#Turning Point Trilogy

[triscribe]

Tri's first attempt at a personality quiz

So I made a Thing

Very much an on the fly sort of Thing, so we'll see if it turned out well or ends up going on the scrap pile for take two.

(Brief reminder that you can order an autographed copy of my book off Ko-fi, or read the first chapter for free on Patreon)

#wolfen's rage #turning point trilogy #uquiz link #personality quiz #original fiction

[triscribeaucollection]

I don't think it'll ever become second nature or even a habit to hype myself, but here's your infrequent reminder than this fan fic writer is also a self-published author with one book out and another on the way:

Autographed copies with included bookmarks are available over on my Ko-Fi account; I've also got the first chapter of Wolfen's Rage available free to read on Patreon.

“Ash and ice, hang it all,” Crant growled. “Mentras, I need you to hold onto this for me.” She bent over to yank the folded map from her boot, and shoved it into his hands before he had time to protest.

“Whoa, wait, hold on! What are you going to do?” His voice went up in pitch as he watched her take several steps back.

“Something incredibly stupid.”

#originals #scribe's art #wolfen's rage #turning point trilogy

[phoenixkaptain]

The scene of Anakin turning back to the Light and saving Luke is such a beautiful scene in so many ways, but especially from a character standpoint.

If you look at Darth Vader just in the movies, he doesn’t do things without a plan. He has a step two. Even if his step two is immensely dumb, he always seems to at least have some form of an idea where he wants to end up; he has a point B he’s trying to reach.

Part of what makes Vader a terrifying villain is that he always seems to anticipate what his opponent will do. He seems to know what they’ll do before they even think about what they’ll do. Very rarely is Darth Vader ever taken by surprise. Darth Vader is the character who proves how scary the Force can be. While Palpatine uses his Force lightning and can predict what his opponents will do, he never quite reaches the level Anakin is on, he never reaches that peak of knowing the next five steps his opponent is going to take, even as those next five steps change.

Palpatine doesn’t see Vader turning on him coming. Palpatine is not a Force user who can see the future, he uses the predictions Darth Plagueis made and he sticks to the outline provided by his former Master. He does everything he does and believes everything will be fine and has complete confidence in himself because Plagueis was just that good at predicting the future.

Darth Vader literally changes the future. He makes those predictions false. Him throwing Palpatine down a reactor shaft wasn’t in the books, him choosing his son wasn’t an option, the idea that a Sith lord as powerful as Darth Vader could turn back from the Dark Side is believed by the Jedi and Sith alike to be impossible. Darth Vader himself doesn’t even believe that he can turn back from the Dark Side. The only character who ever believes that Darth Vader can come back is Luke.

Darth Vader is fifteen steps ahead of his opponents. It’s very rare that he ever gets surprised. He always has a plan.

But when he saves Luke, he isn’t any of that. He leaps in without a plan, without any ideas of where he’s goung. He doesn’t know what will happen except that he’ll probably die. He doesn’t have a way out of this. This is the first time Anakin Skywalker ever does anything without already having a way out or immediately being able to come up with a way out.

Anakin was hotheaded and impulsive, yes, but Anakin from his introduction always has a plan B. And when he doesn’t have a plan B, he makes one. He is by far the most competent character in Star Wars, just from his ability to get himself and others out of trouble.

In the moment of turning back from the Dark, Anakin is listening to the Force. He’s listening to the Force as it tells him to save someone. The universal call to the Jedi, the inexplicable push that all Jedi feel and what ultimately led to the majority of Jedi dying, just because they couldn’t not listen when the Force told them to help. Anakin finally listens to it, finally answers it, he finally acts like a Jedi.

There’s no step two. There’s no way out. Doing this will end in his death. Darth Vader is already injured, and the only one who has the resources to put him back together is Sidious. To save Luke, Vader has to step into the lightning, which he knows all to well will ruin his suit. Choosing to save Luke is tantamount to choosing to die.

And he does it. He hesitates, but ultimately, he sacrifices himself for someone else. He goes in knowing that this won’t end with him being able to get out. He has no way out. There’s no plan B. His suit has gone from keeping him alive to being part of the reason he’s dying. He takes off his helmet accepting that he’ll die and being happy to die because he’s finally at peace, he finally feels the warmth of the Force, he finally sees his son with his own eyes, his son is finally looking at him with nothing but trust and worry for his wellbeing, he’s right where he wants to be.

