#sorry to TBOBF and Kenobi

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Hallo! @stars-n-spice here for the Star Wars Ask Game!

Questions 5, 7, 15, and 20! 🩵💫

5. Your favorite moments in Star Wars?

Skeleton Crew: KB talking about her disability, that she is different and it does change her life and affect what she can and can’t do. And then Wim still wanting to be her friend 🥹 that healed child me a little.

Andor: Can anything top the One Way Out speech? Maybe. But I ain’t seen it yet.

Star Wars Rebels: Maybe too many to count, but the part where Sabine decides to stay on Krownest with her family and the farewell between her, Ezra, Kanan and Chopper stands out in my mind.

The Mandalorian: Any soft Din and Grogu moment is a masterpiece but my favourite moment of the series has to be in the first episode when Din learns to ride the blurrg. The music, Kuiil’s encouragement, Din’s frustration melting to determination… it just feels like the first true moment Din sheds the hard Mando persona and we see who he really is/who he really can be.

TBoBF: The part where Boba teaches the Tuskens how to ride speederbikes. Classic!

Kenobi: Everything on Daiyu. I know it’s supposed to be a scummy city but Daiyu might actually be my favourite planet. Lights! Colours! City at night! I’m hooked. (But more specifically, the Haja interactions, the way he was just a funny con-artist to begin but then we see he’s actually got a good heart. I was so surprised by that and I loved it)

The Bad Batch: The crowd cheering for Tech after winning the race 😭

7. Top five favorite characters?

Din Djarin & Sabine Wren (I’m sorry. They tied for first place)

Omega

Ezra Bridger

Hunter

Obi-Wan Kenobi

15. How big of an influence do you think Star Wars has had on your life? 

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s changed anything about my life, but it sure has been my favourite escape. I would credit it for giving me a sandbox to explore and hone my creativity—I can think in larger story plots thanks to it.

20. Shoutout time! Shout out to any of your favorite Star Wars creators, whether in fanart, fanfics, merch, or anything else! Or if you’re a creator yourself, take this as an opportunity to do some shameless self promo! You deserve it! 

Too many to name them all! 😫 the little corners of fandom I’ve explored are chock-full of incredibly talented artists—in writing, in art, in edits, in everything! @seleneisrising @desertbeskar @sytortuga @alphaofdarkness @visitbespin @azertyrobaz

@kaylabeemarie has some of the cutest Din and Grogu art I have ever laid eyes on. I adore @yamineftis-art ‘s works. @corellianhounds has some of the most intricate Mandalorian analyses you will ever read in your life. @the-kittylorian-writes has written what is (or what deserves) the title of Longest, Most In-depth and Thought-out story for the Mandalorian. If you haven’t read “The Parent” and “The Foundling” by DistantStorm, “each morning sun a new adventure” by ellearem, “Suddenly I’m Respectable” by nik_knows_nothing on ao3, you simply must.

Like I said, there are too many incredible artists to name… and I’m still discovering more all the time!

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#4

today we celebrate Esther for being nasty hot and sleeping with the right dude. thank u for risking your sugar daddy and also your life. from the bottom of my heart, you fucking rock. now, please join me in doing a shot in her honor.

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#3

sorry not sorry but murderbot dropping ‘i was going to kill all humans until i saw sanctuary moon and then i decided i’d rather watch that instead’ on the sanctuary moon team like a space future atom bomb is exquisite.

assistant sound director going home like ‘yeah your other son might be a doctor but guess who stopped a mass murder?’ a couple lead actors developing even worse diva/god complexes than they already had. the insane stress on the production team ‘if we don’t get the next season out when we promised it might snap and kill thousands of innocent people. it probably won’t. but it might.’ the overwhelming preening desire to work it into ad campaigns, acceptance speeches, casual brunches, etc, balanced out by marketing weeping ‘people do not like SecUnits! we can NOT advertise ourselves as the preferred serial for serial killers!’ crossed with that one extremely paranoid dude in accounting going ‘shutupshutup it can and will hear you and it can and will find you and it can and will kill you stoptalkingaboutit.’ the studio allocating a 5% budget increase for next season instead of the planned 5% budget decrease just—just in case. the odd relief the secondary love interest’s actor feels: ‘well when the robot revolution comes i’ll be one of the last to die’. the odd nervousness the primary antagonist actress feels: ‘it knows this is fiction right? it’s not mad at me, right?’ One of the writers who had been increasingly phoning it in over the last few years suddenly quitting drinking and turning their life around because their work has meaning dammit their work has MEANING.

1,898 notes - Posted February 7, 2022

#2

alright so people learn to express themselves through observation, right? it’s one of the reasons facial expressions and perception there of vary country to country, why people might end up more expressive/stoic depending on your parents/guardians pattern of behavior. and murderbot didn’t acculturate itself watching people around it, it hates watching real people. murderbot developed it’s sense of self watching soap operas. tens of thousands of hours of soap operas. We already know it’s face is painfully easy to read, and while murderbot attributes it to not having practice controlling it’s expression without the benefit of armor:

Then she added, “You know, you can stay here in the crew area if you want. Would you like that?” They all looked at me, most of them smiling. One disadvantage in wearing the armor is that I get used to opaquing the faceplate. I’m out of practice at controlling my expression. Right now I’m pretty sure it was somewhere in the region of stunned horror, or maybe appalled horror.  Mensah sat up, startled. She said hurriedly, “Or not, you know, whatever you like.”  I said, “I need to check the perimeter,” and managed to turn and leave the crew area in a totally normal way and not like I was fleeing from a bunch of giant hostiles.

I would argue that it’s not just lack of practice being neutral—due to it’s particular set of formative experiences, it’s default facial expressions are, in human terms, almost absurdly overexaggerarated. That look of horror is the same one the sanctuary moon terraforming supervisor had when she discovered her twin sister was sleeping with her second husband, and they were both planning on framing her for the death of the colony representative.

2,308 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

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There is — god I don’t know how to put this — there is something profound and tragic and senseless in the fact that the disappointment I feel in JK Rowling so closely mirrors the disappointment Harry and the rest of us felt for his role models. Dumbledore saved the world, Dumbledore was manipulative. Snape was cruel, Snape protected Harry. The Marauders bullied, the Marauders loved. 

Rowling’s failure of empathy and the hurt she’s inflicting cuts so deep because I feel immense, inescapable love for the world she gave us all. How can I still love what comes from someone hateful? How can I stop? If I continue to sing praises of her art does that make me hateful?

Stories are important, especially the stories we’re told as children. They shape our character, they form the framework of how we understand the world, they do. And Harry Potter was the story, it can not be understated, and those of you who feel the same don’t need me to explain. And now when I lean on that to understand this sorrow I’m left with a recursive sort of remorse.

It’s a very raw and painful feeling.

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2 and 12 for the ask game please

Since you had to share one question I’ll answer an extra one here as well for you 😉 also wow these got really long and a little more intense than I expected. Hoping to not incite any violence with these answers but I did get pretty heartfelt here.

12. Name a common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing.

Since @heyclickadee covered some of the opinions I have about pro-Jedi vs Jedi-critical perspectives, I’m going to go with a Bad Batch peeve I have. Honestly, it extends to more of a general media critique and concern as well.

I get really sad when I see people choosing one of these three stances:

1. Hating Crosshair for what he’s done/claim he needs to spend the rest of his life making amends and that he deserves everything that’s happened to him,

2. Hating the rest of the Batch (and Hunter specifically) claiming that they didn’t do enough, that they abandoned Crosshair, that they are horrible people who left their brother behind with no remorse and that they deserve everything that’s happened to them,

3. Hating Omega and considering her a dumb little kid who took Crosshair’s place with his brothers, ruined the show, and is otherwise just a stupid girl character that they don’t want to take seriously.

Now, of course it’s everyone’s right to like or dislike any character(s) or parts of a story that they want to. But one thing that is always really beautiful about TCW and TBB especially is the amount of nuance they strive to convey through their characterizations and plot lines. Very few people in these shows are all good or all bad, and even if they fall squarely on the side of evil vs good, we’re often given reasonings as to why they’ve chosen the paths and beliefs they have.

In addition—family is complicated. The close relationships that are portrayed between the Batch members, the addition of the chip’s influence and circumstances outside of their control, and the twisted difficulties that can come when the people closest to us hurt us, is something that is not one sided and requires a lot of nuance to navigate. Everyone and no one can be to blame in a situation, everything can have gone horribly wrong and yet people can still be sorry over it and seek reconciliation, and people can seek to repair the mistakes they’ve made and it will never erase or make up for the harm that has been done.

All of those contradictions exist in real people, in real life, and I believe that these shows want to portray that as best they can. Broken people who care and who are doing the best they can with the information they have and the motivations that they carry, in a world that they did not create and don’t fully have control over. I think this makes good storytelling (even if the story itself doesn’t always go the way I expected or wanted), and I think it’s good to have compassion for fictional characters just as much as real people. That’s how I hope to approach stories that I love, at least.

Also, sorry, but I have to throw in this classic. Stop blaming Kathleen Kennedy for everything. Like seriously people. I am neither for nor against her, I really don’t have strong opinions one way or the other. But I do know how corporate structures work, and I do know that she may be atop the structure and therefore the most visible for disgruntled fans to throw their ire at, but in all seriousness, she does not know the details of every single tiny aspect of what gets put out there, and she is not the only person making decisions on everything. She either directly or indirectly brought us Rogue One as well as the Kenobi show as well as Andor as well as Mando and TBoBF. In other words, there have been critically acclaimed and fan loved content under her leadership, as well as fan hated and critically meh projects. She’s not (always) the problem that fan bros like to claim she is. Lots and lots of people work on these projects. She’s just doing her job as well as anyone in that position likely would.

3. What is the worst part of canon?

I’m going to go with something that I figured out today as I’ve been rewatching both the Sequels and the OT—I started with The Force Awakens and was trying to decide why some parts of this movie are so freaking great and others fall just completely flat, especially compared to the original it’s styling itself after, A New Hope. There are lots of points I could make here especially related to Kylo Ren and Finn, but I had this revelation today for something that bothers me.

In TFA, and other modern Star Wars projects, there’s so much exposition where a character is essentially explaining themselves to the audience via a monologue to another character, but the topic isn’t necessary to their interaction or the scene. Whether it’s bringing in “fan service” moments or trying to explain 20 years of backstory that we’re never going to be shown on screen, too many things are just spouted off and/or overexplained for the audience’s benefit.

Whereas in ANH, everything we learn about the Force, Anakin, Luke, Han, Han’s debts, who Jabba is….it all comes from natural conversations between two characters. It doesn’t just feel like it’s for our benefit, it feels natural for both characters to be adding in these details or talking about certain things. And if it’s not something that these characters would need to say to each other in a particular scene, we don’t find out more details until we need to know.

I wish that modern script writing took into account that audiences are intelligent, we can have patience, and we can watch a story unfold without knowing everything up front. (I know, I know, Star Wars Twitter would beg to disagree with me). I just want to watch a story unfold, not be lectured at or be patted on the head through a screen. The good old adage “show, don’t tell.”

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for the deep fic writer asks: 2, 10, 16 & 19

2. what’s a fic that took you to an emotional/dark/hard place?

Oh god. I'm gonna have to go back quite a few years but I wrote two fics that I have a hard time revisiting. I really need to edit one, though, because I made a creative decision that didn't work.

A Deafening Distance is a Supernatural fic where Dean said yes to Michael, and Sam and Cas are left to pick up the pieces. There is a mini cast of OCs and I thought it would be funny to name the OCs after the actors but some people found it disorienting. I keep meaning to change that but I haven't been able to visit this fic and I posted it in 2010.

Wishing Well was a Cap Kink Meme fill back when kink memes were a huge thing on LJ. It's a CATFA fic and the prompt was "kissing lessons" and it's from Howard Stark's POV and I kept the ending the same as the movie so it was... it's really sad? But it's a good kind of sad, if that makes sense.

P.S. The ficmix I made for this fic still wrecks me.

10. how has writing positively impacted your mental health or overall mood?

All I can say is, if I can't write I'll go fucking mad. My brain is always on its bullshit. I maybe spent late elementary through early middle school obsessing over 1 ginormous crossover fic that I wrote in my head; it had its own soundtrack and score and the character voices I swear were on point and it was all I could think about. I still remember it all these years later because I never wrote it down. It seared itself in my head. Being able to write is like venting a pressure cooker and keeps me sane and focused.

16. Do you re-read old fics? Is there a time in your writing you won’t go back to?

I will not touch anything I wrote and posted to FFN. I refuse. But I'll re-read old fics I posted to AO3. I spent hours tracking down all my old Transformers fics in my old external HDDs to read and feel sad over the stories I wanted to tell but couldn't. I'll revisit the massive Tronfic that imo changed my life forever and is still my personal standard that I am always reaching for with my newer fics. I'll also click the back button on some of my fics because those stories just don't cut it for me anymore. It's nice to look back on your older work to see what held up, what didn't, what trends you kept, and how much you changed since you posted those fics.

19. If you could write an ideal fic, what would it include?

My ideal fic would have a deliciously slow burn romance against a plotty backdrop steeped in political conflicts and sociopolitical change/revolution. I think that's one of the reasons why I'm still going so hard and heavy for dinluke; I get so insane just thinking about the parallels between Din and Luke and their respective cultures/heritages, the play on "enemies to lovers" but on a generational scale where Din heard stories, where Mandalorian armor and weapons are designed to fight the Jedi, and Luke? Knows not enough because he has nothing but the teachings of two Jedi ghosts, whatever he can scavenge and salvage of the Jedi Order, stories from people who still remember the Jedi. Din is of an endangered people and Luke is of a nearly extinct people, and while Din tripped and fell into being the wielder of the Darksaber, Luke chose to try to reclaim and rebuild the Order. And they only crossed paths because Din sacrificed his covert for a Jedi youngling and went through hell to reunite Grogu with his kind. It's insane. They're insane. They drive me insane.

I am also so endlessly fascinated by this post-war galaxy, the rippling consequences of the Empire's downfall, the generational conflict between people who grew up while the Empire was in power vs. people who remembered the last years of the Galactic Republic, the struggles of a New Republic building on the ashes of the Empire and memories of the Galatic Republic, all the cartels and crime syndicates/organizations rushing in to get theirs, the displaced peoples either trying to come home or make a place for themselves in a turbulent galaxy, etc, etc, etc.

Uh. Yeah. I'm that kind of fic writer/fandom person.

Fuck that was a really long answer, oops.

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[cabdane]

reminder that cad bane knows how to wield a lightsaber and bested obi-wan f*cking kenobi in combat that one time

[adam-scott]

luke 🤝 obi-wan 

taking lightsabers that do not belong to them and then giving them away 😂

[rise-my-angel]

Soooo...did we already backtrack on season 3's first episode cus episode 3 sure makes me feel like all of the first episodes interesting set up is just finished without any connecting payoff. Beacuse I have a feeling they are going to set up a brand new story path for Din and like, Favreau? What was the point of making him an apostate if it's over without any of the episode 1 payoff.

Also why are you pretending tbobf was so bad that you have to totally ignore it (esp since kenobi had just as many if not more problems)

hear me out.

boba fett is his companion instead of whats her face. two people who still have different beliefs of being mandalorian, but one of them has been turned away by his people for breaking a religious creed designed to protect them, while the other has been turned away from other mandalorians soley beacuse he was born a foundling clone. they both explore the mines of Mandalore for the first time instead of a jaded bo katan literally being as disrespectful as possible,

you have two men who were turned away from their own kind but for different reasons and by different kinds of mandalorian. and boba fett gets to learn about a faith he never had the chance to be apart of and reconcile the parts of his father he remembers and the parts of his father that he never had a chance to truly learn. while din learns the extent of exclusion he encured from other mandalorians not dins kind, and has the chance to learn a history from a very different point of view and teach boba fett about his people and that dins situation is seen as a spiritual transgression which can be wholey redeemed and that his own people would never put the same treatment upon boba fett just for who he was born or not born too.

they learn through the other that neither of them are wrong for what they believe or don't believe, but they grow and learn to better honour the path they both ultimately came from with a greater understanding of what led to their near extinction, (and why it relates to dins people prospering more then anyone else)

two men on the edge of their kind who were mandalorian foundlings learning and growing in a journey to a homeworld they never knew and that, at the time of its destruction, would have considered them little more then outsiders who didn't truly deserve to belong

sorry but thats just more interesting to me then self declared space princess gets accepted into a covert that literally went into hiding because of the hateful persecution she herself subjected them to.

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#5

I'm sorry to every other action movie star, but you will never be as cool or sexy as Diego Luna dive jumping and shooting a Deathtrooper fascist while in that jacket. It's over, go congratulate Mr Luna on the way out.

674 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

#4

Some Imperial somewhere: you're never going to believe who just organised a massive prison break

768 notes - Posted November 9, 2022

#3

There are so many details in Andor that I could pour over forever, especially in the prison. The language used is so corporate and sanitised - 'minimally invasive enforcement techniques' to describe electrocuting someone to death, 'on programme/ off programme', 'hot floor' - all of it defangs the reality of what they're living with for the oppressors (and maybe for the inmates to increase productivity?) but must drive the inmates mad.

There's tiny moments too; the fact they showed one guard being late due to a 'problem in tech', establishing that the idea that its a well oiled machine is just a thin veneer. The desperation of the inmates to hear news about themselves from outside and getting nothing. The use of what looks like sign language to communicate across blocks. The comment about if two inmates are in the same cell they both get fried - that could be read as just to stop inmates conspiring together, but also implies that inmates can't seek romantic, sexual or even friendly companionship. There's a homophobic edge to it, and further reinstates the prisons control over happiness. Pleasure can only be achieved through productivity for the Empire, everything else is forbidden.

And that doesn't even go into the set design, the costumes, the filming, the acting! Or how those scenes are juxtaposed against the luxury of Mon Mothma's apartment.

This show guys!

1,023 notes - Posted October 27, 2022

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I know people are seeing the post credit scene and lamenting that Cassian and Melshi were forced to build the very weapon that will kill them (which is true and I am definitely also 'people') but... it also confirmation that the prison escape directly impacted the development of the Death Star.

Like, we know that turning off the facility meant that Narkina 5 couldn't be fully operational for months, and the loss of 5000 prisoners who were all assembling large numbers of pieces a day... all of that had to hurt the production schedule, not to mention any further damage from Melshi or Cassian's testimonies reaching people inside and out of the prison system.

How long did it delay production? We don't know - it could have been weeks or months, or even just hours. But knowing how little time the Rebellion has once they learn of the Death Star's existence, and how the Empire was closing in, even before then - Jyn and team escape Jedha with the message and means to destroy the superweapon by literal seconds - I just feel like it counted.

The Death Star will one day kill both Cassian and Melshi, but they, and 5000 other men, also bought precious time for the Rebellion. Just enough time to get the plans off Scarif. Just enough time for some desert farmer boy to make the crucial shot.

2,580 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

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ISB and Luthen playing 4D chess against each other:

Ferrix:

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Issues with Luke in TBOBF

The entire point of the prequels was that strict rules can do more damage than good. Jedi are living beings, they have attachments and loved ones and no amount of training can really change that. If Anakin had been allowed to openly have attachments, he could have sought help for his dreams instead of struggling alone and falling to the dark side.

The entire point of the original trilogy was Luke challenging the ways of the old Jedi order because he refused to give up the people he loved. He refused to give up on Han and Leia in Bespin, on Leia at the Deathstar, on Han at Jabba’s, and finally his father during the final battle.

Kenobi TRIED to teach him this - but was proven wrong again and again. HAN saved Luke from Vader during the battle of Yavin. Han saved Luke on Hoth. Leia saved Luke on Bespin.

Kenobi was well meaning and trying to teach what he knew, but over and over it was shown that when it was down to the wire, Luke’s friends and family saved him, not the force.

Yoda TRIED to push the ways of the old order on Luke as well, but he failed as well. Luke made his choice when he left for Bespin instead of finishing his formal training - he refused to lock away his heart to unlock his powers.

He essentially gave up his chance to be trained as a ‘proper’ Jedi Knight - his dream - because he couldn’t give up his friends and the people he loved.

And the choice worked.

Luke saved his friends. He saved his father. He didn’t fall to the dark side even under torture, because the thought of his friends and loved ones gave him strength. The thought of Vader finding Leia gave him the strength and will to fight back when he was basically getting his ass kicked. He didn’t fall to the dark side, but his emotions and feelings strengthened him.

Luke had people to fight for.

Tano is the same way. She refused to give up her heart - and you know what? She never fell to the dark side. She survived decades alone by following her heart. She mastered the force and the Jedi arts while still keeping her heart and attachments.

Same as Ezra - I won’t spoil it, but he had a similar journey.

The three biggest living Jedi - Luke, Tano, and Ezra - are all living proof that the strict rules of the old order weren’t needed. They are living proof that it’s not attachments that are dangerous to the Jedi - it’s being unable to let go.

A Jedi can have attachments, as long as they understand that all living things eventually become one with the force. George Lucas himself explains is this way:

A Jedi can, and should, love.

It’s becoming so attached they can’t let go which is the danger.

Anakin fell to this because he couldn’t let Padme go. Loving her didn’t damn him - being unable to move on did. He got trapped in the past and couldn’t move pass her death.

Luke did not - when the time came, he let his father go. He let Yoda go. He let his aunt and uncle and Briggs and Kenobi go. He mourned, but he kept moving forwards - in part because he had others who loved him and supported him.

 Luke loves his friends and family, but he is able to let them go. ROTJ ended with Luke understanding this, with Luke being a JEDI but still having his friends and sister close.

The force is about balance.

So why, oh why, are they suddenly making Luke into Yoda 2.0??? It goes against his story line, his experience, and his fundamental personality.

There’s no way Luke would make a child choose between learning the force and their family - especially their father. I don’t know why they’re doing it - maybe to  gain sympathy for Kylo Ren years later?

But it just don’t FIT with who Luke IS.

I’m sorry, but I hate the sequels for what they did to Luke. And I hate that they’re trying to set that up now, in TBOBF. Screw angst and plot reasons, it’s not who Luke is.

Din and Luke are really

similar,

balancing old traditions with a new generation just fighting to survive. Both trying to find their own way. I think it’d be more likely for the two to get along and let Grogu

make his own path

then push him to choose.

(Besides, MANDALORIANS CAN BE JEDI. That’s why they have the Darksaber. It’s not unheard of for someone to know the force and the way of the Jedi and still follow The Way.

Not just Tarre Vizla, either:

Oh look, Mandalorian Jedi! During the height of the old republic no less!

Hells, Kenobi seriously considered leaving the order and becoming a Mandalorian for Satine

(there’s also the Korkie issue but that’s another issue)

It’s not unheard of. This doesn’t fit Luke’s personality, and it doesn’t even fit in with the cannon. Luke knows how to love and let go, and he’d teach that to Grogu, not take another little boy away from his father.

In summary:

Attachments: Bad.

Family and friends: Good.

Mandalorian Jedi: Very, very good.

[dindjarindiaries]

i'm sad to say that i'm finding obi-wan kenobi to be very underwhelming and kind of boring. i heard that the head writer didn't even watch the prequels?

i find that reva only has two emotions: gritted teeth and SUDDENLY SHOUTING! (i'm sure the actress is doing the best she can with the writing/directing since in other things she's fantastic) they're not utilizing hayden being back and not using him in flashbacks or anything. so far we've only got like 2 minutes of flashbacks as anakin when they could have 100% done what they did in tbobf with boba's flashbacta tank. shown more of anakin and obi-wan's brotherhood. story beats don't make sense. like how did kumail nanjiani's character not get hunted down and executed by the empire for pretending to be a jedi? i'm watching purely out of obligation at this point.

i don't mean to be such a downer but it's just sad that it's not my thing when i was so excited for it. rots is my favorite of the prequels. the best episode of this series was episode 3 and everything else has been... fine at best.

Thanks for feeling safe enough here to share your honest opinion! Sometimes, stories just don't hit the same for some as they do for others, and that's okay. You're very respectful about your opinions, which is key!

The way I see it is that Reva seems over the top because she's not who she says she is. Reva literally is acting as an Inquisitor because she's trying to play her part to get to Anakin/Vader. So, the rougher front she puts on with the shouting and such is her trying to be an intimidating Inquisitor even if she's still that scared youngling from Order 66 underneath it all.

This story definitely feels different than I thought, but I've come to realize that it's because this story would be better told (and was originally supposed to be told) in a movie medium rather than TV. The production quality of television is always a little less than cinema just due to its nature of a longer storytelling form, so to go from seeing Obi-Wan and Vader in movies only to TV is a bit jarring as it is. Plus, many elements of this story specifically unfold in ways that would be better suited in a singular multi-hour run to prevent confusion amongst viewers. People probably would've been more receptive to the Grand Inquisitor's "death" and Reva's over-the-top Inquisitor nature if they had learned the truth within a matter of hours rather than a matter of weeks, if that makes sense.

I'm sorry you're not enjoying the series the way you anticipated! I hope you enjoy the finale tomorrow. I'm still very much enjoying this series and I can't wait to see the epic conclusion!

[darthboba]

Spoilers for Boba Fett’s stolen show

I’m sorry, as excited as I was with the Mando and Grogu moments in the last episode of TBOBF, it was frustrating that it felt like the only moments Mr. Boba Tea had was a Rancor ride and killing the coolest member of the blue men group.

So that being said, if I see Grogu in the Kenobi show I swear I’m gonna lose it.

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#5

To all the men criticizing Jen for talking about being catcalled:

Getting catcalled doesn’t just make you feel mildly uncomfortable. It makes you feel unsafe. You never know which of those guys jeering at you is going to follow you and try to rape or kill you.

Sorry, if that offends your sensitivities and doesn’t fit in with your worldview, but that’s how women feel.

730 notes - Posted August 22, 2022

#4

Reblog if you find Pedro Pascal attractive

I know they’re just teasing me, but I’m sick of everyone at my work telling me I’m the only person in the world who could ever find Pedro attractive. They tease me every day about it at this point, and I’m annoyed.

So, yeah, please reblog and leave comments and stuff so I can rub it in their faces.

848 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

#3

Can someone explain to me how it’s seemingly always been ok to ship teenaged white girls with immortal white men, but the moment people want to ship an adult black woman with an immortal Latino man, it’s problematic?

1,476 notes - Posted November 12, 2022

#2

2022 really do be the year of pretty Hispanic men in everything and I’m living for it

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5,946 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

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[trashquisitor-shirozora]

I hope you understand how relieving it is to run into someone else that is *not* a fan of the new season. Its really really hard to be here, falling out of love with something, when everyone else around me is all "Oh its so fun!" "Oooo! Its so colorful!" "Look! Jack Black is in it!!!" because while I don't want to yuck their yum, they're also not very open to any sort of even very generalized criticism. And I get I'm being a little over dramatic (I am a sleep deprived college student, it is my right) but every "Just enjoy the fun!" "Not everything has to be so deep all the time." hurts because this was my escapism, this was what sometimes got me through the week...and now its no longer what it was, so I want the ability to grieve, and instead I am met with annoyance and dismissal.

So...yeah, this is a very long winded way of saying thank you. Not only for your fantastic stories, but also your amazing art, and for letting me know I'm not alone.

(sorry but not sorry)

Firstly, I am sending good vibes your way because being a college student is fucking hard. Secondly, I'm really sorry. It is so frustrating when you're unable to enjoy something you used to really love and being told that it's because you're doing it wrong. There is nothing wrong with how you want to engage with and enjoy the things you love, and I think it's important to be able to vent your frustrations and talk these things out. It's better than letting things cook for too long and souring you to the entire experience.

To be honest, I tried to be optimistic and hopeful about this season. I told myself that I couldn't let my experiences with TBOBF, Kenobi, and Andor color my impressions of Season 3, even if I was left speechless and bewildered by the season premiere. I was anticipating the same responses you were getting so I tried to be fair. I'll wait until the season is over to decide whether to watch. I'll wait and see if the season improves, if I was overreacting, if I understimated Jon Dave Favloni.

Sometimes, a season of your favorite show just isn't living up to your expectations. Sometimes it just fucking sucks, and it's okay to talk about how disappointed you are by it. Whatever reasons you have for your disappointment, whatever you're feeling, they're all fucking valid.

Thirdly, thank you for enjoying my words and my arts! I love my tin can tin man too much and I am brimming with so much spite like good luck chasing me out, Jon Dave Favloni, I'm going to Dinluke my merry way while you do whatever it is you're doing with the Disney canon.

And please get some sleep whenever you can.

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#5

Okay okay

Hi

Love u

I need more Cider content

How does he get his scar???

And that hair??? Gorgeous

He’s beautiful

Will he let me hold his hand??

You have no idea how happy it makes me that you like Cider I got up and did a little dance when I got this ask🥺❤🥺❤🥺❤

Ok ok so... the story of how he got his scar is filled with angst so be prepared.

So he got it very young, as a cadet (like the ones that are around Boba's age in AOTC). His batch was always a little bit odd. His twin, Rum, is the complete opposite of him. Always joking around and having fun, but when the two of them are on the battle field together, the work like a well oiled machine. But... Cider didn't always used to be so closed off.

The rest of their cadet squad was a bit disconnected from Rum and Cider, seeing the bond that they shared, but they were still as close as could be. One day, during a training simulation, one of the members of his squad who had always had a little trouble seriously messed up. He mis-stepped, causing one of his squad to fall off of one of the platforms and break his leg, and getting himself caught in the center of all of these repurposed commando droids (this is a melee simulation for possible outcomes where they do not have their blasters)

Cider sees his batchmate calling for help with tears in his eyes as he stands over the other boy who is clutching his leg on the floor, cowering as one of the droids is about to strike. He rushes forward, blocking the blow of the droid and standing over his two brothers, he fends them off, nearly taking out every droid until Rum can arrive to help. He turns to give Rum an order, ready to tell him to get the injured and run while the other covered their backs. But, as he's detracted, one of the droids slashes at his face, causing him to fall back as he is blinded by his own blood.

He hears a buzz, the one that signals that the simulation has been terminated and frantically wipes his eyes. The trainers come in, between them on of the kaminoan caretakers. They say that they have come to take the young cadet who "caused so much trouble" to be decommissioned as it is clear that he is not fit to be a soldier. Cider shouts at them, holding his brother close to his chest as the rest of his squad joins him, saying that he is not defective and that he won't let them take him.

Of course, eventually, they do, and Cider and the rest of his squad are left, incomplete and broken at the lost of their brother. After that, they are all separated, put into different squads until they graduate. Rum and Cider were still put together because of how well they worked together, but Cider was given extra "training" because he was found to be too emotional at the time.

That is why he pushes everyone away and does not let himself feel. You only get hurt that way...

Sorry, that got away from me. I told you it was angsty though 😭😭😭😭

As for his hair, it is naturally that color! A "defective" gene. As his story goes on, he lets it grow out and doesn't slick it back as much and he gets magnificent auburn curls 🥰

I'm so glad you think he's beautiful though. I tired to make him quite attractive.

He'll fight you on it, and it may take a while, but he'd eventually let you hold his hand ❤ but only for a second lol

Thank you so much for this ask. I love talking about my boys

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15 notes - Posted May 21, 2022

#4

Thoughts on Hondo?

I love Hondo. Honestly, I think a big part of that is because of Jim Cummings (who voiced him and improvised a lot of the one liners that we all know and love) but I just like how he's a bit of comic relief in such heavy episodes. Plus, he's unpredictable and his loyalties change so much, but he still has a bit of morality and his own code of ethics.

Not saying he's the most in depth character there is, but I enjoy seeing him

Ask me anything

16 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

#3

MY TAROT CARDS ARRIVED AND I AM IN LOVE

THANK YOU SO MUCH @pinkiemme I AM SO HAPPY

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#2

Goodbye.

A/N: Hello Everyone! Its been a while since I've posted but I have finally gotten out of my writing slump! It's good to be back and I hope you enjoy this short little angst fest to kick off my return. And, thank you so much to @captainrexisboo beta reading this for me!

Length: ~700 words

Warnings: ANGST, death, mentions of dead bodies, talk of wanting to die, Rex is really going through it

Rex sank to his knees before Jesse’s grave, his face emotionless as he stared far beyond the graveyard that was covered in smoke. “Was it all worth it?” he asked the empty air in front of him. “If all we were meant for was to be pawns to be thrown away, then why were we made to care? Why were we made to be alive? Why weren’t we just droids?” He paused, looking down at the raised dirt just in front of his knees.

“We might as well have been. Sent to our deaths without a second thought. Produced in mass quantities and given a number to keep track of how much someone was to pay for us. Treated as if everything else in the galaxy was more important. Hell… Even General Skywalker cared more about his R2 unit than he did my brothers that died recovering it.” He clenched his fist, his eyes closing as he felt another wave of tears coming, streaking down the now dry paths on his face from his grieving sobs when he dug out every single body from the wreckage of the crashed venator.

“Why?” His voice broke on the word, catching in his throat as he tried to contain his grief once again, knowing that the effort would be meaningless. “Why was I chosen to be left alive? Why was our existence nothing but pain?” He looked back up at Jesse’s helmet, his soul nearly breaking entirely at seeing the blood on the side and remembering the sight of his brother lying dead in the sand. “Jesse!” he cried, hating the reflection of himself that he saw in the visor. “I’m so sorry!” He keeled over, pressing the heel of his hands into his eyes as his forehead came to rest on the dirt of Jesse’s grave. “It’s all my fault! I did this to you!” He gasped in breaths, nearly choking on the dust that came with it but not having enough will to care. “If I had just believed Fives! If I had just listened! You would still be alive! You all would!”

He threw his head back, looking up into the sky and letting out a guttural scream, one that was filled with torture and agony and regret. He didn’t care if Ahsoka saw. He didn’t care about anything. How could he? Everything was gone.

“Why couldn’t you let me die!” He collapsed back down onto the ground, once again gathering the dirt in his fists.

It must have been hours before he finally moved again, sitting back on his heels with a stiff back and a raw throat. All the tears he had to shed were long gone, soaked into the dusty earth that surrounded him. It was dark then, the stars looking down on his sorrow and reflecting light off of the visors that were still intact just to remind him once again, that he had failed.

