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Oh, there’s an interesting idea! They do look rather similar, now that you mention it. 

…Gdit, now I want to write this. Why.

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carnationsandrobots:

lectorel:

Leis discovers her strength in the force by accidentally-on-purpose force-choking Tarkin when he orders Alderaan destroyed. Vader takes her on as his apprentice on the spot, her own preferences be damned.

(‘My master will excuse the lose of one military politician for the sake of acquiring a…

I’m. .. really into this? Like, obi-wan, luke, han and chewie would end up on alderran and meet up with bail with the death star plans so eventually the rebel alliance would cross paths with leia and vader but it would take longer than it would in canon. I can also see leia going darkside really pretty easily (esp. with nothing else to compare force usage to…) but she would basically never be able to ally with the empire - she’s spent too much of her life rebelling against it. When her being “the daughter of Anakin Skywalker” comes out, she could actually be pretty interested in working with vader on his proposition to kill the emperor tho. For reasons, I feel like luke and obi-wan, etc. would end up “rescuing” her at some point, so you’d get leia back with the rebel alliance. For more reasons, obi-wan would survive this time around maybe and would have heart palpitations at leia’s casual dark side usage bc like he’s pretty sure casually choking ppl might be how things all went to shit the first time around. Also, leia having a heartwrenching reunion with bail - she knew she was adopted but finding out darth vader’s your birth dad (and that the guy who will always actually be your dad KNEW) is something else. Also han being like …why do I find the fact that this chick could kill me with her mind powers so hot? Omg also potentially luke’s parentage coming out when leia overhears obi wan talking about his dad, obi-wan’s bff anakin skywalker who is now tragically dead, and leia just unable to stop herself from being like omg that’s a load of horseshit. Leia being surprised how well she gets along with luke but being slightly bitter that he got to learn about his force heritage in a way that involved considerably less torture. ..

So, this got posted during my hiatus, I’m pretty sure? And I love it. Once I get off shift, I’m totally building on this, thank you, I love this addition!

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hamelin-born:

Obi-Wan Kenobi: This weapon is your life!

Bennu Kenobi: No it isn’t. I’m not going to automatically die if I lose my lightsaber - there are more important things then ‘sabers, and I know the schematics so I can always build another one. Are you saying that the trillions of people who don’t have lightsabers and use blasters instead are zombies or something?

@lectorel

Years later, Bennu’s brother will throw his lightsaber aside, and say ‘I am a Jedi, like my father before me’.

A weapon’s not a life.

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Villain!Todoroki AU. Sensei is/pretends to be a doctor at the hospital after Todoroki is burned.

***

The doctor’s voice was gentle. “No one tried to save you, did they? They looked at your father and said, ‘He’s a hero, he can’t have done anything wrong,’ and turned away. You, your mother, your siblings, all overlooked victims.”

Shouto frowned, turning his eyes away. “You shouldn’t … “

“Shouldn’t speak the truth? Because your father is too powerful?” A hand brushed through his hair. “Who made society this warped, I wonder?”

And then - “You’ve done nothing wrong, Shouto. Your father has. Let me protect you.”

“… okay,” Shouto said, exhaustion tugging at his bones. “Yeah. Okay.”

***

“Most heroes worship money?” Shou quoted in the wake of Stain’s departure, sitting down in the shade of the water tank. “How overdramatic. Some of them worship fame instead.”

Tomura snorted. “You’re still going on about Endeavor’s failings?”

“Everyone needs a hobby, Sensei says.” Shou cupped his palms together, summoning a lick of flame in the bowl of his hands. “Besides, I need something to do during the cut-scenes.”

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@actualshonenprotagonist replied: “How I figured out in my late 20s that I have chronic pain. “Wait, other people -don’t- hurt all the time?”“

I’ve heard that this is the case but I’m not actually sure if I believe it. Surely ‘normal’ people experience pain pretty much constantly too. Like… They must have small pains, even if they don’t get the “chronic pain” marker. It’s like – it’s organic and normal. Bones ache, scars tingleburnzing where they’ve buggered up the nerves, stray joints do that weird radiating thing when you put pressure on them. It’s just… it would be so weird. It must be a spectrum, at least. You wouldn’t know what was going on, it would be almost as weird as no feedback.

