Painting: Girl (gn) Hanging on by a Thread because Oliver Stark Won’t Shut Up (2024), Buddie Tears on Canvas

The whole thing is heartbreaking of course and I understand why and how Anakin lost the fight, but it is at least on SOME level REALLY FUNNY TO ME that Anakin gets his ass handed to him by Obi-Wan on Mustafar. 

Like. The Chosen One. Full Darksider, Full Rage Mode, peak of his power and youth and physical prowess. He’s all-in, he’s outright sold his soul to Satan and killed a bunch of people AND now even Padme told him to get bent. He’s got every reason in the world to put 1000% Force Rage Power into this fight. And yet. He loses. Against a dude who doesn’t even wanna be there, who is soul-crushingly sad about everything, and who spends most of the fight not even actively trying to kill him because he really doesn’t want to. Like, the last thing Obi-Wan says to him before lopping off his limbs is basically a plea to NOT MAKE HIM DO IT. I know Obi-Wan is amazing (do I even need to say this) so it’s not like I’m SHOCKED that he could kick someone’s ass, but the whole thing is still hilarious to me even if it also makes me so very sad. 

All that, and Anakin still loses the fight. Way to go, Anakin. Way to go. Now everyone’s still dead and Obi-Wan is even sadder and you lost like 65% of your body and got yourself set on fucking fire. What a week of excellent choice-making this has been for you, buddy. Nothing but home runs.  

It gets better when you realize that their final fight, in which Obi-Wan literally dies, isn’t even a slam dunk for Vader. Obes basically LETS him kill him, and then to top it off he up and disappears, leaving Vader standing there awkwardly all ??????? I love it. I LOVE IT. There’s Anakin out there, being the Supreme Force God and trying to figure out how to cheat death for like 20 years and Obi-Wan physically disappears into the Force itself right in front of his face, and Vader likely has zero fucking clue what just happened. I laugh every time I think about this because there is absolutely a nonzero chance that Vader didn’t even think Obi-Wan had died just then. For all he knows the guy could have just teleported somewhere. (Honestly? It’s Vader and so by that point it’s entirely possible that he becomes concerned that he hallucinated the whole encounter on account of his chronic and worsening Kenobi Madness.) I love that Obi-Wan is my forever fave and yet the part of the series where he DIES is practically a HIGH POINT for me, because WHAT A WAY TO GO; BRAVO. 

and if you turn to ur left you’ll see the emos

is that my chemical romance?

OH MY GOD not every group of emos is my chemical romance stfu tumblr

but it actually is my chemical romance

this is the funniest fuckibg thing I’ve ever seen

THEY WOULD BE SO SO PROUD OF YOU

Okay, that’s an amazing poster

Din & Grogu fighting together

As far as snacks go, Season 3 was a big win for Grogu

Apparently I badly want to go on my “stop making fun of plague doctors, they were ahead of their time and doing the best they could with the primitive equipment they had available” rant.

They weren’t stupid.

They shoved herbs in their breathing hose because they knew the air was bad and hoped it would help, and *they were right* in theory. The plague itself was not an airborn virus, but they couldn’t know that and it wasn’t the only thing killing people at the time anyway, and they covered *all* their bases. If they’d had the technological knowhow to make air tanks, or even better air filters, they would’ve. They just made the best air filters they could.

What we think they wore isn’t exactly what they wore, and what they actually wore would later be repurposed into scuba suits (and thus spacesuits too) and *actual hazmat suits*, because the theory was sound, the materials were just lacking, and honestly what they did with the materials they had was hardcore.

It honestly took doctors well into the twentieth century to get that level of obsessive attention to hygiene and cross-contamination back. A whole lot of babies and mothers wouldn’t’ve died, for instance, if a plague doctor instead of an obstetrician supported the birth because A PLAGUE DOCTOR WOULD KNOW TO WASH THEIR GODDAMNED HANDS.

Actual plague doctor’s outfits:

This is all fantastic and as someone who has been into plague doctors since like 1999 I love seeing other people defend them.

I want to point out that midwives knew to do all this stuff as well, and that the reason a lot of 19th century babies and mothers died–up to and including Princess Charlotte–is because male doctors, who had just figured out ‘evidence-based science can be used for medicine’, actively kicked midwives out of the historically women-helping-women profession of delivering babies and caring for pregnant women, and dismissed accumulated knowledge passed down for centuries, just because midwives were women.

Midwives had many practically-acquired bits of knowledge, and were well-known for washing their hands, as well as doing things like making the birthing room dark, leetting pregnant women sit up, crouch, or move around while in labour, and other things that we know now were very good ways to prevent eclampsia and other complications. But literally because midwives said ‘do this’, male doctors purposely did the opposite just to be spiteful (because god forbid a woman be correct without a man’s input) and a lot of women died. Including the princess charlotte and her first child, which is how we got Victoria.

(I did a whole presentation about this in college, and before that spent a couple years writing a couple novels that were about ‘The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy’ as it was called, which was the death of Princess Charlotte, her child, and the attending doctor (the latter becausee he offed himself out of guilt). But the tragedy is where a lot of knowledge we have about midwives vs doctors comes from because she was royal and so there are a lot of records.)

I consider midwives and plague doctors to be peers, and honestly, considering plague doctors were not learned at a university and were simply regular people that wanted to help (for free!–the fancy doctors wouldn’t help without being paid!), I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of them had also been midwives during non-plague times.

OMG bless you. This is beautiful and a thread nobody has followed yet (I watch this post refuse to die with the accursed exhaustion of all that go tumblr-viral).

Thank you for making this weird 2am rant aimed around a very specific (since lost) *very* tired joke about “lol spoopy birdman so dum” a little less of a burden by actually engaging with me (instead of yelling at me that it’s not a fully cited master’s thesis) and expanding my initial point even. <3

(In other subthreads when I was still enjoying blowing up, I talk a lot about “street medicine” as opposed to “academic medicine” for this exact reason. It’s about who gets accused of selling snakeoil when they’re trying to help versus whose snakeoil gets excused with “it was the best medical understanding they had at the time”. I swear I wrote it pre-covid even. ;-) )

my girl got that vintage horror type beauty

she sees specters

we got em

they’ve been made aware

what old joke are we going to bring back next

NO

every show about teenagers should have an on site consultant aged 14-18 who looks over the script and says we would not fucking say that

mood rn 

when I was very young my mother told me “they’re going to try and teach you that we came from monkeys but that’s not true and you shouldn’t listen to them because we were made from god” and she was my mom and I was like 7, so I pretty much just went “okay, noted, anyway”

anyway like 2 years later evolution comes up in class and one of my classmates goes “is this the we evolved from monkeys thing?”

and I’m on Red Alert. this is what my mom told me about!

the teacher replies, “well, we share a common ancestor, but we didn’t evolve directly from apes. if you go back way before apes or people existed, you’ll find a different third thing we both came from. we know this because of things like fossils”

and I was like whoo! dodged a bullet there, good thing my 4th grade science class isn’t trying to teach us we came from monkeys and instead figured stuff out using fossils and taught us that instead :)

Instructions Unclear, Ended Up Believing In Evolution Anyway