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Theme 44 – Two Roads

I had something entirely different planned for this theme, but nostalgia pulled me back to Star Wars and Kingdom Hearts. I’ve always been fascinated by the parallels between Luke and Ezra: two heroes walking similar paths, having never even met. That’s the nature of parallels: they run side by side, never crossing. Then again, in stories, as in life, you never truly know where the road leads

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Anyway, the New Mandalorians exist because the fucking ecosystem of the planet was destroyed due to the Mando's warmongering and civil wars. They're an anti war political party trying to resuscitate a dying planet. They turn to outright pacifism because their people were decimated by a recent! Civil war!

It's mad that so much of the fandom let's themselves get caught up in "oh but what about self defense, teehee" and "what happens if negotiation fails and you have to do whatever it takes to stay alive". She uses traditional warrior guards, clearly she isn't an absolute pacifist. But even ignoring the fact that some forms of pacifism allow for things such as self defense and even revolution, not to mention non violent tactics like disarming and de-escalation, it's missing the point of what the new mandalorians represent!

War kills people! War kills the environment! Glorifying violence and war makes people hungry for violence and war! That's the message that is being broadcasted to us by the show but people see this and go "b-but 🥺 my violence". Like ... Star Wars has always had anti-war themes helloooo is this thing on?

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Dude the Jedi are literally one of THE most fascinating and inspiring good guys / heroes / protagonists I’ve seen in a story and so is their whole philosophy and their teachings. There’s so much depth and sense to them and what they do and why. You can literally learn such useful lessons through them, adult or child.

So I really don’t understand all this anti Jedi nonsense and this idea that we need to be super critical about them and blame them, because apparently the villains / antagonists deserve to be put on a pedestal and excused for everything they do (*cough* murder, genocide, slavery, etc.) because they sad at times with a at times sad backstory.

And the fact that even writers within Star Wars feel like that, instead of taking the Jedi as they are and have always been meant to be perceived as, is so saddening.

It doesn’t take long to take the time, especially as a writer, and look into the Jedi's origins and what GL wanted to tell with his story, especially in terms of evil and good and the concept of balance and being in control of yourself specifically your darkest and most negative characteristics and emotions.

And this whole idea of Jedi being arrogant just because they strive the be the best version of themselves is getting so annoying. Like come on, that’s just your envy and insecurities shining through.

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Anakin had a mother, but no father. He was 9 YEARS OLD when he left to be trained by Obi Wan. I hope you don’t have any children in your life if you think that’s remotely okay. Obi Wan is a great queer coded character. But teacher/student relationship is extremely toxic if made to be romantic. Their trauma is familial, and bonded by Padme’s death, and Luke and Leia resembling Anakin/Padme as children. It'd be like getting ready to ship 10 year old Leia with Obi Wan. You're gross! <3

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Obi-Wan: My apprentice you know I care deeply for you and I really support your transition but you can not name yourself Padme

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The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it

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Jedi June 2025

A creative fandom event dedicated to appreciating the Jedi, taking place during the entire month of June! Each week will feature two prompts, around which people can create fanwork (of any kind – fic, art, cosplay, edits, anything you can think of) or meta focusing on the Jedi and the Jedi Order. All eras and continuities are welcome; OCs, established characters, doesn’t matter – it just needs to be about appreciating the Jedi!

Rules:

If you are participating, please tag your work/meta with #jedi june and/or @ this blog so that I will see it and reblog it here. All work must be your own. Feel free to crosspost it off-site.

This is an appreciation event, focusing on what we love and enjoy about the Jedi – not what we don’t. This is not the place to air your grievances with the Code, take potshots at the Council, prop certain Jedi/certain eras of Jedi up at the expense of others, or disparage the Jedi Order or their philosophy (including the concept of non-attachment) and way of life in any way. You are free to do that on your own time if that’s your thing, but it has no place within this event.

AUs and crossovers are allowed, with caveats: again, the purpose of this event is to appreciate the Jedi as Jedi, so sticking your favorite Jedi characters in something like a modern AU or making them all Sith or Mandalorian is not really within the spirit of this event. However, AUs such as making a non-Jedi character a Jedi, having a character survive their canon death, giving a character a different teacher or padawan, or killing Palpatine off-screen in an unspecified yet embarrassing and painful manner, would all be perfectly fine. Use your best judgement to determine whether an AU fits the spirit of the event or not.

On non-attachment: in a general sense, attachment refers to grasping, clinging, possessiveness, jealousy, and the "I can't live without you"/"I will burn down the galaxy before I risk losing you" attitude. See this post and this post for more information. A romance can certainly exist without these things, so you can certainly write Jedi in relationships for this event!

Please tag any spoilers up to two weeks after the relevant content has aired.

Following the prompts is encouraged, but not required. Any sort of pro-Jedi content is encouraged all year month long, and if tagged (and following the rules), will be reblogged.

We also have an AO3 collection!

Prompts:

Week 1 (June 1 - 7):

Prompt 1: Survive

Prompt 2: Thrive

Week 2 (June 8 - 14):

Prompt 1: Precognition

Prompt 2: Telekinesis

Week 3 (June 15 - 21):

Prompt 1: Community

Prompt 2: Symbiosis

Week 4 (June 22 - 30):

Prompt 1: Celebration

Prompt 2: Hope

Bonus (any time):

Prompt 1: Resisting Evil/The Dark Side/The Sith

Prompt 2: Light in the Darkness

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask! I hope you will have fun participating!

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emperor palpatine is so fucking cringe dude he doesn’t even have a court jester

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Crawling out of my grave briefly to ask anyone whose radar I’m still on a question:

I’ve published a bunch, like a LOT, idek how many, little writing ficlets, tiny drabbles on here, in response to ask games or on other ppl’s posts or even in my own posts

Given that Tumblr will inevitably one day (whether it be next week or a decade from now) die, I really don’t want all my little stories to die, as tiny as they are, they were things I created and I’m fond of them

I’m wondering if it’s worth it to post each of them on my AO3.

Now, I don’t want to put them all in one work as individual chapters, that leads to those billion tag behemoths that mess up your search results and take five minutes to scroll past that everyone hates, I don’t want to be that guy

But what I’m thinking of, posting each and every tiny ficlet as its own thing, makes me nervous

This would be me potentially plopping like over 20 new entries—maybe more I genuinely have no clue how many are on here—into my AO3, which could lead to spamming anyone who still follows me with emails of me posting and possibly spamming the Star Wars tag with my shit, some of which isn’t more than a few hundred words

I’ve got social anxiety and one of my worst fears in the world is being perceived as annoying and like; I don’t want to bother people

But at the same time AO3 is an archive and I do want to have a place where I can keep all my stories up where other people can see them (having them all in one place like that also means I can print them out so I can always have them even if something happens to AO3 one day too I do not trust our new digital society)

So like, does anyone think this is a good idea? Or should I pursue other options?

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resurrecting this to say that one of my pettiest most meaningless pet peeves that nevertheless haunt me is that in the year of our lord 2025 i am sooooo tired of interacting with romance media (original or fanfic) where they’re trying to have the main couple bond over “nerdy interests” and there’s always always that part where they’re flirting like:

“Ok, so i GOTTA know,,,,, what is your favorite Star Wars movie—and you better not say the prequels 🤢😏😂”

“*gaaasps* oh i would NEVER teehee”

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

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Have you ever considered a character role-swap AU for either the Clone Wars era or the Rebels era?

i drew a sith padme ages ago and more recently did that cal-trilla swap au, but let's make MORE of one!!!

(commission info // tip jar!)

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A New Hope, by Hidetaka Tenjin.

“Various Star Wars iconography has been redesigned into a more Japanese style over the years, but personally I've always wondered what Star Wars: A New Hope would look like if it were reimagined as a Japanese period piece. With this idea in mind, I attempted to create a theatrical poster resembling that of an Akira Kurosawa jidaigeki film by referencing classic posters in order to capture the feel of that era.”

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anakin skywalker does not use jedi mind tricks 

not once in the films 

do you think that’s a coincidence 

not on your life buddy 

anakin skywalker does not have it in him to overrule another being’s free will

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i think i know

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in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda