when your son is a magical boy and his teacher is a magical boy and suddenly you're the normie love interest in a magical boy anime
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Luke: “For the last time, I’m a Jedi, not a wizard.”
Din: “But you make things float.”
Luke: “Yes. With the Force.”
Din: “And you’re literally wearing wizard robes.”
Luke: “I get cold okay :(“
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Luke: Hey, thanks for taking me to the dentist.
Din: No problem.
Luke: Did I do anything weird after they gave me anesthesia?
Din: Well, immediately after you woke up, the chair started floating and you told everyone how they were gonna die.
Luke: Was I right?
Din: ....I mean, you didn't kill them or anything, so... I don't know yet.
Din: Probably though.
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Right so, in Star Wars, spice is drugs, right? It's unambiguously drugs, basically space heroin. We know Han Solo used to smuggle it, we know, regrettably, Poe Dameron used to smuggle it...
But what about the first thing Luke says to Ben about Anakin:
"No, my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars, he was a navigator on a spice freighter."
Are you telling me. Owen Lars was so afraid of Luke wanting to follow his father as a jedi that he told his beloved nephew, his only son, that his father was DRUG DEALER!?
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Leia found a Youtube channel that has a lot of classic NHL games (filmed on potatoes of course as the NHL is wont to do) and now that I have glasses --
-- did I mention I had to get glasses to pass my vision test to get my ID? Anyway now that I have glasses it turns out I can usually read the jersey numbers so I don't have to rely on telling the players apart by their body language and playstyle.
So I've been watching Wayne Gretzky, who I swear had eyes on the end of his hockey stick to get some of the shot angles he got, moved like a roller skater, fell like a martial artist, let the puck chase him instead of the other way around...
We've been doing good work on our current X-wing story with comparing different pilots' flying styles to the playstyles of hockey greats, since I let Leia try to get me into the hockey a while back and it turned out I get very *specific* with my analyses of certain players (since I'm coming at it from a background of soccer, a little ballet and karate, and watching other people figure skate). "Wedge Antilles flies like Sidney Crosby skates" was not the take I expected to come up with but it honestly really helps?
Anyway I wanted to watch some Gretzky because, you know, he is the standard by which all other hockey players are measured, and I was hoping to maybe come up with some more insights about starfighter piloting, but the main thing I've got is that he was playing more *ice* hockey than anybody else. Definitely anybody else on the rink, possibly anybody else ever.
What do I mean by that? Well, of course, hockey skating is a balance of the goals of the other two kinds of ice skating. Figure skaters (and ice dancers, pairs skaters, that whole category) are about Must Be Graceful/Precise. Speed skaters are of course about Gotta Go Fast. Hockey is about *maneuverability* -- you're fast to catch the puck and make it go where the other team is not, but the most important thing is making the puck go to Destinations, and the second most important thing is keeping the other players from sending you to Destinations (such as the boards, the penalty box, or the hospital).
So anyway, a lot of hockey players, when they're trying to catch the puck, they're basically sprinting down the ice, pumping their elbows and usually flailing their stick to some extent. They're treating the ice like a floor that happens to be slippery, and their skate blades as how they compensate for the slippery. They'd do just as well or better playing field hockey.
Gretzky would have been, I think, absolutely terrible at field hockey. He did not run on the ice. He worked *with* it. He didn't go flailing after the puck -- he kept his center of gravity very controlled in general, his stops were very clean and he played almost crouched a lot of the time -- and while he was waiting for the puck to pop out of a scrum against the boards, he'd be gliding along doing those little wiggles a figure skater uses to build speed, or just moving forward like he was on wheels instead of blades. When he had the puck and was trying to hustle it down to the net, he'd do these smooth crossovers like a figure skater or a rollerblade dancer, keeping his momentum perfectly in line with his center of gravity, no wasted energy at all.
None of which is directly translatable to starfighter tactics, and yet I think it might be helping. It's really hard to articulate what makes Luke Skywalker a good pilot other than he has the Force plus Skywalker recklessness. But I think... I think it's not inaccurate to say that he's just working on a slightly different surface than everybody else?
Like. I don't know if that makes any sense. The other players were running on a floor that was fighting them. Gretzky was *skating*. Luke is flying through the same space as everyone around him, in one sense, but he's also interacting differently with that space -- the Force makes him more able to connect to what's around him and work with it instead of having to fight it.
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favorite character poll
make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favorite
This is the, uh, Hot Guy Edition?
Also I legit can never decide if I love Sam or Seb more in SDV, so uhhh... sorry, Sebastian :( As a blonde musician, I need to represent my people.
