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I just thought I was constantly thinking thoughts because I am thoughtful

someone donated to awesome games done quick (benefitting the prevent cancer foundation) to say donate plasma

not donate blood

not donate blood or plasma

not donate plasma and blood

just "donate plasma"

nobody ever fucking says that because nobody gives a shit about plasma. barely anyone knows what plasma donations even are

plasma keeps me alive

blood is more for stuff like surgery and getting shot and plasma saves people with major long-term, often life-threatening illnesses like me

so of course almost all calls for donations are just for blood

thank you

donate plasma

Donating plasma right now, just for you 😘

thank you. in 12 months when it turns into my medicine I will absorb your essence into my entire being forevermore and I will never give it back

Winter didn’t end the war. It finished what bombs started.

Flooded tents. Sick bodies. No shelter. Pain is background noise now and we’re still here, freezing.

I’m not asking to be noticed. I’m asking not to be erased. 💳 Donate here ➡️ PayPal ✅ Verified fundraiser

The year changes. Nothing else does.

I refresh the page. Silence answers.

Time moves on, and we’re being left behind.

This isn’t patience. It’s being ignored.

Don’t let this year start with our disappearance.

$10,550/$20,000

Happy new year sluts

ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) - dir. George Lucas

i just started listening to hozier (ik, like over a decade late, whatever), but bruh. some of y'all did this dude so dirty. everything i've ever seen of him on here has been like "uwu magical forest man" and so my black ass goes into it expecting white boy indie music, but instead i get this radical leftist irish guy straight up singing the blues, like?? (singing the blues/having a lot of blatantly black musical influences, BUT crediting his influences in the process, which is a an important distinction)

like y'all. has anyone told tiktok what kind of music this man actually makes? bc some of them might be shooketh to find out their precious forest man is actually telling them to dismantle the oppressive institution of colonialism while actively paying homage to artists of color

well, that and also to eat pussy, but same thing tbh

btw having curly hair but not being taught how to care about it as a child means that even if you are white, the majority of hair advice being given by other white people is useless and actively harmful to you, so you literally owe everything you know to black and brown women online

we should all be deeply deeply ashamed that the staff and users of this website have succeeded in making a social media environment that is more hostile to black people than that of a website currently owned and operated by an unabashed white supremacist

i have something to say 

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obviously we know in our hearts that Jabba the Hutt is not a dragon. that’s ridiculous.

But Is Jabba A Dragon Though?

he has the body plan of a lindworm. I suppose you could argue that he is too thick to be considered “serpentine”, but he is longer than he is wide, and not entirely unlike an especially chunky gaboon viper. his upright posture distracts from the fact that he’s built like an abbreviated mole lizard, which are lindworms.

and then of course he acts like a dragon. I don’t know if Star Wars uses gold or something else but whatever it is I’m sure he hordes it. eats people sometimes. disturbing taste for princesses. knights come to kick his ass.

Is Jabba A Dragon?

Jabba the Hut isn’t a dragon. He doesn’t fly. He’s more like a slug.

Ah, but he uses a hoversled, which is much like flying:

And not all creatures under the broad category of “dragon” fly. Lindworms don’t fly, neither do wyrms, drakes, sea serpents, or hydras. Lungs/Chinese dragons can fly but they don’t use wings to do it. Jabba should not be disqualified as a dragon simply because he uses repulsor technology to achieve airborne locomotion.

Jabba is unlike a slug in so many ways. He has jointed limbs, a hard internal skeleton, a skull with fixed spherical eyeballs, and no sensory tentacles or pneumostome. He is capable of facultative parthenogenesis--like komodo dragons and other squamates--continuously growing larger and living for hundreds of years hoarding wealth and power and preying on princesses. His resemblance to a slug is superficial, though we may describe him as such in an insulting fashion... like how a dragon may be called a “worm”.

Also he can and does eat people.

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon and I have convinced myself of this.

No he aint bro hes a fuckin alien. dragons have to originate from the planet earth hes from a galaxy far far away.

The dragons from both The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and The Pit Dragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen are aliens from extraterrestrial planets called Pern and Austar IV, respectively. 

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon.

I think you will find that Hutts lack a backbone, commonly known as a spine, which, for the most part, dragons have either litterially or figuratively.

Jabba’s motions, limbs, and posture are clearly dependent upon the use of a hard interior support system. Lacking an exoskeleton and being unable to simply squelch out of Leia’s chokehold suggests he is not simply moving around via the hydrolics of a muscular hydrostat. Besides, there’s this art from the making of The Phantom Menace:

ship this is getting dangerously close to morphological taxonomy

do you want a plucked chicken swung at you? because this is how you get a plucked chicken swung at you.

“Dragon” is like “worm”, in my opinion. It’s not a taxonomy because the variety of creatures referred to as “worms” don’t even belong to related phylums. A horsehair worm and a nightcrawler are not related but they share an innate “worminess”. A velvet worm has many legs and is still counted as a worm-thing. Like I’ve said before, “worm” isn’t a taxonomy; it’s a lifestyle.

