Not just making it illegal, but making being gay punishable with death.
This is one of the many reasons why I walk by every single red bucket in the run-up to Christmas. They’re not getting my money, I don’t care how nice the people ringing bells are.
Ever since the time they threatened to close all their soup kitchens in NYC if a law that did something as simple as allow companies to extend spousal benefits to their employee’s same-sex domestic partners I have refused to buy from them or donate to them.
It’s that time of year again! In case people don’t know… the Salvation Army is shitty peoples.
Also, the married women are not paid (and therefore can’t qualify for assistance if they should ever divorce, etc). And worth “of course” less than a man.
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In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man.
I think there should be a difference between ignoring Canon as “ignoring the events that happened in canon in order to have a happier ending” and ignoring Canon as “totally ignoring this character’s personality/talents/abilities and changing them to the point of having a completely new character who happens to have the same name as the one in canon”
My 19th Century Character Generator got unexpectedly popular yesterday, so I decided to make a special Halloween edition: the 19th Century Gothic Character Trope Generator!
Reblog with your results in the tags if you’d like — I’d love to see!
the 501st is a battallion, not a company, and has been for some time now.
anakin has no idea how rank works, to the point where it’s a running joke in the “company”, but also sometimes actively detrimental or causing his troopers to be undervalued or given jobs below their positions. appo was actually a pretty high-ranking lieutenant on umbara, but was still a sergeant in name.
which is also why rex, despite being in command of as many troops as a commander and doing all the active duties of one, is still referred to as a captain.
some time after umbara, appo becomes essentially a captain, in command of one of the companies ( though likely not torrent ), but he’s now called a lieutenant in name for the same reason.
a bit before rex and ahsoka are both gone, someone finally notices the disrepancies here ( possibly appo, again, finally straightening out years worth of shoddy or unfiled paperwork ), and fixes the rank system, so rex is, for a short time, called a commander, and appo is a captain.
which is how he became a commander, by the time of revenge of the sith – he didn’t rankjump from sergeant to commander, it was a fairly natural promotion chain. also, lieutenant is a rank we’ve seen given to cc class clones before, with thire, so it starts to actually make sense why appo, also a cc-clone, is in that position on umbara.
Appo just about becomes an alcoholic trying to fix all the paperwork and unfuck the 501st’s personnel database. When Anakin was inputting his officer’s names to match their numbers, he apparently couldn’t understand the difference between the “rank” field and the “name” field. So he put Rex’s name in as “Captain Rex”. and his rank in as “Captain”. Appo doesn’t have the admin authority to edit the names, just the ranks. So he sighs and switches Rex’s official rank to Commander.
During the few days that it takes for the promotion to make its way through the bureaucratic machine, everyone has a grand old time addressing Rex as “Captain Captain Rex”. then it finally comes through and Rex gets to introduce himself as “Commander Captain Rex”.
Fun fact, I’ve had this Aayla since she was brand new! She even came with a nice little stand with Felucia’s terrain.
I almost didn’t see Bly laying underneath all the older figures, but I saw the visor and happily paid the $4 to bring him home! 😀 Now Aayla has a friend to stand with.
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