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john watching arthur get sick is so heartbreaking to me

arthur was probably always so.. big to john, taller, broader, bigger. he can run while carrying deer, lasso wild horses, fight men twice his size, an unstoppable force.

he'd probably of thought that there was nothing that could truly stop arthur, that in his eyes, he would always be his big brother, a man could intimidate those around him with his mere presence, casting a wide and tall shadow on those near him, on john.

so imagining john seeing this, mountain of a man, unable to walk without crumbling to the floor, coughing up blood, getting weaker, thinner, smaller, something john likely never thought would be feasible - i often wonder what would have gone through his head, would he deny what he was seeing, burying his head into the sand, not accepting what was right in front of him?

if arthur had let him see, let him know, like he had with charles, that he was dying, would it have changed anything? would he have fought harder, on top of that hill? would he have insisted on getting arthur help, so that he could get through this and survive, refusing to believe that his brother was dying - til he was forced to accept the inevitable?

or did he know, and that there was no changing arthurs mind - knowing that arthur had accepted his death the moment he learned he was sick? that on that hill, that would have been the last time his big brother would ever cast his wide and tall shadow ever again?

a comic about printers

I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker

If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!

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Unmute !

You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

If you are living right now in 2023 and are still a big fan of LOTR please reblog bro where are my fellow Tolkienites (Tolkieneers?)

my favorite thing about anakin as a character is the inherent nuance lucas wrote into his story, like he's neither an innocent victim nor an inherently evil monster, he's just some guy put in a series of Situations and ultimately failing the test of his humility and self-control. he was certainly flattered and shaped by the devil, spiraling into something unrecognizable, but he chose to take every step down the pathway to hell. lucas knew he would lose a certain demographic by making him basically a greedy pawn in the larger story, not a righteous betrayed macho badass, but he did it anyway. he made him an awkward romantic and a loyal friend, a generous boy and a brilliant teen. he made sure he had all the positive qualities that meant that he had potential to be so much more than vader, but it was clearly his choice to lie, murder, and fully squander that potential. there are no excuses for what he became, no acceptable reasons to commit mass slaughter. he became an unbelievably selfish and impatient man, reckless and wantonly violent. hayden captured that nuance so well, nobody can match the sweetness of his smile and the absolute horror of his scowl on mustafar. to view him through a single lens as either pure victim of manipulation and (canonically unsupported) emotional neglect, or a creepy evil villain, denies the heart of his story and the weight of his tragedy. he's neither an angel nor a demon, he's both and neither, he's deeply human, a classical tragic hero with a flaw of greed. lucas made a choice with the prequels to tell a story that not everyone wanted to hear, and the result was a character that i think is one of the best of modern pop culture, mostly because he feels to me so very, very ancient and eternal.

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