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re: OC making and orientalism, when you're asked to read edward said's orientalism it doesn't mean to use the book as a guidebook or checklist to see if you "pass" or "fail". it means rethink your motivations for writing this character/culture altogether

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STONE AND SKY.

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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I can't help but feel like laughing any time someone tries to argue that TCW was SUCH an adult show and then points at Umbara as their big example of why.

Guys. Umbara was FOUR EPISODES. Out of ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE.

At BEST, TCW skimmed the surface of some darker topics. Kids' shows DO THAT, especially shows aimed at a teenage audience and not, say, an elementary school audience or younger.

If TCW were an adult show, Umbara would've BEEN the show. The whole story would've been like Umbara: dark, heavy, serious, and focused on ONE FUCKING TOPIC.

If TCW were an adult show, there would've been episodes that led up to Umbara to help really delve into the clones' situation and how they feel about it and their feelings about their position in society and their relationships with each other and with the Jedi. And there would've been episodes AFTER Umbara that dealt with the emotional aftermath of it, too. We would know what happened to Dogma, we might've seen the others actually trying to FIGHT to save Dogma from whatever fate he was sentenced to, we would see how Tup and Fives and Jesse all feel about it, we'd see the impact of Rex's choices on his position as a leader among his men and how it changes his relationships with them. We'd see how these events impact the 501st and 212th's feelings about the Jedi as a whole and probably their relationships with their Jedi in particular. We'd have seen how this probably is what made Tup and Fives become closer friends to help lead into the biochip arc later and make THAT more emotional, too.

Like I love Umbara, too, but that's because it is one of MAYBE two or three well-written arcs in the entire show, but it's not even all that narratively relevant because nothing ever happens as a direct result of this arc, it doesn't actually cause anything important to happen or change the status quo for any of the characters (the biochip arc is arguably the only truly narratively relevant storyline in the entire show since, while it doesn't change the status quo, it DOES change the explanation the audience had for why the clones turn on the Jedi which changes the perspective on the clones and their relationship to the Jedi). The character who arguably changes the most as a result of the Umbara arc was introduced in it and written out at the end of it, so that development changes nothing and goes nowhere.

Umbara IS a good, compelling story, but it is NOT a good example of TCW being an adult show because a real adult show would have handled that SO DIFFERENTLY and not remained so surface-level in its writing of a darker storyline.

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When others are the best version of themselves, they remind you that you are not.

Certain people, instead of reflecting and thinking how they can be the best version of themselves too, focus all their attention on finding evil that doesn't exist.

Nobody can be that good, everyone looks after themselves and no one else, right? they think, very seriously, without realizing how ridiculous it sounds.

That's why so many people hate the Jedi. Because the Jedi remind them that they can be better, they just won't, unless they put in work they are not willing to do.

Source: me and my limited knowledge of psychology and human stupidity.

No, I will not accept any criticism on this.

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Peter Randall-Page: 'Hundred Year Stone' (1995)

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[id in alt] *leia voice* FUCK that man

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specialization

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star wars fandom was the most disappointing fucking fandom EVER like we had JOHN BOYEGA and OSCAR ISAAC!!! two of the sexiest thottiest big dick energy-ist bitches out here and fandom said “no no no i dont want that i wanna suck on kylo rens toes” LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE ill never be over it

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

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screenwriters gotta start being held accountable for their crimes. u assassinated five character arcs, killed this person off for shock value, and wrote a universally hated ending? I sentence u to three consecutive seasons on ncis

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the thing about redemption is you don't earn it.

it's like love, or kindness, or grace. it's like being born. it isn't something you can deserve. redemption isn't paying your debt off. it's realising you have a debt. it's not doing enough good to make up for the bad, it's coming to a new understanding of what good and bad even mean.

this is doubly true in narrative. if the character has a redemption arc, that means the creator picked them up and turned them around. how could earning it apply?

Repentance: I have been digging a hole, and I wish to stop.

Redemption: I am digging a staircase out of the hole.

it's not about whether you make it to some quantifiable neutral point, where you've done just as much digging upwards as you did down. it's about which way you are facing.

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I found a Filoni/Lucas interaction over the creation of Ahsoka, and I'm chortling.

Basically Filoni wanted Ahsoka to be a serious commentary on war and child soldiers and her lack of preparation because she's not trained for it

But then George basically told him:

So, in other words: She's got this, and lighten the fuck up :D

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the rolling stone is now talking directly about the toxic fans. let’s be as vocal as possible about how this shit isn’t going to be tolerated anymore. ❤️‍🔥 if disney won’t protect or defend our beloved bipoc + queer creators and artists, we sure as hell will.

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