#has no idea what the fuck a sith is he just thinks they r evil jedi

[incrediblemeh]

Thinking about the parallels between Doomguy and Vader, and what's interesting is the minor similarity between the classic doom helmet and Vader's helmet (particularly the way both broaden on the way to the bottom and the ventilator fully covering the mouth and nose.) But its interesting that are many depictions where Doomguy's face is still visible through the visor, which I think serves as a visual reminder of his humanity and empathy remaining regardless of his rage and fixation. in contrast Vader's face is never shown and when it is he doesn't at all resemble the person he was before being disfigured, his single-minded hatred is the only thing driving him. Doomguy is that one in a million dark side user that doesn't just feed into their own greed and ambition as if those are meaningful in and of themselves. the dark side is passion and desire primarily, but is so often characterized as evil because of how easy it is for people to gravitate towards the most unga bunga "me want big power number forever large" ideology. People like Palpatine are basically just chasing after that endorphin rush from getting that level up after XP grinding. Playing the force like some gatcha game, because they just feel so good when their rare jpeg has higher crit chance. And with the Jedi constantly telling force users to never explore their emotions, its no wonder people who are disillusioned keep falling into an ideology that matches the most pervasive and addictive method of real world manipulation in any form of entertainment Palps was probably shitting his pants a bit after realizing how much potential Anakin Skywalker had as a dark side user, because instead of buying into the "more P O W E R" bullshit Anakin just wanted love and acknowledgement. He needed to straight up manipulate him into sabotaging his own life by committing atrocities and maiming him so his life support puts him in constant agony to control him, because otherwise he'd be empowered purely by the love of his wife and kids. Conversely, Doomguy is just someone who loved his pet rabbit and couldn't stand the idea of hurting people. Demons are equally reliant on the satisfaction of getting the big number as the Sith, and they can't corrupt Doomguy because probably the only thing in life he wanted was to give an animal unconditional love and geek out about nerd shit. I'd say the big difference between Vader and Doomguy is really that Palpatine was smart enough to manipulate Vader into ruining his own life. Because the demons killed daisy directly as a simpleminded act of revenge, Doomguy isn't vulnerable to self-hatred the way Vader is. If Palps had gone "haha I killed your wife don't you feel bad?" Anakin would have absolutely merced the fuck out of him and probably every self-proclaimed sith to ever surface for as long as he lived. Vader wants to keep feeling self loathing and pain, and fall more and more into becoming a monster. Because that's what he thinks he deserves. It took realizing his son was alive to even begin working back from that. Doomguy has a clear understanding of who is to blame for his tragedies, his hate is fixated outwards on something that truly deserves it. He can mess around with guitar and vinyl figure collections and allow himself to still be an empathetic human being without having a moral crisis about whether he deserves those kinds of things.

#doomguy #doom slayer #doom #darth vader #anakin skywalker #star wars

[grogusdads]

it would have been really funny if palpatine enacted order 66 only to be immediately killed by one of his own clone guards who doesn’t really understand the difference between the sith and jedi and just sees palpatine with a lightsaber and goes “oh a jedi!” And point blank shoots him without hesitation

#new clone oc who has a very wrong impression about the the hell is going on with the war bc hes chillin guarding the senate #has no idea what the fuck a sith is he just thinks they r evil jedi #and order 66 says kill all jedi!!!! #and palpatine has both a lightsaber and force powers? close enough #it would be nice to if the chips stopped working when palps dies #anyways I need to actually make ocs so my stupid aus make sense :) #star wars #star wars fix it #sw #clone wars #palpatine #me post

[chaoticspacefam]

Aria and D'leah for World-building Wednesday~ darth bagel sends their regards ❤️✨

Thank you for the ask @elvhenyoung ! (Darth Bagel is, as always, very welcome too hehe 💖) I also went Subterfugeverse only here for D’leah, so didn’t include any of the kids like Maite etc. who only appear in the Zephyrverse RP AU :’) But anyways, here you go! The two mean ladies, just for you :3

(art by @ ocellifera on deviantART! :))

B A S I C S

full name: Aria Saal-Shenly, goes by Ari to her partner and close friends, to everyone else she’s Darth Canis or Commander Canis.

gender: Cis Female

sexuality: Demiromantic pansexual

pronouns: She/Her

O T H E R S

family: Myala Thulie (mother, deceased), Roan Saal “Darth Noctis” (father, deceased), Vano Saal-Shenly (Wife), Merak Shenly (Brother-in-law), Ziv’erikreen (Adopted younger sister)

birthplace: Onderon

job: Co-Commander of the Eternal Alliance, formerly Barsen’thor of the Jedi Order (and secretly a Sith Assassin working as a sleeper agent ;))

phobias: Death/dying

guilty pleasures: Alcohol, Vano (yeah it’s not technically, but Aria considers her wife as such XD)

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: Chaotic Neutral (don’t spend too much time trying to figure her out, you’ll hurt yourself hahaha)

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: Leans slightly more towards introvert, but can be either/or depending on who she’s with.

organized/disorganized: Aria is best described as “organised chaos”.

close minded/open-minded: Mostly open-minded, but Aria can have her moments where she’s harder to shift than a bantha with a sore head.

calm/anxious: She has a set few situations which will make her feel quite anxious, but overall Aria is pretty “calm”, though I wouldn’t use the word specifically for her, and a more accurate description would be “she just doesn’t give a shit”. XD

disagreeable/agreeable: Unless your name is Vano or Saarai, good luck getting her to see things your way :’)

cautious/reckless: Can be either, but leans slightly more towards cautious, particularly in fights

patient/impatient: She hasn’t got a lot of patience, unless you’re paying her to wait (with a lot of zeroes on the end too!), she’s not going to. Simple as that.

outspoken/reserved: That running mouth of hers has gotten Aria both into and out of trouble more times than she can count.

leader/follower: Aria is a natural-born leader and doesn’t take very well to anyone telling her what to do. To this date the only people who’s orders she does/has followed are: Roan, Vano and Saarai.

empathetic/unemphatic: Okay so this one might be surprising, but Aria is actually pretty empathetic, she’s just really fucking awful at being sympathetic! She picks up on other’s emotional states pretty well and is very good at reading people, she’s just...not good at not hurting their feelings lol

optimistic/pessimistic: A weird mix of both, to the tune of “well, this can’t possibly get any worse now, at least, right?”

traditional/modern: Mostly modern, with a dash of old Sith traditions taught to her by daddy dearest.

hard-working/lazy: Not much to say about this one, it’s pretty self-explanatory!

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: Aria/Vano, obviously! :P

ot3: if Vano wasn’t so possessive/jealous, I think Vano/Aria/Saarai would have been a hilariously chaotic trio (poor Vano though, dear god XD)

brotp: Aria & Qyzen, Aria & Merak & Ziri

notp: Aria/Tharan Cedrax (dude she’s not into you take the hint), Aria/Felix Iresso (sweetie you’re too good for her I’m sorry ;-;)

(art is by @varjopihlaja :D)

B A S I C S

full name: D’leahane Ahaszaai, though went most often by D’leah to those closest to her

gender: Cis Female

sexuality: Heterosexual

pronouns: She/Her

O T H E R S

family: Are you ready for this? It was a big family before Valkorion killed ‘em XD all are deceased now except for Abaron, Vowrawn, Paa, Saarai & Ni’kasi and their respective children. Vastas and Saa’thri (father and mother respectively), Duuma (”older” twin brother), Vowrawn (younger brother), Abaron Ahaszaai (brother-in-law, Vowrawn’s husband), two unnamed sister-in-laws (Duuma’s wives), unnamed nieces and nephews (Duuma + wives’ children), Kissai Ahaszaai (Husband), Paalea Izreni (Sister-in-law, Kissai’s half-sister), Saarai & Ni’kasi Ahaszaai (Twin daughters), Ty, Nawâ (grandsons), Kadebre, Hyala (granddaughters)

birthplace: Medriaas (now Nathema)

job: Sith Lord, High Lady of House Ahaszaai, former Heiress to the Sith Throne

phobias: Failure, her biggest fear was failing to protect her daughters from Valkorion, all of them dying and what little remained of the “original” Sith Empire being lost forever with them.

guilty pleasures: romantic poetry (Kissai wasn’t particularly smart but he was a romantic at heart and he used to write her a lot of poetry, other than the twins, after he died it was the only part of “him” she had left ;-;)

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: Lawful Evil

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: Very much an introvert, D’leah prefers to keep to herself so you better stay out of her personal space bubble.

organized/disorganized: Organized to the point of being eerily terrifying, to be honest. She’s got a plan, and a contingency plan, and you can bet everything is exactly where it should be when it should be there.

close minded/open-minded: Not very responsive to new ideas or ways of life, she clings to what she knows like her life depends on it.

calm/anxious: Generally speaking, quite calm. Although after Valkorion happened and her husband and most of her family were killed, she gradually became more anxious, eventually to the point of paranoia, only wanting to keep the girls safe.

disagreeable/agreeable: It’s her way or the highway, and you will not get her to concede otherwise for as long as either of you live. XD

cautious/reckless: D’leah never does anything without thinking it through first. If it’s too dangerous, she’s not doing it and there isn’t anything you can do or say to convince her. She’s nope’ing out of there faster than you can say “but”.

patient/impatient: Exceedingly so. D’leah has the patience of a saint, it doesn’t matter how long something takes. She can wait it out.

outspoken/reserved: D’leah is generally a silent observer, when she speaks it’s only after collecting every bit of information she possibly can to make the most concise point(s) possible.

leader/follower: She’s the boss. That’s it, no negotiations. She’s in charge, you do what she says or Force help you. XD

empathetic/unemphatic: Very unempathetic. She calls herself a “realist” but honestly she’s just kinda mean. Aww, you got shot? Stop crying about it and walk it off, you big baby!

optimistic/pessimistic: Again, she calls herself a “realist”, but always tends to assume (and plan for) the worst. It’s happened to her enough times now *gestures at hecked up face and dead family* XD)

traditional/modern: A staunch and stubborn traditionalist, you will pry these traditions from her cold, dead hands.

hard-working/lazy: She’s a lady, she’s not meant to do hard work, she has every capacity to order someone else to do it for her and she intends to do just that!

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: D’leah/Kissai forever <3

ot3: Hahahaha no, no. She’s far too possessive to share :’)

brotp: D’leah & Paa, D’leah & Abaron

notp: D’leah/anyone else, tbh. It’s Kissai or nobody for her ;)

#Q&A with the crew #OC asks #worldbuilding wednesday #swtor oc: aria saal #swtor oc: d'leah ahaszaai #sith oc #sith pureblood #jedi consular #sith assassin #ds jedi consular #yes it's technically thursday i know #but these two took me a little longer to fill out and pretty much everyone is usually offline by that point #so i'm throwing it in the queue to go up in the morning instead #the mean ladies themselves! #funnily enough if she'd lived long enough to meet her #d'leah probably would've liked aria a lot #she might have even become a sort of surrogate mother figure to her #who knows #:'D #thank you for asking! #elvhenyoung

[lazybarbarians]

Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End by Chuck Wendig

Ragnell: So over the past two weeks we finished up the Aftermath trilogy with Empire’s End and now we are totally up to date on the state of the Star Wars universe one-year post-RotJ as pertains to everyone but Luke Skywalker.

And Ezra Bridger, and Kanan Jarrus, and Ahsoka Tano or really any of the animated-verse Jedi or Sith and any of the EU Jedi or Sith like Mara Jade who still might exist in some way.

But for the soldiers and scoundrels and surviving Imperials we have a status quo for about 29 years. We also know what happens to the core characters from the first Aftermath book which is honestly (and impressively, considering how little patience I have for original SW characters) what we read this thing for anyway. (As usual, I pretty much spoil everything in this recap below.)

