Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 4x09 - “Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry”
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I know the Star Wars extended universe treats “spice” like it’s this big scary drug, but I kind of like to imagine that it’s basically just space weed, and the only reason Han got in trouble with the Imperials over Jabba’s cargo is that he was evading import tariffs.
If we’re just looking at mentions in the original trilogy, is there evidence it’s even a drug and not something you put on bland food to make it taste like something? What if Han was just carrying a cargo of like cilantro, mint, etc, none of which grow on Tattooine and are thus highly expensive and heavily taxed commodities?
I am fully prepared to believe that the infamous Han Solo ended up in a life-or-death vendetta with the most notorious crime lord in the galaxy because somebody didn’t want to declare taxes on three thousand kilos of cilantro.
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Every who pays a certain amount of attention to Star Wars knows this story already, but I was lucky enough to hear it recounted first-hand last year, so I’m gonna give it yet another retelling.
So The Husband and I were at Sci-fi Weekender (a British based annual Sci-fi and Fantasy convention) last year, and one of the guests that year was Kevin J Anderson, one of the very notable Star Wars Expanded Universe writers. During one of the events, a quiet little interview in a cafe on the event site, he fielded a question from an audience member about what it was like to write for a franchise like Star Wars which often had lots of cooks working on one broth, and he had the following to say (wording recounted as best as I can from memory):
“So in one of my stories, Han Solo, he, he travels to this asteroid planet called Kessel, which is where a lot of Spice comes from, these Spice Mines of Kessel, and I got to really describe the effects of this Spice, this terrible drug and the addiction and all this and before publication I get this call, I get this call from the lawyers, and they say “Kevin, you say in this story that Spice is a drug, you can’t say that, you can’t say that Spice is a drug”, and I say “What? What do you mean it’s not a drug, of course it’s a drug”, and they say “Han Solo used to smuggle Spice, and you cannot, let us be clear, you cannot imply that the Hero of Star Wars used to be a drug dealer”. And I just stood there, at a loss for words, and I eventually said “So what is it then?” and they said to me, very sternly, “It’s a food-additive”. Now, now obviously this is ridiculous, and I won’t back down, and they won’t back down, and none of us will back down, and the book is very close to getting pulled, which I don’t want because I worked hard on it and they don’t want because they already paid me the advance, and eventually, with this great air of superiority they say “OK Kevin, we’ll take this to the top. WE’LL TAKE THIS TO GEORGE”. And they go to all this trouble, this was a long while ago when such things were not so easy to arrange, they go to all this trouble to set up a conference call with all of them and me and with George Lucas and they say “George, Kevin is trying to say in his new book that Spice is a drug, it’s a food additive, tell him it’s not a drug, George”. And there’s this long silence on the other end of the line and eventually George says “It is a drug, though. It’s, it’s a drug, it’s a food-additive? What? Of course it a drug, it’s space heroin, what else would it be? What?” And that was then end of that.“
if i was doing the Kobayashi Maru i would just win
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RIP to starfleet command but i’m different
1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates
The 1941 Disney animator’s strike was bitterly fought, as Walt Disney refused to grant the concessions that all the other animation studios had agreed to, and instead grew paranoid and accusatory, convinced the “Communist infiltrators” had turned his animators against him.
One poorly remembered – but vivid! – moment from the strike was when Chuck Jones led Warner animators came to join the picket line in solidarity, bringing with them a working guillotine with a mannequin styled to look like Gunther Lessing, the Disney attorney.
Archivist John Basmajian has preserved and digitized a film of the guillotine, along with many other Disney rarities.
As Gizmodo’s Mat Novak notes, we tend to gloss over the more radical elements in union history in our contemporary retellings of famous strikes, but these were not polite, timid affairs. Unions attained their goals through radical, relentless action that put them at risk and brooked no compromise.
BLEASE…..WATCH…
Srishti is funnier than every white man who has ever been on Saturday Night Live and you can quote me on that
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IT’S THE HOW TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN DISH EVER WOMAN AND SHE’S PERFECT
She’s honestly the best thing that’s ever come out of Buzzfeed and I hope she has a long and delightful comedic career.
This is so funny to me?? People are so desperate to escape their families that it makes ao3 crash lmao
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Remember that time when Jim thought he lost Spock for a minute but turned around and found him in a whale tank
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Second ko-fi doodle! :D (More info on those here!)
Thank you so, so much to @pondsonthetardis for this one!!! The request was for Yuuri and/or Victor in I <3 Makka sweaters and this was such a blessed thing to be able to draw
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STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) dir. J.J. Abrams
Now THIS is the kind of top-notch dialogue I’m looking for in my Star Wars content!!!!!
Poor Finn looks almost OFFENDED. Like, god DAMN it, I never got to fly! I was with the stormtroopers nearly my ENTIRE LIFE and I never got a jetpack and you’re telling me just months after I leave that’s when they pass out jetpacks?! WHAT THE HELL.
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MCU!SteveTony in canon quotes
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one thing i love about queen is that 80% of the time, they never look like they’re dressed for the same event
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i kinda feel bad for oedipus b/c everyone assumes he chose to fuck his mom when in fact he went out of his way to avoid it. he left his hometown and distanced himself from his parents because he was afraid he would somehow get tricked into fucking his mom. everything could have been avoided if his adopted parents told him he was adopted.
someone: oedipus was fucked up like who fucks their own mother??? fucking weirdo.
me: it’s not his fault! he didn’t know!
also the point of the myth is supposed to show how despite your best efforts no mortal can thwart fate but also? what the fuck? the whole thing was an oracle telling laius that his son was going to murder him and fuck his wife. that shit came out of nowhere. he didn’t offend the gods or anything. they just decided for no reason other than the world is fucked up sometimes.
i have been informed that oedipus’ dad, laius, did in fact bring a curse upon himself for kidnapping and raping king pelop’s son chrysippus.
i stand by my stance that it’s still ridiculous to punish oedipus and jocasta for laius’s crimes. also why would the godss curse oedipus for fucking his mom when they tricked him into doing it in the first place? fucked up.
You’re assuming the gods are ruled by logic and not by zeus nudging poseidon and saying “hey you know what would be so fucking funny”
Hey, since we’re bringing back lemons and limes, can we also bring back couple AMVs with Cascada playing?
fucking superb you funky little felon
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