Harry Potter Through The Years…

My taste in romance has less to do with how romantic the relationship actually is (though that is a bonus) and more to do with how interesting I find the dynamic between the couple. Which is why fluffy vanilla romance usually bores the hell out of me. I want to see how these characters dramatically affect each other and fundamentally change each other and their individual understandings of the world!!! I want to see a beautiful tie-in between the romance and the themes + messages of the story and how it all builds to a climax!!!

Samantha Mathis in LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

insp.

What I mean is that you're like someone from another world. You have a romantic aura.

Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City (1943) 

just because i’m not posting about it does not mean i am not thinking about it. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

letterpress postcards by Pottering Cat, Japan

This is the worst timeline. (x)

Current status: overwhelmed with love and appreciation for Padme Amidala.

my dear Skywalker-Naberrie family

#absolutely

#and, like, it shouldn't even be that difficult to understand because it's really literally the core of the saga 😭

the story showed luke’s love bringing anakin ‘back’ in the end. the movie is called return of the jedi. “i am a jedi like my father before me”.

so why, then, would you think the message is “anakin was actually a toxic abusive evil piece of shit all along”, “padmé was a dummy who didn’t see red flags”, “anakin never genuinely loved padmé [or by extension luke]”, “anakin’s love was superficial”, etcetera etcetera? like 😭 just utilizing critical thinking and looking at the core story being told as well as the genre, why would you take those messages away? why would you not look at the skywalker family as people who loved each other deeply, lost each other because of evil (the dark side), and were set free by luke’s compassionate love and ability to release them?