#i have a lot of feelings about star wars

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 261

“So is no one going to talk about the eldritch space child or…” 

“I mean, do you want to get between a child and Batman? I think the only one who could even get close right now is Superman…” 

“No you’re right, I think- oh my god the eldritch space child is playing with batman’s bat-ears and he’s not doing anything about it what the fuck I thought only Robins could get away with that-” 

[intermundia]

to me this is one of the most important passages of the revenge of the sith novelization, as it contains a fundamental thesis of the prequels. the clone wars were designed to kill jedi. sidious put the order in checkmate before they'd even begun fighting. he used their compassion and trust against them by leveraging their sense of duty to push them into fighting a morally dubious war to protect innocent lives, tarnishing their galactic reputation. he gave them friends in the clones that were crafted to become their assassins. he spread the jedi out, thinned their numbers in years of brutal combat, and then when they were sufficiently weak, wiped them out.

the revenge of the sith required so much planning and moving from the shadows over decades to arrange the galaxy into a trap. the prequel jedi did not have the knowledge that we the audience have, they were operating out of a place of partial understanding and with the best of intentions. to hold them to a standard of omniscience and omnipotence instead of appreciating the genius and patience of the sith is unfair and missing the point. they're not perfect, but they are good. it is tragic that being good is not always enough, it is tragic to know that our best of intentions can come up short. it is tragic that evil can gain power and harm the innocent without repercussions.

this book is heartbreaking on a personal level, but also on a political and ideological one. it reflects the very real world when greed and fear hold sway over a population, where exploitation and oppression win. the jedi are slain and it is brutal to read, and a generation afterward struggling in the dark without them. however, star wars ultimately carries a message of hope: you can kill jedi, but you cannot kill compassion and community. wherever people love each other, there is light. the empire fell and the jedi returned because you cannot kill their ideas. so there is hope, but that doesn't change that it is an egregious crime in the prequels that they were slaughtered.

[mroddmod]

little scrapped comic bc it felt a bit ooc to me in hindsight

[copalcetic]

“We asked for a chance to defeat the Sith, and we failed."

This is what Kanan tells Ezra when Ezra asks why Yoda sent them to Malachor, and it haunts me. They asked for a chance, and Yoda gives them one, and they fail. And after that, as far as I can tell? Yoda writes them off. Yoda never appears to them after Malachor; Obi-Wan, when Ezra turns up on Tatooine, tells him "You're in the wrong place," refuses to help the Rebellion, and sends him home. All Yoda and Obi-Wan's eggs are in one basket, and that basket is labeled "Luke." Kanan and Ezra are on their own.

It would be so easy for them to give up. They're not the chosen ones; they failed their test. Who could blame them?

But they don't. Kanan works through his depression, Ezra comes back from the dark, and they keep fighting. It doesn't matter that they'll never defeat the Sith. It doesn't matter that the battles they fight are insignificant on the galaxy-wide scale, that no one really cares about Lothal except them and their friends. It doesn't matter that the structure of the Star Wars franchise means they'll never even be a footnote to history; by A New Hope, no one will remember them.

What matters is that the fight is worth fighting, so they're going to give it all they have.

This is why I love Rebels, and all the other bits of Star Wars sandwiched between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. We have lots of stories, as a culture, about people who vanquish evil; we don't have nearly as many that valorize people who fight battles they can't win. We watch these shows and play these games knowing that the protagonists won't defeat Vader or the Empire, knowing they're living in the wrong place and the wrong time, and we learn to care anyway. We learn that even impossible fights are worth fighting, that every skirmish matters even when they're not what wins the war.

We need more media like that. Because most of us are never going to be the ones who strike the final blow (if a final blow even exists) against climate change, or bigotry, or whatever battle we're fighting. And it is so easy to give up hope, and so important to remember that the struggle matters, even when you fail.

