This is me... I guess

There are political newspaper comics that aren't this succinct

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

Trying to find my hand after losing it

You don't have to be averse/repulsed by sex or romance to not do it. Anyone can choose to opt out of sex/romance if they don't want or aren't interested in it.

longish rant:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Jedi went to Geonosis to defend their fellow Jedi and a senator who were about to be publicly executed for entertainment while Dooku and Jango Fett, who took his literal child there, watched. They just found out that the separatists are being lead by a Sith, you know a corrupt and twisted individual with selfish interests in mind (by definition), who is also not opposed to slavery and oppression, and has a whole functioning droid army ready to attack.

Ofc the Jedi are going to fight and defend. The war didn’t start because of the Jedi. It started because of Dooku and the separatists and corrupt individuals and Palpatine who had it all carefully planned out since the beginning. The Jedi merely answered in the best and only way they could to make sure the least amount of people get hurt.

Mace Windu didn’t attack Jango. Jango decided to go fight and attacked Mace while he was fighting off droids. Mace defended himself and ended up killing him, because Jango was actively trying to kill him first. Boba shouldn’t have been there in the first place. And I’m sorry but Jango is not really the good guy in this story.

Are we forgetting the constant assassination attempts on Padmé that set all this off too??

A whole bunch of Jedi lost their lives on Geonosis protecting each other and then going ahead trying to protect the republic with the significantly smaller amount of numbers they were left with now. While also being nearly the only ones who viewed the clones as actual people and individuals. The Jedi and the Clones are the good guys in the story. (Until the tragedy of o66 forces the clones to kill their friends. But even then they’re more victims of palpatines machinations than anything else. Just like the Jedi.)

I beg you, just watch the movies and the actual scenes again. The movies were made predominately for kids, they're not difficult to understand, because they’re not supposed to be. They even go ahead and simplify certain aspects and themes. There are very obvious good guys and obvious bad guys, a mystery that needs to be solved, a war that is set off and dramatic battles. The Jedi are being pushed into a corner, but not once do the movies make it seem as if the Jedi or Mace are bad or as if they enjoy this war and want it. There’s a solemn acceptance that this is unfortunately happening to the galaxy and the only thing that can be done now, is protect as many as possible, do what’s right in the moment with the information that is given. And deal with the consequences of war and an army that has already been created and voted on by the literal senate, who btw mostly views said army as cannon fodder. So if anything they become a part of the lives the Jedi are actively trying to protect as best as they can. Because now they’re here and there’s no turning back time or magically looking into the whole future and behind the curtain to get a glimpse of the truth.

They’re all caught between a rock and a hard place, doing their literal best. Which is the whole point of the story. Palpatine puts as much pressure on the Jedi as possible, creates chaos everywhere, twists things, takes on apprentices to do his dirty work and then throws them away, shocking said apprentices, and then finally makes everything implode by killing the Jedi and forming the Empire.

Don’t blame the Jedi for Palpatine's evil work. And don’t act like the Jedi had a hundred choices at their disposal. And stop preaching about Dooku and the other Sith, claiming they were right. Sure, some things they mention are correct but there’s plenty of deceitful things they say and do. Mostly also to themselves tbh. They’ve been twisted by the dark side and quite honestly their words and their actions and their desires do not align whatsoever. Which is how the dark side works at the end of the day. But still, Count Dooku is not the good guy and just because he told Obi Wan that the secret Sith Lord is hiding in the senate does not change the fact that he literally works for him and is doing his bidding at that very moment as well, like?? Sith don’t make any sense I’m sorry but they don’t, and as I said that’s the point, but I feel like a lot of people don’t get that point and are taking their word for it as if their actions don’t completely contradict them.

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

Favorite Hayden & Ewan interview moments (3/?) - Agree to Disagree (2022).

Star Wars: Visions | 2.07: The Bandits of Golak

Ezra + loth cat for an instagram drawing challenge 

More of that Rebels & Jedi nonsense - Ezra and Kata bonding through shared trauma™

Guys.

