#no luke you were RIGHT

[its-kinda-snowy]

Happy May the 4th everyone!

It just so happens that this year falls on the 40th anniversary of rotj and so here's my favorite scene from the film! (and sw as a whole ngl)

[sukibenders]

Not people talking bad about my girl Helaena just to support Aemond. Like, she had a right to ask him if what he did was worth it because, even if Aegon is atrocious, Aemond is the reason that her son was killed in front of her, the reason that she had to choose which of her children dies, and is the reason why she has to live with that now. While other characters played a part in that, without Aemond killing Luke, Jaehaerys would probably still be there or wouldn't have died in such a cruel way. B&C are sent there to kill Aemond, and when they can't find him they follow through with their next order of "a son for a son". And while Aemond may be smarter and more strategic (and not a disgusting man like Aegon) as prince regent, he is still, as Alicent called out, volatile and brewing with unchecked anger. I wouldn't feel safe having him on the throne just as much as Aegon, but because he served face and is the lesser evil I'm supposed to be okay with it? No, Helaena can question this man as much as she likes, for the rest of her life given what she has to go through. (Also, she literally just asked him a valuable question that deeply needs to be considered, so why are people mad at her?)

[swedenis-h]

Practice practice practice

[bisexualfemalemess]

One last thing i need adapted into the show for polin: Colin’s i love you with everything i am speech. It would be such a good follow up to what they already gave us in the carriage scene and then we could have Penelope telling him that she’s loved him her entire life. Eeek.

[mock-arts]

Detail and textless version of my cover for “forever; without stagnation” by @noir-renard

[mandrake-arya]

So... are we (and mostly Athena) okay after the cliffhanger?

[mustafar-far-away]

How easy it is to do terrible things once you have died. When everything has changed and decayed, and its your own doing. Guilt would eat you alive, so it's very convenient you have died.

You had a choice, and you were so selfish. you thought it was selfless at the time, to stand up against what you were raised in to save the life of your love, to save the fate of the galaxy! This is your purpose, and finally, someone shows you what you must do. And you know what you must do, but it hurts so terribly. Does it hurt more than the loss you have experienced? The isolation and loneliness? Or is it familiar and seductive? You are so tired and fall in quickly and don't try to fight your way out as the dark envelops you.

You hadn't slept much for weeks, losing sleep and gaining stress every night. How easily you were manipulated then! The years of war and turmoil and secrets weighing on your soul, making you question everything. Nobody to turn to, nobody hears you and you dont know how to say what you want to say.

How often you were questioned, harassed, scrutinized, by your own "people". Whether you belonged, whether you did too much, whether you were too dangerous. How the secrets weigh heavy on your soul.

To walk into the temple with your light sword drawn was a terrible thing, but with each step you crush a thing called conscience a bit underfoot until it dies. The last things you feel are horror and disgust as you do the horrible deed you now know is your fate.

You die when you join the Jedi, you die with Shmi. You die over and over again with Padme. You die during the clone wars.

You died with Windu. You died with the first youngling. You died when your Master struck you down. You died when you kneeled to your new Master, in that penthouse where you discovered his terrible secret and his seductive truth. You died and all that was left was hollow.

When padme died, when your children died, the hollow was filled with void. You become the void filling the suit. The suit is empty. You inhabit it, but it envelops you. This is who you are. This was your fate. You are now dead. You are now alive.

Anakin Skywalker, human being, has died. Long live Darth Vader, Lord and faithful servant of the Galactic Empire. This is what remains.

[xx0yeet-everything0xx]

im sorry but jason and reyna are literally percy and annabeth but so much more hardcore

[phoenix--flying]

"Percy did nothing wrong" he blew up a 12 year old

[thesummerstorms]

Okay, the really funny thing about the Annabeth Wayne verse is that at least as of the volume of NTT I'm currently reading (not sure if it got retconned or relocated) ... Dick's Titans team operated in New York City when they were on Earth.

Like.

Olympus was right there.

Camp Half-Blood was right there.

But because Dick doesn't have the necessary context, he would have been searching for Anna in and around Gotham. There wouldn't have been much reason to think that a seven year old would plan to run away to NYC, much less that she would make it there under her own power.

At best, they would have maybe looked into trafficking rings, etc. that might have also operated in NYC, but it wouldn't be the first or most likely place to look.

Long Island? Why on earth would they look there without some kind of sighting or tip? And we know Athena wasn't letting any of those through.

And again, if Bruce or Dick had known to ask, Diana or Donna likely could have told them at least where Olympus was and given them a means of focusing their efforts.

But if they had known to ask, they likely wouldn't have needed to ask at all.

So at some point, Anna (and Luke and Thalia and Grover) would have been in the Titan's city. In Dick's city. Maybe she even knew that and was looking for them as she ran from monsters.

But he wasn't there. Because he was looking for her.

[laniidae-passerine]

people think the theories are getting too crazy well I don’t think we’re getting crazy enough. we need weirder shit. Armand wasn’t Alice. Louis was Alice. how does that work? it doesn’t. but it’s only Tuesday and I can’t day drink rn so we’re gonna work with this until the weekend

[badolmen]

‘Luke takes after Anakin!’ ‘Luke takes after Padme!’ You’re both wrong. Luke takes after Qui Gon.

[imperatorrrrr]

I requested the Nolan Nico fic but I didn’t expect it to hurt that bad. You’re too good! Thank you!

