I come bearing gifts!! A little snippet from a time travel fix it Obikin fic, set during AotC after Anakin tells Obi-Wan he's been having nightmares...
Obi-Wan remembers this, knows exactly how this goes.
It starts with the dreams, then Anakin leaving, and then everything goes wrong and wrong and wrong until it's all broken far beyond repair.
Cracks spreading right through the ground beneath his feet, while Obi-Wan is too busy staring after Anakin to notice.
Not this time.
This time Obi-Wan sits down on their sofa and pats the space beside him.
"Come here, dear one," he says, soft and indulgent in a way he never allowed himself to be before, "tell me about your dreams."
Anakin's brows are furrowed and he keeps glancing between Obi-Wan and the door, as if Anakin truly thinks he has any chance to escape him right now.
"We'll figure this out, Padawan mine, I promise."
Anakin takes a step towards him. Obi-Wan gives him a small smile, and even holds his hand out to pull Anakin to his side faster. His boy drops down on the cushion next to him with a sigh. Obi-Wan doesn't let go of his hand.
"That's it," he praises, "let Master help."
Anakin still looks unsure and Obi-Wan has to remind himself that, while he had years to come to term with his feelings, for Anakin this is the first time Obi-Wan is visibly giving into his attachment.
With the hand not holding Anakin's he reaches for his boy's braid. Anakin startles slightly, his brows furrow again and he looks slightly alarmed, but still he lets Obi-Wan do as he pleases.
Obi-Wan hums in satisfaction. His Padawan is such a good boy for him, letting his Master touch and caress his braid to his heart's content.
He lets go of the Padawan braid, instead burying his fingers in the short hair at Anakin's nape where he scratches slightly at the skin.
Anakin melts against him with a sigh, his head coming to rest against Obi-Wan's shoulder. Even in the Force he relaxes a bit, his shields slowly unravelling, finally ready to let Obi-Wan in.
"Good boy, Anakin. You're doing so well for me, Master is so very proud of you."
Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats.
My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.
I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.
And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it
But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭
the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.
Obviously really GREAT acting requires a mix of experience, practice, and natural talent but it’s always wild to me that some people genuinely cannot act at all
And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.
Modern day Cassandra whose prophecies are never believed finally gets prediction markets shut down by openly prophesying and making absolute bank off of her prophecies and sucking the fun and money out of it for all the Polymarket bros going against her advice
i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??
Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?
"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?
"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?
"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?
"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?
The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?
You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?
I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.
Not only it’s extremely backwards and in fact a misogynistic choice to have a woman be punished, abused and disfigured when in the original patriarchal 3,000 year old (!) story she is described as reconciled with her husband, confident, clever and having self-agency, but also the way Nolan!Menelaus said that she was originally the face who launched 1000 ships sounded very sarcastic, like he didn’t really think she had that beauty to begin with. And then when Lupita’s Helen argued that it was never about her beauty and it was just about money and power, it actually decreased the impact of her beauty even more. It was all like Nolan was saying “yo guys she was actually just okay and nobody cared about her” and I honestly don’t know why Lupita thought she was participating in an improvement of Helen’s portrayal. (Maybe because she did not read the original story lol)
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