Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

underappreciated Animorphs moment #252

featherquillpen:

It is very important to me that Naomi helped the Hork-Bajir write a constitution, on about five different levels.

1) Naomi learning to respect the Hork-Bajir enough to realize they need a lawyer.

2) Naomi bringing her lawyer skills to the Hork-Bajir valley even as she lives in a shack in the woods to hide from a galactic war.

3) The Animorphs keep telling us that the Hork-Bajir are as simple as human toddlers, but there is no way a group of toddlers could write a constitution, with or without a lawyer to help them. They wouldn’t see the need for a constitution in the first place. Hork-Bajir, like humans, are political animals. (Let it be noted that Toby was not one of the Hork-Bajir working on the constitution.)

4) They were debating who gets to harvest bark where. However much it bothered Naomi (though she secretly loved it) the Hork-Bajir were planning out the distribution of food resources among them.

5) The Hork-Bajir don’t get nearly enough credit, not from the Animorphs, the Andalites, or the fandom.

(via slyrider)

Real Question

Did Marvel and what’s his face make Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, a member of HYDRA?

Because I’m disowning the entire human race if that’s true.

joestrummin:

liznt:

some sort of fixation…

• Bodhi, sweet angel Bodhi, paid all of the attention in the empire induction safety talk; he presses the three red buttons at 12, 6 and 3 o'clock, twists anticlockwise 45° and the grenade is disarmed.
• Unbenkownst to Chirrut, Jyn placed her crystal within his staff, a tiny morsel of hope; the blaster shot headed straight for his heart, strikes it instead, and is deflected into his shoulder.
• Baze, seeing his love in pain and in danger, but not without hope for survival, flies into a rage and fights his way back to the ship, dragging chirrut behind him; he kills 32 men, and saves one.
• Cassian and Jyn are just about to step into the lift when Bodhi hisses from the radio telling them to get where he can see them FAST; they don’t look down when they step over Krennic, even when he grips Jyn’s ankle and begs
• Two days later Cassian is well enough to argue his way out of medbay, down to droid storage, where he loads K2-SO’s last backup into another imperial droid; K3-SO sighs and says, “Did you let me die again? You know as soon as I work out how, I’m deleting the self-sacrifice algorithm you wrote into me.”

If I bring this back on my main will y'all get it to a nice round 500

(via skymurdock)

fel-fisk:

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

obsidian-disorder:

false-dawn:

redroomballerinas:

slurfucker:

commie-saskia:

languageoclock:

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

watercolorsheep:

catchingjinns:

spirited-simmer:

my-name-is-long:

renaissavce:

roumanian:

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

IM CRYINGNFN

english: ninety-nine

french: :)

english: oh no

french: four-twenty-ten-nine

english: potato

french: :)

english: oh geez

french: apple of the earth

french: papillon

english: :)

french: don’t

english: beurremouche

French: pamplemousse
English: :)
French: pls no
English: raisinfruit

english: squirrel

german: :)

english: oh dear

german: oak croissant

english: helicopter

german: :)

english: uh oh

german: lifting screwdriver

english: toes

spanish: :)

english: no don’t

spanish : fingers of the feet

english: bowl

spanish: :)

english: oh lordy

spanish: deep plate

english: car

polish: :)

english: i changed my mind

polish:  that which walks by itself

french: coccinelle

UK english: ladybird!

american english: ladybug

french: weird

dutch: :)

french: …what

dutch: the good lord’s little animal

french: …ok

irish, polish and russian: *giggling*

french: …just tell me

irish, polish and russian: GOD’S SMALL COW

IT’S BACK

german: Marie’s beetle

english: ankle

japanese: :)

english: //lies down for an eternal sleep

japanese: foot neck

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

baedesu:

zerotheduke:

furiouslyfeminist:

blxxdfae:

i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say ‘london has fallen’ what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??

We have states bigger than your entire country

ur largest city

london

Oh…. honey….honey no

(Source: cherryg0re, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

galen066:

homeland-snooping:

thepraxianweasleygeek:

joasakura:

tkingfisher:

morebadbookcovers:

anightvaleintern:

timemachineyeah:

What if by alien standards we are really cute?

And I don’t mean like attractive cute, I mean like baby otter cute. What if the stumble upon us and go “ohhhhh my god!!! Oh my god!!!! I’m dying this is- look at it! Look at them!!! Oh my god!!!”

We usually imagine having to come up with some Devils trade or unholy arrangement to get tech and trade with aliens, but the instant they see us the aliens immediately set out into conservation efforts. They’re like “their habitat is becoming harsh and unlivable for them! We have to save them!” And everyone just puts a picture of us next to this information and they all agree “Look at them! We have to save them!!” We become like the panda mascots of intergalactic conservation efforts.

Simultaneously, our main export is just streams, videos, holograms, and photos of us. Aliens lose their composure completely over videos of us sneezing or yawning or eating pop tarts or playing video games or taking care of our kids.

There are lines of aliens who would LOVE to have a human in their home or on their ship. It’s a little condescending (we’re not sure if we’re guests or well treated exotic pets) but still a good opportunity, and any human who wants can go to space at any time basically for free or even for profit, and the aliens will go out of their way to give you anything you ask for.

There are obvious downsides. We struggle to be taken seriously. While it’s usually shut down pretty quickly, every once in a while some alien group sees the demand for us and tries to start an illegal trade. But at the same time, it’s neat that somewhere out there is an alien (or usually a LOT of aliens) that would love you unconditionally, find every flaw and idiosyncrasy endearing, be worried about you and do anything they could to make you safe and happy. They work hard to make our planet and our personal lives better and don’t ask for anything in return. They just do it because they decided we are important and worth saving just for existing. It’s an odd relationship, and we’re not always sure what to make of it, but honestly it goes a lot better than we worried alien contact would.

I’m down to be a spoiled pampered alien pet.

It would be a lot easier to get “fixed.”

We’re all a bit confused by the cute human memes, which are usually just pictures of some random human with a phrase in alien cuneiform next to it, but which many of the aliens think are hysterical. Photos of the Lincoln Memorial are particularly popular for this for some reason, and it’s a little unsettling to see the alien spaceships with pictures of Lincoln plastered across their forcefields, saying “g+gnor’gax!” and the humor just doesn’t translate at all.

I mean, it’s not bad, exactly. Just…odd. And fortunately alien music is mostly outside our hearing range, so the sad commercials with the interstellar equivalent of Sarah McLachlan broadcasting over them, explaining how the humans are suffering at this time of rotation just look like a rather puzzling montage of normal people. It’s just the aliens get so sad when they see it and their temporal glands leak and it’s…well, a little messy.

I love the idea that we are SIMULTANEOUSLY batshit-bonkers space orcs and the alien equivalent of Red Pandas or kittens.

Like,  “Oh they’re adorable!” “Yes, but for the love of zornax, don’t let one bite you! My pod-cousin lost a hand that way!” “Do you think they evolved this way to surivive the terrifying fauna on their world?” “I saw a holovid of one riding one of the so-called “moose” one time!”

#wait #we’re big cats #giant murder cuteness

Oh my god that’s exactly it! :D

But imagine that last bit as two different groups. Okay, so to one species of alien we’re adorable, right? And to another we’re orcs. Imagine the conflict of those two cultures. Team Orc is talking to Team Cuddles about how useful we are on dangerous field missions and Team Cuddles LOSES THEIR SHIT.

“You sent my cuddle-fwumpkin WHERE?!? to do WHAT!?!”

“They’re uniquely qualified to explore dangerous territories that are uninhabitable to most lifeforms … ”

“I don’t caaaaaare! Hfjfjfj HD bf!!!”

Like, foreign policy issued specifically for the proper utilization of human laborers. How would human cultures engage differently in these circumstances? Like, in the US would people look down on the humans that hang out with Team Cuddles as looking for alien handouts? Would they be blamed when Team Orc humans don’t get taken seriously on expeditions?

Like, there’s so muuuuuch more to explore here.

Cue unscrupulous or ironic human merchant selling “Save the humans! (Collect the entire set)” stickers in various alien scripts and fonts.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

eliciaforever:

eliciaforever:

I’ve been around fanfiction for half my life, and I don’t bat an eyelash at any of it, but every now and then it hits me that fanfiction is how soooooooo many underage girls are learning about sex, an idea that alarms me for about 0.2 seconds before I remember it’s a better, safer, more positive education than they’ll ever get at school.

If you have questions about sexuality, youngsters, you could ask a counselor or nurse or a parent OR YOU COULD ask an older person in fandom because the odds are way better that we won’t be embarrassed by your freaky deaky.

No one who describes peens is easily embarrassed.

Except don’t ask me. I’ll tell you shit like “hey did you know you have a sphincter muscle in your eyes?????”

(via ifeelbetterer)

prewars:

bootycap:

ao3 mcu a:aou abo bdsm ot3 hs au pwp

the fact that this is completely understandable and rather descriptive makes me rethink what i’ve done with my life

#i understand it perfectly but you couldn’t fucking pay me to read it

(via princehal9000)