So Far Away

Mostly fandom stuff, particularly fantasy, sci-fi, and mysteries, but other stuff too from time to time (books, quotes, theology musings, whatever I happen to find interesting, really).

[starwarsrebels]

He cannot help it. STAR WARS REBELS

[swpoc]

STAR WARS REBELS 2.07 “Wings of the Master”

[ahsokatanoe]

Kanan’s kids giving him a hug in Season 3

[swanimated]

hera syndulla & darth maul in The Holocrons of Fate.

[sophsun1]

Seinfeld – 7.16: The Shower Head

[achillesinhighheels]

[alicentflorent]

Every inch of this house is filled with memories of the people that I love that have died. My mom, my dad, Jeremy and Jenna, Alaric, John, even John, they’re all dead, everyone is dead. So what am I supposed to… I mean, how am I gonna… I can’t even… There’s nothing left for me… It hurts. Just make it stop. Please make it stop. It h u r t s.

[pauwesleys]

“i’m scared that if i let myself to be happy for even one moment that the world’s just going to come crashing down, and i… i don’t know if i can survive that.”

[bonniesheilas-blog]

No, I’m not okay. But I’ll get better.

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas 60*80 cm “Flight of the Moths”

[star-plasma]

Gemini ♊️

[what-the-whump]

Whumptober 2023 | No. 20

Blanket - Found Family - "You will regret touching them."

Ezra Bridger in Star Wars Rebels - 3x03 - The Holocrons of Fate

[tthomasthorne]

rose tyler on my ibispaint canvas what a jolly day this is

[loristow]

bad wolf

[hidiane]

imagine you’re leia organa and you spent the last three years denying your very obvious feelings for han solo and sticking to it even when said han solo straight up calls you out on it and then it looks like he’s almost certainly going to die and you realise this is the last chance you’re ever going to have to tell him how you feel and you waited so long and for what FOR WHAT you should’ve told him every single day. and then. And Then. han solo tells you you don’t need to regret it because he already knew. nobody on letterboxd understands that i know is about RELIEF!!!!!!!

[antianakin]

Anakin becoming a Force ghost and showing up to "save" Ahsoka is my "Somehow, Palpatine returned."

[littletealight]

I will forever hate that the Ahsoka show sanitized Anakin and Ahsoka just willingly is will seeing him when she knows and lived through Order 66 and the numerous losses.

[antianakin]

I feel like I could've gotten into a forgiveness narrative if they'd ACTUALLY acknowledged what Anakin had done and how it had actually impacted Ahsoka.

Like, in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, Obi-Wan does still talk positively about Anakin by the end, and we know he has positive things to say about Anakin to Luke in ANH, too. It's not quite a forgiveness narrative since Anakin is still out doing heinous shit and Obi-Wan does condemn that, but it's similar enough. The reason it works is because the show itself DOES ACKNOWLEDGE ANAKIN'S SINS. It EMPHASIZES how awful he is being, we see him murdering people, we see how terrified everyone is of him, we see the way he tortures Obi-Wan. And we get scenes of Anakin unburnt, flashbacks to Anakin as a padawan reminding us of how he'd been better once but also that the flaws that led him here started long before he became Darth Vader. There's lots of focus on Obi-Wan's grief, and Reva's ENTIRE NARRATIVE is about the horror of what Anakin did to the Jedi.

The show acknowledges over and over and over again that Anakin did terrible horrible awful things and is STILL DOING terrible horrible awful things, so Obi-Wan's choice to remember him positively is never seen as ignoring all of those things. It's just Obi-Wan choosing to heal by finding joy in the memory of someone he'd loved even as he lets go of that same person because of what he's chosen to become.

I would've been PERFECTLY HAPPY to see something similar for Ahsoka, where they explicitly talk about what Anakin did, about how he murdered the Jedi and destroyed the Republic and betrayed Ahsoka and tried to kill her, and Ahsoka realizes that that grief is slowly destroying her and so she lets it go and focuses on the happier memories. I even think that that's what the show was KINDA trying to do, it just did it SO BADLY that that's not really what it actually ended up doing. By refusing to explicitly acknowledge the horrors of Anakin's life, by having an entire scene that basically says Anakin wasn't responsible for any of it because it was for love and so it was "meant to be," Ahsoka's choice to remember him positively at the end doesn't feel like healing, it just feels like deliberate ignorance. It feels like she's repressing something she doesn't want to accept or acknowledge because it's EASIER than recognizing that Anakin wasn't who she'd thought he was.

[solskiela]

Well I did a poster for Hera so it only seemed fitting that Kanan get one as well. May end up doing one for all the Spectres...

Really happy with this one.