#just fucking stop war

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

#book 24 #the conversation between the gods at the beginning there is just this #greatest hits #all i say is vicious war crimes in a vague way #and you all start frothing at the mouth like rabid dogs #a lot of yall get the memo with the blorbo tags but also. seeing quite a few strange pulls #not exactly war crimes but Ok #sometimes normal vicious crimes can just be normal vicious crimes ok guys #can yall stop tagging this as israel u guys r fucking weird…. #if u see this and think it is a joke about actual fucking horrific war crimes and ethnic cleansing. u may be fucked up in the head #please be normal #will people stop commenting on this please. none of yall r funny

[guardian-angle22]

Rahul Kohli + meeting Hayden Christensen

#rahul kohli #hayden christensen #midnight mass cast #star wars cast #i love everything about this #hayden aint wrong midnight mass was fucking good #rahul will forever hold a place in my heart simply for the hashtag of stanakin #my gifs #the saturn awards 2022 #that little stutter step of haydens like... should i stop and gush about midnight mass? eh lets do it #the [subtitles in brackets] are all 100% just what I'm lipreading here so it isnt fact but im like 98% sure I got that all right #you can also see rahul immediately say 'I'm a big fan' to hayden and we love him for it

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Every time someone refers to dinosaurs as "lizards", when a) dinosaurs are archosaurs, not anywhere closely related to lizards in the slightest (birds, however, ARE a form of dinosaur) and b) lizards are their own uniquely adapted thing that isn't just "generic reptile", I take 260 million points of damage you know, the amount of time its been since dinosaurs and lizards shared a common ancestor

#palaeoblr #dinosaurs #lizards #reptiles #birds #I take similar amounts of damage whenever a prehistoric reptile that's at all generic-tetrapod looking gets described as “lizard like” #do y'all realize how specialized and unique lizards are #they are ridiculous #please stop reducing them like this #and also just stop misunderstanding dinosaurs they're still here and ravens WILL fucking CUT you #stop increasing the number of hate crimes against corvids they're going to wage war on us #am I kidding? I do not know

[cloudbunny]

shenanigans at the tapcafe

#kalluzeb #star wars #can't stop won't stop I'm fucking obsessed with them #I just like. I wanted to see kal lift zeb. i feel like maybe he could for like .2 seconds #zeb deserves to be lifted #ok but now I'm thinking of that genre of image that's the smaller partner holding the larger and I HAVE to draw them like that too..

[merakiui]

breaking news: my third eye is open again and i'm falling for lilia and his charms.

#meraki mumbles #this is not a drill...... he's genuinely making me have thoughts #it's the general lilia effect #and the sheer whiplash of mean war general versus silly and doting father figure who is also in a pop music club #and he stays up super late to game and so it's highly possible he (at one point) has said 'slay' and and and!!!!!! #OTL and then i'm slowly seeing the appeal for malleus as well #someone inject the fish into my brain before i fall into the diasomnia hole #lilia would be NO HELP if silver or sebek or malleus knocked you up (in your sleep or otherwise) he's proud like '>:3 those are my boys' #and silver... living his entire life thinking people only have sex to breed (because that's how lilia explained sex-ed to him) #so he restrains himself from wanting to have sex with you because he's worried he'll just fuck you like an animal and breed you full D: #AAAAAAA I NEED TO STOP BEFORE THE DIASOMNIA WORMS CHEW THROUGH MY CORTEX.......

[clown-owo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

#good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #goodomensedit #gifs #og post #i can't stop thinking about aziraphale so confident and badass saying “i'm prepared to take defensive measures” #and then just. being so useless #my guy says that and then 10 seconds later is like. well that won't hold forever. whats my plan? that was it. #it didn't even last you thirty goddamned seconds aziraphale??? #what were the candles for? nothing. to look threatening i guess #shout out to nina for being like. hey. what the fuck man #but still having the kindness to go. well obviously we won't throw fiction #king couldn't hold off more than 10 lowest level demons on his own without committing a war crime #needed humans to come up with plans for him #anyway. this is my first time making a gifset #sorry if it sucks. i don't know what the standards are for gifsets. i followed a tutorial #and reused the same color adjustments for every gif <- lazy

[kanansdume]

I've recently been watching these very interesting Star Wars video essays on YouTube (yeah I know, a rare breed) and it brings up these comments Lucas has made about how he views Star Wars as almost like a silent film in terms of how important the visuals are to him in comparison to the dialogue. But this essay also points out how important Lucas finds all of the "rhyming" moments in his trilogies and the way he utilizes them to remind you of something else for emotional or thematic reasons. And there's so many of them, both in visuals and in dialogue, and it's interesting to consider how important this is to him, the repetition for a purpose as well as the storytelling through visuals above everything else and then to look at Star Wars since the Prequels came out and realize how little has really been able to match up to those ideals since then.

