#utterly pointless

[swbumblebee]

“Thank you for joining me Masters Jedi” The reporter, a petite Mon Calamari, greeted them with a well-practiced smile, desperately hoping it hid her nerves as the selection of available (or, she had a sneaking suspicion, those who were not quite quick enough with a plausible excuse) council members filed in. They took seats in the comfortable chairs arranged in a semicircle in front of her.

“Thank you for inviting us” Obi-Wan Kenobi responded with a charming smile, characteristically polite and the voice of the group as they sat down. Mace Windu and Plo Koon both nodded in acknowledgement, Shaak Ti smiled serenely and Kit Fisto flashed her his usual wide grin. It was like looking at holo-posters.    

“Please make yourselves comfortable” She cleared her throat and switched on her holo-mic “and before we start, my listeners have asked me to pass on their heartfelt thanks for all your efforts during the war, and for making the Galaxy safe once again.”

At this there was some shuffling, her Jedi guests looking between each other, a surprising air of awkwardness settled over the group and she instantly kicked herself.

“We simply followed the will of the Force, and we were fortunate enough to have our Trooper brothers with us. We could not have prevailed without them” Master Plo Koon replied with a slight dip of his head in thanks, even as he shrugged off the compliment.

The reporter smiled back at him.

“Of course, I’m very excited to meet them later.” She said, noting the rather pleased looks on the Jedi’s faces as she did so and hoping she had clawed back some goodwill. “For now, though, I’m very interested in learning more about our Jedi heroes and I have some fantastic questions from our listeners.”  She settled back in her chair and looked at her notes, willing her hands to stop shaking. This was a career making opportunity.

 “Could I first ask, to set us up nicely, for you all to state your name, species and age for the holo-mic please. It helps listeners distinguish voices and really build a picture of you” she explained, getting down to business.

“Sure! I’m Kit Fisto, Nautolian, and I’m fifty-five in standard years.” The first Jedi, a shockingly youthful (and very handsome) male smiled at her reaction as the reporter’s face widened in surprise.

“My species age well” he said with a wink, and the reporter was amused to note his confidence got him a whack on the leg from the next Jedi, Shaak Ti.

“Greetings, I am Shaak Ti, Togrutan and I am fifty-eight in Galactic Standard Years” she said with a lovely, measured voice that would make an excellent narrator, the reporter thought.  

“Thank you” She said, before moving down the line.

“I am Plo Koon, Kel Dor, and I am three hundred and eighty-five GSY old” he said rather proudly, the reporter thought. She nodded in appreciation and slight awe. She understood some of the older races had different life spans and ages, but she’d never met one before.

“I am Mace Windu, Korun from Haruun Kal, and I am sixty-one GSY.” The reporter struggled to meet the serious brown eyes of the head of the order, trying very hard not to be intimidated she nodded in thanks and moved on to her last guest. Her personal favourite.

“Hello there, I am Obi-Wan Kenobi, a near-human from Stewjon and I’m thirty-eight.” He said with another polite smile.

“Excellent, now then-“

“Pardon?”

The reporter was incredibly surprised to be interrupted by the serene master herself, Shaak Ti, who had something akin to shock on her face.

“ah, sorry? What?” Master Kenobi asked, a little unsure, looking between his colleague and the reporter, who shrugged a little.

Master Ti looked at him down the line.

“You’re how old?!” she asked again.

Master Kenobi was starting to look downright uneasy.

“I’m…thirty-eight.”

Master Ti continued to stare at him.

“In Galactic Standard Years?” she clarified incredulously

“Yes-“

A snort came from Master Fisto at the other end of the line.

“Ahh Shaak. All this time, didn’t realise he was a baby did you?” he said knowingly.

“I am not a baby!” Master Kenobi spluttered.

“I mean I knew he was young but…”

“Now hang on, I’m not that young-“

“I had a similar moment of realisation about halfway through the war” Plo pacified her with an understanding pat. “We basically followed a teenager into battle” he said sagely.

“Oh now you’re just being –“

“Did you know about this?!” Shaak asked the head of the order accusingly, ignoring her young colleague’s protests.

Master Windu’s frown held a hint of amusement.

“Yes…I can do mathematics, and read personnel files…” he answered slowly, dry as the dessert. Master Ti glared at him.   

“Sorry Obi-Wan” The surprised Togruten turned at last to mollify her colleague. “I’m just…surprised. That makes you the youngest member in…a while. I can’t believe I never knew!” She said in amazement.

“He’s the youngest ever member if I am correct” Master Windu stated, with a rather smug smile, and the reporter was amused to note Master Plo Koon nodding along with a distinct air of pride.

For his part, the reporter could swear Young Master Kenobi’s ears were starting to turn an amusing shade of pink, and for some reason he scowled slightly.

“Depa is only five years older than me!” he grumbled into his folded arms.

“Yeah but she’s Depa” Master Fisto chimed in, in a knowing tone.

“mmm”

“True”

“Yes”

“Right”

“Just what is that supposed to mean-“

The reporter blinked at the scene in before her, rapidly descending into a friendly argument and the bickering of age-old friends. Or, young friends, as the case may be.

She looked at her stack of questions again, and grinned, her previous nerves about interviewing the most powerful beings in the galaxy all but disappearing as Master Fisto winked at her again and Master Plo leaned over to ruffle Master Kenobi’s hair, dodging around a protective Master Windu.

She put the questions on the floor under her chair and grinned.

#I have absolutely no regard for cannon ages and have made most of these up #because I wanted Baby Council Member Obi-Wan #And I'll do what I have to do to get it #Snippet of nothing #Obi-Wan Kenobi #Master Kenobi #jedi council #One big happy jedi family #fluff #utterly pointless #obi wan fanfic

[kyofsonder]

🖊 + Ian!

Thank you for the ask, and the chance to talk about Ian! He's the only main character of a work who's been requested so far.

While the love interests and other major roles in my novel WIP "Apricots" are extremely important -- to the point I might end up making saidove interests into co-mains -- Ian Ward is ultimately the protagonist of this story.

Ian is, at almost all times, equal parts calm and completely panicked. His girlfriend, having literally read his mind as a telepath, has described him as a duck: floating along peacefully on the surface, but actually paddling desperately under the water. He's managed every crisis in his life so far by relying on that calm exterior to calm others down so he can have room to think. This approach has been used for everything from his demi/bi/polyam crisis when he fell for the people who would eventually become his partners to his magic-has-proven-alternate-timelines-exist-and-I'm-in-one existential crisis.

On top of being more anxious than he seems, Ian is also more romantic and theatric when he's in love than anyone would guess -- excluding his actual partners, who've been the recipients of his over the top gestures in the past. He only gets this way when he's truly comfortable, so not many other people see this side of him. He's very loving, and doesn't go out of his way to be mean to anyone. That said, he does have an impatient nature and can let his racing thoughts lead him to act before he's actually figured out the best course of action. He has a bit of a temper that's triggered when this happens, and a deep dislike of (most) people who bring out that impatience in him.

As for his actual main character role, he has a strong sense of duty and despite his impatience he'll see almost anything through once he's committed himself to something. He's really the ideal person to carry out his particular hero's quest to prevent his girlfriend's murder. He just needs to ground himself with a good anchor to stay steady along the way. His anchor of choice being a warm drink, usually apricot tea.

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Motivated by This Ask: 336 words

Total Written Due to Asks: 9,977 words

#writing #ask game #oc ask game #sonder replies #sonder stories #sonder lore #apricots #bonus fact #Ian was raised by polyam parents #he still forgot polyamory was a thing #until Jess pointed it out to him #rendering all his agonizing #over both his crushes being taken #utterly pointless #it's one of my favorite things abt this trio #they're dorks #esp Ian

[r-2-peepoo]

Coriolanus Snow and Anakin Skywalker are perfect examples of really interesting characters who had every chance to do the right thing but repeatedly chose wrong even though they were surrounded by good people, all because they had one person whispering in their ear and convincing them to be selfish and to hurt people instead. There is no point where they have to do what they do, it’s their choices that make them compelling.

They’re also both incredibly controlling over the women they claim to love but are quick to try and physically harm them when they realise that they’re actually human beings who will not blindly follow them. It’s very clear they were possessive, not actually in love. To sincerely love is to respect someone’s agency and neither of them were capable of that.

Another trait they both share is that, despite being layered and well written but fundamentally flawed characters who turn to evil by their own free will, if you cast an attractive actor to play them, there are always going to be people who blindly ignore the entire plot just to defend them and justify their actions. Being a victim of abuse or oppression does not excuse you from being a perpetrator.

