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starkskypines · 3 years

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Hi Kylie! Your prompts look so cool!

How about 19 for any Star Wars characters of your choosing?

Hi KT!!! Thank you for this prompt and sorry it took so long! Also this one is a bit long at 2k words.

19 “we’ll sit and talk the stars down from the sky”: you know that dinluke trope where luke and din enter a political marriage? Yeah.

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There’s a moment, just a moment, where Luke feels the entire weight of Mandalorian armor with a full-size male in it crash into his body. He realizes in that singular moment that he was wrong earlier when he asserted that no Mandalorian was a match for skill in the Force. Because if this Mandalorian was actually fighting him, he would be hard-pressed to recover from a blow like this. And given how much time Mandalorians spend training to counter Jedi fighting techniques, Luke doesn’t think he’d actually be able to win a fight against a fully trained Mandalorian. He’s had limited combat training himself. Just what he learned from Rebellion fighters. He’s skilled with his lightsaber, but Mandalorians are quick to disarm. They know how to defeat a Jedi and Luke hasn’t ever thought about how to defeat a Mandalorian before. Well, perhaps Boba Fett for a second on Tatooine, but he was busy and didn’t have time to realize exactly how skilled the armored man would be had Luke had time to fight him. He’s glad he didn’t because he has a feeling that would be embarrassing. Just like it’s going to be embarrassing when Paz makes him put his words to action. For now though, they’ve got other concerns.

The weight lifts after that moment and Luke is free-falling through the air. The wind rushes across his cheeks, hurting his ears just a bit, and making his eyes water. He closes his eyes and lets himself fall. The Force allows him to be aware of the ground below, the currents of the air, Paz fighting nearby, Din moving beside him. Both of them quiet confidence and brutal efficiency. Din is softer than Paz though, but Luke thinks he’s biased. Din is his husband after all.

Luke lands gracefully on the ground thanks to the Force slowing his fall. He looks back up to the clifftop where Din and Paz are still fighting. He can’t be of much help to them down here, but he doesn’t really think they need his help. Not like that. Sure they need him to strengthen ties to the Republic, but they don’t really need his skills as a Jedi. He’s glad they don’t hate him for that though, not like they used to in the beginning of all this.

But still, Luke isn’t one to sit out of a fight. So he gathers the Force around him and hops his way up the hundred-foot cliff to rejoin the fray.

The fight is over quickly when it’s a bunch of pirates against two Mandalorians and a Jedi.

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“So, you want to reconsider your position on being able to take me down after seeing me fight?” Paz asks.

They’re cooking food over the campfire. Din claimed that Paz is the best cook, so just let him do it. Luke doesn’t like being unhelpful, but he allows Paz to cook. He was raised on Tatooine so his abilities allow him to make edible food but nothing that really excites the palate.

“I did challenge you.” Luke isn’t going to back down now, even if it means he gets his butt kicked in front of a public crowd. “But yes, I am worried I might lose.”

“Might?” Paz scoffs under the helmet. “Jetii, you will lose.”

“We’ll just have to see won’t we.” Luke smirks, something Leia says makes him look like an infuriating child who’s been listening to Han for too long.

“Sorry about pushing you off the cliff.” Paz shrugs. “Thought you’d live but still, Din says I should’ve warned you first or something.”

“It’s rude to push people off cliffs,” Din says.

“I was fine. It was fun actually. You know we might be able to turn that into something to be used during a fight. If we have to drop in, or fight from ship to ship in mid-air. You’ve got the jetpack, but I’ve got the Force so mid-air fighting could have some interesting possibilities.”

Paz laughs. “You bet we can work on that. You’re sticking around this time right? Didn’t come just to challenge me to a fight?”

“I’ve got time to stay. I can’t get funding to search out Jedi temples and artifacts until next year, so I’ve got a little while to get to know Mandalorian customs.”

“Well, rule one, we don’t take off the helmets,” Paz says although Luke already knows that and scoops out a bowl of stew and hands it to Luke.

“Thank you,” Luke says and stands to go find somewhere else to eat.

He settles down against a rock that overlooks a small clearing in the forest. It’s a fairly rocky world, giant rocks forming cliff faces, and other smaller ones dotting the landscape, a break against the green and brown of the grass fields and forests.

Luke has almost finished his bowl of soup when Din joins him. It’s not unusual for the armored man to seek him out. Usually to discuss something related to politics or culture or Grogu. Now that conversation had almost ruined the marriage. Din said no to training and Luke pushed and well...it had almost come to blows. Luke is a Jedi. He knows how to help Grogu. Sometimes he wishes he could do more, but that’s not his role here. One of the first Force-sensitives he finds and he can’t hardly speak to the child. It’s a good lesson for the future though. The Jedi’s reputation as child-snatchers is pervasive.

Din is quiet as he settles against the rock, his shoulder brushing Luke’s briefly before he pulls away. It’s the most touching Luke ever gets from him. He’s not sure he exactly wants more, but something warmer would be nice. But again, there’s only one point to this marriage, and it’s not Luke’s happiness.

“Why do you want to find Jedi temples?” Din asks.

“I’m a Jedi, and I hardly know anything about our culture. A lot was erased by the Empire. If I’m to train the next generation of knights, then I need to know what kind of people I’m inviting them to become. You can be Force-sensitive without being a Jedi. You can get training without being a Jedi. It’s a choice you have to make. I want to make sure everyone is informed before making that choice.”

“You can train as a Jedi and not be a Jedi?”

It’s not hard for Luke to see who he’s thinking of, but he doesn’t want to break the calm by bringing up Grogu.

“Yes. I’ve trained Leia how to control her powers and how to a do a few other things she was interested in. She doesn’t have the time to really be a Jedi, but she can’t just let her skills die out when they can be useful to her in any career.”

Din is quiet. “Grogu can’t sleep at night. I think it’s something Force-related.” Din pauses, and Luke gives him time to work out the correct words. “Could you–could you help?”

Luke nods and keeps his attention on the trees on the other side of the clearing. “I can try. What makes you think it’s Force-related?”

“Things move.”

Luke nods. “Let me talk to him when we get back, and I’ll see what I can do to help.”

“Not alone.”

“No, not alone. You’d be there of course,” Luke pauses and can’t help but adding, “I’m not trying to separate families. I’m building something different than the old Order.”

“You know you could get anything you wanted if you threatened him.”

Luke turns to Din then. “You think I’d do that?”

Din shrugs.

Luke turns away. He can’t really blame Din for thinking that. Jedi don’t have a good reputation in Mandalorian circles, let alone the son of Darth Vader. Clearly he can’t be trusted. The minute that little tidbit came out he and Leia lost a lot of standing in the New Republic. He’d convinced Leia to spin it so that it looked like Luke was the one more like Vader. The black clothes, the lightsaber, the fact that Luke had spent time alone with Vader and the Emperor on the second Death Star. It took the heat off Leia enough that she could make headway in the Senate, but the rumors and distrust still haunted them both.

“Maybe not, but if the New Republic asked you to.”

Luke wants to laugh at the absurdity, but here he is married to a Mandalorian because the New Republic asked him. It’s not his fault he was the only one that knew the Mandalor and his son. The seeing stone worked, but Din had changed his mind by the time Luke responded to the call.

“Well, I’m not in the business of betraying my husband,” Luke finally responds.

It’s silent as the insects begin to chirp, their symphony drowning out the silence. Luke should be the one to head back to camp, but he always feels the way Paz and Din don’t want him there. He aches for the day he can make a place of his own where he is wanted. Not even as a friend. He has Han and Leia and Chewie for that. But maybe as a leader, or just someone helpful, just someone that can be trusted.

“I don’t remember much about my parents,” Din starts suddenly, “Hardly anything in fact. But I remember when Mom and Dad fought she’d turn to him and say, ‘no, we’ll sit and talk the stars down from the sky.’ It was her way of ending the argument. I didn’t get it at the time, but it stuck with me. I think it means that when you lay all your cards on the table, there’s no more secrets or hidden motives that can cause arguments.”

Luke tilts his head a bit to look toward Din’s visor. He can’t make out the lines well in the darkness, but he knows Din is looking at him too.

“I can’t trust you, because I can’t trust anybody.”

“That’s a lonely way to live.”

“It’s not good for Grogu. I’m too protective, but I can’t–I can’t lose him.” Din nods once, as if coming to his own conclusion. “If he could defend himself–using the Force–”

Luke waits and Din doesn’t continue. Luke takes a risk and places his hand on Din’s arm. Din flinches but resettles.

“It will take time for you to trust me. I know. But I am willing to sit and talk the stars down from the sky as long as it takes for you to trust me. For no other reason than I think you’re right about Grogu needing to be able to protect himself, and I don’t like the air of loneliness that I get from both of you.”

Din puts his hand over Luke’s.

“Ask me anything. I’m an open book.”

Din shakes his head, the silver metal catching the reflection of moonlight from the rising moon. “You aren’t. You just like people to think you are.”

Luke can’t deny that, but he’s surprised that Din picked up on it.

“So why do you do that?”

