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aight last May 4th post. Happy Star Wars day to my bois :3

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I know "New Jedi Order" is a thing in Star Wars Legends, but seems appropriate title for your Last 4 Jedi stories

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imagine maul somehow returns, and Luke, Ezra, and Ahsoka are all like "oh fuck he's back" and calls just like 'who the fuck are you'

he's doing his best

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Luke pouting, and muttering "I've met me, and I'm part Force. I think that's pretty neat." before walking off to sit in the corner leaving Ezra and Ahsoka both deeply confused and then incredibly concerned by the implications.

skywalkers being eldritch force entities is old news for ahsoka!!! cal and ezra on the other hand...

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You can’t convince me that the TL4J (which sounds like a droid designation) don’t have their wanted posters framed and hanging in the New Jedi Order. Both as slightly bragging and to show the young Jedi that peace is fragile and for a long time absent from the galaxy, but worth defending.

someone: the jedi order are weak pacifist peacekeepers the jedi:

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Imagine the Ember Island Players episode of ATLA but in Star Wars with TL4J!

omg yes, i think all media should legally be required to have an episode where the characters see a play about themselves

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Thinking about how each of TL4J got their lightsaber crystals and how each situation is unique to them, and then there's Din doing his best to get rid of the Darksaber and no one's taking it

i can think of one person who might wanna take it off his hands...

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welp I apologise for all the asks I’m sending but I’m also curious if you have ever thought of the Jedi council being transported to Luke’s Jedi school and seeing the organised mess that it is and maybe yoda being buried under all of Ezra’s loth cats

LOL I think the four of them would have veeery different ideas of how that would go

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hey i hope this isn't a bad time but one billion points lava damage

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honestly it is sort of charming to me that the ATLA fandom has been hung up on the same imaginary teenage love triangle for fifteen years...personally I feel like it is NOT my business if Katara and Aang want to get married too young and have like a million children. godspeed to them, or whatever. but Sokka and Suki should definitely absorb Zuko into whatever they've got going on, mostly because I think it would be hysterical for two non-benders who can pass for straight if they do not open their mouths to have a regular third who is the hereditary monarch of the fire magicians. can you imagine. there's just a king in your house sometimes, rummaging half-naked through your fridge for snacks and complaining about how people keep trying to have him assassinated, and you can't tell anyone about it. hilarious dynamic.

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End of sparring

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BABA is GET JOB?

BABA IS FUCKING WISH

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i feel like a lot of discourse around identities could just be boiled down to “you could not pay me to care about this”

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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i could add a few more stages to grief if they let me

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*Spoilers for Mistborn and The Way of Kings*

Ok so I was complaining to my boyfriend about a thing I noticed in the Brandon Sanderson books I've read. I personally really have enjoyed a lot of his characters, plots, magic, and just his yapping centric writing style overall... but after finishing Mistborn I was thrown for a loop by some things and found out he's a Mormon. Now I can still enjoy his books and he really doesn't seem like a bad guy (supporting LGBTQ people so much helps) but knowing his background in a religious cult has always put me on edge.

Now I was explaining to my boyfriend my frustration at a habit he seems to have so far (this would be referring to mistborn era 1 and just The Way of Kings which I just finished). In Mistborn we saw Elend with a string desire to change tge kingdom to democracy and give the common people power. His ideals are presented as strong and ethical but then his plans fail and he has no recourse but to break with those ideals, take over in basically a dictatorship, and then he planned to eventually found a democracy after the crisis. We see a very similar situation play out with Dalinar by the end, deciding that instead of getting people to follow the codes by proving them better he will just force them to follow the codes, and Taravangian seems to be hinted at playing a similar role, killing innocents to potentially find the information he needs to save the world, albiet a bit more exaggerated in its evil nature.

In each of these cases, I found their reasoning to more or less make sense for their characters, especially Elend. But my issue is that they only really make sense within the specific contexts of the story... the context wholly thought up and written by Brandon. So the big issue for me is that Sanderson is indirectly (pretty directly actually) implying through both of these stories, that even the most ethical ideals should be ignored if you feel like its what is needed right now. And I noticed that in both situations, the main important part of context pushing this abandoning of their ideals, to some extent, is the quickly approaching end if the world. We see a crazy case of this in Dalinar who specifically argues for the importance of achieving your means the right way, but then gives up on what he sees as the right way because he doesn't think it will be fast enough. And its not like Dalinar has been shown to have made some horrible mistake (I guess I'll see more in the next book), but Elend certainly wasnt shown to have made the wrong choice.

And this is all important because I remembered that this felt very familiar. Because Mormons very heavily use their coming apocalypse to justify many of the things that they do to their own people and others. This is a huge thing in many religions, like guilting chritians into proseltizing by telling them that anyone they dont convert will die in the second coming or just cant make it to heaven.

I just think this is a very good reason to keep in mind the background and even unconsious messages authors may be sending because of their background, as stuff like this goes unseen quite a lot but the medicare for all king being the bad guy was really hammering it home for me that I needed to explore this a bit more 😂. And the interesting thing to me is that I still think that these characters are brilliant and well written (for the most part... looking at you end of mistborn Sazed 😑) but these stories arent being told in a vacuum and I just don't appreciate convincing people of how ethical stuff like democracy is but then being like, "even though its clearly the best option, sometimes we might just want to completely ignore that and do the really bad authoritarian option instead"

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