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#thg #instant reblog

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the most unrealistic thing about harry potter

is that no teacher ever called him James by accident, or that Ron never was called “Bill-, eh Charl-, no Per-, argh!”

#always reblog

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reblog this if you think the toggle for tumblr live should be permanent instead of a 7-day snooze

trying to prove something to @staff

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im not active on twitter at all anymore but this tweet of mine is pretty funny i think

#always reblog #ga #here for the dark humour

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alright since summers comin up what do u call these guys

(reblogs appreciated)

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I think that if, sometime during Anakin's padawanship or even during the Clone Wars, some guy showed up and claimed to be his biological father and that Shmi had her memories altered so that she wouldn't remember him (which I honestly think is plausible), Obi-Wan would deny it with all of his heart no matter how much he looked and acted like Anakin or how much verifiable proof of his claim he provided because until Anakin's fall to the Dark Side, he could never face the possibility that Anakin wasn't the Chosen One. I'm also sure that, no matter how much this man proves his love for Anakin and how much better he would be at caring for him, Obi-Wan would not only never let them have any contact with each other, he would also make sure that Anakin never has even the slightest clue of his existence.

Would you agree?

There's no way contact would be allowed. Anakin isn't even allowed to go back and help his mother, despite the fact that she is a slave, and despite the selfless help she offered the Jedi. There is no way in heck the Jedi go along with that and it would shock me greatly if they even told Anakin about it at all. So absolutely agreed on that.

As for Obi-Wan's beliefs on Anakin being the Chosen One. I'm really not sure. I think the idea of Anakin not being the Chosen One would bother him given how Qui-Gon responded to the situation and his dying words, not to mention the immense pressure that has come on Obi-Wan from the Council where Anakin is concerned. Anakin's successes are tied deeply to how secure Obi-Wan feels with the Council. (I see a possibility of him doubling down more on obeying the Council if Anakin is proven not to be the Chosen One, because clearly he cannot trust himself and defiance is a no no.)

Nonetheless, while it might be an uncomfortable process of realisation that Anakin might not be the Chosen One, I do not think it is necessarily an insurmountable one for Obi-Wan. I think he'd feel a bit grieved for Qui-Gon's sake, and a bit guilty for his initial defiance of the Council where Anakin's training was concerned. However, I don't think it would be an overwhelming amount of guilt because a) the Council, besides Yoda, pretty much agreed in the end that Obi-Wan had the right to train Anakin, and b) Chosen One or not, with the Sith back, it was way to dangerous to leave Anakin unsupervised/untrained anyway. I think, to Obi-Wan's surprise, apart from the grief and the guilt, there would actually be a lot of relief: The pressure on him is lessened now. So I'm not convinced that Obi-Wan has to believe Anakin is the Chosen One necessarily. That's a lot more complicated.

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anyone else ever daydream for 6 hours straight and then after ur just like nah let’s scrap that and do it all again but slightly to the left

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anakin starts hallucinating from sleep deprivation and kills palpatine. palpatine has never needed sleep bc its for the weak (jedi) and so underestimated the effect of 90 straight hours of consciousness to a sentient who uses murder to deal with his problems.

i’m CRYING. he unintentionally kills palpatine and then mace windu is giving him a gruff but genuine jedi congratulations, and then anakin’s like he’s dead? i killed him? and mace nods, and then anakin just drops to the ground, wailing incoherently. mace windu certainly did not expect to be in a position to awkwardly pat anakin’s shoulder while anakin screams about how everything is very, very, very bad, actually, and death must be inevitable but if death is inevitable and love is inevitable then everyone should die because this suffering cannot stand, death is the only freedom there is, you can only be free in death, but also no one should ever die and he needs the power to stop death itself, but also death is the only mercy, you know, the deeply unhinged things anyone would scream after unintentionally killing their evil father figure they needed to save their secret wife and kneeling in front of his mangled corpse.

he also did not expect to be in a position where the local human bottomless desire for affection just takes matters into his own hands and yanks mace into a hug and continues to scream only the most hinged of things, this time next to mace’s ear. and then mace is like okay that’s enough of this, you’re VERY loud and have MANY problems i understand, let’s get up, you can stop panicking now, i think you technically just balanced the force so i have no idea why you’re like this - and they stand, and afterward anakin immediately crashes back on the ground essentially thrown into a coma by his sleep debt, and that’s the first time mace has ever called a med evac for a guy who a) won the duel and b) won the duel without a scratch on him.

