#—AotC™

[tennessoui]

(This is for that emergency commission thing but ONLY IF YOU WANT TO, OKAY?) So I guess I'm not looking so much for a ficlet as I am for one of your awesome "au summaries" which I'm guessing would be around the same word count or less, so hopefully that's alright.

The prompt: Because of Force Shenanigans™, post-OWK!Obi-Wan gets sent back in time to shortly before AOTC. Just how badly does the spoil Anakin this time around? How flagrantly obvious is he about his attachment? Does he literally seduce Anakin away from Padmé or does he do something else? Does he drop-kick Palpatine off the Senate building?

yapping about an au?? of course i can do this 🫶 thank you so much for donating as well that's incredibly kind of you!!

so the first thing i thought of when i read the prompt is this ficlet i wrote as a prompt fill, where obi-wan is arrested for the murder of the chancellor and anakin doesn't understand why. it's sorta vague as to if he just found out about palpatine being the sith lord or if he's somehow OWK show!obi-wan, back and in ROTS timeline again (which someone suggested and i think is phenomenal), but i like both options especially when you think about like the vibes of obi-wan getting another chance to do it all over and do it right and what he does is immediately clear the way for anakin's happiness without thought to his own future (like i imagine that he sorta wakes up in the old timeline and he knows how many weeks it is til the fall of the Jedi Order and that padmé's close to her due date so he doesn't have time to talk with anyone else or think it through - he just has to act)

BUT in terms of an obi-wan time traveling to aotc and how he acts...ugh im torn!! i think there's something deeply satisfying about the idea of him carefully and lovingly manipulating anakin so to avoid having him make the same mistakes and to avoid losing anakin's loyalty again

but also i feel like obi-wan would maybe feel too bad about doing something so similar to what palpatine did in his time - he'd try to be more free with his affections, but it would feel wrong in his mind cause he knows things anakin doesn't know and there's intent behind these touches that anakin can't understand (intent to give him the affection he needs so he doesn't look for it elsewhere)

and he can't tell anakin the truth because what if he says 'hey i'm not from this timeline. ok cool, you believe me after a bunch of talking about it. that's great. now in the timeline i'm from, you marry padmé amidala---no wait, come back here, you can't do that---and he's gone'

so he feels like he can't pretend to be normal but Better without feeling like a groomer like palpatine and he can't tell anakin the truth because he doesn't trust him not to run off with his future wife again

so maybe he like...sees anakin to his knighting ceremony and then leaves the Order. tells the Council everything he knows that's relevant (leaving anakin out of it as much as he can) and just. leaves. it's the best option.

his only concession to his feelings is that since it's post geonosis so anakin and padmé have already met again and gotten married (????) then he can leave anakin very obvious clues on where to find him without feeling like he's manipulating him away from his future. if anakin chooses to chase after obi-wan instead of be with padmé, then that's anakin choosing that.

obi-wan will accept being found under those circumstances. and then he'd tell anakin everything. but only if anakin made the decision independently first

[celenequinn]

TBB S3:11 Thoughts

MAJOR SPOILERS

POOKIES????

Below cut ->

POOKIES NO

Anyone else feel our LACK OF PLOT AMOUR?

Geez i miss TCW when we KNEW those bitches wouldn't die.

By character:

Omega: Baby I'm so proud of you. She hung out with her girlies, and dealt with her greif? A win all around. "And it's my choice." Hell yeah girl! Work that agency! Also pookie took an ethics course and said "yeah attacking this whole town for lil ol me? Not happening.

Crosshair: WHY DID YOU LET HER GO? Your little quips can't save her. And then as a cherry on top you hit EVERY SHOT EXECPT THE ONE THAT COUNTS. Rip Crosshair, can't wait to watch your brothers kill you.

Hunter: We get it you're Rambo. (But honostly he never disappoints in an action scene, keep doing you Hunter) Also, congrats to all the Hunter girlies for wet hair hunter™.

Wrecker: Hun you got me so nervous. My life flashed before my eyes. I will always be a Wrecker Girlie and Omega defender. (im working overtime). But the lack of plot amour he has is insane. And his blowing up WITH THEIR HOME? Look Wrecker has always been a 'home' for the batch. And in that moment they *almost* lost everything they could rely on. I was holding my breath. Gave me flashbacks to to Dormé and Padme in AOTC.

