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Do they still sing songs of The Great Tribble Hunt

@thegreattribblehunt / thegreattribblehunt.tumblr.com

Sarah. 29. Kiwi living in Aussie. Nerd. Hufflepuff. If I was a tribute I would die early. Sci Fi lover. All Blacks groupie. "It's not so bad if you don't look up."
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The fact that it took Fincher sending him a copy of the script to realize why his wife left him.

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petersthree

Us: Smosh Mouth will tell us if shourtney wedding was a joke or not

Smosh Mouth: Actually we will do a secret third thing :)

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ateawithoney

Regardless if this is real or not, this day will go down in Smosh History as the day that broke the fandom

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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I want them comfortably married and happy and bickering over their morning beverages and also I want them to fuck nasty on the living room floor because they can't wait another second

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moonachilles

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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nitewrighter

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

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The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they're getting harder to spot.

Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.

Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.

If you're not sure, don't share! You might be spreading misinformation.

I think one of the big steps here is open in its own window and zoom in. A lot of AI art looks fine under casual glance or in preview/thumbnail size. I’ve been fooled many times on places like deviantart.

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reylos crying on twitter because Adam Driver explicitly confirmed that Bendemption was never originally in the plans for Kylo....this is justice for the last 8 years, actually

"they were just going to let the last Skywalker die as a Dark Sider???" well he wouldn't have BEEN the last Skywalker if Rian had actually followed through with the clearly foreshadowed revelation that Rey was one and let Finn be the nobody Jedi from nowhere as he was supposed to be

I just.

Eight years of arguing with Reylo stans about how Kylo's trajectory was to show us the long fall of someone continually choosing the Dark even as his father (who he explicitly acknowledged that he still loved!) and other people in his life repeatedly offered him the same choice Luke gave to Vader in ROTJ.

Eight years of noting that the point of Kylo, for JJ Abrams, was that you can be raised with love, support, and stability and still CHOOSE to make bad choices and continue to do so even when offered alternatives.

Eight years of pointing out that Finn and Kylo were deliberate character foils in TFA! Eight years of saying that Finn was supposed to show that goodness can come from anywhere, even a stormtrooper raised as a child soldier with no one to turn to, while Kylo was supposed to show that evil can come from anywhere, even a beloved Rebel's child with a stable childhood with lots of support figures.

Eight years of trying to get through to them that Finn and Kylo were supposed to represent the two choices Rey had as the sequel trilogy's Skywalker: to follow Finn's choices (Luke's choices) and stay in the Light, or follow Ben's choices (Anakin's choices) and surrender to the Dark.

Eight years has led to this moment of Adam Driver casually going "evolving into Ben Solo…that was never part of it" and “Rian took it into a different direction” in an interview on a random Tuesday night. I feel the vindication in this Chili's tonight and it is SWEET

just saw these tags and wanted to make a quick response. No one "forced" TLJ to start less than 3 days after TFA ended. TFA ends with the following post-movie status quo:

  • Rey training with Luke on Ahch-To for an indeterminate amount of time
  • Finn in a coma after being gravely wounded by Kylo
  • Kylo being picked up by Snoke and Hux to "finish his training" after fully committing to the Dark Side via killing Han
  • The Resistance (led by Leia and Poe) having scored a meaningful but costly blow against the First Order's ability to oppress and kill people
  • The First Order having lost their planet-killing weapon and quite a lot of their forces
  • a vacuum of political power due to the combined blows of "the New Republic's capitol planet got blown up" and "The First Order does not have the resources to restore the Empire due to the aforementioned successful attack on Starkiller Base"

None of that necessitated Rian writing a story that picked up 2 days later. In fact, Rian deciding to start TLJ less than 2 days after TFA ended is the root of many of TLJ's problems! He didn't have to do that at all!

It went against Star Wars tradition (it's the only movie that doesn't have at minimum a one year timegap between them), was utterly illogical (How does "The First Order reign!" less than 3 days after Starkiller got blown up? how does the First Order have enough resources to come after the Resistance less than 72 hours after they were soundly defeated at Starkiller? Why is Snoke's priority to "finish Kylo's training" at the end of TFA and it suddenly doesn't matter at all in TLJ? Why does Rey entertain the "temptation" of Kylo less than a week after being kidnapped/tortured by him and then watching him kill Han?), and directly hurts the narrative direction of the plot!

Kylo's potential redemption holds more weight if he's spent some time fully committed to the Dark Side. Rey and Luke's conflict feels more real if they have an actual relationship with each other. Rey being called "The Last Jedi" would make more sense if she'd had more than 2.5 lessons of Jedi training over a span of a week. The First Order's sudden inexplicable ability to track people through hyperspace 3 days after that wasn't an available option to track down BB-8 makes more sense if they spent time after Starkiller developing it. The lack of support the Resistance recieves from their supposed allies is more understandable if the political and financial vacuum left by the New Republic's destruction has made them a true bootstrap effort relying on faith rather than knowledge. It makes far more sense for Kylo to kill his master and take his place, setting him up as IX's "Big Bad" villain, if he has actually finished his training and considers himeslf to have 'outgrown' Snoke. I could go on.

The timeframe for TLJ had absolutely nothing to do with anything J.J. Abrams left for Rian in TFA and everything to do with creative decisions Rian purposefully and deliberately made of his own accord.

The Force Awakens was no more a cliffhanger than Empire Strikes Back was when it left us with Han captured, frozen in carbonite, and on his way to Jabba as Luke, Leia, and Lando planned to rescue him. It was no more a cliffhanger than The Phantom Menace was when it left off with Anakin as a brand-new padawan to Obi-Wan while the threat of the Sith loomed in the background. It was no more a cliffhanger than Revenge of the Sith was when it ended with Obi-Wan delivering Luke to Owen and Beru as the Empire rose and the Jedi who survived Order 66 were being hunted down. And yet the movies following those cliffhangers always had a sizeable time gap between them.

Unresolved threads don't necessitate an immediate aftermath follow-up, nor do they need a wholly illogical immediate follow-up that directly contradicts the narrative threads the previous story left off on. Rian chose to do that, and it was to the detriment of the movie's story/characters and fucked over the overall plot of the trilogy to the point where TROS had few avenues to be a satisfying conclusion even if it hadn't been one of the messiest movies in existence.

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