It’s not the fall that kills you. 

Luke, Maul, and Palpatine each lost something physical in their falls down the reactor shafts. Luke loses his right hand and lightsaber. Maul loses his legs. Palpatine loses his body. In addition to these physical losses, injuries, and apparent deaths, they lost more intangible things as well. Luke loses his innocence and the idealized version of a heroic father carried by a fatherless boy. Maul loses his apprenticeship and eventually his sanity. Palpatine loses his power and his Empire.

Luke losing his right hand while losing his duel to Vader symbolizes the loss of desire and power Luke had to avenge his father’s and his mentor’s deaths upon learning that Vader is his father. He is denied the honor and righteousness he thought killing Vader would bring him. The loss of his, formerly his father’s, lightsaber parallels the loss of the idealized image he held of his father, the Jedi who died a hero. I have a whole essay in me on the symbolism in the conclusion of Luke’s duel with Vader in Empire Strikes Back, but that’s a whole ‘nother post.

With the loss of his legs, and seemingly his life, Maul loses his Sith master and his apprenticeship. He loses everything that led him to that duel on Naboo in the first place, and he also loses the ability to move on from this point in his life. Despite the mechanical legs he eventually acquires, Maul is stuck in place. He loses his sanity and fixates on revenge against the Jedi who ruined his life.

Like Maul, Palpatine seemingly died in his fall down the reactor shaft. But while Palpatine loses his body, his spirit and consciousness remain and he manages to survive at the expense of using clone vessels. He loses the entirety of his physical being, and his apparent death costs him his Empire and power. He had decades of accumulated power bought with fear and human lives. In ‘death,’ he loses the ability to live independently of other people but continues to subject them to his will. His body and empire is gone, but what power he retains in the continued existence of his consciousness is still at the expense of other people’s lives. 

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*หนู /nuː˩˩˦/

mouse; rat.

(figurative) young person; child.

used as a title or term of address

(colloquial, sometimes considered derogatory and offensive) used as a title for or term of address to a young or younger person.

(colloquial, humble) used by a person to refer to oneself when speaking to an older person or person of higher status. 

it’s like charlie didn’t realise exactly what the full effect of his plan would be until jeff tells him that babe is in mourning. he was so focused on making sure that babe was safe, on finding a way to save his family, on sacrificing himself to protect his loved ones, that he didn’t take a moment to think about said loved ones in the aftermath of his loss. when he asks ‘is babe very sad?’ it’s not about wanting to know just how sad he is, it’s the guilt of what he’s done, the pain he’s caused the man he loves, and he only just now is realising that it might not be something he can come back from.

elf scar but he also has the abs

crunchy phone pics of dunes (mostly frank because he was closest) at garden grove! insane show, already ready for more 🔺🦂🔺

they are soooo ❤💕💞💘💓💖

enough of pen hot and bothered over thirst trap colin. i want this woman making heart eyes at him as he hoovers crumbs off his shirt. just full blown weirdo. watches as he turns to whoever else is looking at him going 'these are my crumbs! get your own!' and she's just sighing all heartsick like 'isn't he dreamy?'

babe: am i normal now? gross charlie: you'll always be special to me

absolutely and wholeheartedly believe that bakugou is one of those metal drummers who adds in completely unnecessary metal math breakdowns at every opportunity

You're drawing of Sunset and Tempest becoming best friends just made me imagine these two in a karaoke, drunkenly singing to "I am... All Of Me"

Pff i figured it'd be something more like "CRAWWWLING IIIN MY SKIIIN" or plenty of other fun edgy songs with fun lyrics. Fun fact in one of my fics Sunset sings "Valley of the pagans" by gorillaz, and it surprisingly fits. 'the sun is kissing my face and erasing my doubts, I'm going out with a bang and the fangs of a parasite.'

them looking at any shadow renegade character and being like "oh my god they are literaly me" lmao

AW HELL, IT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT SEEMS

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ANRGY PAVEL yes plis kdjdkskja

making me feel things

More thoughts on Novoland! I'm up to ep 9 and:

-Ji Ye winning the martial arts contest was brutal to the point of being hard to watch. Not just physically, but also emotionally. He publicly shamed his dad - I don’t think that was what he was aiming for but it was the result - and in the process made his rawest emotional wounds public. (Btw I’m sure he’s going to pay for doing that to his dad. His family sucks). And then he’s abandoned. Neither his family, nor his fellow soldiers, nor the servants of the king he (theoretically) just won glory for come to help him, even though he’s bleeding and staggering. The people in the stadium don’t cheer his victory; none of them help him either. Only Asule and Yu Ran cheer and only they follow and help him. He’s met Asule and Yu Ran two or three times! Their friendship and their kindness seem to me like pricks of light in an otherwise bleakly dark landscape.

-Yu Ran has a crush on Ji Ye. She could not stop looking at him. Asule definitely noticed her looking and I wonder if he’s clocked the crush or if he’s too young to understand.

-I do not ship Yu Ran and Asule. I’m surprised by this because I expected to ship them and to be heartbroken on Asules’ behalf, but no. I really like them as friends. They should be bff’s but I can see potential and room for romantic growth in Yu Ran and Ji Ye’s relationship and I don’t see it with Yu Ran and Asule. I feel like Asule needs someone who can match him in the “still waters run deep” department.

-The bit where Ji Ye is told that a spear is not like a sword because it can be drawn back but not sheathed?! Ominous, especially when taken with the advice that Asule was given in the first episodes - that the real sheath for his sword was his heart. Yikes for Ji Ye?

-The contrast between the king debating his advisors and ordering, like, 12 people around while trying to control the outcome of the contest and IMMEDIATELY losing control of it vs. Asule quietly interfering twice (once when he stops Ji Ye’s peers from beating him up and once when he orders his sworn brother to lose the fight) and controlling the outcome of the contest without anyone knowing. Also the king was fixated on the outcome of the contest (ie. short term gains) while Asule, in addition to trying to repay a kindness, was thinking about long term relationships and fostering the growth of Ji Ye’s potential.

-The entire display of Asule’s nascent puppeteering abilities makes me rabid at the thought of him being a king one day. No idea if it’ll ever happen, but if it does I will be frothing at the mouth.

-Asule’s confrontation with his uncle - where he does not reveal the orders he gave about the contest, but instead confronts his uncle about “kin slaying”. This. Omg. This is not a conversation about Asule’s sworn brother. This is Asule calling out his uncle for killing Asule’s adopted dad and also - I think - pointing out that if anyone has the right to be kin slaying it’s ASULE. Because I’m pretty sure, based on was he’s said about vengeance killing, that Asule would be within his rights to kill his uncle in vengeance for his dad. Omg wtf. THIS SHOW.

-I ship the soft spoken, peace loving general and the wise but terrifying Lady Su. The minute I realized they had some kind of star crossed lovers thing going on, I became convinced one or both of them were going to end up dead. Now I’m waiting for it the tragedy to unfold.

-Asule has precognition in his dream sometimes?

-Lady Su’s asshole son seems to think he’s about to have more power than the king. So…he’s planning on killing the king? Or doing something related to the Bare Teeth or the Heavenly Samurai that he thinks will give him more power than the king? I hope someone unleashes hell on him. Not even being Lady Su’s son can save him from my ire. Honestly, I’m kind of startled she’s that attached to him because thus far he has zero redeeming qualities and she doesn’t seem like a “love is blind” type.

some wip snips from a KIU fic im working on ! this is a post-canon au where pit and magnus team up on the surface world :] (plus others later on !)

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this is also the context for the art i drew previously (it happens in one of the scenes of the fic and i wanted to draw it out) :

im working on it in my free time and i hope i can start posting it by the end of the year (hopefully... shaking my fist at the sky and also my assessments)

wife left me after I got pwned by this 6'122" guy and she took the castle and my horse(s(?)) and even the fucking pit of acid but it's fine bc I'm chillin in my #mancave but it still sucks. lol. I'm not paying my alimony tho and she keeps sending debt collectors at me. I am killing them.