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

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leupagus:

ifeelbetterer:

geniusorinsanity:

ifeelbetterer:

ifeelbetterer:

if you’re going to do a Star Wars academia!AU, here are some thoughts:

• leia organa has been department chair for about a decade because every time she tries to step down, the department is unable to find anyone else willing to take the job. it was supposed to rotate after two years. she hates it. 
• han solo goes an leave every other year or so, ostensibly to investigate “new archives” in some sunny, tropical locale
• luke skywalker also goes on leave every other year or so, but is actually going to very unpleasant archives and actually is allergic to dust
• obi-wan kenobi used to be department chair but now when leia comes by to yell at him that it should be someone else’s turn, he pretends he doesn’t know who this “obi-wan” fella is, he’s totally an RA named Ben
• padme is now dean. of everything. they thought you couldn’t be dean of everything, but she totally is. she’s about to retire and there will be one hell of a power vacuum when she goes
  
• her ancient husband anakin has been emeritus for like half of his career. he still teaches grad seminars but usually scares off all the students on the first day. he has one grad he’s mentoring but he’s never letting her leave. she is on her 15th year of grad school.
  
• C3PO is the photocopy code of the department secretary. everyone knows his code, no one knows his name. he complains about the copy machine in every single faculty meeting, but actually deeply loves the thing. he cried when they tried to replace it.
  
• finn is a grad student who did his MA at [real university name redacted to protect the innocent] and was super burned by the competitive atmosphere. it came down to whether he was willing to take funding that had been allocated for foreign languages (and thus end their department) and he couldn’t do it. he had to switch. he has to start from scratch in the new program because they don’t allow terminal MAs here.
  
• rey has been in one of the hard sciences for, like, EVER and has accidentally forgotten to leave her lab for the past month. don’t EVER try to “tidy” her lab. maintenance staff tell horror stories about her.
  
• poe dameron is leia’s favorite postdoc. he lectures for her frequently. he always assigns her book when he does. they spend the first hour just agreeing how great her book is. this happens every time.
  

#THESE ARE GOOD AU IDEAS   #QUALITY AU IDEAS   #I MEAN I’D INSERT TRASH SHIP OF CHOICE BUT EVEN ON IT’S OWN   #QUALITY AU CHOICES   #Star Wars   #Star Wars: The Force Awakens   #BUT WHO IS YODA   #KEY QUESTIONS   #ALSO EMO GOTH TRASH CHILD   #ALSO R2D2   #Also is Ashoka the 15th year grad student of Anakin?   #ANS: YES   (mnemehoshiko)

Point the first: everyone should insert trash ship of choice, insert all of them, insert them allllllll day erryday.

Point the second: I honestly wanna say that Yoda is the coach of the football team. Some seasons they do great, some seasons there are a buttload of complaints about how “Coach made me carry him around the mall for an hour, how is this training” and “Coach made me sit in the locker rooms in the dark at midnight to confront my fears” and “Coach told me there is no try-out, just do or not do, wtf.”

Point the third: emo goth child went to the local prep school—which luke started a while back and splits his time between there and the uni. The school has its own kennel of therapy dogs on site. Ben got kicked out for trying to start a dogfighting ring. Tried to re-enroll the next year (without telling parents) under a false name. Denied.

Point the fourth: R2D2 is the photocopier that C3PO loves. BB-8 is the espresso machine Poe bought for the faculty lounge that only he can work. Rey, a grad student who should NOT be allowed in the faculty lounge, is called in to make it work if Poe’s not on campus.

I WOULD LIKE 200k WORDS OF THIS AU PLEASE AND THANK YOU

QUICK, EVERYBODY LOOK REAL PATHETIC AT @leupagus! GUS, WE ARE SUCH DEJECTED, DEBASED CREATURES. YOU SHOULD WRITE THE THING FOR ME US.

See you say that you would want this but think long and hard about if you would REALLY want this

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cosmic-kleptomaniac:

dismantlethefeminism:

I do not understand this “male privilege" bullshit.

What. Fucking. Privileges. Do. Men. Have.???????

Name them. I swear, I challenge you to name these “male privileges" and be able to prove them. 

Come on, I fucking dare you. 

Name them!

Oh boy. Well, as a man, I’ll tell you my male privilege.

