Man, one characterization of Vader that I love but rarely see is: Vader as deeply religious.
Because from an in-universe perspective, that’s so weird! Vader and the viewer know that the Force is not a matter of faith, and that it does in fact give him powers up to and including the ability to accurately see the future, but the galaxy at large doesn’t know that and his fellow Imperials definitely don’t. I think the point of Motti, besides introducing Vader’s ruthlessness toward even his own faction, is to demonstrate that Force use is not just a known factor of the Star Wars universe.
In that context, Vader is inexplicable. Not only does he have uncanny and inscrutable powers, like those the murdered Jedi are rumored to have had, but he is the only figure in the Imperial military who seems to talk about his religion. At least among the military leadership, he’s not secretive about it; if he’s got to leave a conversation to hunt down Obi-wan, he’ll just come right out and say that he has supernatural knowledge which he needs to go address now. He wields a banned, antique Jedi weapon. He has several times invoked the Force while speaking to his officers.
In-universe, the general public doesn’t know why he’s like this! The Empire isn’t a theocracy; besides banning the Jedi religion, Emperor Palpatine doesn’t really seem to make a lot of overtly religious policy choices, and I don’t think the general public knows if he subscribes to any specific faith. Except for people who know what the Sith are, Vader just seems like an extremely devout sole adherent to a religion that is all but dead, its other practitioners hunted for treason. He’s like if the president had a weird murder pet who was a Catholic nun, only Catholicism was banned and all other church officials had been murdered by the government.
also like if catholicism was banned because it was DEFINITELY fake lunatic bullshit that so-called ‘catholics’ made up specifically to seize power from the former government, except the murder nun has just turned your manager’s blood into wine right in front of you and you’re both just standing there watching him die horrifically in the middle of your fucking office
I feel like there has to be some kind of botany joke in the similarity between the words “areoles” and “areolas”
I mean this is literally a cactus that exists so (that’s Montrose Myrtilocactus geometrizans)
Also there’s an entire genus of popular cacti, Mammillaria whose name legit means “nipple”
Also after brief googling, it seems the words are related, areole coming from areola. The areole is actually the little bud that cacti spines sprout from. Botanists have been looking at cacti for centuries and going “ah… a titty”
me, a 1800s botanist: *is first to name a beautiful result of evolution that has been evolving for longer than my brain can feasibly imagine*
me: look like titty..name titty bush
Humans have always been humans, even the smart ones.
It is time for a hastily done sketch comic. Thank you curiouscat anon for the message. 😉 (Sorry that curiouscat responses have been either super sketchy or text-only. They are procrastination fodder.)
An indictment of our healthcare system. Uber is less expensive
millennials are killing the ambulance industry
wtf you dont even have to pay for an ambulance
…yes you do…can be over $5000 depending on your state.
Even if you turn out to not need it. If, say, you’re epileptic and someone calls an ambulance because you’re having a seizure, you have to pay a couple thousand dollars for the ambulance and ER trip you didn’t need, and insurance often goes “nope, we won’t cover that, you didn’t need it”.
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