I Waited Until The Whole First Season Was Out, I Think? I Was So Obsessed With The Mandalorian (and Still

I waited until the whole first season was out, I think? I was so obsessed with the Mandalorian (and still am, im making my mom and I armor >:D) tgat i didn't want to start a new serirs yet.

Then i binge watched the entire thing because i became obsessed with Crosshair and Omega's plotlines in particular, and just all-around love the show. They have one of my FAVORITE animation art styles, also its star wars so c'mon, and the quality of voice acting, the script, the balance of very serious mature stories somehow presented as a kids show the whole family can watch and enjoy, and the phenomenal attebtion to detail in a deceptively simple format.

Just look at all those microexpressions, not just on tbe human characters or even other sentient lifeforms; watch the first episode of Talrs of the Jedi and see how mu h tiny nuanced detail went into animaying the expressions on the Big Kitty's face, a creature not presented as a "sentient" race but a wild animal

I really think I'm as obsessed with Crosshair as I am because i read so much of what he is thinking from his expressive body language. Im wired to notice the tiny things, and he speaks almost exclusively in them.

✨TBB Finale Countdown Day 4✨

So stoked for the finale episodes on Wednesday I can't wait so to harness my excited/anxious energy I'm posting and answer a TBB/Star Wars related question each day - would love if other people joined in/interacted!!! (positive interactions only! no bashing, only loving!)

Day 4: How were you introduced to TBB??

I had like a two-part introduction to TBB because the The Clone Wars S7E1 arc was the first time I'd watched TCW, and I was at my brother's place hanging out SO confused about this show I was watching. So didn't think much of it.

Cut to a month later when I finished binging all of TCW (surprise surprise, I was HOOKED) and got to S7 again. Then those 4 walked off the ship and I was SMACKED with deja vu because that was the scene that played at my brother's place and it all came back to me. It literally took just Hunter finishing their introductions for me to go "ah yes, my newest collection of brain healers. I'm gonna keep these ones"

Play along, reblog/reply with your answer 😊❤️

Commander Fox in Mandalorian Armour

Call me simplistic for the words seeming simple, but... I've always been of the mind people are just people, and idc who you like or look like or what you do as long as you're not causing intentional harm and ill intent to others or yourself.

it's still weird for me to think of lgbtq+ etc as a "group"

I've never seen it as a group people are either in or excluded from; how can i? It doesn't matter what orientation you have, you're still a living being, still just one aspect of the incredible diversity of humanity.

its always been a conversational tool for efficiently referencing a specific topic / group of labels for *communication* in conversation for me

There are no gates, until someone goes out of their way to build them, and people start believing it. So don't build them, and don't use them.

I wanna tell you guys a story,

Not too long ago, my friend Bella came out as aromantic to me, and now I’ve got some things to say.

I was the one who told her what aromantic means, because I was explaining different sexual orientations to her. I remember saying, “Asexualiy is when you have romantic attraction, but no sexual attraction.”

Bella immedently, without missing a beat, asked, “Is there an opposite to that?”

I asked what she meant, and she asked if there was a term for sexual attraction but no romantic attraction. I told her about aromantics. She got weirdly quiet, then excused herself.

Not two weeks later I was heading to my boat. I was supposed to meet Bella and another one of our muteral friends there for a day of fishing.

As soon as I was in earshot, I saw Bella storming off the boat, and our other friend standing there like an idiot. Boi had no idea what was happening.

Anyway, Bella isn’t looking where she’s going and walks smack dab into me. That’s when I realized she was crying. Puffy red eyes, wet cheeks, the whole nine yards… And if you know anything about Bells, she does not cry. Ever.

She’s been through some serious crap in her life, and she does not cry. She’s tough as nails. Bella has a steel core. She does not not cry. I’ve seen her fall off a roof and break her arm before, not a single tear. I can’t stress this enough, Bella. Doesn’t. Cry.

So seeing her in tears shook me. I took her by the shoulders and escorted her somewhere more private where we could talk. We ended up in the women’s restroom, which was weird as fuck for me, because haven’t been in a woman’s rest room for years. Luckily it was empty, and I’m realistic, I know I don’t pass so well, so I don’t think anyone would have said anything anyway.

Before I can even ask her what’s wrong she hugs me around my middle and burys her face in my hoodie. Then, in a voice I can only describe as traumatized, she says, “I think I’m broken.”

I’ve never seen her in so much pain, and Bella and I are CLOSE. She’s one of my dearest friends. She’s like my little sister, but if she’s like my sister, our other muteral friend is like her twin. He and Bella have know each other WAY longer, they’re practically inseparable. They come as a pair. They’re a duo. They’re a package deal.

Appearently, said muteral friend asked Bella out and forcefully kissed her. She shoved him off, and told him she’s aromantic, which she only recently figured out. She wasn’t ready to be out, but this muteral friend left her no choice. She tried telling him no, and he didn’t listen. Bella saw no other option.

Quote on quote, this is what he said to Bella. “That’s okay. You just haven’t dated me yet. We’ve been like, unofficially together for years. You’re probably just freaked out that it’s finally going somewhere.”

After that I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but apparently Bella kept saying no Nd trying to explain herself, but he kept insisting he could ‘fix her.’

Eventudally she started crying and stormed away. That’s when I found her.

Keep in mind, this was her first experience coming out, and her best, closest friend insisted he could fix her and forcefully kissed her. I found out later he also implied corrective rape would ‘solve the problem.’

Bella was traumatized. She’s still traumatized. I tried to make her feel better by buying her an aro pride shirt, and taking her go a local LGBTQ+ hang out. I wanted her to be around like minded people, so she could see she wasn’t broken, and her identity deserved to be respected.

Instead of a warm, welcoming environment… The first thing someone said to her was, “This place is for REAL lgbt people. You don’t belong here.” He also implied she wasn’t human.

Just think about that for a minute. Her first experiences with being an out aromantic have been limited to;

A person she trusted more than anyone forcing himself upon her, claiming she was ill, and needed to be fixed. (Raped.)

Sobbing in my arms in the women’s restroom because she thought she was broken and defective.

Being told she wasn’t welcomed in LGBTQ+ spaces and called inhuman.

This isn’t what I want for her. Bella deserves better than this. She needs a support system, not all this crap. I’ve spent the past week trying to undo all the damage exclusionists, arophobes, and people she trusted did.

Aromantics and asexuals belong in the LGBTQ+ community. You literally cannot change my mind.

oh stars

so many repeats

It's a good thing y'all lost some funny as heck stuff because I don't mind seeing the same laugh make me smile a few times 😂🤣

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other 

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

“Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Spy

Taking a risk posting this right now because the fandom is currently on fire in regards to Tech and shipping. But fuck it we ball. anyways they’re lab partners in love