#never changes

[youngprofesser]

One thing I've always found so interesting about Vader's ultimate redemption is that it's all about his capacity to love his family. Nothing about peace or justice or realization about the state of the galaxy or the force, just that he turns his back on the authority and institution he's served for two decades to prioritize and save a person who he feels attached to, who means more to him than all of it.

Sound familiar?

From that perspective, it's no wonder that Obi-Wan and Yoda couldn't sense the good in him. There wasn't any, by any Jedi definition. Only in the definition of "any capacity to love=good". Padme knew this much, because she knew even fallen Anakin loved her and would have done anything for her. Luke knew, because he could (truthfully) sense that Anakin Skywalker would do anything for him as long as he knew that Luke was his son.

It's just always been so interesting to me that his redemption was through the same vice as his fall. (Insert "jojo have you learned nothing". meme). He wasn't redeemed in a grand moral sense, just back to the same Anakin Skywalker that was willing to do anything to save the life of those he felt belonged to him, no matter the cost. 20 years as a sith didn't shift his values an inch.

[tomhardysurinal]

Fuck Wales and fuck the north again, I see.

[beforetheamen]

I Do Not Change

Feeling overwhelmed by all the uncertainty and constant change swirling around your life?

In a world where everything shifts like sand, you have an anchor that never moves - God's unchanging nature.

Malachi 3:6 declares: "I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed."

I THE LORD DO NOT CHANGE - not His love, not His promises, not His character. SO YOU ARE NOT DESTROYED - because He's constant, you have security.

That relationship that ended? God's love for you hasn't changed. That job you lost? His provision for you remains constant. That health scare that shook you? His healing power is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

People change their minds. Circumstances change without warning. Feelings change like the weather. But God is the same loving Father today that He was when He first called your name.

His faithfulness doesn't fluctuate with your performance. His mercy doesn't diminish when you mess up. His plans for your good don't alter when life gets hard.

When everything around you feels unstable, remember that your foundation - God Himself - never shifts, never wavers, never changes.

Today, find peace in His unchanging nature. What He promised you yesterday, He's still committed to today.

[yourfriendlycourtjester]

Same Old

-

Plunging my knife

Between your ribs.

You stare in shock,

Horrified

Until you meet my gaze.

A smile breaks out across your face.

"The house is so quiet.."

I find myself on my knees,

Licking blood from your flesh.

"..without you."

Stitching closed the wounds I've caused you

By trying to be myself.

x

[redleafhaiku]

The best part about

a printed newspaper is

it never changes.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[bloobluebloo]

I was thinking of how the Sheikah tell Link that "A hero rises to right the wrongs of Hyrule". Then, I was thinking, again, of how Rauru calls Ganondorf "a hero to his people".

I feel like the wording is deliberate. Throughout LoZ and even in BotW/TotK there are plenty of instances where they mention that light and darkness exist hand in hand. The bargainer statues also mention how good and evil at the end of the line are meaningless labels. If Ganondorf/Ganon was all that was wrong with Hyrule, then why not say "to right the wrongs inflicted by the calamity/demon king"?

I think Ganondorf tends to appear in Hyrule when the country itself is waning, on the verge of corruption, or going in a direction that throws it off the delicate balance that the gods have established. He comes to wipe out the status quo, to kill and destroy the establishments that are contributing to a country that is ready to fall into decline. Then, once he has scorched the earth, Link appears to kill Ganondorf so that the people may rebuild with new hope and a new vision for their future, guided by the hand of wisdom that is Zelda. So, I suppose to divine beings, the conflict occurring in Hyrule seems to be a natural cycle that must occur to maintain stasis in Hyrule. Any time the country begins to diverge from what it is supposed to be, a great "evil" appears to shake things up so that the hero and the princess can appear to destroy it and "course correct" Hyrule's destiny. In that sense, Ganondorf can be regarded, in a very morbid sense, as a "hero".

[bee-kathony]

“What it is between us... never changes.” - Jamie Fraser

[amazzjin]

Its that time of the semester where you just wanna give up