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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Pong Krell, Saesee Tiin, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), Edmon Rampart, CC-3636 | Wolffe, Plo Koon Additional Tags: Physical Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Injury, Hand injury, Burning Injury, Severe Burns, Not Canon Compliant, Vomiting, Execution, Mouth/Throat Injury, War, Death, And Lots of It, Crying, Chemical warfare, Galactic Republic (Star Wars), Separatists | Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars), Pong Krell Being an Asshole, Amputation, Whump, now that I understand better what that is this is definitely that, Amusement Parks, 104th Battalion | Wolfpack, Suicide Attempt, Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts Series: Part 1 of Pong Krell’s 83rd Regiment Summary:

Aurora has been with the 83rd Regiment, and under Krell’s thumb, since the first battle of Geonosis. He’s spent all that time learning and adapting to Krell to survive, but only now is he responsible for the entire regiment’s well being.

OK KO is a great show because the villain has one-sided beef with an outlet mall and multiple characters at multiple points try to tell him how dumb it is to have one-sided beef with an outlet mall

Dude kept trying to fight a grocery store

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

American lawmakers yet again crying foul about smoky air when Canadians are literally losing their homes and livelihoods. Read the room, guys. You are actually not suffering more than others.

Also, “manage your forests better or we’ll do it for you to protect our own people,” sounds like a threat. And something an idiot with no understanding of the Canadian landscape would say.

happy pride

The best part about turning 30 was, legitimately, unlocking the ability to use this image

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

HANG ON- IN RIMWORLD YOU CAN MAKE ALL OF YOUR STARTING COLONISTS COSMETICALLY PIG PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY IN-GAME EFFECT?!

I’m suddenly much more invested in trying this game out

okay maybe there’s some gameplay effect

how were so many of the things that were basic writing/plotting advice in Every Single craft book when I was a teenager just completely straight up wrong

the biggest and worst offender I think was plotting advice that encouraged me to build my plot around my characters "desires" or "goals"

protagonists were kind of forced into a flat dichotomy of 'active' (takes actions to further their own goals, thus driving the story) and 'passive' (is acted upon by events beyond their control, moving them through the plot) with 'active' being considered good and passive being considered bad

I think this framework is very locked within a certain cultural viewpoint... specifically of a 20th century western white male. For one thing it assumes a "protagonist" will have a certain level of agency, to have goals and pursue them, overcoming obstacles in the way. It is not very inclusive of characters that don't have much agency.

It also assumes that desire/want = orienting toward or pursuing.

As far as I am concerned, characters don't have goals. They CAN, but these goals aren't actually the functional gears of the plot, and are instead their conscious rationalizations of what's really running the show.

Rather, characters have instincts and drives. I don't like to say "desires" because desire suggests something that is explicit, a thing that the character can attribute their feelings to.

I realized when reading Shakespeare's Othello that interesting characters often can't be understood in terms of "goals" or "desires" because they don't understand what they want or why they want that and they constantly act in ways that are contradictory to what they want or think they want. What a character consciously thinks is a whole layer on top of their actual instincts and feelings, which are primal and buried in traumas and needs and other aspects of creaturehood, and often is a fiction to resolve contradictions and dissonance in the demands of the creature-self. some characters can reflect upon their own thought processes and some cannot.

real humans don't often act rationally to pursue goals, they just do stuff based upon a seethe of inner instinct and the reasons why are post-hoc rationalizations. i like writing characters that reflect this and exploring the ways they do and don't understand themselves, the fictions they use to understand what's going on in there

Art fight attack for @pinkiemme 🏎️

americans really will say stuff like "yeah i grew up middle class, my dad worked in a factory and my mom was always working double shifts" babygirl that's called you're working class

The most evil thing about Facebook's algorithm is that it has no permanent blocking feature. If it keeps showing you an unwanted content source, doesn't matter if it's a hate group or tabloid or full blown scam, you can only "snooze" it.

looking. at you

there is a screen reader / magnification program that is the only one the low vision clinic knows of with these features and it is $650 Canadian Dollars behind specific approved vendors that require you to be geographically close to them and get government approval of a degree that I am only just now reaching after being visually impaired for going on seven years. I feel normal about this

if you can code a program that does any or all of the following:

... there is a genuine, GENUINE need for you to code this and put it at a more accessible price point than $650 Canadian Dollars which I also just learned is a SUBSCRIPTION FEE AND NOT EVEN PERPETUAL. if you are reading this and able to code I am begging you. would genuinely change lives