He stood, letting the dirt fall back to the ground and fly off into the wind. His whole frame slumped with exhaustion, finally giving up any hope that some merciful force might come and strike him down where he stood. The man he was is gone. Only a broken memory of him still exists.

He bowed his head to the graves, closing his eyes as he slowly let out a breath. It was cold out now and his breath appeared in front of his face as he regarded his brothers one last time. “I’m sorry…” he croaked out, his lip quivering as he struggled to compose himself. “I’m sorry that we never got to live, vod…”

He opened his eyes, straightening his posture and taking one last look: saying one last goodbye. “You were the best men I will ever know… I’m just… so sorry that I failed you… And that we have to say… goodbye.”

He forced himself to turn away then, knowing that if he didn’t do it now, he never would. He took one step. And then another. Each one carrying him further from the people he loved the most and the ones that he would never see again. But that is what they were made for.

To die.

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44 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Perfect Imperfections Cody x Reader

A/N: Hey everyone! It's been a little while but I hope that you enjoy this fic! It was kind of therapeutic for me and I'm hoping to keep writing now that I have kind of dug myself out of the slump I've been in for a while. Thank you all for your ongoing support and I hope to have something new out for you guys again soon! Enjoy! The reader is gender neutral. Also a big thank you to @captainrexisboo for beta reading this for me!

Length: ~1300 words

Warnings: Hurt/Comfort, some self hate/insecurities about appearance and the self in general

You had been standing in the bathroom long after you finished getting ready for bed, just staring at yourself in the mirror. It had just been business as usual, doing your routine after a long day of work and fun out on the town with your beloved Commander when something caught your eye.

It was always that something. The thing that you thought about and wished would go away. The thing that stuck out like a sore thumb, reminding you just how imperfect you were.

Yeah. You didn’t look like everyone else. You were not what everyone seemed to find desirable, and you knew it. You knew it and you hated it. You hated that part of yourself that would never make you worth the love that you so desperately craved.

And it always started with that part of you. The marathon of self-hate that you would give yourself, seeking out everything that was wrong with you and everything that made you unworthy of any kind of affection. It made you so tired, made you so worried that one day, Cody would realize just how ugly you were.

You had never known what made him seek you out. You were too shy to ask and were almost scared to, thinking that if you had him think about it too much, he would realize just how imperfect you were. But right here, right now, you needed to know. You were having such a hurricane of thoughts running through your mind that you could not stop yourself from asking.

The fresher door opened with a hiss, and you looked out from where you stood in the doorway to see him sat up against the head of the bed, scrolling on a data pad to no doubt finish a few reports before bed. It calmed you a bit to see how at peace he was. His face still carried a bit of its telltale tension, but he was still relaxed, obviously comfortable in the pajamas you had gifted him and relaxed at how safe your apartment made him feel.

“Cody?” You asked, your voice barley above a whisper.

He immediately looked up at you. He always does when you call for him, giving you his full attention like he didn’t want to miss a single moment of taking you in. His brow furrowed, obviously sensing the uneasiness in your voice and the rigidness of your posture. “Cyare?” He asked. “What is it?”

He set the data pad aside, swinging his legs off the bed and immediately crossing over to you.

You were holding yourself, brushing your thumbs in arcs against your arm as you avoided his eye. That was enough to tell him that something big was bothering you, so he did not yet reach out for you, not wanting to invade your space and make it worse.

The two of you stood in silence for what felt like forever, him giving you the time that you needed to tell him whatever you wanted to, and you working up the courage to actually ask him the question that had been plaguing your mind. Finally, you turned your eyes towards his face, locking onto his own concerned stare with tears threatening to spill forth from you at any moment.

“Do… Do you think I’m beautiful?”

Cody actually reeled back, taking a few seconds to process what he had just heard. “Cyare…” He said, his voice sounding sad as he finally reached out for you, gently taking your hands in his. “Why would you ask that? How could I not think that you are beautiful?”

Despite your efforts, a tear slipped down your face, making you follow its path towards the floor with your face, not wanting to see the look in Cody’s eyes. “Because… I’m not perfect. I’m not beautiful. I’m… just me. I have scars and am not what I’m supposed to be. I don’t look like what is expected of me.”

Cody was silent for a moment, just looking at you with eyes full of hurt as he watched you talk so harshly about yourself. “Mesh’la,” he said quietly, tucking a knuckle under your chin to lift your face to his. “Look at me,” he softly demanded.

You obeyed, your lip quivering as he stepped closer to you.

“You are beautiful. You are the most beautiful person I have ever laid eyes upon.” He leaned forward, kissing your forehead as he pulled you into an embrace.

“But…” you whispered, “But I’m not perfect.”

He pulled back from you, gently leading you both to sit on the edge of the bed. “My love. No one is perfect.”

“You are,” you sniffled, reaching to wipe the tears as they still fell from your eyes. “You were made to be perfect.”

A small smile quirked up on Cody’s lips as he tilted your face to his yet again, brushing his thumb against the back of your hand to soothe you. “No, I’m not,” he said playfully. “I’m just some bastard who was lucky enough to get put in charge. I mean, look,” he said as he turned his head to the side, showing you his scar. “If I was perfect, I wouldn’t have this. And I would like those kriffing awful stuff they dare to call food back on base. There are so many things that make me imperfect, but that is what makes me… well… me. And all of those imperfections you see in yourself are why I love you.”

He scooted closer to you, pulling you to his side and wrapping his arm around your shoulders. He leaned in, placing a kiss just above your ear before pulling back to whisper in it. “Tell me what you see wrong with yourself, mesh’la, and I’ll tell you just how much I love that about you.”

