#Jedi

[amarcia]

I started reading high republic y'all my favourite is when the when force dial up noise 5 minutes till you're fucked

[furious-blueberry0]

The Jedi Order had so many polycules

I know they had, I can feel that

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Started thinking about temple living quarters.

The standard I see in fic is private apartments, shared with a padawan if there is one, usually with a small kitchen and so on, like a regular apartment. It stands empty when they go away. TCW shows fairly small dorm-like rooms occasionally, but animation is expensive, so. I've also seen the term padawan-dorm referred to with confidence, so that probably crops up in a book somewhere. I was thinking about semi-communal living, in a place without nuclear families and

how particularly when it comes to cooking, whenever I've been in a situation where I'm close to the people I'm living near, cooking and eating solo were the first to be compromised and become a communal activity. I stayed private with most things but not that, at least not most meals.

how jedi aren't even at the temple most of the time when they are active, because they're supposed to be serving the whole galaxy, so whatever quarters they would have would be standing empty most of the time, and on a planet that is notoriously short on living space to boot

I don't remember the source but I remember a reference to the temple historically using it's towers as a beacon, sheltering people in times of disaster. Not having completely private apartments for jedi would free up space to serve as refuge and so on.

They're not supposed to accumulate possessions, strictly speaking. ...which doesn't necessarily mean having nothing, but maybe they don't have a habit of collecting personal furniture so much? Or just an excess of stuff? Idk.

Privacy is essential but at the same time spending so much time on the move makes the idea of returning to a solitary apartment on your time off kind of lonely. Especially if you have to cook all your own food. (I may be fixating on the kitchens here)

Also for masters and padawans it might be nice to have a break from each other at the temple and see other friends more, tbh

I like the idea of them just having a bunch of communal spaces scattered around, where even if their rooms are small, there's lots of places to hang out with each other and catch up, or relax by themselves if they want.

And maybe they have smaller but still shared kitchens rather than one big industrial scale kitchen? It's just not restricted to a single knight who is barely there. Maybe jedi cook together as bonding thing.

Baths? Communal baths? Like Roman or Korean style.

Imagine a bunch of half-finished art projects just lying around, untouched until the jedi in question gets back from wherever.

I could go even further and bring up the concept of no bedrooms everyone just takes out their bedrolls from a closet and sleeps side by side on a clean (under-heated) floor, which is something I have experienced.

[yamikuruku]

my part of an arttrade with @/ Maffydraws_ on instagram

[bilbobignaturals]

“You love him, too, don't you?” When he didn't answer, she turned around. He stood motionless, frowning, in the middle of the expanse of the buff carpeting. “You do. You do love him.” He lowered his head.

Padmé & Obi Wan talk. ROTS Novelisation by Matthew Stover

[instarwars]

[fuckyeahundeadunluck]

Y’all I love her

[yeehawhijack]

Something about being an ex Christian and seeing the flaws in the Jedi order or maybe I’m just projecting idk

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: Knights of Fate: A Sourcebook for Warriors - Warriors by Borja Pindado

[antianakin]

I was watching a scene from X-Men ‘97 the other day which reminds me of how the Jedi are treated in-universe and out-of-universe is eerily similar to how Mutants are treated in the Marvel Universe: feared and hated by an ungrateful population of civilians who don’t understand them or their way of life.

There definitely seem to be some similarities, and while I am not by any means an expert on the x-men, I feel like the purpose of this scapegoating is slightly different in the two narratives.

In Star Wars, the Jedi being destroyed and weakened is a comment on how society slowly letting themselves be consumed by greed and fear can overwhelm even the best of intentions until all that's left is darkness and hatred and pain. The Jedi represent the best of what people have to offer the world, but anyone's kindness can be overwhelmed if they aren't mindful enough. The Jedi get scapegoated as a representation of how people are more inclined to lie to themselves than face their own truths and how that can spread to cause pain and suffering beyond yourself.

To my understanding, the X-men represent marginalized groups in society who constantly have to fight for their right just to survive. The X-men get scapegoated because that's how marginalized people are treated in real life. They're not the best society has to offer necessarily, they're just different. They're normal people, with flaws and feelings like anybody else, and they want the freedom to be able to behave like anyone else without being ostracized for something a regular person wouldn't even get noticed for doing.

There's overlap in the theme of fear of the unknown leading to selfishness and hatred and how people will excuse evil deeds done to other people if they can convince themselves it was done "for the greater good." Star Wars I think wants you to look at yourself first, recognize your own fears and biases, while X-men seems to focus more on making a statement about society at large.

[amarcia]

does Dooku still count as a Jedi for color attack zone? perhaps... in my wife fucking left me?

Glamnanor Jan "My Wife Fucking Left Me" Dooku

I can't decide if I spent more time on the colors or on fixing his eyebrows.

[smthlok]

as much as i love anakin and ahsoka’s relationship, the fact of the matter is that anakin was not ready for a padawan. and its canon that ahsoka was supposed to be obi-wan’s padawan instead. makes me think about how the jedi council, intentionally or not, keeps fucking up this lineage (especially obi-wan) this is not anti-jedi, just an observation that needs to be explored more, i think.

[inkoutsidethelines]

"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.

[jkl-fff]

Jedi Teacher: Padawan Windu, that was amazing! How were you able to take out that rampaging rancor so easily?

Mace Windu, who has Force Shatterpoint which allows him to see where and when to strike: I just hit the glowing weak spot. It's not that hard.

Jedi Teacher:

(Mace Windu, holder of the rare Jedi skill called "Video Game Vision".)

[bilbobignaturals]

“I think,” Obi-Wan said carefully, “that abstractions like peace don’t mean much to him. He’s loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in return. He will stop at nothing to save me, for example, because he thinks I would do the same for him.”

Mace and Yoda gazed at him steadily, and Obi-Wan had to lower his head.

“Because,” he admitted reluctantly, “he knows I would do the same for him.”

-ROTS Novelisation by Matthew Stover