just do it and be a legend

Rose. 27. She/Her. Demisexual. Mostly memes, sometimes writing. Under same username on ao3. I almost always have plans for a new/continued fic.

[grumpyhedgehogs]

Master List

The Umbrella Academy

wake from your sleep, the drying of your tears (today we escape) (pt. 1)

wake from your sleep, the drying of your tears (today we escape) (pt. 2)

I Think We’re (Not) Alone Now

Draw String

Artificial Harmonics

Double Stops

Home Coming

where the lonely make the lonely feel less lonely (AO3 link)

The Good Place

Seal The Deal

Enough

Far Cry 5/ Far Cry New Dawn

The Judgement of Petals (pt. 1)

Make My Noose From a Daisy Chain (pt. 2)

Lay Me to Rest in a Bed of Wildflowers (pt. 3)

the old make way (drabble)

Failures and Savoirs

Abandoned (Failures and Saviors pt. 2)

Forgotten (Failures and Saviors pt. 3)

Harry Potter

Brothers (AO3 link)

Bendy And The Ink Machine

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

These Kids These Days with Their Ink Machines

A Way Out

A Way Out of Snapchat

Batman

In Poor Taste (AO3 link)

Doctor Who

Scary

Smile

Sanders Sides

Liar, Liar

Tactile Comforts and Other Oddities

Temporary Enemies

Nameless

Comfort Food

Dreaming, pt. 2, pt.3, pt.4, pt.5, pt.6, pt. 7 (wip, ON HAITUS)

Dimension 20

to leave this all behind (halo round his head) (AO3 link)

Spirit Guardians

tangled up in your old bedsheets

and I cough up my lungs (but I leave in my heart)

Star Wars

Cosmic Waste (Updated on AO3, wip)

Hand Over Fist

only following orders

what comes next (scraps series)

those who are left behind (share the grief between them) (scraps pt. 2)

our bones are old but this tragedy is so new (scraps pt. 3)

something old, something new (scraps pt. 4)

transitive properties (scraps pt. 5)

and the world tilts upon its axis

(you taught me) the courage of stars, pt. 2, pt 3, pt. 4, (wip)

this tired old elegy

keep time with the melody (we learn to play in minor key), pt. 2

lord, consecrate this ground (if you can’t consecrate this love)

premonition

ATLA

Custody Battle (Only on Tumblr)

not to be (joo lee) (AO3 link) (pt. 1 of if hamlet from himself be ta’en away)

or (intermission) (AO3 link) (pt. 2 of hamlet)

to be (zuko) (AO3 link) (pt. 3 of hamlet)

TAZ

Whose Woods These Are (AO3 link)

Little Nightmares

static

Critical Role

skin contact

Resident Evil

Rose Colored Glasses

Warm Regards (AO3 link)

In the Garden (AO3 link, wip)

Liftoff (pt. 1 of (Failure to) Launch)

Terminology (pt. 2 of (Failure to) Launch)

Compartmentalization

AO3 Page

[linusbenjamin]

Breaking Bad ☆ The Evolution of Jesse Pinkman

[milf--adjacent]

Jessie Pinkman Gains Class Consciousness

[babylon-butterfly]

[preservationofnormalcy]

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

[jedi-order-apologist]

Just saw someone say on Reddit that Qui-Gon would have been a better master for Anakin than Obi-Wan because Anakin "needed a father and not a brother" and I'm .2 seconds away from going on a rant from going on a rant on why Qui-Gon actually would have probably made things worse.

I guess what I would ask is, if Lucas intended one of Anakin’s issues to be a lack of a father figure, why would he refer to the Jedi on the whole, not just specifically Qui-Gon, as “ultimate father figures”?

Anakin had his pick of father figures. Qui-Gon was not his one missed shot at that. In fact, I think the root of my disagreement with many Qui-Gon takes is just this, the way they treat him as this exception, that everything he demonstrates is somehow a representation of what the Jedi are not, of some “ideal” that they have fallen from. But that’s not at all the impression I got from the text, or from interviews like this. In that interview, Lucas is talking about Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan’s role and behaviors in TPM, and presents it as typical of the Jedi. In this, Qui-Gon is suggested as an example out of many of what the Jedi are. Qui-Gon is shown to us as a “father figure” because that’s what Lucas sees the Jedi as, according to what he says here.

