I HAVE THE DAY OFF - i really need to get back into that writing zone, and get to a point where i can start just busting stuff out.

SO, i’m opening up prompts for the rest of the day! while i finish the unsolicited one (i like your style, anon) come send me ideas and help jersey get into that fresh groove

Sent you one as an ask. Alternatively: the circumstances under which Firmus Piett first sees Vader inside his hyperbaric retreat orb.

Bedtime at Old Friends Senior Pokémon Sanctuary! 

Take a look at the compass the last reactionary used. Good lord is this all over the place.

Tag yourself, I’m “the hollow pseudo-ideology of Egalitarianism that is completely divorced from any historical context and political praxis and masquerades itself as a subversive left-libertarian movement even though it does nothing to challenge the right-wing status quo of imperialist capitalism” 😄

Me, an egalitarian: “I’m against authortiarianism (including plutocracy & corporate imperialism“

Also me, an egalitarian: “The bigger the state, the more centralized and far reaching the power, the more of an imperialist state it is. It’s foreign control. We should have familiar control“

Me again, an egalitarian: “My political positions are based solely on maximally protecting human rights and individuality, and incentivizing against any form of imperialistic systems”

You gonna just cross your fingers and hope that imperialism doesn’t keep happening while also supporting capitalism? Because they’re pretty much inseparable – as markets expand and capital seeks out new avenues for accumulation, capitalists work with the state apparatus to encroach on the resources and communities of other regions. And yeah, sure, whatever, that’s “corporatism”/“crony capitalism”, but it’s also the entire systematic history of capitalism; “corporatism” is the natural functioning of the capitalist system, from the enclosures and vagabond laws that shaped the working class at capitalism’s beginnings to the building of much of the infrastructure through slave labor, you can’t point to a time in capitalism’s history where there wasn’t intensive state involvement and blatant oppression for the benefit of capitalists – the state exists to meet the needs of the economy, which is how society reproduces itself daily, and economic power is almost exclusively reserved among capitalists.

Seeing as “anti-imperialist capitalists” don’t have a praxis other than just writing pieces about how capitalism shouldn’t be imperialist, I’m gonna have to call bullshit on that one. The needs of capital will overpower whatever anti-imperialist tendencies you liberals/right-libertarians claim to have. If you wanna smash imperialism you gotta smash capitalism.

You might even say that imperialism is... the highest stage of capitalism. 

jerseydevious replied to your post: jerseydevious said:  i have two star wars…

Haha, dude, Vader wasn't even the boss of himself

don’t chance it !! 👀

I’m feeling like the answer has to be some version of “droids.” there is no organic being in the entire universe that would want to be the guy that has to coordinate Darth Vader Bathtime. Not even Darth Vader.

full thickness burns mean no sweating and no oils, but it also means that without maintenance, that scar tissue’s going to crack, and maybe need additional intervention to deal with contractures. So... yeah. There’s got to be some sort of aseptic measure in place permanently around the control panel, because it hooks up to internal systems (probably similarly to how medical devices like indwelling venous catheter ports and infusion pumps work), otherwise he’d just drop dead. Maybe there’s some kind of hand-wavy, sci-fi antimicrobial layer they can stick under the armor weave so he’ll be good to go. They use bacta for every goddamn other thing, maybe there’s a bactagel barrier to deal with any open wounds incurred under the armor so he doesn’t straight go septic every two weeks. 

Or maybe there’s not and that’s how he lost what remained of one arm sometime between RotS and RotJ. 

@themoosejthm (i’m on mobile, so i apologize about the awkward reply format)

but yeah - this is a horrifying idea. according to the lost command, vader had a regularly scheduled dismemberment (a wonderful phrase i cribbed from @spooky-spaghettis) where they would engage/re-engage the neural interface of his prosthetics. essentially, he got his limbs violently torn off once a month

it’s not entirely unfeasible that they could actually just yank it off, and perhaps dislocate his shoulder in the process - and, considering the frequency of the operation, and all of the stress his shoulders are under from the weight, yikes.

not to mention, vader wouldn’t be able to do the typical range of motion exercises, because of the pauldron. i don’t see why palpatine wouldn’t be like, “well, why don’t we just… cut it out,” because palpatine’s ideas are bad and terrible 100% of the time

I have always chalked the mystery loss of that part of his one arm up to either a battle injury or some issue with the prosthesis on that arm. The dismemberment appointment in Lost Command look painful, but since he goes back into the field almost immediately, I don’t think it was necessarily damaging, or damaging every time- that would be a bad way to maintain an Imperial military asset which is about to go do some more I Am Become Death shit. 

There are honestly a lot of ways to fuck up a limb or joint badly enough to lose part of it- a lot of which don’t even involve accidental mechanical damage. Somebody- not sure if it was @jerseydevious or @darthnickels- once suggested that “Sith alchemy” was just straight-up steroids, and prolonged steroid use can cause avascular necrosis (bone death, sometimes with destruction of articular joint surfaces). So can trauma, like from a surgery or injury. So can vascular compression (like from shitty prosthetics or internal cybernetics) or a blockage like from a clot. So can radiation (like from being in space 24/7, though I imagine that they’ve figured out how to deal with that in Star Wars, otherwise like 1/3rd of any given space navy would get cancer or at least cataracts). So can autoimmune issues. He could also have just gotten an infection from the initial amputation. 

I think you can write it pretty much any way you want, there are just a lot of ways for Darth Vader to lose bits. 

(people who follow my blog: first, I’m sorry. Second, I’m tagging this kind of content as “body horror,” “gross medical stuff,” and “darth vader body horror,” and will do so consistently.) 

Carrie Fisher is a gift humanity doesn’t deserve

The simple-minded cannot conceptualize these economic realities, so they turn to biblical “violations” of society as the explanation; and Republicans have exploited this social ignorance for generations!

Phroyd

The founders of this nation obviously had no concern for moral issues.

Wage theft is an inherent, structural part of capitalism – someone toss Robert Reich a book on surplus value and alienation. And “billionaire takeover of our democracy”? Seriously? As if this “democracy” wasn’t always of, by, and for the rich. Typical liberal elevation of the post-WWII era.

Also, leave it to liberals to smugly look down on the “simple-minded” (holy shit) conservatives rather than recognize Calvinism/Evangelicalism as a deliberate distraction tool employed by the ruling class (among which many are liberals) to turn attention away from political economy. If you think the rise of the religious right is a phenomenon that can be disentangled from capitalism – from a class system where elites hoard the means of production and keys to livelihood and require a distracted population that’s divided in on itself – I got some bad news for you.

Uff, well done. I remain glad I got assigned to read Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in college as a Religion major. Explained a whole fucking lot about America.

Chirrut Imwe - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

A cool thing about this character design (besides Donnie Yen being cool, I mean): I didn’t know that  Chirrut Îmwe is blind until I looked it up, but I was like, “huh, there’s something a little odd about his eyes, I don’t think it’s just that Donnie Yen has weird eyes, I think they must have done that as a style decision- it might signify something. I still can’t put my finger on what exactly draws attention to them; maybe it’s the color of the contacts he’s wearing, or maybe he’s not focusing on things the way it seems like he should if he had sight. 

i treat my body like a temple but i’m a 16th century calvinist 

me driving home today