Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

also i think the prequels make a lot more sense when it becomes clear that the republic, as a whole, jumped the shark in morality way before palpatine declared himself emperor

it's why so many people just accepted the empire so cheerfully, why it was able to actually *happen* so easily.

and it also i think set up WHY everyone was pretty okay with the jedi disappearing. the population had put the jedi in the same category as clone troopers: disposable not-quite-real-people.

with that arc in mind, suddenly it makes a lot more sense that prequel anakin is there making choices like

"i have this terrible problem i am so worried about, who can i ask for help? ....WELL CLEARLY NOT OBI-WAN, THE MAN I CARE FOR DEEPLY AND CONSIDER A BROTHER, NOR ANY OF THE JEDI WHATSOEVER, LOL"

they kinda got there with yoda offering Fuckall Of Substance in the movies but it does answer that big plot hole of "why wouldn't anakin just ask obi-wan for help"

yeah it also is a show for kid's so it gets wacky but that's kinda star wars innit, you take the meditations on morality with the hijinx

srsly, there's an arc where obi-wan fakes his death, DOESN'T TELL ANAKIN, sets it up where ANAKIN SEES AND BLAMES HIMSELF, and like at no point does anyone step in at seeing anakin's grief and rage to go "maybe we should... tell him, you guys? maybe? i mean he's on a roaring rampage of revenge but... naaaah we don't need to tell him, it'll be fiiiiine!"

i see some Prequel Discourse and i'm just gonna chime in and say

the clone wars tv series (3d specifically, though the 2d one is also just basically art worth watching) does a whole lot of the explaining the prequels should have done.

it sets up things like:

-Anakin being driven to the dark side by being repeatedly let down by those around him and deeply traumatized by loss

-the Republic had it comin', made very clear by meditations on clone troopers as *actual people*

"but harp, didn't you have to take a foreign language to get your college degree?"

well yes. i took latin. it is not as useful for scoping out online drama as you might imagine?

monolingual american problems: seeing a cw in english, expecting something juicy, clicking the readmore, and it's all in french/spanish/dutch/any other myriad language that is totally beyond me

i realize that online communities operate in dog years but also seeing 2008 referred to as ancient history is making me feel ready to dissolve into dust

yay my doggo is feeling much better

favoring one of her back legs just a little still, but not putting no weight on it/etc., and very happily bouncing around

i guess my anxious little dog had to come get my spoonie issues too huh lmfao

listen i don't agree with cringe culture as a concept, but also - why is everyone for 'finding cringe' focusing on teenage girls n shit

i mean have you ever seen the profile of your typical social media anime-girl-avatar bigot

if you converted the cringe into power you'd solve the energy crisis then and there!!!

ah fuck that was a definite MOMENT of my soul being yote slightly out of my body by the muscle relaxer

ahha aa i'm goin to mars for as ec yall want anything

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz mint is an exceedingly well designed character

honestly if my shoulder were cooperating i would be drawing summer mint hanging out at the beach with my catgirl from ffxiv... i feel like green hair plus purple hair equals cute beachside photoshoot for some reason

...yeah that's pretty accurate

i did scroll back a bit so it wasn't just oxbox however

what can i say, im eating dinner,

well, if you're wondering how i'm doing today:

i just realized that today is tuesday and not wednesday and am elated

@HerraBRE @purism@librem.one i mean, if i thought they were going to do an actual good job of moderating, it would be a lot less of a problem

however they've removed all guidelines of what is abusive, said they'll only pump the breaks on stuff that's actually law-breaking, and this is on top of other behavior - like wanting to remove the report feature entirely, their chat client having google analytics in it for awhile (and, to me, crucially, NOT TELLING CUSTOMERS), etc - idk if they can be trusted.

of course i'm sure that in two months everyone will have changed their avatars and usernames and i'll be Completely Lost again but *until then*

kind of like, y'know, jogging. i have no interest in jogging and so on but it's always lovely to see a neighbor out and about doing his regular jog.

community! or... something!

the fedi timeline is feeling less like a bunch of strangers and more like people i've seen around. just kinda how you're like "oh yeah, there's somebody who goes to walk his yorkie in the afternoons, i know him."

things like... oh hey, there's the solarpunk person whose pronouns idk yet with truly magnificent hair. oh hey, there's the fella with the clown fighting game. do i like clown fighting games? well no, but i support his follow-through of artistic vision dangit! and it's good to see.

anyway it's taken months but i do feel like i'm settling into mastodon a bit.

i definitely miss my community friend-group on tumblr, a lot. i might pop my head in and see if there are any discords to scoop me up in. it's natural; most of those people i've known for... jesus, 8 years at least, maybe 10. we all landed on tumblr after being ousted from fucking foopets lmfao.

but it's nice to like... know the neighborhood a little more, and feel comfortable in it.