If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to vote not knowing if you’ll get to do it again any time soon, I can tell you it is soul-wrenching. Things feel especially fucked up, since my own parents only got to vote for president for the first time when they were close to my age.
Never, ever take that right for granted if you have it.
nb: still haven’t read/seen anything related to Rogue One except for the actual film. i also haven’t seen the Original Trilogy in years. headcanons are subject to change.
I’ve read around some people’s headcanons/stories/excited blabbering about (if they had survived) Jyn and Cassian having to deal with jealousy of other people – eg Cassian regarding Jyn+Han or Lando, Jyn regarding Cassian+Leia.
And I am getting on this train because this trope is MY JAM.
Firstly, we can all agree (and if not: you ain’t changing my heart and soul) that Jyn and Cassian have basically tunnel-visioned their entire sexuality into each other post-Scarif (aka Jynsexual, Cassiansexual) (new dating website: find your soulmate through mutual goals, trauma, rescues, orbiting bodies, and heart-eyes!) and that if they notice other people, it’s purely from an aesthetic point of view. AND that they are in an entirely, absolutely, unhealthily-from-95%-of-people’s-perspectives codependent relationship where they feel their skin begin to crawl the moment they haven’t heard from each other in three hours.
And yet! And yet! Despite their whole-hearted, titanium-strength trust in each other, alas their little hearts can be such soft things that expect pain. Between Cassian still fighting with the idea of having something after having given up everything he had for decades and Jyn re-developing her sense of self-esteem (she was abandoned multiple times by incredibly important people in her life; as if she feels good about herself), well… feelings of romantic inadequacy is in the air, my friends.
Me: yeah so I just don’t have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Don’t
Her: why don’t you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together
Me:
Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You don’t have to make a sandwich.
Me:
Me: what
Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesn’t mean it’s Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery.
i used to go days without showering because seeing my body was so upsetting that i would end up spiraling and then i realized i could simply turn the lights out. it took some getting used to but i’ve been showering with the lights off for years and it’s now one of my favorite parts of my day.
do whatever you want nothing is real and there’s no need to inflict unnecessary suffering on yourself just to try to seem “normal”
I love this post
Hmmm
These kinds of loopholes make life so. Much. Better.
One of my favorite stories is this lady had extremely bad OCD. Every day she’d be late to work because she was convinced that her hair dryer was going to burn down the house so would always have to turn around and check it. Multiple times a day even. A bunch of doctors tied to “fix” her of that fear, until one day she got a doctor that suggested she bring the hair dryer with her. Other doctors were annoyed, saying that wasn’t a the correct way to help, but she gave it a go. When she had that fear, she’d look over and see the hair dryer unplugged in the seat next to her and was able to carry on. I think it’s such a perfect example of actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard.
This afternoon, after the Republican Party cobbled together enough votes to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, thus putting him over the top, I pointed out that he could quickly be removed if the Democrats win control of the Senate next month. Some observers mistakenly thought I was referring to removal by impeachment vote, and pointed out that 67 Senate votes would be needed. But I’m talking about something that would only take 51 Senate votes.
Over the past two years we’ve seen multiple Republican-controlled Senate committees make criminal referrals against witnesses who allegedly lied under oath during their testimony. If the Democrats take the majority in the Senate, even by only one vote, they’ll take control of the Senate Judiciary Committee – where Brett Kavanaugh just finished committing multiple counts of easily proven perjury on multiple topics. In such case the Democrats can, and will, make a criminal referral against Kavanaugh.
If you’re tempted to think this might sound like some kind of mere hypothetical fantasy, I can’t stress enough that the Senate doesn’t hesitate in general to make these kinds of criminal referrals. And this time around, Donald Trump wouldn’t be able to place any restrictions on the investigation, because it wouldn’t be his investigation to begin with. We’d likely see Kavanaugh indicted by a grand jury and then arrested. There’s a reason why Donald Trump and his White House placed such emphasis on trying to prevent Kavanaugh’s past drinking habits from being investigated by the FBI. It’s not that the drinking would have disqualified him; it’s that it would have nailed him for perjury.
The big question is whether the Democrats can win the Senate next month. The Democrats would need to keep all of their existing seats, plus win two Republican seats from the races in Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada. Or, if the Democrats lose one seat, they would need to take three Republican seats, and so on. This would be tricky, but doable. The magic number in the Senate for ousting Brett Kavanaugh isn’t necessarily 67; it’s 51.
Rebellions are built on hope 