A Disaster! A Soggy Disaster!

That scene in Mulan where all the ancestors are arguing about whose fault it was that Mulan ran off to join the army except with all the Force ghosts arguing about Ben Solo.

This is the greatest thing I have ever drawn I am so proud

1. Darth Maul repeatedly dying and then randomly turning up for absolutely no narrative reason, exclusively to ruin Obi-Wan’s day

2. Hondo Ohnaka in general

        2.a. Bonus: Hondo and Maul competing to be Ezra’s Weird Crime Uncle

3. Dave Filoni being forced to spend 6 7 seasons doing narrative backflips to keep Anakin and Grievous from meeting, because of one throwaway line in ROTS about Grievous being short

4. The B1 Battle Droids in any given moment of the Clone Wars, but especially during the movie

       e.g. those two droids on top of the cliff at Teth, arguing about seeing the approaching clone army and fighting over the binoculars, and one of them just fuckin FALLS of the cliff and the other one goes “get BACK HERE          sergeant”

       also e.g. Rex and like, one other guy, completely surrounded by droids and Rex is like “surrender! we have you outnumbered!” and one of the droids is like “hang on” and actually stARTS COUNTING

5. Grievous bailing hard the moment anything goes remotely wrong 

6. Anakin stabbing a guy in cold blood as the Imperial March plays in the background and then looking all offended at Obi-Wan and going “WHAT? he was gonna blow up the ship!”     

7. Dave Filoni’s incessant need to put wolves in Star Wars

8. the fact that the Mandalorian almost died and earned his clan signet on an errand to fetch brunch for a bunch of jawas

9. Rex’s plan on the Rishi Moon base: “ok so to get into the base currently occupied by droids, i’m going to hold a droid head up to the camera and do my best droid impression and ask them nicely to open the door” and it WORKED

        bonus 9.a: that same episode, Cody’s reaction to Rex shooting one of their brothers (as far as he knew) right in the face was “HECK”

10. Kallus, to Ezra and Kanan: ok you have to knock me out so i don’t get caught as a spy. it has to be convincing.

Ezra: ok *uses the force to fucking YEET kallus through like three panes of glass*

Kanan: EZRA

Ezra: WHAT? that is convincing

Kanan: yeah, but i was gonna do it

11. Kylo Ren stalking into the war room and going “i sense… unease… about my appearance.” and all the generals rushing to compliment his new mask

12. those two stormtroopers in TFA walking around the corner, seeing Kylo Ren having a tantrum and beating up a console with his lightsaber, and just quietly backing away

13. Stormtrooper bonking his head in A New Hope

14. Rex bonking his head on a pipe

15. “It’s ok that we’re here.” “It’s ok that you’re here.” “It’s GREAT that you’re here.” “You’re relieved that we’re here.” “THANK GOODNESS you’re here” “Welcome, guys.”

16. the fact that Palpatine was is still so pissed off about Anakin slam-dunking him down the garbage chute at the end of Return of the Jedi that he had a giant pit built in his Secret Backup Fortress specifically so that he could throw Anakin’s grandson down it thirty years later like that level of PETTINESS

17. Darth Bane was voiced by MARK FUCKING HAMIL

18. Boba Fett dies by blind, confused Han Solo going “BOBA FETT?? WHERE????” and spinning around and accidentally backhanding him into the Sarlacc Pit (of course he’s not really dead shhhhhh fuck you disney)

19. those two scout troopers in episode 8 of the Mandalorian, having captured Baby Yoda and radioing in to try to tell Moff Gideon that they captured the asset like “is he available yet” “yeah, he just killed an officer for interrupting him, so it could be a while.” “ugh ok whatever. Standing by. Still.”

20. the fact that, from Obi-Wan’s point of view, ROTS is just fucking bonkers. Like, he and Anakin rescue the chancellor, everything’s going well, he tells Anakin he’s proud of him, and then he leaves to kill Grievous and just when he succeeds and the war is just about over, Cody tries to shoot him off a cliff and when he makes it back to Coruscant, Anakin is slaughtering a bunch of children and swearing allegiance to a Sith Lord and Obi-Wan has NO IDEA what the FUCK happened there

21. Twilight of the Apprentice from Darth Vader’s point of view: you chase down a bunch of Rebels to a secret Sith Planet. You go to the Temple. Surprise! Your old apprentice is there, along with some random jedi kid. She forces the kid to flee the collapsing temple, and then you proceed to have a big ol’ lightsaber fight but like THIRTY SECONDS LATER, a portal opens up in mid-air, the SAME KID but with a different haircut pops out, grabs your apprentice, and just fuckin vanishes. Poof. Gone. Like, that is just something that happened to Darth Vader one day and it’s just something he had to deal with.

