#this assumes that never happens

[phoenixkaptain]

Do you ever think about how lucky the New Republic was that Luke didn’t turn evil? I mean really. If Luke had one day snapped and decided to blow up a sun or something, what could they have done?

Absolutely nothing.

First: how are they going to catch him? Luke is the hardest person to capture ever! Darth Vader couldn’t even capture him! Luke has to literally give himself up, and even then…

Second: they would not be able to hold Luke for long. The only thing he’s better at than not getting captured is escaping from being captured. Plus, they are at something of a disadvantage, since they aren’t actually equipped to hold a Jedi anywhere, really, but especially not one as powerful as a Skywalker. Even if they did have something to combat his use of the Force, lack of the Force has never stopped Luke from escaping before.

Third: even if they miraculously figured out a way to Luke Skywalker contained, someone would break him out. Just, anyone. Leia, Han, Chewbacca, Artoo, Wedge, Lando, random citizens, the guards holding him; everyone would attempt to break him out, if only just to ask why the fuck he blew up a sun for no good reason. And then they’re right back to square one.

Fourth: who could realistically defeat Luke? Just, in general. If they decided to fuck it and just send someone to kill him, who would be able to? Leia would be their best bet, I suppose, but if Luke has become evil, I’m assuming he’s going all out. So, he would just taunt Leia, and she would fall for it because 1. Leia falls for taunts all the time, 2. Luke is the one doing the taunting, making the taunts hit closer to home, and 3. Luke would know what to say to make the taunts actually hurt. And that’s if Leia would even agree to kill Luke and if Leia steeled herself enough to go through with it.

And who else is there? A bounty hunter? Boba Fett is legendarily good, and Luke has escaped from him before. Even if they hired a Mandalorian, fully decked out in beskar, there are still ways to defeat Mandalorians. They may not be hurt by lightsabers or the Force, but that doesn’t mean this big rock I found isn’t. Who else could the New Republic send? Han? Wouldn’t be able to kill Luke. Chewbacca? Same problem. Anyone else? Would have trouble finding Luke in the first place.

The New Republic is SO LUCKY that Luke has the patience of ten thousand saints and the loyalty of ten thousand golden retrievers. If he ever snapped and went evil, I’m pretty sure he’d win.

#star wars #luke skywalker #leia organa #star wars original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #now listen #i haven’t read any of the books where luke goes apeshit #so this is purely my own speculation #and the fact that even after going apeshit #luke still returns to the good side #this assumes that never happens #this also as a result is super unrealistic #the only thing luke’s better at than escaping capture and cells #is escaping the dark side #the new republic is so lucky #if luke decided to do any evil deed ever #they would be so fucked #because honestly #who would ever believe them #long post

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

[girlatrocity]

that one scott pilgrim scene

#this took foreverrr never touching alcohol markers again #i really only wanted to draw those last two frames but i had to add the rest bc i rly like the dialogue here ⚰️ #assume this is post-everything happening in bnha rn #bnha #mha #togachako #bnha fanart #toga himiko #urakara ochako #boko no hero academia #togaraka #my hero academia #scott pilgrim #mine !!

[inkskinned]

so one time i got bit by a brown recluse which is one of the only types of spider in my area that's actually dangerous and at first i didn't know what had happened to me, only that it was nasty. the swelling wasn't going down and the wound started to get ugly. i don't want to like get into the details because that's gross but it got to the point 2 weeks later that i was worried enough to go to the doctor, which i hate doing.

i am not afraid of spiders but other people are so i'd been covering it with this big ole square bandage (i needed more landscape coverage than a simple bandaid) and sat in the university medical waiting room, kicking my heels and playing BOTW. the nurse who admitted me was like, oh, we have got to get Tom to cover this one. she wrote spider bite under my ticket.

i waited in the near-empty building for like an hour and then nurse tom shows up in spiderman scrubs, out of breath. "sorry," he says, "i saw - your slip - and I had," he heaves in a breath, "to run home and. get. these scrubs. i literally. ran. felt like a job. for. spiderman."

i laugh. he puts his hands on his knees, thumbs-ups at me. fishes a pamphlet out from under his clipboard that basically says spiders can be scary but you don't need to be scared, there's very few dangerous spiders in new england. "honestly," he wheezes, "we probably don't need to get you into an exam room. just..." he waves his hand at the pamphlet, "read that."

i look down at my arm. then back at him in his scrubs. and then down at my arm. i like that he made an effort to make a joke, but now it does not feel like a good joke, because they are mistaking my calm for a lack of injury. "can i. like. at least show you the bite?"

he gives me kind of a weird look, which is fair, but then says. "if. i mean, if you have to."

i peel the bandage off. his face goes green.

"oh," he says.

"yeah, man."

"a... spider bit you?" his voice is high and tight and trembling. he backs up a few steps.

"i think a brown recluse," i offer. "i know it's nasty, sorry."

"excuse me for a moment." he looks over to the administering nurse on the other side of the small room. "i need to find someone else to take care of you."

the administering nurse smiles over to us with a degree of pleasure that is almost salivating. for a moment, like a window opening, i am briefly aware of what must be a psychic message floating amongst the in-between. her jaguar teeth all say this is like a party for me and i know exactly what i'm doing.

"oh no, tom," she says, grinning. "i gave her to you specifically."

#this is a real thing that happened #i then waited in an exam room for another hour until a doctor was similarly dismissive until he saw it #and then just gave me antibacterial cream which didn't help the swelling lol #it went away on its own like 4 weeks later #but that's like not the fun part of this story #i was just like. suddenly in the middle of someone else's work drama and GIRL #btw found this extremely funny #edit in the tags: oh ! i thought they were native to NE !!! ???? omg #i mean a real doctor really saw the wound and said ''brown recluse'' so i assumed he was right i never googled it #i lived on a mattress on the floor in a house of people who were always travelling #so like i guess it could have been ANY spider??? #omg..... #the way this rocked my whole world

[yb-cringe]

sorry this is such like a niche problem but it rubs me the wrong way when the fuckin. like fun police come raining on someones parade like ohh this isn’t accurate! this isnt in character! like who cares!! its not the canon material its FAN made its for FUN what are you a fucking cop??????

#like ill see someone bash their own hcs like i kjow this could never happen in canon #like why would i assume that. its for fun. #discourse #tw discourse

[somecunttookmyurl]

being vague about what time you're going to be somewhere to meet someone and not saying a WORD until the moment you leave the house (assume this happens every single time, for everything) and also not saying a thing all day even if you're going to be later than the vague time until... after you are already late (assume this happens every single time the person is late/later than normal) is

#just tryina see something #again assume this is EVERY TIME #we are all vague and/or late occasionally shit happens #for the purpose of this poll assume the person in question NEVER communicates ANYTHING until the last second #or well after the last second #standard behaviour not a one-off event

[nebulousmedic]

I feel like they can relate when it comes to that, at least. Ahh, I'm having many angst thoughts.

#fanart #sniper #spy #tf2 #team fortress 2 #team fortress fanart #tf2 spy #tf2 sniper #sniperspy #bloody suit #this ship does NOT happen in the same universe as SniperScout #And please do not assume that ever from my drawings #do not assume any specific ships are happening in the same universe actually #unless its explicitly stated as such #I dont consider myself an anti bc I hate censorship #that being said SpyScout is gross and I will never draw it #my art #tf2 fanart #sorry went on a little ramble there #anyway #you can consider this as non shippy if youd like #I dont mind either way

[cogentranting]

Strange New Worlds answered the continuity issue of "if Spock and Uhura served alongside Sam Kirk for years, why didn't either of them react in TOS season 1 when Sam dies?" by saying "because neither of them could stand Sam. Next question."

