The Martian, Andy Weir
I just finished reading this last night. I highly recommend it to everyone.
‘That is not how the Force works.’ a drabble
Leia has, for various reasons, a very dubious outlook on classic Jedi training methods. This is not just because of various circumstances surrounding her son, she’s had this opinion for many years before his birth. But Luke was insistent when Ben proved Force sensitive and there was nothing Leia could say otherwise that had any documentation, any records, any proof.
(she’s concerned that her use of the Force might be considered Other, or Grey, or Dark)
It’s like this: the Jedi are unsubtle.
It’s like this: Moving a blaster’s nose a half centimeter causes the shot to miss by a feet. It’s much easier to make 5 blasters miss than to throw 5 Stormtroopers backwards.
It’s like this: when Leia speaks, she is Forceful. When she speaks to a room, she starts with nudges to make everyone listen, she slides in quiet elation at her words, she ends with encouraging a feeling of being able to do absolutely anything in the Universe.
And she lets her speech carry out the rest of the details, rather than her Force, she lets her people decide how to act, she lets choice finish their decisions and these decisions and choices lasts longer when she leaves the room than if she simply Forced someone to say, “I will do as you command.”
(she takes after her mother, she hears)
Leia wonders if that was how Palpatine caused her father to go Dark, and remains quiet when Luke trains her son.
And when Ben turns, she feels the reverberations, and can’t find it in her to blame Luke for it entirely.
(she wonders if she should have Spoken, or if it would have made things worse)
[[[because lol]]]
The base is collapsing around their ears, their TIE fighters are falling from the sky, and That Girl has come back with That Lightsaber and more training and for the life of him Kylo cannot hold his ground against her so he’s running but those are things he’s not examining too closely. Instead:
“HIGHLY TRAINED FIGHTERS, he says,” Kylo swears under his breath and dodges around more Stormtroopers, hoping they’d stall his pursuit. The Force tells him they don’t do a damn thing. “PICKED from a YOUNG AGE, he says, BETTER than CLONES, he says, THEN WHY CAN’T YOUR STORMTROOPERS HIT THE BROADSIDE OF A DEATHST–”
Hux suddenly skids to a stop. “She’s here.”
“WHO’S HERE?!”
“I don’t know what she has, the scientists can’t figure it out but when she’s around,” Hux staggers, panting, “at this point, no one can aim straight if she’s even on the same planet, let alone the same room and–”
“WHO?!” Kylo reaches out and grabs Hux by the throat, pulling him to his toes. “GIVE ME A NAME.”
A throat clears behind him.
“Ben,” His mother says.
Kylo freezes.
“Put that back where you found it. We need to talk.”
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. How else HOW ELSE I ASK YOU could a whole pack of storm troopers fire down a narrow hallway and hit nobody?
This is EXACTLY how I picture LEIA’S abilities holy shit good shit wow A+++ I want to write this a million times and have everyone write Leia like this.
@darkthestars I feel like you might be interested in this
(One fun part is that this was a totally thing in the old EU (And may even be a thing now- the first of the FFG RPGs post-Disney has it as an option.)
Jedi can aid and direct their side in battle. If they’re good, strong enough, they can affect things on a planetary scale, making everyone on their side better and more coordinated. A true master of the technique could make a bunch of peasant farmers taking up arms against a tyrant fight every bit as well as she can. Thing is, you’ve got to be careful, or your override their wills completely, and things fall apart if you get taken out- there’s some theories that this is why the Imperial fleet went to pieces so fast at Endor after the Emperor’s death, far faster than word of his demise could have spread.
Using it to throw off your enemy’s aim, to make them mishear orders or fire at things that aren’t there would just be an application of the same technique, only applied defensively rather than offensively, and really, isn’t that what a Jedi’s supposed to do?
It’s called Battle Meditation and it’s one of the rarest, most prized and most useful jedi abilities. Individuals with this ability change the outcomes of wars, they generally lead from the front and the only other jedi with this power that I know is a woman.
If Leia is some kind of Battle Meditation Savant then for one it would make her vastly more powerful than Anakin was ever displayed to be (at most he had very advanced precognitive abilities, common to all jedi). It would also explain exactly how the fuck ewoks triumphed over the best imperial regiment available, simply by virtue of the greatest display of force ability in known history.It got better.
