I cannot BELIEVE we actually got an answer to the question, "Do Jedi testify as witnesses in legal matters of the Republic?", because that is a thing I have had conversations about! AND YADDLE STRAIGHT UP TELLS US THAT THE ANSWER IS THAT THE COUNCIL DOES MAKE SURE THEY PROVIDE TESTIMONY. I WANT TO KNOW SOOOOOOO MUCH MORE ABOUT HOW MUCH A JEDI'S ABILITIES WITH THE FORCE ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, LIKE CAN THEY TESTIFY ABOUT INTENT IF THEY'RE A PSYCHIC EMPATH WHO CAN FEEL OTHERS' THOUGHTS? OR WOULD THE REPUBLIC SAY THEY HAVE NO WAY TO VERIFY THAT IF THEY'RE NOT A FORCE USER AS WELL SO THEY CAN'T BE SURE. I WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS. *SHAKING JOHN JACKSON MILLER* TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT THE JEDI TESTIFYING IN COURT CASE THIS IS THE SHIT I AM HERE FOR!!!! (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

#imagining ace attorney: star wars edition#could you imagine the hijinks#evidence being a jedi being “his vibes were rancid”#and needing to have a court jedi to be like “they're right his vibes are indeed rancid” (via @kivaember) A COURT JEDI GODDDDD like can you IMAGINE the insanity around the idea of having a Jedi in the courtroom to say, "nah, that guy is DEFINITELY hiding something" and having to determine whether or not that that's legally admissible into the case??? Set aside that the Jedi would probably refuse, because that's not really the purpose of what a Jedi is for, but that THAT ABILITY EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE and at the very least Jedi do testify in cases and sometimes their presence in a situation is inextricable from the Force and I just want a front row seat for the worldbuilding shitshow that that must be.

Creative Gardens, 1986

hey everyone my tummy hurts but please don't cry too hard for me. a few tears are fine though.

[ID: Photos of a painted clay sculpture of two Przewalski's horses leaning against one another in an embrace with their eyes closed. The sculpture is from the shoulders up. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This was an older Embrace piece that wasn't up to scratch, was going to recycle it, instead reworked the faces and manes, and used it as an opportunity to practice painting with acrylics. One of the faces has the more “plastic” look that I've been trying to avoid with acrylics (lower left photo). Watering the paint down and then gradually layering seems to keep the matte look I was getting with gouache.

Available on my Etsy

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.

genuinely depressing how people will dismiss the interests kids have because all it does is make them retreat into shame and never want to talk to you about anything again

Lovely Day for a Guinness

Here's the whole Guinness ad. It's adorable

“time spent writing star wars fic”

A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has issued a genocide alert for the West Bank

the notes on that last poll are insane there was someone who said they separate fics into "porn" and "story" and they didnt stop for a second to think that sex in and of itself might be a story??? the way some of you people trivialize sex and explicit art is fucking bonkers to me. you sound like a christian when you act like sex cheapens art or like art focusing on sex is a completely separate category from non-sexual art. explicit fics, yes even pwp (which i believe is a misnomer anyways), are telling stories and they're stories worth telling because sex is normal and healthy and deeply important to many of us. just because something gets you off doesn't mean it's cheap or meaningless. i'd argue that things that engage the viewer sexually are very meaningful because human sexuality is complex and beautiful and worth sharing and exploring. Grow up and read about the guys you like sucking eachother off

"i'm here for the character development/analysis not smut" if you think that explicit art is vapid and can't meaningfully explore a character's thoughts, behaviors, and desires, you are a catholic youth pastor and i hope you get well soon

sweater patterns from Degen (link) i Need to make the Lil Lac (diamond pattern) sweater

#I've forgotten how to knit entrelac but the lac sweater looks so nice

@crabbarts wait what's entrelac? is it like a technique in particular?

@alpha-ratsnest, yes, entrelac is a knitting technique where you knit right- and left-leaning rectangles to create a knitted fabric that appears woven! Entrelac looks like this when it's in progress:

I'm not too familiar with entrelac myself but I've seen it used in sweaters, blankets, socks and hat patterns! Even if you're fairly new to knitting, you can definitely knit entrelac! I believe all the technique involves is increases, decreases, and picking up stitches, and there's tons of tutorials online.

Entrelac is really fun!! It's not difficult per-say but it can be fiddly, especially if ur a beginner. Once u get the hang of it tho it's actually fairly easy!!

If you want an easy introduction to entrelac I recommend the garterlac dishcloth!

https://criminyjickets.blogspot.com/2006/07/garterlac-dishcloth.html

It's garter stitch, not stockinette, in case you don't want to or like purling. The instructions are very clear and easy! Works great with self-striping or variegated yarn.

I loooove how Obi-Wan is canonically good with animals and they instantly like him back, very disney princess of him ❤️ (also the fact that Anakin on the other hand is shit at dealing with beasties and dislike living mounts lmao)

turns out the way you choose to live out each day dictates what your life will look like overall. no i know it's terrible

I'll have more thoughts on this later, but there's a thing my local queer communities did, especially in the twenty-teens, where they tried to be as inclusive as possible while still drawing a hard line between insiders and outsiders and it functioned in practice as a big ol Fuck You to anyone with OCD

"Trans women are all beautiful virtuous angels and cis men are all disgusting pigs and also the dividing line is based entirely on good-faith self-identification" Do you see how this is practically engineered to make transfems feel constant anxiety that their self-identification isn't sincere enough?

this is so well-put, I continue to meet so many younger people who chase themselves in circles trying to find their “correct” labels because our communities have made that kind of precise unwavering self-ID such an integral part of being queer. it’s almost like you have to figure out that label BEFORE you can participate in queer spaces, instead of figuring it out *through* your participation

thank you for your insight, I hadn’t made the OCD connection before but my early LGBTQ identity experiences make a lot more sense with that lens…

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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It amused me to come up with a defense for the “is homophobic because he said he would never date NightWing” remark.

“My boys are very sociable and Nightwing is clearly a Gothamite of a certain age. There is a better that 20% chance that I have seen him playing Transformers in footie pajamas in my living room. So it’s always going to have to be a no for me.”

I feel like if Maul got a tooka it would have fixed him. Like not all the way but 50%. Lonely man needed a pet so badly.

Ohhhh he finds it on his trash planet. Mangy ginger tooka that steals things from him. He hates it. It keeps getting away from him. He is pre-spider legs and his grasp of the Force is mostly just keeping himself alive.

He starts calling it Kenobi. One day it shows up missing one of its back legs and Maul nurses it back to health. It starts bringing him rodents to eat after that. Both of them are sort of roommates. Then Savage shows up and Maul refuses to leave without Kenobi.

Savage: ... The Jedi isn't here brother...

Maul: KENOBIIII!!!

Kenobi: mrrr?

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