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Isn't it weirdly satisfying? I think the moment I realized that my infatuation with the Star Wars prequels & the Clone Wars was not just another normal hyperfixation but instead was going to be something More was a combination of

The discovery that Lucas named Anakin as a masculinized form of the Greek divinity Necessity (Anankē)

The acknowledgement of the mortal mother / divine (absent) father trope of his birth put him squarely in a camp with other halfies like Achilles, Heracles, Theseus, etc.

The idea that as as demigod his anger is more properly read as Wrath (Mēnis) which Muellner argues in the book the Anger of Achilles is "a cosmic sanction against behavior that violates the most basic rules of human society... a social force whose activation brings drastic consequences on the whole community" and is “incurred by the breaking of basic social tabus” and leads to indiscriminate punishment of the whole community or social group

The idea of falling to the dark side as a kind of madness and blindness, Atē, like that suffered by Ajax the Great when, furious with perceived dishonor, he became crazed and slaughtered the Achaians' herds of captured livestock *cough* younglings *cough* while under the delusion that they were his enemies

My headcanon about Vader’s heart being his only vulnerable place, the place that makes him a mortal (capable of love + death)

His mentor figure in Obi-Wan arguably slots perfectly into the Patroclus role, and together they give off good Zeus/Ganymede aesthetic Vibes, and fight in battle and sneak around together (like my secret fav crack Iliad ship: Odysseus/Diomedes)

The almost Aristotelian theory of vices arising out of immoderate virtue and its tragic fallout etc.

Ahsoka’s Decision - Deleted Clone Wars Scene Remake | by CinematicCaptures

One of my friends in high school changed his named as soon as he turned 18, so that the ethnic name his family gave him was finally the name reflected on all of his paperwork. He told me that he understood why his parents had given him an “English” name, but that he felt that if he needed to assimilate in order to succeed, then that was a type of success that he didn’t want.

When I was on my way home from the courthouse after changing my own name, I got into a conversation with my rideshare driver, who was extremely interested once I told him what I was in court for, and wanted to know how I’d done it, how much it cost, was it difficult, etc. It turned out that his girlfriend had chosen the name “Yo-yo” when she came to the United States, unaware of how rare that was as a name, and that she was frequently made fun of because of it. Neither one of them had realized that a name change was so easy, and he told me he was excited to let her know that she had options.

There was an intern at a summer job I had once, who changed her name to be the same name, but a different spelling. She said that she had no idea why her parents had spelled her name so oddly to begin with, and suspected that it was just an honest mistake either by them or by some nurse, but it had been a headache for her entire life, and it was a huge relief to not need to be correcting people’s spelling on important documents anymore.

One of my exes legally changed his name to have an exclamation point, because he liked to sign his name with an exclamation point.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.