{"id":19588,"date":"2013-04-03T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/03\/and-here-is-what-leia-does-when-you-force-her\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:14:21","slug":"and-here-is-what-leia-does-when-you-force-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/03\/and-here-is-what-leia-does-when-you-force-her\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>And here is what Leia does, when you force her into a scanty outfit and choke-chain: she takes that chain, and she kills you with it. She doesn\u2019t let her clothing get in her way or limit her more than she can help\u2014she waits for her moment to strike, and then she conquers her would-be conqueror and saves the day.<\/p>\n<p>And I was a little kid, not yet desensitized to violence [\u2026] Jabba\u2019s death scene freaked the hell out of me. It wasn\u2019t a clean blaster shot to the chest or a slice from a lightsaber that sent sparks flying or made you turn invisible. There were struggles, and flailing, and twitching limbs. The shots are close-ups, and very dark\u2014it\u2019s vicious, and vengeful, and physical, and very very personal.<\/p>\n<p>So for me, wearing that gold bikini does not mean Here I am, a sexy toy for your amusement and gratification.<\/p>\n<p>To me, that gold bikini says, <em>If you fuck with me, I will end you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviawaite.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/in-defense-of-slave-leia\/\">Olivia Waite &#8211; Ellora\u2019s Cave author, inquisitive mind, and hedonist-about-town<\/a>\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/albinwonderland.tumblr.com\/\">albinwonderland<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here is what Leia does, when you force her into a scanty outfit and choke-chain: she takes that chain, and she kills you with it. She doesn\u2019t let her clothing get in her way or limit her more than she can help\u2014she waits for her moment to strike, and then she conquers her would-be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/03\/and-here-is-what-leia-does-when-you-force-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,7439],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fuck-yeah","tag-leia-was-my-spirit-animal","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}