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What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.

What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

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The Ben Naasade Saga: Star Wars, Gen, 1.5+ million words.

Act 1: The Desert Storm Series

Act 2: Rise and Fall Series

Plot Spoilers: The Conclusion of Rise and Fall

Notes and Reference Guides: Desert Storm Appendices

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The Epitaph of Unfinished Tales

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Adventures in the MagU: Book One

21% of the US is transgender (the actual number is between 0.5% and 1.6%)

30% are gay or lesbian (3%) and an additional 30% are bisexual (4%), meaning the average American thinks that only around 19% of them are cisgender heterosexuals. The actual number of cisgender heterosexuals is around 90% of the population.

30% Muslim (1%) and 30% Jewish (2%), however contradictory to this they also think 58% are Christian, equaling 118% of Americans are of the abrahamic religions to the average American or some people are both Jewish or Muslim and Christian.

33% atheist (3%), meaning the abrahamic religions+ atheism is 141% of the US population.

41% black (12%), 27% (1%) native American, 29% asian (6%), and 39% Hispanic (17%), but also 59% white (64% actual)

30% live in NYC (3%), 30% live in Texas (9%), and 32% live in California (12%), meaning only 8% live in the rest of the country (actual 76%).

And lastly the average American believe only 62% of us have a high school education, actual number is 89%.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

His response is a duet saying he thinks Maul might be experiencing a lot of emotions right now.

Maul gets so mad he shows up at the temple and they’re able to find out about Sidious from him only for Obi-Wan to snap because HIS BABY PADAWAN IS WITH THAT MAN RIGHT THIS SECOND-

Anyways. The footage from Palpatine’s office gets leaked and it very much shows Obi defending his baby Ani from a bad evil sith and then Obi duets THAT and angrily says he is the first Jedi to kill a Sith in a long fucking time and he made SURE this one was dead af thanks.

@arianeemorythethird left these tags on my old man Rex post and I was inspired

Also, as someone with blond hair and dark brown eyebrows, I have to wonder, like... do most people not realize it's possible to have that combination of features? And that it's actually pretty common among blonds?

Anyway, I refuse to believe that Rex isn't a natural blond because with his hair so short, dark roots would show in like 2 days. No way is he able to keep hair bleaching products with him at all times in the middle of a goddamn war.