#swr thoughts

[leftcolornacho]

I had a stressful week with no time for myself and this weekend was my exam session, one exam made me cry and I'm so tired and stressed I'm snapping on everyone around me

so I decided to make a list of how I would insult the imperial officers (mostly from rebels) to their faces

No it doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to, I'm just coping.

Yes I will be vulgar.

Yes it may contain spoilers.

I will probably update it in the future

Aresko

You look like an offspring of a squid that had a romance with a zombie and that's putting it lightly. I would've killed you too if I had to work with you, you dumb fucking walking corpse bitch scared of the sun and soap

Constantine

Ugly ass dumb bitch, I don't know whose dick you had to suck to be an Admiral (it was Tarkin's, wasn't it?). Shave that mustache and apologise to your mother because whatever she tried to teach apparently went straight over you empty head

Lyste

Bitchboy twink whose whole self confidence is built around that stupid badge and it fucking shows, you're no one without that uniform and deep down you know that. You also know that one day you will have to answer for your actions, all the horrible things you've done to innocent people just to feel like you're somebody.

Have you ever wondered who your mother could be if she didn't have you? You should.

[flying-kanery]

Does anyone else just ever think about Hera's paternal trauma?

...

because I sure do.

[myblacknightworld]

Some more Rebels rewatch discord comments 

Honestly hope I have enough space for all the screenshots lol

I have no idea if I did already tell or not, but I do not consider the Depa/Caleb Kaller TBB episode canon. Whatever people say, but Kanan’s backstory comes from the Kanan comics and Felony shouldn’t have retconned them. Anyway, fuck Maul. Cool character, but fuck him

I mean, I did bring this onto myself by having my yearly rewatch, but still.

I am so normal about Kanan <3 

[swr-thoughts]

Both Ezra and Anakin/Darth Vader despised the Zygerrians, for very similar reasons.

- @grapes1025

[lame-cameoliob]

Kallus' motivations are so interesting

I just need to get these thoughts out so I’m throwing this ramble here:

Now, this may totally just be me thinking too much (fork found in kitchen) but I feel like when it comes to how we tend to think about Kallus’ characterization, the implications of Kallus’ experience on Onderon are very overlooked. 

So he goes to Onderon with “the boys”-- which, the term “the boys” has its own set of implications about how Kallus must have really cared for those troopers under his command but I digress– and on a patrol they’re attacked, yada yada, we all know the story. 

But Kallus becomes fully paralyzed. He doesn’t describe the extent of his paralyzation but given that he had to watch as his squad was “finished off one by one” it’s pretty fair to assume that he could not move whatsoever. The fear that any person would experience in that situation is completely indescribable, that is genuinely some shit straight out of a night terror. 

He is– as we know– spared (albeit we don’t get exact details (did the merc try to kill him but reinforcements arrived before he could? Did the merc think that Kallus was already dead? Secret 3rd option?)) and he makes a full physical recovery, but there is no way in hell that he is not coming out of that encounter with some crazy PTSD. 

There’s not a whole lot of info on Imperial mental health services but I don’t think it’s a longshot to assume that they are probably close to nonexistent.

So the empire now has… an ISB agent with field experience… with untreated PTSD… where said PTSDs inciting incident pertained to a Lasat… and they’re looking to make an example out of Lasan……….. Are you picking up what I'm putting down here…...?

If you aren’t; it is BY NO MEANS a wild assumption to say that the Empire– essentially– weaponized Kallus’ PTSD, given that he would be less likely to question the moral atrocities happening on Lasan since he was already biased against Lasat as a whole. 

Now, we don’t really have a solid grasp on what Kallus’ exact role in Lasan was since he’s  kiiiiinnnd of an unreliable narrator– I mean we’re given the line in Droids in Distress where he takes credit for giving orders during the siege, but Kallus routinely just runs his mf mouth whenever he’s throwing hands so it’s like…  that could either be the truth or a crazy exaggeration, we as viewers have literally no idea what’s going on there– but it goes without saying that Kallus is obviously not excused from his participation just because of (likely) untreated mental illness, but that is literally like the whole point of his character so like we all knew that

Now, after Lasan, Kallus does something really bizarre for an imperial to do; he accepts the borifle given to him through the Boosan Keerah, and even though he doesn’t know about the cultural significance of that, he still takes it upon himself to learn how to use this weapon. I think that literally any other imperial would have tossed that shit out on sight, so I think it does kind of imply that Kallus did have a good deal of respect for Lasat culture.

Now we can all recall how Kallus is so annoying and also batshit insane whenever he fights Zeb for the first season and a half of rebels, and ME THINKS that this is because he wants to prove to himself that if he were not paralyzed on Onderon, he could have saved the members of his squad. He had to sit by and watch them die, and I think that he just wants the vindication; now you may be thinking, But Emma, he beat the Lasat who gave him his borifle, why would he still be obsessing over this– say it with me now– he is mentally ill. No victory will ever be enough to prove this to himself. Point blank period. 

(edit:) He is for sure operating from a place of extreme predjudice and bias but I think it's worth noting that he’s not operating under the usual xenophobic imperial mindset that other species are automaticaly lesser than. (end edit) This weird obsession that he has in seasons 1 and 2 deels like it's mostly there because he wants to outwit and outfight Zeb (and the rest of the Ghost crew… but especially Zeb) (edit: Though it is 100% influenced by Xenophobia-- his mental illness and xenopobia DO coexist!!)

And after the Honorable Ones???? It’s literally never brought up again. He chills tf out so hard after that it is high key uncanny. And like, yes duh that is because– for writing purposes– that’s the beginning of his redemption and they want viewers to root for him as fulcrum, but it also implies that after finding common ground with Zeb, and understanding where he’s coming from and who Zeb is as a person, he realizes that he’s been CRASHING TF OUT for basically no reason. 

And he is SO QUICK to switch sides?? Like, he is fulcrum at least a decent time before the beginning of season three. The whole point is that the second he asks questions and delves deeper into what the Empires motivations are he is disgusted enough that he doesn’t just drop everything and disappear, no, he became a spy for the rebels because he wants to help. I feel like that just goes to show that, at his core, Kallus is a good person. A deeply confused, and hurt, and misguided person, but a good one. 

I dunno, this is just a really long winded way of saying that Kallus is the perfect example of an imperial pawn. Like the Empire is an incredibly effecient indoctrination machine that exploits people at every turn, especially their own soldiers, and I think that Kallus’ relationship with that indoctrination along with his own motivations is just super super interesting and I think about it literally all the time

[loth-creatures]

Love the way rebels emphasizes the importance of mutual aid. Love that fighting Imperials comes second to helping people. Love that every other episode is just the rebels fighting tooth and nail for scraps and then giving much of it away. I remember people complaining so much about the amount of 'filler episodes' about them just stopping for gas or whatever and first of all, those episodes are great I love watching spacefam go on fun side quests (during which they almost die a lot and have character exploration and often there's fun new characters yall just can't have fun), but more importantly what the fuck do you think a resistance movement is? They're trying to feed and supply an illegal fleet AND help the people suffering under the Empire AND physically fight the Empire for said supplies AND hide from the Empire bc they do not have the strength to fight for the sake of fighting yet. That's a logistical nightmare, yes they are going to be spending 90% of their time scrounging for supplies, and it's hard.

[sybisti]

GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN in REBELS 3.10 — AN INSIDE MAN

[cameoliob]

Jacen keeps refusing to play space basketball on the basis that "it would be unfair" because she's "too tall."

This may very well be the day that Eriss murders her cousin.

[byler-is-endgame7]

of course ezra became friends with a tribe of rock creatures what else did you expect from our little jabba

[bikananjarrus]

you ever think about how kanan loved the sound of hera's voice from the moment he met her and the last thing he ever heard was her calling out his name

[aaeeart]

(commission info)

it had Ezra vibes 😩

[herahawk]

Padawan Wren

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

[flying-kanery]

Kanera is the best ship in star wars. They beat han/Leia and Padme/ Anakin for me personally 😁

BESTIE SAME! Like something about Kanera just changed my brain chemistry. They are like the pinnacle of my existence now. Like, nothing can compete for me. I mean, I love all of Star Wars and all the ships ofc, but at this point when I say I'm a "star wars fan" I really just mean I'm in the sub fandom (Kanera) of a sub fandom (swr) lol😂

[myblacknightworld]

S2x03 The Lost Commanders - S2x04 Relics of the Old Republic

So. Oof. These two episodes are- I love these two episodes, I do. They’re not my favourites but they are top 15. 

So. I really, really do not like how Ahsoka acts in this episode. I mean, I kind of get it, but also I really do not like it. It’s not that it’s bad character writing or just anything bad, but it’s more of Ahsoka’s actions in regards to Kanan. Literally, I have so many feelings about that first scene, but I do think that Angry Me ranting on discord can explain my feelings quite well. I will, of course, comment on that too.

Now, I know perfectly well that Ahsoka couldn’t know about anything that happened to Kanan, but she still knew that he survived Order 66 and that clones turned on him. If she’s smart, she might’ve gleaned that he was a Padawan and fighting in the Clone Wars - which means she knew that he wouldn’t have been alright with clones. And yet she sent them on their way and just told Kanan to “trust him”. Dick behaviour, I’m telling you.

So, about this. my memory might be faulty with regards to TCW, but I just watched today Tales of the Jedi, and Ahsoka has been shown to have kept contact with Bail Organa, and in Rebels she’s said to have lost contact with Rex, Wolffe and Gregor, which implies they had been keeping in contact up to a certain point. She was alone, but it was by choice, and that’s the core difference between how she lived Order 66 and how Kanan lived it. Ahsoka had support. Kanan only had himself. 

I have nothing against Ahsoka, really. She’s a good character. I just think this was a dick move.

[swr-thoughts]

Kanan offers to give Sabine advice on how to talk to girls but she never seeks him out bc “he’s a disaster and it’s a miracle he even got Hera” (actual words of Sabine, she told me).

- Anonymous

[jay-wasstuff]

Zeb: at a bar drinking and relaxin

Kallus: