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therealeagal · 5 months

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I watched the pony show.

I watched the pony show and actually it was quite good.

You wanna fight about it?

Enter stage left...I wanna say Sunny? Sunny Starshine or some shit. Actually I forget her name already. Lemme look it up.

Ok, it was Starscout. I was close. It counts.

Anyway, she's a wee babboo and she's hanging out with her friends Hitch and Sprout, but Sprout is a douchebag, as children often are, and then middle middle, fast-forward however many years and everyone is an adult. Sunny is an activist.

Hitch...Trailblazer? Anyway, Hitch is the popo. The police. The pig. So naturally, he's the villain of the series, right? Wrong. Come on, man. This is a kid's show. The villain is actually his deputy, Sprout, whose resemblance to Trump is probably a coincidence. Probably.

Anyway, Sunny is an activist, who wants the three pony races to live in harmony, after they were split up in times long past by Twilight Sparkle for some reason or other and Hitch wants to stop her because...he's an asshole I guess? I mean he's not an asshole, because he's actually very nice and he's just trying to protect Sunny, but he's an asshole. You get me?

Anyway, Sunny et al are earth ponies, to be distinguished from pegasus and unicorns.

Then middle middle middle, Sunny meets Izzy Moonbow (a unicorn) and leaves town to find and unite the three pony races with Hitch hot on their trail because...it's illegal to leave town and unite the three pony races? I'm not too clear on what law Sunny was supposed to be breaking.

Anyway, while he's gone, Hitch leaves Sproutald Trump in charge, who within like, a minute, becomes a fascist dictator, with an admittedly quite catchy musical number.

Then Sunny and Izzy go to Zephyr Heights to meet the pegasus princesses whose names are...Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm. Which is weird because the other ponies with two names makes it seem like those are actual surnames and not just part of their given names and I can't imagine a queen would let her daughters have two different last names unless she was blatantly playing favorites about which one she wants to inherit the throne.

ANYWAY. The pegasus can't fly because flying is powered by magic but none of the ponies have magic because they're not united or some shit. Also, Pipp is that most worthless of creatures: a social media influencer! *scare chord*

But I won't hold it against her, because she's a good bean.

Anyway, middle middle middle, Sunny and Izzy and Pip and Zipp team up with Hitch, who's not a dick anymore, and they go to Bridlewood and play Prance Prance Revolution. Yes, really.

Oh, I forgot to mention that this is all in service to reuniting the Unity Crystals which will bring back all the magic.

Anyway middle middle middle, Sprout's totalitarian regime tries to kill Sunny but middle middle everyone lives happily ever after except not really because there is evil afoot but that's something to worry about another day.

Subject of discussion: Does being part of a fandom mean you are part of the fandom? Does being a fan of Star Trek make you a Trekkie?

Does liking Lord of the Rings make you...actually does the Lord of the Rings fandom have a cutsey nickname? I can't recall. Ringy? Lottery? Because Lotr? Lottery? Get it? Nothing? Not even a half-hearted chuckle? Ok.

Does a grown man finding value in the story and messages of My Little Pony automatically make him a "brony"?

For myself, I'd rather avoid the label, as I feel it has too much baggage, but it seems the two are inseparable either way. I don't terribly care one way or the other. If I was that bothered by what other people think I wouldn't do half the shit I do, so call me a brony if you must (although I'd rather you didn't), I'll keep watching the pony show either way.

Cheers!

#my little pony #sunny starscout #hitch trailblazer #izzy moonbow #pipp petals #zipp storm

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Everything else aside let's talk about how completely fucked and tone deaf it is for them to over turn the right to an abortion in the middle of a huge formula shortage. Like sure we're going to force you to carry these kids but good fucking luck feeding them. That's not our fucking problem. It makes me so damn sick.

Like number one, no one should be forced to be pregnant.

But also, if you're going ti try and push that rhetoric of oh but the children, then idk approve and fund social services that'll actually make it feasible to raise them. Instead of sentencing women to a life of poverty while the man can just fuck off with no responsibility. It's just so ludicrous and backwards and I don't get how anyone can support that thinking. Or why they feel the need to care about what anyone else does. Like if Susie q gets a damn abortion what effect does it have on your life Karen? Oh that's right, none.

Sorry for venting. I just am do mad right now.

No need to apologize. Anyone who isn't absolutely fucking furious right now isn't paying attention.

First, like... everyone knows that the baby formula crisis is also Trump's fault, right? His Shiny Special Deal in 2018 to replace/override NAFTA had a specific provision that banned the importation of baby formula from abroad, especially from Canada. (Because you know, America First.) So when the plants had to shut down earlier this year due to contamination, that made it literally impossible to supplement with supplies from other countries. Hence, the crisis. And yet, of course, nobody in the media mentioned this in their coverage of the situation, because that, like everything else in existence, was obviously Biden's Fault!!!

Next, as other people (and myself) have pointed out, the total lack of social services, funding, paid parental leave, affordable childcare, or literally anything else that would make raising a baby easier, is also by design. First, the Republicans don't give a shit about the kid after it's born; they only pretend to care about it beforehand for fake moral cred. Once it's born, that sucker is on its own, man! Especially if they can blame the mother for being a Loose Wimmen who shouldn't have dared to have sex if she didn't want to get pregnant. So yeah, who cares if you can afford to feed the kid, or clothe it, take care of it, or send it to school/daycare? That's up to you, slut! PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS!!!

As I have also said, and so has everyone else, this has absolutely nothing to do with "life," given as Republicans hate gun safety, vaccines against deadly and contagious diseases, or anything else that is designed to, you know, protect life. They don't care that abortion is a necessary medical procedure used to treat a wide range of failed pregnancies, and that women can and will die when it's withheld. They also don't think women have any function aside from serving as incubators for the next generation of Christofascist foot soldiers. This is why it is so fucking stupid to claim that "rich white women will always be able to get abortions!" They have been equally bald and obvious about stating that they want more white babies. The racist asshat who massacred African-American grocery shoppers in Buffalo literally referred to falling white birthrates and the white supremacist "replacement theory" that Tucker Carlson and his fellow slime have been spouting off about for years. That is literally what the "you will not replace us" slogan MEANS: they are terrified of becoming the numerical plurality in America, let alone the minority, and are desperate to force more white women to have more white babies, to outnumber all those pesky people of color. As I have said, Fascism 101.

Likewise, the evangelical Christian adoption industry makes big, big bucks, they want more grist for the mill, and if you give your baby to them, they will be happy to raise it as a cheery little fascist. This is also why they don't want to give any support to people who find themselves stuck in an unwanted pregnancy, and like to push the "you can just give it up for adoption!!" line so hard. They likewise don't care about the bodily trauma and life-changing medical experience that it is to be pregnant for 9 months and then being forced to give birth. Because they are fucking monsters.

Anyway. It's all so disgusting and terrible on every level. I don't know what else to say apart from that, so... yeah.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

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llendrinall · 3 years

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I'm with you on how terrible we found Fantastic Beasts. Now let me ask, how would you have written/built the Fantastic Beasts storyline?

I have not watched the 3rd movie so it’s possible that they have managed to turn it all around, but to start with I would give some actual connection to the movies beyond the title and characters. Otherwise it just feels like those children books: “X goes to the park”, “X in the supermarket”, where we see the same people in different situations but they are disconnected from each other.

I probably would have gone a different route all together, but suppose Warner has already hired the actors and started building the sets so we must use at least some elements from the movies. In that case I would make a story of discovery and reflection in three parts, with narcissism being the main theme.

First movie

Newt goes to NY with his magical bag. Most of the film is the same, but we get a sense of Newt being less childish (less painfully obvious and thinly surreptitious wand waving around muggles) and a bit more selfish. However, we should like him more for it.

Newt is, to the society of the time, completely mental. Rather than going on hunts and collecting trophies, he is recuing animals! I would emphasize that the animals he keeps have been compromised and can’t be safely returned to their habitats and since conditions and wizarding zoos are deplorable, he keeps them with him. The exception is that thunder bird he has come to release.

And that’s his goal, releasing the thunder bird, which he pursues with extreme focus. He doesn’t care about anything else which is why he is so open to Jacob the Muggle. Newt could be imprisoned* and Jacob would be obliviated into a stupor, but Newt doesn’t care about personal risks so he doesn’t care about the danger he poses to others. He is selfish that way. A generous kind of selfishness, sure, but dangerous.

I’m sorry, but the President of the MACUSA is not a woman nor a POC. It must be a white man surrounded by white men, one of whom might be either Catholic or Jewish and that’s all the diversity you see. Are there POC wizards? Yes. But not in positions of power. There is a bigger emphasis on the separation of wizards and No-Maj, with waaay more surveillance and harsher punishments. Suspicion alone may be enough to break your wand in some cases.

* And that’s how I could believe that POC wizards and witches (WWs from now on because “magicals” sounds weird) aren’t intervening in muggle spaces. They must be suffering similar levels of racism. They are tolerated, maybe they have better prospects that POC muggles, but that’s it. I can’t believe none of them would show some solidarity to the Non-Maj, unless it meant being summarily executed.

(Oh, and there would be this scene in which we see law-abiding and conscientious Tina stalking the house of an African-American muggle family. Nothing is said of it, other that Tina used to work with a muggle-born partner but now she works alone. Keen-eyed viewers will notice some hoodo trinkets in Tina’s flat, and a photograph of Tina with an African American woman, and then we will know).

I don’t remember Credence’s storyline very well, but it doesn’t matter. What is important is that Graves (powerful white man Graves) develops some sort of empathy. He doesn’t want it, but it’s there in his heart now. Maybe something with Newt’s animals. Some “beast” (look at how they say beasts and not animals) should have maimed and eaten Graves, but doesn’t because Newt is there in all his animal-loving glory. Graves gets to see the monster as merely a scared and hurt animal and learns to treat others with some decency and kindness.

That would be a nice classic movie, (prejudiced man gets over himself), but we can’t end it here. I would even allow for Tina’s scene stalking the house to be cut in order to have time for the climax: the moment when Graves realizes his society and his government may not always be right and defies direct orders by helping Credence. As I said, I don’t remember what the deal with Credence was, but Graves fixes it. There will be a personal cost to his career, but losing a promotion is nothing compared to saving a life, which is what he does. No ambiguous explosion or cloud of smoke. Credence is evidently and irrevocably safe at the cost of Graves being demoted.

There is no Gellert Grindelwald whatsoever, except maybe some government secretary mentioning they like that guy from Europe.

Second movie

Set in London rather than Paris. Newt receives the visit from a lovely, lovely, gentleman who, as it turns out, doesn’t think Newt is a fool. The charming gentleman asks Newt about the dragons, specifically the ones in Gringotts and oh, oh, Newt is against it. It’s abominable and unethical. But Newt would rather not think too much about it because, what can he do? He would rather focus on helping those he can and on spreading his thoughts on animal conservation. He is publishing a journal, although he admits it doesn’t do too well. He has twelve subscribers and seven of them openly mock his papers during dinner parties.

The charming gentleman says, but what if Newt could do something about it? What would Newt be willing to do? Would he break the law?

Newt laughs. He is forbidden from leaving the country. He is no stranger to jumping, crossing, tampering or breaking the law.

Marvelous! The charming gentleman reveals that he, like Newt, is unhappy with their society. It is weak and corrupt* and someone must do something about it. They have to fix it.

So the charming gentleman introduces Newt to some other like-minded friends and together they plan a heist to get into Gringotts and release the dragons. It is time to build a society one can feel proud of!

We get the heist, which is clever and delightful. The charming gentleman is brave, smart and powerful with his magic. There is a moment when some of the co-conspirators, and even the charming gentleman himself, get inside some vaults. This is not what they had planned! Not at all. But the charming gentleman assures Newt that he has good reasons.

They get out. And here comes the Nagini moment. Meaning I really, really, really, don’t need to see an Asian woman condemned to whatever that was in the second movie. I don’t need to have beautiful Neville kill a woman who has been turned into a snake and then a Horcrux.

But, do you want an “oh no” moment? Here it comes.

Because of the heist, Gringotts revises their security measures. That poor dragon in Deathly Hallows? The one with scars who had been conditioned to fear a certain sound? Newt’s fault. And the charming gentleman doesn’t care.

We have established in the previous movie that Newt is somewhat selfish and short-sighted. He rejects his society and cares only about his animals which is very nice. Newt is well intentioned, but that is not enough. Not caring about politics is the privilege of those in the elite (and despite Newts’ eccentricities he is very much the elite). The previous movie had Graves’ awakening. The man discovering something about himself in this movie is Newt.

Newt realizes that he must be an active participant in society. Sadly, he only realizes it after he has helped Gellert Grindelwald steal a number of very important artefacts as well as some gold to fund his project to reform Europe.

The epilogue of the movie has Albus Dumbledore visiting Newt, telling him not to be too hard on himself because he, Dumbledore, also fell for Gellert lies. And if Newt wants to do something about it, Dumbledore has some ideas.

* History fans might not realize immediately, but hopefully they will catch on the fact that all of the beautiful arguments from the charming gentleman are about weakness of the state, which is a common fascist trope.

Third movie

In which characters from previous movies are brought back without having to completely destroy their personalities.

Graves is in Europe and he pays a visit to Newt to ask for his help. Graves is using his new found empathy (that he didn’t want) to investigate a series of highly suspicious murders and incidents. The victims were all Latinas so it was dismissed, but Graves thinks there is something.

Two scenes later in comes Tina, who has quitted her job in order to track the murderer of some friend’s friend. An African American child is dead, no it was not the No-Maj, it was someone else, someone who wanted to cover their tracks and leave no witnesses and Tina is going to eat their heart.

Is it possible that Graves and Tina are after the same person? Yes and no. It is two different henchmen but Dumbledore has no trouble going beyond the small picture to see the pattern. He knows Grindelwald always had an interest in powerful artefacts, not just the Deathly Hallows.

Grindelwald has stolen the Macguffin, a powerful artefact belonging to a Latin-American community. With that and the Elder Wand he will be unstoppable. Oh no!

But! Newt realizes there is something missing. The raven is not a symbol of death in all cultures. Grindelwald might not fully understand what he has taken or how to use it.

So Graves and Tina go fight Grindelwald’s organization and be awesome together, delaying Grindelwald’s big coup. Meanwhile, Newt illegally leaves the country, goes back to NY, takes Queenie and deploys her. Because Queenie is nice. She plays the vapid pretty woman, but she is above all nice and if someone can make a hurt and distrustful community open their door to strangers, it is going to be Queenie with the help of Jacob’s bread.

And, indeed! They succeed. The bruja Latina explains about the Macguffin. Grildelwald doesn’t understand what he has stolen. It is not meant to be used like that at all.

They go back to Europe quickly, Newt relays this information to Dumbledore and he steps to his duel with Grindelwald armed with the knowledge and insight that comes from showing some measure of respect to other people for once.

(And if it seems that Dumbledore’s victory rests on other people’s work, well, Dumbledore’s main trait is his ability to earn people’s trust and devotion. But I guess Newt and Queenie could have brought the bruja with them and after a nice chat with Dumbledore she agrees to share their secrets with him, so he has the opportunity to show he is different).

Rather than having a man realize something, this movie is about the consequences of not opening your eyes: Gindelwald’s fall. It would also nicely establish Dumbledore’s best manipulative traits. If we must have het couples, Tina saves Newt’s from some mook and taker a kiss. Graves goes with the pretty Lestrange, I guess, to have a long life of morality sanctioned crimes.

(A TV show. Twelve episodes. Cancelled after the first season. Graves and Lestrange are back in the States helping oppressed communities and dodging the MACUSA and whatever the equivalent of the FBI was back then).

#asks #harry potter #fantastic beasts #alternate universe #textpost

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ugly-crying-over-bucky-barnes · 4 years

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Blue Eyes Part 33

Summary: After the Garrison is shot up, the youngest Shelby daughter finds a new home in London. She strips herself of her last name and tries to live a peaceful life far away from her brothers’ chaos in Birmingham. But fate leads her right back into it after she runs into Alfie Solomons.

Part 33: Ella struggles to maintain her new family life and deal with her brother.

“Pretty innit? Nothing prettier than a fully lit menorah, well ‘cept your mum.” Alfie chuckled. He was holding Sofia so she could see the menorah.

It was the eighth day of Hanukkah but the mood was a little less than celebratory. There was still an anti-Semitic fascist still roaming around London and Tommy Shelby was still at Margate.

Alfie was happy to spend the holiday with his new little family. The twins would get to experience the holiday for the first time, he could spoil them with gifts. But with Tommy sulking about there a damper over the home. Especially since Ella was so worried about her brother.

He was significantly less explosive than when he showed up looking to put a bullet in his head. Still, he needed some talking down when he seized up into a panic attack. Any little thing could set him off. A loud noise or Alfie muttering something under his breath.

But there was an upside. Tommy hardly slept so he would look after the twins if they woke up in the middle of the night. For the first time in months, Alfie and Ella could finally sleep through the night, which was a blessing.

Still, Alfie didn’t want to spend the holiday with Tommy. He didn’t appreciate the intrusion, especially the way Tommy had arrived.

Ella wouldn’t turn her back on her brother though. Not when he’d helped with the adoption and not when he made sure she was taken care of in her time of need.

Looking a bit weary, Ella came into the sitting room where Alfie and the twins were. Ezra was sat on the floor near Cyril who was watching him carefully. The little boy was playing with a toy car that he’d got on the third night of Hanukkah. He clumsily pushed the car back and forth, enraptured by the black painted wood and little wheels.

Alfie loved how easily distractible they were. Anything eye-catching or with a pleasing sound could turn their heads and keep them entertained for a good while. Sofia especially liked to play with the metal tags on Cyril’s collar. The bullmastiff tolerated her, letting her jangle them about, tugging and pulling at them as she pleased.

Now she was captivated by the silver menorah with the hypnotic way the little flames on the candles flickered back and forth. She still hadn’t quite grasped why Alfie wouldn’t let her grab a hold of the candles. He’d made the mistake of leaving the menorah on a lower cabinet. Sofia had just started to pull herself up with the aid of furniture. She’d grabbed the base of the menorah but Alfie managed to grab her before she pulled it down on herself.

Lesson learned; the menorah was placed on a higher spot.

“Hi, my loves.” Ella cooed and bent down to kiss Ezra’s cheek. The infant giggled and kicked his feet happily. “Sofi-girl what are you and daddy doing?”

Sofia gurgled and pressed her cheek into Alfie’s shoulder.

Ella leaned into Alfie’s side. “It’s so pretty.” She sighed softly at the glowing menorah.

“Want the kids to open their last gifts?” Alfie wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed her hair.

“Actually, I was hoping you’d go talk to Tommy. He’s outside smoking.”

Her husband sighed and hid an eye roll from her. “El, he won’t fucking listen to me. You know he won’t.”

“Language.” She reminded him with a frown. “And he will talk to you, he asked for you to come out and talk to him.”

Alfie grunted. “Will it make you happy if I do?”

“Yes.”

“Alright.” He handed Sofia to her. “Only because you asked me to, ain’t doing it for his benefit.” He muttered and went to grab his coat.

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“Bloody cold out here, mate.” Alfie stepped outside in the garden where Tommy was stood.

“Ella doesn’t want me smoking in the house.” He replied quietly.

“Yeah, well.” Alfie shrugged and buried his hands in his pockets. “Stinks up the home, don’t it? Not pleasant.”

Tommy didn’t reply, he just kept taking drags of his cigarette and looking out over the empty road.

Not wanting to stand around in the cold waiting for the man to speak, Alfie cleared his throat. “El said you wanted to talk to me?”

“When you were shot, you said they put you on drugs.”

“Yeah, heavy shit. Barely conscious most of the time, s’pose it were good. Didn’t want to feel that sorta pain.”

“Did you…did you see things when you were taking them?” Tommy’s eyes didn’t look over at him.

“Like hallucinations? Yeah, weren’t sure if I were awake or not sometimes so I can’t remember if they were dreams or I were just that fucked up. Ella don’t really talk ‘bout it.”

Tommy reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial. He turned it around in between his fingers a few times before handing it over to Alfie. “Makes me see things.”

“Weren’t aware you were recovering from being shot in the fucking face. Or wait...was that just me?” Alfie took the bottle and uncorked it. He sniffed it but there wasn’t much of an odor. “Morphine, innit?”

His brother-in-law nodded. “I’ve lost control, Alfie.”

“Yeah, what gave it away, aye? When you were asking me to kill you? Or when you were asking your sister to kill you?”

Tommy dropped the butt of his cigarette and stubbed it out with the heel of his shoe. “I knew a long time ago. Been trying to keep it together for everyone. The family, the kids.” He wearily rubbed a hand over his eyes. “But I can’t anymore. Don’t want to fucking wake up in the morning. I just want to be numb. I can’t fucking stand any of it anymore.”

“Tom, I hate to be the thorn in your side, but this is your doing.” Alfie kept the vial in his hand, he wasn’t comfortable giving it back to him. He’d seen what morphine did to Shelbys and it wasn’t pretty.

“You don’t think I fucking know that, Alfie?” Tommy snapped venomously.

“Oi, you wanted my opinion, so you fucking shut up and listen to it or I’ll go back inside and spend the holiday with me family. You’re lucky I ain’t kicked you outta my fucking house already!”

Tommy frowned like a bratty child. He took a deep breath, the exhale materializing in the frigid air in front of him. “I know I got myself into this mess. But I told myself-when I was about to be buried alive in France, that I wasn’t going to be buried again. I would keep fighting until I found a man who I couldn’t beat.”

“Think you’ve found that man?”

Tommy was quiet for a long while. Almost to the point that Alfie thought he was high and had drifted off into a hazy, drugged up bliss. But he finally piped up again. “I have one foot on a land mine.”

Almost instinctually, Alfie looked down to see that he was only speaking metaphorically. The ex-Captain didn’t take land mines lightly. He’d seen plenty of legs blown off by the weapons.

“Either I stand on it until I’m exhausted and drop. Or I try to step away and risk being blown up.”

“Your family is surrounding you,” Alfie responded. “So, whatever move you make, you’re putting them at risk as well.”

“Not unless they’re moved out,” Tommy replied and tilted his face up to the gray sky.

“What you on about now?”

“I have connections in America and various places around Europe. Connections Mosley probably doesn’t know about. If I can move everyone to safety then he won’t have anything against me. He won’t be able to use anyone I care about. It’ll just be me and him. He can as he pleases to me but I’ll go down with a fight.”

“Keyword, probably. Tom, you’ve no fucking clue what that man is capable of. I know you don’t. None of us do. Even if you move all of us to fucking Australia you think that’ll really stop him? ‘Sides, what makes you so high and mighty that you think you can uproot everyone from their lives?”

Tommy pursed his lips together. “I’m brainstorming, Alfie. I think I’ve made it fucking clear enough that I’ve no clue what the fuck I’m going to do.”

“Evidently.”

“Oh, fuck off, Alfie.” Tommy shot back. “You have a better idea?”

Alfie raised an eyebrow. “Oh, so you’re looking for other people to dig you out of your shit? Tommy, me priorities lie with me wife and children. That ain’t gonna change for you or for anyone else.”

“Even if they’re being threatened by the man who tried to kill you?” Tommy questioned. “The man who has to issue with killing anyone? He has no morals, Alfie.”

He scoffed. “Oh, so now you’re trying to get me to be involved ‘cause I’m scared? I’m dead to him, Tom, what do I hafta be scared about? He thinks El’s in America, we ain’t got nothing to fear.”

“He knows she’s not in America.”

Alfie lost his temper. He grabbed Tommy by the throat, dropping the vial of morphine, letting it roll down the garden path away from them. Alfie slammed Tommy up against the side of the house, digging his fingers into his throat. “Fucking what!?” He demanded.

Tommy pried his hand away. “There’s a black cat, Alfie!” He shouted hoarsely. “They’ve been leaking everything to Mosley. I can’t trust anyone that’s why I’m fucking here!”

Alfie’s blood boiled. “Then I’ll fucking kill whoever it is.”

“Be my guest. You’ll have to find out who it is first.” Tommy shoved him away so he couldn’t attack him again.

It should’ve been clear that it was a tactic to get Alfie on board. Tommy needed another strong player. Someone who was thinking a bit clearer than he was. Alfie huffed angrily and paced a little bit, roughly running a hand through his hair. “Fuck.” He growled. “So he’s gonna come after her?”

“I don’t know what he’s planning,” Tommy admitted. It had been something alarming when Mosley casually mentioned how Ella must be enjoying her time on the English coast. Tommy corrected him but the man simply chuckled and asked if he looked stupid. The situation was left at that. Tommy nearly lost his mind right then and there. He was so close to strangling the man and facing the consequences. If he was hanged, so be it. But then he remembered his children. His wife.

Tommy sighed and shook his head. “I need help, Alfie.”

“I’m dead, mate.”

“Then I need you to be resurrected.”

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“Yes, those are your presents, but we’ve got to wait until daddy comes in from talking to Uncle Tommy.” Ella was sat by the window with Ezra and Sofia. Ezra was tugging at the neatly wrapped present that was lying in wait. He whined and tried to pull the blue and silver ribbon off the box.

“Ah, ah, ah, no.” Ella picked him up and cradled him close. “Gotta wait for daddy. Patience, chavi.”

The front door opened and Tommy and Alfie came back inside. A cold burst of air traveled down the hall for a moment.

“Alright, then let’s open presents.” Alfie walked into the sitting room. Sofia squealed happily and reached toward him. “Hi, sheifale.” He picked her up and sat down in his armchair.

Ella saw Tommy pass by the doorway. “Tom?” She called after him. “Come sit with us.”

He paused in the hallway but shook his head to himself. “Need to make a few calls.” He replied and went to shut himself in Alfie’s study.

Ella looked to her husband. “Did you talk to him?” She asked quietly.

He only nodded and leaned down to pick up Sofia’s present. “Want to open this?” He prompted her by tearing a bit of the paper off.

Sofia smiled and did her best to rip the present open. She managed to unravel the ribbon and became infatuated with it almost immediately. Giggling, she pressed it to Alfie’s face.

“What’re you doing?” He chuckled and tried to take the ribbon from her. “Let’s see what you got for Hanukkah.”

But Sofia decided she was uninterested in the gift, waving the ribbon about in her pudgy fist.

Ella smiled. “Maybe we should just buy her ribbon next time.” She teased and handed Ezra his present. “Here, love.”

Their son was a little more impatient and tore open the present. Delighted, he pulled out the teddy bear with a blue button nose and a matching ribbon. Ezra gurgled happily and hugged the bear close to him.

Ella kissed his forehead. “You like it?”

Alfie finished unwrapping Sofia’s present for her. A matching teddy bear with a yellow ribbon instead. “Lookit, see that?” He propped the bear up to face his daughter. Sofia grabbed the bear’s snout but decided the gift’s ribbon was more fun. She tossed the bear to the side and continued flailing the ribbon about.

“Glad you like it.” Alfie sighed and kissed her cheek.

Ella laughed and smoothed back Ezra’s hair. She couldn’t help but think about how happy she was. Tommy would heal. Things would be okay. They had to be.

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soyouareandrewdobson · 4 years

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The first comic: Maturity or rather the lack thereoff.

Something I commonly saw within the last decade was people arguing that animation has reached a new peak by the amount of quality in storywriting put into them and some even claiming cartoons have become more mature, particularly compared to shows of the 80s and 90s. Dobson too joined the trend and as such made this little comic in 2015 titled “Mature”, in which he argues that cartoons for children are more mature and handle serious subjects better than any media tagged with an r-rating or not following the format of animation.

While I admit that the comic is not the most offensive and insulting thing Dobson has ever created when soapboxing about nerd/american culture, I do think “Mature” actually in composes quite a good insight in how Dobson does not understand concepts of storytelling and overhypes the achievements and merits of children entertainment to a degree that is hurting the “cause”. Which greatly annoys me as a fan of storytelling and animation in general and paints Dobson as incompetent in the field of work (cartoonist, comic writer/artist) he tries to engage in. And I can bring this lack of understanding by Dobson down by just one simple question:

What exactly counts as a mature subject here?

Dobson randomly accuses any form of fiction that is not a children’s cartoon or comic to have no idea how to approach a “mature” subject, but he can’t even give an example of what he defines by this term.

See, for me a mature subject is e.g. an social, emotional or political issue we as humans can correlate to in the real world. Either as a result of personal experience or a bigger picture in our history and culture (such as racism, poverty, existential dreed, personal/emotional growth, any form of oppression etc.) Something that does not only drive a story forward as a source of conflict or a character’s backstory/arc for the sake of entertainment, but may even make us think afterwards.

And as much as I like cartoons, I do not think this is something children cartoons do most of the time.

And before I get accused of thinking cartoons are only something for kids or that a thoughtful story can not be told via the medium of animation, let me put a few things into perspective.

Unlike Dobson, I do not have an educational background in animation. However, I grew up with a lot of cartoons, animated movies and comics from all over the world and thanks to the wonders of the internet read up here and there on the different ages of animation and certain tidbits in what went into the making of certain works of fiction and why they may have been a huge thing in the time periods they emerged in.

As such I know that the medium of animation can be used to not only create “child appropriate” content, but also movies like Barefoot Gen, Fritz the Cat, Felidae, Animal Farm and so on, which tackled themes of social issues, political worldviews and personal/historical tragedies.

Then there is the fact, that depending on the culture, there are very different interpretations in what can be considered “child appropriate” in certain parts of the world and therefore what themes a cartoon may tackle. Like how in European children cartoons such as Alfred J. Quack there was a story arc resembling the rise of Adolf Hitler in power, to tell about the heroes of the show working in the underground against an obvious fascist regime. Or how in certain Japanese children shows the subject of death can be rather common, while in American cartoons just mentioning the word “die” seems a red flag to some studio executives. Lastly, a lot of early animation, (particularly western animation) did not even start off as something targeted primarily at children. Animation started off as a technique to tell a story through “moving pictures” and some of the first animated shorts ever had a huge fanbase of adults and children. “Snow White”, Disney’s first animated movie back in 1933 was a technical marvel at the time. A movie we nowadays mostly consider a children’s movie with a slightly dull story compared to other Disney outings, was back then a risk that earned Disney multiple Oscars and was appreciated more by adults than it was by children, despite being based on a fairy tale. A type of story mostly considered “appropriate” for kids.

What I am trying to say is, that I am aware of how not all children cartoons are the same and can vary in terms of “maturity”. Something I think Dobson can’t, because he also can’t see that there is a huge variety of “children” cartoons.

Despite his background and claims to consider animation an art, Dobson has shown a huge lack of knowledge or admiration for shows/movies that do not fit into the specific mold of “western animation primarily targeted for children and airing on american television”.

And that is not a claim I make half-heartedly. I have done research on the guy, I know how he likes to brag when he considers he found a great cartoon or something interesting. So I find it telling that aside of nostalgia for certain 80s and 90s cartoons we all know, Dobson’s recommendations and taste in shows seems to be primarily focused on just the most recent stuff everybody else likes/a very small pool of rather generic shows. I am not saying he should be contrarian on principal and e.g. dislike Gravity Falls, but he lacks initiative to look out for new and old stuff himself.

I in fact remember when he asked twitter first if he should give Wander over Yonder, one of the best cartoons of the last decade, a chance, cause it seemed he was too chicken to have an opinion on his own.

Then again, weirdly enough, Dobson actually tends to be contrarian for the sake of it, till someone he respects or sucks up to tends to have a different opinion on a show/movie. For example, while he acts like Frozen is a great movie franchise and defends the second movie to the point he becomes anti-feministic when a woman has a different opinion than him on it, he actually gave the first movie a terrible review on deviantart back in 2014. Accusing it of “same face syndrome” and a shame to the name of Disney. Obviously that was also before the hashtag #GiveElsaaGirlfriend became popular and he went so far as to hint he thinks an incest ship with Anna was great. And Legend of Korra? According to first deviantart posts by him garbage. Which was an opinion swiftly changed the moment Korrasami became popular in the fandom by season 3.

The point I want to make with this digression is, that there are a lot of past actions by him hinting on the fact that Dobson kinda despises animation, when it does not fit within a very narrow niche of things he likes. Further indicated by his disdain for “adult” animated shows or hostility towards foreign animation, except the occasional movie by Studio Ghibli for example.

Because of this lack of a bigger picture, I do not think Dobson is aware how in terms of story, cartoons can heavily vary. And when it comes to mature subjects, you can’t really engage with them if you lack a story carrying them in turn. Let’s look again at the comic. What cartoon characters do you see in it, when Dobson talks about how he believes children cartoons “treat these (non-defined) mature subjects with FAR more respect than the hardest “dark, grim and gritty” stories”?

Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony, three main characters of Spongebob, Steven Universe, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Blossom from the Powerpuff Girls and Mickey Mouse. You want my opinion on them? None of them are from any cartoons tackling mature subjects in a huge manner.

However, they are from great shows. (Well, everyone but Steven, but I explain that later.)

See, this is where putting cartoons into perspective within the vast history of animation, comes in handy. Cause looking at them it is undeniable that people put effort into these shows. Effort in the animation and the writing in order to create an entertaining product, decent enough that not only little kids can enjoy it as a mindless distraction, but even older people can find merit in it, thanks to characters with decent personality, good humor, world building and even an engaging story. But all of that doesn’t make these shows or any story necessarily tackle a “mature subject”. Sure, the latest incarnation of My little pony was not as saccharine as its predecessor but rather cartoony as a good 90s show, but that doesn’t mean the new version is the Schindler’s List of animation (excuse the hyperbole). Same for the other cartoons, with Dobson also not acknowledging the fact that Spongebob e.g. had quite some dips in quality over the years (and even made pretty awful jokes about serious subjects such as suicide) or that Steven Universe, while tending to tackle mature subjects for its story (like trauma, war, abuse, self esteem issues, racism, rape and homosexuality) has failed multiple times over its run (even back when this comic was made) to treat these subjects not just as plot and drama points, but also with enough respect within the narrative, to the point a lot of former fans of the show turned their back on it, cause they had enough of the issues they could relate to being simplified and resolved in a cookie cutter manner so Rebeca Sugar could tell a whimsical story about gay space rocks and forgiveness.

Let us not even forget the fact, that while there is a huge number of cartoons with decent writing and value to them (and that those were not only created within the last 10 years or so), there is also just a lot of garbage out there that counts as “kids animation”. Cartoons and movies that were written with not a care in the world and at times outright more mean spirited as some of the stuff Dobson likely hates in life action. Are you telling me those toilet humor driven garbage piles of creativity are mature?

The point I try to make is, Dobson’s GENERAL statement that kids cartoons tackle mature subjects better than other form of media, is factually wrong, because a lot of shows don’t even try to be mature in the first place. Which however does not mean, there aren’t attempts made at being mature or tackle a mature subject.

Growing up with cartoons since the 90s, I saw quite a few cartoons once in a while having episodes with themes to them that were surprisingly “dark”, dramatic or related to issues I and other kids could also see and relate to in the real world. Bullying going out of control, eating disorders, school violence (even school shootings), dealing with the passing of a loved one, to name a few basic ones. Gargoyles and Hey Arnold were two very important cartoons for me in that regard, with Gargoyles showing me how dramatic a good action cartoon could be when compared to other action cartoons at the time (like Ninja Turtles) and Hey Arnold episodes like “Helga on the Couch” giving me a rather somber look into what “therapy” looks like closer to reality, while normally being a show with the slice of life adventures of a kid in the big city.

And I do highly appreciate that nowadays there are more cartoons doing ongoing storyarcs and as a result of actually having more drama to them, adding tension and character development to their plots. Things we did not quite have to the degree we have nowadays back then in the average show. But it is debatable if those things are equal to “mature subjects” such as racism, abuse or trauma. Cause at the end of the day, a lot of kids cartoons tend to only scratch the surface of those things in order to flesh out a plot, instead of making the plot about those issues. Which at times is even for the best if you ask me. Cause we should not forget, these shows and movies are made for kids. And because of their age, a lot of kids lack at times the knowledge and experience in life to properly understand the themes and subjects some people may try to convey with their work. Particularly when you want to tackle subjects such as trauma, abuse and war which lets be honest, a lot of people can’t even comprehend in their complexity as adults. So how are kids supposed to comprehend them? One way, in my opinion, is by simplifying them and turning them into part of a narrative instead of the main focus of the narrative. But that in itself doesn’t always work and can have negative consequences in multiple ways. For example by making the story suddenly non engaging, delivering the subject in such a manner that people can get the wrong message of what you are trying to say or (at worst) simplifying it to such a degree, it becomes outright offensive to others.

A good example that comes to my mind for that would be how Captain Planet back in the 90s tried to tackle the subject of AIDS in one episode. On one hand, considering how the disease was a big deal back then but no one openly talked about it, you kinda have to give credit to Captain Planet to tackle it. On the other hand, is a subject such as a deadly disease that back then was barely researched and killed millions, really something you want to tackle on an overly preachy (but considering whose company produced it, also very hypocritical) kids show, where most of the time the solution to a problem was not even grounded in reality? And spoilers, the episode treated AIDS not even as the big deal it was, but as something the villain would exploit to spread a rumor on the ill kid, because that somehow equaled a chance to pollute the world more. Not really mature, if you ask me.

What all of this ranting is boiling down to, is that Dobson failed to make a case for how kids animation is able to tackle mature subjects, by not putting his opinion in the bigger context of what animation is/can be and what he means by the term “mature theme”. All he did was just indirectly soapbox that he thinks every other form of media is incapable of being about a serious issue, in doing so also insulting the art of storytelling in itself by disregarding anything not expressed in funny pictures specifically made for children or manchildren on tumblr who want to act they are the big boys, cause a cartoon horse made them feel sad.

He did so by making a very weak argument, not being able to present it in a manner that was hard to debunk and by drawing a comic in which everything looks surprisingly lifeless and like the least amount of quality and effort (things I argued can make a great cartoon) was put into it.

Which ironically, is the total opposite, of being mature.

And lastly, can’t believe I have to say that, but Dobson, the Pokemon’s name is Butterfree, not Butterfry. Butterfry is what you get when you make a statue of a Futurama character made out of something you put on your bread.

#comic #my little pony #adobsonartworks #maturity #western animation #steven universe #syac

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aahsoka · 5 years

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anyways the crux of the problem a lot of us (and just specifically me) have with r*ylo is:

they tend to take Finn’s existing personality traits and plot arcs and give them to Kylo Ren; sometimes erasing Finn as a character entirely, which is rather racist, even if they claim to have no ill intent (you can be unintentionally racist yknow that’s what most racism is). I suspect it’s because Finn has real tangible chemistry with Rey but I’ll avoid getting into that.

romanticizing abuse & non consensual actions. Saying him invading her mind was romantic, or the bridal carry when he abducted her, for example; did y’all ever think it was romantic when Voldemort got inside Harry Potter’s mind? No, because they weren’t a woman and a man you could project heterosexual fantasies on to.

crying that they’re being harassed by people who were mostly just making jokes about not liking the ship and specifically tagging them with the anti tag and censoring the ship and/or character names so they could be easily filtered or wouldn’t show up in the tags at all. Yea harassing people for ships isn’t good, but maybe in general we should act less like we’re more righteous solely because people are angry at us. That’s not how it works. Especially when some people use it as a defense to creating harmful content (like romanticized rape fiction).

that our first Star Wars female Main Jedi protagonist would end up with a character who is both a murderer and an active player in a fascist government. Important to note that he is also a grown man, who is very capable of making informed decisions, and therefore entirely culpable for all of his actions. That she would choose someone like that, who hurt her friends, herself, killed people she cared for, has used textbook abusive manipulative tactics to get her on his side, is scary and not a good romantic story. One movie does not give enough time for him to legitimately redeem himself enough for a romance between them to be appropriate. (I’d say maybe enough for him to be awkwardly on the good side a la the Malfoys at the end of Harry Potter or like a criminal who names names for a more lenient sentence but that’s it).

“reverse anidala” drives me crazy as someone who really enjoys the anidala tragic love story (it’s a little Romeo & Juliet Shakespearean tragedy where you’re inevitably heading towards a bad ending and there’s nothing you can do to escape it, really). When Anakin and Padmé are together, it’s specifically the parts of the saga where Anakin is a hero; where he is trying his best to be a good person and do the right thing. Padmé falls in love with him because he’s genuine, heroic, and a little bit reckless. Once he goes off the deepend; killing children & his friends, actually actively supporting fascism; she’s 100% not on board, quote “you’re breaking my heart”. She was in love with someone & had to leave when they started to hurt others and herself. Even maybe she shouldn’t have gotten on board with it when he killed an entire village of sand people, (but granted, they abducted his mother & he was obviously remorseful immediately afterwards + he’s basically a teenage soldier at this point; not saying it’s not bad, just that this is markedly different from all the times Kylo Ren has committed murder) but I also think the way the anidala love story concludes drives home that their relationship probably wasn’t the best idea anyways. Another popular comparison is Pride & Prejudice. Mr. Darcy may have been rude to Elizabeth and may have made mistakes that affected her family, but none of the things he did were as serious as Literal Murder or Abduction. Once he realized how he had misjudged the situation he immediately apologized and made big strides to make up for his mistakes. Elizabeth comes to realize she also misjudged him, that he was only trying to look out for those he loved just as she was looking out for the people she cared about. I have no idea how in the world that is anything like the relationship Kylo Ren and Rey have except for that it’s two people who are at odds with each other, at least in the beginning. And Mr. Darcy is kind of broody I guess and usually has long dark hair. The thing with Kylo Ren is that he has already treated Rey and her friends poorly and that’s not something that can be forgiven easily, or someone a person should be in a relationship with. He’s also not a character who has friends or loved ones that he cares for that would make him sympathetic, unlike Mr. Darcy or Anakin. Anakin killed for the people he loved, it was terrible and bad! But we understood what got him there. We understand those intentions and how they can go awry if you choose to believe the end justifies the means. Darcy is a similar reflection of those intentions, except that his mistakes aren’t near as monstrous & easily forgiven. Kylo Ren is motivated by what? Entitlement? A slightly unstable family dynamic? I know Luke ‘almost killed him’ but he had already begun exploring the dark side at that point so what got him there? Not a desire to protect his loved ones that’s for sure. I’m just very personally bothered by these parallels, as they are unequal, and they undermine what I think is good about these other stories.

that they so actively push for it to be canon. You do realize you can have just as much fun with a non canon ship as a canon one. You don’t need to see it realized on screen to have fun with your villain and hero fall in love stories. We all know Rey is just your self insert so you can have romantic trysts with Kylo Ren because you think Adam Driver or sith dudes are hot or w/e; it might be better to just accept and acknowledge that, rather than stand on your soap box telling everyone it’s the best.

Anyways, in conclusion, I don’t like this ship. I’d say it’s fine for you to indulge in it as a guilty pleasure (like I’m a sucker for vaderdala, it’s not like that’s “morally superior”). But I think the entirety of that group of people who ship it really need to consider the ramifications of what they write and what they romanticize and who they’re erasing from the narrative (coughFinncough) and what kind of message it would actually send if it was truly canon.

I also apologize for mentioning Harry Potter so much I have no idea what that was the material I drew parallels to; there are so many other books and shows and movies I’ve interacted with far more recently than Harry Potter. Maybe it’s because it’s a widely known piece of literature so it’s easier for others to see the comparisons I’m making? Hopefully.

And I won’t interact with this ship on any level except to make jokes at its expense because it fills me with an intense rage that stems from all of these many issues that I take from it. Even if it’s just someone innocuously enjoying it as a crack ship who doesn’t romanticize the bad things about it. It’s been ruined for me forever by the vocal fandom surrounding it.

#hi i just wanted to make a big post with my thoughts #anti reylo #jordan talks #fandom thinkpiece #made it slightly easier to read?#formatting on this website SUCKS #because i posted this and was like woah my brain doesnt even wanna read this and i wrote it

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defiestars · 6 years

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some quick verse + tlj thoughts related info * * very uhHHH likely to change as i go / as i remember things more clearly if / when i subject myself to tlj again

i. recovery // in the empire strikes back novelisation luke was in his bacta tank for 12 hours and then slept for another 16 hours for fatal hypothermia. assuming bacta technology has advanced and become more sophisticated, particularly because it’s now been synthesised into a suit, i’d estimate finn’s recovery to have been in the 30-36 hour mark. ( also, he’s force-sensitive but that’s A Whole Other Topic ! )

if we assume: day 1 post-tfa: rey staying long enough to get her hot new Grey Jedi Look together + organise the gps bracelet plan with leia. the resistance receiving alerts that the first order fleet is approaching and beginning evacuation plans. day 2 post-tfa: finn wakes up, half a day earlier than he did in tlj, just in time to offer information on the weak points of the star destroyers and the dreadnought, including helping devise the plan to eliminate the dreadnought’s surface cannons and clear the way for the resistance bombers.

ii. allegiance // FINN OWES !! THE RESISTANCE !! NOTHING !!!!!! HE DOESN’T OWE ANYBODY SHIT !!!!!!! this boy has risked his life and livelihood time and again from the moment he chose not to kill for the first order for complete strangers, for a movement he had no prior connections with. even if leaving and becoming a ‘’’’’’’ traitor ‘’’’’’ to the resistance had been right for his character and a valid development in his character arc, he does not deserve to be called a deserter for wanting nothing to do with the first order ever again. like........... does anybody fucking realise that alongside the very possible defeat of the resistance, finn being captured by the first order again probably means he wouldn’t be killed, but reconditioned ??????? the first order has had deserters, too !! they also get tasered ! in the Head, specifically their Brain, where they’re basically restored to factory settings. not to mention the sheer amount of bravery and courage and heroism it takes for him to turn around and face the organization that destroyed his childhood, enslaved him, and has systematically abused him every day of his life.

with all of that said,,,,, it makes 0 sense for finn to decide, in the middle of the resistance evacuation, to suddenly up and leave with a shitty ass excuse about needing to be far away for when rey comes back. like ?????? rey's path is already so deeply and inexorably tied to the rube goldberg machine that is the jedi, the resistance, and the skywalkers, and finn knows this. even if he wasn’t fundamentally a person with a moral compass that couldn’t be broken even by two decades of indoctrination into a fascist space nazi regime, finn does The Things He Does because they’re the right thing to do. his character arc is not and has never been defined by rey. i don’t know what dinosaur sloth titty juice rian johnson’s been drinking but repeating parts of finn’s earlier character development to the point of regression is not !!! good !!!! writing !!!!!!!

given that he’s spent 36ish hours in a recovery coma, finn hasn’t had so much as a Second to process, or decide, where he stands in the resistance. like rey, he too is looking for someone to show him his place in all this. unlike rey, he has no mentor figure, no introspective screentime alone, no inner dialogue or space to explore who he is now in the post-first order part of his life. but, for the time being and given the time-sensitivity of the resistance evacuation, he is absolutely on the side of the rebels. these are the people who saved him and protected him, who gave him the jacket off their backs and something to fight for. not only does deserting make 0 logical or tactical sense in the middle of an evacuation, it’s just outright selfish ?? and self-serving ??? none of which finn is, thank you @ryan johnson.

iii. rebellion // so there’s been a lot of differing opinions on finn and rose’s storyline and after agonizing a lot of this i’ve come to the almost final decision that it’s Not As Bad as ppl want it to be. like a lot of mischaracterisation fuck-ups in tlj, it mainly comes down to how this storyline was treated in the grand scheme of tlj and how significant it was to the overarching plot. canto bight only seems irrelevant because ryan johnson is a terrible fucking writer who thrives off sidelining his characters of color. thematically, it served it as a damning critique of the powerful ruling class and political economic elites that are actively profitting from the injustice and oppression of war. rose showing those kids the resistance emblem in her ring is one of the most iconic moments in the film; inspiring a whole generation of children to rise up against their oppressors is everything the resistance symbolizes and fights for.

throwing in an unnecessary oc spitting some half-assed ‘ everything isn’t always good or bad, sometimes there’s just grey areas ’ message in a parallel of the jedi story and ultimately having the undercover mission serve No Purpose Whatsoever was a shitty move. in keeping with the fandom interpretation that tlj is a story about failure, this would’ve been okay only if the detour onto the star destroyer hadn’t been for absolutely nothing. because there Needed to be fucking somETHINg, instead of just benicio del toro rihanna.gif winking with the parting words that ‘ hey sometimes people are just assholes ’. star wars isn’t a story... about... people being fundamentally shitty..... it’s a story about good vs. bad and the enduring struggle for Balance between them; People Are Both. it doesn’t matter what you are but what you do and the choice you have to do good or bad. to counteract the shittiness of dj fucking off, leaving two poc to be forced onto their knees by a white fascist villain, and a black character to be slapped upside the face by said white fascist villain we needed Something. WHERE WAS OUR STORMTROOPER UPRISING, hMMMmm MMm MMMM mMM MM ????????????

bb-8 showing up as deus ex sight gag was funny for 2.5 seconds but now i'm just.... like crait.... a whole Salt Planet. we could have had, it All ? i don’t even specifically know where this part of my tlj-divergent verse goes because it actually requires other non-canon characters to exist but.... hey if any ex-stormtrooper oc’s wanna hmu.... u kno where i’m at. basically, i picture a handful of stormtroopers defecting, escaping with rose and finn, becoming part of the rebellion that is reborn.

iv. battle of crait // this... fuc king scene..... god. let’s just get the wampa out of the way. rose’s ‘ that’s how we’re gonna win. not fighting what we hate, saving what we love ’ was totally narratively undeserved. this is not a criticism of the character but of ryan, again, the man who was paid millions of dollars to write this garbage. in under 18 hours,,,, rose has decided that she has gotten over her lifelong hatred for the first order, her very recent and fresh grief over losing her sister who died Fighting The First Order, and oH, she LOVES FINN ? WHAT. cool. coolcoolcool.

in my canon, i’m going to go with the idea that rose did not kiss finn. but they have a fantastic dynamic, and rose crashing into him, saving him and saying something similar to what she said but more along the lines of not wanting to lose another person she cares about to the first order would have been much... better.... i view this ship as primarily platonic, at least far as tlj goes. finnrey and finnpoe barely had any screentime / development so ryan johnson is flat-out playing no-homo games if he thinks he’s going to sail a ship based on 18 hours of knowing each other. but i’m totally open to seeing where it goes with proper development, etc. in rp, so if there are any rose’s that would like to plot with me and discuss finnrose stuff please !!! i’m begging you !!!!

if ya made it to the end, thank you, ur the real mvp, u are now obligated to message me to plot or yell at me abt ur own tlj salt / headcanons / character analysis.

#✩ // ＯＯＣ． ⟩ MY LONGEST YEAH BOYEGA EVER.MP4 #III. REBELLION. ⟩ // THERE IS NOTHING LIKE HOPE TO LIGHT A REVOLUTION. EVEN THROUGH THE DARKEST NIGHT THE SUN WILL RISE.#thought i might as well post this before i get to my starters #in case anybody has questions or isn't sure how to proceed with my tlj-divergent status #pls don't be afraid to im me or ask questions if you have any #tlj spoilers #the last jedi spoilers

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sinrau · 4 years

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Donald Trump during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture via video )

The Republican Convention would normally have many meetings among party loyalists and state chairs working on updates to the GOP platform. But this year, there won’t be a Republican Party platform. The new platform is supporting Trump, the party said in a press release.

What they have done, however, is copy and paste the platform from 2016, which trashes the current administration. They meant for it to be an attack on former President Barack Obama, but it doesn’t say the name.

Because the GOP moved their convention from Charlotte, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, back to Charlotte and then ultimately virtually and at the White House, it didn’t give enough time to conduct an actual national convention. Instead, the GOP convention will be just be all about Donald Trump.

It was something that made Twitter politicos note how emblematic it is of a Republican Party that has no real policies or plans than of Donald Trump.

You can see the mockery in the tweets below:

https://twitter.com/JWLmageditor/status/1297721089150169088

Nobody paying attention to what has been happening the last 3-plus years should be surprised that the Republican Party has no platform other than saluting and normalizing the whims of their divisive and mercurial leader.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 24, 2020

The GOP just announced that there is no 2020 platform this year other than to reassert “the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.” pic.twitter.com/0wEF2Dnco3

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) August 24, 2020

Amazingly this is not a parody. pic.twitter.com/GtxS1l1uWC

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 24, 2020

Makes perfect sense. No agenda, no principles, no convictions, no ideology. Stand for nothing other than adoring the leader. https://t.co/NxP0ILzYoj

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 24, 2020

This is dry language, so let me translate:

“There will be no Republican Party platform this year, only support for Trump.”

Really. pic.twitter.com/kIOgA73iPZ

— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) August 24, 2020

The GOP announces that there will be no substantive republican platform. It simply is to support Donald Trump. That, folks, is a hallmark of fascism.

— A Worried Citizen (@ThePubliusUSA) August 24, 2020

Over time parties taken over by authoritarians lose identity apart from the leader- their resources and time are monopolized by the need to defend him no matter what he says or does. https://t.co/s33CslP0tW

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 24, 2020

I remember a @GOP lawyer once telling me how much the Republican Party cared about its platform. That regardless of the nominee, the GOP rank and file cared about the individual policies in it.

Apparently that was complete bullshit. [^PartyOfTrump](https://twitter.com/hashtag/PartyOfTrump?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) https://t.co/xX0LtK6xN4

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 24, 2020

Both hilariously pathetic and terrifying, but also if Trump proposed a modest progressive tax increase or nominated a judge the Federalist Society didn’t like, we’d be quickly reminded that the Republican Party has a platform that even Trump can’t override. https://t.co/jdoXWUu5d8

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 24, 2020

Trump’s Plan for 2nd Term: There is no planTrump’s Health Care Plan to replace ACA: There is no planTrump’s Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: There is no planRepublican Party Platform for 2020:

There is no plan

— Max Zeppelin (@zeppelin_max) August 24, 2020

Remember when all the very serious political journalists were concern trolling how ‘light on policy’ the DNC was? The Republican party literally stands for nothing other than as a personality cult for Trump (and a lot of racism). That’s it. https://t.co/vjVrwzLAzf

— Centrism Fan Acct

(@Wilson__Valdez) August 24, 2020

John did you notice the Republican Platform now consists of nothing but blind obedience to Donald? And did you see the RNC schedule? I did and you’re not even invited.

You’re a sucker, John. We are all laughing at you pic.twitter.com/8K6Q9o8U4V

— Pissed off Dad in Texas (@pissed_off_dad) August 24, 2020

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 24, 2020

With the RNC deciding to nuke its platform, and fully endorse Trumpism, there is no longer the excuse of being a Republican even though you disagree with Trump.

There is no Republican party anymore, it’s 100% the Trump Party.

— Godless Iowan says 72 days! (@GodlessIowan) August 24, 2020

So, I guess the GOP just announced that the 2020 Republican platform will be whatever fascist policies that Donny comes up with.

Certainly makes the stakes clear on November 3rd.

— Wallis Weaver (@wallisweaver) August 24, 2020

Anyone who doesn’t think the United States is heading down the same Autobahn Nazi Germany used better look at this.

No Republican platform. Just whatever Trump wants. https://t.co/rh8dc5a7Ms

— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 24, 2020

Most of this was written as though someone else has been president for four years, but Rube Nation will love it. https://t.co/upZ9DofFs4

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 24, 2020

Full cult. https://t.co/HLMaQmbhqB

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 24, 2020

Party platforms have never counted for a ton with me, but we now are headed into a GOP Convention that will be 75% the President or his family members, and has no platform attached just a “whatever the fuck Trump says is fine with us.”

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) August 24, 2020

The Republican party will not release a platform during the 2020 RNC convention.

Their resolution is to follow and support whatever Donald Trump says the party should do, and to resolve that the media should be nicer to them.

This should be a fun week. pic.twitter.com/GJN0Dm14wv

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 24, 2020

The latest reminder that in just four years one of America’s two major political parties was quite easily overtaken by a demagogue/con man and became a cult. https://t.co/hwVoN8yBvL

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 24, 2020

Party dogma is Comrade Stalin‘s personal affair and it’s none of our business, comrade https://t.co/dXrWCDo11q

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 24, 2020

How’s this for Christian Values? @JerryFalwellJr used to have his biz partner have sex with his wife @BeckiFalwell so he could watch!

A panel of MSNBC commentators and political analysts couldn’t help but ridicule President Donald Trump for his new claim that he has done more in his first term than he promised, touting the “Space Force.”

“I would strengthen what we have done and do new things,” Trump told Fox News’ Steve Hilton in a Sunday interview. “Space Force, as an example, I have done more — I have an interesting distinction, and actually sort of a bad person in terms of doesn’t like Republicans or me said Trump is whether you like him or not, he’s done more than he said he was going to do, like, I never mentioned Space Force, that campaign, and we did Space Force, and I never mentioned a lot of things.”

On Monday, Republican Voters Against Trump dropped a new ad featuring Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security chief of staff in the Trump administration who recently came out in support of Joe Biden.

“I served as the chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security under the Donald Trump administration, and it was my job to help the Department of Homeland Security to keep our country safe,” said Taylor. “What we saw was terrifying.”

“The president told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down because California didn’t support him,” said Taylor. “He said he wanted to have a deliberate policy of ripping children away from their parents. He was unfocused, undisciplined. I have to support Joe Biden for president.”

Republicans ridiculed for not having a platform and just being a ‘cult’: ‘Hilariously pathetic and terrifying’

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The Last Jedi: a spoilerific response to a friend’s review

SPOILERS

Direct discussion of plot points in the movie!

Ok ok ok ok

Let’s jump in

“Luke Skywalker’s character is turned on his head. The film starts with Luke throwing his beloved lightsaber off a cliff, which shocked everyone in the theatre.”

That was not Luke’s beloved lightsaber. That was his father’s lightsaber. By holding on to that lightsaber, OT Luke was holding on to an idea of who his father was. When confronted with his actual father, he refused to let go of that false idea and so paid a price, by having it cut off.

Think about that. Keep that in mind. It’s very important. This is a theme that very specifically plays out at the END of the film.

“He is an eternal optimist in return of the jedi, even succeeding in turning his father from the dark to the light. Where others gave up on Vader, Luke remained hopeful. Luke remained true. Given all of this, we are supposed to believe that he almost kills one of his own students because he sees the dark has overtaken him? Surely not more than Darth Vader, surely not more than the absolute darkest version of a human being (seriously, the imagery of darth vader is just brilliant). Luke’s failure and reason for his exile does not align with his character at all, making his behavior shocking and surprising, but not interesting.”

I agree with you that Luke betraying Ben is just so out of character. It’s the part of TLJ that I struggle with the most.

I have a hard time accepting that a character who chose to believe in “Crazy Ole Ben” Kenobi on Tatooine, who chose to believe in sassy, snotty Princess Leia (and god I love how she gave no fucks about every lame ass dude she met), who chose to believe in the about-to-not-even-exist-anymore Rebellion, who chose to believe in cynical and selfish Han Solo, who chose to believe in the lingering goodness of Darth Vader and was proven right in every instance of holding faith, would then have a lack of faith so profound that he would, even for a moment, consider murdering a boy. Especially his sister’s boy.

BUT

I CAN accept that his betrayal of Ben WOULD utterly destroy Luke. I do believe that a man whose character was based on faith, optimism, and hope would be so completely shamed and broken by that moment, that he would shut himself off and abandon the other person most hurt by his actions, Leia. I can accept that, I just have a very hard time with the caveat that Luke would ever do that to another person.

You could say that this goes back to the OT with the lesson that doubt and fear lead to the dark side, and I have a tangential rant about that stance (what up Jedi temple that includes alters to both light and dark with literal and thematic examples of how one must have the other to be functional), but yes, it’s a desperately weak plot point, from where I sit, but there it is.

And I’m rolling with it because that plot point folds into the themes and overarching messages of the film. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

“We know nothing about Snoke, we know nothing about how he came to lead the first order, we know nothing about his haggard appearance, and so many great possibilities died with that character. How was he trained as a sith with all of them dead? Where are the knights of Ren and his connection to Snoke? How did he come to lead the First Order (as the SUPREME COMMANDER, not just a high ranking member of the empire like Vader). Snoke’s death surprised everyone, but that’s it. A moment of subversion that does nothing to serve the story.”

Snoke was always uninteresting and unimportant. Just like the emperor was always uninteresting and unimportant in the OT. They were plot devices. They were something to point to and shout “absolute evil!”

Let me let you in on a secret: absolute evil is not interesting. It never has been and never will be.

What is interesting is the struggle against evil. It’s the choices you make. It’s your compromises and / or sacrifices. The evil is not the story. If you’re looking at Snoke for compelling story, then you’re looking at the wrong thing. The reason Kylo is compelling is specifically that he is NOT absolutely evil. There are still choices for him to make. We fear for Rey BECAUSE of the choices she could make. Snoke already made his choices, Ya boring.

“The First Order as a lazy, uninteresting antagonist for the rest of the series. “The First Order Reigns” indeed.”

The first order: did you need to know more about the empire in order to understand and enjoy the original trilogy? Nope.

Maybe we get more about the first order in another movie, maybe we don’t. I do think there could have been room in these last two movies to discuss how and why an organization like that could rise, but honestly, the simplest answer is to look at our current political climate and say to yourself “Just look at all these rich fuckers literally taking healthcare away from sick children. Look at all these myopic, racists shit bags pretending Jesus was NOT a brown refugee. Look at all these nazi / fascist motherfuckers angry that the world doesn’t belong only to them. God Damn it, white people.”

That’s really all I think there is to the empire and the first order.

“Leia being a superman in space is one of the worse things I’ve seen in the movies. This doesn’t have much impact with my overall thesis but I have to mention this. Leia is out in space for a long time, we know she is strong with the force, but there could’ve been so many other ways to show this other than this scene. ”

And why, exactly, can’t Leia be Superman in space?

Listen, I didn’t like having them give me the moment of intense grief (but to be honest, I started crying when I saw ‘GENERAL ORGANA’ in the scroll) and then snatching it away like that. I feel a scene like that would have been MUCH better served later in the film, but they needed Leia to remind us to forgive ourselves and each other; to smile and remind us that you never fuck up so bad that you can’t try again. But again, WHY can’t Leia be Superman in space? Why? Really think about it? If you JUST didn’t like it, then okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you like what you like.

“Finn’s entire story was unnecessary and should have been cut. Why are we, as an audience, supposed to care about this story? It does nothing, doesn’t expand anything about the characters, other than being able to see Finn fight his old boss, but the whole story turns out to be a red herring. Rose (Finn’s companion throughout this story) was introduced without fanfare, and we are supposed to feel connected to her at the end when she saves finn, but I have trouble remembering her name. She had a sister that died, and she was sad. That’s all I got. I feel that you shouldn’t introduce a new character into an ongoing series if you won’t do anything significant with development. Finn’s partner and the admiral were both throw away characters. Compare this to someone like Lando, who is introduced in Empire Strikes Back but steals the show in his direction. We get a full fledged character, interesting and flawed, and all in one movie. It can be done, it was just done poorly in The Last Jedi.”

About Rose:

The fact that you know what her name is, but you insisted on calling her “Finn’s partner” is something I want you to think hard about.

The fact that she had SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH MORE screen time in TLJ than Poe EVER got in TFA (and let’s remember that Poe was both a literal and figurative throw away character in TFA) and yet you talk about her like a throw away character while never referring to Poe that way is something that I want you to think about.

Anyway

About the “Finn’s entire story was unnecessary and should have been cut.” thing:

It wasn’t Finn’s story. That might be where you fell out of step with the movie and the beats felt wrong? It was not his story. It was Rose’s story, through which Finn grew.

As far as the criticism that Poe, Finn, and Rose had a pointless plot line...well, yes and no. The fact is, they all should have had faith in the leadership of The Resistance.

The plan to launch the transports and WHY maybe could have been shared with more people, but they were being tracked through hyperspace, something that was supposed to be impossible, so it is reasonable that they would keep their last, desperate plan on a strict need-to-know basis. Poe had been demoted through his recklessness, Finn was barely known to anyone in Resistance, and Rose was a maintenance tech. None of these people would be on the need-to-know list.

Their ploy was hurriedly conceived and executed without any consultation with others, because they lacked faith in their leadership (and this included General Organa, who would have been instrumental in putting that leadership into place). Their plan was not a great plan. Basically, what I’m saying is...they fucked up. They set themselves up to fail and then they failed. Sometimes people fuck up and they fail.

And here’s the thing, everyone who keeps calling the Rose/Finn plot a red herring is right! Their story line serves a bigger narrative purpose than this one movie.

What does this movie tell us, over and over? We are the spark.

Rose and Finn inspired people along the way. Most obviously, they inspired the children in the stables. Those kids will tell the story of how they helped the Resistance to their friends and family and anyone else who will listen. Others will remember the wild stampede and subsequent freedom of the racing animals and will feel their own desire for freedom and rebellion reflected in that act. Those sparks will catch. The flames will spread. Rose, Finn, and Poe failed in what they set out to do, but they accomplished something else. They sparked hope.

Why are we talking about Lando? We got a new Lando, that was Benicio del Toro.

“That leads me to this next part. Admiral whats-her-name that takes over the resistance capital ship is a terrible character all around. When she sacrificed herself at the end for the fleet, there was no emotional impact at all (even given how great the cinematography is during the suicide scene). The director should’ve let Ackbar go out this way, why try to make us attach to some random admiral we know nothing about? Ackbar has history as a character, has a weight to character. Having him go out the way the admiral did would have made a great impact, and seen a great character go out in a very satisfying way. Instead, he is thrown out without fanfare and replaced. The only distinguishing feature of Ackbar’s replacement is that she had purple hair and argued with Poe. Which brings me to another not only throw away character but throw away plot section.”

About the Admiral whose name you also will not deign to use (can you tell I was real offended by this thing? Listen, if a character didn’t work for you, okay, but considering the OT had TWO NAMED WOMEN, and the ONE MEANINGFUL WOMAN in the prequels who apparently freed her planet from corporate oppression just to die of sad about her boyfriend is such a monumental bummer! And also I don’t think A SINGLE STAR WARS MOVIE HAS PASSED THE BECHDEL TEST????? I just think maybe you could be a touch less disrespectful and dismissive, please? Especially because):

Hey, yo! Did you pick up on how the establishing shot of Admiral Holda addressing the fleet echoes our most recognizable images of Mon Mothma addressing the rebellion? ADMIRAL HOLDA IS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. HER SACRIFICE IS A SYMBOLIC END TO THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY FOR THE SAKE OF A NEW STORY. ITS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF THE MOVIE. THEMES HAPPEN.

THERE IS DEATH AND DECAY AND THEN THERE IS NEW LIFE.

SPEAKING OF:

Remember Luke’s dad’s lightsaber? The one he tried to throw away at the beginning of the movie? The one that Rey keeps picking up and holding on to as a symbols of who and what she thinks the Jedi are? Did you see what happened when Rey tried to pull a Luke Skywalker and redeem the dark side user she felt connected to? It blew up in her face and broke. I feel like that’s pretty important, you know? Because themes.

“What I lament most is the missed potential. We have been given fantastic explorations of the Star Wars universe in books and video games, some great explorations of the Light and Dark side that give a more nuanced view of the Star Wars universe. Luke even starts to mention the Hubris of the jedi, which I hoped he would elaborate on more and go into why he thought the jedi were wrong. I also hoped he would go into why we avoid the dark even though the jedi are wrong, I hoped Luke would explain how he came to these conclusions other than one student that fell to the dark. I hoped so much for so much more. There was a real opportunity here to make this exploration part of the main saga, but we instead get subversion for the sake of subversion, surprise for the sake of shock. There were some great things to build on from the previous film, but those are tossed aside for the sake of surprise.The Star Wars saga is worse because of the director’s decisions, and I’m sad it happened that way.”

The lament of potential: hey, I get it. I watched Vallerian. I GROK the lament of potential, but I think I have to agree with Davis that this seems more about personal expectations built up over the last two years. And also, the potential isn’t dead, you know? We’ve got a whole other movie coming with Rey and those books and her new found self determination.

There is not a loss of potential. There is more to see and do!

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Star Wars Resistance: 10 Things That Need To Happen Before It Ends

Star Wars Resistance released an intriguing trailer for its second season, along with confirmation that this will be the final season for the show. While Resistance has had its critics, it's been a fun and upbeat show that's further fleshed out the galaxy during the sequel trilogy era. Most of the first season took place in the months leading up to The Force Awakens, and eventually caught up with the events of the film towards the end of the season.

The second season will take place during The Last Jedi, and even dive into the time prior to The Rise of Skywalker, with the epic series finale reportedly leading into the events of the final Skywalker saga film before its December release.

Before the final season airs, let's explore Star Wars Resistance: 10 Things That Need To Happen Before It Ends.

RELATED: 5 Reasons Star Wars Resistance Is Already Better Than Rebels (And 5 Why It Never Will Be)

10 Tam Makes Her Final Choice

Arguably the most shocking event in the first season was the protagonist Tam leaving her friends and joining the First Order. A season's worth of deceiving and undervaluing Tam--and some manipulation from the First Order--culminated in her final decision. With this being the final season, audiences will be given a definitive answer to whether Tam remains loyal to the First Order or if her ultimate loyalty shifts back to her friends aboard the Colossus.

Once Tam realizes the First Order doesn't value her and is just manipulating her for their own gain--or once she is more exposed to the kinds of atrocities the First Order commits--Tam will likely return to Yeager, Kaz, and her other friends. Agent Tierny can certainly be persuasive, though, so all bets are off until the series finale.

9 Crossover With Events From The Last Jedi

One of the best moments in Resistance so far was when it intersected with a major moment from The Force Awakens. Kaz watched a recording of General Hux's fascistic speech, followed by Starkiller Base's destruction of Hosnian Prime, the same planet where Kaz grew up and where his family still resided. It was a powerful and uncharacteristically dark moment for the series and it actually improved The Force Awakens as audiences now had an emotional connection to Hosnian Prime and its people.

With Resistance now taking place at the same time as The Last Jedi, it should also find ways to smartly intersect with major events from the film. The best crossover would probably be for Kaz and his friends to be among the allies Leia and the Resistance contact prior to the Battle of Crait. Maybe we'll even see the Colossus try to make it to Crait in time. At the very least, Kaz and company should hear about what happened on Crait, and have the hope it inspired be used to strengthen their fight against the First Order.

8 A Space Battle With Kylo Ren

Easily the most exciting thing about Resistance's new trailer is the appearance of Kylo Ren, who unlike General Hux and Captain Phasma, hasn't previously appeared in the show. None of Resistance's protagonists stand a chance against Kylo Ren if they come face-to-face with him. They might stand a chance in a space battle, though. Kaz is a gifted pilot, as are Jarek Yeager, Torra Doza, and the rest of the Aces.

RELATED: Star Wars: 20 Crazy Things Kylo Ren Did Before Episode VII

Audiences know from The Last Jedi that Kylo Ren is quite the pilot as well, and it would be incredible to watch him duke it out in space against the pilots of the Colossus. This is a viable way that the protagonists can confront Kylo Ren and the First Order while managing to survive and maybe even win the fight.

7 A New Home For The Colossus

The Colossus being a mobile space station made it possible to escape the First Order. The new trailer teased that the Colossus is facing many issues as it travels through space, though. Just as Castilon was its home for many years, the Colossus needs to find a new planet to call home.

This could definitely serve as an essential piece of the series finale, with Kaz and his friends bolstered by the fact that defeating the First Order means making their new home safe for everyone. Finding such a place will be an ongoing storyline throughout the season, one that might have parallels to the Ghost crew trying to find a suitable base for Phoenix Squadron in the second season of Star Wars Rebels.

6 Eila Connects Further With The Force

Eila and Kel escaped the massacre led by Kylo Ren on their home planet of Tehar. They found refuge on the Colossus, with help from the likes of Neeku and Kaz. One of the most intriguing elements of these children is it appeared that Eila was Force-sensitive. Eila had dreams that foretold the future--often having the same dream repeatedly--and the dreams always came true. It sounds like a Force vision, and being a Force-sensitive child could explain why Kylo Ren wanted to wipe out her village, and why the First Order cared so much about finishing the job by locating Eila and Kel.

The new trailer shows Eila and Kel looking at mysterious symbols and an artifact that a new characters says is "a power source from an ancient time." Whatever happens on that planet could confirm that Eila is Force-sensitive and allow her to become more attuned to her abilities.

5 Joining Up With The Rest Of The Resistance

While those aboard the Colossus have their own battles to fight, they need to join up with the larger Resistance by the end of the season. They cannot outrun and outfight the First Order on their own forever. The First Order can only be defeated with all pieces of the Resistance united, including Kaz and everyone on the Colossus.

RELATED: Star Wars: 10 Things The Comics Added To The Canon

Fans deserve to see Kaz reunite with Poe Dameron and BB-8, both of whom were instrumental in Kaz joining the Resistance and in his growth as a leader and spy. Poe, BB-8, and the larger Resistance can help Kaz and his friends. Then in The Rise of Skywalker, Kaz and company can return the favor by helping in the final battle against the First Order, which hopefully means some cameos, probably similar to the Rebels cameos in Rogue One.

4 A Larger Role For The Aces

The Aces are gifted pilots who defend the Colossus, escort important shipments, and participate in the station's races. They were heavily promoted and marketed before the first season, generating much of the excitement around the show. Only Torra Doza and Hype Fazon received much focus, though, making the hype--pun intended--a disappointment.

This season needs to give all the Aces a larger role. Fortunately the new trailer did tease this with a few different shots. It shouldn't be hard considering how important the Aces will be in defending the Colossus against the First Order. Maybe the Aces will even have a chance to go up against Kylo Ren in his TIE Silencer.

3 Kix The Clone Trooper Appearance

Thanks to the appearance of the legendary pirate known as the Crimson Corsair in the Resistance trailer, there's actually a chance fans could see the clone trooper Kix from The Clone Wars. The Crimson Corsair appeared in the trailer after a mention of bounty hunters hired to find Kaz. On a job when the Crimson Corsair thought he would find kyber crystals that once belonged to Count Dooku, he found the clone trooper Kix in frozen stasis.

Due to this, Kix was still alive and ended up joining the Crimson Corsair's crew. This means there's a chance Kix will accompany him in the hunt for Kaz. He would be the first Clone Wars character to appear in Resistance, and would ensure that at least one clone trooper has appeared in all three of the animated Star Wars shows that Dave Filoni helped create.

2 The Defeat Of Agent Tierny And Commander Pyre

Audiences will have to wait until The Rise of Skywalker to see if the Resistance can defeat the likes of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, General Hux, and the First Order. Agent Tierny and Commander Pyre--the show's main First Order antagonists--will need to be dealt with before the end of the Resistance, though.

A victory against Tierny and Pyre is quite likely and will prove the First Order is vulnerable, thereby providing the Resistance with further momentum and hope as they continue their fight in The Rise of Skywalker. The bigger question is whether Tam will still be with the First Order and go down with Tierny and Pyre, or if she'll rejoin her friends from the Colossus and choose the Resistance.

1 A Mentor's Sacrifice

Every generation of Star Wars features characters who serve as mentors, with the mentors ultimately making sacrifices that save those they love and to pass the torch to the next generation. Resistance should follow that tradition, with Kaz's mentor Jarek Yeager and Torra's mentor--and father--Captain Doza making sacrifices to save the Colossus and defeat the First Order.

Both Yeager and Captain Doza made sacrifices in the first season for these very reasons, but with this being the final season, they can step up their game and make even more memorable and powerful sacrifices.

NEXT: Why Star Wars Resistance Was Cancelled After Only Two Seasons

What do you hope to see in the second and final season of Star Wars Resistance? Let us know in the comments!

source https://screenrant.com/star-wars-resistance-10-things-need-happen-ends/

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I’ve been a bit harsh on some things over the years. I wrote a particularly scathing attack on DD/LG stuff that I genuinely went too far with (even as I continue to inch away from kink stuff in general due to evolving tastes), I wrote a scathing Man of Steel calling it a punchy, grimdark piece of shit that earned me a death threat, and early in my blog’s history I wrote a fair few anti-SJW things that was more railing against the idea of over-sensitivity and cherrypicking words to attack someone rather than supporting the rights of people. I still have an issue with people cherrypicking words and throwing a person’s combined history at them to break them down, and while I still believe in the good that social justice blogging is aiming to do, I also spent more than enough time in that circle and I can’t tolerate the always-on, ever-upset atmosphere that drains the energy out of you one blog-post at a time.

This is about none of that. I’ve made my peace with those subjects. But there’s one thing that I haven’t budged on - If anything, I’ve gotten more hard-line about it as of late.

I cannot stand fandoms where people think it’s okay to attack each other, like feral children biting each other until someone draws blood. Fandoms have been going sour for me for a few years now, but it’s only recently that it’s been hitting a tipping point - thanks in most part to Sherlock and the continued campaign of rabid Johnlock shippers.

The following post will be my diatribe about rabid fandom and how they actively hurt their shows. Expect SuperWhoLock and Avatar: The Last Airbender shenanigans.

First of all, a disclaimer: I’m not against all fandoms, and while I’m going to be going after a gay ship, I’m not homophobic. Because surprise surprise, you can think someone is being a massive assholish baby about Johnlock and care about/support gay or queer issues. You can read anything you like into what I say, but if you’re going to break me down for being an ignorant redneck or what have you, please note that a harsh opinion on a fictional ship and its fanatical following isn’t tantamount to saying “gay people have enough good things, and they still want more? Ungrateful little sods.” I only call out rotten behavior because it is rotten. I’m also not against the ships themselves, moreso the idea that it is THE ship and you are OWED the ship and not getting the ship legitimized is DEGRADING and DECEITFUL. That is a trait that applies to ships of all orientations.

