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Brooooo, this is amazing! What if I CRIED. 😭❤️🫠😖🥲💔

One day I wish to have such BOOTIFUL skillllll. 🙂‍↕️🥲🥹🥰❤️ (Yes, the misspelling is intentional. Lol). 😂😁❤️❤️✨🥰

pardon me while i burst into flames

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This was supposed to be an exercise in composing multiple separate sketches in one canvas, but Rex's turned out too nice and I had to follow through a bit

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I don’t see Obi-Wan willingly ‘sacrificing’ someone like tossing them away like garbage, even if he’s sad about it—like say, in The Last of Us where it makes this ridiculous convoluted plot of asking if it’s ✨MoralTM ✨ to slaughter a child just so humanity can continue living. I don’t see Obi-Wan or the Jedi willingly doing that. I think they would see it as a selfish act of taking an innocent’s life away. I just do not see him ‘sacrificing’ his lover in that sense.

In a manner over CHOOSING who to save in a dangerous situation? I think he would agonize over it and do everything to save both of them (his lover & the bus of kids/whatever), and would even try to sacrifice himself in both of their place just so everyone could live except him, if possible. 💔😖

If him sacrificing himself ISN’T possible? I think only in THAT scenario would he ‘choose to sacrifice’ his SO to save the lives of groups of innocents. But it’s very different over choosing who to save and deciding who deserves to live more, if that makes sense. He’d be powerless in whatever dangerous situation his SO was trapped in, and his only power would be choosing his SO over an innocent. But I don’t believe he would ever PUT his lover in a tortured position as a ‘sacrifice’ for the ‘greater good’, and ESPECIALLY not against their will. If anything, he’d probably have to be talked into some sort of scenario where his SO would have to convince him not to stop THEM from making the choice to sacrifice THEMSELVES. And Obi-Wan would be heartbroken but allow them to, because he respects their autonomy and right to choose for themselves.

Essentially: the Elena drowning scene from the CW show, The Vampire Diaries, if you know what I’m talking about, where her boyfriend chooses to save Elena’s friend over herself because she silently begs him to, because he loved her and wanted to respect what she wanted.

Damn, I wrote you a whole essay. Lol. I apologize. I just am passionate about SW I guess. Hahaha. 💕🫶

this is specific but listen i keep seeing posts about star wars men on tiktok centered on the question on if they are the type to sacrifice the woman they love for the world or sacrifice the world for the woman they love?

my question is which kind of man you all think obi-wan kenobi would be? i don’t have a definitive opinion yet, but i want to see what everyone else thinks! 🤗

if you have explanation for your choice i would love to hear it because for some reason this is something i can’t stop thinking about?

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AND ANOTHER THING.

I get for story purposes it’s supposed to imply that it (the miracle cure ‘vaccine’) would’ve maybe worked and Joel blablabla—‘condemns’ (gag, for hamfisted already proving who’s side the narrative wants you to be on instead of trying to balance between BOTH perspectives being more right or wrong) humanity to die out and never return to its formal glory, but in all likelihood—NO scientist is getting something like that right on the first try. Ellie’s kind of an anomaly at the moment with no others like her found yet??? You’re telling me he’s just gonna kill her & hope for the best in using what he has over her brain tissue/nerves or whatever the fuck?? What if it doesn’t work, & then the evil (because YES, you are EVIL if you try to knowingly slaughter a child, even for the ‘greater good’ that a humanity who survives on Ellie’s death wouldn’t even deserve & might as well end up being The Original Sin TM 2.0, and fuck the game and the show for trying to imply this bitch of a doctor was a decent human being. Maybe he had depth/cognitive dissonance enough to save animals/zebras or whatever while also being willing to vivisect a CHILD, but that still doesn’t make him not scum that deserved what he got) doctor gets it wrong, & then he just blew humanity’s only chance at a cure, because he didn’t have any goddamn patience?