#‘anakin and vader are different-‘ #i am under your bed #the entire original trilogy is rendered utterly pointless if that is the case (which is most certainly is not) #cant even blame george lucas for this one bc it’s still so obvious #anakin CHOOSES to return to the light bc of luke. it was always him and this was always about his choices. #whereas snow is just committed to evil lmao #tired of anakin’s pretty privilege #notice how they both had a best friend and a love interest trying to convince them to be better? #snow had sejanus and lucy gray and anakin had obi wan and padmé #anakin skywalker #coriolanus snow #star wars #the hunger games #tbosas

[silver-horse]

unfortunately I have opinions about the ascendant astarion ending and I have been holding back from saying it. but it's a problem that applies to the whole game and it's been annoying me

what's actually weird about the ascendant "romance" scene is that the writer considers it a tempting option for the player. They wrote it to be bad, but they also think it's a fun and sexy option. Same goes for the haarlep scene which they also wrote that way because they find it sexy. Except finding this sexually appealing entirely hinges on the idea that the player is a submissive. So RIP to a scene that the rest of us could have found sexy because the lead narrative designer was a submissive. lmao

In this game you can have a scene where you have to kneel for a male character. But you can never have a male character do the same for you. (Halsin doesn't count. It's a vanilla scene, he is not submissive there and we are not even asking/telling him to kneel down) You don't get such options, not even if you play a drow female! RIP the number one reason for playing drow female to be honest. lol You can kneel and fully submit to ascendant astarion or fully submit to mizora or fully submit to haarlep or submit to lae'zel or submit to minthara. you can get whipped by abdirak or you can tell him "touch me and lose a hand" he even responds positively to this remark and yet the possibility to flip the dynamic doesn't exist. There is never an option where a male character truly submits to the player. RIP to a scene that would have been the opposite of the traditional dynamic. the potential that existed but they never used the opportunity

By the way, how interesting that Lae'zel is dominant but she is a woman so ofc you get the option to tell her “no you will submit to me”. You never get such switch options with any of the male characters... Obviously it's not ascendant where they could have made that an option. My point is that it's NEVER an option among so many male characters.

It's a cool idea that the bad ending in a romance means "I saw this character as a sex object" except it falls apart when the scene is very sexually unappealing to anyone who is more dominant leaning. If I see a character as a sex object then I would place them in sexual situations which are appealing to me. so the message doesn't quite work. because there isn't anything that I can selfishly choose for myself just because I like it and I find it sexy.

#it's the old traditional setup where male characters are never submissive. either vanilla or they are dominant. and no other options exist. #I just find it a bit funny how they seem oblivious to the fact that these scenes being “sexy”and tempting entirely hinge on the possibility #that the player has the same tastes but a LOT of us don't. and then these scenes aren't even remotely sexy #don't get me wrong it's cool to have these scenes in the game but there could have been something different as well #rather than the same dynamic multiple times. and if you are super not into that then you only have the vanilla options #meanwhile the subs get multiple ''fun'' scenes. I just find this very unequal. if you are not into that well your character #will be placed into situations where characters make these unappealing propositions and sometimes it's fight or submit. that's weird imo #for a game that has storylines about consent. sexually weird scenes would be fine and interesting if it wasn't SO unequal and always the #same dynamic where they mostly give players options where our female characters should submit and NEVER the opposite I will always be salty #bg3 #larian studios #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 mine #haarlep #astarion #my post #abdirak #my thoughts #my posts #it's like the whole reason I like to play drow women if I am honest but it's been so utterly pointless #as a drow female on a rare occasion you may be allowed to say a barely rude dialogue to males and that's all lmfao #mildly rude to men is just what I do in real life but it's a viddy game and I should be able to be a bit of a nasty aggressive female #(sure they can frame it negatively. that's fine. but let the ''fun'' option exist for us as well)

[faunandfloraas]

anytime i watch male idols do girl group dances super halfheartedly- i'm talking limp, not putting their hips into it, not putting their ass into it, not putting anything into i'm always so disappointed... Seo Changbin would never have let me down like this.

#looking like a half deflated ballon man that they put up outside car yards is utterly pointless so why dont you BUCK up and dance like you #mean it #the fact that so many girl group girlies blatantly talk about changbin and love him is telling tho imo #like im sure its bc of his personality and everything behind the scenes but also him being so vocally supportive and into gg's surely helps #add to his already abundant charms

[myriadof-fandoms]

i'm actually really enjoying this season but they are not seriously pushing steve and nancy, are they? steve didn't spend two seasons getting over her just to get back with her now. i didn't watch all the nancy and jonathan storyline for this. no.

