EternalTraveler

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@DiceQueenDi @OniKanaVT It won't work. Be true to yourself.
You can be normal and "fit in", but it'll cost your soul and worse.

[Aurondarklord yearns for Malfoid @Aurondarklord]

Okay, if we're doing Anakin Chudwalker, and we want a coherent story instead of just hype and aura edits, the Malfoid-style "change just one thing" has to be Padme. It's the moment in AOTC where they're discussing politics in that field in Naboo.

Have her actually share Anakin's frustrations with the Republic and the broken system.

You don't have to drastically change her whole personality, it's actually good if she functions as a check on his impulsiveness and anger, but let her relate to what he's saying enough that he really trusts her and feels he can talk to her about anything.

If you change that, then years later when he's having visions of her death and Palpatine is manipulating him, he'll actually tell her about it, and she, being a politician and a lot better at understanding that world, will be the one who puts two and two together and realizes that Palpatine is playing everyone against each other.

Now you have two things that are true simultaneously: Palpatine is the source of all their problems, and the Republic is clearly broken if its system allowed that to happen in the first place.

They conspire together to hijack Palpatine's plan for themselves. The moment Palpatine kills Mace and believes he's won, Anakin strikes him down. Anakin activates Order 66, but tells the clones to capture the Jedi if possible, not exterminate them. Padme has built a political coalition in the Senate that legitimizes Anakin's mostly bloodless coup, allowing him, as the hero of the Clone Wars, to step seamlessly into the role of Emperor after he kills the Separatist leaders on Mustafar and ends the war.

Anakin knows what has to be done, and Padme knows how to make it all technically legal. The Jedi are given an ultimatum: submit to the new order and continue as its knights, or face the purge if they insist on clinging to the old, broken way. Most ultimately accept legitimate Senate authority. Those that don't get crushed by Emperor Vader and his Inquisitors.

Instead of Palpatine as a Hitler figure, we get Anakin as a Caesar figure.

Significant government purges happen. Corrupt officials and lunatics like Tarkin are quickly retired, or executed if they try to fight it. Thrawn becomes Grand Moff instead of Tarkin. He runs the military and ensures its loyalty to the throne. Padme keeps the Senate compliant. The surviving Jedi are reorganized under Ahsoka's command.

Anakin fulfills his destiny as the chosen one by bringing balance to the Force, ending the binary choice between the joyless stagnation of the light and the self-destructive hedonism of the dark by studying the path of the Bendu and the Father that runs between them.

Anakin focuses on expanding the Empire's reach across the galaxy and eliminating slavery and lawlessness. His methods are harsh, those who cannot be civilized, like the Tuskens, or who cannot be trusted, like the Hutts, are wiped out. But he isn't pointlessly cruel. He doesn't do dumb shit like enslave the wookiees for no reason or blow up planets just to prove he can. He takes Thrawn's advice and builds a highly effective normal military instead of ruinously expensive terror weapons.

The Outer Rim is brought to heel. The cartels are destroyed. The government is authoritarian but actually effective and overall quality of life in the galaxy has improved, so most people think Anakin has simply brought order and major rebellions don't occur.

Then 45 years later, the threat Anakin has been preparing for since he discovered it in Palpatine's holocrons finally arrives: the Yuuzhan Vong. This serves as the ultimate test of the system Anakin spent his entire adult life building. Old-Man-akin leads from the front, but eventually falls in battle when the Executor is boarded and Shimrra Jamaane strikes him down in a duel.

Luke, with Mara Jade as his empress, ascends the throne and avenges his father by turning back the Vong invasion. Anakin's Force Ghost smiles as his son vindicates his life's work.

Once the Vong are vanquished and the galaxy is unified and at peace, the Empire's totalitarian posture relaxes under Luke, who is of a less autocratic bent than his father was, and by the era of emperor Cade Skywalker, the system has transitioned back from a functionally absolute monarchy to a constitutional one, and structurally resembles the Fel Empire with the Jedi having been rebuilt as the Imperial Knights.