The fact that Qui-Gon disagrees with the Council on some (mostly unspecific) things, to me, shows that the Jedi Order has a diversity of opinions and approaches within its ranks, NOT that they’re a monolith that we can assume is opposite and opposed to anything and everything Qui-Gon is depicted as. If Qui-Gon were really so diametrically opposed to the Jedi as they were in the prequels, he wouldn’t be one, and he wouldn’t want Anakin to be one. But as it is, he clearly does value core Jedi philosophy (such as compassion, non-attachment, mindfulness) and being a Jedi; he must disagree with them less than he agrees with them, otherwise it makes no sense for him to be a Jedi. He is not some exceptional enlightened “not like other Jedi” who would have taught something entirely different to Anakin. He’s just a Jedi, who happens to disagree with the leadership sometimes and has some unusual hobbies (prophecies, Force ghost stuff). He is really not that different as a Jedi, certainly not so different as to radically change the whole outcome on his own.

To bring it back to Anakin, the fact of the matter is that it’s always going to be easier to listen to someone who flatters you and tells you what you want to hear (Palpatine), than someone who points out where you can do better and pushes self-improvement (the Jedi/Obi-Wan/”father figures”). And while I do think there’s an argument to be made that Obi-Wan was too lenient on Anakin, I don’t think that’s the argument people are making with the “Qui-Gon would have made everything better” angle. I don’t think they think he’d be stricter. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think they think he’d be more supportive, or rather, they think that Obi-Wan wasn’t supportive enough. But for as much as Obi-Wan nags and reprimands Anakin, he’s shown to give praise just as easily when it’s warranted (”Good call, my young Padawan,” “You are strong and wise and I am very proud of you.”).

And it’s not like Qui-Gon doesn’t also reprimand and correct Obi-Wan’s behavior in TPM - that just seems to be what’s expected between Master and Padawan, or even a common courtesy among the Jedi. Anakin has just been convinced (likely in large part by Palpatine) that this is unfair to him specifically, that he is already more powerful (i.e. in his mind, better) than others, and therefore that the criticism is just for the sake of criticizing and to hold him back rather than to push him to improve.

Why would he feel any differently with Qui-Gon or any other mentor than with Obi-Wan? Palpatine would still want to isolate Anakin, would still actively sow doubt and distrust and convince him that his master is holding him back. And when you’re primed to see that, it’s easy to view even innocuous things as supporting evidence - Qui-Gon is not so exceptional to be immune to being subjected to this lens. If Anakin is predisposed to think “I am stronger than [x], therefore any criticism from [x] is jealousy and an attempt to hold me back,”, it doesn’t matter how supportive anyone is, because those anxieties were never based in reality to begin with. It wasn’t true for Obi-Wan and it wouldn’t be true for Qui-Gon, but anything less than the most indulgent, appeasing, and uncritical interactions (and maybe even those, because anxiety will be anxiety) has the potential to feed into those fears, and if you’re unwilling to even admit your fears (something Anakin is shown to struggle with from the very beginning), then it’s very difficult for anyone to help you learn to manage them.

[iddor]

every time when I see "if Anakin have father figure he wouldn't fall" kind of things, it's make me mad because it just so disrespectful towards single-parent or non-traditional families. like are you really think that children can grow up full-fledged and healthy only if they have a father? that's an absolute bullshit.

simply having a man in the family will not make things better.

I grew up without father but with many women of my extended family and that do you think? I am sure that everything is fine with me. the idea that my father's absence makes me somehow inferior is just... arrrgh.

the belief that children cannot grow up without a father is serious problem with the mentality of my country, because many women are left with abusive husbands just because of this bullshit.

having a father figure does not magically fix everything and does not guarantee a better life for the child.

