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i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!

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Now I dont feel like it (x)

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After seeing multiple creators having to publically out themselves or reveal past traumas in order to get fans to stop yelling at them for representing a certain minority/concept in fiction, can yall learn to take a second to consider how your words and actions affect others? Especially in fandom spaces? By demanding that people can only talk about certain issues if they’ve personally been affected by them, you are directly forcing people to reveal their trauma/minority status.

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Hey serious talk for a second ok? some of you do this thing where you go “and yeah so the Jedi often take in kids from parents who are too poor to take care of them” as some kind of trump card against antis and I think your need to “defend” the Jedi has outweighed your good sense. Like I fully understand the urge, but you need to take a step back from that argument and think about what you are saying.

“They don’t kidnap kids they take in kids from parents in vulnerable, desperate situations” is not the argument you think it is.

Presenting a strategy and/or habit of taking in kids from desperate people in desperate situations as like some super high charitable trump card thing is some incredibly Christian missionary logic there ok. It is taking advantage of desperation and fear in order to acquire child.

There are so many alternative ways to write the Jedi dealing with situations of finding Force sensitive kids in desperate situations that do not suck!

Jedi who work with communities for an extended period of time, coming to know and be trusted by those communities before being offered a child born after their arrival

Jedi who encounter families with Force sensitive children work to improve the entire families’ circumstances to provide stability before offering to take in the children

Jedi encountering a desperate parent who was already trying to find a way to get a child out of their care before the Jedi arrived for some specific reason (maybe someone who always planned to give up the child for adoption but can’t trust either their family members or the system?)

Jedi actively delaying the guardians giving up a child to make sure they’ve fully considered why they’re doing it, if they’re really sure, to varying final results

In The Living Force, it’s emphasised that upon encountering a force sensitive child in a neglectful orphanage situation, a Jedi should have assessed the whole situation and helped all the children there, rather than just whisking away the Force-sensitive one (and thereby created a situation where the child had a reasonable choice about whether to go or not)

And if you’re thinking “but those seem soo lucky and too good to be true often enough to sustain the order’s population...” then it’s possible that what you actually belive is that the Jedi need to prey on desperation to acquire sufficient children, and if so, you should not be defending that as moral. That is the opposite of a defence of the Jedi.

Personally, I think the Jedi just stumble across and/or work to create the types of situations above—where the guardians actually do enter circumstances where they can consent out of something other than desperation—with greater than average frequency. It’s the will of the Force, destiny, whatever. Simple as that.

Even in the prequels with Anakin, while I do not think it goes far enough in the direction I’m pushing for here, we see Shmi be the one to ask if Qui-Gon can help Anakin after Qui-Gon leaves a conversational opening for it, and then we see Qui-Gon attempt to free Shmi at the same time as Anakin. Even after she implies she might accept Anakin becoming a Jedi if it will save him from the life in slavery, it is still important that she be helped and freed. In her language when Shmi finally sees Anakin again as she’s dying, “now I am complete,” I think it’s reasonable to assume she’s stating that she’s glad the gamble she took letting him go paid off—ergo, she knew she was taking a gamble, not that she was some pathetically grateful recipient of Jedi aid.

If Star Wars were capable of having scenes that intentionally did more than one thing at a time, maybe we could’ve had a scene that did a half decent job of making the improvement of Shmi’s situation essential to the whole interaction on a cultural level (literally just move the “Qui-Gon gave her a valuable object to sell with the understanding she would know what to do from there” plot line someone invented in a comic into the movie itself—use one of Padmé’s dresses lol) rather than using it as something to raise up Qui-Gon’s individual moral status without actually helping Shmi at all.

Helping everyone in the situation so they can actually consent to giving away care of a child has to be essential to the Jedi on a cultural level—not just individual—in order for this to work. I think it is essential to them, and so I try to write that into my stories.

Do you think about what Jedi could actually be, or do you just respond to antis’ talking points with the first idea you can grasp onto? Because the latter can apparently make you say shit like “poor people should give up their kids to other cultures when they can’t take care of them” rather than “everyone should have the resources to be able to take good care of their children.”

And that’s important.

(And just to get ahead of the curve, yes I know that what I’m saying is “some variation of Star Wars would be so good if it was good.” Star Wars fanfic/discourse would also be good if it was good, and unlike the movies, fandom is always in the process of remaking itself. So maybe we could make it good, sometime)

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Gotta admit, any one of these would work on me.

Love me some burritos.

Source: could be worse comics

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Girls~ 👯‍♀️💕 (Human+Feminine Stolitz!)

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My take on jealous Charlie headcanons is that Charlie doesn't typically act out and would take the opportunity of hyping up her girlfriend when she finds someone also attracted to Vaggie. That is, as long as that person doesn't make any uncomfortable advances, otherwise all hell breaks lose.

Decided to use Emily and Velvette here because:

If Emily is meant to be a deliberate Heaven equivalent of Charlie, then it wouldn't be too farfetched to assume that they could share the same taste in women. Makes me wonder what could've happened if Vaggie never got cast out of Heaven and somehow got close to Emily instead.

Two-thirds of the Vees so far have an unhealthy obsession with a Hazbin close to Charlie that they also sorta parallel. Velvette is the only one without a personal connection to the Hotel so far, and Vaggie shares a similar role in the Hotel as Velvette does with the Vees

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The unexpected reason why the drive-through line is so long

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The only thing I personally see that would be closest to marriage within the Jedi Order is a small handfasting ceremony. Perhaps like, in a small sign to stay loyal to each other in a sense that they don't sleep around with other people. That's it.

Comment by @mila-stardust Thank you for the apportation.

I agree that this is the most I can see Jedi doing. However, I'd like to add that I don't think this ceremony is an actual cultural tradition, but something that's allowed but not traditional for the Jedi.

Perhaps only Jedi from certain cultures that value loyalty to romantic partners very highly would do this, or maybe it's just a couple/polycule of Jedi deciding to share a moment with romantic partners and friends. Maybe they do this to pass as a couple/polycule in an undercover mission, maybe they do this to spite someone. Maybe it's not even about romantic partners, but a promise you make to your friends to stand by them and treasure them for as long as they want you to.

It could even be like a Mandalorian marriage vow in that sense: something private and intimate, between the people involved in the relationship.

It's possibly what we would describe as a QPR. Jedi don't have the same labels and traditions for relationships that we do, so I doubt their relationships would resemble ours much.

I think they're more loose with labels. They describe those that aren't Masters and Padawans as friends, even after they've had the most romantic dinner imaginable or the best sex of their lives together.

Sorry for rambling! I liked your idea and I wanted to make it its own post!

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Jedi Holiday Headcanon

Jedi do not have holidays. There are no special Jedi holidays that will be marked on a calendar. Because of this, the galaxy at large believes that the Jedi have no holidays at all. Why would they? They’re just an organization after all.

The Jedi know otherwise. They do have holidays.

On the days where every living member of a lineage is home in the temple together, those are holidays.

However, there is an extremely rare holiday that the Jedi celebrate whenever it happens. On the very very rare occasions that the entire Order is in the Temple, they celebrate together. The first thing they do is meditate together, the emotions of the event can be intense and it’s good to process them. After meditating, they sing, thanking the force for this rare day of rest. Once they have finished singing thanks, they play music and dance. Once they are done dancing, the Knights, Masters, and maybe Padawans tell stories to all the kids. Some of the stories are Jedi legends that have been passed down for thousands of years. Other stories are ones of the many missions the Jedi have been on. After storytime, the Jedi just walk around and chat (this is the time when Yoda starts having Knights and Masters give him piggy-back rides, they’re still his grandpadawans no matter how old they get). After the chatting, they all eat a meal together, during which many of them continue chatting with each other. The final thing they do (and what may be the thing they do for most of the day) is create art together. They paint, draw, sew, write, sculpt, you name it.

The days is where all the Jedi are home in the Temple are never expected. The Jedi do not foresee it happening, so it never labelled on a calendar. To rest of the galaxy, this holiday does not exist and wouldn’t matter if it did. To the Jedi, it is the most holy of all days, because their whole family is home.

There are Jedi who go entire lives without seeing that day. It is so rare that many young Jedi consider it to be just a story. However, many of them look forward to the possbility of it happening. Unfortunately, many of them never got to see it.

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Do you think the creches of the jedi speak pidgin languages unique to each group of initiates? And its like pig latin for them, they become little code masterminds, aided by thet fact that all their different cultures, child logic, and languages would lead to some spectacular conclusions?

(i just was sideswiped by this thought)

Yes, absolutely.

Several Jedi characters have accents, which (even if it was for Dub Reasons) implies they speak several languages.

Multilingual children speak in a combination of their languages until they learn how to differentiate them, so it makes sense that the creche is a flurry of words thrown in different languages.

(Many bigots will claim you shouldn't teach children more than one language because they cannot speak properly, but this is a lie. Multilingual children tend to speak all their languages very well once they get the hang of them, usually at quite a young age.)

Combining languages, cultures and child logic will have espectacular results and I'm here for it. I don't think anyone but themselves and the crechemasters understand what they're saying.

Headcanon accepted!

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If Steven Universe has a million defenders, then I am one of them. If Steven Universe has ten defenders, then I am one of them. If Steven Universe has only one defender then that is me. If Steven Universe has no defenders, then that means I am no longer of this earth. If the world is against Steven Universe, then I am against the world.

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I also just think it's extremely dishonest to act like Rebels was a bunch of kiddy crap when the third fucking episode is about one of the main characters' ptsd from surviving a genocide. And the fifth episode has the Empire using a Jedi's decayed corpse to lure the rebels into a trap. And episode 13 has two officers being decapitated simultaneously for failing one too many times. And the season finale has the villain commit suicide cause he'd rather die than face punishment for his failure. And season 1 is the least dark season, by the final season we get to see a pregnant woman getting tortured. This isn't me trying to make the show out to be edgier than it is I'm just making a point.

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god bless anyone who comments on ao3