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i'm sorry if i'm being pushy or demanding .

i hope you can forgive me . you're a great friend and i'm so sorry things are chaotic rn

I can forgive you. I know it comes from missing me and being enthusiastic about Ask Auradon Prep, which I appreciate. Once I'm back, you will know. In the meantime, I appreciate your patience.

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oh ok i understand ... can you at least set aside one day every month to talk to me like you did for my birthday ?

i'd greatly apprecate it .

I can't make any promises right now. As I have stated on Ask Auradon Prep, I have a family health crisis that is ongoing and it is making it difficult enough to sleep. Balancing it with other family, friends, my boyfriend, my private creative pursuits, job hunting and the upcoming holidays leaves me with little to no time for Ask Auradon Prep.

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hey uh ... just checking on you buddy! hows things ?

do you have a date for you're able to talk to me on discord at least ?

please let me know soon !

I don't have an ETA on when the hiatus is over. I'm sorry but things around here are chaotic and I can't begin to guess when I'll be back up to doing Ask Auradon Prep.

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Hey do you know when's the next time you're gonna be available / have more energy to talk to me ?

just curious .. not trying to be demanding.

I don't know. Things around here are stressful and tiring and of course the holidays are coming up.

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This reminds me so much of the Zygerrian arc where he's sent to help free the Togruta, but he's so focused on hating the slavers that he almost completely forgets them.

One thing that drives me bonkers about this particular plot is that Anakin is nominally trying to win to free the enslaved sister of two podracers, a girl enslaved by Sebulba. But as soon as Sebulba appears, Anakin just...stops thinking about her. There's no pause, no consideration for the girl, no attempt to free her by other means, it's all about beating Sebulba's son and Sebulba by proxy. It's in character, but it's also maddening.

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Today is my birthday !

i sent you 148 posts here to reblog here on Tumblr

and sent you 90 comments on discord asking for your opinions on things i hope that's not too overwhelming for you ...

if it is i am so sorry .

also i know you can only answer a few things but i don't know what a few things mean so ... i guess you can spilt things in half ??

Like you reblog 74 posts here on tumblr and comment on 45 things on discord ??

Does That sound Good ??

Let Me Know please !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I'm not sure how much I'll get to answer. I'm not 'back', I'm just answering as much as I can today. I'll get to stuff on Discord first and then if I get through it, I'll get to Tumblr.

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I am so excited to see you for my birthday buddy ! it's been like 38 days since i've last talked to you. i really really missed you!

if for some reason there's any changes to that plan , please let me know soon.

Love ya buddy and i hope you are doing well!

I've missed you too. I'm still hoping to answer some things on your actual birthday and if I can't because things are hectic here, I'll answer them as soon as I can after.

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Hey buddy how are you doing ?

just checking up on you to see if you're doing ok !

I'm okayish. Not great but for the first chunk of last week I was in a funk. Funk is over though and I'm hoping to get a few things done while it lasts (yes including answering a few things for your birthday).

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OK I'm sorry if i sounded weirdly demanding. I wasn't trying to be . i hope you can forgive me .

Oh and HAPPY HALLOWEEN buddy !

It's okay. I know you were just being enthusiastic. I appreciate that you've been very patient.

I hope you had a good Halloween too!

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There is a canon answer to this one! When the Senate drafted the Jedi, they included Jedi ranked Padawan and up in the draft. Bear in mind, most Padawans in Lucas' canon are 16 or older and this is a franchise where, again, 9 and 14 year olds are treated like adults. The draft didn't make distinctions for Padawans younger than average like Ahsoka and Caleb.

And as for the idea of there being enough Jedi to handle training while not being on the front lines, I think we have to remember there's only 10,000 Jedi. Younglings, babies, the retired and those who work in support roles like taking care of the babies are already a chunk of that and most of the 200 field active Jedi on Geonosis died. I don't think there are enough Jedi to feasibly fight a galactic scale war and still have enough to train the Padawans AND stay out of the war.

Hello. How are you?

Can you raise an explanation as to why The Jedi Padawans were sent to fight on the front lines alongside The Clones and Jedi Knights/Masters, please?

Of course, the Padawans need Masters but I'd assume there would probably be enough inside The Temple to teach them, despite the war...

I know The Jedi wouldn't want to send their children onto the front lines, so I'm trying to think of how they'd ended up there anyway.....

