hi i’m kitty i don’t know anything about star wars whoops
“What am I looking at?”
Lando leaned forward and laced his fingers together. “My taxes.” He paused, then gestured to Han. “Our taxes,” he corrected, with an unnecessarily rakish grin.
Leia squinted at the datapad. “Tax fraud.”
“Oh, no no no. Absolutely not. My accounting is impeccable.”
“I don’t see how it could be,” she said. “He’s a smuggler.”
“Hey,” Han began. He shut his mouth when Leia leveled him with a look. He opened it again to persist, but saw that Lando had a shit-eating grin as he watched their argument-in-potentia. Han glowered at Lando, and made him grin wider. Han huffed, hooking his thumbs on his belt.
“Legally, he’s a long-haul transport navigator,” Lando said, and Leia snorted. “Because he has a spouse at home—me—he qualifies for a higher income deduction as well as a few credits unique to the profession.”
“Wait, credits?” Han asked.
“Because he’s my dependent,” Lando continued, ignoring him.
“The hell I am.”
“That puts me in a unique legal position—not many people know about this, but in order to incentivize long-haul transportation, a spouse who claims a long-haul transport navigator as a dependent qualifies as a household caretaker, which is a kind of head of household that’s able to claim significantly more not only for themselves but for any other dependent spouses they may happen to have.”
“But his transport isn’t legal,” Leia said, fascinated. Han was pretending to understand the conversation, which would have been more convincing if he weren’t already fiddling with a kinetic sculpture on one of Lando’s shelves.
“It’s art.”
“What?”
“As far as my taxes are concerned,” Lando said, “Han transports art. They can’t prove that it isn’t. And I’m always careful to get the valuation right.”
“How do you know what I transport?” Han asked, indignant. A piece came off the sculpture in his hands. He looked down at it, then looked at Lando. He made a hasty attempt to reattach the piece. The entire sculpture collapsed. Han took his hands from it, and attempted to lean casually against the shelves with his elbow to block it from view.
“They call me,” Lando said.
“No,” Leia gasped, delighted.
“Yes,” Lando said, grinning again. “They know I’m his partner. They know I can’t be sure I’m getting my fair share unless I know exactly what he’s getting. So they call me.”
“What!” Han stood straighter, his brow furrowed and his face all twisted into an incredulous pout of anger.
“They might have been able to catch him smuggling,” Lando said to Leia, still not addressing Han.
“They would never,” Han sneered.
“But they’re never going to get him on tax evasion. There’s no way he would have been paying taxes on his own.”
“It never even occurred to me that he would,” Leia said.
“I’m right here,” Han reminded them.
“So you can see why I can’t divorce him,” Lando said.
“I don’t follow,” Leia said.
“My household caretaker status is the foundation of all of this,” he said, pointing to the datapad. “I divorce Han and the whole thing collapses.”
“Collapses how?” Leia asked, narrowing her eyes.
“Cloud City goes bankrupt.”
Han choked.
“How many people have you married?” Leia demanded.
“Leia, you know that you’re my favorite wife-in-law,” Lando said, “but I don’t think I’m comfortable discussing that aspect of my personal life.”
The pile of former-sculpture slid from the shelf, and clattered to the floor.
“Were there any straight people in this period of history?”
“Well…obviously
speaking, there must have been some people that nowadays we would
describe as ‘straight’, but we have to be very careful about applying
modern standards of sexuality to the past. I’m sure if you asked anybody
at the time if they were straight, they would have been very confused.
And there’s something quite dangerous about forcing identities onto
people who might not consider themselves that way. You also need to keep
in mind that some things that today would seem ‘straight’ to us – like
getting married, having children, etc. – were just the way things were
back then. Nobody would have thought twice about doing that, including
non-straight people. And there were plenty of people who undoubtedly got
married, had very intensely emotional connections with their spouse,
but then went off to go see their lover. Again, sexuality is a very
complex thing, so I wouldn’t presume to state definitively that anybody
was ‘straight’, and especially not without good, solid evidence that
they were exclusively heterosexual. To presume otherwise would not only
be making a lot of assumptions, it might even just promote harmful,
overdone stereotypes about what makes someone ‘have’ to be straight, you
know? So, yes, technically speaking there were, but I don’t see any
reason to specifically consider straight people historically.”
It is believed that Spanish or Portuguese are most important languages of Latinidad. However, there are millions of people that speak many indigenous languages throughout Latin
America. Spanish and Portuguese languages are one
thing that unites most of Latin America, but those languages were imposed on the region through European colonization. It’s one reason some Mexican writers have
rejected Spanish to write in indigenous languages.
There are some apps that can can be used to help you learn some
indigenous languages of Latin America. Unfortunately, there aren’t many, but here are a few resources:
1. Náhuatl – With an estimated 1.5 million speakers, Náhuatl is the most commonly spoken indigenous language in Mexico.
2.Mixtec – The Mixtec languages belong to the Otomanguean language family of
Mexico and they are spoken by over half a million people, and can include up to 50 different dialects.
3.Quechua –
Quechua is one of the most widely spoken indigenous languages in the
Americas and encompasses many different dialects. The Quechua people primarily live in the Andes and highland regions of South America and include nearly 8 million people.
Habla Quechua by PromPerú: available on iOS and Android (available in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish)
4. Purépecha –
The Purépecha or Tarascans are a group of indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico. The languages is spoken by a quarter-million people.
5. Jopará (Guaraní) – Jopará is a dialect of the Guaraní indigenous language and is spoken in Paraguay. The majority of Paraguayans speak some form of this dialect, as it is a mixture of Guaraní and Spanish loan words.
2. Instituto de
Investigación de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) – the IIAP has created apps for learning indigenous languages from the Amazon region of Peru and Brazil. Though these apps are geared for children, they are helpful for beginning to familiarize yourself with the languages: available on Android (Spanish only)
After doing extensive research, these were the only free apps I was able to find, but if you know of any other free apps for learning indigenous languages of Latin America, please add on!
“Cassian. My voice is acceptable as-is,” K2SO spoke in a low, gravely, warbled voice. Despite the obvious insistence, K2 sounded factual rather than persuasive.
Cassian didn’t look up from his datapad as he kept scrolling through different voice options. “I want to make sure people hear your voice and realize that you’re not actually part of the Empire anymore.” As he continued to filter through possible firmware options to install on K2′s system, he sighed- half out of boredom, half out of frustration. “All of these options are so…bare,” he muttered, shaking his head in disapproval.
“This voice is the bare minimum of accepted standards for communicating with Imperial officers,” K2 said. “There is no need to install new vocal firmware.”
“Wouldn’t you prefer to speak more like an organic sentient?”
“I am a droid,” K2 responded with the same level, robotic warble. “Speaking like an organic sentient carries no benefit.”
I especially love this because the first tear-away piece also sort of looks like when Cassian is running away after killing Tivik and those two stormtroopers.
I just had to tell someone “I understand that you were curious, but sometimes you have to put your curiosity aside for other people’s mental well-being.”
After being harrassed on the street, and having a public run-in with a manipulative emotional abuser, I do not feel like I should have to calmly explain why it is upsetting to be asked if it was maybe my fault while relating these events to another friend.
(And if he’s so d*mned curious, maybe don’t be texting while I answer your questions, so that you know that these are two *separate* incidents that happened within 15 minutes of each other?)
a young adult novel series where a girl hides her gender to become a knight but in the end it turns out theyre all women pretending to be men so the rest of the books are just abt lesbianism and swords
Rebellions are built on hope 