#WAR ASPECT

[sunlitpath]

Did you know Apollo has a war aspect?

[art-the-f-up]

public service message that thinking "Maybe speaking up about Palestine is too controversial/political for me to do" or "maybe mentioning good aspects about Palestinians while they're suffering so much is not okay" is exactly the kind of mindset zionists want you to have and have been hard at work for years for people to develope. thank you.

[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.

[diemsomnians]

WITH LOVE, FROM NEW ARTES

Ludus - Playful, flirtatious love focused on enjoyment: Laurent playing as a pet

[keymintt]

painted my brother's fave as a christmas gift

[mrkestis]

I think we should lean more into Anakin Skywalker being a prophesied almost godlike entity, in the sense that his extreme force sensitivity should have more noticeable consequences. He should terrify and amaze everyone around him, all the while no one can fully understand or help him.

Give me young Anakin meditating for the first time in the temple and being completely overwhelmed, maybe screaming or crying, because he can sense everything. All the trillions of lifeforms on Coruscant are crowding his mind at once.

Show me Obi-Wan finding Anakin in the temple gardens surrounded by children and animals that were instinctively drawn to him, because he’s just that bright in the force. Even the plants tilt towards him like he’s the sun.

I want Anakin underestimating his own strength in training, breaking equipment, accidentally hurting someone or maybe himself. He looks at Obi-Wan with wide and terrified eyes because he fears that maybe this proves that he’s dangerous just like the council said. Obi-Wan ensures him that he just needs to learn control, but secretly worries that he’s not up for the task of training this boy. Maybe no one is.

Maybe Anakin sees and hears thing other people don’t. Sometimes he just stares into the distance and whispers ”do you sense that?”, causing Obi-Wan to freak out because no he doesn’t sense that but should he!?!?

Anakin often wakes up Obi-Wan in the middle of the night, frantic, because he senses something bad happening somewhere in the galaxy and they have to fix it. Obi-Wan has to console him and explain that they can’t because they don’t even know where to go, and Anakin can’t personally fix everything. The boy insists that if he’s the chosen one, isn’t that what he’s meant to do?

Give me a canon book about young Anakin, just turned Padawan, struggling with these things. Maybe with Obi-Wan following in Qui-Gon’s footsteps and looking into the old prophecies to understand both his old master and his new apprentice better.

[a-flickering-soul]

also. crazy thing to say to armitage "thin as a slip of paper and just as useless" hux.

[finelythreadedsky]

how the hell did tumblr get so obsessed with aphrodite areia and this idea of aphrodite as a goddess of war as well as love. that's just not an aspect of aphrodite that EVER comes up in the study of the ancient world. unless you're, like, highly specialized in sparta at a very advanced level. which hardly anyone is because there's really not much there archaeologically speaking (thucydides was right). or i guess if you're a pausanias nut. but i think there are probably even fewer pausanias nuts in the world than there are sparta experts.

[vaderxvibes]

Gotta love those big brown eyes 💜

Edits Masterlist

[ercsir]

Just watched the 2 first episodes of Skeleton Crew and I have thoughts!

First of, At Attin uses old republic money, they have security droids instead of people working in lawenforcment and It's illegal to leave the planet. They don't even have any starships at all?

Then there’s the myth about "the lost planet of eternal treasure" in the outside galaxy about At Attin, people don't even believe this planet actually exists which points towards the fact that At Attin hasn't had contact with the rest of the galaxy in a long time.

I reckon At Attin is stuck in the past, like they still think it's the Old Republic and are disconnected from the rest of the galaxy completely, the entire planet is a time capsule for some reason. That's why they use old republic money and adress The Republic as just "The Republic" rather than the New Republic because they were never aware that the Republic fell and gave way for the Empire.

Knowledge about the Jedi seems pretty common on At Attin too which wouldn't be the case if they had been under imperial control so it's likley Palpatine never found At Attin either.

They've mentioned "The Barrier" like twice so far and it seems like the planet is enveloped in some sort of blue foggy field which they've named The Barrier. It's probably why At Attin hasn't had contact with the rest of the galaxy, maybe they can't because The Barrier blocks all transmissions?

We know they can't see the stars from the planet surface at least, and the kids seemed kind of lost about what they were looking at for a minute. I don't think the kids know that much about the outside world either, maybe certain knowledge is only given to people with a lot of power on At Attin, which would suggest that they have withdrawn from the known galaxy intentionally. This theory might have more grounds due to the laws regarding starships on At Attin, they're not allowed to enter or leave. Someone made that law and therefore intentionally restricted their contact with the galaxy. Hopefully we will see more about the leadership of At Attin.

In conclusion it's clear that At Attin is disconnected from the rest of the galaxy for so far unknown reasons. They live as if it's still the old republic though so they have obviously had contact with the outside galaxy before, the questions are how long ago did they vanish and why?

I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this! Do you share any conclusions that I've come up with? I'm curious!

[izzyzalezbian]

I think we should let Skyfire hate Megatron, loathe him, genuinely want him ground into the ground beneath his pedes, on the sole basis that he KNOWS that Megatron is Starscream's type, and he KNOWS there is no absolute way his hot af conjux has not slipped into his berth at least once

[margaretkart]

Underrated aspects of Dionysus: Theater and war

While Dionysus is famous for being the god of wine and madness ,many forget that he's more that meets the eye. One of the most important and regular things is the theater.

The theatre was dedicated to Dionysus, whose festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theater.

At the same time, while he's not a god of war, that doesn't mean he's not capable of that:

In Book 13 of Dionysiaca, Zeus sends Iris to the halls of Rhea, ordering Dionysus to make war against the impious Indians if he wants to join the gods on Olympus. Rhea gathers the troops for Dionysus.

Many have been still underestimating him, even though he is a complex character with many traits and layers, he's worth more recognition than the basic stereotypes they put in his name.

[rdps01]

fem!terrorsaur (aka i slap eyelashes, a sliiiightly different body type, and a sliiiightly different shade of red on him and call it a day)

[clonehub]

Anakin asks Rex what life was like on Kamino and rex says "first, we'd wake up and say the pledge of allegiance to the Republic --"

"the what?"

"the Republic pledge? The Pledge of Allegiance?"

"what."

"hand on your heart, swear unending fealty to the Republic and its citizenry, to protecting its freedom?"

"rex that's not a thing that exists."

[the-far-bright-center]

So much of SW fandom is always like ‘Anidala is so toxic blah blah’ and I’m over here screaming into the void that the reason they are tragic isn’t because they are ‘toxic’, it’s because they were actually perfectly suited for each other, perfectly suited to help the galaxy as the best versions of themselves, and perfectly suited to be the best and most loving parents to Luke and Leia…. but the circumstances of the tragedy they are trapped in didn’t allow it. The plot, ya know… Palpatine’s machinations, the Jedi Order’s participation in the Clone Wars, the Order and Senate's blindness to Palpatine’s role in it until it’s too late, Anakin’s fall to the dark side ��� THAT plot ???

Viewing Anidala’s relationship as inherently negative (either for themselves or for the galaxy) is missing a huge point of the story. The tragedy isn’t the fact that Anakin and Padme loved each other and were in a relationship together — if anything, I would argue that they were meant to be. They met as children, significantly before Anakin had joined the Order AND before he’d met Palpatine! So their bond and connection existed prior to Anakin's alignment with either the Jedi *or* the Sith, and thus should be read as transcending both. The tragedy is rather that their joy and happiness and their potential for a future as a family together were snatched away. Their relationship was used against them by someone who hated them both as individuals and wanted to enact his revenge upon them and upon the whole galaxy.

Anidala’s love was never the problem; it was always Fear of Loss, and the fact that love and family were forbidden. These factors allowed Sidious to exploit the situation.

Anakin and Padme are not supposed to be just some ‘regular couple who have problems’. (Nor are they supposed to be a pair of toxic 'freaks' as fandom seems to like to call them, either.) Sure, on one level they are very human characters and we love that about them, but on another level they occupy highly symbolic roles in the story. They are supposed to represent two sides of galactic rule that are meant to be in harmony, but which get torn apart because the galaxy itself is being torn apart.

They are the galaxy in microcosm.

This is a story that only makes sense if you understand the PT x OT to be one single entity, a completed saga, the ending of which is an uplifting one that vindicates Anakin and Padme’s forbidden love. A story that must be understood as portraying Luke and Leia as unequivocally heroic. A story that depicts Luke's success in redeeming his father as the fulfillment of Padme’s faith in Anakin’s goodness.

It’s not a story that works if a) you accept the Disney Sequels and other Disney post-RotJ/anti-Skywalker nonsense as canon , and b) you try to 'read' Anakin and Padme's relationship as you would a relationship from our ‘real world.’

Which brings me to another issue. Nowadays, it is becoming more popular to view Star Wars through the lens of political allegory, and while Star Wars absolutely *IS* a political story that contains many overt political elements, it's not SOLELY meant to function as a 1:1 comparison to our real world. It's still ultimately a created-myth. A greek tragedy paired with a fairytale. It's a larger-than-life story set in an old-fashioned space-opera setting ('a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away') with larger-than-life archetypal characters, and I’ll be screaming into the void until, maybe, just for once, the SW fandom learns to suspend disbelief and engage with Lucas Star Wars on its own terms, and understand it within the context of its own genre.

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

i've never read percy jackson so i know it wont be accurate but for the funnies i like to imagine in the demigod stans au that the gods have their business parties or whatever up in olympus and they fine and chill right up until someone yells 'YO CHECK OUT WHAT STAN JUST SENT ME' and now its time for everyone to go 'ooo' over a fancy little trinket that is Shockingly well thought out for someone outside the pantheon. little arguments pop up every now and then because seriously he'd make SUCH a good minor god of community/respect/gifts, can't we just send him on an quest to ascend? he'd be so funny about it too guys cmon

Stan becomes a god by getting crowd funded by a bunch of minor gods seems like something that would happen to him tbh. Not sure if they could, as I think immortality is something given by the big gods for particularly impressive deeds, not a million minor heroic ones.

But they are right, he'd make an excellent god of community and gifts, respecting your elders, loyalty to family however distant, etc. Bunch of gods try to slide in the godly paperwork in between their godly taxes, then Stan wakes up to a little level up noise and whatever comes with immortality and godhood. Or wakes up with formal quest paperwork, goes to do it with no real idea who or what this is for, then gets a level up noise as he ascends to godhood by creating a million little gifts hand crafted to match all these minor gods and nature spirits.

Ford finds out when they start building Stan's cabin lol. He's a god now after all! his demigod kids gotta stay somewhere!