#star trek #strange new worlds #snw #to be fair that tos episode doesnt even treat Sam's death as sufficient motivation for kirk #and it never bothers to answer what happened to the orphaned nephew #you can assume the nephew lived but they dont actually state it amd they sont tell where he went after that

[july-19th-club]

house md wildest show on earth. a main character outright assassinates a known dictator, a moment that would be the very beginning or the mid-series crisis in any other show - an act which creates a power vacuum in a foreign nation already filled with child soldiers and genocide, and it's literally only brought up again throughout the season because that guy's wife divorces him over it. and occasionally to explore his relationship with who he is as a person and a catholic after having deliberately taken a life for what he calculates as the greater good, but mostly it's about his divorce

#i no longer think wilson is the most divorced guy ever #sure he's been divorced more TIMES than chase #but the things he's been divorced OVER are way more normal #it is so nuts like . chase. bobbie. rob. bobert. what happened next. in the country i mean #like the president is dead. does his regime crack down extra hard on the ethnic cleansing? #does the power vacuum give the opposition a chance to step in? #how much of what the president said about the people he's wiping out having been in a similar dictatorship in the past is true? #does the nation descend into civil war? is the president's death the excuse the us or england or whoever is waiting for to step in #and assume ad hoc governance thus destabilizing the region even more? #all because one guy in one hospital decided the math was in favor of his killing a guy if that guy was going to order more killings? #absolutely NEVER explored. yeah do no harm and the morals we share with our partners are important #but christ alive. the aftermath of the assassination could be a whole show in and of itself and im pretty sure it just never comes up #house is a show #house md #q

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[obscenicon]

i love how desperate some of yall are to call trans ppl you dont like retarded degenerates who need to be eradicated from the gene pool. and over homestuck of all things. but of course you cant say all of that so you just call them neurally degraded instead

#rlly cool all of thw shit thats been happening #yall hate trans women and especially trans women of color with a raging passion #with all of the 'just assuming random trans woc are white bcs i dont like them' #and OVER FUCKING HOMESTUCK. do you even see yourselves #it was literally never that fucking deep #but of course every action a trans woman takes must be hyperscrutinized and have the worst possible faith read into it #bcs umm. you hate stupid retarded i mean Mentally Deficient white queers ig #ableism #transmisogyny

[spittyfishy]

Surprise! Random Ryoma art from ages ago that never got posted lol (you can tell I just really enjoy drawing fish lol)

#this was actually for a ryoma zine that never got finished #I haven’t heard anything for moths so I’m assuming it’s just not happening anymore #but I did two different pieces for it anyway lol so I’ll just keep the other in reserve #besides I can always just draw something new this only took like an hour not even #but yeah Remnant Ryoma content! #danganronpa #ndrv3 #remnants of despair #v3 remnant au #danganronpa killing harmony #ryoma hoshi #remnant ryoma #piranhas #danganronpa v3

[iwasbored777]

Guys hear me out...

What if the reason why Branch was singing all the time when he was a kid in that flashback in Trolls was because he was hoping that his brothers will return and they will reunite and he practiced because he wanted to be in their band again and when he lost his grandma that's what made him realize that he's now all alone (he was a literal child how did he even survive all alone)??? And on top of that she got caught and killed BECAUSE he was singing and didn't pay attention??

And remember in Trolls when it's confirmed that despite never going to any party Poppy threw he saved all invitations that she sent him cuz he secretly wanted to be a part of her crew and have fun again? This is way sadder now when we remember that he wanted to belong in any crew and enjoy life but he was way too traumatised for that.

So what if all those supplies he was saving in his bunker weren't only for him but for his brothers too cuz he still believed that they will return and he wanted to have stuff prepared for them in case they show up cuz he knew he will have to hide and protect them so that they wouldn't get eaten by Bergens like his grandma?

Someone pls hug this baby boy he's been through so much shit

Edit: Spoilers for Trolls 3

Holy shit I was right this was all for them 😭

#yeah i know his brothers couldn't possibly know what's gonna happen but how come they never came back this breaks me he was just a baby #did they just assume that he won't remember them #trolls branch #trolls movie #trolls band together #movie analysis #like how come they never wondered how's he doing

[ffc1cb]

ive never had alistair in any of my playthrus before because ive never played with my personal worldstate so this was my first time ever hearing this line in the game & it FLOORED me. it’s so funny

#dragon age #inquisitor trevelyan #alistair theirin #zevran arainai #warden cousland #zevwarden #art stuff #im playing on pc now but before this ive only ever did it on a friend's ps4 and i could never manage to connect it to my keep so i always #played with what i assume is her worldstate. so i had loghain & dead hof #dai alistair is so funny why is he like that. girl what happened to you #sorry if the sign is wrong btw i did my research but every site i went to showed a different sign for the word i needed </3 #dragon age art spam today because i initially wanted to post them all as a compilation as usual but changed my mind #hope you enjoy

[tanglepelt]

Dp x dc idea 142

The trio don’t know jazz knows Danny is phantom in this.

Danny was caught. His parents turned phantom over to the GIW refusing to hear him out. No chance to say he was their son barely getting a word in as they celebrated his capture.

24 hours later. Danny Fenton was reported missing parents hysterical. 48 hours pass and Danny Phantom with the help of two “unknowns” escapes.

Jazz comes back from touring colleges. To see the mess. Jack and Maddie were in to much of a panic trying to find Danny to relay the news to her.

Soon after. Government labs and buildings are under attack. New villains seemingly entering the fray. Two mad scientist decked out in orange and blue. Rumors of a third searching the building prior to the explosions.

The league is called in to investigate these attacks.

Meanwhile a hero has noticed an severely injured meta and two friends inside there city. Doing their best to be unnoticed.

#dpxdc #jack Maddie and jazz become villians #but not really #like the leauge actually investigates #the Giw is gonna have problems #the trio assume jack and Maddie won’t accept Danny #while his parents are blowing up labs to find him #they feel awful #and have to find thier boy #the trio won’t risk telling jazz #who knows how she’ll react #dpxdc prompt #dpxdc crossover #they are trying to do better #had they listened in the first place #it never would of happened

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 30 - Of The Seventh Dawn

"When I was very young, my aunt would often put me to bed with stories of her adventures with my late parents. They explored nearly all of Aldenard together, just the three of them; getting through every obstacle as a team, and caring for one another like family along the way. As I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep, the same question echoed in my mind: "Would tomorrow's dawn bring someone with whom I can do the same?" After so many lonely years I had but nearly given up on finding such things for myself. How lucky am I, that at the very last moment I was finally given an answer."

#miqomarch #miqomarch2024 #ffxiv #ffxiv gpose #y'shtola rhul #g'raha tia #alisaie leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #thancred waters #urianger augurelt #estinien varlineau #krile mayer baldesion #Arsay Nun #scions of the seventh dawn #i wanted to focus on just the trust members this time im sorry tataru >w< #Another collage!! #not as ambitious this time but it funny enough took me roughly the same amount of time #mostly cause i had less of an idea of how i wanted to compose this #but I was going with the inspo of dawntrail and the rainbow motifs they seem to have #and also like an actual dawn on the horizon #but with the beams shooting sideways it kinda looks like a meteor too #im just assuming krile will be a trust member in 7.0 #as a kid that someone arsay hoped would arrive at dawn was her parents of course #coming back to fetch her so they can continue their travels with her #or maybe the post man who was delivering a letter from them #whoever it would be she would insist that they take her to them #but that never happened #so later it just became anyone new to the island #someone who had yet to form an opinion about her #when she was convinced to work with that merchant she thought she found what she was looking for but was sorely mistaken