#Galaxy apartment

[salmankhanholics]

★ Salman Khan with Raghav, Siddharth and Jassie! 

-April 2023 

[post-it-notes7]

On the edge of my seat, and that edge is as razor sharp as the edges of a broken mirror. You have me in suspense! I wonder: if the crack on Mirror Falspar's body formed as he was being restructured by the Dimensional Mirror, then was that crack a result of what caused his shattering, or was it some kind of punishment or consequence of something he did (or attempted to do) right before he was shattered? It's a bit nebulous right now.

perhaps it was both

[copypastus]

Sign me up for the tithe in the Spring Court I hear rent prices in Velaris went up again.

[stealingpotatoes]

Oh my GOD I've fallen down the rabbit hole of your glorious skywalkers apart AU and quite apart from being ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED, I have to know if my boy Cal is around in it?!

yes but i never really developed it!! ok we all know i'm never gonna finish that comic script i'll just tell u guys -- in said script, after leia and anakin free Padme, they find out Luke was taken somewhere else which, after a family recon mission, they find is FORTRESS GODDAMN INQUISITORIUS! (which they assume is bc luke tried to use the force to stop the initial arrest, big mistake huge)

anyway all this to say cal's involvement was a tiny-mentioned cameo to explain why anakin knew how to infiltrate nur (the exact line i wrote in the never-finished-script was "we met this jedi survivor a few years back" + comments abt said survivor inflitrating nur 10 years ago yes it was that unsubtle) -- the idea was they had run into one another on a short mission in the past and then gone their separate ways!

[skywalkr-nberrie]

One of the biggest arguments I’ve seen used by the Ob*d*l*s against Anidala, is that scene in the ROTS novel where Padmé says she could trust OW with the secret of the rebellion and was hesitant to tell Anakin and I just wanna say:

Padmé wasn't an idiot. She was an extremely intelligent and competent woman, perfectly able to understand that loving Anakin and thinking that he could be trusted with a certain politic-related matter were two very different things and reducing her choice regarding who to trust with an important political matter only on the basis of her feelings of romantic love diminishes her professionalism, and this is why I say y'all could never understand her.

Padmé didn’t have to "love" OW or even like him at all to know he was the perfect Jedi to ask for help in a secret political matter.

That's the point being made in the novel, she’s hit with the realization that Anakin in this particular moment could not be told this piece of info because of his relationship with Palpatine, and Padmé specifically mentions in the Junior ROTS novel that she didn't want to make Anakin “keep a secret” if he didn’t agree with their stance because it’d be “unfair.” So this also played a part in why Padmé didn’t think it best to inform Anakin about the Rebellion. It honestly had little to do with her actually lacking trust in him, and more to do with the circumstances she was in not allowing her to be open with her husband and her not wanting to make him choose between his wife and his “father figure.”

However, Padmé knows OW’s political ideas aren't tied to ONE particular person but to a philosophy, one which is closer to her own, at that point. None of this was ever meant to be hinted as “romantic” or even remotely insinuated as romantic. It’s strictly professional and even the tone of the scene makes that so abundantly clear.

All I’m saying is that, some of these proshippers are doing the most out here to try and prove their ship, like my loves? You forgot a very important thing called ✨ context ✨ and regardless of her rational thinking, Padmé still went out of her way to try and talk out all of this Rebellion secrecy stuff with Anakin when she confronted him in the scene where she asks if he ever thought they were “fighting on the wrong side.” Padmé didn’t trust OW in the same way she trusted Anakin (with her entire self and being) she had the level of trust and love for Anakin that was only meant for him.

Mixing up her unwavering faith in Anakin as her husband with her trust in OW’s devotion to duty as her comrade/ally is purposely deluding yourself, because the two aren’t the same and therefore can’t be compared. An example of this is: Padmé constantly putting more value to Anakin’s words over OW’s in the end of ROTS when he came to tell her of Anakin’s “crimes”. She completely disregarded what OW had claimed about her husband and instead made her way to where Anakin was herself, to ask him directly. Despite what the truth was, this is proof of her trusting Anakin unconditionally, and I didn’t even think I had to spell that out because it’s as clear as day.

In conclusion, Padmé didn’t trust OW more than Anakin, she just knew the circumstances she was in didn’t exactly make it easy for her to openly talk with her husband about these matters and that’s part of what played into the issues they had in ROTS, it’s exactly what Sidious wanted.

