Hi, hey, heya, hello, hullo, sup, howdy, yeehaw

I like to write stories that go nowhere and share random thoughts that pop into my head. Share a prompt if you want.

[phantomrose96]

[copperbadge]

I cannot get this poem out of my head. It haunts me. Joyously, it haunts me. 

[peepingnee]

This poem format is my favorite thing and this is the first time I’ve ever seen it’s origin story. I love it. Every time.

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

THE SACRED TEXTS!

[zetabrarian]

I forgot the context! It’s beautiful!

[voidartisan]

We all know that Qui-gon asking Shmi who Anakin’s father was was an incredibly personal question and if she was totally lying to him I support her in that however I was thinking about it and started dying bc. there are like. two plausible explanations for him asking and I find both of them somewhat hilarious

1. The Jedi have no concept of the wider social norms regarding things like pregnancy and single parenthood, etc. because the vast majority of them will never have children plus they’re a giant communal village of psychics. They have no idea what is and is not appropriate to ask. It is the one situation that their training cannot prepare them for

2. Qui-gon is looking down at the midichlorian count and back up at Anakin. And then back to the count and then back at Anakin again trying to figure out if this kid looks like anyone he knows. Sweet force that would be awkward. Maybe he should call Obi-Wan and ask him to look up the last time a Jedi was assigned to come to Tatooine. But no, no accessing that info without anyone’s consent would be rude. Surely it would be more polite to ask her directly.

[fanfic-obsessed]

This makes me want a story where the force, as an entity, 'borrows' the genetic code of a Jedi for the 'father' of Anakin Skywalker and some random, routine blood test after he becomes a padawan becomes much less routine.

For this I want to you to consider the amusement possiblities for the following.

-Somehow Obi Wan is genetically the father, never mind that Obi Wan was 16 when Anakin was concieved(Sometime in BBY 42 or early BBY 41) and due to a mission mishap had been temple bound from 43 BBY to 40 BBY.

-Some random Jedi Knight/Jedi Master is the father, bonus if their physical gender/species makes them incapable of fathering a human or near human child (Council Member: Skywalker is genetically Kel Dor? How? Healer: Nothing I have ever learned gives me an answer for that). Obi Wan clutches at the poor Jedi, becasue he is a greiving 25 year old with a nine year old, he needs someone.

-Everytime the healers run the genetics test, they match with a different Jedi. Obi Wan pops up every second or third test.

[skybreakprimeonao3]

“And the father this time is… me.”

“Why, Master Che, I didn’t realize you get around!”

*various Jedi running away in fear*

[luspiel]

AAAAGGGH! I really want to read Ari fanfiction, but there's such a lack in the fandom (because they're my OC).

I honestly think they're one of the best characters in the book (that's in my head).

I even love the AUs they're in (a dream I had) and hope the author (me) gets around to updating.

I just really hate it when authors leave masterpieces unfinished (lol this plot dies with me).

[swallowintheteapot]

A scene from chapter 1 of the fic Ghost In Uniform (by WhitmansGrass)

had to split the pic into two coz it’s too big for uploading

this art is commissioned. artist: 二手平板

[whitmansgrass]

This looks so good omg

[havingapoemwithyou]

drive to quinebaug valley by Franny Choi

[rylandsgrace]

This is cinema actually

[wizardarchetypes]

THE ALI FORESHADOWING LIKE SHE’S A WIZARD THEY’RE PREPARING TO FACE AND THEYRE WARNING US ABOUT HER LIKE BARDS.

ALI IMMEDIATELY LIVING UP TO THE BALLDS SUNG ABOUT HER.

THE FACT THAT ALL OF THEIR MAGIC COMBINED DIDN’T COUNTER HER SPELL

[amvs]

[amvs]

[amvs]

genuinely they have probably saved people.

