rapid-artwork:

fedoraspooky:

sir-p-audax:

bogleech:

did-you-kno:

Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs – so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source

This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.

Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.

This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.

Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.

How is this?

it all makes sense now

Hey guys, can you please, PLEASE stop pretending the clones are actually children? Please? They’re not children, they are MEN, they’ve said it a million times through the show and you still don’t understand.

You say they’re actually ten? Yes it’s true, but remember that they grow up two times faster than a normal human. It’s not like they missed the period of being kids, yes they spent it training and training, but they WERE kids. They didn’t just jumped to be adults, they might be 10, but they have the mind and the body of an adult, so please stop pretending they’re kids.

You know what do remind me of when you say they’re children you have to take care of? You remind me of Spanish conquerors when they arrived to America to colonize it. It was the EXACT same mentality they had towards native americans. How so? They thought the indigenous people were inferior to them because they were considering to be like kids who needed to be taken care of. That’s what you remind me of when you say “omg the clones are children and I need to protect”

And just in case it isn’t clear enough:

THE CLONES ARE NOT CHILDREN, THEY ARE MEN.

maulusque:

arctrooperfivesbutt:

The Jedi way

ok public poll: is anakin being serious here or is he more like “iT Is noT the jEDI wAY” like that one spongebob meme

Funny answer: Both lol

Serious answer: The Jedi Code was the only thing Anakin had left. Palpatine had been tempting for so many long and had finally revealed himself as the Sith Lord. Anakin didn’t followed him immediately because that wouldn’t have been “the Jedi way”. Then at this moment, Anakin realized, what’s the real difference between the Jedi and the Sith? Both were willing to kill an “unarmed person” (which we know it’s false).

Anakin was in desperate need of help. He had asked the Jedi for help when he talked with Yoda and the only thing he got was basically a “let that person die, there’s nothing you can do about it, if you’re afraid of losing them, then you’re taking the path of the dark side, you’re greedy for not wanting to let them go” (paraphrased, but that’s almost the same thing Yoda told him). And then Palpatine comes and tell him “Hey! There’s a way to stop people from dying! The Jedi won’t teach you, but I can”. Anakin realizes Palpatine is the Sith and goes to the Jedi and then this happens.

Anakin chose to follow Palpatine because he didn’t had any hope left in the Jedi.

Source: arctrooperfivesbutt

arctrooperfivesbutt:

padawanlost:

for @arctrooperfivesbutt

Oh, the pain!!! This hurt so much that it feels like the blaster had also gone right through my heart

Well, this might proof that I’m still salty about all this Anakin discourse that has been going on lately. But honestly? All the Anakin haters can fight me tbh.

I’ve seen many people complain saying that why Anakin didn’t put so much effort into helping Fives as he did with Ahsoka. But let’s check the facts. The Ahsoka thing probably took many days, since she was accused, and during all the time she spent escaping, which gave Anakin enough time to investigate and find the true guilty. Now, with Fives, it probably only took a few hours since he tried to kill Palpatine and Fives gave Kix the coordinates for Anakin to find him. There was no time to investigate, they needed to act quickly or Fives would have been captured by the Coruscant Guard.

When Anakin arrives, he’s only with Rex. He could have taken a clone squadron with them, but he didn’t, just as Fives had asked him. Then again, when Fives asks them to lower their weapons, he gives Rex the order to do it, only trusting Fives word about him being unarmed.

“We’re here to help you, Fives. Just come with us. Let us take you back to the temple” Anakin never intended to take Fives to prison or to whatever place they might have taken him. He wanted to take him to the Jedi temple, where he would have been safer.

When Fives tell them that he was framed, Anakin looks down, like he’s thinking about the whole situation. Then he asked for evidence. Here, we know that what Fives is saying is true, but they don’t, they believe that Fives is a dangerous man because he took out his chip, that’s what they have been told and they probably were certain of it because Fives tried to kill the “innocent” Chancellor. But Anakin says “Let’s get you some help first. Then we can review everything. It’ll be okay, Fives. We’ll sort this out”. Despite not believing in what Fives was saying, Anakin still wanted to help.

The only moment Anakin looses his patience is when Fives tell them that the Chancellor is involved in the plot. “The Chancellor is incapable of what you claim” he says. But let’s remember that Anakin has being manipulated by Palpatine, since he was a kid, into believing he’s a good man and a good friend of his.

Then the Coruscant Guard arrives and this is Anakin’s face when he sees them:

You can barely see it because the focus of the scene is in Fives. But he’s worried he’s scared for Fives. Then again, the scene focuses on Fives, but if you look at Anakin right before Fives tries to take Rex’s blasters, you see Anakin trying to stop him from doing it.

Then just see the gifs above to see how sad he was. And if you want more proof? Look at this:

You can’t convince me that he “didn’t care”

But then some people might say “why didn’t he investigate afterwards?”. He doesn’t because he trusts Palpatine. Palpatine tell them that it was a parasite and that it was the only cause of the “sickness” Fives and Tup had. Then Yoda and Mace say that the situation is over, so what else can we expect Anakin to do? The Jedi council stopped the investigation because Palpatine gave them the “solution”. There’s nothing else to do.

