That’s…why I’m here.

Iris | she/her | Unapologetic prequels & Jedi enthusiast

[foretauxfleurs]

Elzar definitely runs their couple account

[emipon]

two styles of barriss

[briannyssey]

dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

[emipon]

the crystal is the heart of the blade

the heart is the crystal of the Jedi

the Jedi is the crystal of the Force

the Force is the blade of the heart

[gffa]

Star Wars Proganda - A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy

[magmeter]

All Jedi Quest covers illustrated by Tsuyoshi Nagano

[whereareyourightnow]

@swshows Week: Day 5 - quotes

[tuxedosaurus]

Just read Phase 1 of Marvel’s Star Wars High Republic comics. Great journey, highly recommend it and other High Republic books.

[animatedjen]

to be a jedi. (maul: shadow lord spoilers)

[intermundia]

my favorite thing about anakin as a character is the inherent nuance lucas wrote into his story, like he's neither an innocent victim nor an inherently evil monster, he's just some guy put in a series of Situations and ultimately failing the test of his humility and self-control. he was certainly flattered and shaped by the devil, spiraling into something unrecognizable, but he chose to take every step down the pathway to hell. lucas knew he would lose a certain demographic by making him basically a greedy pawn in the larger story, not a righteous betrayed macho badass, but he did it anyway. he made him an awkward romantic and a loyal friend, a generous boy and a brilliant teen. he made sure he had all the positive qualities that meant that he had potential to be so much more than vader, but it was clearly his choice to lie, murder, and fully squander that potential. there are no excuses for what he became, no acceptable reasons to commit mass slaughter. he became an unbelievably selfish and impatient man, reckless and wantonly violent. hayden captured that nuance so well, nobody can match the sweetness of his smile and the absolute horror of his scowl on mustafar. to view him through a single lens as either pure victim of manipulation and (canonically unsupported) emotional neglect, or a creepy evil villain, denies the heart of his story and the weight of his tragedy. he's neither an angel nor a demon, he's both and neither, he's deeply human, a classical tragic hero with a flaw of greed. lucas made a choice with the prequels to tell a story that not everyone wanted to hear, and the result was a character that i think is one of the best of modern pop culture, mostly because he feels to me so very, very ancient and eternal.

[onslaught-xavier-lehnsherr]

Save me Depa Billaba , save me please🫦💕

[me8t]

i often think abt kanan and the jedi temple... do u think he thinks of home. do u think he thinks of his friends who werent very nice, but then they never got the chance to get better. do u think maybe a piece of his heart is stuck on coruscant. hello kanan jarrus are you homesick?

[01091006]

師弟

[gffa]

JEDI PHILOSOPHY IS SO GOOD (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

[nocturnalgremlingiant]

Inspired by a convo I’m having on Discord…

Raise your hand (or reblog or something like that) if you actually enjoyed the Kenobi show (or at least if the stuff you like about it outweighs the stuff you don’t, or even if you don’t love it but think it’s overhated)

[writerbuddha]

This is an excerpt from a larger essay I am working on, I though it would be a good idea to post it:

"Although Yoda clearly identifies fear, anger, and aggression as the dark side of the Force, and warns Luke not to use the strength that flows from them, as they will rule him and he will forever have to bear the consequences of what he has done under their sway, many fans and critics have distorted these teachings. The dark side is often asserted to be a malevolent metaphysical force or principle of wickedness that operates through fear, anger, and aggression. In the Expanded Universe novel Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn even altered Yoda’s teachings, writing, “Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned [Luke], were the slaves of the dark side.” In the 2000s, Matthew Stover spoke out against what he identified as the “dark-side-is-the-devil” perspective in the Expanded Universe, attempting to steer the narrative back toward Lucas’ canon. However, a few years later, in James Luceno’s The Unifying Force, Luke declared, “Anger by itself is not of the dark side,” and nevertheless insisted on fighting to “eradicate” the dark side, calling it “Evil” itself. Moreover, video games such as Knights of the Old Republic II portrayed drawing strength from the dark side as calling upon a mystical entity for magical powers through anger and aggression.

By the mid-2010s, such distortions had led to the formation of a primitive yet increasingly widespread interpretation that Jedi Knights were forbidden from feeling fear, anger, aggression, or other strong emotions altogether; Yoda’s teachings were reinterpreted as declaring such emotions “evil” in themselves, replacing valuable and practical psychological lessons on emotional regulation with a caricature of emotional repression. This interpretation resonated with those who may have been raised to believe that anger is always wrong, that feeling it is itself a moral failure, or that anger must be suppressed lest one face punishment in the afterlife - however, it does not match with the original cinematic portrayal."

[lightnersdream]

sometimes there's character interpretations where its like well i disagree but that's fine we just have different ways of seeing it. And sometimes i need to kill people