#princesssarcastia

[callmearcturus]

what's your hot take on rooster? 👀

OH right

sorry i had a Very long week, my brain is mush

okay so I feel like there's a tenancy to portray Rooster as a hothead, like a troublemaker when he was young. which, I totally understand it since the emotional arc of TGM is him having a meltdown over meeting Mav again.

but the thing is that I feel like Rooster's angry switch is specifically Mav. what I really like about Rooster is that he's almost excessively calm and collected as a person.

like, I made Punct rewatch his intro scene today and babbled about his body language. the thing about that scene at the Hard Deck is that he comes in with a load of confidence, then plants himself in a spot, and Hangman comes to him. When Hangman starts to needle Rooster,

he gets nothing. Rooster completely No Sells him. His expression is almost annoyingly mild, it verges on condescending. And in response, Hangman gets in close to him, does his "you're snug on that perch" line AND STILL GETS FUCKING NOTHING. So he segues into his bravado-laden "I love this song" basically as an out, because Rooster is not giving him the satisfaction of a response.

And I feel like that's Rooster's thing, his composure. He's not combative, he's not overtly competitive like the others, he is contained.

Rooster gives me the impression he would be the kind of person who, if you started a serious, heated argument with him, he'd go blank and still in an attempt to defuse. Which is!!!! Fucking annoying! Because it's not contending with the actual Content of the disagreement, it's managing the person he's dealing with. It's "I have more emotional control so I can direct this interaction" yanno what I mean?

And I get the impression this is what Hangman finds so compelling/irritating about Rooster. He's CONSTANTLY trying to get Rooster to fucking react, but he's the ultimate fuckign No Sell. This is why Hangman latches onto figuring out wtf is between him and Mav, and as soon as he does, its finally, FINALLY the thing that gets a rise out of Rooster, and Hangman is fucking thrilled.

So, all of this to say: Rooster, to me, feels like a very level-headed, calm guy. Which I think fits very well with the fact he's an only child and he's also lost both of his parents young, his father very suddenly and his mother very slowly in a painful, probably expensive process.

The thing about being an only child in a household dealing with Heavy Shit is that your childhood becomes very abbreviated and you sort of... have to mature much faster than normal.

This is frankly what I love about Rooster? I adore that he is a very placid guy who doesn't feel the need to butt heads with other aviators, but that he does have a temper about one specific man, and he has zero control over that.

#princesssarcastia #tgm #bradley rooster bradshaw #rooster is sooooooooooooooo normal about maverick guys don't even worry about it

[nerteragranadensis]

unique writing asks #8: Favorite dialogue in your wip?

probably this stuff from the end of the first act

“That’s what you said last time,” Bair said. “I know,” Simon said. “I—” Amber cut him off. “You said you would only be gone two weeks!” “I said a couple weeks,” Simon said, “and that was never a guarantee—” “And you were gone for months.” Bair’s voice was flat, but no one could have called it calm. “And we thought you were dead.” “I know,” Simon said. “We mourned you.” That knocked him back. He didn’t know what to say. He wasn’t sure there was anything to say: anything that could fix the hurt in Bair’s eyes. I did that, Simon thought. I put that there. “You see people die,” Bair said. “All the time. I know. I’ve seen it too. This was different. Maybe you don’t know that. We didn’t see it happen and we didn’t have a body. It was just… nothing. Where you should be.”

[...]

“Oh,” Bair said. “It’s him. The man you’re running away from.” Simon’s hands stilled on the bag. “If it is a man,” Bair went on, as easy and quiet as before. “But you’re most afraid of the doctor, and Mr. Lin, so I always thought it probably was.” His hands. His hands, on the bag, moving slowly, as if in a dream. This couldn’t be real, because if it was, it would mean Bair had found him out. “He’s not here, you know,” Bair said. “You can’t get much farther away. You can run as far as you want. You’ll never get away any more than you already have.”

#princesssarcastia #text #my writing

[mumblesplash]

alright let's have fun right off the bat—jason todd for the character bingo sheet ask

oh my god instant bingo that top row is not fair

​AND DONT THINK I DIDNT SEE THAT PUN BTW

#all the popular ships suck bc he is aroace #other shows/media i am into enough to do this for include but are not limited to #danny phantom #the umbrella academy #tma #atla #buffy the vampire slayer #up through like season 7 of supernatural #uhhh there’s definitely really obvious ones i’m forgetting but w/e #splashasks #princesssarcastia

[words-writ-in-starlight]

did you delete your ao3 account by any chance? i tried clicking on the link in your bio and ao3 returned an error message

SORRY I FORGOT HOW USERNAMES WORK

I just finally got around to changing my Ao3 to match my URL every-goddamn-place else, I'm now under WordsWritInStarlight

#asked and answered #princesssarcastia

[bedlamsbard]

whoa. new icon. you changed your face!!! i love it!!!! hope natasha brings you joy for many days to come

new icon! new theme! well, same theme, different header and sidebar. finally admitted that I am no longer a Star War and updated all of that to reflect it. am still VERY confused by my own icon; I had that Hera icon for...six years? since I was in my previous graduate program.

#princesssarcastia #bedlam replies

[muirmarie]

Dean is an idiot and I love him SO MUCH lmao.

And I genuinely think Cas deserves to have his wings back!!! And Dean deserves to never be in pain again, because Cas is always at his side to heal him, even (ESPECIALLY) when they're fighting!!

Like I do get the tasting food/sleeping/growing old aspects of human!Cas, and I absolutely don't mind reading it, but Cas regaining his powers and full access to his true form is always gonna be my fave

#princesssarcastia #spn

[princesssarcastia]

seeing people on tumblr fight about the rules of the english language is both annoying and interesting to me, because my mother and one of my brothers are in like month four of a fight over whether language rules matter, and whether we should institutionally enforce them (i.e. in schools). and every time i talk to them it comes up and they try to drag me into it

#i love my family but sometimes i get exasperated over the petty shit we fight over #tmi hour with princesssarcastia #im fucking switzerland here

[gingersnapwolves]

well I finally got my new laptop! with big thanks to everyone for all their advice, especially @princesssarcastia for linking me to a super useful post! the setup process was really funny because they give you the 'privacy settings' like "hey so we've got all this stuff turned on because you wanna give us all your data right?" lmao no sir, I do not. but at least it has Windows 10 so I don't have to worry about the massive bloatware in Windows 11 problem

so far I've gotten Firefox, Ublock, and Duckduckgo installed, so can at least surf the internet! but shockingly my version of Microsoft Word won't work with this new computer ... no idea why, it's only from 2003 after all! 😂😂😂 I thought I'd be able to just copy/paste the program file from my old computer! That work for the last two times I switched computers lmaoooo

anyhoo what are y'all using for a word processor these days? I don't want to be stuck in Google Docs all the time

also the docking station I bought doesn't work, I plug it in and the laptop says "boop! we see you've plugged something into the usb and we don't know what the fuck that is, go to hell". so, uh, that's also a problem I have to figure out

#personal

[starlightandsunshine]

nine people i'd like to know better

tagged by @princesssarcastia Thank you! I should really do these more

last song: it was either "Walls could talk" by Halsey or "Force of nature" by Bea Miller but I can't actually remember which

favorite colour: blue. specifically the silver blue that moving water turns when the sun bounces off it just right, the blue-green-turquoise that really cold mountain lakes turn when its clear, and the blue-purple the sky turns when the sun's not there but its not quite dark yet/anymore

currently watching: gosh so many things 😬, I'm just going to count things that I've been actively watching in the last week otherwise this list will be enormous since I have chronic 'stop-watching-in-the-middle-of-a-series' syndrome, so: Friends, Charmed (og) (again), live-action one piece (if I've seen the first episode it definitely counts), and I'm halfway through a tatort episode that I had to pause in the middle yesterday

last movie/tv show: huh, I kind of covered that already, but I'm going to go with the last film I watched because I feel like being in the middle of several tv series doesn't count, which I think was live-action the Little Mermaid

spicy/savory/sweet: sweet, definitely sweet, although I'm not immune to a kick of spice in my sweet things. it makes it interesting.

relationship status: long-distance relationship bc we live on opposite ends of the country rn

current obsession(s): charmed (og), batfam (WFA if I'm being specific), I'm back down the star wars rabbit hole which is good bc I have a fic to finish but bad bc I'm looking longingly at the wrong part of the fic bc I don't want to be sad, and for some reason star trek, which is weird bc it's the only one on this list I haven't consumed some kind of media for recently

last thing you googled: the local water company (which I'm not going to name bc duh)

and I'm tagging: @mayfriend @cozytuna @thewomaninlilywhite @thosebitingdoxies @rthstewart @syrena-of-the-lake @wingedflight @mischiefandspirits and @thepeskycritter

#tag game #fun stuff #this turned out pretty rambly actually #i've never had a concise thought in my life #you don't have to do this if i tag you obviously #but have fun if you do!

[vialacteas]

nine people i'd like to know better 🌷⚡️

tagged by @overagardenwall

last song: "goods" by iamamiwhoami

favorite color: green

currently watching: catching up with doctor who! I'm just starting the Flux episodes

last movie/tv show: The Creator (2023) and have much to say about it

spicy/savory/sweet: spicy and savoryyyyyy

relationship status: @gartharthestout is my long term partner and together we commit bi crimes

current obsession(s): bought a bunch of books recently so I guess reading is one of the obsessions. to be more specific im back on scifi which never rlly fades away and politics which is the same. ive been doing a lot of art as well (drawing & clay)

last thing you googled: "temperature today" ive been searching it every few hours because its so hot i keep checking if its gonna get any colder lmfao

I tag: @gartharthestout @skywalkersays @gloss518062 @princesssarcastia @lovableyoons and whoever wants to do it!

no pressure if u dont wanna

#diário de bordo #nath's log

[aniseandspearmint]

last song: *checks youtube history* It was Karliene's Lament for Boromir!

currently reading: Eight Million Gods by Wen Spencer. One of my favorite fantasy writers! I started this book two years ago, got half way through, then misplaced it. I found it again!

last film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

currently watching: I have Blue Planet going on as the back ground to my life right now (I usually have something playing for background noise, last show was Castle, and Elementary before that, and Grimm before that)

currently craving: I would kill for a good apple pie right now. I keep trying to get one but they've been OUT the last two months every time I remember to look for one, or all they have left is the dutch kind with the gross crumbly top.

three ships: Hmmm. Maedhros/Fingon. Elrond/Celebrian/Gil-Galad. ShenQingqiu/Luo Binghe/Liu Qingge (I like threesomes and moresomes a lot. Best answer for stupid 'oooh who WILL they chooooose??' plot lines!)

first ship: Ooooh. Errr, Usagi Tsukino/Mamoru Chiba (from sailor moon). That's the first one I can recall caring about tbh.

favorite color: Purple! Darker shades mostly, but lavenders are nice too. Don't really like royal purple though.

currently working on: talking others into writing things. I haven't written in a while beyond some notes... Latest of those are basically 'how can i make Elrond's life even harder' and 'Feanor reincarnated into late first age beleriand!' (the two ideas are linked)

Tagged by @theforceisstronginthegirl

tagging: @nyxserpent @princesssarcastia @morticia-butler

@paleasamoon and if you see this and WANT to do it, consider yourself tagged!!

#tumblr info games #fun stuff #i am trying to do these when i see them come in bc if i wait i WILL forget it happened!

[callmearcturus]

@princesssarcastia replied to your post “”:

....tell us about mav and his agency, tho. like. fascinated to hear what you're seeing there

​sorry i have just survived an exhausting week of hell so i'm too tired to think, but as soon as my brain is back online, i'll explain. it has to do with all that but also how Mav takes a notably passive role in his romance with Penny and my theories on the effects of Goose's loss in the longterm.

i'll type it up at some point.

#princesssarcastia

[mhalachai]

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#5

I happened upon Once Upon A Time and watched the pilot while I was making dinner... it’s a bit of a jarring episode, because you have everyone chewing the scenery in the fairytale scenes, then you get to Storeybrooke and the chewing continues by nearly everyone except Lana Parrilla, who is actually, you know, acting. 

