do you think legolas instinctively collected different leaves and berries to decorate thranduil's crown with as the seasons changed forgetting that he wasn't able to give them to him because he was on the quest
More Dathomir younglings, I love love love drawing them!
+I had a lucid memory of 11 year old me practising Aikido with my jedi braid and younger kids being annoying in class, I think I was as patient as Obi-Wan.
always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal
I HC that Sidious put him in upper management specifically to make that hate flow. He looked at Jedi Anakin and thought to himself: what does this guy like? Jumping out of moving vehicles at 30,000 feet? Well, we won’t be doing *gestures at all of Anakin* that. Put this guy in an office.
One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that
Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today
The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up
Iron Lung hot take - Simon is not violent. He's a tad aggressive. Temperamental, yeah. Impulsive, sure. His fear response is fight. But he is not inherently violent. So many fanfics I've read (bloodymary enjoyer over here hello) have him have such a violent introduction, where he just immediately goes into fight mode and attacks.
But I think, especially in the event he thinks he's somehow in another hallucinated experience, he would not default to violence. Look at him in the movie, see how often he pleads, see how often he apologizes, tries to explain himself, cries. He basically begs Ava for a chance to survive and it's only at the very end when the blood ocean monster is getting truly hostile that he starts to fight back.
Most of the movie he's finding his way out, trying to negotiate for his own survival and more often than not crying and pleading for it rather than fighting aggressively. He has a temper, he blows up, but he doesn't stay that way for long and apologizes after, he even apologizes to the little desk in the sub after he hits it.
That is not a violent character, to me. That's a scared character, sure. But not somebody who defaults to violence.
Many things make it clear he's the sort of character who has had to learn violence, has had to fight many times for survival. But not that he is somebody for whom it's the first thought, or even instinct. Maybe if he thinks he's being attacked. But if, say, he were to wake up in a new environment, I don't think he'd default to attacking everything. He'd be confused, he'd be scared, but he wouldn't be violent.
Hell, if he realized he had no real power (whether due to injuries or due to thinking he's hallucinating) there's a solid chance he would turn back to crying and begging to be free.
Idk. I don't think he's a violent dog. And I don't think he bites as much as other fans think. His track record isn't clean, and he's not the gentlest, but he's not violent, either. Sort of an awkward in-between.
I think that's part of the tragedy of his story. He's a convict, sure. He's responsible for a lot of death. But from what the movie gives us, it was unintentional. And that doesn't negate its impact, but it does change what that means about the kind of person he is.
He apologizes to the desk, for fuck's sake. He admits when he was scared. Asks how Jack is doing, and repeatedly apologizes for what he'd done even though he'd had no idea the impact it would have.
He's not a violent man. It kinda makes me sad that so many people seem to characterize him as such.
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