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FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT PERCY WEASLEY, WHO WAS THOUGHT TO BE STUFFY AND SERIOUS, WAS THE LAST PERSON WHO MADE FRED WEASLEY LAUGH.
Honestly “thanks I hate it” is one of the funniest phrases in the English language
Who wants to hear a conspiracy theory?
You guys know Rick’s favorite unexplained plot device aka the fact that demigods just constantly stumble upon useful info in their dreams, learning stuff that’s specifically pertinent to whatever they need to do, getting premonitions of their own and others’ future? To the point that this is unofficially considered a standard demigod superpower despite the fact that the notion contradicts the established lore, according to which children can only inherit powers related to their godly parents’ domains?
Well, we were talking about it on discord the other day and @tsarinatorment jokingly declared she was just going to blame it on Apollo because at least that would make more sense. We had a laugh and that was that.
But then I kept thinking. It DOES make more sense. It just does make more sense that the god of knowledge, prophecy and protector of the youth himself, Apollo, who we all know deep down always cared more than he let on, who would therefore have been both able and willing, would give this gift to the children of the gods after the passing of the Ancient Laws made it impossible for the Olympians to intervene in other, more direct ways, to help and guide the kids in the most unobtrusive, hard-to-prove-and-easy-to-deny way possible.
And the kicker is… there is textual evidence of this. Like, a ton of it.
No really. Listen. Listen.
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The fight of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader in Part VI of the series is the mountain top of emotionally driven narrative storytelling of a fight scene, and here is why.
Obi-Wan, during most of the fight, isn't in the defensive. This is the Master of Soresu, the most defensive lightsaber form you can specialize in. But in the fight with Darth Vader, unlike during his duel with Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar, Obi-Wan is advancing. Even in the beginning, even before he was buried beneath the stones. Obi-Wan is having the upper hand, even if it's not that obvious. He is determined, strong-willed, he knows what he has to do. "I will do what I must" - defeat Darth Vader (not Anakin, to parallel Mustafar). He has to end this. But while he is 100% in tune with his skills, his purpose as a Jedi, ("Your strength has returned"), there is still a component left that he hasn't adressed fully, completely: Anakin Skywalker. The grief, the pain, the regrets.
And thus, when they battle through the Force, Darth Vader bests him. Because the Force relies on being absolutely in-tune with one's emotions, also. And Obi-Wan, at that moment, is still not - and this "weakness" is his love for Anakin Skywalker.
"Your strength has returned. But the weakness still remains."
When they clash lightsabers again after that, it is Obi-Wan who is now on the defensive, for the first time really, during their fight. Suddenly, he is losing. Because he still has not let go of Anakin Skywalker.
Darth Vader says: Love is the weakness. Compassion is the weakness. "And that is why you will always lose."
And in that pivotal moment, when he is buried beneath the stone, when he is barely managing to not be crushed completely, when is is tormented with memories of Anakin, with all this unspeakable agony, the regrets of failure, and torment of what has happened, what has been lost... it is love that saves him. The love for Anakin Skywalker's children. The bond to them, and the hope they give him. In particular, the one to Leia. And this, in turn, is also his love for Anakin Skywalker himself.
The weight of those stones, a metaphor for the the crushing torment of what Anakin and him have done to each other. And he literally frees himself from it. He begins to unburden himself. He flings hundres of tonnes of stone away. He catches up to Vader. He uses some of Anakin's own moves to attack him. He overpowers and force-pushes Darth Vader, the Chosen One, the most powerful force-user known in history, away after 15 seconds of fighting.
And then... the stone-lifting scene. Throwing the weight of all those stones, the metaphor for all this grief and torment, back at Darth Vader. And then Obi-Wan goes on to absolutely obliterate Darth Vader. He cuts his mask. And then, it isn't Darth Vader. It's Anakin Skywalker that looks back at him.
And then, Obi-Wan... say sorry. He apologizes. Not to Vader. He apologizes to Anakin. He cries. His heart is breaking. It may even be one last attempt to call upon Anakin Skywalker, his best friend, to save him. And then, once he realises, that it is not possible - that Darth Vader has destroyed him - he says gooodbye. He leaves.
And he let's go. And it is the love for Anakin, Padmé and their children that remains.
sometimes Anakin needs things spelled out for him
The (infamous) disaster lineage
Bonus based on this post:
Anakin: you owe me 10 credits, snips
Obi wan: SHUT UP, ANAKIN
Ahsoka, filming: can’t we just leave it on?
