#osha problem

[tropicalscream]

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[septemberlikeastorm]

qimir/the stranger: before i train you in the ways of the Dark Side, you have to sign your internship contract. for insurance purposes

osha: it says you're not liable in the event of injury, death, dismemberment, or *squints* true love

qimir:

osha: it also says workplace relationships are not just allowed but Strongly Encouraged

qimir:

osha: finally it notes that while 401(k) matching is not offered, you CAN match my freak

qimir: osha: qimir: osha: qimir: it also says there's free bagels on tuesdays

[jewishcissiekj]

can I say something. Headland was so caught up in Enemies to Lovers that she forgot to develop anything between the characters. ok that's it.

[starliteonearth]

Love Oshamir but I'm not sure I quite agree with this insistence that Qimir isn't at all being manipulative because first of all, he basically kidnapped Osha. She is not in his mancave on some unknown planet in the middle of fuck-knows-where of her own freewill. Let's not forget that. Secondly, he may be honest in what he's saying to her but he for sure isn't doing this out of the goodness of his heart. He wants something from her, wants her to be something to him. He's deliberately pushing her in a specific direction to make her what he thinks she can be, what he wants her to be, to be like him. That IS manipulation.

[oshalittlestar]

saw a lot of TheAc. criticals post from angry/disappointed fans going around my dashboard these past few days -? tumblr algorythm when i catch you - whose recurring (and sometimes only) argument against it, is that Osha is OOC, (mostly starting from ep5) and would never have acted/done this kind of stuff to Sol, betraying the jedi, and mainly that [ep5 to 6] ruined the show.

and okay. okay. if you didnt like the turn and direction the show's taken, i understand, i have my beefs with other series/movies too, so here i'm only trying to share my own perspective on Osha's development, that some may have considered too 'sudden' and 'ooc',

and i completely get why others might see it differently and not be comfortable with it. their feelings are just as valid and legitimate.

but, her being out of character is something i just cannot quite 'accept', if only for the sake of 'rightful' criticism the show may have toward the end:

Osha [and by extension the Acolyte too, but this post is abt Osha] is a brand new character we just been introduced to for the very first time, no old reference, no comics, nothing. and that's something important to note, because in the 4 episodes we had before the 'infamous' ep5, the most we got on Osha's characterization was very 'scarce' in reality, and not really 'set in stone' by the narrative

( contrary to Anakin skywalker, for example: notice the stark difference between how they portrayed him in the 3 prequels movies, and the Clone wars cartoon - 2008. Here, we had 3 long ass movies to get used to Anakin's character, his story, his relationship with Obi Wan and Padme, and how his fall played out, and it was credible. What wasn't though, (beside the fact the cartoon did some blatant damage to how people now view Anidala and Anakin - cough cough sorry cough cough it was my first otp -) was that they heard some..fans didnt like the not 'virile' enough Anakin from AotC/Rots and thought, well, lets take the worst of him in the movie, all his flaws, his dark emotions, and lets mix it to give the fans some kind of jock/popular-aligned/macho-light w/ anger issues/possessive of his girl/action stoic/terminator hero, and nevermind the characterization already etablished by the 3 movies.!)

so, back to Osha in the first 4 eps:

first, from her interaction with her meknek 'bud', Fillik. She's friendly enough - not that much, she didnt went out with her crew/ nor she wanted to share her doings with him (yeah, you can put that on her preferring her privacy/but also: her Jedi's teachings! it did take roots in her very being, her mind and consequently her everyday's life after!), but she knows how to level the mood, and doesnt hesitate to go toward something ..dangerous, if it need to be repared, even if this something is trauma related, like fire...(mmmh. im not saying it's forshadowing, but it was without doubt the first indication that she wasnt at peace with her past - and vice versa, that she's have to confront it)

second, from Yord. it's the first figure from her 'second' past life we/she see. She's a little playful, teasing him, not even a little wary when she sees him again after all this time, and most importantly she seems to trust him from the get go, thats why it hurts her that way! - and it matters, that it was him first, i think. Sol wouldnt have had the same - ah! - detachment, ironically as Yord. Yord, with whom she likely used to train with as a Padawan, and who didnt see her for 6 whole years after she left the Order. so for him to not trust immediately her words, her, it highlights from the start that the connection she had with the Jedi Order is no more, -at the very best holding on a veeery light thread- since she left it behind all these years ago; and even if in the 3 following episodes, Jecki, Sol, Yord (to some extent venestra) believe her, there's always this gap in the back of her/our mind, between her and the Order, that she cant seem to fill...

thirdly, from Sol. do i need to say more?? okay, i will only say that: blind trust. there's nothing this man could do to make Osha dislike him, or acting ill toward him, he held the truth, 'controlled - take this word with a grain of salt, when i say 'controlled', it holds no malicious intent from Sol, - the narrative, for years ! (and here im not saying he was a villain, i am not demonizing him nor am i saying he was an abusive piece of shit at ALL just so we're clear. ik my words may seem cold and harsh) but, indeed, Osha had no special reason to be mad at him, there was this parental/father figure she saw in him, replacing what she had lost on Brendok... ( but the savior hold as much weight to their relation me think.)

and lastly, from the twins/her coven's interactions, and how she (and we, watchers!) interpreted a lot of things 'wrong' because..povs !! To name just a few :

Osha is literally torturing the poor insect: Mae copying her and since Osha is the one calling her out on it, her sister is seen in a bad light by the viewer, since we identify a lot more with Osha, the 'light' twin

Osha getting mad at Mae for taking a sneekpeak at her drawingbook (she needs the space from her sister, who wont give it to her, who's becoming too much, too close, she needs to breathe alone, and it gives the impression that Osha is trapped, in some kind of 'prison')

Osha seeing her sister lighting it on fire just after locking her up, aaaand the fire expanding, fast (we dont see Mae panicking!!!) i'll admit, the show did a good fucking job at trolling us, into thinking Mae was some sort of... 'unhinged' and 'deranged' sister, who set the entire coven on fire 'just' to keep Osha : thats why i also cant get behind these 'ooc' accusations, because, as flawed as the writing might have gotten at some parts - and other things, but i wont dwelve on that here, the Acolyte was, from start to finish, headed in one direction, fully centered on Osha/Mae subversion arcs, and Osha ascension to the dark side: its all the emotional unbalance i mentioned above, in her interactions with Sol, Yord, her family, and how the serie choose to present us with Osha's version of the story first.

and finally, the fact everyone is throwing 'OOC' around to describe Osha's actions is, very mid 'critic' at best, and inherently contradicting the core message of the Acolyte, which is that everyone can do 'evil' and destructive acts in the name of what they may consider the greater good, whether they're justified or not (Sol/Mae parallels go hard in that sense), and inversely the most 'evil' character can be all in all, very honest -Qimir, even back in Khofar didnt really lie did he? - and vulnerable in his presentation: the revealing of his intention toward Osha etc etc..)

aaand im done i dont know if what i wrote made sense (i dont want to cringe so im not rereading this but know that if there're any typos or weird turn of phrase then its normal :)

[talagalaxies]

It's weeks passed since I did my acolyte rewatch. And what caught me in the eye was that Osha's decision to the dark side was "foreshadowed" from the start. She's drawn to dangerous shit. Spending her me-time under a bunta tree; known to be lethal to people. Becoming a meknek, a job not just dangerous but illegal as well. On ep4, the atmosphere becomes tense when they enter the giant cicada territory. But Osha curiously touched one of them. She looks disappointed when Sol killed one of them, even feeling guilty being the cause of that giant cicada's death.

The icing in the cake for me is the final scene in ep4. This bitch of a scene right here.

This scene becomes my roman empire for weeks that this becomes my top oshamir scene for me. She should've run faster than the cheetah like I would do, or even just froze there in shock scared shitless. She may be froze in shock but that's definitely not fear in her face. She looks at this creepy dude with strange mask with wonder. Like girl, why the doe-eyes with slow & gentle blink, mouth parted and all. Now I think about it, it reminds me of Rey's face in TFA when Kylo unmasked himself. But in here, Qimir's in a mask, yet Osha looked at him in wonder. Curious, awed even.

All of the scenes before this in which she's drawn to danger, culminates to a tipping point: in which she's face-to-face with the personification of danger himself.

Shipper googles on, is this why Qimir is so drawn to her since ep2? Because he sensed her solace to danger, just as he was. Someone who matched his freak basically, something he thinks it's Mae but isn't.

