners and heated discussions about subsidies. Imperial generals carried holos of their children just like everyone else. And she had hated it—she was never built for diplomacy; that was her mother’s skill and the Queen was always apologizing for her, this wayward daughter who wore her disdain and dislike on her sleeve and didn’t know what “compromise” meant—or even her father’s art, no one could look the flower but be the rebellious serpent under it quite like Bail—but Leia remembers all the same.
The Empire was terrible; the Empire was an enemy to be broken and destroyed so the Republic could bloom again. But it was not all terror.)
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
everyone’s always like “dragons in the past/ robots in the future” but consider this
dragons in the future
selective breeding and novelty science of winged lizards goes a little too far and then when they escape they continue evolving
futuristic megacities trying to safeguard themselves against dragons which might come along hoping to find a snack
huge flocks of dragons flying south for the winter
dragonlings rooting through rubbish bins behind restaurants and being shooed away
*slams fists on desk* YOU’RE HIRED
Dragons adapting for different urban environments: sewer dragons, alley dragons, dragons that build their nests atop skyscrapers.
Zoos putting wire mesh over the top of their enclosures to keep dragons from swooping in and stealing their animals - and finding that even that isn’t enough.
The impact of introducing a major new predator into the wild, and how the ecosystem rebalances itself around them (or doesn’t).
They never stop aging - they only get bigger. Geneticists try to make humans immortal by isolating the genes that control the dragons’ growth and implanting them into humans, with disastrous results.
SPACE DRAGONS. IN SPACE. Nobody knows what they eat, how they breathe or how they survive, but they’re a threat to the newly-developed interplanetary passenger shuttles.
Political schisms over the revelation that dragons are sapient.
@littlestartopaz did I have a story I was supposed to be writing you concerning this?
