Something I Realized Thats Been Driving Me Insane About This Scene Is The Lighting.

“You two could at least say hello,” Wymack said, somewhat aggrieved. 

“There’s no point,” Kevin said. “All they are is a distraction.“ 

"It’s called a support network. Look it up." 

"Thea is watching from South tonight,” Kevin said, looking to the elevated VIP box. It was too far away and too high up for Neil to make out any faces, but there was a small crowd gathered at the windowed walls already. Knowing the Court was here to watch them play sent a chill through Neil’s veins. Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack’s face and said, “and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough." 

On Wymack’s other side, Abby’s gaze softened. Wymack’s jaw worked for a moment before he could say in an even tone, "Your mother would be proud of you." 

"Not just of me,” Kevin said in a rare bout of humanity.

-The King’s Men (All for the Game Book 3) by Nora Sakavic

my scene for the @giveyourbacktome-zine​! I had so much fun working on this and I was lucky to snag a #dadscene :D

I know approximately three and a half things about Star Wars, but many of my friends know Lots about Star Wars, so I ran this by them and they said it was Chill, mostly @atagotiak. And the thought is this:

Modern AU where Ahsoka just points at Obi-Wan and goes “that’s my dad” and he goes along with it for ??? Reasons IDK she got in trouble with a mall cop and he’s like “Well fuck it she needs me to pretend to be her Legal Guardian” because he’s just barely old enough to pull it off… but… he kind of… doesn’t stop? The joke doesn’t stop.

He already knows her, because I’m imagining that Ahsoka is like… IDK some kid that Anakin is tutoring through a Big Brothers Big Sisters type thing.

(Obi-Wan’s still waiting for approval to be a foster dad but Ahsoka can recognize his dad qualities from a mile away.)

And she just knew Obi-Wan as Anakin’s older professor friend.

I imagine Ahsoka probably got in trouble for something relatively silly, like walking on the ledge around an indoor fountain as if it were a balance beam. She didn’t do anything Bad, just Technically Rule Breaking. Possibly the security guard was ignoring her as a ‘kids will be kids’ thing until she fell in and got soaked.

Later she keeps the joke up. Ahsoka, to Obi-Wan, on sight: Hi dad!!! Anakin, looking between them: Okay, what happened while I wasn’t watching and am I supposed to put a stop to it.

“Obi-Wan, did you adopt my little sister?” “Er… no, I don’t–I don’t think I signed any paperwork.” “In spirit.” “Ah. Yes, in that case, it’s a fair interpretation of events.”

“Well it’s really more like she adopted me, after all she’s the one who just declared that I’m her dad now.”

You know. From a certain point of view.

“Obi-Wan, you can’t just adopt Ahsoka without telling your husband.” “Ah, no, she asked him before I realized it was more than the shame to get her out of trouble.”

Alternatively somehow, some way, Anakin ends up her legal guardian. Anakin’s her dad now. Yes he’s 20 and she’s 14, what of it?

Obi-Wan can pull off “Yes I am their father” because the beard makes him look older. Technically, he’s like… idk thirty-five? Old enough to be feasibly a dad, if not necessarily Ahsoka’s dad. I’ve been told that people usually assume Human!Ahsoka would be black, but this entire AU is about adoption so [shrug emoji] that works!

And also like. Obi-Wan has Big Gay Vibes. Mall security will absolutely just assume.

(He’s bi? I think? I’ve been told he just flirts with almost everyone they meet? But his vibes are that of a millennial gay dad who goes shopping for organic food in Flushing despite owning a condo in Bed-Stuy. Not quite a hipster, but close.)

(Would he do this? I don’t know. But the vibes are there.)

(Mostly it’s the beard.)

If Ahsoka alternates between calling him Dad and calling him by his name, it also helps sell the “adopted slightly older” thing she was going for… which eventually becomes reality.

EDIT NOW THAT I KNOW MORE ABOUT SHIPPING NORMS AND WHATNOT:

The husband is Cody.

Doctor Who is literally about time travel, it’s about exploring the past as well as the future.

It is thematically on point for it to dwell in nostalgia now and then! It’s what the characters do.

You’ve got something good, why not revisit it once in a while? That’s the point of having a spaceship. 

