pissed off but also very tired

Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t

AU where Maul doesn’t get sent to a trash planet and recovers his sanity much faster so by the time Anakin is twelve he and Obi-Wan have Maul periodically popping up while they’re on missions and trying to kill them.

at one point he actually manages to sneak into the temple, but because it’s a centuries old structure that’s been continuously added to for almost as long as it’s been around, it’s completely impossible to navigate without a map, so he ends up lost inside the temple for weeks. by the time he finds Obi-Wan some poor master has mistaken him for a lost shadow who just got home after years and years and has fed him and bathed him and clothed him in jedi tunics

It turns out that Obi-Wan isn’t even IN the temple, so Maul decides to continue his cover as a jedi until he gets back. By the time Obi-Wan does return, Maul has actually started enjoying his new life and doesn’t want to leave it, so when he runs into Obi-Wan in the hallway, he ignores him. Obi-Wan, who can’t believe that the man walking around in beige and bowing respectfully whenever someone greets him is Maul, decides that it must be a weird coincidence and decides to be perfectly polite and normal about it and then go cry in his room alone.

#maul is now like hey wait why doesn’t he recognize me#this could go either way depending on how assimilated Mail already is#either he assumes it’s a weird coincidence but since that guy doesn’t recognize him he must be Obi s twin brother#cue maul and Obi both being exceedingly polite to eachother bc they don’t want to be mean to the random guy who just looks Like That#or maul is like hey how dare you ignore me and follows Obi around like a shadow and everyone is like oh did they break up#and maul isn’t taking it well? what’s going on#Obi is like why is this guy who looks like maul following me around and decides to befriend him everyone thinks they got beack together#maul oppress#obi wan kenobi#Star Wars#ohhhh this is so funny I love maul but silly maul is a whole other thing#since he’s not really in the mood to be evil (he got adopted by plo) he now annoys people plo doesn’t like. eg. politicians eg. palpatine#plo to the 27 yr old he found in the basement: so being mean is not nice#maul: what about the guy who stole me from my home as a child and trained me to be an assasin#plo: so revenge is not the jedi way but that guy is just asking for it. whats his name#maul: chancelor palpatine#plo. on the phone with mace: i have AMAZING news (tags via @mudpuddless)

Flawless characterization tbh

Let them kiss forever <3

but can we TALK about the racialized subtext of "his wife has filled his house with chintz" linking together femininity, indian export goods, commercialism, and superficiality vs "to keep it real I fuck him on the floor" linking together masculinity, AAVE, authenticity, sexuality, and vulgarity? if our aim as critics of poetry is to reevaluate this text and arrive at a feminist interpretation then we must also consider the poem's vexed relationship to race so as to not be anti-black in our criticism of the piece's presentation of masculinized sexuality nor uncritically reproduce and elevate its image of orientalized femininity.

also, from looking at the original post (non-explicit gay sex photo but still a gay sex photo so you've been warned): there isn't even any chintz in the photo. the design elements in the room all look broadly western european with the exception of a tall ceramic vessel that may be decorated with a reproduction of a chinese ink painting. chintz is an indian textile pattern, you'll see it on dresses, bedspreads, wallpaper, tapestries, upholstery, etc., but nothing like that is in the image. to imply that the house's interior design is frivolous, artificial, and unusable, the poem utilizes "chintz" despite the obvious lack of chintz because "chintz," as a popular asian export good that went on to be imitated by european manufacturers, is considered kitsch, cheap, and womanly. and, though the angle partially obscures them, the two men in the photo both appear to be white, so the poem uses the AAVE phrase "keep it real" despite the lack of black people to invoke the perception of AAVE as raw, crass, and primal. in both cases, the racialized language is being ascribed to european/white subjects to impart the white subjects with different moral values.