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Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā the tragedy of anakin skywalker (x)
#no but really#why wasnāt anakin a crechemaster#why did they let him major in stabbing?#star wars#queueĀ (tags @cadesama)
OH GOD NO BUT THAT WOULD BE PERFECT. how did the jedi not think of that?
what is anakinās biggest weakness? attachments.
you know who needs lots of attachment? babies. small children.
anakin should not have been made to study murder: he should have been put in charge of Small Things. He would have bonded with all of them instantly, and it would have given his life Meaning and Purpose.
Heād bond with the kids, but heād be able to move on because they are Bigger now and they have to go to the Big Kid Class but he still sees them around all the time, and it finally teaches him how to let go of his attachments??? Heād find a kid that heās particularly fond of and go to Obi-Wan and sayĀ āI have found your newest padawan.ā
this could have fixed so. many. things. ;_____;
Heh, and Anakin would keep picking Obi-Wanās padawans for him, and it would be annoying but damn if he wasnāt right every single time.
BUT CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE HOW ANNOYED PALPATINE WOULD BE his life would be never-ending string of trying to get a hold of Anakin (I mean, would Anakin give him a time of day if he can spend it with small kids who absolutely adore him instead?)
he keeps comming over the years, but itās always like
BEEP
āAnakin, my boy, we havenāt seen each other in a whileāā
āIām sorry, Chancellor, nowās not the best time. Iām tutoring a class.ā
BEEP
āMy dear boy, I wonder if we could meet for a chatāā
āWell, it canāt be this week, weāre going to Ilum, but maybe laterā¦ā
BEEP
āAnakin, Iād like toāā
āIām terribly sorry, Chancellor,ā Obi-Wan Kenobi answers. The apologetic tone might be just a tad exaggerated.Ā āAnakin is on a trip with younglings, he mustāve left his comlink behind accidentally.ā
BEEP
āYouāve reached Anakin Skywalkerās private comlink. Leave the message after the tone.ā
BEEP
āItās such a shame that Council doesnāt consider sending you on this campaign, considering the lightsaber skills you demonstrated when I was last visiting the Temple, Anakin.ā
āThank you, Chancellor, but this is precisely why I need to stay behind. In fact just the last week, the Masters decided I should take over some advanced lightsaber classes, considering senior Padawans accompanying their Masters on the frontlines need the training. I might take the Bear Clan along, make it a learning opportunity for the young onesāā
Palpatine closes his eyes slowly. He knows this from experience; Anakin wonāt let himself be budged from the topic of little monsters for at least another half an hour.
BEEP
āAh, Chancellor Palpatine. Anakin left his comlink behind again, heās in classāā
BEEP
āAnakin, I hoped youāā
āOh! Chancellor,ā the voice on the other end is distinctly female, and Palpatine recognizes it after a second. Kenobiās second Padawan. He barely restrains the urge to gnash his teeth. āUm, SkygāI mean, Master Skywalker canāt pick up now. I can tell him you called? Itās just that he was helping me with forms, and he forgot his comlink, and heās probably already in crĆØcheā¦ā
BEEP
Then thereās that one time when an actual youngling picks up the call. The less said about his reaction to that incident, the better.
BEEP
āāfortunately, they were all right in the end. But in my opinion, this should never happened in the first place, Chancellor.ā
Palpatine snaps awake. Was that⦠was that anger? Finally, the hours of listening to worthless drivel about Jedi younglings paid off.
āMy boy, I absolutely agree,ā he begins slyly, but before he can continue, Anakin steamrolls on.
āI think Jedi Order is too deeply entwined in the conflict! I honestly donāt think even senior Padawans should be anywhere near battles, not to mention in command of GAR, but now even younglings are acceptable targets for Separatists and pirates! Master Yoda and I were talking about this lately, andāā
Palpatine swallows a scream of rage with some difficulty.
BEEP
āForgot his comlink again, Master Skywalker has. With younglings, he is.ā
Slaughtering younglings moved to the top on the list of things Darth Sidious will do after taking over galaxy some time ago.
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That is what the Council would have done if they were smart. Seriously. Hereās Yoda saying Anakin should not be taught because he senses too much fear in him, and itās fear for the people he cares about, something everyone present realizes fully because when it comes to his own safety, Anakin couldnāt be more reckless. Then Qui Gon announces heās training him anyway, someone points out he might fulfill the prophecy and bring balance to the Force, and nobody, NOBODY, thinks that MAYBE giving him a job thatās more about caring than killing might be an idea. Nope. Okay, weāre training him, letās foster the loose canon aspect of his personalities, make him a war general and keep pushing him into vicious battles to the death. Sounds perfect for his mental health. The Jedi Council were a bunch of idiots with their head so far up their own asses even a lightsaber shoved up there to the hilt would not provide them enough light to see further than their own noses.
I think I got lost somewhere in this metaphor. You get the point.
After ten years, Palpatine loses his patience and decides to change his plans. Fuck it, Skywalker has kids nowātwo adorable little moppets who can be captured, broken, and twisted into twin powerhouses of the Dark Side. Torture one while the other watches, convince them Daddy doesnāt love them, easy-peasy.
Unfortunately, he fails to reckon with the fact that not only is he going up against Anakin Fucking Skywalker, but that Anakin Fucking Skywalker is the surrogate father/big brother/best friend/cool teacher of ninety percent of the current Padawans and young Knights in the Order. And while the Council might make decisions and talk about the Will of the Force and stuff, those Padawans and Knights only care about the fact that the man who scared away the monsters under the bedāmade it feel less lonely and frightening to be away from home when they were smallāis now hurting and scared for his own children.
Just like Palpatine always wanted, Anakin ends up leading an army. An army of young Jedi who smash the ever-loving shit out of everything āDarth Sidiousā can throw at them, rescue the terrified Skywalker twins, and drag the Chancellor hisownself before the Senate with conclusive proof that heās an evil Dark-Side-wielding bastard who kidnaps adorable kids.
Attachments FTW.
God, YES
Luke and Leia would have grown up with 500 brothers and sisters of assorted species. Ā Whenever you see Anakin there are 10 kids with him, occasionally actively hanging off of his arms or riding on his shoulders. (Anakin looks downright gleeful about this). Padme thinks itās the most adorable thing ever. Ā
20 years later by the timeĀ āA New Hopeā would have begun, Anakin is 45. Padme is the new Chancellor. Luke and Leia are finishing their own Jedi training. 90% of the current young Jedi order calls AnakinĀ āDadā. He has amassed the galaxyās largest collection of refrigerator art. After that incident with Chancellor Palpatine 15 years back, Yoda was forced to admit to Qui Gonās very smug force-ghost that he was right. Everything is right with the galaxy.Ā
I am so sorry this ate my brain and then things ran away from me. I AM SORRY.Ā So. Anakin leads an army to retrieve his children and itās this twisted version of everything Sidious ever wanted and heās prepared for that.
But Sidious always underestimates how love changes things. And while heās prepared to fight Anakinās devoted army of former crechelings, he underestimates how thatās changed the rest of the Order.
Because Obi-Wan is quieter about whom and how he loves but doesnāt make it any less strong. When Obi-Wan loves someone it is unconditional and unyielding and he has never loved anyone as much as he loves Anakin Skywalker. Then the twins are born and Anakin is bashfully about it but heās not ashamed and of course Obi-Wan has to know, he canāt imagine Obi-Wan not knowing his children (Obi-Wan totally already knows, he has been rolling his eyes about this for months and waiting for Anakin to come to him so he doesnāt spook him or for Padme to knock some freaking sense into him, which she does, because not-dying Padme is scary post-pregnancy and not willing to deal with the stupid anymore) and then Padme hands him Leia and everything stutters to a halt for a moment because oh, oh no, Anakin has found him another padawan.
There is no one Obi-Wan will ever love as fiercely as Anakin, except for Anakinās children, who may as well be his own children. And he knows from the moment he first holds her that Leia will be the greatest Jedi he ever has a hand in raising.
(It becomes a joke among the Knights and Masters at the temple after the Skywalker twins arrive. If you even think that you might like to take Leia as your padawan, you can feel Obi-Wan glare at you no matter where he is in the galaxy.)
And when Sidious kidnaps Anakinās children ā his future padawan ā Obi-Wan is the only Jedi in the galaxy who can put a hand on Anakinās shoulder and say we need a distraction to do this safely, trust me to bring them home for you. Anakin will lead the frontal assault and tear down all of Sidiousā carefully constructed plans. Obi-Wan will sneak in and safeguard their children and bring them home.
Thatās the plan, anyway.
Hereās what none of them expected:
When Luke Skywalker came screaming and red-faced into the world, an ancient, meddling, troll of a Jedi Master who had vowed never to take another padawan felt it and thought: fuck.