Thanks in advance (if you do have an explanation. If not, thanks anyway).

Good night/morning!

Hey, I'm doing alright---I'm sick rn, but I'm hoping that it'll pass soon so I can get back to my normal shenanigans <3

So the out-of-universe explanation is just that TCW was a show made for kids and so there are gonna be kid characters doing all the cool fighting and battle stuff. Is it pretty unrealistic? Yeah, but this is also a show set in space with magic powers and laser swords lol

In-universe things get a little more complicated and we kind of have to make our own assumptions based on what we already know.

In TPM we see that children...aren't really treated like children, from a young age they're actually treated more like teenagers or even adults. Padme is the queen of an entire planet at 14, a job so dangerous that she has 12 body-doubles who pretend to be her so she doesn't get killed, ready to die in her place---body-doubles who are probably of a similar/the same age. Anakin is allowed to compete in a pod-race on Tatooine at age 9, a race that is shown multiple times to be dangerous and get people killed, and it's treated as completely normal by both his mother and his opponents.

So we can probably deduce that, while the children are obviously still children, they're expected---and shown---to be more capable and independent than they would irl. They hold a level of maturity and responsibility at a younger age, and this is completely normal in the SW universe.

So the explanation is that padawans' ages don't really come into question.

We see from how Anakin and Obi-Wan react to Ahsoka, who is 13 in TCW movie, when she introduces herself as a padawan---they're shocked and view her as too young to be one, with Anakin continuously calling her a "youngling." From that, we can deduce that generally padawans are older than 13 and---in a universe where a 14 year old is seen as mature enough to rule a planet and other 13-15 year olds are mature enough to possibly die for said ruler---taking a padawan who is, say, 15+ into battle isn't really odd or seen as morally questionable.

As George Lucas says regarding Ahsoka being brought into the war, "she's being trained as a Jedi Knight, she's got this."

And so do all of the other padawans, maybe more so since a lot of them are probably older than her. They're Jedi, they're not younglings anymore, they can handle the responsibility and---if they can't---they're still just students and their master is right there to protect and teach them.

That seems to be the canon intention, at least. If you want to take a more nuanced look at it through the lense of them actually being children, rather than the canon intent of them being more mature children who can handle these things, you're probably going to have to come up with your own reasons why the Jedi would bring the padawans into it. In my fics, I usually go with the idea that the Jedi didn't have much of a choice, just due to what their training is/does as well as different concerns with leaving them at the Temple, as well as pressure from the Senate to have "every Jedi available" on the front lines---but you can obviously do something different, if that doesn't sing to your tune.

I hope my ramble answered your question <3

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The talk about calling the police is more valid in the second one but in that one? Marv and Harry IMMEDIATELY try to kill Kevin. Like, the second they see him. They could've left him alone and he never would've learned anything but they didn't.

Once Kevin had the picture of them robbing the store, they were chasing him to kill. The traps were to wear them out and slow them down so he'd have TIME to call the police and get to the meeting point. It probably would've worked too if he hadn't slipped on the ice. And allow me to quote Harry just before they finish the traps - "I don't care if I get the chair, I'm killing that kid". If they hadn't been all sticky and gross from the traps (and the Pigeon Lady didn't show up) they would have killed him.

Kevin is the real villian in Home Alone

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Here is the hard truth, which no one else has the heart to tell you.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.02 "The Rogue Prince"

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if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

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by RamyB

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hey , i'm a little confused by you reblogging stuff on this blog even though you have no energy yet...

are you offically back or no ??

Reblogging stuff and writing quick responses isn't the same as coming up with head canons or more detailed answers. I'm around but not 'back' for Ask Auradon Prep yet. We got some really bad news today so it's gonna be a rough week but I'm hoping to get some answers done soon (and will definitely answer some of your stuff on the 16th or the closest available date regardless).

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The Separatists also intended to test a biological weapon on civilians (the Defoliator), unleash another biological weapon that can kill all lifeforms (the Blue Shadow Virus) and used Twi'lek civilians as human shields on Ryloth - meanwhile the commander of that campaign was blatantly looting. That's all in season one.

Not to start shit or anything but why is it always about obi’s technically-not-a-false-surrender-because-it-wasnt-done-under-a-flag-of-truce ��war crime” and never about the Seperatists literally trying to blow up a medical station full of wounded clones and medical personal both military and civilian in like… the 3rd episode of season 1.