ATSA: Star Wars

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

On one side, Star Wars has an Order of space Magic monks whose main mission is fighting for peace and justice in the galaxy. On the other, it has what is basically space nazis.

The anti-Jedi pro-Sith crowd baffles and scares me in equal messure.

[atsa-star-wars]

from prev: #star wars#pro jedi#pro jedi order#anti sith#anti dark side of the force#balance of the force is when the sith are dead and that's canon#if you like the sith for aesthetic purposes say so! Their designs are cool!#There's nothing wrong with liking villains long as you recognize THEY ARE VILLAINS#but for the love of god don't go around saying the heavily nazi-coded characters have a point!#jedi positivity

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The High Republic books, minus the comics/manga and the short stories that are only in magazines. (The Phase 3 thing was different, I couldn't hide short stories without hiding reference to a short story collection that isn't mentioned otherwise.)

[discocuttlefish]

Imagine dealing with any kind of clerical work in the Star Wars universe where there are a bunch of people with the goofiest names you've ever heard.

"And the surname?...Sleazebaggano?...Uh, can you spell that for me?"

"Savage Oppress?... And that's your given name? Legally?... Okay..."

"Salacious Crumb?... Yeah, I'm gonna need to see some ID for that one, sir."

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"Kit Fisto? This is a BDSM club, but we still need your real name for the membership paperwork."

"Maul? Your parents named you after a violent verb?" (Maul: "Ever heard of Sting?")

[atsa-star-wars]

This is a list of brand name drugs I've seen in my job as a pharmacy tech that sound like Star Wars names, and another list of shortened drug names that could also work (some of the shortened names are from generics).

Hope this is useful. :)

[xellieenvyx]

[atsa-star-wars]

Anakin had SO MANY PEOPLE. Obi-Wan. Yoda. His instructors. His agemates who grew up in the Order. But they didn't tell him what he wanted to hear and Skeevy Sheev did so GUESS WHO HE LISTENED TO.

[starwarsfangirl]

[velsayshi]

Finished! Not spicy (imo) but Tumblr believes nipples are the source of all temptation. Fair warning - short shorts and mesh shirt under the cut.

Woohoo! Party time - padawans in the club! Background photo from wikimedia commons. Kind of looks like they are on a table - on point. Watermarks are my attempt to avoid direct AI harvesting of my images.

Bant looks awesome - have ya'll seen the entry for mon calamari in wookiepedia? EVERY photo is yoked or 90% covered up. I choose to believe Bant is buff as kriff. Quinlan is essentially climbing Obi-Wan like the co-dependent kowakian monkey lizard he is. Obi-Wan is loving it. I started changing the shorts from purple color-block to something else and decided it was most fun as it was. Enjoy! This took way longer than I anticipated. Ewan MacGregor's face is difficult to get a likeness for head-on like in this pose. Just gotta practice more I guess! ;)

[human-rocket]

I miss themmm

✦ my art ✦ tip jar ✦ blsky ✦ shop ✦

[beauteesleep]

After Geonosis

[palfriendpatine66]

There’s a new cunt in town.

(I cannot fucking wait for the finale)

[palfriendpatine66]

I miss this bitch

[mablung-art]

No one can tell if they're fighting or flirting and they're too afraid to ask.

Bo'ket owns my soul thanks to She Said The Word by the_obiwan_for_me.

I couldn't becide on a design for Tol'ket's hair so here's a bunch of different versions

[communistkenobi]

we’re so back

[atsa-star-wars]

In no universe ever is The Mandalorian and Grogu worse than The Rise of Skywalker. The latter's gonna be a God Awful Movies secular movie bonus episode one of these days.

[bomberqueen17]

It turns out I’ve posted a bunch of chunks of the Yavin IV school break visit prequel, but never the whole thing, so I threw it up on AO3, as much of it as I have. I wanted to write more, I may still do so. 

Colors You Can See, gen, no warnings, 6kish words of Poe and Iolo being dorks and Kes being actually not an embarrassing dad at all. 

Iolo came and leaned against the railing. “Does it do this every night?”

“Most,” Kes said. “If there’s been rain. It’s pretty here.”

“Is that why you stayed here?” Iolo asked.

Kes shrugged. “Lots of reasons to stay,” he said, “no real reasons to leave.” He stared at the sunset. “You can see more colors, right?”

“Yeah,” Iolo said. “I mean. Usually.” He gestured at the sunset. “Most of what’s spectacular there, though, is in colors you can see.”

“You got a pretty good handle on what we can see, huh?” Kes asked.

“I had some glasses,” Iolo said. “When I decided on this career path, one of my relatives got ‘em for me. I wore them around for a while, got used to figuring out what was stuff I’d be able to see that other people couldn’t, just so I’d know how to talk about it.”

“Did it help?” Kes asked.

Iolo laughed. “A little,” he said. “It’s good to have a general idea what’s just going to creep humans out, you know?”

“There’s always an element to that in any way of being different,” Kes said.

“Yeah,” Iolo said. He glanced sidelong at Kes. The light was outlining the edge of his cheekbone and the sweep of his eyelashes in a soft orange. “I actually didn’t know Poe was Iberican until we were on our way here. I mean. I didn’t know what that meant really? But I studied the language a little, I knew a little about it. And I had no idea. He used to help a bunch of us with our Iberican homework and I just assumed it was because he was ahead of us in class.”

“He’s ashamed of it,” Kes said, and his jaw was set. “He pretends he only knows the language from school on purpose.”

“They teased him a lot, his first year,” Iolo said. “It was before I was there, so I didn’t know. But he got made fun of for it pretty badly.”

Kes looked at Iolo then, and it was obvious that Poe had never told him. He opened his mouth, closed it, and looked down. “I never wanted him to go to that fucking Academy,” he said finally.

“No?” Iolo was surprised. “But you’re– I mean, you’re a hero of the Rebellion, right? It only makes sense, you’d want–”

“No,” Kes said. “I don’t want Poe to have to fight the same fucking war I did. I want my child not to fight in wars. I want him to live in peace somewhere. I never wanted him to go to that goddamn school and I didn’t want him to become a starfighter pilot and I don’t want him to be in the military. Not for the Republic, not for anybody.”

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This story is most of the basis for the version of Iolo that shows up in my fic (especially since there's so little that's canon). I took your details (especially the aging stuff) and *ran* with them.

I also just really like this fic, and the interactions between Iolo, Kes, and Poe. Especially near the beginning with Iolo hoping out loud that Poe fills out like Kes did. :)

(originally a comment from my sw fic account @atsa-star-wars-daydream-verse)

[elivanto]

#it's not a star war without some funky little creatures

[lesbinewren]

i do always find it very funny when people point to anakin as evidence that the jedi attachment rule is wrong. like bro, anakin proves them RIGHT. everything anakin did is exactly why the jedi warned against attachments

[gay-jesus-probably]

"If you accept that the people you love will some day die and you should enjoy whatever time you have with them instead of getting overly attached to having them in your life, you will actually be a miserable soulless husk of a person. Be more like Anakin Skywalker, the guy who had a bad dream about his wife dying, pre-emptively strangled her to death to make sure he wouldn't have to worry about her dying on him anymore, and then went on to live a long and happy life of miserable isolation and furiously trying to murder the tiny handful of people that still cared about him."

[antianakin]

As if Ki-Adi-Mundi didn't have enough haters, last night's episode is making things worse. Personally, I never understood the hate towards Ki-Adi-Mundi to begin with. What did he do to piss off the anti-Jediists?

This post goes through it pretty succinctly.

Basically, it seems to boil down to three main things:

In the films he's one of three Jedi Council characters who are allowed to even speak, so he gets hated along with the rest of them for daring to treat Qui-Gon like he isn't The Enlightened One at all times and being "mean" to Anakin for asking Anakin about his mom.

He doesn't immediately insist Ahsoka's innocent during the Wrong Jedi arc and acts as a devil's advocate when he brings up all the evidence pointing to her guilt.

In Legends, he's apparently married and therefore he is a hypocrite or some shit even though there's no indication he has any opinions on Anakin's relationship with Padme ever.

But yeah, given that fandom seems to have a hate boner for him for no real good reason and we know that Leslye Headland is very intentionally writing the story of "what went wrong with the Jedi" in the Acolyte, it doesn't seem like a random choice to bring in Ki-Adi-Mundi as a cameo. This seems very unfortunately deliberate.

[short-wooloo]

You can tell by the way some people criticize the Jedi as military leaders that they do not understand how war and the military works

“The Jedi invaded Umbara for wanting to leave!”

Umbara didn’t just “want to leave”, they were a republic world that switched sides mid-war, when an ally switches sides, you declare war on them, at a minimum this is to say “you can’t just do this and expect no consequences”, but its also simple strategy, you attack your former ally so that you can prevent whatever assets they have from being used by the enemy, but also so you can hopefully regain said assets (umbara has unique and advanced technology)

have people not played Risk?

“The Jedi invaded Geonosis again!”

the separatists retook Geonosis and reactivated/built factories there to produce war material (battle droids specifically), as long as these factories were active the war would be more difficult, the Republic invaded to shut down these factories down, its just good strategy

Related, “the Jedi attacked planets during the war”

Yeah, it’s war, that’s how it works, you can’t fight a war exclusively on the defensive (especially not when the enemy has a manpower/production advantage), you have to go on the offensive so the enemy can’t build up their strength to attack (and that doesn’t even get into the humanitarian reasons to go on the offensive, the separatists are enslaving and murdering whole populations-WWII parallels anyone?-you can’t help them if you only fight defensively

“The Jedi used the Clones as meat shields/cannon fodder!”

cannon fodder has a real definition, usually being poorly trained, poorly equipped soldiers sent out for no other purpose other than to soften up the enemy for the main assault

this is not at all how the Jedi treat/command the Clones

first the Clones are highly trained (10 years of it) and well equipped-probably the best out of any SW military

second, the Jedi fight on the front lines with the Clones, that is not something you do with cannon fodder

third, nothing the Jedi ask of the Clones is really that much more than what would be asked of a soldier in a real world military

I’m sure there are other examples but these are the biggies, please suggest more if you can think of any

[short-wooloo]

“The Jedi prioritized coruscant!” (Most frustrating, this one got put in tcw)

Capitals are kinda important to the war effort

[trickytricky1]

“Instead of fighting in the war, the Jedi should have refused the Republic’s orders and instead worked to negotiate and/or mediate an end to the conflict!”

- (1) Diplomacy/Negotiation in this context are official actions on behalf of a government. The Jedi can perform diplomatic functions only as much as they are empowered by the entity they are conducting diplomacy on behalf of. Before the war, they operate throughout the galaxy in this capacity for the Galactic Republic with some restrictions, but generally with a pretty flexible mandate. During the war, that leeway went out the window. They literally *cannot* conduct ‘diplomacy’ or ‘negotiations’ unless empowered on behalf of one of the parties in the conflict, and in the Separatist/Republic conflict they very decidedly are NOT so empowered [we see that authority close-held by the governing legislature and executive on both sides].

- (2) Mediation is similarly impossible. It’s only applicable if the parties in the conflict are *willing* to come to the table to discuss terms. Absent that, there is literally no one the Jedi can *mediate between*… you see the issue? Between the well-armed & trained Galactic Army of the Republic (clone troopers and equipment funded and controlled by the Senate) vs the vast droid armies furnished by the corporate interests to the Separatist congress, both sides remained determined to achieve their aims by victory in combat rather than a mediated settlement.

[Only tangentially related to OP’s main point about military decision-making but I’m throwing it out here, because, eugh, too much ignorance about war and conflict]