The ONLY thing that's come out since the Prequels that I think really hits these two things the same way is, in fact, Andor. One of the things I noticed about the way people discussed Andor as it was airing in a way I haven't really seen for any of the other shows or films was the visual SYMBOLOGY. So many times I saw people noticing the Imperial cog everywhere, from the aerial shot of Narkina 5 as the prisoners escape to the architecture of Mon Mothma's house. There were people picking up on the use of items in Luthen's shop that are familiar from other things to give this idea that Luthen is from another time, he's attempting to preserve this world he lost, that if you're not looking closely enough you won't notice what he's really saying or doing with this shop. The color choices for the different locations and people got analyzed because the people involved spoke about how they intentionally utilized color to SEND A MESSAGE about the characters and the world. We know that the people who made the costumes and sets really worked hard to treat Star Wars almost like a period drama and study the history of the franchise as if it were a real place so that the things they came up with felt like they belonged in this world everyone knows so well even if it's completely new. And of course there were all of the myriad references to things from Rogue One, the constant repetition of "climb", the sunset on the beach, etc.

Nearly EVERY SHOT in this show was created with so much intention behind it in order to say something meaningful about the characters, the world, this specific story they're in, and the overall saga of Star Wars itself. It's insane how much greater impact this show was able to achieve through the incredibly careful usage of visual symbols and thematic repetitions, much like Lucas did before them. It feels like they didn't just study the history of the galaxy far far away, but they studied the history of STAR WARS and what Lucas was trying to do and say with this story. They peeled back his onion a bit more and were able to create something that really has that same visual feel even when it's not created for a child audience. It also is experimenting with its narrative style through its structure and through Cassian's character being allowed to be somewhat more reactive than proactive, and while that didn't work for everyone, it does feel like it's following in Lucas's footsteps of experimentation through Star Wars. Push the boundaries of what Star Wars is and can be and what you can say with it.

But this only works because they peeled the onion back enough to TRULY understand all of the messages Lucas was sending with it. They got the heart of Star Wars and despite its lack of space wizards, despite the lack of most major characters in the Saga, this was a show that honestly got the message more than just about anything else Star Wars has put out since the Prequels. The choices between selflessness and selfishness, the themes about how you always HAVE to make a choice even when it feels like you don't have any (sometimes ESPECIALLY when it feels like you don't have any), and how important it is to make sure to choose the path of compassion above everything else. The themes of connection to others, the symbiotic circle and the impact even the smallest person can have on world around them, it's RIGHT THERE and it's CENTRAL to Andor's storyline.

So yes, it experiments a little with narrative structure, but it's possibly the most Star Wars thing to exist Revenge of the Sith because it honestly truly GETS what Star Wars was about, both in its themes and in its filmmaking. A lot of people said that Andor didn't feel like Star Wars to them, usually because of the lack of space wizards and the fact that it's not a story aimed at children. But to me, Andor is EXACTLY what Star Wars is and has always been. They're stretching the boundaries of what Star Wars can be, but it's saying the exact same things Star Wars has always said, it's just saying it slightly differently. This doesn't feel like fanfiction to me, not really. Unlike things like the Mandoverse or the books, Andor isn't just taking some of the toys out of the sandbox and going to play with them somewhere else. Andor is IN that sandbox. It's building a slightly different sandcastle, but it's still within the sandbox, using the same sand that Lucas did.

#star wars #andor #star wars andor #i GET why some people feel like andor isn't star wars #but quite honestly that feels like not just a superficial reading of andor but a superficial reading of star wars as a whole #the only other show to come anywhere near andor's level was the obi-wan kenobi show #there's tons of visuals that are intended to link back to both the pt and the ot #from obi-wan and leia's costumes to things like the fire obi-wan is burned in and that flashback scene #i'm placing andor above owk still because i think andor takes it an extra level higher but owk is also in that sandbox #owk just got stuck with the fucking volume and the disadvantage of going from a movie to a miniseries #but it did far better with those disadvantages than just about anyone else and still told a VERY star wars style story #the fact that it feels like the prequels is exactly why everyone hated it #and it's exactly why i loved it and think it's the 2nd best thing to come out of star wars since rots #i'll give 3rd place to rebels since it tries once or twice to do some visual and dialogue repetition #but those kinds of things aren't something i see analyzed about rebels all that much tbh #everything else is just fanfic that made a profit #some of it is really BAD fanfic that thinks a cameo is the same as a visual motif. it's not. they suck. stop doing them.

[americankimchi]

it's so hard to take star wars seriously nowadays because i'll watch someone get skewered by a lightsaber and then somehow walk it off with a bacta patch and a slap on the ass. like you're telling me a weapon that can carve furrows into foot-thick solid durasteel doors, dripping melted slag in its wake, when applied to the flesh of a sentient being leaves behind nothing more than superficial damage. like be so ffr. "it cauterizes the wound instantly" this is not a little cut. this is not minor burns. you were IMPALED BY A BEAM OF PLASMA. your ORGANS have been COOKED. your BLOOD has BOILED. your BONES were INCINERATED. what are you TALKING ABOUTTTTTT

#personal #I CANNOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY #you do not grow up with the OT and the PT watching people get cut down instantly and then just #GESTURES FURIOUSLY AT THE MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF PEOPLE GETTING A LIGHTSABER THROUGH THE GUT #AND JUST WALKING IT OFF!!!!!!!! SOMETIMES RIGHT AFTER THE FACT!!!!!!!!!!!! #LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN #WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT #i tried desperately to justify it in the ST movies because rey was established as having like #anakin-levels of force bullshit so why not. i mean anakin couldn't force heal for shit but whatever. #it's not like him having the ability to force heal would've neatly sidestepped the MAIN CONFLICT OF EPISODE 3 OR ANYTHING #STILL MADE MY EYEBROWS RAISE WHEN SHE HEALED KYLO. BUT I TRIED TO LOOK PAST IT. OUT OF GOOD FAITH. MOSTLY DESPERATION. #BUT WHAT! DO! YOU! MEAN!!!!! THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WALK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPALEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY LIGHTSABER!!!!!!!!!! #ON THE REGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I GUESS QUI GON DYING WAS A FUCKING. SKILL ISSUE???????? #???????????????????????? #i need to go lie down. #dont talk 2 me about maul coming back in tcw it's an old wound i refuse to examine #''but in legends—'' i put my hand over your mouth so lovingly. No. <3 #i love star wars SO MUCH but they need 2 stop impaling people on lightsabers if they dont want them to be dead #LOP OFF A LIMB INSTEAD #okay im done. thank u for letting me yell it's all out of my system now #im back on the ''i love star wars'' train again <33

[hellonearthtoday]

remind me NEVER to read a vietnam fic ever again, no matter HOW well it's written. That was the worst thing ive ever done I can never do it again I need to be happy

#the outsiders #IM SICK. #it was just really well written man i couldnt stop reading #hated it though #there's something so actually fucked up abt soda being the one to go to war #leave him ALONE!!!

[anastasiareyreed]

in Turkey, at the beach, Ukrainian women with kids left their stuff at their places and walked away for a few minutes. when they came back, they saw that their stuff were thrown on the sand by russians who took their places. the conflict began, the russian guy started verbally attacking Ukrainian women and their kids, swearing and bragging about killing Ukrainians at war. he even showed pictures...

tell me more about "putin's war" and "russians are not guilty". it's not only their politicians. it's all of them. it's their mentality and way of thinking, whoever is running their country. it is necessary to stop tolerating the russians. terrorists have no place among civilized people!

#not just putin #russia is a terrorist state #russian war in ukraine #russia invades ukraine #russian war crimes #stand with ukraine #support ukraine #help ukraine #save ukraine #ukraine #2023 #fuck russia #stop russia #russia

[generalsmemories]

every time i see someone shit on the xianzhou story quest on twitter i die a little bit inside.

#narus' corner #SO LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW EVERYONE HATED XIANZHOU BECAUSE EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHERS AND ANCESTORS HAD PULLED UP THEORY AFTER THEORY #AND WHEN SAID THEORY DID NOT FCKING GO ALONG WITH WHAT THE ACTUAL WRITERS HAD IN STORE HELL BROKE LOOSE #ion think u understand #maybe im biased. i probably am but the way hoyoverse tackled immortality with xianzhou is quite bittersweet honestly #YA'LL WANTED UR DOOMED YAOI AND YURI AND TBH ME TOO BUT THEY ARE STILL FCKING DOOMED EVEN IF SOME THEORIES DID NOT GO AS MOST SHIPPERS WANT #THEY STILL DOOMED MILADYS AND GENTS AND NONBINARY PEEPS DAN HENG IS SUFFERING FROM PTSD AS WE SPEAK. #u look at xianzhou and see predecessors suffering the consequences of what their ancestors wanted because of immortality and vow to stop it #because they been fighting people against GALAXIES who wants a taste of that immortality who also don't KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT WHICH I #LITERALLY GETTING MARA-STRUCK WHENEVER UR MEMORIES OVERLOAD FROM LIVING TOO LONG AND GO: damn this was shit writing cause i didn't understa #IMMA AAAH #eternal wars where when u find peace after winning you DON'T BECAUSE YOU TURN MARA-STRUCK FROM THE AMOUNT OF TRAUMA U HAVE #when immorality isn't immortality in a sense u can't be killed but long lifespan but then u can't even live said long lifespan #because u get mara-struck from participating in wars to protect AND YA'LL COME OVER HERE AND SAY BAD WRITING?! #and don't come with what the fuck is phantylia doing #ion think u understand how fucked we would've been if phantylia managed to actually absorb that ambrosial arbor AS A GODDAMN EMANATOR #OF DESTRUCTION OF ALL THINGS?! YA'LL WANT INFINITE HEALING WHILE GETTING BLASED OR SMTH!?! #and the aftermath which was probs the most hated on #imma just. #imma shut up LMFAO

[melhekhelmurkun]

I’m such a sucker for scruffy men with sad eyes 😭

#i cannot stop myself #they are everything to me #cassian andor #obi wan kenobi #boromir #arthur morgan #elendil #love him in rings of power he’s just so #*chefs kiss* #fucking Gabriel Van Helsing #the one Hugh Jackman plays specifically #talion from shadow of Mordor/War #boba fett #Karl Heisenberg but that’s less a ‘sad eyes’ thing and more a ‘criminally insane’ thing #Will Graham happens to fall into both categories congrats dear William #Han Solo to an extent (I mean he sets the template for scruffy-looking but that’s an emotional trash pile I would not get involved in) #I have SOME standards despite what this list says #James Norrington also fits those standards he’s just so babygirl #I’ve noticed a lot of these are Star Wars guys #hm #maybe bc I’m on a SW kick rn

[oh-gh0st]

Cinderella

#osomatsu san #mr osomatsu #おそ松さん #hesokuri wars #karamatsu #karamatsu matsuno #ghost's doodles #pov ur prince chibita (i can Not stop laughing at this joke) #im genuinely interested in finishing the hesokuri wars set this came from and making a part 2 for this JUST for that chibita pov #you have no IDEA how LONG THIS FUCKING THING TOOK #weeks of busting my ass my pussy and my cock all culminated into this tribute #my magnum opus for the year guys

[antianakin]

I swear, I'm going to need to get "Obi-Wan put himself on probation in order to prove his commitment to the Jedi and take responsibility for the impact of his own choices" on my body somewhere at this point. Please, please, get this pervasive idea that the probation was FORCED upon Obi-Wan the fuck out of fandom, it ruins the ENTIRE POINT of the whole arc of the first seven books of that series. The choice to put himself on probation is literally the conclusion of Obi-Wan's growth and development. He takes responsibility for his own actions and the unintended harm they've caused, he chooses to accept the uncertainty of his own fate in a way he couldn't do before and this allows him to let go of his fear of that uncertainty that was holding him back in many ways and causing a lot of his issues with anger, and it proves his loyalty to the Jedi Order above all else as something he is choosing because he truly believes it is the right path for him and not just because it's all that he knows. The choice to put himself on probation is SO SO IMPORTANT to Obi-Wan's character arc in this series and EVERYONE MISSES IT TO MAKE HIM SOME UWU SAD BOY INSTEAD.

#star wars #obi-wan kenobi #jedi apprentice #stop turning the jedi council into obi-wan's personal villains just to make him sad #you've missed the whole fucking point of that plot beat if you do #obi-wan does make some of his own mistakes #just because he makes them for sympathetic reasons does not mean they weren't still mistakes #he's allowed to recognize he made mistakes and work to make amends for them #it's literally the only way he can fucking grow as a character #stop taking that away from him #it's legends anyway so if you don't like what happens to him in these stories you can just de-canonize them for yourself #just pretend it didn't happen #canon says they didn't happen anyway #but if you like JA and are using it as an argument pls pls pls GET IT RIGHT

[chase-ing-shadows]

I can’t stop thinking about bear Atreus and Sindri

#yeah I know I fucked up the neck stop looking at it #for real tho #sindri wont talk to anyone anymore #a stark difference to how he used to be #he used to talk the ear off of anyone who made the mistake of looking in the direction of his work #but hes making up for all of it now #noones heard him say a word since just after ragnarok #luckily for him though bears can't talk #and this one cares about him a great deal #touch is a language sindri isnt well versed in #even now he skin still crawls #but he thinks that hes beginning to understand #sindri won't talk to anyone anymore #but theres a bear that found a way to speak to him anyway #god of war sindri #sindri #god of war #god of war atreus #atreus #I swear I'll come up with a name for this AU at somepoint #was thinking about #beartrayal #get it? #or maybe beartreus #ya know somthing real dumb

[mintaikcorpse]

Watching the US say we can't have free Healthcare cuz it's expensive but then give away 100 billion dollars to a country committing a genocide

#im making a joke but its not funny #bisan says these might be her last posts because all of the food is gone and israel keeps bombing #and they might lose all thr electricity they have #so msny of the palestinian reporters ive been following stopped posting suddenly and its fucking heartbreaking snd terryifiying #seeing little kids kn my feed having to learn to say their stories in english just so more people will hear #and the us just funds this genocide knowing damn well its a war crime #free palestine #🇵🇸 #palestine #gaza #Israel #america