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deep thrawn thoughts
(Just reread Vol. 1 of the Thrawn comic and had Things To Say. Lmk if I should elaborate on anything.)
“My job—the sole reason for my existence—is to defend the Chiss Ascendancy and protect my people. I will do whatever is necessary to achieve that goal, and I will allow nothing and no one to stand in my way.”
~ Timothy Zahn, Lesser Evil
Thrawn’s view of himself as an asset, a weapon, a tool of the Ascendancy is an example of his deep dehumanization of himself and his outlook as someone of no value except as a resource to be utilized. Thrawn thinks of himself as an expendable resource, and this contributes to his lack of value for himself, despite the deep value others have for him and the enormous positive impact he has on the lives of those around him. Though he seems to be controlling the chessboard, he sees himself as a pawn to be sacrificed, going where he can be the most use to his government. Thrawn’s disassociation from his humanity—his wants and needs and desires—are the true tragedy of his character, and why he serves as the perfect foil for Jedi Anakin Skywalker. The tragedy of Anakin was that he gave up his duty for the sake of his desires, while Thrawn’s tragic nature demands he forsake his desires in order to uphold his duty.
The greatest military mind the galaxy has ever seen, and yet he cannot bring himself to value everything that he is.
In this essay I will—
#thrawn#thrawn books#thrawn trilogy#grand admiral thrawn#star wars#anakin skywalker#god I love thrawn so much#Tim Zahn can you pretty please cherry on top just make him happy and content for once#who am I kidding this is star wars
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God I’m just thinking. And ugh, the Jedi’s martial arts must have been amazing. They had seven distinct styles, passed down over a thousand generations, by uncountable lineages.
Every lineage must have had their own katas, their own training methods and distinct variations on the forms. There were probably inter-lineage feuds on what type of sparring they taught, variations on specific katas, which techniques were acceptable in sparring, anything. You KNOW those High Republic Outpost Jedi must have created new styles that were gradually subsumed into the 7 forms.
What would a Jedi Tournament have looked like? Were there ones for specific forms, like Soresu-only competitions? Did they have some kind of point sparring? Was there an endurance/blocking division? How would they have measured Force abilities in a tournament setting? How did they score?
In conclusion, SHOW ME THE SECRET JEDI MARTIAL ARTS LORE LUCASFILM
#this is brought to you by: kid who has been doing karate since 8 thinking about how Mace Windu developed his own style#Lucasfilm I am in your walls I need to know#star wars#prequel jedi#Jedi order#jedi culture#Jedi martial arts#Jedi tournaments
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wait wait wait, so we had: a gorgeously diverse, complicated story about the folly of the Jedi, set against the backdrop of truly fascinating Force witch lore and a potential deep-dive into the real fallout of suppressing emotion, complete with totally rad lightsaber fights, grayscale characters all around, and the coolest fucking helmet in the history of the franchise, all tucked into the world of Star Wars, which makes money simply by existing--and they cancelled it?? i am going to explode
#star wars#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#genuinely this is the most interesting thing they've done in this universe in YEARS#and yeah yeah there was the moment at the beginning where they for some reason decided there could be Fire in Space#but are you KIDDING me?? are you KIDDING#jacinto in this show is what kylo stans have been dreaming about for AGES#the twins are fucking FASCINATING#just the scene of a possessed wookie with a lightsaber alone should have yeeted this into the archives of Coolest Shit Ever#and you fucking wasted it?? you cancelled it?? are you out of your goddamn MIND disney???#a genuinely scary villain who somehow isn't the scariest thing about the show. complexity all around. lightsaber FISTFIGHTS.#i am going to lose my mind#i am so mad#you'd think i'd be used to this shit by now but come on dude
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Companion piece to the shut up starscream sketch because starbee are funny and I need them in earthspark
#i am manifesting#manifesting so hard for tfe starbee#i need them to be eachothers therapy dogs#they could bond over their love for the terrans#they put their differences aside to protect the kids#besties who have war trauma together stay together#star could put the L in family#bee could put the i in family#starbee#starscream#bumblebee#tfe bumblebee#tfe starscream#kinda he’s really an amalgamation#tfe#tf earthspark#earthspark#transformers#maccadam#hanaes scrapheap
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so finished watching My Adventures with Superman and i honestly loved every minute of it, it was so cute and fun and more importantly true to clark’s character in a way that not a lot of recent superman media is.
and don’t get me wrong most of the superman media i consume, i love because i love superman and have since i was a kid and watched christopher reeves for the first time
but my adventures with superman was just very good!! like it had all my favourite aspects from all my favourite superman media and it was extremely fun to see clark be silly and figure out his powers and get into trouble with jimmy and lois.
i enjoyed the trio’s dynamic so much and reminded me of my own friends which i always think is a sign of good media- like doesn’t matter what we get up to, we’re doing it together and more often than not we can laugh about it.