#i love him your honor

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It's up! Chapter Three of Child of Wrath:

#Yes #i know its a few days late #but in my defense i realised that I needed to write an extra chapter for it to flow right #so i did! #which means you will get chapter four quite shortly

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Read The Entire Series on AO3.

En Espanol.

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I find this really interesting. I haven’t thought of character descriptions in the series for awhile. I only remember that Eragon has brown hair and eyes, Roran favoured him but has grey eyes, and Murtagh has brown hair, so dark it was basically black, and grey eyes. Since Selena was shown to have brown eyes, I always figured the grey eyes were recessive. 🤷‍♀️ I can’t recall what Brom was described as so I’ll take your word for it! Lol (Brown dye did come off his hand when he revealed his Gedwey Ignasia, didn’t it?)

In any case, in terms of diversity, I do remember in Eldest that there was this argument where someone insisted one of Horsts and Elaine’s sons had committed a crime because “no one looks like [him].” And Roran internally noted this was true because Elaine wasn’t from Carvahall originally and had blonde hair and passed this to her son. Most people in Carvahall had dark hair. This does go to show that these kinds of things were distinctly noticeable, if not relevant to the villages. Most people in Carvahall are dark-haired; I don’t know about skin tone.

Areas like Carvahall are fairly isolated so being wary of anything “other” makes sense, especially under Galbatorix. They’re skeptical of outsiders.

(I also wonder how narrow is the gene pool. Everyone’s probably a third cousin or something. My mom came from a remote village and, since doing genealogy, we have failed to find any random neighbour who isn’t at most a fifth cousin!)

Speaking of Horst and Elaine, maybe they are close to Garrow and family, because they know what it feels like to be seen as an outsider? Roran and Eragon don’t seem to have any friends outside of Horst’s sons.

However, it may not be (only) a race thing; it could be exacerbated by the scandal of Eragon’s birth coming out. Or both. As I recall, it was only after Marian died, and Eragon was discovered not to be Garrow’s son, that they move out of the main part of the village. That kind of thing could be seen to ruin an entire family’s reputation. Could be another reason Sloan doesn’t like Roran too.

Nonetheless, as I wrote in more detail in this post, I do think Carvahall, way back before the Rider’s fall, was likely much larger and had a more diverse population. Utgard mountain was one of the first dragon rider bases once humans were brought in. That’s going to attract all sorts to the area. I do remember Brom telling Eragon that, only a couple generations ago or so, a lot of people in Carvahall weren’t from there originally. As the Riders fell, that naturally changed, I think.

In my og post, I speculated Marian’s family, (and many others), left on account of the fall of the Order and the accompanying hardship. This would explain why no maternal relations. It could also be her family was one of those “outsiders” that came to Carvahall because of the riders initially, if we assume Roran is biracial. iirc, though, Garrow is born and bred of Palancar Valley stock. These families were likely the ones that stuck around longest when the riders fell imho.

Friendly reminder that Brom has NUT-BROWN SKIN so Eragon should not be white, and if he is he’s mixed, and unless Eragon’s even stupider than we thought, Roran’s the same way as Eragon thought that they were brothers and that’s part of why Garrow decided that their family was outcasts, either that or Palancar was a huge melting pot and diverse ethnicities were very common, this is a hill I’ll die on and if anyone makes a show I will fight them and the sun to ensure this reality.

#inheritance cycle

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I finally got polls!

Since posts can run for a full week I wanted to see how this spreads

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Me, an author, side eyeing my WIP: you're not going to do anything weird, are you? We've discussed this. There's a plan. We're going to stick to the plan, aren't we?

The WIP: *presents subplot, presents additional conflicts, presents character development, laughs in my fucking face*

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Hearing Whispers

After spending so many years with humans and dwarves, Arya sometimes forgets other elves can hear her barely mutter under her breath. 

Glenwing nearly gets whiplash the first time that, during a meeting, he hears Arya growl barely at a whisper “Yeah, fuck around and find out, dumbass. I’ll be waiting to drag you and yours out of the fire again and you still won’t listen.”

It happens on rare occasion in Du Weldenvarden, but Arya has her guard up there moreso than she does on the battlefront. Still, it takes quite a bit of getting used to Eragon and Saphira’s 12 guards (not including Glen). Suddenly having people who can pick up on everything around all the time is…frustrating…when you’re used to picking and choosing what you reveal. 

#honestly this reminds me of this random daydream I had #where Arya said something like #suck my dick #I don’t even have one and it’s bigger than yours

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