#but so do i!

[thegingerwrites]

"Really, Anakin?"

Anakin turns to Obi-Wan, unable to keep the grin from his face. "What?"

"That is not how I taught you."

Anakin laughs, still buzzing with the thrill of the fight. He feels more alive than he has since he died. "That's not not how you taught me."

Obi-Wan is referring to the violence of his conversation with Ahsoka, chiding him for resorting to the language of weapons before words. He and Obi-Wan had one chance for this conversation, whereas Ahsoka it seems will have two. Anakin opened his eyes in death to see Obi-Wan's face. The first thing he heard was his voice.

The last lesson of Anakin's life, learning to become one with the Force, was also one of violence. A flood of emotions passed through the two of them like a storm. They didn't come to blows as Anakin did with Ahsoka, but they wielded grief and rage and love like swords. Anakin fell into Obi-Wan's arms wrung out and empty, both of their faces streaked with tears, and at last, he was ready.

"There was a different lesson she needed to learn," Anakin says.

When Anakin died, he needed to understand the balance he had achieved. The dark and the light, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker, not separate but two parts of a whole. His legacy would be one of death and war but not those alone. His legacy would also be one of love.

Ahsoka needed something else. True, she needed to recognize her place in their lineage, the one stretching back through him and Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and Dooku. True, she needed to grieve her place in the war and the terrible lessons it taught her. But what Anakin hoped to teach her most of all was that she needed to move forward, to continue on the path set before her. That for all the pain and anguish entwined in their story there is also good. Teachings that deserve to live on. 

And hasn’t that always been the most important thing Anakin tried to teach her? How to keep moving when things are hard. How to live in a galaxy that seems to care very little for peace and still do all the good that one can. How to fight, always, for what one believes in. 

“It seems you were effective.” Obi-Wan studies both him and, in his mind's eye, Ahsoka as she moves forward in the living world. "Sometimes I forget that despite your unorthodox methods, you are in fact, a good teacher."

Anakin ducks his head but smiles. “Thank you.”

“It will take time certainly and there’s no telling how things will turn out but I am glad you’ve both gotten to this point.”  

In life, Obi-Wan was rarely this open with him. His approval was something Anakin strived for constantly, even at times despite himself, but was rarely certain he achieved. To know now that Obi-Wan is proud of him, that he has done well and learned everything that Obi-Wan had to teach him, makes him feel lighter than he has ever known. 

Accepting himself and his legacy as more than the twenty-five years of fear and darkness he knew for the latter half of his life was difficult. Allowing himself to believe that choosing the light at the end of his life might be enough for him to deserve this, to deserve peace, seemed impossible at first. 

But that is something he has learned about teaching: sometimes explaining oneself to others means better understanding the lesson oneself. 

“She seems happier, doesn’t she?” Anakin asks. 

He too can see Ahsoka as she sets out to do what should be impossible. Traveling beyond the known limits of the galaxy to do her duty, to do what is right, and managing it in ways that beggar belief. When they met, he told her she looked old. He meant it mostly as a joke but somehow, despite the intervening years, he can’t help but picture her permanently as his teenage padawan. Seeing her as the strong woman she has become, how much of her journey he missed, makes his heart ache. Since their talk, since he has had the chance to look at her life more closely, he thinks that she looks younger now. That some of the grief she has worn like a cloak for decades has been cast aside. 

Obi-Wan offers him a fond look. “She does.”

There is no telling what Ahsoka will do with the knowledge Anakin has imparted. If she will succeed in her mission, protect the galaxy, and defend the fragile balance of the Force. Anakin isn’t worried though. She has the Force to guide her and now she’s ready to listen.

“I used to think she was more than I deserved as a legacy,” Anakin admits.

“And now?”

A test, to make sure Anakin too has learned his lesson. “What we deserve has no bearing on the way our destinies play out. Our actions are what matter. The decisions we make, all of them, determine the impression we leave behind. How others interpret our lives is beyond our control, something we leave to the Force.”

Obi-Wan clasps his shoulder tightly. “Exactly so.”

He’ll see her again someday. The choice he offered her, to live or die, was a sincere one. She could have chosen to give up, to give in, and that would have been alright too. Ahsoka has spent her entire life fighting. 

Whenever she decides that the end has come, whenever that decision is made for her, she will have more than earned her rest. This was not the end of the lesson and Anakin looks forward to their next meeting.

[everythingwasnormalhere]

pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

[teathattast]

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

this is your random reminder to CHECK IF YOU'RE STILL HAVING FUN

are you enjoying scrolling tumblr? watching youtube? reading that book? playing that game? drawing that art? doing that activity? if not,

YOU CAN STOP AND DO SOMETHING ELSE

you don't have to stick to something that you are doing for fun if it isn't fun for you anymore. You can come back! If you've loved it before you are likely to love it again! but you can stop!

Don't get stuck in a loop of doing something that you think should be fun when it isn't! You can put it down for a bit! Maybe that's the very thing that will make it fun again later!

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[vasira96]

it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

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[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[haunted-xander]

If you skip a meal Senshi will materialize next to you w/ food at the ready

[intercrusher]

this is their foreplay

[its-yashas-strong-arms]

FINALLY some good fucking feature ideas from the tumblr devs. tamagotchi renaissance now

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[opiumvampire]

fuck w me