#he knows he's wildin

[intermundia]

i love how the revenge of the sith novelization is able to provide so much vivid insight into anakin's mental state, with stover giving words to what hayden's pained scowl and wet eyes are able to imply.

we see how far he's already gone, how close violence is to the surface of his thoughts. this is the first time in the book that in any way he has been a threat to padmé, instead of desperately trying to save her. he's really teetering on the edge, like "a bug he could crush beneath his heel and keep on walking?" the biggest possible yikes 😬

but, in a moment that expands what is shown in the final film, we see him pull himself back from that space:

we see how he's not gone yet, how he's teetering on the edge, but how he's aware that he's on the edge. it's not just that he's not the jedi he should be, it's that he's in free fall in the dark. he doesn't know how to orient himself, who to believe, how to behave. he's detached from all the bonds that keep him stable, keep him sane. the order, obi-wan, now padmé? palpatine has been relentlessly and successfully alienating him from everyone, playing him perfectly.

the problem, and why his maniuplations work so well, is that because deep down, anakin wants to be played. for all his confusion and panic, he wants what palpatine is offering, he likes the way palpatine flatters and encourages him. he's close to the edge, so close, and about to leap off, because he can. these last moments of self-awareness, self-recrimination, we see the man he used to be tugging impotently at the man that he's become. he's already lost control in so many important ways and it's so painful to see haha

[speakofthedebbie]

it may be uncredited hell but who else doin it like pinterest comment sections

teetering dangerously close to stolas hate but.. "hanky lanky panky"

"maybe if you got rid of that yee yee ass haircut maybe youd get some bitches on yo dick!"

[xehanortsreport]

i know the most logical sequence of events is MX meeting up with Braig after he has finished his shifts, but since we only ever see him in uniform I think it's way funnier if Braig was out here doing all his henchman shit on his lunch break.

[torrikor]

ough. vambire.

[marathedemonoverlord]

You know for a bit I was dabbling with character ai for ideas and now I wish I didn't; What started as flirting with Solomon ended up with Solomon seducing Diavolo that is NOT what was supposed to happen here!! >:0 (ಥ ͜ʖಥ)

But yeah fun experiment I guess.

[akkivee]

been letting myself get seduced by a man canonically born either in 1978 or 1989

[killer-beans]

francis ford coppola posting about tik tok trends on his insta will never not be crazy to me

[juniperhillpatient]

Not me telling guests not to pay & advising them as long as they’re out of here before their eviction date they get to live free & save money for a place without it going on their record if they’ve been here for over 30 days 😇

[swordofruln]

[mun] character development is when someone (me) realizes a ship they had as a teen is problematic now that theyre old enough to know how to do the research and understand why it is problematic

[mistyycowoa]

Y'all. Did I ever mention I was deaf in my dreams for as long as I could remember? Then like, April 28-29 that night just BOOM. casual hearing.

In the dream I was talking to a boy (whom I don't know irl but is apparently a friend in this dream) while I was just

Standing at my home(not irl home) and I apparently lived in this old decrepit high rise apartment with stairs on the outside and I was just chillin at my door and he was delivering pizza

Then skip to a scene where we're in a room probably about 2x4m² of a room with pipes and shit everywhere and it even has the fucking electrical breaker thingy so it's some place nobody does to. And then there's this small table with pizza. We chat, then there's a banging on the door (behind me).

And I hear their voices and it's a few dudes I know(irl whom I very much dislike because they're basically homophobic and racist) so I'm like "I'm gonna kick those dudes on the chin" and the guy I'm having a "date" with picks up a fucking pipe wrench, opens the door like a fucking badass and swings at them

And of course the dream ends right before those dudes get actually hit over the head because my subconscious hates violence/death.

[safyresky]

in other news I am having some very good and fun interactions today.

my work wife upon me mentioning i'm gonna take a half hour lunch today for lieu time next week:

and a blinter coded richella interaction:

[zouisalmightie]

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[zincbot]

whatever my nerves are doing in my post surgerized foot is wild

[waloeders]

alao i cant believe im sayin it but the stupid horse man egi sleipnir got to me. hes goin on the list too!

[thealternatemind]

Some information about me no one on this website asked to hear is that I’m a really loud typer and I write for a living and literally all I hear in the back of my head every day I’m working is my college coworker looking at me and asking: “why do you type so angrily?”

[atinybitofstarlight]

Not me going to New York this weekend and the first this I do is open Raya to see if I can find Jungkook