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Hi! I’m so glad you’re here.

You can call me Marleigh! I don’t want to disclose my actual name because, y’know, identity safety something something.

I made this account when I was like sixteen and I'm not as chronically online now [thank goodness] but I go through phases where I’m on here often.

I like The Beatles a lot :)

[Also Star Wars [!!!!!!!], Ranger's Apprentice, Percy Jackson, etc., all the nerd stuff]

Have a blessed day!

ramgirlpaul

#george harrison #the beatles #paul mccartney

areiacannaid

One thing that I love about Halt is how much of a good/positive father figure and mentor he is.

There are many times in the book where Will, Gilan, and even Horace comment or think about how safe they feel around Halt, how much they trust and respect him.

Will tells Halt everything that happened to him in Skandia even when he is convinced that Halt might be disappointed in him, he still trusts and feels safe enough with Halt to tell him everything. This is also mirrored with Gilan when he tells Will that he told Halt about all his mistakes. That Halt created a place where they felt safe enough to admit mistakes and even perceived failures is such a positive thing to have in a mentor.

marleighdrinkscoffee

looking back it makes so much sense why I was so obsessed with Halt as a teenager

#that and because he’s perfect of course #ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #will treaty #gilan davidson #rangers apprentice #horace altman

margindoodles2407

me: is having a perfectly normal time

cs lewis: once there were four children whose names were peter, susan, edmund, and lucy

me, sobbing: once there were four children whose names were peter, susan, edmund, and lucy

#the chronicles of narnia

eggieeggsta

me the SECOND anything Beatles related is mentioned

#the beatles

robindotcom

some george for the soul 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

bahhhh hes three minutes old 🥹

marleighdrinkscoffee

a literal infant 🥺

#george harrison #i love george harrison #the beatles fanart #the beatles

sgtpeppers

the face of a man who's just been told there's still time for him to sign a butt btw

robindotcom

I VOLUNTEER!!!! I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!!!

#paul mccartney #the beatles

cuunos

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

calciumcryptid

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

animentality

#archive of our own #ao3 #aerospace

klapollo

#we’ll talk amelia #paul mccartney #chicken shop date

thehuxler

It's increasingly clear to me that in the absence of a cause of death for his mother, Paul internalized the idea that she died of stress because he was such a difficult child, and even after he learned it was breast cancer he still refused to let go of this idea, in the 90s citing that his mother died of a stress related illness, and now, finally, at 83 with the release of this album he's saying "actually, no, my father was a bad husband to my mother and that's why what happened happened"

#paul mccartney #the boys of dungeon lane #momma gets by

fudamnshi

”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me

coolskeleton66

#star wars #darth vader

flailypichu

The Revenge of the Sith novelization really does fill in all the gaps. One of the repeated themes so far is that Anakin holds Palpatine and Obi-Wan as equal forces in his life. Multiple times the author has put the two next to one another as "the two men Anakin loves most" or "the two best friends Anakin has in this galaxy."

One of the things that I've always struggled with in the movie is the way Anakin is willing to believe Obi-Wan has betrayed him. But at that point in the movie (if I remember correctly) Palpatine has already revealed himself to Anakin as a Sith. By doing so - revealing that he has been lying to Anakin their whole friendship - he's predisposed Anakin to believe that Obi-Wan, the other person he holds as his best friend, has done the same.

I generally think Palpatine isn't written well in most extended universe works, but this version is the closest to a master manipulator I've seen.

myfairkatiecat

This is very true. Additionally, the Jedi council had already asked Anakin to spy on the chancellor, so when the chancellor told Anakin “they’re planning to betray me,” it sounded perfectly plausible (and that was what I think palpatine WANTED them to do when he put Anakin on the council—it was both a show of his own trust in Anakin and a way to get the Jedi to reveal their justified distrust in a way that would look bad to Anakin). And yes, Obi-Wan was very explicit that he wasn’t the one who wanted to put him in that position, even saying “the COUNCIL is asking” rather than himself, he also had said things like “be careful of your friend the chancellor,” and like you pointed out, once Anakin knows Palpatine lied to him their whole friendship, he’s more susceptible to wondering the same about Obi-Wan.

It makes a lot of sense in light of the fact that I think Anakin’s split second decision to kill Mace Windu was impacted by him having said “he’s too dangerous to be left alive” which is almost WORD FOR WORD what the chancellor said about Dooku after Anakin said it’s “not the Jedi way” to kill him. Anakin says the same to Windu and Windu responds with the same words as Palpatine. And yes the context is so different and we know that, but I think at that point everything kind of looked equally corrupted to Anakin.

