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Rex my best boy😭Thank you Moss, he looks so good!!

If you are able to donate to help raise money for people in Palestine, consider checking out Star Wars Artists for Palestine! They are currently offering art commissions in exchange for proof of donation or an e-sim purchase. Art by @baufraus, initiative by @swartists4palestine

#Captain Rex

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I hate water so I’ve been drinking espressos for hydration and it’s working well except for all the tingling in my skull

#lol #me

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defective

I will be dropping my rewrite in 5 days 👍🏽

[id: it’s a drawing of Omega standing in front of Crosshair. Crosshair is wearing his black, grey, and red armor from the show and standing with his back to the viewer though he is looking over his shoulder and down at Omega. He is depicted as albino with pale skin covered in dark freckles, buzzed light blond hair, and medium brown eyes. Omega is depicted with piebaldism which has resulted in a lack of pigment in a stripe of skin down her face and a splotch on her left hand, as well as in a tuft of hair and part of her right eyebrow. She is wearing a blue and red cadet uniform sans the belt, and her brows are furrowed. While she’s depicted in the light, Crosshair is cast in shadow. /end id]

#unwhitewashtbb #the bad batch

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

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well, maybe trump and biden will assassinate each other

#dangerous and terrifying times in the US #I think this is what we would call: a dictatorship

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star wars fanartists draw cody like the Pope has commissioned them for a sci-fantasy sistine chapel and Cody is baby jesus

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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

#it would be oil london #never seen that person with a correct take #there’s a picture of oil london next to ‘racist’ in the encyclopedia #asshole is wildly antiblack #oil traffics in outrage. being a complete fool. and racism. that’s his whole brand #He’s also british #and calls himself ‘trans-racial’ #after getting a bunch of plastic surgery to look East Asian #and then he blamed his stupid ass surgical decisions on trans people #‘them transes convinced me I could do this and that I should because if you can cross gender then you can cross race’ #and everyone was like: ??? race and gender are two different social constructs with different social constructions

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Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:

“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”

#yeah. this shit’s crazy

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The Islamic Origins of the Jedi

Ramadan starts in a few days so I figured that now was a great time to talk about this!

(Disclaimer: My point here isn’t to detract from other sources of inspiration that GL used to create the Jedi, but simply to point out another, lesser known one that many often overlook or intentionally refuse to acknowledge.)

I’m Muslim. My family follows the Hanafi madhab, and the guidance of the Naqshbandi order of Sufi masters, mystics, and teachers. I’m by no means an expert or a scholar, but the Sufi theology and view of the Divine is so clearly prevalent as one of the many inspirations for the Force and the Jedi, that it’s hard to get ignore - and it’s hard to watch while people choose to ignore it.

For starters, we know that during his research for the films, George Lucas met and consulted with the Habibiyyah Sufi order in California. He asked questions and learned what they believed.

Something else that’s hard to ignore is the robes that the Jedi wear! I know they’re commonly thought to be inspired by other origins, but I’d like to point out that the traditional Sufi robes look similar to the Jedi as well.

Still not convinced?

Let’s look at the origins of the word ‘Jedi’. While most believe that it comes from the word ‘jidaigeki’, as GL has mentioned in passing, there is an Arabic equivalent that’s translated to fit the meaning of the Jedi Order with surprising accuracy.

The word is Al-Jeddi, which translates to ‘master of the mystic warrior way’.

In an article released by a prominent Sufi Muslim order, ‘jeddi’ is mentioned by name and a definition that looks and sounds familiar to the Jedi Order of Star Wars and how the Force is viewed by them:

“We are, at our core, a Movement of Jeddi; Sufi masters of Futuwwat ("the Way of the mystic-warrior"). We encourage adherents to train both physically AND spiritually, for their own personal edification and to enhance their knowledge and abilities in the Struggle. The Balance does not lie alone in contemplation, prayer and meditation; nor does it lie alone in action and revolution.”

At the end of the day, we know that Star Wars appropriated from many, many sources that went mostly uncredited and ignored - in ways that had lasting and negative impacts on the peoples and cultures that served as inspiration - and this was one of them.

One of my biggest complaints about the appropriation present here is that it is an opportunity missed - a big one. There was an opportunity to educate, to help others understand what is often misunderstood, simply by being transparent about what you took, from whom, and most importantly, why.

So I’m sharing this with you now, because education is everything, and it is so, so important to be aware of examples of things like this in the media we consume!

#Star Wars #cultural appropriation #orientalism

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“Weird” trans people online are not the cause of transphobia offline.

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Being transfem really exposes just how completely full of shit society is about breasts, huh? Like apparently there was some nebulous point sometime after I started E where it stopped being okay to have my tits out in public because....... reasons i guess? Just an arbitrary event horizon of indecency

you don’t think i’m a woman? that’s fine i guess that means i can go topless everywhere now

#prev: #this is a perfect example of why trans women aren’t ’treated like men’ they are treated like women even when being actively ungendered #arguing otherwise is transmisogynistic #transmisogyny

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which is definitely not an omen

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I feel like the Tumbl should give us the option to add more options. I ran out of space. 🧍‍♂️

Anyway… reblog for a larger sample size.

(This has been done before by @/notafandomname. I wanted to give everyone a hard mode version. But I suspect Synduller will still sweep)

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#landscapes #photography

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Heartbreaking: This person is making great points but they're being a huge fucking asshole about it so you can't reblog any of it