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Everyone says that the Jedi policy against attachments is misunderstood, but given what happened to Anakin isn't it fair to say that their policies are bad?

Listen to what Yoda says to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, and pay attention to the important words.

"The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side. Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is."

The Jedi aren't forbidden from loving others, but they have to love others selflessly.

Anakin's problem is that his love for Padme was possessive. He didn't love her, he coveted her. He was completely consumed by the fear of losing her. This is why he strangles her when he thinks she's betrayed him, because whether by death or divorce, he is losing her at that very moment.

He is so consumed by his greed that he destroys everything Padme ever cared about or was passionate about just to keep her from dying, even though Padme would have given her life to preserve the Republic.

Padme's happiness is secondary to keeping her around. This is why Yoda warns Anakin about mourning or missing someone, because these are actions fundamentally centered around the dead no longer being around, and you no longer have access to them.

Anakin loves Padme the way Ashley loves Andrew.

This is how a lot of people experience love. This is why some people get depressed, bitter and angry when they have unrequited feelings, because their love is fundamentally oriented around "having" someone, like a possession.

The shadow of greed, that is.

This is what Yoda is trying to tell him. That whoever Anakin is afraid of losing, his love for them is being poisoned by his greed. A greed so all consuming that he ignored and disregards every value Padme ever had all in the name of keeping her alive.

The only thing there is to say to him is "This is not a healthy or good way to view other people. You have to let go of this desire to own others or you will continue to rot from this irrational fear."

Here's something to always keep in mind: Policies like this are implemented for good reasons, and they can also change for equally good reasons. Good policy doesn't last forever and it's not supposed to.

leafymari

mr director please take zwei don out of cameo hell

ladyofthebookcase

drawing the this . awawa.

that one post that’s like labubus were meant to be hanging on a kindergarteners backpack filthy as fuck… she’s too busy playing and having fun to make sure it doesn’t get dirty on the playground

loveridden1999

you can have multiple most gorgeous looking women giving performance of their lifetime in a movie or show yet people will still come out obsessing & wanting to fuck a white man with the personality of a wet cardboard

loveridden1999

oh because we were all wondering

moth-grrrl-mavis

Tumblr users love to respond to posts admitting they're the problem and expect a cookie for it

the-quasar-hero

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

leafymari

carmine posting

great-and-small

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

great-and-small

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Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Final Round

Senshi (Dungeon Meshi)

Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)

Voting ended onJul 20

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

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“And if you’ll give me 40% of the MOST POPULAR VOTE, I’ll give you my SPECIAL REWARD... A year’s supply of NON-GLOOBY SLIME!!! Never or BARELY used!!!” Tenna concluded his speech with a huge smile, jetting his hands up in double peace signs.

The crowd roared in confused enthusiasm as Tenna gave a gracious flurry of low-FPS bows, pausing only for the occasional stink-nose at his audience plants who weren’t throwing enough 3D roses.

Eventually, the room fell silent. It was Senshi’s turn to speak.

He puffed out his chest, took a long, sweeping look over the audience… and shook his head.

“I can see not all of you are eating properly.”

The crowd murmured with embarrassment.

“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s time to take the turkey out of your icebox. I have seen the ingenious technology with which your people store food... and I have also seen the waste which results from such convenience.

“The food you take had a life. Beasts grew fat on the grass of the field, plants grew from the sun’s rays, and mushrooms grew from minerals in the cracks of caves. And yet, it sits in your iceboxes, collecting moisture until it perishes.

“Eat what is given to you. Because its life will make you stronger, too.”

Without another word, Senshi left his podium and stepped away from the stage. The crowd murmured in confusion. “Is he really like that?” somebody said. “I only remember reblogging the photosets of him tripping and showing ass.”

Back in the Green Room, Tenna wrung his antennas nervously.

“Y-y-you think they liked me!? They HAD to!! I mean, I don’t know what Asgore was thinking, getting that weird haircut and running that food waste campaign, but… YOU thought I did good, didn’t you, Kris?”

Laios nodded aggressively, a streak of blue face paint peeling from his forehead.

“You did AMAZING, Tenna! By the way, now that we’ve seen all your insider campaign secrets, do you have any more videos of Susie? Especially her tail... If I could get a look at that, I could finally tell if she’s a dinosaur or --”

THWACK. Fake antlers butted Laios’s head.

“LAIOS?? Weren’t we dressed up to help SENSHI???” Marcille hissed, gesturing awkwardly with her hooves.

Suddenly, Tenna turned to the two adventurers.

“Hey, WAIT a second. SOMETHING’s not right here...”

Laios and Marcille held their breath.

“Where the heck are my POINTS!?”

Just then, the door opened. Chilchuck took one step into the room, whistling and holding a large bag.

Everyone turned to him.

Chilchuck paused, took a step backwards, and closed the door.

“CHILCHUCK!!!” yelled Tenna.

“How come Chilchuck got to stay Chilchuck!?” yelled Marcille at the same time.

Meanwhile, in outer space somewhere, some guy was making out with a rock.

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What do you think about the rise of therapy speak, especially in zoomers?

Not a real issue. It's a symptom of an issue.

The problem with fixating on the methods in which people do age-old shitty things is it makes you believe that

Being a disingenuous prick is a new thing

That the problem is the vocabulary in the first place

Take, for instance, the overuse of the word narcissist. Ask yourself, why do people do this when "asshole" already exists? Well because calling someone an asshole is petty. It paints your interactions with them as mundane.

If you call someone a narcissist, or any pathologized term really, turns an otherwise mundane interaction into ontological evil. Using pathologized language just makes that statement sound more official and more important. They would insist they were possessed by demons if they thought it wouldn't immediately mark them as a nutcase.

