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rio couldve just taken nicholas when he was supposed to die. it probably would have been easier for agatha, actually, given that she never actually knew the kid that way. it would have still been difficult, but a much easier goodbye.

but rio, instead of taking the easy route, took the chance to show agatha she could be good.

she let agatha get a chance to be a better mom than her mom was to her. she gave agatha a chance to see that she was more than just a witch killer. she gave agatha someone who didn't see evil in her, but only good.

she would lose agatha either way, but instead of giving herself the possibility to eventually come back, to possibly be with the love of her life again, she chose to - even for a short time - let agatha see in herself what rio saw in her.

she was willing to play the villain if it meant giving agatha a chance.

and if that isnt tragic, i dont know what is

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Marvel women, written by men: 🧍‍♀️I can’t have babies 👶🏻😫😢 I’m a monster 😢😢 yes this is the deepest my backstory can get btw 😉😨 isn’t it harrowing 😱

Marvel women, written by women: I will subject an entire town to my will if it means the chance to see you again. I will drink my grief, knowing I am damned and that I cannot protect you, and will still sing out my heart to crowds of thousands in the hopes they will keep you safe when I’m gone. I crave power so intensely that it has overpowered any sense of loyalty to anyone, and I will betray again and again and again, but I will still be wounded when you betray me because it was you. It was you.

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Considering how the original Ballad of the Witches Road was a silly ditty of imagination and love made up between Agatha and Nicky, it was a song attesting to a mother’s connection. Lorna Wu’s cover of it was a continuation of that legacy, she sang it for Alice, out of love and protection for her daughter. Perhaps that why it was such a strong ward against the familial curse, because it was a song that only reinforced its original intentions: proof and strength to the interconnection of a mother and child.

Considering all of this, the choice of Agatha to be the one who lead the band and sang the Ballad in the protection trial makes much more sense, and is that much more important. Originally, I wondered, why Agatha? This was Alice’s trial, her mother the original singer. But Agatha was held the deepest intimacy and connection to the song, the one who not only understood its power, but Lorna’s intentions.

Agatha and Lorna are echos of one another, same as Nicky and Alice. The former were both powerful witches who wove magic with storytelling and song. Both mothers who turned it into a living archive that testified their love for their children, to protect, to remember, to hold them close metaphorically, if physically was not possibly.

Every time a witch sang the ballad, the short life of Nicky was being celebrated and remembered, just as every reprise prolonged Alice’s life under the curse. In that way, they were both able to live. When Alice crossed to the other side, I wonder if he comforted her by saying that.

How could Nicky ever truly be gone if his words are sung aloud every day, even centuries later? He is not a physical ghost nor memory, but he a wish, an ember sparked again and again when his words are sung. Would the sparks finally catch and grow into a living flame?

In that way, how could Agatha be blamed for hoping Nicky survived and possibly be incarnated in Billy when the words of thousands of witches did really hold such power? When she witnessed the proof of how it feigned off Death from Alice? When he himself was borne of scratch, a miracle already.

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Remind me: Where does Lucas say that the Jedi knew about the Senate being corrupt? The Attack of the Clones commentary or something? I recall he says it somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly where.

Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002. Correct. During this scene.

"[This scene gives us] a chance to talk a little bit about politics and the Jedi’s disenchantment with the political process, due to the corruption and the ineffectiveness of the Senate."

Worth pointing out that he refers to it again, in this scene:

"[The scene with Obi-Wan and Dooku] allows you to kinda have some sympathy for Dooku in that he carries the sympathies of most of the Jedi which is that the Senate is corrupt and is incapable of carrying out any meaningful actions because they argue about everything all the time."

They know about the Senate being corrupt, they don't like it, they try to do their work in spite of lacking numbers or support. As he mentions in the second commentary track:

"The first real scene in the movie is with Palpatine and the Jedi. It's primarily designed to set up the fact that the Jedi are having a hard time keeping peace and justice in the galaxy and that they aren't really designed as an army. They're designed as a kind of police force and diplomatic corps. [...] The Jedi are completely outnumbered in terms of trying to keep control of the situation."

And they don't intervene, because they must let the political process take its course.

"This crisis has been created and the only solution is to give him more power. And Jar Jar becomes the dupe making that proposal that allows him to have that power. And even the Jedi are there. But the Jedi aren't really allowed to be involved in the political process. They're there, but they can't suddenly step up and say, "No, no. You can't do that." They have to let the political process go."

By the time of Attack of the Clones, the Jedi are caught in quite a "Catch-22."

They're trying to uphold the values of the Republic but their bosses are failing to do so, so their choices become taking control of the Republic (and thus going against everything they value) or keeping on doing what they're doing (and thus benefitting corrupt politicians, who now represent the antithesis of everything they value).

I talk about it more in this post:

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rio being amused by agatha's shenannigans.

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I’ve spoken these thoughts before in less complete form, but I guess it’s time to put it all together in more or less coherent form: the Khofar massacre serves its storytelling purpose as the Brendok massacre redux, an explosive resurfacing of the violence in Sol’s past that he has refused to reckon with and has instead suppressed and displaced onto the shoulders of the woman he is trying to stalk through the woods, except this time, Sol is in Mae’s shoes.

Khofar’s flora and fauna is Brendok but denser, far more forbidding and hostile. A densely-forested, largely uncharted planet, as Brendok is a densely-forested, now-uninhabited planet. Khofar’s wilds are not Brendok’s lush but gentle, easily navigable forests, but instead forests of trees so tall and so dense that they all but block out the sun, and navigating these forests is difficult even with the aid of an experienced guide/tracker. In place of Brendok’s delicate pink flutterbies, we are met with the umbramoths, large, hostile carnivorous insects which Osha finds herself drawn to as she was drawn to the insects of her homeworld—and when one of them hatches, Sol does not pacify it nor even harmlessly scare it off, but instead kills it, doubling down on denying the violence of his past by committing yet more violence. The area around the umbramoth colony has a rotten stench, like bodies left out in the open to rot, coming back to light for the first time in years.

