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pilgrimkitty:

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upthefolks:

so like okay, 

I don’t know why I’ve been obsessively thinking about the concept of “gaydar” 

but I have. 

Actually no it’s because a straight family member used the term like 

“oh I have really great gaydar” 

and it made me feel really gross 

and it took me like a full hour to realize why. 

When heterosexual people say that, 

it feels like they’re bragging about their ability to clock us, you know? 

like a straight person is telling me that they can spot us queers at 50 paces 

and i’m immediately going to be uncomfortable with that, 

whereas when other queer folks talk about being able to spot each other 

it’s a tool for survival. 

Like here’s the thing right? 

being able to tell is important sometimes.
 

Here’s an example: 

A couple summers ago I was in a very very small town in Nova Scotia, Canada 

(like 6 buildings small) 

and I met a woman in the library who was probably a little older than my actual mother. 

She was there most days using the wifi 

because she lived across the street in an apartment without internet. 

We sat at the same table a few times and spoke briefly about life in passing 

and after a few of these not-talking-about-gay-stuff convos I was pretty sure she was a part of the lgbtq community 

and I slipped in a casual pronoun re: an ex 

and she just looked at me, 

stopped completely 

and said “oh thank fuck, I thought so.” 

and instantly started talking about her girlfriend, 

it was like this huge wave of relief washed over both of us 

because we were in a small rural town and both hovering in this really queer space and unable to talk about it. 

Anyway she was really rad and took me to the closest big town to buy me a tim hortons coffee 

because she found it reprehensible that I had been in canada for more than 3 weeks already and hadn’t ever had it. 

Almost instantly it was like 

“oh okay we have this thing in common that other people may not be cool with 

but we can actually exist and not hide shit without the fear of violence or anger”

but when it’s a straight person

they’re pretty much just letting you know that they can spot the fact that you seem “abnormal” to them 

like great 

thanks for letting me know. 

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We’re identifying brethren while they’re identifying outsiders. It’s that simple.

I have made a mistakeeeee

started looking at apartments to rent in Paris for a trip later this year and there’s a few in montmartre with glorious views for ~$75 per night and I’m dyinggggg I wanna go now nownownow

moosefeels:

rogue one did a lot of things i never thought they’d let a star wars movie do, in terms of: being a movie about Sacrifice and what that means and also

letting people into the club. 

like, rogue one opens star wars to people in a way i wasn’t expecting. american voices and american accents are not nearly so prominent in this movie in way i’ve never seen before in a work of science fiction– diego luna and donnie yen and jiang wen all speak english and they also speak it with their accents and there’s something to that, that opens ownership and possession and interaction with this movie to people who don’t speak english natively.  

and so much of the plot, the thrust, of this movie focuses on 

fathers and daughters in a way that left me just breathless. motherhood is still essentially absent in this movie, but

opening star wars to women who feel themselves as daughters feels so big to me, as someone who loved and loves star wars with her dad, this was so validating. 

and also: rogue one gives a view into the rebellion as a military network; cassian andor is a soldier and a spy and he knows soldiers and spies and he does things, terrible things, in the name of the rebellion, because war makes you do terrible, ugly, violent things in the name of things you believe in. there’s a very real weight to the violence that happens in rogue one that meant So much to me. living your politics means sacrifice in such a big way in rogue one, and it opens the narrative of loss in force awakens so much more clearly. leia and han falling apart makes so much more sense now

but just also

rogue one is a movie about hope. and i mean that, not in some corny cheesey way but in a Real! Tangible! way. and because rogue one is a movie about hope, it’s a movie about sacrifice. 

just

it is an audacious, beautiful thing and 

it is a thing about hope. 

forcearama:

flaim-ita:

flaim-ita:

forcearama:

enthusiasticallyobessed:

@forcearama has used the title “Anakin ‘I Had a Bad Dream, Let’s Blow Up The Universe’ Skywalker,” and frankly, for better or worse, this is a great 2-second summary of Anakin.

