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i don’t know how some of you can go “well naboo ALWAYS elected teen girls to rule them, it’s tradition!” then just leave it at that. like i think there’s a lot to interrogate here lmao

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mon mothma is alive! (please)

haha! you get a snippet (aka the one line of this I've actually written) and some waffling! this is very heavily inspired by a conversation my dear mon loving friend (you know who you are) and I had about an unused dress of padme's that reminded her a lot of andor's mon styling, and that got me thinking about mon and padme generally. and then I found out about Star Wars #46, and that got me thinking about leida somehow, and then mon mothma is alive (working title) was created. so very long story short I think where mon is at by the fall of the republic, and how that contrasts with bail (sir probably not appearing in this fic) is very interesting. and how all of this and the rebellion generally relates to padme (loml, proud holder of the longest running blorbo title) is also very interesting.

now for the snippet: This was her path, her mother had said to her, as Mon's world kept crashing down, a starship shaking itself to death at speeds too fast for it to maintain.

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not to yap about the acolyte again. but. agency am I right.

osha's life in the coven is so restrictive. everyone seemingly expects her to be half of the same coin with mae. born as two but always one. I think it's quite interesting how osha and mae's relationship is so uniquely restrictive too! there are all sorts of other people in the coven - we see mother koril and mother aniseya arguing with each other, they are clearly very different types of people; its just mae and osha, the coven's hope for the future that are treated in this way. how must that feel. you are eight and your sister is eight and you are different people but nobody wants you to be. and she is better than you at being her mother's daughter, and she wants to ascend and you want to see the stars but you are being pinned down to the ground by your family. you've never known anyone else but them; you are a hope and a saviour but you don't want to be. and then a choice finally comes along, a chance for freedom; who wouldn't take that?

and later you find that life doesn't work for you, and you leave again, find new people, but soon you withdraw and spend your days off alone. where once there was two there now is one, and you were never made to be just one. never meant to be alone really.

osha just keeps making choices! look at her go!

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another day, another ask game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

@cheesenames tagged me :) first ever time I've done one of these haha. I am cheating a little bit because these are a) just fan fiction ones, and b) just the ones I've actually started work on...otherwise this list would go on forever

ah yes my beautiful wips (please for the love of god do not look at my ao3 it’s three crackfics and a bunch of some of the most atrociously written stuff out there). these range from 'I've written 2k and just need to rewatch some stuff before finishing' to 'literally a few sentences'

stalking his god

lessons in pedagogy/a good teacher

such men are dangerous

mon mothma is alive

untitled document - silm

tagging time I guess. also with no pressure: @midnight-melancholiaaa, @ozvezdja, @e-the-village-cryptid, @batshape, @cycas, @husborth

sorry for pinging people haha. largely just people I know or whose work I love :)

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 Luthien/Thuringwethil is real! First time that Thuringwethil has shown up in the Lay Of Lethian Rock Opera and she is already gay for luthien. My lesbian heart cant take it. We just keep winning

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Reminder that the Acolyte takes inspiration from the film Rashomon, so the show is going to be full of unreliable narrators. That's exactly what we saw in this episode, with the coven repeating anti-Jedi positions that are familiar to the fandom, while the Jedi themselves show the thematic connection between queerness/neurodivergence that has been established more recently. Additionally, the new eu has clarified very recently that, unlike in Legends, the Jedi can't take children without parental permission (although I'm guessing in cases like Osha and Mae they can ask defer to the children's wishes). This has been stated very explicitly in media made while the Acolyte was in production, and if the intention was that the Jedi can take force-sensitive children, those details wouldn't have gone to print.

I think preserving this ambiguity is exactly why Indara was cut off when she was explaining what Republic law states about training children into Force religions. Because if there is any kind of law about that, it would have been enacted after phases 1/3 of the High Republic in response to the Elders of the Path, an anti-Force religion who are very heavily coded after anti-queer religious cults. What the Jedi were doing is the equivalent of the government checking in on religious groups that practice homeschooling to make sure there's no abuse by denying information going on.