[amvs]

they HAVE saved people actually i’m 100% sure of that. i’ve learned about so many recalls i would’ve had no idea about otherwise !!!! from the bottom of all of our hearts thank you mamoru

[mamoru]

aw shucks, thank YOU! what a pick me up!

when I was younger, I got food poisoning. I was supposed to recover from it, but I wound up with a bunch of nasty medical conditions instead. I never imagined I would become disabled from food.

so I am really glad I have been able to help spread the word every now and then about food safety and recalls, since it hopefully means a few less people going through what I have.

while I have your attention, I do not post every recall, even just for the US, so here are a few of the links I use!

recalls.gov/recent.html <- aggregate of official government recall links for the US! food, drugs, products, child safety seats, motor vehicles, and tires! (half the feeds are broken half the time, but hey, it works™! check the FDA enforcement reports for a more complete list of recalls, especially drug recalls!)

recalls for canada <- recalls for canada!

RASFF <- food recalls and safety alerts for the EU!

food safety news <- news about food safety in the US, canada, and around the world!

I was poisoned <- see where people have gotten food poisoning near you, and report your own! (worldwide!)

thanks for reading, stay safe and take care!

[cherryralts]

they should’ve never let me learn how to rom hack

[reasonsforhope]

Instead of takedown ads, this Gen-Z congressional candidate is using campaign money to feed people

Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old running for Congress in Illinois, is spending her campaign dollars in a whole new way.

"Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old running for Congress in Illinois’ 9th congressional district, isn’t shy about her belief that politicians need to do things differently.

“We have a representation problem,” the first line of the “About” page on her website reads.

“As in, about half of Congress are millionaires and people born before the Moon landing. And that's part of the reason we're in this mess: Our leaders are out of touch.”

A journalist, social media influencer, and political commentator that GQ called “a lefty,” with a mission to revitalize the Democratic party, Abughazaleh built a following online before she launched her campaign in March of 2025. 

But now, she’s leveraging her platform — and campaign dollars — to help people in her community before ballots are even filled in.

“My congressional campaign is feeding people right now,” she starts in a recent TikTok video. 

“Part of the reason I decided to run was because I saw how much money gets wasted in politics, and I thought, ‘What if we spent it differently?’”

She adds that the campaign is focused on “direct action and mutual aid,” emphasizing that she wanted her run for office to be “dual-purpose,” in which she can get her message out and help people in the process. 

It’s a stark pivot from the traditional way of campaigning in the United States, which often includes pricey fundraising galas, attack ads, big billboards, and perhaps the most criticized and unpopular feature: massive donations from private businesses and interest groups. 

Abughazaleh has publicly congratulated the former incumbent of this seat — 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who has held the title since 1999, the year Abughazaleh was born — for her “decades of service.” 

Rep. Schakowsky will not seek reelection, but Abughazaleh called for others to run, hoping to participate in the “first competitive Democratic primary in the District since 1998.”

Abughazaleh has also shared that the average donation her campaign receives is $31. And according to GQ, 1,000 people signed up to volunteer for her campaign within a week of her initial announcement.

And while that volunteering does include marketing, canvassing, and getting the word out, it mostly adds up to actual on-the-ground volunteer work to help people in the local community.

“Our kick-off event, for instance, didn’t charge $500 a plate,” Abughazaleh shared in her TikTok. “People just had to bring a box of pads or tampons, which were donated to Chicago’s period collective. By the end of the night, we had gathered over 5,600 period products, which went to people who can’t afford them.”

Most recently, the campaign hosted a food drive for a local community fridge program.

“We asked folks to come out and donate food in exchange for a campaign yard or window sign,” Abughazaleh said. “And by the end of the day, we were able to fully stock the empty pantry and fill the fridge with frozen meals, produce, and eggs. That’s feeding people right now.”

“Don’t worry, we checked to make sure this is legal," she added. "And it is."

The campaign has also launched a High School Public Serve Grant program that encourages local youth to submit ideas for how to make the community better, and Abughazaleh’s campaign will support it with money, materials, volunteers, and her online platform...

“Something you’ll rarely see is concrete help in their communities during the campaign,” she said. “And frankly, to me, that just seems stupid. Not only do you get to help people — supposedly what you’re running to do — but it also shows what you’re about, instead of just providing lip service.” ...

“If every campaign adopted this model, then we wouldn’t be wasting money every single cycle. Every city, town, and village across America would be improved by their election process, and I think it would also get people more involved,” she said.

“We have local folks who have never voted in an election, but they joined our volunteer Discord server because they want to help, they feel like they have something to vote for.”

For those who might be inspired enough to run for office with this model, she says: Full steam ahead.