If we’re going to hate somebody, let’s hate Palpatine.

Anyway… after saying this, I’ll go back to keep crying about Fives because this scene hurt me too much.

@guineapigzwei yes they should have, but I think they didn’t bc, first, the plot was already established, order 66 had to happen. Second, the Jedi arrogance stop them from seeing the darkness behind all the situation. And third, the blind trust the Jedi order had in the Chancellor. They stopped investigating because Palpatine gave them the “solution” to the problem.

They were basically told “the cause was a parasite, but you don’t have to worry anymore because we’ve developed a vaccine for other clones so this won’t happen again” and they believed it. The Jedi needed the clone army to win the war and now that they know that the problem is “solved”, then why they should worry?

And the Jedi had more than one opportunity to stop order 66 from happening. I mean, Kix managed to discover the plot and he was just a one man! Imagine what the Jedi could have done if they had believed in Fives’ words!

Source: padawanlost

padawanlost:

for @arctrooperfivesbutt

Oh, the pain!!! This hurt so much that it feels like the blaster had also gone right through my heart

Well, this might proof that I’m still salty about all this Anakin discourse that has been going on lately. But honestly? All the Anakin haters can fight me tbh.

I’ve seen many people complain saying that why Anakin didn’t put so much effort into helping Fives as he did with Ahsoka. But let’s check the facts. The Ahsoka thing probably took many days, since she was accused, and during all the time she spent escaping, which gave Anakin enough time to investigate and find the true guilty. Now, with Fives, it probably only took a few hours since he tried to kill Palpatine and Fives gave Kix the coordinates for Anakin to find him. There was no time to investigate, they needed to act quickly or Fives would have been captured by the Coruscant Guard.

When Anakin arrives, he’s only with Rex. He could have taken a clone squadron with them, but he didn’t, just as Fives had asked him. Then again, when Fives asks them to lower their weapons, he gives Rex the order to do it, only trusting Fives word about him being unarmed.

“We’re here to help you, Fives. Just come with us. Let us take you back to the temple” Anakin never intended to take Fives to prison or to whatever place they might have taken him. He wanted to take him to the Jedi temple, where he would have been safer.

When Fives tell them that he was framed, Anakin looks down, like he’s thinking about the whole situation. Then he asked for evidence. Here, we know that what Fives is saying is true, but they don’t, they believe that Fives is a dangerous man because he took out his chip, that’s what they have been told and they probably were certain of it because Fives tried to kill the “innocent” Chancellor. But Anakin says “Let’s get you some help first. Then we can review everything. It’ll be okay, Fives. We’ll sort this out”. Despite not believing in what Fives was saying, Anakin still wanted to help.

The only moment Anakin looses his patience is when Fives tell them that the Chancellor is involved in the plot. “The Chancellor is incapable of what you claim” he says. But let’s remember that Anakin has being manipulated by Palpatine, since he was a kid, into believing he’s a good man and a good friend of his.

Then the Coruscant Guard arrives and this is Anakin’s face when he sees them:

You can barely see it because the focus of the scene is in Fives. But he’s worried he’s scared for Fives. Then again, the scene focuses on Fives, but if you look at Anakin right before Fives tries to take Rex’s blasters, you see Anakin trying to stop him from doing it.

Then just see the gifs above to see how sad he was. And if you want more proof? Look at this:

You can’t convince me that he “didn’t care”

But then some people might say “why didn’t he investigate afterwards?”. He doesn’t because he trusts Palpatine. Palpatine tell them that it was a parasite and that it was the only cause of the “sickness” Fives and Tup had. Then Yoda and Mace say that the situation is over, so what else can we expect Anakin to do? The Jedi council stopped the investigation because Palpatine gave them the “solution”. There’s nothing else to do.

If we’re going to hate somebody, let’s hate Palpatine.

Anyway… after saying this, I’ll go back to keep crying about Fives because this scene hurt me too much.

praetor-canis:

padawanlost:

“[Anakin] weighed Padmé’s life against the Jedi Order. It was no contest”. Matthew Stover’s Revenge of the Sith

Vader’s thoughts: Space Cult that constantly uses me as a sharp weapon but devalues and demonizes my humanity? Doesn’t trust me with anything? Tells me to rejoice at my wife’s death? Versus Sith master that has been an understanding mentor and offers a way to save my lovely wife? No contest at all.

Don’t forget that Anakin did asked for help from the Jedi, when he went to talk to Yoda and he basically got a “lol, just let that person die, there’s nothing you can do, stop being a bitch about it” and then Palpatine appears and tell him “Hey! There’s this thing that the Jedi don’t want you to know and it will help you save the ones you love, even save them from dying”

Anakin didn’t want power for him. He only wanted to save Padme and his baby

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arctrooperfivesbutt:

Fives!!! Pushing people is rude! (.)

STOP!

