Any clone (standing approx 6ft of pure muscle and extensive combat training, most likely with weapons on his person):

Me (standing at a firm 4ft11in and getting winded by a flight of stairs): I will protect you at any cost

The clone: how did you even get in here

The clones, dragging me to a holding cell, very alarmed: where did she come from??

Me, allowing myself to be dragged: I would die for you

This post is my spirit animal.

Me: i will protect you

Clone: if anything we’d be the ones protecting you-

Me:

I will protec

what i say: i like the prequels

what i mean: the prequels may be flawed in directing, acting, dialogue, etc. which at many points make them seem comically awful as movies, and they may be widely reviled by both casual and die hard audiences, but despite that i enjoyed the overall story told, the characters introduced, and the depth and world building it added to the star wars universe.

what people think i mean: the prequels are a cinematic masterpiece without any flaws and i want you to start hurling insults at me

YEET

― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh. | (insp)

Death, yet the Force.

Disabled Star Wars AU I want to see

Give me a story where Qui-gon survives, but at the cost of Obi-wan losing an arm and his legs. A mirror image to the loss Vader suffers.

Let me see all that physical pain and adaption that Lucas loves to put into his villains turned into something light and amazing.

Let Anakin see the Jedi’s hypocrisy when they cast Obi-Wan out because he’s angry and in pain and they say he can’t access the living force anymore. When Obi-Wan always favored the unifying force anyway.

Let him ask why they fear he’ll go dark and see the parallels to slaver ‘mercy’ when they free slaves too weak or injured to work because it isn’t worth paying slave tax on them and you have to pay a fine if you kill off your slaves in order to dodge taxes.

Because the Jedi don’t have money or things. When he gets cast out all Obi-Wan will have are the robes on his back, a lifetime of fighting skills, and mounting debt as he tries to get prosthetics and pain management.

All Jedi who leave the order go grey or dark is a self fulfilling prophecy when you toss them out without trade skills or money.

Let me see a Anakin who picks a path with Obi-Wan still. Two gray force users. Making a life for themselves of the fringe of society, freeing slaves, learning to force heal and build prosthetics. All with the queens of Naboo and Mandalores quiet and unofficial backing. Dodging Jedi and Sith interference at every turn.

Until one day they stumble on a planet in the middle of nowhere and are shown thousands of slave children waiting to be sent to die for the Republic and the Jedi they are trained to serve.

They steal them away a little at a time. Covert opps they tell anyone that asks. And when they check the boys for slave chips and oh do they find them.

Palpatine doesn’t even know his plans have gone astray until it explodes all over the net that a thousand fighters have appeared out of no where to destroy the Hutt empire. All the slaves are free and any system wanting to break from republic rule are free to petition to join the new alliance. Naboo and Mandalore are some of the first to join.

There are all the clones he had planned to use against the Jedi along with the chosen one and his mentor who have remained annoyingly too hidden for Palpatine to gain control of.

And here are Yoda and Mace faced with two men who they cast aside as too broken and likely to fall. Now shining in the force so brightly that is has cleared away shatterpoints and the ever encroaching sith influence.

And lots of days Obi-Wan is in too much pain to leave his bed and Anakin is so angry his aura rolls in like a thunderstorm darkening the very force around him. But that’s okay because the force is not a power limited by emotion or trauma no matter what some religions may say.

people typing out accents in joke posts for critrole is funny but if any of you do it in fic i will strike you down myself

Ok I’m actually reblogging this twice because I just realized that if you don’t have practice at it, trying to express accents through dialogue can be really hard and it can be really tempting to just…type ‘em out, so I have five quick tips here:

1) Read your dialogue out loud. Do your best fake accent. Swear to god this is the best way to check if any dialogue works, accent or no. Eventually you’ll recognize that some accents have melodies. There’s a reason why they call Texan accents a drawl, so use long vowels, heavy words. Irish is quick, rolling and singsong - the more pitter-patter fast-pace you can make your verbs, the better.

