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LEIA ORGANA + HAIR Star Wars: Episode IV, V & VI.

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So when Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi he looked like this

But turning to the dark side changed his physical appearance. Most notably his eyes, which became yellow (a very typical Sith transformation in many species)

And while I know that Wookies are not supposed to be able to be force sensitive and therefore cannot become Jedi or Sith, all I am saying is that

…. You know?

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I’m absolutely HOWLING that the Mandalorion is LITERALLY all a side quest. We have a HUGE ASS PLOT going on in the background but they are focusing on NONE of it and instead said “also there’s a metal dad w a green baby just trying to Thrive” and all the Star Wars fans are frothing at the mouth trying to piece together the background Big Major Plot. Absolutely iconic of them I want those balls of steel

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everything else aside, alanna the lioness definitely got the fuck/marry/kill of jon/george/roger completely right

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Scotland United Kingdom

© F. Comparelli

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I’m a fantasy author! I’m creating a brand new world,completely my own, I can make it anything I want it to be! I think I’ll include...sexism.

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For those struggling with the loss of JKR can I humbly put forward Tamora Pierce as our new YA fantasy author/role model of choice?

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#every year he doesnt have an emmy is a sham

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My least favorite habit of certain (usually female) fans is when they try to find a “woke” reason to dislike a major female character.  See for example, the argument that Yennefer of Vengerberg is “there primarily for the male gaze”.

Yennefer of Vengerberg is a woman whose storyline was placed front and center from the second episode and given parallel importance with the titular male character.

Yennefer is a character who is fearless, powerful, ambitious and selfish in equal measures, all of which are traits we rarely see in female characters period, and the narrative (and the lead male character) treat these traits generally as ones to be celebrated rather than decried.

Yennefer is a character who is given so much story beyond her relationship to the male character that when she has a moment where she has to think back to all of the painful and infuriating things that have been said to her, he never crosses her mind.

Yennefer is a character who owns her sexuality both before and after her transformation and her relationship with the lead male character is primarily on her own terms.  (And the part that isn’t on her terms: the wish, is something that she gets rightfully angry about.  And at no point does the narrative try to say that she made the wrong decision there.)

Yennefer is a character who is dressed according to female power fantasies.  Her gowns are wildly designed, with crazy arches and sleeves, and they look fabulous but also very much in line with what a woman would choose as opposed to a man.  And while sometimes she is nude, it’s always plot relevant and not presented in an objectifying or dehumanizing way.  

Yennefer is a woman of color in a leading role in a fantasy drama that is both helmed and penned by women.  (The original books are written by a man, sure, but the teleplay was written by a woman.  The showrunner is a woman.)

Yennefer is not going to resonate with every single woman watching the show, sure.  But she resonates with quite a lot of them.  And she’s crafted with exactly the same “gaze” as every other character in the series.  (Including the male ones who are miraculously free of this ridiculous complaint).

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A desperate cleric slamming every healing spell so hard to bring someone back to life the ground is forced to grow plants and flowers around the body.

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Anyone else start crying when they heard the first chords of 5000 Candles In The Wind?

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having now worked directly with wild seals I need you all to know they are some of the most bastardous creatures in the entire animal kingdom. we’ve all been so wrong. they look cute and fat but they are so fast and they have SO many teeth and they know how to scream and they aren’t afraid to do it

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Also this.

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I just... we spent five years hearing about how career driven Amy is, how important it is to her and how hard she has worked, and now she just desperately wants to have a baby? I don’t buy it.

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“I read SOME books man. Jeez”

This is my new favorite line of the show.

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The stable guys are getting more and more done with my shit and I’m getting more and more done with theirs too. What kind of weak operation are they running here where they won’t stable my horse just because it’s a god or because it doesn’t have ~skin~