#* ⟢ GALEN ❮ edits ❯

[svnsetromance]

Jyn Erso + Maarva Andor's monologue It's easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it's true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it's too late. But I'll tell you this: if I could do it again, I'd wake up early. And be fighting those bastards from the start.

@lgbtqcreators — creator bingo / free choice

[outofangband]

Tol Galen, the green isle, the small island upon the river Adurant, the southernmost of Ossiriand’s rivers; home of Beren and Lúthien after their quest and birth place of Dior and Elwing; the name Elwing comes from the starlight that glittered in the waterfall near Dior’s house

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Tol Galen world building

[imogenkol]

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[art-question-mark]

“Bodhi leaned forward in his seat, fully intent on Jyn. "You're Galen's daughter?" he asked.

He looked like he hadn't slept in days. He looked almost as pathetic as she did.

"You know him?" she asked.

What did he think of the stranger in her hologram?

"Yes."”

—Rogue One Novelisation by Alexander Freed

[sharkonscariff]

Mystery of lack

Stabbing stars through my back

Forwards, beckon, rebound

Forwards, beckon, rebound.

[primarinite]

oh fuck here's some new guys. been wanting to make some more guild members beyond just shura for when kaira joins the guild and ngl i'm kinda obsessed with these guys rn despite them not being very important

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Is this anything

[enaelyork]

[Headcanon] Orson Krennic Past life ~

I've always felt frustrated that we don't know much about Krennic's past. So, as always, I felt compelled to think about it.

This is my point on view only, i'm so sorry. [Thats inclued Galen Erso's friendship]

🌔He did not come from a dysfunctional family. He grew up in a loving home where the constant anxiety of surviving hovered over their heads. He no longer counts the number of times he caught his parents calculating on the credits how they were going to make it through the month by hugging each other.

🌔I think Lexrul is an extremely poor planet where survival is difficult. Therefore, I am convinced that Krennic experienced extreme poverty. Although his parents both worked, their salaries were probably not enough to support them. He knows what it means to be hungry, deprived, sleepy and cold. I'm even sure he ended up on the street.

🌔It was in these extremely urgent situations that Krennic understood that he should not expect anything from others. That the problem with being on the wrong side of the line is that everyone around them is too and has a good excuse not to reach out to help them out. He comes to the conclusion that to succeed in life, he must first think about himself, his interests and no longer rely on anyone.

🌔He was always very smart and his parents quickly realized it. Living in such conditions pushes us to adapt quickly and well. They placed all their hopes in him when they sent him to take the entrance exams for Republic Futur Program. It was with this immense pressure on his shoulders and the deep conviction of being better than everyone that he grew up. Perhaps it was when he no longer believed in anything, when he and his family found themselves on the streets again, that he learned that he was accepted. It must have been a consecration that he perceived as a sign of destiny.

🌔Although he keeps in mind all the sacrifices his family made to get to this point. Krennic realizes that his life is light years away from that of adolescents his age and falls into all excesses. Money? Not a problem ! He is intelligent and cunning enough to blend in and manage to make enough friends to not worry about what he consumes. Its natural charm does the rest.

🌔The unlikely friendship he forms with the young Galen Erso is what is most authentic in his life. He won't admit it, but the way others taunted the math genius made him come to his defense. Galen will never know that if no one bothers him since he met Krennic it is because the latter obtained peace by beating a leader of the program in a clandestine betting game in a bar in Brentaal IV. (And maybe also by giving a few well-placed blows.)

🌔Everyone tries to see the best in the other. The complementarity of their relationship makes them a formidable duo. Galen often lectures Krennic on the way he acts and tries to restrain him when he is too impulsive. He teaches him to use his intelligence and his ability to bind people together while Orson teaches him how he must understand the world in which he lives and to sort out his parasitic thoughts.

🌔Galen's naivety and sensitivity touch him in a certain way. Sometimes he wants to preserve them, telling himself that he never had the chance to be able to do so in his life. Like a window open to a world that he will never know but that he can contemplate discreetly.

🌔Many people on the show wonder how a guy as quiet and shy as Galen Erso could be around the rambunctious and insufferable Orson Krennic. Galen, above all, thinks that no one sees what lies behind the ice cap that Krennic has erected around him and feels honored to be the only one to have a glimpse of it.

🌔Besides, he has already caught Krennic doing a good deed. Several times. It’s like a carefully kept secret that seals their deep friendship.

🌔Galen understands that Krennic is bluffing about his life and tries to help him discreetly. Not out of pity. But he believes that Krennic has proven enough to him that he has a good heart to strive to make his life better.

🌔From the moment he left the program to move up the ranks, he made sure his family didn't want for anything. He never mentions it, but his parents have had a solid roof over their heads since the day money stopped being an issue for Orson.

🌔He, more than any officer/employee of the Republic, is aware of how lucky he is to be where he is. He will not give up his place to anyone and will do everything possible to be worthy of this destiny that awaits him.

🌔Krennic wants to be first everywhere. All the time. He doesn't just want to be a part of things, he wants to be the best at everything he does. He probably only lives through the eyes of those who can bring him this prestige. He constantly needs reassurance about his performance because he is such a perfectionist that nothing ever satisfies him. I think that when you have fallen too far down the social ladder (and this is his case), the need to climb back up is no longer enough. You have to constantly be on top of the world and observe the universe from afar to feel safe.

🌔As a boss, Krennic is as much feared as he is appreciated. I am convinced (from my reading of Betrayal and the way Ronan describes it) that Krennic can be kind, fair and correct with his employees. He probably does it to put himself forward and obtain praise or for his performance. But whatever, the result is there.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"There was also a strange Elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"

↳ thank you to beloved mutual @kookyburrowing for the prompt!

[ID: an edit comprised of four posters in shades of green with brown accents. All the posters have green backgrounds.

1: Two circular images positioned at the top and bottom of the poster, which is framed by a light green border. The first image shows Kita Updike, a chippewa/african-american model with brown skin and straight dark hair. Her head is turned to the side so we see her in profile. The bottom images shows traditional ojibwe (chippewa) beadwork and embroidery. Both circular images have green frames, and a divider meant to resemble leaves separating them / 2: The bottom part of the poster is taken up by an image of sunlight coming down through trees and hanging vines. Above the picture, hollow green text reads "legolas" in all caps, and below that in smaller text in two shades of green, “He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.” / 3: The left side of the poster shows a quiver of arrows lying on green shrubbery. Hollow text in the upper left corner reads "prince of" in all caps, while bicolored vertical text on the left side reads "eryn galen" in all caps / 4: Same format as Image 1, but the top image shows hide boots decorated with ojibwe beadwork depicting flowering plants, and the bottom image shows Kita Updike, this time facing slightly to the left with a neutral, serious expression //End ID]

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Okay, this is really nitpicky, but I have to say it. When the Fëanoreans landed in Middle-earth, Celegorm did not lead an army south and relieve the siege of the Falathrim. I’m seen that referenced or mentions in a lot of meta and fics, but it never happened. And there is no indication that Celegorm even met Círdan or any of his people, or was even aware of them prior to Fingolfin’s forces arriving.

What happened was that Morgoth reacted to the Fëanorean forces’ arrival by pulling his army besieging the Falathrim away and sending it north towards Ard-galen. And then, when it was in the north, far from the Falas, attacking the Fëanoreans, Celegorm defeated that army.

Yes, this is minor, and yes, it’s beneficial to the Falathrim that the arrival of the Fëanoreans made Morgoth decide he needed that army more elsewhere, but there is no direct “showing up and rescuing them” moment, and none of the Fëanoreans are anywhere near the Falas during the Battle-under-Stars, and Celegorm has no more to do with the benefit to the Falathrim than anyone else does (though he gets the Fëanorean forces out of a tight spot) and this just seems to be a weirdly common fanon misconception?

Under the cold stars before the rising of the Moon the host of Fëanor went up the long Firth of Drengist that pierced the Echoing Hills of Ered Lómin, and passed thus from the shores into the great land of Hithlum; and they came at length to the long lake of Mithrim, and upon its northern shore made their encampment in the region that bore the same name. But the host of Morgoth, aroused by the tumult of Lammoth and the light of the burning at Losgar, came through the passes of the Ered Wethrin, the Mountains of Shadow, and assailed Fëanor on a sudden, before his camp was full-wrought or put into defence; and there on the grey fields of Mithrim was fought the Second Battle of the Wars of Beleriand. Dagor-nuin-Giliath it is named, the Battle-under-Stars, for the Moon had not yet risen; and it is renowned in song.

The Noldor, outnumbered and taken at unawares, were yet swiftly victorious; for the light of Aman was not yet dimmed in their eyes, and they were strong and swift, and deadly in anger, and their swords were long and terrible. The Orcs fled before them, and they were driven forth from Mithrim with great slaughter, and hunted over the Mountains of Shadow into the great plain of Ard-galen, that lay northward of Dorthonion. There [in Ard-galen] the armies of Morgoth that had passed south into the Vale of Sirion and beleagured [EDIT] Círdan in the Havens of the Falas came up to their aid, and were caught in their ruin. For Celegorm, Fëanor’s son, having news of them, waylaid them with a part of the Elven-host, and coming down out of the hills near Eithel Sirion drove them into the Fen of Serech.

If you will indulge my very bad edit of the Beleriand map:

The orcs coming from across Ard-galen from Angband cross the mountains and attack the Fëanoreans up at Mithrim, in the top. The Fëanoreans drive them back over the mountains into Ard-galen. The orcs that were besieging the Falas, brought up as reinforcements for the other orcs, come up all the way into Ard-galen. Celegorm, attacking from Eithel Sirion (which is north of the Fen of Serech), drives them south into the Fen.

At no point in this are the Fëanoreans - Celegorm or other - anywhere near the Falas. Celegorm's actions have no more impact on the Falas specifically than anyone else's.

[moonjunio]

Fitchivalry has Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, part 2! (Part one here)

Okay, so I’m not going to further dissect the Quarrel, tempting as that is. I’m more interested about some of the other effects of RSD in Fitzy’s life. Disclaimer: this is how I’m learning about RSD, so I might get stuff wrong. It helps me understand my husband better if I realize that much like Fitz, he may not make sense to me sometimes, but he’s doing his best with the overactive nervous system he was given.

Ok exhibit A: People pleasing to the point of self erasure

This is Chade comforting Fitz. But as we know, Chade is entirely comfortable withdrawing affection until Fitz does what he wants. Shrewd’s interest in Fitz is similar, only more distant. Burrich also has unattainable standards for approval. The message of Fitz’s childhood is “be someone else (or at least pretend), or you’re back out in the cold.”

additudemag.com quote:

One thing I don’t understand yet about RSD is whether it’s actually an inborn disorder, or maybe it’s so highly associated with ADHD because of pattern recognition? If you can only be loved by changing your basic way of being, it only makes sense that you’d become hypervigilant about rejection.

Exhibit B: valuing his utility to others over his literal life

Above - Galen 😡 Remember this sadistic POS almost convinced Fitz he was worthless? While Skill suggestion definitely played a big part, Fitz’s desperate need for approval is what made him put up with the “training” in the first place. Being “good for” something is core to his survival strategy, which paradoxically puts him in life threatening situations over and over and over.

Until he completely burns out and goes off the grid for years, in total isolation. Losing Molly and Burrich is too much, so once he’s fulfilled his duty, he figures everyone is better off without him.

Exhibit C: all or nothing thinking

As Amber says much later, Fitz is a “man of many talents.” Maybe that’s why he manages to do both of these options.

Kettricken understands Fitz as a noble leader, becoming a paragon (heh) of self-sacrifice. But the cost is extreme indeed.

Kettricken may serve as a useful example of how cultural conditioning is not the same as RSD. The latter produces incapacitating emotional pain, to be avoided at all costs. I doubt that Kettricken suffers in the same way. Serving is not always joyful for her, but she does appear to operate from a place of fairly serene duty.

This last bit is crucial to getting some sense of the intense suffering produced by RSD. While typical people certainly know the pain of rejection, it’s easy to dismiss the RSD person as “just too sensitive,” “irrational,” and “just need to get over it.”

While it could be considered a form of extreme sensitivity, it’s not a choice and nobody wants to hurt more. For the RSD individual, this emotional pain can be so extreme that they can only cope by avoiding the triggers altogether.

Side note: my husband hated the ending of book 3 and never read past the first trilogy. Too relatable? Is it not heroic enough, to give up on getting your life back? 🤷🏻‍♀️ He’d probably tell Fitz to suck it up and get back to work (like he does).

Everyone else flys back to deliver the cavalry of stone dragons, but Fitz won’t leave Nighteyes, the only companion he can always count on.

Of course, until the Fool pulls him out of early retirement. Let’s take a moment to pretend they got to live their best cottagecore life together instead. 🛖🌳🐺🥰

[ETA: the illustrations by the stunning Magali Villeneuve are from the Illustrated Edition of the first trilogy, the ISBN for Assassin’s Apprentice is 978-1-9848-1785-3 if you can still find it! Best edition IMHO]

[ale-xakii]

Ppl with blue eyes be like

Shhh don't tell anyone but this is an older drawing that I never posted... And edited to look like her new design shhhh

Anyways, Galene portrait 🥹💞

[pandiongames]

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[enaelyork]

You're in love with Krennic but Lyra is your best friend.

Can be an amazing fanfiction plot.

[byneddiedingo]

Hit Man (Richard Linklater, 2024)

Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman, Galen Bryant Banks, Mike Markoff, Bryant Carroll. Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, based on an article by Skip Hollandsworth. Cinematography: Shane F. Kellly. Production design: Bruce Curtis. Film editing: Sandra Adair. Music: Graham Reynolds.