#creating order

[tardi-babe]

I couldn't sleep last night because I kept thinking about this.

[hinamie]

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[zeropro]

[Click here to view all my Transformers stuff in the order in which I posted it, so you can experience me slowly lose my mind in chronological order.]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

When in doubt, Soup it out.

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[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[fierysakura]

Aite let’s do this. Here’s my thoughts on the Jedi’s Attachment rule and why it exists:

Attachment and love/affection are two very different things. You can be loving and affectionate without being attached to someone.

The same way, letting go doesn’t mean forgetting. It’s accepting the way things are and that death and loss are a natural part of life. You can’t fight what’s natural. It also doesn’t mean to sit back and just accept things as they are, or why would Jedi fight to protect? To change things and save people?

Love is knowing to put the many over the few. If someone you love is in danger, but there’s also a boatload of civilians, it’s going for the civilians, even if you hate them, despite wanting to save the other. ie. Letting go of your feelings. Not being attached.

So why this rule is such a big deal.

For a Jedi, being *attached* poses a much bigger problem than for the average person (looking at you Anakin Skywalker.) If a normal person can go to extremes either as a result of losing someone or wanting to protect them, think of what a Jedi, who feels things more deeply because of the Force, could do if they can’t let go.

The important thing is Jedi don’t say ‘don’t love.’ They don’t say ‘feel nothing.’ In fact you often hear Obi-wan and others say to trust feelings, instincts and refer to each other affectionately.

Anakin: You’re like a father to me.

Obi-Wan: Then why don’t you *listen.*

(Episode II. Not a reprimand for calling him father-like but asking if that’s how he feels, why doesn’t Anakin listen like a son should.)

What they *do* say is don’t get carried away in positive or negative feelings, as both can lead to impulsive actions with long term consequences. It’s a concept that follows the lines of mindfulness and just being *aware* that they have so much power, they can’t afford to be reckless. Because the damage *will* be long lasting.

They say don’t love someone so much that you’ll do anything for them. They say don’t be *possessive.* Because that’s a *very* dangerous place to go for a normal person, let alone a super powerful being who could leave *chaos* behind. Attachment is refusing to let go. Stopping someone from doing what they love because you’re scared. Love is trusting and accepting things can’t/will change even if you don’t like it, and accepting that when there’s nothing you can do without breaking your moral code.

Jedi grieve. They feel loss. They get angry. They *love.* They just don’t let those feelings overwhelm them to the point of irrationality, accepting, understanding, and releasing them because they’ll do no good in the long run. If emotion overwhelms the brain, the logical part shuts down, and we’ve all seen what force fuelled temper/grief can do.

‘Kanan and Ezra don’t follow the rule.’

On the contrary.

You see Kanan learn to let go of his grief and *attachment* which has been holding him back all this time. In doing so he becomes a Knight and Master. He loves Hera, yes, but he loves unconditionally. Not possessively. He’s fine with Hera going on dangerous missions and accepts that there will be times she’s hurt. That there’s always a possibility she might not come back and he’s gonna have to live with that. He doesn’t try to stop her. He doesn’t fall into a rage if she gets hurt. He accepts it, pain, rage, grief and all, but lets it go so he doesn’t become fearful to the point he won’t let *her* go. He accepts Hera loves the Rebellion and compromises even if he doesn’t like it. Love. Nothing wrong with that in the Jedi Order.

In contrast you have Anakin. When Padmé is in danger he will drop *everything* to go to her, including putting his men and padawan in unnecessary danger to do so. You see his jealousy when Clovis is around. His lack of faith in Padmé despite her assurances. How he won’t back down even if it scares or disturbs her. You see how he *refuses* to take any chances at all with her health to the point of breaking his moral code. This isn’t love anymore. This is attachment, possession. This is what the Jedi forbid.

You see Ezra struggle with letting Sabine go on a dangerous mission and Kanan teaching him that he has to accept the danger, that she might not come back. and how to do it. Telling him to respect her abilities, what she wants to do, and not loving her to the point of stifling her. This is what letting go is. This is what the Jedi teach.

Ezra has to learn to let go of his own grief and accept Kanan’s death. This is what love without attachment means. This is what the rule is. Feeling it. Accepting it. Then letting the emotions go so they don’t control your actions more than your mind does.

