#brave little guy

[ashleyrowan]

HAPPY PRIDE

I AM BEING A BRAVE LITTLE GUY THIS MONTH

SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY BRAVE LITTLE GUYS

[suiheisen]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

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[marisashorror]

Hiking Demons

[bruisedboys]

isn’t it crazy how frodo and sam literally beat sauron with the power of friendship

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Call that a Cave Story.

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[ilumel]

— how odd it is to find a fragment of the sun in the depths of such a violent storm.

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[david-talks-sw]

Let's briefly talk about this scene.

It starts with Anakin lamenting how the Clone War corrupted the Jedi and the principles of the Republic.

Now, Padmé thinks she and Anakin are talking about the same thing: this war is corrupting the Jedi and the principles of the Republic and Palpatine doesn't seem to want to put an end to it, instead increasingly amassing power.

She asks Anakin to get Palpatine to cease the fighting and let diplomacy resume. And Anakin. Gets. Triggered.

Why?

Well, firstly... it's because they weren't talking about the same thing.

1. What Anakin really means when talking about "the principles of the Republic".

While Anakin may say that he's concerned for the corruption of the Jedi Code and the principles of the Republic... he isn't really.

Anakin has a track record of saying he supports abstract principles and concepts, then complaining when standing by that hurts him.

Like when he'll preach that wartime forces him to make hard choices, duty over emotion...

... but then gets mad when someone else makes the hard choice in doing their duty, and it hits close to home.

There's this line Matthew Stover wrote in the ROTS novelization, which I think is very relevant:

“I think," Obi-Wan said carefully, "that abstractions like peace don't mean much to him. He's loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in return. He will stop at nothing to save me, for example, because he thinks I would do the same for him.”

Anakin isn't about abstractions like "peace", "duty" or "democracy". He'll say he is, because he knows he should be, in theory... but, in practice, he's more loyal to people than to principles.

And right now, he's very loyal to Palpatine. Arguably more than anyone else. No matter how blatantly he acts like a dictator, Anakin stays on his side.

So whenever he uses the words "Senate" and "Republic", what he means is "Palpatine". To him, they're one and the same.

He loves Palpatine very much but the two other people he loves, Padmé and Obi-Wan, are both telling him Palpatine's bad news.

Which brings us to the second reason he gets triggered...

2. He's under an enormous amount of stress.

He's barely had any sleep since his nightmare about Padmé and is now scared at the prospect of losing her like he lost his mother.

He's been on an emotional roller-coaster with the Council, first being put on the Council, but not as a Master, then being given a mission but it's a mission to spy on a mentor and father figure. Now he's not even sure the Jedi trust him and he's not even sure they should, after his outburst.

Also Padmé herself is asking him to tell Palpatine to stop, criticizing the Chancellor just like the Jedi do.

It's understandable that he's on edge. That said... a huge chunk of this stress isn't Padmé or the Council's fault. It has been manufactured by Palpatine.

He appointed Anakin to be his representative on the Council specifically because he knew it would put Anakin under pressure... pressure he can exploit for his own gain.

That's what Palpatine does. He orchestrates pressure then swoops in, in the guise of a savior.

With the Republic, he does this by engineering a war then bringing about order (to the chaos he caused) as an Emperor.

With Anakin, he does this by engineering conflict between him and his family - Padmé, Obi-Wan, the Jedi - then presenting himself before Anakin as the solution to all his problems.

From that point on, he enables the Republic and Anakin to give in to the worse parts of themselves and implode.

The former goes from being a democracy to a dictatorship, the latter goes from being a sweet kid to a bad man.

[buwheal]

I wanna give him a blanket. Can it maybe just materialize outta nowhere?

(I know fabric wrinkles suck to draw. You don't gotta 😵)

[alliumdykes]

Its so fun to see mcytblr go off the fucking rails in excitement about Tommy’s video. Like not only did he diss the green guy but he also made a BANGER song in the same video (and dissed him a tad in that song as well)

[skitskatdacat63]

Roleswap anyone??

Tell me Fernando wouldn't make a fantastic general/emperor, and that Napoleon wouldn't make a fanastic driver/tp!!

[morganbritton132]

The moment Steve said that he kissed someone named Tommy, people on Tiktok were like, who the fuck is that? But the girlies with the parents that went to Hawkins High pull out their mothers’ old yearbooks and start looking through the class roster. The problem is that there are at least two Tommys at the school when Steve was there and no one can decide which one looks like someone Steve would kiss.

[doozie97]

I like to imagine that Isami is actually very competent at handling high stress workplace environments and resolving conflicts in his military role. He just comes off as a coward most of the series because he’s being forced into situations involving alien robots with fantastical powers and zero regard for the value of human life, the rule of law nor the Geneva conventions.

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

When making a monster story, ask yourself: did you seal their FATE?

Is it freaky

Is there an abomination

Are the themes transsexual in nature

Is it emotionally devastating

[geolato]

I've never watched or read pjo, here's what I've gathered about it from my dash:

It is a book series that has been adapted a lot of times. They always start from the beginning. This disney adaptation starts from the beginning.

Percy is a demigod

He is Poseidon's son. But also Sally Jackson's son.

He throws up water (??) makes water go all crazy

There's a girl called Annabeth and I've seen gifs of the actress she's very pretty

She's Athena's daughter

She has mommy issues. Not sure if Athena hates her or just has high standards.

She doesn't like Percy but then she likes Percy

They get together in the books

A bunch of the gods appear in this but not the actual parents of the kids because they hate responsibility

The kids are in some sort of demigod camp because that is a thing that exists

Percy is gen z coded

Percy is The Chosen One™️. Not sure what he's chosen for.

There's a dude called Nico Di Angelo and he's pathetic.

[ratgingi]

im saying this as a very massive davesport truther but genuinely some of you need to chill on the harrysport hate. harrysport is cute and valid imo

[jacky-rubou]

the idea of an evil Stan au where Ford becomes Stan's indentured servant after Stan breaks and makes a deal with Cipher to keep his brother in line and under him where he "belongs" because he couldn't take it anymore and ending with Ford, who had his self worth beaten into the dirt throughout this experience and wholeheartedly believed he deserved the treatment, eventually learning that he didn't choose for Stan to make these decisions to hurt him worse than he ever did to him and that sometimes family isn't everything if they're abusing you, even if, no especially if the abuse is to 'get back at you' for previous treatment, sounds like it absolutely fucks.

until you realize that in reality, a large part of the fandom will look at it as if Ford actually did deserve to be lowered to being Stan's beck and call and praise Stan for taking initiative and fighting fire with even worse fire, and then you sink into the void because it really sounds cool but you don't want to deal with the fandom misinterpreting everything.