Whereas Leia is, even as a child, stubborn and willful and silk hiding steel, Luke is twin balls of sunshine. Raised among Jedi, he is so bright a presence it hurts. Even raised among Jedi, he wears his heart on his sleeve and has absolutely no guile and he pouts when the cafeteria doesnāt serve his favourite dessert but will cheerfully walk across the room and give it to someone else if he senses that person is still hungry. The first time Luke sees Yoda he stares at him, all big blue eyes and pudgy baby hands, then grabs his ears and wonāt let go. Everyone is horrified. Yoda harrumphs at him and tell him, āPatience, young one.ā He toddles after Yoda from the time he can crawl and no matter how grouchy Yoda seems he never actively dissuades him from it.
After the twins enter the temple, Anakin always knows not to worry if Luke is missing from the crĆØche. Yoda will escort him back sooner or later. Ā
(Heās always much more worried when Leia disappears because, yes, Obi-Wan will bring her back but theyāll have always gotten into trouble in the meantime.)
Yoda does not confront Darth Sidious. Yoda does not lose his duel with the Sith lord and become diminished because of it. Yoda is with Obi-Wan, sneaking into his stronghold to see the twins safe. Yoda cannot go Sith hunting when Luke is in pain and gently clinging to him, his arms around his neck, bruised and bleeding and smiled at Yoda when he saw him because Luke knew he would come.
(Sidious cannot win, with them. Leia would risk her home being obliterated rather than betray her righteous cause. Luke would willingly walk into flames rather than give up on those he loves. It hurts, oh it hurts, to see the other in pain, but Leia can watch Luke being hurt and know there are more important things at stake than the two of them and Luke can watch Leia being hurt and trust that they will be saved.)
Sidious escapes but his Empire falls before it solidifies. He will never be as powerful as he needs to be.
(Itās Anakin who notices there is something wrong with the clones. Heās not their General but Obi-Wan is and Obi-Wan is a good general. When Obi-Wan is hurt, theyāre all nosey and worried and Anakin ā all but glued to his former Masterās bedside when itās really bad and first and foremost a mechanic ā can tell that something is wrong. Heās not always with them so it never becomes familiar, it never becomes normal, and it niggles at the back of his brain until heās sitting in front of Obi-Wanās bacta tank ā Ā old training bond humming between them because Obi-Wan hates drugs and hates being sedated and he stays quieter and heals faster if Anakin is there to keep him calm ā and Rex walks in to check on the General and Anakin turns around to look at him and he sees it.
The Jedi Order quietly deprograms the clone army. They trace the chip back to Palpatine. Padme and Bail Organa and Mon Mothma start quietly amassing information against him and his allies ā enough for criminal charges, pushing Sidious to show his hand and try to kidnap the twins.)
Obi-Wan takes Leia as his Padawan the second sheās old enough for it to be proper. They are scarily well matched. If he was the Jediās best hope to keep planets from succeeding during the war, together they can talk whole systems into rejoining the rebuilding Republic.Ā
Yoda leaves Luke in the crĆØche until the day before his thirteenth birthday. Everyone is worried except Luke (who knows he is meant to be a Jedi and knows Master Yoda is meant to teach him and trusts this, since he was raised in the Temple. Itās easier to have faith when youāve always had it and itās never been wrong). Fourteen Jedi have tried to ask him to be their apprentice. Yoda bashed twelve of them over the head with his stick before they could and Luke turned two down himself, the last three days before his birthday. He spends his last day as a twelve-year old following his dad around, both of them a little clingier than usual. Anakin has always thought that Yoda intended to take Luke as his Padawan but heās literally hours from aging out and heās seriously considering comming Ashoka and begging her to come act as backup,Ā when Luke suddenly hugs Anakin hard and quick and Anakin looks over and sees Yoda waiting in the doorway.
Anakin hugs Luke back very, very tightly and then he lets him go. Luke already has his few things packed and waiting. Yoda harrumphs at him. āReady, you are, padawan mine?ā
Lukeās smile is blinding. āYes, Master.ā
Leia talks star systems into rejoining the Republic. Luke returns the Fallen to the Jedi. Dooku is the first and most fleeting (having not been killed by Anakin) ā having been betrayed and split from Sidious ā Luke finds him when heās dying and gets Yoda to him in time for him to pass them information on Sidiousā new schemes and die a Jedi, with his old master at his side. There are others, after that, who Fell during the war and didnāt think they could ever return from it. Luke, bright and shiny and full of faith, sees them, thinks, I can fix this, and brings them home one by one.
After the second Return, which is unavoidably public, Leia and Obi-Wan look at each other and enlist everyone they can to begin working to make Luke the new poster boy for the Order. Luke is intensely embarrassed by this and a bit bumbling and shy about it, which just makes it more attractive to everyone. It also keeps the spotlight well away from their rebuilding efforts, which are way easier when thereās less press exposure.
Sidious, who would still like to capture and corrupt the twins, eventually stops trying with Luke because thereās only a 50/50 anyone he sends after him will come back and between years of Yodaās training (ie dodging his stick), Lukeās innate Force sense and his dumb luck heās practically impossible to kill.
(Sidious dies ignobly at the hands of a new apprentice, one of the Fallen who Luke has been trying to save. His defeat was always going to be someone elseās redemption.) Ā
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Everyone predicted Leia would eventually leave the order to follow in her motherās footsteps but the SCANDAL that erupted when she married a former smuggler had the gossip rags going for years. Because circumstances sometimes change, but the Force will always find a way for certain absolutes. They have one son, and adopt several wayward young people along the way.Ā
Anakin is delighted by his grandson for all that heās sad that he couldnāt share him with Obi-Wan, who passed just before he was born. Ben would follow his grandfather around like a baby duck and hated sharing him with the other younglings. Heād get so angry when he felt Anakin was giving the other children more attention than him. Anakin would gently explain that he couldnāt play favorites, but Ben would still react with anger and find a place to pout alone.Ā
He is five when he finds a nice secluded spot in the gardens, barely visible from the main path. A fountain sits in the center and Ben lets out his frustration by throwing small stones into it. He doesnāt notice Mace until he sits down right next to him and saysĀ āI like to come here too, when Iām angry.ā
Ben is startled at first. Though heās still small and largely untrained, no one has ever really snuck up on him before. Heās also never heard a master admit to being angry before. When questioned, Mace answers that everyone gets angry sometimes. The Jedi way isnāt the eradication of emotion, but the control of it. He brings Ben back to Anakin, who apologizes to the aging master for troubling him, but Mace dismisses the apology and tells him it was no trouble at all. Anakin glances sideways at Mace; they donāt always agree on things, but he canāt help but smile. It has been decades since Master Windu last took a padawan.Ā
As Ben grows older he excels in his lessons. Heās smart, persistent, and so, so powerful in the Force. Heās the very top of his class, and the only one who has yet to be chosen by a master. He still goes to the fountain when he finds himself at war with his emotions. Usually he meditates alone for a while until he is able to calm down, but sometimes, when he feels particularly lost, Master Windu will show up. At these times Ben will often ask for advice, but sometimes they will simply sit together in silence.Ā
Ben is desperate the day before he turns 13. He doesnāt understand how he could work so hard and not be noticed by a single master in the entire temple (which isnāt true, nearly everyone knows Ben Solo and can feel the pull of the Force around him. They also know they were not meant to guide him). He almost, almost comms his uncle and begs to take him as his padawan, but ultimately doesnāt because he knows how Luke follows the Force and if he were going to take him, he would have a long time ago. (Luke is busy anyway; a small girl in the outer rim is about to turn 3.)Ā
He goes out to the fountain to watch the sun set. The next day heāll go before the Council of Reassignment to be placed into a division of the Jedi Service Corps. He supposes it wouldnāt be so bad to be placed into the Exploration Corps, heād see much of the galaxy that way. He sits and plans and wills himself to not cry. After all, the Jedi way isnāt the eradication of emotion, but the mastery of it.Ā
Master Windu is still able to sneak up on him even though heās doing so with a cane these days. Ben once held the hope that maybe the old master would take him as a padawan, but everyone knows Mace doesnāt take padawans anymore. His work on the Council is too important and he canāt give his precious time to a student, no matter what sort of strange bond has formed between them over the years. They sit for a moment before Ben breaks the silence.Ā āWhat do you think my chances are of being assigned to the Exploration Corps?ā
Mace seems to ponder the question for a moment.Ā āYour scores in xenolinguistics is very high. Youāve also done very well in your survival field tests. Youād be a credit to the ExplorCorps.ā He pauses for a moment.Ā āIs that what you want to to do?ā
Ben doesnāt give a straight answer,Ā āItās an honor,ā he swallows the lump in his throat,Ā āto be a part of the Service Corps.ā
Mace sighs.Ā āFor someone who feels the Force so acutely, you have so little faith in it.ā Ben winces.Ā āYour patience leaves a lot to be desired. And you never really let go of anything.ā
Ben is shaking. Of course. It doesnāt matter how well he does in his studies when the fundamentals of the ways of the Force is where he has always failed. He could never be a true Jedi. But it feels like the rawest betrayal when Mace says,Ā āYou canāt go into the Exploration Corps, Ben. Being left to drift through the galaxy unguided would be disastrous for you. Youād be very susceptible to the Dark Side if left alone.ā
Benās eyes feel wet. He knows that too, though heās never confessed to any of the masters about it. He was stupid to think he could hide it, though. The masters probably felt the Dark Side around him and rejected him outright. A bitter voice inside him resents them for dragging it out for so long.Ā
Then he feels a warm hand on his shoulder.Ā āIām not afraid of the Dark, Ben. And you shouldnāt be either.ā In spite of Master Winduās gentle tone, Ben canāt bare to look at him. āSelf mastery is a life long pursuit that no one ever really accomplishes. You have to take it day by day, even Iām still learning. You have everything you need, you just have to remember that it is a choice you must make and commit to every day.ā
Ben sniffs.Ā āYes, Master.ā But when Ben looks up at Mace, he doesnāt see the cold face of a stern teacher or the disappointment of an unsatisfied elder. He doesnāt even see the sympathy that everyone has been directing towards him as he got closer and closer to his 13th birthday. Instead there is warmth and fondness.
āHowever,ā he continues,Ā āitās not a path you need to travel alone. At least not at first⦠if youāll have me as your master.ā
Ben lunges at Mace and hugs him tight.Ā āDo you really mean it?āĀ
Mace huffs a short laugh and ruffles the boyās hair. āIām too old to say things I donāt mean.ā He pulls away.Ā āBut Ben, are you sure? Iām not the easier teacher.ā
Finally able to hope again, Ben gives his master (his master!) a grin.Ā āIām not the easiest student!āĀ
Mace gives an actual laugh at that.Ā āGood!ā He pulls himself up.Ā āAlright, lets go make it official. I know that grand-daddy of yours is dying to start gloating like the gossiping old hen he is.ā
I HAD TO GIVE IT A SHOT ONCE MY TEARS DRIED
finn finds ahsoka one day in the market place. she barely has a chance to react to the feel of a veritable cannon ball rushing in her direction before her arms are full of exuberant toddler.
āmaster ahsoka!ā the little boy crows, his baby teeth bared in a gap-toothed grin. āi knew youād find me one day!ā
he clambers further into her arms, greeting rex whoās standing wide-eyed at her side, moth agape in his bushy beard. āhey commander!ā he says, grin growing before turning back to ahsoka and framing her face between chubby palms. āiāve been dreaming of you for months, master!ā
ahsoka is speechless for a moment, remembering anakinās words a mere day before, reassuring her that sheād have a padawan to train one day. sheād gone to him after the council had granted her some much needed leave and bemoaned the fact that sheād probably be the only jedi on the council to never have a padawan of her own.
do not doubt yourself, master tano, skywalker had said, his pale blue eyes sparkling at her from the midst of too many wrinkles. his arms had been full of younglings-the little wookiee girl warbling at her in agreement to his words-and sheād grinned. your master always told you that your first padawan would be undeniably special. you will find him sooner or later. here, his grin had grown and heād dropped a little calamarian boy in her arms. or maybe he will find you.
his grin as heād walked away from her, arms full of younglings and steps weighed down by clinging hands, had been irritating but sheād simply sighed, placed a kiss on the forehead of the sleepy little boy in her arms and told herself that skyguy was just senile. heād retired long before this. how could he possibly know when sheād find her padawan?
sheād just have to accept she was middle-aged now and the chances of her finding a padawan were slim-to-none at this point.
sheād left the temple the next day, ready for a week of rest and relaxation with rex and cody and their massive families and she hadnāt even thought of her padawan-less state.
until now.
the little boy is bouncing in her arms, chattering at rex, at her, at anyone who might be listening.
āā¦my parents were going to take me to the temple on coruscant sooner-or-later. they canāt really afford to let me go but if iām a jedi thatās going to be way cooler than a farmer,ā heās saying when she finally gets over a bit of her shock. gets over the fact that (semi) retired creche-master skywalker might be right.
sith-dammit.
āiāve been having dreams, see? dreams of you and the little girl on the outer-rim. they thought maybe, at first, i was lying, but then they got a message from a jedi! at least, i think he was a jedi. heās old. has long hair. but he doesnāt have a lightsaber. he said that one day soon someone would come for me and theyād be my new teacher! i think he looks nice but not as nice as you. youāre not as old as him. there were a lot of other kids around him. he said iād know you when i saw you.ā
rexās mouth closes with a click and he leans around the little boy-who she still doesnāt have a name for-and hisses, āthat sounds like anakin skywalker to me, ahsoka!ā
she just nods and tightens her arms around the boy, letting the force whisper to her. she letās herself see the child for what he is.
brightness streams around him, the force as excited as him at this pairing and she canāt help but grin back at him.
āiām so glad i found you, finn,ā she says finally, when some of his chatter has died off and his brow is starting to furrow in worry. she knows his name as well as she knows her own now. her fingers shake a bit as she strokes his cheek, boggling a bit at the way the force sings around them. obi-wan had told her it might be like this, so very long ago when sheād been knighted. heād said that if the pairing was right, the force would tell her. and this-this felt more than right. this felt perfect.
āwill you come back to the temple with me and learn to be my padawan?ā she asks him and mace would have rolled his eyes at the lack of formality in her request.
but sheād never done things the formal way-sheād been trained by obi-wan kenobi after all and been friends with anakin skywalker for longer than the council cared to remember. why would choosing her padawan be any different?
āof course iām ready!ā finn shouts, wrapping his arms so tight around her neck she almost chokes.
rex grins and shakes his head, reaching out to pull her into a one-armed hug.
ācongrats master ahsoka,ā he says, leaning over to place a kiss on her forehead and finn laughs when he ruffles his curly hair. āgood choice kid,ā he drawls, before heading back the way theyāve come.
So many feeeeels! Ā
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āIt hurts to wait for someone whoās never coming back again.ā
ā 3 am thoughts (via suspend)
Thatās my girl!

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One of my favorite linguistic phenomena isĀ rebracketing, which is when a word or words is/are redivided differently, either two words becoming one, one word heard as two, or part of one word interpreted as part of the other.Ā This frequently happens with articles, for example:
apron was originally napron, but āa napronā was interpreted as āan apronā
newt comes from ewt by the same process
In the opposite direction, nickname comes from Middle English nekename which in turn came from ekename (an ekename -> a nekename) where āekeā was an old word meaning āalsoā or āadditionalā (so basically āan additional nameā)
ammunition comes from an obsolete dialectal French amunition, which came from munition, the phrase la munition being heard as lāamunition.
the nickname Ned comes from Ed, via āmine Edā being heard as āmy Nedā (in archaic English, āmyā and āmineā had the same relationship as āaā and āanā), same with several other nicknames like Nell
The word āorangeā ulimately derives from the Arabic nÄranj, via French āorangeā, the n being lost via a similar process involving the indefinite article, e.g., something like French āune norangeā becoming āune orangeā (itās unclear which specific Romance language it first happened in)
in the Southern US at least (not sure about elsewhere), āanotherā is often analyzed as āa notherā, hence the phrase āa whole notherā
omelet has a whole series of interesting changes; it comes from French omelette, earlier alemette (swapping around the /l/ and /m/), from alemelle from an earlier lemelle (la lemelle -> lāalemelle)
Related to this, sometimes two words, especially when borrowed into another language, will be taken as one.Ā Numerous words were borrowed from Arabic with the definite article al- attached to them.Ā Spanish el lagarto became English alligator.Ā An interesting twist is admiral, earlier amiral (the d probably got in there from the influence of words like āadministerā) from Arabic amir al- (lord of the ___), particularly the phrase amir al-bahr, literally ālord of the seaā.
Sometimes the opposite happens.Ā A foreign word will look like two words, or like a word with an affix.Ā For example, the Arabic kitaab (book) was borrowed into Swahili as kitabu.Ā ki- happens toĀ be the singular form of one of the Swahili genders, and so it was interpreted as ki-tabu.Ā To form the plural of that gender, you replace ki- with vi-, thus, ābooksā in Swahili is vitabu.Ā The Greek name Alexander became, in Arabic, Iskander, with the initial al- heard as the article al-.
Similarly, the English word Cherry came from Old Norman FrenchĀ cherise, with the s on the end interpreted as the plural -s.Ā Interestingly enough, that word came from Vulgar LatinĀ ceresia, a feminine singular noun, but originally the plural of the neuter nounĀ ceresium!Ā So a Latin plural was reinterpreted as a singular in Vulgar Latin, which in turn was interpreted as a plural when borrowed into English!
The English suffix -burger used with various foods (e.g., cheeseburger, or more informally chickenburger, etc.) was misanlyzed from Hamburger as Ham-burger, itself from the city of Hamburg
This can happen even with native words.Ā Modern FrenchĀ once is used for the snow leopard, but originally meant ālynxā.Ā In Old French, it wasĀ lonce (ultimately from the same source as lynx), which was reinterpreted asĀ lāonce!Ā In English, the word āpeaā was originally āpeaseā, but that looked like it had the plural -s on it, and so the word āpeaā was created from it. Ā Likewise, the adjectiveĀ lone came fromĀ alone, heard as āa loneā, but alone itself came originally fromĀ all one.
One of my favorite personal examples is the old Southern man who would come into work and ask me if I was ābeing haveā (as opposed to the more usual ābehavingā).
the word editor predated the word edit - editor was reinterpreted as edit-er, so clearly someone who edits!
when your open borders advocacy extends to morpheme boundaries
Donāt forget the Swahili kipilefti (āroundaboutā), from English keep left, with a plural vipilefti - and in reverse, singular kideo (āvideoā) with plural video.
Note that the āeditorā > āedit-erā > āto editā transformation is a related but distinct phenomenon called back-formation. Thatās where you take a noun that sounds like it ought to be derived from a verb (though it really isnāt), and work backwards to obtain the āoriginalā verb. Hence, we have it that editors edit, burglars burgle, and butlers buttle - though we havenāt yet gone so far as to suggest that fingers fing!
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āFriend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.ā
Bees. Ā Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee.Ā
maybe they know and theyāre just being polite
Other dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. āBut itās just a stick with a person on it.ā
#excuse me neil but what the FUCK was thatĀ #thanks for that terrifying thoughtĀ (nooby-banana)
NEIL WHY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.
This turns up on my dashboard. And I read it and am impressed that someone writes exactly the post that Iād write, without actually reading the name of the person who posted it.
And then Iām puzzled at all the Neil Whyās, and realise that this was me in the Wayback Long-ago.
At least Iām consistent.
And, I should point out, we are no closer to being able to spot the extra-dimensional stick āpeopleā who move unobserved among us.
happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

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Reblog to make a white gay big mad
Reblog to make black queer people feel visible and supported (and also to make a white gay big mad)
Reblogging this as a white gay to make the racist white gays mad
reblog because the city of philadelphia created this flag in recognition of the poor way it was treating its lgbtq poc in our relatively small gayborhood, and we thought it was (just) gonna help poc feel more included but it helped spark a national conversation and outed a shitton of racists in a way that helped expose, address, and improve the racism in our community
Does anyone remember when Murder On The Orient Express came out and they had a website where you had to find all these clues (the url was cluesareeverywhere.com if I remember correctly)? I remember one of theĀ ārewardsā for finding a clue was a Youtube video that was a recipe for hot chocolate and I really want to find it again
The hot chocolate recipe video was called āHildegardeās Death by Chocolateā and among the ingredients were dark chocolate liqueur, chocolate squares and chocolate truffles. I canāt find it on the official channels (youtube, instagram, twitter) but I downloaded it in 2017 after playing the viral campaign game, and Iāve screencapped the footage for you.
Ingredients:
2oz dark chocolate liqueur 10oz whole milk 8oz heavy cream, separated 4oz dark chocolate squares 2 chocolate truffles 2 cinnamon sticks
Chop dark chocolate & truffles.
Simmer together whole milk, 4oz of cream & cinnamon sticks.
Add dark chocolate and liqueur. (First pic shows Hildegarde taking the cinnamon sticks out of the pan, before she adds the chocolate bits.)
Cool for 5-7 minutes. Whip 4oz of cream until it peaks.
Sprinkle chopped chocolate truffles. (Obviously, donāt add āpoisonā like Hildegarde does in her recipe! ;))
There you go! Bon appƩtit! The official twitter and instagram also posted cocktail recipes inspired by MOTOE here and here.