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Okay, real question - can anybody point me to a scene in the first six movies or the first six seasons of Clone Wars (the stuff George Lucas says he considers when he thinks about Star Wars) where Anakin is punished by the Jedi for anything?

Not lectured, not scolded, not eye rolling and 'Oh Anakin', PUNISHED. Has Anakin ever actually been punished for anything?

I can recall Ahsoka being punished for sure, but I'm not sure Anakin ever is.

"The Jedi became a for-profit military force-"

A for profit military force is a mercenary company, please explain to me exactly how and show me precisely when the Jedi did this

"Anakin was punished for trying to save his mother-"

When? What scene?

"Ahsoka was berated and lectured so many times for trying to help others"

When did that happen? You say it happens many times, so please give me many specific examples

"even Obi-Wan, undoubtedly the Council's favorite, has to beg and plead to be allowed to help where the Order would otherwise look the other way"

What are you referring to? tell me specifically

"no wonder that by the time Order 66 rolled around, lost to the Dark as he was, Anakin saw Order 66 and his newfound power as a sort of divine retribution."

Really? And where did you get that from hmmm? There's nothing which says such in Revenge of the Sith, Anakin's own words point to him doing this because he is convinced Padme will die and he's unwilling to face that even as a possibility, plus the look on his face before he kills the younglings doesn't scream "retribution" it's a face of "I know this is wrong but I'm still doing it"

"The Clone Wars begins with a nineteen year old abuse victim, bruised and bloody, crouching in the dirt and dust cradling his little sister in his arms as she tries not to cry and his men die around them. and the only thing he can think of to make it even a smidgen better is to turn the war zone they're trapped in into a game. it's the only way he knows how to offer even a semblance of a childhood that neither he nor the girl in his arms was ever given. "

This is beyond "death of the author, my own interpretation", this is just wholly divorced from the text

I've actually WATCHED the Clone Wars movie and none of that happens

(also what "abuse" are we referring to here? Anakin's time as a slave? Horrible yes, but there's no indication of abuse, the Jedi-nope, you can fuck right off there, nuh uh, were not even entertaining that, Palpatine? Well here's the thing, he never actually does anything abusive to Anakin prior to becoming Vader, that's the point, both of the story and palpatine's character, he got Anakin to join him by making an offer that appealed to Anakin's want for power)

Where do these people get this from?

"they stop keeping score a few seasons in, before Ahsoka's first growth spurt even, and the reason for this is simple; you can't make a game out of a war when you're not a child anymore. "

There is one, ONE EPISODE where ahsoka and Anakin engage in score keeping, it's not a big thematic thing, it was just something in an episode to provide levity

This nonsensery was brought to you by not engaging with the source material

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It's what she deserves.

Happy Star Wars Day! I’ve decided to make my Skywalker comic into one easily rebloggable post.

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Also, I'm pretty sure that kind of Force healing only works in a Force dyad. Anakin can't be in a Force dyad with Padmé, she's not force sensitive.

The other kind of Force healing (the kind the healers most often used) is something Anakin really wanted to learn but was never able to beyond very basic things because it required lots of study, meditation and understanding of the Force. Anakin isn't into any of those things.

"The Force healing shown in Rise of Skywalker ruins Anakin's motivation to turn to the dark side in Revenge of the Sith because if the Jedi just taught him that he could have saved Padme!"

Well aside from the fact that you're misunderstanding how Force healing is presented in ROS (and mandalorian, where it actually first showed up), this also misses the point of Revenge of the Sith:

Anakin did not need Force healing, he never did

Padme was only dying because ANAKIN FUCKING STRANGLED HER!!

