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In response to this post, crocordile (now elwing) said:

😂😂😂😂😂

I replied:

It's TRUE.

She said:

Also your tag ☺️☺️☺️💖💖💖

I replied:

It took me time to see the truth, but here I am!

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I reblogged a post I'd made back in 2019 about Denethor, Faramir, and Gandalf:

Gandalf about Denethor:

‘He has long sight. He can perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men, even of those that dwell far off. It is difficult to deceive him, and dangerous to try.’

Frodo with Faramir and Gollum:

‘Do you know the name of that high pass?’ said Faramir.

‘No,’ said Frodo.

'It is called Cirith Ungol.’ Gollum hissed sharply and began muttering to himself. 'Is not that its name?’ said Faramir turning to him.

'No!’ said Gollum, and then he squealed, as if something had stabbed him.
 

I love my freakish faves so much, y’all

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smallblueandloud said:

hi, i hope you're doing well! a long while ago you wrote a fic about leia and cassian and their common language (space spanish). it was hugely influential on my perception of leia and cultures in star wars (not to mention very cool for me as a latina) and i was wondering if i can credit you on fics where alderaan speaks spanish? or at least link to the fic (in tongues and quiet sighs)?

I replied:

Well, thank you! I very much appreciate hearing it.

I’ll say that I didn’t come up with the idea of space Spanish at all—I saw it a lot and was kind of ????? about the general approach, and in tongues and quiet sighs was my attempt to make sense of it in terms of character and world-building. So there’s no need to credit me for the general idea of Alderaanians speaking space Spanish—I didn’t come up with that.

But if your version is influenced by specific details in my fic (e.g., space Spanish originated in Alderaan and spread under previous Alderaanian imperialism), then you’re definitely welcome to credit it to the fic, and I appreciate you doing so.

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I love the Skywalkers, but every single one of them but Shmi is a walking yikes.

People will be like, "Well, MY Skywalker is pure and unproblematic" and it's just, nah, bro. Unless you're talking about Shmi, every single one of them—in-laws included—has had some moment of total fuckery. They are my eternal loves! But some of the posts about them I see are just ... uh, wow. And I have seen those posts about every one of them.

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I reblogged a gifset of Cesare Borgia from The Borgias, which was made for a prompt to make gifs of this version of Cesare or Borgia: Faith and Fear's.

I tagged it: #correct choice

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An anon said:

there's a story on bbc today about the discovery of a set of diaries by a yorkshire farmer around 1810 discussing homosexuality in an apparently accepting and more-balanced-than-expected way - does that attitude surprise or confirm your own thoughts on this time period? and since i've mostly seen pop media coverage, have you seen discussion of this diary or analysis of it in your field that you'd be willing to share? :)

I responded:

I haven’t! But my interests/studies have kept moving earlier and earlier, so 1810 is pretty late for what I’m doing now (I specialized in the 18th & 19th for my MA, but I’m working in the 17th and 18th for my PhD).

That said, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised. IMO we often think of the past as a) something completely foreign or b) basically like here and now, only less ‘enlightened.’ And I think we have to resist that secondary impulse to flatten the often profound differences in place and time and culture. At the same time, it’s important to understand that … people are going to be people.

Because of that, there’s always going to be a considerable degree of variation in attitudes and not just a singular model of What People Thought Back Then. So it seems perfectly probable that some people would have ideas that sit pretty well with us, even though it’s not anything like the majority. You can find that wrt just about any issue in any period.

It is easy to find virulent and pervasive homophobia in the later 18th century, which I gather persisted beyond that time, so I wouldn’t be inclined to see the farmer as representative of the period per se. But it might show that there was a greater diversity in opinions and perspectives than what we often project onto the past.

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I reblogged a gifset of the death scenes of the entire Skywalker family (from Shmi to Ben), and added:

...fuck. Their story always had Greek tragedy vibes, but now it's just ... ;_; ;_; ;_;

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I reblogged a post about not actively searching for things you know will be angering/upsetting (in a fandom context), and added:

It's okay to dislike things, but ... y'all have got to stop confusing that with personal identity and deliberately seeking them out.

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I reblogged a post with this Tweet:




Cosigned both generally and for Cassian in particular!

[ETA 9/18/2021: I reblogged this from someone I followed for RO, who herself tagged it with a reference to him.]

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fanhackers posted an excerpt from Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers:

The fans’ response typically involves not simply facination or adoration but also frustration and antagonism, and it is the combination of the two responses which motivates their active engagement with the media. Because popular narratives often fail to satisfy, fans must struggle with them to try to articulate to themselves, and other unrealized possibilities within the original text. Because the texts continue to fascinate, fans cannot dismiss them from their attention but rather must try to find ways to salvage them for their interests.

I added:

It's so good! Also, did someone say Star Wars?

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chucktaylorupset posted an AU concept where Ursa escapes to the South Pole with Zuko and Azula, and Kya survives instead of Hakoda, and they end up together with their four children. Then lullabyknell made some really nice art of the whole concept. I added:

Wow, this AU is right and good.