#war after redemption

[warafterredemption]

That's right! Now that we've reached the end of the prologue, it's time for the casting call! We plan on making a youtube comic dub for WAR, and we need volunteer Voice Actors! if you're interested, dm me!

[exhaustedalien]

this is my horse, he has every disease

[essenceofarda]

When Arien took up the mantel of the sun, her younger sister, filled with jealousy and resentment, attempted to create her own sun to carry across the sky. She failed, however, her already crumbling corruption caused her to become something far darker, all consuming, and empty.

Or, Gothmog, as I imagine her, as a Black Hole, Supernova, Void.

[jewishcissiekj]

So Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura. You agree

Oh and their master because he's cool too

Insane Jedi lineage I love them a lot

Star Wars (1998) #42, #45 (Written by John Ostrander, art by Jan Duursema)

[pinkiemme]

Arthur Morgan babysitting Grogu while Din goes bounty hunting 🥺

[snap-my-kneecaps]

Watching The Bad Batch with my mum and she really hates Crosshair… this might be a long watch

She is also not very impressed that he’s my favourite and I appear to be driving her insane by just repeating “I love him, my favourite imperial nightmare.”

We’re only on episode seven of season one too so he’s not even that bad rn… she keeps going on about the bad things he’s done so far and I am so close to telling her that he’s not even really started yet lol

[niniane17]

I know it's 2024 and nobody cares anymore (I hope), but I finally watched Adam Driver's latest interview about Star Wars that he made about two months ago and I felt like commenting on it, because why not?

Quite frankly, I don't know why anyone is so surprised. What he said, essentially, is something we already knew: that there was no Great Plan on the sequel trilogy and that Kylo Ren was originally conceived as an unsympathetic, irredeemable character that got popular against the production's intentions.

Mind you, I'm not happy about any of this. But surprised? Nah. In fact, my only consolation is that I sensed bullshit all the way back in 2018, when I looked at Kylo Ren's haunted face and thought "this is gonna be another Loki: rooting for him will only end in heartbreak". Then the Rise of Skywalker happened, and it was so bad that basically turned me into a Kylo -and yes, even Reylo- fan overnight. As I said many times, the shortest way to make me love a character is to treat them unfairly. It doesn't matter to me if they are "good" or "bad": fiction isn't reality and it doesn't follow the same rules. In fiction, the most important thing is to be consistent: among other things, you have to make sure you follow up to all the things you've planted beforehand (unless, of course, there's a theme about incompleteness or something).

I was angry on his behalf for a good while, I can only imagine feeling like this for years. I said before that I got the feeling Ford had basically improvised the whole scene with Adam Driver, but now I'm wondering if maybe he was also the one who pushed for Kylo's redemption too. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised. Somebody had to point out that people watch Star Wars for the Skywalker family, hoping they get a happy ending.

How the fuck could the whole production be shocked that redemption -especially redemption for a Skywalker- was Star Wars' big theme? Especially AFTER they decided to make a sequel trilogy NOBODY had asked for? I guess this is what happens when a franchise gets lost in too much lore and details, or huge space fights.

Anyway, I'm sorry for Driver because it's clear they wasted his talent, but on the bright side, it put him on the map and now we can enjoy him in more projects.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

zuko: makes the conscious decision to leave all his luxury and privilege behind to confront his father about the war and right his wrongs, does his best to make up for his actions

catra: only apologizes to adora and does a good thing when she has run out of options and will likely be cast out by horde prime, immediately goes back to her toxic nature as soon as she's rescued

[sol-insidious]

“Din Djarin’s identity as a Mandalorian will always be central to his character, and his devotion to his orthodox religion, warrior’s creed, and its chivalrous code of honor is a truly noble one.”

and

“Din Djarin’s devotion to his creed has fundamentally isolated him from love, his role as The Tribe’s breadwinner was as unsustainable as it gave him purpose, and the fierceness of his faith stems from unprocessed trauma and the guilt he feels as an orphan and a foundling. His views on what it means to be a Mandalorian were narrow until he met others who didn’t conform to his own creed, and in this, his status as an voluntary oathbreaker is equally as integral to his character.”

…are both takes that co-exist in my mind.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

For the 3 sentence prompt lofty, (also make sure you are and drank something today)

-Granddaughter

Ganondorf watched this strange imposter, this young woman leading her band of Gerudo. She claimed her name was Nabooru, but this was most certainly not his wife, nor the spunky teenager who had tried to defy him in his youth… so…

How much time had passed since he’d been sealed away? Could she… could she be his granddaughter from Link and Hemisi?

Where were his children?

[warafterredemption]

[lord-squiggletits]

Every now and then I see Hot Takes about Megatron's ending in IDW1 that drive me nuts like dlskfdjlskf some people really get caught up so much in JRO's sad old man Megatron that they deadass think that Megatron getting sent off to trial to face either execution or lifelong imprisonment wasn't just a bad ending, but was specifically some sort of "fuck you" or punishment to say that villains aren't allowed to have nice things or whatever. Girl do you know what the fucking genre/tone is of the comic you just read? IDW1 is a heavily political, morally gray universe leaning heavily towards realism in terms of its handling of plot themes and you're seriously out there saying that Megatron, a war criminal with crimes/deaths stretching to the billions, is being unfairly punished by the writers by getting sent off to trial? You know, like what makes sense for the realistic kind of universe IDW1 is?

I mean fuck man JRO literally plotholed/handwaved major lore about the Matrix and Cybertronian-organic relations with that "oh lots of religious organics recognize the sacredness of the Matrix" and completely undercut the emotional weight of Megatron's (and everyone else's) ending by having his quantum copy get to fly off and have adventures in the universe forever and ever.

What in the FUCK else do you want from an author (JRO) who's already a flaming Megatron apologist that whitewashed Megatron's personality, gave him so many sympathetic backstory points, and then invented an entire alternate universe as an excuse to have Megatron save billions of lives to contrast with the ones he killed. Like god I love Megatron too but some of you ppl are fucking blind

[clonehub]

like i implied in the tags and also said in another post. im over fascist forgiveness plot lines. idc how sorry you are atp i feel like when writers go down the "this violent white man participated in, supported, or otherwise justified genocide and destruction but he feels bad now" that's just white writers not actually understanding the level of depravity needed to support that ideology. the level of dehumanization. oh, he feels bad? he regrets his decision? and every single person around him is more than glad to bring him back and wrap their arms around him and pet his head and put his "terrible mistake" behind him? how many of his victims did you name, if any at all?

[grimalkinmessor]

For real though as someone who has watched both MP100 and Steven Universe I can tell you with relative certainty that the reason SU is so hated is because there were complex women in it. A lot of the guys (gn) that praise MP100 as SUCH a good show that shows the power of MERCY and UNDERSTANDING are literally the same people that shit on SU for being "too pussy to prosecute its villains properly" <- real words from a man I've spoken with about it 🙃

I like both shows and they're actually very similar, which is why it's hysterical to me when people try to rag on SU after having praised MP100 so ardently like,,,,if you're misogynistic just say that lmao

[loversquarrels]

Up up and away!

I'm so proud of this you don't even know. But in relation to the drawing I think the baby could be any of his children. I'd like to think he would get so excited to show them how to be like him and fly with the hammer, that he forgets his own strength. While he does a good maintaining control over his strength, he still sometimes has accidents...I also think he would have done the same mistake to each child, getting to excited to remember what happened the last time. Good thing even for a big guy that he is, Thor is still quick enough to catch them.

[teleportationmagic]

Spinning in my head what happens if after Steph comes back, if she doesn't do the whole assassins thing with Tim. If instead, we focus on the process of coming back to life, of meeting her mom, of the guilt and grief left behind in her absence, and then - Bruce dies.

Would Tim invite her with him? Would the fact that she kept herself hidden for a year while he grieved be too much for him, especially considering the he was spiraling? And even if he did, when she's offered Batgirl, would she go with him? Because I genuinely don't think she would.