😄

I have called Anakin (and pretty much every other character) a LOT of things over on Snark Wars – a mixture of titles that are true, funny, sad, or (often) a combination of all three. For example: 

Anakin Skywalker, Co-Winner of the Prestigious Star
Wars Weirdest Life Ever Award
Anakin Skywalker, The Most Ridiculous Person Who Has Ever Lived 
Anakin Skywalker, Entrance-Maker
Anakin Skywalker, Maker of Dad Jokes
Anakin Skywalker, Increasingly Evil Heartthrob
Anakin Skywalker, Least Subtle Person Ever 
Anakin
Skywalker, Galaxy’s Worst Dinner Date 
Anakin Skywalker, Definitely Totally Not Interested In Killing Anything

Anakin
Skywalker, The Poster Boy
Anakin Skywalker, Deadbeat Employee

Anakin Skywalker, Hopeless Drama Queen

Anakin Skywalker, The Hero With No Friends 

Anakin Skywalker, Extremely Huge Nerd
Anakin Skywalker, Liar

Anakin Skywalker, Yeller of Things
Anakin Skywalker, Human Lightning Rod
Anakin Skywalker, Obsessed Ex-Boyfriend
Anakin Skywalker, Totally Game for a Three-Way

Anakin Skywalker, Dramatic Hallway Spree-Killer

Anakin Skywalker, Spectacle-Causer
Anakin Skywalker, Saving the Day Through Property Destruction
Anakin Skywalker, Cares More Than You Do and He’ll Punch You To Prove It
Anakin Skywalker, Adult Tantrum-Haver
Anakin Skywalker, Shirtless Nightmare-Haver
Anakin Skywalker, Just Cares So Much About the Republic Yeah That’s It

Anakin Skywalker, On Fire But Not In The Literal Sense
This Time
Anakin Skywalker, Basically a Preschooler
Anakin Skywalker, Doofus
Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan-Blamer
Anakin Skywalker, Real Housewife of the Jedi Order
Anakin Skywalker, Slow On the Uptake

  …and, possibly my favorite:


Anakin Skywalker, Won’t Let You Die Unless He’s the One Killing You

You’ve also done

Anakin Skywalker, Occasionally an Adult With His Shit Together

Anakin Skywalker: Needs A Hug

Anakin Skywalker, Living Up To His Name

Anakin Skywalker, Good Clone Dad

Anakin Skywalker, Extra Extra

Anakin Skywalker, Posting Your Bail

Anakin Skywalker, Man Of Many Talents

Anakin Skywalker, Just Barely Holding It Together

Anakin Skywalker, Petty And Small And Full Of Fear

Anakin Skywalker, Finger-Pointer

Anakin Skywalker, Has The Force On Speed-Dial

Anakin Skywalker, Storage-Room-Dweller

Anakin Skywalker, Chosen One/Guy Who Blows It

Anakin Skywalker, Learned From The Best

Anakin Skywalker, Looking For a Dramatic Way To Do Something

Anakin Skywalker, Laying It On Thick

Anakin Skywalker, Here to Save Poor Palpatine

Anakin Skywalker, Comic Relief For Me Way More Times Than He Probably Should Be

Anakin Skywalker, Pretty Sure Someone’s Going to Die

Anakin Skywalker, Refuses To Accept Anyone’s Death As An Option

Anakin Skywalker, Emotionally Involved

Anakin Skywalker, Bringer of Dinner and Also Hotness

Anakin Skywalker, STILL KILLING ME HERE

Anakin Skywalker: Aware of his strengths

Anakin Skywalker, NOT FREAKING OUT HERE

Anakin Skywalker, Jealous Limo Driver

Anakin Skywalker Is Insecure

Anakin Skywalker, Still Totally Fine Guys

Anakin Skywalker, Short On Pity

Anakin Skywalker, Wants To Bond With Obi-Wan Kenobi

Anakin Skywalker, Shipping Fangirl

Anakin Skywalker, ALWAYS Killing Me Here

Anakin Skywalker, Self-Saboteur

Anakin Skywalker, Killing Me Here

Anakin Skywalker Lives, Kinda

Anakin Skywalker, Overcomplicating Things

Anakin Skywalker, Traitor

Anakin Skywalker, A Little Touchy About That

Anakin Skywalker, In The Dark

Anakin Skywalker, Multilingual Demand-Maker

Anakin Skywalker, Doomed to Eternal Frustration

Anakin Skywalker, PLEASE

Anakin Skywalker, Future General

Anakin Skywalker, High-Value Hostage

Anakin Skywalker, So Outta Here

Anakin Skywalker, Always Up For Rescuing Obi-Wan

Anakin Skywalker, Used By Everyone

Anakin Skywalker, My Enabler

Anakin Skywalker, Wants to Be a Good Jedi

Anakin Skywalker Wants to Fight the Power

Anakin Skywalker Wants Out

Anakin Skywalker, The Most Ridiculous Person Who Has Ever Lived

Anakin Skywalker, Suspended in Bacta

Anakin Skywalker, Maker of Dad Jokes

Anakin Skywalker, Knower of Something For Once Finally

Anakin Skywalker, Hitting The Fork In The Road

Anakin Skywalker, Surprised Anyone Would Sign Up For This Because Even Obi-Wan Can Barely Tolerate Him Sometimes and That Guy Will Put Up With Pretty Much ANYTHING

