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hey, happy birthday! hope it's a good one!

how did y—

ah, doing your investigative journaling, i see. Kandosii, kandosii. Kamino trained you well.

was it a good one? yep! the cake wasn't a lie, ner vod, cake was totally real!! and delicious 😋 now if only someone drew Boss or Jango for me...

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there's actually a cigarette quota for 12 year olds on nar shadaa

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ordo fucking skirata

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the sketch was drawn months ago, digitalised it today 💚❤️

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there he go

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On May 16, the Clone Wars officially began, and with them, clone troopers entered the Star Wars lore for good. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, here's reference how various media have portrayed appearance of these men in movies, animations, and games.

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I like how in Republic Commando if you succeed in the Tarfful escort mission the Advisor's like "Omg Delta Squad you lads are fucking INCREDIBLE this is huge" but if you fuck up the Tarfful escort mission the Advisor's like "Send these chucklefucks in for reconditioning Post Haste"

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I love the dichotomy of perfect vessel/ticking timebomb and peacemakers/warrior sect, it's a perfect recipe for disaster, liek-- ofc they were gonna fumble that chosen one

It’s obviously an over generalisation but broadly “pro Jedi” fics which also overlap extensively with “anti Anakin” are always so fascinating to me.

Typically they include a few commonalities:

1) Jedi are wholesome and well adjusted, including extensive mental health support and actually they’re totally chilled about relationships (romantic or familial) outside the order so long as you’re “normal” about it

2) Jedi are hyper competent at basically everything

Obi-Wan is of course the exemplar of both of those things

3) Anakin is definitively neither of those things. He’s murderous and angry and unbalanced and wildly incompetent. He’s losing fights, getting captured, messing up negotiations etc left and right.

We’re clearly often intended to conclude “and hence Anakin sucks” but what I’m always struck by is “why?”

If the Jedi and Obi-Wan specifically are the way these authors intend, why is Anakin the way he is?

The answer these fics imply is “evil is an essential component of character at birth” which is boring, gross, and very badly misunderstands the central thesis of Star Wars.

The answer I reach instead - no matter what the authors intend - is that the Jedi clearly aren’t anywhere near as competent and wholesome as you are characterising them to be. There is an inherent tension in the text between what you TELL me about the Jedi and what you SHOW me about the Jedi.

This is only exacerbated in fics where for whatever reason Anakin isn’t actually the Chosen One.

Because the canon answer why Anakin gets away with being Anakin is because he’s the best of the best and the council actually go pretty far out their way to not alienate him, in their own way.

i.e. instead of helping him they just tolerate his tantrums.

But if he isn’t competent and he isn’t the Chosen One…

It doesn’t seem very competent or wholesome to just let a random murder Jedi run around with no consequences.

It’s just a bit weird and nepotistic.

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I need this!

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I hope y'all like this meme I got from @/rambobrando8 on IG !!? While cute baby Boba is his buir's pride and joy, he also happens to be VERY good with knives!!!

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Once in a server i encountered someone that was Anti Anakin (and by extension, they pretty much disliked Luke and Padmè, and Obiwan. And Ahsoka, too, the only one they didn't dislike was Leia.. Because they didn't like the idea of a character being racist(? And a genocide(true) being forgiven .)

Rarely I ever get to hear their fandom experience because I'm definitely Not In These circles, so I was curious about what exactly did they enjoy from SW then, their response was that pretty much they were in the Mandalorian EU/Legends side of the fandom, and that's what they were the most interested in. Is interesting to me, because at that point it might stop being SW and closer to a average sci-fi fantasy, but each to their own, of course. I just think is interesting to add to the conversation.

hello! thanks for the ask!!! there are definetly A LOT of people who feel the same way as that person, and i always notice they use leia as like a way to project their hatred for other characters. which is a bit weird because leia loves her brother very much despite him redeeming vader, she also loves obi wan and seems to harbor no bad feelings towards padmé. and her resentment for anakin is completely justified by him being the source of literally every one of her nightmares since she was nineteen. but she doesn't hold grudges against the people who genuinely DID love him (i don't want to turn this into a leia/anakin thing cause it's just so nuanced and that's not what this post is about so i'm generalizing a bit).

the racist comment might have been about the tuskens and how that whole situation was written because that whole plot (and the way A LOT of people talk about it to this day) is incredibly racist (if anyone wants to add more context/input on this that'd be great!!!!).

i made a post before about how i think it's valid to be uncomfortable with some of the themes in star wars, imo the issue comes when that gets in the way of an analysis of the saga as it is and those biases stop you from acknowledging the themes ARE there. like i don't care if you think anakin is annoying or whatever but if that stops you from seeing that the movies you decided to watch also say that he is fundamentally a good person then THAT is kind of a problem.

star wars in general is so wide and i think it's really neat that people can be fans of stuff that doesn't really have anything to do with the movies and it's perfectly valid to be in the fandom for eu stuff exclusively or animation exclusively etc. but this is the "villain gets redeemed saga" and you have to accept that some people are into that and you're not morally superior for not liking it.

sorry for the long answer but this kinda derailed hahaha

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blocked a bunch of ppl today 🥰 feeling good

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smells of toxic positivity and disney adults

who said that

okay but srsly if u asked me it's 'cause "gray jedi" was a woke thing and now it's not, liking a villain now equates to you being a toxic fan and apologist rather than an appreciator for, well, nuanced characters.

we've (unfortunately) circled back to black vs white morality, where anything "problematic" is a no-no and should Not be defended or discussed, the problematic should remain untouched and not be dissected further. Let's woobify old men, celebrate equality and feed off of feelgood found family yeyy

They say they want complex characters but they legit cannot handle Anakin Skywalker or Jango Fett. 💀

i'm honestly really surprised there even is such a thing as a strong pro/anti jedi movement or a strong pro/anti anakin one. and very often if you're one of those things it's impossible to be the other. cause like, the movies don't ask you to choose at all. they ask you to hold more than one concept in your mind at the same time. this is anakin's story, he committed atrocities and became a villain feared by the entire galaxy but he is also a victim who genuinely has good inside of him and uses that good and love to redeem himself in the end. the jedi are mythical worrior monks who are the good guys, they fight for peace and justice but they are also flawed, their intentions are good but that doesn't mean they are perfect, that institution being flawed is important to the story. this doesn't make them any less good or any more deserving of the atrocities committed to them. all of those things can coexist and they do.

so i guess it's just weird when i encounter some super strong hatred for any side of it. "i'm anti anakin" what does that even mean. you're watching the guy's life unfold. why would you waste your free time doing that if you hate him so much when the movies you're watching clearly look at him through a sympathetic lense. same thing for pro/anti jedi people who think that hating them/liking them is a genuine moral slight. it's undeniable they are a force of good and are rapresented as such many times but them having flaws is also really important to the story. being so strict about stuff like that to the point of being anti the main character or anti the main order of good guys and picking sides when the saga doesn't really ask you to is just detrimental to any honest discussion about what we're seeing imo.

(THIS ABSOLUTELY DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T BE CRITICAL ABOUT EITHER OR THAT YOU HAVE TO LIKE BOTH AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING)

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to add on my last post, there's also the fact that the jedi being the perfect mythical heroes and vader (anakin) being the horrible villain with nothing in his heart is kind of the premise we begin with on the greater journey of star wars. like if you start with anh vader is this scary guy who's there to cause terror and the jedi are extremely idealized by how obi wan describes them. this lasts up until esb and the father reveal. and then you have rotj that redeems vader and the prequels to add all of that context that makes the story more morally muddled and complicated and intresting (!!!!!!). why would we need that recontextualization if the Secret Truth of the story is that vader (anakin) is as bad and unredeemable and unlovable as he appeared in anh and the jedi are as perfect as they were described by obi wan in that same movie? why would three more movies have been made to change/complicate our view of things just to circle back to the first half of anh? if you wanted to watch something where vader is plain horrible and the jedi are the amazing perfect heroes you could just watch the beginning of anh and call it a day.

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god twitter is such an awful website sometimes and really is going downhill but I don’t think I’ll ever leave

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kriff, im late to the party, wasn't notified :^c

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