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Obi-wan Kenobi 

Keychain: www.etsy.com/listing/1219699383/preorder-star-wars-keychains

Last episode of the Obi-wan series is today :’)

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the soresu stance

THE CLONE WARS (2008-2020) STAR WARS; EPISODE 3 - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) STAR WARS REBELS - TWIN SUNS (2016) OBI-WAN KENOBI PART VI (2022)

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Saw that video of Ewan Mcgregor watching over some sea otters and just had to draw kenobi with an otter 🦦 💖

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Sad bunnywan hours

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“To hold on to something— or someone—beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force. That is a path of misery, Anakin; the Jedi do not walk it." ~ Obi Wan

Biting the bullet and practicing drawing Obi Wan. Especially his hair at angles.

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I saw the other day a comment that went along the lines of "I talk against the Jedi more than anyone else because Jedi fans keep setting them up as this group of good people which isn't done with other Star Wars groups" and like... that is how the narrative sets them up specifically.

George Lucas defines them as the "most moral group in the galaxy [thus deserving moral authority.]" The Jedi being good people who suffer a tragedy was always the intention. Take it up with the creator, not with the fans consuming the content that was presented to them.

You have to dig and make-up arguments to try and make them seem like terrible people, and so far as I've read them, those arguments practically never hold up when you actually consider canon and let go of the preconceptions of fandom discourse, because Jedi were simply never designed as "controlling," or "full of hubris," or even "stagnant." Half the time the supposed evil characteristics can't be proved. The most I've seen is "this is left kinda vague, so clearly the evil must be here!" But like, if you go into the analysis with a expecting-evil bias... then by definition the analysis isn't objective. If you go into the analysis taking in the factors as presented to you, and want to take further clues such as narrative intention or explicitly stated inspirations, and come away with the conclusion that the Jedi are good people and the Order is just fine as it is... then that isn't Jedi fans proping up the Jedi, that is how Star Wars Jedi are.

To be fair, Jedi from Legends are a galaxy away from the Canon Jedi. Mostly because George Lucas never really gave Legends any sort of attention or legitimacy, describing the whole thing as a sort of parallel universe that was not relevant to his own. Even then, some of the most Legends Jedi-Critical material isn't even valid for Legends itself, because Legends Rules are that everything that happens in Canon happens in Legends, but stuff that happens in Legends doesn't happen in Canon. And so Legends material that contradicts Canon is immediately 'invalid,' which is, for example, most of KT's works. (i.e. her depiction of Order 66 was conspicuously and publicly dismissed.)

But even then, Legends tends to be incredibly contradictory with itself because, as stated previously, no real oversight. So its difficult to take it as its own cohesive parallel universe, rather than a big conglomeration of mini parallel universes by authors and... huh. It's liscensed fanfiction. It's basially fanfiction you pay for.

So like, if you want to interact with the concept of the Jedi as they were presented in Legends, then by all means go for it! Enjoy yourself! Picking apart books is one of the most fun pastimes ever! Same with actual fanfiction!

But do you really need to go and critisize Jedi fans for consuming and interacting with the main material?

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something i really liked about the obi-wan series is the universal acknowledgement that obi-wan isn’t just a central figure by dint of being the main character of this show, of being tied to the skywalkers and organas, he’s a central figure because of his position within the jedi order.

“you were once a great jedi,” says nari, devastated that obi-wan won’t protect and help him. haja is shocked to learn not just that he’s a jedi but that he’s obi-wan. nobody except sidious (and reva) needs any reason for vader’s fixation on hunting down obi-wan kenobi - he’s obi-wan kenobi. master-in-waiting of the jedi order, third greatest master of the end of the jedi age after grand master yoda and master of the order mace windu, the master of soresu, jedi high general, leader of the third systems army.

obi-wan coming back into his own doesn’t just mean protecting people, or even regaining his way with words - coming back into his own means that in a room packed with other force-sensitive people, including multiple other jedi, he is the undisputed figure in command.

looking at the message wall on daiyu, he properly comprehends there are other jedi survivors. looking at the message wall on jabiim, he properly comprehends that he is their leader. he is a member of the high council, he is now (with mace likely dead) the master of the order, and his work for them isn’t over.

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Ki Adi Mundi: Anakin, I know what you're going through, my own family was killed and though it was hard for me to move on, I eventually did-

The fanbase: wow Ki Adi Mundi is evil. He didn't care about his family dying, he practically killed them himself! He deserved to be shot!!!

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middle-earth inspired quinlan and obi-wan for a friends birthday yesterday 🥳

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MF-

Idk whos made this, if u made this just send me a massage and i'll delete this <3

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Just once I’d like to see a person with super powers or magic who DOESN’T get a boost from heightened emotion.

That should make it harder for them to concentrate, right?

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Honestly I don't know why people insist that Anakin wouldn't have fallen had he been trained by Qui-Gon. I wonder why that is

Because those people laid the blame for Anakin's fall on the Jedi, and not Palpatine and Anakin himself. People who don't like the Jedi Order see Qui-Gon, the maverick, as the only Jedi who is unsullied by the council and their "despotic" ways because he's frequently stated to ignore them.

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The kiddo got some food. Finally.

he's still bad at cooking tho

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Right

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Obi-wan + Boga