Also, anyone can leave the Jedi Order. If they don’t agree, there’s nothing forcing them to stay. Being a Jedi is a religion, a way of life. You can discuss and debate the details, but you don’t get to pick and choose what parts to follow.

You can be a force wielder without being a Jedi. The privileges the Jedi received were because of their belief and the respect that earned.

But more importantly, you can happily leave the order, and the Jedi will still welcome you to come hang out. To chill with your friends and walk about the Temple, train with others and catch up. It’s a community. You don’t suddenly lose all of that because you decided following the Jedi way wasn’t for you.

[elksun]

i can never be normal abt anything apparently

[wardingshout]

art request!! link teaching zelda how to play an instrument or how to dance!

can be any link and zelda you want but i imagine alttp picked up some dance skills in holodrum & subrosia

I was so excited for this there were exactly 20 different things I wanted to draw !!!! but I've already taken so long so here They

[rocketbirdie]

fateful encounter

[poetforher]

── # 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡'𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟 olivia benson

content warnings.          18+ MDNI, nsfw content, SMUT, female-bodied reader, semi-public sex, office sex, detective! reader, age-gap (reader late twenties, olivia show accurate), established relationship, power inbalance(?), fingering,

author's note.   i can't get her off my mind i cant i cant i CANT I JUST CANT, so you guys may suffer with me for this short fic.........

"s-so here is where you need to r-run through...." you gasped, your body shaking as you point out the sentence in the documents for the captain to see. olivia nodded, moving the tip of her pen onto the paper, the ballpoint already leaking blue ink onto the white sheet before she underscores the short phrase.

you seriously thought after offering to write up her reports for her meant to take a break and try to temp your boss? olivia benson might have been your girlfriend but that meant nothing when she was working, and you single handedly choose the worst day to go against her wishes.

but this is what you wanted, right? have her hot and bothered, never thinking of how you would make her blood boil with your misbehaving and your pathetic whines didn't even earn any pity from her as you sat on her lap, her fingers moving oh so slowly in and out of you.

"come on, aren't you going to continue, pretty girl?" you attempt at nodding was weak, your figure twitching when she curled her fingers the slightest in you. and so, you try to continue, reaching out for the pen but when you do, the pressure is so sudden you fall back against her with a sharp cry.

"everything e-else should be just fine...-!" your head knocked back as olivia's other hand sneaked under your shirt, pulling your bra down the slightest just so her fingers could freely play with the mound of flesh and fat. toes curling, mewling out a filthy "oh captain!" more than a hundred times as she continued the now merciless pace of abuse on your clenching walls.

and what would happen if someone opened in? seeing you putty in the captain's hands, huh? you and her both knew it would start a scandal, a detective like you with the prestigious nypd legend under such intimate situation. seeing you squeal and come all over the captain's fingers, your cum dripping onto the floor- it would be a humiliating one, being assigned into a different unit as the black sheep who tried climbing the ranks in bed.

something that will never happen, the two of you getting caught- she locked the doors after you came in but seeing you trying to keep your voice down and failing was just a bit too sweet to pass on.

[w1lmuttart]

Alright so before I jump on the ln3 bandwagon can I put Mono through the wringer one more time? Okay? Okay 👍

[sforzesco]

it's time for spartacus :)

[atomicsheepscientist]

What if Bruce so obsessively worked to keep his identities separate, he actually gave himself a split personality?

Like, when the cowl is on he IS Batman. Not Bruce, Bruce has left the building. Batman is in control now.

Oh, and at parties, the Brucie mask starts to become *more* than a mask. Brucie is here, queer, and ready to paaartay! Batman? He doesn't know the man! Literally forgets Batman is a part of him too.

So, what I'm getting at here is any type of Truth toxin, serum, test, whatever. None of it would work on them. Batman IS Batman. Brucie doesn't know who Batman is. Bruce Wayne is smart and skilled enough to not be caught under forced truthfulness.

It would take a LOT of asking the right questions to get Batman's identity behind the mask. And I would love to see a villain try!

[xd0ntr0nx]

Introducing, The Ultimate Lifeform... but purple.

[pillowspace]

Hi, I made a silly tier list maker where you are given nearly every single possible Frin x Frin variant and you have to rank each pairing from being the most selfcest to the least selfcest through personal reasoning. You can adjust the tiers however you want or use it as is.

(individual images)

(ghostfrin variant)