I think I really lose braincells each time you post about couples counselling au - because I have never felt a characterization of Obi-Wan and Anakin fit *so much* to my own headcanon that it drives me crazy. The lack of communication? The desperate need to please (Anakin) the delusion of thinking you're giving someone complete access (Obi-Wan) while keeping them out. It is SO perfect, it's literally my favourite obikin fic, I am so invested in this au. The questions you have them answer at the end. When Obi-Wan said he's "happy to make the list as an obligation" because free time means a lot to an enslaved man. Kit. KIT *stick figure gore of me sinking my talons into your shoulders* When Anakin says he has nothing to hide from Obi-Wan but Obi-Wan never asks and he feels like he's getting away with something each time he learns something while Obi-Wan is like. He can ask me anything. KIT *BLOOD IN MY MOUTH*
ahhh thank you so much!!! i really love writing chapters and answering asks about this fic because i'm really attached to these versions of obi-wan and anakin like. their motivations are so interesting to me, especially at this part of the story, in the beginning, when all they are are motivations
anakin absolutely feels this need to please and be loved and the focus of his master's attentions. he also feels helpless in the face of thinking obi-wan will never let him in like that. he also is unhealthily controlling in small ways (checking and rechecking his closed door, for one, trying to have a say in what he eats out of concerns for his health) but he just loves him so much and he really experienced like.d devastation when obi-wan was temporarily dead that i feel like altered his motivations fundamentally, especially because he restarted his heart so.....probably a tiny part of him....illogically feels as if that's his heart now......
and obi-wan absolutely thinks he is so transparent for anakin!! he has let him in!!! more than he's ever let anyone in at all probably, but it's probably not that much. he's so practiced at keeping him out and hiding his real emotions that that's second nature. not to mention he feels betrayed in his own way at anakin marrying padmé --instead of just having an affair with her-- and he's trying to frantically detach himself before anakin leaves the order because he'll be devastated when that happens. not to mention he can also be shit at respecting boundaries (he reads the messages on anakin's phone when he's asleep)
and it's all just so interesting especially because there's so much narrative bias and just narrative inaccuracies where the narrator/POV character completely reads the other's reactions wrong, which makes the little questionnaire at the end have so much more weight because the counselor is 1000% right when she says that that's what's most important--how they feel about each other and their relationship after honest deliberation and reflection
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hiiii im also doing the sealey challenge & as you are thee poetry blog of all time + your taste is always on par, i wanted to ask if you had any all time fav lifechanging collections to recommend so i can fill the last few spots on my reading plan for the month :-) ty love u
God that’s such a high compliment! Thank you!! ❤️
Oh yes I have some recommendations!!!
1. Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall - this has been my favorite collection since I first read it in 2020 & I have reread it countless times & will continue to be absolutely floored by it
2. Averno by Louise Glück- I love Glück’s poetry & Averno is one of the first collections that latched it’s teeth into me
3. Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar - Another collection I return to often!! Will read literally anything Kaveh Akbar writes
4. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz - a tender & deeply touching collection. I am obsessed with the way that Diaz talks about love.
5. Past Lives, Future Bodies by Kristen Chang - small collection of absolutely striking work!!
6. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking by C. T. Salazar - obsessed with this collection & return to it often
7. Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay - this collection took me out the first time I read it & it took some time for me to recover
8. I Will Tell this Story to the Sun Until You Remember that You are the Sun by Erin Slaughter - another collection I had to literally put down multiple times while I was reading it & calm myself down before I could return back to it. I love Erin Slaughter’s work!!
9. Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani - have bought & devoured all of Abani’s published poetry in the last year. Started with this collection & it got me hooked.
10. Deluge by Leila Chatti - Obsessed with her work!! Could not recommend it more
This is a lot & honestly there are many more I could recommend but I’ll stop myself here
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the fact that there are people who still thinks that bo-katan is currently playing some kind of long game is absolutely hilarious to me, like, girl has lost everything, she's depressed and tired and going through multiple different existential crises, you think she's got the emotional capasity to think about the darksaber right now???
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hate my sister's shitty good for nothing boyfriend. can you imagine being a 30yo man with two kids who won't even scramble an egg. Not for his kids, not for his girlfriend, not for himself. literally if my sister doesn't leave out pre-made meals when he's watching the kids he will rip up bread or pour them dry cereal or open a granola bar and make himself microwave dinners. like, lowest effort possible. but if i mention this to my sis, she'll be like "no he's definitely cooked for the kids! he scrambled an egg for them once! i watched him do it!" but it's like...so he scrambled one egg in the last five years. just to like, prove he can? at your direct insistence? should we all clap? like seriously. hate this guy. had to really hold back recently because he had someone over and he was interacting with the kids more than usual for appearances, and he had to keep asking me and my sis what the 5yo was signing because he barely bothered to learn his own son's primary form of communication. i was so tempted to say "that one means 'go home' but you wouldn't know that because you don't take them anywhere." so hard to hold that in. If I had to describe this man in two words they would be these: Low Effort. Not quite bare minimum, but JUST enough to convince my sister that it would be too much hassle to get rid of him. he's stupid as fuck, but just smart enough to quickly stop shit like screaming obscenities at the kids for doing normal kid things. and he once stomped on my headphones and broke them in a fit of rage, but gave my sister money to replace them so it was "fine." Like, my sister thinks that he's just struggling with his anger issues, because he had a bad childhood, blah, blah, and oh he would never actually hurt her or the kids. and like, good for you, but i don't trust like that. genuinely hoping he gets struck by lightning and dies instantly.
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