#And my love is my defining trait

[bleeding-hart]

guess who has added another character to add to their collection of sunshiney summery bros to reference when describing their own personality (meee)

I seriously see so many people who compare themselves to like nico/regulus type emo depressed characters and I've yet to find another will solace/sunshiney type person who openly relates to them like I am the sunshine in grumpy x sunshine and I'm not ashamed of that

(To follow up on the opening thing it's James. He's me but a deer (I'm a magpie/hummingbird type person) and also magic yk)

Srsly tho like so many people say they love those ships bc they relate to the emo one and they want to have a sunshine person and I'm the opposite like yea I'm mostly aroace but the exception is soft depressed emo gay genderqueer-coded boys. So few of them exist in the Real World and it pains me

[skywalkr-nberrie]

One of the biggest arguments I’ve seen used by the Ob*d*l*s against Anidala, is that scene in the ROTS novel where Padmé says she could trust OW with the secret of the rebellion and was hesitant to tell Anakin and I just wanna say:

Padmé wasn't an idiot. She was an extremely intelligent and competent woman, perfectly able to understand that loving Anakin and thinking that he could be trusted with a certain politic-related matter were two very different things and reducing her choice regarding who to trust with an important political matter only on the basis of her feelings of romantic love diminishes her professionalism, and this is why I say y'all could never understand her.

Padmé didn’t have to "love" OW or even like him at all to know he was the perfect Jedi to ask for help in a secret political matter.

That's the point being made in the novel, she’s hit with the realization that Anakin in this particular moment could not be told this piece of info because of his relationship with Palpatine, and Padmé specifically mentions in the Junior ROTS novel that she didn't want to make Anakin “keep a secret” if he didn’t agree with their stance because it’d be “unfair.” So this also played a part in why Padmé didn’t think it best to inform Anakin about the Rebellion. It honestly had little to do with her actually lacking trust in him, and more to do with the circumstances she was in not allowing her to be open with her husband and her not wanting to make him choose between his wife and his “father figure.”

However, Padmé knows OW’s political ideas aren't tied to ONE particular person but to a philosophy, one which is closer to her own, at that point. None of this was ever meant to be hinted as “romantic” or even remotely insinuated as romantic. It’s strictly professional and even the tone of the scene makes that so abundantly clear.

All I’m saying is that, some of these proshippers are doing the most out here to try and prove their ship, like my loves? You forgot a very important thing called ✨ context ✨ and regardless of her rational thinking, Padmé still went out of her way to try and talk out all of this Rebellion secrecy stuff with Anakin when she confronted him in the scene where she asks if he ever thought they were “fighting on the wrong side.” Padmé didn’t trust OW in the same way she trusted Anakin (with her entire self and being) she had the level of trust and love for Anakin that was only meant for him.

Mixing up her unwavering faith in Anakin as her husband with her trust in OW’s devotion to duty as her comrade/ally is purposely deluding yourself, because the two aren’t the same and therefore can’t be compared. An example of this is: Padmé constantly putting more value to Anakin’s words over OW’s in the end of ROTS when he came to tell her of Anakin’s “crimes”. She completely disregarded what OW had claimed about her husband and instead made her way to where Anakin was herself, to ask him directly. Despite what the truth was, this is proof of her trusting Anakin unconditionally, and I didn’t even think I had to spell that out because it’s as clear as day.

In conclusion, Padmé didn’t trust OW more than Anakin, she just knew the circumstances she was in didn’t exactly make it easy for her to openly talk with her husband about these matters and that’s part of what played into the issues they had in ROTS, it’s exactly what Sidious wanted. This scene in the novel doesn’t exist to imply some hidden romantic undertone that George was intending all along. No, far from that. George was always an “open, , clear and easy to understand” type of storyteller, so if the former was the case, this scene wouldn’t be any different if there was some hidden message or subtext the reader should be made aware of, George would make it obvious. Fact of the matter is, the one and only reason for this scene in the novel to exist is only to show to us as the “reader” that the narrative is tearing apart the Star-Crossed-lovers (Anakin and Padmé.) and visibly putting the two of them on different sides in the story because the consequences of this narrative choice is what will foreshadow and play into the inevitable and great fall of the couple and character in the future. Even the novel makes a very purposeful and clear distinction between “love and trust” in this chapter where all this occurs. Padmé’s dilemma in ROTS was overtly “Love vs Duty” and both GL and Natalie Portman have said so in ROTS features and a perfect example of this is the fact that Padmé loves Anakin, but knew she had to trust OW with the situation at hand. And if you want to talk “narratively” Padmé needed a reason to keep the Rebellion a secret from Anakin, thus leading to Palpatine to sense “betrayal” in Padmé later on, and using that to his advantage to manipulate Anakin even more into getting him to “suspect” her. It’s all spelt out for us and it’s not hard to miss. All it takes is a little media literacy and understanding context.

