sadly i’m allergic to cameras. but if i wasn’t i would be such an annoying video essayist
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This has absolutely been discussed many times but I am once again losing it over the fact that "Rogue One" as a name is making sound out of silence.
It's formed as a last minute, emergency name for the shuttle, for the people aboard, for the mission when Bodhi says it; it has no precedent, nothing that came before it for that name to be used. But when Bodhi says it, it exists.
It both takes advantage of and retcons the Rogue Squadron we've seen before in the original trilogy, where there was no Rogue One. But there is now, because Bodhi said it.
Jyn's name, Cassian's name, K's name, Chirrut's name, Baze's name, Bodhi's name, every one of the rebels that are on the shuttle... none of them come up again in the things that temporally follow. Yes, those pieces of media were created before this film, but in the world of the story, they come after, and it becomes a remarkable silence.
Rogue One as the team that took Scarif and stole the Death Star plans exists as Rogue One because Bodhi pulls that name out of silence, out of nothing that preceded it. "Rogue One?! There is no Rogue One!" "Well, there is now." And after Scarif, there is no Rogue One again. It existed only for what it accomplished.
On a meta level, that's exactly what the film does as well-- it tells a story that was only a handful of vague lines before, draws it out of the lacunae and places itself where it belonged to tell a story that was restrained by the shape of the narrative that came before it and was unavoidably wrapped around it. It's the quintessential "doomed by the narrative."
There's also the fact that Jyn's theme is built around dies irae and reflexively creates a reference to her in parts of A New Hope and also makes the score tell you that she's doomed by the narrative to die but I've screamed enough already.
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Wanna know something that drives me crazy?
These... one is my celling and the other us a wall.
Aren't they just some nice white walls?
Wrong! They pink!
Can't quite tell from those images but I promise you. They pink...
They drive me insane. They have driven me insane for my entire life in this room which I think is only like 15 years? Maybe only 12. But still.
Why are they pink?
Why do they look white
But they pink?
Why my grandmother gotta paint the walls like this.
Also these walls and celling have been like this for longer than I've lived I believe. I think they used to be the purple/blue version which was roughly the same. White looking.
Yet the blue/purple one you could tell better then this one.
Oh and guess what. You've might've already seen the celling. If you've seen an image like...
Thar ceiling is pink...
I wanna kill a paint. That paint. It needs destroyed!
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you guys ever just have to like. stop what youre doing cos u thought abt byler too hard and got emotional. like. i was just in the middle of reading a fic yesterday and i just had to like stop and sit for a bit cos like. damn.
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one of these characters is reminding me of a certain girl who was on my f/o list and i swear to god if i bring back another f/o i will shrivel up like a raisin
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hm. okay someone said something on twitter that got me thinking. okay i am very firmly a yoohan truther supporter lover all that stuff. and i think there are many situations in which they can be and will be together in some shape or form, without kdj. coming to mind instantly are the three year gap, 1865th round, and 1863rd round. prime yoohan material. but at the same time i think these situations are sort of haunted by kdjs absence, and/or really set up to fail. yoohan are people who work well together in achieving a shared goal, for better or for worse. like with 1863 - which would have the least amount of kdj influence - they are pretty much on a path of mutual destruction, hastened by one another. all of these situations, in which theyre working together for some reason or another, it never feels like they can bridge in to anything really vulnerable, you know? i love yoohan on its own, and i do think they can get shit done on their own, but at the same time, kdj coheres them in a way i dont think they can really achieve without him being there. do these words strung together like this make any sort of sense.
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This is an actual conversation, reproduced nearly verbatim, between me and a friend recently:
"Look, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people outside my family who I feel comfortable going up to and talking to!"
*friend counts, getting to both hands* "No but you're forgetting some. Me, [the boy's sister], my parents-"
*stops her* "I think you're misunderstanding me. I said comfortable. Like sure there are the ones who I can feel comfortable talking to, but not going up to."
"So who's on your list?"
"You, [the boy's sister], [his younger brother], [the boy himself]. That's it."
*friend is, apparently, shocked into silence*
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