every semester, without fail, there’s some freshman who’s like “oh I never check my email lol” and i get worried for them, bc they’re going to miss some important email about a pop quiz or a test, or something and then fail. so if you’re a freshman reading this, CHECK YOUR EMAIL im not joking, professors will send you stuff via email that they’ll never mention in class. I’m in my email every hour on the hour before and after class. check that shit. put that app on ur phone, turn on notifs, go in and refresh every hour, check your spam, check your email
this has been a message from your concerned dad. check ur email, do well in school, i love you
if the next big fanfic trope isn’t ‘we had a maybe-fake-maybe-not marriage 26 years ago and i just realized that we never bothered to check if it was legally binding’ i’m suing all of you
Serena Williams caused a sensation with the black catsuit she wore at this year’s French Open tournament. But French tennis officials aren’t as fashion-forward.
From now on, players’ attire apparently will be subject to a dress code — and Williams’ sleek outfit is out.
“I feel like a warrior in it, a warrior princess … from Wakanda, maybe,” she told reporters in May, referring to the movie Black Panther. “I’ve always wanted to be a superhero, and it’s kind of my way of being a superhero.”
So like any good superhero costume, Williams’ black Nike catsuit was functional.
“I’ve had a lot of problems with my blood clots, God I don’t know how many I’ve had in the past 12 months,” she said at the May news conference. “I’ve been wearing pants in general a lot when I play so I can keep the blood circulation going.”
ROTJ is my favorite SW ever. I have watched it more times then I can count. I *love* the culmination of Vader’s arc in that movie. I love the fact that for anyone who watched ANH in 77, this would be the *last* ending they would expect for Vader. Well the being dead part yes, but the *how* and *why* would never even occur to them. But, within the trilogy as a whole, it makes *sense*, that they did character growth for a guy whose face you couldn’t *see*. I love that love is what saved the day. Yes, it’s a bit hokey, but after the last ten years of grim and gritty, it really stands out that Lucas chooses to go that way.
But, and here is the important bit, what Vader got at the end of ROTJ wasn’t redemption.What he got was forgiveness. From Luke, from the Force, from Obi-Wan and Yoda. That is not to say in any way, narratively speaking, that distinction in any way takes away the enormity of what Vader did. Or the braveness of Luke, who bet everything, on thinking he could reach his father. But it wasn’t redemption.
In regards to storytelling (I’m not touching Redemption as far as Philosophy/Religion because that is a whole different set of rules when you move from fictional people to real ones) the “redemption arc” requires prolonged action. Which Vader/Anakin didn’t do. I’m not saying he would or wouldn’t if he had lived, but he didn’t. Now, you can say he started a “redemption arc”, killing Palpatine was a good first step, but by the very nature of that arc, it requires the former “bad guy” to encounter problems along the way and to be tested on how firm their resolve is. They have to be tempted to slip back into old habits. That did not happen to Vader/Anakin.
The “redemption arc” also requires acknowledging that you have done wrong. We didn’t see Vader do that. He did tell Luke that she should tell his sister that Luke was right, there was still good in him, but that is not the same thing as admitting you fucked up. In fact, given that he was dying, I’m not sure he was thinking anything besides “Fuck, this hurts a lot!” and “Luke, leave my sorry ass behind and save yourself!”
I think that a lot of writers/creative types, especially in movies and TV, don’t want to tell the story of redemption. No judgments here, most of the time those stories can be really depressing, (Xena is the lightest version of that I can think of that particular tale). So they have the bad guy do one good deed, let them die, and call it redemption. Because movies are one of the most accessible forms of storytelling we have on the planet now, most people see that story line and call it redemption when it’s really not.
I’m not saying the message of forgiveness isn’t equally as important. It is. We all screw up, and we need the lesson that no matter what you do, you can be forgiven for it. Which is something I think that if Anakin had understood in his earlier years as Vader, he would have stopped being Vader. He thought no one would ever forgive him, no matter what he did, so he might as well keep to the course, and make sure that all the horrible things he had done were somehow “worth it”. What made it worth it was a rotating list of lies and justifications, which towards the end I think even he was aware of. But I have to wonder, if he had understood that there is a difference between those two concepts, would he have kept to his path so hard? If he understood he might never achieve “redemption” but could still be forgiven by those he loved, would he have stopped?
Katharine Trendacosta, a policy analyst with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the situation undercuts the argument that net neutrality rules hindered emergency services by not allowing internet service providers to prioritize their data.
“They’ve often said if we’re allowed to throttle some and not others then we can give better service to emergency responders. We’re seeing here that’s not true,” she said. “It wasn’t net neutrality that prevented them from doing it. It’s clearly their own policies.”
Trendacosta said the Santa Clara County Fire Department’s experience “is an example of why actions like this are so dangerous and why we need to pay attention to how we’re getting our internet.”
Santa Clara County Fire Capt. Bill Murphy said officials felt compelled to join in the lawsuit as a means to ensure that reduced data speeds won’t impact the public’s access to information like evacuation routes and fire maps disseminated online during emergencies.
“If the public were to experience the same level of throttling that we experienced, their ability to access basic information we’re trying to get them would be significantly reduced,” he said.
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