You know the REAL reason he was rushing things? Because that asshole sorry excuse of a ‘father’ (you can’t tell me he didn’t fill Abby’s head with propaganda if she’s somehow cool with the idea of also being slaughtered if it was her) KNEW if he ASKED Ellie to sacrifice herself/gave her a choice there was a risk she’d say no. THAT’S why he chose to kill so quickly in the name of ‘humanity’. Because he knew it was going to be his only shot to do it in a way that would trick a CHILD & FATHER FIGURE into allowing it to happen. I’m not above knowing one life isn’t worth more than a billion in a scenario where one has to CHOOSE between who to SAVE. But this is NOT that. This isn’t asking: is it moral to choose one life over all of humanity/the world/galaxy/whatever fandom you’re in? (ie; echoing my blorbo Anakin vibes who I judge him for). Instead, this stupid game/show is asking: is it moral to allow a CHILD to be slaughtered so humanity can be ‘saved’ into continuing on/not going extinct. And guess what? The answer to that is a big fat NO. If humanity’s survival depends on slaughtering a CHILD, then it deserves to die. 🤷‍♀️

Fuck Abby Anderson, & fuck her hypocrite of a father. The bastard deserved what he got. And so did every single scientist Joel killed who were willing to slaughter a—again from the top of my lungs since some fans don’t seem to understand how the doctor wasn’t a ‘poor little innocent man’ Joel murdered to SAVE Ellie’s life from being taken from her—CHILD to ‘help’ humanity continue on.

As even IF humanity would even DESERVE to continue living after something pure evil like THAT was how the species went on.

Hope Abby and all of her friends die screaming under Ellie’s boot.

Yeah, I got a lotta rage. Lol. I don’t usually write anti meta about a character like this (and believe it or not it ISN’T meant to antagonize her fans and is just so I can vent my thoughts on my personal blog), but dear LORD this half baked cold bitch of a character that was so clearly shoved down our throats out of the game developer’s need to ‘preach’ to us about some hamfisted theme of ‘revenge bad!’ and ‘Ellie should’ve let goooo and healedddd like dear saintly ABBY! Isn’t she sooooo much worse than our buff queennnn? 😜😒🙃’ fills me with the most white hot rage imaginable.

They will NEVER get me to care about her. I have never understood exactly what audience’s might hate about being ‘preached’ to, until I was basically having it shoved in my face twenty four seven to try to make me feel bad for Joel’s murderer/torturer: “ooooh, Abby and Lev are just like JOEL AND ELLIE! 🥺 Don’t you feel baddd for them and see Abby isn’t a bad person at alllll just like dear Joelllll.” The way it’s just SO transparent what they’re trying to do by making Abby turn softer from her absolutely disgusting and heartless introduction shows just how much they were working to try and force the audience’s sympathy instead of allow Abby to EARN it herself. The entire narrative clearly blares loudly: “(gasp) 😱 See what a MONSTER Ellie has become! She should’ve broken the cycle of violenceeee. It’s HER fault she loses more since she doesn’t quit and let Abby get away with murdering her father figure/ruining her lifeeeee.” 😤🥶🤬😒

Maybe I wouldn’t despise Abby so much if it wasn’t SO damn clear from the beginning that the game developers are completely on her side and act like what she did was justified when it LITERALLY FUCKING ISN’T! By all accounts and purposes, Joel used self defense/man slaughter/whatever the legal term is to DEFEND Ellie—a CHILD—to save her life and to keep her from being MURDERED. Every person he killed was trying to stop him from saving Ellie, and therefore every person he killed in that Firefly compound were COMPLICIT in trying to have a CHILD murdered in the most horrifying manner by being cut apart like a frog WITHOUT EVEN GIVING HER THE AUTONOMY TO CHOOSE FOR HERSELF!!! How does this shit not REGISTER with everyone? How is there even ONE person who can say he made the wrong decision here? The ONLY thing I will say Joel did wrong is lying to Ellie about it, but that’s it. It’s literally it. Other than that, Joel did everything right.