[bikananjarrus]

the thing is, i truly don't think hera ever loved anyone again after kanan.

and i absolutely do not mean this in a "she doesn't deserve to be happy with someone else/she can only be with one person ever, but now that he's dead she has to be sad and alone!" kind of way. if, in some other canon project/rebels sequel/book, they were to introduce a compelling love interest for her, that could stand on equal ground with her, and made her happy - i would absolutely be for it. because i want her to be happy! and kanan would also want her to be happy and move on if she found someone else.

but honestly, i think kanan was it for her.

when hera says to him, you could always see me, i think that's the crux of it. there's a lot to be said about them meeting when they're so young, and doing a lot of growing up as individuals, together. while also growing together. but through all this, kanan understood her. he could see her. in the way that someone who is not just your lover, but your partner and your best friend, can see you.

so i think, in short, yes he was the love of her life. but, more importantly, he was her person.

she was lucky enough, in a whole big wide galaxy, to find the other half of her. and i just don't see her moving on from that. and not in a bad way either! yes, it would take a long time to heal. she would have so many rollercoaster days of anger and sadness and grief. but i think, eventually, when thinking about him brought more joy than sadness, she would eventually feel content. and even more eventually, she would be happy again, and fulfilled in the other aspects of her life. she loves helping people, loves her work. she has friends and a family and her son, and i think even if she tried to move on, she would never feel that spark with someone else. and i think she would be okay with that.

[levi-venn]

When CT-9904, the clone that would one day become "Crosshair", was first pulled from his birthing tank, he did not cry.  

This was by design.

Engineered to become a “stealth soldier”, 04's vocal cords were shaped so that he could not raise his voice above a frustrated rasp. It was often muted by his incubator.

CT-9902, who would one day adopt the moniker "Tech", was also silent, but this was always a cause for concern. When 02 was quiet, he was most likely attempting his next escape. He had kicked the latch off his first incubator. He had poked the hinges off his second. By the third, Nala Se had nowhere to put the baby escape artist.

Putting 02 in 04's incubator was supposed to be a temporary solution.

A week later, when the new, reinforced incubator arrived, she picked up 02, and found his hand locked with 04's with an iron grip. 

CT-9902 cried. 

CT-9904 hissed.

And so, the ever patient Nala Se left 02 where he was there.  There were no more escape attempts after that.

One day, CT-9902 began to cry.

Nala Se was in the middle of calming 03 who was trying to wreck the changing table with tiny, but mighty fists.

"Omega, see to 02, please, he needs to be changed."

Omega slid off her stool and without looking up from her datapad she said. "It's 04 who needs changing."

"How do you know?" Nala Se asked.

"02 cries louder when 04 needs help."

- Excerpt from Cross and Crow (Read series on AO3)

[herahawk]

Padawan Wren

if she’s gonna have long hair she should retain her lesbian swag. shave the side.

[phereshift]

it's important for ships to show signs of life [id: A simple sketch on a dark grey background of an empty spaceship corridor. The corridor walls are covered in a vibrant gold mural, with a star in the centre of the wall and wave-like spirals surrounding it. There are some painted words scattered across the door and equipment in the same shade of gold. The mural is the only spot of warmth in the otherwise cool interior. /end id]

[kagoutiss]

green beetle black beetle

[hudders-and-hiddles]

Then I will adopt him as my own.

This is the way.

[timelesslords]

I legitimately think about padawan Dooku saying “every Jedi is a child his parents decided they could live without” to Yoda at least five times a week and I go insane about it every single time

[chipthekeeper]

a full paragraph into an angry retort and finally the voice in my head saying "just block them" came. you're so right, little voice in my head

[unspuncreature]

obi-wan should’ve been at the club!!!!!

[duchess-of-mandalore]

I just can’t stop thinking about how all signs point to the fact that Ventress and Quinlan are both alive and either have found each other or still could.

I imagine she’s tracking down Force sensitive children and then passing them off to Quinlan who is working with Tala and the Path. ❤️

[here-comes-the-moose]

And if you kick every mentally ill, former gifted kid out of this country, then who is going to make up your fan base, Crosshair Bad Batch?

[copalcetic]

so anyway I'm watching Arcane now. and I would like act 3 so I can have my man ekko back.