Look at what the light did now.

Obviously there is underlying ~trauma informing this, but my absolute red line in fiction is (unremarked upon) violence against pregnant women.

What Felucians looked like when Star Wars was fun:

It's annoying that one cannot say what is obviously true, "The COVID pandemic was the fault of the Chinese government", without falling into conspiratorial or outright racist rhetoric: it wasn't a bioweapon intentionally unleashed or any of that shit, it's simply that the People's Republic of China is led by a bunch of pisspants toddlers who refused to admit that anything was wrong because CHINA STILL COOL! until the virus had already spread to Italy and Iran from whence it spread every-fucking-where.

I have had some truly wonderful experiences doing free walking tours in European cities, like in Seville where the tour leader ended up inviting me out for drinks with her friends, and in Palermo where the tour leader said, "I am Sicilian, and my family has been Sicilian for centuries, but my first language is Albanian..." and, because I had been to Albania the week before and done some reading about Albanians, I was able to say, "Holy shit, you're Arbëreshë?" and she was so happy I had heard of her people she took the whole group to vicolo della Meschita at my request, and in Versailles where this German guy on the tour wanted to see where the German Empire had come into existence in 1871 and I couldn't help myself but say, "Oh, isn't this the exact spot where the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919?" so she could give us all a big grin and say, "YES! This is the location of the German surrender after their war started in 1914..."