He went from wanting to posess Luke to just being happy that Luke is there with him. That Luke is the one by his side when he dies, that he’s dying on the same side as Luke — Anakin is fine with this. He’s ready to die. He’s accepted it. He’s just happy that the last thing he’ll see is the product of his and Padme’s love for each other.

The scenes of Anakin in Return of the Jedi are beautiful. The title “Return of the Jedi” is so great for this movie, it’s perfect, okay, you don’t understand. It has so many meanings!! The Jedi returning could be referring to Luke, the main Jedi we follow, returning to the screen, or to Tatooine. It could be referring to the Jedi Order, since Luke takes on Yoda’s request to share his knowledge with others and, with Sidious dead, the Jedi Order has functionally returned, even if it is only one member strong. It could refer to Yoda returning, it could refer to Obi-Wan returning.

Or, Return of the Jedi could be referring to Anakin. Anakin Skywalker, the son of the Force. Anakin Skywalker, the only character powerful enough to change the future itself, the only Sith Lord powerful enough to stop being a Sith Lord. Anakin Skywalker, who has always done impossible things, who has always performed impossible feats, who is himself impossible. And he’s back. He’s returned. The Jedi returned.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #luke skywalker #return of the jedi #star wars original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #woke up thinkin about him #anakin my love my darling my blorbo #my baby my girl my boy my baby my dear my dearest darling my utmost affection #will stand here on my soapbox and say #the scene of vader turning on palpatine is the best scene ever made ever #it’s dramatic it’s daring it’s beautiful it’s meaningful it’s amazing #it’s a turning point that turns the entire galaxy on its head #the force is over there like a soccer mom screaming ‘fuck yeah that’s my boy!!!!’ #and i am right there beside it #anakin my darling you’re doing amazing you’re showstopping you’re perfect i love yo- #anyway star wars was pretty good huh #a okay movies if you ask me #i’m so glad #that anakin killed palpatine #he def kill palps #nothing disproves that he killed palps #palps is dead for good and never coming back #anakin did great i’m so proud of him #so glad palpatine is dead yup dead and gone no doubt #sequel? you mean the movies where the main antagonist #turned out to be a dry piece of toast? #yes of course i remember dryth toastatine in the sequels #do glad ani killed sidious so dryth toastatine could rise

[charlietheepicwriter7]

thinking about a star wars au where, when luke skywalker asks if obi-wan knew his father, obi-wan responded that he didn't, but he did know luke's mother.

#star wars au #luke skywalker #obi-wan kenobi #because from a certain point of view obi-wan is correct #the anakin he knew would never have betrayed the jedi #but as it turned out he didn't know anakin that well did he? #in that instance he knew padme far better #and luke? clearly idolized his father in A New Hope #but his mom? He doesn't even know her name. He'd be DESPERATE to learn more about her #and as obi-wan tells him stories about her on their way to alderan luke might decide to change his name #and its luka amidala who blows up the death star #i don't think it would change much about the original trilogy but i do think it would be fun #star wars #padme amidala #darth vader

[caffeine-high]

honestly, the finale of rvb s13 permanently altered my brain chemistry at 13 y/o and since then i have never been normal about heroic sacrifices

epsilon's speech is just ingrained in me and i think something about that makes up a core part of who i am as a person and what i like in stories

i dont know how to deal with that

#red vs blue #the chorus trilogy #13 y/o me was not ready for that and 21y/o me still has not recovered #i have since matured and refined my tastes but like #someone sacrificing themselves to give their friends a chance but they themselves never knowing the outcome is forever my weak spot #bonus points if somehow the sacrifice comes with great pain and suffering before death #[was watching a series yesterday where this happened and the person was even forced to forget why he did what he did and just before the en #thought it was a punishment for being a bad person and that he deserved it.. even though he was great and kind and caring but he didnt #remember.. he only knew the pain and suffering.. but due to that his friends got away to safety (mostly).. and aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh] #so yeah #maybe my taste has turned a bit more towards the extreme and/or psychological effects #but oh my fucking gods that shit is soooo goood #caffeines cackles

[thefairmaidenoffandom]

yes peter parker would drink fanta out of a champagne glass. yes he would do it in a fancy restaurant

#parksborn #raimiverse #peter parker #harry osborn #spider man #tobey maguire spider man #raimi trilogy #i did it yall be proud #please be forgiving lol #i just feel like raimiverse parksborn is very harry always looking and peter never turning around #and i mean that in the pretty prose poetry way #i did my best on the resemblance but its not really my strongest point #fanart

[twinkpoll]

No Timothee Chalamet but what do you say about every character played by him ? Expect a lot of submissions when I have some free time, dear mod :)

We've already gotten three noms for Paul Atreides. But only three.