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

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So let’s go through this a bit:

The elections-related stuff is aimed at reducing the risk of transmitting diseases and viruses by enacting a federal mandate for states to expand voter access to safe and secure vote-by-mail, same-day voter registration, and early voting. Increased access to both vote-by-mail and early voting is a way of decreasing the amount of people showing up at one time to vote on Election Day (and therefore providing a hotbed for germs to spread). And one of the ways that safe and secure voting is assured? Conducting election audits.

The “postal service bailout” is designed to keep our postal service working properly so people can stay home (and thus reduce community transmission of the coronavirus) while still having safe and prompt access to things they need. Having a prompt and functional postal service is ESPECIALLY important for those who have to completely quarantine and cannot leave their homes.

The pay equity clause is designed to ensure that workers/employees that come from marginalized backgrounds will not be disproportionately affected, left out, or fired as a result of the relief bill. It’s placing a CONDITION on businesses and companies (which is a part of ANY loan, relief package, or grant) to say “if we’re going to give you this money that you want, you HAVE to treat your employees fairly and equitably.”

Likewise, the corporate board demographics clause is designed to give employee and worker representation on corporate boards so that employees have a say in how the business operates (most importantly, in how they treat their workers). This is not a ridiculous condition considering that not listening to their workers when they want to be paid fairly and treated well is one of the reasons we’re in this mess in the first place.

The collective bargaining IS, in fact, designed to help people during the COVID crisis. Some of the HUGE issues that keep getting brought up in this crisis is the lack of paid sick leave, the lack of paid family leave, the refusal of companies to adequately protect their employees from harm, and the chronic underpayment that low-wage workers face. Basically: companies screwing over their employees in both wages and benefits, which leads to a workforce that CANNOT AFFORD to take two weeks off from work to stop the spread of a fucking pandemic. Ensuring collective bargaining rights gives workers some power over this situation and can help prevent something like what is currently happening from happening again in the future.

The emissions and climate-related issues are for the companies, not consumers. This is a bill that is casting a wide net and is dealing in relief for both companies AND consumers AND employees. The bill deals with families struggling to pay rent AND businesses that need to have more transparency in their business dealings. This isn’t an either-or bill. We can walk and talk and chew gum at the same time. Being more transparent about their business dealings, including how said dealings affect the climate, can help prevent solvency issues in the future. And once again, those bits are conditions for businesses receiving aid (which again, is part of any loan, grant, or relief package). 

As staff of a community newspaper, I’m sorry but was Congress assuring that our potential retirement compensation is protected during a pandemic when newspapers are shutting down left and right and many of us are being indefinitely laid off because of rapidly decreasing ad revenue (due to the state lockdowns) somehow abhorrent to you?

especially with the executive branch run by trump, it’s not Congress’ business to just…throw money in a general direction and hope for the best. the way legislation works is an absolute hot mess, but expecting pelosi to fix that in the middle of a crisis sounds like the real unreasonable distraction

democracy: *takes time to pass laws, especially laws that actually help people*

it’s called PANDEMIC or CORONA or something in all caps

the opening scene is set in wuhan only they make it look really worn down and gross bc Foreign Nation

it stars the united states government and a random white man who contracts the virus and then has to quarantine apart from his family

either that or it’s some military dude who comes home from being stationed in wuhan for whatever reason

there’s an ed sheeran song in it

the celebrities singing imagine by john lennon is a scene in the movie and it’s portrayed as a heartrending moment of solidarity

the US government is portrayed handling the virus WAY better than they actually are

china is portrayed as the evil communist villains who didn’t stop the virus from spreading

i don’t know how the movie ends because we’re still living it

the ending title card says “dedicated to the 3827394 or something people who lost their lives due to COVID-19”

You most certainly know the meme below. It is her creation.

Whenever you use it, remember that it was achieved by the incarnation of courage

Rest in peace, Qinni