Tag: plot bunny fodder

ds9promenade:

Autistic Julian Bashir in ep 1.12 “Battle Lines”

The screencaps don’t do a good job of showing it, but Julian’s words have slowed down and become carefully enunciated for these lines.
“She neeeeds treat-ment. I’d like my medical case – if. you. don’t. mind.”

When in intense situations where he needs to keep in control, Julian often talks like this – I do the same thing when I am upset or nervous and need to be understood. I talk deliberately and slowly to make sure my words don’t come out garbled and incoherent.

I just saw your tag on the post about Lando, and I can’t believe I’ve never run across Lando Calrissian: New Republic Politician in fandom before, because YES, that makes SO MUCH SENSE and would be amazing! I’m really looking forward to seeing how you write Lando in DAV. And just more generally, thanks for being such an awesome person! You bring compassion into the world and joy to a lot of people. That means so much. <3

fialleril:

I am, sadly, pretty unsurprised that I’ve never seen politician!Lando in fandom before, because in general the Star Wars fandom (and the Expanded Universe) seems to characterize Lando largely on the basis of a single statement from Han Solo about him.

Han tells Leia that Lando is a card-player, a gambler, and a scoundrel, and the Expanded Universe took that and absolutely ran with it, and, possibly because of the EU, fandom has taken it as gospel truth, too.

But the thing is, that’s only what Han says about Lando. It’s not at all what we actually see of Lando on screen.

The Lando of ESB is, in a word, responsible. That’s how he characterizes himself, a bit ruefully, and it’s borne out by his actions throughout the movie. He’s clearly been a very successful businessman for a while now, and he’s just as clearly respected and liked by the people of Bespin. He tells Han and Leia that he’s one of the few gas mining operations that’s still independent, and he’s clearly proud of this fact. He’s just as clearly invested in the work that’s being done on Bespin. He doesn’t just own the operation. He very obviously cares about it, and about the people who work for him. His decision to give Han, Leia, and Chewie up to Vader is ultimately an effort to save as many people as he can, made because he knows he’s caught between a rock and a hard place but, no matter how much he cares for Han, he is the administrator of Cloud City and the lives of everyone there are dependent on him. He’s responsible for them, and he’s willing to risk himself to protect his people. Only after he’s done all he can to protect them does he allow himself to try to help Han and co.

And when we see Lando again in ROTJ, he’s joined the Rebellion and been commissioned as a general. A general. For a guy who, so far as we know, has held no prior military rank, and who joined the Alliance maybe a year ago, that says quite a lot. Clearly, he’s committed himself to this rebellion – and he’s proven himself, both as a rebel operative and as a leader. From what we see of his interactions with his fighter squads, the other rebel pilots seem to both like and respect him.

So maybe Han is right, and at one time Lando was a card player, gambler, and scoundrel. But that’s clearly in his past, and the Lando we actually see on screen isn’t a scoundrel at all. He’s a respectable and respected businessman and city administrator, with an impressive military record and quite a few well-placed connections in Alliance leadership. He’s shown a definite aptitude for administration and civic leadership, and always puts the people he serves first even at great risk to himself.

In short, he’s excellent material for political office.

Lando Calrissian for Republic Chancellor 2018.

the-vagabond-tabby:

So a species of humanlike aliens, or maybe a group of humans who colonized a planet really far away & have been out of touch with the rest of humanity a loooong time.

Either way they find humanity & make contact & all is well, we’re all living on the same planets & stuff, not melting pot but definitely gumbo. Learning about each other’s culture.

They’re FASCINATED by our concept of gender. Like, what an interesting way to divide people into groups!

Viewpoint Human Character discovers it’s become trendy in Other Culture to select a human gender to identify as. To the disgust of conservative humans this does not merely include male & female but also a number of other genders.

… it’s kinda like taking a ‘where would the Sorting Hat put you?’ test. In fact, that’s exactly what it is. ‘I’m a Hufflepuff woman!’ ‘Awesome, I’m nonbinary & in Slytherin!’

… my brain is a strange place. Anyway, if this appeals, run with it.

fandomearth:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Boromir lives AU where instead of being around for the events of Two Towers and ROTK he just kind of shows up in Minas Tirith after the Ring is destroyed all bloody & bedraggled like ‘you GUYS i had to swim all the way back what the hELL’

Aragorn: *watching Boromir’s funeral boat drift away* you checked for a pulse right Legolas

Legolas, who definitely does not know how human pulses work: sure did!!

