Fragments

So now Cassian's on the run, Draven is under quiet suspicion (not yet blamed because Mothma still - mostly - trusts him. Or wants to trust him) but oooh Cassian doesn't know if *Draven* is on his side or not, he is still a teenager (this is 6 - 7 years prior Rogue One) with relatively minimal field experience and no contacts of his own because maybe his handler died in the ship explosion, and he doesn't know if the mole was someone else he trusted or a total stranger.

And the themes would, to tie in to R1's later arcs, have to revolve around doing the right thing even when you are not Special or Chosen or the Leader, when you're just some regular schmuck who wants to be a better person than the people who oppressed you. And since hes younger, Cassian's personal character arc would have to be his driving desire to do good in the world up against his frustration with all the people who just...won't. Those people who *know* the genocides and resource grabs and totalitarian politics are bad but still quietly go along with them. He has to reconcile his teenage sense of righteousness (and maybe his fierce emotion-driven desire to Burn It All Down) against his need to do actual good, even if that doesn't purge the evil and bring about the dawning of a new hope age.

And absolutely no women had to be dramatically sacrificed to his selfish apathy before he was willing to care.

By Cliff Potts, CSOEditor-in-Chief, WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m. PHT Texas likes to think of itself as an energy state. Oil, gas, wind, solar — we have all of it. And yet, when the lights go out, when the heat becomes deadly, or when a winter storm knocks the grid flat on its back, we suddenly act surprised. As if this all came out of nowhere. It didn’t.…

yeah that looks normal… yeah these are all— um. hold on. hang on.

You are allowed to Get There Eventually

What’s so impressive about this scene, to me, is I have rarely, if ever, seen a grandmother who is also religious type get there at all. They just don’t. In media or often in real life.

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

Kaleidoscope Kindergarten (Tanshui Kindergarten), Tianshui, China,