I feel like he's an honorary Victor-type twink. He's running around a worm-infested desert about to keel over. Truly the selective god-breeding didn't work.

#twink poll #twinkathon #dune #paul atreides #doesn't he turn into a giant worm at one point? #everything i've learnt about dune has been absorbed via internet osmosis and tv tropes #i've had the trilogy for years and i still haven't bloody read it

[elvesofnoldor]

the vampire lestat in audiobook format is 24 hours long and i finished listening to it in a week, meanwhile merrick is only 8 hours long and it took me three weeks to chew through the whole fucking thing. it's not even very badly written, i just really hate it when anne rice turned the dial up to 11 on her Sympathy with the P*dophile bullshit

#idk how i kept misspelling merrick but anyways i finished it. i hate it. i have gotten it over with #p*dophile(s). there's two of them and i'd say they kept jerking each other off but really it's just david having a crush on louis #sometimes i think louis is just straight :\ and for lestat's sake i hope he isn't but :| #merrick forced louis to fall in love with her and he had zero problem with it #meanwhile lestat turned him a vampire when he briefly changed his mind and boom! 60 years of abuse from monsieur pointe du luc #the numbers just don't add up #mae overshares #the book is just so unsatisfying. i know this is the book where louis' superiority complex comes to die. except that...did it? #this dude would insist on looking weak and pathetic just to prove to whoever the fuck that he's superior than other vampires #he thinks he's exampt from the cycle of violation and death these motherfuckers are all trapped in but he isn't! #and when claudia's ghost showed up (plus her diary entry) reminded him of it. merrick just turned around and told him that the ghost lied #???? ik this woman has her own issues having a crush on her surrogate father 50 years senior than her but ???? #and then louis tried to use suicide bait to get lestat to get back together with him or whatever #and then it didn't work he got mad and wrote 'tell lestat i can't wait to leave him' in his pathetic little suicide note #this bitch made sure he wasn't gonna actually die. he acted shady and abusive yet again. and got. well. rewarded for it! #cause lestat showed up at last ANYWAYS and reluctantly gave 99% of his blood to this fucking guy #louis' so-called love for lestat is the most hurtful passive agressive fucked-up 'love' i've seen in fiction #do not enjoy that shit at all! maybe im just too vanilla but their relationship is literally torture #good to know they got married in the prince lestat trilogy. yeah that meant nothing. lestat would have been alone. as always #im done talking shit abt louis but god. need to blow off steam

[unilateralis]

the painfully average gamer boy discord boyfriend your friends tell you not to fall head over heels for (and fail miserably)

#art #the first law trilogy #malacus quai #the au #if you see me turn this guy into an oc at this point don’t be surprised

[cadybear420]

HSS:CA Book 2: Oh don't worry MC, you shouldn't feel forced to choose between your twin and your best friend!

Also HSS:CA Book 2: You're going to have to choose between your twin and Rory for who to help at the winter carnival, and the one you don't choose will act like a complete dick to you! And not only that, but when we figure out who will carry the merged greenhouse campaign, we'll have this entire decision rely on you and your choice! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

#This one was honestly the worst of the trilogy and of all the HSS books for this reason #As well as how the conflict turning point relies on the whole school blindly worshipping Lorenzo's campaign just cause he saved a kitten #Ajay's and Skye's arcs + romance routes are the only saving grace to Book 2 honestly #choices stories you play #hss #choices hss #high school story #choices stories we play fandom #choices high school story #choices game #choices stories we play #choices #pb choices #choices app #high school story caleb #choices hss:ca #hss:ca #hss: class act

[the-squeege]

Otto is officially my new ✨Character of Interest✨

#otto octavius #dr octopus #my art #surprise norman cameo #i like their mugs #just tired old scientists vibing. like that they got to do that in nwh 11/10 #tbh at this point it’s just the raimi trilogy that’s my new big interest heheh oops #anyway uh I like that he’s a cat in spider ham that’s cute as fuck #okay seeiously though I’m quite happy with how the busts turned out #wanted to figure out how to draw otto in my style and 👀👀👀😳👀😳👀😳 #yeah I like him quite a bit he’s very fun to draw

[triscribe]

Making bookmarks to sell with my novel Wolfen's Rage at a Local Authors event at my library in a couple of weeks!