[bugborgs]

neb's sweater referenced from this delightful little lego fig

[lord-squiggletits]

Saw someone say "Megatron and Optimus barely interact in IDW1" and that feels like a very has-only-read-MTMTE thing to say kskdodndd because like sure they didn't co-star in the same long running series for 50+ issues like other characters did (like MTMTE characters interacting with each other or exRID or WB/TAAO) but to say they BARELY interact??? They interact a lot both in superficial "blah we're fighting a war" ways and in super lore important moments/series and also in incredibly homosexual there-is-no-straight-explanation-for-this moments like

Off the top of my head these are some series/storylines/issues where they interact directly. Defining interaction as anything from "the whole story is about them" to "their interaction is a plot element but not necessarily the main focus" to "they interact but only for a few lines":

The Autocracy trilogy (Autocracy, Monstrosity, Primacy)

Stormbringer

All Hail Megatron

The Transformers ongoing 2009 (with emphasis on Chaos Theory and Police Action for the most gay moments)

That one issue where Megatron grabs OP's spark through his chest Mortal Kombat style

Dark Cybertron

MTMTE (past OP in Elegant Chaos, Functionist Universe OP, and current day OP during Dark Cybetron and Megatron's trial)

And then there's other times where IDW1 Megatron and Optimus aren't in front of each other interacting/speaking with each other but are still thinking of each other:

The prelude to Dying of the Light where OP hears the LL distress signal and is afraid (not explicitly for Megatron but like he put Megatron on that ship)

MTMTE, Megatron tells Ravage that something he said to Optimus was the turning point of how he viewed himself

MTMTE again, Megatron all but says aloud that he made Tarn into Tarn to spite Optimus

One of the GI Joe crossovers where Optimus symathizes with a Joe over what it feels like 'to believe in someone who everyone else sees as past redemption' while an image of Megatron is literally behind him in his thoughts

So like, IDW MegOP has plenty of canon interactions and even if not all of them are very long moments (i.e. are only a few lines alluding to each other) there's still plenty of interactions between them. Plus I would say that it's pretty powerful how even the small, blink-and-you-miss-it dialogue moments actually indicate that Megatron and Optimus view each other as focal points where different decisions/beliefs they had revolved in some way around the other person. I think it's cool and compelling that IDW Megatron and Optimus express so often (even if only in thought) that the other person shaped who they became, or THEY did something specifically in reaction/spite towards the other, or where something they did to the other troubles them and lingers in their minds.

[homoeroticfisticuffs]

some parallels that i noticed in peter's character throughout the films. not watermarked because i forgot

[gamoraswonder]

supportive family

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 (2023) dir. James Gunn

[illuminatedquill]

In these coming years

Many things will change

But the way I feel

Will remain the same

- The End of All Things, Panic! At The Disco

*inspired by this

[robotsandramblings]

no nuance. no middle ground. no "both is good." PICK ONE.

[salmankhanholics]

★ -April 3, 2023 

[scarysanctuary]

whenever i hear people talk about how hated/mocked Hayden was back in the day for his work in the prequel trilogy, im just like well, hmm i cant relate, ive never hated him, because even though the movies werent great, and theres stuff to critique there, i think he suited the role as Anakin very well, and seeing as how we had plenty of good actors involved and even they werent able to showcase their skills to the upmost, methinks (and perhaps most rational people think) its the fault of the director and not the actor. oh and also he was unbelievably hot, so in conclusion v

[pinkd3mon]

To trust somebody

[ratxklng]

VERDELITES NOW HAVE AN OFFICIAL PAGE ON TOYHOUSE!

- "Firestarting wildcards of the Empire, Verdelites are its demolition experts. Sporting an arsenal of explosives and flashy overconfidence, they're not afraid to end things off with a bang!"

[tennessoui]

never love an anchor

i feel like i've said this before and i will say it again but every time i do this specific ask game i love trying to figure out the songs people use and if i know them and i absolutely love this song (one of my top obikin songs tbh)

this makes me think of a same age au where obi-wan goes to the agricorps and anakin becomes a jedi padawan and then a knight, and their paths cross a few times a year once they're all grown up. obi-wan is tapped to go to the temple every summer season to give them updates on the agricorps and every time they meet, they fuck and it's like...almost a committed relationship in anakin's mind because he's not sleeping with anyone else but who knows what (and who) obi-wan is doing in the agricorps. they don't talk about it.

they don't hate each other or anything, it's not hate sex---it's really good sex and they have a pretty good time whenever they see each other, but it's always brief. and obi-wan always leaves after a few days at most. and he always makes leaving look so easy, as if he really does just view anakin as a casual fun thing

aayla is the only one who knows about it and she is of the opinion that anakin should stop it - it verges on the weirdest attachment she's ever seen, and even if obi-wan returned the intensity of anakin's feelings, he lives and works on a planet a three day flight from coruscant. even if they wanted to carry on a secret tryst, they can't. there's no future there that.

but then obi-wan comes to the temple with several large bags and informs anakin that he's being stationed on coruscant for the next year or so as he works with the coruscanti gardeners on designing a new tranche of green spaces for the city.

and that means that anakin has a year to convince obi-wan that they should fall in love.

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i'd write to go with it!