#i love talking about leia

[fellthemarvelous]

How can you be on the council and not be a master?

I need to stop looking at Star Wars TikTok posts because I guess the concept of personal accountability is lost on so many people.

I love Anakin Skywalker. I do. I think he is one of the best fictional characters ever created because he is so fucking complex. I love him for all the good he did and in spite of all the bad things he did as Darth Vader. In the end, he sacrificed his own life to save his son.

That's the thing that's killing me right now.

People want to blame everyone else except for Anakin for the choices he made. They want to blame the Jedi because the Jedi don't strictly adhere to their vision of love and are therefore responsible for why Anakin fell to the dark side.

I saw a few comments where someone blamed the Jedi (specifically Obi-Wan), blamed the council, blamed Ahsoka because she left him, blamed Padme (because if we can't blame female characters for something then what are we even doing, right?), blamed the Jedi for not trusting him (and therefore somehow preventing him from believing in himself), and then at the end was like...oh and I guess Palpatine too since he groomed him for 13 years.

First of all, why is it a chore to blame Palpatine for Anakin's problems but so easy to blame the Jedi?

Imagine the heartbreak Anakin felt when he learned that the man who spent 13 years mentoring him turned out to be the Sith lord the Jedi had been searching for. That's reason enough to be angry at Palpatine because it was Palpatine who broke Anakin's spirit.

Secondly, not one of these people is responsible for Anakin's actions. Not one of them. Not even Palpatine. That's why it had to be Anakin's choice. Palpatine could not force him to fall, so he had to resort to manipulation and gaslighting to fuck with Anakin's head. He spent 13 years planting seeds of self-doubt and mistrust in the Jedi in Anakin's head. Because what happened when Palpatine assigned Anakin to the Jedi council despite having zero authority to do so??

"How can you be on the council and not be a master?"

The Jedi Council would like to ask Anakin the same question.

You have to be a Jedi master before you can be on the council.

Anakin became upset because he was denied the rank of master. It didn't occur to him at all that Palpatine intentionally placed him in that situation for that exact reason. Palpatine knew the Jedi well, and he knew how they would react. He knew it would lead the Jedi to asking Anakin to spy on him. He played the long game and it paid off.

The Jedi taught Anakin what they could, but they have no control over whether or not Anakin put the Jedi code into practice. The Jedi trusted Anakin. We saw them trust Anakin with their lives many many times during the Clone Wars.

They gave him a padawan for crying out loud. They looked at this 19-year-old, freshly knighted Jedi General and trusted him to mentor Ahsoka, a 14-year-old girl who was more advanced than everyone else her age. He's a vergence in the Force and they gave him a padawan who was already incredibly powerful. It's rare for Jedi to get their own padawans at such a young age, but Anakin was a Force prodigy and Ahsoka could have become a knight herself at 16 if she had not left the Order.

The Jedi trusted him. Until they didn't.

Anakin is the one who slaughtered an entire clan of Tusken Raiders in anger after the death of his mother. Even the women and the children. He killed all of them because he hated all of them and he was angry because he wasn't able to prevent his mother from dying in his arms. The only people who knew about that were Padme and Palpatine.

Anakin is the one who spent three years lying to the Jedi because he kept his relationship with Padme a secret from everyone (except Rex). He believed he could have it all if he tried hard enough, and trying to have it all is what lead to him losing everything when he chose to fall to the dark side, when he chose to sacrifice the galaxy for one person, only to lose her and his unborn child for good.

During the war, Ahsoka told Barriss that Anakin will always do what needs to be done, leaving out the part that includes the use of terror and torture. Barriss got to witness Anakin's rage personally when he figured out that she was the one who framed Ahsoka for treason.