[gffa]

#meta#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#qui gon jinn#star wars discourse#I also think that a lot of ppl take agency away from Anakin when making this argument#bc part of the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is that he Knows what he is doing when he falls#he knows he is wrong to do it but chooses to do it anyway#that’s why it was important that he found out Palpatine was a Sith made to arrest him and then went back on that choice to save Padmé#he was a grown man capable of making his own choices#I’m tired of seeing oh if the Jedi were better he wouldn’t have fallen#NO#ok so there were a lot of contributing factors and the Jedi were part of that#but stop taking Anakins independence away and giving responsibility of his actions to his victims#he’s a complex character and it’s not cool to overlook or redistribute his flaws to others just bc you like him#I love Anakin but he fucked up#yes it was not entirely his fault yes others tricked him and used him and abused him#but he realized that and still chose to become Vader#that’s what makes his and the jedis story so terribly sad#sw  (via @grumpyhedgehogs​) That point about how Anakin found out that Palpatine was the Sith Lord before he made his choice re: Padme and that further illustrates that he was making an informed choice really came for me.  Was he manipulated?  Yes.  Did he still make an informed choice about all of this?  Also yes.

[gffa]

Sometimes I think about how Star Wars is having like these most basic, fundamental arguments all the time, usually the “So the Jedi are actually an abusive cult and That Was The Whole Point.” argument, and how we can try to move on from that, but at the same time there are days when almost literally every post I will get that is discussing anything about the Jedi will get commentary about how, “Actually the Jedi were really awful and abusive and a cult.” and so we circle back to that again. Further, it’s not just that we’re still having that same conversation, it then becomes a flatter discussion because I feel like I have to constantly provide a smoking gun of evidence to prove why I don’t think the Jedi were horrible people and that leads me to constantly mining for George Lucas quotes because a lot of times that’s the closest you’re going to get to a smoking gun of evidence that, no, Anakin wasn’t abused by the Jedi, yes, he just didn’t want to change, no, that’s not what attachment means. And instead of actually having a discussion–because either it requires entire essays written about it or because some knob always comes along and says, “actually sweatie the Jedi were kidnappers and hated Anakin and they bullied him and that’s canon” or just because the person is coming at it in bad faith–we start feeling like we have to constantly show the foundation of what we’re talking about over and over and over again.  We can never move on from the discussion, we can never stop trying to whip out quotes that are 100% perfect gotchas because it feels like that’s the only way to maybe move on from the discussion, and it never works, not even in our own spaces where we just want to talk about the things we want to talk about.

[grumpyhedgehogs]

Honestly I’ve been debating taking a break from Star Wars fandom for this precise reason. Like, I literally have to tag my fics as Pro-Jedi because so many people like to use the Order as some demented strawman who encourage repression and denial of ‘real healthy feelings!’ I can hardly find any fic that’s securely pro-Jedi without it having a million author’s notes justifying the position.

[ooccouchgags]

[bluestockingbaby]

(via @allieinarden )

[eekahchu]

Bruce Cambell gave Iron Lung a shoutout!!!

[moary-set-fire-baldur]

midnight messiah

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

A short poem: The thing we couldn't do becomes the thing we can

By @ goodthings4blackgirls.

[irl-loading-screens]

[valencians]

the people of omelas have a moral obligation to bring as much of the surrounding territories under the banner of their city-state as possible, by force if necessary, lest the maximal utility of the suffering child go to waste

[stackhousesookie]

RIVERDALE Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes

[judblanc]

[pulsingvoid]

[caz-the-yarncromancer]

Finding my religion 🎶

[dorothylarouge]

[funfey]

You are not staying in the tags

[sunderwight]

#spiderman#no literally this is how it would happen#does he notice that his employee is transitioning at the same time? possibly but he wouldn't make the connection (tags by @lizardrosen)

JJ is now doggedly trying to put Peter front and center to be like, see here now here is a respectable member of the transgender community, Parker we're paying for your hormones or whatever the hell it is you need.

[notahorseindisguise]

youd think a band named violent femmes would be made up of violent femmes. but it isnt. its dudes

[notahorseindisguise]

genuinely no mary... the australian dollar is not doing great right now

[notahorseindisguise]

i need to type with more of an accent

[notahorseindisguise]

youse may bloody reckon a band name of violent femmes'd be a buncha sheilas after a couple bundy cokes. but it aint. packa blokes.