scarletawitch - Tumblr blog

[scarletawitch]

"I'll talk to him guys!!"

[scarletawitch]

When Veilguard comes out, please keep it in the back of your mind every single time you interact with Varric and Lucanis that their writer got laid off with little to no warning and that she is and always will be a Dragon Age legend and one of the reasons why the franchise has stayed afloat for as long as it has

[scarletawitch]

Here I am, hours later, still crying about Furiosa and Praetorian Jack. George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are geniuses. They completely sold me on just how much these characters loved each other.

Furiosa coming out of a nightmare, wielding a knife, to be caught by Jack. He doesn’t say it’s all right or that she’s safe, she doesn’t say it was just a bad dream. They don’t say anything. Jack eases her back down to her cot and they settle down, aware of each other.

Jack stitching up Furiosa’s shoulder in a hidden spot in the Citadel, Furiosa showing Jack the peach seed that she’s kept hidden in her hair for so long, proving that the Green Place is out there, asking him to come with her, pressing her forehead to his while cupping the back of his head, showing him her love in the manner of her people, and him returning the gesture. After fifteen years, she’s finally going home, and he’s coming with her.

And then...

Spoilers beyond here!!!

And then:

The battle of the Bullet Farm, which is where the strength and force of their love really started to batter me. Furiosa manages to avoid the ambush and get out of the Farm before the gate closes, and Jack could easily have slipped through the gate to join her, but he sees the enemy forces mustering and knows they’ll quickly be hunted down if there's nothing to stop their pursuers. He shoots off a green flare that clearly tells Furiosa to abandon him and get the hell out of there, intending to sacrifice himself so that she has a chance to escape and set off for the Green Place. Furiosa does drive off, but gets maybe five metres before she decides ‘fuck this’ and goes back in to try and save him. And she saves him from his pursuers and she saves him from falling to his death, and they get to their escape vehicle and drive off, with nary a word spoken or exchanged until they’re on the flat and heading for freedom. And even then, all that’s mentioned is what direction they should take to reach the Green Place. That's it. They don’t need anything else. They survived, they got out, they're together, they’re going to be all right.

And they almost make it. They almost get away.

When they’re captured by Dementus and forced onto their knees, there’s no special close up on them; mostly they’re on the edge of the shot while Dementus is ranting centre stage or screaming into their faces. They pay no heed to him. That love infuriates Dementus. He shrieks, he tears at them, but he can’t break them. He doesn’t matter. What matters is that they spend their last moments touching each other, leaning into each other, pressing their foreheads together, breathing deep, loving each other.

There are no parting words between Furiosa and Jack, no declarations or promises or screams of despair, but it hit me so hard and cut so deep that the second to last time we see Jack’s face, he’s craning desperately to see what’s happening to Furiosa, trying to get one final precious glimpse of her, before he’s quite literally dragged to his awful death.

We don’t see Furiosa’s reaction to her torture on multiple fronts, as she is strung up by her maimed arm and forced to watch Jack die. We’ve seen her scream and weep for her mother, but this moment is hers alone. It’s not for us.

How fitting it is that Jack saves Furiosa one last time, as his execution distracts Dementus and his crew from noticing that Furiosa has cut off her own arm to escape.

The last time we see Jack’s face is in Furiosa’s last nightmare.

Furiosa doesn’t mention Jack in her final showdown with Dementus, when she screams about her mother and her stolen childhood. But from what’s shown to us, I think that the spot in the Citadel when she imprisons Dementus and grows the peach tree in the midst of his emaciated, maggot-ridden body…is the same place where Jack stitched up her wounded shoulder, where she showed him the peach seed, where she asked him to come with her to the Green Place and he accepted, where she showed him her love in the manner of her people, where they embraced. Where she avenged herself and Jack, upon the man who destroyed their lives.

Where Furiosa now plucks the first fruit of the tree to bring to the Five Wives, whom she will bring with her to the Green Place.   

[scarletawitch]

george miller really went "okay for this mad max prequel i want to hire thor, put him in a chariot, give him red hair and a red cape, and a bunch of dorks he calls thunderboys, and make him the most despicable piece of shit in existence"

[scarletawitch]

the theme i'm seeing re: furiosa is people seem to think it's just a corporate cash grab/milking of a series, which is an absolute shame because nothing could be further from the truth. george miller's love and passion for his world and characters is so evident in it. it recontextualizes entire scenes and relationships in Fury Road, gives new meanings and depths to specific scenes, and im going crazy thinking people are gonna pass it over because they think it's just the equivalent of an overblown straight to dvd sequel.

[scarletawitch]

Study for Lady Macbeth by Gustave Moreau // Anya Taylor Joy as Furiosa

[scarletawitch]

Tom Burke as Praetorian Jack & Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

[scarletawitch]

they’re still together in my head :,)

[scarletawitch]

Diavolo as Ken featuring Moin MC and Al as Barbie(s)

[scarletawitch]

oh! oh! JAIL FOR MR DEKARIOS! JAIL FOR MR DEKARIOS FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!!!

[scarletawitch]

Тянут-потянут, вытянуть не могут. They pulled and pulled but couldn't pull it up!

Interpretation of the Russian folk tale "The Turnip".

[scarletawitch]

[Astarion] is a cat. He's a black cat. There's a stray that comes into my house called Red... and he's quite feral. It took me three years before I could pick him up and hold him. He's totally cool with me now. Three fucking years. He gave me a lot of inspiration about Astarion.

- Neil Newbon, on developing Astarion's physicality and mannerisms

[scarletawitch]

Astarion: “No one ever cared about me >:\”

Karlach, standing 10ft away: “ME I CARE I CARE SO MUCH”

[scarletawitch]

ahh thanks for tagging me @sinfulsalutations !! I don't check Tumblr very often anymore, apologies for being late to hop on the bandwagon! It's going to be hard to limit myself to 3 tho

It's gotta be Written in Ink by RubyStiff89! This was the fic that made me fall in love with fanfiction again after a long absence from fandom. Tech/OFC, AU, mild NSFW content. Fighting fascism with the free press... this fic's got it all babey

Gonna cheat and put in a whole series, but The Bad Batch Clan series by space_farer is near and dear to my heart. Echo/OMC, Tech/OMC, Hunter/OMC, mild NSFW content, cw: mentions sexual assault & discussions of slavery in Firelight Eyes. There's something about space_farer's work that takes me back to being a kid reading EU novels in the public library -- I think they've just got a really good grasp of the Star Wars universe as a whole and do some great worldbuilding of their own.

3. Machine Learning by siren_socks. There was a glut of fix-its post S2 and I get it. I even wrote one, kinda. We all want Tech to be alive and to be reunited with his family and I will inhale every single fix it fic posted, BUT Machine Learning is a really unique take on a Tech Lives fix-it and feels super in-line with canon events and the SW universe as a whole.

Bad Batch Fanfic Window Shopping

Reblog this with 1-3 of your favorite Bad Batch fanfics (your own or others), with a short description of each, any content warnings, and one thing that you love about it!

If it's fun, we'll do other fanfic topics (501st, Clone Captains, etc). :)

[scarletawitch]

I hope Barbie is so good and successful it makes every executive that’s turned everything bright and fun made for young girls into edgy boring teen dramas for the last ten years spontaneously combust into flames

[scarletawitch]

full version of 21-23 yo Phee

[scarletawitch]