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hey you know how in the late nineties we all went batshit for gregorian chants as like, a genre, for inexplicable reasons?

did the gffa have an equally baffling love for Jedi hymns for a hot second. can you go to any spopshop (space opshop) and find approximately 346 discs of Jedi hymns vol 32 in the music section. are there nightcore remixes of 'hymn to the force(in h minor)', popularly known in temple as 'please grant me serenity so I might not punch this senator in the face'.

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Suffer, as I have suffered.

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Oh no my shitpost broke containment etc. Lemme say to begin with that I am not making "a case against them." I realize I made a public post and all that, but I try to keep my own rent low, so my blog's audience isn't generally in that neighborhood.

Anyway what strikes me about most of your examples is how racists are regulating these kids in their playtime! Your Asian girl is getting assigned Mulan by people deciding what's appropriate for her, your black girl is getting racially bullied by her peers into playing a certain way, your PoC kids have their options restricted by corporations catering to racist social norms. I don't remember that doll test but I shall read it later.

Idk really how to respond, because it feels like this was a yes BUT, but...... yes it truly does suck when racists get agitated about (literal) kids playing with dolls wrong.

Must admit that one thing that changed the way I see fandom discourse is realizing that a lot of fandom is just… playing with dolls. We're playing with dolls. Shipping? Playing with dolls. AUs? Dolls. Darkfic? Dolls.

Lotta people very agitated about the other kids playing with dolls wrong.

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If there's one thing I have learned, it's that if there is something humans want to eat, slugs almost certainly want to eat it too.

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Oh no my playing with dolls post is getting serious

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Admittedly I'm not entirely familiar with Legends, and you'd have to pay me to read Traviss, but I'm pretty sure that one thing Legends and Lucasfilm have in common is that Mandalore has a long history of imperialism. That there is simply no version without it.

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Given how fucking hardcore Mandalorians are about their Space Christian “there is only one true kind of Mandalorian and it’s my very specific set of criteria that ignores 70% of the population at the bare minimum and mildly contradicts with all of the other 1562 definitions people have in a way that I’ve decided means holy war” nonsense, it just makes me all the more curious to know what in the hell Tarre Vizsla did.

If becoming leader of Mandalore is an uphill climb, Tarre started underground. One of the few things Mandalorians agree on is that Jedi are their enemies. And yet Tarre strolls out of the Jedi Order with a black-bladed lightsaber and not only does he become leader, he becomes so memorable and so revered that his lightsaber becomes the symbol of Mandalorian leadership for a thousand years.

Did he invent beskar? Did he fight his way through an army to climb on that throne and then refuse to budge? Was he just really good at taxation and imports and all that boring stuff that actual government requires and they couldn’t overthrow him without their infrastructure collapsing?

“No Mandalorian warrior will ever accept a Jedi on the throne!”

“Oh, what a shame. I guess I’ll just have to settle for the Mandalorian workers, Mandalorian artisans, Mandalorian merchants, Mandalorian scholars, Mandalorian inventors, and literally every other non-noble who’ve joined me because they’re tired of the Houses breaking their stuff over petty squabbles. Good thing warriors don’t need to eat, right? Cause I’ve also got the Mandalorian farmers and they are really tired of you burning their fields.”

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Just to clarify for those who don't know I do find the whole business of all these direct Iraq war references used about the civil war in the prequels, which are used exclusively a study on the (potential) impact that war has on the republic (the america stand-in in this metaphor), which depict the enemy combatants as funny disposable battle droids, to be tasteless and dare I say it racist. We know that the Iraq war impacted Iraqis the most. (understatement.) It just does not jive. The doubling down on how evil the separatists are does not, in fact, help. I am aware that this is not a one-to-one metaphor, and that most people are succeeding at divorcing this association from their experience of Star Wars, but maybe it's just that I grew up in that time, and that the references are so overt, that I simply cannot entirely shake that bad taste. And also why should I.

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Honestly sometimes people do just focus on the jedi too much. And I mean this in both ways, like if you take the basic war and downfall of the republic plot in the prequels, you can find endless posts about how the whole point is the jedi did this or the jedi did that, it's all about the jedi's flaws or it's all about them being justified- meanwhile the movies are just there making super basic points about emergency wartime powers and the use of fear in politics and this post is not going to evolve into a critique of the prequels re: the iraq war but i will just say it's fucked up there and move on and the jedi are mostly just kind of there. It's not really about them, as a group? I think this is where the Padme-Palpatine story deserves more attention.

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Crazy little theory

Oh my god I just realized something…what if in A New Hope, when Artoo kept claiming that Obi-Wan was his owner, Threepio misunderstood and translated it to mean owner, when in fact Artoo was calling him Master (which could mean owner), as in Master Obi-Wan, as in “my Master is going to kill me,” as in “Master Obi-Wan says I’m the best Jedi in the galaxy,” as in “Come on, Artoo, we have to make the rendezvous with Master Obi-Wan?” The way our beloved R2D2 always heard Kenobi referred to. His master’s master.

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Padmé Amidala’s costumes featured in the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume

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Excuse you I don't just run a star wars blog I run a star wars prequels blog. I'm here for jar jar bink's 17 dicks, the rest of star wars is just so-so.