I'll die with all my takes inside me, and let them rot me away before the worm can get me.

Star Wars

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STAR WARS IS ABOUT BABIES.

people who work on the rig all day

I'm in a Discord that's complaining about the Baby Yoda movie right now and I want to tell them to live off the rain and the dirt so bad.

a dragon with two heads is flying through the air with lightning coming from its mouth . ALT: a dragon with two heads is flying through the air with lightning coming from its mouth .

Today I learned that Ghidorah's name is actually the Russian pronunciation of "hydra". The more you know!

@ckunzelman.bsky.social can you confirm

The credits of the 2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters, where giant monsters suddenly and completely restore the Earth's ecosystem and end climate change, is a classic example of Tolkein's idea of eucatastrope.

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If I make it through today without vomiting I'll be a hero.

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My son, who I have shared Welcome to Night Vale and Gravity Falls with, is having a real "THIS IS WHERE THAT STUFF CAME FROM?!" moment with this text.

My oldest son is reading The Call of Cthulhu because he wants to have the backstory straight for Minions & Monsters, which is a bit like reading all of Moby Dick first so you can get the references in Bone.

Nausicaa and her foxsquirrel from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Roxanne and her Furry from Quest for the Time Bird

The year was 1983 and everybody was telling tales of bosomy young redheaded warrior-princesses and their shoulder-perching fuzzbuddies in sacrificial quests to save their postapocaliptic futurepast fantasy worlds

Power Girl is the coolest. She’s the Superman that loves punching things. This art captures that truth vividly.

I'll find my home one day.

So the radio dramas? Canonize them. Who will stop you. Their concordances draw out surprising depth; and their disagreements may be editorialized at your pleasure: ignore, rationalize, or even just hold in another hand simultaneously, as you already do with life's other small contradictions.

I'm fond of pointing out that Thrawn is more canonical in Disney Star Wars than he was in the EU. So is Cindel Towani, Life Day, Jaxxon, and more. Nothing is non-canonical in Star Wars, just set down for a while before being picked up again. Ideas have their own samsara, if you wait long enough.

The truth is, nobody can tell you how to collect and arrange your thoughts, or which stories should bear weight in your understanding. A notion of internal canon is useful for the producers of a shared work, but even then, its not like there's solid rules to their make-believe, either.

Saw an earnest little post of someone asking if the NPR Star Wars radio dramas were canon. It's not my place to give my opinion there; they want to find out the fact, and the fact is no, they aren't. But my opinion?

Yes, Virginia, the Star Wars radio dramas are canon.

Saw pigs both outside of the city and in the city today. Great time at @blankcheck.bsky.social live show in Madison!

I still haven't had a chance to watch Maul: Shadow Lord and its killing me

JRR Tolkein never even considered that by wearing weighted training clothing, the hobbits power levels could be obscured from the ringwraiths' scouters.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

“You wanna play the Crunchyroll, you gotta pay the Crunchytoll.” - @shoebill.moe

Thinking about how an Australian would say "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and feeling a warm glow form in my heart.

Frieren is a show about how Yoda once fought in the Clone Wars

Wisconsin Republicans are the wretched and every time this state drives them back it's like the sun grows a little brighter.