#world of emanations

[mumblelard]

gladys or manifestations of my familiar

[eachlittlebird]

I don't know if I have EVER been as thrilled by a casting decision as I am with Eman Esfandi as live-action Ezra Bridger. I am just blown away by how perfect he is.

[mymarifae]

i don't want to post here today can you guys just watch aventurine bidding farewell to his past self

[mangocheesecakes]

should not have read the replies on that one post bcos my goddd i'm feeling as much contempt for ofmd fans as i feel for the scammers on here pretending to be palestinian. both of you are incapable of putting aside your own comfort and extravagances for the sake of people who are experiencing unimaginable suffering, both of you see the genocide of palestinians as nothing but means to achieve your own ends. scammers at least are upfront in that you know they have no morals and they do everything for money. but these omfd fans are literally using palestine to clear their conscience and feel better about having shit taste in tv shows they wanna get away with supporting awful people and awful ideas so how convenient that they have ~$11k~ to throw into the faces of those who criticize them, as if that doesn't make them even more despicable!!! i hate rich people sooo muchhh i hate people made stupid by wealth and privilege!!!!!!!!!

[empyreanmirror]

Consciousness is alluring. The truth and the core self are like a lover undressed; you know only you will see them this way, and that when the world looks on they will see creases in fabric and face, a friend, an option. But you, when you trace your hands upon that true reflection, will know the rawness of skin and the taste of flesh that will linger through every moment you are away, and your internal eyes will forever be imprinted with their sweet perfume that only you know they wear in bed.

[jacksintention]

Still unwell about Rilke and PH

I love the dark hours of my being.

My mind deepens into them.

There I can find, as in old letters,

the days of my life, already lived,

and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open

to another life that's wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree

rustling over a gravesite

and making real the dream

of the one its living roots

embrace:

a dream once lost

among sorrows and songs.

[d3sertdream3r]

I loved Ezra so much too!!! I’m worried about his future though, SW has a history of killing off or ruining their best characters 

I feel this with every fiber of my being. Ezra is really special to me, and literally every other character in Star Wars that is special to me is dead! 

I gotta say, I’m not just worried about them killing Ezra though. I’m worried about him being sidelined despite how powerful and competent he was shown to be in Rebels. He had a huge connection to the WBW and the Loth-Wolves, which are both inherently tied to the Mortis gods. I don’t like the idea of him being left out of that storyline going forward. 

It was also strange to me that he didn’t know anything about Thrawn’s base, or what the witches were up to. Ezra is known for sneaking around and ruining people’s evil plans, so it felt weird that he hadn’t interacted with them much or gone back there at all to sabotage them. Speaking of which, I thought it would be really cool for Ezra and Thrawn to begrudgingly team up and work together during their time away from the galaxy like everyone wanted, but oh well. 😒

I’m hoping they parallel Thrawn’s devotion to the Ascendancy with Ezra’s devotion to Lothal at some point; I just think that would be neat to explore. I like when heroes and villains have complicated relationships and connections. Despite Thrawn’s hatred of Ezra, I think he would admire Ezra’s commitment to protecting his people since that’s his own main goal in life. 

There’s also theories about Maul coming back since he has connections to the Mortis Son, and I hope that’s true because Maul and Ezra have one of my favorite dynamics in all of Star Wars. Like I said, I love when heroes and villains have complicated relationships! Plus I want my dream of Maul being redeemed to happen. That poor guy never had a chance at a real life being raised by Darth Sidious, as Obi Wan pointed out in Clone Wars. I think he genuinely cared about Savage and he genuinely cares about Ezra, even if it manifests in a super toxic and disturbing way as a dark sider. I want him to find true peace and become one with the Force on the light side, but I don’t know if I’m lucky enough to get that! 

