Especially Frustrating When They Only Talk About Anakin! Like, Here's ONE Guy With Serious Childhood

Anakin: *appears*

*Vader's theme plays*

Me (with increasing hysteria): What do you mean by that? Dave?! DAVE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT

Ngl joining the jedi order sounds like the ideal life to me because just imagine:

1. People regulate thier emotion and communicate to you logically. No need to understand social cues when you're an empath.

2. No pressure to marry, be in a romantic relationship and live in a nuclear household my entire life.

3. I can just?????? Help people?????? Without the extra cost of a system working me to the ground to achieve certain things????

4. No strings attached companionship and friendships? Amazing.

5. A caring and respectful community who council each other and accepts who I am as a person? Count me in.

6. Lightsaber go brrrrrrrrrr

7. Being able to do what I want career wise (Gardening, art, politics, piloting, exploring, childreering, medicine, teaching, etc.) without having to worry about money.

8. Tax fraud

Ao3 being down is actually so validating bc this proves it's not just my fanfiction addiction preventing me from doing Stuff, I can avoid Stuff just fine on my own

Mace windu vs jiang cheng, who would win? (Not in a fight, in a purple-themed diva-off)

Samurai Mace. Third Jedi in samurai star wars concepts. Mace Windu. Magister of the Jedi order, Council Member, Great warrior. First and second HERE

I usually stick to canon, but the legends Jedi Apprentice series has a very special place in my heart partially because giving obi-wan a messed up apprenticeship where he was a child soldier several times adds so much to his character... directly informs his views on war and violence and a Jedi's role in those acts... anyway hey alexa play a pearl by Mitski

very much spitballing here, forgive me, but i think for the sake of the narrative needing a negative controlling idea and glucas’ use of obi-wan as a centering device in both his trilogies, obi-wan never really processes his role as a soldier and how that led to the fall of the republic. (obviously the jedi’s militarization wasn’t the only factor nor did they “deserve” their genocide. let’s be adults). because by the time of anh obi-wan is isolated, and regretful, but he still talks of fighting/war/battle in this either nuetral or valorizing tone. he hypes up both yoda and anakin as expert warriors. and when it comes down to it, 11th hour, he tells luke to kill vader. he tells him it needs to be done. BUT! when we meet yoda, he’s lowkey pushing back on that. he rejects the warrior label obi-wan gave him. even as he preps luke for what he knows is inevitable (a vader confrontation), he tells luke to forsake his weapons. you compare that to mr obi fuck-it-lightsaber-in-the-cantina wan there, that’s such an interesting divide. at the end of the day both yoda and obi-wan form a thematic block that luke needs to overcome, but they come at it from different angles. not to mention in the pt yoda is the only jedi with consistent lil moments of “hmm. fucked up we have”, and all those little moments coming to fruition puts him in such a deep shame that he fucks off to a swamp forever. with hindsight, his whole “wars not make one great” deal comes off very much like he’s processing the reality of counting on this kid to kill his dad and not feeling too good about it maybe

rex stood like a slut and had one line of dialogue but he slayed the house down

Good/Bad media alignment chart

Reverse Star Wars AU writing challenge: every time canon fridges a mother, fridge the father instead. Every time a woman dies for the sake of Manpain™️, kill off the dude instead.

(I know this gets particularly complicated with Obi-Wan, because his woman-who-died-in-my-arms count is in the double digits at this point, but I have faith fandom can find a way.)

The only rule is that the story cannot be about a man. It cannot be about man angst. It has to center the women.

A gender? *Glances around, reaches into trenchcoat* yeah I think I have one of those. But it's gonna cost ya

Palpatine never stops getting obliterated by Padmé his entire life. Like imagine you’re trying to do evil advisor political things and then there’s this child queen cutting you off at the pass every time. Oh okay no worries you try and assassinate her but then she gets even more politically adept and then seduces and marries the guy you’ve been working really hard to groom. Rats! But no problem, because now she’s dead and you’ve succeeded in making her husband into your metal fleshmachine murdersub but—SURPRISE! Turns out she’d been hitting that freakazoid raw during every wartime conjugal visit and now you’re getting your ass kicked by not one but TWO of her kids, which, given they both have 50% of her DNA, is like kind of like getting your ass kicked by a genetically combined total of 100% Padme Amidala. Crazy.