We all saw how Luminara reacted to Ahsoka violently threatening Nute Gunray to get him to talk. She was horrified and immediately reprimanded Ahsoka because it is not the Jedi way to resort to terror. The Jedi were supposed to negotiate, not terrorize. And Anakin taught Ahsoka his version of aggressive negotiations. (And she hinted at the fact that she used aggressive negotiations against Morgan Elsbeth when Huyang questioned her about how she obtained the information to locate the map to Peridea and she told him that she did not follow Jedi protocol.)

When Anakin interrogated Poggle the Lesser during Brain Invaders, he physically hit Poggle before force choking him. He used brutality to get the answers he needed. Obi-Wan, Luminara and Ki-Adi all expressed concern over how he got Poggle to talk, and he wouldn't tell them what he did. What he did went against the Jedi code. He made that choice. No one else made it for him. He knows it was wrong. It's why he didn't answer their questions.

Yes, he was doing it because Ahsoka was in imminent danger and he needed to save her (and Barriss and the infected clones) and there wasn't enough time to negotiate with Poggle. Anakin did what an older brother would have done for his little sister, but she was also his padawan and he was her master. And it was very clear that Ahsoka was a lot like him.

It's not Anakin's fault that Ahsoka left the Jedi Order, but it is not Ahsoka's fault that Anakin fell. He was incapable of letting go of his padawan (he literally resurrected her from the dead on Mortis), which was an important part of the reason he was given a padawan in the first place. He had formed a strong attachment to her just as he had Padme and Obi-Wan and Rex and C-3PO and R2-D2.

His unwillingness to let go of his attachments is what caused him to fall. He was a Jedi, and Jedi are not supposed to form attachments. So when he betrayed the Jedi Order to save Padme's life, his fall to the dark side was a result of him giving into his hatred and his anger. He took his rage out on an entire galaxy for 25 years because he was unable to let go.

Attachment does not equal love.

Maul was attached to Obi-Wan and there was nothing loving about it. It was violent and many people died because of Maul's inability to let go of his anger and hatred for Obi-Wan.

The whole reason that Anakin gave into the dark side completely was because he fell for the trap. He believed he could use the dark side without letting it consume him, but the dark side is all about controlling others. He couldn't control Padme and he ended up force choking her. He couldn't control Ahsoka and she left. He couldn't control Obi-Wan and chose to fight against him instead of listening to Obi-Wan's pleas.

No one could save Anakin Skywalker from himself. He had to save himself from his own darkness.

Which he did, in the end, because he saw his son being tortured by Palpatine, and he realized what it meant to let go. He finally understood what he needed to do and accepted that he would have to give up his own life to do so.

It took him a long time to understand what it means to let go, because letting go isn't giving up. Letting go is about accepting that there are some things beyond his control.

The conversation he had with his mother on Mortis was key to helping him accept who he was in the end. "Your guilt does not define you. You define your guilt."

He knew he was going to die, but he died saving someone he loved, doing the right thing and ultimately returning balance to the Force. He accepted his destiny. He accepted responsibility for who he was as Anakin Skywalker and that Anakin Skywalker was also responsible for the actions of Darth Vader because they were one in the same.

It's the problem we see Ahsoka struggling with when she's with him in the World Between Worlds. She struggled with the knowledge that her master became a monster and worried about what that meant for her. She struggled to figure out who she would have become if she had not left the Order. She had to wrestle with her own darkness, and Anakin's final lesson to her also took a weight off her shoulders. It's why she's suddenly that same girl we saw at the beginning of the war. The one who always smiled and was always so sure of herself. She chose the light and it was reflected in the way she suddenly began wearing white, a contrast to what she'd been wearing decades.

It's understanding that she has control of her own destiny, whatever that might be, and that she gets to choose who she decides to be. Anakin chose to be a Jedi in the end, and he was able to pass a hard-learned lesson onto a padawan he loved like his own sister. He was still able to watch out for her in the end while teaching her one more time.

It's never too late to do the right thing, but it's Anakin who has to take responsibility for his actions instead of blaming everyone else for all of his problems.

Apparently that's a lesson a lot of fans need to learn too.

A question Star Wars has always asked us is "how far are you willing to go to save what you love?"

[sluttylittlewaistenthusiast]

╰┈➤ 18+ none of these stories belong to me! this is a masterlist of all the fanfics i’ve read and reblogged! just thought it would be nice to have them all in one spot! (if your fic is on here and you wish not to be, please let me know!) some will have summaries if provided <3

╰┈➤ a/n: i scoured the treacherous trench of ao3 to find these fics i miss the person i was before that one fic (i missed the tag)

ᡣ𐭩 how you can help palestine . fic recs m.list

@hanasnx

⭒ Nose-Riding

⭒ Comfort

unfortunately, han can be insensitive. good thing he knows just how to calm you down as soon as he figures out he messed up.

⭒ Prompt #43

⭒ One

⭒ Running His Mouth

@ddejavvu

⭒ Han Solo x Shy!Reader

@lovelybucky1

⭒ Kinktober: Praise

@companionjones

⭒ Every Night

Han talks to you every night to help you get to sleep. Tonight, you stay up a little later, and find out what Han talks about after he thinks you're asleep.

@erosmutt

⭒ Thinkin' 'bout...

@dameronology

⭒ Step by Step

han solo didn’t fall in love. then again, there was a lot of things that han solo didn’t do before he met you.

⭒ The One Where He Comforts You

after you have a panic attack, han helps you calm down 

@astxrwar

⭒ We've Got Problems

The reader is a brat. Han has no idea what "dealing with things responsibly" means. Trouble ensues

@/Telaryn on ao3

⭒ Pressing Upon His Secrets

When they agreed to take on a refugee from Arcentia, Han had never intended it to go anywhere. His heart still belonged to Qi'ra, after all, and the Arcentians have the power to compel truth from a man. Together it's a bad combination for any smuggler to consider. But the nights on board the Falcon can be very lonely, and sometimes when the memories crowd too close it's nice to be able to wake up in someone else's arms.

@/rexsjaigeyes on ao3

⭒ The Bet

⭒ What happens when Lando makes a bet with you that he can’t make Han jealous?

@/faeriemoon on ao3

⭒ Cupid's Chokehold

“You want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid.”

@/dominataggelover69 on ao3

⭒ Closet Conversations

Han apparently has a thing for making out with people in the Falcon's closet.

⭒ Pilot's License

You ask Han Solo for some flying lessons

@/TheHeroWithNoFear on ao3

⭒ A Win-Win Situation

Han Solo accompanies Lando Calrissian on a business deal. To pass the time he plays Sabacc with the exotic Sinewy Ana Blue. Only to find himself with an offer he can’t refuse.

[fictionaltrvlr]

the rizz of star wars men needs to be studied. it’s so funny

[samijey]

why are they always like this.......

bonus Jey responding with some serious "i love you // i know" energy:

[thefrogdalorian]

I have no real desire to get involved in ship wars (And really, this isn't about shipping), nor do I want to argue over what I would/wouldn't like to be canon. I stick to enjoying what I enjoy with fellow freaks on the internet and leave everyone else to it...

But I must admit, it's slightly disappointing to read some of the takes disguised as feminist when in reality, they are arguably quite harmful and seemingly rooted in misogyny which are being shared around.

Women being in love does not "cheapen" their stories.

Women can be powerful characters and still be in love.

A woman being in love does not make her weak or any less powerful.

Women can be fully-fledged, powerful and 'badass' characters and still be in love.

If you think a 'powerful' woman having a romantic relationship makes her weak, it kind of seems like because falling in love and romance are seen as feminine, you actually just think a woman's femininity makes her weak...

I really wish there could be an acceptance that women can be both strong, powerful, intelligent and in love. Women do not have to choose, in life or in fiction. And there is rarely the same attitude when it comes to male characters. I never see anyone say that being in love would make a strong, independent man weak.

Anyway, I personally think that female characters who have been through horrible things deserve a happy ending and it does not weaken them to allow them to have a romantic partner. Being strong is exhausting and having someone there when they need a break after a busy day of being a girlboss is totally understandable, healthy and acceptable.

In conclusion, let powerful women fall in love!!!

[yuichiroswife]

{ Happy 26th birthday to me. }

[politicalprocrastinator]

might catch hate for this but padme's death absolutely can be read as the closest thing the series has to a suicide and can also be criticised as a fridging. both can be true at once.

[piperslovebot]

"I just... I wish we could start with a clean slate and not mess everything up this time."

"Why can't we just do that?"

Jay & Leia in Something To Talk About (T9S 2x02)

[wowifinallywatched]

The room is dark.

Stormtroopers either side, guarding the little princess that is much more powerful than anyone suspected.

Until suddenly a blue light is sheathed and attacks before they can come to terms with what is happening.

Obi-Wan has an immaculate entrance and kicks their ass in the dark.

That's it. That's the post.

[thelesbianthespianposts]

Luke skywalker would not perform Nabooian rituals

Leia Organa would not perform Nabooian rituals

neither of them were born on naboo. Neither of them were raised with Nabooian culture. Why is it so hard to see people representing their upbringing as it was.

Show Luke making a recipe he learned from Beru, or Leia knowing a lot about alderaanian history. Something like that

[hoeneymilktea]

Can you give leia headcanons 🥹🥹🤲🏼🤲🏼 i miss her sm

Yes I can! Leia is one of my favorite characters in here as she plays a very important role to the plot's exposition. The character is loosely based on a friend I had. Unfortunately we don't really talk anymore but her character still lives on lol

Idk if any of yall read her fanfic, but she basically wrote about Leia and Kuroo's life in the deciphered universe. She never continued the fanfic after two chapters, but a lot of what we talked about (when we used to still talk) was a lot of prequel stuff about Leia and Kuroo and Oikawa and just about everyone before y/n came into the picture. I'll probably write a sequel lowkey to deciphered about Oikawa and his backstory, as well as Leia and Kuroo's backstory too, since she never got to finish it.

Long story short, Leia's backstory goes that she's grown up in a wealthy yakuza family her entire life. Her father, Mr. Sakanoshita (we will never know of his first name and I intent to keep it that way) is the leader of the most well known and powerful yakuza clan of Tokyo, and basically all of Japan. He has the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department wrapped around his finger, and I basically alluded and explained that in the more recent chapters of deciphered. Anyways.

Leia has an older brother, Keishin (Ukai) Sakanoshita. He passed away in a really bad car accident, where he basically did an Iwa (sorry) and crashed his car, but this time, his car actually blew up. His car's nickname was "death trap" for a reason, but both Leia and Kuroo suspected that it was the work of her dad. They both think Mr. Sakanoshita intended to murder his own son for the suspect of treason upon his own clan.

Because of her older brother passing away, she was extremely empathetic to y/n and her grievances with Iwa when he was in a coma. Sometimes when y/n wasn't able to make it to the hospital to spend some time with Iwa, Leia would go in her place. She didn't even care about Iwa like that before he got into his accident, but since y/n was basically her best friend (and for her unspoken empathy because of her own brother's death), she did those favors anyway. Plus she's pregnant and can't really do anything else

Another headcanon is that she actually loathes her racing nickname, because "Princess" is supposed to be an intimate pet name between her and Kuroo. He was the one to give her the nickname in endearment, and it provides a lot of meaning for her and their relationship. Though, unfortunately because of her reputation as the daughter of the "King of Tokyo", referring to her father, she despises the racing nickname in that context (even tho that's literally the same reason why Kuroo started calling her Princess... but he denies that's the reason for her sake lol).

So Leia is actually very much a Miu Miu and Chanel girlie. She wears more Miu Miu than Chanel, but she favors both fashion houses. Both her and y/n rock Vivienne Westwood though (kinda like in a Nana way, except give y/n Hachi's personality with Nana's style, and give Leia Hachi's style with Nana's personality).

One last headcanon is that she actually hated Oikawa, like A LOT before y/n got herself involved with him. Her reasons is that he was generally known as a prick with his facade, as well as the fact he literally SHOT Kuroo the first time they met), but obviously the more y/n and Kuroo got involved with him, the more she started to tolerate Oikawa. She liked Iwa A LOT more than Oikawa though!

[jynjackets]

cassian andor 🤝 hadder ponta

- rebels (spirit and lofty interpretation count right?)

- men

- have a mother

- rebel insurgent (one is headcanon)

- brunette

- they would be friends because they have equal amounts of characterization for me to make that determination (hc)

- treated as solely love interests even though one is written with the entire intention to be a love interest but i’m going to say the treatment by fans of a lead and a supporting stereotype are comparable for centrist blind feminism i mean men’s rights

[the-force-awakens]

hi :) I saw thst you reblogged that what's your main spin poll and I wanted to ask if you wanted to elaborate what yours is I love to hear about it!! <3

 🥺 aw thank you!! I always enjoy having a chance to infodump a little bit (btw i love ur icon...daphne what an icon)

I do technically have a handful of spins that I consider my main spins because I'm constantly rotating between them (star wars, doctor who, moon knight and spidey) at any given moment, but my strongest spin is definitely in Poe Dameron from the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy!

I kind of instantly fell in love with him when my dad first took me to see The Force Awakens when it came out, which was a huge surprise for me because Poe was maybe the character I was the least intrigued by at the time (Rey and Finn had me asking far more questions, anyway) and none of the descriptions for him really jumped out to me. But after actually seeing him, I was positively in love, and then quickly downloaded accompanying novels that featured him (Before the Awakening and the TFA novelization) to read more about him, and then in April of 2016, they came out with a comic series for him and that really helped further cement my special interest in him!

It took a huge hit in 2018-most of 2020 because of all the fandom negativity (especially around Poe) but at the end of 2020, I rewatched the sequels back to back for the first time and it flared back to life without me expecting it to and I did a huge deep dive into uuuuuuuuuuuuuh every piece of expanded material he'd appeared in 😅

Basically (I'm not super sure how familiar you are with Star Wars) Poe is one of the best pilots in the Resistance, which is lead by Princess (now General) Leia Organa, and he's her right-hand man/protégé/surrogate son. Barring the Resistance's bombing fleet (which is teeny bc the Resistance is teeny and held together by duct tape) Poe is essentially in charge of its only flight wing and (as far as we know) all* of its squadrons. On top of that, he's also an active intelligence operative, and even helps oversees the reports from the Resistance's spies so like...he's kind of already helping run the Resistance even prior to officially co-running it by the third film with Leia/when he's finally named its official leader.

Poe is super important to me for a lot of reasons, but one of my favorite things about his arc is that it's not centered around romantic love/tension unlike a lot of the other dynamics in the sequel trilogy (altho Oscar did play Poe as being extremely smitten for Finn and who can blame him, and we do meet an ex girlfriend of Poe's in the third movie, I stan a bisexual king). Poe's whole arc is about his duty to the Resistance, his struggles with keeping hope because he's afraid that everything they've (and him) endured and lost will have been for nothing if they lose the fight against the First Order. If there's a love story for Poe's arc, it's his love for the Resistance and his friends, and that's so wonderful and profound in my eyes.

But also the bridge of Poe's arc, from the daring hero we see in tfa and the start of tlj, to the cautious but courageous leader we see at the end of tlj and all of tros, is Poe being forced to accept that his role in this story isn't that of a martyred hero. He's quite literally grounded (his X-Wing is destroyed) and he's pushed into the role of the leader his mentor wants him to be, and TLJ (in my eyes) is the story of someone who full heartedly believed the most he had to offer was a noble self-sacrifice realizing he actually wants to live (and that he can do far more for the Resistance/galaxy by surviving.)

