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A Night Of Mystery That Begins With Death
Happy birthday to the game ever, this game has been plaguing my brain for months now. I’m SUPER excited to play the remaster, and the possible sequel if it does well enough … !!
Anyway, here’s the ghost swap art as well! for @octopeachy, i’m glad i was able to join the very last edition of this i had lots of fun! this event was hosted by @fyeahghosttrick go to their page to see all the ghost swap art
@transgenderlation-state The illusion actually doesn’t have anything to do with the arrows! There’s a very thin band of different colors around the inner and outer edge of each disk. By altering the position and order of those colors, they can fool your eye into thinking it’s seeing the afterimage of a circle, moving in whatever direction they like.
genuinely, anakin spent his formative years as a jedi getting told that every horrible, evil, awful thing that happened to him as a child was not worth giving a shit about. whether people agree on if the republic and/or jedi order was right to ignore the issue of slavery even when it landed in their laps is besides the point, the point being that everyone collectively had to look at a ten year old and go, “we can’t do anything to help your mother, because the government said no,” and quite frankly no one should be surprised anakin resented that answer. it is kind of a phenomenally shitty answer even if you think it was the right one to give. it is kind of gutting to get told that every bad thing that ever happened to you would take too much red tape to solve, and then you spend the rest of your childhood staring at the Culinary Jedi tossing out old vegetables that no one ate and wondering if your mother is out there starving to death, knowing that you have all this power, and all these resources, and none of it can go to anyone who actually needs it because the government won’t sign off on it. palpatine slithered into that fracture and convinced anakin that the only possible fix is the universal banner of the empire, because if the office of the chancellor just had more power, he would do away with all that horror with the stroke of a pen. and anakin falls for it, hook, line, sinker, and then keeps convincing himself to continue to fall for it because palpatine, and belief in palpatine, is the only thing he has left.
i think about that comic where vader finds out that the empire is using slave labor, and he goes to palpatine and is actually genuinely upset by this - because can’t you just see it? palpatine promising a sobbing ten year old that if he had all the power in the universe, he would eradicate slavery? vader truly believed in that promise for so long that even after everything palpatine reveals himself to be, vader is still shocked by this betrayal. like, dude fucking bought in about as hard as anyone could. this is all to say, if anyone around anakin at any point had introduced anakin to the concept that it’s a) not his fault his mother continued to suffer while he didn’t, and b) still fucked up that the concept of paperwork prevents people from doing what’s right, and c) what if we helped people Anyway, his eyes would dilate like you’d dosed him with space ketamine. Secret Third Option: Ignore Authority would change his life. he is of sufficient malleability to be equally and oppositely radicalized. this is to say, the person anakin always wanted to be is exactly who luke skywalker is. related question, do you ever open your mouth and scream?
Exactly and what kind of goverment the Jedi Order defends that considers it´s more important to rescue the Son of the main slaver on Tatooine over rescuing the slaves because it would be too much of a shore?
This is why I find so hilarious when Obi.Wan tries to make Anakin see sense on ROTS by saying “I fight for the Republic, for democracy” Vaderkind doesn´t answer him except “From my pov the Jedi are evil” because how can a “no evil Order” support and defend a system that actively feeds on slavery or at the very least keeps a blind eye to it? A system that creates hundreds of human beings just to let them die for them in a war and their only issue with that was how costly they were? How can an organization like the Jedi be just when they knowingly left on slavery a woman they had the resources to rescue and help symply because, acording to their beliefs, that would be attachment? Like Qui-Gon said: “We are not here to free slaves” but at least he tried to free Shmi, that´s more than the rest of the Order can say on the matter. She just wasn´t politically revelant.
If Anakin had been less of a mess at that moment he could have said: Obi-Wan the republic may have been a “democracy” but it wasn´t a fair/just/principled one and it definitely stopped representing other people besides the rich and powerful.
The Empire wasn´t better at all but I believe it´s quite clear the prequels show the Empire wasn´t an evil system that imposed itself over the fair and just republic, the Empire is all of the flaws of the Republic put together and centered over a Sith Master but those flaws were not put by the Sith, the Republic and the Jedi Order were in charge of the galaxy for thousand of years, those are the flaws they needed to own and recognize to change them.
This is also why I believe it´s essential Luke Skywalker isn´t raised on the temple or like a Jedi from birth, he wasn´t taught to obey blindly, every time he had a problem with his uncle, Owen told him common sense reasons for him to understand and still Luke keep his own pov, this is why he respects and loves Obi-Wan and Yoda but he doesn´t obey them blindly, that´s how he´s been all his life and it´s not going to change.
Anakin was similar as a child but he was battered from every direction to do what he was told and not argue about it. From the Jedi, the Republic, Palpatine, because they needed his power not his oppinions.
This is why I LOVE Vader´s argument to Luke “Lest bring Order in the Galaxy” because he´s still pretty much talking about all of this and it´s the same reason why he doesn´t consider the Rebels terrorists. He´s completely unmerciful with them but boy, does he understands where they are coming from.
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