Luke settles back against the rock. He goes to pull his hand away but Din holds on, and it doesn’t take much for Luke to intertwine his fingers through Din’s and open his mouth. He doesn’t think Din realizes just how much power he has over Luke in this moment because Din doesn’t know how much Luke wants Din to like him. He wants to be his friend and confidante and sometimes–like now–he wants permission to hold Din’s hand in the moonlight as the insects create a symphony that drowns out the fear that comes with opening up. Or maybe that’s just Din’s presence. The simple way he listens without judgment. The fact that Luke can sense his emotions if they spike, but otherwise he doesn’t really know what’s going on behind the mask, so Luke can pretend that it’s a soft smile and warm eyes as he tells truths very few are privy to.

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aleximedicusa · 5 years

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ok, so. what i find kind of curious about the body-snatcher is how well macfarlane actually seemed to do for himself later in life? like — there’s absolutely no pretences made to cover up the fact that the doctor he works for in the story is blatantly just robert knox. the situation isn’t based on burke and hare, it’s supposed to be the actual case. the description doesn’t exactly leave much room for doubt:

“There was, at that period, a certain extramural teacher of anatomy, whom I shall here designate by the letter K. His name was subsequently too well known.”

he’s subsequently only referred to in the narrative as ‘K—,’ but we all fucking know who it is. it’s knox. it’s just knox. likewise, the men that fettes and macfarlane are buying the corpses from are clearly just burke and hare, although stevenson doesn’t explicitly use their names. two irishmen supplying murdered corpses to an extramural teacher of anatomy named dr. k? yeah. we get it. we know what’s up.

which is what makes it curious to me that macfarlane has actually done so... well? if you know anything about the burke and hare case, knox did not get off easily. he wasn’t formally charged with anything, as he kept insisting that he didn’t know the bodies were murdered, but no one really believed him. he still tried to keep teaching, first in glasgow and then in london, but pretty much no one wanted to study under him, understandably. his reputation was completely destroyed. people burnt effigies of him for fun, man.

comparatively, macfarlane did pretty damn well for himself in stevenson’s short story. the first description we get of him is when a rich man on his way to parliament ends up ill in the inn where fettes and his pals are drinking, and the narrator describes how “the great man’s still greater London doctor” has been sent for. following that, when macfarlane actually enters the inn, the reader gets a description of how wealthy he visibly is. it’s not hard to see that he’s done well for himself. he makes good money, he has a grand reputation, and he altogether seems to have suffered no ill effect from his association with burke and hare.

now, although knox (rightly) got the bulk of public anger and suspicion, the committee overseeing the case did explicitly acknowledge the role of his assistants. they knew that burke and hare dealt most directly with knox’s assistants, not with knox himself — that was part of the criticism against knox, claiming that he’d been lax in leaving his assistant to deal with things like that.

so... i guess my point is that it’s a bit surprising to me that macfarlane got off so easy, if we’re to believe he stayed with knox until he obtained his medical degree. i think, after the scare with gray, that’s when he got the fuck out of there and went down to london to finish his degree. this was probably very shortly before burke and hare were caught, too.

anyway, sorry for rambling — this is a ridiculously long post just to say ‘macfarlane probably went down to london after killing gray.’ but. yknow. here we are.

#( * headcanons : wolfe macfarlane. )#Kyra Rambles On Too Long About The Burke And Hare Trial

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vicemirrored-a · 5 years

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what lit classic character would you love to see an active blog for

oh, god, so many. i feel like the only person active with classic lit muses, so i’d kill to see literally anyone. of course, it would be absolutely ideal to have someone from jekyll’s canon, like utterson or lanyon, but i’d also love to see a wringhim from confessions of a justified sinner, a fettes or macfarlane from ‘the body-snatcher,’ a harker or lucy or van helsing from dracula, a lord henry wotton from the picture of dorian gray, a jay gatsby or nick carraway or daisy buchanan from great gatsby... i’d honestly just be thrilled for anyone. or, hey, just an oc for a classic work of literature!

is there someone you’re thinking of making in particular, or are you just putting out feelers to see who people would be interested in? i’d love to chat more if you have some ideas!

#( * ooc. )#ahhh this ask made my heart sing #pwease make more classic lit charas..... pwease........#Anonymous

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electrosweaters-arts · 10 months

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I got the penguin classics version of Jekyll and Hyde and it has the body snatcher as an extra >:)

GRAAHHHHH YES YOU SHRIMPLY MUST READ IT

GODS MOST UNDERRATED STEVENSON STORY

#houhh plEASEE more people read the body snatcher im literally the only motherfucker in these tagssss #gothic literature #gothic lit #robert louis stevenson #the body snatcher #gray the body snatcher #fettes the body snatcher #cryptid college stuff

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saw2goth · 7 months

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໒( ●ܫฺ ●)ʋ ermm hello eddie saw2goth i would like to request one Body snatcher girl's night (burying gray alive)

Okay!!!! >_<

Everytime I draw Fettes I push his hairline back further and further as a treat

#eddies art #requests #the body snatcher

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bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest · 5 years

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Roberto Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher was, in anything, a Learning Experience about the horrors of Victorian London, but the ending really fell flat for me and think a better final would have been to (spoilers under the keep reading)

have the unburied woman turn out to be a case of false death and have MacFarlane kill her not to be accused of stealing bodies, reprising the theme of Fettes only getting angry when he actually has more proof of what he suspected.

