ALSJJDLAJF SO EXCITED TO SEE THE END RESULT

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

there are some things a character should not be able to tell us about themselves EVEN with a gun to their head. depending on the character that could even expand to include "most" things

really don’t know how you can watch the scene in tpm where palpatine talks directly in padme’s ear in front of the senate, and she’s begging for the galaxy to care about her people dying, and he’s boldly manipulating her into calling that vote of no confidence, she looks like she’s about to burst into tears, absolutely no one is helping her, no one but this evil evil man, and think the prequels portrayed padme as exclusively comfortable & confident in the role of queen. they’re action movies yes, she’s an action hero who is brave and charges into battle, but they are also tragedies. padme is a tragic character. part of that tragedy is her at 14 being put in charge of a whole planet and falling prey to a dark lord’s manipulations. do i wish this element was expanded upon in the movies? yes of course. but i will never understand people acting like it’s not there at all. she was 14. in aotc she says she was too young. it’s right there

thinking about AU powder with tattoos similar, yet different, than jinx’s

(they are on her opposite side on purpose)

the herald’s favourite

we're still making up new popes and kings and shit in 2025. fucking embarrassing

DYING at mace’s expressions

AU where qui-gon leaves the order to train anakin

ft. a stressed obi-wan and reluctant ally maul (anakin thinks they’re besties tho)

happy may the 4th everyone

thinking abt characters in a ‘beating them up is not enough i need the whole world to be against them” way. in an “i need their only purpose to be impossible and fucking insane with the circumstances they are given but i want them to keep trying even though they are the bug the universe tries to squash under its heel” way even

thinking about teen ford's belief that stanley will be fine making his own way in the world

usually that belief is taken as ford's typical shortsightedness when it comes to reading other people. i even agree, tbh! he's 17, of course he underestimates how harsh life without a support network is. he has no frame of reference.

but honestly?

i don't wonder if some of the misconception is that ford is blind to the fact that nobody else sees stan's potential the way he does. including stan himself!

stanley is viciously clever when he applies himself. he's resourceful, determined, witty. he's fully capable of being streetwise and book-smart.

ford knows that! so he trusts that those traits will carry stan. sure, it'll carry him to some seedy places, but when stan has something to fight for, he always comes out on top.

ford knows that.

(but stanley doesn't.)

*shaking sobbing covered in blood* yeah it's fine that i can't do The Thing because of my disability. thats fine. its whatever. i am completely at peace with the fact that i cannot do The Thing and i will stop torturing myself on that basis. it totally doesn't make me feel subhuman at all that i can't do The Thing. i'm so normal about my inability to do The Thing. i really am. i really, really am. it's whatever. it's fine. i'm fine. everything is FINE