make SW aliens more alien

when life gives you lemons you squeeze them into your open wounds

vaal oya’cye dinui’gar medhuse gar me’mishi lo tenn’shupure’gar

it's been said many times before but the thing i love most about andor is how mundane the evil of the empire is. for the most part it's not blowing up planets or evil mind control. it's resource extraction and prison labor and covert propaganda campaigns and depriving groups of their culture and cenus-taking to identify undocumented immigrants. it's not the soldiers or the space wizards that are scariest, but the bureaucrats. it's the banality of evil. the second thing i love most is the leftist infighting

“oh so only your hyper specific interpretation of this character matters? no one else gets to have theirs?” yes precisely. now go my flock peck them clean for their insolence 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

i can’t explain how every scene with shmi makes me feel. pernilla august’s performance is so underrated and enigmatic. you already feel like she’s preemptively mourning her son’s future

rereading batgirl 2000 and a detail I guess I knew in the back of my head but never fully registered was that David Cain never moved out of the house he raised Cass in in Macau. He stays in that house with his tapes and relives the glory days of him and his runaway daughter who hates him. That scene where Bruce beats up David in front of the tape of little Cass throwing knives and smiling at the recorder was done in the kitchen. Cassie probably walked through that room a thousand times….

Seriously though, Padmé's dating game is outrageous. Beautiful lakeside retreat. Picnics in flowering meadows besides glorious waterfalls. A hundred iconic dresses. Fireside chats in a tits-up domme outfit. All expenses paid dangerous quest to attempt to rescue your endangered mother. Another dangerous quest to attempt to rescue your endangered teacher-brother-dad. Outrageous because it all makes me furiously jealous of anakin skywalker

I feel like I've heard it said that they have a similar love language but thinking about how her romantic gesture is saving someone he loves, together, and his is destroying something she loves, without consulting her, I'm... not sure that's true

problematic rage gap. one partner tries to bring nuance and understanding to a tough situation. the other wants to blow up the earth about it.

Yaknow, since the Jedi swore off being soldiers a thousand years before the clone wars one could make the argument that the Jedi were wiped out because the Council was too willing to change.