#and dramatic as fuck. are like. amazing.

[shoezuki]

The fact that Lanval isn't a better known figure from Arthurian lore is fucked up actually. Like. Fuck those other guys. Gawain and King Arthur and Lancelot and Queen Genevieve and Galahad can all sit the fuck down. The Green Knight from Gawain and the Green Knight can stay but those other fuckers need to let Lanval get the spotlight like

Lanval was the perfect man. He was such a wet rag of a dude. The ORIGINAL little meow meow. My beautiful boy constantly weeping and crying

[phoenixkaptain]

The scene of Anakin turning back to the Light and saving Luke is such a beautiful scene in so many ways, but especially from a character standpoint.

If you look at Darth Vader just in the movies, he doesn’t do things without a plan. He has a step two. Even if his step two is immensely dumb, he always seems to at least have some form of an idea where he wants to end up; he has a point B he’s trying to reach.

Part of what makes Vader a terrifying villain is that he always seems to anticipate what his opponent will do. He seems to know what they’ll do before they even think about what they’ll do. Very rarely is Darth Vader ever taken by surprise. Darth Vader is the character who proves how scary the Force can be. While Palpatine uses his Force lightning and can predict what his opponents will do, he never quite reaches the level Anakin is on, he never reaches that peak of knowing the next five steps his opponent is going to take, even as those next five steps change.

Palpatine doesn’t see Vader turning on him coming. Palpatine is not a Force user who can see the future, he uses the predictions Darth Plagueis made and he sticks to the outline provided by his former Master. He does everything he does and believes everything will be fine and has complete confidence in himself because Plagueis was just that good at predicting the future.

Darth Vader literally changes the future. He makes those predictions false. Him throwing Palpatine down a reactor shaft wasn’t in the books, him choosing his son wasn’t an option, the idea that a Sith lord as powerful as Darth Vader could turn back from the Dark Side is believed by the Jedi and Sith alike to be impossible. Darth Vader himself doesn’t even believe that he can turn back from the Dark Side. The only character who ever believes that Darth Vader can come back is Luke.

Darth Vader is fifteen steps ahead of his opponents. It’s very rare that he ever gets surprised. He always has a plan.

But when he saves Luke, he isn’t any of that. He leaps in without a plan, without any ideas of where he’s goung. He doesn’t know what will happen except that he’ll probably die. He doesn’t have a way out of this. This is the first time Anakin Skywalker ever does anything without already having a way out or immediately being able to come up with a way out.

Anakin was hotheaded and impulsive, yes, but Anakin from his introduction always has a plan B. And when he doesn’t have a plan B, he makes one. He is by far the most competent character in Star Wars, just from his ability to get himself and others out of trouble.

In the moment of turning back from the Dark, Anakin is listening to the Force. He’s listening to the Force as it tells him to save someone. The universal call to the Jedi, the inexplicable push that all Jedi feel and what ultimately led to the majority of Jedi dying, just because they couldn’t not listen when the Force told them to help. Anakin finally listens to it, finally answers it, he finally acts like a Jedi.

There’s no step two. There’s no way out. Doing this will end in his death. Darth Vader is already injured, and the only one who has the resources to put him back together is Sidious. To save Luke, Vader has to step into the lightning, which he knows all to well will ruin his suit. Choosing to save Luke is tantamount to choosing to die.

And he does it. He hesitates, but ultimately, he sacrifices himself for someone else. He goes in knowing that this won’t end with him being able to get out. He has no way out. There’s no plan B. His suit has gone from keeping him alive to being part of the reason he’s dying. He takes off his helmet accepting that he’ll die and being happy to die because he’s finally at peace, he finally feels the warmth of the Force, he finally sees his son with his own eyes, his son is finally looking at him with nothing but trust and worry for his wellbeing, he’s right where he wants to be.

He went from wanting to posess Luke to just being happy that Luke is there with him. That Luke is the one by his side when he dies, that he’s dying on the same side as Luke — Anakin is fine with this. He’s ready to die. He’s accepted it. He’s just happy that the last thing he’ll see is the product of his and Padme’s love for each other.

The scenes of Anakin in Return of the Jedi are beautiful. The title “Return of the Jedi” is so great for this movie, it’s perfect, okay, you don’t understand. It has so many meanings!! The Jedi returning could be referring to Luke, the main Jedi we follow, returning to the screen, or to Tatooine. It could be referring to the Jedi Order, since Luke takes on Yoda’s request to share his knowledge with others and, with Sidious dead, the Jedi Order has functionally returned, even if it is only one member strong. It could refer to Yoda returning, it could refer to Obi-Wan returning.

Or, Return of the Jedi could be referring to Anakin. Anakin Skywalker, the son of the Force. Anakin Skywalker, the only character powerful enough to change the future itself, the only Sith Lord powerful enough to stop being a Sith Lord. Anakin Skywalker, who has always done impossible things, who has always performed impossible feats, who is himself impossible. And he’s back. He’s returned. The Jedi returned.

[wienners]

"is gooseworx upset about digital circus becoming a cocomelon ass thing id be so angry lol" I cannot express to you how much they have achieved the DREAM for an online indie animator. they got millions of views with A PILOT ALONE! the original characters are already being cosplayed and the models are being thrown into random ass meme videos as if its a massively famous IP! all that with an indie 3D studio! AND the cg actually looks incredible!!! think they're gonna be okay if some content farms use their models for some brainrot finger family video.

[lucapizzelles]

I think I genuinely might learn some thai from watching the thai luca dub when i get bored. i already know how to say sea monster and a passive aggressive way to say 'okay' (both with butchered tone pronunciation)

soon i will be fluent

[moghedien]

they spent the first half of the episode making it absolutely clear that Haruka and Michiru were being chill and looking after baby Hotaru and her dad, so them showing up on the top of the ruins, Michiru playing the fucking violin, and then provoking Usagi and the other girls into a fight is sooooo fucking hilarious

because they knew Usagi was right at this point. They knew she was the messiah, and they knew they were gonna leave this fight by basically swearing allegiance to her. they weren't even bothered by it, it seemed. they had like fully accepted all of this and were ok with it.

but FIRST they were gonna show up and be dramatic haters one last time

[deleahtarte]

I’m thinking of High Elf! Kyle and Knight! Stan again….Stan who has been training for as long as he’s been able to hold a sword…Kyle who is said to have the most mana ever seen in the last thousand years yet cannot do magic….they meet and they don’t like each other….but Stan has to protect Kyle cause that is literally his job and his lineage….the hurt

Stan:

[marinecorvid]

also also on tumblr user marinecorvid's official gs playlist We Are Young and Emperor's New Clothes directly correspond to the rainbow festival happening region-wide and a few days of there being no sign of the pinchers and ben and summer cautiously letting their guard down for a night and rand giving them official off-the-clock time to go drunkenly sing karaoke together and fuck around with the rest of oblivia's young adults... and then the IMMEDIATE hard cut to murph frantically phoning summer and ben at 9 in the morning because purple eyes is here and now everything is back to being FUCKED. moreso than it was before, really

[prolibytherium]

Bagman is the best BCS episode to me by far. LOVE me a good tv episode where two guy's (gender neutral) struggle through a wilderness they are woefully unprepared for (where the wilderness also perhaps reflects an internal struggle through the wilderness of the self or Whatever??!!?!!) and the guys involved (for better or worse) learn more about each other in the process. AND he drinks his own piss

[uhhhhmanda]

I saw your tag about nam joo hyuk and my little goblin brain can’t resist asking if you’ve ever seen the school nurse files? I feel like it’s just me and maybe 2 other people who have but I really liked it. The awkward but strangely sweet relationship between his character and the freak of a female lead did something to me (don’t analyse that). It was cancelled after 6 episodes though :’( but the story does feel complete. I don’t think it will make you cry til you throw up either, if that helps :D

I haven't seen that one but I did notice it in his filmography! I will add it to the watchlist!

[basu-shokikita]

sometimes i think like ‘maybe i should stop being so biased about skwistok because that probably limits the amt of people that will wanna interact with me’ (given that there’s a decent portion of the fandom that genuinely doesn’t care abt them at BEST) but then i’m like. i would rather kill my elf that stop being self indulgent and utterly adoring of otp

[comradecowplant]

I don't follow blogs ran by people being racist about rap so I'm only witnessing the secondhand responses to the recent "discourse" and sadly 'tumblrinas being racist about their bad taste in music & low lyrical literacy' is exactly what I'd put on my 2024 bingo card for this steadily declining shithole....

[bubaboos]

saw akira at cinema

[heartshattering]

Feeling like I want to give up again...

[sickly-sapphic]

frustrating that instead of uplifting communities, we shit on whatever we perceive as the opposite

[sexysilverstrider]

man i miss fire emblem 3 houses

[snow-and-saltea]

ive perhaps found the most mediocre manhwa ever written. its like the most subpar thing ever and encompasses so many things i don't like people doing in one manhwa / storytelling in general. its actually amazing