Some Quick Warm Ups With The Terror Couple. 

Imperial Snapchat

Imperial Snapchat. Admiral Piett is currently leading the contest.

Thanks for the wonderful idea, @kaelinaloveslomaris and @occasionalinanity

look I know neil’s time in evermore was Bad and traumatic ik but nothing is funnier to me than the idea of a disgruntled jean moreau with a l’oreal box dye and a deathwish and no fucking clue how to even begin

jean, muttering: these instructions are in english and french and I still don’t know what I’m supposed to do with the second bottle

neil: fucking drink it you french bastard

Chiron: A lot of famous people were actually demigods. Amelia Earhart, George Washington, Harry Houdini…

New Camper: Is there anyone current that I would know?

Chiron: Have you ever seen a True Crime Documentary on the kidnapping of Percy Jackson?

New Camper: Wait… are you talking about the kid who blew up the Gateway Arch????

Chiron, wiping away a single tear: We’re so proud.

Their war is their life. And their life is a weapon.

Hot take: why the Jedi seem so  unnatural

There’s something about their movements; it’s too smooth, too sure. They never trip on their feet, never run into anything, and their bodies navigate crowds too easily. 

There’s something about their eyes, too, how they seem to bore straight through the soul of whoever they speak to. They sometimes seem to begin to answer a question before it’s even asked, and they always know what words to say to placate the emotions in the room.

There are rumors that the Negotiator and the Hero With No Fear do not need words to communicate, that they can speak without a comm while they are miles away from each other. 

The rumors say the Negotiator has a true silver tongue, that the reason he is so successful is not because he is a skilled diplomat but because there’s something else to his voice and words that makes him so convincing. 

The rumors say the apprentice of the Hero With No Fear is like a bird in flight when she moves, too graceful to be fully Togruta, her leaps so high it is as if she has the wings of a convor. 

(The Tuskens believe that Death walks on two legs and brings with him a blade forged from the flames of the sun. They believe they displeased him for they were not strong enough, and they have never taken a prisoner since that day. Their victims are always killed and offered in sacrifice to Death.)

If you were offered a chance to write a single issue batman story, what would you write?

Okay, presuming this is in a main book like Detective Comics itself, rather than any particular character’s solo? 

I mean, obviously the instinct is to say a story about Steph, or about Cass, but honestly? What I’d really love to write? 

I’d love to write a down-to-Earth ordinary people of Gotham story. Some ordinary person; I’d probably go with a single mom, poor, working some menial job, living in some crappy apartment, constantly stressed out.

I’d follow her around and show Gotham from her perspective. Look at how, despite the money being poured into it by Bruce Wayne and other wealthy individuals, the system itself isn’t working, she can’t trust the police, and things are hard. See the rough situation she’s finding herself in. 

She gets mugged, or something similar, and she’s angry and bitter, and she ends up breaking down. And then her daughter comes out. Wearing some sort of shirt with a Robin logo on it, and she tells her mom that it’s going to be okay. 

And then there’s a knock at the window, and it’s one of the Batkids. I’d probably make it Spoiler!Steph because I’m me, but it could easily be Cass or Duke or any of the others. They’re bringing back her wallet because they caught the mugger who robbed her, and ask if she’s hurt. She’s not, and they’re gone before she can say thank you. 

She checks the wallet. 

That money wasn’t there when she got robbed. It’s stuffed full of cash. 

And we see her next day. And we see things are just a little better. We see her help out someone who’s in a pinch. We see her smile, just a little more. We see her get the mail and her building is being bought by Wayne Enterprises, who’re going to be remodeling, but they promise her rent won’t go up. 

We see, bit by bit, how the Bats are making things better. Because I think we lose that a lot, in superhero stories. We joke about how Bruce Wayne should be able to solve all of Gotham’s problems just by paying his taxes, and superheroes themselves question if they help a lot. 

And I’d want to show a story where the answer is a clear and definitive yes. I’d want to tell a story where we see the good that Bruce and all of the Bats are doing, both in and out of costume, and how that positive effect is spreading, even though it’s not fixing everything right away. 

And at the end of the story, we see her reading a book to her daughter, and through the window, we can see the Bat Symbol, and the hint of a cape, as if someone’s checking in on them. 

Also I’d love it to be illustrated by Mitch Gerads, because I really liked his style on Mister Miracle. Or like, David Aja from Fraction’s Hawkeye. Something like that. 

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Skywalker visions are rather interesting because they’re almost always true, even if they vary on details? I actually spend a lot of time wondering if part of why Anakin’s premonitions are dismissed by the other Jedi is because they quite literally don’t realize how powerful he really is.

It always felt to me like the PT era Jedi were very workaday about their superpowers. It had become mundane to them and some of it was the lack of epic battles with the Sith, some of it was negotiating trade agreements between bureaucrats and corporations, but a lot of it was honestly that they did not experience the Force as mystical. That was the realm of old wise ones like Yoda or wild cards like Qui-Gon. Anakin himself is explicitly mystical, as presented by Qui-Gon, but there is ambivalence from the Council and outright rejection from Obi-Wan (obviously your kid isn’t magic; he’s your kid). So, I think Obi-Wan tries to navigate a path where he finds plausible everyday explanations for Anakin’s visions and other Jedi probably find themselves torn between disbelief and fear that it really is true, there really is a Chosen One walking among them, and what does that even mean?

what I want: Bruce and Stephanie in very odd situations that lead to bonding.

what I get: not that

what I really want: an event culminating with Stephanie shouting “I will fucking rUIN YOU, BITCH” and Bruce holding her back because she’s drunk and he’s wondering how he got here with his (not) daughter

what I really get: staring at a blank page because I can’t write

ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader

“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”

“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”

jeremey renner, despite popular belief, played barney barton. the real clint barton will be revealed in marvel’s limited hawkeye series.