#i have chemistry homework

[candyje11yfish]

marina ida? more like marina ILY!!!! 🫶

[sixtysixproblems]

(kicks down door) hey. hey guys. keeli & ponds have the same rusty colored armor, in i think the exact same shade. keeli was a captain and not a commander, so logically it's possible he served under one. so keeli was one of ponds's captains and i will die on this hill. considering how talented he seemed to be in the little screen time he had (and considering he was trusted highly enough to serve directly with a jedi), he could have been Ponds's second-in-command even. ya'll. ya'll what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this at 12 fucking am.

have some semi-organized/semi-incoherent thoughts:

this battalion seems to have really shitty luck with Clone COs getting fucking twc is a tragedy'd because YEOWCH. like can you imagine, your captain and all the clones with him die in a self-sacrifice last stand, and then your commander + command crew of a cruiser dies to bounty hunters. like i bet it's not THAT uncommon, and the 501st had a lot of plot armor in a way, but still?? that relatively early on in the war both times too?????? and can you imagine being Mace (and possibly Neyo) and having to navigate that morale disaster on top of your own probably messy feelings on both situations? like yikes oh my god.

well now i'm drawing parallels between their deaths, gee thanks. and now im wondering that after keeli died in that way, that was a big part of why Ponds chose to go down with the ship? like, from what we gathered of him, it seemed to be in character regardless...but if Keeli and a bunch of other men had died under his command, i bet it didn't even feel like an option to abandon the command crew/admiral-- even if it seemed implied (or at least in my interpretation) that ponds wasn't obligated or even expected to stay on the cruiser.

both deaths are written to make the audience feel shitty despite not really knowing these characters, but for different reasons. keeli's feels very "classic tragedy" aka it sort of echoes some greek/roman myths and tragedies for me. like it's very honorable, brave, and it's a heroic sacrifice, and because twc is twc it's a brutal fight pretty damn clear (to my recollection at least) no one got out of that fight alive. you root for the characters because they're pretty fucking likable instantly because of what they're willing to do to protect the twi'leks, even if you can tell they're doomed from the start or you're on a rewatch. you know why it has to happen, you just cant help but hope it won't. filoni seems to like this trick a lot cough cough fives

Ponds's death by contrast, was intended to feel pointless, and that's where the sense of tragedy/audience's sadness comes from at least in part. keeli's death was sad because even if these characters could have lived, they were too good to take that road and instead picked the greater good, and it was just...fucking sad, man (its 12 dont come here for good analysis). By contrast, despite ponds having a pretty impressive handle on the situation actually (he seems to get under Sing's skin a little, and it's my opinion/headcanon that the CT number he gave was a lie), it's not like he's actually in control of the situation/has any agency at all. It's cruel and it's unfair and feels pointless, especially considering he survived the ship crash and survived the bounty hunter's attack on the survivors-- and especially contrasted with most other named character TWC deaths, which are almost always in battle/a heroic sacrifice/etc.

so yeah, moral of the story, while the deaths have some parallels to me, they're also very different. filoni used different writing tricks to make me you cry over another barely mentioned copy paste man. again.

very unhappy considering the HCs of Rex both being close to Keeli (often as batchmates), and being stolen adopted by Cody & CC batch. i'm also very unhappy about all of this in general.

one thing that's interesting, is that clearly keeli's death can be pulled off without any previous screentime (sobs). but i dont think ponds's death would have worked as well if it wasn't for his (albiet brief) screentime in the ryloth arc. like, in hindsight, oh boy-- there is no reason (I can parse out, at least) to give precious screentime Mace Windu's random clone commander primarily to make him more likable-- via a good report with Windu, and wanting to pass on rations to the civilian/sad about ensuing warcrimes-- if you weren't, oh i dont know, trying to get the audience a little attached or at least remember his name for when you fucking kill him. like yeah, those scenes served dual purpose, but the other plot-y goals (like "here's the horror of fucking war again in our pg7 show") could have been pulled off other ways with characters that get more focus/the audience already knows (Cham, who would have a more emotional reaction, and Mace, who the audience already has a rapport with). maybe im thinking too far into this, but Perhaps Not.

my "first" (probably not, but first watch since i was ten) of That Scene involved "oh fuck that isn't the nice commander from ryloth right" (checks wookipedia) "fuuuuuuuuuck--", so. it still would have been sad, but it's a lot more sad if you remember (even vaguely) who he is and have your (anakin sad boy voice) "that was ponds" moment.

yeah idk how to end this. suffer as i have, i guess?

[ralseinumberonebiggestsupporter]

you're a hot piece of work!!!!!!!!!

[absentmoon]

im so stoichiometry right now

[lillazyboithings]

The Father (periodic table), The Son (laboratory seat work about hybridization of carbon), and the Holy Spirit (multiple chemistry notebooks and papers spread out on my desk)

Truly a magical first week of classes

[love4hobi]

my summer class is not going well so far

[the-acid-pear]

I need to draw Midori on my knees sobbing I miss my daughter chat

[dont-open-dead-inside-25]

Passed the first exam of the day!

[vhstown]

aight my name's obie ... obie braun

[necrogfie]

took a shower, did my skincare, brushed my teeth and im gonna paint my nails, i truly feel like the girliest girl on the block (im not a girl)

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

I went to a barbecue last year in summer and it was all in all not the vibe. I felt I ended up doing most of the work with the only other friend who brought a side dish, I grilled all the meat and took care of dessert. It was not a nice group and they were smoking weed etc ... I didn't want to be there

Now I could have moved past all of this, some people do things differently that's fine but then I found out they started gossiping about me the moment I left. It left such a sour taste in my mouth

And now the guy was like "The barbecue was so fun last year! Let's do it again, who is available?" And every time they bring it up they're planning it i just get riled up again because it was just such an awful event all around and I can't let it go.

[ai-dont-care]

I forgot just how much fun it is to do math/science homework while intoxicated on caffeine

[tinynap]

i thought i was getting normal i really did but I want to throw up he is so beautiful and so cute and such a little guy and the love of my life and i need him to fall in lovewith me right now i actually genuinely am sick to my stomach i need to eat him and have him settle behind my ribs and stay there forever. and ever and ever

[mike-wheeler-ik-what-you-are]

ik my blog is kinda on a hiatus rn but let me update y'all with my life

[marrelica]

I love being in STEM (chewing the paint off the walls, homocidal, sweating, 200 formulas looking at me)

[apricusapollo]

okay so I have two current wips (hoax & paper rings) but I still decided to start writing a marauders oneshot based on attack on titan: no regrets ova (a choice (with no regrets)) but I'm also tempted to take a huge leap and write a oneshot based on a video sarajamss on tiktok made about unrequited eruri where erwin knows levi loves him and still sends him to dangerous missions because he knows levi won't tell him no,,, all of this while I'm crawling towards the end of second semester–