The Writer's Block

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[archerygun]

Owen Lars appreciators this post is for you.

One of the few things I really liked about Kenobi was the time to shine it gave Owen and Beru Lars. I know that scene with the inquisitor was absolutely ridiculous in every way possible but it was so in character for those two that frankly I didn’t even care like the whole show is non-canon to me anyway.

It shows the people Luke gets it from, and why. And it gives me all the feelings, especially because I know he probably only realised all of this once they were already dead and he couldn’t make it up with Owen anymore.

Luke deciding to die with his training unfinished and face Vader head on is the most Owen Lars move he could have ever made. He’s a simple man - not stupid, just has a simple worldview - if you’re one of his, you’re his and he’ll go to the ends of the earth (or galaxy) for you. (Yes, I was very affected by “He IS my own.”)

He is the son of OWEN LARS. The man who faced down an inquisitor with a fucking farming pole so Luke could get away. Facing up to an enemy you know you can’t possibly defeat, assuming you’ll die? In the hopes of protecting those you love? Lars family shit.

Owen is stubborn and loyal and despite his rough exterior he’s kind to his enemies. The way Kenobi acted surprised that Owen would defend him, that to me is a big part of Luke’s worldview. Owen hates Obi-Wan’s guts but he won’t sell him out to the Empire to be killed. Luke learned kindness and forgiveness from Beru, and he learned respect, loyalty and mercy from Owen.

Luke grew up on the biggest galactic shithole in all of Star Wars, and he came out of it being the kindest beacon of hope for the Galaxy and restarted the Jedi Order that had failed Anakin. And he learned it from his aunt and uncle, the parents that did their goddamn best to raise their son. He learned it from Biggs Darklighter, his childhood best friend with revolutionary fervour who he buried before he was even out of his teen years. He learned it from the stubbornness of a group of people that settled and farmed in a stupidly harsh environment where they were constantly in danger of being sold into slavery or killed by sand people.

Luke may have inherited Anakin’s midichlorians, but what made him Luke was his upbringing. He’s Owen and Beru Lars’ son. And they raised him well.

[popupguidetothegalaxy]

okay say what you will about Owen Lars (bc I know no one is talking smack about Saint and Saviour Beru Lars), but that 'Anakin was a smuggler' line is genius.

Like, Luke your father was a drug smuggler and so we don't talk about him. Your father was a drug runner and he crossed the line from Good Person to criminal and drug peddler and brought shame on our family. Luke, your father was a drug dealer and he was involved in shady things and it really hasn't been that long and people are probably after him to this day and we have to keep our heads down and stay safe. Luke, your father made it so that we have to pay the consequences of his actions. Made it so that you, Luke Skywalker, can't sing with the stars that call your name because of what he did whilst racing among them.

Luke, your father was a bad man who did bad things, but they were choices, and you can make different ones. You share his last name but you don't share his greed. Luke, addiction is genetic but your father wasn't a drug addict. He was a drug smuggler. He chose to became part of a system that exploits pain and fear, but his decision isn't running through your bones. Luke, you're kind and good and have reached nineteen, on a planet made to break things, whole and gentle.

Luke, my love, you're better than him.

[eleonoraalva]

Julian Glover in “The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer”

Your face, sir, is a damn masterpiece!

[themummersfolly]

The second row, though.

Those are the faces Veers makes right before some high-level officer finds all their office furniture glued to the ceiling.

[alex-dax]

Thank you for awakening my muse! I had to run with this idea for a bit.

This is also for @zeldurz , here’s a little bit of puppy energy Veers to help with Things.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[rexs-writing]

i think it would be so so funny that if in that one episode of atla when iroh was like "the white dragon bush makes amazing tea... but! this could also be the white jade bush which is super posionous" and then he fucking makes the tea and gets a rash, i think it would be SO fucking funny if it actually WAS the white dragon bush he just happened to have a severe allergy to it

[muffinlance]

The moment of sheer despair Fire Lord Zuko feels when he walks in on Iroh, face puffed up in a distinctly familiar way, crouched over his tea cup like a raccoon caught on a trash can

And the palace physician confirms, in the most tired voice possible, that yes, they learned the treatment for this particular aliment from their own teacher

Because Prince Iroh has been doing this to himself for yeeeeears

[somestorythoughts]

Hey Tumblr Crocheters! Question!

Would you rather start your rounds with:

A magic circle/ring/loop?

A chain?

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[some---weirdo]

Eragon, freshly 16, in prison, on drugs, with a concussion, hasn't eaten or drank anything all day, telling the most powerful enemy he's ever met that his true name is "I'm going to kill you", then walking out of his cell, killing several guards and threatening to embed a molten hot grain of sand in the last guard if he doesn't talk. Then promptly scarfing down some random food while sitting under a table with his unconscious crush, failing a sword fight against aforementioned enemy and messing up the timing on his dragon's dramatic entrance and nearly falling out of the sky. Incredible

[kanabanana]

I've recently been reading LOTR and it's absolutely hilarious to me the contrast between Tolkien elves and Paolini elves. At least in the early first book Tolkien elves are all "Heed my words, dear Frodo." Meanwhile Paolini elves: "Why are you so fucking stupid?" 10/10 book series would read again

[toomanydaggers]

I honestly love the fact that True Names in IC can be incredibly long. Glaedr’s is several sentences. That must be so useful, because even if someone had his true name, they’d be sitting there trying to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious their way into victory.

[glbtrx]

Galbatorix telling Eragon that he could have grown up in his court instead of the countryside is kinda funny. Because then the camera moves slightly to Galbatorix' right, on Murtagh, who's standing there with the most depressed, dry, dark and traumatised face ever

Like King I love you but you're supposed to offer the boy something nice not threaten him

[itsadragonaesthetic]

Eragon is proof that you don't exactly have to be the most professional sounding writer if your characters and story is good and your prose fucks hard enough. The pacing can be weird and some parts questionable but all that matters is that we're all having fun and having a good time.

[itsadragonaesthetic]

I feel that Eragon and Saphira's relationship adequately represents what it's like to be a fully sentient creature that acts as the steed for a human. It's something I think about in my own worlds. Why would a dragon capable of speech and poetry become a human steed? Being a dragon and having a human rider would have to be fueled by love. To love something so deeply that you would lend your power to them. To have a friend you can carry with you into the sky.

[fonyaa]

more niche star wars ship fanart 

[backonmystarwarsbullshit]

STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK -> DAY: 10

Underrated Character: Firmus Piett

[glumshoe]

Intrigued by the semantic differences between the nouns “prophet” and “oracle”, as I am writing a short story about cats and struggling with my word choice.

Both can mean an individual person gifted with foresight. A person who is an oracle can prophesize and make a prophecy, but is an oracle a prophet? Why or why not?

Conventional definitions are pretty much the same: both are people gifted with foresight and looked to as the mediums through which divinity communicates with humanity. But would you call the Pythia a prophet? Would you call Moses an oracle?

It seems wrong, somehow, and I’m not sure where that bias is coming from. Perhaps it’s an association between oracles and polytheism vs prophets and monotheism. I imagine an oracle as someone you could go to to ask when you should plant your crops and a prophet as someone you should ask about the trolley problem.

[glumshoe]

Maybe an oracle is someone you pay to talk to and a prophet is someone you bribe to shut up.

[glumshoe]

An oracle is someone you get put on a waitlist to see and a prophet is someone you have to remove from your yard by pushing them into a wheelbarrow and carting them over the property line. 

[captainlordauditor]

I guess in my head I always figured the difference was that an oracle could do it at will or at least had some control over it and a prophet was beholden to whenever the god(s) chose to speak through them.

Plus the aesthetic difference. An oracle is respected, part of the establishment, has an attending set of priests. A prophet shows up at your coronation looking like a shepherd who spent the last 40 years in a cave to tell you you’re a little bitch.

[glumshoe]

[opens door to see a haggard-looking wanderer dressed in shabby clothes with the light of divine inspiration burning in their eyes and important words at the tip of their tongue]

[points to sign on door that says ‘NO PROPHESIZING’]

[closes door quickly]

[evilminji]

Oracles ask and then receive. They may not like the answer, but they usually have to prompt prophecy into occurring.

A PROPHET however? (The) God(s) kiss a brick all real nice, haul back, then YEET that sucker at some poor bastards head. Then we ALL get to live with what happens next.

[evilminji]

@englandsgirl18181234 (Responding to tags) (Cause also, hey same!)

You’re not wrong? Oracles def have some degree of control that prophets do NOT. I think it’s a difference in compulsion/duty/domain? Like the difference between a new anchor and a mail carrier. Both bring “the news” but one is just commenting on what IS and the other is bring TO YOU what was sent.

A prophet is a messenger. Fate/Judgment is coming. Better watch out! Maybe you can change it, maybe this is only the kindness of letting you get your affairs in order. But they have come to deliver the Prophecy Mail™ and we all gotta live with that.

ORACLES? Commenting on the weather. Rome will fall. A mountain is gonna explode somewhere. Oh, neat, something called an “airplane” will someday exsist. We eat our bread, sip our tea, and try not to go insane. They get Spoilers. All the time, ALL THE TIME. But, hey! Some times it’s good news!

Stop ASKING them about shit you don’t actually want the answer too.

You keep asking “oh, oracle, how will I die?” And then getting all suprise pikachu face WHEN THEY TELL YOU! You’re NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO AVOID THAT! In fact, you’ll actively MAKE IT WORSE TRYING! They’d warn you if this was one of that “hey, maybe bring an umbrella” moments!

Being an Oracle is sucks. But at least you’re not a prophet!

The REALLY unlucky guys are the ones with just “visions”. At least Oracles n Prophets get fuckin CONTEXT. Visions are just-> *violent sensory confetti sand blasting you in the brain* Make SENSE OF THIS, FUCKER!!! *throws more*

[somestorythoughts]

Oracles are also practical.

Like yeah, SOME people get the “your destiny is yo kill your father and marry your mother” but like. Most people aren’t asking about that. The dramatic ones are for stories. Most people are going to be like “my crops haven’t been doing great for a few years how do I secure a good harvest this year?” Or “my son is going to war what can I do to make sure he comes back?” Or if you got an auger there’s “how to win this battle?”

And the Oracle accepts your offerings and asks the question and says “make an offering for this god in this way.” (My autocorrect automatically capitalized god and doesn’t that say something.)

Oracles, like I believe many religions, operate on an exchange. You bring them a question and some thing fir the service and you get advice back.

Prophets are here with a message and you WILL hear it whether we like it or not.

[vesiel]

A commission~

[desinteresse]

My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise

[desinteresse]

Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?