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anna (she/her) | 30something | les mis fan (non-practicing) | unfortunately into star wars

Chapters: 1/1 Rating: Mature Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 212th Attack Battalion Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) & CC-2224 | Cody Summary:

“No one's ever beaten it,” Nova doubles down. “It's impossible. No one can.”

The words circle in Cody's head and he feels an itch in his teeth. No one can. Impossible. The challenge—it’s always done something to him. Tripped a reaction in his brain. Triggered adrenaline and dopamine.

He’s on his feet before he realizes it. 

As tiring as all this shit is, I can't in good faith continue to use spotify.

For anyone else jumping ship, I used to exportify.app to save my favorite playlists.

Your phone has gigabytes of space on it. Plenty of room to store a few thousand mp3 files. And excellent players are free.

For Android, I prefer Pulsar.

For those wanting to move their playlists to another service, SongShift is a great app for that.

And in case anyone needed another reason: Spotify uses AI almost exclusively now which is why your Wrapped sucked in 2024, and your playlist suggestions have weird nonsensical names.

I'd also recommend checking out Bandcamp. Your favorite artists tend to release albums on there and the digital versions [the mp3s] are usually cheap and affordable. And the money goes directly to the artist.

Do you live in Massachusetts? Are you looking for some direct action to take? Guess what our shitty state house just did!

It’s passed in the house and going to the state senate as far as I can tell and it seems like they just snuck it in there because ???. So it’s time to harass your state senator and rep. You can find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

Call them, email them, send them letters, protest outside their doors, whatever. Let them know this will not stand here

Yo, fuck this shit. We cannot let them do this. We must remain a safe haven for those in need.

Link to article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/metro/massachusetts-house-opposite-sex-teams-transgender-athletes/

Amendment and bill number: Amendment #81 to H4005

Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

Chilkat weaving is the absolute pinnacle of fiber art, and Anna Brown Ehlers is *the* master weaver.

Japan has a system where skilled traditional craftspeople and performers are recognized as “Living National Treasures”. These are people who have mastered their art and ensure that traditional techniques are kept alive and passed on. The tangible objects they create are masterpieces of great value, but their intangible skills and knowledge are priceless. It is a great honor to be a Living National Treasure, and the Japanese government has a specific grant to subsidize these artists so that they can continue to create and enrich the culture of Japan.

Indigenous artists deserve this level of recognition and support. Anna Brown Ehlers and Jennie Thlunaut were both awarded heritage fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, but that is really insufficient recognition for the work they’ve done to preserve and revive and teach the art of Chilkat weaving. Not only the weaving technique, but also the art of formline design itself.

I have very strong emotions on this topic.

Most recent Cody drawing vs. my first drawing of him from a year ago

This character has taken over my life and I am so delighted by the community I’ve joined because of him.

Sometimes I see people from countries with public healthcare systems post videos that are like “This is the reality of socialized medicine. I had to wait in the ER with my sick baby for 4 hours.” “I had to wait 8 months to see a specialist. That’s egregious.” or “They didn’t have a bed for my loved one in mental health treatment.” and it’s like. Come to America babygirl. You can experience all of this and have your insurance deny it and pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it. Like I know healthcare systems in countries with public health can be bad but when I see someone imply they’re bad because the healthcare is universal, I want to jump through the screen and put my elbow on their throat. “The NHS is deeply flawed, therefore we should abolish it and go back to private healthcare. That will definitely make healthcare in this country better!” I am going to Kill You.

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a little wip wednesday

today i'm writing blyla as a little treat (and bc some art i saw really pinged my brain and i needed to make it happen) ft. my otc painkillers medic trio

“Kill me,” Bly says desperately as he steps into the med tent. “Make it quick. But painful, I deserve that.” 

Phen snorts, unmoved. 

And here Bly thought medics were supposed to be sympathetic. 

“It wasn't that bad,” Ofen chimes in, but still lacking that whole sympathy thing. 

“Not that bad?” Bly scoffs. “It was a nuclear level incident. It was—wait, how do you know what happened?”

Ofen shrugs. “Word travels fast.”

“It may have been clipped,” Rin hedges with a grimace. “And is possibly definitely making the rounds on every group chat known to clone.”

Bly freezes, his body going hot and cold with shame. For a moment he feels like he leaves his body entirely, ha, look at that stupid fucker who just blew up his whole life, wouldn't it suck to be him? But no, he is that stupid fucker.

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a little wip wednesday

today i'm writing blyla as a little treat (and bc some art i saw really pinged my brain and i needed to make it happen) ft. my otc painkillers medic trio

“Kill me,” Bly says desperately as he steps into the med tent. “Make it quick. But painful, I deserve that.” 

Phen snorts, unmoved. 

And here Bly thought medics were supposed to be sympathetic. 

“It wasn't that bad,” Ofen chimes in, but still lacking that whole sympathy thing. 

“Not that bad?” Bly scoffs. “It was a nuclear level incident. It was—wait, how do you know what happened?”

Ofen shrugs. “Word travels fast.”

“It may have been clipped,” Rin hedges with a grimace. “And is possibly definitely making the rounds on every group chat known to clone.”

Bly freezes, his body going hot and cold with shame. For a moment he feels like he leaves his body entirely, ha, look at that stupid fucker who just blew up his whole life, wouldn't it suck to be him? But no, he is that stupid fucker.

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