(via jediemma)
"Hold me in the holy space
between clasped fingers:
yours and mine.
Let me be the trembling breath,
let me spin salvation off my tongue,
at least let me try.
I don’t know much about
being divine. But I know right now–
this crowded apartment,
your feet propped up on my thighs.
I don’t know gospel, but I know
what your body feels like
from inside."
between clasped fingers:
yours and mine.
Let me be the trembling breath,
let me spin salvation off my tongue,
at least let me try.
I don’t know much about
being divine. But I know right now–
this crowded apartment,
your feet propped up on my thighs.
I don’t know gospel, but I know
what your body feels like
from inside."
— PRAYER BOOK, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
(Source: latenightcornerstore, via latenightcornerstore)
I just imagined Sirius being called out to sorting and the hat getting ready to shout SLYTHERIN! almost before even touching one of Sirius’ hair - just like it has done for every Black and Malfoy for centuries- and then suddenly all he hears is this eleven year old thinking “Don’t you fucking dare”
(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)
Training Rey
- Luke: Rey while I understand the desire to experiment and outdo Kylo Ren could you perhaps stick to a lightsaber staff? A lightsbaer trident is just .....wrong
- Luke: Rey when I told you about my training with Master Yoda I did not mean that you should do the same things. Could you please let me down before I break a hip. I am not a young man anymore
- Luke: While I am both proud and very disturbed that you managed to discover Force Lightning on your own could you please not use it to cook sausages? We have a perfectly good fire
- Luke: While I understand your anger at the Senator after the way he insulted Leia you cannot use the Force to make him punch himself and then gleefully ask " Why are you punching yourself" This is not how a Jedi is supposed to act
- Luke: I agree that it's effective but in an honorable duel a Jedi is supposed to use The Force and their lightsaber to defeat their opponent not land mines
- Luke: I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK THEY ARE ADORABLE! SPIDERS ARE NOT SUITABLE PETS REY! OH GOD THEY ARE IN MY ROBES. GET THEM AWAY FROM ME
- Luke: Rey we are facing a Sith Lord! Now is not the time to make fun of Supreme Leader Snoke's name. Rey stop laughing
Damn son our uterus stretches like 5x the size and then contracts and pushes a 7 pound baby out of a small tube into life if you think that isn’t metal as fuck get out of my face
YOUR ORGANS THOUGH IM SO SORRY LADIES
How the hell do woman survive this?
Seriously it surprises me how many people don’t know a couple things about pregnancy and babies:
women would not survive 10 months of pregnancy they would die
A baby is nowhere near as developed as it should be to be out in the world at 9 months, but the human body has not evolved to push anything past the size of the head out, everything else the baby is can stretch and squash but the head
the vagina can’t handle anything bigger than the head at 9 months of development so we have to give birth.
But babies actually need longer than that, really, it’s why they’re such a mess when they’re born and why they’re completely dependent on care, can’t walk, can’t do anything. Note most other animals can when they are born. Babies are born too early, it’s kind of a huge and secret flaw in human evolution. I found it really interesting, so thought I’d share.
(via bonehandledknife)
"‘I’ve spoken with Disney people, and they were completely blindsided by the reaction to the new Star Wars characters,’ Marcotte went on to say. ‘They put a huge investment into marketing and merchandizing the Kylo Ren character. They presumed he would be the big breakout role from the film. They were completely surprised when it was Rey everyone identified with and wanted to see more of. Now they’re stuck with vast amounts of Kylo Ren product that is not moving, and a tidal wave of complaints about a lack of Rey items.’"
—
Michael Boehm, “Where’s Rey?”, Sweatpants and Coffee
The interesting thing about this to me (though entirely anecdotal) is that I’ve spoken to a lot of different people about the new movie. Among my friend group and sort of casual folk, men and women alike, people generally responded well to all characters, with maybe slight preference for Rey or Poe.
Among the Hollywood working men I’ve talked to: Kylo Ren. Unanimously, no question.
Which has interested me for many different reasons and will continue to be something I puzzle out but I can’t help but specifically with this, if true, wonder: To what extent are these decisions about what kids want being made purely from the perspective of a very specific subsection of society?
