Ian McKellen  says that all gay people should be trans allies

Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.

The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports. 

Sir Ian said: 

This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes. 

Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender. 

He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.

The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.

Top photo from The Talks.

1. KING SHIT

2. yes

3.”common or garden gay”

And here we find a rare instance of a Humans Are Space Orcs post from Tiktok that isn't an AI voice reading a reddit post over a minecraft video.

king under the mountain (at least he was, for like two days)

Meet the Muses from the upcoming West End stage version of Disney's Hercules.

"Zero to Hero" is an amazing song and these ladies do it ALL the justice!

So that video with the montage of Obi-Wan 'sneaking' around the Death Star just. Man.

What always gets me is that he isn't even particularly sneaking, he's just wandering around looking confidently lost and just a touch confused. He could just say he's an elderly man looking for the bathroom; his son ranks highly here and brought him along for whatever reason, and he got turned around looking for room his son got him.

Tatooine aged him enough that he could convincingly claim dementia.

He just. He just wanders around. He's barely hiding. I know it's the Force but he's just VIBING. He looks like he barely cares if anyone spots him! He looks like he's almost supposed to be there. Like he didn't see a security cordon and wandered into the employees-only section of a museum, but it's not even the humidity-controlled storage of priceless artifacts, it's the security breakroom. That's the level of out-of-place energy he's exuding. Innocently not quite right.

The Stormtroopers could literally just. Look at each other. Like. Yeah he's probably not some important guy's somewhat addled father, but what if this is like. Tarkin's dad or something. What if they arrest this guy and it's a Moff's dad. Tarkin could get away with bringing his father to the Death Star despite security concerns. What if that's what's going on?

(Joke's on you, troopers, that's Vader's dad.)

More fics where Ben Kenobi gets spotted by a squad on patrol, and just asks if anyone could lead him to the wash closet, letting someone guide him by the arm as if he really is just a nursing home escapee, and then knocks out the trooper and escapes once they've turned the corner and gotten away from the others.

Well now I'm imagining Vader comes along and has a moment where he just...genuinely thinks Obi-Wan has somehow gotten dementia. Because he's not reacting right! He should be lighting his lightsaber or running, not puttering along with dazed eyes and smiling at him and greeting him as his son (obi-wan is just going DENY DENY DENY in his head. The poor trooper escorting him is frozen cause - is - is this - is this VADER'S dad???!!!)

Vader ends up eventually realising Obi-Wan is faking, but it genuinely fooled him for a moment! (And also freaked him out cause it's OBI-WAN! Obi-Wan isn't supposed to be old or white haired or have dementia! This is all wrong!)

I now really want a fic of Anikin finding Obi-Wan, supposedly with dementia, and is like, awesome, my dad loves me again and I can totally convince him to be on my side as long as I make sure he doesn't get lost or forget his meds (is obi-won taking anything for this? He has to be right? Can Vader add his dad to his shitty imperial health care plan?). Obi-Wan would be a much better emporer than Palpatine. Not as good as Padme obviously, but Obi is the only family member left and he seems to have forgotten about the whole genicide thing, so he loves me again and everything will be good.

Meanwhile Luke and the gang are doing there own thing. Death Star gets destroyed as normal while Obi-Wan is off ship being bullied into a dementia clinic. Months later we get the awkward family reunion of Luke, Vader (dad?), and Obi-Wan (grandpa????? (Luke can kinda let the not telling him about Vader thing go, but Ben not telling him he is his grandfather is a completely different issue. Ben was right there his whole life!))

(And then there is the whole Luke and Leia situation that Obi-Wan now has resolve while still keeping up his dementia disguise without putting the kids in any more danger, if such a thing is even possible with skywalkers)

Gotta pull the kids in close for a hug and whisper "I'm not actually senile, they just bought the act and then I couldn't get out of it. Get me outta here." in their ears.

#Vader dragging his senile dad like a cat chipping for human to follow them #and Vader just shows him the war room and Obiwan is just like ^u^ 'thats good my dear. what does [x thing] do?' #Vader 'it connects me to the Emperor who happens to be my shitty boss.' (via @doodlers-journal)

#I'm thinking more about Leia#after the whole kenobi show#she's probably like#'if vader is my bio dad and ben kenobi is vaders dad#that means Ben Kenobi is my grandpa which explains why this sad old man risked everything to save me that one time'#Leia: 'Holy Shit' (via @rusherbooks)

I MEAN. YEAH. HE IS.

