look. fungus can be pretty bad in your house, both structurally and in terms of the inherent health effects of having a living organism have sex on your walls and then release the resulting millions of spores into a confined space. but like. if you have three admirably large shelf-like mushrooms sprouting from the base of the wall in your living room, and they create a spore print so large it billows out a good couple feet….. idk man that might just be theirs now
How the fuck did berkeley’s polypore grow in this house????
Looking it up BP is a hardwood fungus so it might be coming from the floor. Whatever it is, it busted such a fat fungal nut that it’s impossible to tell if that’s hardwood or tile
you dont get “fat fungal nut” anywhere else but tumblr
“the three dots on the side” call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu
im gonna say it now so everyone in my notes stops arguing over this. meatballs menu is three dots side-by-side. kebab menu is three dots up and down. bento menu is an array of 9 dots in a square shape. hamburger menu is three lines horizontally. Yes there are others but none of them are nearly as prevalent so i dont care enough to list them. goot bye
Literally what they’re called btw this post isn’t a bit
u ever read a poem so beautiful u wanna live between its lines? u wanna drink it and simultaneously drench yourself in it? u wanna fully become it and make every line of it a permanent part of you???
I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea
“The clones were genetically bred to have accelerated growth, so they’re technically child soldiers.”
“The clones were slaves of the Jedi.”
Both the above statements are inaccurate, let’s explore why.
“The clones were child soldiers”
Let’s get the easy one out of the way first, because it’s a logic that cuts both ways. If age is our only determination of the maturity of a Star Wars character, then Grogu is not a baby. He is aged 50, and is thus a middle-aged man.
Who cruelly eats the babies of a woman…
… and knowingly tortures animals for his own sadistic pleasure.
Of course, I’m kidding. Grogu’s none of the above things.
The narrative frames him as a cute baby who does innocent baby stuff. Him eating the eggs is played off as comedic, as is him lifting with the frog. To this day, some fans still call him “Baby Yoda”.
Conversely, despite the clones being 10/14-years-old, their actions, behaviors, way of thinking, sense of humor, morals etc, are all those of an adult.
Like, Ahsoka is technically older than Rex in this scene.
The scene doesn’t portray them as peers, though. This isn’t written as “a teen and a tween talking”. No, Rex looks, acts and behaves like a grown-up and is thus framed as such by the narrative.
You can make the argument “they’re child soldiers”, but (unless you’re doing so in bad faith) you’d also have to argue that “Grogu’s an adult”.
Again: both the Jedi (monk/diplomats untrained for fighting on a battlefield) and clones (literally bred en masse only to fight) are being forced to fight by Palpatine and the Senate.
Though, on paper, the clones were commissioned by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, it was actually done by the Sith (who either manipulated or assassinated Sifo-Dyas then stole his identity, depending on the continuity you choose to adhere to). The rest of the Jedi had no idea these clones were being created.
So while the clones are slaves… they’re not owned by the Jedi.
They’re the army of the Republic, they belong to the Senate. This isn’t exactly a scoop, they refer to the clones as something to purchase…
… and manufacture.
As far as the Senate’s concerned, clones are property, like droids.
Like there’s a whole subplot in The Bad Batch about this very point: after the war, the clones are decommissioned and left out to dry because they literally have no rights, they served their purpose.
The only trooper to ever canonically blame the Jedi for the clones’ enslavement is Slick, who the narrative frames as having been bribed and manipulated by Asajj Ventress into betraying his comrades.
Also, the only canonical Jedi shown to ever be mean, dismissive or mistreating the clones in any way, is Pong Krell.
And it’s eventually revealed he’s in fact a full-on traitor, hence why the story frames him as an antagonistic dick from the moment he’s introduced. He doesn’t represent the Jedi in any way.
We know this because the other Jedi we’ve been shown are always prioritizing their clones’ lives over theirs, if given the chance.
Finally, if we wanna get even more specific… as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the clones belong to Palpatine.
Palpatine who is a Sith Lord.
Palpatine who arranged for the creation of the clones and had them all injected with a chip that would activate upon hearing a code-word…
… and forced them to murder their Jedi without hesitation or remorse.
When you bear all that ⬆️ in mind and when you read this quote by George Lucas…
“The Jedi won’t lead droids. Their whole basis is connecting with the life force. They’d just say, ‘That’s not the way we operate. We don’t function with non-life-forms.” So if there is to be a Republic army, it would have to be an army of humans.” - The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020
… narratively-speaking, everything falls into place.