“Frankly, I would love it if other campaigns took our model. Use it, pretend it’s yours, I don’t care!” she wrapped up her TikTok. 

“Pair with organizations in your community that have been doing the work, talk with local experts, and try to spearhead any initiatives you can to show your values and help your constituents. It’s really that easy.”

-via GoodGoodGood, May 14, 2025

[thedirtiwalkoniswet]

Bless the screaming citadel and shattered empire for being the only comics to depict Luke as beautifully as he is

[csmithman]

these comics be like

[ekingston]

SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

his dyslexia; 

his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and 

a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):

This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)

I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:

Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.

I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice. 

I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.

After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.

While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:

And then I went to bed.

By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:

@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.

That response came only an hour or so later: 

Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.

I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.

A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)

A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.

Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.

Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :

Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):

which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)

... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)

After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether. 

It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:

And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.

That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:

They were completed works;

They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and

They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.

If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!

I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.

I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.

Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***

That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.

Sooo—

We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them. 

This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:

Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.

Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.

THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):

*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that. 

**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation. 

***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.

Again, please, please PLEASE reblog this post instead of the one I sent originally. All the information is here, and it's driving me nuts to see the old ones are still passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.

Thank you all so much.

[olderthannetfic]

People will do anything for a quick buck.

[princeofbadassery]

His reasoning is also so half-assed, it's exactly like tech-bros trying to improve on traveling means and inventing trains over and over again.

The solution to all the 'problems' he listed already exists. They're screen-readers, audiobooks, and podfics.

He knows he is violating the copyrights of writers, he is actively breaking copyright laws by making money off of works that he didn't create.

Remember, you hold the copyright to your works, because they're fanfiction it means you can't make money off of them (you don't have the trademark for the characters and universes used), but neither can anyone else.

[dracaelus]

I love when he

Detective comics (2016) #1056

Robin v.4 #128

Robin v5 #14

Robin v.4 #92

Batman & The Signal #3

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

If Obi-Wan had actually stayed on Mandalore with Satine after the Civil War and left the Jedi Order, it would've made The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones peak comedy.

Like, Qui-Gon would still be sent to Naboo and end up on Tatooine, he'd still meet Anakin and take him back to the Temple. But, in this AU, he survives the battle on Theed and takes Anakin as his padawan. And the entire Order would be making jokes:

"Congrats on the new padawan! Hope he sticks around longer than the last one!" "We'll keep this one off the bodyguard missions, eh Qui-Gon?"

So one day little Anakin’s like "hey master, what happened to your last padawan?" And Qui-Gon's like "oh he ran off with a girl, yeah he's royalty in the Outer Rim now".

And it's all fine and dandy until Anakin’s nineteen and they get assigned to protect Padmé, and Qui-Gon takes one look at this kid's face and thinks "You've got to be fucking kidding me, this shit again??"

[libraryfordyslexics]

This is the absolute saddest type of art in Star Wars but like also the deepest. When I see Echo with Fives’ helmet. Rex with Jesse’s helmet. Luke with Vader’s helmet. Ragnar with Paz’s helmet. Omega with Tech’s helmet. Crosshair with Tech’s helmet. Numa with Waxer or Boil’s helmet. Ahsoka with the 332nd orange painted helmet. Fives with Tup’s helmet. Etc. like there’s something so powerful and sad about the keldabe between somebody and the helmet of their fallen loved one. Crying rn.

[k009]

(´･△･`)

[jedi-starbird]

Palpatine: My boy, I'm afraid to report that Master Kenobi is very likely sleeping with your wife.

Anakin, who knows for a fact that Obi-Wan is sleeping with his Commander, a good chunk of Ghost company, the Organas and Quinlan Vos: ...where is he finding the fucking time???

Palpatine, oblivious: Oh I've heard from some very reliable sources that-

Anakin: *pulls out a spexcel spreadsheet, the 3rd System Army's shared spoogle calender and a calculator*

Anakin: Your Excellency. That's just. not logistically possible.

[luspiel]

The Council: So you listed in your mission report your reasoning for detaining and later killing the sith chancellor stemmed from suspicions brought on by him trying to turn you against your master. Could you elaborate on that?

Anakin: of course. The chancellor implied that Obi-wan was sleeping with my wife

Council: You have a wife?