2) Pay attention to sentence structure. People from different places will build sentences differently. E.g., people with particularly uppity-sounding English accents tend to say “I’ve not” rather than “I haven’t,” so I always use the former for Percy. The Texan accent Fjord uses is pretty easily evoked by dropping articles at the beginning of sentences (e.g., use “Can’t have you getting away” instead of “We can’t have you getting away”), and Jester’s Eastern European accent keeps her away from certain contractions (she’ll say “I do not” more than “I don’t” - not all the time b/c of improv, but you can use that to your advantage in fic). Molly’s Irish accent is a fun one: most other people will curse throughout their sentences, but Irish accents are one of the few that curse RIGHT at the beginning, and then  you can make up fun fantasy swears!! “Hells and devils, you’ve got us in a pickle, haven’t you?”

3) Keywords and word choice. Similar to the above! Pay attention to words characters like to repeat, or synonyms they prefer over others. I already noticed Molly and Fjord prefer “coin”, while Jester and Beau say “money”. And if you think about it, both those words sound better in their respective accents! While VAs are in character, they lean almost automatically towards words that sound better in that accent, I find. It’s even better if the characters have catchphrases or signature words, because dropping those into fanfic can have readers thinking in the character’s accent and you don’t have to do too much hard work to maintain the illusion after that (be careful with overusing them, though. It’s way too easy to have Vex saying “darling” every paragraph).

4) Exceptions / onomatopoeia. Some accent-evoking misspellings or not-quite-words are common enough that writing them with apostrophes won’t kick your reader out of a story. I use “ain’t”, “oi”, and “aye” a lot for Grog, and I occasionally end his -ing words with -n’ (particularly “fuckin’”) because that’s not too intrusive.  Fjord will probably drop the “ing” as well, but he’s well-spoken enough that his verbs don’t DEMAND the -n’ the way Grog’s do - but that’s my opinion! Feel it out, and remember to put apostrophes in when you drop letters \o/ it’s good grammar manners.

5) Remove problem words from your dialogue. This feels kiiiiiind of like cheating but also it helps, sort of? Like I mentioned, I’ll drop the -ing when I’m writin’ Grog, but I don’t want to do that too often, so I try to write as much of his dialogue as I can without -ing words (and…it’s hard. It’s Grog challenge mode, but it’s the only way to make him sound like himself without too many apostrophes). If you come across a word that sounds SO wrong that you feel like you NEED to write it out phonetically - use a different word. Rebuild the whole phrase if you must!

The Clone Wars + text posts

in dreams we will meet again

INTRODUCING FOR THE VOLTRON FANDOM: LEGENDARY PALADINS, A DISCORD SERVER FOR ALL YOUR SHIPPING NEEDS

“But Logan, there’s no way this fills all my needs, I’m a multishipper who ships everyone who breathes near each other-”

Say no more, my friend, because take a look at this:

These are our catagories. New Paladins is where you wanna be if you’re new in the server and need help:

While Lounge is where we do most of our more general based talks:

But the other catagories I told you about? OH BOY, DO THEY GET LONG! In fact, we have so many ships in this server, we had to break it down into manageable chunks. Which are:

The Castle of Lions ships:

Look at that! We’ve got Shaladin, Coran/Paladin ships, along with all the other classics like Klance and Shallura.

“But what about poly ships?”

Gotcha covered:

We can never get enough of poly in this place and are always willing to add if you got recommendations. Just join us in this place and you can talk about all your OT3s, OT4s and whatever else.

“Okay, but what about the heroes X villains. This is great, but I doubt you guys allow that stuff.”

Actually we do, take a look:

We try to be all inclusive and honestly, so long as the relationship is healthy, we don’t mind you guys talking about it. In fact, we love some old villains (or perceived villains) learning to love thanks to our heroes.

“But I’ll bet you don’t have any Blade of Mamora since they’re all dead!”

Wrong again:

It’s a short list, but we’d gladly expand it anyday if anyone wants in.

“Okay, but what about stuff that’s not in those catagories, like Matt ships or Hunay?”

Dear, don’t you know by now you shouldn’t question me?

We’ve got room in here for EVERY. SINGLE. SHIP. EVER.

So, if you’re a multishipper burning for content.

Or a rare-pairer begging for a space to talk about your new OTP.