Anakin did not turn to the dark side because Padme died, he turned because he was afraid of her dying because he couldn't let go, being able to keep Padme from dying means nothing when Anakin is the one who murdered her, if Anakin had done nothing Padme would have lived, she wasn't dying, his dream was not a warning of Padme dying, it was a warning about the consequences of his own actions

That is the tragedy that is Revenge of the Sith, it was all entirely avoidable

As for Force healing in Rise of Skywalker (and mandalorian), it operates entirely on an "equivalent exchange" premise, in order to heal someone else, you have to give some of yourself, so no it doesn't ruin Anakin's motivation to turn to the dark side, if anything, it actually EMPHASIZES how stupid and selfish Anakin was, as even if Padme was dying (again, she wasn't), Anakin could have saved her simply by giving his own life energy, but because Anakin is selfish, that possibility doesn't cross his mind

Anakin doesn't want Padme to live because he loves her or because as a Jedi it's his duty to protect and save lives, Anakin wants to save Padme because he's possessive of her, he doesn't want her to die for his own sake

So to save Padme from death (if she was actually dying, which she wasn't), Anakin would have needed to be willing to give up some of himself, maybe even completely, sacrifice his life so that Padme could live, as is what Ben Solo does for Rey (there's a lot about his redemption that is poorly done, but literally giving his life to bring back someone else-a better person than him, someone who can make the galaxy a better place-isn't one of em, it is in fact a very Jedi thing to do)

So really, Force Healing in ROS only "breaks" Anakin's turn in ROTS in the sense that it shows that Anakin had other options, but he just chose the most immoral one because he refused to consider other options or that there was more to his vision than what it seemed

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We stan Everett True.

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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HELL YEAH!

Congrats, Australia!

Dutton defeated.

Australia just did a Canada and dumped both the conservatives and their leader

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Let's swim with mama

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birds that look like fruit <3

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Don't mind me, I'm just ...crying forever.

In a different where different choices were made…

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Parents are LGBTQ. So are teachers, administrators, co-workers, staff, bus drivers, crossing guards, neighbors, friends, and family. Nancy Mace is a dogshit person.

The one seeking indoctrination is Nancy Mace.

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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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Also, another difference between SparkNotes and AI is that SparkNotes is upfront that it's there to help you STUDY a book you're already reading and maybe don't quite understand. It is not the be all and end all understanding of those books and it's really obvious when 5 or 6 kids turn in identical interpretations of the same book. Any given work can be analyzed so many ways that it's pretty clear who just threw out what SparkNotes thinks. Much the same way it can be pretty clear what's AI.

I'm sure I've talked about this before, but I hate the "lulz students are just gonna use AI anyways so might as well let them" attitude so much. I hate it for a lot of reasons, and one of the main ones is that it's just an instant abdication of standards. No attempt at considering that maybe, just maybe, school districts and universities should treat this bullshit like they treat any other plagiarism and shouldn't just roll over and indulge students' laziness and anti-intellectualism. It's really easy to make cheating with AI inevitable if you straight up let students do it instead of even trying to stop it!

My mom has talked about being old enough to remember when something like SparkNotes was brand new, and there was a similar attitude then of "lulz we teachers can't possibly fight against this, so *shrugs*" Of course, lazy students still use summaries on SparkNotes instead of actually reading books, but 1.) in defense of SparkNotes, at least their summaries are pretty accurate, and I'd absolutely trust that site's information on a book more than ShitGPT's and 2.) more importantly, long-term, people didn't accept or expect students to stop reading books because of SparkNotes. I'm sure a student taking a generic English class with generic quizzes could somewhat manage by using the site, but you're not going to get a good grade in an English class that actually has thoughtful exams and assignments without actually reading the assigned texts, especially at the college level. But for some reason, with AI, it's like "lulz you should accept students turning in plagiarism and refusing to read anything longer than a 1-paragraph summary :) It's inevitable :)" Kiss my ass

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newborn pudu fawn named petal via the san diego zoo

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i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

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Yes, hi, hello, I am here. I love all Jedi (yes, even that one) and Mace Windu is also one of my favourites.

Okay, where is the Mace Windu fandom? Because he’s my favorite Jedi, and I was telling that to some Star Wars fans ik and they looked at me like I was crazy. I need proof we exist.

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