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Happy birthday to Mon Mothma herself, the loveliest and fierce Genevieve O’Reilly. May the Force be with You! ✨    A couple of sketches I've drawn of her 💅🏻 

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Nancy Friedland (Canadian, 1971) - Let Me See Your Beauty When the Witnesses Are Gone (2021)

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

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I still think theaters should record plays for people who can’t fly to another country to see them live T---T

Ok guys but consider, Satine Kryze and Kin Robb, together, do you guys see the vision?

new reaction meme just dropped

most annoying star wars ship 2026

valentine's day is on the horizon, love is in the air, and we're baaaaack.

that's right, time to choose the most annoying star wars ship! now we're not talking x-wings, u-wings, star destroyers, or any of that. we're talking about pairings between characters — so don't get cute and give me an imperial delta-class shuttle or anything like that.

the rules are simple: you can submit any ship from any piece of star wars media (or crossovers between various star wars media) — as long as the fans are annoying! submissions will only be accepted through the google form linked below; any submissions sent to this inbox will be automatically deleted. stupid questions will also be deleted, unless i find them funny.

the top 16 ships will be included in the final tournament.

submissions are now open HERE!

they will close on friday, january 9 at 11:59 PM EST. the polls for the tournament will open in the days following that.

so i'm no huge fan of rideshare and delivery apps, but this? this post?

completely fake. the article linked above thoroughly debunks it.

Tbh I find the debunkment halfhearted as well, seemingly they were unwilling to identify themselves and had no actual proof and AI generated both (NOT in the reddit post, so how could you tell?) and then the only other reason the debunker cites is the whistleblower had typos when PMing (I'm also a software engineer who can't spell for shit) and that they used library wifi which wouldn't be good for opsec, which is true but that's not the point of using public wifi, the point is to stay anonymous.

EOD is this true probably not but there is more ambiguity than just "it was an AI" (It wasn't, it was a person who had an agenda of some kind, who used AI 'proof')

Frankly my biggest question is who went to this much effort to slander food delivery apps? My guess is they assume a lot of this is true, and he wanted to force the companies into proving it's not or admitting it was. Perhaps he is a desperate driver himself, or maybe he works in a similar business using dark practices and went too far to hide his identity, or maybe he just wanted attention on reddit and had a story people wanted to believe.

TLDR; Nuance

Let’s bring back nuance in 2026.

Don’t let anyone try to convince you that this didn’t happen, that there wasn’t a violent insurrection on our home soil in our nation’s Capitol building.  Don’t let them whitewash a white supremacist attack that was one step in the rise of the authoritarian regime.  Don’t let them make you feel that they have won and that this is the way things have to be.  We know the truth, we know what is right, and we will prevail.  

I’ll never forget watching Jan 6 go down live since I happened to get the push notification that PBS was going live for the speeches. I tuned in because I was worried there would be a riot or putsch of some sort. I’ll never forget them filming from a balcony as the windows and doors were being bashed in.

this post is ruining my life. i keep saying that im doing things “dustly” and that things were “mad of dust”