You can argue he didn’t necessarily do it for the REASON it was truly right (ie; about Ellie having the autonomy to choose over her own life and death or whether it was a more human/understandable/still selfish fear of not wanting to lose another daughter again), but you literally CANNOT say that Joel was wrong for saving a CHILD’S life from being slaughtered like some guinea pig. Anyone who says so is just… wrong. 😭🤷‍♀️ There is NO scenario where it will EVER be morally correct that a CHILD being SLAUGHTERED is the ‘lesser evil’ to save a humanity that wouldn’t even deserve to exist anymore after that.

God, it’s NEVER gonna happen, but I HOPE Ellie kills this cold hearted bitch in the show. I have NEVER despised a character more than I despise Abby Anderson. And that’s saying something, because Negan from The Walking Dead is already Number #1 in my ‘they could never make me love/forgive you’ book. He and Abby might just be tied for first place, because the narrative for BOTH fandom story genres just LOVE to bend over backwards to try and inorganically make them seem sympathetic to the audience and give some halfhearted ‘redemption arc’ with a kid half the time to ‘prove’ they’re decent now and everyone should get over what they did and acts like the heroes/main characters are somehow the ones who MADE them have to react in certain heartless ways.

I’ll admit Negan’s arc tries more than Abby’s arc (at least in the OG Walking Dead show. Once they threw in a wife and kid for ‘sympathy’ points, they basically threw any chance of SHOWING Negan ORGANICALLY working to try to become a better person/realize his mistakes in an ORGANIC way in the garbage by having it all being about trying to humanize him with a wife and kid that weren’t even earned and that he got offscreen). What does Abby get? She gets her Ellie 2.0 kid on screen. But it’s SO obviously hamfisted to be a dark mirror of Joel and Ellie’s relationship to drum up sympathy that it just enrages me and I can’t take it seriously. It reminds me of when my brother made me watch this show called The Last Ship and how one of the women characters named Rachel (the love interest being fridged! Who would’ve guessed!) are killed off for the main male character’s man pain, and how IMMEDIATELY the next episode/Season they have an ‘old ex-girlfriend’ show up which is SO clearly meant to be—‘here’s replacement Rachel!’, that I could NOT help but hate the character immediately, despite the fact she wasn’t necessarily a bad person or that badly written. But since it was SO obvious what the writers were trying to pull—I despised the character and felt rage whenever she was on screen because she was so clearly just ‘replacement Rachel’ and it drove me crazy.

THAT’S how I feel about Abby for The Last of Us. The game developers SO clearly try to force down your throat that Abby is a dark mirror ‘replacement Joel!’ that you’re supposed to learn to love and want to win and get away from Ellie’s wrath, and I fucking hate it. I always will. I refuse to accept this half baked manipulation into trying to feel bad for a character who tortured someone to death. If Joel was killed for some of the bad things it’s implied he’s done before Ellie, that might be different. But he’s not. The narrative condemns him for his DECISION TO SAVE ELLIE, and says that it was ‘wrong’ to not allow humanity to continue on from the backbone of a CHILD’S slaughter, and I will always call BS on that. Joel didn’t deserve his fate, and Abby SURE as HELL didn’t deserve the right to kill him. Fuck her, and fuck the way the narrative bends around her to justify her actions when they’re just as hypocritical as they sound.

Joel, get up... THE LAST OF US (2023- ) — 2.02 “Through the Valley”

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It’s like the whole world is supposed to forget her dad was willing to chop Ellie up like a dissected frog for something he wasn’t even SURE would work.

Hot take: if humanity’s survival depends upon a CHILD being slaughtered like an animal, then humanity doesn’t deserve to continue on. 🤷‍♀️

Joel was right to save a CHILD from having her choice of life or death being taken from her. And fuck Abby Anderson. Hope the cold bitch dies in the show screaming.