Each chapter is headed by a relevant quote and the symbol attached to whichever character holds the main point of view, and I use those again here, but with extra quotes that will pop up throughout the trilogy. A few favorite examples:

"Monsters are made, not born. Each of us has the potential to become one, no matter race or upbringing." -Wol, the Wolfen Primari

"You're a fool following a bigger fool, but that sadly is no true crime." -Lillia Crant

"I do consider spite to be a key portion of any healthy diet - how else do you think I've lived this long?" -The One Who Dwells in Past and Present

"Power is power. Whether you control it or it controls you is the difference between strength and weakness." -Dragon Queen Talasta

"There are certain levels of decency I expect from the people I travel with: not stabbing me for fun. Not killing me for fun. And most importantly, NOT FILLING ALL MY POCKETS WITH DEAD FISH, FOR FUN!" -Mentras den Tastaine

#wolfen's rage #trials of youth #turning point trilogy #chapter quotes #bookmarks #rip Mentras x'D

[sparklestheunicorn]

The cruellest thing erika johansen did to kelsea glynn was change her face.

#ME! #the tearling trilogy #i am thinking about this series again. with a bit of trouble considering i am in the middle of another book #but i remembered this i remembered how my mouth fell open in shock bc oh my god. #in queen she was blandly average looking. like. she was not pretty. she was not ugly. she just was. #i hated the focus on her looks but it became a plot point and i sort of forgive her #bc in invasion she starts having these visions of lily who lived a different life quite a while ago. and lily is pretty. #and kelsea does want to be pretty but she also doesnt want to become her mother and she feels that being pretty would help that #so shes content but she does wish a little that she was prettier. and then the jewels start showinf her visions of lily and lily is gorgeous #pretty even. the jewels give her lily's body lily's face. just in time for kelsea to bathe in her anger #and the fucked thing is that shes treated with more respect by everyone around her. (pen not included.) #(my boy pen was in love with her from the start and could never do any wrong) #but everyone else. no one in her guard said a goddamn word but they treated her differently #by the end of the old tearling she was yearning for her old face. she wanted her old face back so badly. she realised her mistake in wanting #to be pretty almost immediately and she wanted her old face back but the jewels never gave her that #all of this in turn made me hold my breath the first time she looked in the mirror in the new tearling. #she was begging for her face to be her face again and she almost cried (if im remembering correctly. or maybe that was me) when she saw her #own face staring back at her. out of the few good things the new world gave her. this was the best.

[peggycatrerr]

i genuinely do not know how this game’s script got greenlit

#steph's post tag #Whoa! That was a total turnabout! good fucking LORD i hate it here i hate it so MUCH #you know how the trilogy and aa4 use the Gallery Dialogue moments sparingly for moments when the crowd is Particularly raucous #to the point where their shouts can be heard and always at key plot moments #(or at the very least key thematic moments to drive certain emotions home particularly phoenix’s self doubt)? #yeah well this is the second Gallery Dialogue Moment in the first trial day of the second chapter of the game #also this trial segment is twice as long as a normal one and it literally had a recess at the halfway point too #if shu takumi had written this game there would've been a to be continued as they went to recess. #but nope. One Long Segment. #this wouldn't be as much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that dual destinies uses so much ram that it KILLS the 3ds battery #which means you can only get through one average-length section before the little power light turns red #so you can't even do it all in one sitting unless you keep the console plugged in.....

[confused-stars]

... I feel like the Animorphs books are just going to hit harder and harder the farther I get in the series

#i read the david trilogy today and. oh boy #at this point i dont know if ive ever read anything this fucked up even in adult books #they're so good. no punches pulled. just the horrifying realities of war and child soldiers detailing their ptsd #but hey at least they can turn into dolphins! :)

[saviourkingslut]

vent tags

#uuggh #friends invited me to a sleepover for a weekend #but it's literally on the other side of the country #and when i said i don't have much money rn #so i really don't want to pay for the train #one of them was like 'i can bring you' #and i was like. fuck. now im stuck bc he offered. #so i was like. ok. #and then it turns out he wants to pick me up. somewhere on like 2/3 of the journey #WHAT'S THE POINT THEN #this is gonna cost me 45 euros for a meet-up i don't even want to go to. kill me. #my mum got mad when i said id rather buy a game with this money than go out with this friend group rm #but it's the truth #like this means i cant buy the ezio trilogy for switch even tho i wanted to do that this month #mad abt it #appreciate people wanting me there but take the hint fr #i have money to do all this stuff but im saving up bc i want to go to venice in autumn #i live pretty frugal bc of it and then stuff like this happens. and i have to get a new passport too #costs 75 euros photos excluded. and i have to go to the hairdresser's... and probably pay for some xrays of my back/hips #yeah. i hate it here