this is a william riker fanblog

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves

[Grisps you] On Erid everyone starts out calling Grace “Hero Grace” or “Savior Grace” and it makes him kinda uncomfy for reasons he can’t articulate, but the pebbles he teaches and their parents call him “Teacher Grace” and that feels more right. And then as time goes on and he graduates more and more classes, more and more of Erid is calling him “Teacher Grace” until it’s rare to hear him called anything else. And he finally feels like he’s where he’s supposed to be. Okay good night.

and this adds SO much to grace as a christ figure….

bud this isn't from 10 years ago this is from almost 20 years ago

happy 19th anniversary to freecupholder.exe

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO FREECUPHOLDER.EXE

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

…I can’t think how it took me so long to run across this. I feel privileged to have been found by it. 😄

Girl whose most frequent mistake is inaction voice: wow I keep making mistakes I better not do anything