#if i hate anything it's just utterly pointless character development that ends with the character reverting back #like #it's not that bad for steve to not have a romantic interest promise #stranger things #stranger things season 4 #season 4 spoilers #stranger things spoilers #spoiler #i hope that's enough spoiler tags #nancy wheeler #steve harrington

[cruelsister-moved2]

i honestly think one thing gentile non-palestinian leftists need to do urgently is eradicate the idea from your mind that zionism is somehow good for jewish people. we pay lip service to the fact that antizionism isn't antisemitism, that jewish people aren't inherently associated with the state of israel, even that israel doesn't keep jews safe; yet the subtle implication that jews ultimately benefit from zionism creeps into our arguments.

zionism has fostered fundamentalism and pushed jewish communities globally to the right, marginalised and outright erased disaporic cultures, and has contributed to the near-disappearance of entire judaic languages. the zionist project exacerbates antisemitism and then warps discussions of it, encouraging the same dual-loyalty myths and racialised categorisation that were popular in nazi germany. it courts antisemitic christian fundamentalists who fund it because of their apocalyptic beliefs which ultimately involve the annihilation or conversion of all jews, and provides a smokescreen for antisemites who want to push jews from their own countries. and it isolates, incriminates, silences, and arrests the many, many jews who speak out against it.

i don't say this to try and decentre palestinian suffering at this time, hence why this isn't directed at palestinians, but i think it's incredibly important for the integrity of our arguments to recognise unequivocally that zionism is not beneficial to jewish people either.

#I specify non palestinian because whilst I firmly believe the above #i also completely understand watching your family be murdered and thinking well at least #if I was jewish this specific thing wouldn't be happening to me right now #also israel is no more good for the average israeli than the USA for the average American #with all the varieties of racial privilege contained therein #like for the average person it's not really a privilege to live in a settler state lurching into fascism #but I feel like a lot of people are sort of like #you know the whole 'well you don't get to kill people to keep yourself safe' #and while that's TRUE it also feels like amiss to not address it when you aren't even making yourself safe either #anyway I hope it's clear that im saying this not as a whataboutism but pointing out a rhetorical pitfall here #because it's utterly pointless to fall into some argument of 'are jews or palestinians more deserving of safety' #zionism is the answer to neither. case closed. hope that helps

[fridayyy-13th]

had a random thought and wondered what other people’s opinions/headcanons were, so:

#personally i think it’s tile in the foyer and in artifact storage and carpet everywhere else #except for like the bathrooms obviously those are tile too #yes this is utterly pointless but i am nothing if not curious #friday chats #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #tma #polls

[hellobrockie]

Its honestly relieving when Gojo asks Geto if he should kill them. A sign that he's coming down from his high. Because an unfeeling god wouldn't have bothered to retrieve a corpse and wouldn't ask what he should do. This is the last time the two are truly equal. Because Gojo is really almost a god from here on out, a special special grade, closer in standing to Tengen than Geto. Geto's moral compass and their shared grief for riko amanai, someone who every side deemed disposable, grounds Gojo.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #spoilers #jjk season 2 #gojo satoru #geto suguru #no wonder this is the inflection point #no one suspected two boys with the slightest nudge from sensei #would choose to care about a normal girl #and completely shatter when they utterly fail her #funny tho that even without Toji or the religious cult Riko still wouldn't have become the vessel #pointless killings all around

[mummer]

i know the fascism intrinsic to zionism is obviously apparent on the face of it but it is really illustrative of Something that it has my so-called liberal father posting links to fucking prageru videos trying to manufacture consent for the murder of palestinian children

#i seriously dont know what to fucking do anymore i feel so lost and bleak and cant go to anyone with it #one of the posts was so deeply disturbing i find it utterly unforgivable. one of the most truly depraved things ive ever read #hopeless fruitless pointless #i cant fight him but i cant just smile and wave. Whats my option here. Cage cage forever. #i dont think i can ever forgive this and the worst part is i cant forget it lol #when we first started fighting when i was in high school it was about zionism!!! that was pointless too #but when he said shitty things then i didnt have a record of what he was saying. i’ll have this screenshot forever #how am i supposed to talk to him tomorrow without sobbing. Lol. #i have to go blow my brains out #delete later. I guess

[askaceattorney]

UTTERLY POINTLESS POST

- Chief Mod Edgeworth

#Mod Post #Utterly Pointless Post #Chief Mod Edgeworth #Kazuma Asogi #Ace Attorney #The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

[goodobservationshirley]

ALLISON MET PATTY FIRST

it’s been 24 hours and i’m still stuck on the fact

it’s anecdotal and at the same time it feels like it changes everything. turns out for allison patty was never just her husband’s bff’s sister with whom she had never really connected before. she was this interesting girl she had met in a bar at a low point in her life, which then prompted her to talk to the group this girl was with, and the rest is history

it’s such a small detail but that small detail is like projecting a new light on their relationship and on everything that happened last season

it gives me a completely new perspective on allison’s feelings throughout this whole thing and on what her feelings might be now

it’s like this tiny piece of the puzzle suddenly reveals the picture in all its glory

these women did not find each other along the way, it is their meeting that started everything

and now their story can only feel fated, inevitable, inescapable, because allison met patty first