Will she? Probably not. But I’m venting so ima dream. 😭🤷‍♀️😒

Yeah, I have a lot of rage over this whole stupid plot line.

He killed 18 soldiers and also my dad who was a doctor.

Good. He should killed more after everything you fuckers wanted to do to Ellie.

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God, I’m never watching Season two or playing TLOU part two, but I hope to hell the show ends differently and lets Ellie fucking slaughter Abby. They’ll never make me like that cold bitch. Sorry, not sorry: Joel wasn’t wrong for saving a child about to be dissected like a frog.

Hot take: If humanity’s survival depends upon allowing a CHILD to be slaughtered for them to do so, then humanity doesn’t deserve to continue on. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ This ain’t no choosing one person over a billion. It’s choosing to allow a CHILD to have the agency those damn scientists weren’t going to give her over her own life or death.

Fuck Abby Anderson. Hope she dies screaming.

Also: obligatory the gifs of this post are clear cut so thanks to the OP. 👍

Joel, get up... THE LAST OF US (2023- ) — 2.02 “Through the Valley”

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This dynamic wasn’t something I expected, but is hilarious. 😭😭😂

I imagine the older they get, the less of a kriff they give, and they’ll just start interrupting each other and neither one will back down.

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BABY AAYLA! 🥺🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕💕💕

Image description: It's a drawing of Aayla Secura and Quinlan Vos from Star Wars. They're both very young, with Aayla being a toddler. Quinlan is lifting the long sleeve of his robe to show Aayla hiding inside it. Quinlan is grinning affectionately while Aayla seems to be laughing nervously. The prompt of this drawing was to draw Aayla trying to convince her future teacher to take her with him on a mission. End of description.

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Beautiful. 😍😍

Satine’s ball gown dress design commission for @/darling_duchess_ on insta!✨

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The way this is canonically accurate. 😭😭😭

Saw this on twitter and did Grogu

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This is hilarious. 😂

aunty armourer 🥰

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This has actually made me dislike Dooku a little less. Lol. (Maybe even like..??) The idea of him and Jocasta being frenemies is hilarious. 😂

Tbh the archives look like a great place for a nap…

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The epitome of a terrifying pout. 🥰🥶🫣

big fan of characters that are as pathetic as they are terrifying

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Noooo. 😭💔 It still hurts…

"i'm leaving her in your hands. take care of her. if he died, would someone protect her after? when he thought of it, he felt depressed. and… what if she died before he did? he was afraid of that, more than anything.” — noel kreiss, ffxiii-2 novels

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Wtffff! 😭🤯

Anakin SEALED Rex’s report??

HOW didn’t I realize that. 😭🤦‍♀️ Where does it say/show that in the show/Wookipedia? It’d be nice to have for arguments that ‘AnAkIn DiD nOtHiNg WrOnG! 🤪🤪’ crowd. Lol. 😂💙

Just saw someone say "Anakin couldn't have been complicit with the enslavement of the clones if he didn't know it was happening" girl they were shooting children

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It’s...a big moment for Colin, as someone who has tried to be this cool guy who’s aloof and a man of few words. He’s been feeling the pressure of holding all that in all this season, and suddenly it all comes tumbling out in that carriage scene. We had initially imagined it as Pen and Colin sitting side-by-side, so they were having this intimate conversation. But [director] Andrew [Ahn] had the idea of staging them across from each other, partly because it’s easier to film...but also so that when Colin wants to get closer to express himself to Penelope, he’s required to get down on his knees. That creates a nice visual for a man who ignored this girl romantically for two seasons, to then have to be begging for her.

Jess Brownell, Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1 Finale Breakdown (Variety)

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Colin was a shell of a man for those five seconds. 😭🥺💔💓🥰

Just look at Colin’s face.

From heartbreak to heart’s content.