Or you just like the classics and want a nice place to observe everyone enjoy themselves and their ships, without any of the drama:

THEN STOP ON BY IN LEGENDARY PALADINS! I won’t give the link here since it changes all the time and I don’t want antis coming in and ruining the safe space. But if you want in, just:

Ask me or message me.

HAPPY SHIPPING VOLTRON FANDOM!

Here’s to the strong women… and to the men who wouldn’t have it any other way.  🍻  🥂

New Ornate Mandala Designs by Asmahan A. Mosleh

UK based artist Asmahan A. Mosleh’s deep found love for elaborate mandala designs is evident in all of her compositions, seeking inspiration from temples, mosques and exotic architecture from all across the globe.

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dynespark replied to your post: i don’t trust ree drummond because she uses salted…

I use kosher salt in my cooking and sea salt for flavor. I don’t use a lot of salt, but some just finishes a dish. Also, I barely use butter in my day-to-day (I don’t like dairy and I definitely don’t like the taste), so I use a lot of butter in my baking.

Pro-tip, to make excellent pie crust, use 1 ½-2 sticks of butter and substitute vodka for ice water. The alcohol bakes out, but the combination of butter and vodka makes a wonderfully flaky crust. 

But yeah. I judge Ree Drummond hard.

I’m gonna remember that for the crust. Alcohol does great things to food and I wanna see what a strawberry pie will be like with this.

Berries do best when cooked in white sugar and a little bit of lemon juice. The acid in the lemon juice helps to split the skins, so you get a juicy filling. Whenever I do a berry pie (blueberry is my favorite), I like to cook the filling just enough to get the juices. I also believe in blind baking–I bake the pie crust for about 10-12 minutes before I put the filling in and the top crust. It might also be fun to try cooking the filling with a little bit of fruit liquor (I’d recommend citrus with strawberry, but that’s just me).

My two favorite kinds of pie to make are blueberry and apple, but I’m also good with pumpkin. I’d like to try my hand at a butternut squash pie, because unlike pumpkin butternut squash is actually very sweet.  

I’ve taken some granny smith apples before and cooked them with a bit of brown sugar, cinnamon, and spiced rum. Last time I did that I put it on top a Graham cracker crust with a cream cheese filling. Might try to modify the apples for a straight up apple pie…

For apple pie, I prefer granny smith for their texture and their tartness. I’ve used honeycrisp, but they go mushy and they’re so sweet I don’t feel comfortable judging the sugar. For the filling, I use butter, brown sugar, cinnamon (lots), nutmeg, clove (if you’re going to use nutmeg, you have to use a pinch of cloves. Not much, but a little bit just finishes it), and sometimes ginger and cardamon. I like spiced apple pie where it’s spicy-sweet, but not everyone in my family likes that like I do, alas.

If you want to turn a general vanilla cake mix into something like an apple cake, you can use applesauce. Applesauce also works as a substitute for sugar in some cakes or cookies, but it depends on how watery the applesauce is. Some food bloggers would recommend making your own applesauce to be sure of the texture. I would just experiment before going that far. It takes a lot of apples to make applesauce.

Spicy sweet is indeed best sweet. Also I learned not to use red delicious from dad. If I was going to use rum for an apple pie would I cook the apples with it a bit first or will baking in the oven cook the alcohol out?

I like to cook my filling first, because all of the flavors you’re putting in come together. I don’t necessarily cook my filling for long (I typically cook apple pie filling for five minutes or less, I’m just waiting for the sugar to melt into the butter and for the apples to lose a little firmness), so if you’re cooking it with rum, I would definitely recommend cooking it for a little first. In the oven, the alcohol will bake out but I would just want to make sure that the flavors are coming together the way you want. 

Hear me out:

You know what? I’m not done with this yet.

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

Depressing Fellowship of The Ring “Easter Egg”

During Boromir’s death scene in the Fellowship of the Ring film, you a hear a choir in the soundtrack. The choir isn’t singing random vowel sounds; they’re actually singing in Elvish.

The English translation of the lyrics? It’s a line from the books: “I do not love the sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only what they defend.”

For bonus hurt points– in the book, those lines were said by his little brother Faramir.

(to request a soundtrack to be analyzed/translated, reblog this linked post. All these soundtrack-related posts will be tagged #lotrsoundtrackfacts)