#and mae because... I like it

[meownotgood]

if you and aki had a child what would you name him/her

taiyo if it was a boy, mae if it was a girl... 🏃‍♀️💨

[kosmos-dan]

Do we like the idea of Fingon with his hair braided like that:

And then, after he dies, Maedhros starts braiding his own hair like this with Fingon’s ribbon:

Do we like this idea?

[maximumprime]

drawing that I did when I could've been SLEEEPPPPIIINNNGGGGG I'M AT SCHOOL WITH AN HOUR OF SLEEP GET ME OUT OF HEEERRREEEE

[sesamenom]

third kinslaying version of this

[oatberrytea]

The Mae's Home

[daily-smol-silm]

Day #124 - Forlorn

Now the tall boy is small AND regretting his family's life choices! Yay!

[blueberry-tenya]

I just realized: Romeo climbs several times during the play in order to meet with Juliet. And the film puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that Noa is a good climber.

Do you think we're gonna get a balcony scene?

[mamawasatesttube]

thinking abt kon getting hurt/upset about something big and clark bundling him up in his cape... ouuhhhhh souperfam save me...

[hurricanek8art]

I had to start trying to explain to my mom (strictly a movie/tv fan) why the Jedi are like this at this point in time, and it finally clicked in my head. The perfect way to explain how they're so rigid and strict and have such huge sticks up their butts at this point in time.

The Jedi of this generation are the result of generational trauma.

(Spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of The Acolyte, Phase One of the High Republic books, and some barebones setting spoilers of Phase Three under the cut. Also a big wall of text because I never know when to shut up 🙃)

So I'm behind on Phase III of the High Republic books (got a few chapters into The Eye of Darkness when it came out, brain farted out on me on reading ability, haven't gotten back to it yet 🙃😖) but I know enough to know that things are really going bad. The Nihil are rampaging, the Nameless are turning people to stone, the Stormwall has cut off like a third of the galaxy from the rest of it. It's a lot! It's really bad! And we see how it's affecting our heroes. Avar and Elzar are reeling without Stellan. Vern's questioning about how the Jedi are responding to this threat throughout Phase I has led her to become a Wayseeker. Padawans like Bell, Burry and Reath have been elevated to Knighthood a lot sooner than any of them expected to be. All of them are incredibly traumatized.

But that's just the Jedi we've seen. The heroes, the big names. Imagine being a nobody at this time. An extra. A child.

Imagine being a youngling in this era. There are literal nightmares hunting you. People are dying right and left, they're being husked and turned to stone or just plain shot/stabbed/whatever. The outposts are being closed down and everyone's being recalled to Coruscant, and that's the ones who've survived so far. They knocked the Starlight Beacon out of the sky, something that was supposed to be impossible. And less than five years ago, this was a golden age of peace, of light and life and great works that were bringing the galaxy together, a united front. That's horrible, that is terrifying.

We as the readers know it's going to work out, because it has to, because this is a prequel. They don't know that. They're just kids, and the world has suddenly turned upside-down, and the galaxy is big and scary and dark.

So everything works out, the day is saved. But these kids, they have to live with this trauma for the rest of their lives.

And when they grow up, and they train Padawans, those Padawans are going to carry the lessons they learned onwards. There is no lesson a Master can teach in this era that isn't going to carry the grief of the Nihil or the Nameless. There is no lesson any Master will ever teach again, from the moment Loden Greatstorm was captured by Marchion Ro all the way to Luke's temple burning to the ground, that won't somehow, in some way, be touched by this. It haunts everyone, everything. Those lessons are passed on, and on, and on.

Yord Fandar is intense about protocal and following the rules and making sure he's the perfect Jedi, because a hundred years ago maverick Elzar Mann played fast and loose with the rules while he was stationed on Valo, and then the Nihil turned the Republic Fair into a bloodbath. Sol is worried about Osha's (so far) inability to put her grief to the side and remain objective in chasing Mae because Imri Cantaros lost control and nearly murdered the Nihil who caused the death of his master during the Great Disaster. Vernestra Rwoh is refusing to charge into this without talking it over with the Council because she remembers what happened when she kept information from them a hundred years ago.

