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itstimeforstarwars:

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itstimeforstarwars:

I keep forgetting whose shit is where and what’s already broken and that’s like, 90% of editing Galidraan rn.

A few months ago, a friend and I had a very fun conversation involving a side trip through this story to check whether Obi-Wan had at any point given Dooku’s cloak back. (We were delighted to determine that he had not.)

Lmao Dooku’s never getting that cloak back :D

One of the most charming aspects of this is that it seems to be pretty comforting? which I suspect relates to the whole thing about imbuing objects with memories and emotions and which meshes interestingly with their wariness of him.  

itstimeforstarwars:

I keep forgetting whose shit is where and what’s already broken and that’s like, 90% of editing Galidraan rn.

A few months ago, a friend and I had a very fun conversation involving a side trip through this story to check whether Obi-Wan had at any point given Dooku’s cloak back. (We were delighted to determine that he had not.)

chaser:

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Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

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tuulikki:

shaelit:

scarletjedi:

marithlizard:

swilmarillion:

piyo-13:

swilmarillion:

missmollyetc:

Everybody who wears The One Ring in LOTR starts to refer to it as ‘My Precious,’ and Tolkien’s right that is super creepy, but what I really love is that everybody does it, which says to me that this super powerful scary evil sentient ring has a favorite pet name and just, like, will not respond to anything else.

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Hey uhh @piyo-13 you cant hide brilliance like these in the tags

look i’m just saying, even as educated as frodo is, would he really KNOW the true name of sauron? like shit, of any of the elves left in middle earth by the time the events of LotR actually happen, only círdan and galadriel are old enough to remember that sauron existed in valinor (not counting old sindarin/avari elves because iirc sauron was never called mairon on the shores of ara [except possibly by melkor wink wonk]), let alone what his name was.
so to everyone in ME, he’s always been sauron, and there’s no connection to “precious” in any linguistic sense…
but mairon remembers.

no you’re a hundred percent right!! no one would know, and it wouldn’t make sense to anyone except maybe Gandalf, but that shredded little piece of sauron’s souls remembers

Oh, wow.   

this is why i love lotr fandom. this right here

so what you’re saying is there’s a tiny piece of sauron’s soul tucked smug into the Ring just going around introducing itself as “i’m babey”

This post has justified every second of every minute, hour, and collective day I have ever spent on Tumblr. It was all worth it for this.

astraltrickster:

byrdsfly:

cheesepoon:

madpiratebippy:

theprofessional-amateur-deactiv:

gay-jesus-probably:

alonelybeemakingart:

runby2:

runby2:

Remember if you’re out at a store and someone says “This is a robbery” you can say “no it’s not” and then the robber will leave because theyre a robber and this is no longer a robbery .

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You can not just say this without dropping the whole story

Ok so,

My dads coworker is at the front and this man comes Up and hands him a document.

The coworker took a Look at the document and while he couldn’t read the things written by Hand, because he wasn’t wearing his glases, he did notice the Logo of a different Bank so he’s like:

“Oh, sorry sir you can’t do that here! You have to go to the other Bank for this :)”

The man, visibly confused leaves, but dosen’t take the document with him.

The coworker, now just as confused as the Guy actually Takes Out his glases and reads the hand written part:


This is a robbery

Can you imagine trying to rob a god damn bank and the teller just cheerfully tells you to go rob the competition instead

I worked as a bank teller for several years and a few things you should know, bank robberies happen far more frequently than you might think and they come in waves. When a bank gets robbed a notification with photos goes to all banks in the area to be on the lookout. And there are two kinds of robbery, the pass the note and the takeover (what you see in movies).

So our branch had had a big takeover robbery as well as a note one. We also had a teller that had transferred to our branch after having been through a robbery. She was sweet as apple pie, hair up to the ceiling, southern lady who had just been through multiple robberies.

A guy comes in and hands her a folded note. Her immediate thought was “this guy needs to learn you don’t hand bank tellers notes. I am just not going to read that.” So how the conversation goes:

Her: how can I help you today?

Him: I’m here to get money

Her: great *hands him a withdrawal slip*

Him: all the information is on the paper

Her: to process the transaction I need you to put it on my piece of paper

SO HE FILLS OUT A WITHDRAWAL SLIP. Meanwhile another coworker is looking at her latest robbery notification email thinking the guy at the window looks a lot like him but the teller is calm and seems to be following standard transaction.

Back at the window the teller notices his name on the withdrawal slip doesn’t match the name on the account so she asks for his ID. He once again tells her all the relevant info is on the folded note but also gives her his ID and says it is his dad’s account. She tells him he will need a check from his dad to get cash. He grabs the note and leaves.

ONE HOUR LATER

Two new robbery notifications hit our emails, both branches within a mile. It is our guy. Teller goes over to the manager and sheepishly informs them he was here and the time. Security department is notified as are local police and the FBI. The FBI comes over believing that these poor tellers had been robbed for the 3rd time in a month and take her statement. She is completely embarrassed telling them how everything went down and he kept signaling to the note and telling her to read it but she was just done.

