Help It’s Again

Icon art credit to Sam Spicer on redbubble, header credit to @caitmayart

[miss-holloways]

Critical Role (2015-) campaign 1, episode 35//campaign 2, episode 72 bonus:

[katedrawscomics]

if princess donut has 72 trillion fans, then i am one of them

[letoscrawls]

Completely random comic about the history of Mandalore 👁👄👁

inspired by this 

[varpusvaras]

I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

[eightbitpale]

I am once again reminded of this image

[bougiebutchbinch]

I think the thing that gets me is -

People LOVE to talk about how Bolaire could just kill his victims rather than subjecting them to mind theatre torture while starving them to death. They say that 'even though Bolaire only preys on people who hurt him or his friends, it is still morally wrong to take their agency and harm them rather than killing them outright'. They say that this justifies how Thjazi treated him.

....But Thjazi could've taken Bolaire off between those victims, put him in a box, and effectively 'killed' him / put him into stasis, if he was so damn horrified by the morality of letting Bolaire walk about in his city.

He chose not to do that.

He instead chose to treat Bolaire, a sapient person, as a tool who he possessed and controlled, while subjecting him to dehumanising cruelty every step of the way. Even if Bolaire is a dangerous parasite who hurts people, Thjazi chose to torment him over a prolonged period rather than 'ending things' immediately. While still letting Bolaire torture his victims.

He clearly does not care that much about the harm Bolaire brings to others, as he chooses not to stop it and instead just hurt Bolaire. In this, he and Bolaire are two sides of the same coin.

[selectorailyn68]

MY least favorite Star Wars fans:

anyone who believes the Jedi are a cult

certain types of Legends fans ifykyk

"Disney ruined Star Wars!!!!! Wahh wahhh!!!"

Anakin sympathizers / "its the jedis fault that Anakin turned into Vader!"

Darth Maul fangirls

[dindjarism]

STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE 1999 | dir. George Lucas

[writerbuddha]

“The fact that everything must change and that things come and go through his life and that he can’t hold onto things, which is a basic Jedi philosophy that he isn’t willing to accept emotionally and the reason that is because he was raised by his mother rather than the Jedi. If he’d have been taken in his first year and started to study to be a Jedi, he wouldn’t have this particular connection as strong as it is and he’d have been trained to love people but not to become attached to them." - George Lucas on Anakin Skywalker

[corrya]

It's not lost on me that Dol-makjar is a historically orcish city and yet has a governing body consisting entirely of humans. How the hallowed round, the very site of so much orcish suffering, is mearly on a lease to Hal from the sundered houses, trying to corrupt and shape the stories they share there.

[veryfastnighuncatchable]

I'm totally on the Jedi's side about 99% of the things they did.

"Oh well they told Anakin he wasn't fit to be a Jedi"

Um yeah because he wasn't? He spent his whole life resenting their rules, disobeyed them at any opportunity, and eventually murdered them all?

"Oh well they wouldn't free his mom, that's terrible!"

Yes. And you know who's fault that is? QUI GON JINN. Not the Jedi as a whole. They didn't even know he was a slave initially because QUI GON DIDN'T TELL THEM JACKSHIT. All Yoda ever says on the subject is that fear is the path to the dark side and he fears for his mother, which is dangerous. And it was! Yoda was right!

"The Jedi steal children!"

You're thinking of Qui-Gon again.

"The Jedi forbid love!"

Now I'm not even sure if we watched the same films.

"Well the council should've given him the rank of master"

Ummm no probably not, he wasn't ready to be a master, hell he was barely ready to be a knight.

"They shouldn't have fought in the Clone Wars!"

Ok I'll give you that one, but you have to remember that the Jedi didn't know about the Sith like we did when watching, so what were they supposed to do? Let an asthmatic cyborg death machine commit war crimes?

"They're on the Senate's leash!"

Who wasn't? I mean this quite literally. The Jedi, the GAR, the neutral systems, everyone was dependent on the Senate because of the amount of power they held, which was a political issue and not a Jedi issue.

"But Ahsoka! But Fives!"

Again. SECRET SITH IN THE SENATE. Manipulating everything. What exactly did you want them to do here? Who exactly would you believe in these scenarios?

"They had a slave army!"

No. The Senate had a slave army. The Jedi were conscripted to fight in it, which arguably makes them slaves as well.

"They didn't help Anakin with his fears or his mom or Padmé!"

Um they literally tried on multiple occasions. Obi-Wan tried repeatedly, only to be rebuffed. Then he tried the "leave him alone and hope he comes to me" strategy, which also was rebuffed. Yoda once offered Jedi Therapy and Anakin just went on a rant about how he doesn't want anyone to die ever, and when Yoda was like "well that's kinda unavoidable" Anakin dismissed him.

