Shoemaking and Obstetrics!

one day it'll happen to you. you will stay up a bit too late playing a video game and not get to bed on time. I've done it before, you'll think. I'll be fine. but no. you will make it through most of the next day and then at about 2pm you will feel like a reanimated corpse whose sim meters are all completely fucked and nothing hurts exactly but everything does feel very bad. and you'll think oh yeah. I'm not twenty anymore

The difference between Luke Skywalker single-handedly freeing his friends from Jabba the Hutt’s palace and Luke Skywalker standing on top of the stairs and whispering “I will not fight you, Father” is already a story about how “heroes are actually just people”, we never needed that to be deconstructed further.

I think a lot of people forget that Darth Vader being Luke’s father wasn’t just added for a twist, but as a deconstruction of revenge. It’s so easy to want to kill this monstrous cyborg but what if he was related to you? What then? It doesn’t change anything he’s done but it does sure change your perspective. Star Wars has always been subversive. Luke doesn’t get the girl, he doesn’t defeat the Empire, he doesn’t win against Darth Vader. It wasn’t the Jedi who triumphed in the end. It was the little farmboy who just wanted his father to come home.

#Star Wars#Luke Skywalker#something I love about the throne room scene is that Luke’s victory has NOTHING to do with his force powers#or his lightsaber skills or anything like that#it has everything to do with who he is as a person#(same with Vader’s victory over Palpatine)#everything that happens there is tied to character saving Ranger’s tags @thirddoctor

Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.

Yeah I can work with that.

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

what really makes this for me is how much sloppier we got as we went along until we just gave up and cheated. just like the bush family.

The most iconic fight in the whole damn series!

Remember when the entire internet believed that it was entirely the fault of Anish Kapoor that consumers weren't able to purchase an airplane paint that required proper ventilation and a paint booth to use, entirely on the word of a pigment manufacturer who then used the video to advertise his pigments?

The last scene is oddly unsettling...