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the feeling when you just wanna be alone and push everyone away so you could quietly kill yourself vrs the feeling of never wanting to be alone and just wanting to be held and told itll be okay even when it wont.

It’s okay to fall apart. It’s okay to want to give up. It’s okay to feel like you are back at square one.

Recovery is a messy process and it does not operate in a linear fashion.

Please keep trying. You’ll get there.

Revenge of the Sith is, self-consciously, a tragedy. Stover (and Lucas) are extremely ambitious with this novelization, and attempt to elevate a pew-pew laser-sword movie into a higher form of art. Nowhere is this more obvious than when you look at the table of contents.

Classical tragedy is extremely structured. There is a pattern of trading between the speakers of the dialogue and the choral songs. The two sections are metrically distinct, with more speech-like iambic dialogue trading off with the chorus’s full lyric poetry/song.

In Sophocles’ Antigone, for example, seven scenes with dialogue between characters trade off with six choral songs. The perspective of the Elders of the chorus is wider than the narrow scope of the characters. Their words introduce much of the tragic ‘irony’ typical of Sophocles, where words/songs have full significance to the audience which isn’t grasped by the characters at the time.

So, basically, there are interruptions of heightened style to elevate the more granular, individual deeds and conversations on the stage to having wider or even cosmic significance. Fate and doom are invoked, giving the audience a sense of a larger, inescapable pattern of events, at variance with the hopes and desires of any particular character. This universalizing is crucial to the impact of a tragedy, giving it essential stakes.

The structure of Revenge of the Sith includes a framework of lyrical almost prose-poems that discuss the Force and the inevitable nature of darkness. They are appended to each of the three parts of the prose narrative, an introduction and a brief epitaph.

Opening:

This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it. It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is a story of the blurred line between our best and our worst. It is the story of the end of an age. A strange thing about stories— Though this all happened so long ago and so far away that words cannot describe the time or the distance, it is also happening right now. Right here. It is happening as you read these words. This is how twenty-five millennia come to a close. Corruption and treachery have crushed a thousand years of peace. This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilization itself. This is the twilight of the Jedi. The end starts now.

First Choral Song: Victory

The dark is generous. Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others. The dark protects us from what we dare not know. Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night’s embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day’s harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it is day that is temporary. Day is the illusion. Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self. With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

Second Choral Song: Seduction

The dark is generous, and it is patient. It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout. The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light. The dark’s patience is infinite. Eventually, even stars burn out.

Third Choral Song: Apocalypse

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Final Scene (exodos)

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins—but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.

Look, for a novel of a loud, American sci-fi fantasy blockbuster, I would say the above count as lyric poetry lol 😂

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someone will accept you. when you mess up, you aren’t irredeemable. moments of conflict will naturally come and go. you can challenge yourself while still being kind to yourself. you can be open to change and constructive criticism without being a pushover or lacking boundaries. keep going, for your own sake

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but really I don’t see enough people talking about how luke skywalker defies so many aspects of toxic masculinity and is a prime example of how kindness and compassion can be so powerful. he literally defeats darth vader by asserting again and again that vader is his father, that he doesn’t want to hurt him, that it’s not too late for him. this boy is facing death and yet he finds it in himself to understand and empathize with the man trying to kill him. he saves himself- and ultimately vader- by being forgiving, and compassionate, and kind. luke gets shitted on for being “whiny” when in reality he’s one of the few male protagonists I’ve ever seen act emotional and openly and unashamedly express his affection/feelings for others. it’s just so important to me that people realize that luke skywalker, perhaps the most iconic character to emerge over the past hundred years, is a hero BECAUSE he is kind, because he isn’t afraid to care about others, because he feels things deeply and is ultimately guided by his extraordinary heart.

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

you are enough

thinking about what it means to be venomous

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I know you may feel stuck, like you can’t get through this.

I know it’s hard, and it’s okay to take a moment and feel that and understand that. It’s not fair that it’s so hard.

But you can get through this. It won’t be like this forever.

Since the OP made their post unrebloggable (and blocked me. Both actions they are well in with their right to do)

I'm going to make my response it's own post because I think the point is important

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As someone who is autistic and has BPD and CPTSD and loads of trauma yes you sometimes need to change how you interact with others to keep people around

When I was 13 I hit the few friends I had when I was angry

I had to change that in order to keep those friendships

When I was in my early 20s if I was losing an disagreement with my husband I would threaten to kill myself. My husband told me it hurt him and was cruel and manipulative behaviour, because it was.

So I worked hard to change that to keep my relationship

It's easy to say "I shouldn't have to change for others" and that's true to an extent. You shouldn't change your interests or passions or dim your light. And you should have space to be imperfect and flawed and not have to pretend your ugly bits aren't real. But if something you are doing it causing other people harm you kinda need to change that.

That's called "living in a society"

People adapt to each other and make space for each other in their lives. You adapt to them and they adapt to you

You start being more diligent about throwing away the empty toilet roll because it really bothers them. They start warning you before they run the blender because you hate loud noises

I stopped threatening to kill myself because I was mad I was losing an argument and my husband stopped being so vocally judgemental amount media he personally dislikes

There is a certain type of person who heard the phrase "your emotions are valid" and took that to mean "my emotional reactions and my behaviour are always objectively correct because my emotions are valid and if you have an emotional response or react to what I'm doing negatively then you are wrong and you can't be hurt because my emotions are valid"

And that's a recipe for disaster

Your emotions are valid to feel. They are how you feel and there are reasons you feel the way you do

However, your reactions and behaviour are something you can learn to control and can be irrational

We live in a society and we as people change each other as we interact and that isn't necessarily a bad thing

Sometimes your fears will be true and you will annoy your loved ones. They will feel annoyed by you.

And you know what?

That’s okay!

It’s normal to annoy our loved ones at times. I’m sure they annoy you at times but you still love them!

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jan: being alone does not have to mean being lonely

You will get farther in one week paying close, nonjudgmental attention to the unmet needs underlying your "bad" behavior than you will in a year of punishing yourself and demanding you become a different person. I'm right shut up.

holding yourself accountable and tearing yourself down are two different things

if you’re struggling lately, i hope this reaches you.

we will be okay. you will be okay. you will grow and evolve and heal. you will enjoy life again even if it’s not the same as it was the last time you were happy. you will live your life not feeling stuck. you will do more than survive. you will thrive.

No Longer

-Charles Longstreet

I will wait for you no longer I will walk into the dark I will watch no more forever For the love that gave a spark

I will walk into the distance with my feet upon the dirt I will climb up on the mountain And pretend it doesn't hurt

I will stand at all directions I will call the wind to blow I will disappear the clouds away And nobody will know

I will curse the beast that took you I will damn that evil day I will walk into the silence As you slowly drift away

My heart will ache forever My tears will often fall For the sound I will remember Is the sound that wounds us all.

late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.

You don’t need to wait for it to get worse to ask for help. Your feelings are valid, and you deserve help always.

“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Unknown