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I use this Tumblr as a diary and post my thoughts about Star Wars | 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[solitalost]

Nunca mais eu reclamo da interpretação de texto de nos brasileiros, por que vocês falante de língua inglesa conseguem ser pior

[lepusfangs]

Rhaella abusing Viserys, Elia being a-okay with her humiliation and teaming up with Rhaegar to groom a teenager, Lyanna somehow being more prophecy obsessed than Rhaegar, elishara only being confirmed to whitewash Rhaegar’s actions, the Dornish being an orientalist mess, every single woman in this play being turned into a hysterical loco or being villainized in in order to uplift the men specifically absolving Rhaegar of any blame and sanitizing Aerys………turn this shit the fuck off

[solitalost]

And people say to keep an open mind because the play needs more drama—give me a break.

[solitalost]

I think the criticism The Mad King Play is receiving falls short; I think it deserves more—so much criticism that every author would think twice before altering someone else's canon, even though I feel George no longer knows what to do with his own work.

[specialagentartemis]

Character has a PhD: they’re really smart and knowledgable about their field!

Character has 2 PhDs: either they did a dual degree program and are braggy about it, had a life-changing experience after their first degree and pivoted their whole career, or they find the structure of being a PhD student, despite all its stress, more comfortable and familiar than the stress of finding a Real Job and have a very indulgent advisor.

Character has 3 PhDs: who keeps accepting them to PhD programs. Either this person needs psychological help or their department needs to be investigated for its academic standards. Probably both

Character has 4+ PhDs: if they aren’t an undercover vampire or something then no they don’t lol

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[jcraftbee]

Anidala Day 3: Medieval!!!!

@anidalaweeks

yayy! enjoy

[markantonys]

i cannot believe they cut this from esb i cannot believe we almost had footage of vader hand-feeding his beloved pet gargoyles in his edgelord castle i will never be over this

[viscountessnila]

in anakin skywalker's wallet we have

pictures are not mine sourced from pinterest heh

[chronologyxxx]

oh the anidala as bad parents thing is especially egregious , I have seen several fics that aren't even trying to bash them, but make them into awful parents so much that Luke and Leia would prefer Obi-Wan to be their real dad, or when he's the one helping to raise them like he knows better, it's maddening. At that point one has to ask why is Obi-Wan joined at the (anidala) hip, why is he suddenly so superior and good as a parent 😭

Even with Ahsoka this happens, there are so many fics and AUs that are like "If Obi-Wan was my master, everything would be better" and Ahsoka having more trust in Obi-Wan than Anakin. I have even seen fics where the 501th wished they were under Obi-Wan's command and not Anakin...geez, just, sounds like every single character must be so into Obi-Wan one way or another, it hurts

tbh i can't even be mad at this phenomenon because it’s just so hilarious. obiwan is the most incompetent person in the universe for the role of a parent, and he has no desire to take it on, so it’s just funny. like, look at poor anakin: obiwan is 16 years his senior and personally took on the responsibility of raising him, yet he never fails to let anakin know they aren't equals, that he’s just a stupid young naive little padawan who needs to know his place, and the guy still refuses to ever acknowledge himself as the dad... insisting only on being a brother... how could he possibly be a good father to other people's children when he can't even bring himself to admit he’s the parent of the kid he’s raised since the age of nine and who's calling him his father? obiwan may be a competent lightsaber wielder, but he's a very emotionally immature person. it's 2026 already, this needs to be acknowledged😭

honestly, considering how he resented mini anakin for stealing qui-gon's attention and disliked padmé for distracting anakin from his jedi duties, i can easily imagine him not being particularly fond of luke and leia, seeing them as the primary reason anakin left the order lmao

and i don't care about tcw that much tbh, but, yeah. do people realize they can write characters as they actually are and let them have flaws? honestly, turning sw into a story about how obiwan kenobiwan was the most perfect person in the galaxy and beloved by every single character isn't really what i want to do with my free time, but whatever😐

[shoobscantsleep]

oh duchess naberrie and duke skywalker you are forever famous to me after writing dearest mé. (probably not period accurate, suspend our disbelief and imagine this hanging on a victorian wall for @anidalaweeks day three!)

[snow124-art]

Not "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." I read an article that talked about how impossible it was for Anakin and Padmé to be happy in canon. And then I thought, if there was an AU where Palpatine suddenly forgot he'd created Anakin, the Jedi wouldn't have found him by pure chance. And then one day, our Naboo senator would have been whisked off to Tatooine, where she'd inevitably get into trouble, and met him, a former slave and a smart guy. It's actually very similar to Leia and Han's story, but I don't see a quick happy ending here either; the difference in status is too big. And he would have thought, "If only I were a Jedi, I could be closer to her, talk to her as an equal." No, no, no, Ani, it’s the worst, trust me

[solitalost]

Making Helen and Clytemnestra identical twins is the stupidest, laziest thing possible.

[sarafangirlart]

Y’all ever think about how Clytemnestra trafficked her (teenage) daughter to an older man to humiliate and disown her? Bc I do.

[maidenvault]

One of the best bits of Legends lore I remember is that as a teenager Palpatine killed someone while recklessly driving a speeder and this should have ruined his political career aspirations but his rich family covered it up. Before he learned how to use the Force at all he was already a totally evil privileged asshole in the most real way.

[the-far-bright-center]

Immolation by Akinobu Hara / 5health

[pagesofmoonlight]

‘“As swift as the wind he rides, and behind him his khalasar covers the earth”…The old woman trembled and looked at Dany almost as if she were afraid. “The prince is riding, and he shall be the stallion who mounts the world.”’

✎ᝰ. slazete

dany week 2026 — day i | prophecies, magic & visions

[the-far-bright-center]

Ever since the Kenobi show came out the entire SW fandom now seems to think Obi-Wan Kenobi is the main character of Star Wars. Not Anakin, not the Skywalkers. Obi-Wan. Just because Disney made a big-budget fanfic about him. 🤦🏽‍♀️

[the-far-bright-center]

#don’t know if I should laugh or cry 😅😭#and no... I'm not saying other characters shouldn't receive attention#in fact...under different circumstances i would not mind at all#but within the context of Disney's terrible and destructive 'sequels'#(which had a decidedly 'anti-Skywalker' bias!!!)#i will always be inherently suspicious of the way Disney portray ANY other SW characters#because Disney NEVER truly acknowledged Anakin Skywalker as the CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE LUCAS SAGA#in fact they tried to pretend he wasn't 'that important'... tried to destroy the ENTIRE meaning of his story#and reduce him to nothing but 'Vader'#so why would I welcome yet another entry into this same madness??#i'm not even getting into detail about my views on Obi-Wan's character here#only to say that I love [...] the tragically flawed Lucas CANON version of him#not the 'long suffering saint' idealised fanon version i'm seeing everywhere these days#and the fact is -- no matter how much people like him#he's NOT the central character of the story and never will be#there's a reason it's called the SKYWALKER saga... ffs#anti-disney#or perhaps more accurately#anti-disney sw fandom

[bucketofdeltav]

I enjoyed the Kenobi series for what it was, which is the same thing as most of Disney's 'Star Wars' themed products - expensive fanfic. It was decent expensive fanfic. I've read better, I've written worse, but narratively and thematically it's fanfic presented in the medium of television.

I don't mean that in a derogatory way. One of the great delights of really good fanfiction is the way it gives itself space to dig into the motivations and characterisations and backstories and sidestories of what are often pretty minor characters (says ze with a pronounced specialisation in an even more minor character than Obi-Wan Kenobi).

It's interesting. It's lopsided when considered as a companion piece to the Skywalker Saga, certainly - the only Skywalker on screen for any appreciable period is Leia, and the series is not called Leia Organa. It's not bad, as a fanfiction companion piece to the actual story of Star Wars. But I'm still a little jaded from Disney's horrifically botched attempt at continuing the Saga itself.

For the record I'm also not here for the 'infinite suffering' woobification of Obi-Wan. Flattening him out like that does a great disservice to the fascinatingly complex supporting character (and the fascinatingly complex main characters, namely, the Skywalkers) that we actually see on screen in the Saga movies.

[the-far-bright-center]

It's fine if people enjoyed this show. It doesn't bother me if people watched/enjoyed. My husband watched it and didn't mind it. But my problem is moreso with how the (tumblr) SW fandom has absorbed this into their conception of Obi-Wan Kenobi's characterisation and how it affects perceptions of Anakin, Padme, and the entire Skywalker family. I have noticed a distinct shift in fandom discourse that involves Obi-Wan since this show aired. I don't watch Disney, so all i see is the 'fallout' on tumblr and how it influences people's perceptions of the original PT x OT saga. And unfortunately, from my perspective, the show didn't help people have a better or more thorough understanding. It only seemed to make some people think Obi-Wan was the best and woobiest and it likewise 'absolved' Obi-Wan of far too many of his failings, placing them instead on Anakin/Vader himself. I'm not interested in that, as it's a blatant retcon of the actual saga.

Even if people want to absorb the big budget fanfic into their personal headcanon, that is one thing. But to act like it was 'always canon' and that those of us who have been saga fans from the beginning 'must' accept it, is just not on. It's no different than expecting me to believe that the Sequels are some kind of inherent trajectory for post-RotJ sw universe. I have no obligation to view anything Disney puts out as canon on the same level of the Pt x OT saga. No matter which actors or characters may be shoved into said material. There's no inherent canon-status there.

So my problem is that people accept stuff like this as canon without questioning, even if it actually 'joss's' the real original canon! There's nothing in the ANH film that suggests Obi-Wan ever even left Tatooine in between Rots or ANH. Or that he ever saw Vader again post-Mustafar. That's just ....insane levels of retcon happening there, and it actually sickens me. No doubt others won't see the 'big deal', but oh well. To me, it is anathema. That's not the story i've always known. My canon is Obi-Wan is a hermit on Tatooine watching over Luke. My canon is that Obi-Wan and Leia never even meet each other at all prior to ANH. I don't care if people 'liked' these 'changes'. It means nothing to me. It's retcon,and I'm not obliged to acknowledge, entertain, or accept any of it.