You hesitated for a moment, but finally relented, trusting that Cody would not let you fall further into the pit of despair you were already in. You began telling him everything. How you didn’t like your build, your scars and how you did not look like what you were expected to look like. How you hated certain things about yourself because of something someone had said years ago but that you never forgot.

With each word you uttered, each thing you pointed out about yourself that you did not like, Cody would press a delicate kiss to your body, working his way around you to reach every bit of yourself that you did not love, and giving it his. He worked his fingers into your neck, massaging the tensed muscles there until you melted back into him, resting against his chest as he held you like you were the most precious thing in the world.

“Your imperfections are what make you perfect to me, cyare. No one else is like you and no one else ever could be. Just like you accept all of my imperfections, like how I stumble on that trick step every time I come over and you giggle, or how I accidentally scared that little girl across the hall when I tried to share those sweets we got at the market, or how I can’t bake. You love me for all of those things, don’t you?”

You nodded, your heart warming as you thought over everything he had said about himself. Those things made him Cody. They are what made him the man you love. “You’re a blanket hog too,” you giggled, turning a bit to face him. “But,” you leaned up to press a kiss to his jaw, “your cooking skills make up for that.”

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[shoosip]

Kenobi isn’t bad

You just have too many expectations.

Me? Oh, me just doesn’t like Jedi stuff that much 👍 I like Star Wars when the main character isn’t force sensitive at all.

Cue to The Mandalorian, Solo, The Bad Batch, TBOBF and Rogue One.

Only Jedis I tolerate to be the mc of something are Cal Kestis and Grogu. (Luke darling I’m so sorry but I don’t think I can read nor see your Jedi school or your Jedi training.)

[xinambercladx]

Yes, I very much agree with most every statement you've made. The following is a rant. Feel free to completely ignore. I am but a single fan amongst millions and my opinions matter little to nothing.

SPOILER AHEAD

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In Kenobi, I feel like Leia, as adorable and perfect casting that she is, has overstayed her purpose of being the catalyst. She is being used as a MacGuffin instead. She could have safely headed home to Alderaan after ep. 3, leaving Ben to drive the plot forward by giving extra emphasis and screen time to him and Vader's eventual second clash. MacGuffin Leia's near-torture was "scary" but we all knew she would be fine. I doubt Disney had the guts to actually go through with it. Instead, the game-of-thrones-lady Tala Durith, is a NEW character, an unknown. I was genuinely scared for her well being when she was distracting Reva by pretending to be a double agent. In contrast, I was not scared for Reva in the latest episode. She has main-antagonist plot armor. The lack of actual consequences (the lack of Vader following through with his anger), lead to plot build up, but zero payoff.

Actions need consequences. Set up needs payoff. Without them, a story feels unsatisfying, empty. Popcorn is good, but I'm still hungry half hour later.

The writers for Kenobi are doing well in terms of story structure though. Ben is shown starting off in a rough place with PTSD, but is slowing finding himself again and reconnecting to the Force. Also, the show is thankfully lacking the plot holes and overuse of flashbacks that TBoBF had. At least it's chronological! Both these tv shows haven't added much to the SW universe though in the way that TBB has. We've seen 2 new planets I guess? So there's that.

The Mandalorian is full of new-ness. New characters, new planets, new story beats, and plenty of cameos, sure, but each cameo usually served the plot of each episode. The stakes are higher because the fate of these characters are mostly unknown. We care because we don't know. The problem with writers using Legacy characters is that they focus on whether they survive or not, to which we already know the answer. Leia was always going to live. They should instead have the suspense of a story revolve around whether or not Legacy characters succeed or not. Examples: Rescue a non-legacy damsel in distress, stop a bomb, or deliver a message in time. Rogue One had the reverse of the latter, since we knew the Death Star plans DID get delivered, we just didn't know how or if the deliverers survived. THE MUSIC. ... So lackluster in BoBF and Kenobi. I am unenthused. In contrast, The Bad Batch's OST was bombastic and full of feels and cinematic drama. Kevin Kiner's work was masterful when ADDING to a scene rather than just... Sorry, Natalie Holt, your music just doesn't hit the feels for me. Where's the suspense? Where's the pulling of heart strings? :( Heck, even Fallen Order, a videogame, had stronger motiffs! I'm ranting. I LOVE STAR WARS, but I have opinions. Disclaimer: I have no ill will towards any of the actors. They're all doing a fantastic job. Good God, Ewan McGreggor is superb. So happy to have him back as Obi-Wan. Also, I will ever be grateful for the sick burns that Uncle Owen proved capable of giving. I actually hope we see him again at the end of Season 1.

Okay, imma be honest here…

The Bad Batch is the best new Star Wars content lately.

All the other TV shows released in the past couple years have been pretty subpar comparatively. Same freaking desert planets, same stories, and the stakes feel disappointingly low. I want SO badly to LOVE these new live action shows. But I find them… lacking.

The Bad Batch, even though it has its fair share of filler episodes, actually feels like it’s going somewhere and adding to the Star Wars story at large. It’s one of the only pieces of SW content that doesn’t feel like a cheap money grab.

Post Order 66 and the Rise of the Empire is probably one of the most interesting timelines we could possibly explore in the SW Universe.

And the stakes in TBB are actually high. We don’t know what will happen to the characters. Will they live? Will they die? Every episode makes you wonder if some of the characters are gonna make it out alive. I genuinely have no clue how the story could end. And that’s what makes it so exciting.

The animation in TBB allows for them to actually GO PLACES. Different planets, different people, beautiful scenery. And I’m not taken out of the story by janky CGI and makeup/prosthetics.

Not to mention the music in TBB is spectacular.

Idk, I just feel like TBB is the only show that is lore accurate and really feels like Star Wars.

I feel like the other SW content could be spectacular if they stopped pouring their money into pumping out a new series every other month and took it nice and slow, creating stories that actually make sense and add to the universe as a whole.

Anyone else feeling the same way?