Poor Misha (x)
(Source: http://mishacollinsismymuse.tumblr.com/)
Today’s “background” while working is Return of the Jedi (where “background” means I stop everything I’m doing to watch certain scenes).
The Emperor seriously is an idiot. I mean, he ALMOST has Luke. If he hadn’t started cackling every time Luke started to lose control and going “good, good!” he would’ve won. Hey dumbass, if you manipulate someone into doing something they don’t want to do, you don’t POINT OUT that they’re doing it.
Jeez.
It’s been so long since Palpatine had to manipulate someone like that he’s forgotten how. He’s also assuming Luke is like his father at that age: desperate for validation and stuck in a cycle of aggression, guilt, and repression. As this is totally not the case, he fails in his conversion effort big time.
Holy shit, you’re right. He’s doing exactly what he did with Anakin.
HOLY SHIT.
*skywalker feelings increase*
OH MY GOD!
This also gives me Uncle Owen and Obi Wan feelings because if Anakin was easily manipulated by Palpatine because it was the first time he truly received emotional validation from a father figure, that means that Luke had good emotional support from his father figures and ahshfkenf help
IT GOT
WORSEBETTER.*skywalker feelings in overload*
Really, it chaps my Cheerios when people forget the role Owen and Beru played in Luke’s life. Like, we only see them on-screen for a little while (and not in the most positive light, since Luke is being a rebellious teenager and they are being the mean parents), but they were the ones who raised Luke, who loved him, who watched him take his first steps and say his first words. Owen taught him to fly a Skyhopper and Beru taught him to fix vaporaters. You wouldn’t have Luke Skywalker, stand-up guy, without Owen and Beru Lars, adoptive parents.
I mean, the thing is, it’s clear when you watch ANH as an adult that Owen and Beru love Luke and want what is best for him, and that although they disagree about what is best for Luke, they are coming from a place of love and caring.
Luke is a huffy, unhappy teenager, chafing against restrictions, but no matter how “mean” Owen is, it’s perfectly obvious that Luke isn’t abused in any way. He feels free to complain and sulk and ostentatiously demonstrate about how UNFAIR it all is, without fear of reprisal. He has his own vehicle and considerable freedom as long as he finishes his chores. Owen and Beru have obvious affection for him and for each other.
And the way Luke’s face shutters and changes when he sees the homestead destroyed and their bodies, the way that devastation clearly strikes to the heart of him but produces a calm, determined grief? That prefigures his calm before his fall on Bespin, and it also ultimately stands in opposition to Anakin’s rageful, vicious, undisciplined response to grief.
Obi-Wan knows it, when Luke comes back to say he’ll go with him to Alderaan, that Luke is not his father.
And that’s down to Owen and Beru and how they raised Luke. They weren’t perfect – Owen is frustrated with Luke a bunch! – but unlike Anakin, raised a slave, made an orphan by violence, always susceptible to his own rage and loss, Luke had a bedrock.
Imagine that you show up in your favorite character’s universe, only for them to be missing. You ask the other characters about it, but they have never even heard of your favorite character. You soon realize that you’re supposed to play their role in the story/series…
*looks at favorite character*
This is gonna suck.
Also, yeah, I’m screwed too.
Alpha/Omega=WTF?
You know, I have gotten to learn a bunch of the other abbreviations and so forth, ie..DFP Sherlock, but what in the living hell is this Alpha Omega Universe stuff I keep coming across in the Sherlock fics on AO3? I assume it’s another fandom being mixed in, but I am just not familiar.
Oh honey. Where do I begin. There are wiki articles on it, but Alpha/omega is a type of AU. I can’t really explain it well, but does anyone want to explain to my friend here Omegaverse?
If you want to read one of the best omegaverse fics ever written, The Gilded Cage.
Hey @merindab – I know you’re familiar, and you prob have more recs too!
The article I tend to point people at is the fanlore one. And yeah, I have, well quite a few. Fics tagged omega verse that i’ve written or am involved with are here, here and here.
The short version of omega verse is that the universe includes a second gender, on top of the basic male/female one (yes I know gender is more than a binary). These are alphas and omegas. People without a second gender are called betas. Alphas of either gender can impregnate omegas of either gender. (i wrote this one with pregnant omega John/alpha Mary, but be warned Mary isn’t a nice person in it). Omegas generally have some sort of heat cycle, essentially a time when they go into ‘fuck or die’ mode, without the death part. Alphas generally have a knot, the way dogs do. There can be bonding, which is usually when an alpha bites an omega. Scent is usually important.
It sounds complicated, but once you read a few fics, you’ll get the hang of it. And there are variations even within omegaverse itself. Heat can come with some consent issues, but at least in mine I’m careful about it. (This fic of mine is omegaverse without any smut) I sometimes like using omegaverse to explore gender roles. For instance in my “Mycroft’s Choice,” Mycroft, as an omega, is facing some of the same prejudice and difficulty a woman might, given that he’s capable of breeding.
And then sometimes it’s just an excuse to write smutty, kinky porn.
I’m also going to tag @greencarnations cause I know she can add more recs and correct anything I messed up or missed.