Anakin: Yes, but that's besides the point. The point is that by my calculations *whips out spexcel PowerPoint*

Obi-wan: Calculations!!! *he chokes*

Anakin: Stop interrupting! Which is coincidentally what the spoogle calendar was made for. *Clicks through slide*

Obi-wan: Who made this calendar, and why is it specific to the very minute?!

Anakin: That's Commander Cody for ya, real details guy. Trust me, I tried unsharing myself from it hundreds of times but I think he's attached it to my comm code now.

Council: The point, please can we get back to that

Anakin: Sure! Anyway, taking into account the amount of shoreleave Obi-wan is granted, and this is generously assuming that bed sharing with Commander Cody and Ghost Company is limited to off-planet excursions, Master Kenobi would have 0 hours left in a standard 24 hour cycle to fuck anybody when adding in his visits to the Organas and impromptu trysts with Master Vos. In fact, if my master actually got more than 4 hours a sleep a day, that number would be in the negative! Perhaps with a very ambitiously planned out foursome with the Organas and Padmé it could be done, but only at precisely 5:27am to 5:45am, which is not nearly enough time for four people to be effectively satisfied. It's just irresponsible orgy planning.

Council: ....

Obi-wan: *literally passing into the Force*

Mace Windu leans forward in his chair and steeples his fingers: Did *big sigh* did you just save the galaxy by creating fuckenomics?

Anakin: Wow, I guess so :D

[phoenixyfriend]

something something everything that happens in jedi apprentice is just the rumors that periodically get circulated around the crèche about Obi-Wan by all the younglings

All of Obi-Wan's incredibly dangerous adventures did... sort of happen? Bandomeer happened! But Qui-Gon was supervising for most of it. Melida/Daan happened! But it didn't last quite as long as the creche says it did, and Obi-Wan got to keep his lightsaber, and Qui-Gon did in fact come back after Tahl was stabilized.

Etcetera

[phoenixyfriend]

So @willowcrowned said:

Ahsoka telling Anakin all about Obi-Wan’s tragic past: and THEN Master Qui-Gon ABANDONED him because he didn’t want to leave the Young to die! Obi-Wan, who was very explicitly told by Qui-Gon that he didn’t have to stay, but if he was going to to stay safe and out of trouble until Qui-Gon got back: Master Qui-Gon did what now

Just take the meta of "these books were written to appeal to twelve-year-olds who wanted to imagine having grand adventures without adults getting in the way" and apply it in-universe

[nevertheless-moving]

Anakin: wHY didn’t you tell me you were a SLAVE in a mining colony at the BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN

Obi-Wan: I...what?

[phoenixyfriend]

#yeah. Preferable. #Like… adults are always like that in middle grade fiction. They’re made that way for a very specific reason #And as a result Qui-gon gets a lot of hate and blame #And I’m just looking at George Lucas’ Qui-gon and I’m like…. No I don’t believe that #The canon Qui-gon and Obi-wan have no idea about any of this stuff #Not that it isn’t great to get backstories and stuff to fill out characters’ bios but #Like… all the angst about Obi-wan’s abandonment issues caused by Qui-gon? It’s fun. I get it #But also when I watch that council room scene where Qui-gon says Obi-wan is ready #I don’t think it’s 100% necessary to pile that up with tons of bitterness and abandonment issue related angst stretching back a decade

#Obi-wan like: Master are you aware that the general perception of you is that you’re dense callous hypocritical and an absentee parent? #Qui-gon: Oh? Is that related to the rumor about how I forget to feed you? #Obi-wan: partly. People say you’ve left me in incredibly dangerous situations - war zones etc… #Qui-gon: oh… You’re remarkably well adjusted if that’s the case #Obi-wan: thank you Master. I try to be resilient and real ease all my emotions into the Force to help with the trauma #Qui-gon: what was your most recent traumatic experience? #Obi-wan: Oh you finally admitting I was ready for my trials was seen as you abandoning me again. I’m rather torn up about it as you can see #Qui-gon: my deepest apologies. I should not have suggested it until you were well into your 30s. You’re indispensable. Who else would #Remind me to eat or fill out all of my mission reports? (via @the-stars-descend)

[luspiel]

Gonna die on this hill