All the things you mentioned about Anakin (killing younglings, torturing people, etc) is what makes him an EXCELLENT character. To put it in another way, we can hate the actions he makes, but that’s what makes him such an interesting character. I might dislike Anakin as a person sometimes (because there are moments where I really love him!!) but I ALWAYS love him as a character, because of all the complexity it has, and that makes him one of my favorite characters I really hope this makes sense

padawanlost:

arctrooperfivesbutt replied to your post “All the things you mentioned about Anakin (killing younglings,…”

padawanlost:

Exactly!
Anakin makes terrible decisions but that doesn’t mean he’s a terrible character
or that we are terrible people for enjoying him. His ability to go great things
AND terrible things is what makes him the most well developed character in the
franchise. And we try to pretend he didn’t do either, that he was either
completely good or completely evil we end up denying what makes him a great
character.

Yes! Imo the bad thing about the fandom is that
most people tend to look at things in “black and white” instead of all
the different shades of gray that exist (and then complain about the
character doing the same thing). Anakin’s terrible AND great acts is
what makes me love him as a character.
We can’t just look at all the bad things about him, because even in his
darkest times, as Vader, he still had light (good) in him. THAT WAS THE
POINT OF ALL THE SAGA!!!

Turn your handwriting into a font

traumbelrum:

ringo-obsession:

I discovered this by accident and I thought it was really funny and cute:

1. Download the template from MyScriptFont website

2. Write out the alphabet and numbers in your style, using a black marker (felt pen). This is mine:

3. Scan the template
4. Upload to the MyScriptFont website, name it, set the format and click “send file”
5. Download it to your computer and install

And check out my result!

reblogging for writers that want to invent their own font.

arctrooper-ross:

I feel like someone (maybe a person of color) needs to re-write the clones and their narrative. This idea that if it weren’t for the chips, they were in love with the Jedi and had no qualms with them is inaccurate, and insulting to people who are actually descendants of slaves and or colonized people. Like the writers don’t even realize how wrong it is to make the clones so attached to people that oppress them, while implying that the only reason the clones would ever think twice about the Jedi is because of the chips. Like I’m so upset with how Wolffe’s narrative was treated? let this man hate the jedi for what they’ve done to him and his brothers. let his distrust of them be valid!

The writers did not know how to write the clones, and I mean none of the writers. These people clearly cannot put themselves in the shoes of an oppressed individual. They always have to insert some hidden feelings of love and respect for the Jedi (or not hidden at all) and thus the fandom interprets it as impossible that the clones could ever possibly have ill feelings for the jedi because of the chips! Like i pray for a writer who actually knows how to write the clones respectfully because i have just about had it.

Yes! And like OP said, Wolffe’s narrative is completely valid!. Here in Peru, after almost 200 years since we got our independence, we’re still seeing the effects that colonization and enslavement had in our people.

These things don’t go away easily, and expecting the clones, specially the ones who actually took their chips out, still having a high respect for the Jedi is just unrealistic.

Let me explain some of this (sorry in advance because I’m not an expert in history), in colonial times, there were laws that were supposed to protect native people. Of course that never happened because native people were enslaved and if they didn’t want to die, they just had stay quiet and obey. And apart from these “laws” not being followed, they treated native people as they were kids, they were considered “underage, not able to think for themselves, we (the conquerors) have the duty to teach them what to do and who to follow because obviously they can’t think for themselves” and this is just disgusting. Native people were totally capable of taking care on their own, despite what the conquerors said. If it wasn’t for their constant fight, we would have never gained independence, it was thanks to THEM, these native people, that we are free now.

But, like I said, these things don’t go away easily. The effects that we’re still seeing are mostly racism, exploitation of peasants (most of them directly descendants from native people), “forgetting” about the native communities that still exist and not giving them the opportunity to have a better life, government making laws that benefit foreigners than our own people.

But I also have to mention that most of these people were so brainwashed that they believed that the conquerors did a great job here and that they were the heroes. This opinion is divided half in half between the people, but most will agree that the way they treated us was absolutely disgusting.

Now let’s take this to the clones case, they were also enslaved, made to believe that the Jedi were their saviors, were killed doing something THEY never chose to do. And they’re telling me that they are expected to admire the Jedi? That they still want to keep fighting for them? The Jedi, who were supposed to protect every living being, and that slavery was something they would not tolerate (remember the “laws” I mentioned earlier), but still only used the clones as objects? Does anybody really thinks that the clones would still admire the Jedi? Sure, they will have SOME respect for the ones who treated them somewhat better than others, but that’s NOT the same thing as admiring them and consider them perfect heroes.

Imo, most clones would be disgusted by thinking about the time they served the Jedi. The way they were treated by the Jedi, was disgusting. Even the ones who were told that they were real people who deserved better, still were thrown into battles expecting them to sacrifice themselves so the Jedi could live.

So, no, the writers didn’t took any of this into consideration while writing the clones. They wanted us to make us believe that the Jedi were always perfect, and to do that, they had to erase all the suffering the clones had to go through and erase all the job they did BY THEMSELVES. They didn’t need the Jedi to be great soldiers, they didn’t need the Jedi to win battles, they didn’t need the Jedi to discover the chip plot! They didn’t need the Jedi to take care of them because they are completely capable of taking care of themselves. And to think they did need the Jedi, is to have the mentality of a conqueror, an enslaver.