Thinking about Commander Fox 25/7

daniel molloy character of all time once again: like imagine you’re a 20-something drug addict and a terrible journalist on account of being 20-something and a drug addict and you randomly meet a vampire at a gay bar and you think wow I might get drugs, gay sex and a story out of this and instead what you get is psychologically and physically tortured by his husband and your memories of it all erased and then 50 years later you’re DYING and those vampires show up in your life again to ask you to write the story of their happy marriage and your memory might be fucked but ON GOD you WILL ruin that marriage if it’s the last thing you do. and then not only do you succeed and walk out of it alive, but also with a bestseller, millions in your bank account AND immortality AND the knowledge that your annoying human ass was somehow the one thing that made that 500+ year old predator so mad that he broke his lifetime vow to never turn anyone. AND, on top of that, you’re out of the CLOSET.

thinking about the insane journey of armands relationship with sex on this fine morning

sex was something that was done to him in the brothels then marius rescued him and told him he loved him and now sex is something we do because we love each other but now marius is sending him out to anybody who asks nicely so sex is something he owes people but then marius is gone and the children of darkness are training him and sex is something shameful that you need to attone for and then lestat shows up and is it love? do I owe him this? then he's gone again and now sex is just something we do to keep the boredom and the dark thoughts at bay and then louis arrives and it's noncommittal until it is and they're both trying to reclaim something but it's never really sacred because louis also sleeps with the men he kills and then it's full circle back to daniel calling him the rent boy like jesus christ no wonder he does all that

it's like meeting a celebrity

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

canceled my prime membership today

So, you know how certain Christian missionaries are trained to act in a very obnoxious way, so that most people they preach to will reject them outright, so they feel like the world hates them for being Christian and they can only be friends with fellow Christians? You know that thing?

I think as activists, we sometimes need to stop and ask ourselves whether we're acting like those missionaries. I think this type of behavior is a little more ingrained into our society than some of us realize, and some of us have internalized it without realizing what it's actually meant to do.

It's also extremely important to do the opposite of this. There are people who have been intentionally trapped in systems designed to keep them with the system, to spread its influence, etc (as mentioned above) You do not excise people from these cycles by being aggressive and standoffish. You excise people from these cycles by being kind, firm, and accepting. Listening to other people and accepting what they have to say WITHOUT "Well that's nice but I think-" is how you let someone realize a system they are trapped in is hurting them without screaming it in their face and pushing them further into a vicious cycle. Forgive ex-extremists. Forgive ex-cops. Forgive veterans. Hell, forgive ex-racists and ex-homophobes/transphobes. The systems we're fighting against rely on outside pressure to stay contained within them. Don't do a fascist's job for them.

This is all very true. And contrary to what a lot of people think, it doesn't mean allowing someone who is actively harmful to your mental health to just walk all over you and hurt you. (You're never obligated to expose yourself to a person who isn't healthy for you to be around!) But if you're going to get down to the work of deradicalizing the country, you have to start with individuals, and that means doing what you can to help them grow into the kind of people you want them to be instead of attacking them for what they're trying to escape and leave behind.

This is also true for kids with shitty parents. They’re GOING to agree with what their parents tell them 9 times out of 10, but telling a kid they’re wrong elicits a “NUH UH!” So you don’t do that. You let them explain, you ask them questions. Sometimes you can ask a leading question. Then when they ask you what you think you can tell them, but nobody changes when they don’t want to. You have to let them want to change on their own.

Brought to you by the unhinged thought of "what if merrical, skyjade, and sabezra were all canon in stealingpotatoes' The Last 4 Jedi AU?" (Credit for the au goes to stealingpotatoes, but I'm not gonna tag her because I'm pretty sure she doesn't ship sabezra.) Anyways, here's a comic about it. I don't think Ahsoka, the galaxy's biggest lowkey canon anidala shipper, would genuinely react this way, but I thought it was a funny scenario to draw out.

Bonus: original concept sketch of the second panel:

Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows

Some of you guys don't even realise I don't mean setting a CD on fire

(via hornedchick)

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

@meghanteamkc

To: professor@schoolname.edu Subject: CLASS3290 Question

are you mad at me

Yes

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#it’s wild this was deleted because it feels like such a keystone in understanding padme. she’s 24 and still prefers to live at home because#her professional life gives her no comfort. how this career stole her youth (don’t try to grow up too fast anakin she tells him) and places#her#in these situations where she is (or feels responsible) for these massive amounts of life. and how that incident with the little boy#informs how she reacts to anakin. she doesn’t see an evil man who needs to be fixed. she remembers that slave boy and wants to save him#(you’ll always be that little boy from tatooine)#but the cruel irony is she can’t. she couldn’t save those kids she can’t save anakin and she can’t save herself#it also highlights more similarities between anakin and padme. again i really do get why the scenes were cut but this convo should have#been reworked into another scene then#attack of the clones#deleted scene#padme amidala#anakin skywalker#also. she’s packing more clothes.

Ok I adore this????

One thing about Padme that I think is implied but not clearly emphasized because of the cut scenes is she is Deeply Traumatized. By her entire life. At fourteen, she fought a life or death battle to free her planet. At fourteen, she had to leave some of her handmaidens behind. At fourteen, the fate of her planet rested on her shoulders. At an indeterminate age, she helped evacuate a planet only to find out that all those people died later on. Like??? Every moment of her life was unintentional child exploitation because of her planet’s culture.

And at the end of the day, she just wants her mommy and daddy. Because she never got a chance to grow up. She just got thrown into adulthood, so she’s still a little kid, deep down, trying to keep her head above water. Is she doing amazingly? Yes. Does all this contextualize why she loved Anakin, who continually chose her, who continually put her over everything, who valued her for her rather than her title? Yes.

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