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when people are like “this villain is a bad person” and i have to be like “that’s the entire point of a villain”

The battle for Nilfgard was what the game of thrones battle for the north should’ve been send tweet

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For all of you who are confussed.

It’s also generationally important to note that early to mid range Millenials are the generation that grew up during the housing bubble with promises that anyone who got good grades could afford college and anyone with a degree would be able to buy a house. Millenials born prior to 1988-’89 have crippling student debt and still can’t afford to own a home because boomers talked them into predatory student loans under false pretenses and then fucked the economy. Post-1989 Millenials realized we were being conned and couldn’t afford college so now they mostly work awful jobs for less than a living wage.

One thing I do want to say before we dive into the narrative of Jester Lavorre, radiant harbinger of the Third Option that destroys the barter of misery in its tracks (even though, yes, Jester is glowing and amazing and wonderful, yes, of course, of course) is…it matters, the way Jester did this.  It matters that it wasn’t just sweetness and light and a cupcake shared in friendship.

This isn’t a story about Jester the fairytale princess convincing the hag of the worth of friendship and baked goods.  That would be a wonderful story, but that’s not what this is.  (It’s so much more interesting.)

Jester pretended to be that girl, that naive little girl who would offer a cupcake in innocent kindness and cut off her own hands for a friend.  She pretended so, so well, and she was lying the entire time, and she lied so well that Matt did not even think to call for a deception check.

Jester Lavorre, in the middle of a swamp in a pretty dress, feeds an evil hag half a cupcake, and it’s sweet and fluffy and full of sugar both literal and metaphorical, and also it is fucking drugged.  Jester reaches her fingers into somebody else’s mind and changes their memory, their intentions, controls their very will, with a sweet smile and a baked good and an insistence that everything is wonderful and delightful, no really.

Jester’s never used Modify Memory before; she uses Charm Person, rarely, but we know she thinks messing with somebody’s memories is a Big Fucking Deal.  Between Yasha, and what little she knows of Caleb’s past, and everything Obann did to those around him, Jester who cares about demons in cages and tried to befriend the Caedogeist and meant it and offers cupcakes to everyone, almost without limit–Jester cares about this shit.  She took a step tonight that matters to her.

She didn’t sacrifice her happiness, or that of anyone she cares about (she did sacrifice the witch’s happiness, but the witch probably would’ve died had it come to a fight so maybe it’s a fair trade after all).  She didn’t sacrifice very much.  Jester is going to be fine, possible future vengeance attacks aside, and they’ll probably be less exhausted and better-grounded to deal with those when they come anyway.  But as much as it looks like Jester saved the day with sweetness and light in the face of all that darkness…there was some very legitimate darkness in what Jester did, too.  And I love it that way.

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No wonder Megan Markle wants to leave UK

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This won’t be WW3. This won’t be WW1 or WW2. This won’t be an alliance of countries coming together, a war of drafts and rationing. There will be no Rosie the Riveter and no victory meats. No war bonds and no D Day. There is no holocaust to end and no ally country to liberate. 

This will be another Iraq and Afghanistan war. This will be another Gulf War. This will be American drones bombing the shit out of innocent civilians half a world away so often that it won’t even be reported on. This will be American snipers committing war crimes you won’t even hear about. This will military recruiters going to your high school, promising your friends free college that they could never afford otherwise, this will be your classmates dying in a desert on the other side of the world. This will towns bombed into rubble and another million Americans with PTSD to be abandoned by the VA. Hundreds of thousands of dead civilians and another 50,000 vets homeless on the streets when they get back. 

For what? For oil. For power. To make the American voter forget about Impeachment as the 2020 election cycle kicks in. 

Don’t let them do it. 

john boyega, oscar isaac, and kelly marie tran endured years of racist abuse and harassment (mostly) from r*ylos. they were sidelined from a film series in which they were originally promised much larger roles. finn was advertised as part of the new generation of jedi in the marketing for tfa, a film with also set up finn, rey, and poe as the new trio. kelly marie tran had to delete all of her social media, and oscar has repeatedly stated that, knowing what he knows now, he would have asked for poe to be killed off rather than have himself and the character treated the way he was. so if john wants to “lash out~” or whatever, he has every right. disney doesn’t own him, oscar, or kelly, and if any or all of them want to say “fuck disney and fuck the people who harassed us”, more power to them.

grow up and realize that not everything revolves around your fictional ship and your white faves.

Y'all wanna preach about the importance of bi/pan visibility but none of you mean it.

In 2018 two girls on a bachelor show fell in love with each other and quit the show. They were later seen at a Pride event and one of the girls was holding a bi pride flag but everybody still calls her a lesbian

Janelle Monáe came out as bi and everybody celebrated. Cool. She later specified as Pansexual and nobody listened. People still refer to her a bi and ignore fans who say that pansexual is more accurate for her. People even "jokingly" call her song "PYNK" a lesbian anthem.

Recently a "lesbian" wedding photoshoot went viral on Twitter and Tumblr. Both brides were bisexual.

Nobody cares about what bi men have to say unless it's to shit on pansexuals. Nobody even notices nonbinary bi/pansexuals unless it's to validate them as wlw/mlm.

The community revived terms like mlm, wlw and sapphic to be inclusive but it's obvious that nobody actually uses them in practice. It's absolutely exhausting to say this constantly and nobody wants to admit they're guilty of doing this shit.

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i mean basically space hitler was like “hey mayor, how’s about i blow up your city? people screaming, homes shattering like eggshells, flaming babies shooting out of the wreckage – or you can just hand over a couple-three folks i have a beef with” and lando was like “oh my fuck do NOT bomb my city what the shit” and space hitler was like “haha now you are a villain” and lando was like “i’m gonna need so much therapy”

i honestly feel for the man and never considered him a bad guy. vader had hostages.

the idea that anyone might Blame Lando shocks me to my very core

Part of the problem is we never actually see civilians suffering, so the threat doesn’t seem real, similar to in episode 1 where we never see the negative impact of the planet being occupied. Also, imagine it from Lando’s POV. He’s settled down after a rebellious criminal period and become a responsible adult TM and gone into local politics. Then a guy from his past rosks up and is like “dude you have to hide me from the cops!”

Lando: sure Han, I’ll hide you from the cops–

*Darth Vader theme starts playing in the distance*

Lando: wait

Oh, it’s worse than that. The Empire shows up first- the Falcon’s hyperdrive was broken, so the Empire got to Bespin before they did. So, Lando’s been running his city for a while, he’s almost definitely heard stories about his friend working with the Rebellion, which, hey, good for him. But suddenly, the second most powerful tyrant in the galaxy shows up and says, “We’re here for Han Solo and his friends, we’ll be taking them, or we’ll destroy your city.” And Lando’s like, uh, sure, haven’t seen him for years, but okay. And then the jackass actually shows up for a favor? Oh, boy.

‪How lovely are thy branches...‬

Guess he finally found out.

“if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” used to be such a powerful phrase but now it’s more accurate to say “if you’re not angry you’re probably exhausted by 5+ years of Panic Outrage Mode and are nearing the limit of your emotional range for reacting to this shit”