These aren't isolated incidents because they happened to the heroes, every Jedi of that era has some story like this, where the lines blurred in the fog of war and they made or nearly made horrible mistakes out of fear. And now, every Jedi is going to want to rise above that. To not make those mistakes, because that past is past. It's peaceful again. They're better now. But that trauma's lurking under the surface, just like the Sith. The Nihil won't win, but the Order isn't going to, either. Because what the Nihil did changed them, permanently.

The plot of the High Republic books is supposedly unrelated to the show, because it's a hundred years later. But the plot of the High Republic books explains everything about the Jedi in this era of the galaxy. They're carrying the trauma and grief of an entire generation that was brutalized unlike anything the Order had ever seen before.

And the Sith have watched, and waited, as that trauma has become so internalized, so central to what the Jedi are. The Jedi might not even realize that's what's happened to them. But the Sith see it.

And now it's finally time to begin the grand plan.

[tinderbox210]

A Tale Of Two Kingdoms (movie mashup AU)

After the war and the great plague, the land was divided. The woodland belongs to the apes and the old settlements belong to the humans now. As long they respect the other's territory, peace maintains, but new conflicts between both species seem inevitable.

Knowing coexistence is only possible if both species start to understand each other better, Ceasar, the leader of the Eagle Clan, sets out on a diplomatic mission to meet with one of the humans' spokeperson named Malcolm. Noa, Ceasar's son who has yet to live up to his father's expectations as the future leader of the clan, accompanies his father's delegation to the human colony where he meets Malcolm's rebellious daughter Mae, who likes to sneak out of the colony to explore the old city ruins.

While Ceasar and Malcolm work together to establish long-term peace between the two species, Noa and Mae grow closer on their secret adventures and fall in love against the odds. But dark forces on both sides rise to prohibit the alliance between apes and humans.

Coba, Cesar's oldest friend and Noa's godfather who despises humans, betrays the Eagle Clan by turning to Proximus, the leader of a rival clan who seeks dominion over both apes and humans. Coba and Proximus attempt to assassinate Ceasar, leaving him severly injured while they take charge of the apes and attack the colony.

Meanwhile Malcolm's political rival Korina contacts Colonel McCullough, the ruthless leader of a mercenary army, to help the colony get rid of their ape problem. When the soldiers attack the apes and start to threaten the colonists as well, Koba sacrifices himself to save Noa and make up for his betrayal. Stepping into his father's footsteps Noa confronts Proximus and defeats him while Mae saves the colony by blowing up the Colonel's base.

After defeating their common enemies, apes and humans forge a new alliance with Noa and Mae's love as a beacon of hope for a better future and peaceful coexistence between apes and humans. edit

[flythesail]

THE ACOLYTE: 31-Day Challenge | @savetheacolyte

Day 11: Favorite set design

The bunta tree on Brendok

[moonstruckme]

I think—not competely sure, but I think, maybe—I was asked out tonight? Like this girl and I were trading compliments and then she asked for my insta and said to message her if I want to hang out sometime and idk if we were just being girlies or if there was flirting I may have inadvertently (but happily!) been engaging in. I think whether she wants to be friends or something more I'm happy either way because she seemed really sweet

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Dean and Maedhros in their own versions of hell.

Dean and Maedhros as older brothers who refuse to leave their little brothers alone in the world.

Dean and Maedhros who reforge themselves in the armour of their pain.

Dean and Maedhros making choice after choice, kill after kill advertantly and inadvertently, wanting to regret but being unable to because at least their little siblings are alive.

Dean and Maedhros tired but fighting on

Dean and Maedhros as the best of the best. Unreachable. Untouchable.

Dean and Maedhros making allies left right and centre in a final push

Dean and Maedhros who know they’re doomed by try anyway.

Sam and Maglor taking up the mantle their big brothers left. Ill fitting. Lonely.

Sam and Maglor doomed from birth wishing they weren’t so.

Sam and Maglor making choice after choice because everyone might be willing to let their big brother suffer, but they never will.

Sam and Maglor who’ve had that choice taken away one too many times and never forgiving themselves

Sam and Maglor following their brother’s footsteps even when it tears at their throat because they can’t fail them again.

Sam and Maglor knowing their brothers are in hell.

Sam and Maglor having to watch themselves fail and someone else succeed. Never thinking of being anything but thankful for it. Amazed their brother forgave them.

Sam and Maglor at the end of everything alone. Their big brother dead. Nothing but grief in his wake.

Sam and Maglor living on because they made a promise, they have a purpose to fulfil, and they won’t let their brother’s pain be for nothing.

Dean, Maedhros, Sam, and Maglor fighting tooth and nail against their fates until they’re dragged kicking and screaming. These brothers who didn’t know what they were getting into, but it’s too late now.

But they’ll pull every scrap of good they can out of it.

What choice do they have?

John and Fëanor weeping over the fates they brought on their children.

John and Fëanor consumed with madness and vengeance, pulling their sons into their vendetta, no matter the cost.

John and Fëanor dooming their sons to a fate worse than death.

John and Fëanor knowing what they’ve done is unforgivable.

John and Fëanor whose sons sometimes can’t figure out if they love or hate them.

Dean and Maedhros so so tired at the end of it all. A final death is their only release.

Sam and Maglor as the ones who watch them and have to survive.

…At least we know Sam gets to see his big brother again.

[megaultrasuperhypergodkiller]

Gamefreak has been writing legendary Pokémon phenomenally lately, Pokémon like Calyrex and Ogerpon truly feel like friends and companions, like I've not seen a single person ever dislike those two because the game makes them so likable and gives them so much personality and really makes you bond with them so it's genuinely a treat when you get to catch them! And it doesn't feel as impersonal as "Oh let me catch this all powerful god so it doesn't destroy the region." I think it really exemplifies the fact Pokémon are FRIENDS, and Ogerpon and Koraidon/Miraidon also prove that Calyrex didn't work just because it could talk, they all work because how they're woven into the narrative and the protagonist by extension. So catching them (or being able to use them in battle with the SV box legends) feels like proof of your bond with said Pokémon.

[cosmicsproutcake]

Just saw someone on Twitter refer to Hughes and Roy as "old men".

They both start the series at 29; Roy ends it at 32, and Hughes never even gets to 30 (apparently).

This is beyond calling characters in their mid-late 30's "old men"; these guys are in their late 20's basically the entire time they're in the series together 🙃

[sweetsoona]

Watched more deleted scenes and it’s so clear that Mae saw Noa as a potential friend. Not just as a tool to use or an inevitable enemy.

During the campfire scene after Mae reveals she can speak, her and Noa were going to have a moment to themselves where they were going to talk about what they saw in the telescope & about the meaning of dreams. It was a very vulnerable conversation of Noa talking about his father and Mae talking about her mother. They were bonding not only over their mutual confusion about stars and space, but also over their parents.

Towards the end of the convo, Noa says something self deprecating and Mae stops him, saying he’s different from the others, before she walks away to sleep.

It was a really nice, touching moment between the two and I don’t think Mae was lying. Even she seemed surprised by her own sincerity. Like she’s still grappling with the idea that maybe Noa is different. Maybe apes aren’t all the same. Like this is the start of a very small seed undoing her preconceptions.

The scene definitely wasn’t them becoming besties, they’re still very far from that if they reach it at all. But I think Mae was beginning to see the POTENTIAL for a positive relationship. Something she didn’t expect traveling with an ape.

Which makes the finale where Mae holds the gun behind her back even more heartbreaking. Because she fears she might have to put down one of the VERY FEW apes she didn’t have to be afraid of. That she might not have had to be enemies with. Raka and Noa are the first apes she’s ever met that treated her with kindness, mercy, and compassion. Raka died saving her life, and now she might have to take Noa’s. It’s excruciating how alone Mae is.

But then Noa reminds her that maybe friendship between apes and humans is still possible. And Mae says she doesn’t know, but then she accepts Raka’s necklace and cries and leaves in peace, and it’s clear which path she subconsciously prefers (co-existence), it’s just going to take her some time to reach the conclusion herself.

While the deleted scene had to be scrapped because the subplots it covers got scrapped, I wish at least another version or rewrite of it had been made so it could’ve kind’ve stayed. That moment of them letting their walls down by the fire was really touching!

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