#but that’s a whole other fuckin story

[botanist-cool]

My favorite duels in Star Wars have to be when the Jedi barely/doesn’t use their lightsaber or just dodges/uses the force! Some notable examples:

Ezra in Ahsoka

Obi-Wan in Rebels

Ahsoka in Rebels and Tales of the Jedi

Barriss in Tales of the Empire

Kanan (specifically moments after being blinded by Maul) in Rebels

Luke in The Last Jedi

And I’m pretty sure I’m missing a few others. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE a good choreographed fight scene; but a scene where we can see, as Obi-Wan puts it, what the Jedi has “risen above” is SO good!

[cubbihue]

hihi. finished watching Inanimate Insanity for the first time ever. Planning on redrawing fav saved screenshots during my liveblogging.

Part 2

[astranauticus]

stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir

(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)

But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?

so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me

in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone

and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age

but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind

and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind

(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)

"I just see this place as my home"

so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3

[front-facing-pokemon]

[jesperr-fahey]

reading the animorphs book that's basically just "au where they never met elfangor" and it's super interesting and i like this style of story a lot but it is also making me want to write my own au where tobias is the only one not with them when they meet elfangor...

controller tobias just makes a LOT of sense and it's very compelling to me!! and maybe i would like to see a situation where the gang ends up dealing with this scrawny, bullied, compelling kid, and whether they'd be able to save him

(plus the rachel/tobias of it all... tobias's yeerk mocking him for his crush, talking to her and trying to convince her to join the sharing while tobias pounds on the walls of his own mind and rachel does her best to grin and bear it and give nothing away...)

[luck-of-the-drawings]

TRAINING ARC: START!! BOTHER YOUR GUARDIAN AND EXHIBIT ISSUES. NOW SOLVE THOSE ISSUES BY BOTHERING GUARDIANS. I HAVE FULL FAITH IN OUR HEROS!

[anjanahalo]

As a thing to say this Pride Month, part of accepting I was aroace was asking myself if I really wanted to get some sort of romantic partner. The answer was...not really? I like my own company. I don't feel any big urge to have "One True Love" in my life. Social contact was serviced well through close friends. Sex and Romance didn't need involvement. Maybe I'll die a single spinster, but spinning yarn was an occupation that could earn a woman enough money to live on her own. Thus the equation of spinster to older single woman. She is strong, independant, anddon'tneednoman. Wanting a man is cool, but I don't even really want one of that. There are aspects of kink culture I enjoy, but I most enjoy the things that don't really involve intercourse. I also enjoy whump writing, but that's because it's another form of intimacy that doesn't deal with sex. Hell, I realized I don't like most Top 40 songs because most of them are about being in love or someone asking to get back with someone after cheating on them. The former I find boring because I can't relate (and I can listen to a song about being a tree and relate), and the latter has me hoping the singer purposefully cast themselves as the bad guy in their own song. Anyway, my big move when I embraced my sexuality is to stop looking for a romantic partner on apps. They didn't work well for me anyway. "Swipe Right if you like them!" it says. How do I know I like them? I can tell if they're conventionally attractive, sure, but a picture and a short curated bio don't tell me enough to even consider them. Deleting those apps and thinking "I don't need or want a romantic partner" made me feel free. Thank goodness my parents aren't pushing me to marry or have kids, and my brother's successfully continued the genetic family line so I don't have to. Happy Pride Month from a relaxed Asexual, a proud Aromantic, and, bonus points, and pondering egg cracking its shell.

[designernishiki]

I feel like I liked yakuza 5 a lot more than most people for some reason

[jils-things]

SKADJKAJFKSFSAA content warning: embarrassing moment during my dinner out... /lh

[uniformbravo]

the natsuyuu manga is so funny the volume will be like "natsume grapples with his desire for unconditional love versus his fear of burdening those around him, knowing the more he opens his heart to the people he cares about the more he stands to lose if something goes wrong; these people are the warmest he's ever known and he's the happiest he's ever been and that scares him because he can't shake the feeling that it's fleeting and fragile and could all disappear at any moment, so all he can do is fight to protect everything he loves and hope one day he'll deserve the precious happiness he's been given here"

and then the blurb on the back is like "natsume climbs up into the attic to look for some books, but... uh oh... is that a... g-g-g-ghost??!? things are about to get freaky deaky in here if he doesn't do something... quick!!! will natsume be able to handle it before the clock strikes thirteen, or will he become... gulp... the ghost's next meal?!?"

[kelvingemstone]

a starstruck odyssey is for lovers

[snekdood]

i mean i should probably stop saying shit just to be mean

[raiiny-bay]

thinking about the monster boyz AU & how kel never gets to be truly happy in it...

[snarwor]

gasping for breath surfacing from a two-day assassins creed ii binge, only to be dragged once more beneath the waves by ac:brotherhood

deep breath nora

[doodles-with-noodles]

Ik I have made a lot of textposts today but I’ve just had an idea:

I’ve asked myself a lot should I add in a fourth character? When thinking about my Egyptian mythology story and then thought: eh, that can come later in the storyline. I didn’t know how, though. Until now.

It occurred to me that I

Could make a mentor-like character

Could make that character older because not everyone is the same age

Can do whatever the fuck I want

And so, I have a concept. After big storyline 1 (book one? Idk I’m not making myself high hopes) the team has proven themselves as capable enough to do field work, but they are all very inexperienced and fucked a lot of shit up while saving the museum. So, they do get promoted, but Malik gets relieved from his role of being the team‘s leader and the new leader is. Just a dad. Just a middle aged single-parent who’s doing this terrible job because good money. And he ends up with these three kids as coworkers- a girl who really likes her job, another who’s searching for someone she’s lost and the third, who seems normal at first but turns out to be fucking undead.

Found family at it’s finest :)

(also I can use my dad’s dad jokes)

[boygirlctommy]

ive been thinking about my ocs all day and i FOUND A WAY FOR MADINEAU TO BE RELEVANT AGAIN!!!!