Like, what was the direction to the cast on that episode?

155 notes - Posted August 13, 2022

#4

so anyway this is unnecessary.

look, i don’t care if you hate a fic. something like this has no point except trying to make a fic author feel bad. and to what end?

I’ve been writing fic for nearly 18 years and i’ve never seen so much negativity and vitriol aimed at creators of fanworks, be they for fic or art. and it’s exhausting.

if you don’t like something written/drawn by a stranger (that you are consuming for free) you can walk away! close that tab, change your subscription notifications, unfollow someone on social.

this isn’t a side hustle. we’re not getting paid. fanworks are a labour of love; and when it starts to feel more like labour than love, you’re going to start seeing less fanworks to enjoy.

181 notes - Posted February 14, 2022

#3

tumblr has failed me why is everyone sleeping on this look?

308 notes - Posted August 23, 2022

#2

if you ever want to have a good time, head on over to AO3 and do a tag search for Jin Guangshan, there’s some pure gold in there:

glad we’re all on the same page here

1,134 notes - Posted July 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

municipal elections are coming up in my city and it’s fucking depressing that in the year of our lord 2022 i have to be reading through the school board candidate write-ups to try to figure out which of these assholes are anti-trans and pro-cops-in-schools. 

at least to make things easier those two things have a large Venn diagram overlap

1,399 notes - Posted October 11, 2022

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[sheepfulsheepyardinspace]

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#5

i think discussion of the prequel trilogy is really hampered when you consider the pt a stand-alone piece. it’s not! it’s only half the story. anakin skywalker’s story doesn’t end on mustafar; neither does obi-wan’s, and padmé’s influence lives far beyond on her death. the original trilogy is fait accompli. the main characters' story arcs in the pt work so because it was directly reverse engineered from the ot.

most, if not all, of the questions the ot brings up both mechanical as well as thematic (what happened to the jedi order? what about the twins' mom? what was the galaxy like before the empire? what caused anakin's fall?) are answered in the pt. equally, all of what appear to be loose threads at the end of the pt (what is the future of the jedi order, who is the best of the jedi? luke. what is the cure to the dark side? love, connection, it's how luke saves anakin. will the galaxy ever get better? yes, luke and leia are leaving the galaxy better than their parents left it) are answered in the ot.

you can't divorce the prequel trilogy from the fact that it is a tragedy. nothing about rotj would be triumphant if there was nothing for luke to redeem anakin from or anything left to fix. it's also, by definition, a prequel, so the characters are never going to entirely succeed, and that's their tragedy and dramatically ironic end. padmé never gets to reform the republic (she's murdered by the republic's killer); obi-wan doesn't get to see anakin defeat the sith (anakin destroys the order and joins the sith); and anakin never gets to free the slaves (instead he becomes one, again). who's at fault, here, for the state of the galaxy at the end of rots? everyone and no one. there's more blame to be assigned to some than others (palpatine, for one; anakin, who's doing the murdering) but these characters are not real people actually on trial at the hague. all the pt characters all have to have made irreversible mistakes in someway, by demand of fate and plot, wherein every single character's decision––especially those made with the best intentions––will doom them in some horrific, completely unforeseeable manner.

and all of this would be an understandable end to a tragedy. but the last scenes of rots, like fortinbras arriving to find horatio, do provide hope and luke and leia's existence begin to transition the story to the classical hero's journey. the two trilogies are fundamentally intertwined, spiritual sisters and spiritual antitheses, and it's only the original trilogy that can provide answers and solutions to the pt's problems. parts of obi-wan, padmé, and anakin's characters fundamentally could not be resolved without the characters of the ot. and there's real beauty to it! the relief, the comfort, the hope you feel when binary sunset plays at the end of rots is what makes the ot's triumph so much more emotional in light of the pt's dark tragedy.

403 notes - Posted July 31, 2022

#4

ok but if we're going to lean into the "jedi as space catholics" as they r developed re: the prequels i want go full fucking historical catholic. i want a famous jedi who lived up on a pillar for 37 years. im goin whole hog on a jedi who bricked herself into wall in the temple to achieve spiritual enlightenment. FLAGELLANTS. litcherally all of thomas à becket, up to and including selling his blood as a souvenir. alright but jedi pilgrimage? jedi whose cloaks are covered in a million different tiny pilgrimage badges from all over the galaxy? meanwhile other jedi writing screeds about how veneration vis a vis an object is sacrilegious & bastardization of meditation? i want NOTHING more than to read a jedi summa theologica. "how many midicholrians can fit on the head of a pin?" is considered with absolutely unironic dead seriousness. it would be so, so boring and completely atrocious. i want it ALL

441 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

#3

i am a little mystified by the persistent idea that the jedi order has “mindhealers” that were, like, psychologists with magic emotional powers. i can’t find any mention of this outside fanfic? where did it come from?? why did it come from??? i mean. logically. would the jedi still be Like That ™ if they had any sort of psychology, counseling, and/or psychiatric help. really

514 notes - Posted July 27, 2022

#2

luke’s scene in rotj where he throws down his lightsaber and says, “I’ll never turn to the dark side. you failed, your highness. i am a jedi, like my father before me,” makes me more and more emotional each time i see it. it’s such a triumph and it’s such a brave stand—not only because luke is literally facing down death with no real expectations of escaping the death star ii, which on its own has such impact—but because he is more or less declaring himself a heretic. the only two jedi left alive do not believe vader can be saved. vader himself believes he is far past saving. palpatine is so poised for victory, so assured in his complete control over not only luke’s fall but also his control over vader, that he is happy to torture luke in front of vader, absolutely convinced that vader will do nothing to stop it. in light of the prequel trilogy, it’s made even more powerful: the jedi disavowed having children as an extension of attachments, a matter of course for the old jedi order. but when luke is in his moment of greatest need, he calls out to his father, and his father answers. ultimately, it’s their forbidden familial relationship that defines them as jedi—luke is becomes a jedi in honor of his father, and his father turns back from the dark side (a feat thought impossible until that very instance) and recalls the jedi knight anakin skywalker, all for his son. and that’s all in defiance of what the jedi were told to be, what obi-wan and yoda believed, what palpatine never thought possible! luke redefines what a jedi is when he throws down his weapon. he trusts in the power of his connection to his father, their attachment to each other, and when he does that? luke skywalker topples the empire.

710 notes - Posted September 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

vader: i am your father

luke: [screaming in horror after his arm was cut off by vader] NO!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!!!

vader, an empath: so im sensing that u want us to rule the galaxy as father and son

5,233 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

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[bedlamsbard]

steve and natasha spend a HUGE amount of time with each other, and generally when people do that, they start to pick up words or phrases or superstitions or mannerisms etc. from the other person. what do you think these two started borrowing from the other over the years?

That is a great question and one that I don't actually have an answer to, as it's not the kind of thing I really think about while writing! Though Natasha is something of a chameleon in general and Steve is less of one (though not not one).

#princesssarcastia #bedlam replies

[princesssarcastia]

the problem with being a lonely shut-in who wants to write about relationships is that it actually requires as much research as like, wanting to write about a guy who can have casual conversations about mechanical engineering.

and maybe that's just enough so you can SOUND like you know a bit about mechanical engineering. maybe it's not that much research at all. but it's still more research on relationships than i feel like a lot of other people doing the same thing have to do, which is none at all

#writing #anyway. by happy accident #just listened to a political podcast #about relationships and lonliness and family and parenting #which totally validated my thesis for the top gun au i'm writing! #but then it also struck me that i have to....listen to a podcast.... #to validate my ideas about relationships #about the internal logic of relationships and families #im not just talking romantic ones mind you #literally any kind of relationship #tonight i am thinking about #how the most meaningful conversation i've had in a decade #about my life and what i want #was with a dear friend of my parents on new years eve #after everyone else had gone to bed #after he'd had quite a bit to drink #he's got that same spark of intellectual curiosity that i do #so we chat at family get-togethers #and like. he is the first person in my life! #to ask me if im lonely! to ask whether im cool with the fact #that there's really...no one. in my life. #idk. sad lonely hours tonight #cheers </3 #tmi hour with princesssarcastia