#vaguepost is unfortunate but the fact that the thing vagued at is still somehow a thing? fucked up.

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I posted 2,120 times in 2022

That's 595 more posts than 2021!

150 posts created (7%)

1,970 posts reblogged (93%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@davaia

@wrennette

@firondoiel

@quiobizine

I tagged 2,119 of my posts in 2022

#beautiful things - 851 posts

#cue the queue - 687 posts

#art reblogs - 460 posts

#obi wan kenobi - 435 posts

#qui gon jinn - 266 posts

#quiobi - 238 posts

#cue the cuteness queue - 160 posts

#cue the fluffy queue - 148 posts

#kenobi show - 114 posts

#kenobi series - 111 posts

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I sent 1 gift in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

how can I be expected to work under these conditions, while Obi-Wan is right there being sad and uncivilized

48 notes - Posted May 4, 2022

#4

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Padmé Amidala/Sabé, OMC/OMC, OMC/OFC Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, Sabe, Original Characters

Additional Tags: Hanahaki Disease, various planetary traditions and hanahaki lore, Jedi Philosophy (Star Wars), Not Actually Unrequited Love, they're idiots your honor, Hurt/Comfort, Qui-Gon Jinn Lives

Summary:

Obi-Wan thought he was terribly obvious, really. Qui-Gon thought it was Obi-Wan’s secret to share or keep, as he wished.

My warmest and sincerest thanks to @davaia, @meggory84, @willowcrowned, and @oddlyexquisite for keeping me from going feral throughout the writing of this monster. 

50 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

#3

Look, Goncharov is an excellent movie. It has the sense of inevitability about it, of ever-encroaching tragedy. Its execution of both the suspense and the despair, the mounting fear of what you knew was coming all along—it’s staggering, the perfection of it.

But at the same time, this isn’t a Scorsese, not truly. It’s a Matteo JWHJ 0715. It is, in some ways, a little hamfisted in its execution, and I would argue the American audience is not wrong to analyze it in terms of very American themes. They are! Hollywood movies set the tone for much around the world, from fashion to storytelling in a media as globalized as film.

And as I’ve said, I do love this movie. I love it even for its anachronistic quirks—many of them deliberate and thought-through stylistic choices. I think the fact that goncharov’s primary activities are moving drugs and guns are one of these stylistic departures. Guns and drugs are easy to understand; goncharov is the bad guy, the antihero we’re meant to sympathize with. Certainly, he makes for a rather charming and impressive bastard.

But I think the movie, this particular script rather misses out on the poignancy of the alternative: that goncharov likely wasn’t dealing drugs and weapons, at least not at the beginning. Truth is, you could make an unimaginable amount of money just by smuggling ordinary European goods across the Iron Curtain.

Painfully ordinary. Shoes and coats and and dresses and suits, like all those pretty things that Katya wears. Turntables. Jeans! Plain old dishware. Sure, maybe eventually goncharov didn’t have much of a choice and got into the hard stuff

(this would actually serve the narrative—Goncharov stepping clear over his own lines in the sand, over and over again until he no longer recognizes who he is—perfection)

(anyway)

but you see, the Soviet Union didn’t have a whole variety in production, nor even necessarily great quality of it. There was no (legal) access to imported goods. I’ve already seen mention of the bootleg copy of the film that became a cult classic in the USSR itself (and probably inspired generations of bratva in years to come 🙄) but I wonder if it simply didn’t occur to anyone to consider that the Soviet bloc had largely isolated itself after WWII, and with a struggling economy, with creakily functioning infrastructure, did its best to achieve the impossible and pull itself ‘up by its bootstraps’.

So just think about it: almost every item that Katya owns is like those pretty gowns and crystal shoes in old fairytales; the moment she steps out of this magical realm—the moment the scales fall from her eyes—all of it will begin to melt away into nothing. She would never have had anything like it, were she not married to Goncharov. And he gave her the keys to this magical kingdom, didn’t he? Her Prince, who in the end is not a prince at all, not a fairytale. The illusion, the glamour falls away from him as well.

And then there is Sofia. Sofia, for whom all these clothes and shoes and jewels are very real. All right, sure—Sofia’s backstory tells us she lucked into this world, and in some sense it is also a sort of fairytale space for her. But the thing is, Katya’s grasp on it is far more tenuous. Sofia is nowhere near as richly dressed as Katya, but when everything goes to pot Sofia will still have something of her own, hard-won with sacrifice.

Katya will not. And how unfair is that: Katya is her own woman, she survives her husband’s world and makes her own way, only to be left with nothing if the worst should happen.

170 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

#2

gonna get real personal here for a little bit, which is not what I tend to use this blog for, so y'all don't freak out and just ignore the bit of navel-gazing going on, nbd

183 notes - Posted August 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

my ideal ship dynamic is ‘They Deserve Each Other’

but like. they both suck

1,429 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

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