#trained for war

[naiad-r]

dogteeth

Excellent for unnerving looks and throat-ripping. Ghost thinks they're very cute.

[kokodrawings]

It's ok, Minato asked for permission first

[supernowa-art]

some modern uni AU as a treat!

[voltaical-art]

[italofobia]

hi. if you are still reading this post, please give some of your attention to @al--qarnawi 's campaign, which has already been verified by 90-ghost and @gazavetters (it's number #642 on their list):

imagine having to take care of five young kids in the midst of a genocide, with the looming threat of losing your life to a bomb or to a bullet or simply to hunger or sickness. this is what Abdul has to face right now, and yet his campaign has only earned 105 dollars so far! that's not even a tenth of what they need to escape from Gaza!

please, i beg you, find some generosity in your heart and donate what you can. remember to also share this campaign widely and to follow Abdul's blog so you can follow his story in real time and support him 🙏

DON'T SCROLL PAST WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING USEFUL. HISTORY IS ALWAYS WATCHING YOU.

[thereweredragonshere]

When ur forced to look like ur having a good time cuz otherwise you’ll offend people

[bikananjarrus]

btw if i was obiwan, and i’d just spent the last 3 days nearly dying in a space battle, then nearly dying after fighting my evil grandmaster (again), then nearly dying fighting a cyborg with a lung condition and far too many limbs, then really nearly dying after my own soldiers turned on me, then had to find out my brother son student best friend person had turned evil and is now working for the Super Evil guy in charge of everything who just ordered the murder of everyone i know, oh and he also killed a bunch of children, and then i was sent to kill my best friend son brother person even though i would literally rather die, despite all the new evilness and murder, and then had to watch him nearly murder his wife (who is also my friend), and then nearly died again fighting him, and even though i won, i left him horribly for dead and everything sucks and i had no friends and no home nothing. if i had to go through all that and then yoda tells me he has HOMEWORK for me during my sad lonely exile?? i would’ve punted that stupid green frog so fast

[mrtreefingersart]

Don't need sight to know something GAY is happening.

[lacebird]

“His fighting style sort of evolves over time, so that’s something that we’re cognizant of, how he should express that at certain points in the story.”  — Hayden Christensen, talking about Anakin’s fighting style. 

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Training for Ahsoka (2023-)

[adam-scott]

MANNY JACINTO Training for 'The Acolyte' (2024-)

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

[fonmythenmetz]

Camping

[your-mom-friend]

Indian Government: we are at the brink of war with Pakistan, so it is vital that we prepare our citizens for the possibility of air strikes and power outages. To this end, we will be conducting mock drills across the nation on at 4pm on May 7th. Just in case Pakistan starts a war with us

Indian Government: *launches missiles at Pakistan in the middle of the night*

[ahhrenata]

[insert heavy breathing]

[megamindsupremacy]

So like, y'all know that popular Star Wars fic trope of Time Traveling Obi-Wan Kenobi where he dies and then wakes up in his 11ish year old body back in the Jedi Temple? You know how usually he wakes up, has a few minutes/hours of confusion, and then goes about trying to act like he was at age 11 while slowly fixing everything wrong with the Jedi Order? Personally I think he would not do that.

I think that Ben "Lived As A Wizard Hermit For Two Decades On Tattooine, Left, And Then Died Immediately" Kenobi would wake up as an eleven-year-old, have a panic attack, attack the nearest adult Jedi while accusing them of Doing Weird Sith Shit To His Brain, fucking flee, only then realize he has time traveled, steal someone's ship, go flying out of the temple to god knows where, continue panicking, crash into a random moon while distracted, nearly die, build a survival camp out of his broken ass ship and eat whatever bugs he can find, get kidnapped by pirates, overthrow said pirates, steal their ship, and then very calmly return to the Jedi temple like nothing happened.

Then and only then do I think he would start trying to act like a normal human person (while also dodging questions such as "what the fuck was that" and "where were you" and "is that a pirate's ship?"), except he'd be bad at it due to having lived as an Insane Wizard Desert Hermit for the past twenty years who has experienced enough trauma and time that he doesn't super well remember the details of his childhood, what with all of the wars and death and wars and such.

His acting convinces nobody, but nobody is sure what exactly to do about All Of That so he's for the most part left alone (after very vehemently refusing sptherapy), all the way up until he catches a glimpse of palpatine out of the corner of his eye and then its On Sight

[sonofthedunes]