The Prequels Were Good, Actually

Rebecca she/her. Mostly Star Wars. Side blogs: morgana-deserved-better (BBC merlin) and nehemia-deserved-better (SJM books).

[likeafantasy]

IMDB's TOP TEN FRINGE EPISODES 03. White Tulip (2x18) ⌁ ❝I, too, attempted the unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me feeling the burden of that act. I'm going to tell you something that I have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I had never believed in God. But it occurred to me... that my actions had betrayed him and that everything that had happened to me since was God punishing me. So now I'm looking for a sign of forgiveness. I've asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip.❞

[muukahsa]

this is my oc geordio alucan, jedi master with the power of having the most fabulous hair at the age of 82

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Jod "I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids" Na Nawood

[hegodamask]

KEERO WEEK 2025 | @syrilxdedra

↳ Day Six - Comedy

what a lovely family.

[fairycosmos]

they should invent an enough that is enough

[fairycosmos]

i can’t remember if i wrote this about ocd or money or buddhism or doom scrolling or self image or time or grief

[commandervisor]

ahsoka's parents (pav-ti and nak-il) and the village elder (gantika) are the only other named togruta characters in "life and death", but aren't credited with last names, so now i wonder if "tano" could be the name of ahsoka's tribe/village or if it's some sort of status name

[commandervisor]

the only other named togruta characters in screen media are shaak ti, ashla, governor gupat roshti, and carshotta (bg character that was in the circus the younglings joined in that one tcw ep). i'm going to be ignoring any EU/legends characters because i'm trying to figure out what filoni + lucas + the show/movie writers were intending with togruta/shili culture.

as you may know, ahsoka is named for ashoka, an emperor of india's mauryan empire. however, i can't round down what tano could mean or refer to, other than it might be another red five joke (fives, sabine is spectre 5, torra/blue ace is technically ace five, etc.) since it apparently means "five" in swahili?

we all know ashla was lucas's name for the light side of the force, but i'm pretty sure ashla and bogan are just random bullshit alien/magic names with no real world references.

(did you know that ahsoka's original name, ashla chutu, refers to a regional dynasty in south india?)

shaak ti, pav-ti, and nak-il follow a similar naming convention and are all named after hindu gods (shakti -> shaak ti, parvati -> pav-ti, nikhil + akhil -> nak-il)

roshti's name doesn't reference a hindu god from what i can tell. instead, he's likely a reference to famous indian writer salman rushdie; gupat is derived from gupta, an actual indian surname and another historical indian empire — it should be noted that the name of gupat was given to roshti in EU side material and not within tcw itself

gantika's name is harder to round out, either i think her name is most likely a reference to gandhi while adding in the -ka so that ahsoka's name isn't unusual, though i suspect that she instead may be named for another hindu god, ganesha

i haven't the slightest idea of idea what carshotta's name could be referring to, her name does sound like something, but being an insignificant background character with no direct ties to shili culture, i'm electing to ignore any in-universe and irl cultural meanings behind her name for now. also keep in mind that as a circus performer, she may be going by a stage name.

i think for characters like shaak ti, governor roshti, and ahsoka's parents, it should be assumed that their names have different ways of transliterating/romanizing them from shili/togruta language to english/basic (probably my best immediate and well-known examples is how the arabic name مُحَمَّد can be romanized into english as mohamed, mohammed, muhammad, and so on, or how hawaii can be spelled as hawai'i, or how the pokemon ho-oh's name comes from a japanese creature whose name can be romanized as houou, ho-oh, houhou, hōō…)

like maybe shaak ti's name was originally spelled as, could have been spelled as, or is an alternative spelling of shaakti, shakti, shaak-ti, or shak-ti… which would actually explain why people always call her by her full name of shaak ti and never just shaak or "general ti" or "master ti"… because she only has one name, like dooku. so following suit, that means pav-ti's name could be spelled as pavti or nak-il's name could be spelled as nakil.

roshti's name of gupat could either be a status name (like an epithet or tribe or something, maybe not unlike what the name tano is for ahsoka) or maybe he's from a togruta subculture (remember, he leads a togruta colony) where they do give first names?

anyways, this is probably the most consistent content we've gotten on cultural sw alien names, so just found it interesting…

[lesbianshadowheart]

random thought about a show i havent seen in years but the core premise of OUAT was so funny. Regina could’ve literally killed all of those people but instead she carefully crafted a bizarro world and meticulously gave everyone a little name and little job that accurately reflected their original life and made them all live out the same mediocre day over and over but like. she was the only person who knew that. girl you just put yourself in the endless torture vortex however you would’ve done numbers in the modern AU fic scene if given the chance i think

[junglejim4322]

90% of age gaps don’t matter when you’re a grown adult as long as you don’t have a repeated pattern of dating people barely legal. I would date someone 30 years older than me if I liked them who gaf

[junglejim4322]

This entire conversation is somehow 90% people infantilizing themselves and 10% actually people talking about the issue of men who never grow out of dating 18/19 year olds. No it is not a big deal when a 25 year old dates a 35 year old please get a grip

