It is a consistent theme in past cultures that elite courtesans were often the only truly free women. They were women of intellect, education, and power in worlds which denied that a woman could be anything.
Uncle Owen is not a grumpy old man who is more worried about his farm than what Luke wants.
Uncle Owen is not afraid Luke inherited the cruelty of his father. He doesn’t even know Anakin became Vader, he thinks Anakin got killed.
Uncle Owen doesn’t hate Obi-Wan because they had an argument or because something happened between them while Obi-Wan was on Tatooine.
Owen Lars was handled a tiny fragile baby to protect, and told that this baby’s father, who was always restless on Tatooine as a child, who loved speed and flying, who brought his starfighters into the most dangerous battles, to whom there was never enough excitement and adventure, has gotten himself killed in a war he was so eager to fight in, and which Owen never understood.
He watched over and raised this baby for 19 years. He is afraid. He is afraid when Luke becomes restless just like boy Anakin. He is afraid when Luke falls in love with flying, just like Anakin. He is afraid Obi-Wan will drag Luke off Tatooine, just like he dragged off Anakin.
He is afraid Luke will be like his father, never content to stay on their farm where it’s safe, but fly too fast, and fight too hard, and be too idealistic, and then get killed.
So when Owen says he’s afraid Luke has too much of his father’s in him, he is not worried Luke will be like Anakin, he is afriad Luke will die like Anakin.
Also, the “Academy” that Owen keeps giving Luke the runaround on? That’s not going to college to get off the farm, that is the IMPERIAL ACADEMY. As in military academy. Luke’s planning to enlist in the Imperial military to get off world, because he’s a naive, good hearted farmboy and he doesn’t have the life experience at that point to understand that the Empire is evil. And Owen can’t straight up tell him that, because that’s treason and informers are everywhere.
Anonymous asked: I’m new to your blog so I don’t fully know your take on Clone Wars and whatnot. I’ve seen the whole show and it seems like the Jedi are fairly trusting of Anakin during the war. My question is, what changed between that and ROTS to make the Jedi not like him? Especially Windu? Do we know? Or is that something that just wasn’t touched upon enough in Clone Wars?
Honestly, I would say that they’re still pretty trusting of Anakin even in Revenge of the Sith!
Yoda and Obi-Wan are both there and supportive of him–I know a lot of people don’t like Yoda’s advice in ROTS, but given how both George Lucas and Dave Filoni have talked about Yoda’s words are at the core themes of Star Wars, I’m pretty sure we’re meant to take that conversation in a positive light on Yoda’s side and a negative light on Anakin’s. YMMV on how you interpret it, everyone has their own views, which is perfectly cool, but I’m pretty sure the narrative is trying to show them as supportive, especially since Yoda’s taking time to sit down and talk with him, Obi-Wan makes a point to talk with him and reassure him that he’s on Anakin’s side.
The problem with Mace (since Anakin doesn’t really interact with many other Jedi beyond these three/the film doesn’t really show us many Jedi beyond them) is that it’s not really just about Anakin. It’s about Palpatine chipping away at what precious little autonomy the Jedi Order has left, by forcing them to appoint Anakin to the Council despite that he hasn’t yet earned it.
This isn’t Anakin’s fault, but he does accept the offer, when he could have turned it down. He’s angry when the Jedi try for a middle road, they have to accept Palpatine’s order, but they’re not going to promote him to Master just because Palpatine says so–and Anakin says, “How can you do this? This is outrageous. It’s unfair. How can you be on the Council and not be a master?”
The looks they’re all giving each other as Anakin’s intensity ramps up says everything about why they don’t trust him, that he’s getting upset because he takes this as a personal attack/betrayal rather than seeing that this is a political attack on the Jedi and that they can’t just bend to Palpatine’s whims.
Later, Anakin continues to rail against this decision with Obi-Wan, “What kind of nonsense is this? Put me on the council and not make me a master? It’s never been done in the history of the Jedi! It’s insulting!” “Calm down, Anakin. You have been given a great honor. To be on the Council at your age– it’s never happened before. The fact of the matter isyou are too close to the Chancellor. The Council doesn’t like it when he interferes in Jedi affairs.” “I swear to you, I didn’t ask to be put on the Council.” “But it’s what you wanted. Your friendship with Chancellor Palpatine seems to have paid off. “
It’s not Anakin’s fault that Palpatine is using him as a pawn against the Jedi, but he still accepted the appointment and refused to understand why this was an unearned promotion. (We can see, given the entire plot of the movie, that Anakin has not mastered himself. His Force skills are better than anyone else’s, but that’s not really what makes someone a Jedi. A Jedi is about mastery of self, controlling yourself, and Anakin’s not there, not yet.)
