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24. Newcastle, UK.

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It’s Tom Hiddleston’s birthday today, and I’m giving away THREE Thor Ragnarok Loki posters SIGNED by the birthday man himself. Reblog this for a chance to win one of them. Seriously.  

It’s a sweet little promo that we’re doing to help bring awareness to Thor Ragnarok’s release on digital (2/20) & Blu-ray/4K (3/6). 

Hey, they asked me, man. They know I exist. So ya, rb for a chance to win!

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wow i love It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

[sweetdcharlie]

delete this

[yeetofjotunheim]

Friend: So how was your day?

Me: It was great thanks!

Me on the inside:

[mxduki]

Imagine that you become president of the United States, ostensibly the most powerful person in the world, and everyone still thinks you’re a joke. How unbelievably shitty of a person do you have to be for this to be true?

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[redrikki]

Heresy time: I don’t find Jar-Jar all that irritating. Yeah, his speech pattern is a bit dumb, and he has a lot of pratfalls, but he’s not that bad. He has a genuine role within the film and helps facilitate the plot at multiple points. Also, his surprisingly useful flailing during the battle has me convinced that he’s an untrained Force-sensitive. If Anakin can blow up a droid control ship completely by accident with his untrained Force powers, then Jar-jar can take out half the droid army with his.

[wingletblackbird]

Jar Jar was also useful in showing the arrogance of the Core Worlders and the Jedi. His very presence is useful in termed of character and world building. He, and more importantly his entire species and culture, was derided as “primitive,” by the Naboo, the Republic, and the Jedi. There’s a lot of social commentary to be made there on many varying levels.

[mylordshesacactus]

That’s LITERALLY the point of Jar-Jar’s character in the narrative, god, thank you so much.

The POINT of Jar-Jar is that everyone, everyone, including the fucking Jedi who are sworn to protect all life in the galaxy and should damn well know better, dismiss him. It’s not due to his personality; Jar-Jar is deeply loyal, he’s kind, he’s eager to help, he’s very honest and very genuine. It’s entirely due to superficial things; his speech patterns are annoying. He looks weird. He’s clumsy and messes things up, he’s from the “primitive” marsh-dwellers who live in the swamps or something. So they talk down to him, they push him around, they view him with disdain, they wish he was gone. You know. Much like the fandom.

Everyone except Padme. 

Padme is interested in him, she speaks to him with respect, she listens seriously when he speaks. Naboo is saved not because of the Jedi (who fight Maul and do nothing else) and not even because of Anakin’s trick with the droid control ship, because the Gungan army made that possible in the first place. Naboo is saved because Padme from the beginning treats the Gungans with respect.

[thewillowbends]

Both Anakin and Jar Jar serve a distinct function highlighting the issue of class hierarchy and discrimination in the GFFA. If nobles like Padmé can’t get representation in the Senate, how could fundamentally powerless individuals ever be recognized as significant? The fate that most of the Coruscanti speak with traditionally “refined” British accents while Anakin has a heavily slanged American and Jar Jar a highly colloquial dialect is not a mistake of casting.

Honestly, the fact of Jar Jar in the EU really bothers me. It’s not amusingly vicious, it’s just grossly classist and heartbreaking. (Jar Jar gets treated as an exile, but Padmé - the queen who helped put Palpatine in power - is remembered fondly? Kind of telling. )

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I drew an eye and while I’m not super proud of the result, i like how moody the photo looks.

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When I die I want my tombstone to read ‘Shirtless Kylo Ren’.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

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I have it on VERY good authority that the only reason Disney bought the Fox assets is so that it can legally insert the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia characters into Star Wars and/or the MCU.

My sources are impeccable. Do not question my sources.

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Between T’challa’s sexy accent, Alan Silvestri’s sexy theme, and Loki’s sexy existence, that Infinity War trailer is still doing it for me 48 hours later.

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Saturday night, innit?

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The Padmé YA Novel

”Really? A Padme novel? LOL. " responses on reddit are such supreme fucking bullshit. 

Padmé might not have been the most well executed character in the films -and let's be fair, I don't think any prequel original character can lay claim to that title- but the fact that such an important character in the saga is so underexplored makes her a perfect candidate for further storytelling in any medium.  

As the wife to Vader, she helped found the rebellion he spent over two decades trying to crush. She watched her life's work collapse in front of her eyes as Palpatine, a man terrified of death, enforced a dictatorship. In her own death Padmé gave her greatest gifts to the galaxy: two children who inheritied her spirit and democratic values and used those to restore peace. Padmé's legacy is what brought down the empire. The democratically elected child brought down the old man's evil dictatorship. She is as thematically important to Star Wars as her husband.

Padmé is far from perfect and makes some questionable choices regarding Anakin, but any further material can only help us to understand more about why she made those choices.

Maybe more than one novel please? :)

[prettymysticfalls]

Richard Madden for Grazia Italia

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I feel it too, McAfee ad lady. I feel it too.