LITERATURE MEME → [9/9] POEMS
i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.what they did yesterday afternoon, Warsan Shire
Meta/headcanon of the morning: I’m 95% sure someone has done this already and I just haven’t seen it, but the mythos of Obi-Wan as the first to kill a Sith in a thousand years. Younglings whispering ‘sithkiller’ as he passes in the Temple and he can’t stand how they look up at him wide-eyed and adoring. Non-Jedi wondering why this young man is suddenly favored and appreciated and respected when he still has dark circles under his eyes from grief and a child stumbling in his wake who doesn’t seem fit for purpose. The suspicion of the Council, for a short while (until Mace remembers that his approval must manifest as clearly as his disapproval so often does) over exactly how he did it, and why.
Coming to own it, eventually, and lightly passing it by in conversation as if it’s the galaxy’s most insignificant inside joke. Within five years the younglings wonder whether they dreamt it, because no-one will talk about it. It’s only when the war comes that they remember that their hero, the Negotiator (who never kills if he can help it), did something once that planted the seeds of their worship – and then, being grown, they will be horrified at themselves for celebrating even this one, necessary death.
#i think about this a lot #how obi wan reacts to people talking about this #how hollow it actually is for obi wan (tags via @dyingsighs)
I frequently think about this too. Because there must have been a furor over Obi-Wan having killed an honest-to-Force Sith, but by the time we rejoin these characters, enough years have passed that it’s mainly faded from memory.* (I think Obi-Wan’s defeat of Maul might have been referenced once or twice by other characters in the Jedi Quest books, but it’s been a long time since I’ve read them, so I can’t say for sure.)
*Unless you buy into the theory that the Council kept the whole business hush-hush.
And it’s such a weird time in Obi-Wan’s life. A transitional period that he thought he had prepared himself for (because lbh, he was due to take his trials at some point in the near future, so he must have been thinking about it), but this is nothing like he had imagined. The whole situation is wrong. Yes, he defeated a Sith, but it wasn’t enough, he was too late, and now Qui-Gon is dead and Obi-Wan has a padawan that he doesn’t quite know what to do with or how to relate to. And in case all of that wasn’t enough, everyone keeps looking at him and pointing and whispering; some of them with hero worship, some with suspicion. (Just how did a padawan manage to kill a trained Sith, anyway? (Everyone knows he had issues with his temper as a child.) And just what was the Council thinking, giving the training of the supposed Chosen One to a green, grieving Knight?) The first few times he spars with someone in the training salles after his return, a huge audience gathers to watch. It’s unnerving.
Ultimately, every mention of or allusion to his “victory” over the Sith only serves as a reminder of just what he has lost.
why are 90% of urls attached to popular text posts deactivated? is someone picking them off, assassin style, or have these users won their freedom from this website, gladiator style
https://newrepublic.com/article/129002/secret-lives-tumblr-teens this might answer your question
That was a fascinating read
Holy shit.
lmao so the gist of this is that a bunch of kids monetized tumblr better than tumblr ever could so they were all deleted, which honestly epitomizes tumblr and its staff in the most hilarious way possible
Two Obi-Wan concepts for commonplacecaz. The winning concept hasn’t been posted- you can see it when it’s finished. Probably tomorrow.
This advice on how to deal with “racist mouthy twats” has gone viral because it’s good advice
Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person.
NEVER engage the perpetrator. He (and it is usually he) is looking for confrontation. Instead speak to the person he is abusing. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Shake his or her hand. And just stand with them. Keep talking. About anything. Weather. Bus schedules. Football. This kind of bullying never works against a group of people having a conversation. Usually a single person travelling or a mom with a kid or maximum, two women are targeted.
Form a group of people with and around them if you can. Don’t tell them they are not alone. Just don’t let them be alone. I speak from experience. Once, I encountered a young girl wearing a hijab being abused as a terrorist by a drunk man on a train. I just went and sat beside her and started a conversation with her. After a while, the dude lost interest. I had a lovely chat with a young student from Qatar. She wanted to study literature while her dad was only prepared to pay for engineering or commerce as he wanted her to join the family business. It helped her feel safe and it expanded my horizons.
This is known in behavioral psychology as “non-complimentary behavior”; by not fueling the aggression of another person and you can flip the whole script of all their expectations, and without any footholds for their aggression (like direct provocation and confrontation/conflict) to launch into further tirades against, the aggressor can’t continue their angry scene-building. The more people who participate in script-flipping, the more successful it gets, as in this post you see with the advice to form a protective group between the bigot and their target for that very purpose.
There’s an NPR podcast called Invisibilia which goes into detail about how it works and what sort of people rely on it everyday professionally and for survival alike, in their Flipping the Script episode.
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This advice on how to deal with “racist mouthy twats” has gone viral because it’s good advice
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Here is a picture of J.R.R. Tolkien looking at some flowers in a
greenhouse. Apparently, he was the worst person to take walks with
because he liked to stop and observe every tree he passed very
carefully. We can only assume that he did this because he was waiting
for them all to reveal their true Ent nature and speak to him. Ents do
speak slowly, after all. They were probably between words while he was
watching.
You Were My Brother Anakin
Obi-Wan Digital Painting
This man suffered too muchgive credit if you repost anywhere
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