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this is so unbelievably stupid

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run

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Mara Jade

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no one can be normal about this ever but anakin does objectify padme & act possessive towards her, he does idolize her, he does put her in the place of his mother, he does exhibit all these behaviors and also form a deep connection with her that is incredibly personally fulfilling for both of them. it’s not either/or and in fact it’s a key part of their dynamic. his first line to her is “are you an angel?” and then he spends ten years meditating on her, dreaming of her—that is deification, that is putting her on a pedastal. she in turn sees him as this token from an old era of her life, she keeps his good luck charm for all of those ten years and carries that memory of his innocence. there’s always this tension between the real world and their own special secret world, the adult duties they have and the arrested development of their childhood traumas, whether they can run away together, whether these visions anakin has of the people he’s not supposed to love are real, all this fog. & to combat this, they carve out a little hole in the galaxy that’s only theirs. it’s idealism. they both represent to the other something real and freeing and scary and transgressive. and that does play into the violence, the mega stakes of what it means for anakin to think padme has sold him out. that’s not an excuse and that’s not me saying they’re a straightforwardly abusive relationship, but they are a deep bond formed amidst serious turmoil. and palpatine preys on that. he ferments that shit. & it’s unfortunate because 9 times out of 10 you can’t get past the “well are they abusive/toxic or not” thing & people expressing general performative disgust at a fictional dynamic being less than a platonic ideal . when this is melodrama

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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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- David Duchovny

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The Golden Girls – 7.01: Hey Look Me Over

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THE X-FILES | 6.02

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Luke by itoscaresme.

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FANTASIA (1940)

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90% of why han solo's charm works is that he tries so hard to fit the bad boy criminal archetype but he's inherently a loser

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you know for the last jedi being so kylo ren apologetic his character styling looks 1000x worse and greasier than in the force awakens and also they did not give him any good angles like….

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youve done it! youve found a new definition of pain and suffering

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i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

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The thing is lads I cannot think of a better use for my tax dollars than feeding children. I want my taxes to give the single mother of three healthcare. I want my taxes to take care of the elderly and the disabled. I don’t care if they’re citizens or legal residents or whatever. I want my taxes to help people. Because we’re trying to live in a goddamn society. Instead my taxes go towards bombing schools and hospitals and refugee camps. Billions and billions sent to proxy wars. And still people quibble over whether we should feed children. What are we doing here. Feed the kids.