To which this FBI agent of 40 years who has been to the scene of many bank robberies (several at this branch in recent weeks) says: Ok. Let me see if I got this right, he came in fully intending to rob you. He gave you the note and you just…refused to read it? So he left and went to the bank literally across the street, handed them the exact same note, and they just handed him five grand? Do I have that correct?”

Her: I am so embarrassed

FBI: this is best thing I have ever heard. He even handed you his ID! Holy-

Her: I feel so dumb!

FBI: don’t! This is the best thing I have ever heard. This is going to be in training courses. (He sat there giddy for at least 5 more minutes)

I have a similar story from my friend Fred, who is a great human and I like him lots.

He was working at a 7-11 that got robbed a lot, working nights. And he was bored and read though his entire contract and learned if you’re shot at work you get $200,000. Also, he hated his boss and the job.

So when a guy came in to rob him at gunpoint he got excited and was able to hatch the plan he had been pondering while dealing with a Shitty Boring Job.

“Dude. Shoot me in the leg. Right here- it’ll go through and not hit anything vital and I’ll be able to quit this fucking job. I’ll give you fifty fucking grand to shoot me in the leg then you can take everything in the register.”

This ended with him chasing the weeping attempted burglar out of his store screaming “SHOOT ME YOU FUCKING COWARD I WANT THE MONEY”.

@rmilkies

One of my uncles was a branch manager at a local bank when I was a kid. His branch had the dubious honor of being one of- if not the- most robbed bank in the area. There was a bullet hole in the wall behind his desk where he’d been shot at once.

One day, this guy came in and announced he was there to rob the place. This man was smoking a cigar with one hand and had a gun in the other.

My uncle pointed at the “No Smoking” sign and told him in no uncertain terms, “Put that cigar out, or finish it outside first.”

This guy, bless his heart, went back outside to finish his cigar.

My uncle locked the door behind him and waited for the cops to show up.

This is what I like to call the Bugs Bunny Deescalation Strategy

headspacedad:

can you read in your dreams?

yes, the letters are the same as they are in reality

yes but the letters are symbols that don’t look familiar

no, the letters are too weird to comprehend

no, I don’t read books in my dreams

no, I don’t dream

clicky clicky show me the - ah…. ticky?

mysterious last option for ‘none of the above Imma tell you about it in the tags

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I was just watching a piece on lucid dreaming and remembering an old animated Batman episode where he realized he was dreaming because none of the books had words he could read in them.

I read books in my dreams all the time.

Hence tumblr poll time. Please reblog for sample size. I’m seriously curious if reading in dreams is A Thing or not, especially on a site that has a high ratio of people who tap their imagination heavily.

iztarshi:

lizasweetling:

Proffessor “Dragon toe,” attempting to make her name narratively significant to her narrative by getting herself stomped to death.

the last three panels of the June 30, 2023 Girl Genius page from the unnamed sidestory, annotated "(even if he can't flambe you, he's still like 20ft tall and can snap you like a spikey toothpick)" and "Could this lady chill for 3 seconds?!"ALT

I really thought Franz had flambéed her with the FMaDD on the last page and I’m disappointed he didn’t.

I kind of suspect it’s going to be one of his friends who gets her while she’s occupied with him; it seems nice and thematic. *contemplates* Trying the “don’t actually care about them” ploy again might not be convincing after going along with Humongulous’s earlier intervention, but it might be distracting for long enough. So might “Yeah, right, we’ve already established your response to destructive power is ‘kill them all.’” 

imissthembutitwasntadisaster:

imissthembutitwasntadisaster:

Every Charlie Bone book is like “the horrors are unending but luckily the horrors from last year are your allies now so the number of horrors is actually the same”

With the power of just being a very honest kind decent twelve year old boy with a clever uncle and a pack of loyal friends, you too can convert the horrors over to your side just in time for more horrors to arise

#the thing is that being a horror is extremely unrewarding it basically involves a lot of unrelenting bullying#charlie however offers perks including but not limited to: the Rewards of Friendship; sleepovers; a safe home; better food; self-esteem#charlie bone

This post plus previous interesting comments by @incomingalbatross​ about a good balance of contributions from the kid and adult characters and some other positive things I cannot call to mind right now are maybe selling me on this. 

reve-nant:

woolandflax:

woolandflax:

Let’s make a floor plan for a house! How much space should we dedicate to each room? Vote to make a room larger.

Master bedroom

2nd bedroom

Guest bedroom

Bathroom 1

Bathroom 2

Kitchen

Dining room

Living room

Laundry room

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Our beautiful home

after a long day of doing laundry for the entire neighborhood, i walk into my kitchen and cook an amazing gourmet feast, which i then eat entirely while crouched in the corner set aside for dining. afterwards, i tuck my son into solitary confinement before making the long trek down the master bedroom hallway to bed, where i settle in with my wife who just finished bathing in our second bathroom’s indoor swimming pool