i love how the revenge of the sith novelization is able to provide so much vivid insight into anakin's mental state, with stover giving words to what hayden's pained scowl and wet eyes are able to imply.
we see how far he's already gone, how close violence is to the surface of his thoughts. this is the first time in the book that in any way he has been a threat to padmé, instead of desperately trying to save her. he's really teetering on the edge, like "a bug he could crush beneath his heel and keep on walking?" the biggest possible yikes 😬
but, in a moment that expands what is shown in the final film, we see him pull himself back from that space:
we see how he's not gone yet, how he's teetering on the edge, but how he's aware that he's on the edge. it's not just that he's not the jedi he should be, it's that he's in free fall in the dark. he doesn't know how to orient himself, who to believe, how to behave. he's detached from all the bonds that keep him stable, keep him sane. the order, obi-wan, now padmé? palpatine has been relentlessly and successfully alienating him from everyone, playing him perfectly.
the problem, and why his maniuplations work so well, is that because deep down, anakin wants to be played. for all his confusion and panic, he wants what palpatine is offering, he likes the way palpatine flatters and encourages him. he's close to the edge, so close, and about to leap off, because he can. these last moments of self-awareness, self-recrimination, we see the man he used to be tugging impotently at the man that he's become. he's already lost control in so many important ways and it's so painful to see haha
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being a woman literally makes me suicidal id rather be a caterpillar than a woman n yet i will still sit here like dang im not sure if im trans :/ do i really want body hair like girl id drink a potion to be mothman if it meant i didnt have to be a woman who is this joke fooling
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Kindlepaw: OH MY STARS OH MY STARS I GOT CARRIED AWAY BY THIS FREAKISHLY HUGE CAT AND SHE BROUGHT ME BACK TO HER SCARY LOOKING MATE AND THEY WANT TO ADOPT ME?????? I DON'T UNDERSTAND I THOUGHT THE DARK FOREST WAS FULL OF MURDERERS THIS CAN'T BE NORMAL???????
Perchclaw: Nah, it's normal ;)
Stonefern: You get used to it after a while.
"everyone gets adopted here. Even Cloudpaw, and he's, like, 20."
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this is what every tiktok screenshot looks like to me
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personal injury lawyer billboards are all like INJURED?
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spanish galleon ring by the hunt
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got my hands on a field guide of californian bugs and i found that there's this one bee species in southern california that looks like this
(Actual bugs under the cut, CW for insects)
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“Israel is committing genocide.” Yes. They are. But so is the US. The US is 100% complicit in this, and Israel would not have been able to do as much without the help of the US. I’m disgusted to be living in a country that is complicit in the literal MURDER of civilians. Men, women, children, elderly, families. All dead because of Israel AND the US. This needs to STOP.
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