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There is something really weird to me about how AOTC portrayed nineteen-year-old Anakin as much more docile and calm to the Jedi Council than he was to Obi-Wan and someone who meditated when he was troubled and who genuinely tried to discuss his nightmares with Obi-Wan, but fandom would have you believe he resists mediating at all costs, refusing to ever even hint at his feelings, and someone who��d skateboard into a Jedi Council meeting thirty minutes late wearing a backwards hat with a boom box blasting heavy metal on his shoulder.

I just notice these things, is all.

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you know it, i know it, your pet rock knows it, your kyber crystal knows it, we all know it.

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The urge to bother my mutuals

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stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?

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Phantom Menace makes me so so sad. Like yes it's a silly movie, but the implications of it are crazy. We see Anakin in his most hopeful and light way, he wants to help everyone. He loves his mom. He loves building things. He dreams of the stars. He's 9 years old. And all of a sudden he's thrust into this world of politics, war, and Jedi. It's everything he dreamed but he lost himself. The people that now take care of him are constantly evaluating him. Waiting for him to snap and go to the Darkside. He's a dorky little kid who wanted to see every planet and free all the slaves. And he didn't get to do any of that.

Instead, he was manipulated and blinded by fear. He never got to live his dreams. he was supposed to fulfill everyone else's and when he didn't he fueled their nightmares. And to think it all started with a caring nine year old boy who happened to help a jedi knight

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"men were radicalized because they were tired of being demonized" oh piss off. since the beginning of time women have been blamed for all the ills of the world on a literal, cosmic sense. for most of human history there was a belief that there is an inherent wickedness to the female nature that made us all treacherous vixens using our feminine wiles to reach our shady purposes, and the only women who avoided the stigma by being literal saints were seen as the exception that proves the rule. the natural inferiority of women was attributed not just to a feebleness of mind but to a feebleness of character. we were seen as cowardly and cunning and the stereotypes used to justify our oppression never really went away, they just lurk now in the people's collective unconscious waiting to be weaponized against any detested woman via confirmation bias. but god forbid you fragile losers have a moment of reckoning about all the bullshit you've been putting women through without wanting to hitler out. if "this demographic was mean to me so i get to take away their rights" was a valid political stance feminism would be about getting to hang men on the public square. you should count yourselves lucky we just want independence for us and accountability for you.

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Does anyone know who this crazy person is? This is the second loony I have never interacted with to send me a private message accusing me of racism. This is a Star Wars blog. I might reblog something else on occasion but I am here mainly for my Star Wars fixation. These people have sent me hate accusations the past week when I haven't reblogged anything even remotely involving Asians. Does anyone know this person? Help me report them

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I think Ahsoka is a really great study of religious trauma from both the perspective of a woman/young girl and a child who's removed from their culture. And while I know there are fandom opinions as to whether or not fans should be projecting religious trauma onto the Jedi, I think those arguments should consider Ahsoka's arc given how well her story captures a member of a religious organization who's entire identity is stripped away from her by the organization.

And while there's no misogyny within the Order that exists, to viewers it's interesting to see how far the Jedi Order has gone for members who are men, such as Quinlan Vos vs. Ahsoka. And while they have their reasons for doing so, this is a trend often replicated in major religions in real life. Protecting the men in the Order, often the senior members, while failing to protect the women and the children, both of which Ahsoka is. Keeping in mind that the majority of the Jedi council are men (of their species).

Additionally, it captures the intricacies and difficulties of trying to piece together a life after leaving said religious organization, and the shame, confusion, and emotional turmoil that comes with that.

It's adds another interesting layer considering Ahsoka doesn't go back to her family or her culture (from what we've seen), because she essentially has no attachments to it because of the Jedi Order. She's been taught not to have attachments to it, and essentially there is nothing for her to return to.

Without the Order, she is isolated and left without connections (either familial or friendly).

Ahsoka's ordeal was so traumatizing that even with an invitation to come back, the Order's failure to acknowledge what the ordeal meant for her makes it impossible for her to return.

There is considerable psychological damage that gets in the way of her even wanting to be close to Anakin, who's arguably the only reason she didn't die.

I think what makes it worse is people close to Ahsoka do very little to support or stand up for her, outside of Anakin (though I do give Plo some leeway on this because Ahsoka worked with Ventress, who took out Wolffe's eye, and Wolffe was pissed. And Plo is known to care very much for his men).

