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luke and vader spend the original trilogy, but especially ROTJ, more or less reading each other’s minds every other second, which really fascinates me because the level of psychic ability demonstrated between the two of them is not something we see with any of the other characters. obi-wan and anakin certainly don’t speak into each other’s minds at all throughout the PT, but within minutes of luke knowing the truth, we get the beautiful, son, come with me, and father? scene. when arriving at endor, luke and vader sense each other the length of several ships away, and both of them immediately know that the other is there, and then the entire gestalt of their duel before the emperor is that luke refuses to kill vader because he has magically sensed the good in his father, the “good” being that luke knows, through literal mind-reading, that vader absolutely will not kill him, and wouldn’t have killed him on bespin either. the “don’t make me destroy you” was a bluff. 

luke uses vader’s hilariously un-buried feelings about him (smash cut to palpatine saying to vader, “are you sure your feelings on this matter are clear?”) to manipulate him in much the same way vader uses luke’s hilariously un-buried feelings about his friends in ESB, and then leia again in ROTJ, and can i just say, for as much shit as we give vader for being kind of a terrible manipulator, he knows exactly what he’s doing by the duel in ROTJ. he pushes luke closer to the dark side than the emperor manages - by threatening leia, vader unlocks luke’s batshit temper, and luke literally beats him into submission and slices off his hand before luke realizes what he’s almost done. but vader reads luke’s affection for leia, and the truth that leia is his biological daughter, directly out of luke’s brain. no one could read the direct truth out of someone else’s brain like this in the prequels, or else the plot would be literally impossible - the closest we get is maybe yoda sensing anakin’s grief for his mother in AOTC, but that’s nonspecific. this is vader and luke plucking pertinent feelings literally out of each other’s heads. they’re so weird <3

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Best Of… The Emperor | Robot Chicken: Star Wars | Adult Swim

But Seth McFarlane as Emperor Palpatine is some of the best voice acting he ever did.

Can Spaceballs 2 compete with this?

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the pros and cons of cuddling with each of his boys...

(I really hope my stupid pun actually works pls let me know if I've messed it up 🙈)

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Just a few times Wangji might have wanted to mention A-Yuan was alright.

(And yes, he saved A-Yuan *before* Nightless)

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the untamed + text posts

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I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

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When Wei Ying’s arm slumped down again, Lan Wangji untied the waistband of his robe, setting it beside the ribbons and headpiece Wei Ying had removed from his hair. His gaze lingered over them for several moments.

The time from Wei Ying finding him until he fell asleep was distorted by ripples in his mind. Had he not been so exhausted, so in pain, would he have allowed Wei Ying to take such liberties? The forehead ribbon especially, now that he knew the significance of it after so many years of ignorance?

He closed his eyes in a grimace. Yes. He would have allowed it. In fact, he ached to experience it again. He had dreamt of seeing Wei Ying again countless times over the months he was in Gusu, but he had not imagined such a simple gesture from him, had not considered the great comfort and intimacy it could bring, or just how desperately he craved such a thing.

But rather than linger on thoughts of Wei Ying’s fingers in his hair, or the fact Wei Ying had touched his forehead ribbon, he opened his robe and moved closer to Wei Ying. With great care not to jostle him, he lay down on his side next to him, flush against his body. He laid one open half of his robe over Wei Ying’s body to give him what warmth he could and then, with some hesitation, lay his upper body partially over Wei Ying’s side.

In his sleep, Wei Ying made another soft sound, shifted a little, but did not wake from the sudden weight on him.

Lan Wangji could barely breathe to be so close to him, to the warmth radiating from his core. Wei Ying’s body was a hot line against his own, and he pressed closer to it to bask in his warmth.

With such liberties already taken, it was easy to rest his head on Wei Ying’s chest. He held his breath as he closed his eyes and listened. The steady beating of Wei Ying’s heart made his own flutter and quicken. He had never been so close to another. Not since he was a child in his mother’s embrace.

“Forgive me,” he whispered, before exhaling and slowly relaxing against Wei Ying.

- A Dream Made Real, Chapter 3

…do I need to explain myself at this point? @fleetofshippyships whips out a new chapter of Tears of Pearl, her Merman Lan Wangji AU that now has a fancy title, and as the feels hit me I can’t do much else but sit down and draw.

Look at them, Lan Wangji being all cuddly while in pain, and Wei Wuxian, sleeping right through it, like the absolute dormouse that he is. He’s gonna be so pissed should he ever find out.

Chapter 4 is already up, so I’m behind for once, lol. If you’re into merfolk, this is the fic for you. Go and read it!

Wei Wuxian / Lan Wangji / The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi © Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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i taught a baking class for 12 year olds today and we made your garden variety chocolate chip cookies, but i’m a big believer in Questioning Everything and the who/what/where/why/when/how behind things, so the first part of the class was purposely letting the kids do things the wrong way, to show and explain why we do things the way we do.

“why do we bake cookies at 180 for 9 minutes when we could do 400 for 2 minutes?” -enter the godawful lump of coal with a still gross wet and uncooked inside

“why do we have to scoop out little cookies instead of doing the whole tray?” -ok well that one you can technically do if the spread is even. you just end up with one giant, structurally unsound cookie. “PLEASE CAN WE MAKE GIANT COOKIES” (we did make 1 giant tray cookie)

we talked a lot about why consistency is important, but i don’t think it really hammered home until i said “okay everyone gets ONE cookie, that’s fair, right?” and then handed out cookies of hugely varying sizes. + baked one fat lump of a cookie that still wasn’t done at the 9 minutes, vs the regular one i put in that came out charred by the time the first was actually done.

we also made a row of cookies where each one had one single differing ingredient omitted, like a cookie with no flour, or a cookie with no butter, and laid them all out on a single tray to bake together to see how each ingredient affects the outcome.

two of the little girls added cocoa to their cookie doughs until it matched the colour of each others skin to make best friend cookies, and that almost made me tear up a bit 🥺

got briefly distracted (…for over half an hour…) talking about how eggs form when someone cracked an egg and it had 2 yolks

expertly tolerated being asked how old i am (just turned 31 the other day) which was immediately followed by asking if i watched the moon landing live on tv

was so focused on keeping track of all the kids that in the end i forgot to make a cookie for myself, but it’s ok because one of the girls gave me this

tiny……….

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Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

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( INSP. )

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there is a lack of fics in which madam lan was as evil and conniving as jin guangyao and qingheng-jun was just a little bit more self aware than lan xichen. 

you cowards. 

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tatooine boy discovers not all planets are covered in sand, will need an hour or so to process this

(commission info // tip jar!)

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Wangxian as 15 year olds vs Wangxian as 30 something year olds

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MDZS is so funny because even the villain holding everyone hostage is hooked on the gay drama