So we open with several threads going on. Gallius Rax is flashing back to his Tuesdays with Palpatine excerpts, and gathering the pathetic remnants of the Imperial Navy on Jakku. Because Palpatine had a big secret project there, of which Gallius was an integral part. So integral that Palpatine appoints Gallius Rax as The Contingency which we can immediately tell will be a great pain in the ass to the whole galaxy.

Norra and Company are hunting down Mercurial Swift, so they can track down Rae Sloane. Temmin is annoyed he’s always stuck on getaway driver duty. The bounties on Jas from her old bosses are mounting. Sinjir is still having his career regrets, which are worsened by the fact that without Luke Skywalker around to point out sensible things like “I don’t think that’s good for the soul”, Sinjir basically still has to do the same job only for Norra. And Norra has entered Terminator Revenge mode, which is basically what has her asking Sinjir to do the same job and limiting Temmin to getaway driver duty. This is generally what everyone has to work past the entire story. They find out Rae Sloane is on Jakku and follow.

Surprise surprise, the pathetic in comparison to its former glory but still a really really lot of ships remnants of the Imperial Navy are there. This leads the good guys to split up, with Norra and Jas taking an escape pod to the surface because Norra’s in revenge mode (followed by Mr. Bones because Temmin is worried about his mother) and Temmin and Sinjir to go back to Chandrila to get embroiled in the political plot.

Kalinara: I actually thought Norra in revenge mode was one of the weaker parts of the story, unfortunately. It’s understandable that she’d be conflicted and angry, but there were points where she just seemed cartoonishly irrational. Norra was my favorite in the previous books, but I wasn’t as big a fan of her here.

R: Mon Mothma is facing a election challenge from the appropriately named Senator Wartol, a hardline warhawk who accuses her of weakness that led to the Liberation Day attack last book. Long story short, her challenger is a corrupt asshole who has criminal ties and uses them to rig a vote to actually PREVENT attacking Jakku so that he can say he voted for it but she’s a shit Chancellor for not even being able to put this together. Sinjir teams up with the Organa-Solo family and his ex-boyfriend Conder to resolve this. He does so well that Mon Mothma offers him a job as her aide, which resolves his career path crisis, enables him to skip the Jakku attack and settle down happily with Conder.

K:: How’s that for one of the first, explicitly gay characters in Star Wars? He and his boyfriend both get to live, AND get a happy ending to boot!

R: Temmin spends his time pestering Wedge Antilles to put him on a ship and send him to Jakku. Wedge, after last book’s mini-rebellion, isn’t even allowed to go himself and is stuck being an expeditor in the hangers. After several guilt-trips, Wedge finally relents and puts together the same group of outcasts from last book to sneak, unauthorized, into the battle and lets the 16 year old join them because Wedge Antilles has spent way too much time with Luke, Leia, and Han over the last 5 years.

Temmin’s been wanting to go back to Jakku, of course, because that’s where his mother, his droid and his.. Jas have been. Both Jas and Norra got captured by Niima the Hutt, who is horrible even as Hutts go. Norra was on some work-detail where Mr Bones the droid broke her out. Jas got to pull ever-increasing acts of badassery to avoid being taken in for her bounty, steal Swift’s ship AND steal Swift’s crew.

Also in Niima’s area, Rae Sloane and Brentin Wexley, who convince her to lead them to the Imperial Secret Squirrel place where they are promptly captured and forced to witness a ridiculous speech by Gallius Rax. Sloane undergoes some of her own career angst while Brentin actually manages to get them both free. They proceed to try to fuck up Gallius Rax’s mysterious plan, and go into the Imperial Secret Squirrel place.

While in there, Norra catches up to them and they all find out that due to an overly emphatic chess metaphor Gallius Rax has activated a weapon in the core of Jakku that will destroy the whole planet and both fleets. He’s also sent the Huxes off with a bunch of children to outside the Galaxy to meet other ships with imperials and children, and the Eclipse, so that Palpatine can continue to vex the Galaxy from beyond the grave. On the bright side he kills Tashu, who was actually such a dick I was hoping they’d save him for the Jedi to kill in a later story.

Norra, Brentin, and Rae have a great deal of emotional interaction about trust and distrust, and a rather kickass three-against-one fight with Gallius in between trying to shut down the weapon. Brentin gets through all the defenses but stops to save Norra and gets killed. Rae actually turns down the weapon while Norra, feeling that her trust of Sloane was justified, drags her husband’s body out for burial. Rae then boards a ship with the Huxes and a bunch of feral brainwashed proto-Stormtroopers for the Eclipse, because she is not actually finished being evil yet.

K:: I was surprised by how much I liked Brentin, in particular, in this book. He was more plot point than character last time (even if he was a helpful juxtaposition against all those “no, Kylo is BRAINWASHED!” justifications), but here, we got to see more of who he is as a man. I was rather disappointed they killed him off. I might have liked the novelty of Norra and Brentin going through an amiable divorce.

Sloane was pretty great too. And for all of my complaints about Norra previously, she and Sloane had such a great dynamic once they finally met up. And I’m thrilled at the idea that we might see her again.

R: Wartol is arrested because he tries to kill Mon Mothma, but really only manages to destroy her office and kill the advisor who hadn’t been fleshed out until this book so we could feel bad about her. Mas Amedda manages to escape Coruscant and sign a surrender treaty. Leia attends the signing, during labor (because kid, you are gonna have to wait until galactic peace gawddammit) and thus manages to freak out her husband, attain galactic peace AND have a baby. Nothing in this book manages to excuse Kylo Ren’s horrible horrible crimes, and in fact knowing what’s coming you kind of cringe at one scene. Wedge Antilles and the Wexleys all go to the new pilot academy. Jas sets up shop with the crew she stole from Swift, and grieves Jom who went to Jakku to find her and was killed in the battle. Sinjir settles down with his new career and Conder.

K: Seriously. I didn’t see anything that remotely indicated any “mind control from birth” or whatever nonsense. It isn’t even clear that Snoke EXISTS at this point in time. Any passage that could even be remotely stretched to mean some kind of fetus communication actually has a clear explanation in the text itself.

R: Actually, every character that we might have speculated would BE Snoke was specifically killed off

For the rest of the Galaxy, Chewbacca finds his son. Lando Calrissian regains his rightful place as Baron Administrator of Cloud City (which I believe is a 4-point Freehold if you’re tracking SW characters with White Wolf rules). Jar Jar Binks makes a friend and lives out the rest of his days entertaining orphans and avoiding politics. Coruscant ends up run by Mas Amedda anyway, but technically part of the New Republic. The Sith-worshipping Acolyte group from the Interludes was revealed to be sponsored by Tashu and dedicates itself to causing shit across the Galaxy and will almost certainly factor into the Jedi storyline. A charismatic leader, Brin, forms the Church of the Force which we already know factors into the Jedi storyline. It’s revealed that there are facilities known as Observatories, set up by Palpatine, that have been receiving data from outside the known galaxy all over the galaxy and not just on Jakku and that’s probably going to come into play somewhere too. The crazy pirate who found a Super Star Destroyer Dreadnought last book has cobbled together a functioning society of pirates around the ship. The residents of Tattooine have decided to just raise their own damned Hutt, Borgo, from childhood so they can have one who’s more compassionate than Jabba was. Luke is stated to be looking for old Jedi stuff.

That was a long recap, but one of the most tantalizing aspects of this trilogy is finding out just what the status quo in the Galaxy was after they finally wiped the bloated corpse of the Empire’s bureaucracy off of the map and got their new government underway. In general, it’s pretty satisfying. You follow your six Republic heroes, with some of the named characters from the movies as supporting cast, and your two main Imperials and their support, and get kind of a view of the rest of the universe. In a couple of places, these interludes tie into the main climax but others are just epilogues for the locations in the movies or tantalizing threads for when we find out what Luke has been up to.

K: I admit, that’s what I’m waiting for most. This was a fun side trek, but where is my favorite character, damnit?

R: I’m hoping we get another trilogy explaining this after The Last Jedi premieres. Or it’s the focus of the next animated series. Ezra seems custom-made to work as a foil for Luke, and Ahsoka was written out in a way that places her in safe-keeping until after RotJ.

One thing I found myself thinking from this last book, though, is that I feel better about The Force Awakens. I know a few OT fans who were very upset about everything Luke and Leia lost in the prelude to that movie and during it. I know a couple I saw who commented that they didn’t think Luke’s actions in RotJ were even that big an effect, since the Death Star was destroyed anyway. The view of the galaxy as seen in this trilogy, PARTICULARLY Jakku as compared to what we saw in the movie, changes that. You get the impression that even though there are still darksiders active, that a remnant of the Empire has left to regroup, that there’s still corruption and pirates and bullies and innocent people languishing in extreme poverty and hardship… that there’s still been a lasting improvement directly attributable to the actions of the heroes in the movies and the heroes in these books. Jakku at Rey’s time is actually a less horrible place than seen in this book. Many of the locations from the movies show people taking action and spreading hope. The remains of the Empire are the Emperor’s last middle finger to the Galaxy, and even after thirty years of gaining strength are still not the relentless, overwhelming presence in everyone’s life they were in Rogue One. The Galaxy was not instantly fixed, and much of the progress was wiped away, but there’s still a lot to hold onto. They came a long way between RotJ and TFA.

There’s really only one disappointment about this book. Tashu’s death. I joked above, but in the first book of this trilogy his main role is torturing a captive Wedge Antilles. The fallout from this is more realistic than you usually see in action-adventure fiction, where Wedge is still recovering throughout the second book both physically and emotionally. They’re unclear on whether he’s still using a cane this book or not, but either way it’s a long-term lingering impairment. He gets to staredown and work a little on his rage at Sloane last book, but he is never shown confronting Tashu. He’s never in the same room as the villain who put him through all of that. Tashu also never has a greater impact on any other main characters either from just this trilogy or the movies, meaning this villain was specific to one major hero and had a huge impact on that hero’s life and role in a story that covers at least half a year. Tashu isn’t saved for a later book or confrontation, he gets offed by Gallius and that’s a bit of a bummer.

#The Secret Origin of Snap Wexley: Resistance Pilot 3 #State of the Galaxy #Missing: Luke Skywalker If Found Please Return to Grateful Fandom #A Happy Ending for the Gay Guy #All the het couples are kinda screwed #Even that one because you can see it coming #Hux was always a little douche #There is no justification for patricide #Lots of Dark Side Activity for Jedi to deal with #Politics is a bloodsport #The Evil is coming from OUTSIDE the Galaxy! #The Evil is also coming from INSIDE the Galaxy! #Palpatine was a sore loser #Star Wars #Aftermath: Empire's End #A Disney Prince(ss) in Space #Chuck Wendig #Ragnell's Pick

[macguires]

I'm so late but I sure hope you're still doing that ask meme because if you are I'm giving you Hannibal and Star Wars. Because I know you too well and I know you'd be waiting ;D - tattlecrimc

