#light surroundings

[abandoned-quiche]

I LOVE ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS BTW. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR HATE FOR THEM ON MY POST

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[43501]

One of the 4 new pieces of official artwork from the Revival exhibition in full, incredibly difficult to find. I'm this || close to burning money on a reseller, buying this poster and high-res scanning it myself since this isn't max res.

[divineandmajesticinone]

THE HEART KILLERS (2024) I EP. 2 "I like your name, by the way. Fadel."

[hinamie]

august

[inkyrainstorms]

There is a light, I feel it in me

but only, it seems, when the dark surrounds me

@aroace-get-out-of-my-face do you understand what this post did to my brain chemistry. Do you. You and anon, do you understand. Fuck, man

full comic under the cut!

[sonicbooom]

mob im at the pride parade (as an ally) why is the whole cast here

[dent-de-leon]

Molly as The Fool looking so happy and free and Caleb as The Tower……..I’m in agony—

[secriden]

Just going to cry again (see: my previous post about the parallels between the storage room scene and the abandoned factory scene) about parallels and juxtapositions in the store room scene vs the one in Styles bedroom:

Both these scenes have such a tone of desperation and are characterised by an overflowing of emotions, but in drastically opposite directions.

(Note, some of what I say in this post directly relates to concepts and themes I talked about here, so it may not wholly make sense without that context.)

The scene in the storeroom is filled with frustrated desire. Fadel kisses Style because he wants Style's body and also wants to take his frustrations at Style out on his body. He doesn't need to look Style in the eye (and in fact very intentionally only does so only in small snatches) because this isn't about a connection as much as it is about a release. Fadel's kisses come fast, hard, and are intended to bruise more than to adore.

But episode 5's scene is filled with much more quiet and tender sort of desire. Style is kissing Fadel so much more slowly and purposefully. He keeps looking back at Fadel, checking in to see how he feels and whether Fadel is enjoying it. Everything Style wanted in Episode 3, he now gives to Fadel here, pours the secrets of his knowing and choosing Fadel anyway into the way he presses his lips onto Fadel's skin. His kisses linger, they carry a weight but are somehow infinitely gentle still; Style's kisses contain a purpose that Fadel's kisses couldn't in Episode 3 because in all honesty they were relative strangers back then.

There's also the way there's such a ferocity and carelessness in the way Fadel starts the encounter in episode 3 that is juxtaposed beautifully by the slow, tender, almost hesitant way Style slides his lips onto Fadel's. Both of them are in such different headspaces, between these episodes and its especially evident in the way they care so much more about the other person's comfort and how intentionally they showed that to the audience.

There's hunger present in both scenes but what this hunger is focused on is so drastically different. In the storeroom, they're both mainly focused on a physical release; its primal and visceral but lacked emotional resonance. Fadel gives Style what he knows Style wants (that hint of danger, with the hand on his neck), but its not because he really cares about what Style wants on anything more than a physical level. In Style's bedroom, however, Fadel is drunk (intentionally and by his own design) and desperate to open himself up to Style on an emotional level. Meanwhile, Style wants that desperately too, but knows that Fadel shouldn't because of his own terrible secret. So this kiss is what they both will allow themselves - an honesty and a hunger for this deeper connection they can only share in act but not in words.

In the storeroom, Style wants Fadel to want more than his body but knows (or thinks) he can't push for it yet, so he remains passive, lets Fadel do whatever he wants, lets him turn and shove and place Style how he wants because at this point, this is all Fadel will give him. Here, Style is passive in spite of what he wants. But in the bedroom, Fadel is passive because it's what he wants; he wants to let Style do whatever he desires to and with Fadel's body. He wants to lay himself as bare as he possibly can, which is only physical, and so he does.

And because the encounter in Episode 3 lacked that emotional connection, the focus is merely their respective releases. There's a sense of two people trying to find pleasure and 'finish' while remaining emotionally disconnected despite actively having sex with each other. Because in some ways, they didn't really need each other in that moment to get there (there's actually a lot of truth in what Fadel says about it being easier to just jerk off alone). In sharp contrast, the scene in Episode 5 isn't focused on the destination but on the journey. Style is taking his time and Fadel is letting him - Style is choosing to worship Fadel's body, with his fingers, with his lips, to respond to his vulnerability with gentleness and tenderness and adoration. The goal has stopped being about finding a release, it's about allowing both these men to revel in the giving and receiving of pleasure.

The point of these scenes is to show to us the ways in which Fadel and Style have grown to care for and, dare I say it, love each other in ways that are so purposefully portrayed by showing the nature of their physical connection. Because the ways in which these scenes are the same and yet so wholly different showcases how their touches are now no longer merely tied to their senses any longer, but also to their hearts as well.

[phantomcomet]

I have this idea where padawan Anakin gets assigned to creche duty after fucking up a mission. Obi-Wan thinks the kids will help calm him down and teach him a bit of responsibility. Taking care of younglings is a difficult task and requires patience and a calm mind.

And, like, Anakin starts off awful at it. He's too short with the kids, still pouting that babysitting is his punishment for charging ahead. But the kids think he's so cool- he's a padawan to Obi-Wan, he's so strong in the force, and he lets them swear without reprimand. He sneaks them out of the creche to get snacks and reprograms the droid to let them watch R rated holonet vids and teaches them the cool moves they're way too young to be pulling off. The kids love Anakin because he's fun and lets them be choatic kids for a little while. He's their bad influence older brother and these kids aren't about to rat him out.

Having the unreserved love of a bunch of younglings does help settle Anakin. It grounds him within the Jedi, in the sense that he does have family here. Sorry, Palpatine, he doesn't have time for lunch, he promised to teach the kids how to use the force to make popcorn. Next week isn't good either, the kids want to sneak out and watch him podrace. And the week after that, they're raiding the archives for embrassing stories about the master jedi as padawans. They need blackmail material for when they get caught swimming in the fountains.

It doesn't change everythimg but it changes enough- Anakin cuts down several Tusken raiders and when he turns, ready to slaughter the whole village, he sees a youngling- and stops. They're animals, they deserve this- but how can he cut down a child? One that could have easily been one of his responsibilities, his duty to protect.

After, instead of marrying Padme, he goes home, back to the kids. And everyone knows something has happened, especially the kids and Obi-Wan. There's a distance there that wasn't before, that can't be closed, because Anakin is holding everyone at arm's length.

The war starts, Anakin is knighted, and the council unanimous decide that a padawan will totally fix everything. Anakin defintely has words about sending kids into a warzone. Everytime he's home, they throw younglings at him. Anakin is deserperate to end the war before the younglings age into it.

To jump ahead- order 66 happens and instead of killing the younglings, Anakin protects them. Mace kills Palpatine, Yoda and Obi-Wan find the temple sacked but the younglings safe. Anakin is hurt and exhausted but alive.

Anyway Anakin ends up becoming creche master after the war ends and raises a couple generations of jedi that are chaos gremlins.

[randomfandomss]

Vincent Cardinal Benítez in every scene - Part 2/3 | Conclave (2024)

Part 1 , Part 3

[mayomkun]

You are loved, you are loved more than you know I hereby pledge all of my days to prove it so

[snowshinobi]

is there. a reason they gave the minuteman statue substantial cake

[javierduffy]

different.

[table-top-romulan-playing-games]

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

"You love me," he whispers.

"You know I do." I grab hold of his hand, and my stomach twists when he turns toward me but lowers his eyes. "What's out there that I should be scared of, Xaden? What did he tell you? What did you see?" What could he know that has him this shaken?

Slowly, he drags his gaze up my body, and it feels like it takes years for him to just look at me. When he finally does, I gasp, my hand tightening on his in reflex. No. That single word is all I can think, feel, scream internally as I stare up at the man I'm hopelessly in love with.

"Me," he whispers, a faint, almost indistinguishable red ring emanating from his gold-flecked onyx irises. "You should be scared of me."

"Do. You. Still. Love. Me?" I enunciate every word and lean right into his space just to prove that I'm not intimidated by him.

He cups the back of my neck and pulls me within inches of his face-close enough to kiss.

"I could reach the rank of Maven, lead armies of dark wielders against everyone we care for, and watch every vein in my body turn red as I channel all the power in the Continent, and I would still love you. What I did doesn't change that. I'm not sure anything can."