THEY WENT ON A THREE MONTHS LONG VACATION THEY MOVED IN TOGETHER THEY LEARNED TO CARE FOR EACH OTHER ON BAD DAYS THEY FELL IN LOVE EVEN MORE WITH EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY THEY BOUGHT A CREDENZA AND A BED AND THEY BUILT A HOME THEY HELD CHRISTMAS AT THEIR PLACE THEY WOKE UP AND FELL ASLEEP TOGETHER HENRY LEARNED TO COOK TO FEED ALEX WHEN HE FORGOT TO EAT JUNE AND NORA KISSED AND HENRY GAVE UP HIS TITLE AND DECIDED HE NEVER WANTED TO GO BACK IF IT MEANT BEING AWAY FROM ALEX AND ALEX TALKED TO CATHERINE ABOUT MARRYING HENRY AND THEY BOTH HAD A RING READY TO PROPOSE AND HENRY WROTE A BOOK AND THEY GOT ENGAGED AND DECIDED TO MOVE TO TEXAS AND HAVE SOME QUIET THEY ARE SO IN LOVE AND SO HAPPY

The thing I really love about Cody’s story in “The Solitary Clone” is that he reflected on what happened and his reality on his own, that his realizations were his own, nobody beat it into his head, nobody had to shake him away, Cody did that on all his own.  Cody’s ability to think for himself, to navigate his way through his own mind, was what brought him through the conditioning in his head.  That doesn’t have to negate that the Jedi’s effect on the clones was foundational and tremendous, that they helped give the clones the chance to grow into these people.  But it also is still Cody’s own damn work on his own damn mind that brought him to where he was. The thing I really don’t love about Cody’s story in “The Solitary Clone” is that he could have been replaced with just about any other character and it would have had nearly as much impact, because this was a story about Crosshair, not about Cody.  We never even see Cody’s realization or the moment he leaves, Cody was set dressing for Crosshair’s story, and wound up being a cameo more than actually getting a story. I’m not opposed to every single episode of the show having a cameo–even if I think they’re relying too heavily on them to draw in viewers and thus undercutting the idea that these characters might actually get a hefty story being told about them, instead of having it done in tiny snippets here and there.  But that’s my frustration with Cody’s story, that what’s there isn’t bad, but because he’s a cameo in someone else’s story, his story is told in the background and we only see half of it.  Cody deserves better than to have his story told that way.

being a swiftie nowadays is so chill like homegirl just disappears for months and then suddenly shows up and drops something with 24 hours notice, does 5 interviews and 3 performances in 2 days, and then disappears again for half a year

in my excitement for the bad batch s2 trailer i nearly forgot that the show is basically chronicling the end of the clones as they are replaced and, uh, retired. 

it’s gonna hurt. 

All my star wars bitches raise your hand if you need more pretty Cody art

Why do all of the crow scenes feel so watered down?? Like Kaz cleaning inej’s wounds could’ve been peak cinema. Kaz fighting for the crow club was not as much a blood battle. Kaz’s back story was not in as much detail. I missed the “I’m still alive” line that broke me. Their whole storyline being rushed. I don’t care that they changed their story, I care that it lacks the heart and impact that it did have.

Here’s what makes me the most upset about Cody’s experience with his chip basically revealing that the clones truly think they chose to kill their Jedi and that their free will wasn’t taken away:

I could make a whole separate post about the implications it has for Cody, Bly and Wolffe for example, but what makes me the most upset is Anakin’s role in it all.

It was bad enough that he thoughtlessly uses the 501st to slaughter the Jedi at the temple, proving that their sentiency was less important to him than his own selfish choices.

But now we know that all those men spent their last moments alive believing they were freely choosing to kill the Jedi. It must’ve been so confusing for them because their realities were just rewritten by those stupid chips and Anakin didn’t even think about how it could affect them. It probably didn’t even occur to him.

Cody’s look when Crosshair calls the Jedi traitors is everything because it gives us a glimpse into what the clones who didn’t know about the chips feel about what happened.

I personally think this is one of the cruelest things Anakin does in the entire franchise and we never talk about it. To be complicit in denying a group of people who trust you their humanity and their free will just to fulfil what you want is unmistakably evil. Using them to kill a different group of people who trust you makes it so much worse. There were two betrayals taking place simultaneously.

Those poor men will have spent their final moments (because I’m assuming not many made it out) not only being used as tools by the man who insisted he cared for them, but also feeling the responsibility of it being their choice too when it absolutely was not.