i LOVED how babygirl they made clark too because yeah he just is, his magical girl transformation was great and his little :3 gave me life.
i loved the conspiracy theorist angle for jimmy, it’s just really fun, i like to imagine that even before they knew lois that jimmy was taking clark out on camping trips to find local crypids and i am so tempted to write a silly fic about various crypid hunting trips they go on and jimmy live blogging them.
i loved loved loved lois!! she’s goofy and girlboss and wants her story but would never do it at the expense of someone she cared about, i’ve seen people complain about her jumping off the building to get clark to reveal himself but in the original movies lois throws herself into niagara falls to try to get his confession. she’s just the amount of weird and driven and caring that lois is meant to be and i loved that !!
but yeah!! i liked it!! and i hope this means we get another season of it!!
#not fanfiction related#who am i kidding with that tag. i barely post about my fics#need to get better at that actually but ANYWAY#needed to go off about this show#genuinely loved every second of it#and if i’m not careful will shove it down my bestie’s throat even thought xe are long suffering with star wars as is#what’s one more animated sci-fi show between friends?#my adventures with superman#maws#shitpost#my unfiltered thoughts on the show
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throws some semi-old sketches at y'all as proof of life
#star wars oc#jedi oc#i mean... technically.#LMAO#the bastard resplendent#revan#oh did u think i stopped thinking about them?? no. never.#who am i kidding we all know i can't stop#my baby bread.. my war criminal#rené.art
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So many people in my real life keep being like "omg I watched dts and I totally understand your obsession with f1!!" NO YOU DON'T 😭😭😭
I try not to be a snob in this way but it's like, I know these people have no intention to actually watch races so it's so *eye twitching* when I get told this. And it's like, yeah I myself got into f1 thru dts technically, but I watched a couple eps, then an actual race, and found the actual races way more interesting, and the rest is history. And I hate how it's like "I got so invested!!" ...yeah with the storyline Netflix is telling. Maybe I'm just an annoying purist, but 😭 I can't keep doing this bcs im not built for responding in a good way djkfkg. I guess for me, I don't understand how dts can be that enjoyable. I didn't really like it too much before I knew much about F1, and I don't like it now bcs I know TOO much about all the actual going-ons. I mean, like there's a reason why I force myself to watch full old races 😭
Okay sorry this is quite bratty of me 😭 I'm just a control freak who's like "stop getting into my hobby not in the way I want you to get into my hobby!!!!!" It's the same energy as people telling me they know wags before they know drivers names. I do not care unless you're interested in watching actual races 😭😭
#you have to understand this is how i am w all my hobbies#like me making my friend watch star wars in the order i watched it as a kid and being like YOU CAN'T LOOK ANYTHING UP#i need to hand hold people thru the process okay 😭😭#youre not enjoying it in the way the lord(catie) intended#also mostly annoying bcs im here like oh hey! if you ever wanna watch a race! or learn f1 lore! im here!!#and then months later they come to me enthusing abt dts 😭#smth i havent even rly watched so 😭#idk ig i think its valid to get into f1 thru dts bcs like. its a good gateway drug#especially when you live in the US and have absolutely no experience or history w it at all#but people who just watch it as a reality show just kinda annoy me i suppose#like dont you wanna dig deeper??? dont you wanna explore on your own?????#truly ^ this is me in every aspect#this is how i act about history and music 😭 i am a snob#catie.rambling.txt
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hey what if star wars: the acolyte (2024) had been good. can you imagine if that had been good. can you imagine if the next installment of star wars with that really good cast and those really good fight scenes had covered the beginning of their descent into corruption. if it had been about the central main character who starts out as a kind and well-meaning roguishly charming protagonist had turned to the dark side BECAUSE of the actions of JEDI and her "evil" ""twin"" had ended up as the GOOD one. can you imagine if a jedi who thought he was a good guy and ""meant well"" threw one little girl down a hole and kidnapped the other one. imagine if a gripping critique and/or deconstruction about the jedi practice of taking children and why is it they feel the need to lie about their own people doing bad things in the name of their beliefs. and then that guy with the big sad brown eyes got the protagonist to put on his scary helmet and then they were scared of it together and they touched hands like those lesbians in andor except it was hornier AND!!! it had been GOOD!!!!!! instead of written by FUCKING CHATGPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#personal#star wars blogging#this was an attempt to recreate a rant that i had out loud at top volume after the credits rolled#it'll never be as good but this is the gist of it#by the way i seriously am not kidding i really do believe they wrote that script with chatgpt#GOD. it was. SO CLOSE#I THINK THE JEDI ARE A MASSIVE SYSTEM OF UNCHECKED POWER POSING AS A RELIGION A DELUSIONAL CULT THAT CLAIMS TO CONTROL THE UNCONTROLLABLE#YOUR EMOTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#YOU PROJECT AN IMAGE OF GOODNESS AND RESTRAINT BUT IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE ONE OF YOU SNAPS#AND WHEN. NOT IF!!!!!!! THAT HAPPENS#WHO WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO STOP HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#(luke skywalker)
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#i've been thinking about him all day#who am i Kidding i've been thinking about him for the last few years non stop#god but yall don't get it i nEED this for my sanity and well being#this is such a perfect image he'd devour so hard#no crumbs left#sinjir rath velus#star wars aftermath#aftermath#dev patel#fancast#i guess? is it really fancast if the creator approved it
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starry-eyed 🌟
#star wars#luke skywalker#my art#star wars fanart#i rlly like his bespin outfit#who am i kidding i like all his outfits
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Yeah so I think I'm addicted. Combine my usual 💧 with a red blade 👀🔥
#cal kestis#jedi survivor#star wars jedi survivor#my screenshots#cal is photogenic#lightsaber#my obsession#who am I kidding of course I am addicted#he is my blog subject matter#my gallery is big
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WAIT A SECOND
jacen has brown eyes
but hera has blue. and so does kanan.
JACEN ADOPTED?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
#i kid i kid i know he had blue eyes in rebels#who do u think i am#i know all the rebels things#but. THIS MEANS THAT HERA DIDNT NEED THOSE GHASTLY BLUE CONTACTS IN AHSOKA#BC. NOW HER SON DOESNT MAKE SENSE.#jacen syndulla#hera syndulla#kanan jarrus#star wars: ahsoka#otherwise. this implies kanan has brown eyes in live-action universe#even if we never see him.#he has brown eyes.
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10 minutes left before I turn a year older and what did I do?
I ordered myself a lightsaber. ah yiss
#about me#2024 mood#Batuu Bounding#I've been planning on doing Savi's on our Batuu trip but I'm just not feeling the saber hilts themselves#I want something sleek and fairly smooth and relatively light that I can spin with#that is so not what's going on with the Savi's sabers#so just as we're getting down to the wire here I thought why not look online and see what's out there that more matches my vision#and I found one on Amazon. that can arrive on Sunday. that checks all the boxes of what I was looking for#and it's like. a quarter the price of Savi's#I have heard only wonderful things about the Savi's *experience* but mixed things on the sabers themselves#when I started out on this plan to Batuu-bound for my birthday Savi's sounded like a fun addition to the day#but since then I've come up with a whole Star Wars character with a backstory and a personality and a LIFE#and Savi's is not her path. absolute respect and love to everyone (including my family members) for whom Savi's was the right choice#but I am E X C I T E about the saber I picked out#not sure if I'll take the blade to Disney with me but I'm going to try to rig up the hilt to attach to my belt at least#see kids? getting older is really just about being able to buy yourself the toys you wanted as a kid#with no one to tell you no#and if you're lucky a supportive spouse who yells DO IT! when you doublecheck your instincts lol#hey one minute to go until b i r t h d a y
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Phantom Menace college au where Padme is an exchange student and Qui-Gon is a professor and Obi-Wan is his assistant and at the end Maul gets Qui-Gon fired so Obi-Wan pushes him down some stairs the next time they meet on campus
#hm i should make an original post tag#star wars#the phantom menace#sw tpm#qui gon jinn#obi wan kenobi#padme amidala#darth maul#palpatine is a senior professor who wants to be the [rector?] and he makes padme give the current administration a really bad review#anakin is. some kid qui-gon is trying to adopt probably.#and/or kid he met in a field trip and is now trying to get him a scholarship because he's very smart and deserves it#they go to tatooine for biology or maybe geology field class reasons. instead of because their ship is broken#maul is a student from another department who's like. palpatine's unofficial godson or something#and he's really good at getting people in trouble with the university. which is why he's following qui-gon. to get him fired#none of this makes sense i just really really wanted to make a joke about maul getting qui gon fired instead of killing him in an au#and it made me laugh so here i am. making a story in the tags
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@phis-writing NEVERMIND WHAT I SAID ABOUT NO CRYPTIC TWEETS
WTF IS THIS KEVIN??? REDACTED???
For context, this is what the rest of the memes have said 👇
I think I'm losing my mind 😵💫
#who am i kidding#i think i've already lost it#what is this shit kevin?!#star wars#the bad batch#cryptic tweets
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if i had a nickel for every time a character named satine who was the love interest of a character played by ewan mcgregor died, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice
#yes i know that ewan mcgregor isn’t obi wan in the clone wars#i’m just saying#that he does play obi wan#so i think it still counts#but that’s two for two baby#all of the satines of the world#they gotta avoid ewan mcgregor#this thought came to me in a fever dream#because i am a theatre kid who also has a special interest in star wars#moulin rouge#satine moulin rouge#satine kryze#obi wan#star wars
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