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I had a dream in which there was technology in the world that allowed anyone to create a film according to their desire. And I wanted a film where they would be happy.
Have a sad anakin /suitless Vader.
a friend asked me to make a print out of this xD Never did any prints before.
there's this element of ownership in vader's relationship with palpatine that really adds so much horror to rots for me. theres the "deal with the devil" aspect of it and people often discuss how ownership is cyclical for anakin but for me what makes it work so well is because it exists on so many levels that all coexist, you cant just boil it down to one layer. palpatine owns vader psychologically, because he is the only thing out there that vader is still capable of loving, he owns him personally because vader swore allegiance to him as his apprentice, he owns him as a state because vader is bound to the empire and the empire reserves the total control over the lives of its subject but my own humble opinion is that theyre wizards, it can and should go deeper than this. in the plagueis novel, plagueis encounters a rival apprentice called darth venamis that he fights, defeats and then keeps as a test subject (hes a fun guy) and ultimately because his meddling with death works best on force sensitive individuals, he manages to use him to figure out how to stop people from dying. once he does, kills venamis over and over again to polish that skill before finally letting him die. i know its a popular theory that palpatine sucked out padmes life force in rots to keep vader alive and i do love the dramatic irony of that but i dont think palpatine needed to even do that. its so much more grim. the thing keeping vader alive doesnt even need to be time stolen from his wife, the will of his boss is enough. theres sooo not enough delving into the mystic fuckery of it all because palpatine is not only an enthusiastic human rights violator, hes also an enthusiastic violator of all natural laws and thats a whole other layer to it because usually, the most that a person can do is harrass you in life. not palpatine tho, palpatine has the ability to harrass vader in death as well. the master apprentice contract was signed for an indeterminate amount of time, no ability to terminate and the "till death does us part" was scratched out because even death is sooo not parting this one. and i mean how normal can anyone be about a person who quite literally became your creator? replacing any other natural creator you might have had & rebuilding you around the singular purpose he has for you. like man, that just sucks. its not that vader owes palpatine his life. he doesnt owe it precisely because palpatine has already claimed it. and maybe it feels wrong to even exist because the force in gffa is self-correcting so any unnatural deviation would be under the constant pressure to erase itself but good thing that there is a guy who gets to sit above the force in the hierarchy and say "youre meant to be here because i say so and the purpose i am giving you is murder". essentially what im saying it, palpatine isnt just a person owning vader to vader, hes the only force of nature that doesnt violently recoil from his existence & it gives him the power to freely dictate everything what vader is
masc. star sea be upon ye (2)
mayhaps once day i'll get the energy to clean this up LOL
storing this here to check back if op does make this video. I've been gone too long and have forgotten all the lore.
kinda want to make a video explaining the basics of love nikki and shining nikki lore for the release of infinity nikki since i remember people doing that with honkai impact 3rd for honkai star rail's release but i haven't played either games in so long and also is that even necessary
I took a break from love nikki for a year or two maybe and consequently forgot all of the lore, and it's a pain to go through the in game story (I'm like, a good way through the second act.) Is there anywhere that has some sort of comprehensive guide to the overall story? (I know there are the story suits too that fit into it). I forgot how absolutely ridiculously bonkers the love nikki lore is. I even forgot about the blood curse.
The Clone Wars: “The Phantom Apprentice” (2020) Tales of the Jedi: “Resolve” (2022)
oh my goodness art nouveau maul.
I colored it!
I did it!
HE'S SUCH A LOVELY AND GORGEOUS MAN I FEEL SO FULFILLED! I love him to the edge of galaxy and back!
i love him
my contribution to star wars tumblr i hope you guys like it
edit: *jedi gesture* you will forget that i edited this post
I've been dabbling in character.ai and wonder if i should share the absolutely unhinged interactions I've been having. I know char.ai is known for this, but I really think I've done something here. I think I've found my calling.
this is so incredibly cool.
Here's the notes on the Medieval Fantasy Star Wars au! I'll add to this as I do more. If you're new here, this is the saga of me drawing Star Wars but like what if it was Fantasy?
“Fives wouldn’t sell Echo.”
Listen, not only would Fives sell Echo. He would be able to haggle for more than 3000 credits.
After over decade of rock collecting, here are some of my favourites!
If anyone knows what kind of rocks they are, I'd love to know!! I'm really interested in whatever shaped the rocks in the first picture (Piddocks maybe from a quick search), and the colouration of the last one!
oh this is scrumptious.
Clear-ish collection of things I’ve found that people have left behind or lost
I've been thinking this!! goblincore has a lot of overlap with punk, with the diy and overal disregard for social expectations of appearance and conduct! (fuck the grind, I'm gonna eat dirt!)