I have another request please! Something in the vain of people around Jack aren’t always truthful with him, he’s absolved of any criticism and Nico considers himself an enabler too, and so Nico takes a tough love approach this time with their loss that’s so fresh, one person isn’t to blame but one person did make two careless mistakes. I love reading fics where Nico is Jack’s comfort zone but he’s also the captain and I think it would be interesting to read from that pov as well where he doesn’t skirt around being honest for once in their relationship and that inevitably makes them closer.

I'm glad you enjoyed my take of your NolanNico request, I hope this one is up to snuff as well! Took a little different approach, tried to experiment a bit here, so hopefully it works!

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Luke really shouldn't be eavesdropping, but this is Nico and Jack's fault for not doing this at Nico's. If they didn't want him to overhear, they shouldn't have made it so easy for him to overhear.

Plus, this is far too juicy for Luke to be a good person and put his headphones in or blast some music or do the courteous thing and leave the apartment altogether.

When Luke made his swift exit to his room, Jack was looking blankly at one of their walls unthinkingly biting his fingernails while Nico was pacing, his face looking even more troubled than his regular resting face.

"We're a team, Jack."

Luke hears Jack hum.

"No, Jack. We are a team," oh, Luke can hear Nico ramping up to something, Luke gets comfortable, maybe he should have made some popcorn.

"There's nineteen of us out on the ice every game. You don't need to," Nico lets out a big breath, and Luke thinks he hears Nico take a seat, "You can't do this thing where you play like you're the only one that can win it for us."

"Nico, we don't---"

"No, we have to talk about this. I need to talk to you about this." Nico's getting a little louder now. Nico doesn't get loud. Nico speaks and everyone else gets quiet. And Luke can almost picture Jack snapping his mouth shut. Can almost picture Jack's eyes going a little wide, but then getting smaller, a little defiance in them, a little fight maybe.

Its getting testy.

"I know I fucked up, Nico," Jack is grinding this out, even the way he says Nico's name is almost spat out, "We don't have to do a debrief of how I singlehandedly cost us the game."

Luke can tell Jack's gotten up now. He's the one staring down at Nico now. He's the one trying to take control of this conversation, trying to end it.

Nico stays seated though, he doesn't rise to Jack's level, "Can you please listen to me? I need you to listen to me right now." And Luke knows the exact face Nico's making. Its determined, but kind. Its soft, but focused.

Luke hears some shuffling and thinks Jack's probably sat back down. He thinks they're probably facing each other on the couch now.

"You've put the league on notice, Jack. We've all put the league on notice. They weren't expecting us last season and they definitely weren't expecting you."

Luke lets out a soft "ooph" because that takes a lot for Nico to say. Nico's always made it a point to say how Jack's been great from the beginning, how they aren't underdogs.

"They know your game, they spend entire video sessions studying you, probably," Luke hears Nico let out a huff, maybe that was meant to be a laugh.

"You have to be smarter."

"I know." Luke could barely hear that, but Jack sounds resigned, deflated.

"Jack, I'm not asking you to be perfect, but you can't be careless. You see the game like none of us can---"

"Don't sell yourself short, Schao," Luke definitely hears a smile there. And Nico lets out another huff and probably rolls his eyes at Jack.

"The way you see the ice, these mistakes...you shouldn't be making these types of mistakes, okay? The only reason you're making them is because you've gotten it into your head that its all on you. It's not. You gotta stop."

Luke's leg is cramping in the position he's sitting in on the floor next to his door, and he takes that as the sign it is and gets up, grabs his laptop and his headphones.

Nico and Jack are going to be out there for awhile still. There's a lot to get out, a lot to go over.

This is their team, after all. Nico and Jack's team.

[edge-oftheworld]

maybe hot take but I actually think close my eyes is sadder than wfttwtaf as a whole. like wfttwtaf as an album could be reflecting on a moment of crisis, spiralling from the shock of getting back from holiday and realising you feel so behind in everything youre trying to do that you don’t ever know if it’ll be okay and it just reminds you of everything else that’s going on—ending with a song about how you can face it, how you’ve been doing the same thing again and again but expecting different outcomes your whole life but now you’re aware of it (with the implications that maybe you’ll try things different now). even diamonds is a testament of survival; I’m so much older than I ever though I would be; of your worries coming to nothing, it was always going to be fine in the end. even mum is the victory of actually reaching out to someone who can genuinely help for the first time, letting them in, not worrying anymore about making them worry for you but deciding that doing what it takes to survive is better and to stick around for them you’ve gotta let them help. but close my eyes is just ‘I regret my entire life’ and I genuinely don’t know how to put a positive spin on it

[nicolos]

help!!! i have just discovered that wookieepedia lists day-lengths and year-lengths for a bunch of planets and that alderaan and tatooine are, of course, included. and that these day lengths and year lengths vary rather wildly from the galactic standard (aka 24 hrs / 365 days).

tatooine has a really long day - 34 hours. they have 2 suns. nights are short. it sounds like pure hell, but it makes sense. it’s also close to its suns and makes a full revolution every 304 days. checks out.

so. alderaan has a rly short day, only 18 hours. sure, i buy it. it’s got a standard year - 364 days. fine.

except the thing is that because of the way years are measured on those planets, despite luke and leia having been born literal minutes apart and being 19 standard years of age... leia is considered 25 years old on alderaan... and luke is... on tatooine... 16..................

[the-alan-price-combo]

a sequence of pure animal-silliness 🙏🐾