Sol is leading a team in stalking Mae through the woods, as he once stalked Osha and Mae through the woods when they were children. And it’s when he finds her, it’s when he reaches the woman he has displaced the burden of his guilt onto, that Qimir arrives. Qimir whose storytelling function as the masked Dark Sider on Khofar is to serve as the manifestation of Sol’s shadow. Qimir who has concealed his true identity from Mae, as Sol has concealed a dire secret of their shared past from Osha. Sol, who is ultimately the only Jedi sent to Khofar who can actually hold his own against Qimir. Qimir, who has accepted his darkness, versus Sol, who has repressed it. And what you repress always comes back to haunt you.

We have Osha, Osha who is on Khofar closely associated with the Jedi but not actually a Jedi, just as on Brendok, she was closely associated with the witches but not actually a witch. Osha who is in some amount of danger from Qimir, but whom Sol doesn’t have that much difficulty keeping safe from him, because Qimir’s goal at this point is the same as Sol’s once was. Sol, whose goal on Brendok was to get Osha and keep her, versus Qimir, whose ultimate goal now is to get Osha and keep her.

We have Mae, who is in considerably more danger from Qimir, and whom Sol cannot effectively protect from him. Mae, who is ultimately saved by sheer chance in the form of Yord just happening to show up at the right time and just happening to hit on the right solution to free her before Qimir can kill her, just as she was saved by sheer chance as a child. Qimir tells Sol and Mae “Look at you two. Right back where you started,” and this is just as true for Mae as it is for Sol. Mae, who became nothing more than second rate to Sol once Osha came into focus on Brendok, and Mae whom even without betrayal to add into it, Qimir is ready to toss to the wayside now that Osha has come into focus for him as well.

And Sol. We have Sol, who is at the epicenter of the Khofar massacre, just as he was at the epicenter of the Brendok massacre as well. But there’s a difference this time. On Brendok, Sol’s role at the epicenter was to be the one who pushed things past the point of no return, to be the one who ensured that all of the witches would die by killing Mother Aniseya, ensuring that all of the other adults would never back down until the Jedi were dead, or they were. On Khofar, Sol now occupies Mae’s former role at the epicenter, to be the witness to the massacre and the sole survivor of the Jedi sent to Khofar.

The Jedi sent to Khofar die, just as the witches died. Sol watches Jecki die, helpless to prevent it, just as Mae once watched her mother die, helpless to prevent it—and so too is Mae watching as Jecki dies. Sol watches all of his team die around him, cut down by this specter of destruction that has come into his life seemingly out of nowhere, just as the witches were cut down by Sol and Indara, who came into their lives seemingly out of nowhere.

Sol now stands in Mae’s shoes, is dealt the same wound that he dealt Mae… and it breaks him. He responds just as Mae responded. He stands stunned for a moment after Qimir kills Yord, processing the fact that now, every last member of his team is dead, and then he flies into a rage and goes after Qimir with a vengeance. He effectively speedruns Mae’s arc through her discovering that Osha was still alive, nothing short of Qimir’s death being enough to satisfy him, until Osha calls out to him and stops him just short of killing Qimir. Sol breaks, and he breaks along the same lines that Mae broke.

And then, in the aftermath, Sol flees the scene with “Osha” in tow, when he knows that if Qimir survived his encounter with the umbramoths, he’s leaving Mae somewhere in the woods, at the mercy of a man who has made it very clear that he wants to kill her. Just as he once left Mae to die on Brendok. Except it’s not “Osha” leaving with him at all. It’s Mae, and now Qimir gets Osha, the way Sol once got Osha. By taking her away with him while she was still unconscious.

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Amandla Stenberg gifted a billboard in Times Square to celebrate their birthday (10/23) and ‘The Acolyte’ renewal efforts.

Fans put in work to get this billboard up! The billboard reads, “Happy Birthday to Our Acolyte Amandla Stenberg. #WeLoveYouAmandla SaveTheAcolyte.com”

The background of the image has the words Beautiful, Successful, Brave, and Determined repeated in rows.

Visit the website savetheacolyte.com for more details, updates, news, and more.

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more nd-5 sketches

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I just voted in the #BCElection2024

Advance polls are open now.

I will not let these Transphobic Conservative ghouls take over my province.

Vote NDP please.

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Hill House + Bly Manor Parallels

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STAR WARS REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK: Day 5 - Favorite Antagonist ↳ Mitth'raw'nuruodo, aka Grand Admiral Thrawn

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Yeah, it’s a lot like that. Let’s get this day started.

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Im a 19 year old ballpen artist and college student

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really don’t know how you can watch the scene in tpm where palpatine talks directly in padme’s ear in front of the senate, and she’s begging for the galaxy to care about her people dying, and he’s boldly manipulating her into calling that vote of no confidence, she looks like she’s about to burst into tears, absolutely no one is helping her, no one but this evil evil man, and think the prequels portrayed padme as exclusively comfortable & confident in the role of queen. they’re action movies yes, she’s an action hero who is brave and charges into battle, but they are also tragedies. padme is a tragic character. part of that tragedy is her at 14 being put in charge of a whole planet and falling prey to a dark lord’s manipulations. do i wish this element was expanded upon in the movies? yes of course. but i will never understand people acting like it’s not there at all. she was 14. in aotc she says she was too young. it’s right there

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The Imperial Inquisitorius

Nearly 66 hours over 20 days and 1 burst sclera blood vessel later, they're here.

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