[maniac (malfoid enjoyoor) @maniacdotsol]

Malfoid is crossing into territory most internet trends never reach.

what started as fan art has grown into a full blown internet phenomenon, with artists, animators, cosplayers, content creators, major accounts and now mainstream media all getting pulled into the conversation. @WIRED has covered the trend, the US Department of Education (@usedgov) sparked a wave of discussion around a possible Malfoid reference, and now @PalmerLuckey is posting Malfoid related content himself.

think about that for a second.

this is how internet culture evolves. first it’s a niche obsession, then it becomes a meme, then everyone wants a piece of it. the character starts developing a life of her own through fan art, edits, stories, cosplays and an endless stream of new interpretations.

so, your bet is on a character connected to one of the biggest entertainment franchises ever created, with a community actively expanding the narrative every single day.

nobody knows how far this can go, but the attention is clearly reaching beyond the original circle. if the cultural momentum continues translating into a larger audience, the gap between today’s valuation and what the market could eventually price in might become very interesting.

so stop fading and treating $malfoid like a temporary meme. and i think many are underestimating what happens when the internet collectively becomes obsessed with a character.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@TESRSkyblivion That person ought to be famous.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@RohanKarMooN @NotEnglishBen can you reupload it for us?

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@EdgeVee There is a reason why she is best girl.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@ZakiBlacksong How about for tree fiddy?

[Tigernach @TigernachTora]

Listening to Asmongold talk about the state of Conservatives while at work and had to make a clip of this when I got home. Very relevant

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@TheRealGT4_Fire The main girl here is suffering from Tracer syndrome, that's the issue.

[W. C. Collier @WCCollier1]

This is actually a perfect illustration of the position in which the righteous man often finds himself: caught between preemptively killing or driving out what he knows to be a hostile agent, and being accused of unprovoked hostility, or waiting until the hostile intent of said agent is consummated, to the much greater harm of the righteous man and his own. The frog has to carry the scorpion or be condemned as an anti-scorpion racist.

And the reality is that many, serving not the real good but instead their own toxic empathy or self-righteousness, will know that the agent is hostile, that the scorpion’s sting is inevitable, yet still condemn the righteous man for prejudging, still condemn the discerning frog, because they genuinely don’t care that the scorpion will sting. They genuinely don’t care about preventing real evil or accomplishing real good. That does not factor at all into their sense of their own piety.

Brilliant, Mr. Douglas. 👏

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@Northworldab @NyxTheShield Who knew Nintendo was right all along with destroying the English smash scene

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@oROLIKo1 @Cermitdoes97622 It's religion.
When you see them as religious zealots trying to spread their faith a lot of things click into place and make sense.
The unconverted are either infidels (bigots), eggs (convertible) or usable (and disposable) allies.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@TomycaseM What in the world are you doing?

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@METAL_GEAR_CWQ @AGivenSoul @RapidCrafterYT @Nostalgia_REBH @Resident_bio dead link

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@ToninO_Scavator @PirateSoftware To an activist, the agenda is more important and all shall be sacrificed to reach the utopia.

[TheHeretic @EthosHeretica]

Ask yourself why the Left takes control over every property, why they try to insert LGBTQ+ into all your children's books, subvert, deconstruct and destroy your media in literature, television, movies and video games.

Is it because these things don't matter and don't have an impact on culture?

Or is it more likely that they know, fundamentally, that shaping culture comes from the bottom up... and if they can pervert, warp and destroy culture from the bottom up... they can shape society as a whole in the image they desire?

This is why things like Malfoid are important. Because those who are participating have come to understand something that has been hidden beneath the demoralization tactics that buried, crushed and eliminated ones sense of wonder and yearning; that Stories matter... perhaps more than anything else in this world.

The stories we internalize, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves... and the stories we aspire to? They shape our world... they shape the fundamental center of what our world looks like, because in our stories we find our dreams, or aspirations.

Our Yearning.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@itispsychomath I dont want people destroying my home, but to kill an entire population, when there has to potentially be righteous people in there who can be saved, I dont think God would look kindly upon me for killing them all blindly.
It doesn't sit right with me.
There must be another way.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@MiiaTzu You will probably be Johntron'd like how destiny did.
Also, for your viewing pleasure.

https://t.co/k5J9DsXqXX

[ElfSup 🔴🟡⚪️🇻🇦 @elfmagerofl]

POV: You are strongly Roman Catholic and your wife is strongly Orthodox, you have a theological dispute but afterwards you will kiss anyways.

[EternalTraveler @EteTraveler]

@MoshiMoshiMoan You live! Praise be to God!