Sit Back and Let Me Tell You A Story

Personally I’m okay with Rey not being related to anyone super famous from the films or expanded universe…the only reason why it bugged me was that the previous film introduced the whole “Rey’s waiting for her parents to return” thing and then this one made a big deal about Rey wanting to know who they were…so the reveal of “Oh they were just two drunks who sold her for booze money” feels…kind of anti-climatic to me…

I honestly like the way her parentage turned out. Any big reveal that Mom and Dad are famous takes away from her accomplishments and destiny. It goes from being a character that is growing into her strength and turns it into “well obviously she’s doing well, look at her lineage”, like some sort of race horse. Also, the introduction of powerful, recognized characters puts her in the backseat. Suddenly Mom or Dad shows up and they are in the spotlight instead of the story being about her. Finally, it adds a bit of gravity to her. Nearly every foster kid and orphan out there dreams that their birth parents will swoop back in and bring them into a better life. It just doesn’t happen. Even the Daddy Warbucks fantasy fails here. She finds someone that can help, and he’s too damaged to do much good. Rey has earned every last achievement that she has.

That is fair enough <3

I think that we’d like there to be a story regarding Rey where her parents intended to come back and ‘rescue’ her, but were prevented somehow.  That sounds better than ‘they were addicts who couldn’t afford her’.  I once went through the probate records of the city I lived in for an archaeological project and one of the things I kept running into was parents who had fallen on hard times and who had too many children “selling” off their children to pay debts and the like.  So, what Rey went through is very plausible, and I think it strengthens her story. 

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

Sometimes they just put a small shard in their mouth to clean it only to reveal it’s poop.

@thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Reblogging both for Archeologists Being Weirdoes and the Lik the Bone poem :D

Paleontologists are just as bad...

@cblgblog @thefingerfuckingfemalefury and thus my attraction type was born from this show.

XD

Also, her voice gives me Very Gay Feelings <3

Ah, Morrigan :-)

wlw tumblr why are demons hot

we’ve been exposed to queercoded villains since childhood, causing us to associate strongly with villainous and evil women; furthermore, because we fear we are being predatory towards women we are afraid of approaching girls and thus the concept of an aggressive woman is attractive because we don’t have to start the relationship

also they have big titties

Plus horns and a tail = HOT

Ah, that explains why one of my characters is a succubus…but awkward and has difficulty with the whole sex/relationship thing.

We have been raised to be Hella Gay For Demons :D

But mine isn’t a villain...she’s a hero...though coded as autistic.

wlw tumblr why are demons hot

we’ve been exposed to queercoded villains since childhood, causing us to associate strongly with villainous and evil women; furthermore, because we fear we are being predatory towards women we are afraid of approaching girls and thus the concept of an aggressive woman is attractive because we don’t have to start the relationship

also they have big titties

Plus horns and a tail = HOT

Ah, that explains why one of my characters is a succubus...but awkward and has difficulty with the whole sex/relationship thing.

This was my automatic headcanon.

I am SOOOOO glad that you were right :D

I’m hoping that they make this absolutely clear in the movie...make up for not letting Deadpool have a boyfriend (but then again, if we get to see more of Morena Baccarin :-)

I see no lies there

I was expecting a Monty Python reference here.

Mint is a weird flavour, how can something taste like cold?

Menthol, a chemical found in mint leaves, activates the same ion-channel protein in your nerves as a drop in temperature, causing the same sensation.

Nerd.

I think you mean cool as fuck

Yezsss

Capsaicin does the same for the receptors for a rise in temperature, thus why peppers taste “hot”.

Bonus fact, capsaicin also impacts the nerves which cause pain, and it was being researched for a whole new class of pain killers.