Yoda: *nods sagely* luminous beings are we
was thinking about why the lack of female characters in lotr and the hobbit dosen’t feel like exclusion and it’s because they’re just dudes being friends, like they are all just a gang of besties wandering about and the three female characters basically go “right we’re doing this now” and they all just go “alright we’re doing this now :)”
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
Things the Fellowship has argued about
What name to call Aragorn
What name to call Gandalf
What to call their meals. Boromir thinks, if it is eaten at dinnertime, regardless of whether it is the first meal of the day or not, then it is dinner. Sam thinks it isn't proper to call the first meal of the day dinner. Aragorn suggests they combine the two words but now everyone is fighting over whether it should be called breakfast-dinnner or dinner-breakfast. The fight nearly becomes physical
Whether Legolas or Gimli is winning their daily argument with eachother
If hobbits are regular sized and everyone else is really big, or if everyone else is regular sized and hobbits are small
The same as above except with horses and ponies
If Gimli's beard is real or not. This one started as a joke between Merry and Pippin but then Legolas saw how mad it made Gimli and so continues to bring it up
Inter-hobbit fighting about whether it is called pot-ae-toes, pot-ah-toes, or taters
"Can Legolas really talk to trees, or is he just fucking with us?" Aragorn and Gandalf refuse to weigh in on this
Whether the Ent-draught caused Merry and Pippin to grow or if they just did that on their own. This fight is Pippin vs. Everyone Else
Whether the non-hobbits of the Fellowship would be Tooks, Brandybucks, or Bagginses. This argument is unintelligible to most of them, although Gandalf has the knowledge to be offended when Pippin suggests he would be a Took.
"What would happen if someone ate the ring?"
Fights over whether the elves, the dwarves, or the hobbits tell the story of the reclaiming of Erebor most accurately. Even though Gandalf was there, he just shrugs when anyone asks him
Which variety of pipeweed is the best kind. Merry threatened Gimli to a duel over this one
Who gets next watch
honestly,, how is anyone supposed to handle the casual disdain with which he cuts down these droids as he’s stalking after ventress
obi wan “this weapon is ur life” kenobi: finishes pulling That Extra Shit™
cody: hands over his lightsaber without a word
They’re having a very serious conversation about Cody’s behaviour (being mean to uncle Ben)
Alright, so I might have been slightly obsessed with Cody since he went from stoic professional to spin-kicking a droid within the first 5 minutes of the pilot movie.
another crumb of codywan if you have a moment??
I remember someone tagged one of my drawings of cody as wi-fi husband or something and I've been laughing when thinking about it ever since
Sleepovers
Percy, at 2AM: Annabeth what if 'O' was the only vowel
Annabeth: Percy please stop these are 4 AM thoughts, not 2 AM thoughts.
Percy: JOSON
Annabeth: *cracks up*
Jason, from the floor mattress: PORCY
Piper, entering the room: For gods' sake I come back with snacks to this?
Annabeth, whispering: popor pass the popcorn
Leo: *wheezing* FRONK GIVE HOZOL A KISS
Frank: *doubled over* SHUT UP LOO
Hazel: WOLL GIVE NI- SORRY, NOC-
Will: Yes come here let me kith you No-
Nico: NICO SAYS NOCO
Nico: I'M OUT OF HERE
Percy and Jason: *currently clutching their stomachs, dying on the floor* FRONK
“i dont want to brag but i will … i was in the avengers 😏”
“that’s great!! 😃 what is that??”
“is that a band? are you in a band?!?! 🤩”
If I had a nickel for every time Marvel threw someone off a building to give someone else PTSD flashbacks I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
“chancellor palpatine, sith lords are our speciality.” funniest fucking line in star wars history. obi-wan, who has never killed a sith and knows he has never killed a sith, talking about himself and a guy who is going to become a sith lord within half a week, and speaking directly to the sith lord who is going to make that guy a sith lord, with FULL fucking confidence: “sith lords are our speciality.” he says this to palpatine’s face. to his face. to darth sidious’ face. in the most condescending fucking voice. completely unaware that he is speaking directly to the sith lord, to THE sith lord, who before the week is out is going to directly fuck over his entire life’s work and everything he loves and believes in: “sith lords are our speciality.” could you be any more cringefail. actually palpatine deserved his whole victory for not bursting into laughter then and there
things that would have to be true if the command structure of the clone wars made any damn sense at all:
anakin is below cody in rank. in fact obi-wan, cody, and anakin have to be a general, a lieutenant-general, and a brigadier-general respectively
‘commander’ is not exactly a rank itself but a weird catchall term for “thanks to political reasons, we can’t use your actual rank” (covers lieutenant-colonel to lieutenant-general, avoids ever having to say ‘this clone is a higher rank than the jedi standing next to them’ or ‘this jedi is lower-ranked than the non-clone officer they’re ordering around’ even if the jedi is a teenager)
rex is some kind of special forces officer attached to anakin’s unit, which is why he is able to command the entire 501st but sometimes takes responsibilities down to the level of a sergeant
Ah yes, the three spidermans: Spiderman, Bi-derman and My-Back-HurtsMan