Anakin Skywalker, AWOL

Anakin Skywalker, Missing Persons Investigator

Anakin Skywalker, Straying From The Path Prepared For Him From a Certain Point of View

Anakin Skywalker, Doing His Best He’s Trying

Anakin Skywalker Wants to Fight The Power

Anakin Skywalker, Menace to Society

Anakin Skywalker, Losing His Cool

Anakin Skywalker, Impressed With Himself

Anakin Skywalker, An Embarrassment

Anakin Skywalker, Maybe Starting To Wonder If He Backed The Wrong Horse

Anakin Skywalker, Donator of Genes

Anakin Skywalker’s Dramatic DNA Cannot Be Escaped

Anakin Skywalker, Confused But Trying to Cover With Shit-Talking

Anakin Skywalker, Dramatic Hand-Waver

Anakin Skywalker, Still Loves The Force And Also Obi-Wan

Anakin Skywalker, Own Biggest Fan

Anakin Skywalker, Does What He Wants

Anakin Skywalker, Kind of a Dick Sometimes

Anakin Skywalker, Has Been Wronged By So Many Except Palpatine Of Course

Anakin Skywalker, War Hero

Anakin Skywalker, An Idiot

Anakin Skywalker, Not Good In Meetings

Anakin Skywalker, Daydreamer

Anakin Skywalker, Stating the Obvious

Anakin Skywalker, Least Subtle Person Ever

Anakin Skywalker, Totally Able to Handle Anything

Anakin Skywalker, Has More Feelings Than All Of You

Anakin Skywalker, Gonna Be Chewing On This One For a While

Anakin Skywalker, Day-Ruiner

Anakin Skywalker, Great Big Pain in the Ass

Anakin Skywalker, Asleep on the Job

Anakin Skywalker, In Need of Sedation

Anakin Skywalker Owes This Guy

Anakin Skywalker, Not As Funny As He Thinks He Is

Anakin Skywalker, Punch-Thrower

Anakin Skywalker, Packing Heat

Anakin Skywalker, Not Good at Storytelling

Anakin Skywalker, Predictable As Hell

Anakin Skywalker, Rageaholic

Anakin Skywalker, Understandably Not a Fan of Slavery

Anakin Skywalker, The “Gives No Fucks” Years

And

Anakin Skywalker, Risky Pilot

Anakin Skywalker, Foodie

Anakin Skywalker: Cannot Be Taken Anywhere

Anakin Skywalker, Bad With Animals

Anakin Skywalker, Showman

Anakin Skywalker, A Gift From The Humor Gods

Anakin Skywalker, Zero For Four

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan’s Apprentice

Anakin Skywalker, Doesn’t Need a Group Consensus

Anakin Brought His Smoke Machine

Anakin Skywalker, Classroom Crasher

Anakin Skywalker, Dramatic Courtroom Disruptor

Anakin Skywalker, Dramatic Irony Incarnate

Anakin Skywalker, Maker of Faces

Anakin Skywalker, Cross-Examiner

Anakin Skywalker, One Time Actually Said This To Someone

Anakin Skywalker, Having a Meltdown

Anakin Skywalker, Father of a Runaway

Anakin Skywalker, Having a Shit Week At Work

Anakin Skywalker, Reluctant Day-Saver

Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Locksmith

Anakin Skywalker, Proud Father

Anakin Skywalker’s Uplifting Life Story

Anakin Skywalker, Member of SAG

Anakin Skywalker, Still Still Killing Me Here

Anakin Skywalker, Holding It Together

Anakin Skywalker, Undercover Detective

Anakin Skywalker, Serving Evil to Defeat Evil

Anakin Skywalker, Has a Few Hot Button Issues

Anakin Skywalker, Going to Take Care of Business

Anakin Skywalker, Guy Who Can Break Anything

Anakin Skywalker, Does Not Like Slavery

Anakin Skywalker, Man With No Plan

Anakin Skywalker, Getting Closer to the Line

Anakin Skywalker, Chosen One/Complete Dork

Anakin: again, totally fine everything’s OK situation normal I’m not sad

Anakin Skywalker, Problem Child

Anakin Skywalker: Mistrusted Employee

…And I spent days compiling this.

*jaw drops* OMG