*later*

Aragorn: LEGOLAS I TOLD YOU TO CHECK FOR A PULSE

Legolas: I did!

Aragorn: …..

Legolas: ….

Boromir: …..

Gimli: …..

Legolas: oh you meant check that he DIDN’T have one?

This is the only version of LOTR that I accept now

Aftermath

elumish:

People like writing about war, but they rarely like writing
about the aftermath. And I think that’s a shame, because sometimes writing
about the aftermath can be at least as interesting. There’s a lot you can do
with what happens after the fighting is done, when people need to rebuild, when
they need to find who they are and where they fit in a world that is different
than it was when they began.

Write about interpersonal
relationships, and how they changed.

Write about how
people view themselves and the actions they needed to take.

Write about rebuilding—physically,
socially, mentally, emotionally.

Write about the choices
people made because they thought they were never going to need to face the
consequences.

Write about the emotional
toll that war takes, that constant violence takes, that never being able to
relax takes.

Write about the physical
toll that war takes, about the people who come back missing limbs or
neurons.

Write about the people
who lost everyone they knew and still have to live with themselves.

Write about the people
who lost everything, their homes, their land, the cities, about them
finding new places to call home, or not.

Write about the people who are tasked with creating a new world, and the decisions
they have to make.

Write about the people
who only knew war, who were born after the war started and grew up with
only that, who now need to figure out who they are in a world that has no place
for them anymore.

Write about the people
who were heroes, who know how to be heroes but don’t know how to be people.

Write about the people
who weren’t heroes, who were hated, who were disgraced.

Write about the people
who didn’t fight in the war because they couldn’t, because they weren’t
physically capable or because society said they weren’t suitable.

Write about the people
who fought on the losing side, who sacrificed everything and still lost and
now need to rebuild with nothing, who are painted as monsters when they need no
worse than the side that won.

Write about the trials,
for people who committed war crimes, for people who took advantage of what was
going on to do what they wanted.

Write about the weapons
that are finding their way into the hands of children, cheap and easy to use,
because they were left behind when the soldiers packed up and left.

Write about the landmines,
the unexploded ordinances, the things that governments forgot were there or
just didn’t care.

Write about ten years
later, or twenty, or thirty, or one, or six months, or the next day, about
what people do when the adrenaline of victory or defeat subsides and they’re
left with a world that they no longer understand, that they no longer know,
because they spent so long trying to destroy the old world that they forgot
that they would have to live in the new one.

Write about the next
generation, who grew up with parents who flinched at loud noises and cousins
who could remember air raid sirens, who grew up doing drills they didn’t
understand because the people who made the drills couldn’t forget that one day
they might have been necessary.

Write about the women
who stayed behind because they had no choice, about the women who stayed
behind because they wanted to, about the women who couldn’t stay behind because
there was no behind, because everywhere was a warzone and they were soldiers
because everyone was a soldier.

Write about the children
who trained for a war that ended before they were old enough to take up
arms, where all they know is violence, not peace, how to destroy a city but not
how to build one or how to run one.

Write about career
soldiers who no longer have a career because the war is over, there’s
peace, and so they find work for the highest bidder, for the person most
willing to give them a knife or a gun and throw them wherever a little muscle
and a lot of violence is needed.

Write about the people
who did research on things nobody should ever research, who discovered
things they could never speak about, who rationalized what they did as science
while knowing it wasn’t.

Write about everyday
people coping with everything that happened, with things they saw and
things they did and things they knew that they wouldn’t wish on their worst
enemy.

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

bundibird:

elvishdork:

persepnohe:

Fred and George would have been in slytherin if Rowling didn’t hate slytherins so much and that’s that on that

Add Percy to the list. Man’s personality revolves around the central Slytherin trait: ambition.

Truth

The only reason Percy wasn’t in Slytherin is because he had a sternly worded fifteen minute argument prepared in his head about why the Hat better not do such a thing, as it wouldn’t be Proper considering his entire family is in Gryffindor.

The Hat, not wanting to listen to fifteen minutes of a Slytherin who could out-Slytherin every Slytherin in the castle (except for the Head of House) discuss Why The Hat Was Wrong, wisely decided to shortcut the argument and just put the long-winded one in Gryffindor.

Percy is still miffed that he did not get to use his argument.