#favoritedarkness

[thetorontokid]

Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka (2023)

[obiwan]

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker — Revenge of the Sith: Behind the Scenes - The fight with Dooku

[edgeofn1ght]

“It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate.” (x)

[starwarsfilms]

# -60 Physical Damage taken

[allthingskenobi]

Ewan McGregor Goes for a Swim

[ragnarlothcat]

I first joined the SW universe 5 years ago, I knew who the actors were and the character names but not the story. And it's very odd for me to read now just how much shit Hayden's been getting over the prequels (for years! 😞). I always thought fans liked/protected him. I am so happy and grateful he said yes to this project and truly hope he gets the love and recognition he deserves. Man, what happened to just enjoying things or skip if not to one's linking? Damn, I am getting old LOL

I'm with you! I was vaguely aware that the prequels were considered subpar, but I hadn't really realized how much people took out on Hayden specifically. Even if you think the prequels are bad, which I obviously do not, I don't know how you can possibly make the argument that it was his fault. So many of the things people claim are proof of bad acting I think are Hayden/George Lucas making a conscious choice to have the lines delivered a certain way. That's not bad acting, you just don't like what they're trying to say!

Also I think the fans that would have wanted to protect him were kids at the time so no one gave them columns in newspapers (more's the pity). Now if someone trash talks Hayden I can simply hit them with a baseball bat (or get into arguments in the comments section, which is conceptually similar).

[luninosity]

Luni, I was just actually re-watching x-men and re-reading your fics and it dawned on me I haven't checked your page in quite some time and I missed your presence and decided to check tumblr...then I read the awful news. My condoleances to you and your friend's family 😔 Be strong, my thoughts are with you.

Yeah, we're still sort of...in...processing mode? Like, it doesn't feel real even now. But thank you! Thoughts, care, all of that - thank you. I sort of did the post here because I was trying to process - thank you all for helping. For listening. I love you. If you don't know, this is about the pretty big thing that just happened here - (I used to know how to do cut text here but apparently I don't know how right now)

Friend C - we shall go with C from here on out -

Like, Awesome Husband would not have his career without C. C hired him. (If you all don't know, Awesome Husband works for a JPL subsidiary manufacturing lab - like, where they *manufacture* the sensors etc that get put onto the shiny space things; Awesome Husband actually works in the IT department, so he is, as he puts it, in charge of keeping the internet/everything online running so the actual engineers can do *their* jobs, which I think is underestimating what *he* does, but anyway) (he also says please don't ask him about what the projects actually are, he just makes sure the lab is all internally humming along)

Anyway. C was the person who hired Awesome Husband. Who gave him his first real job, not an internship, which he'd had before.

We've been to C's twins' birthday parties. We went to Disneyland with him and his family...in like, 2019, the most recent time, pre-pandemic. C and his boyfriend at the time - not the one he married! and then divorced! we were at his wedding, too, and there for the divorce issues! - were at our wedding. (Yeah, it was a ride. There is some...tea...there, but not the point here.)

We were...less in touch on an everyday basis...after C left to start his own company, but Awesome Husband did some consulting work for them (actually, I did too! as a proofreader!), so we still, y'know - like I said above, we did Disneyland with him and his kids in 2019.

It's just. It's one of those things that. We thought - hey, we haven't got together in a while, of course, pandemic and all, but of course we will, of course -

And then he was in the hospital, and then we thought he'd be coming home - he posted optimistic social media things about being home for Father's Day! - and then, literally the day after that post -

As Awesome Husband said yesterday, it doesn't feel real yet. We weren't in, like, daily contact, anymore - so it's just this surreal feeling, like, we won't....ever?....get to?...anymore? ever again? like, we can't go, oh, it's been ages, can we meet up at Downtown Disney? we can't? do that?

I don't know. Awesome Husband said the worst part was having to tell his work colleagues, who, y'know, remember C before he left to start his company. AH had to tell the people who had kinda lost contact but had known C for like ten years. And he just had to...keep telling people, all day.

(Side note: the twins are with C's cousin, who was basically his sister - he was an only child, but close with her)

I...I don't even know how to end this post, honestly. I'm still doing all my daily life and job things - summer classes, and I am teaching my Monsters class - start tomorrow, or today if it's the 21st where you are - I've got two overdue book reviews, scholarly speaking -

I'm trying to get on with things. And thank you, for kindness. Thank you. It does matter. It always does matter: kindness, in the universe. Yes. Thank you.

Please do something you love, if you're reading this. Do something that makes you happy.

[sterek]

I am so sorry for invading your notifications, but newbie Sterek fan here... and I have found heaven here <3

No need to apologize! Welcome to the fandom!! I hope you have loads of fun 🥰💛