(Mind you, hypothetically, if this scene existed for literally any other reason, it would’ve been brought up again, but it wasn’t. It’s only mentioned once and exists for only one moment which was meant to serve a certain narrative and then it was done. There’s not much to make of it since the context of the scene is so clear.)

[oaksapling]

gave ransom another makeover dont look at me this is the last time i swear

[thefactsofthematter]

a very sad and fucked up headcanon that came to me recently: roy kent has CTE

[serpentinespider]

now see her grow…

[briandraws]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP MY CHILDHOOD IS ALIVE AGAIN

[icarione]

thank FUCK its dark because none of you need to know how much i cried over mamma mia

[arolesbianism]

It's so miserable making side characters for a story and getting attached because now not only are you obsessed with a guy that only exists in your head even if they existed out of your head they'd still be basically just in your head. Like no you guys have to trust me they're so deep and intricate no none of this stuff ever comes up you just have to believe me and like them as much as I do

[vamp-a-day]

day 71

test subject

[burning-academia-if]

I'm bothering the my fav authors with their hypothetical love lives.

Apologies if I'm being weird.. it's been my life unfortunately lol

But if you had to choose an RO to romance irl who would you personally choose and whyyyyy with motivation!

Also love the story and i hope you have a BEAUTIFUL week ♥️

You're fine! Thinking who I would romance from this train wreck cast was a lot of fun-

Anyway my college self would have been enamored by Beck no question skskd

Lars is someone I would have gotten in a fist fight with (lmfaO), Rook has an iron wall around his heart and plenty of personal issues ajsjs + jealousy, ??? is mostly the jealousy I'd be fine with them possessing me tbh-

Rhea I'd love and admire and wish I could be best friends with So Bad but we're too different solely in what we want from life to date.

Zoe is my second contender because I like quiet people I can relax with and we'd share in our love of books (Also I love people who I can tease and Zoe delivers in that department).

But Beck is just so soft and I'm a sucker for Soft Boys. I think we could relate on a lot of personal feelings, both good and bad, and we both just want a normal and peaceful life. Also while all ROs would be fine with it, I imagine Beck's response to me being grey romantic ace as just "ok, we're best friends who are in love sometimes" and that easy acceptance would make me cry lol

[sysig]

Everything falls into place so nicely when they’re together (Patreon)

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

omg omg i’ve been laughing for ten minutes, oh god my stomach hurts. “objectifying gay men as boys who love each as if that was their only trait” WHAT?!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 like i’m pretty sure the definition of gay men is “boys who love each other”

[daz4i]

ik it's not good to latch onto a mental illness as your defining trait but also. babe i don't have much else going on or any other sense of identity beyond it

[ruushes]

The Magician and The Lovers for the Rook tarot ask✨️

The Magician: What are Rook's thoughts on Solas? Do they change as the story progresses?

tbh they underestimate him for the entire game and deserve to get fooled by him like three times in a row in the end 😂😂 regrettably they are pretty manipulable and probably could’ve been talked into complacency even without blood magic. i do think it’s at least a little bit mutual though, i have a hard time imagining him taking them too seriously. the first time through i did go with having the mythal fragment talk him into self-sacrifice, and it’s funny to think they ultimately did get him with the Power of Friendship, or the power of Whatever The Hell You’d Call That at least

[stromulites]

hesitant to put my actual rendered pieces online these days. i'll probably just throw doodles here. They're shitty enough that I don't really care if they get scrapped (not my best work nor my more insane things I've drawn)

[ectoplasmer]

"he prefers games to girls by far" siiigh don't they all…