I love Poe a lot because he's also very simple. He's, as Rian Johnson described him, a good guy hero. Unlike other characters, you never doubt whether he's gonna be tempted or corrupted, you know that he's going to do the right thing and remain true to the Light side, you have faith that no matter what obstacle he faces, he's gonna overcome them and come out the other side that much better for it.

The Age of Resistance comic analysis of Poe breaks it down the best, I think:

Poe's inherent humanity is what makes him a great character. He's not someone who struggles with right and wrong or good and evil. Instead, his struggle is more with his tendency to need to be the person who pulls off some last-minute, thrilling heroics in service to the greater good. Because Leia's right: you can't solve everything by jumping in an X-Wing to blow things up.

I could talk for days about Poe (I've spent the last three years doing just that) about the nuances of his character and the depths that largely go unexplored because of Lucasfilm's inexplicable disrespect and dislike of him, the fandom often reducing him to a love interest with no other personality traits, or complete bastardization wherein he resembles Hangman Top Gun more than Poe Dameron (often when people want to oversexualize him).

He has so many qualities that I adore: he's snarky and hot-headed and can throw things (metaphorically) in people's faces when he's particularly upset, he's impulsive, but also kind and compassionate and patient with people. He sees the potential for more/good in folks that most wouldn't. he truly deeply values people, and that's what makes him such an amazing leader: he inspires loyalty because of how much he believes and takes risks in the people around him. He's often the first person to give someone a second chance, or to lower his blaster, but he can also be vindictive. He's confident in his abilities as a pilot to the point he's often mistaken as arrogant, but he never puts anyone down and always lifts people up, and has a lot more insecurities than anyone would guess, and is really sensitive to rejection.

He's also kind of canonically a prince, thanks to the TROS novelization, so you know. I think that's neat and I'm so totally normal about it (when Leia passes away, she leaves her Organa legacy to Poe...the Organa Legacy would be the Royal House Organa - as well as the Resistance. So...Poe is in some ways a prince).

(*which is...three, they only have three squadrons)

[bronzetomatoes]

As much as I am a gay Luke truther I'm also a single Luke truther. He is a literal monk

[sunsailsandmoonwalks]

let me tell you all about my version of the Organa’s (Organa Solo if you wanna be really specific) (ocs incoming)

and before anyone asks “oh wheres ben?” in the bin where he belongs okay moving on.

Finn is Han and Leia’s adopted son. why? because shut up thats why. He was left on their doorstep with a note that warned them of a new threat, but it was only years later that they realised. Of course, they loved this little baby with their whole hearts. His favourite place to be is on the Falcon with his dad. He’s force sensitive and eventually trains alongside his sisters and cousins, Rey and Mira (a story for another time).

about a year after they adopted Finn, they had twin girls: Ortensia and Ophelia.

Ophelia was named after a character in a story book that Bail always read to Leia as a child, and he always marked on how alike his daughter and the character were.

Ortensia was Han’s mother’s name. While she died when he was only six, he has many memories of her and knew she loved him more than anything. They call their daughter Tens, or Tensie(only Han is allowed to call her that though)

and yeah, uncle chewie is still around- he’s basically a climbing frame to his nieces and nephew.

[foggysirens]

thinking about how if luke and jyn had gotten to meet how absolutely excited and in awe luke would have been- like i can just see him, still in his flightsuit and full of that fresh-faced, floppy-haired optimism, fresh off the back of destroying the death star and meeting jyn and just grabbing her hand and shaking it and being like “wow! you’re part of the crew who received the plans from scarif!” and jyn just fucking standing there looking at this kid who is younger than her and painfully green and just looking around like “… you?! you’re the one who blew up the death star?” and then they become the grumpy-sunshine best friends that they deserved to be