Jessi L. Roberts

even aside from having literal magic powers he's legitimately very competent.

he's an excellent pilot and marksman & he learned those skills bcos he grew up on a planet full of criminals & giant monsters that want to kill you

the fact that he's quick to pick up new skills obvs indicates that he's a very fast learner but also ties in w the fact that (as we see at the opening act of the film) he spends a lot of time tinkering w various bits of technology and also nerds out about spacecraft so it doesn't feel improbable for him to know a lot of stuff

displays an aptitude for leadership which is set up during the middle act of the film when he comes up w a plan to rescue Leia on the fly & figures out exactly how to talk Han into participating; feels perfectly natural for him to take command of Red squadron after their leader is killed.

doesn't feel like it's just happening for him bcos he's the protagonist its like ah ok he's had this potential all along & now he's finally getting to realise it

YEAH that too. wrt the force stuff, the original trilogy does a really good job of setting it up IMO? it's relatively subtly present in ANH and as of ESH Luke has figured out how to do some more stuff with it but is still learning - the telekinesis scene at the beginning of ESH is a top-tier star wars moment, you can really palpably feel the mental process he's going through

& then obviously he goes through his training w Yoda so when as of the beginning of ROTJ he can do a bunch of cool stuff it feels like completely earned character growth

It means being friends with people when you get nothing, because you know that the other person needs you, even if you don’t need them.

- The Constitution does specifically list birth as the time at which citizenship (not personhood) is established. It would be reasonable to say that the preborn child is a citizen of whatever country his or her mother is a citizen of at least until the child is born. That says nothing about the child’s personhood, because obviously you don’t have to be a citizen to be a person.

- If an insurance company wants to sell policies insuring preborn children, I could see that. But the purpose of life insurance is to replace the income of the person who died. Usually when you buy a life insurance policy for a child, the intent is that you are investing in that policy so the child can have it when they grow up. If you wanted to start that process at 6 weeks, that’s fine - but I would understand the company that says you can’t collect more than x amount before the child turns, say, 18. Perhaps before that point you would collect a lower amount that would help with funeral costs and final medical expenses.

To me, this is a free market issue - if a company wants to offer a policy like this, I see no reason why not! Granted, you would also be inviting investigators to look into your miscarriage whose job would be to prove you caused it so the company wouldn’t have to pay out. I thought we didn’t want women who miscarry to be interrogated?

Grace only recently got food that tastes okay. the dome is as comfortable as the eridians could make it, but its not a hyper-realistic recreation of earth. the gravity of Erid hurts grace. there's still a literal wall between him and the people (person) he cares about.

In an art show in SF.

Made entirely of painted metal.

“Huh,” said Dad very casually. “Did you get charged for it?” 

I spent the next five minutes checking my bank account and came back into the living room to announce, “No, I didn’t. Do you think it’s a mistake? But it has my name on it! what does this mean”

It was around the time that I started to sound panicked that Dad confessed to buying it for me (“I didn’t realize the mystery of it would be so terrifying”). Which was very, very sweet and slightly unfortunate because yesterday I purchased a replacement kindle for myself. 

“But who would do this?” she said to my father who said he was sure he had no idea. “A student? A stranger? Someone who broke into my car to steal it but felt bad about how dirty it was? WHO??”

Eventually Dad was like, “Honey. It was clearly me.”

"This is just my opinion, so feel free to disagree- I mean, I don't understand every angle of the situation and I'm not trying to be judgemental- you do you and all that. Sorry if this is an unpopular opinion- I'm open to discussion about this topic! It's just... I think murder is bad."