This is only tangentially relevant to your comment of course but the idea of Not Hurting seems very odd.

It’d be like not having period cramps: how would you know you were gonna bleed without feeling like your insides are being hollowed out with a cleaver? Madness.

Ditto. Like, isn’t pain just an inevitable side effect of having a body?

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lectorel:

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mydeddyalabama:

what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe

From what I recall, it tastes vaguely like a thick, sugary jello cube dipped in powdered sugar. 

People have done stranger in the name of dessert.

It was the middle of the war, and rationing was in full effect, which probably also had something to do with it.

Also it was literally Betrayal Magic.

That too.

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No, but seriously: shipping tropes and aro-ace characters are the best fucking combination, I swear to god. Fake-dating best friends who can barely keep from laughing themselves sick when they have to kiss in public. Blanket-fic with the mutual realization of ‘nobody’s going to believe we didn’t fuck, why me?’ Thrown-together-in-prison where person A decides the B is their new baby sibling, touch them and die.

Seriously, fucking with shipping tropes is much fun. It’s amazing.

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justinspoliticalcorner:

Donald Trump again raised the specter of election fraud Friday, saying that the only way he would lose Pennsylvania is to Hillary Clinton is if “they cheat.”

The Republican nominee, speaking at a rally in Altoona, Pennsylvania, repeated his concerns about the fairness of the election.

“The only way we can lose, in my opinion — I really mean this, Pennsylvania is if cheating goes on and we have to call up law enforcement and we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everyone watching because if we get cheated out of this election, if we get cheated out of a win in Pennsylvania, which is such a vital state especially when I know what is happening here,” he said. “She can’t beat what’s happening here. The only way they can beat it in my opinion, and I mean this 100 percent, if in certain sections of the state they cheat.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed the election is “rigged” against him, laying some of the blame on the media.

Trump is trailing Clinton by more than 9 points in Pennsylvania polls, one of several key battleground states in which he has slumped recently.

h/t: Tyler Pager at Politico

Okay, dashboard, this is not a “reblog me or be shamed” post, but I would really like you to please pay attention to this for a moment, because this is the only, singular post about this I’ve seen and I had to hunt it down in the tags myself on mobile-

Donald Trump has just called for his voters to harass people going into the polls.

No, seriously, look at his exact words here - “We’re going to watch Pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times.”

Did you know that Pennsylvania is an ex-voter ID state? The same voter ID laws Trump alludes to here? Did you know that approximately 9% of the PA electorate was estimated to be disenfranchised by those laws? Did you know that Hillary is heading Trump in PA by about 10%? Did you know that during voter ID law times, many states had an issue with ‘concerned citizens’ like True the Vote harassing people outside the polls demanding to see their IDs? Because that’s exactly what Trump is talking about here.

Voter fraud is vanishingly rare. It is virtually statistically impossible for it to affect the outcome of an election without being caught - thousands of cases would have to occur for even close elections, let alone ones where Trump is trailing by 10 points. This is not some legitimate concern - it’s a thinly veiled excuse to harass voters in ‘some areas’ - e.g., areas that are more likely to vote Democrat - e.g., heavily Black and Latino areas. (Potentially college campuses as well, though that’s a bit dicier because a lot of campuses will have their own polling station with campus security who tend not to fuck around.)

So guys, please be aware - no one can prevent you from entering a polling place. No one has the right to demand your ID, or any identifying information. The poll workers are exclusively inside. If you see anyone committing voter harassment like this, please call 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I’m currently on semi-hiatus, because I am completely out of spoons for social stuff. There may be some occasional activity, but I’m largely not going to be available this month. I’ll try to be back in September.

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Oh, Chicago. Never change.