sebastian stan + long hair side profile
star wars, but it’s just the memes
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
BILLY HARRIS and KOLA BOKINNI as COLIN HUGHES and ISAAC MCADOO in TED LASSO | 3.09 “La Locker Room Aux Folles”
Edgin + being completely normal in his reactions to Xenk
Aragorn study
Been rewatching LotR lately and I couldn’t resist
Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
No. Jamie, I think that you might be so sure that you’re one in a million, that sometimes you forget that out there, you’re just one of eleven. And if you just figure out some way to turn that “me” into “us”…
And keep on walking. — Jude Watson, The Last One Standing
STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK: DAY 6: Favorite TV show ↳ OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022)
Teen Wolf AU: based on the tags in this post: #this looks like its from a fic where they get high together #and then they list out all the people they know that they would sleep with
wtf did they get arrested for 😬??
the thing about mr. hatter is that he is a black hole of a character. we know NOTHING about him except that he was proud of his daughters and sent them to a prestigious school, and went heavily into debt for it. we don’t know how he treated his daughters, or if he paid them any attention for anything other than scholastic achievement, or if he had an obvious favorite child; all we know about mr. hatter is how his death affected his family. and I think the lack of personal information on mr. hatter is a choice that diana made on purpose.
because without telling us that mr. hatter was a bad father or a unrelentingly strict man, without including a single scene where he shouts at his daughters or acts coldly to his young - very young - new wife, she leaves space for us to slowly realize what is not so obvious, what sophie herself does not recognize or understand about her family: that none of the hatters truly know each other, only the roles they have played for so long.
the death of a beloved and loving father would have been deeply grieved. fanny would have been inconsolable. sophie would be shedding green silme, so to speak, left and right. lettie would have taken to her bed. martha would be sobbing in her friends’ arms.
instead, what we see in the aftermath of mr. hatter’s death is this: fanny goes about her business, briskly gets each of her daughters settled in a trade, and then wipes her hands clean of the hat shop and marries agains, within three months of her husband’s death. lettie is full of anger and rebellion and runs away from her apprenticeship; martha blames fanny for all her problems - and lettie and sophie’s too - and runs away from her apprenticeship.
and sophie.
never says a word about her father once he dies. does not miss him. does not think about him, not ever. only regrets leaving her prestigious school. and goes into a sharp depression that has nothing to do with losing a beloved family member and everything to do with seeing a promising future that she’d worked so hard for taken away.
this was not a happy family when mr. hatter was alive. diana never tells us so, but you can tell from clues she sprinkles in throughout the story that mr. hatter was not a kind or even particularly moral man.
the most glaringly obvious sign of dysfunction in the hatter family, of course, is that immediately after his wife died, mr. hatter married fanny, his youngest shop assistant, who very soon afterward gave birth to the youngest hatter daughter: the implication being that he had been having an affair before mrs hatter died, and that he carried on with fanny, who was probably no older than sophie herself when she entered that hat trade, who was no position to tell him no and had few choices she could make for herself.
there is sophie’s intense perfectionism and dedication to the hat trade despite hating it, a sign that mr. hatter probably demanded perfection and obediance from his daughters.; she probably worked equally hard to achieve good grades and accolates at school. notably, neither martha nor lettie regret leaving their school - but neither of them seem to have internalized perfectionism to sophie’s degree.
there are mentions of sophie frequently acting as a caregiver to martha and lettie; she has become a partent-figure towards her sisters and even fanny, who is not much older than she is. and it’s clear that sophie has deeply internalized that sense of parentification and duty - she stays late at the hat shop, well after the other employees leave - and can’t force herself to abandon the hat shop until she becomes an old woman, because she believes fanny needs her to keep working. sophie so deeply believes herself as worthless unless she is serving others that she becomes a housecleaner in the very first place she finds, and then spends the entire book scrubbing howl’s floors and sweeping his rafters, keeping herself so busy that she never has a chance to wonder why she thinks she is only valuable when she gives every part of herself to others.
this is a family that keeps secrets from each other - lettie and martha plot to subvert fanny’s and mrs fairfax’s plans, sophie runs away from home in disguise because she is afraid of her family seeing her as she truly is - they ALL hide from each other. fanny does not really know martha or lettie or sophie’s true natures, she makes assumptions about what trade each daughter would like to be settled in; sophie herself is shocked to learn a new side to her sisters when they subvert their destiny. and her perception of fanny is shaken through the book: sophie looks at her and is surprised to realize that fanny is still young and pretty and wanted more in life than a hat shop, just like sophie herself, but had done her best for her girls with the resources that she had at the time.
howl’s moving castle doesn’t tell the story of a grieving family who rises above the loss of a beloved patriach - it would be quite a different book if it was. instead, it’s the coming-of-age story of four women who finally have a chance to learn who they truly are, instead of who they thought they were supposed to be.
#HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN on DARTH VADER
No no no you don't understand. I don't want to write a fic. I want to have written a fic. These things are not the same.
imagine if the senate made the jedi like make a documentary for whatever reason so the public view during the war of them gets better or something and it’s just the funniest shit ever bc the Jedi might be seen as just rigid or uptight by the public but it’s the total opposite
God the absolute absurdity that proceeds to happen.
The Senate wanted to just make one documentary, a focus on the most popular heroes: the Skywalker, Tano, and Kenobi trio.
And it starts off really well, really serious. The Clones are serious, Anakin and Ahsoka are (read as trying) serious, Obi-Wan is serious. There’s an added bonus of the 501st, 212th, and Kit Fisto teaming up for a sea-side mission. Unusual for three Generals— two of which were High Councilors— to be on the ground at once, but this is a big deal.
While making their way over, Commander Cody and Captain Rex with Ahsoka go over what its like basically living on the Star Destroyers, theres a lighthearted joke about how Obi-Wan’s flagship is called “The Negotiator” and all is well.
Then shit hits the fan when they’re on the ground, meeting up with High Councilor and General Kit Fisto. Despite being told that a bunch of camera droids would be there, the General is stripped down to his swim shorts— because really, they shouldn’t have expected anything different.
Obi-Wan is struggling to keep the serious facade as Anakin and Ahsoka try and keep straight faces at least, and it doesn’t help that Kit isn’t acting like anything is different.
When the footage is released, the results for more Jedi documentaries come flooding in because the fights that were seen were ridiculous and Kit was telling the droids too much interesting information to cut him and his shirtless self out of the documentary aside from back ground appearances. And don’t even get the editors started on the backflips, battle-field smack talk, and other acrobatics the Jedi used, nor the fact that they had zero qualms about throwing caution to the wind to save their men— or that the Clones didn’t seem to mind getting tossed up by the Force to avoid a round of blaster shots by the separatist droids. Obviously a common thing.
So the Senate gives in, starts having camera droids follow more Jedi into battle. The public has their favorites and their favorite team ups.
The Skywalker-Tano-Kenobi trio is a fan favorite, of course, but suddenly there’s just so many more Jedi out there.
There’s Plo Koon with Kit Fisto and Tauht on Khorm which had donations flooding into the Temple because “please, please get Commander Wolffe the help he needs for his eye!” “He deserves the best that the public can get the Commander for his bravery against that Darksider!” and also there’s an ongoing guessing forum somewhere on the Holonet that’s got people trying to guess Plo’s age.
While the Battle of Hypori’s camera droids were destroyed by Grievous, the footage was still in-tact as it was being sent over to the editing company and there was a mini-doc about that— there were many ‘Down with Grievous!’ posters and tag lines around Coruscant and the Republic worlds after that.
There’s a team up with Voolvif Monn, Agen Kolar, and Aayla Secura in the outer rim that was a fan favorite for the extremely contrasting personalities— Aayla being friendly and bubbly, Agen being openly for using thermals and Voolvif seemingly like he’d Rather Be Elsewhere until the battle ends and everyone’s surprised by the Shistavanen’s victory howl. The other Shistavanens of the uvena system go wild and that’s the most watched episode from that area.
And then the Senate asks if they’re allowed to enter the temple for filming because there’s been so much footage of battle, the Public also wants to see what home life is like. After some debate, they’re allowed in.
Like the start of the battle documentaries, Mace Windu, Yoda, and Cin Drallig attempt to be serious, as they’re the three who were still at the Temple at that time— but that falls to pieces soon enough because Cin has to break up a fight between two padawans in the sallies and its just: “Now what exactly are you fighting over?” “He called me ugly” “He called me a snot-nosed brat!”
And cue Mace just giving the camera droid The Look ™ and shaking his head with a “And this is what our esteemed Battlemaster deals with on a daily basis when he’s not teaching or checking in on the Guard”
and the Temple documentaries are all down hill from there. It becomes like a drinking game to see how many times Mace looks at the camera droid in utter disappointment, how many times Jocasta Nu is seen hunting down someone who has late books, how many spontaneous fights break out in the halls that force the Temple Guard to show up and break them up, how many times Vokara and the other Healers are seen chasing down an escaped Jedi from the Halls of Healing, and more.
Speaking of the Guard, someone has a whole conspiracy forum on them on the ‘net. It’s also a game to play ‘spot the Guard’ and then it became a game of ‘spot the Guard doing something ridiculous in the background’ of the shot because sometimes they’ll just quickly do something stupid before righting back into position like nothing ever happened.
Palpatine, meanwhile, is seething internally at the Jedi Approval ratings. And ofc, following that, the Clone approval ratings. Already in the Senate are motions to try and confirm their sentience and get their rights, Clone Production slows down because more effort is getting poured into them to keep the ones on the field that they know in the documentaries alive. The Republic grieves for Master Di on Ryloth and the troops that followed him into battle because through the Documentary they got to know them decently well.
At the end of every documentary episode, especially the battle ones, a list of names of all the Clones who died— and any Jedi or anyone else— goes across the screen in remembrance. There’s a large list on the ‘net as well.
The Public not only knows the serious and rigid forms of the Jedi, but now they know the absolute ridiculous sides of them and the Clones— along with the side that is emotional and grieving for fallen friends and comrades in arms.
And, just maybe, the documentary series changes the War a bit more than what was ever expected.
May I posit, that since Mace was a notorious name in space-theater before he joined the council, that once the temple documentary comes out, the holonet is just flooded with:
