Cute Pokemon inspired wagashi cakes (seen on, check their account, those wagashi makers create many pop culture inspired sweets ^^)

My name is Dog

I walk de rockses

Protecc de floofs

From all de foxes.

I am so big

And floofs are smol

I lubs dese birbs

I lubs dem all.

what good puppers!

Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies.

I saw the tweets about this today, and I was like oh yeah, I remember hearing about that.

And then I saw the pictures and just— wow. What it would have meant to have these women in the movie, all this time. I can’t properly articulate it but it’s hitting me unexpectedly hard.

Wow thats a shame, even a nice old lady too.  These Space Valkyries  should have been left in.

They really should have.

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WHAT.

THE.

FUCK.

I lived, ate, and breathed Star Wars from age 2 until 2005 when RotS finally beat the enthusiasm out of me, and I have NEVER, EVER in all my reading on behind-the-scenes and makings-of heard of these shots. It’s a shame there was no relaunched edit of the original trilogy they could have slipped these in OH FUCKING WAIT THERE’S BEEN LIKE 3 OF THOSE NOW.

Fuck. FUCK. Whoever decided to edit out and bury these needs to french kiss an angle grinder.

I want to see the old lady in the A-Wing. Seriously, it’s like, she’s somebody’s grandma. Some kid in the Outer Rim Territories got greased by the Empire for seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, and her grandma, the bush pilot, decided “Fuck this, I’m gonna strap on an fighter and make the Empire fucking PAY for the moment it decided to fuck with MY FAMILY.”

DON’T. MESS. WITH. GRANDMA.

These are quickly being put into the “always reblog” category.

Whenever there is a war, there are women who are warriors. Then they get erased from history. Happens in real wars and fictional ones alike.

Less than 5% of general aviation licenses go to women.  If these had been left in, you can bet that number would be higher.

^^^That knocked the breath out of me.

I just can’t believe they not only took them out, but refused to put them back in during the seventeen times they updated the movies. And of course the only possible explanation for this is: you do not belong here.

Literally though. How many stupid remasters have they done but THIS gets left out? Ugh

for the record the names of these characters are Sila Kott played by Poppy Hands and Dorovio Bold played by Vivienne Chandler. I couldn’t find the name of the old woman though :(

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dorovio_Bold  “As well as her appearance in the briefing, footage of the character in a cockpit during the Battle of Endor was also filmed, but not used in the final cut of the movie.”

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sila_Kott “Although played by British actress Poppy Hands in Return of the Jedi, Sila Kott was later dubbed over by an American man’s voice.”

I’ve seen these photos before, and it didn’t even OCCUR to me that they could have been restored during the special edition.

It would have meant so much.

I was struck hard by all the women in The Last Jedi. During that first scene, where you see all the women in every job, in the First Order AND the Resistance… I started to cry.

Yet another example of why we do what we do. That feeling we all feel when we see the women pilots who were cut from the prequels? That sense of possibility and belonging? That is what many little girls (and some little feminine of center NBs) express when they get to interact with pilot women at troops. Representation matter!

Photo credit: Traces of Ash

From my private meme collection. Since I also work as an editor I often have to remind myself there aren’t actually any rules in writing. I’m happiest when I let myself follow my obsessions, my interests, my fancies and caprices–even if that means it doesn’t “make sense,” or the results are weird, or I never finish it, or no one ever wants to read it or publish it, or it’s 5 words long, or it’s written on toilet paper, or whatever. Sharing for whoever needs to hear this today <3

Japanese Word of the Day

My mom crocheted a blanket, and one of the cats kept trying to lay on it the whole time she was working on it and every time she put it down.

So she used the extra yarn to make him a tiny one and he loves it so much 😭

A mama lynx decided this Alaskan porch was a good spot to give birth. 

I guess when a giant cat decides to have kittens on your porch, you have to let nature take its course. 

I found a video of the lynx kitties! 

And I found the porch owner who took more photos. 

Check out the murder paws!

Annoying mama.

Climbing a giant tree… no big.

You can see more lynx goodness on Tim Newton’s photography page. 

WHY are their LEGS so long i cant deal with this

Imagine them BEANS

As an adaptation to the cold of their native habitat, lynxes have very small beans relative to their paw size!

So you’d be getting a handful of squishy toes and fur, and some pretty big claws, but the beans would be small and well-hidden by fur.

BIG MASHERS

tiny beans

@bitemebat murder paws!

double stacked berry pavlova

heart ring

ferrero rocher candy cake

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Kit Kat Ice Cream Pie

Tomakomai - Hokkaido, Japan.  Image via Pinterest

BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF

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