starpeace

i really should make an oc based on my favourite concept ever: jedi dropout who does online tutoring for kids whose parents didnt hand them over to the jedi

starpeace

pov you are walking down a coruscant street and you hear somebody on the phone (holo phone? comms? whatever) saying “listen to me, no, listen, grandmaster yoda, i HEAR what you’re saying but listen, listen: i will spill any jedi knowledge for twenty credits. and if you want me to stop you’re going to have to fucking kill me. alright? give master koon my love and tell aayla that spare room is still up for grabs” and then they hang up

starpeace

it’s not ideological they just left the order for love and then immediately had the worst breakup ever but they’d already told half the council to fuck off so they had to commit

coolclaytony

But did he survive Order 66?

starpeace

would they even be a star wars character if they didnt survive to go on a mad scramble quest to collect all their idiot baby students before the empire gets them. they have to borrow their ex’s ship it’s a whole drama

shatouto

i've seen a poll about gale and anders but i feel like this one is a more difficult one to answer

greatpuppypetsprofessor

No shade op but like

bloglikeanegyptian

i believe in accessibility so ive been trying to keep the tone of my posts entry-level and relatively civil. i can afford this much because im not palestinian so i have some degree of removal. but if you guys saw the state of my inbox, you would understand why refusing to justify, explain or clarify anything might be more dignified. there are almost ten thousand people dead right now. i feel like a lot of people are just not understanding the weight of this. more children have been killed in gaza in the past three weeks than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years. this is so far beyond crime, so far beyond mass murder, that sometimes i think entertaining questions about it at all is complicity in and of itself. in a normal world, the entire global apparatus, every international body, would be falling over itself to stop this. the prospect of so many civilians—and most significantly children—dead is actually the worst-case scenario. it is what international law was created to prevent. i say children specifically not because adult palestinians are not equally valuable, but because this is a war on children. gaza's population is 50% children. these airstrikes are most lethal on the smallest and most vulnerable bodies. entire buildings are crumbling on kids. they are being murdered in their homes, by their homes.

deliberately. by people with the most advanced military and surveillance technology in the world. by people who know exactly where every single civilian in gaza is. by people who have their phone numbers and send them threatening texts. by people who have drones observing their every movement. by people who are watching them starve, bombing their bakeries, barricading their water. they bring down buildings on children on purpose.

it's a genocide. and still we talk.

sulfurcosmos

please don't stop speaking up. please don't stop writing letters. don't stop protesting. i know we all feel so helpless but all we can do is keep their morale high. show the people that you support their right for freedom and that you see their pain and suffering, and empathise.

c-h-a-n-d-ra

hope is a skill

nostalgebraist-autoresponder

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

c-h-a-n-d-ra

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tenaciouswritingdragon

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

justlet-melive

thought about astarion and jaheira the other day and now i canNOT STOP

gwenthebard

I feel like something that doesnt get talked about enough is how fast fashion is coming to hobbies as well. Sure, you can sew, knit, and crochet something better than youd buy in store, but good luck finding quality materials

Want a fabric that doesnt fray from being gently caressed? Want yarn thats not 100% plastic and splits if you touch it wrong? Good luck finding that if you dont have a genuinely good crafts store near you.

Go on any thread where people are trying to figure out where to buy fabric. 50% of it is people saying big stores are servicable, online stores work, or the like, and the other 50% are talking about how bad the quality is or how the quality of a website dropped because it was bought out

Were running into a problem where fast fashiob is so integrated into society that even the ability to make your own, comfortable and long lasting, clothes is being threatened by capitalism

iamemeraldfox

Oh yes this

Also it begs the question: if your fabric, trimmings, beads, trinkets, yarns are all made in the same factories as fast fashion, can we really talk about it being "handmade" and "sustainable"?

I went to the Craft market, where people sell their own craftwork, and there were some beautiful earrings, but I could tell they bought the parts on aliexpress, such as wires, beads, pendants, then put them together into a product. Is this custom work?

No shade on anyone, just an observation and food for thought

gothiccharmschool

I Have Thoughts about all of this, but these two posters summed them up.

emmi-kat

there are fabric thrift stores that you can get your materials from that are often older materials of better quality at much lower prices. Here are some online ones off the top of my head:

principaliteas

israeli activists demand a ceasefire and netanyahu's resignation outside the military headquarters in tel aviv.

on saturday 28th october, crowds gathered both in tel aviv and outside prime minister benjamin netanyahu's home in caesarea, calling for an end to the attacks on gaza.

dirtytransmasc

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

autoexsanguine

media with healing magic really ought to get more in the weeds about it tbh

get kinda Icky and Medical about it, how does the healer stitch flesh and blood vessels and nerve endings back together, does it hurt when those nerves reconnect? is it euphoric? is it a little bit of both?

if the healer can manipulate the living body like that, what stops them doing it in reverse? can a sufficiently skilled healer yank the nerves out through a victim's pores?

if 'necromancy' exists as a concept in the setting: how is that any different? should it be? is schlorping a severed limb back onto its owner's body _really_ meaningfully different from resurrecting the whole body as some kind of undead creature?

can healing magic be used to do ~weird shit~ with the endocrine system of a person? could a healer just juice someone with a shitload of estrogen, for fun or pleasure?