#not letting the text touch you

[intermundia]

i think the reason that i find the tragedy of the prequels so compelling is that anakin is such a good tragic hero. he's shown to be an intelligent man with a mature understanding of the world, who made catastrophic choices on purpose because they were easier and more personally satisfying to him. when fans deny him that agency, i believe they misunderstand the story in important ways. one can say that he was manipulated and deceived, one can diagnose him with every mental illness in the DSM (and people in my notes often do), but one cannot say that he wasn't fast to toss aside his moral values to lash out and to get what he wanted.

the fact of the narrative is that anakin knew better, and he chose the easy option (with full knowledge that it was 'wrong'), because he refused to accept core limitations of reality, namely the inevitability of death. he thought that having special powers meant the rules didn't apply to him and those he loved, and that's how he ended up killing kids and serving as a fascist enforcer for decades. one can contort themselves into knots to try to excuse that, and there were indeed many contextual forces that gave him so much power in the first place, but there is no real excuse for what he chose to do with that power.

without anakin being that kind of moral agent, there is no tragedy. tragedy in an aristotelean sense is a narrative designed to elicit feelings of pity and fear, because we the audience know that we too are doomed to suffer and all too readily make easy, bad choices to avoid pain. none of us want to accept that some parts of life include losing, and require sacrifice. anakin's greed was his undoing, as it is all to often our own. refusing to accept that the tragedy of the prequels, explaining away and excusing the fall of the hero, means protecting ourselves from accepting the painful truth that we are just like him, and can and do make the same kind of mistakes.

[books-and-catears]

My thoughts as I read through this text:

Oh. I like where this is going... Please go where I think it's going.

YES IT WENT EXACTLY WHERE I WANTED AGSGEJKQJDKSNSLK-

So you're telling me this man is so silly with charms that they thought Mammon did it! ITS SO FUCKING ADORABLE I-

Also the fact that it wasn't even a love charm. No it was a PROTECTIVE CHARM. An anonymous defensive charm to keep MC safe from curses.

He didn't even brag about it, no he totally forgot. As if looking after MC is just a habit now. It's just second nature.

God his love is so selfless and pure I'm going to cry-

[dayurno]

most touching bit that has been going on recently is people including kevjean when they say there are ship wars being fought on jean's holy name as if kevjean is ever even remotely comparable to jerejean (famous) and jeanee (canon)..... there are five kevjean fans and two are me. i dont think we can compete let alone compare but i love the enthusiasm

[bruciemilf]

Haunted by gladiator! Bruce and consort Clark/Talia thoughts

[exvangelical]

while everyone has the right to raise their child with the ethics they so desire, i do think it’s hilarious when xtians INSIST they aren’t indoctrinating or brainwashing their kids but also refuse to put them in public school (or even private xtian school), only socialize them within xtian circles like youth group or their church’s homeschool co-op, and rigorously vet any secular media so their kids doesn’t “reject the faith.” like uh. if your faith is so weak you have to hide your kids away from anybody on the outside so they never even think to question it…….. it doesn’t exactly sound legit

[solomiracle]

mc you fucking bitch

[redysetdare]

People not liking being touched isn't a flaw in need of fixing. You know what is though? You're lack of accepting and respecting people's boundaries.

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

okay listen neil newbon would absolutely deserve to win best performance for astarion at the game awards and I’m going to applaud if and when he does. however. if devora wilde isn’t at least NOMINATED alongside him you can all expect me to make some angry posts about it.

[moregraceful]

i was gonna watch the vgk-dal game to bandwagon the stars but then i realized that if i have to see hertl in that jersey even once it's literally my last day, and also mike grier's last day, on planet earth, so.