Sidious knows that:
If he orchestrates a war designed to thin the Jedi’s numbers, corrupt their values and plunge the galaxy into chaos…
If he wants to draft the Jedi - peace-keeping diplomats who’d never willingly join the fray - to fight in his war…
… then the only way they won’t resist the draft and abstain from fighting is if they think joining the conflict will save lives.
So he creates a set of cruel, sadistic villains for them to face, opponents who will target innocent civilians at every turn…
… and instead of lifeless droids, he prepares for the Jedi an army of men… living, mortal people who, despite being well-trained, will be completely out of their league when facing the likes of Dooku…
… Ventress…
… Grievous…
… Savage Opress…
… or the defoliator, a tank that annihilates organic matter.
Thus, in order to save as many clone and civilian lives, the Jedi join the fray despite knowing that doing so will corrupt their values.
And as the war rages on, a bond of respect is formed between the two groups.
Clearly, the Jedi don’t like the fact that the Republic is using the clones to fight a war, but for that matter, they don’t like being in a war, in fact they advocated against it.
However, it’s happening regardless of their issues with the idea or personal philosophies. Said The Clone Wars writer Henry Gilroy:
“I’d rather not get into the Jedi’s philosophical issues about an army of living beings created to fight, but the Jedi are in a tough spot themselves, being peacekeepers turned warriors trying to save the Republic.”
And bear in mind, the Jedi are basically space psychics, the clones are living beings that they can individually feel in the Force…
… so the Jedi feel every death but need to move on, regardless, only being able to mourn the troopers at the end of every battle.
We see this in the Legends continuity too, by the way.
Also, if you ask the clones, they’re grateful the Jedi have their backs.
When Depa Billaba voices her concerns about how the war is impacting the Jedi’s principles, troopers Grey and Styles are quick to make it clear how grateful they all are for the Jedi’s involvement:
Only I’d argue the clones have it much, much worse.
The Senate sees the Jedi as “ugh, the holier-than-thou space-monk lapdogs who work for us”… but a Jedi has the option to give up that responsibility. They can leave the Order, no fuss or stigma.
A clone trooper cannot leave the GAR! If they do, they’re marked for treason and execution. Again, they’re not perceived as “people”.
And it doesn’t help that the Kaminoans, the clones’ very creators, see the troopers as products/units/merchandise. A notion that the Jedi are quick to correct whenever they get the chance.
How The Clone Wars writers describe the clones’ relationship with the Jedi.
I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
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Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
WHAT
water was in the name of the set. That paint is called water color. How did you guys not know this?
i. i can’t believe this.
get good yahoo. No one uses you anymore
You were the best website to not use the app for back in 2014
We also need to stop insisting that everyone enjoying flawed things must put 25 cents in the Problematic Jar and recite all its failings from memory.
If I just may add: we really need to stop pretending that “I’m a Good person, ergo the thing I like is PERFECT and if you criticize it you’re an ENEMY”. You can enjoy stuff AND keep your sense of critical thinking.
A lot clicked for me when my mom said the reason she was so reactive towards me as a kid was that she assumed intent behind things I did, rather than recognizing my behaviors for being normal kid behaviors or normal autism behaviors. So I got treated as if I was an adult who was intentionally doing things to upset her. She’d react to me like I had the maturity and wherewithal to do things in a cruel or manipulative way, making her life harder, when I was just existing. Just trying to learn how to cope and be a person myself. When she told me this I stopped in my tracks trying to process. Why would anyone’s default assumption be that a kid is trying to antagonize them instead of like, struggling with something they’re experiencing? But she was also raised the exact same way, treated like everything she did carried the weight of adult responsibility, not seen as a kid.
As a child therapist who focuses on audhd kids THIS!! So often parents put intent behind kids actions when it’s just “kid trying to feel safe and comfortable”. babies are not trying to “manipulate “ you, kids and teens are just pushing back to figure out the boundaries of their world, if a kid doesn’t like something don’t force it on them. Stop expecting better emotional regulation from your child than you’ve ever shown them.
Stop expecting better emotional regulation from your child than you’ve ever shown them.
It frightens and discourages me how pervasive “tribal” stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.
It’s all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you’re likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can’t recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.
You can’t escape it in modern cinema, either. You’ll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don’t know how to use their resources “properly.” You’ll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.
And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the “bloodthirsty natives” are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.
It doesn’t matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn’t matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn’t make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same “savage” umbrella. They’re different. They’re strange. They’re scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.
