*~*CosmicSalix*~*

I love it when JRPGs include a completely nonthreatening enemy that runs away from everything, yet is worth a fuckton of XP if you manage to kill it, because it raises several very entertaining questions about what XP is actually modelling.

Some of my favourite behind the scenes photos from the making of the prequel trilogy.

BONUS:

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Obi-Wan Kenobi is a True Jedi.  Not because he’s mastered himself and his emotions or anything (though, that, too) but because he’s a giant fucking nerd who wants to study literal brain worms and gets mad when Anakin stomps them to death and he probably thinks the height of a Saturday night is a grammar argument with another Jedi Master about some obscure text philosophizing on the Force.  This is the only metric by which a True Jedi can be measured, I will accept nothing else.

Excuse you. True jedi are measured by how many Lego studs they collect.

This is the only correction I am willing to accept.

I still want a stage musical about a bass and a contralto who bond over being typecast as villains and never getting any starring roles because western musical stylings and traditions emphasize tenors and sopranos. Perhaps they fall in love while sabotaging their coworkers and hijacking the show they’re in...

They’ve got a whole musical number in which they gleefully sing about how they’ve finally secured their moment in the sun; the world will never make the mistake of underestimating them again, or reducing their roles to malevolent witches and evil fathers and wretched villains rubbing their hands together—all while they have the “real” leads tied to chairs backstage.

Also, all their triumphant songs are in minor key; the sad, foreboding songs are in major.

Both of them, after their big number:

I’m just not sure how it should end!

I think they should have a happy ending but I don’t know if I’d rather see them redeemed/have everyone come to an understanding with mutual respect, or if they simply steal the show and get away with it without consequence and have a great time, or if there should be some big weird twist with the tenor and soprano leads also being totally unethical and backstabbing, and so every song is technically a villain song.

Oh, the last one. DEFINITELY. In fact the "real" lead characters are SO MUCH WORSE. Like the typecast villains are campy-saturday-morning-cartoon evil, but the tenors and sopranos are like. Real Life Evil. Yes. It's perfect!

I think the tenor/soprano must be involved with some horrible scheme that our villain-heroes inadvertently thwart, but I have no idea what it should be. Possibly some kind of fraud, or an unfair deal that would really fuck over a bunch of other people if it fell through—maybe they’re scabs? I don’t know enough about showbiz to come up with a suitably realistic malevolence that stage actors could be involved in.

Maybe the leads were trying to stage an "accident" for a background performer live during the performance and all the things that make the villain-heroes steal the spotlight thwart the leads' plans. Then you've got some rewatchability to see all the sneaky things the leads are testing to do to the background performer. If the leads give the "if it weren't for you meddling kids" speech, the villain-heroes can give this random background character a moment in the spotlight where the background performer sings about ???

Forgive me.

only if you forgive me

His world now

HEY YOU

YOURE FINALLY AWAKE

Oh sweet Jesus.

i am so sorry for this

It’s pretty well known that many English words meaning “bad” or “evil” ultimately trace back to the English-speaking world’s obsession with social class. “Villain”, for example, was originally just another word for peasant, and even the word “mean” simply meant “commonplace” before it picked up its connotations of brutishness and nastiness by association with, well, commoners.

Today, however, I learned one that maybe isn’t so well-known: apparently, the word “lewd” originally meant “not a priest”.

Like… I can see how you’d get from that original meaning to the one we have today, from an etymological standpoint, but it still raises several questions!

mario collects his last star

dear tunglr: today i had a terrible thought

mind if I just…

LOUD BUT DISTANT CACKLING

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Ice Crystals forming inside of bubble

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KILOMÈTRES MORALES ASDGHASDJASJKDKJA

If you don’t have actual wings to escape Crete with your son, home-made is fine

No It Isn’t

snorp

shards of stardust