YESSSSSSS EDEN BLESS U (i’m assuming you mean this one bc that’s the only one i’ve reblogged recently)

i will ramble horribly on the hannibal one and i’m very sorry about it so i’ll leave that for last so i can put it under a read more

i should probably warn u that the only movie fresh in my memory is the force awakens so all of this is gonna be answered through a v tfa-heavy lens but ok

star wars

three favourite male characters: poe dameron, kylo ren & general hux (DON’T KILL ME i know kylo & hux are awful, the fandom paired w/ my pre-existing love for domhnall gleeson did this to me and i am v ashamed). finn, han solo, bodhi rook, cassian andor, chirrut imwe & luke skywalker are also v dear to me. listen i just have a lot of love to givethree favourite female characters: jessika pava (i’d better see So Much of her in ep8), phasma & padme amidala. & also rey! ‘Needs More Girls’ is my opinion on most franchises but especially star warsfavourite pairing(s): finn/poe, kylo/hux, rey/jessika & han/luke! i also like obi-wan/anakin in the sense that i don’t actively go looking for stuff abt it but when i do see it on my dash my heart does a lil “!!”notp(s): r*ylo is like one of the only ships on my blacklist so that probably tells u something. i’m also p Ew about rey with any of the villains, so that also rules out rey/hux & rey/kylo/hux which i see way too often all over the place. also you wouldn’t think snoke/kylo would be a thing but i’ve seen fics & i’ve seen art and i’ve like cried every single time, experiencing that was my tragic backstory and now i’m a jaded & cynical anti-hero who’s seen Too Much™least favourite character: snoke who’s like me: i’ll hesitantly say padme amidala? i saw the prequels when i was too young to be properly interested in them and i haven’t rewatched them yet so 99% of my knowledge is secondhand, but from what i’ve seen she’s the most relatable most attractive: jessika pava tbh, yet another reason behind me hoping she’s around a lot in the next movie, i am Absolutely in love alreadyfavourite moment/scene: THAT’S MY JACKET(also lowkey the whole starkiller/hosnian system scene, that was shot so impressively w/ the whole ~greatcoat blowing dramatically in wind~ and the brief reaction shot of the people on hosnian prime and the lights shooting across the sky and damn)favourite quote(s): LOTS

“so this is how liberty dies. with thunderous applause.” - padme

“if you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people.” - maz

“mm. lost a planet, master obi-wan has. how embarrassing.” - yoda

“are you kidding me? i’m blind!” - chirrut 

“there’s a problem on the horizon. …there is no horizon.” - k2-so

“so you’re with the resistance?”“obviously. yes, i am. i am with the resistance, yeah. i’m with the resistance.”“i’ve never met a resistance fighter before.”“well, this is what we look like. some of us. others look different.” - rey & finn

“lieutenant, get back to your station!”“just look! we won’t survive. even hux is gone!” - rodinon

“through the ages, i’ve seen evil take many forms: the sith. the empire. today, it is the first order.” - maz

“where is my boyfriend? […] i like that wookiee.” - maz

ok right. now for my favourite thing in the world. the show i don’t shut up about. the universe to which my heart belongs

hannibal

three favourite male characters: will graham, hannibal lecter & anthony dimmondthree favourite female characters: chiyoh, molly graham & reba mcclane (also beverly katz. and freddie lounds. and abigail hobbs. and literally every other girl)favourite pairing(s): hannibal/will, margot/alana, reba/molly, abigail/marissa & jimmy/brian are the ones i pay most attention to, but i’m honestly also down for literally any other f/f ship u can imagine from this shownotp(s): there isn’t anything i would specifically call a notp, but i’m not a huge fan of will/alana or hannibal/alana i guess? just bc as much as i love will & hannibal, alana deserves 1000x better and i lovelovelove her with margot. i also dislike mason with literally anyone for what i would hope are obvious reasons. i also tend to be kinda cringey about abigail with will or hannibal in a romantic/sexual sense bc it’s made very clear that their relationship with her is parent/child and that she’s a teenager so it feels v creepy to meleast favourite character: i like them enough as characters but i’ll say francis dolarhyde & mason verger. bc everything mason does ever makes me feel vaguely ill and my first impression of francis dolarhyde was him stretching and grunting @ his mirror in briefs w/ Glistening Muscles and i was done with That and ready to move on in under 0.00002 seconds but it just….. kept happeningwho’s most like me: peter bernardone, abigail hobbs & s1!will graham most attractive: chiyoh! i was literally Gone from the second we saw her through will’s goddamn binoculars favourite moment/scene: literally every second of dark!will i am so here for that. every moment from when he attacked freddie in the barn and then. u know. ate randall tier with hannibal, the whole ~i’ve given up good & evil for behaviourism~ conversation and the knife exchange in the kitchen. also him bringing randall’s body to hannibal in the middle of the night like some dog looking for approval wtf. and obviously him & hannibal double-teaming & killing francis in the season finale and running the fuck away together and then coming back to eat bedelia like I JUST REALLY LOVE DARK!WILLfavourite quote(s): i have SO MANY. some of them i just think are gorgeous and thought-provoking, some i like for shippy reasons or bc they were super chilling or Ominous on a rewatch/paired with later context, and some i just find straight-up hilarious

hannibal: “i’ve always found the idea of death comforting. the thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of everything this world has to offer.”

hannibal: “the essence of the worst in the human spirit is not found in the crazy sons-of-bitches. ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.”  

jack: “you remember when you decided to call hannibal?”will: “i wasn’t decided when i called him. i just called him. i deliberated while the phone rang… i decided when i heard his voice.”jack: “you told him we knew.” will: “i told him to leave, because i wanted him to run.”jack: “why?”will: “because… because he was my friend. and because i wanted to run away with him.” 

hannibal: “you cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love.” 

will: “i’ve never known myself as well as i know myself… when i’m with him.” 

hannibal: “when the fox hears the rabbit scream, he comes a-running. but not to help. when you hear jack scream, why will you come running?”

chiyoh: “you have a taste for it now.”will: “for what?”chiyoh: “harm.”will: “do you?”chiyoh: “i was violent when it was the right thing to do. but i think you like it. […] if you don’t kill him, you’re afraid you’re going to become him.”will: “yes.”

freddie: “i’ve interviewed enough serial killers to know one when i see one. […] a very specific brand of hostility. i see it every time i look at will graham.” 

gray: “there is no god.”hannibal: “well, not with that attitude.” 

hannibal: “hello! i love your work.” (YOU NEED CONTEXT FOR THIS ONE BUT I LOVE IT)

guest: “it smells divine!”hannibal: “it is! i say that without ego. i don’t require conventional reinforcement.” 

hannibal: “that may have been impulsive.”

hannibal: “a paradox.”alana: “freddie lounds thinks the two of you are a paradox. she sees something no one else sees.”will: “and what’s that?”alana: “that neither of you is the killer she’s writing about… but together you might be.” 

will: “i’d pack my bags if i were you, bedelia. meat’s back on the menu. […] ready or not, here he comes.” 

freddie: “what will understands is that if you can’t beat hannibal lecter… join him.” 

hannibal: “what’s the meat? veal? pork?”will: “she was a slim and delicate pig.”hannibal: “i’ll make you lomo soltado. we’ll make it together. …you slice the ginger.” […]hannibal: “this meat is not pork.”will: “it’s long pig.” (RIDICULOUS. now they’re both making puns while eating people)

will: “is hannibal in love with me?”bedelia: “could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? yes. but do you ache for him?”  

