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"no attachments" in SW literally just means "don't be selfish and possessive". that's it. that's all there is. doesn't mean jedi can't have friends and loved ones. they can. just. don't be possessive and selfish about it. don't murder thousands of people in an effort to save one.

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The Jedi Order mainly being an institution about teaching makes me sad that we never see more "Jedi classes" outside of the popular ones like martial arts, healthcare and Force wackery.

Alongside basic language and science education etc there have to be at least some trade and college courses on offer, right? The Jedi need a bunch of their own people with law degrees. Proper pedagogy studies for future crèchemasters. Cooks. Managers. All types of engineers. Electricians. Accountants. Researchers. How many Jedi hold a doctorate or professorate? Because I think a large number of them do. Their databanks are filled with millennia of dissertations. You can still find Yoda's articles from 500 years ago and cite them in your history research paper.

The Order just having its own micro-economy going on and every member getting their own regular job education next to all the lightsaber swinging adventures... pls

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The funniest thing about this scene is that there is zero pre-communication about doing this bit, Obi-Wan just 100% flings himself into pretending that Qui-Gon is a notorious sadistic killer, like this horrible gremlin is faking LOOKING SICK at just the THOUGHT of what Qui-Gon might do if someone crossed him and Qui-Gon is playing right along, THESE TWO ARE THE WORST I LOVE THEM. (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

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Obi-wan Meditating on Tatooine

Credit for art goes to John Cassady.

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Here's a couple of examples that maybe help explain Star Wars things to people

Force - Air, you need it to breath and live

Force-sensi

Dark Side of the Force: people being controlled by their negative emotions, think bosses refusing to pay their employees more than minimum wage and forcing them to work long hours, think people destroying rooms in fits of rage because they are going to have a daughter instead of a son.

Balance/Light Side of the Force: Literally living your life and not letting your negative emotions control your actions; accepting help and knowing to ask for help; Instead of buying something you don't need and know that you can get it the following day/week because it will still be there, you decide to give it to the homeless person who looks like it's going through a rough time. Attachment: Think parents sabotaging their kids future because they don't want them to grow up, think people refusing to let their brain dead relative die so they spend millions of dollars on hospital fees just to keep the body alive, think crazy stalker refusing to accept they have been broken up with. The Republic: You know when you really like this show, and sure it had some weak moments, sure the later seasons weren't as good as the first few, but then someone get's put in charge of the last season and absolutely ruins it? Yeah, that's the republic, good, with it's fault, but then the Sith got put in charge and ruined it. Why the Jedi Council didn't believe the Sith were back: "...So you are saying you saw a spotted horse with a long neck in the lake, are you sure it wasn't some run away giraffe?" "i'M TELLING YOU, IT WAS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!!!!"

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“Si vis pacem, para bellum.” Happy 20th Anniversary, Attack of the Clones!

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— AND YOU MASTER, WHAT DOES YOUR HEART TELL YOU YOU’RE MEANT FOR? — INFINITE SADNESS

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Love the idea of collective Jedi parenting. Like technically I only have one padawan but my friends' padawans are also coincidentally my padawans. My padawan’s friends are also my padawans. This padawan who got separated from their master? My padawan today. This other padawan who needs to learn to pilot but their master is afraid of flying? Now my padawan twice a week.

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george lucas, remarkably unsubtley, over and over again: the fall of the republic was because of corporate interests interfering with politics and increased complacency with fascist ideas in the face of a manufactured war

everyone, for some reason: so the jedi were the REAL villains because they didn’t get married

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little wip :) 

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the fact that “the vibes here are rancid” is a power that the jedi actually have is insane to me

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U know what? Obi-wan gives off Mom energy. Like that vibe when you can feel it in your bones that they love you so much and disappointing them is genuinely painful.

The negotiator? Yeah 1/4 of those negotiations was him giving sad disappointed eyes at them with hands on hips and they crumble under the sheer weight of their shame.

Anakin was oblivious to obi-wan’s Mom status because Palpatine is an ASS-

Baby Anakin: Obi-wan made me eat vegetables >:(

Palpatine: oh what a shame. A true loving guardian wouldn’t do that. I bet your mother never made you eat vegetables.

Anakin who’s mom would have Totally made him eat his vegetables: YEAH RIGHT???

Order 66 is stopped cuz Obi-wan gets his Mom senses activated before he goes off to defeat Giant cyborg man and he just grabs Cody (for his deadly dad stare that has stopped baby clones in their strides before) to go get Anakin and stop him from doing something stupid.

The 212th gave them the code names Mom and Dad just so they can say “OOOOO MOM AND DAD ARE FIGHTING AGAIN” whenever Obi-wan and Cody bicker over battle plans.

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Jedi culture is a padawan smacking one of their friends, poking them, playing a prank on them, etc. and then, when they try to retaliate, running away shouting- "REVENGE IS NOT THE JEDI WAY!!!"

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I can’t get over how funny it is that ‘the Council distrusted Obi-Wan’ and ‘the Council felt he was tOo aTtAchED’ and ‘they still had misgivings over him being a Jedi because of his childhood in JA’ and ‘they didn’t like that he was taught by Qui-Gon’ are like, actual fanons, that exist in the fandom, that are semi-regularly seen in fics. 

They PUT HIM on the Council. He basically becomes one of the ‘top three’ with Mace and Yoda despite being the youngest. There isn’t a single Jedi that we ever see in the movies or TCW who dislikes Obi-Wan lmao. He’s the Force’s gift to the Order. The Council spends the whole RotS novelization like: 🥰🥰🥰 and “have you seen our (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*✲ﾟ*｡⋆ ✨son✨” 

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I think the 'the jedi use child soldiers' thing is stupid for a lot of reasons, but among those is that this is a complete misunderstanding of how children's media works. Kids want to see themselves doing amazing things and giving that an in depth analysis that boils down to 'all these adults are evil' is poor, bad faith, media criticism.

That being said, if you compare Star Wars to just about any other YA work, the jedi are miles better as far as child care goes. Canonly every single one of these 'kids in danger' has a dedicated adult who is ideally supposed to be with them to teach and protect them. Very uncommon for the genre.

So if people are mad at the jedi for this, I can't fathom what their reaction to other YA literature is. And if they hate YA literature, idk, maybe they shouldn't be reading YA. Just a thought.

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“Anakin/Kylo/[random EU darksider] turned to the Dark Side because of past trauma/people being mean/bad influences. Circumstances made him evil, and therefore it’s not actually his fault or his responsibility and he deserved so much better.”

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. 

Yeah, no.

… And in the end he’s still smiling, rooted firmly in the Light.

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life is an absolute nightmare and the foil to every claim that living through terrible things justifies choosing to Fall.  

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Every episode of the Mandalorian further confirms that Yoda’s species is actually a race of ravenous nightmare gremlins and being a kind, empathetic, noble pacifist was 1000% a choice.