*files carefully under sub!Anakin folder*

Anduin still gets more respect and dignity than Sylvanas ever did and I'm still mad about it.

Aight, the new WoW trailer stirred up some old animosity that I have to get out lest it fester.

The problem I've had with Anduin for the past few years is something that isn't even strictly his fault, and is just symptomatic of how shitty the writing staff is. In theory, Anduin is an interesting bit of flavor for the Alliance. Someone who was raised in a very turbulent time in the Alliance's history, gone through some shit when he was too early to handle it and is plagued with self doubt because of it. All of this complimented by Velen's vision of Anduin's future going down two very different roads.

Alas, the problem is in execution. Because what we are left with in practice is a character who goes through comparatively less than other legacy characters (Thrall being raised as a slave, Jaina losing her home and loved ones regularly and Sylvanas with fucking everything) but who, by the time Shadowlands rolls around, insists that he is the one suffering the most and everyone else needs to get over themselves. And that wouldn't be so bad (hell, in Shadows Rising, it's kinda treated as a genuine character flaw) but that's not the case because WoW treats Anduin like the moral barometer of the franchise for many years now.

There are multiple examples of this throughout, but the biggest culprit is all across BFA and Shadowlands, where Anduin is made to understand the hardships that Sylvanas and the Forsaken have suffered, most of it by the Alliance's hands, and just shuts it down with "Everyone suffers, stop hiding behind your trauma and rise above it," and because BFA is framing him as the hero and Sylvanas as the villain he gets away with it. In the fucking Sylvanas book, he has the gall to say Sylvanas had a better life than him because she knew her mother and calls her selfish for committing suicide. And of course the book frames Anduin as being in the right about all of this because they decided Sylvanas holding him captive was the time they would even allow to let her reach out to someone and hope they understand her. The deck was always stacked against Sylvanas and in Anduin's favor in terms of audience sympathy.

But then, what happens in Shadowlands? He gets dominated by Zovaal, stabs the Archon (doesn't even kill her), maybe kills a bunch of unnamed npcs off screen, and fights his friends. Not a single tally to add to his body count while he was a puppet. And when he is freed from Zovaal's control, he doesn't lose his support system, he doesn't lose the respect of his loved ones or his people, and he's not put under pressure to just be okay again.

AND YET!

He still goes on this self imposed exile of his, and has been on it for over half a decade at this point, because he is just too haunted by everything he's 'seen and done'. Things that we as the audience don't really see. So in practice, the justification for all this on screen angst is so painfully weak. And yes, there's no wrong way to respond to trauma and there never will be, and Anduin's trauma responses are far from unrealistic.

But compared to Sylvanas, Anduin is giving a great deal more respect and dignity by the narrative for, comparatively, much less. Sylvanas was enslaved and forced to murder her countrymen (onscreen too, we MADE HER DO THAT in warcraft 3) and when she was finally freed, she had no support system besides her rangers and Nathanos, she was feared by her former homeland who only accepted her help out of desperation and was hated and distrusted by enemies and allies alike way before she might have done anything to deserve it. The game even leans into the idea that the Sylvanas who suffered all this trauma isn't the real Sylvanas and we just needed to restore her soul to have the pure pious ranger general back (barf). And she still has to toil away in superhell because the writers were too chickenshit to fully backpedal on the deliberate character assassination the sexual predator on staff forced upon her.

"Oh, but M'Kay! That's the writers fault, not Anduin's! You can't blame him for all that."

Maybe not but a lot of the issue here comes from the fact that so long as the people who enabled this inequity of care remains on staff (IE fucking GOLDEN) this won't stop. So what choice do I have but to loathe the byproduct of this fuckery when it's being shoved in my face like this? What other way could I possibly interpret this disparity other than as misogyny?

was nervous when making these gifs… i don’t know why.

Anakin was able to leave the Temple and sneak into Padmé’s apartments at something resembling a reasonable hour.

Vos’s arrival had thrown everyone into a state, and Anakin was glad of the reprieve. He marched into their living room, where Padmé was preparing a light supper for herself, and swept his petite wife into his arms for a long, passionate kiss.

“Anakin!” Her eyes sparkled with pleasure as he gently placed her down.

He grinned. His name, when spoken by her lips, was the sweetest music in the galaxy.

“Were you expecting someone else?” he teased.

Padmé punched his chest playfully. “I was expecting my husband, but not so early. I’m glad.” [Christie Golden. Dark Disciple: Star Wars]

You know what I love more than Gwendoline Christie content? 

Trixie, Katya AND Gwendoline Christie content IN👏THE👏SAME👏VIDEO👏

The moment I’ve watched this, I knew I had to create a compilation video, bc, well, my three queens somehow together. Enjoy!

Source: Still Watching Netflix on YouTube

Julie Christie

the impending sense of doom!

it has never been more over

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 2

Side A

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Miss Marple Propaganda:

Hijikata Propaganda:

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

the age old dilemma of going into a book tag on tumblr to get inspiration for the book/fic you're writing...only to get nothing but gifs from the mediocre/questionable movie/tv show adaptation

Greta Garbo on the set of her first talkie, Anna Christie (1930)

glad to see cody rubbing off on his jedi

Detroit: Become Human -> Favorite Character -> Simon

“You’re lost.. Just like the rest of us.. We didn’t ask for this. All we can do now is deal with it.”

😍

"Much as he liked causing trouble from time to time, it was just as much fun watching his father do it."

(FOTJ: Outcast)

Both Ben and Luke are such little shits (affectionate). I love them.