#kevin can f**k himself #kevin can fuck himself #kcfh spoilers #the what could have been of it all #it is utterly pointless #but how not to wonder? #if only one or the other had said or done something slightly different #if only if only #they didn't #not then #but they could now #do they know that? #they could now

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

love tumblr literally everyones correct here (fucking despises the music in mean girls the musical)

#theres like 3-4ish good songs in mean girls and the rest is either meh or downright bad #ID RATHER BE ME AND STUPID WITH LOVE MY BELOATHEDS #and like people in youtube comment sections are like aaaaa its so relatable and i cant like get mad at someone at liking something because #they see themselves in it #but i personally cannot stand how utterly pointless bland messy or downright stupid the lyrics are #some of my friends like mean girls!! but do they know it is not good #anyways if u have strong feelings abt mean girls music hmu and we can fistfight over which are the 3-4ish good songs #malloy mean girls chronicles

[eraserheadadult]

i know like 3 ppl at best will read anything i post on my writing blog but thats fine i hope those 3 people find a twenty dollar bill on the ground.

#woof #part of my ‘’my art has got to get weirder or i’ll die’’ initiative #i love writing fanfiction but ​posting writing onthe internet thats not fanfiction #utterly pointless unless you are famous irl or something #anyway posting a new thing on there today! :)

[thedarkwizardisaevillizard]

Am I wrong in saying that Chloe Bourgeois and her shenanigans made her a very funny and engaging character back in season 1-2 (probably in season 3 as well)?

I miss those simpler times when she was more of a fully fledged and entertaining bully person with sassiness, dramatics, someone you could hate naturally and not a flanderized caricature of the devil himself with no clear writing direction.

#at least we have chlolila #miraculous ladybug #little rant i suppose #i hated her guts back in season 1 #hoped for changes to the status quo #disappointed and annoyed at something that destroys other characters and people time #ml critic #chloe bourgeois neutral #thanks to the video clips of utterly chloe for making me appreciate her comedic humor even more #S4 Chloe character is stale and in a limbo state #chlolila #iconic queen of mean #she lost all her charm and almost became pointless in the grand scheme of things of ML plot #hopefully she won't be a waste of everyone time anymore with better writing

[j-esbian]

i feel like there is so much to be said about drizzt do’urden’s religious views and how he’s a stand-in for culturally christian atheists. he grew up in a corrupt religious society and has religious trauma, so as a result he views all religion as bad. at first it seems like he’s going to have a “pagan finds jesus” story but he eventually rejects mielikki too, and imo, it always felt out of character that he followed her in the first place so i wasn’t surprised when he changed his mind. he was looking for a name to label his preexisting system of ideals, which feels very much like christians who claim “all that matters is that you live by the bible and live in a godly manner”. many religions are about teachings and traditions as much as they are about “just being a good person and following god’s vibes” (which i feel like is INCREDIBLY standard in american protestantism)

i think a lot of it comes down to the fact that the forgotten realms (and a lot of fantasy tbh) treats the gods as just Very Powerful People instead of the forces of nature personified (and again this is to be expected from a christian culture, where jesus was Just A Guy)

#ik i don’t really post about dnd lore bc most of it sucks ass and i prefer to ignore it lmao #only a very large sum of money could get me to reread those books tho lmao #it’s to be expected that they would apply morality to the gods when dnd has a morality system yk #it doesn’t work imo. but the way they approach religion feels like it was written by someone who is not religious and doesn’t rly understand #it’s the latent catholicism talking but religions aren’t synonymous with moral systems #it’s ethical guidance for sure but more than that #it’s belief AND practice AND also faith that you can’t know everything #the latter is kind of off the table in a world where the gods tangibly exist bc then it just becomes #‘the king is so powerful and better than you and has many secrets that he keeps for your protection’ #in this type of religious system it makes all clerics seem like sycophants or fools #and yet we also have drizzt who says the gods and their worship are pointless #(which is why i never really bought that he was bought into mielikki) #if you want to make a criticism about systems of power. most fantasy still has kings and queens #been thinkin about drizzt and the drow a lot lately after one of my side moots and i were talking lol #and just how. utterly garbage the official lore is. from all aspects #mine #dnd