1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
2. I can be confident in the fact that my co-workers won’t think that I was hired/promoted because of my sex - despite the fact that it’s probably true.
3. If I ever am promoted when a woman of my peers is better suited for the job, it is because of my sex.
4. If i ever fail at my job or career, it won’t be seen as a blacklist against my sex’s capabilities.
5. I am far less likely to face sexual harassment than my female peers.
6. If I do the same task as a woman, and if the measurement is at all subjective, chances are people will think I did a better job.
7. If I am a teen or an adult, and I stay out of prison, my odds of getting raped are relatively low.
8. On average, I’m taught that walking alone after dark by myself is less than dangerous than it is for my female peers.
9. If I choose not to have children, my masculinity will not be questioned.
10. If I do have children but I do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity will not be questioned.
11. If I have children and I do care for them, I’ll be praised even if my care is only marginally competent.
12. If I have children and a career, no one will think I’m selfish for not staying at home.
13. If I seek political office, my relationship with my children or who I deem to take care of them will more often not be scrutinized by the press.
14. My elected representatives are mostly people of my own sex. The more prestigious the position, the more this is true.
15. When i seek out “the person in charge", it is likely that they will be someone of my own sex. The higher the position, the more often this is true.
16. As a child, chances are I am encouraged to be more active and outgoing than my sisters.
17. As a child, I could choose from an almost infinite variety of children’s media featuring positive, active, non-stereotyped heroes of my own sex. I never had to look for it; male protagonists were (and are) the default.
18. As a child, chances are I got more teacher attention than girls who raised their hands just as often.
19. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether or not it has sexist overtones. (Nobody’s going to ask if I’m upset because I’m menstruating.)
20. I can turn on the television or glance at the front page of the newspaper and see people of my own sex widely represented.
21. If I’m careless with my financial affairs it won’t be attributed to my sex.
22. If I’m careless with my driving it won’t be attributed to my sex.
23. I can speak in public to a large group without putting my sex on trial.
24. Even if I sleep with a lot of women, there is little to no chance that I will be seriously labeled a “slut,” nor is there any male counterpart to “slut-bashing.”
25. I do not have to worry about the message my wardrobe sends about my sexual availability.
26. My clothing is typically less expensive and better-constructed than women’s clothing for the same social status. While I have fewer options, my clothes will probably fit better than a woman’s without tailoring.
27. The grooming regimen expected of me is relatively cheap and consumes little time.
28. If I buy a new car, chances are I’ll be offered a better price than a woman buying the same car. The same goes for other expensive merchandise.
29. If I’m not conventionally attractive, the disadvantages are relatively small and easy to ignore.
30. I can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew. I can be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch.
31. I can ask for legal protection from violence that happens mostly to men without being seen as a selfish special interest, since that kind of violence is called “crime” and is a general social concern. (Violence that happens mostly to women is usually called “domestic violence” or “acquaintance rape,” and is seen as a special interest issue.)
32. I can be confident that the ordinary language of day-to-day existence will always include my sex. “All men are created equal,” mailman, chairman, freshman, he.
33. My ability to make important decisions and my capability in general will never be questioned depending on what time of the month it is.
34. I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I don’t change my name.
35. The decision to hire me will not be based on assumptions about whether or not I might choose to have a family sometime soon.
36. Every major religion in the world is led primarily by people of my own sex. Even God, in most major religions, is pictured as male.
37. Most major religions argue that I should be the head of my household, while my wife and children should be subservient to me.
38. If I have a wife or live-in girlfriend, chances are we’ll divide up household chores so that she does most of the labor, and in particular the most repetitive and unrewarding tasks.
39. If I have children with my girlfriend or wife, I can expect her to do most of the basic childcare such as changing diapers and feeding.
40. If I have children with my wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of us needs to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are we’ll both assume the career sacrificed should be hers.
41. Assuming I am heterosexual, magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.
42. In general, I am under much less pressure to be thin than my female counterparts are. If I am over-weight, I probably suffer fewer social and economic consequences for being fat than over-weight women do.
43.  If I am heterosexual, it’s incredibly unlikely that I’ll ever be beaten up by a spouse or lover.
44. Complete strangers generally do not walk up to me on the street and tell me to “smile.”
45. Sexual harassment on the street virtually never happens to me. I do not need to plot my movements through public space in order to avoid being sexually harassed, or to mitigate sexual harassment.
46. On average, I am not interrupted by women as often as women are interrupted by men.
47. On average, I will have the privilege of not knowing about my male privilege.

And lastly, I am taken as a more credible feminist than my female peers, despite the fact that the feminist movement is not liberating to my sex.