[skunkes]

Im having feelings over my stupid vampire oc

[skoulsons]

My lovely friend @not-so-mundane-after-all gifed this little moment <3

WILL BE PLAYING ON MY TOMBSTONE UNTIL THE END OF TIME 🤠

[wri0thesley]

i think kaveh cries when he comes the first time you and he are intimate btw

[lennydavillain]

I actually love self-treating my OCD. Like, I actually conciously think about myself and the things I do, and I say "I don't know why I do this, but it's making me upset", and then I figure out how I can stop doing it. Like, I'm actually so proud of myself for stopping building sandwiches in a particular order because one of my "rules" used to be "the pickles cannot touch the cheese", but I was like, "okay, one sandwich. I will make a sandwich without lettuce to go between them, because I do not have lettuce", and I made a sandwich where the pickles touched the cheese, and I was trying to back out the whole time, but I finished it, and it was fine, and I thought about every other time I ate a sandwich where the pickles touched the cheese, and I realized they were also fine, and it doesn't actually taste different or do bad things and it's just like any other sandwich, because it is just like any other sandwich. And sometimes I'm still like "but you can't put the pickles touching the cheese" and then I tell myself "yes I can, and I'll do it right now", and it's fine. And that's just one example, but like it's so cool how I'm just able to do this on my own without needing any external help. Maybe someday, I'll be able to be free from the invisible strings that plague my everyday life and dictate my every action. Not like puppet strings, I'm not making a metaphor, I mean the invisible strings that are attached to all objects and the back of my neck that I can't let get tangled by wrapping them around things or spinning in one direction too much or like, letting it get caught in doorways because I walked through the wrong one, or like... passing items through openings and then not passing them through the same opening on the way back, cause then the string will get caught and tangled and it'll... hurt me or something idk. That's the big one. The big rule. And it's the worst one. Oh yeah along with touching things, that's... also..

[seven-stars-in-his-palm]

Ford pines for headcanons?

YES FUCKCING YES GIRL!!!!!!!! LETS A GO !

A (Realisitic): lovessssss doodling on paper. has an affinity for eyes (;]), swirlies, scribbles, and creatures. whatever he can get his damned hands on he will doodle on it and he will do it happily. my boy's an artist ❤️❤️

B (Not Realistic But Funny): honestly in canon ford's probably into music too much but i can see him being an period music fan. abba, queen (teehee), freetwood mac, david bowie, etc. that's just his VIBE to me, not in the crowley way but in his own strong inks and cigarette smoke way. i associate thoss things with him as well as anythinf existing before 1982 with him alot if u didnt know. i still see something and go "ford missed this 😔" or "ford didn't miss this! 😁" in a sad or happy tone at least once a day /srs. oh i love this guy

C (Heart-Crushing): this kinda collides with D but im keeping it in that category. soul crushing? ford never knowing what to hope for in regards to stan on the other side. whenever he has time to think about it, he isnt sure whether to imagine him in his house or dead in a ditch, and the mystyer honestly scares him more than he'd like to admit. ford kinda treats it like schrodinger's cat in a way--as long as he never confirms, it could really be anything, and that absolves him of any potential guilt. so. (also: that he celebrates holidays out in the multiverse too, when possible. makeshift menoras, pastries in substitute of bday cakes, lighting sticks during new years. just for the sense of grounding. ALSO alsohe's spent at least 3 birthdays in a prison cell or very hurt. so. yeah)

D (Unrealistic but FUCK CANON): has always stuggled with addiction, especially with antidepressants or alcohol. thus sort of snowballs into a whole "if this makes me feel good i cannot have for more than needed" but still ends upgrappling with it anyway. he suffered MAJORRRR withdrawlel when portal stranded and since then swore off it bc he drank the most under bill's influence. it's very important to me and i need more fics about it sooooooo bad, bc while i HAVE written my own, i think someone else is needed to do it justice. now that im remembering this i HAVE read some with this hc and they were beautiful and i need to reread them again and i need to REWATCH THIS DAMN SHOW SO I CAN READ AND WRITE SOME FIC AGAI .... also there IS some evidence as extracted by @/callipraxia (need to find that meta again) but i DOUBT that would ever be canon bc of the kid show rating. (watch the book of bill canonize this seven fucking months from now. i swear to god..../j)

TY FOR THE ASK!!!!!! 💖💖

[merlinemrys]

touch starved arthur is so so so sooooo important to me considering that his love language is physical touch

[aro-ortega]

sasja is. so touchy w herald