Once Upon a Time, We Had a Lot to Fight For

a new hope opening crawl text: 

Filoni!Vader: yEAHHHHHHH!!! i am PUMPED to be on the DARK SIDE man I LOVE KILLING REBELS! *flies a tie-fighter with the Force so his cape can billow while he stands menacingly under a spotlight* I’m angry all of the time and I’m like OBSESSED with killing Obi-Wan! *chugs a Red Bull through his vents* WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT?

Lucas!Vader: high-key wanna die if any of you rebels could do that for me i’d appreciate it. *slaughters thousands of rebels effortlessly* come on man did you even try. damn this self-preservation instinct of mine. *sees obi-wan* HELL YEAH I’M GONNA DIE I CAN’T WAIT! *kills obi-wan in one swing* what.

I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.

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SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted

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WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved

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I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured

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IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted

theoriginalmagitha:

dat-soldier:

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So I learned my new favorite history fact in my AP US class today. It’s hilarious and goes a bit like this

In 1989, President Bush sent troops to Panama to capture the dictator and drug lord, Manuel Noriega. But Noriega had fled to (I had to look up the full name) the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See. The troops couldn’t exactly get in, so they surrounded the place and has to wait him out, or somehow force him out. And it’s crazy how they did it. The literal United States Navy SEALs did this And it is real history

They blasted rock and roll music for days until he gave up

Apparently, Noriega only liked opera, so this annoyed him. But it gets better. The playlist was not only obnoxiously loud and obnoxiously American, it had a sense of irony. Here are some highlights:

Danger Zone Freedom Fighter Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Give It Up I Fought the Law and the Law Won If I Had a Rocket Launcher Nowhere to Run Panama Paranoid Prisoner of Rock and Roll Rock and a Hard Place Stay Hungry They’re Coming to Take Me Away This Means War Wanted Dead or Alive

And my personal favorite, and a thing that actually happened: Never Gonna Give You Up

I just… Imagine the board meeting “Huh, how are we going to force this guy out of hiding?” “Oh, I have an idea! Why don’t we blast loud rock music?” “That just might work! And we should do it with a sense of irony, just to make it funnier!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package

WHO NAMED THIS OPERATION

(because yes, I will ship it to my grave, that’s why)

Luke and Jyn’s first meeting.

Luke didn’t meet Jyn for the first time after the victory of Yavin; he met her after Vader revealed to him that he was his father. Their meeting was by chance, two people in a bar in the underbelly of a planet close to Tatooine, with a lot of burdens and alcohol to open their mouths. Luke was trying to find inside information about Jabba’s palace so that he could free Han and he was frustrated that his plans we going awry. Jyn had stolen from Jabba recently and managed to get away, so she gave him the information he needed

When Luke asked for the price, Jyn told him it was for free “because his eyes were too blue, kid”. Jyn was five years older than him. They had a one-night stand. During their night together, kinda drunk and emotionally vulnerable by Vader’s revelation, Luke spoke to Jyn about how his father was revealed to be a terrible person, while he had thought that he was dead. He didn’t tell her that it was Vader.

Having had a story with her own father, Galen, helping the Empire murder billions of people and then redeeming himself by helping her to get the Death Star plans, Jyn helped him deal with this reality. She narrated her father’s story and her mother’s words to him (”Here’s our chance, our one chance to make a difference.”) and Luke resolved to try and redeem Vader. 

Basically, Jyn, unknown to her, played a pivotal role in the redemption of the man who had killed her teammates and almost herself some years before. 

The next morning, Jyn had already left when Luke woke up. 

After the victory on Endor, Luke tried to find her again to thank her properly (he already counted her amongst his friends), but Jyn had drifted away.

It took them three years before they met again and once more by chance. And then they met again and again, but never on purpose. Jyn was always doing something beneficial to the communities she was in, while trying to pass it as doing it for her own benefit, but Luke could see that she was selfless and heroic in her own way. He started seeing their meetings as the will of the Force and Fate, while Jyn just rolled her eyes and told him that it was just luck.

When Luke asked if it was a good or bad luck, Jyn just told him “We’ll see.”

It took them three more years of chance meetings to start seeking each other out on purpose and one year more for romance to start bubbling.