#solmae

[savetheacolyte]

Today, we want to give our thanks to THE ACOLYTE fam for always staying kind and for being here!

[diamantdog]

this is why we're still fighting!

Sign the Petition

Renew the Acolyte

also why i won't hear anything about how "the petition won't work" because:

that's what the incels are saying to lower morale

it obviously works or else these incels wouldn't make 6 counter petitions

the sheer number of signatures alone is why the media take notice of the campaign (to renew a supposedly unpopular show) and start calling out disney & LF for not protecting their POC and queer talents

please sign if you haven't and share if you can

there are more ways to be loud about this cancellation/renewal (that's the title of episode 1 of s2; i'm calling it now lol), and i will try to share it soon.

[blergarfvader]

[seong-huiju]

The Acolyte textposts

[darkkittyart]

I go feral when fight scenes are choreographed like romantic dances. Sol, a calm mountain that cannot be shaken. Mae, the raging waters that crash against his cliff’s edge. Chaos and serenity. Push and pull. 🥰 🫠 🔥

[mochibrokenheart]

Once again drawing parallels between Solmae and Davy Jones/Calypso. Something something, man who has dedicated his life to a cause (the Jedi Order and the sea, respectively) only to become attached to a powerful woman (witch royalty and seas goddess) and in trying to love her, changes her life for the worse.

Such a great flavor of ship hehe 🤭

[ncfan-1]

Was genuinely wild to find out the while Sol spent sixteen years suppressing knowledge of Mae’s very existence, he also defines his very sense of self in relation to her. Tells himself that she’s everything he can’t be, that’s she’s the epitome of selfish, destructive love (The epitome of love that can actually express itself, instead of folding in on itself in progressive phases of repression until it’s totally unrecognizable as the kind of love that could nurture and sustain). That she’s darkness, and he’s light. That she’s bad, and he’s good. That he’s right, and she’s wrong.

Mae is Sol’s shadow because he made her into his shadow. He needs to define himself in relation to her, in opposition to her, or else his entire sense of self collapses. That’s why he deals with her the way he does in Episode 8. He’s spent so long building Mae up as everything he simply cannot be that he is incapable of reconciling himself to her, and can only envision accepting her through dominating her and forcing her to accept his twisted narrative that posits her tantrum as worse than his instigation of mass murder.

But Mae refuses to be dominated, refuses to let him twist the truth. And Sol has spent so long pouring everything he hates about himself into his image of her that he rejects her totally. And promptly dies for it.

To kill her, and then spend the rest of his life vilifying her! To vilify her and not recognize himself in what he vilifies. To condemn her as irredeemable and worthy of death and not recognize the knife he’s putting up to his own throat. To not recognize the mirror he has made of her.

[peanutwoman]

Mae pouts and Sol is filled with guilt.