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When i was in middle school i was banned frm the twilight wiki bc i kept changing Edward’s photo to this
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@unteriors my partner and I have started looking for houses to buy and this image appeared in the roster for a condo/duplex that was in less than stellar shape. Enjoy!
#new haven#connecticut#bride of chucky#omgwtfbbq#real estate#the horror#💀#thanks i hate it#terrible real estate photos#nightmare fuel
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Echo finds valuable intel in the lab
#the bad batch#bad batch#tbb spoilers#the bad batch spoilers#tbb season 3 spoilers#bad batch season 3 spoilers#the bad batch season 3#the bad batch season 3 spoilers#tbb echo#emerie karr#free emerie#mount tantiss
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Bring back Captain Planet and his AfroMullet
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Kal is indeed a complicated character. I was actually really disappointed in the way Karen Traviss depicted his over reaction when Etain told him she was pregnant. Rather than being supportive and letting Etain and Darman explore their own journey and feelings about the pregnancy as a couple, Kal essentially denied both Etain and Darman from having any agency to make their own choices. Kal acts like every sexist patriarch, assuming that only the woman can choose to be pregnant and that it is all Etain's fault for becoming pregnant when it takes two to tango.
Furthermore, Kal just ships her off to war again, where she nearly miscarries the child and dies on the battlefield. He has it within his power to make people 'disappear' and rather than helping Etain leave the Jedi order to maybe have the baby in peace, he dumps her back into the line of fire while taking her child away from her. This is not something anyone who really cares about supportive family dynamics does to a parent or child. Like wtf.
I enjoyed the RepComm books and many aspects of the character development therein, but the whole hyper-controlling paternalistic and patriarchal domination that Kal exerted over Etain was awful and shitty. It reminded me of how the Catholic church ruined so many families by tearing infants from their parents arms, especially if they were single moms, and giving them up for adoption. This is one thing I will never forgive Karen Traviss for and it boggles the mind as to how no one in the RepComm fandom ever really brings this up.
I can understand why Disney did away with this whole story arc, even if their own cAnOn has its own issues.
This blurb was born from a conversation where we talked about how no one is there for Kal to counter, oppose or punish him for his decisions and deeds therefore the author favors him over the characters who are critical about him.
Mind that, this wasn't meant to go after anyone, just my observations about the character I deeply love.
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSING KAL SKIRATA part 1.
HIS FAMILY FROM THE PAST
If we see this as some dramaturgy aspect, Kal already got his punishment and judgement from others, but that happened in the past. By the time we see Kal in Triple Zero, he is already at his redemption arc!
Long rambling about Kal Skirata under the cut.
Kal lives a life that is not suitable for a family that requires all parents to be at home, and from the narrative, it's really similiar to the military families in real life.
When they say, he was never home, usually they don't mean that the children and the wife never saw him. It's more likely, he was at home for months or two and then went after a bounty. Difference is, in peace time you usually know when will your soldier husband return, but as a bounty hunter, I think it's unpredictable when you will see your family again, or in family pov, when you will see your husband or father again.
There was a sentence I think, where it was stated Ilippi at first enjoyed being a wife of a famous bounty hunter and it was pure love at first (you know: sounds cool in theory, but actually having a soldier-boyfriend/girlfriend demand sacrifices), and probably the money was good (couples and families with children often staying together for financial safety eventhough they both know it's not working).
The two oldest boy had time to understand what is happening between Kal and Ilippi. The oldest boy was 8 when their divorce happened - that's the time when Kal wanted to take the boy with him to hunt.
Thinking about a lot about Ruu, and I think she already raised in an environment where she barely seen her father but was too young for understand how that affected the rest of the family.
Now if the boys already had hate for their father, it was because of the mother's influence. I think this is a perfectly valid women representation. Not the one, people want to see in fiction, but valid and real. Also real, because Ilippy decided this life is not for her and her children. Kal and Ilippy had cultural clashing many times. She realized that she doesn't want this for herself and left. And this is something people in bad relationship usually doesn't have the strenght to do it. Ilippy is fucking valid.
But I also understand Kal too, because he had an expectation how he will raise his children but chose the bad partner for it. Their relationship never was about "them", there was either Kal's way or Ilippy's way. Their expectations never matched. Yet Kal never ceased to love his wife or biological children, he financially supported them until his sons disowned him as well because he couldn't be there for them when Ilippy died (I think it happened when Kal was already on Kamino).
Kal got his punishment by being disowned by his wife and later the boys too. There was a scene in the 501, where he thought about his part marriage and started to understand her ex-wife better. Kal tries to redeem himself by giving everything to his boys he couldn't give to his biological family. He really sucks at it, he makes dire mistakes, but he is trying.
(To be continued with more blurb about the relationship between Kal Skirata and Walon Vau, Nulls and the Commandos he raised. And Darman himself. Maybe Ny too.)
#kal skirata#ilippy jiro#republic commando#repcomm#star wars#etain tur mukan#darman skirata#paternalism#misigyny#adoption#the clone wars#tcw analysis#karen traviss
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I don't know how a dead planet can support a carbon cycle, like how do you replace all of oxygen breathed in by billions of people. It's really not sustainable AT ALL.
As someone who studies natural sciences, I think Coruscant as a planet is very interesting in a very horrifying way.
There is nothing natural there. The whole planet is completely dead. No natural climate, no hydrological cycle, no natural seasons, no fauna or vegetation left. The planet is completely dead, in a biological sense.
Coruscant is haunted because it's dead, and the only thing left there from the planet itself are ghosts.
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Campus protests in the US since April 17
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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂
#whitewashing#racism#funko pop#comic#comic books#the bad batch#unwhitewash the clones#unwhitewashtbb
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If someone cooks a meal for you, offer to do the cleaning up and dishes after the meal.
If someone is kind and gracious enough to cook a meal for you, it's only fair to offer to return the favor. It shows a sense of appreciation for the food they cooked for you and the effort they put into preparing it for you.
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In Ernesto Neto’s Largest Installation to Date, the World Is a Crocheted Ship Moving to a Single Rhythm
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#lol#cybertruck#fuck elon musk#tesla#memories of offroading on worse roads in a compact car#cybertrash
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A few years ago, I had to explain what a film camera was to an Undergraduate student.
Just had a kid ask me what a CD-Rom is and damn I've never felt so old.
#millennials#gen z#zoomers#getting old is growing old#generational warfare#technology#camera#film camera
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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Something something future Omega??
Did I forget to post it here?? Yes,yes I did
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