Kylo Ren

You know he's trash, you just don't care. I follow on Yarsian. 

[noah-wyles]

anakin's real voice mixed with the modulator

obi-wan saying 'anakin' and begging for forgiveness

anakin telling obi-wan he was not his failure but his own and that he killed himself

vader calling obi-wan his master

obi-wan finally letting anakin go and acknowledging he was 'dead' and killed by darth vader

obi-wan unable to deliver the killing blow when he cracked his mask and saw anakin's face, his true self under the mask, and was reduced to tears

anakin screaming obi-wan's name as he walked away from him again

[zzoupz]

HELPPP TUMBLR IS SELLING SHOELACES

[zzoupz]

you can't get shit like this anywhere else

[wickedcriminal]

[robotsandramblings]

(AU where Rex accompanies Anakin when he goes to tell Mace Windu that he thinks the Chancellor is a sith lord; Rex overhears the conversation, immediately calls Fox and tells him)

random clone: oh hey Commander Fox, ur back early from that meeting-

Fox: Chancellor’s a Sith

clone: what?

Fox, checking his pistols are loaded and heading for Palpatine’s office: Chancellor’s a Sith

[janesurlife]

So let's make a pact here, No matter how the Obi wan Kenobi show is, none of you assholes will hate on Hayden Christensen... He got too much hate the first time around which he didn't even deserved. So Hate Disney or the LF writers or whatever but don't say a word about Hayden... got it, good

[theforceawakens]

Adam Driver in Rolling Stone (December 2019)

[deepinthelight]

Adam Driver

[paper-n-ashes]

#angry Dan

[tarmairons]

[x]

[itskindofablur]

I 👏 HATE* 👏 HIM 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[whyactlikeahuman]

[safeinpeetasarms]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[taraljc]

if I ever don’t reblog Obi-Wan’s complete lack of fucks, assume I have perished and have been et by my cat.

[o-wise-corvid]

Look how tickled about it he is. 

[stevehopper]

“my boy.” sw: ep ix — tros | yr. 2019

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

you ever think about how in star wars the four heroes that overthrew the tyrannical empire and inagurated a new government are the princess of a tragically destroyed planet, a wisecracking rogue, the last heir of a religious order of wizards who do actual literal magic, and.........a city mayor

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

i should clarify that im not disparaging lando here i'm just wondering what it's like to be in a space fantasy adventure as the ONE member of your friend group who knows what a zoning law is

[kylolife]

[perrydowning]

He’s just so smooth.

[itasasu]

Some rando: This character should not have the chance to become a better person

Me: Why

Same person: Because they are a bad person!

Me: But what if that character was allowed to become a better person so that they are no longer a bad person?

Same person: You’re an abuse apologist

[fictional-me]

I would love for every bad person to become a good person. I’d think most humans think that it’d be a cool and great thing if all bad people became good. 

A cool and great thing, which we can play pretend with in fiction, knowing it’s not realistic, just to feel a little better about the shitty real world we live in.

[jaspurr]

tbh, I think the problem is that people confuse “getting a redemption arc” with “being rewarded with what comes after a redemption arc”

like, redeemed villains are generally friends with the heroes. they get to experience love and The Power of Friendship for the first time, if they haven’t already. they generally get to experience forgiveness. if their motives are based off of some kind of trauma or pain (like a lot of redeemed villains) then they will probably have that resolved and get some sense of closure or inner peace from whatever is hurting them.

so when they say that “this character doesn’t deserve a redemption arc” what they mean is “this character doesn’t deserve to be loved. they don’t deserve happiness, peace, or companionship”. the alternatives I have seen are:

“I hope that this character realizes how awful they are and they kill themselves”

“I hope this character is redeemed by a heroic sacrifice” (meaning they would be redeemed but wouldn’t be alive to experience the “reward” afterwards)

“I hope this character begs and pleads for forgiveness over and over again, but is never forgiven”

it’s pretty disturbing tbh, to treat basic things that every human needs (like being loved) as a “reward” that you get for good behavior. or more accurately: never being bad in the first place. that once you fall from grace you’re damned for eternity.

[idreamtofmanderleyagain]

I think this post exposes a really gross underbelly to purity culture bullshit that I don’t think I examined quite this way before.

If redemption is unacceptable, if bad behavior can never be forgiven, what is the alternative?

Because it sure seems like the alternative is “Indefinate suffering = justice.”

[phoenixyfriend]

AU where Palpatine dies before the war can kick off and all such things, and technically there's still an active Sith (Dooku) and Apprentice (Ventress) but without Palpatine in place they can't play both sides of the army quite as efficiently so the war is delayed a few years.

Meanwhile, Anakin grows into a delightful young man who is, crucially, the Order's accidental Murder Puppy.

He's here! He's competent at stab! Like. The Jedi don't do assassinations. They really don't do murder. But this one time Anakin overheard some people talking about a mission to take down a slave ring and volunteered and unfortunately the person talking about it was new enough to the council that they weren't aware of Anakin's deeply personal connection to slavery as a concept and went "oh, okay, sure" and just assigned Obi-Wan and Anakin to it.

And Anakin just. He didn't kill any innocents. He didn't even kill a lot of people, considering the situation. Objectively, the mission was a success and his actions have saved a lot of lives in the long-term.

But he's showing much less distress about the murder of these individuals than most jedi would, and when they insist he see a mind healer for the Inherent Trauma Of Killing A Person, they find that Anakin has a very intense cognitive dissonance in place about whether or not slave-owners count as sentient beings, as opposed to heartless monsters.

They don't... they don't want to encourage this mentality, obviously.

But also Anakin keeps volunteering for these missions, much as Obi-Wan tries to make him stop, and he always gets them done in half the time, and just... they want to ban him from doing these missions where he inevitably commits a few murders.

But he's saving so many lives and it makes him concerningly happy to be running them...

[starfighter10]

Reylo kid : Dad, I need some dating advice

Ben : Just because I married your mother doesn't mean I know how I did it.

[xreyoflight-deactivated20180923]

[sanctuarytrin]

“Sir, is it really necessary to put on your cape before going after the stolen plans?”

Krennic: