can’t stop thinking about Jean being so young. he always seemed so much older than Neil in the foxhole court, but they’re literally the same age. Jean as a 16-year old freshman..
I know that we’re all super busy, and we’re all sick of Star Wars, but it’s really bothering me that so many members of this fandom stayed up till 3 AM to watch Kenobi, and every week #Obi-Wan Kenobi was on the trending page, and now it’s been weeks and a majority of this fandom haven’t even seen Andor.
It’s just a discrepancy in effort, and it bothers me a lot.
I’m not saying people can’t be busy, I’m not saying you HAVE to watch Andor, but so many people went out of their way to watch Kenobi, so many people went out of their way to make Kenobi trend, and now Andor is out and it’s phenomenal and it’s lead by so many people of color and so many people won’t even turn up at all.
Having a Mexican lead in a Star Wars series is a phenomenal milestone. Show up for it.
Having a Star Wars series that discusses racism, colonialism, industrialism in a meaningful way is a phenomenal milestone. Show up for it.
This song is by a mom / musical artist who is about to die from cancer. She can’t be much older than I am.
Her son is 7, and she has given all of the rights to her music to him, so he can earn money even after she’s gone.
It’s such a good song, I danced all over my apartment while cleaning. I’ve left it on to play dozens of times on repeat for the last 3 hours. (I haven’t been listening to it for that entire time, just leaving it to play on my headphones).
Parents: let’s do this. Hit play at least once for her boy 🤍
Rewatching, and when I was on 1x3 I realized Grog said he was at 7 for ball tag.
With Vax’s perfect hit being a 3- pointer, that implies Grog got two 2 pointers and a 3 pointer.
Meaning poor Vax had his balls bashed in three times before he even got to eat breakfast. Percy was smart for not playing, it probably allowed him and Vex to have kids.
I went to my boyfriends last night, and it feels so weird to be operating like normal. He’s a couple towns over, so I’m well out of the thick of it now and I know they handle things like this in their own way, but I feels so weird to go from being literally smack dab between the two shootings, sitting in bed in a silent city all day and night frantically keeping up with the news, to like. Cooking dinner and kissing my boyfriend. Installing a dishwasher. I’m happy I came but this is just so confusing
As if to reinforce how few fucks it gives, Israel carpet bombed Rafah yesterday (on the same day there was an ICJ hearing about its ongoing genocide). Today it broke that its relentless bombardments have demolished a mosque in Rafah—not a new move for Israel, as it has already destroyed several mosques in Gaza. And this isn’t even part of the ground offensive Israel intends to embark on in Rafah, fully unstopped because anyone who has the power to stop them doesn’t give a fuck for Arab lives. We are watching the erasure of Palestine in real time, from its sacred sites to its people themselves.
something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:
my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.
today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)
i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.
he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.
we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.
and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.
and it had a very clear queer subplot.
one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.
and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.
before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.
he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.
he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.
the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.
the thing about cracking open a long-established popular ship tag on ao3 is that it allows you to be extraordinarily picky, and i think it must be the closest thing i will ever experience to being filthy rich. i scroll along at super speed like no today i am only interested in fics with this precise range of words and one of these three tags. only authors i’ve heard of, please. hmm, i suppose i could consider an unknown quantity given its apparent popularity with the people, but… no, no, this summary doesn’t do it for me. no particular reason, it’s just… eh, i don’t need to explain myself. bring me 50 more like this for me to choose from and we’ll see.