#however i will not stop quoting it

[ratsbanes]

FEDYA FEDYA FEDYA

Happy birthday Fyodor Dostoevsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky!!!!!

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

DAVE: what if i [remembers that making suicide jokes is not conducive with the goal of improving the wellbeing of himself and everyone around him] transform into an oyster

[popsicle-stick]

wearing a t shirt that says 'A FOLK TRADITION CARRIED BY A SELECT FEW IS NO LONGER A FOLK TRADITION' and the back says 'TRADITION WITHOUT CHANGE IS SIMPLY REENACTMENT' and little shorts that say 'ABANDON YE SHAME HERE'

[introspectivememories]

if you're writing a charles fic, it must have some aspect of boyking. he must lean a little on the childgod side. he has to be revered a little bit, adored even. if people aren't talking about him like they wouldn't wash his feet and adorn it with perfume like mary magdalene washed and adorned jesus' feet, you're doing it wrong.

[sharry-arry-odd]

If the Lover becomes an Artist, then there is no limit to how far his desire can range and whom he can reach. He can inflame the minds of others to enact the deeds he could never in a dozen lives accomplish, and by infecting generations he can multiply his desires forever through time. Think of all the words you wrote. Think of all the minds you touched, the dreams you implanted, the desires you lit. Who knows what loves and crimes you inspired? What else is writing for? Literature is nothing more or less than an attempt to fuck the whole world up the ass. Here's a poem: I wish this page were a razor and you all had one throat.

The Serialist, by David Gordon

[phoenixkaptain]

Okay, okay, okay, looK

Luke definitely choked out those Gamorrean guards. Like, you can try to convince me he didn’t, but we never see them get back up. And the intent was definitely that he Force choked them.

HOWEVER. One thing to remember about the original trilogy is that there were no techniques unique to good or bad, not really. Yes, the Dark Side had Force lightning, but it’s a technnique that’s dangerous moreso than evil, as apparently you can eloctrocute yourself with it if you get distracted. There is not even a hint of what we have today; that being separate fighting styles and fighting styles used only by one side or the other.

So, what differentiates Light and Dark Side? Well, as far as I can tell, it’s the emotion behind what you’re doing.

Luke doesn’t “pull a Dark Side technique” because the point of Return of the Jedi specifically is that Jedi don’t do things out of anger. And Luke didn’t Force choke them out of anger. He was super chill about it, meaning that, according to that movie, he didn’t even touch the Dark Side during his first reappearance, but he didn’t have to to pull off the move.

If you really want to get technical, I suppose you could find fault and say “But they go down so fast, there’s no way he choked them unles Gamorreans take a lot more oxygen then I thought.” That’s a fair argument. I liked to assume that he just accidentally crushed their windpipes, honestly, because how often do you think he got a chance to practice his move? And on what?

Luke Force choking the guards is part of the whole thing, okay? It doesn’t make sense if he doesn’t Force choke them. He’s Vader’s son, goddangit, that’s the POINT. He’s wearing all black and he’s Force choking Gamorreans and that’s because they are trying to use visual shorthand to tell us, the audience “look. Luke may ask later, but he’s really accepted that he’s Vader’s son. The difference between them is that Vader does things while frsutrated or impatient and Luke does things while perfectly calm”

Luke tries to use a mind trick on Jabba, but I’m ninety percent sure that he attempted it knowing that it wouldn’t work. He wants to show everyone in Jabba’s Palace that he’s a Jedi. He’s doing Jedi stuff, he’s pulling out all the stops, he’s trying to intimidate Jabba in hopes that it will make Jabba give up his friends.

And that’s the key thing. Luke is going for intimidation in that scene. Of course he’s going to mimic Darth Vader. He’s trying to be scary. Just because it doesn’t work, that doesn’t mean that’s not what he was going for. He wants to be spooky and mysterious and creepy so Jabba will go “Just take your friends and leave, jeez, stop being like this.” Yeah, he doesn’t really expect that it will work, but what it does do is make the skiff guards hesitant to attack him because he freaks them out.

I’m sorry. I saw a Screen Rant article that said Luke didn’t Force choke the Gamorrean guards. They provided evidence in the form of Legends’ canon and the junior novelization, but I don’t believe them. The scene was shot and directed in a way to make us think that he Force choked the big scary guards. Why would they shoot and direct a scene to misguide us, the audience? Star Wars didn’t do that at any other point in the movies. They misdirected us with dialogue, never with visuals. Why would they suddenly decide to misdirect us at this point? And only the once??? Just accept that Luke Force choked some people because Luke A.) doesn’t know it’s a Dark side technique and B.) doesn’t know that there are Dark side tehniques

[ivyinforests]

I got myself used to sleeping an appropriate amount. Fatal mistake. Now I can barely make myself stay up late doing objectively fun things and it feels ridiculous. I used to stay up till three with chem and algebra and now I’m struggling to work past 11 analyzing Enheduanna and making lesbian cake. These are my favorite things to do!!! If I told myself this a year ago I would think it was a joke.

[magentagalaxies]

i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

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[lorephobic]

this comment has me tearing up like i literally cant imagine going through that i would've gone postal

[technicolorxsn]

sorry. in a Rainer mood

[fdrsamericanflagduckfloaty]

Quick Brain dump what’s been going through your 1800’s looking brain

literally nothing but NATM

im gonna add a barrier if you dont wanna see the weirdest thought train ever

im gonna explain in words how my brain was like 4 seconds ago

NATM NATM Teddy NATM Him him him him NATM NATM Robin Willaims NATM TEDDY TEDDY NATM his knees ATTILA oh my god oh my god im gonna cry NATM Teddy Teddy Teddy Owen Wilson NATM Teddy

i can give you context but also i wont

and then when i read 1800's my brain instantly went

The Alienist. ...Teddy-

and i had to stop that train of thought because the next word was deranged in matter of speaking

but anyways out of wondering how my brain works rn i thought 'Teddy's so babygirl' and honestly yeah i agree with my brain. NATM Teddy is so babygworl

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[paperlovesadness]

Miles hasn't posted anything today and I suddenly feel abandoned

[rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl]

sucks to suck sometimes

[capfalcon]

one of the most ironic things about what i study is that it is basically Wokeness but academic and founded, it's the study of media which inevitably involves colonialism and racism and hegemonic powers but. what i find most ironic is that so many of these academic texts are borderline indecipherable despite trying to "speak to anti-colonism" and trying to talk about "revolution." bruh. there is, of course, a time and a place for academic syntax and this is one of them, but there's a difference between having a point and trying to seem smart.

[bixiaoshi]

smth smth getting attached to fictional characters smth smth