And I think that's a really great example of what religious trauma looks like.

Ahsoka fits the bill, and it impacts her for the rest of her life. She is never the same.

On a side note, I've always liked Ahsoka better outside of the Order. At a time I used to cling onto the idea that she was a Jedi, but I think it's okay to understand that she was incredibly traumatized by them and thus deserves to be apart from them.

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no but as cheesy as it was the train scene in spiderman 2 is truly untouchable. spider man risks his life (again) for his city, and prevents a train from going off the rails, but passes out from exhaustion. four hands come up from behind him, and pull him into the train. the passengers look down at him, his mask off, and comment about how he’s just a kid. you can see it in their faces. he’s not familiar. he’s not memorable. he could have been any one. they give him back his mask, and help him to his feet. 

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TPM

The phantom menace movie is so important not just because of Palpatine´s conspirations but because it shows exactly what were the systemic failures that allowed for Palpatine to get so much power, it´s very important for the plot of the prequels even if it wasn´t appreciated at the time.

Queen Amidala appeals to the laws of the republic to help free her world from an illegal invasion and the only answer she gets is that they will discuss it in a comitte because they are not even sure she is telling the truth while at the same time the Federation is putting her people in camps. This leads to her accepting Palpatine´s counsel to nominate him to become Chancellor and use what little power she has on the Senate as a Planetary leader to call for a vote of no confidence on Valorum, who was actually the only one who helped her by sending the Jedi because he was totally unable to help her in his own arena of the Senate. He only could help her going behind the system not using the system.

The Senate could have chosen to listen to Padme and help Naboo, they didn´t, it was a mid rim world of little importance to core worlds so their problems were added to the agenda for when they could have time.

Fans forget Anakin wasn´t in canon the only one who criticized the republican system, Queen Amidala goes back to her planet telling Palpatine she hopes he can do something to bring back sense into the republic because it was failing.

This is central to the plot.

This scene is connected to Anakin being rejected by the Jedi Order not because he wasn´t skilled enough or because there was something bad with his character, it was because of his age and because he worried about his mother, a slave living in a world run by slavers with a bomb inside her body that could go off at any point in time.

Anakin´s fears for his mother were not irrational, they were logical and understable, the Jedi could have still rejected Anakin and help free his mother if only in thanks for services done in favor of the Order by giving asylum to a Jedi Master during one of his missions if doing the right thing wasn´t enough motivation.

The Jedi Order choose to ignore Shmi´s situation and accept Anakin only after he showed the magnitude of his skills in the force, not because of the good he did for Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and Naboo without expecting anything back, Anakin did it because it was the right thing to do but this clearly wasn´t the reason why he was accepted as a Jedi, bad beggining for a difficult training with a child who was a former slave with the scars to show it and then the Council agreed to send him to someone without any previous experience as a master, as a favor for a knight and in honor of one of their fallen comrades not because he was the best possible teacher for a future Jedi.

Neither Anakin or Shmi fate were of importance to the Jedi which also lead to them allowing Palpatine to tutor Anakin since he was a child, because what does it matter? Anakin is the outsider, he needs to fit himself into the Jedi Order´s mold, not the other way around.

Would they have been so careless with other padawans of their order, letting them be teached by a politician who pressured them to allow confidencial contact with them? or this kind of negligence was just part of Anakin´s particular situation?, I hope for the good of those padawans this isn´t the case with them and even if it isn´t, they are still treating Anakin differently, just in a negative manner.

Those two plot points are the direct link to ROTS but they are often ignored by the fandom, a shame because this is point a that leads to point b and c, AOTC and ROTS.

The fight, the battle of the fates, was fought in TMP and the Republic and the Jedi Order lost it, they just didn´t realize it at the time.

[ilovescarletwitch]

There is something really weird to me about how AOTC portrayed nineteen-year-old Anakin as much more docile and calm to the Jedi Council than he was to Obi-Wan and someone who meditated when he was troubled and who genuinely tried to discuss his nightmares with Obi-Wan, but fandom would have you believe he resists mediating at all costs, refusing to ever even hint at his feelings, and someone who’d skateboard into a Jedi Council meeting thirty minutes late wearing a backwards hat with a boom box blasting heavy metal on his shoulder.

I just notice these things, is all.