#anonymous #asks

[throwingideasatthewall]

Clone wars    Eminence

      Okay. .    

      Hey emotion            ?

       ?        ?          Vsla

   (What is a        Vizsla?)

    Enabler          Vs           Aggressive          Non-         Compliant            Un-accou               n-t             able-               -             Enabler-

        Souls

      [Ok I’m trying to keep track       here;

      (Because I do try to follow the stories              in case they become           some thing              even when they are in the             -0              cate             -gory-

        - Yoda’s generation

       -Qui- Gon’s     generation             Dooku’s 

       -Obi-wan

      -Anakin’s generation

      -  Ahsoka

       [I am not counting the feckin young-lings”]

         Okay dude seems around Obi-Wan but below                   Both him and Saltine

         - Higher than Anakin though            So,

      -Yoda’s generation

      -Qui- Gon’s     generation            Dooku’s

      -Obi-wan

          - This dude                    (Pre Visla)

     -Anakin’s generation

     -  Ahsoka

     Now Maul;

        He seemed younger than Obi-Wan           but older than Anakin

     So;

      -Yoda’s generation

     -Qui- Gon’s     generation           Dooku’s

     -Obi-wan

         - This dude                  (Pre Visla)

          -Maul

    -Anakin’s generation

    -  Ahsoka

   So just for the record, Ahsoka’s generation        which is now an adult over 22,          Is dealing with      Anakin‘s generation           ....

       [Ok going to guesstimate regarding behavior,]

     Is directly Obi-Wan‘s

         [But they were two generations              under Obi-Wan

           Pre-Visla; acting as some kind a                Brother generation

                - Maul; Youngest                                    Brother   

               -Savage; ?

     So,         [  -Yoda’s generation ]         [   -Qui- Gon’s     generation          Dooku’s ]

    [    -  Obi-wan                               - This dude                        } (Enablers)                  (Pre Visla)                           -Maul  

             -Anakin’s generation ]                    -  Ahsoka (Present)

               (Ok you know what       I’m breaking out the colored markers                   for this shit)

        -Yoda’s generation                    [Enabler]           (Progenitor                      to                Qui-Gon’s                        /                       Dooku)

                 |             -Qui- Gon’s    generation            Dooku’s                        (Progenitor                    To               Obi-wan)                     |

      -  Obi-wan                              |         - This dude  (Pre Visla)                         |             (Younger)                          |           [Brother gen]                         |                 To                     |            Obi- wan

               |           -Maul                       |             (You                     |                nger                     |                Gen)

               |        [As in born before not that they are the same species                    |           though if                  |        someone fecks up the galaxy-  everyone has to deal with it]

               |           - Savage                    |               [You                    |                nger                        |                  Gen]

      -Anakin’s generation 

     Ahsoka (How)

     note I am ignoring that bit about Plagueis            Because no

       And going on the direct            apprentice line-

         [which note          I am aware                may ignore           several possi-                 bilities-

              Including Qui-gon and Obi-wan’s                      Gen poss                        -ib                          ly,                         are                           bro.                              Because of                    convenience,

                       [Which is why I am ignoring the Plaguies           thing-

       Because if serious is that old it’s really implying that someone that is old enough to be Anakin’s Great great grandfather, did that,          The nonsense applied in the whole midclorians to create          life thing          (Consent??)                 And my general disregard for           anything that illuminates the opportunity of choice or             feckin’ realism;

       Now if you’ll look at the chart;

         [I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE A             NO CHILDREN POLICY-  no                attach-ments-]

              Note that means there have been (at least)                   four [distinct] generations in play

              *are

               [ ANd NONE of these fuckers die of natural causes                       [Aka old age]

                Unless you count getting run through by a light sword!

                 [HoW]

                 [”oh yeah the galaxy’s un-balanced,”

                   Cause you have so many fecking kids-]

                  Apologies just had to get that out of my system                         [After making the damn chart]

                  We struggle                        at three,

      Like if I have to bring out the colored markers         I think that’s too many

           I mean you can try      but it’s going to be a hell of a time        [For the writers]             justifying         how the core-

     Point being           it’s a mess-

    [ And I’m doing this just to figure out a conversation           -The generational beef       - The morality           - because yeah while they’re both           enablers, The tox            instigator, clearly has lower ground to their          victim,

       Who was tox           first,

        Who has the advantage

         [One of the things that make a Narc conflicts,            a bit          of risk,               The only thing I can with our Narcs so poorly       established,         Including           their          excessives             And weak              nesses]

          And whether I should boo or               cheer,

             Or some thing as a good line or.             poor

             [because I honestly think the line they’re doing here can work and maybe I didn’t need the chart but it makes it a bit easier and gives an understanding of how I’m comparing,

             Because. .]

             “ if they are weak                  why do you wait,”

              Because from a victim or younger generation that’s a pretty                    potent/poignant line              

From an abuser        its tone deaf     and needs more        malician                  -              Personally I think they did a good job with        Pre-viz         -here

        He’s the right kind of tone of someone stuck in their glory days trying to get the      younger generation to enable him a bit more regardless of the cost,]

   [Power-ful allies

     Haha,

     What allies           [That didn’t-           Betray              Her,]

            -

       [Kenobi]

       [HaHa]

       [i’m sorry but regardless when the writers, pull it out of the        randomness hat,  he’s a punk ass bitch

                          [Excuse me                     for overuse of that term                                  I strictly mean it in the                             derogatory non-                                 identification                                                 Way                                 Meaning,                     Un accountable in terms of fighting and self-defense of his pro              -fessed expertise]

                     [and occasionally in self-determination against peer pressure and threats far above or below his skill level]

                     Specifically, the Jedi Council

[continu          ing        on,”        ]

                        [Ventress]

             Exile

  [you’ve been allegedly exiled      so many times it’s a bingo card,       ]

   (Also     instead of locking them up]

     (Like I might’ve missed a few points         due to tox           But,             She didn’t just send them back to exhile where they started fecking with the shit

    Did she?

    I got as far as the juice thing then

    Fast-pasted through the Academy

            (No skim)

     So sorry       if anything was missed

       (But tox)

         ?

        [that was a suddenly              softer tone,]

         But              fair,

          A-ll

          Count                 Dooku-

              Dude,                    he just didn’t [rabidly] support your small little fan club              that couldn’t do much

       And [last I checked],                  Just told             you not to do                    a thing,

            Like yeah      might’ve been      relatively        poor advice but what were you          expecting-

       -

     [Tone’s           a bit weird]

      But she       has a point,

      Despite the          uneven-                ?

   [that’s a strangely powerful way to keep him           intact]

         Though              not-               -

       To vote,

    Also,

     Who,

    Why?

      ?   [In all truth, while the expressions were         a bit off,  (I assume benefit of the doubt - illustrators       version-).         That that could’ve been a relatively poignant scene,          a (we totally      got him             To            Enable                  Our                War-              between              Two            Enablers.]

          How is      Savage taking less time than        Maul?

      [is it cause made out of             metal?

       Is it because        Savage is bigger?]

    [Also you know what would’ve been             interesting?]

       [Note, interesting              not better; it’s        perfectly serviceable                  as is;

       [Completely aesthetic]

      If Maul had been “threatened” into the            death watch,

         With Savage              as the chip,

      And feigned

            [Possibly having to be t-alked back into it                                                                      - cause                 I mean he                      died]

              Just interesting,

                ?

               Oh yeah that has been pretty fucked up for him considering the last time he was on anything resembling an operating table,

                [also I kind of like the idea of Maul as                     (for now) a nicer Sith Lord than                    his master,             )

        ?          ?            [Despisi ng                    the                  enabler,                     But other than my       assum.                  What is actually their in-              tention?

            Because they don’t seem to really have a plan                   other than               destroy things,

             And even that is inconsistent

             Too late. .

              (I understand murder. .

               But that wasn’t really set up)

    )

             ?

              Oh yeah approaching the clearly       ag-gressive             per-            sion              -              With an entourage               -                In the hospital              -                 With his             injured brother/                 mor-alty                      pet)

                 Good                       job                      smart                        guy          this would in no way put him on                          edge,

                      E-r                      [Not                          sure                         about                        that,                               ]                              ?                            -                            [that was kind of                     funny]                     ,

                “Name                  -s,”

                 [They going to make something         up ?]

                “Brothers”                            - that was a very                           specific                               word                            choice,

                      Duc-hess

                        (Oh -yeah             he brought that up in the conversation-

                        “Army,”

                        [Please                          no more                            pirates,]

                      (Also yeah                          trying to force peoples opinions to change  (for                       (Corr    that always works out                               upt)                        well,)

                          ?

                      (Are we going to get     dr     -oids)

                    “Black sun,”

                      Aight-                           Gang,

      “But there a crime syndicate,”                  Whin-                  ed the guy,                     Leading a (death)                       cult,  

                    (Like I’m pretty sure they have done worse in this originated as some kind of crime syndicate/                        Espionage within                      the government-                           -]                     ?

        Dude            they’re cannon           get it together,                    -                  Oh so just             black dealing]

                   ?

                    -                                         ?

                  [Is                       prisoner                           ]                      

                     ?                   Attack,

                      -                           Or                        Assemble/                         En-tourage                              -                                ?                               - -                         -?                             [Ok so just a show of                                 strength,]                                      -                                         ?                                      -                                “ what a                        stupid crime syndicate,’                                      .                               Like;                                 “I want to talk to your boss                       about possibly becoming business partner(s)                         lucrative opportunity for both of us,                 ��                  doing business                                        but sketchy,”

                                   [Willing to participate in your     black market              op]

                                “ he’s gonna                                      kill you,”

         ? ??

                                      [Like you do       realize that’s like going to a        - bank, [for a loan] and the            door              guy                   Threate-ning you             with                 death                 -                      Like how do you stay in           business?

      [Like, don’t care     much for either practice,

     Just don’t see why they don’t go to the non-threateny guy      over there-

      ?

    [Like I’m sorry but that was just a laughable way of         establishing         t         hrea            -t            -           Bad-assery             -           And I think [it got let off-      way         too light-        -”          -             ?           -          Okay              -         seriously-         [’ The One-      species              evil,’ is really starting to grind my gears       One whole generation of a species decided to go into purely only      crime syndicate,

   Al-one-

     :            The background

      Kind             -a             Hot-             -            Now             -     -                -      This is some nice        sc         ene          r         y-         -             I like the       Gold-

       -            The          the outfits-

       What?              -           [

                                                                                                                               ]  [Note;  I can understand not wanting to fall into the tropes of your Genre,                     But it has to make sense-

                       [How does this-]

                    [excuse me                        while I go into                          depth on this]

   This guy works, crime syndicate  

   AKa organized      illegal dealings,  

    Behind       the government(s)     back-

    There are multiple ways you can do this            (clothing wise)            1. Bure-aucrat;

         Aka the dude’s in the Italian suits,

          Which not only denotes they are dealings of               off brand goods                    (Typically                 not in the country                   of origin]

                  [Place]

                But also                   as their                     role;                    As a bureau               cratic brush                   over-

              Typical-                ly                   Find                     - ing                       this guy                    cover-ing                        up,

         2. Ragg                   -ed

               Dude in                 brown                over               -coat                  Torn-                     -                     His whole thing is looking like an unimpressive citizen allowing him to move with ease-

              With the disadvantage of being                   underestimated-

               Possibly                   works-                   -cargo-                          -                          (That’s also just basic civilian that is generally associated with extremely chaotic and unpredictable allowing you to go more                ways story wise)

                     Point being,                       some function,

                     Mean,

     This dude is gold and gaudy and speaks more of a        barbarian then a black-      dealer

       Crime         Syn-          dicate,

         [and it’s not even gold as in the “I’m better than all you smugglers/crime lords           come at me bro!”

