Once while I was at work a grown ass man told me "no matter how tough you act you'll never be a man, just like I'll never be a woman" and I know he MEANT like "I'm tougher than you because women are weak" but I heard it in Queer and went "Oh.... sweetheart" and he just completely recoiled it was insane
King Dipshit, an evil ghoul companion for my lone wanderer, old idea I had from FO3. I don't really have much on this guy except that I NEED to draw him out with a few journal entries from my lone wanderer - named Lovelock - describe King Dipshit.
[entry_5 September 2277] King Dipshit - that's what people at Megaton call him - (I never ask why) is a foul man of small statues with a voice like a foghorn, rough language, and keen perception.
[entry_10 September 2277] His favourite food are mirelurk pemmican, shit on a shingle (S.O.S) , and coffee. For the S.O.S, he said the meat is iguana but I'm quite sure they're either mutant or centaur flesh, or human, whatever. Mr. Dipshit offered me a plate of hot shit on shingle once, the meat was not very good. It tasted like the 'chef d'ouvre' of the devil's kitchen, the most offensive meat I ever tasted and so that I found it impossible to took another bite. He found my reaction amusing, but slightly annoyed, and go off murmuring insignificant notes in his foreign tongue.
[entry_12 September 2277] Nasty, stinking, bitter, puddle water is how I describe Mr. Dipshit's coffee. He refuse to drink sweet potato coffee even though they're far more easy to come by and less costly. The nasty coffee made him very, very chatty and I soon learned he had excel me in talkativeness.
This comment reminded me of the above lines–which are literally like two minutes apart. One of the things that’s really well done about Anakin’s story that I think often gets passed off as “bad writing” is that Anakin is all over the place. He doesn’t have a strong stance about how he wants to be loyal to the Republic, he wants to blame the Jedi, he wants to do this for Padme, he loves her, he chokes her, he wants to create an Empire, he wants to follow Palpatine, he wants to overthrow Palpatine, he wants to follow Palpatine again, etc.
And I think THAT’S THE POINT. This is like how Hayden’s voice is not strong and clear and projecting well in his portrayal of Anakin because that, too, IS THE POINT. This is someone brittle and fragile and unstable, who is coming unhinged and you’re supposed to feel awkward and uncomfortable around him. When you listen to him, it’s not a FUCK YEAH villain moment, but the tragedy of someone crumbling into this horrible, awful tragedy.
This is someone who does not really believe what he’s saying, but he’s literally quoting Palpatine’s lies (“He’ll betray you just as he’s betrayed me.” / “You were right. The Jedi betrayed both of us.” - “The Sith are not afraid of the Dark Side of the Force.” / “I do not fear the Dark Side as you do.” - “Good is a point of view, Anakin. […] yet they are considered by the Jedi to be –” “Evil.” / “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.”). This is someone who does not really believe in doing this for the Republic, but in a justification for the horrible things he’s done.
That’s why he goes from “I have brought peace to the Republic” to “I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire” in the span of like two minutes, because it doesn’t really matter what he’s grasping for, just that he’s reaching for something, anything to justify the horrors he’s done, the children he’s murdered, the innocents he’s attacked, the loved ones he’s betrayed.
I think that lack of core central beliefs often gets written off as Anakin not being a clearly written character, when I think the truth is that he’s not supposed to have a clear, solid point of view. That, instead, we’re watching someone who is falling apart, who is scrambling to justify his horrible actions, who is coming unhinged in a really ugly, awful way and that is the point. Having him be coherent about his motivations would have taken away the heart of what was so awful and painful about his fall, what was so heartbreaking and tragic about his fall.
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
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