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obi wan fans are so fucking annoying it isn’t the end of the world that obi wan didn’t have a huge part in tpm. obi wan not getting to know anakin’s previous life is an important part of their communication problem and obi wan being in tatooine would just create more problems since all he would do is disagree with qui-gon and he would have much more of a beef with anakin since he would see more of qui-gon’s interest and care of anakin. they (obi wan and anakin) would both be extremely annoyed with each other that they wouldn’t even want to give a chance to work out their apprenticeship.

it is crucial for their dynamic that what creates a bond between them for the first 10 years of their relationship is their father figure qui-gon. obi wan isn’t a big fan of anakin and what makes him care about him from the start is his promise to qui-gon and anakin has to care about him because obi wan is the only person who pays attention to him even if it’s half assed and obi wan is his caretaker and to him a father figure even the thought of that wants to make obi wan drown in liquor. I totally understand wanting to make a nicer dynamic between them but this is more about obi wan’s personality issues than GL’ not thinking better. story works out like this, the love was there but it didn’t change anything because their problems were too much for that love to wade through in and concur against the resentment and years of communication problem.

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Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And it was red, with a green stem. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red, with a green stem.

On another day The teacher said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.” “Good!” thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.

But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacher’s. It was a deep dish.

And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didn’t make things of his own anymore.

Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.

The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.

When she came to the little boy She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?” “Yes,” said the little boy. “What are we going to make?” “I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher. “How shall I make it?” asked the little boy. “Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher. “And any color?” asked the little boy. “Any color,” said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.

~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy

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TPM

The phantom menace movie is so important not just because of Palpatine´s conspirations but because it shows exactly what were the systemic failures that allowed for Palpatine to get so much power, it´s very important for the plot of the prequels even if it wasn´t appreciated at the time.

Queen Amidala appeals to the laws of the republic to help free her world from an illegal invasion and the only answer she gets is that they will discuss it in a comitte because they are not even sure she is telling the truth while at the same time the Federation is putting her people in camps. This leads to her accepting Palpatine´s counsel to nominate him to become Chancellor and use what little power she has on the Senate as a Planetary leader to call for a vote of no confidence on Valorum, who was actually the only one who helped her by sending the Jedi because he was totally unable to help her in his own arena of the Senate. He only could help her going behind the system not using the system.

The Senate could have chosen to listen to Padme and help Naboo, they didn´t, it was a mid rim world of little importance to core worlds so their problems were added to the agenda for when they could have time.

Fans forget Anakin wasn´t in canon the only one who criticized the republican system, Queen Amidala goes back to her planet telling Palpatine she hopes he can do something to bring back sense into the republic because it was failing.

This is central to the plot.

This scene is connected to Anakin being rejected by the Jedi Order not because he wasn´t skilled enough or because there was something bad with his character, it was because of his age and because he worried about his mother, a slave living in a world run by slavers with a bomb inside her body that could go off at any point in time.

Anakin´s fears for his mother were not irrational, they were logical and understable, the Jedi could have still rejected Anakin and help free his mother if only in thanks for services done in favor of the Order by giving asylum to a Jedi Master during one of his missions if doing the right thing wasn´t enough motivation.

The Jedi Order choose to ignore Shmi´s situation and accept Anakin only after he showed the magnitude of his skills in the force, not because of the good he did for Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and Naboo without expecting anything back, Anakin did it because it was the right thing to do but this clearly wasn´t the reason why he was accepted as a Jedi, bad beggining for a difficult training with a child who was a former slave with the scars to show it and then the Council agreed to send him to someone without any previous experience as a master, as a favor for a knight and in honor of one of their fallen comrades not because he was the best possible teacher for a future Jedi.

Neither Anakin or Shmi fate were of importance to the Jedi which also lead to them allowing Palpatine to tutor Anakin since he was a child, because what does it matter? Anakin is the outsider, he needs to fit himself into the Jedi Order´s mold, not the other way around.

Would they have been so careless with other padawans of their order, letting them be teached by a politician who pressured them to allow confidencial contact with them? or this kind of negligence was just part of Anakin´s particular situation?, I hope for the good of those padawans this isn´t the case with them and even if it isn´t, they are still treating Anakin differently, just in a negative manner.

Those two plot points are the direct link to ROTS but they are often ignored by the fandom, a shame because this is point a that leads to point b and c, AOTC and ROTS.

The fight, the battle of the fates, was fought in TMP and the Republic and the Jedi Order lost it, they just didn´t realize it at the time.

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