#the apple does not fall far

[xrenegadexangelx]

my mom sometimes tells me a story about how she wanted to marry the michelin man when she was a kid

"i don't know, i just think he'd make a good husband", she says

i understand completely, mom. i'd like to introduce you to your new jar-in-law

[phoenixkaptain]

Novel A New Hope Vader is my favourite Vader (so far) because he Is Anakin, he is everything Anakin is set up to be. He is intimidating, he is overwhelming, standing next to him feels like standing next to a black hole, he is-

The biggest little shit in the entire galaxy.

You canNOT convince me that he didn’t say half his lines with a shit-eating smirk. He is awful to be around, he is the worst person to ever exist, he is SO annoying.

And Novel Vader is so Anakin because the book can give us details the movie can’t. The book gives us the author’s choice of wording, the way the author intended the scenes to be, and Vader is such a little shit almost constantly but my FAVOURITE will always be when Tagge talks back to him about the Force, saying it isn’t as powerful or scary as he makes it out to be and Vader just-

“I find,” Vader ventured mildly, “this lack of faith to be disturbing.”

-the WORD CHOICE. The fucking WORDS chosen.

“Ventured”??? “Mildly”??? He is CHOKING this man!!! This man is DYING!! He is being such a little shit right now, this is it. This is the Him, this is Anakin Skywalker right here. He is using unnecessary force and being a bitch about it and there will never be anything that so perfectly encapsulates Anakin Skywalker than this fucking scene in this fucking novel.

On the topic and as a brief aside, the novel is what makes me think that Leia was planned to be Vader’s kid, or at least a narrative mirror to Vader, right from the start. She is also such an Anakin.

“Darth Vader… I should have known. Only you would be so bold— and so stupid.”

She just… also. Encapsulates Anakin. Like. Yeah. Yeah, this is what he could have been. He could have been a terrifying figure that people rallied behind. He is loyal to the death, as is Leia. She spits on Darth Vader while he’s having her dragged away. She mocks him to his face. This is the character that the Anakin Skywalker of future movies mimics. Her passion, her anger, her being a little shit and insisting throughout everything that it WAS a diplomatic vessel and they WERE on a diplomatic mission.

Leia is the first character to face down Vader in this novel and not show fear. She is the first character who refuses to submit in the face of the scariest guy in the galaxy. She continues to refuse to submit. She’s just. A great fucking liar.

Leia puts all her trust, her very life and the sake of the entire rebellion she’s fighting for, in a droid. An astromech droid. She begs for them to take the droid further, not for them to find her. She’s willing to die, and she trusts her death will not be in vain because she trusts a droid.

And that, if nothing else, is all the proof needed that Leia is what Anakin could have been.

[ratatatastic]

https://youtu.be/RbgDHyeQNdE?si=WXnghZZuAyvgumVL

Keith saying him and Matthews fiancé do the cooking for him and he just sits there and heckles them. So on brand.

"And how about your barbecuing skills? It looked like you knew what you were doing behind that grill!" "Well, Matthew is pretty useless so! Unlike Brady—Brady can, you know, does things on his own but Matthew likes when I'm down there so I do cook and his fiancée, Ellie, does a great job so. He just sits back and critiques us but forgets that we're the ones doing all the work for him. Which—hey! It was playoffs! I'll do anything for my children."

NHL Tonight: First Shift | 10.16.24 (x)

unfortunately tracks for him and im still crying into my hands its always the one who cant cook for shit thats the mouthiest about it

and considering this clip from faceoff it really does track

[rafumeika]

What Mahito did: Manipulate Junpei into being his friend and then killed him in front of Yuji, laughed about Yuji's desperation to save him, killed Nanami, got Nobara into a coma, destroyed one of Todo's hands

Yuji with Mahito at the end:

What Sukuna did: Threaten to kill Yuji's friend multiple times, ripped Yuji's heart out of his chest and then tricked him into making a Binding Vow that he would have to forget in order to bring him back to life, laughed at Yuji when he desperately begged him to try and save Junpei, told him over and over again that his mere existence would bring destruction simply by being his vessel, destroyed Shibuya and killed countless of innocent people, ditched Yuji to make Megumi his new vessel, then sinked Megumi's soul as deep as he could in darkness in order to keep control of his body, killed Tsumiki, killed Gojo, killed Kashimo, killed Higuruma, killed Choso, almost killed Yuta and pushed him into using Kenjaku's CT to get into Gojo's body, kept praising literally everyone else but Yuji (while still trying to kill them), who he kept talking shit about instead, got pissed when Yuji showed pity and told him that he would kill every single person still left alive that Yuji cared about before finally killing him

Yuji with Sukuna at the end:

[dramashii]

Lei Meng Sha:

Meanwhile:

DASHING YOUTH (2024) | Ep 2

[pigswithwings]

you all really liked that computer post huh

have a little bit of diversity

[secret-strawberry]

"the prodigal son has returned" "the prodigal daughter has returned" hey have you guys ever thought about how chase and thirteen (the two team members who were like children to house) followed his two different passions respectively . chase, running the diagnostics department, and thirteen, leaving her medical career behind to live with the gay love of her life somewhere far away while one of them dies of a terminal illness. im normal about this fact

[goldenspirits]

the girl, so confusing

[sea-owl]

https://www.tumblr.com/sea-owl/725002488312365056/im-back-on-my-violet-x-portia-bullshit-this?source=share

There has to be more of this right???

I mean there can be.

Imagine if the widowed lord kept flirting with Portia at these balls driving Violet closer and closer to that Bridgerton jealousy. Finally, one night, she snapped, ordering the carriage driver to take her to Featherington House. Portia was walking up the steps just returning home as Violet stormed out of the carriage.

Portia could see what was coming, a shiver of excitement running through her, but she reme they were still outside. Violet didn't.

"Lady Bridgerton," Portia started to say when the other woman cut her off.

Violet said nothing, but her eye twitched at hearing her title. They agreed on no titles during these times. She crushed the other woman's lips with her own, the force of it sending Poetia back a few steps. Violet simply followed her, refusing to give up the kiss.

"My ladies," Mrs Varley coughed.

Violet and Poetia jumped. Both of them panting, and holding onto one another.

"May I suggest taking this argument to a more private setting?" Mrs Varley said, opening the door a bit wider.

Portia let go of Violet, she began making her way inside. She tried to ignore the few curls Violet tugged loose, the scratches she made on Violet's shoulder. "Yes, we shall. Varley make sure no one comes to disturb us."

"Yes ma'am," Varley replied, shutting the front door.

Portia pinned Violet to her bed, her eyes lit up in fury. "What scene were you making out there? You know better!" She hissed.

Violet bucked up her hips into Portia's. She earned a gasp from the red head, and the dominat hand as she rolled them over. "I could very well ask you the same thing. Flirting with Lord Williams?"

Portia's face scrunched in disgust. "I would not let another man in this house, much less my bedroom!"

Violet smiled, her hand moving lower. "Good."

[femmikoto]

i see so many contradictory takes on mikotos childhood so out of sheer curiosity im running a poll

[atlasthelost]

imagine how many demigods weren't killed by the magical world.

TW: various forms of death.

loosely quoting Chiron, demigods can be killed by weapons of both the magical and the mortal world (somewhere in The Lightning Thief.)

most demigods don't make it to adulthood, as is well established in the riordanverse, but a majority of the demigods that we actually read about are killed off by monsters, mutilated in a chariot race, lost in the labyrinth, killed by more monsters etc, etc.

but that's only the magical world.

imagine how many were lost before they came to camp, before they were claimer, before they even discovered their parentage.

think about all the children of Hermes, who loved to live so fast that they didn't notice the man driving on the wrong side of the road.

the children of Dionysus embracing the pride they had in who they were, until the parades turned violent.

the children of Ares who could never back down from a fight, no matter how much crimson stains the floor.

the children of Aphrodite who loved their partners, no matter how bad their flaws, so much that they didn't listen to their friends when they were told to ask for help.

the children of Zeus who lived with their heads in the clouds, so much so that they didn't know what to do when they were underwater.

the children of Athena who loved school so much they practically lived there, until confronted by someone filled with too much hate for the same system.

the children of Apollo who shone too bright too fast, until they couldn't see any light left in their future.

imagine how much demigod blood had been spilled by the mortal world, never even discovering the divine.

[toodrasticallydumb]

Oh c’mon you knew I had to.

My version of the Barbie mugshot with stricklake because I just COULD NOT get it out of my head:

This is specifically from my Trollhunter!Strickler au solely because of the white streak in Barbara’s hair lol and now that I’ve drawn it I am oh so tempted to have it be an actual scene that happens somewhere along the story…

Little snippet of the would-be scene (it's so long it got away from me, I'm sorry):

*the two are rummaging around in a very much broken into museum to find what may or not be a message from Nomura*

Barbara: Walt...?

Walter: Hm? Yes, love?

Barbara: What's that outside?

Walter, pausing for a second to listen: Oh. That would be the em...the police, my dear.

Barbara: Oh, okay, okay, excuse me, the WHAT.

Walter: ...Em. That is, I- um I suggest you hide the skathe-hrün somewhere, lest the authorities care to investigate further into what exactly it is when they take it from your person.

Barbara: So we're not even avoiding this? You know, getting arrested by the police?

Walter: Mmmm, no, unfortunately. I don't want you using the skathe-hrün (or more specifically its magic) anymore than absolutely necessary for today. You've expended yourself enough as it is.

Barbara: And getting arrested for breaking and entering is not an 'absolute necessity'???

Walter: Not particularly, it would only be a considered a second-degree burglary since it is a museum and not a residential, habitated building; which that sub-type of burglary is a 'wobbler' charge in the state of California, which equates—if it is persecuted as a misdemanor rather than a felony—to merely (at most) a year in county jail—

Barbara: A year?!

Walter: —and 1,000 dollar fine if, that is, we are found guilty by being proven to have harbored the intent to steal something, of which we did not and do not have evident by the fact neither of us pocess any given tools to break or take any item from its case. I assume this is the first time you have been accused of any given crime aside from speeding or any other driving-related violation? Without evidence of a previous criminal record we should be lined up quite well to be merely fined or, if NotEnrique can manage it (if I can bear to call upon endless embarassment and taunting), nothing at all but a slap on the wrist though I doubt we could not accomplish that on our own given our positions in the community as school teacher and doctor respectively.

Barbara: You have wings, Walt.

Walter: And mothman escaping a building with a strangely human-shaped figure in its arms is not at all a cause for alarm to the police who will no doubt be keeping close watch of all exits and entrances which would also draw unneeded attention before we can reach the proper cover of the clouds.

Barbara: *face-palms* Getting arrested. How wonderful. 'Oh, just breaking and entering, officer, not much.'

Walter: It is hardly as terrible as it sounds, really. We can omit the 'breaking' portion since we snuck in through the window without running into any trouble that would damage it. Frankly, we could go the route of claiming guilty to the crime of trespassing according to the Penal Code 602 (California's trespassing law) being that we entered the exhibit past museum hours. On top of which it is far more accurate to what we're doing in actuality, not proper burglary since we have established neither of us had the intent to run off with anything that was not ours. Doing so we would also fare far better than with a so-called 'breaking and entering' offense (such a named law does not actually exist in California, only burglary and trespassing separately but I will clasify it as the burglary law for sake of consistency) in which we would be recieving just a simple fine rather than possible felony charges that could come with a second-degree burglary we may have committed.

Barbara: Not really helping here, Walt.

Walter: Right, apologies-

Barbara: Which, of course, getting arrested is an experience you obviously know about.

Walter: The (pun intended) offense aimed against me is dully noted. However, my dear, the fact I know how the intricacies of the specific laws of California operate does not entail I have been arrested prior to this. That would be Nomura who holds the experience in that particular department.

*pause*

Barbara: Walt. Don't you dare. You stop it right there. Unless you want--

Walt: The police department. Heh. *guilty snort*

Barbara: *sends him the disappointed death glare*

Police: *break through the door* Hands up! On the ground, now!

Walter: *laying down* I hardly find my pun to have been that egregious.

Barbara, already on the floor: Really, Walt? Good puns involve good TIMING too.

Police: Dispatch, we have the two culprits in question now in our custody. *taking a pair of cuffs out* You're coming with us. You have the right to remain silent.

Walter, being actively handcuffed: Well, I suppose then, now would be the less than appropriate time to say this museum has gained quite the em...standing in the Lake family...?

Barbara, being stood up with her arms behind her back: Officers, I have no idea who this man is.

Walter: I never once said I intended to make good puns.

I made this entirely too long but once it started I couldn't really find myself stopping. Whoops. Hope you enjoyed chaotic Walt not caring about being arrested because jail is honestly the least of his problems rn. It would honestly be a break.

[martine22]

[asteroidaffection]

i found out my parents used to go to the same ren faire as one of the ones i’m going to this year and i said “why didn’t you tell me you were cool”

mom said “we weren’t” lmao

[duck-woamn]

i was just doing school/ school related things from 8 fucking am to 8 pm and yet my parents still just love to nag and mag and nag and nag at me. I’m going to have a mental break soon i just tell. Im already teetering on one as i type this. I cant do this shit anymore.

[songsteps]

Nightcloud didn't contribute to how bad Breeze turned out by the end of OotS because none of the things attributed to her raising him in a way that might've worsened his behaviour actually happened