Give me a story where Qui-gon survives, but at the cost of Obi-wan losing an arm and his legs. A mirror image to the loss Vader suffers.
Let me see all that physical pain and adaption that Lucas loves to put into his villains turned into something light and amazing.
Let Anakin see the Jedi’s hypocrisy when they cast Obi-Wan out because he’s angry and in pain and they say he can’t access the living force anymore. When Obi-Wan always favored the unifying force anyway.
Let him ask why they fear he’ll go dark and see the parallels to slaver ‘mercy’ when they free slaves too weak or injured to work because it isn’t worth paying slave tax on them and you have to pay a fine if you kill off your slaves in order to dodge taxes.
Because the Jedi don’t have money or things. When he gets cast out all Obi-Wan will have are the robes on his back, a lifetime of fighting skills, and mounting debt as he tries to get prosthetics and pain management.
All Jedi who leave the order go grey or dark is a self fulfilling prophecy when you toss them out without trade skills or money.
Let me see a Anakin who picks a path with Obi-Wan still. Two gray force users. Making a life for themselves of the fringe of society, freeing slaves, learning to force heal and build prosthetics. All with the queens of Naboo and Mandalores quiet and unofficial backing. Dodging Jedi and Sith interference at every turn.
Until one day they stumble on a planet in the middle of nowhere and are shown thousands of slave children waiting to be sent to die for the Republic and the Jedi they are trained to serve.
They steal them away a little at a time. Covert opps they tell anyone that asks. And when they check the boys for slave chips and oh do they find them.
Palpatine doesn’t even know his plans have gone astray until it explodes all over the net that a thousand fighters have appeared out of no where to destroy the Hutt empire. All the slaves are free and any system wanting to break from republic rule are free to petition to join the new alliance. Naboo and Mandalore are some of the first to join.
There are all the clones he had planned to use against the Jedi along with the chosen one and his mentor who have remained annoyingly too hidden for Palpatine to gain control of.
And here are Yoda and Mace faced with two men who they cast aside as too broken and likely to fall. Now shining in the force so brightly that is has cleared away shatterpoints and the ever encroaching sith influence.
And lots of days Obi-Wan is in too much pain to leave his bed and Anakin is so angry his aura rolls in like a thunderstorm darkening the very force around him. But that’s okay because the force is not a power limited by emotion or trauma no matter what some religions may say.
don’t trust adults whose favourite phrase is ‘don’t complain about it, life only gets worse from here on’ because that’s bullshit.
they told me the same thing when i was 15 and 18 and 20 and honestly, l feel better NOW than i’ve felt at 15, 18 or 20. ive got more control, more stability and more resilience.
this is jaded adults playing pain olympics and being dismissive to young people. as if whatever issues we are having now are undoubtedly microscopic in comparison to their Big Adult Problems. that’s also bullshit.
if you are young and in a bad position and fucking TERRIFIED that it won’t get better bc old mc’fart said so, stop. you can gain control over your life, you can find help and find a better family and find yourself. your issues are not less because of your age so dont feel bad for feeling bad.
it can get better. your highschool years arent set-in-stone your best years. neither are your uni/college years. great, if they are!! but if they arent, don’t lose hope thinking that it only goes downhill from here.
you can work on yourself, on your rships, and set a fertile soil for a better adulthood. those adults are only regurgitating the same old bullshit and trauma they got from their parents and elders, who got it from their parents and elders. cut this fucking chain.
My love for the scene where Wheeljack and Soundwave fight is just… I just… it’s the best. They animated their different fighting styles together so perfectly.
*chinhands*
(And it’s hilarious because you have the character who always has to say something silly with the scary silent nightmare bot.)
That cat was certainly an oddball, and I don’t know what went wrong in hi head or with his nerves or both, but he hated his own tail.
He was an indoor cat, so when he presented for a cat bite abscess on his tail it was a bit suspicious, but he did live with another feline friend so it wasn’t impossible, even though the owner had never seen them fight.
So we treated the abscess. And that was fine.
But then he got another abscess on his tail.
This was a bit suspicious, so he was admitted to treat it surgically. He was placed in a hospital cage while he was waiting his turn.
There is something unique about the sounds of a cat fight, and when that cacophony of noise erupted from the kennel room, we all rushed in to see how the hell two cats had got access to each other.
Instead, we found this cat, on his own, backed into a corner of the cage throwing an evil look at his own tail, which was twitching in irritation as cats’ tails tend to do.
We watched as he growled, hissed, spat and then launched at his own tail, and screamed after he’d bitten himself again.
The cat was giving himself cat bite abscesses from repeatedly attacking his own tail.
In the end, we couldn’t curb this behavior even with medication, it was like he didn’t recognise the tail as his own, and he ended up having it amputated for welfare reasons. With only a stump of a tail remaining (too short to flick in his peripheral vision), he went on to live a normal life.
I don’t know if the cat had altered neurological sensation in his tail, or some sort of Body Integrity Identity Disorder, but he is one of the most unusual cases I’d ever seen.
There is supposed a “bible study” group that is going around and handing out pamphlets with an address and asking for girls’ number. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GIVE THEM YOUR NUMBER OR GO TO THE ADDRESS ON THE PAMPHLET!! IT IS A TRAP TO LURE GIRLS INTO HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!
The “bible study group” is a trap and girls have disappeared off of campuses because of this!
The third screenshot is from my college that I attend and the last one is from a friend in a completely different state!
IT IS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
So like please don’t buy nautilus shells they’re actually going extinct, largely because we kill them for their shells. They’re really cool little dudes but they’re not recognized as endangered because we “don’t know enough about them”, despite it being pretty clear to anyone who works with them, scientist or fisherman. Near nobody knows about this, so please be kind to these little guys and maybe spread the word?
When the uber driver looks sketchy as fuck but the entire squad too wasted to care
I’m sorry, but this is NOT cute. This is from a photographer who puts reptiles and insects in freezers until they’re too cold to move, then poses them with fishing line. An unfortunately very common practice that’s behind a lot of “cute” reptile and insect photos.
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