This is male privilege.

 

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leupagus:

ifeelbetterer:

if you’re going to do a Star Wars academia!AU, here are some thoughts:

• leia organa has been department chair for about a decade because every time she tries to step down, the department is unable to find anyone else willing to take the job. it was supposed to rotate after two years. she hates it. 
• han solo goes an leave every other year or so, ostensibly to investigate “new archives” in some sunny, tropical locale
• luke skywalker also goes on leave every other year or so, but is actually going to very unpleasant archives and actually is allergic to dust
• obi-wan kenobi used to be department chair but now when leia comes by to yell at him that it should be someone else’s turn, he pretends he doesn’t know who this “obi-wan” fella is, he’s totally an RA named Ben
• padme is now dean. of everything. they thought you couldn’t be dean of everything, but she totally is. she’s about to retire and there will be one hell of a power vacuum when she goes
  
• her ancient husband anakin has been emeritus for like half of his career. he still teaches grad seminars but usually scares off all the students on the first day. he has one grad he’s mentoring but he’s never letting her leave. she is on her 15th year of grad school.
  
• C3PO is the photocopy code of the department secretary. everyone knows his code, no one knows his name. he complains about the copy machine in every single faculty meeting, but actually deeply loves the thing. he cried when they tried to replace it.
  
• finn is a grad student who did his MA at [real university name redacted to protect the innocent] and was super burned by the competitive atmosphere. it came down to whether he was willing to take funding that had been allocated for foreign languages (and thus end their department) and he couldn’t do it. he had to switch. he has to start from scratch in the new program because they don’t allow terminal MAs here.
  
• rey has been in one of the hard sciences for, like, EVER and has accidentally forgotten to leave her lab for the past month. don’t EVER try to “tidy” her lab. maintenance staff tell horror stories about her.
  
• poe dameron is leia’s favorite postdoc. he lectures for her frequently. he always assigns her book when he does. they spend the first hour just agreeing how great her book is. this happens every time.
  

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thistlerosie:

hippity-hoppity-brigade:

vrabia:

i love all the ‘poe has a wonderful singing voice’ headcanons for the obvious reason, but you know who else has a wonderful singing voice? rey. except where poe is a connoisseur of mellow space folk and lugs his space guitar from base to base and sings to his fellow pilots, rey has always made up her own songs and her own lyrics and her own stories to sing to herself about.

i’m saying: rey sitting at finn’s bedside, singing to him about the tiny desert critters burrowing in their tiny burrows with their tiny families for the night. it’s a strange combination, part lullaby, part counting song, something she made up when she must’ve been 7 or 8, and she’s never sung it to anyone else. but she’s singing it to finn, who’s unconscious, and it’s soft and sweet and poe walks by med bay one time and catches a glimpse and a couple of verses and he’s like

OH NO

#next morning at breakfast poe sits with her#‘was that a song from jakku?’ he asks; rey looks confused so he hums a couple of bars for her and his voice is low and warm and lovely#rey instantly goes beet red; poe feels kind of like an asshole. ‘sorry’ he says ‘i was passing by yesterday i didn’t mean to listen in’#‘thatsasongimadeup’ rey sputters and then shoves an entire slice of toast in her mouth#‘sorry?’ says poe#rey chews aggressively and then swallows with a little gulp and then looks at him defiantly and still totally red up to her ears#‘that’s a song i made up. when i was little.’#and poe is like ‘oh’#(poe is like OH b/c he’s in love he loves them both it’s been like a week he would literally die for them it’s prEPOSTEROUS)#‘it’s lovely’ he says. ‘could you teach me sometime? if you want? i could teach you some of ours’#rey is not yet comfortable enough around him but she lets poe stay when she’s singing to finn#eventually lets him join in#they’re not perfectly harmonious#rey’s voice breaks a little in some parts and poe takes her hand; and poe’s voice breaks too in others and she squeezes his fingers gently#finn sleeps beside them; his heart rate monitor their only accompaniment#star wars#ah yes the damerons#SOMEBODY TAKE THE INTERNET AWAY FROM ME I SWEAR TO FUCK 

*pushes the internet slightly closer to you* 

Awwwwwwwwwww.

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roachpatrol:

i don’t intend to die anytime soon but just in case, here’s my will:

all my money goes to the dude at my funeral who tells the best eulogy, as voted by other funeral attendees. any genre is acceptable but paranormal erotica is highly encouraged. 

the runner-up gets my corpse. 

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