If so, it'll be natural for these two danger-dwellers to dwell to each other.

Even she's in defensive state in ep6, it's no question that she's curious about the dark side, especially to her personification of the dark side: Qimir. She wears his mask on her own volition ffs. The same mask she saw at the Khofar forest, the one she must feared yet she's curious about it, now she's wearing it.

TLDR: She's dark-side adjacent. From her finding solace in danger, her being a jedi dropout because she can't resolve her negative & intense emotions (which is 100% dark side material), to her killing her father figure without remorse. Even if she agrees to train under Qimir to keep her sister safe, I won't be surprised if she does too out of curiosity as well. As established here, she's not just dark-side adjacent, but curious about it too.

I joked that she'll be a girlfailure of the dark side posts ago, but what if she isn't? The dark side is her element atp, her abilities and identity would've thrive there. Some discussions said that Darth Plagueis is after Osha, not Qimir. Because force vergence shit aside, Plagueis would want Osha too because she's thee dark side prodigy he's looking for. But unlike Qimir whose drawn to Osha because she matched his freak, Plagueis's drawn to her because he wants her freak. Shipper googles said what if Osha's drawn to the dark side will be the main conflict of her relationship with Qimir then what.

[purple--queen]

Disney really said: Osha & Mae are having two moms :)

They are dead :)

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I didn't watch the show, how did the whole "Guy manipulation is taken as romance" thing went in the acolyte?

Oh she turned to the dark side and went with him to protect her sister, but they're also holding hands at the end in a way that actually holds the lightsaber she corrupted. I fully expect them to have a brief and toxic (pseudo-?)romance built around their own misery that ends in him doing one good thing in his life and her slitting his throat for it.

[swan2swan]

Every live-action Star Wars show when it comes time to stick the landing:

[inquisitor-apologist]

Yo Star Wars. How come the only Black man on the show had his neck snapped in full view of the camera while all the nonblack characters got bloodless lightsaber stabs? How come Black characters always die violently?

[azurecanary]

Okay, enough of my ranting about the finale, here's how i think Season 2 can improve the cover up bullshit:

We all know that my least favourite TCW arc is The Wrong Jedi, which featured the main character, Ahsoka Tano, being framed of crimes that, on paper, are very similar to The Acolyte, specifically in regards to multiple Jedi being killed by another suspected Jedi. In this arc, the Jedi start off by keeping the Senate out of it as much as possible, which isn't a lot, given that there were Republic soldiers killed as well, very similar to Vernestra in most of the season. However, eventually, the Jedi, convinced by the evidence against Ahsoka, agree to turn her over to the Senate

Now let me be clear, my problems with this arc are 1) ruining Barriss' character by turning her (a Muslim coded character, btw) into a terrorist and 2) having Anakin (and, to a lesser extent, Padmé) abandon Ahsoka after she leaves; i do NOT have a problem with the Jedi or Ahsoka's actions during this arc as both parties were backed into impossible decisions

To my main point, if this show goes to a second season, i can see them using Vernestra's coverup as a way to highlight that the Jedi did the right thing in TCW

Especially since the popular belief is that the Council should've done then what Vernestra did here

[tropicalscream]

There's def a kink forming at the back of my head but like it needs to take a number and wait its fuckin turn.

I still haven't ever been with someone who's into biting/being bitten, let alone getting to be anything other than a DomTop, and not even bringing up all the pup stuff

So its gonna be a long while before i get to it

[porgsforqimir]

…anyone else into the idea of qimir and osha being poly and making a funky horny force coven? No? Just me?

[jeckilon]

it’s also very telling that when it’s women writing stuff people call it “fanfiction” as a way to discredit their works. you don’t see people saying male writers are doing “self inserts” by writing m/f romance or try to diss their works by calling them fanfic as if it has a bad meaning. it’s almost like it’s related to misogyny right

[girderednerve]

MSHA silica standard enacted!!! mining workers now have a federal silica dust standard in line with other industries, cutting the acceptable limit by half. the new rule also requires mine operators outside the coal sector to provide similar free health exams to miners

[puckpocketed]

will smith wins a faceoff cheering and clapping tears in mny eyess…