That’s why Padme also nails the problem with Anakin’s view, when he tells her, “Obi-Wan and the Council don’t trust me.” She responds with, “They trust you with their lives!” and he changes the subject because he seems to not have a good response to this truth.And it’s also why Mace later says, “If what you’ve told me is true, you will have gained my trust.” because it goes right back to what was shown to us in the Council meeting.
It’s about Anakin previously choosing his friendship with Palpatine at the cost of the Jedi Order, it’s about Anakin accepting the position on the Council because it’s what he wanted without having earned it, rather than understanding why this is such a shitty thing to do to the Jedi.
When Anakin comes to Mace to tell him, hey, this person that I thought was a friend is actually the Sith Lord we’ve been looking for, then Anakin did the right thing when push came to shove, which is what Mace didn’t trust he would do before, when he accepted Palpatine’s offer to put him on the Council. He chose what was better for everyone, rather than what was better for himself/his friend. The Clone Wars doesn’t really go into it a super lot, they’re not friendly, Anakin definitely thinks that Mace doesn’t give him enough praise (when Mace praises Artoo for the rescue, Anakin says that he never got any praise like that from Master Windu), so it’s not like they were BFFs before this, but the events at the beginning of the movie are really what puts that tension there between them.
Otherwise, the Jedi seem pretty positive towards Anakin in TCW, they praise plenty of times, so it seems like most of them support him pretty well and the problem between Anakin and the Council is about a growing sense of complicated circumstances. Anakin tends to assume the worst, he prioritizes personal loyalty over everything, so he doesn’t understand that their actions aren’t personal towards him. (This is a huge, huge factor in the reasons why Anakin feels so betrayed by the Council, especially as he listens to Palpatine telling him that they don’t value him enough, so his pov gets twisted around a lot.)
But things aren’t helped by some of the complicated political situations they get into (when Anakin would like to just go lightsaber everything in the face) and the situation with Ahsoka where everything went pear-shaped is something he blames on them (it’s complicated, too), which gives depth to a lot of the tension you’re picking up on with Anakin vs the Jedi Council, but ultimately I think most of what’s directly causing the Mace vs Anakin part is that they were suspicious of someone who would accept a position on their governing body that was appointed by an outside factor that forced it on them.
I think it’s clear that Anakin’s behavior is reactive to Mace’s, because Mace goes out of his way to be a condescending prick about it due to his blatant and unconcealed contempt towards Anakin, and doesn’t bother explaining anything.
If anything, Mace’s “compromise” was literally the worst possible outcome possible, because he essentially conceded the Chancellor’s authority over the Jedi but then subverted it in a petty and childish manner. It strongly reinforced the angle that the Jedi were insubordinate to lawful authority.
This is an inaccurate summary. Pepsi is suing farmers who are growing a specific cultivar of potato which was developed by Pepsi specifically for Lays brand potato chips and is not sold on the open market.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
I am not a lawyer, just a legal mediator who has worked in a couple fields federal law-adjacent. But it nevertheless really struck me as fucking bizarre that, particularly when marriage equality was made federal law, there was not also a push for sweeping federal employment law reform protections for LGBT+ folks.
Seemed like a huge oversight - seriously, you can get married in every state, but, what? You can also then legally lose your employment if your boss sees you have a same-sex spouse when file with HR to get them on your insurance? How the fuck does that make sense?
It never made sense, but it was all about the priorities set by rich white cis gays.
I’m not gonna get hyperthinkdeep into it, but I’m at the moment, just. Uhm. Ugh?
I loved the Alliance its general concept and the idea of uniting to work against a common enemy. I liked that it was composed of many different people from both sides who were tired and wanted to do something about their trouble. I liked the alliance, I liked having it, I liked that we did everything as the Alliance. And not x imperial or republic hero.
I think a faction war is a lazy concept and overdone and boring. I think that we should have continued to build on the general concept of being an independent faction trying to help out the galaxy and shit. I feel like theres more than can be done there than just “Rah, side with this faction, other faction bad and must destroy”.
So I guess I’m just very very cautiously optimistic. I don’t know how to feel about the direction of the story.
“The obvious question you might come up with at this point is, “why can’t you just put out the fire?” That’s because of the incendiary nature of coal. In general, a coal fire is extremely difficult to deal with under the best circumstances. If you had all the resources in the world and a good deal of space to work, they can be impossible to put out. Aboard a ship in tight quarters, it gets even more difficult.