“Equally corrupted” I think is where the crux of it ultimately lies. Padmé, who Anakin loves and trusts so so much, had even questioned the republic, which upset Anakin in light of having fought and lost so many for the republic’s cause. The one person he would never ever think anything ill of (almost to a fault) had questioned the very system she was a part of, and that the Jedi were meant to be aligned with, AND that Palpatine was in charge of. When he tells her she sounds like a separatist, he’s sort of getting at the fact that she’s questioning both the Jedi order and the republic simultaneously for the side they’ve fought for, and that’s not really what’s going through Padmé’s head when she says that, but being a Jedi general and friend of the chancellor I think that passes through Anakin’s head a little. The Jedi have alienated Anakin in small ways and Palpatine is constantly emphasizing those things and making Anakin feel like he’s the person to go to, and the Jedi asking him to spy on the chancellor (again something I think was part of palpatine’s plan and influenced the timing of that request) also felt somewhat like a betrayal, so Anakin isn’t sure if he can trust them—(toss in some tcw2008 for fun and we can throw their lack of belief in Ahsoka Tano into the mix)—and then Palpatine reveals himself to be a Sith Lord and Anakin also feels betrayed by him, draws his weapon on him, doesn’t kill him but reports him to the Jedi, and when he rushes off to see the chancellor finds them in a position where Palpatine is feigning weakness and Windu is about to kill him. And then Windu says to Anakin about Palpatine the same thing Palpatine said about Dooku and I think in that moment, everyone looked equally corrupted. (Except Padmé, and ohhh boy this whole analysis isn’t even CONSIDERING that added element and the whole “you have visions that always come true… I could keep her alive” thing).

Anakin’s faith is shaken in everyone in this moment. It’s nearly all the same to him. Except Padmé. He loves and trusts her above all else and has reason to believe she’s in danger and one of these two people offered to save her life. And if it’s all the same, if there is no “good,” no true “heroic,” then the only thing left that matters to him is her, and he saves the chancellor from Palpatine. He’s super torn up in the scene where he pledges himself to Palpatine’s teachings but at this point he’s just hanging onto his will to live by the thread that is a hope of being with Padmé and raising their children. And as he does what Palpatine asks to become “strong enough in the dark side to save Padmé” he gets slowly more and more corrupted, which is what we’re supposed to see when he force chokes her—no greater sign that he’s gone off the deep end til the moment where he considers that she “turned against him” too like everyone else, and he can’t find it in himself to blame her so he just turns to the nearest person and blames him (Obi-Wan).

When Anakin says “from my point of view the Jedi are evil” he’s not saying his sense of good/evil flipped and that he believes he’s doing the morally right thing (which is how I think a lot of people take that scene). He’s saying the Jedi are no better. He’s saying Obi-Wan can say “Palpatine is evil” all he wants but can’t prove there’s any truly better option. That’s Anakin’s faulty epiphany that characterizes a lot of his anger and apathy and misery as the Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Honestly even the movie ROTS has all these elements but the novelization not only adds more elements, but fleshes out these ones and draws attention to them, whereas on a first watch of the movie, the takeaway for why Anakin turned to the dark side is probably going to be “so he could save Padmé” because that’s what the attention is drawn to in the film. Matthew Stover did a fantastic job of weaving that element in with all the other elements that were also instrumental in the downfall of Anakin Skywalker.

And… whoa sorry for going off on this massive tangent on your post but I got very excited about talking about Palpatine as a master manipulator in ROTS. In any case, good post 👍 and I hope you don’t mind that I lost control of my word count 😅

missateneis

Its hard to buy “equally corrupted” when jedi have never ordered Anakin to commit genocide or kill kids. Wiping entire order for a crime of one of them trying to kill a Sith Lord when fighting Sith Lords was always their job is absurd. Also Anakin wants to overthrow Palpatine himself later so what was that even about.

Stover writes Anakin’s fall as that of a greedy cruel man abandoning pretence at morality once he finds a “perfect” excuse. Padme is one of those excuses and she is barely on his mind once he takes the deal.

Movie Anakin sells his soul to save his wife. He is not under delusion that he is doing a good thing even though his trust in jedi is gone and what he does takes a toll on him. Novel Anakin is unbothered.

myfairkatiecat

Um. What? Did we read the same novel? Anakin demonstrates a lot of being internally torn up and having a conscience that Palpatine slowly picks away at to draw out the darkness in, and also EXPLICITLY draws more of a connection in multiple scenes between the “the Jedi and the Sith are practically the same in almost every way” thing. Also, novel Anakin’s claim that he “paid for” the lives of his family “with innocent blood” does not exactly seem UNBOTHERED. However as he sinks deeper and deeper into the dark side, his internal conflict and the remnants of his conscience begin to just completely vanish from the prose, and by the time of mustafar he’s completely lost his mind, just like in the movie. I’m not entirely sure you and I read the same novelization.

#star wars #revenge of the sith #anakin skywalker