People do this because it puts their mind at ease. Take this woman on a "narcissistic abuse" sub (lol)

This is the example I always cite, because you could not be more of a liar if you fucking tried.

I'll tell you what actually happened: These two people, who are bad for each other, snapped at each other, one of them got road rage, and the other's been convincing herself her ex was a demonic entity ever since.

If her ex is a demon, that means she doesn't have to reflect on her own behavior.

This is also done internally, when someone behaves like an asshole and then blames it on their trauma, or autism, or anxiety or whatever. As if these conditions make them incapable of controlling their impulses. It's a convenient excuse for people who simple do NOT want to self-regulate. Who want to follow every impulse imaginable and get mad when you expect them to have some self discipline.

People are extremely attached to their narratives where people they don't like are "incurable" and their evil is so inherent that there's nothing to be done but kill them. It's how an abusive person justifies eternally punishing someone for their failures.

It's extremely attractive to people who cannot let anything go, and remain angry about things for years after the behavior has ceased or the relationship ended.

paxeline

xichun fishmael but I was too tired to render her properly 🫩

leafymari

lcb sinner #14 laura

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QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

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Voting ended onJul 24

#99%#Messed up ONCE because I wasn't paying attewntion on Morpeko (Hunger Forme)#Fuck

pocket-deer-belly

sometimes i get a glimpse of the scale of the fucking. ISFF hateposting cottage industry and it's all deeply connected to a bunch of kiwifarmers and none of them seem to notice how deranged it is to do all of this. just post about a trans woman 24/7 set up multiple blogs to screenshot and track down everything on her. i wish you all a very happy crack your head on the pavement

pocket-deer-belly

no i don't think this random internet trans woman has ties to fucking jeffrey epstein are you all fucking shitting yourselves

pocket-deer-belly

it's like people nominally understand that minorities are subject to a lot of additional scrutiny, and like, if you pressed them on it they'd understand it's a lot harder to grow into a healthy well-rounded person under all that extra scrutiny, but if you point out that they're part of that process they're like. well she's a pedophile groomer menace to society [citation needed] we can't just like, NOT stalk her continuously

maidslime

remember how for a month or two someone kept saying isff ran an entire child trafficking business and was trafficking children to a bunch of other tumblr trans women and screamed about having proof, but whenever anyone pressed for proof, they'd never post any? And, tons of people just. Believed it? That a super poor trans woman somehow ran this Epstein level trafficking campaign to other trans women that lived in completely different continents?? it was so. obviously bullshit and transmisogyny. like, it's so obviously fake and transmisogynistic but all these "we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" people refused to see it that way.

you gotta remember, this all started cuz isff said misandry didn't exist. they called her a pedophile for months just because she said transandrophobia doesn't exist. all these posts people post as reasons to hate her were from december, she had been being called a pedophile throughout the summer and fall! she only made those posts in december, the transmisogynists already calling her a pedophile!

if you are "anti-isff" you are a transmisogynist. You hate trans women.

missstrogen

As the girl living it, yeah it is, a lot,

storyweavingspider

To be clear none of this is hyperbole

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This is like Pizzagate and QAnon has a fucking baby. It's always the most extreme, hysterical accusations imaginable and the source is always "some guy said so!"

Nazi shit. Straight up Nazi shit.

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

whitachi

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

innerchildabortionclinic

interesting kink assortment on the dash

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A lot of people complain about the one guy who makes a Chaotic Evil character in an otherwise good party, but would it be possible to ever make that work?

The important thing to always remember is that Every alignment can take the exact same action, but for wildly different reasons.

It's not a matter of "Would my character do this?" but "Why is my character doing this?"

To that end, Chaotic Evil characters are the easiest to fit into a good party. The whole point of being Chaotic Evil is that you know you're an evil bastard and you revel in it. You will do whatever the hell you please. As such, even just being among a group of Heroes is going to make them and other people nervous as to what the fuck it is you're planning, and that can be reason enough itself: Fucking with people is fun.

You gotta throw in a few Heroic actions sometimes, gotta keep people guessing. Can't get too predictable or else you get boring.

Hell if you're an evil wizard, and the main villain is an evil wizard, that's reason enough to join the heroes: "This realm isn't big enough for two evil wizards! Now it's fucking personal!"

Where evil characters in good parties go wrong is that they're almost always murderhobos so they just grief the party. Actually putting thought into it means you get to just offer so many different perspectives a good party would otherwise have.

Imagine you stumble across one of the main villain's atrocities, and while everyone else is reacting with horror and resolutions to stop that madman, you're just walking around critiquing the technique and being insulted at the lack of showmanship.

Party Leader: "Oh my god... he had every villager hung by the wrists and eaten alive with roaches..." Evil Wizard: "This is just tacky! People are already afraid of roaches, so you didn't do anything to make their death more terrifying! You exploited an already existing fear! It's like tormenting someone by murdering their child. There's no creativity in it! Their psyche is doing all the work for you! This man has no respect for the craft! As an artist I am insulted!"

Even better you can make the entire party genre-savvy.

Party Leader: "There were no guards or wards, it was like he just let us escape." Evil Wizard: "That's because he wants to either corrupt you or fuck you." Party Leader: "You're... you're serious?" Evil Wizard: "How do you think I met my wife? Where else is an evil wizard going to meet a Priest of Lathander?" Party Leader: "Marismia the Dark Harbinger is a Priest of Lathander?!" Evil Wizard: "Well, she was... then I locked her in a dungeon where every clue to get out was poetry and that did it." Party Leader: "You're a poet?" Evil Wizard: "Not in the slightest. I spent four years making that deathtrap work."

The whole thing about being Chaotic Evil is you're evil for the love of the game.

Once you stop thinking about "What would this alignment do" and start thinking "Why would this alignment do this?" you understand the alignment system much better.