We’ll see how it all goes, but I am excited to see Ezra meet the other Mandoverse characters (especially Din and Grogu, their interactions will be so interesting to see)! I do wish that he got a purple lightsaber though. I love the emitter as a nod to Kanan, but the standard blue color doesn’t suit the fact that he’s the incarnate of chaos. The blue one he used to have had a fricking gun attached to it for crying out loud! Or it would be hilarious if he just went through all the colors. Every season of every show he’s on his kyber crystal breaks, so every time we see him, he’s got a new color! (I'm only half kidding, that would actually be super funny 🤣 )

I hope we get to see him thrive in his Disney Princess Era™ and tame all the animals going forward! No matter what, Eman is going to kill it. Ezra's by far the best animation to live action character transition we've had!

[coruscanti-arabi]

Happy Birthday, Eman Esfandi!!

Thank you for bringing our childhood animation to the live action screen, growing up with Rebels was so healing for me as a woman of color and was one of the only representations I could see myself, in Star Wars and the media. It was one where people who looked like me could be the hero. It means so much to so many people, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

There is absolutely no one who could play a better Ezra Bridger and you will always have people who adore you and we cannot wait to see the rest of your journey in your career!

[eman-gamal]

[asmo-cosmetics]

mammon??? mammon obey me???

[farewell-persephone]

someone said something positive about Vivaldi's Spring on social media and it's taking all my willpower not to shit on it

[a-shrieking-cloud-of-bats]

op genshin is releasing snake boy

baizhu I think the name was

I am still not going back because I was enjoying my treasure chest hunt and then they took it away

[viovio]

my perfect re9 game which exists solely in my head in my imaginary world where I trust re writers to be Normal about third world countries and properly convey what actually happens when american "intervention" (which is just them being the root problem)

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

#feeling either seen and heard or called out for my unfortunate educational choices

@dnealians-nemesis i have many regrets about my own decisions in life BUT they have granted me the opportunity to feel like a fox in the henhouse every time i step into a room filled with people who only know about europe, which is nothing to sneeze at

[jacksintention]

I can't with the previous post. It's just so good applied to Levi, Lacie, Oswald and even Jack.

Levi has his hands tied by the Baskerville system that is a sort of scam by the Jurors‚ like every Glen. But he says "let's just create a change" and gives a will to the Core. And he does so with the full intention of changing the narrative, if just to avoid the boredom of spending eternity watching the same thing happen over and over again from a sit in someone else's mind.

Lacie goes along with it because of her desire to ease the Core's loneliness, but in her idea of the children of misfortune being a consequence of this loneliness and her feelings of doubt or reservations, perhaps, revealed even before the tree scene in the scene in which she talks about this with Oswald, we could interpret this as her desire to end the existence of the children of misfortune and thus the cycle.

Jack plays into this in his attempt to take the "real" world to the "Abyss" world, but when he most consciously twists the narrative the Jurors had settled was when he intently made the decision to take the power from the Baskervilles. And I do think it has to do with ending the very system that doomed Lacie and Oswald and he deemed cruel and like torture, but mainly it is so that no one would interfere with him in the future.

Oswald tries to destroy the new narrative Jack has or is creating first by trying to stop him, but later on by trying to stop Levi's schemes before everything happened, resettling the narrative he was controlled and doomed by, serving still as their tool. And then he literally faces the truth, in the most explicitly way no one ever has been told this in that "real" world before, and threatens to kill the instigators of that narrative. And then just renounces, in a lack of action that is him at his most active ("not with a bang but a whimper", how fitting is that?!!!).

Ultimately there is a middle ground but the narrative is changed for good. For better or worse. With uncertain future consequences. But it is changed, and it feels kinder. And as a thank you the source of every narrative, the ink and paper of the narrative, lulls someone who shouldn't have existed but changed the world to sleep by telling him a different story. Because that's it. They're stories, and Oz deserved to go with a kinder one, because the ink and paper of the narrative loves him. And it's so interesting how that works metanarratively too. The author tells the story, but the author tells the reader a story about the stroy telling a softer version of the story, so that the reader too will get it alongside Oz. That works on several levels and it's so so interesting.