        It simply does not have the       slickness for that,

      No the      scheme,

   [and fine        if you want to do alien fashion you do        alien fashion    but you how to establish that,        (And it’s still really comes back to that        pre-established logic         ,).          Excluding the horn       which I’m assuming       is part of his head,

     Again this is speaking more      War lord than       crime lord,        He really       DOES give off that         Aura,”              -          [Ok yeah this is really the most        out of tune scene,        Giving        me a headache from just the         plain inconsistency,”           -           ?            -       Yeah...  

      no idea what just happened              ...        Pre               Viz-la;                Was staring,                Then Savage was             laughing,  

           Just feckin              holding the             guy-

           And now            there was someone on the floor.                 . .                  [??]                 - -                 Whelp, guess the other        g-uards just stood around and did nothing-                   -                    “Black sun,”                    -                    Despite there being no black in your outfits and 

               we haven’t even seen                  an      in-    signia,

           And I’m starting to think       n-e-ither in their operation

       Seeing as they’      re,          guardy obvious,

     [ pretty          damn          blatant,             Too

       Aigh         h-t-         -          [Again that’s behavior more befitting of a      [War        ]      lord,         -           ?           -           Oh, yeah 

    that bodyguard was just straight up chilling

    No ser-         ious.             -ly;      

Like, I know my boss has ordered me to dispose of you,      I’m real sorry about that,         I can take you          outside if you want            Don’t           be-              Oh.              hey,              hold.                 up-

 Well,       shit

   [Frank       is having a shit        day,             ]

     Like

    (That is.             A.          [Wait       murder’s illegal!,          Exp             ression,    

   [What the hec         -k,

    . . .

   Well,         Shit,     

 No hesitation

     (Bob is           having a shit           ,day

      [He’s           a       greeter,                 ]               .               -              ?

        Really, because we only saw four guys that you killed and that greeting party,

         (That’s still            guerilla warfare             at best;)

         [like seriously unless the               Mandalorian(s) only have like five guards         you’re still going to be        over-powered-                 - -                    <

          Saltine

          ..weak

           So much so that we haven’t even really seen the army-             Just some guys carrying cargo

         And cargo              crat                 e(s?             )

           F-o

        Y-eah,                   One             Vis              -i                on-                 -             C-l

       [H-e’s righ       t   -  dude has no actual       commitment to killing        Sal-        tine,

      This is just some       game,           he’s playing,          While    Maul actually seems interested            in    kicking his abusers               ,               -      Dep-th               -          I mean              -       do either of you?

      [like up to this point       I thought this was some                  Gen beef,                But dude           Talks to         Pre-       Visla-          Like-             -   In that           line,        Like he’s         same Gen,

     Which doe      sn’t match the tone they’ve been         projecting    up to this point,

      Of          Pre-Vizla,           robbed              of        something,

    -

     “Cri-minals,”

   Seriously when did these guys have any qualms about mingling with other petty demeanors?

     For that matter 

   and I don’t usu         -ally sin       compet         ency-

   But this was      right after the        episode where      Darth      Maul    got his ass kicked,

   And continues the major      theme of    inconsistency,

     There is no scale of       escalation-           (Which is fine if you want to do      non-sequential if        you want to do          un-attached          short stories,)

         [Though you should probably have some reference in order to keep the emotional tone con-      sist-      -ent- 

     And approp           -riate,)

    There’s            no        scale         of      power,

      As in I have no idea      who        can beat      who,

    (Not in, ‘they’re equally matched        so it’s up to fate,” tension,

     No,               It’s the writers haven’t established anything

     And whoever wins just wins because        author favoritism,

      Seriously 

       The only two consistent things;

         Obi-Wan constantly gets his ass    kicked,                                                                                                  Unless                                                                                                   the                                                                                                  writers                                                                                                   play                                                                                                 favorites

       And author’s hand is almost always           very clearly shown,

                                                                                               Which                                                                                                     you                                                                                                    don’t                                                                                                       want                                                                                                      me                                                                                                     to see;                                                                                                    As the                                                                                                       audience;

Note; I’m not saying there can’t be    luck; Or that something      existential can’t unbalance       The      circumstance,

    Say one dude is trained in        anti-gravity situations,            One is not,           And the gravity          is flipped off,         Having them flop        around is a          decent          enough     representation,          Setting it       up beforehand       is even better,

    But that’s not       what’s done             here;

    (Not only is there no explanation to the sudden        rise in competency,

     But there’s no          set up)

     And there are          several scenes where it again relies on the concept of        (over) negative assumption,        Believing        the tropes         will carry             it,           Enough to sustain

[Particularly with the Maul      scenes. .]

  Where it’s like they’re saying            “And...

    And what?

   You didn’t       establish       anything,

     There’s       nothing there for you to fall back on

    And,       your menacing moment falls flat

    [When no you have to actually        set that up,]

     You didn’t earn that scene         otherwise,

       [Empty tropes           make for           e-mpty           s-tories-                ]

       Why..?

  [also didn’t he just tell you to       fuck off with      your         plan..       ?

   Well...

  The characters are no longer drywall            the set up and the consistency on the other hand...

          [still damn shaky,]

             Plot wise,