i mean, i feel like i'm 3/4 of the way there. if you push over that soapbox so i can climb on it, i can get started explaining how you cannot understand anakin skywalker/darth vader as a character without recognizing the massive class issues and related trauma that he, as a former slave boy, carries with him, see i have it all written down here -
@wigglytuffitout and then immediately after post number one hundred fifty five on the topic, you will proceed to write another, longer thread on what exactly anakin skywalker's fursona is
@InspectorCaracal nah that one's easy, one and done in krayt dragon
yes i have thought extensively about this
yes it does come up in the abominably long fic i'm writing slowly at some point
@wigglytuffitout harp I didn't say even longer about *choosing* what it is
@InspectorCaracal ok that IS valid because i would bring up the research i've done in getting there, complete with references to medieval literature explaining carefully how i've already put in symbolism about his quasi-redemption that is the crux of the story being akin to the split between ysengrim the wolf and reynard the fox and i've done art already yonks ago and wait where is everyone going -
but also i feel like i will have fully matured and come into my own on mastodon when, eventually, i will emerge from a chrysalis of leftist political thought, and start a 155 part thread on how you cannot understand the tragedy of anakin skywalker unless you look at it through the lens of marxist theory