#rather the opposite

[sommerregenjuniluft]

*delirious chuckle* ☺️🙂🙂 i’m sorry is the fic not in the room with us?:)) have you suddenly gone blind?:) what’s happening? whats going on?☺️ did you not just,, Yknow….READ IT?🙂☺️☺️☺️✨

[lineffability]

ok have finally started on the next meanwhile chap and realized it's probably not gonna be all that long, so you can probably expect it this weekend but I make no promises 😬

[morallygay]

The first time I saw kabru I was disappointed that he has blue eyes like :/ but I realized it’s perfectly consistent with how he’s laios’ opposite physically symbolizing how he’s his foil and opposite in general. Others have already mentioned it but

Laios: light skin, blond hair, droopy yellow/brown eyes, bigger build

Kabru: dark skin, black hair, sharp blue eyes, smaller build

Like if he had dark eyes everything else would be the opposite except that. Makes sense

[massiveladycat]

never going to get over the fact that there are adults in Camp Jupiter and yet its all up to the children to be child soldiers and politicians like i would NEVER live in new rome if it's going to make its children go to WAR

[flatterboy]

(If this post doesn't apply to you, just scroll 😭 why do you have to let me know. Look I ran outta room for the "doesn't apply to me" option 😞.)

[stinkythehutt]

also. something about palpatine being so adept at seeing into the future that all of his successes feel completely joyless by the time he achieves them because he’s just going through the motions… how fucked up and nihilistic and brutal that would make you…

[boar-cry]

simmer.

(full version under the cut.)

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

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[mademoiselle-cookie]

Headcanon #3 : Ahsoka didn't died on Mortis

We have already seen dead characters in the saga.

THIS

is not a dead person. This is a character who has been cursed by the Dark Side.

You can't bring people back to life. That's a fact. The Light can't do that. It goes against the order of nature. You can't heal death.

No one says she's dead. It would be worth mentioning tho. Anakin asks if the Father can "help" her and he tells him it's impossible because "The Dark Side shall consume her". Maybe it's bc English is not my native language (obv) but I'm sure it's in the future tense. So she's not dead.

And since Anakin remembers this moment, it's even more unlikely that it's a resurrection rather than a healing/exorcism. If he's seen a resurrection before, he'll be looking to what he's seen, especially since it's from the Light Side of the Force, not its opposite. Anakin would be going for what he's seen and knows has worked before, rather than Palpatine's promises, which also require him to sacrifice stuff.

Plus, it would go against Jedi moral. In the episode "Weapons Factory" (ep1 s2), Luminara tries to make Anakin understand that he must be prepared if one day, his Padawan were to die. She is portrayed as being right, but if in another episode, Ahsoka dies and Anakin resurrects her, it ruins that moral. It ruins the moral of Star Wars.

[lucky-clover-gazette]

tbh i think volo would have been significantly more normal and fine if he hadn’t been hiding so much of his true feelings and personality. like when you deny yourself genuine human connection to that degree you’re probably going to come off as a machiavellian monster who wants to make the world and the lives of others worse, but looking at his actual stated motivations and intentions it’s clear to me at least that the guy is deeply empathetic and idealistic and more than anything disappointed that the world can’t be better

[fandomunsexyman]

SVSSS is a novel with a fandom.

[ID: A Scum Villain edit of the "missing the point" meme. A bullet arcs from velinxi art of child Shen Jiu kneeling while furiously glaring. The bullet says, "People are not entirely one thing or the other and holding them to these extremes ignores the complexities that come with their humanity." It arcs over the head of a person across from it, who ignores the bullet and exclaims: "Wow!! Shen Jiu's only crime was being mean and was wrongly hated!" End ID]

[vaguely-concerned]

In light of the info about the properties of souls in The Unwanted Guest, I want to shout out that Gideon — with no grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of the subject whatsoever — actually makes basically the same observation about the permeability of the soul at the end of Harrow the Ninth, when she's in Harrow's body and (with some justification) is pretty sure she's about to die in the River:

Harrowhark, did you know that if you die by drowning, apparently your whole life flashes in front of your eyes? I didn't know, as I died and took you along with me—having kept you alive for what, a whole two hours?—whether it was going to show me both. Like, at the end of everything, if it was going to be you and me, layered over each other as we always were. A final blurring of the edges between us, like water spilt over ink outlines. Melted steel. Mingled blood. Harrowhark-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrowhark at last.

‘As we always were’! ‘Melted steel, mingled blood’! (Also interesting that despite saying earlier in the book that all she ever wanted was for Harrow to eat her (oh Gideon), the metaphors Gideon reaches for here are not about consumption ala what Ianthe’s deal and thus traditional lyctorhood is presented as in TUG, it’s about similar and equal substances joining together to a new whole, more like what we see with Paul. I personally feel like a Paul-style merging for Harrow and Gideon is not in the cards and would not be a satisfying ending — it worked as a bittersweet conclusion specifically for Pal and Cam because those two are utterly nuts in all their sanity lol, but I don’t think the series means to present it as The definitive answer to the central question of individuation vs. connection. There is something so moving to me, though, in the fact that right at the end this is what Gideon wants for her and Harrow. Not for Harrow to eat her, not simply to be of use to her, but to be made together from the same stuff. It’s a longing for connection and union that’s finally at least in imagery free from the imbalance within the ultimately hierarchical roles of necromancer and cavalier that Gideon internalizes through her corruption arc in Gideon the Ninth, understandably so as it’s the only model she’s presented with in their society to understand intimacy and attachment and devotion through. But Gideon says Harrowhark-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrowhark at last, mutually and equally. And I’ve written about this before, but at what must be almost exactly the same time, the same process is happening in Harrow’s mind through the evolution in the symbolism of her dream bubbles. Help I am emotions now) 

Palamedes is so right, Gideon is a lot smarter than most people -- including Gideon herself -- ever give her credit for.

[neon-catarina]

i joined the trend guys

[month-of-july]

messy eiffel in my calculus notes. he would NOT be happy to be here.

[leftshiftwashere]

BOO!! First art post here

I can't stop thinking about them AAAA me when doomed couples

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