Additional: Loving all of our characters coming back. (Phee ecspecially) Also Matt Lanter did some additional voices (have i just missed that he's still active in SWs besides Ani?) Those little white boy clones are back, they still shock me. And Omega's mugshot was a jumpscare.

Ok that's all. A lot of an episode.

Long live Batcher

[kuiilandtorch]

Actually, you know what, I've got something else to add to OP's meta other than my tags (which I'm throwing on here for posterity):

#the attachment luke gives in to is his fear for leia #which vader preys upon to provoke him to violence #(& it blew up in vader's mask because it worked TOO well) #the relationship that luke ultimately embraced that saved both his own soul & his father's was that of unconditional love #through that love he gave his father the choice to reclaim his own autonomy #& likewise accepted that he had to let him go at the end

there IS a thin line between "attachment" and "unconditional love" and it's expressed here in these two images:

In AOTC Padmé asks Anakin, "Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi." And Anakin replies, "Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life. So you might say that we are encouraged to love."

The distinction here is that on the surface what Anakin is saying is 100% correct, but internally he's using this as justification for his personal obsession with Padmé. (Really, he's using it as the second dweebiest pick up line ever, only topped by the sand diatribe.) He's excusing himself while trying to have his cake and eat it too. He knows what the sacrificial Jedi lifestyle requires but doesn't want to give that up while retaining an attachment to Padmé. He may have a sympathetic backstory for why he does this, but it doesn't make it any less of a problem.

Then life comes full circle and Anakin's son is the one who embodies the very words he spoke over two decades earlier. Awakened from his haze of fury by the Emperor's goading, Luke chooses empathy and compassion over hatred when he refuses to kill his father and eloquently tells the Emperor to fuck off. When he lies dying under a barrage of Force lightning, Luke exercises his faith in his father's conscience by crying out to him, "Father, please! Help me!" He trusts that there's still something left inside of that man standing by to recognize that his child is in mortal danger and he should do the right thing - and Anakin finally does. Anakin is finally moved to choose one last selfless act.

Luke does make a herculean effort to try to physically save his father as well as spiritually, and it grieves him to the last moment that Anakin has to die, but hearing those parting words from his father - "You already have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me." - gives him the reassurance that letting Anakin go on his own terms is also the right thing to do. What matters most is that the goal he set out to do was achieved: he brought his father back from the darkness. He freed him from the prison of his own crimes and the abuser who helped lock him in there. So yes, OP, Luke IS The Jedi™ for having lived up to the standards his father once only paid lip service to and only grasped at the very end of his life. Compassion is indeed central to a Jedi's life, and the proper execution of it is exemplified by Luke's actions and victory in ROTJ.

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

[kingofthecon]

“Hello,” I stated with uncertainty as I slide back over to Tumblr waving nervously and ready to bolt at the first sign of an angry mob fully prepared to skin me alive for my lack of presence.

“It’s been awhile, huh everyone? Y-yeah, my bad.”

So updates cause I can’t remember if I’ve explained everything so we’re just gonna start at the beginning, more or less. First thing’s first - my attention has been on discord. Easier to access from my phone, I’m too easily distracted with things that I see first.

Then there’s the more important things. As some of you know I was finally able to move out of my abusive mother’s house back in May and things were going well. And then you know, roommate problems started happening. Still better than living with my mom. We’re not gonna go into all that but there’s was a lot of stress involved, drama, etc. Long story short I have an apartment, I’m dealing with a roommate who doesn’t see the issue with not washing the dishes leaving me to do 80% of the housework while he plays League of Legends, I have a car now, insurance, title, etc etc. And my anxiety hasn’t settled down completely and it’s still fluctuating.

I’m planning to make my way back here. I’m also in the process of trying to remember my password for @cosmictransit because I haven’t forgotten I owe there (I’ve disappeared from Tumblr completely pretty much) I just haven’t been able to log in. xD

But yeah, I’m hoping to send out at least one reply from here today, so we’ll see what happens! I’M SO SORRY. ♥♥♥

[kittyandco-archive]

*sees any cute moment in my f/o's canon ship*

*... yeets it into my own ship*

[forcesensitivebantha]

once again stating my opinion that the reason why dude bro™ star wars fans have such an issue with Temuera's performance of Boba is that in their minds, they're boba fett. Since during his introduction he was an absolute blank slate (and note how they threw fits over young boba in aotc and tcw) he was there to project their action hero fantasies on. and now that he's being portrayed with nuance and subtlety, and not raining space bullets down on anyone who breathes in direction while also having a bunch of bond girls hanging around him, he's "lame". idk. watching other guys egos crumble at bobas interactions with the tuskens is fascinating.

[chamerionwrites]

Young man who survived an abusive childhood suffers from a painfully simplistic worldview that makes him easy prey for fascist propaganda claims about safeguarding Justice™ and Order™; joins a government security agency; is brutally manipulated and used by an ambitious civil servant who offers him sympathy and connection; gets into a relationship with a woman of higher wealth and status after ignoring her no (Padmé: "Stop looking at me like that" Anakin, staring twice as creepily: "Like what?"); ends that relationship by choking her.

Syril is just (one possible version of) that guy from AOTC if you shift a few genres sideways and make him banal middle class middle management instead of an insanely powerful space wizard

The nature of Star Wars fandom is such that a fairly innocuous post can feel like a rent-lowering gunshot. Anyway one thing I really enjoy about Syril Karn as a character is the degree to which he functions as an Anakin Skywalker foil.

(Deliberately imo, especially if you watch the S2 trailers; they knew exactly what they were evoking with those shots of Dedra clutching her throat.)

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

in aotc when Anakin and Padme are talking about Government™ and Ideology™ and he says someone should make the politicians agree and she’s like “who, you?” and he’s like of course not me like it’s the most ridiculous thing he’s ever heard and i’m like 

also not over that 

esp bc- he offers an Empire to Padme and then to Luke 

[jediknobi]

(De-anoning here, hi!)

I did not know I was this into public D/s, but here I am. Holy hells. 🥵 Just. Obi-Wan being a little shit is a delight and I'm having flashbacks to the "You will learn your place, you one" scene in AotC but with added praise a la RotS when Anakin does start to behave. The poor boy would c o m b u s t. Sorry, Palps, unless you can beat Obi-Wan in the game of Sexy Dom, you haven't got a chance anymore.

Although I find it both hot and kinda sweet that Obi-Wan just going full throttle into D/s with Anakin is what prevents The Darkest Timeline™. Anakin gets the stability and structure he requires and Obi-Wan gets ~communicate his feelings~ more. Mace, seeing all the shatterpoints, is just:

Meanwhile Anakin is basking in having his hair petted and being cooed that he's such a good boy, the sweetest boy, his Master's pride and joy.

I truly hope that in this Good Timeline, Obi-Wan finally decides to put Anakin out of his misery after Anakin does something exceptionally well and comes back all eager to tell his Master, and fucks him properly right when Palpatine thought he was getting somewhere with Anakin.

So Palpatine is there rubbing his hands together, thinking "this is it! finally, an opportunity to get him away from Kenobi's influence!!' and then Anakin arrives in his office and manages to be absolutely useless, space out multiple times and leaves in a hurry after receiving a message on his comm without saying goodbye and Palpatine is left fulminating "I don't know how but I know this is Kenobi's fault"

[art0fthec0n]

I AM PLAYING CATCH UP ON ALL THE DRAWING THINGS THAT I HAVE MISSED. IT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY REMISS OF ME IF I DIDN’T ADD MY CONTRIBUTION CONSIDERING THAT I WRITE STANLEY, AND HAVE BEEN FOR LIKE, FIVE YEARS OVER VARIOUS SITES. I had to add my college boi to the @jackyjackdraws​​ drawpile. ♥ This particularly headcanon has taken control of my life now that I actually have a chance to write it out with other people. 

Hey guys, a huge thanks for the 900 followers

We are getting closer to the 1k boyos! I'm so excited

To celebrate, I am hosting a Stanley Pines drawpile, very similar to the one Eregyrn did

The rules are simple:

-Draw your version of the Stan while adding mine in the picture, doesn't matter if you think you can't draw, just go for it! You won't be judged in any way

-Reblog the post with your Stan added

-Send me via DM your transparent Png of your version of Stan, so that I can make one definitive drawpile of all the Stans in the end (must be 300 dpi minimum)

-Every version of Stan is accepted! AUs, Hc, you name it! If it is Stan, then it's 100% allowed

-Feel free to post your version of Stan after you do all these steps! And make sure to tag "Stan Pines Drawpile"

And that pretty much covers it, I'm looking forward to see what you guys will bring to the table =)

[mid-nighttiger]

crimes committed by the ESB:FACPOV obi-wan story

catholic guilt (tm)

racism

fundamental misunderstanding of the jedi path

fundamenal misunderstanding of attachment

calling anakin 'dumb'

calling luke 'dumb'

racism 2

blaming the council for anakin's fall

assertion that anakin never asked for special treatment

assertion that the council should’ve treated anakin differently

assertion that the council treated anakin differently (but in the bad way)

jedi order is a cult

qui gon as the One True Jedi

obi wan wants to be ‘the Good Jedi’ (complete with that capitalization) (and the implication that he failed)

being written by a transphobe

jedi traditions bad

jedi order is repressive

jedi order bans alcohol and sex apparently even though obi-wan goes straight for the bar in aotc and lucas explicitly said they were not celibate

obi-wan feels ashamed for thinking about holding siri’s hand, never mind the number of times he’s held satine’s hand or more

yoda as the Worst Jedi / cult leader

anakin as the only reason the empire happened when palpatine is right there

everything would be ~ all better! ~ if anakin and padmé had switched roles

the jedi weren’t genocided, they ‘died out’

obi-wan is the one who thinks all of this

and many more!

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

I know this is a serious scene and all, but my favorite thing about this? Is that Mace and Obi-Wan look about two minutes away from saying “kriff it” and just sitting on the floor with their back against the cushions. 

Decorum? In their Jedi Temple? 

This scene was designed to show the concern they were having over the Chancellor’s grab for power, and that there was a lot more intrigue going on with the Council over what was going on in the Senate. – George Lucas 

[kingofthecon]

Gonna close out of the twelve threads that have been sitting here for about a year old. No idea where my writing partners have gone, but if you guys come back and wanna write we can continue or we can start something new. (I’m probably going to push for something new, lmao.) With that being said be looking out for a starter call at some point in the new future. Going to continue my revamping (If you know, you know), and then I’m going to ask the people who I owe if they’re even still interested in writing with me. I’ve been through a lot and have been on Discord and doing a bit of gaming mostly. I quit one of my jobs (I had three which is a very long story, but I finally got rid of the one that caused the most stress) on top of finally dropping another stressful person in my life. So I’m feeling a lot better, but I’m trying to...synchronize isn’t the right word, but it’s close. I’m trying to get back into things and tumblr is one of them.

With that said I did have to delete my multimuse account once I finally got back into it, but Stanley is of course here to stay and I did pull at least one character from my multi-account here. I don’t think I’ll do much with him. Honestly it was such a spur of the moment things. Then I need to get back into drawing. I haven’t drawn much recently, and I have so many ideas that i need to jot down. I’m going through a reboot. That’s what it is.  Anyway, that’s all for this update. Sorry I keep randomly disappearing. Hopefully I won’t keep disappearing, but for those of you who’ve read my rules you were already prepared for my vanishing act, and I appreciate you being so patient and understanding.

[markantonys]

wait so its canon that anakin had a padawan himself? did he become a master? i havent watched the clone wars but im wondering how this fits in

yes! ahsoka tano is his padawan in tcw but bc of various circumstances she didn’t complete her training (i don’t want to spoil you too much just in case you are planning on watching tcw lmao) but it was really the council’s fault and not anakin’s that he didn’t get to finish her training so that makes them refusing to make him a master in ROTS an extra slap in the face (oh so yeah anakin is ahsoka’s master but not an actual Jedi Master™ like how in AOTC obi wan is anakin’s master but he’s still just a jedi knight)

[the-chosen-anakin]

“BECAUSE IN THE END, THE CLONE WARS TO ME, IS ABOUT AHSOKA AND REX” - DAVE FILONI

And that right there is the problem for me. The central focus of The Clone Wars should’ve been Anakin’s transition from his AOTC self to his ROTS self and the developing friendship between him and Obi-Wan, not the Clones (who were established to be little more than subservient drones in the PT) or Snips & Skyguy™.

“BECAUSE IN THE END, THE CLONE WARS TO ME, IS ABOUT AHSOKA AND REX” - DAVE FILONI

[art0fthec0n]

Repost from —KotC™

From when @wonder-doughnut​ made their Gravity Falls screen shot edit back in March. ♥ x’D