truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if sheās sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if sheās perhaps worried sheās a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and thatās enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said sheās here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then sheāll make another one. I said āisnāt it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?ā and she just looked at me funny and said āwhat do you mean? The whole world was here, waitingā. Some people, I tell you.
"Bury My Mother Pale and Slight (Myla's Song)" - Amalgemotion
A little bit of Hollow Knight in your Star Wars
I wanted something simple, yet emotional. I think i like it. It was a bit difficult to distribute the characters among the verses. Some fit perfectly, while others have to be interpreted. Like, "the lady, lovely and pale" suited Padme well too, but i choose "the writer" because of, well, a broken heart (i guess you can interpret the senator as a writer, in some sense?). "The sage and his sons all three" was also good for Yoda and his lineage (Dooku, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan). That's why I didn't take the last verse, because I couldn't find suitable characters for it (you can write your own ideas if you want).
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that ādonāt affectā us and it seriously breaks my heart
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
it makes me even more heartbroken to know this wasnāt the first time heād heard those words from someone whoād taken everything from him as flames danced in the background
Because I recently stumbled upon a "Her final words invalidate her and everything she worked for because they were about something as superfluous as the way she felt about a man" sorta take on Tumblr, and I think people miss the fact that - true to the merciful way that Satine prays over a Death Watch bomber who tried to kill her - she gives Obi-Wan the ultimate gift in her final moments.
There's no regret or wishing they had chosen each other over duty, and no leaving him with guilt and countless "what if" scenarios to be haunted by long after her death.
There's no dying breath request for him to save Mandalore or align himself with Bo-Katan and Korkie to stop Maul, unlike how Qui-Gon's last words burdened him with called upon him to train Anakin.
And there's no blinding rage at being used as bait and then killed by an opp of Obi-Wan's that she probably didn't even know existed until this all happened.
With the last breath she had, with the last words she would ever speak, Satine told him she! loved! him!
"Remember, my dear Obi-Wan, I've loved you always. I always will."
Even after all of this, even after coming to her rescue, even after the Twilight failed them, even after Maul ended her life when Obi-Wan's appeal to Maul's decency failed, she died in his arms still loving him!
And for a man like Obi-Wan, this affirmation is so important.
I believe that Satine knew that in order for him to move on, to not let this eat away at his soul, to not let his light become dimmed by second-guessing the course of action he took on Mandalore, he needed to know that even after everything, she still loved him - she always would.
And now I'm sad again and need to go rewatch TCW.
BUT YES! Jess, I'm sorry I hijacked your post. Your posts are always so thought-provoking and spawn thoughts from me rambling about them.
This is a dark and heavy post, so most of it will be hidden beneath the read-more link. I'll also note that what I say is not canon, so you're under no obligation to hold to this interpretation I'm presenting.
This subject came up on Twitter because of the attempted sexual assault scene in Andor 2.03. A certain well-known fanboy with 3 million YouTube followers put out a post saying that "SA has no place in Star Wars."
While there are legitimate reasons to want such triggering content in Star Wars, I was annoyed by this person's ignorance and failure to recognize that SA and its effects have been in Star Wars for a very long time. I made a post detailing the many instances in which sexual assault has been present in Star Wars. In response to the original statement, "SA has no place in Star Wars," I captioned my post thread, "Maybe it was just easier for you to ignore before."
I included examples you'd expect, like Leia and Oola in RotJ, Arla Fett, Twi'lek women in general who are often trafficked as sex slaves...
... but another example I included (knowing I'd get some confusion and pushback) is Satine in "The Lawless."
If you're still here, you consent to listening to my detailed reasoning for why I hold this interpretation. Got it? Okay, good.
At the start of the episode, Satine has been in prison for quite some time (multiple weeks, according to the Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy novelization). Her outfit is slightly different from what it looked like in the episode before: she's lost her long skirt, her collar's double ruff, her belt, her mantle necklace, and her diadem.
My guess is that during her time in prison, Death Watch stole those items off of her, but the point is, a month into her captivity, she still looks put together. Her remaining clothes look fine, and she keeps her hair in a neat bun.
Bo-Katan and Korkie break her out of prison, they race out of the city, Satine gets a message off to Obi-Wan, and then she's recaptured. By the time Obi-Wan gets to her (hours or days later, who can tell?), she looks considerably worse for wear. And the changes are concerning.
Her hair is not just down but disheveled.
Her tunic and trousers are ripped in numerous places.
Most disturbingly, when a lone male Mandalorian commando enters her cell without notice or permission, Satine greets him by saying, "Here to do more of your master's bidding?" There's a lot to unpack about what exactly Maul's "bidding" is, but Satine's words clearly imply that she has already endured a man coming to her cell at least once before, and it seems like if Maul had previously been restraining Death Watch from treating Satine poorly, he removed that protection after her escape attempt.
There's a reason the episode is called "The Lawless."
As I said before, I'm not saying that Satine being sexually assaulted is canon ... though her being at least physically assaulted by Death Watch after she's recaptured essentially is.
But when those puzzle pieces are assembled, I do think that the implication is darker, especially when you consider the episode "A Friend in Need," in which Death Watch is explicitly shown engaging in ongoing kidnapping, slavery, and sexual objectification of the local Ming Po women with the implication of SA for the purposes of terror, intimidation, and their own comfort ...
... and the fact that Death Watch has a very particular vendetta against Satine, the heretic pacifist who has left them feeling marginalized in what was previously a warrior society.
It's dark, I know. But I think it's the only end that really makes sense.
There's a reason why Satine clings so desperately to Obi-Wan when he finally comes to rescue her: she's grateful he's there to take her away, and she's grateful that he's not who she originally thought he was.
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