“Your mind is weak, old man.”

Obi-Wan nodded vaguely. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste… the Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly…”

Vader’s sigh crackled through his respirator. “We are not in the Jundland Wastes.”

“No?” Obi-Wan blinked and looked around. The stormtroopers guarding him politely looked away. “Where are we, then? Is this Tosche Station?”

Vader stared at his old master. Obi-Wan had fooled him before, it was true, but could he really pull off such a deception to his face?

“This is the Death Star. You were foolish to come here. You have no hope of rescuing your precious princess.”

Obi-Wan’s gaze wandered away. “Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?” He peered at his reflection in a stormtrooper’s helmet. “Hello in there.”

If the stormtrooper leaned back any further, he’d topple over.

Had Obi-Wan really gone senile? How under the twin suns had he managed to get this far?

“Follow me,” Vader snapped.

“Does that make you the fool?” asked Obi-Wan.

Vader whirled around, expecting to catch the old man with twinkling eyes and was ready to eviscerate him… but Obi-Wan was only staring at the ceiling and humming tunelessly.

“I’m not taking care of you in your dotage,” growled Vader. “I’ll lay all your secrets bare and destroy everything you hold dear. You will experience the full power of the Dark Side!”

“That’s nice. We can get power converters at Tosche Station.”

Vader still didn’t know if Obi-Wan was acting. But he was certain of one thing.

The Force had a terrible sense of humor.

“There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly.”

-Gandalf the Grey, wielder of Narya the Ring of Fire and also coincidentally maker of the best magic fireworks in the world

these are all so fitted because yes smut comes in hot sauce, one shot is a daily dose probiotic, angst is indeed whiskey, coffee is usually taken in sips making it slow burn and and and

stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal

Okay okay I've got one I think will be fun!!

Spin this wheel of like 160ish fandoms of varying levels of popularity.

Extra points for telling me all about your thoughts in the tags :D

aminals

guys i have the funniest idea - will report back in 2 hours

So turns out it takes a bit more than two hours to learn an entirely new genre, but nevertheless: presenting - The Slur Song: Bardcore Style

Bad news: your kid is the neighborhood cryptid.

Good news: you can get that on a bumper sticker

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

Hmmmm hm. Okay. Worldbuilding/story idea.

One million years after humanity disappears, octopi and ravens have independently developed sapience. And one day an octopus child and an elder raven meet at the edge of the ocean.

Where is your mother and father? asks the raven. I have no mother or father, says the octopus, blushing pale. All octopi are children. Once we’re grown, we will mate and we will die. It is the first and the last thing our mothers tell us.

But that’s horrible, says the raven. It’s not all bad, says the octopus. We play, we hunt, we make games for ourselves in the deep. Yes, but who remembers your songs? the raven says. Who passes down your stories?

What is a story? the octopus asks.

And the raven thinks about this question. And finally it says: A story is how you remember things in the past. It is how you know where you come from, and what happened before you were born. A story can be a warning, or it can be advice, or it can be a silly joke told to make you feel good. Someone remembers the story and tells it to the next generation, who remember the story and tells it to the generation after them.

And the octopus thinks about this answer. And finally it says: Can you tell me a story?

And the raven tells the octopus a story. And it’s a good story. And the next day the octopus returns and asks for another. The next day it brings its octopus friends, and the raven brings its raven friends, and many stories are shared on the edge of the ocean.

Months later, the octopus returns to the raven. I am grown, it says. I am returning to the sea to find a mate and lay my brood. I will not be coming back. I’m sorry.

I will miss your company, says the raven.

I have one thing to ask you, says the octopus. In time my children will come to the edge of the ocean. I would like you to tell them a story I have made. And when they have stories of their own, I would like your children to remember them and pass them down to my children’s children.

Of course, says the raven. What is your story about?

And the octopus thinks, and says: It is about an octopus child and an elder raven who meet at the edge of the ocean.

And this story has been passed down to this day.