#not on anakin's part at least

[antianakin]

I think it's so funny that people point to the "his fate will be the same as ours" moment as proof that if Obi-Wan had been in the room with Anakin when Anakin has to choose whether to be evil or not, Obi-Wan could've convinced him away from it.

Except that this discounts something very important which is that PADME'S LIFE ISN'T AT STAKE IN THAT MOMENT.

Obi-Wan's life might be more important to Anakin than Palpatine's, but it is not and never will be more important than PADME'S life. It would NOT have mattered if Obi-Wan had been standing in Palpatine's office with Mace and Anakin, Anakin would've chosen to side with Palpatine in order to save Padme regardless, every time.

(It might've helped just in the sense that Obi-Wan could engage Anakin in battle and distract him long enough for Mace to kill Palpatine, but that's not the same thing)

[sukugo]

it's been kinda funny for me going from 2 very fucked up ships to sukugo.

[nothinggold13]

*watches the prequel trilogy with the og trilogy once* GUYS I THINK I UNDERSTAND STAR WARS NOW

[yana125]

Help! I'm writing a fic for a fandom I like but only know about the certain series and game I'm writing about as a casual 'I know this and that because I watched scenes and read the wiki but have never seen all of the episodes/never played with the game' and I've written nine pages of very thought provoking dialogue in the past two days so far that probably wouldn't slide well with the fandom because it contradicts many things in the established canon but I don't care because the cycle of nature doesn't have a good and evil side, Carl, the cycle of nature just cycles, don't blame nature when the people are the ones who use it for good or bad because they were never taught HOW to properly use it and how to deal with emotions in a HEALTHY way, and I abso-fucking-lutely LOVE writing this!!!!!! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[chaoticly-shy-dragon]

Cool idea I had: time travel au where teenage Anakin gets send back in time to meet padawan Obi-Wan and his disaster of a Master.

Things go to hell really quickly considering a 16yo Anakin hates severely dislikes his Master while also thinking he is the most amazing thing to walk the earth. ...and Qui-Gon is criticizing his Master for not teaching him emotional control which Anakin does not appreciate. He thought Qui-Gon was cool deathstick smoker, not Council member material. OH! Also - the Council and Anakin bonding. For the fun of it.

[merrysithmas]

when u have a dual consciousness bc ur a demi god✨💅

[yamineftis]

Well, Ahsoka was certainly a show

[tennessoui]

me, screaming: GET A DIVORCE HOLY FUCK #cheating au ... actually au of an au: Korkie discovers the affair immediately after it starts and Anakin has to get a divorce because bribing Korkie into silence is more expensive than a lawyer

But then where’s the ✨drama✨

(I think there are a lot of bad reasons Anakin has to not get divorced. In my mind, Anakin has sort of convinced himself that Padmé would rather not be divorced, that divorce would her hurt more than what they’re doing right now, think of the children, etc etc)

[rainintheevening]

I am an idiot, and a liar. Though in my defence I fully believed what I was saying. Or at least I wanted to believe what I was saying.

take my hand is going to be neither short nor quick. It has grown, it is growing, it has so much happening in it now, and I'm losing my mind. Or maybe I'm just finding it again. Never ever believe me when I say 'it'll be short'.

[gch1995]

That is funny. All Jedi are actually slaves. They don't have a right to own property, they can't marry whoever they want and they obey the Council. They are even recruited like slaves, taken from their families without any choice.I don't know how Ahsoka even can leave the Order when a jedi needs to be watched closesly and not build up ties with the rest of the people or he/she may fall to the Dark Side.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but as they are written as an overall institution in canon, I honestly think that force-sensitive humans and beings in the galaxy of Star Wars would generally be better off if they never got involved with the Jedi Order at all. Like, it’s tragic to realize that the most consistently happy, secure, and well-adjusted point in Anakin Skywalker’s horrendous life was when he was living on Tattoine in physical slavery with his mother. Then, afterwards, that happiness was far too brief and fleeting for the next 34 years of his life. Sure, part of it is his own fault for committing all those crimes he knew were wrong out of anger and fear of the unknown, but not all of it is. The fact that his agency was constantly compromised to ever be able to find healthy support or feel safe doing any better by all of these deeply abusive, arrogant, corrupt, hypocritical, manipulative, oppressive, self-involved, and willfully negligent authority figures within these two space soldier cults for their own ends certainly wasn’t his fault, but he did have his own selfish and vindictive motivations, too.

If we’re going by Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order, particularly in Legends (Disney canon keeps screwing up his character), I don’t think it would necessarily be too bad as an optional day camp or law-enforcement job for training with the force and helping out the galaxy on the side. As long as they are old enough and well-adjusted enough to be handling weapons, they get to have a fair choice in the matter of being a Jedi or leaving any time they want, I don’t think the Jedi Order has to be unhealthy.

However, for the most part, I think most of the force-sensitive characters we meet in the canon series do so much better in their lives without ever getting involved in either the Jedi Order or the Sith at all. They often end up becoming deeply dysfunctional adults who develop serious behavioral/impulse control issues, dangerous ends justify the means type morality, poor critical thinking skills, and poor self-awareness because they have been groomed to have little to no self-confidence in their own moral integrity and personal agency, and rarely break out of it.

It’s not just Anakin and the other fallen Jedi who grow up to be deeply problematic tragic living disasters with those toxic mindsets in the series either. Look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. They are supposed to be the “ideal” Jedi of their time, but they’re still pretty awful and broken people as adults, anyway. They can never can take true personal accountability for fucking up. They are always in the right, the “blameless victims,” or the “noble failures” who were taken advantage of because they were too nice in their minds. However, we repeatedly see them deliberately betraying, controlling, deceiving, endangering, harming, manipulating, murdering, neglecting, and/or oppressing anyone who either acts a potential threat to or can be of use to “greater good” of their cause or desire to fit in for security without much concern for the potential consequences of their actions and decisions or remorse for the individuals they are sacrificing for their cause.

Even their moments of self-awareness suck because they still can’t admit that they followed a fucked up system that cost them a lot of people because they became too afraid to do the right things under pressures of corrupt authority, facing the unknown, and war. Anakin dies with more self-acceptance and self-awareness than either Obi-Wan and Yoda do throughout the entire series in the last 15 minutes of ROTJ, and he became one of the main villains of Star Wars.

[izzythehutt]

So… based off following you on Tumblr (sorry I’m not weird I just like testing myself because I’ve been told I’m good at perceiving people)

Neal < Anakin < Shigure < Rhett < Sirius

Least favorite fictional character of yours to most favorite

Rhett and Shigure being above Anakin is really odd based on my tumblr, considering I rarely talk about either of them and my user picture has been Darth Vader for about 8 years.

Also, where are the female characters???

[thebirdandhersong]

Just started TLJ for fun because it was a Long Day and I wanted some form of distraction that didn't involve the current Ghost Crew kinda high stakes episode I was halfway through and I must say..... this is so strange to me

[oathkeeperoxas]

wip wednesday

Kenobi looks a mess when Cody steps inside. He slides the door shut after him, wanting to give them that tiny bit of privacy even when he probably shouldn’t. But Kenobi will probably want updates on what happened while he was unconscious – the closed door to Kenobi’s private medbay is only as scandalous as the two of them being alone in a meeting room together. 

“Cody,” Kenobi says, and Cody tries not to focus on the way Kenobi’s mouth goes lax for a moment as tension leaves him and fondness shades his expression. “You’re well?” 

“I didn’t get myself blown up,” Cody tells him, trying to sound stern. His voice dips into concern at the end, which makes Kenobi frown. Cody draws up a chair to sit beside him, busying himself with his datapad to give him a five second excuse to not look at Kenobi’s face and to try and wrangle the overwhelming relief at seeing him alive that is roaring away in his chest. “I’m well.” 

That’s a lie – or it was, before Cody could lay his own eyes on Kenobi and know he’s still alive after the last stunt that he pulled. Cody reigns in the urge to reprimand him for it, because it had gotten an entire platoon out of danger, and that’s where Kenobi’s priorities are – where they’ll always be, if he can choose. Cody only wishes that he put his own health and safety anywhere as near the top of the list. 

[rohirric-hunter]

Gonna start blocking star wars tags

[christopher-bryant]

how well known do you think r2 was among the entire clone army or at least his reputation?

[hannibalsloverboy]

seeing people compare coriolanus snow and anakin skywalker hurts my soul