"They had child soldiers!"

Yeah, this one probably wasn't the best, but I get it. What else are you supposed to do with those kids? They've been raised with the Jedi their whole lives, you can't just turn them loose, and presumably they need combat training if they're eventually going to get conscripted into said slave army. However, you know who really did have a child soldier? You guessed it. QUI-GON FUCKING JINN.

TL;DR

The Jedi were right and 99% of the things they get blamed for are the fault of the Senate, Palpatine, or Qui-Gon Jinn.

[theragamuffininitiative]

Alright I want to know something here:

the 🙃 emoji means (approximately)

silly!*

ugh!*

secret third thing you will explain in tags*

Voting ended onJul 10

*if comfortable doing so, you may include your age range/generation in the tags for helpful demographic data

kindly reblog for bigger sample size, thanks!

[purronronner]

[say-duhnelle]

"hanging on by a thread but pretending everything is ok" with a possible side of "this might as well happen, adulthood is already so goddamn weird"

[tarisilmarwen]

Jedi June: Community

@jedijune

[bokuwaboku-datte]

Eridians must be absolutely amazed that Grace can be woken up before his sleep cycle is finished. They take advantage of this and fit the biodome's bedroom with a remotely-triggered alarm system, so if something ever goes wrong with the life support systems while Grace is asleep, they can wake him up and have him move to safety. But, being that their sleep is more like a deep dormancy, they WAY overestimate what it takes to forcibly wake someone up.

The first time they have to use it (over something stupid like a tiny ammonia leak), Grace wakes up to like three different foghorns and a hundred camera flashes going off at once and is like HOLY GEEZ THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US

(eta if someone with art talent wants to make this a proper eridian welcoming committee comic please do!)

[goodieprocter]

RIP Rocky’s project

Bonus:

And here’s my reference:

[genderkoolaid]

i am largely out of touch with a lot of stuff and dont even know where it came from, but sorry nothing said or done will make me hate on 6/7 as meme. its part of the time honored tradition of dumb jokes that exist entirely to be dumb jokes that annoy your teacher. its added to the canon of Funny Numbers and in such an unavoidable way (69 and 420 are way up there so its rarer to see them in the wild, and neither 6 & 9 or 4 & 2 & 0 are naturally next to each other when counting, but you are forced to say 6/7 before you even finish counting on your fingers, no matter what, which is hilarious). as a moral and political stance i feel its important to protect the youth's right to whimsy and mischief, for therein lies the true democratic spirit suppressed by the state. gen alpha get behind me

[canadianwheatpirates]

(XKCD 3184)

[monjustmon]

I just really wish someone would explain 6 7 to me.

[samreich]

great point vic

[independent-variables]

#parents? neither jedi nor clones have ever heard of that#romance? neither jedi nor clones have ever heard of that#mentors? teachers? trainers? now we're talking

said this in the tags of another post but i'm still thinking about it. because i think this is what bothers me about a lot of clone and jedi fanon, like plo koon as wolffe's dad or cody and obi-wan as an old married couple. neither the jedi nor the clones have a culture where those roles are A Thing. there is no "this person is like a parent to me," or "i love them so much wish we could be together always and forever."

like, anakin marrying padme was a fuck up. that was bad. he should not have done that. that was breaking the rules in a way that led directly to his fall. not because he loved padme but because he wanted to be with her and only her forever and ever as long as they both shall live. very few jedi are going to approach romance/sex the way anakin does and that is good. and then the whole thing where a lot of the fandom can't... conceptualize not having a parent and that lack being a non-issue, so the clones have daddy issues regarding jango and all the mentorship type relationships the jedi cultivate are re-framed as parents with kids. and then plo koon gets to be wolffe's dad. because for some inexplicable reason this is a kind of relationship both of them would understand and also want.

[tangents-within-tangents]

YES THIS!

lol so a month or so ago I went on a... this-adhd-med-I'm-trying-is-actually-making-it-worse?!!-induced fixation rabbit hole and possibly wrote out like 30+ pages about clone culture/worldbuilding. During which I realized the clones would probably have NO sense of amatonormativity, like at all

Why would they be ingrained with the same standards and expectations about relationships/marriage/nuclear family etc that we are familiar with when their exposure is primarily limited to:

1. Jango who requested a clone of himself to raise as a single father

2. Kaminoan scientists who reproduce via cloning

3. Bounty hunter trainers who agreed to cut contact with their families and live on a secret isolated planet for 10+ years

4. Jedi generals who are separated from their birth families, raised communally, and swear off marriage

And that's not even to mention their indoctrination

Chuchi: And what happens when you're too old to fight? Clone: That's not a scenario we're trained to think about