(via sarasarai)
You know, I went to see TFA completely fresh-faced regarding Star Wars. I only saw the prequels as a kid when I understood shit of what was happening. Never saw the original trilogy. All I knew of Star Wars I picked up by pop culture osmosis.
And Kylo Ren did NOTHING for me. NOTHING. I didn’t care about him. I really didn’t. The hell did I know of this kid? Do I have any idea why he went to the Dark Side? None whatsoever. He wants to be like his evil grandparent, okay…. why, exactly? What does he want? What the fuck is he upset about?
Rey and Finn I got. Rey and Finn they explained to me. Rey and Finn they made me care about. The only reason I had to be invested in Kylo Ren was his parents, but his parents meant nothing to me.
So aside from what’s carried over from the other Star Wars movies, I literally see NO reason why Kylo Ren is interesting or appealing. None. At all. And THAT’s the guy they expected me to be excited about? (If this is true)
Fucking honestly.
(via yamino)
(Source: sarahbatistapereira, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
‘That is not how the Force works.’ a drabble
Leia has, for various reasons, a very dubious outlook on classic Jedi training methods. This is not just because of various circumstances surrounding her son, she’s had this opinion for many years before his birth. But Luke was insistent when Ben proved Force sensitive and there was nothing Leia could say otherwise that had any documentation, any records, any proof.
(she’s concerned that her use of the Force might be considered Other, or Grey, or Dark)
It’s like this: the Jedi are unsubtle.
It’s like this: Moving a blaster’s nose a half centimeter causes the shot to miss by a feet. It’s much easier to make 5 blasters miss than to throw 5 Stormtroopers backwards.
It’s like this: when Leia speaks, she is Forceful. When she speaks to a room, she starts with nudges to make everyone listen, she slides in quiet elation at her words, she ends with encouraging a feeling of being able to do absolutely anything in the Universe.
And she lets her speech carry out the rest of the details, rather than her Force, she lets her people decide how to act, she lets choice finish their decisions and these decisions and choices lasts longer when she leaves the room than if she simply Forced someone to say, “I will do as you command.”
(she takes after her mother, she hears)
Leia wonders if that was how Palpatine caused her father to go Dark, and remains quiet when Luke trains her son.
And when Ben turns, she feels the reverberations, and can’t find it in her to blame Luke for it entirely.
(she wonders if she should have Spoken, or if it would have made things worse)
[[[because lol]]]
The base is collapsing around their ears, their TIE fighters are falling from the sky, and That Girl has come back with That Lightsaber and more training and for the life of him Kylo cannot hold his ground against her so he’s running but those are things he’s not examining too closely. Instead:
“HIGHLY TRAINED FIGHTERS, he says,” Kylo swears under his breath and dodges around more Stormtroopers, hoping they’d stall his pursuit. The Force tells him they don’t do a damn thing. “PICKED from a YOUNG AGE, he says, BETTER than CLONES, he says, THEN WHY CAN’T YOUR STORMTROOPERS HIT THE BROADSIDE OF A DEATHST–”
Hux suddenly skids to a stop. “She’s here.”
“WHO’S HERE?!”
“I don’t know what she has, the scientists can’t figure it out but when she’s around,” Hux staggers, panting, “at this point, no one can aim straight if she’s even on the same planet, let alone the same room and–”
“WHO?!” Kylo reaches out and grabs Hux by the throat, pulling him to his toes. “GIVE ME A NAME.”
A throat clears behind him.
“Ben,” His mother says.
Kylo freezes.
“Put that back where you found it. We need to talk.”
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. How else HOW ELSE I ASK YOU could a whole pack of storm troopers fire down a narrow hallway and hit nobody?
This is EXACTLY how I picture LEIA’S abilities holy shit good shit wow A+++ I want to write this a million times and have everyone write Leia like this.
FUCK AND YES
(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
you are not obligated to
- be someone’s counselor and help them with all their problems if its bad for your mental health
- be there for someone 24/7
- remain friends with someone who emotionally drains you
- maintain negative relationships because you’ve been close for so long, because you’re related, or anything else
- do anything that makes you unhappy or puts your health at risk
This is so so so important and I took far too long to realise it and I know it’s tricky but cutting people out who aren’t good for you is the best thing you can do for yourself
(via academicfeminist)