Dragons are the same way. It’s an umbrella term, and while some irritating pedants insist that only a four-legged creature with words god can be considered a dragon, they only say that to make sure everyone in the room knows that they know what a wyvern is. Wyverns and lindworms and amphitheres are obviously all under the dragon umbrella.

If these things are dragons, then “dragon” is as fluid a category as “worm”:

Jabba has more stereotypical “dragon traits” than some dragons do. He doesn’t hit every point, but a dragon is a worm is a dragon is a worm.

My general position is that the use of the word "dragon" to encompass all these disparate creatures is a bad thing and a relic of eurocentric colonialism. A Chinese Long is not the same thing as an English Dragon, nor is a wyvern or an amphithere, and calling them "dragons" belies the cultural differences in which these disparate creatures arose.

In terms of narrative purpose and lifestyle, Janba fills the role that a Dragon does in many stories, however. I would argue Jabba is a dragon in the same sense that a Tsuchigumo is.

I think enforcing a strict cultural differentiation would eliminate most dragons from fiction. Fiction, which supplies most modern dragons, does not stick to a strict historical consistency in dragon-depiction, either visually or behaviorally.

Take, for example, the dragons from The Last Airbender. They’re clearly dragons, as they breathe fire and have wings, but they’re also more like elemental spirits that visually and behaviorally resemble lungs more than they resemble, say, Smaug. Do their similarities to lungs disqualify them from dragonhood?

Also, it’s not like the medieval Welsh concept of a “dragon” evolved in a vacuum. There are mythical creatures from around the world that bear strong resemblances to That Specific Creature Which We Are Apparently Now Inisisting Is The Only True Dragon. Welsh and British folklore was surely being influenced by mythology from disparate cultures. 

I am firmly against declaring wyverns “not dragons” because even in British cultural history, the distinction only arose out of the technicalities of heraldry, not folklore or even art. 

The only thing that Jabba lacks in terms of dragon qualifications: the innately obvious “dragony-ness” that makes most people take one look and go “oh yeah that’s a dragon”. But i don’t think that that’s a REQUIREMENT of dragon-hood. Like, what the fuck is that thing down there?

That thing does not have innate dragony-ness to me. It looks like a turtle with tentacles. 

But, while I think the answer to “can we consider Jabba the Hutt to be a dragon” is yes, no one has asked whether or not Jabba would consider himself to be a dragon.

there’s a whole list on wookiepedia of dragons in star wars and it turns out there’s a bunch of creatures that have “dragon” in their name and they all have quite a lot of dragony-ness but also none of them seem to reach anything beyond semi-sentience. So maybe Jabba has enough dragon-y qualities to be considered a dragon, but he himself would be insulted if you called him one.

@glumshoe

i’m reading Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber and

he’s a fucking dragon 

@glumshoe

you make some good points and also I ABSOLUTELY HATE YOU FOR THIS

fine.

DRAGON LOCATED

i hate this i hate this i hate this

official dragon post

unfortunately

benoit blanc interrupting a murder confession by hopping onto an organ to play the phantom of the opera for the hashtag drama of it god i wish to be a cunty old gay the way he is one day

Okay but as an ambulatory wheelchair user I loved how Rian Johnson portrayed Simone. He didn't have her be miraculously healed, but had her learn to live and deal with her chronic pain.

Abled people really don't understand how big that is. Like just having an ambulatory wheelchair user is big!!! (I cackled at the scene where she gets out of her chair and someone says it's a miracle and she just goes "I can walk, it just hurts.") But also having her angry that she's in constant pain and trying anything to feel better is so realistic. A lot of disabled people, especially newly disabled people, fall into the idea that they need to be "cured" and that they need to get back to "normal".

Having her accept her disability and making her learn how to still do the thing she loves while still having chronic pain is amazing! Like, the idea that you can continue living after becoming disabled is so rarely shown! Like believe it or not, disabled people can lead fulfilling and happy lives doing things we love!

To my non-white viewers of this question: in the tags, what are some things you'd do if you didn't have to deal with racists or racism (let's say they all got somehow muted)? This can be anything, from fandom to professional spaces

(i clipped a few that stood out)

The fact that things like "breathe better", "go outside/travel", "create more", "create specifically for my people", "go to school", "know my own language", and "actually participate in cosplay and nuanced discussion about ourselves" are responses to this question. These are things that should be like....universal experiences, and yet they're dampened by racists/racism. Insanity.

ADDING TO THE LIST:

New ones include: "speaking my country's actual name", "feeling less cornered", "completely trusting my friends", "wearing my cultural clothing", "eating my culture's food safely", "representation", "SMILING", "having a resting face not be taken as a challenge or lack of interest" (which, @malt-rants-and-stuff i feel on SO many personal levels bc they still doing that shit with me !!!!), and "trusting your teachers to give an unbiased fuck about you" (okay i really paraphrased but that one makes me so mad)

Y'all I'm begging you to read these reblogs, or to actually talk to and listen to your friends of color.

English lit changing the group King Arthur is fighting to keep from invading Britain from the Saxons to Arabs in some later works…Crusadesbrained AND mad they’re not Britons. Cannot think of more English behavior than that. The Prophet Muhammad had yet to be born in the time period of Arthur’s reign but they have to find a way to hook in some Islamophobia.