I hate to break it to you, but if Mandalore had been pew-pew mercenaries during TCW they still would have lost. We know this, because they were pew-pew mercenaries during the purge.

Satine being a pacifist did not "weaken" them. She didn't leave them "defenceless" or set them up for failure.

If DW had been in charge, if the Old Mandalorian conquerers had been in charge, if Jango, or Jaster, or Boba had been in charge they still would have fallen because THE GAME WAS RIGGED.

That was the whole point, friends. Palpatine rigged it. Mandalore was fucked from the get-go.

But Satine gave them 4 extra years of safety. Four years where they weren't under threat of Separatist invasion, or Republic usurpation. Four years where they weren't losing citizens to fighting on distant planets, or as victims or hostages of Palpatine's cronies. She gave them four extra years of education, and artistry, and family, and growth. She gave them four years to prepare, to immigrate, to plan, to fall in love, get married, have kids, go to school, learn a trade, get smart. Four years to learn what corruption looks like. Four years more to learn to fight back.

People always seem to forget that when they were introduced, the death watch were backed by Dooku

The sith wanted the mandalorians to get involved in the war (specifically on the separatist side), wanted them to fight, to kill people, to get killed

I imagine the plan was something like this:

1. The Death Watch retakes mandalore with separatist backing

2. In exchange, the mandalorians now join the separatists with their warriors fighting in the military

3. With the mandos now firmly in the separatist camp, and a few raids/attacks lead by mando warriors, Palpatine can order the GAR to conduct operations against them

4. Although they cause a lot of damage, the mandalorians predictably lose to the Jedi/GAR, and now there is one less potential rebellious world against Palpatine's empire

same energy

there’s more

SIGH

here’s another one

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

how does this get even worse

I think about once in a while...

We have another one...

This is the internet now tho 😭💀

@lifeistooshorttowasteyourtime @marril96 @latent-thoughts @suometar

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Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂

It's funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are... idk if it's an education gap or purposeful ignorance.

The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.

Oh dear gods, it's gotten worse

When you know politics but no facts

don’t take people too seriously on the internet

This hits different when combined with that "Americans don't learn other countries exist till they're in 5th Grade" post from the other day.

Demily recently got another one lads

Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might've been a gif of "fuck you," screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign "fuck you"

As a romanian person I gotta add this one too

This is my favourite post on this website

awesome addition in the tags by @derinthescarletpescatarian

Everyone: Hey Cal, why don’t you just cut open doors with your lightsaber?

Cal: Once I saw some clones try to open a door with a laser torch. There was fuel leak on the other side. The explosion took out the entire port engine.

Cal: Prauf and I found a door cut open with a lightsaber, about a four foot diameter hole. We’d spent a week stripping sensor banks, the big ones. They didn’t fit through the hole, and the door was welded shut, so we had to move them by mag-cart. Half our cut for the salvage went to the cart rental because of that broken door. That was a hungry month.

Cal: Heard about a Jedi who got sucked into space cause he cut holes in all the bulkheads, then a vulture droid punctured the hull. Bad way to go if you ask me.

Cal: My Master would tell me there’s always another path; the foolish force their way through while the wise walk around. He also said it was a good way to get shot in the back. Can’t block blaster fire if your saber is stuck in the door.

this gets so much funnier when you consider that people literally just live on mount everest, there's a perfect parallel between random europeans "discovering" a mountain that people already live on and medical professionals suddenly discovering autism despite people having it going back god knows how long

no language should be mocked other than french

Birds is “oiseaux” in French.

No letter is pronunced the way it should.

And there are seven of them.

ITS PRONOUNCED “WAZO” AND YES, I WILL DIE MAD ABOUT IT

oiseaux hits every vowel in the french alphabet and manages to only be pronounced with 2 goddamn syllables

got vowels coming out the oiseaux

This will never not be funny and I will never not reblog it.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Deleted Scene

Andor - S01E09 Nobody’s Listening!

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Life of the blue jays... they are quite imitators of the red-tailed hawk's calls, fooled me couple of times.