It seems fueled more by an appreciation for nature, than how punk is fueled by anti-capitalism, but a love for nature and sustainability goes hand in hand with anticapitalism! And i totally see the goth influences too, especially in the overlap between goblincore and vulture culture and momento mori. It's kind of like a little lovechild with extra dirt.
Sure, goblincore is largely about appreciation for nature, but we can't forget our trinkets! our shinies! I think the things we regard as our precious treasures: bones, sticks, dead bugs, scrap metal, Actual Trash, also feels very un-capitalist because none of these things have any monetary value, and very little social value. Perhaps this and the fashion also speaks to a reamergence of maximalism, which seems to be a huge trend at the moment in response to the late stage capitalist hellhole we're living in, but that's another post.
Going back to goblincore's lack of regard for social expectations, there are plenty of things like diy, dressing "badly", collecting bugs, going outside and getting mucky, that are also deemed childish, things we're supposed to stop doing when we grow up. You're supposed to neaten up, become proper (which also feels like an idea rooted in capitalism).
Idk I've also been doing shit like this since i was a kid, I'll never forget the day i found a rabbit skull under my wendyhouse and took it into school in a ziplock bag for show and tell. I'm also neurodivergent, so i extra don't vibe with silly societal expectations, and really do embrace any alternative space that shares that. Actually I'd love to know how many autistics are alt for similar reasons. that's also another post. Anyway these are my observations and interpretations of goblincore. Fuck capitalism and long live the Humongous Fungus.
something I've been thinking about is how interesting it would be to see the goblincore/gremlincore/corvidcore type aesthetic to evolve into an actual subculture. obviously for starters we should change the name bc anything ending in -core just doesn't sit right with me? unless of course it becomes that "placeholder name turns true name" sorta deal but ANYWAY.
main three key elements I've noticed that tend to make up a subculture is: style/outfit presentation (the optional part), belief system, and music genre(s).
style and presentation: (like what you wear), that part is already obvious if you ever followed the aesthetic at any point. (it was trendy for a time I think, is it still trendy? bc idk if it is but that's not stopping me from loving it.) basically wearing majority earth colors like browns and greens, stuff like hobbit-esque cloths or sweaters and stuff. definitely LOTS of nature based themes or just wearing weird trinkets. gotta go for that "creature directly out of the chronicles of spider wick" type look you know?
with the clothes (and often interior design I've noticed, which my entire bedroom would probably fit the aesthetic actually) one thing I've noticed for most who are into the aesthetic is there is a LOT of DIY. also going out and collecting things you find (anything from mystery trinkets to dead bugs and sticks and rocks, which I grew up doing and would call myself a tinker bc I made stuff out of what I found very often).
belief system: I feel like, above all else, beliefs commonly held among people in this aesthetic is to respect and be in nature, as well as do not waste, reduce and reuse. a lot of environmentalist like stuff, as well as seeing and respecting the beauty of nature, from butterflies and flowers to dirt and corpses. I don't have a solid concrete answer for belief system, but hopefully that sums up my view on it.
music genre: folk/folk punk, fantasy DND type genres, and nature based lyrics and vibes. from my experience and digging around, there's less artists who catch the vibe of this aesthetic all around (bc that's not what they're trying to do), and moreso having a couple or handful of songs that fit so very well. unless of course it's a genre of music that is enheritly matching to this aesthetic.
anyway, I'm not great at explaining the music aspect of it, but I feel like if it's magical and yet sorta punk-like that can work. no limits here yet, I have a playlist on my youtube that definitely pushes the boarders but who cares? the thing has celtic woman and httyd score on it. I just think if this evolved into having music for the genre (idk if we could call it a music based genre since it didn't start that way but I mean overall having a genre of music dedicated to this aesthetic-turned-subculture) it would be really interesting to hear what comes of it.
circling back for a minute, I feel like punk comes hand-and-hand with a couple of things here, but specifically mainly eco-punk. like diy, reduce and reuse, etc. as well as the music, while not deeply punk still feels like it would have a punk undercurrent.
I also think this could parallel well with goth, with the dark romantic sorta stuff. the music and belief system having love and adoration for the strangest and darkest aspects of nature, similar to goths seeing beauty in the darkness and creepiness of the world.
if anyone actually read this I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on my little rant (suggestions for bands/musicians and similar subcultures/subculture parallels are very encouraged) bc I grew up doing pretty much everything within this aesthetic long before I knew it was a thing or maybe even before it was a thing. that isn't meant to be gate keepy. I mean that when I found out just how many other people liked and did the same things as me, it was just so cool. so I just really wanna talk to people about this and I think something like this aesthetic could easily become a subculture one day.
Now, I'm not entirely sure what came first, the tcw show or all of the novels expanding on Mandalorian culture, but nonetheless it annoys me so much whenever i watch tcw and they depict the Mandalorian people, one of the most diverse cultures in starwars, all with blue eyes and blonde hair. Mandalorian is a culture, a religion, not a race. A creed anyone of any species or origin can join.
The Mandalorians were so prolific in adoption into their creed, that it lives on despite their ancestors -the Taung- having died out. All you even have to do in Mandalorian culture to adopt someone is speak a vow, (The gai bal manda) which is recognised by Mandalorian law. (and I'm distraught that in the Mandalorian show we didn't get to see Din speak this vow to Grogu, but I digress.)
The show also presents Sundari, Mandalore's capital at the time, as so... clinical and bare? Yes the new pacifist Mandalorians have foregone the war worshipping ways that founded their culture, but the worship of war also bred a celebration of life and relishing each moment and day you get -Shereshoy being the term for it. From a culture like this I'd expect a little more... soul to their home.
They dress everyone in such plain (lack of) colours too!! When the pacifist Mandalorians discarded their armour, did they discard the cultural meanings or importance of colour too? (And I'd love to see New Mandalorians treating their clothing with as much respect and reverence as they traditionally did armour, following the Resol'nare's tenet of Beskar'gam in their own, new way. I have so many thoughts on how the Resol'nare can apply to a peaceful lifestyle, but ultimately I know that's far too much detail for tcw to have delved into, and I'm sure i wouldn't be the first to talk about it, if only there was a show solely about Mandalorians that could explore their culture in such depth-)
Ever since I had a hyperfix on Mandalorian culture a year or two ago I haven't been able to consume Mandalorian related content the same way, and I am trying to resurrect the intense interest because it ended before I was able to learn Mando'a, and by goodness I think it might be working.
Diversity win! The man who blew up Alderaan has gay sex with his subordinates
fuck tarkin. and not in the tk-421 way.
I read Of MSE-6 and Men a few days ago. I had to know if the infamous short story about Grand Moff Tarkin being gay with none other than TK-421 was real and whether or not it was canon. I walked away with the answer to only one of those questions. I'm absolutely reeling. It started out so silly, and then I was presented with such horrible information that's haunted me for the past week. The knowledge that it's not not canon that Wilhuff Tarkin is apparently a top. I'm not sure I needed to know that about this man in particular. But I do and it's cost me much more than the £3.99 I paid for the reading experience.
Thinking Starset and Sleep Token are like the same music in different fonts.
No other experience like a partner falling asleep on you while your cat sleeps on them (the partner and cat are newly acquainted). There is nothing as perfect as this. My favourite creatures right there together. My legs are going numb but i wouldn't dare move. They're so beautiful. Is this content? I think this is a bigger emotion than content.
As someone with both visual snow and aphantasia. I kind of wonder if one might have an affect on the other.
Sometimes I'm able to "see" some things? but I can't control when that is. usually if I'm dreaming/day dreaming i get a hint. But i'm a very very Visual person. my memory is very visual, my creative process is very visual, my imagination is very visual. but i can't actually see shit in my mind.
so i'm wondering if maybe the little i do get to "see" could be to do with the visual snow? seeing patterns and shapes in that? they're both very interesting parts of my vision so i was wondering if there was any overlap between them in my experience.
idk i'd love to here if anyone else is in the same shoes! It's so cool that both of these things are being talked about more and we can learn from eachother!
Hey, I saw your visual snow syndrome post and I thought I'd share a cool website where you can simulate what it looks like! You can adjust the size of the grain, the density, and the speed. And there are different images to choose from (great for night vs day comparison)
http://visionsimulations.com/visual-snow.htm?background=field.jpg&density=0.11&speed=63&grainsize=1.912
Ooooo I'll have to check it out
lov u ants. several are embroidered onto a hoodie of mine.
Please don't forget the ants!
STOP STOP STOP Stop, making festive "bug print" fabrics, quilt patterns, children's books and drawings that include "mix of bugs" but don't contain a single ANT.
I know how you artists are. You never skip the butterfly because of the colors. You never skip the beetle because of the ... shape. You never skip a centipede or millipede because of the legs. You never skip the spider because of the LORE. But ants are "boring" --right? NO WRONG
Ants are everything. Ants are the most successful members of the most successful group of land animals on the planet!
A nature drawing without ants is like a forest without leaves. Like night sky... without any stars. Do not forget the ants. Know the ants have not forgotten you!
