This is literally one of my favorite posts ever and every time it gets me. The little smile at the end? Groggnar’s sincerity and earnestness when he says “You’re gonna be okay.” I just. I don’t know how or why but this hits my feels every single time i see it. ty op
Reminds me of this one post online about how there was an orc whose name was Brick. Orc culture in that setting was to be named after what they could break. Brick was a therapist, and one day wished his name to be Depression.
Oh my god yes I think that was like a r/dndmemes Post and like Worldbuilding wise it was Established that an Orcs Name is determined by the toughest thing they could break with their bare hands, and as Brick was a Therapist, he “wanted to do therapy so good to one day change his name to Depression” I think was the exact wording
space nerds and enthusiasts, it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for
(or at least- the moment I’VE been waiting for since jwst imaged jupiter)
the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam has imaged Saturn for the first time, and it’s SO COOL!!
above are the two processed images, the lower having the visible moons and rings labeled, but there’s also some unprocessed images from jwst feed, which i think still look super cool, and just show what a world of a difference processing makes.
i think these images are SO cool, and i can’t wait to print them out to hang on my walls :)
If we are willing to take the parts of previous movies in the trilogy that remain unsaid in following ones into our interpretation of the one we are watching, then the tusken massacre is relevant in RotS. Shmi is not mentioned by name, Anakin’s actions are not spoken, but his dreams of Padme’s death form a perfect echo of his dreams of Shmi. We can come up with sensible in-universe reasons for the callback, like how maybe Palpatine knew and induced the dreams to trigger Anakin, or perhaps the Force at work, but maybe it’s just a fairytale, a parable, a rhyme.
Maybe it’s a fun echo because it induces a sense of dread in both the audience and in Anakin. We’ve seen this before, we know where it leads. But while he’s thinking about Padme, we’re thinking about what he will do. Well, I am.
Anakin begins RotS as a liar. First, we watch him lie to Obi Wan about why he killed Dooku. The lie comes easily enough, Obi Wan believes it even more easily. Anakin Skywalker, exemplary jedi knight, hero of the hour, follower of the code. He feels uneasy about it though, he says so to Padme. When Obi Wan give his farewell and tells him how proud he is, and how Anakin has grown to be a greater jedi than he, Anakin cannot look him in the eye. It works on it’s own, just about, but back to back with AotC it works better.
Of course, a lot of his lies are about Padme. (A lot more sympathetic, but also a far more absurd reason to clam up in a way; we know that the people who love him will still love him if chooses marriage over the Order.) But as he goes to Yoda and begins to tell him about his dreams, he stops himself. He does not tell the whole story. He cannot. We know why, we just watched aotc. Those dreams led to that death which led to that fall. We’ve seen it all before He is so afraid.
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Anakin’s isolation and unwillingness to go to anyone except Palpatine for counsel contributed to his crisis in RotS. Palpatine definitely took advantage of that, and Anakin eschewed several onscreen attempts to get him to just. open up.
His actions in aotc were a foreshadowing of what was to come, but they also began a pattern of behavior of repression and denial and deceit. If he had come forward- if he had faced his actions which genuinely did cause him some horror at the time- he would have faced more immediate consequences. He would have disappointed and horrified Obi Wan (and the other jedi), he would not have been knighted, and he would not have been given positions of authority, at the least. But considering how much damage he did and how much he lost when he committed to the dark side, I would say the consequences of his deceit were far greater in the end.
Something that comes to mind is both the ending of the OT- with the darkside being something he could choose to just… stop doing, and also Yoda saying ‘forever will it dominate your destiny’. I can see how they might sound contradictory, but to me they are in harmony- it is a choice, you can walk away, but there are always consequences. If Anakin had been held to account, there would have been immediate consequences, consequences he desperately wanted to avoid, but that wouldn’t have been the end of the world for him either, not really. They wouldn’t have actually stopped him from ever being okay again. (let’s be real, even if Obi Wan were disappointed, he’d still have loved him, and Padme certainly did. ) Anakin didn’t commit to the darkside when first he fell, he wanted to go on as he was- he wanted to keep the things he had- and so he could continue to act as a jedi for several years because he chose to act like one for the most part, but he did not fully commit to being a jedi either, and his dishonesty, and his lack of remorse, eventually had consequences for him. And for everyone else.
Since a live action The Princess and The Frog movie is in the work at Disney, I’m really hoping they’ll cast a dark-skinned Black actress for Tiana, not turn her into a frog for the majority of the film and that they’ll cast a Black actress or an actress of color for Charlotte because I think people gave her a little too much attention as one of the few, underdeveloped characters in the original movie. They should either do that or at least create a new Black friend for Tiana.
so I’m not gonna tag this but like hooo boy the charlotte stans are/were totally overbearing and annoying. Like I had the displeasure of having white people irl tell me how charlotte was their fave and go on and on about her. like I didn’t see patf in theaters but you would have thought that the movie was about charlotte with how much tumblr went on and on about her. it was v frustrating.
you know who would absolutely shine as Tiana? Celia Rose Gooding
They are absolutely brilliant on strange new worlds
in this article they were ranked as the best singer in the musical episode
My partner loves Princess and the Frog. We have a few different Tiana… Things (Lego, statues, wallet(?), Etc). We have no Charlotte merch.
I’ve seen this movie a BUNCH of times and really enjoy it.