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okay but din and luke would absolutely be those loud parents who get super into it when their kid plays sports, but not in the ‘yell at the refs and take the game way too serious’ kind of way, but more in the ‘constant stream of support and overwhelming enthusiasm for their kid’ kind of way where it’s just like pure aggressive affection - like they are out there cheering their kid on 100% no matter how obnoxious they are to the other parents because they just genuinely love and think of the world of their child but also they’re just both highly competitive people so it manifests itself like ‘did you see that goal?! atta boy grogu!’ and ‘take it easy on ‘em, slugger, give the other kids a chance!’ and ‘you’re doing amazing, kiddo! you show them how it’s done!’ and they always leave afterwards smiling and laughing as a family and talking about their favourite parts of the game and it’s just so clear that they all care about each other so much- embarrassing antics and all
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Nine favourite characters: Tag game
I was tagged by @tragediegh
1. The Fool, Realm of the Elderlings
2. Fitzchivalry Farseer, Realm of the Elderlings
3. Daenerys Targaryen, A Song of Ice and Fire
4. Rin Sohma, Fruits Basket
5. Sam Gamgee, Lord of the Rings
6. Leia Organa, Star Wars
7. Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
8. Fox Mulder, the X Files
9. Egwene al’Vere, Wheel of Time
In turn, I will tag @motleywolf-et-al @thelustybraavosimaid @mellowthorn @highladyluck
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“ Listen, son — in this world, it’s either yeet or be yeeted. ”
— Former Jedi Master Abraham Lincoln to Luke Skywalker
There's obvious confusion upon the boy's face, not understanding the term. Was this an Earth based word? Hell, he hadn't even known the planet existed inside the galaxy until very recently, when Ben Kenobi had urged him to find this old master.
"Uh. Yeet?" Luke repeated the term again, brows and nose scrunched. He looked at the tall, gangly bearded man in silence for a bit.
Finally, he spoke, head tilted to the side.
"Is that supposed to mean using the Force to throw someone? How would that help me with getting my ship fixed, sir?"
EVEN MORE UNHINGED SENTENCE STARTERS - accepting [x] - @historiavn
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Luke: han, look on the bright side; you have us!
Mara Jade: not your most persuasive argument, luke
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Force-Ghost Anakin: “Haha. Aren’t you a little short for a Jedi Master?”
Luke: “And one day I’ll be older than you ever were.”
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@hoovedrycal
An attentive gaze was watched carefully every move of the exposed demonstration. There was an latent consciousness, concerning how his expression in some manner, didn't truly changed would bring some wondering questions --- in which sadly answers weren't inclined to came. It would be rather complicated to explaining such reasons, when … well … he did experienced it though his own particular manners, though concerning himself, it was hardly physically the change could be exposed. Excepted maybe one thing, one tiny detail concerning one hobby about how he appreciated sometimes altering the narrative or himself when desired projects had to playing a bit with the fabric of reality. Nevertheless, as nothing inside his emotionless face didn't desiring brought an misunderstanding message, lightness within his blue eyes showed clearly interest, brightness, encouraging and supporting gaze. ❝ It's quite an power that you have. ❞ He had been hesitating to use that term. Power. It always meant responsabilities. It always meant heavier shoulders and an consciousness. It always meant there was an desire for more, to touching other spheres, to questioning powerfulness. Faculty could have worked but it must have coming from somewhere, hence he had preferred using the good word. Particular recongizable habits remained anchored within his behavior still --- no need to explain why it sounded perfectly normal for his eyes to perceiving such thing. Naturally, as an smile exposed, there was an desire to protect Regulus with such responsabilities he had, and everything in the sort. He was never complicated on that domain. He was spending his entire life helping people. There was always somewhere something inside his universe to fix, whatever how his greatest responsabilities were already huge, when his best friend would still complaining on his inability to slow down. ❝ I'm not sure you did born with the ability so I'm supposing this must coming from somewhere, and must be enough precious for you. I do understand the concern to find protectors for be certain it will not fall under malicious hands or be altered. ❞
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OPEN STARTER! [ luke skywalker ]
“I didn’t break the speeder!” the young boy exclaimed with full conviction, despite the evidence to the contrary in plain view - bits of durasteel and torn wires scattered around him. “I’m makin’ it better!”
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I literally truly and honestly cannot fathom creating The Force Awakens, from the score to the cinematography to the costumes to the editing, and then being like “nah Rey isn’t Luke’s daughter”
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me before tonight: aight skyrissian figure skating au where lando and luke are singles skaters, great!
me after tonight: SKYRISSIAN SAME-SEX ICE DANCE PAIR NOW
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