An example of the difficulties with a coal fire would be the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.”
Holy shit
“Another issue that has always caused confusion was the Titanic’s speed. It was running at full speed when crossing the Atlantic Ocean, even when there were warnings of icebergs in the area. There were rumors that the ship was trying to break some kind of speed record, but the Titanic was not built for speed. This mammoth ship was a luxury liner. Molony indicates that this could have been caused by the fire-fighting activities.
In order to fight the fire, the stokers had been shoveling the burning coal into furnaces to burn the fire away. If the stokers had been shoveling as much coal as possible that could be the reason for the speed of the ship. As excess coal was burnt, the engines would work harder, generating speed. The stokers had been shoveling coal into the furnaces nonstop for 3 days fighting the fire during the maiden voyage. Molony thinks this is the reason why the ship was going at full speed when it hit the iceberg.”
Wow that makes *so much sense.*
I saw this article and just assumed it was political satire. What the fuck.
Ditto. What the fuck.
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DuPage County Register, 26 Apr 1912, Fri, Page 7
- I found this in the Snopes article on the subject)
Dilleys’ report was in newspapers in 1912; how did this not get into the massive cultural memory of the Titanic? I’ve heard accounts of how it sunk at least 10 times and never about this.
It should be pointed out that the Titanic’s crew didn’t really consider this an emergency, as coal-fires were a fairly routine hazard on large ships of the era and while they weren’t making any headway in actually extinguishing the fire, they were holding the line in keeping it safely contained in the coal-bunkers where it did not endanger the ship, and it was not consuming so much of the coal that the Titanic would have run out of fuel for her voyage.
The coal fire might have been a factor in Titanic remaining at full speed, but running through iceberg-filled waters at full speed was a relatively routine thing for the large liners to do, as up until the sinking of the Titanic, even experienced sailors vastly underestimated how much damage an iceberg could do to a very large, modern steel liner. Small ships generally slowed down if icebergs were spotted; big ships confidently sped through at their normal operating speeds in all but the most densely packed iceberg fields.
The Ant-Man movies’ slams on Stark are, of course, Hank Pym’s one-sided version of events. Howard Stark’s take on the same events would probably be along the lines of, “Pym is a self-righteous coward who would literally rather let the world burn than lift a finger outside of his own academic research. More importantly, he’s so narcissistic that he thinks he rightfully owns an entire field of physics and anyone else researching in it is stealing his work.”
As a point of historical reference, Isaac Newton had the exact same sense of entitled ownership over his field of study, which ultimately led to him becoming delusionally paranoid because obviously NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD was smart enough to understand his work, so anyone else who made any discovery at all was obviously stealing from him. Most of Newton’s entire life’s work was lost because he locked it up in a cabinet and his house later burned down with that cabinet inside, although given that it was all elementary physics, all of it has certainly been independently rediscovered by others in the years since.
So if I can sum that up, I “don’t like” RuPaul because he fucking hates me and my community.
I remember bringing up this topic like a year ago almost exactly, except I didn’t have all of these links and I got called out and blocked by shitloads of trans tumblr (or at least the side of trans tumblr that loves to defend RPDR) and people telling me, a broke ass trans woman with nowhere to go, no money to get there and hardly any resources at all, that I needed to go to more gay bars and check out the underground scene lol
But here you go, to all the people who didn’t block me.
Jane Elliott giving a lecture on “Color Blindness”
seeing these white people squirm gave me joy.
Mad respect to her bc she made that vid FREE instead of making ppl pay her to repeat us like Tim wise does
Jane Elliot is the definition of a true anti-racism ally.
Loved this video. I also loved when the white girl started crying and she didn’t go running to make her feel better as she had no reason to be crying any way.
new followers, welcome. watch this.
Yeah for every 5 new followers I get I lose 4 because I stay posting shit like this. They think it’s all jokes with me and it’s not. I like to have fun but it’s real for me and if you can’t accept that then begone.
this was actually really gross those people could be gay, trans queer, mentally ill, disabled in a non visible way, abused ect and have to deal with that every day as well so i think she and the school doesn’t have th right to do this shit
GAY WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST
TRANS AND QUEER WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST
MENTALLY ILL WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST
DISABLEDWHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST
WHITE VICTIMS OF ABUSE CAN STILL BE RACIST
BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY
BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY
BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY
Reblogging for the clap back pics
“she doesn’t have the right to do this shit” teach kids to not be racist? How is that hurting you?
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