#I just need to talk

[frc-ambaradan]

A few thoughts on Thrawn’s portrayal in Ahsoka

First thing first: I think they absolutely nailed him.

Lars Mikkelsen is perfect and I don’t think there could ever been another actor fit to bring Thrawn alive. We’re talking about the same man who got an Annie Nomitation for his voice performance in Rebels. He knows the character, he knows how Thrawn speaks, the way he moves, he knows how to use silence... and he absolutely kills it!

And, let’s forget about the new canon for a moment, shall we? 

This Thrawn looks like he just jumped out of “Heir to the Empire”. 

Looks like Filoni’s going for the more Moriarty-like, more evil Legends Thrawn. And, as much as I love the new books, that’s the Thrawn we first met and loved, the character who became the standard bearer of the Expanded Universe, one of the greatest villains of the franchise second only to Darth Vader and one of the best characters in Sci-fi fiction. That’s a guy who’s politely conferring with you a moment before and the second later he’s having a tractor beam technician be dismembered by his bodyguard.

Pellaeon never even saw Rukh move. Pieterson certainly never had time to scream. From farther down the crew pit came the sound of someone trying valiantly not to be sick. Thrawn glanced over Pellaeon's shoulder gain and gestured, and the silence was further broken by the sound of a pair of stormtroopers coming forward. "Dispose of it," the Grand Admiral ordered them, turning away from Pieterson's crumpled body and pinning Colclazure with a stare. "The error, Ensign," he told the other softly, "has now been corrected. You may begin training a replacement." Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (1991)

The infinite pauses Mikkelsen makes, with Thrawn just staring at his interlocutor in silence, are so unnerving and so perfectly in character. Pick any page of the Thrawn trilogy where the Grand Admiral’s talking to Pellaeon and you’ll find the same feeling of fear and malaise. 

And guys, Thrawn was never meant to be likeable. He’s not a puppy, he’s a wolf. He’s someone to be admired for his tactical genius, to be respected for his abilities; you can understand his reasons and his way of thinking but still he’s someone to be wary of and to be feared. You can talk with Thrawn. He will listen and will understand your point, but once you find yourself between him and his goal, you’re dead.

Not surprisingly, Grand Admiral Thrawn was inspired by General Rommel. And they indeed are very similar (I might say they’re basically clones ^^): both military geniuses coming from the lower ranks of society and raising to the highest ranks of the army by sheer talent and yet pretty much naive when it comes to politics and highly opposed by other high ranking officers driven mostly by pure envy (hell! Rommel was taken in higher regard by the British than by his fellow German high ranking officers! In fact, Rommel kept his rank only because Hitler liked him, just like Thrawn did because Palpatine liked him).

Erwin Rommel and Mitth'raw'nuruodo are basically the same person in two different universes...

Both Thrawn and Rommel are well mannered, honourable and very professional officers, considerate to their troops and respectful of their adversaries and as such highly esteemed by both their men and their enemies. That doesn’t change the fact that they both have their fair amount of atrocities on their shoulders, they work for the most evil governments of their age and both have pretty close personal relationships with the Emperor and with Adolf Hitler. And still. You can fight on the wrong side of history and still be an honorable man.

That said, I’ve read complains about Thrawn's physique and yes, I didn’t like his belly either when he first showed up but that was just for a fraction of a second ‘cause the moment he opened his mouth I was totally sold.

Why? Because physical prowess isn’t Thrawn’s main characteristic. Yes, he’s a very well trained warrior and a martial arts expert, but the reason why he’s such a great character is his charisma, it’s his brain and, if I'm right, the Thrawn we have in Ahsoka is the evil cat- ops, I mean ysalamiri-petting Thrawn ^^.

And guys, people do age, even chiss. Thrawn’s 70 years old, he has every right to get old and look old. And that belly looks like a very deliberate choice to me.

Ten years separate Rebels Thrawn from Ahsoka Thrawn, ten years and an inter-galactical hyperspace jump. People change. And get old.

Also, you must consider the fact that Thrawn was wrapped in the purrgill's tantacles when they jumped into hyperspace, so it's safe to assume that he substained heavy injuries and that his body was heavily affected by it. We also don't know how well he fared while stranded for ten years in an unknown galaxy, meddling with stuff he should stay kilometers away from (let's face it: it never ends well when he starts meddling with the Force or anything he has no real grip or power on).

I don't know, but I don't think chiss are made to fly in hyperspace.

So, on a closing note... is Thrawn's make-up perfect? No.

Is that such a big problem? No. What the make-up doesn’t achieve, the actor’s performance will.

And hear me out, there is room for improvement and I’m sure they will fill the gap. They did with Ahsoka… remember how everyone criticized her lekku in The Mandalorian? That was because of an actual, practical reason, but they did manage to correct it and they did improve it. Ahsoka looks great now. And just how they did with her, they will improve Thrawn’s appearance as well.

