Your Excellency

An amalgamation of various bullshit I find interesting—mainly Star Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and astrology. 

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Dr. Dain Tasker (1872-1964), Amazon-Lily, circa 1930.  Silver print from an x-ray negative. 

[thechosenone260]

The queen has returned.

[tarrkin]

SO ANYWAY

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thewillowbends replied to your photo: –From a Certain Point of View - “There is Another”…

That’s really not surprising - Leia grew up in a healthy, loving, supportive family with all of her needs met financially and emotionally. Makes a HUGE difference in coping mechanisms. It also makes me very sad, though, because we’ve seen that Anakin gets along just fine with people just like him (re: Ahsoka). They could’ve been best friends, and instead…it’s just ash and bitterness.

A lot of it does have to do with the circumstances that one grows up in–one of the biggest differences between Luke and Leia is that they both had this core desire for more than a simple life, but Leia was in the position where she could do something about it, she could live that life and do the things she was itching to do.  Luke, on the other hand, was stuck on a desert planet, knowing he was meant for more, was so eager and untested that all the loving support from Owen and Beru that he got couldn’t touch that core of how he practically vibrated with a need for more. One of the important differences between Leia and Anakin is that she doesn’t hold onto her anger about something in a way that she holds onto and trips her up.  It’s understandable why Anakin has trouble with that!  He has so much anger about his childhood and how he sees the galaxy and he never really lets anyone help him with that despite that they do try to, he cannot let it go, cannot control it before it controls him instead. I think that’s the one of the big differences between Anakin and Ahsoka as well, that she has all this tremendous well of feeling in her, including a lot of anger at the same things that make Anakin angry, but she doesn’t hold onto it beyond what’s necessary, she listens when others reach out to her and help her, she lets go of it when she needs to. Like, I’m not sure Leia would want to be a Jedi, she already has an outlet for her desire for that greater calling to help the galaxy, but if she did, I think that’s why they were interested in her and why she would have made an excellent Jedi, in the way Ahsoka was and Anakin never really quite was meant for it at his core! He was a great Jedi in a lot of ways, but ultimately I don’t think he was happy with their way of life (which is nothing against either of them!) and instead of the clarity he needed to find his focus and priorities, he just kept digging deeper and it ended so, so badly for him.  We see that Ahsoka does have the clarity to know when she needs to walk a new path and I think Leia has that same kind of clarity, about herself and her path.

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Ironically the one that that DOES have a lasting effect on Leia beyond all else, as far as anger and ptsd, is Darth Vader himself.

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Leia’s anger at Vader and how she holds onto it fascinates me!  Her anger is entirely reasonable, he tortured her and he murdered and helped terrorize and subjugate the galaxy and even helped enslave worlds.  It’s really, really reasonable for her to be angry at him and to not let him into her life in any real way! But it’s not held onto in the way that consumes her or utterly blinds her, but instead she is the one controlling it.  Leia is very much in control of herself, including her anger, and she is INCREDIBLE for that, given how much shit she has been through and it’s why I think she would have made just as great a Jedi as Luke was.  ♥

[super-happilydancing]

The way it’s shown in Bloodline is fascinating bc she basically says it’s her hatred of Vader that has given her strength during duress. Now we know from Leia Princess of Alderaan it’s also from Breha and “learning to fall” and pick herself back up over and over again.

But I REALLY get the feeling that she has such a personal fixation on Vader because she knows he is her father and possibly because of some sorta unrealized Force connection. She hates Tarkin, but she blames Vader, she is still scared of Vader- he has the power to hurt her the way other baddies don’t.

But yes absolutely, she is 500% more capable of self-regulating than Anakin was able to at that age, which makes sense given their backgrounds.

[thewillowbends]

I actually think one of the more subtle parallels being made between Leia and Anakin in TFA/Bloodline is how destructive anger, no matter the impetus it gives you to move on, can be.  Obviously, she is a far more moral and stable psychological basis for her life than he ever did, but that toxic hatred of Vader, to the point where she hides it rather than coming to terms with it and acknowledging the complexity of her family history, ultimately winds up devastating her own family years after the fact.  She’s under no responsibility to forgive him, and she certainly has a right to her anger, but the way it fester underneath everything is not healthy.

Luke gets to come to term with it on the second Death Star, when he almost gives into this desire to destroy this ugly, awful thing his father became that ruined the ideals of his youth.  He learned to overcome it.  But Leia never does.  She can’t deal with it because it drives her, so she lies.  She lies to her friends and political allies, and she winds up alienating them when the truth comes out.  She lies to her son and bars his ability to come to terms with it.   It winds up damaging her political career.  It winds up damaging the new Republic.  It winds up damaging Luke’s reputation and that of his Jedi Order.  It winds up damaging her own family.

I think Bloodline is also significant because it keys into an internal flaw that isn’t obvious based on what we see of her, but seems kind of obvious in hindsight when  you watch her treatment of Lando in ESB - Leia has very rigid moral standards that mirror Anakin’s own tendency toward black and white views of reality.  Vader was a monster, but given what Luke tells her of what happened on the Death Star and knowing some of the history of Anakin Skywalker, she shouldn’t have been having this revelation at the end of Bloodline - some twenty years later - that *shock* bad people can be borne of good intentions.  That helplessness and fear and a desire to stop injustice can be a jumping point for evil under the right circumstances.  But she couldn’t make that logical jump because she needed that anger to move through her grief.  She couldn’t let go of it.

To me, that taps into more than Leia’s character, it’s also touching on why the New Republic failed.  The same people who stood by while corruption tore apart the Republic, the ones who feared for the Republic’s future because of Palpatine’s intervention in their planets’ politics but who uttered not a word about the use of a slave army and the dying Jedi, are the same people who are unironically proclaiming that they can lead the damaged galaxy into a better future.  (Yeah, I’m talking about you Mon Mothma and Bail Organa.)  It’s how the privileged (i.e. the Core worlders) never stopped being blind to how fractured the galaxy really was, what things were really like beyond the Inner Rim.  They never stopped to ask why the Empire was embraced so easily, why it took the destruction of a wealthy, peaceful Core world to shake up the galaxy into rebellion when literal genocide was going on elsewhere.  As a result, a lot of the more insidious evils that undermined the Old Republic found ways to sneak into the New.  It’s Palpatine’s ugliest legacy - that he gave them an Empire so evil they could sweep all of the corruption under the rug and pretend they had nothing to do with it.

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it’s my 18th birthday today and i have absolutely NO idea what to do

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scorpio season moodboard

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I hope whoever made this has an awful day

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[fated-xtasy]

I hate you with every fiber of my being.

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The passage of time

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[whitepeopledoingdumbshit]

I hope whoever made this has an awful day

[thejoker10259]

@fated-xtasy

[amoremagnificentbastard]

We’re all talking about Kenobi and Skywalker and their shared flair for the dramatic, but have we considered Ahsoka’s, too?

[frozen-snips]

She takes after her parents

[colourthysoul]

Mateo Cerezo the Younger - Magdalena (17th century)

[thejoker10259]

HI I"M CHUCKY !! WANNNA PLAY !?!?!? [ Creepy doll in your home ]

i think i’ll pass

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The Signs as Horror Villains

Obviously, lists like these have been done to death (wink, wink) over the years, but I feel like giving my take on it. In honor of Halloween, 2017, here is my list of the zodiac signs as horror movie villains!

Aries: Chucky (Child’s Play)  

The flaming red hair, the brutality of his murders, and the rage when he doesn’t get his way, all makes me think of Aries. Chucky is sort of petulant but in a charming way, and his temperamental attitude makes him an unpredictable force to be reckoned with. How can I not think of Aries?

Taurus: Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Skinning someone’s face off and wearing it seems like something a Taurus would do, what can I say?

Gemini: Pennywise the Dancing Clown (It) 

We all know Geminis are clowns, so this was an obvious choice. Pennywise is a sadistic creature that trolls the ever-loving-fuck out of his victims, and I think that pretty much encapsulates what a Gemini horror villain would be like. 

Cancer: Norman Bates (Psycho)

Okay, honestly, this was a really hard choice for me. I was contemplating both Norman Bates and Jason Voorhees to be Cancer on this list, as I truly think both are total Cancers, but I decided to go with Bates because I think he represents the archetype of Cancer slightly more. Bates is a complete mama’s boy and his love for her borders on creepy sexual innuendo. Throughout his life, he’s had a strong feminine side and has always had, let’s say, a complicated relationship with women, which reminds me of a lot of the Cancer men I know (not like they murder women as far as I know, but you get my meaning).  

Leo: Jack Torrance (The Shining)

You can’t deny Jack has an affinity for dramatic displays of insanity. His most memorable line is when he’s hacking down a door with an ax, then sticks his head in the broken-down door and yells, “HEEEEEEREE’S JOHNNY!!” I mean, come on. Leo all day. 

Virgo: Jigsaw (Saw) 

The well thought out puzzles and the detail Jigsaw put into his whole operation is something I can only see a Virgo accomplishing. The victims of Jigsaw were chosen based on what was deemed to be immoral acts perpetrated by said victims, and who else would have such a sense of moral authority to execute mass murder other than a Virgo?

Libra: Candyman (Candyman)

Candyman is a vengeful spirit that comes back to even the score of his brutal murder hundreds of years prior during the years of slavery. Despite his warped reasoning for doing so, his quest for revenge is an attempt to rectify the injustice he faced, and a lot of the times hurt Libras can use “an eye for an eye” reasoning to justify their internal need for fairness. Candyman most fits that archetype, and his misguided views of his murders make him truly scary. 

Scorpio: Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)

A charming sociopath who is irritably elusive and hard to read? Yeah, Hannibal Lecter is probably a Scorpio. Lecter is a brilliant psychiatrist who, despite being a murderer, is also ironically conscious of social mores. He’s sophisticated and an impeccable manipulator, but also has cute side-hobbies such as painting. So multitalented! Oh, and if you insult anyone he cares about, you’re basically signing your death certificate. 

Sagittarius: Ghostface (Scream)  

Ghostface can barely be taken seriously, really, but it’s sort of part of his appeal. Just like Sagittariuses! 

Capricorn: Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Patrick Bateman works on Wall Street and is obsessed with maintaining and accumulating money and living his lavish, pristine lifestyle. I mean, right off the bat that is Capricorn, lol. Bateman murders men and women and does various other gross, obscene shit that I don’t particularly want to write out, oh—and, he’s a rude asshole to add the cherry on top. Total Capricorn. 

Aquarius: Pinhead (Hellraiser)

A highly intelligent sadomasochist who is basically an alien, Pinhead is sort of robotic and conveys a pure Aquarius to me. He has pins in his head because not having pins in his head would be too mainstream, and he leads a creepy cult that condemns people to eternal suffering. Sounds neat. 

Pisces: Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Freddy Krueger’s modus operandi of killing people in their dreams has a distinct Neptunian feel that I just can’t shake. Krueger is a complete freak, and to be honest, I always thought that Pisces people were weird. 

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Girls to avoid #32

Girls who are appalled and disgusted by a woman who isn’t a feminist, but say that you should respect a woman’s choice.

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That’s a fucking false comparison, and let me tell you why.

Girls who are appalled and disgusted by non-feminists (and anti-feminists) are appalled that those people don’t believe in equal rights for women. That’s what feminism is. Modern feminists are fighting for the destruction of all prejudice in society- the idea being that we need to get rid of all discrimination to fix things. Ultimately, the disgust at non-feminists can be explained by the age old adage “If you aren’t for us, you’re against us”. The apathy of non-feminists helps feed the systemic discrimination of society. The silence of those who can speak is unspoken approval for oppressors and abusers.

Now the other issue. “A woman’s right to choose” is specifically in reference to the issue of BODILY AUTONOMY. Bodily Autonomy is the right to determine what happens to your body- who uses it, what goes in it, what happens to it after death, etc. The feminist assertion is that everyone has bodily autonomy, everyone has the right to do what they want with their body and not have other living creatures attach themselves to your body and leech off your resources. Pretty straightforward, but people portray it as more nuanced because people having bodily autonomy means abortion is legal.

You’re comparing a person’s outrage that other people are being complicit in their oppression to the belief that everyone should have basic human rights.

That’s a false comparison if I’ve ever heard one.

[girls-to-avoid]

OK, no, it is not a false comparison. The word “choice” does not apply specifically to things like abortion. “Choice” is a very, very broad term when it comes to equal rights. 

Unless, of course, feminists don’t want freedom of choice for women and instead want them to be leashed to because it did things for them in the past. Feminism, I hate to tell you, is no longer an equality movement. Even if the loudest are the minority, it still isn’t about equality. Modern feminism wants life to be easier. They don’t want the hardships that come with being a man, they want the perks of being a man without all of the things men have to do to get them.

“If you aren’t for us, you’re against us” is such a bogus statement. You know why? It falls apart at the simple mention of the word “neutrality”. And, even then, what’s so wrong with being against a movement run by a bunch of whiners who want their lives to be even more pampered and easy? Oh, that’s right, nothing.

The feminist assertion that everyone has bodily autonomy is bogus because they do fuck all for men. Circumcision? The draft? Having our bodies less valued? Literally no reproductive rights? Being forced to pay child support to our rapists or for children that aren’t ours? Where are our Emma Watsons and huge spokespeople feminists out against that? Where’s the legislation that’s going against all of that? Oh, exactly, we don’t get that because feminists aren’t fighting for bodily autonomy. 

Your definition of feminism is one of many that I have heard, and until your movement and rally around one definition (which I doubt will happen anytime soon), I see no reason for anyone to support the feminist movement.

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Look at those ears!