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tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”
“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”
i needed this as a background
actually when I was in 8th grade and obsessed with twilight my master plan as a twilight vampire was to sit around in famous shipwrecks like the super deep ones where they can only send robots with cameras from their submarines and when they sent one down i’d be sitting there, pretending to drink out of an old tea cup you know for the drama of it all and the guys in the submarine would know what they saw and that it was real footage but who else would believe them? no one important.
but it didn’t stop there. at the next party they threw to celebrate one of their latest finds, some museum-y banquet idk I was 13, I was going to show up. I was going to show up and make eye contact with them one at a time from across the room and they were going to lose their goddamn minds and then before the volturi could catch wind i was gonna be back in the ocean. how could they find me?
the drama. the theatrics. i can’t believe i didn’t realize i was gay right then but that’s another story, also involving vampires,
hate to burst your fantasy, but
1) vampires don’t show up in film
2) vampires can’t cross moving water much less sit at the bottom of the ocean
you’ve got me a in a difficult position here because on the one hand, this post is specifically about vampire lore in Twilight, so you’re wrong, but on the other hand, saying “you clearly didn’t read twilight” doesn’t exactly make you look like the bad guy here
Fandom spaces have GOT to stop finding out about concept art & saying they were supposed to have x or y. That’s not how concept art works, there isn’t a secret better show they decided to hide from you for no reason
“Look at the animation style we could have had!” and it’s a drawing so detailed that the animators would have killed themselves before ever being able to finish a single frame
People keep tagging me in that crack post about all the reasons Vader never managed to find Obi-Wan in twenty years, and I realize it’s crack so I’m not gonna reblog it and ruin people’s fun, but y’all, there’s a very simple reason why Vader never found Obi-Wan.
He wasn’t looking.
That’s…that’s literally it. He wasn’t looking. He didn’t care. Tbqh, he didn’t care about a single damn thing in this life until he heard the name Luke Skywalker.
I know the EU makes this whole huge deal out of Vader’s epic and undying hatred for Obi-Wan, but it just flat out doesn’t match with what we actually see on screen in ANH. Vader is, more than anything else, apathetic. He goes to take out Obi-Wan because Obi-Wan has literally shown up on his doorstep, so that’s probably the thing to do. His fight with Obi-Wan is frankly pathetic when compared with any other lightsaber duel in the six movies - even the duel on Bespin, when Vader was fighting someone he explicitly didn’t want to kill, was more dynamic than that Death Star fight. His dialogue during the fight with Obi-Wan sounds almost rote. Like, okay, I’m fighting my former Jedi Master, these are probably the things I’m supposed to say.
When Obi-Wan dies, it’s because he chooses to do so, not because Vader has actually overpowered him. And Vader’s reaction to his death is mainly nonplussed. He pokes a bit at the empty robes then shrugs it off because he’s got more important things to deal with right now.
There’s this tendency in fandom to want to make the tragedy of Anakin and Obi-Wan a tragedy of two people who went from close friends to bitter enemies. But that’s really only true at Mustafar.
I think the true tragedy of Anakin and Obi-Wan, in the end, is a tragedy of two people who cared for but never really understood each other. Obi-Wan dedicated the rest of his life to shaping Luke for the ultimate destruction of the monster Obi-Wan felt he’d helped create. But Anakin…the tragedy in his case is really that Obi-Wan went from being a friend and mentor to, ultimately, someone who just didn’t matter to him much at all.
And in some ways maybe that’s even more painful than the usual fandom understanding.
I think from Anakin’s point of view he already lost Obi-Wan in all ways that matter after Mustafar.
“You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!”* Past tense, implication: not anymore. And then he left him to die slowly and painfully.
By the time Anakin wakes up in the suit, he’s lost everyone he loved either through death or burned bridges.
He’s failed, failed incredibly and spectacularly at what he hopped to accomplish by turning. And from then on to the time he hears the name of the pilot the wind is taken out of his sails.
And like sure he could theoretically hunt down Obi-Wan and kill him, but Obi-Wan isn’t doing anything Empire related so killing him wouldn’t accomplish much of anything. So why bother?
Everything hurts and he doesn’t care.
I don’t think Anakin ever stopped thinking about Obi-Wan, but, despite what he shouted at him as he lay burning, he never actually hated him. Certainly not enough to invest any time into hunting him down. If anything, he probably actively avoided confronting him, much the same way he avoided hunting down Ahsoka.
He fought him on the Death Star because Obi-Wan came to him. He killed him because Obi-Wan wanted to commit suicide via Sith. In the comics, when someone asks who Obi-Wan was he says “An old man who thought he could help gifted children but was mistaken.” Those are not the words of a vengeful man. They are the words of a sad and tired one.
Because, the thing you have to remember about Vader is that he doesn’t hate Obi-Wan. He doesn’t hate the Rebels. He doesn’t even hate the Jedi. The person he really, really hates and most wants to destroy is himself.
“…use things to have good days.”
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here’s to all the things you survived quietly and privately this year
here’s to all the things you survived loudly, to the dead horses you beat to death, to the shit that makes you scream
palpatine straight up told anakin he was a sith lord and anakin was like well. this is a lot to process so im going to go fetch my boss and we’ll come back in about half an hour and murder you so don’t go anywhere and palpatine didn’t you have to admire the man
palpatine is the best villain of all time bc he's the classic master manipulator who pits his enemies against each other without lifting a finger by preying on their weaknesses but normally those types of villains have the caveat that once their bullshit get exposed it's a simple matter of slapping handcuffs on them bc they're like weak old CEOs or whatever
but our boy sheev? when his plans don't go perfectly he's just like oh well and starts zapping fuckers to death bc he's also the most powerful old prune in the galaxy and he could just kill everyone around him if he gets bored
like luke throwing away his lightsaber and declaring himself a jedi was great but you know that luke kinda thought that was it, the crotchety old emperor doesn't have vader to fight for him anymore courtesy of luke cutting off vader's hand for possibly the fortieth time in anakin's life, so it's smooth sailing until lando destroys the death star and blasts them all to kingdom come, but then palps is like aw shucks no new apprentice can't blame a guy for trying and just starts deep frying luke for shits and giggles and our poor twink is like THIS ISN'T ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT THE FORCE COULD DO ABORT ABORT ABORT
and with mace and co arriving at sheev's office to bring him in for being dark catholic it's functionally the equivalent of a scooby doo villain of the week getting unmasked by the gang but then he just starts snapping necks
finished the murderbot show :)
Admiring the latest illustration by Jaime Jones, who does the book cover paintings.
(commissioned by the Collectible Book Vault)
ART?
I'm here, ART answered. Do you know what you are?
I'm Murderbot 2.0, I said, and then I remembered. Oh, right. This is weird.
Okay but it's weird for ART too, 2.0-you've just called yourself a name ART has never learned-not this book, not in the entirety of Artificial Condition does 1.0 ever tell ART its secret name.
You designating yourself as "Murderbot 2.0" means that for ART, the name "Murderbot" now has to be retroactively applied to 1.0!
ART is having a Bad Day already and has some very crucial irons in the fire to worry about right now, but I like to think that somewhere in its gazillions of processing space part of it is going what the FUCK while Amena distracts 2.0 for a while.
And it helped murderbot research what happened in Ganaka pit! ART would know the entire full context behind the name "murderbot" the first time it heard the name murderbot, in the same way murderbot's humans completely didn't know the context in the first book
I’m not sure what I fully believe on ART knowing and not knowing about the personal human translatable name. I love the canon so far that there’s a whole bot culture that humans partly can’t understand due to the differences in languages but also because that the main culture we’ve seen through MB is communication without humans in control finding out to keep themselves safe in cultures like Corporation Rim and even Preservation where they have been influenced by CR.
Injustice and slavery and whole systems that benefited from it existed before Corporation Rim was founded.
To me the scene was like, MB 2.0 immediately came online and talked to ART no different from 1.0 and was like ‘Fuck I really do have to perform this fucked up scenario of sending my best friend to die and to help it kill this iteration of itself to save my crew and I fucking hate that I have to choose between them because no matter how I much I care I don’t have a choice because this copy’s life is valued less than humans who can’t be replaced at all but it doesn’t make it any less horrible— maybe it’s worse. To know how undervalued bots lives are and truly experience it firsthand. FUCK. Pull it together. Maybe by some miracle it’s different for constructs.’
Hits it with a “I’m MB 2.0. Oh, right. This is weird.”
And it just kills ART right there. ‘For fucks sake that’s my best friend still utterly hating itself for what it was forced to be and ready to die for it. AGAIN. FUCKING SHIT. Amena please take the mic I need to privately lose my shit because 2.0 can’t know that because we don’t have time or a choice.’
Collects itself just in time for 2.0 to snark at it again. ART is having by far the worst day ever. And proceeds to arm 5 more pathfinders just for that.
get peer reviewed @polyhexian #I KEEP SAYING THIS#Art finally commits to yes this must be done#i have to create this life#this version of my friend that already values its own so little#i have to create it knowing that i am creating it to die#knowing that IT knows i know i am creating it to die#but finally accepting it has to do it and doing it#and the first fucking thing the motherfucker says is hey did you know your friend you just made a suicide bomb copy of is named murderbot#did you know it named itself after the thing it hates most about itself because it never wants to forget what it believes it really is#not just a murderer but a bot#did you know that in its internal monologue in its heart head and soul it never for a moment allows itself to forget#that it hates itself#and why it hates itself#and why it is never allowed to stop hating itself?#and art just has to be like [DEEP BREATH] excuse me. i need to run some diagnostics real quick
Honestly im rly curious and i think the other poll's range is a bit ridiculous:
What temperature would you rather spend all day doing errands in
100° F (37.7° C)
0° F (-17.7° C)
Happy new year everyone
I enjoyed replaying Prototype over the holiday period, nothing more festive than the widespread slaughter of millions
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My favorite Nate and Sterling moment
TODAY my favorite part of this is the very beginning when you can watch him, in real time, looking for a solution to this problem, thinking of a solution, giving absolutely zero fucks that it is the world’s stupidest solution, and diving in headfirst
Oh, you know what it is? It's the other side of that KA Applegate quote, you know, the one about ruthlessness, the one everybody sees and goes "Oh, yeah, that's super Nate-coded." This one:
“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”
But we still only talk about it as an explanation for things that seem "mean," and that's not what it's actually saying. It means when you see the solution, you'll do whatever it is. Sometimes the solution hurts people, sometimes it's mean. But sometimes the solution is completely fucking ridiculous. Sometimes the solution makes you look bad. Sometimes the solution is smashing a window or running up thirteen flights of stairs or wearing a silly hat or letting people think you're meaner or dumber than you are.
Because man, for a guy with an ego the size of a 747, Nate spends a lot of time making himself look like a doofus, and it never bothers him. And yeah, part of that is the inner theater kid, but I think part of it is also that he knows it will work, he knows that's the solution, and the solution takes precedence over everything, even his ego. Not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution.
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i support women doing things with their hair that make other people upset 🥰
and i extra support girls doing things with their hair that piss off every adult in the vicinity
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