#ignore me. disregard

[catboygirljoker]

hi.

[intermundia]

Hi! Since I know you love Stover’s ROTS novelization, I wanted to ask you what you thought about that part of the novel where Obi-Wan is holding back tears at the thought of betraying Anakin’s trust? I’ve seen some people call this passage OOC because Obi-Wan wouldn’t get so emotional when doing what was required of him as a Jedi, but I thought it was a sign of how Obi-Wan’s relationship with Anakin was so strong that it was the one thing that could come close to making him second-guess his Jedi duties. Did you have any thoughts about it?

Yeah definitely, I think canon Obi-Wan is a deeply human character, who exhibits the full range of emotions over the course of the saga, and those emotions are why he's such a compelling figure in Anakin's tragedy. We see him crying multiple times, notably during the climax of the Kenobi show, as he is especially emotionally vulnerable to Anakin. He cares so deeply about his brother-son-student-friend, and that love is trapped in circumstances beyond his control.

Obi-Wan holding back tears in this passage dramatizes how overwhelmed he is by his conflicting desires he feels to protect and defend Anakin, and to do his duty to the Order and the Republic. He's doing his best to balance everything, and it's not going particularly well. Anakin is wounded and slipping away, and Obi-Wan's actions have contributed to the circumstances that hurt him. He doesn't realize that Anakin is dangerous yet, but he does know that he's losing his trust.

I think in this moment he's not exactly second guessing his commitment to the Order, but he does tacitly reveal that he finds Anakin's extreme loyalty to be sympathetic to some degree, even admirable, a sign of his big heart and his generous, reckless dedication to the people he loves. Obi-Wan struggles to criticize it, as he's complicit in it when it comes to Anakin. It's a flaw they share, to differing degrees. Obi-Wan is mostly able to moderate it, and Anakin simply is not.

We know that Obi-Wan doesn't deliver a coup de grace either time he defeats Anakin in combat, and you can argue about whether or not it is consistent with the Jedi philosophy or an abnegation of his duty, but his love for his Padawan is never in question. He does his duty by taking the fight to the Sith, but he also cannot actively kill him when handed the opportunity on a silver platter. He's not an emotionless repressed robot, he's a man gutted by his desire to cling to a friend who betrayed him, and doing everything he can to rise above it.

It's just important to me that Jedi like Obi-Wan cry—that they feel anger and grief and terror just as much as any other sentient creature. What they do is allow those emotions to flow through them and not blindly guide them. Yoda and Mace have compassion for Obi-Wan here, but they also expect him to separate himself from his emotions and look at the situation rationally. Obi-Wan does that, even if he has qualms and is pushing down tears. I think it's extremely compelling, not OOC.

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Reminder for the dpxdc writers!

Yeah I know lots of us get canon and fanon confused and some never watched Danny Phantom which is why I’m going to *friendly remind everyone* that if you don’t want to use the Ghost King Danny thing, it’s—it’s fanon. Like. You do not need to go out of your way to make it Not A Thing, if you find it’s hindering your plot line or whatever. You don’t have to write around it. At this point, you might need to clarify it’s not something you’re doing, since it’s so common, but like—if I have to read one more plot where they’re twisted up in knots to avoid it, like. Pls. You can do what you want and that includes this, we already disregard canon all the time, you can buck common fanon as well I’m—

That’s not to say I’m against Ghost King Danny, but I’m starting to think it’s one of those things people are afraid to stray from because they think it’s it’s one of the more… pillar parts? Of Danny’s character and canon? When it’s, like, not. If you want to write in reasons why he’s not king and etc etc you CAN, it’s your story and maybe it even serves your plot or tone or you just want to, but you can also just not even have it be a consideration. You’re free to just not do it.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

[phoenix-clan]

🧍‍♀️ where the hell did u all come from

hi hello thank u for all the new followers i just got.

just letting y'all know right off the bat there will be absolutely no talk of anything besides my silly cats here, this is my isolated little kitty cat corner and i will not be flooding it with anything else besides my silly gay cats

[dcbnam-aep]

The sad thing about this episode is how blatantly the fact that Alicent is a woman is being used against her (it’s been clear throughout the show yes, but now at the council Larys has said it plainly).

In her opinion this conflict was never about rhaenyra being a woman! She thinks rhaenyra would have made ‘a fine queen’! Alicent believes that Aegon is on the throne Not Because he is a Man but because Viserys ‘changed his mind’. But now the fact that he is a man and she is not is being used against her.

Though Alicent has done what is asked of her and proven herself time and time again (including on the council in the absence of Viserys!!!), she (like rhaenyra) is being punished and removed of the luxury of power simply for being a woman.

But unlike Rhaenyra, Alicent has no power from her title and can’t force anyone to listen to her because they were her father’s antis. This is Alicents tragedy

but the real tragedy is arguably the antis who say that Alicents storyline is somehow ‘deserved’. So much for absorbing the shows messaging about the danger of women being villainised for having opinions or authority!!

[shikai-the-storyteller]

One of the funniest things about the QSMP finale was Pac going "Yeah, Cucurucho transferred my consciousness into this Egg body to save me," and Mike is immediately like, "Wait, why the hell didn't they save me?!?" pfttt

[ceristhedivine]

"The only comics where he (Damian) gets *any* character development is Robin 2021 and B&R."

U-uhm...

Have you ever read Robin: Son of Batman...? I recommend it. It's a pretty telling, touching story!

[lycanr0t]

i feel very frustrated about the trend of giving chil body hair bc if it was any other anime twink i would be thrilled its just that it seems to only be because people are SO afraid of him looking young they have to make him hairy to justify liking him in ships.

meanwhile it does directly go against canon (he literally is supposed to look like a child. this is integral to both his character and his race's lore as a whole and it makes no damn sense that he would be mistaken for a child if he has body hair i mean. cmon.)

and it's like. some men are hairless. some men look young. when youre a trans man in your 20s-30s its especially common to be mistaken for a teenager, even more so if you're not on t. and short. these traits do not make you less of a man or an adult. :/

[neofelis----nebulosa]

Po and Tigress's relationship is so funny because they're written like a queerbait couple but like. its a male character and a female character. like theres some stuff that is obviously written in a way that can be interpreted as romantic but like the movie never actually backs it up with any further development of a romance between the two. there's always that plausible deniability so they dont actually have to follow up on it.

[pomniegranate]

Okay listen @advlox, I was doing a big Think™. I can totally imagine Vox taking advantage of the fact Pomni's lost and clueless in Hell and offers her to sign a soul contract with him in exchange to get any answers she seeked out of him. But that was the catch, Vox is an asshole and now toys with the fact that he has her wrapped around his finger. And she's like his own personal lap dog and Pomni hates every waking second with him and would 100% try to kill him in his sleep, if she could. And she constantly looks at him like this:

[kidsnextdoor-doodles]

Hate people who always yap about Fanny having a crush on Wally because I swear if you asked mr Warburton himself about it he’d be like “what the fuck are you talking about”

[frumfrumfroo]

Hey, this is The Acolyte Reylo Dynamic anon again. I haven’t seen the show but I saw people raving about it on Twitter. So the dynamic appears to be between Amandla Stenbergs character and the villain revealed to be played by Manny Jacinto. Both have good chemistry from the 2 second gif I saw, but I expect NOTHING good to come out of this. And when they played Kylo’s theme they straight up played it. They were even trying to be subtle about it.

I know absolutely nothing about the show, the only thing I've seen is like two screencaps of the villain guy. And he is indeed hot except for that tragic moustache, but no man has ever been hot enough that I would forget about tros.

[elithemiar-blog]

So. What happened between Kim and Chay that finally got Kim to give in? Read and find out.

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

its so mindboggling that people can go “how can you say free palestine if you’re queer” as if the opinions a person has changes the validity of their life??? yall sound real similar to the people saying trans people are a danger to society

[t4tprinzzy]

am i dumb for only just now noticing that. virgil and logan have very similar um,,, i guess like desires? like they both want to be taken seriously (but maybe in a slightly different way?)

like is this obvious. is the thing i just said incredibly obvious