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I HAVE ONLY ONE THOUGHT AFTER THAT EPISODE

(credit to @techsluvr for the meme lol)

rwrb quotes that make me go feral:

Alex throws his head back and laughs handsomely, loud and false. "Go fuck yourself"

"Hardly enough time", Henry says

(page 36)

"I had a magazine with his face on it at my desk, once, because I was in it and he happened to be on the cover.

"You stared at it for an hour"

(page 59)

He stares at the screen, at his own message, for a few seconds too long, suddenly afraid it was a stupid thing to say. He shakes his head, puts the phone down. Locks it. Changes his mind, picks it up again. Unlocks it. Sees the little typing bubble on Henry's side of the conversation. Puts the phone down. Looks away. Looks back. [...]

He would really appreciate it if Henry would stop proving him wrong.

(page 72)

"Okay", Alex says.

"Okay", Henry agrees.

"Okay", Alex says again.

(page 83)

"Christ, you are as thick as it gets", he says, and he grabs Alex's face in both hands and kisses him

(page 107)

In his head, he tries to cobble a list together in a panic, gets as far as, One, Henry's lips are soft, and short-circuits

(page 108)

and texts Alex at weird hours of the night: You're a mad, spiteful, unmitigated demon, and I'm going to kiss you until you forget how to talk

(page 158)

Alex's heart goes so fucking weird that he has to put his head in his hands for a full minute

(page 160)

He rolls onto his stomach, considers, and very deliberately says "Baby".

It's become a thing: baby. He knows it's become a thing. He's slipped up and accidentally said it a few times, and each time Henry positively melts and Alex pretends not to notice, but he's not above playing dirty here.

There's a slow hiss of an exhale across the line, like air escaping through a crack in the windows.

(page 166)

"I miss you", Alex says before he can stop himself.

He instantly regrets it, but Henry says, "I miss you too"

(page 173)

And through it all, Alex realizes with a start: He has friends now

(page 201)

I'll be damned but I miss you

(page 203)

"And you are good. Most things are awful most of the time, but you're good"

[...]

Henry kisses his mouth over and over again and says quietly, "You are good"

(page 230)

"Oh my God, I thought you were getting into international relations or something"

"I mean, technically-"

"If you finish that sentence, I'm gonna spend tonight in jail"

(page 233)

"Would it make any difference at all if I told you not to see him again?"

"No"

(page 234)

History, huh? Bet we could make some

(page 241)

Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?

(page 242)

Goddamn, I love him. It keeps coming back to him, and it's getting harder to look into Henry's soft smiles and not say it.

(page 261)

"So glad you flew here to insult me-"

"I fucking love you, okay?, Alex half yells, finally, irreversibly

(page 271)

He tells his too-fast brain: Don't miss it this time. He's too important

(page 275)

When Alex was a kid, before anyone knew his name, he dreamed of love like it was a fairy tale, as if it would come sweeping into his life on the back of a dragon one day. When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. He never imagined it'd turn out he was right both times

(page 280)

At cruising altitude, he takes the chain off his neck and slides the ring next to the old house key. They clink together gently as he tucks them both under his shirt, two homes side by side

(page 291)

I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire

(page 300)

"You and me and history, remember? I'm never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you. So, I promise you, one day we'll be able to just be"

(page 312)

on the map of you, my fingers can always find the green hills, wales. cool waters and a shore of white chalk. the ancient part of you carved out of stone in a prayerful circle, sacrosanct. your spine's a ridge i'd die climbing

(page 320)

He takes a breath. "But the thing is, jumping off cliffs is kinda my thing. That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose"

(page 344)

He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn't bright enough

(page 399)

He would have taken Henry's face in both hands and kissed him hard and deep and on purpose and said, "Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it"

(page 407)

Henry's smiling so wide and bright that Alex thinks his heart's going to break trying to hold the size of this entire moment, the completeness of it, a thousand years of history swelling inside his rib cage

(page 414)

Time to get naughty! Come rock out with StarKids from across the galaxy in a holiday special that’s outta this world - the StarKid Jangle Ball! After a decade-long hiatus, we’re hitting the road again! But this year, we’ve been naughty and nice, so we’re delivering an evening of iconic StarKid villain songs AND a concert rendition of A VHS Christmas Carol that you won’t wanna miss! December 2022! More info coming soon!

Production Info: https://www.teamstarkid.com/jangle-ball

-tbb s2 spoilers-

"Well, you know what makes us different from battle droids? We make our own decisions. Our own choices. And... we have to live with them too."

as the effects of the inhibitor chips start wearing off, clones (some of em at least) begin to realise what they've done and what they're doing now.

he remembers.

i absolutely loved this episode, crosshair really needs a mentor and that could've been cody, although he did the right thing by leaving AND HE'S OFF TO FIND KENOBI YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE unless they actually executed him silently which would be HORRIBLE.

and 32 rotations? what the FUCK crosshair how did you even manage to survive in there

Obi wan, about to do something stupid and looking for Dramatic Feelings moment: You love me, right?

Cody, suspicious: normally i'd Say yes, but i feel like this is going somewhere i won't like

"Commander Cody is a bottom,” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

"She's right," they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 2nd row stands: Commander Cody.

I do recall now the smell of the rain Fresh on the pavement, I ran off the plane - HAPPY LAST KISS DAY (insp.)

something i realized thats been driving me insane about this scene is the lighting.

look at him. he’s casted in orange light. his armor color from the war. the Mandalorian armor color for freedom.

as he sits there and disobeys the Empire, as he sits there and negotiates (after Rampart says word for word “we do not negotiate.”) and he’s painted in orange light.

as he sits there and proves that he’s still the person he was during the war- one of the best people, good to the bone- he is shining in his color. the Empire tried to take who he was from him with the chip, and they took his orange from him and painted it over with grey, but here he is proving he’s just as good and kind as he’s always been and here he is still covered in orange.

light and color symbolism you will be the DEATH of me

oh wow holy shit they changed the story completely huh

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.