I will headcanon this as what really happened, since the story is told by an unreliable narrator who explicitly doesn’t know what actually happened.

#the body snatcher

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pendragonquotes · 6 years

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I do not wish it - I do not wish to know the roof that shelters you. I heard your name; I feared it might be you; I wished to know if, after all, there were a God; I know now that there is none.

fettes, the body-snatchers, robert louis stevenson

#quote #books #the body snatchers #robert louis stevenson

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docrotten · 5 years

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The Body Snatcher (1945) - Episode 66 - Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“You’ll never get rid of me, Toddy.” Somehow, when Boris Karloff says this line, you believe him. Join this episode’s Grue Crew - Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr - as they try to keep from getting snatched and “Burked” in The Body Snatcher (1945), an RKO Val Lewton production featuring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in their last of eight collaborations.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 66 – The Body Snatcher (1945)

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

- IMDb

Director: Robert Wise

Writers:

Robert Louis Stevenson (short story),

Philip MacDonald (written for the screen by)

Val Lewton (written for the screen by) (as Carlos Keith)

Producer: Val Lewton

Music: Roy Webb

Cinematography: Robert De Grasse (director of photography)

Featured Cast:

Boris Karloff as Cabman John Gray

Béla Lugosi as Joseph

Henry Daniell as Dr. Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane

Edith Atwater as Meg Camden

Russell Wade as Donald Fettes

Rita Corday as Mrs. Marsh

Sharyn Moffett as Georgina Marsh

Donna Lee as the Street Singer

Robert Clarke as Richardson - Medical Student (uncredited)

Bill Williams as Survis - Medical Student (uncredited)

Your loyal Grue-Crew can’t gush enough over The Body Snatcher and considering the cast and crew, it’s easy to see why! This one is Whitney’s pick and she gives her customary, insightful point-of-view into the motivations of the story’s characters. According to Chad, Karloff gives what might be his best performance and even though Lugosi’s part is small, his character and one pivotal scene with Karloff are critical to the film’s success. Jeff reveals his growing fan-boy crush on all things Lewton and wallows in cast-related and historical trivia as usual. This time he’s even talking about Bill Williams and Robert Clarke.

As a whole, the Classic Era Grue-Crew love the look and feel of The Body Snatcher and give it the highest recommendation!

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with the 1970s and 1980s. In three weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be The Black Cat (1934), from Universal, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and again starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this time in their first of eight screen collaborations.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

Check out this episode!

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chipslater · 5 years

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The Body-Snatcher ♦ By Robert Louis Stevenson ♦ Mystery Short ♦ Full Aud...

Title: The Body-Snatcher

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Anthologies

Language: English

Read By: Mike Harris

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Summary: A group of friends share a few drinks, when an eminent doctor, Wolfe Macfarlane, enters. One of the friends, Fettes, recognizes the name and angrily confronts the new arrival. Although his friends all find this behavior suspicious, none of them can understand what might lie behind it. It turns out that Macfarlane and Fettes had attended medical school together, under anatomy professor Robert Knox. Their duties included taking receipt of bodies for dissection, and paying the pair of shifty and suspicious men who supplied them.

On one occasion, Fettes identifies a body as that of a woman he knew, and is convinced she has been murdered. But Macfarlane talks him out of reporting the incident, lest they are both implicated in the crime.

Later, Fettes meets Macfarlane at a tavern, along with a man named Gray, who treats Macfarlane in a rude manner. The following night, Macfarlane brings Gray's body along as a dissection sample. Although Fettes is now certain that his friend has committed murder, Macfarlane again convinces him to keep his silence, persuading him that if he is not courageous enough to perform such manly deeds as these, he will end up as just another victim. The two men make sure the body is comprehensively dissected, destroying any forensic evidence.

Fettes and Macfarlane continue their work, without being implicated in any crime. However, when a shortage of bodies leaves their mentor in need, they are sent to a country churchyard to exhume a recently buried woman. As they are driving back with the body seated between them, they begin to feel nervous and stop to take a better look. They are shocked to discover that the body between them is that of Gray, which they thought they had destroyed. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Snatcher

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