Modern writers, directors, and developers don’t even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as “obstacles” for non-native protagonists to overcome. “It’s not racist,” they say, “because these people aren’t really people, you see.” And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you’re accused of being the real racist: “These aren’t humans! They’re monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?”
No, they’re not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?
“he would not fucking say that” but its about a character being a leftist. he would not fucking believe that
media literacy is knowing when a character would say “i dont vote. why are you bringing politics into this?” no matter how mad it makes you to hear somebody irl say the same thing
Every time I’m busy all the theaters are playing those made up artsy movies that insecure people talk about to make fun of “film snobs” that just end up sounding really cool and whenever I’m free it’s all shit like a Winnie the Pooh Slasher Movie and a Goonies reboot
When I’m busy: Lithuanian film about a homosexual pigeon who travels to Germany and after learning about his pigeon sexuality, witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall with his lover, a discarded cigarette who is a drag queen
When I’m free: Ghostbusters 7: Bustin Never Felt Better
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
i think the single greatest example of environmental storytelling in video games is in Unpacking. it’s a game with no dialogue that consists entirely of unpacking your stuff out of moving boxes and placing it into the correct places around the place your character is moving into. there are a lot of subtle storytelling beats, like the same stuffed animal coming with you through every single move, but there’s one level in particular that takes place right after your character graduates college and moves in with her boyfriend that goes normally at first.
but then you get to your framed diploma.
you go to hang it on the wall in the kitchen, but there’s a bigass painting already there that you can’t move (presumably your boyfriends) that takes up the entire wall.
you go to hang it on the wall in the living room, but there are already a bunch of posters there - again, presumably your boyfriend’s. there’s clearly space for your diploma if the posters were scooched closer together, but again, you can’t even move them.
with a growing sense of dread and desperation, you move to the bathroom. this room has the only wall space in the apartment for you to hang your diploma: directly over the toilet.
but if you try to place it there, it gets a red outline, indicating that it’s in the “wrong” spot and the level won’t finish.
you go to the bedroom.
there is no wall space.
you click under the bed.
the level finishes.
the next level has you moving back into your childhood bedroom.
we lost the plot on “slur reclamation” the second people started boldly claiming once they personally reclaim one nobody else is allowed to have negative feelings about it. speaking as a self identified faggot i wouldn’t go around telling people faggot isn’t a slur just because i like to call myself one..and yet in 2024 we’re still seeing people raked over the coals for saying “call yourself whatever you want but i don’t want to be called queer” like where is the basic respect. childish behavior.
“#slur discourse and slur reclamation within the queer community is so deeply white to me tbh
#like it wouldn’t exist if white people knew how slurs work beyond ‘nono [word] people can’t say’
#and then they go and use nigga as an example when queer is very much not like nigga lmao”
hey i want more people to reblog this version of the post. while my original post was specifically about lgbt slur discourse, as i am white and have never been the target of a racial slur, it’s undeniable that said discourse is predominantly led by white people with a fundamental lack of understanding of the history of slurs and their violent applications. it’s a discussion i don’t believe can be held without being informed on the topic and listening to black voices. i’m really grateful to everyone who’s added to this version of the post in the tags as well and hope it’s alright that i share a couple of them here for others to read.
[image ID: tumblr tags that read “#honestly so much of slur reclamation amongst white people at least is derived from a desire to say slurs #and it’s starting to spread to other communities #I’m watching white disabled people insist upon slur reclamation to non white disabled people #white also a pattern of those white disabled people either only just recently became or found out they’re disabled”. end ID]
[image ID: tumblr tags that read “#reminds me of that white person who was arguing that not Reclaiming slurs gives oppressors more power…. are you hearing yourself? #slur reclaimation to white people barely ever has nuance because their only exposure to it is seeing people people reclaim it #and they arent black obvs so they will never understand how and why it works when it comes to the n word #all they know is black ppl say the n and nobody else should say it. thats all they know #and theyre excited to fucking say slurs with no repercussions.” end ID]
oh to be a bored prince who keeps rejecting marriage proposals due to being secretly in love with the cute gardener boy
oh to be a cute gardener boy who secretely places roses in the prince’s room because he is in love with him
Oh to be the palace guard who discreetly helps to boost the cute gardener boy up the wall for his secret deliveries in the middle of the night
oh to be the prince’s mother who knows everything (especially since she keeps finding romantic poetry on his desk) and is waiting for her son to make a big dramatic reveal befitting of his rank
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