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ruminating on vader further: i think after all these years of Total Cultural Dominance and of course the immense sympathy the prequel trilogy bathes him in, it's easy to overlook how terrified the original trilogy is of vader. he spends very little time as a character and much more as this creeping manifestation of everything our heroes dread. where there's dark, there's vader. where there's violence, there's vader. multiple shots position him against the vastness of space, almost blending into it, just this omnipresent demon. the jedi's plan is to get luke to kill him. that is all. obi-wan and yoda have spent ~2 decades of their lives hoping and praying and aspiring to getting luke to kill him. luke loving vader and bringing him to the light isn’t something they can even entertain, and they think any attempt will only lead to more darkness. it is the ultimate, near-supernatural feat for luke to do so. and even then, vader is in the light for about five minutes and dies in agony. it's why i can't take a lot of posts these days that fret over anakin being possessive or angry or people liking anakin seriously. like first of all, he is the greatest and most famous bottomless pit of misery in american cinema, no amount of anakin blogging will undo that, and he's not real. second of all, star wars works best when it's about this tension between vader as something unspeakable and evil, and vader as a real person that does love and has been loved in return. it's just what's like to have a dad, really,

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

there are simply no words in the english language that can describe starting on thursday the fourth. thats how iconic it is

choosing to start on friday the fifth. i just think its very inspiring

lets all kill ourselves

that era in vader's life immediately after rots where he's still fresh to the 'borg life and also in his early 20s is seriously so fascinating. like, mustafar was this big, identity destroying trauma for him which his already turbofucked scrambled egg brain couldn't cope with and this is precisely why he then spends the rest of his life trying to simultaneously punish himself for what he did and distance himself from the core of who he was, as a person. a completely normal self-contradictory loop of mental agony every college dropout has experienced at least once, really. and i think none of the traits he has in his vader years are new, exactly, just amplified bc the thing that IS new is his commitment to 100% knowingly getting worse and worse while still somehow finding some reason to keep on going. like, he wakes up on that table without wife, baby, friends, limbs, lungs and most of his skin and with the kind of fragile grasp on sanity that already led him from being an expectant father laughing at sex jokes and into this exact situation hes currently in. the process of rebuild after all of this wasn't shown bc you can guess the gist of it but im fascinated by it anyway. bc on one hand you have this delusional, semi-blank page of a person looking for some kind of suggestion on how to keep on being while understanding he's the worst and that his life is effectively over. and then on the other hand you have evil incarnate specifically in charge of teaching him the ways of existing as a perfect evil henchman. in my very humble opinion, this was actually the single most vulnerable period in anakin's life because he was mentally and physically fucked and completely devoid of hope and he spent it alone with palpatine. vader to me is an amalgamation of his own existing personality (in its worst traits anyway) and a series of deeply conditioned beliefs and responses and i feel like this is where they come from. like, the stuff palpatine told him in that time was soo important and its fascinating to think about what exactly it was and how it affected him. i WANT to see the evil therapy. if vader was still capable of things such as eating, palpatine would be offering candy while preaching the therapeutic powers of murder but alas, he has to reach the same effect by alluding to the times he USED to give anakin candy (not as common as he implies) despite obi-wan hating it (exaggerated) or the time he got him a toy ship model for space christmas (obi-wan actually got it for him) and the jedi forbade it (never happened). & vader w his confused sense of identity is not in the headspace to think abt any of this so he just accepts it

i am an ally to all embarrassing and uncool women forever and ever

i'll be out and about and be like damn i really wish i was mouldering in my tomb right now

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

Taylor Swift does this

no she doesn’t

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

*cracks up*

Positive reinforcement at its finest. ;D

omg did you seriously invite the torturer 😐