I’ve also been in a few fandoms in my day, and I still interact closely with some splinter groups of fans. I’m a big Evangelion fan, I read Questionable Content and have since I was 13 and I’ve been posting in a forum about said webcomic since 2012. So please - don’t take what I say as a sweeping critique of all fandoms, or all fans. Because there are fanbases that are polite or small enough not to be fucking crazy and legitimately harmful to the people around them.

So with my opening statements out of the way, let’s dive into the face-meat of this post - Sherlock is about as toxic as it was three years ago, and has managed to garner an even crazier conspiracy squad full of elitists, loudmouthed “enlightened” fans and ridiculous degrees of fan-wank. It’s gotten so bad that I hear Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are getting pretty fed up with the constant hate.

Tell me - what is particularly sane or healthy about obsessing over a non-existing “true” finale of the show, the date of which was derived from taking letters from a show’s credits, breaking them into numerical equivalents and multiplying them to get a date and time? Shows don’t do that. Network shows definitely don’t do that, and very rarely do they disrupt their planned broadcasts - especially for a hardcore contingent of fans who have been harassing them for years. What makes you think that you, a driving force in crazy, is so deserving of a hidden fourth episode that the BBC has to fuck their other programming over to appease? You aren’t. No-one is. Maybe a crazy Netflix show could do that, since digital distribution is a lot less committal than network television, but it hasn’t happened yet and it wouldn’t happen on a broadcasting station as established as the BBC.

The very thought of a real-world conspiracy to “reward” shippers for their diligence and patience, made in the face of Moffat and Gatiss explicitly stating “IT’S NOT HAPPENING”, is nothing more than entitlement. You feel entitled to John Watson and Sherlock Holmes smooching, you want it to happen so badly that you would weave subtext and hidden clues out of thin air and screech when the actual showrunners shoot it down - I mean there’s nothing wrong when that context is shared and agreed upon among the fandom, but when you throw it in a producer’s face as “OBVIOUSLY canon” and try to destroy the show by mass-complaining through the BBC’s official complaint form because the showrunners didn’t legitimize it, that’s a massive fucking problem that stems from entitlement. They’re either wrong about their own creation, or they’re hiding something that only you and your friends, the true fans who rebel against the filthy Casuals™, would understand, and you rally behind them to say “It’s okay, the world is ready for Johnlock!”, to coax them to part with their precious love-baby and to show your support.

But there’s no fucking love-baby. There never was. It was a fan reaction that continues to spiral into insanity every day because you think these two are so right for each other that the thought of them not fucking is offensive to you.

The “original sin” that broke me out of fandom happened here on Tumblr, in 2013. You remember Avatar: The Last Airbender? Funnily enough, it predates Korra’s shipping wars by six years - and it continued to rage past the advent of Legend of Korra. It was still sparking in 2016.

Avatar was the first show I consciously shipped for, and I was a Kataanger. I liked the idea of Katara and Aang eventually pairing up. An opposing ship, Zutara - Zuko and Katara, the fans of which called themselves Zutarians - were the aggressive arch nemeses of the Kataang shippers. I took part in the shipping wars, but after a while, I just got sick of it. Moreso after I saw the entire show, where not only was Kataang the one that made it out alive - as I feel it should have - but the show could have survived without any pairings, because the group had a great number of platonic relationships. Take romance out, and you still have a pretty decent ragtag bunch of misfits. I still feel like Kataang was telegraphed from the first few episodes, and a ton of arguments I heard for Zutara to justify it at “canonical” - Zuko seeing Katara in Aang’s arms in the first episode and disliking Aang because he looked like he was hurting a pretty girl, telling Katara that he’d “save her from the pirates” in the Water Scroll episode (the pirates he hired to tail the Avatar, and the situation being that he was blackmailing her with a precious family heirloom to sell out the Avatar - really romantic, right?) - were self-righteous, taken out of context at best and smugly insufferable at worst. I still have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about Zutara.

But as a teenager - around 16 - I realized how fucking moronic it was to be actively angry about shipping. Both ships can have their highs and lows without being canonical, they can co-exist in peace. People don’t need to sling shit at each other to justify their love for their ship, because people are going to find different things romantic or sexy and it’s no-one’s business to tell them that their feelings are wrong. The sole idea behind shipping - love - is not an ideal that’s worth clawing out someone’s eyes over. I eventually stopped shipping Kataang for a while.

Fast forward to 2013 - at that point, I’m 17 going on 18. I’ve chilled the fuck out, I’m on tumblr, I’m ready to see some cute fucking fanart. I browse the tag for a couple weeks. It’s all good, the fanart is good.

Then a newcomer makes a post that mentions Zutara. People strain themselves not to get mad, and tell this person not to mention Zutara in the Kataang tag, because it’s an insult to their ship and it’s rude to mention it in the Kataang tag. Then the newcomer says “Alright, I didn’t mean to cause trouble. I just see some points that go towards Zutara or Kataang, and I’m not too fussed about which one is ‘correct’ or not.”

The tag FUCKING EXPLODES.

The newcomer is called a troll, Kataangers firebomb the Zutara tag for their perceived “attack” on Kataang, and hostilities are actively stoked by both sides. It calms down in three days. Because so much as mentioning another ship’s name in another ship’s tag - not putting it above the other ship, not trying to offend, just mentioning it - is an offence punishable by fire.

These fandom people, new fans and classic, grown-up fans like myself alike - even older fans in their twenties - are as fucking embarrassing, hostile and shitty as a bunch of tweens were back when the show was still on.

I commented on all that, and people sent me defensive messages about how it was alright to act like a petulant child on the internet, because it’s something they’re passionate about and insulting that behavior is insulting to them. I relent and chill the fuck out.

That entire scenario? It happened three separate times, always in its entirety.

The fans of a thing I like couldn’t leave something alone, like conflict was a fandom tradition and they were proud to take up some sword and shield to defend the honor of their favorite characters. The slightest slight against them was grounds for combat, for anyone with a heartbeat to break out the claws and slash at their “opponent” for invading their territory. The word “militaristic” is thrown around a fair bit in fandom, sometimes as a cover for “fascist”, but the Avatar fandom? Pre- and post-Korra? It felt like people were LARPing combat scenes by smooshing their hands on their keyboards, to cause the most distress.

And that brings me back to Sherlock.

Johnlockers, TJLC or whatever the acronym is - the most vile, blind, deaf fans of the bunch, but not every Johnlock shipper - can’t play nice with any other ship. Johnlock is the end-goal, and they will pursue the blood of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss if they are not handed to them what they feel is rightfully deserved.

That is a sick way of thinking.

You can’t enjoy Johnlock for its own merits, revel in the material you are handed by other fans? The only option is for the pairing to become canonized, and the showrunners are in denial to the degree that they’re beaming you and your friends coded messages to say that it’s okay, that it’s going to be a thing, and that you can’t lose hope? If Johnlock isn’t canonized, the LGBT community has taken a shark-sized bite and will not be insulted by these BBC fascists who strung them along for so long?

I have a theory, and it’s a bit crazy. Maybe - just maybe - Mark Gatiss isn’t coding a secret gay relationship into a show because he’s gay himself, maybe him and Steven Moffat never intended for Sherlock to be this big maze about two men falling in love and bettering themselves through their love, and they aren’t being cracked down upon by the BBC. Maybe they actually mean it when they say “Johnlock isn’t canon”. Maybe they don’t have enough pull to broadcast a secret episode of their TV show on network television, and you are wasting your time by justifying the intentions of some people you have never met by the fiendish measures you wish that they would be able to take.

And maybe - just by the smallest sliver of a chance - that doesn’t invalidate Johnlock or any of the work you’ve put into it as a super-fan.

Like with Avatar, a pairing doesn’t have to be canon to be legitimate, to cause an effect or stir in a community or individual. Johnlock has already affected the real world, in good and bad ways. People have come together and become friends over the ship. You have the groundwork of a beautiful thing, a ship that has endured for over one hundred years in various shapes and sizes, a ship that has been canon in different continuities - you have the feelings Sherlock gives you towards these ships, and the ship has the clout of decades worth of interpretation. That’s great.

But that doesn’t make it canon in this universe, nor does it make it okay to ostracize and attack people who think maybe it’s not such a good idea to spend nigh-on five years obsessing over a bunch of fictional people. And maybe this unintended ship by the creators doesn’t need to be canonized. Maybe they don’t have to bend to your demands, and they have free reign to make the show that they want - and by exercising that right, they don’t intend by any measure to exploit your or lead you along, and mean no disrespect to the LGBT community.

Maybe Johnlock was a side-effect of Sherlock’s earlier days, or even planned to be canon once upon a time. And maybe the fanbase bloating to a truly sickening degree, flooding Tumblr with millions of uninspired, truly fanatical posts, turned them off the idea.

There’s a thousand things to say about Sherlock as a cultural phenomenon, or as an example of fanaticism affecting the course of a show’s run, and I don’t know any of it. All I know is this: that hardcore Johnlock shippers are absolutely bonkers, and for the past four years I have had no desire whatsoever to watch the monstrosity that spawned SuperWhoLock. I know that I actually kind of want to watch it now because of a multishipper friend who likes Johnlock, but doesn’t stand for any ship-bashing or malicious fan-wank garbage - niceness and kindness towards other fans and towards the show helping to disperse some of the garbage I always saw Sherlock as being encrusted with. And I know that not all Johnlock shippers are bad, the same way not all Zutara shippers are bad, despite my personal investment in it not being canon. Hell, the Kataang/Zutara conflict shouldn’t have lasted into the New Tens, period. We should have known better. I can see Johnlock shippers as being like any other decent fan of anything, provided that it hasn’t engulfed their life like an asbestos fire.

The idea behind shipping is love. In any way shape or form - familial love for the ships focused on “home”, on tight-knit families being formed. On romantic and erotic love, for those who live vicariously through their ships and swoon at the thought of them, or who want to get fucked by some fictional person/animal/object. Through platonic love, who want to see two friends have an unbreakable bond that keeps all involved parties anchored and strong. And I think it’s fucking deplorable that anyone would taint that feeling with hate. Whether you’re Johnlock or anti-Johnlock, or a militant Avatar shipper, or anyone who will belittle, attack or aim to hurt anyone for not conforming to their way of thinking. People like that are fucking horrendous, soul-sucking people. It’s people like that that makes shipping such an unattractive idea to a great deal of people.

My issue with shipping is the legitimate, mouth-frothing fanaticism exhibited by the truly invested, the hate and genuine desire to hurt other people for not believing in something and the sickening entitlement that so many ships are rife with. For a long time I just hated shipping, period - but I can live with shippers and the concept of shipping, as long as those people can act like composed human beings who don’t bay for blood. I have a specific dislike for SuperWhoLock as a whole, but Sherlock specifically - but given that the fans are okay people, I don’t have a beef with Johnlock as a concept or as a whole.

If the outcome of anything I just said boils your blood and makes you want to “stage an accident” for insulting you or your precious thing, by all means - come at me. But I repeat - the idea behind shipping is love. I fundamentally believe that for shipping as a whole, whether it be for the fictional love of two characters or a fan’s love of those characters interacting. That goes for Johnlock as much as it does any other ship. If my grievances truly offend a majority of Johnlock/TJLC people, then ask yourselves - how twisted do you have to be to take personal offence at being referred to as “about as toxic as it was three years ago, and has managed to garner an even crazier conspiracy squad full of elitists, loudmouthed “enlightened” fans and ridiculous degrees of fan-wank”? Does it hit that close to home that it feels like a personal attack, and does that initial summation invalidate anything I say afterwards by sheer virtue of existing?

Anything in this post could be wrong. I could be being too harsh. But if anything I said provides a flood of hate or a fucking bounty on my head for saying it, then you’re a part of the problem I just described. You are literally problematic.

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Ayesha Liveblogs Magi: Kingdom of Magic

It’s been like a minute and already this show has escalated so much more than it’s predecessor good lord

What kind of an ominous note to start this peppy intro song on

“Tonight we shall celebrate that triumph” Sinbad loves any excuse for a feast

Lmao @ Jafar just lurking around waiting to let Ka Kaboun have it

“Jafar, have I become devious?” said Sinbad, after doing a series of devious things all in succession

Oh my god Alibaba gave Kogyoku a flower crown that’s adorable

“I never thought anyone would make a move on a woman before me. Aladdin, you are a true Magi” SINBAD PLS

Take a shot every time someone pauses to relive tragic memories

I don’t want to accuse Sinbad of doing this on purpose but I kinda think he exposed Dunya to the dark magic on purpose

OH MY GOD THEY’RE HAVING A SLEEPOVER I LOVE IT

I deeply appreciate Alibaba’s sleepwear and that he removes his earrings

“My, what a charming sight you are” Kogyoku’s a little crazy but I dig it

Poor Jafar he is very concerned about Sinbad and I share the concern tbh

Oh no is Dunya dying iS THAT WHAT DAY OF DEPARTURE MEANS

“I wanted you to know all about it, about my true feelings” is this tragic backstory exchange also a romantic confession?

“I really envy you,” said Morgiana, immediately after Hakuryu told her that his entire family had been murdered

I don’t care who gets together with whom but I want one of these youths to take advantage of these romantic sunsets and flowers and fall in love like give me something to hope for in this society of imminent sadness

Oh shit they’re both royals of low birth I love it!!! Bond my peeps

“You must become my friend forever” I LOVE KOGYOKU AND ALIBABA

Yamuraiha is Aladdin’s mom now sorry I don’t make the rules

OH MY GOD HAKURYU’S GOT PINK RUKH CAUSE HE’S IN LOVE!!!

Lmao @ Aladdin outing Hakuryu’s crush to everyone around them

“I pray that you’ll have a good and safe journey” “Who are you?” Poor Spartos getting called out for his lack of screen time

IS ALIBABA GOING TO STOW AWAY I BET HE’S A STOWAWAY

Update from 10 seconds later: I KNEW IT

Poor Alibaba he was so set for his dramatic reveal but he fucked up

“But now that I’ve known him for a long time, there are a few odd things that I’ve noticed about him” Lmao they know he’s listening

Alibaba do you really think they can’t hear you shouting in the room beside them

I think Hakuyru and Alibaba are going to become romantic/battle rivals

“Next time I’ll do my part!” “Can you handle it?” boys pls

Who is this twelve year old magical pirate with a cyclops baby

Pretty unfair to refer to the people who own the ship as “intruders”

Guess these punk ass kids chose the wrong ship to attack

“I’m a mother to all of the miserable children in this world” I bet she’s eating them or smth

As soon as they mentioned the cliffs I knew Morgiana would be tossing her boys into the air khgdjhjkdhgk

I fucking love when Morgiana goes wild and destroys everything

Hard for Hakuryu to relate to all these parental memories when he grew up without any

Ohm Madura’s magical power: inducing mommy issues

“That means that though physically they’re children, mentally they’re actually mature” poverty, slavery and abandonment will do that

Omg does this mean that Hakuryu is actually the least mature of all of these children poor guy

Update from next episode: “That one seems to be the only one among them that’s still a child” oh Hakuryu

Well I guess that answers the question of whether Hakuryu can djinn equip

Judging purely on the theme song Hakuryu is not going to become a main character and that makes me sad because I’ve grown attached to him

MY GOD HAKURYU CHILL THE FUCK OUT YOU JUST MURDERED A WOMAN IN FRONT OF A BUNCH OF CHILDREN

“My mission is to kill my own mother” what a trope reversal instead of a Dead Mom he’s got a Murder Mom

“There’s no reason to grieve... after all none of you were ever loved in the first place” damn Hakuryu quit taking your issues out on the children

I did not think this romantic confession was coming on so quickly oh my

“That’s why I want to marry you” you’re like seventeen get it together

Lmao @ Morgiana and Hakuryu kissing with their eyes wide open

Take a shot every time Alibaba cries for his enemies I love him so much it’s like his philosophy is ‘if the mood is vengeful burst into tears’

“You’re different than King Sinbad... in what way I’m not sure” why do they keep alluding to Evil!Sinbad I’m not about this

“Isn’t there any way to put your vengeance behind you and finally be free?” Damn so he’s not just Arabian Zuko he’s also Arabian Sasuke

I want for Hakuryu to be happy but I can only imagine Morgiana is going to end up with Alibaba which isn’t bad it’s just sad for him

“Stamina is your only redeeming quality” how rude, Alibaba

Sfhkdjhgfkjghfdkhg these flashes showing that Hakuryu is loyal af and Alibaba is a hoe are hilarious

Alibaba has no idea how to coordinate jewelry lmao

Why is everyone from the Kou empire so goddamn crazy good lord

Take a shot every time someone under the age of 15 witnesses a murder

“I want you to mess me up too” Kinkshame Kouha’s consorts

Me @ Aladdin collapsing after a single pull-up: .... same

Sphinctus: Pay! Attention! To! Me!

ALADDIN FELL ASLEEP DURING SOMEONE’S TRAGIC BACKSTORY... TWICE

“Thank you... Instructor’s Boobs” what on earth is this show honestly

“When you guys first got here, you were just a bunch of ignorant losers. But not anymore... Today, you guys are self-aware losers” ..... same

Alibaba just fucking ends up passed out in the streets when left to his own devices my darling disaster

This fight is lit I love my boy battling in the middle of a casino lmao

Is this meant to imply that Cassim bestowed his magoi onto Alibaba as he died like what kind of loyalty does this boy inspire 10/10 world’s Best Boy

Why are all these people so messed up there’s a death chant like every few episodes

“Are you alright?” he said, after watching Alibaba almost die several times and not doing a damn thing

I can’t wait for Alibaba to take back Balbaad

Morgianna should really have more questions about the mysterious all-knowing stranger in the cave willing to take her on a one-way trip across the void

So I take it that these past six months have not gone well for Hakuryu

“there can only be one ruler, not just for this country, but for the world” like a minute of screen time and Kouen’s already talking world domination

“From father to son just like that” this family circle is way too close these kids are siblings and also cousins now the mom seems to be hitting on her son it’s all very yikes

Is Hakuyru seriously supporting his mom’s bid for the throne just so he can depose her what a mess

I’m loving all of Hakuryu’s dramatic actions being accompanied by lightning

This dude looks almost exactly like Sheherazade how many magi are at this school exactly

“[...] Will be granted the honour of second-class citizenship” oh Aladdin

“You and I are cut from the same cloth that’s a very special thing” okay Anime Malfoy I wonder how this exchange with the equality-minded protagonist is going to go

“I thought for sure you were a girl under there” I’ll admit it, that’s not how I thought this exchange was going to go

Whoops I guess when you’re dependent on a thin piece of cloth to hide your biggest secret things might not go in your favour during battles

“One of the four magis who is not supposed to exist” wait what homie

“The magi and I have reached an accord” Titus has known Aladdin’s secret for one (1) night and already he’s dropping it in casual conversation

“Back home the engine that drives industry is the accepted use of forced labour” these call-outs are near constant

Titus highkey adores cats and babies and I appreciate it

Omg Titus just called his employer just to tell her about his amazing day meowing at cats I love him

Damn I should’ve known something like this would be going on I was sort of just expecting run of the mill corruption and abuse not using-people’s-lifeforce-to-power-their-lifestyles

“Oh yes, yes it would” Titus has known this girl for five minutes and he’s already ready to adopt her

Titus decided to liberate 200,000 people from enslavement even though his mission is to study them bless him

“You came here to study, not be a freedom fighter” but he wants 2 do both

Aladdin’s ready to fight at the slightest provocation and like same

Your narrative of overthrowing oppression is really undermined by referring to the masses in the same way you claim that other nobility referred to you

“The breed possessing sharper intelligence and higher reasoning should control those who don’t” so it’s not only a fascist state it’s also proposing eugenics we’ve reached full on wizard nazis

“I’m so happy for you Titus” why does Mogamett ruin every happy moment by being gross

How is Titus planning on continuing his studies while he raises a six-year-old full-time are there nannies in this school

“We will be together forever, I give you my promise” well now I’m worried that Marga’s gonna die

I’m guessing Titus is some kind of copy of Sheherazade not meant to be permanent so that’s why he’s not meant to last

“I don’t want my life to end yet” I’m guessing Titus is about to make a mistake

“No matter who he is, no human must ever be granted the powers of a king” now would be a good time to cut to Alibaba

[Donald T/rump voice] Make the Empire Magic Again

Call me crazy but I’m guessing the handsome one is the person they’re going to focus on as a potential king

Things have escalated really quickly like four episodes ago they were having fun times in the market and now they’re at war

I’m guessing the ominous prologue is about to come to fruition

“Ours is not a society built on oppression,” he said, while literally standing on ground built above the bodies of indentured labourers

Sheherazade is defeating her enemies through science what a plot twist

Are these two just having an ongoing magical phone call while their armies attack each other

Don’t get me wrong I want to know where this plot goes but I also want to see Alibaba’s training montage and see what Morgiana decided

“You’re an abomination that should never have been born in the first place” Mu is defeating Titus by blows to the self-esteem

Aladdin’s trying to stop a war single-handedly bless his heart

“I never thought about just asking them nicely” Aladdin <333333333

Why is Mu’s djinn equip the only one which changes the user’s ethnicity

“He’s my friend, my best friend” ALIBABA MY LOVE IS HERE AND MY BABIES ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR BOND

What a weird tone for these armistice talks. On a boat during a beautiful sunset with a bunch of teenage boys

Is Sheherazade the only Magi that can reproduce because she’s a lady

I LOVE THIS TROPE OF GIVING A HEAD BOP EVERY TIME SOMEONE TRIES TO STUBBORNLY TAKE ON ALL THEIR OWN BURDENS

“I acted as if you were a just a toy for me to play with, but I knew no other way to express my love for you” that’s no excuse for bad parenting Sheherazade

Mogamett needs to chill the fuck out good lord

“My fall into depravity is guaranteed” I mean same but calm down

Alibaba during literally every battle: How can I make this about Cassim

“I’ve had my fill of heartbreakers” Slutshame metal vessel users

Look at my fancy boy with his pants on fire good for Alibaba

I think this is the first time Alibaba has referred to himself as a Prince of Balbaad since its fall

“She is much more of an adult than I will ever be” TITUS DON’T DO IT

“Mr. Director, sir, you shall always have my respect,” said Titus, while speaking to a man who is operating a weapon of mass destruction against hundreds of thousands of people using human lives

OH NO TITUS WHY HE DOESN’T DESERVE THAT I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE WHERE HE WAS UNTIL I SAW HIS EARRING

EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO MUCH HOW ARE THEY GOING TO RESOLVE ALL OF THIS IN ONE EPISODE

“Just like Sinbad... I have a feeling he’s someone else that I shouldn’t be secrets to” has Sinbad really done anything yet other than give people the heebie jeebies

“YOU GIVE ME BACK MY SON” ME TOO SHEHERAZADE

I fucking love this “Alibaba dear” my royal buddies Kogyoku and Alibaba

Sidenote: In Japanese she calls him “Alibaba-chan” which is for friends/babies/lovers and Alibaba is all three tbh

I deeply relate to Kouen’s lack of impulse control/regard for his own life

“Die you wastes of space”... maybe not

“What he’s saying now is, ‘The way things are now, I’m unable to have my way with those wards. And so, as you also own a fire djinn, Lord Alibaba, I’d like you to please lend me a hand.’ Those are the exact words Lord Kouen just spoke to him.” HAKUEI PLEASE HE’S STOMPING ALIBABA INTO A VOLCANO

I already love Kouen and Alibaba’s relationship like combo attacks are my shit

Kouen’s concerned about his djinn equip even though he’s clearly lost a few layers of flesh where are your priorities my dude

I love these crazy ass siblings dedicated to saving the world together

“Why isn’t Hakuryu here?” he’s probably doing something devious

“I too was there, and served [King Solomon] as well”.... WHAT

If she’s a being of only thought how did she have like ten kids

Sinbad coming in with the cavalry ayyyyyyyyyyyy how’s it going my mysterious friend

Morgiana comes to the rescue my gal and

“However, if you’re an uninvited guest forcing yourself upon our world, we’ll eliminate you” Sinbad always says such honourable things it’s very confusing with all the devious coding he’s been getting

Sheherzade coming to perform some deus ex magica

There’s Hakuyru come to fuck up his life he’s got like half an an episode to make a mess let’s see how much he can accomplish in that time

“This man, he kidnapped me from the royal palace and raised me as his own [...] but I was never anything but happy” even the nice things that Mogamett does are sort of evil lmao

Why doesn’t poor Titus even get a line in all this peace-making

Knowing from my friend that Hakuryu is going to do something after all this plot resolution is making me real tense

“Now that their common enemy is gone” IS HAKURYU GOING TO BECOME THEIR COMMON ENEMY

“The alliance will spare no effort towards the rebuilding Magnoshuttat” Sinbad’s deviousness is finally coming to fruition

OH MY GOD TITUS IS BACK AND HE’S A MAGI I LOVE IT

“I have chosen to forever turn my back on you” why are you like this Hakuryu

Alibaba’s ‘my friends are idiots’ senses are tingling but I guess it’s not time for him to go full Naruto to Hakuryu’s full Sasuke yet

#ayesha liveblogs magi #ayesha talks anime #liveblogging

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Star Wars Resistance: 10 Things That Need To Happen Before It Ends

Before the final season airs, let's explore Star Wars Resistance: 10 Things That Need To Happen Before It Ends.

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10 Tam Makes Her Final Choice

9 Crossover With Events From The Last Jedi

8 A Space Battle With Kylo Ren

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7 A New Home For The Colossus

6 Eila Connects Further With The Force

5 Joining Up With The Rest Of The Resistance

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4 A Larger Role For The Aces

3 Kix The Clone Trooper Appearance

2 The Defeat Of Agent Tierny And Commander Pyre

1 A Mentor's Sacrifice

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source https://screenrant.com/star-wars-resistance-10-things-need-happen-ends/

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