Like the aspects of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality/romance that come from societal pressures and an idea of "purpose." The belief that "love/marriage and having a family is the most important and fulfilling path" or whatever. That is not something that would show up in an environment like Kamino, which depends on and enforces an entirely unrelated set of expectations. The clones are trained and conditioned to value their singular purpose as expendable soldiers. They'd probably be specifically discouraged from thinking about those things, to the Kaminoans it would just be a distraction, most of them won't live long enough for it to be relevant anyway. (Not to say that none of them would ever end up wanting those things, just I think generally operating from a baseline of disinterest/low-priority)

I think this is part of why idk how I feel about what little of Rep Comm I've read. Like the whole Kal'buir thing, I get it for the nulls whomst he literally adopted but for the others? There's a difference between a father and a trainer, even if he's a nice one. And I guess it just feels like "fixing deficits" rather than letting clone culture be different than ours (same with like transplanting them into Mando culture/heritage, giving them all girlfriends, and curing the accelerated aging)

Also recently found out that the Jedi lineage thing (like the terms "grandmaster/grand-padawan" or "padawan-brother) is fanon, not from the Eu. And I def think those relationships could be important to the Jedi but it's funny? how fandom seems to only conceptualize it as parent-child lol? I guess Anakin does say Obi-wan is "like a father to me" but again, that's Anakin, and makes sense for him. Obi-wan doesn't really acknowledge that (to him Anakin is a brother) and we shouldn't assume all Jedi think of it in that way. There are so many ways to care about and relate to people that don't just fall into those roles.

[independent-variables]

literally this. i fully believe some clones would want to get married and have kids or find parental figures and stuff like that, but that desire is not The Normality They Have Been Denied. it's a life that some people want that the clones discover is a possibility during/after the war, and to some it appeals and to some it doesn't, but they don't have a context in which that kinda nuclear family life is Normal or Expected.

also pulling this out of the tags because once again, shaking your hand:

#our norms are not their norms#and it's so much more interesting to explore theirs instead of pigeonholing them to conform to ours#(esp when our norms are dumb too anyway)#so yeah more aroallo jedi please!

i think alloaro is/should be the "expected norm" for the jedi honestly.

#I also just love the idea of clones raising younger clones/tubies not as their children but as little brothers -- #like numa was calling waxer and boil “brother” the whole episode yall#and omega always refers to the batch only as her brothers not dads

my hc for clone family structure is based entirely around sibling relationships and military hierarchy. all clones are brothers but big brother = person in charge of keeping you alive = commanding officer. nothing to do with age, a designation based solely on rank and/or the nature of the relationship. to be a big brother means to hold responsibility for someone, either by the choice of making a friend and deciding to take that role in their life or by getting promoted into a position of authority. cody is the big brother of the entire 3rd system army, but also be decided to be a mentor/big brother to rex in particular because he liked rex and wanted to teach him some things to help him survive. (in this way i think they could be an interesting parallel to the jedi, in that mentor type relationships are the most important/form the basis for how people become connected and take care of each other.)

i love the idea of that sibling/mentor based family structure carrying over after the war. cadet squads are fostered by volunteering older brothers. wartime batches/squads/platoons chose to live together and run their households together. the wartime officers are the ones who have the responsibility of helping their troops adjust to civilian life. as clones make friends and take lovers from other communities/cultures yeah of course some of them are going to want the new lifestyles they are being exposed to. but also! regular every day citizens becoming part of clone communities should be a thing! some rando starts dating a clone and it's getting serious and instead of the two of them moving into their own apartment, the new person moves into the house their boyfriend shares with his old squad, and helps out with the cadets the squad is fostering. maybe the couple have some bio kids for the hell of it, and those kids get raised communally with the cadets. i think clone culture changes a lot after the war but i think some fundamentals of "this is how family works" should stay the same instead of being erased to fit our own cultural norms.

[mushroom-punk]

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

[ahastycrblog]

A lot of people have pointed out how hypocritical it was for Eadwulf be all "fucking academics" about the Cobalt Soul as a wizard himself, but I'd argue it gives a lot of insight into the values Trent instilled in them.

Neither Astrid nor Eadwulf seem to be interested in the study of magic for the sake of knowledge. And that is likely due to Trent pushing them to study for strength, for power. He does not need them to make any sort of leaps in magical theory or to create new spells. He needs them to be able to infiltrate, spy, and kill.

And, there is something to be said about how thoroughly he squashed their senses of curiosity because curiosity is not a virtue for a Volstrucker.

Compare to Essek (right now) and Caleb (in the beginning of his flashback while he was still at his home and the certainly we will get more) who both show a great amount of curiosity.

Anyway, join me in mourning the loss of Astrid and Eadwulf's natural curiosity, yet another thing Trent has to answer for. I can only hope that the events of the show allow them to have at least a bit of it restored. Won't be for some time now, but yeah...