[junglejim4322]

Honestly if you’re in your mid twenties infantilizing yourself on this level maybe you shouldn’t be dating anyone

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Chimes with a thought I've had for a while, actually; sleep deprivation might mean I explain this badly, but:

What a red flag actually means: something here is an indicator of a potential problem (but might be fine with a reasonable explanation)

What people have now decided it means: abuse

I've lost count of the number of times I've now had to read variants of "My partner takes all my money and gives me back an allowance because he says it's a man's job to control finances, but he's racking up gambling debts" being met with "Wow this man is a walking red flag" no Becky that is abuse. That is not an indicator. He is an abuser. Call the police. We have lost the concept of a proxy: a thing that indicates a more important thing. And it's relevant to this conversation because I'm actually going to go out on a limb here:

With the obvious exception of paedophilia, age gaps themselves aren't a problem at all - they are a proxy for the actual harmful phenomenon. Hea me out, let me explain

The reason we don't like age gaps is because of the implied power dynamic. If one partner, usually male, is older than other - particularly if the other is still quite young - the risk is that what we're seeing is a worldly wise predator who is exploiting the lack of life experience of a young beautiful woman by mentally abusing her until she's no longer young and pretty enough to satisfy, at which point he'll move on to the next. There have been enough examples of this in human history. It's unfortunately not an uncommon pattern. Genders can also be diverse in this scenario

We can't necessarily see that dynamic from the outside. But we CAN see an inherent element of it: the ages of the people involved. So age becomes a proxy for the abuse. And, hey, it's often correct.

But here's the thing: the ages themselves are not causing harm.

The power dynamic is. The abuse is.

Plenty of age gap relationships are loving, healthy and steadfast. Two people met and genuinely fell in love regardless of the outer packaging, and have a relationship with all the highs and lows and challenges and rewards as any more traditional pairing. This happens all the time

Is the age gap a red flag? Sure! It indicates a potential issue.

Is it inherently abusive? Absolutely fucking not.

OP is right - we need to stop focusing just on the numbers and twisting the facts to fit by infantilising the younger partners, and start focusing on the actual harms. The DiCaprio Pattern of only dating under 24s repeatedly is itself a proxy, too, actually - but a much stronger one than the simple presence of an age gap.

(Even so, in DiCaprio's case, until any of his former partners come forward and describe him as abusive, actually, even that is up in the air - my personal interpretation, given how strong a pattern it is, is that he's a loser who views women as trophies (consciously or not). If any have come forward and I don't know about it, of course, fair enough. But those women were adults capable of making their own decisions, even if they might later come to regret it. And regretting poor decisions is part of life! That's how it goes, particularly with relationships. As long as they weren't abused, there's no biggie. And just as he was looking for young-and-beautiful, there's no way they weren't, on some level, looking for rich-and-famous; it goes both ways.)

Also, another element of this: I think a lot of modern extreme puritan discourse on this is actually ironically down to the age of those taking part. Up until your late 20s, ten years is actually a huge span of time to you, because in your own life you were in a completely different developmental phase ten years ago (teenager), and a completely different phase again ten years before that (child). That skews your sense of what a ten-year gap means. Whereas once you're in your 30s and beyond, ten years is like. Yeah I was an adult ten years ago, and I still am now. That's two adults. Who cares.

(Anyway I am hoping and praying I explained that well enough, and also that Tumblr's famous reading comprehension skills are solid enough to follow)

[shoppingbaag]

fantasy

[astrotheyge]

"The hearts of men are easily corrupted." Wake Up Dead Man (2025) & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Bonus for @mykingdomforasong:

[aggot]

let's reintroduce "rude" to the lexicon no that person is not evil or morally bankrupt or even your enemy they're just being rude

[robntunney]

the stages of saying i love you (insp.)

[ketchuplaser]

[bunny7567]

[clockworkcrow]

thinking about harvey stardew valley and being a rural country doctor with a caseload like:

guy who won’t accept any diagnosis except “you have consumption and need to go to the seaside for your health”

woman who asks what gemstone he would prescribe for her UTI

guy who spends half the day trying to give himself a concussion and the other half trying to blow out his hearing on his guitar

two people who have struggled with alcoholism for years but reject all of his resources for it UNTIL someone gifts them alcohol biweekly for a year straight and suddenly their lives turn around

guy who will not stop mailing people bombs but in a friendly way and like this just isn’t on the PTSD screener??

guy who won’t stop asking him vague but increasingly bizarre questions about the safety of truffle oil

woman who EATS ROCKS

and also there’s a fucking wizard. what’s up with that. how often do you think the man goes “why did i get an MD why didn’t i just train to be a wizard i didn’t even know that was an option” while performing emergency surgery on this one farmer who won’t stop picking fights with ACTUAL MONSTERS

[seekingskywhales]

Frogs gotta eat!

[flipperbrain-awakes]

THE MENTALIST ~ 4.14