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Clementine omg its my bestie clementine hiiiiii

#screaming crying etc #clementine #midnight burger

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Finding the beauty in the tragedy of being stuck at the bottom of a river for years watching the world go by

Midnight Burger forever in my head and in my heart, what magnificent writing and acting that podcast has.

ALT ID [ then one day I saw two yellow eyes peering at me from within her murky water. Something covered in armour that had frightening jaws. They called it a snapping turtle. My body reflected light and attracted fish and it would wait in the darkness and snap at them when they approached. It was obviously there for the fish but I liked to imagine it was protecting me as I lay there paralysed. It was my first friend. ] - Midnight Burger | chapter 13 - Return of the Mack’

@bree_tattoos on Insta

#thinbs that make me goes crazy #midnight burger

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I cannot BELIEVE Tenant of Wildfell Hall isn't more popular in classic lit/feminist circles. Rochester WHO?! Heathcliff WHAT?? Gilbert Markham is the only man I am aware of !!

#tenant #tenant of wildfell hall #anne bronte #bronte sisters #gilbert markham #helen graham #helen huntington #classic lit #classic literature #gothic literature #literature #dark academia

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obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

#i like francis #but the pope as an instituion? yeah #i dont think Yeshua cares if theres gluten in the bread my dudes #hes putting his while body in there it diesnt matter

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Steve R. Coffey

#style

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the barbie movie very explicitly said that men also suffer under the patriarchy and should support rather than compete with one another and are good enough just by being themselves and shouldn’t define themselves around a woman or relationship and somehow that wasn’t positive enough

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John Brosio, “Edge of Town 12”, 2013 Oil on canvas, 71 x 76cm

#styles

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Girls when grief takes them down strange and twisty paths

#grief #girlblogging

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Absolutely obsessed with Luke and hand imagery/symbolism within these two movies. It’s everything.

#when he looks at Vader #then his own hand #when we saw the WIRES EARLIER IN THE MOVIE #ugh

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#O H my god #luke skywalker #mark hamill #the man that you are

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When you’re the main character:

#babygirl of all time #just watched TPM and have to cleanse my vibes #Luke Skywalker

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honest to god im going to be ill ESB Luke has no right to look this fine

#LITERALLY #WHY DO YOU THINK THATS MY FAVORITE MOVIE #LUKE SKYWALKER THE MAN THAT YOU ARE

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It's a day that ends in Y, so I'm wondering what Luke Skywalker in ANH has ever been told about his grandmother, Shmi.

I'm not interested in expanded universe explanations, but even just going off the movies, it's like ... does he know that she and her son, his father, were slaves of the Hutts? Does he know his uncle is his uncle because Owen's father bought Shmi—and later freed her? If so, how old was he when he learned about it?

And how much of Luke's, Owen's, and Beru's onscreen perception of Luke as Anakin's son comes from Shmi's grandson? Does Luke know how she died? How often has he seen her grave marker? Does he ever deliberately visit it? Does he know what she was like? Did he ever ask awkward questions about her that Owen or Beru didn't know how to answer, or which had answers they were trying to shelter him from?

We know how strongly Luke feels about Anakin. He's eager and excited for information about him even while Owen and Beru are alive. But what does he feel about Shmi?

#oh crying #hdjdjdmd #Luke Skywalker

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I think there’s something rather strange going on with all the folks who insist that the Jedi Order in the PT was right and didn’t forbid love and Anakin should just have followed their teachings when the whole point of the prequels is that they are prequels. They come before the OT, and the OT proves the Jedi wrong. They literally do not make sense if they don’t do that.

Luke, in the original trilogy, gains his ultimate triumph, his ultimate victory, because he loved in defiance of the teachings of the old Order. He quite literally had the ghosts of the past telling him, explicitly and without ambiguity, that he has to put his love for his father aside and kill him, as is the duty of a Jedi. Luke has the weight of millennia of teachings weighing down on his shoulders, telling him they knew and know better than a young, inexperienced man barely out of his teenager years. That he should follow their teachings or be destroyed. That is an immense weight to carry, and many people would and explicitly have given in to it in-universe. What are your feelings and ideals in the face of such immense legacy, after all?

But Luke doesn’t give in.

He doesn’t bend.

He says “I may be young, and I may be new, but I believe to my heart and soul that love matters more than this legacy. Matters more than your teachings.” And he says this to the ghosts of his mentors. That is such a powerful moment and one I can’t believe George Lucas didn’t create deliberately for even a second. This young man, being told he has to kill or die trying for a system that is dead or dying itself, that couldn’t survive itself, and refusing to do so. He is the living refusing to continue the violence of a dead generation. He is the young man refusing the draft into a war the old generation started, saying “peace and love matters more than you being right.” He is the embodiment of breaking the cycle.

And the movies vindicate him.

The main villain vindicates him with his last dying breath.

Darth Vader, dying, says “You were right.” and admits he and his were wrong. The main antagonist, Luke’s nemesis, in the face of his son’s immense, defiant love, gives way and does the impossible: he comes back to the light and dies a Jedi. The very thing the old Order says was impossible.

They were wrong. They have to be. The narrative demands it, the movies don’t make sense without it.

The solution was never to continue the cycle of the old Order, or Luke would have failed there, would have failed when he said “I am a Jedi, like my father before me.” And claimed that defiant, deviant, condemned definition of being a Jedi over the one presented to him by the Grandmaster of the old Order. If the old Order was right, Luke would have to be wrong. Be wrong about love, be wrong about laying down the sword, be wrong about refusing to fight. He would have to be wrong.

But the old Order is dead, explicitly killed by a monster, in some part, of their own making. It’s members only existing as bones in the ground or ghosts speaking from beyond the grave. They did not deserve it, it should not have been inflicted on them, but the narrative is clear on this: “The old way is dead, and was dying for a long time before that. Long live the new.”

Luke is that new. Luke is the breaking of the cycle, the reforging of swords into ploughs, the extended hand. Luke says “I don’t care how much I was hurt, I refuse to hurt you back, and you don’t need to hurt me either.”

“We can end this together and choose love instead.”

And Darth Vader, killer of the Jedi, End of the Order, lays down his arms as well, and reaches back as Anakin, saying “You were right.”

It wasn’t Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace, Qui-Gon, or even Ahsoka who achieved the ultimate victory in the end, following the tenants of the old Order. It was Luke. Young, inexperienced Luke, who saw that the age of legacy handed to him was only history, that the sword handed to him as his life was only a tool, and that the decrees of the dead were only advice. And he took it all, said “thank you for your experience, but I’ve got it from here,” and laid it all down to instead extend an open hand towards his enemy.

And his victory, his ultimate triumph, his vindication, was that he was proven right when his enemy reached back and became just another person. Just another person, just like him.

The Jedi did not deserve what happened to them, and they did not deserve to die. But the story is clear on this: the Jedi of old were wrong, and the Jedi of new, the Last Jedi, was right. No sword or death will ever end the rule of the sword or end the bloodshed. But love?

Love can ignite the stars.

#ITS ABOUT THE FUCKING POWER OF LOVE

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holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror

#DO IT FUCKING SCARED

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My coping mechanism lately is ✨sad country ✨

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throwing up so hard right now