Charlotte is a white girl who is handed everything. Including the title “princess”, plus a potential engagement to a prince.
Tiana is a black girl who “works hard for everything I’ve got”, and is explicitly denied a real estate loan because of her race.
These two are childhood best friends. The fact of their friendship, the dimensions of their friendship, everything about their friendship is informed by the racial differences between them. It’s a real friendship- Charlotte does everything she can to hype up and support her friend. The two of them provide emotional support for one another.
Casting Charlotte as a white character would loose a significant look at the structural forces of racism in American society.
Having said that: making Charlotte a black actor would give a black actor a role in Hollywood. Which is important!
It would also be an opportunity to explore classism and/or colorism in America. Also important!
It would reduce the ability of white people to focus on white characters and force us to pay attention to the black people on screen l. A third important and good thing!
So. I’m not saying it can’t or shouldn’t be done. But I do get why Charlotte is white, and changing that does change the story.
Can you please recommend some modern hardcore punk music?
Yes!! Some of my favs are Slug - mindforce - spy - militarie gun - upchuck - gel - anklebiter - prevention - world of pleasure - en love - scowl.
That’s just off the top of my head but there’s a whole world of it out there!
Thanks!
All this time I thought y'all were getting accused of Zionism just cause you're Jews, but that post was pretty pro Israel. Like not just pro finding a Jewish homeland, but pro Israel the state currently genociding Palestinians.
Like, I thought those accusations were antisemitic because it assumes Jews all want to colonize Palestine. But it's antisemitic to think supporting Israel is bad?
But I'm admittedly running on like 2 hours of sleep. Did I completely misread that? The land back post?
I’ll be honest, I have literally no idea what post you are even talking about here, and that does make it rather difficult to respond.
In any case: I am extremely not in favor of the Israeli government. I don’t talk about my views on Israel often, but I’ve made no secret of where I stand on this: Israel is a theocracy - a theoretically pluralist theocracy, but a theocracy nonetheless. The current Israeli government is in the middle of a very substantial and fairly scary democratic backsliding - I think the chances that the country ceases to be a democracy in the near future are alarming high. Separate from that, Israel has a number of pretty bad policies relating to what most people and governments agree are occupied territories. Related to that, but not only related to that, Israel also has a substantial problem with racism and with oppression of ethnic minorities. I think they there are serious problems with the treatment of Palestinians, and of Israeli Arabs, and of non-Israeli Druze, and of the Bedouins, and of the Beta Israel, and of foreign migrant workers - and to be clear, I think that all of those issues are very different, and cannot and should not be simplified to “Israeli oppression of the Palestinians” because they are not all about the Palestinians, and condensing every single rights issue in Israel into one (or selectively ignoring every rights issue which isn’t a Palestinian rights issue, whichever it is people are doing) is reductive and orientalist even in the most generous view. I’m also not a fan of the idea that Ashkenazi Jews are the only Jews who matter, and I’m equally not a fan of that view when it comes from the Ashkenazi religious base of the Israeli far right, or when it comes from white leftists who want to erase any and all implication that any of the people who were living in Levant under British occupation were Jews. And separately from that, I’m frustrated with the rank historical revisionism that leads to people arguing that Ashkenazi Jews, who were categorically disenfranchised from the European countries where they lived, have no business wanting to move to the region they were told to go home to while being actively cast out of Europe.
Those sure are a lot of complicated thoughts on a subject, huh? It’s almost like the policial reality of a former British colony which was brutally oppressed and then almost comically cast off and left to put itself back together in the middle of the Cold War is not a simple just-so story you should ask a random non-Israeli Jew on the internet to opine about in a contextless manner.
Sometime, I’d really love it if people pulled this sort of thing on other groups. Go ask someone from Singapore for their nuanced take on the conflict in Kashmir; ask your Mexican American friends sometime why they won’t defend their opinions on the Basque conflict in Spain. They reblogged a post in the subject, didn’t they? Did you completely misread the random post on the subject that they reblogged, which you won’t link in your anonymous ask? You’re running on only two hours of sleep so you might have, but it’s probably on them to dig it up and spoon feed it to you so that you can understand it better.
If any of my followers want to decide that I’m a Zionist - heck, if any of you want to decide that I’m your personally chosen extremely specific most horrible possible and innately genocidal definition of Zionist - please feel free to make that decision, block me, and think all of the nasty (but certainly not antisemitic, how dare) thoughts you want about me on your way out. I’m not interested in talking complex international politics or hashing out the nuances of anti-imperialism in a not-even-post-colonial world with people who are this willing to jump at shadows, but only for Jews - who read any political post I reblog with a specific eye to sorting out whether I’m one of “the good ones” or “the bad ones.” There are important discussions to be had on all of this, and the issues are real and serious and pressing - and I’m done with playing these stupid, pointless games whenever the topic comes up.
Found the post in question - it was a post I reblogged specifically because the anonymous ask that kicked the reblog chain off used a number of gross dog whistles, and got called out via a dog whistle bingo card. I’m not surprised by this, but I am disappointed. If the anon who sent me that ask is reading this, having a knee-jerk “is this Jewish person secretly pro-colonialism” response to a post that was specifically about calling out “I’m not antisemitic, I’m just anti-Zionist” antisemitic dog whistles is a very bad look.
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