People have this weird belief that if you’re critical of a system or tradition, then it must be because you failed to live up to that system or tradition. The idea of having a principled stance, regardless of whether or not *you* personally benefit from society accepting that stance, is foreign to so many people. And this belief is really fucking important for and beneficial to the elites of this country. If you can get the masses to equate criticizing you and the institutions you control with abject personal failure, congratulations, you’ve just made yourself immune to accountability
The Metro Series Germany-based photographer David Altrath shares the series The Metro that leads the viewer through Stockholm’s subway system. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have been built and designed them according to their ideas. The older stations were spiced up with beautiful statues, murals and installations. So spending a day in Stockholm’s metro is like visiting the world’s longest art exhibition.
your life is uprooted every 20 years in galactic-scale wars caused by a neverending blood feud between two tribes of space wizards
choose your preferred form of government:
a) laughably ineffectual and corrupt bureaucracy b) fascist dictatorship controlled by space warlocks c) exploitation by evil crime gangster who is probably also a slug
there are no other choices, sorry
“Hey have you heard from Gary? He hasn’t answered my emails for weeks”
“Oh yeah, his whole planet got blown up by the genocidal cyborg sorcerer who controls our entire military”
“But Samuel, what if I am one of the space wizards???” Let’s examine your options:
abducted as a baby and raised by monks, then die a 35-year-old virgin at the hands of a goddamn robot with tuberculosis
hunted down and shot to death by grunts in stupid helmets because space wizards are illegal right now (again)
go through a goth phase, then your eyes get all yucky and one of the monks finds you and cuts your head off
end up in a cult led by some evil wrinkled assface in a bathrobe who shoots lightning at you when he’s mad
Also most of the wildlife seems to be ravenous carnivores with tentacles and/or 6-inch teeth and every urban area has roughly 6,942 assassins per square kilometer
whoa this post fucking blew up overnight and the notes/replies are a TRIP, y’all:
people who want to live there anyway because they love Star Wars and/or space (valid)
people who want to live there anyway because they’re horny for the characters (also valid)
people who want to live there anyway because they want to die (mood)
people saying real life is just as bad (yikes)
TONS of people saying they’d rather live in the Star Trek universe (that was not the intent of this post but as a hardcore Trekkie I am so proud)
“but laser swords”
people pointing out the 40k universe is worse
no one can decide whether “robot with tuberculosis” is a reference to Darth Vader or General Grievous
a couple peeps pointed out the existential nightmare of droids, which I totally forgot to mention
one person tagged my post “ableist language” and I’m?? Which part??? The robot with tuberculosis???? WHAT
people are referencing deep EU shit like Joruus C’baoth and the Chiss, good work tumblr
Also hats off to @treebeered for pointing out the space wizards have a 5th option: Escape to bumfuck nowhere with nothing but your survivors guilt and the ghosts of your friends who only appear to call you an idiot
I feel like this post is a perfect microcosm of the Star Wars fandom on tumblr. Also, I second the “Chiss” and the “I’d rather live in the Star Trek universe” sentiments. Outbound Flight is like the Star Trek of the Star Wars EU books and I am here for it.
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I would like to point out that, given the massive differences in lifespan between them, it’s probably truer to say yhat "Chewie lives in a space van with his talking hairless cat”
Chewie’s talking hairless cat has a side business as your local weed spice dealer.
Batman: Fine. Did you get all that, Commissioner? Commissioner: Indeed I did, Batman. We’ll set up the tape telecast and have the dummy package of money waiting. See you at eleven tonight. Commissioner: Two fine men. So dissimilar in many respects and yet… yet so similar in others.
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