Another context the High Republic gives us, this time back in phase 2, is that the Republic- and by extension the Jedi- are very tolerant of other Force religions. There are dark side faiths on Jedha- such as the Brotherhood of the Ninth Door and the Central Isopter. So Aniseya's coven can't be as innocent as she presents them. They must have committed actual crimes to be persecuted in the way they claim. The Path of the Open Hand (the predecessor to the Elders of the Path that were also anti-Force) was tolerated as they preached against all other Force religions until evidence that they were stealing artifacts was found.

I think the fact that all this information comes from the High Republic, the very project that Leslye Headland is a big fan of and pre-release material has been telling everyone to read is significant. This isn't some random panel from a comic published in 2015, this is from media that was considered when writing the Acoytle. Maybe lets not trust the woman running the enmeshed codependent sibling relationship factory.

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actually they're only a sith if they come from the korriban region of the outer rim, otherwise they're just a sparkling dark jedi

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already obsessed☝️🥸

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The Acolyte art released by Topps cards

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THE ACOLYTE— Destiny (S01E03) ››› Jodie Turner-Smith as Mother Aniseya

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The TV binge model has ruined people's perception of TV. We’re 3 episodes into The Acolyte, a show that was advertised as a mystery, and people are complaining that they don’t know all the plot information yet. Yeah, that's the point. Watch the next 5 episodes and you'll figure it out

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No Jecki and Yord this week so have a meme with them

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we couldve had guillermo del toro’s The Jabbfather…

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hi! this may very well be wording issues on my side (this was written and posted at a rather silly hour), but I am not trying to argue that anakin never had a choice in the matter, or that criticising him for making shit murder-y choices is unfair, I am arguing that I don't think this specifically is a productive discussion because a) we never see anakin in a position where he actively seems to be considering leaving until its functionally too late re the war, and b) leaving the order after shmi's death wouldn't really have prevented his fall (this is, of course, my interpretation of the films - you are welcome to your own)

I will also say my part on the point relevant to my actual argument you've brought up, but i don't plan on taking this discussion further - like I said I think this is fundamentally a very pointless topic of discourse - choosing to do all the murders as a criticism of anakin? yes, I agree, murder is bad and that he did any - bad! but I don't find the 'anakin could have just left the order' argument very useful to an actual discussion of his character.

so, "he could have chosen to leave and the Jedi and a Padme would have easily assisted him and his mom with finding a new life"

there is little to no evidence in mainline canon (films and Disney shows) that supports the assertion that the jedi as a group would have supported him once he left, it just doesn't seem to be their policy.

padme does not know him. she met him for a very short span of time when he was nine, and sure he saves her planet, but then he joins the order, and she next sees him ten years later - nothing in main canon supports the idea that she ever say, tried to rescue shmi, or even really thought about her. by the time anakin and padme are working together in aotc it is too late for shmi right?

I will accept the idea that if shmi didn't die, anakin could probably easily leave the order, marry padme or whatever, and everything would be fine and good, but that is just a concept for a fix it au

again, I am not arguing that anakin never makes literally horrid choices and gets away with genuinely pretty evil stuff, like the tusken massacre, or even that anakin had the final say in deciding to kill children - I agree that those choices fall on him! the reason I brought up palpatine is because I don't think the idea that if anakin left the order and was with padme he wouldn't have fallen is supported by what we see in rots of palpatine and anakin's relationship, and the reasons why anakin falls as given by the film.

icl i fundamentally disagree with the 'oh the acolyte shows anakin could have left the order anyway actually so he's so much worse bc he had an easy way out the whole time' discussions I've been seeing, because, like. literally why is this even a topic of discussion? ok ok hang with me here, I'm doing a list.

there is literally nothing in the prequels that suggests this is ever an option for him. up until shmi's death he is happy with the order - most of the problems he expresses come specifically from his relationship with obi-wan not the jedi generally, so why would he want to leave. once shmi dies, sure I getcha. his mum died and the jedi have a significant hand in that, and then he immediately breaks the code and does a massacre. however, and some may have missed this, its a fairly small plot point, the clone wars begin. anakin is not only never characterised as the sort of guy who would back out of this conflict (esp since he was involved from the get go), but also there is literally no time between anything - aotc and rots take place over such short time spans, comparatively; we see quite literally All the events happening at once.

so why doesn't he quit in tcw/rots? again. there is a war on and he is directly involved. tcw shows him as having made personal connections with the clones, and if there's one thing about anakin that everyone should be able to agree on its that he sure has attachments. also, again, rots takes place over such a short span of time and he is fairly clearly not in the best place in like fucking any of it

it probably wouldn't even fix anything bro. anakin is not the central turning point of the war, not really. that's palpatine. with or without anakin palpatine still gets the war, and realistically if anakin leaves the order then war breaks out, he is going to turn to palpatine as one of the only people he is close to, and ergo probably falls anyway. maybe he doesn't kill the younglings but like. shit still happens, jedi still get order 66'd

No Please Understand One Busy And Isolated Woman Is Not A Full Support Network Stop It. ok so. padme isolation is something that I fully see in the films. I will not yap on about that now, but take it as read for this point (although. even if she has a great and healthy support network that is not the issue! you are still saying that padme, who has a very busy job and her own life regardless, should functionally drop everything to support anakin). a key part of support networks is that they are a network aka not one woman. look me dead in the eyes and think anakin and obi-wan (already not having a great communicative relationship) are still talking after he leaves. go on. try. realistically speaking once the war starts anakin is in an, if anything, worse position - his fatherbrothermentor is out there fighting and he cannot help, his wife is barely home, the senate is always busy, and he is so so jobless (again. here is where palpatine would swoop in...bro cannot win fr fr). and Again, One (1) Padme Should Not Be Responsible For Dealing With The Entirely Of Anakin's Issues. stop it.

I don't actually have a full point 5 rn I just like it when the numbers do this :3

so bonus not-quite point: tcw and the acolyte both explicitly say the jedi don't prep you for the outside world if you leave the order, transferable skills etc etc BUT ALSO does your ex-jedi have any records of employment? any space gcses or a-levels or space degrees? a letter of recommendation? are they actually skilled enough in say mechanics/engineering to be able to survive in a world where droids exist and clearly have a huge presence in those sectors? any any money to help them get a flat or smth (not applicable in anakin's case but worth saying anyway)?

in short. I don't think it's a fair point to make when criticising anakin. it relies on a really weird reading of the prequels that misses a) the war, b) palpatine, c) the inherent misogyny of putting the wellbeing of anakin, guy who is hanging on the same thread as my sanity after exam week, entirely in the hands of one woman, d) the lack of regard for how support networks are, in fact, networks, e) how fast everything happens in the prequels

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as soon as I am free from the Horrors (academic work I genuinely love) I will become so annoying you have no idea. The dark side is the pathway to unnatural abilities WRONG finishing this year is

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aldhani :]

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me before experiencing the star wars fandom: "huh bix seems like a cool character. kinda underutilized though, i'm sad they didn't pull much on the threads of her being the main rebellion contact on ferrix and likely fencing stolen tech on the black market even before that. her isolated situation even when surrounded by community was really interesting and she clearly had a lot of potential there, I hope she gets to do more in season 2" *ready to move on*

half of the star wars fandom: "bix only exists as an accessory to cassian. if you talk about her, you should be talking about him"

the other half of the star wars fandom: "bix is a flat nothing character and anyone who sees anything to like about her just thinks she's hot. i will not consider anything else to like about her so clearly no one has"

me: "... ok it's now my life's mission to explore every bit of this character's circumstances and emotional depth i am thinking about her 24/7 she's everything to me i will defend her to the death"