It’s impossible to nail something at first try. And it's impossible to appease everyone.

I work as a digital artist and I can tell you that sometimes you just can’t do the best you can, because maybe the budget doesn’t allow it or there’s just too little time to do it (or people just keep asking change after change 😒), but once you’ve got the basis, and I think they’ve got pretty solid basis with Thrawn, to improve the look of him adding details and correcting those little errors is gonna be a much easier job and you’ll, see, he’s gonna look much better in the next season.

Sometimes things don’t need to be perfect to work. And Mikkelsen’s Thrawn works, because it’s Mikkelsen and because it’s Thrawn.

[pedrospatch]

cw: therapy mention

so

my therapist challenged me to stop reaching out first in relationships i feel are one sided

and i am quaking

because there’s that fear of never speaking to someone again if i don’t reach out

and she’s like uhh that means that you’re bearing the responsibility of keeping said relationship going and that’s not fair to you and my mind was blown

[ms-oswald]

Post a poll with 5 favorite characters and let others decide which is their favorite.

thank you for tagging me @whitedarkmoonflower & @gemini-mama (& @arcielee) ❤️ WHY IS THIS SO HAAAARD?

tagging @persephones-journey @caribaheine @lostsolace @st-eve-barnes @itbmojojoejo & whoever else who wants to do it 💕

[the-thieves-gambit]

anyone around and on discord?

[temporary-no-name]

When I'm using my phone, I hold it a certain wait so my fingers look like spider legs, and it makes me feel so creature (I don't like spiders, but I think it's kewl)

[yellows-secret-blog]

Brazilian mixed confession time

It was kinda hard to me to learn that I am perceived as white (in my country) bc I always had a complexion with my skin color

I always thought that if I wanted to look like my favorite characters I needed to make my skin lighter somehow and that used to make me insecure (I was 10 yk) bc I couldn't be like the pretty girls on the tv (I wanted to look like Maisa T-T )

And like, my skin is not that dark??? It's like a light brown yk like when you mix coffee and milk? I'm just permanently tanned bc I was raised on the beach and pa gave me the melanin

And once a teacher said I was never going to be white with the nose I had and GUESS WHAT COLOR THEY ASSIGN ME AT THE DOCTOR BITCH

Anyway fuck that teacher the way they said was mean af (she was literally laughing at me)

And that's what happens when you are mixed yay (besides all that I kinda won the genetic lottery bc I got the best features from my parents (also what confused me a lot, pa is a black man and people say I look just like him so ??????? Tf man))

[word-count-bullet-count]

I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

[beholdthemem]

My fellow bitches under 5'5. Whatever the money, do not take a job working at a middle school. A fellow adult tried to put me in detention last month and would NOT give up until I showed her my badge proving Yes, The School Hired Me To Work Here. It's not meant for people our height.

[sheepydraws]

The secret Dungeon Meshi sauce that's getting people to eat better is that it's so non-judgmental. Senshi and the rest of the gang never talk about what not to eat besides things that taste bad and literal poison. They don't even talk about "health" that much besides the importance of a balanced diet. It's so much easier to eat well when you think of food simply as something your body needs, and that it's often worth the extra effort to make it taste good, especially when you understand how to connect "things your body needs" with "things that taste good"

[mrikool]

clearly i attract judgment cuz what the FUCK why’s it only one singular person in this whole entirety of existence that i don’t Feel OR Get judged by????.?::$,&:’ right ok right

[lovelygarbageday]

As an American, who just wants the best for people in general, I'm just so tired.

I'm hitting 40 this year. I've tried to peacefully talk and convince people of the rights of our fellow Americans and how we should treat them, and I've tried to argue and fight and protest and I'm tired.

I live in a small conservative town. I can't convince people to be kind. I can't compel people to care about each other I'm not that good a speaker. I'm just good at reading and analyzing and that makes me a great IT support. Because I'm good at analyzing, I can see the writing on the wall with this new Trump administration. I saw it last time. But no one wants to listen to logic. And I'm not that charismatic.

And I'm so tired.

[wrapmeinsilk]

If someone let me yap to them abt all my ocs and my interest I’d kiss them so hard,,,,

[immabebaby]

Anybody down to give love advice? Asking for a friend, and by friend I mean me

Yeah, so my friend stuck and require assistance, figured maybe talking w someone removed entirely from the situation could help?

I really don't know who to reach out to, and it's hard to ask when I have them friended basically everywhere, even here but they don't really check in on Tumblr often soooo

(Beloved, if u r reading this, no ur not, and we're still on for next week)

anywayyys who's down to help me deal w a weird fwb where the benefit is practically dating who's label is best friends (aka I got a crush on mah bestie and it doesn't help that we act like a couple)

Most of the poems on my blog are about her, and my feelings towards the situation, which is hard to deal with, if anyone's curious just search for "poetry" on my blog :P

[distressed-dysthymiac]

I Need Help. Now.

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know