#on attachment

[sentientsky]

on usefulness. on becoming both the blade and the lamb

tumblr user @/divorcefemme // Anaïs Nin // tumblr user @/willowcrowned // Mitski, “I Don’t Smoke” // Lilith Kerr, "bite back" (from unloving the knife)

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[canis-dies]

01. Jimmy Neutron Had a Dog, So Why Can't I Have a Friend? - Hot Mulligan. // 02. Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) // 03. so what i lied - Negative 25 // 04. neurocophany-theyshe on tumblr // 05. Unknown - Liana Finck // 06. lostmf on tumblr // 07. soapstore on tumblr // 08. Letters to Felice - Franz Kafka // 09. deer333teeth on tumblr // 10. With Solitude - Jane O. Wayne // 11. theambitiouswoman on tumblr // 12. Unknown // 13. Unknown // 14. Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens // 15. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson // 16. The Life Cycle of an Attachment Style - AttachmentProject // 17. Avoidant Attachment - AttachmentProject // 18. Unknown // 19. eternalworm1 on tiktok // 20. Hey Ken, Someone Methodically Mushed the Donuts - Free Throw // 21. So That's What They Do In College - This Is Pointless // 22. Unknown // 23. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know - Los Campesinos! // 24. Fine, Great - Modern Baseball // 25. 偽物人間40号 - ¿? shimon (English Translation) // 26. 偽物人間40号 - ¿? shimon (English Translation) // 27. Great Romances of the 20th Century (Demo version) - Taking Back Sunday // 28. Something About a Bunch of Dead Dogs - Hot Mulligan // 29. DreadfulHounds on instagram // 30. Unknown // 31. Something About a Bunch of Dead Dogs - Hot Mulligan

[short-wooloo]

I know I probably (most likely) have made this post before, but the assumption that no one explained attachment to Anakin is so fucking stupid

1. Why would the Jedi never explain it to Anakin?

2. Anakin lived as a Jedi for over 10 years, how would it never come up?

3. It's predicated on "we don't see it therefore it didn't happen"

4. Anakin himself explains what attachment is and why Jedi don't do that in AOTC, the entire original argument is based upon not paying attention to what is said in the movie, Anakin knows very much what attachment is, he just doesn't practice it, to everyone's detriment

[ensomniaa]

Don’t you hate it when in a fanfiction the oc constantly mentions and criticizes the Jedi Code, even though we don’t even know what that code entails in canon, cause it’s never actually been stated?

And then goes off about and hates how Jedi cannot get attached but uses that word synonymously with love. Quite honestly, I’ve never even thought to use "I'm attached to so and so" instead of „I love/like so and so". It just sounds so cringy.

And with that thought in mind what’s fandoms obsession with attachment? Why is it so wrong to say that attachment is wrong? Possessing someone and loving them for what they do FOR you and who they are FOR you instead of them as a whole autonomous person, that’s simply not right. Losing your mind to loss and not being able to get over your grief is not healthy either. And so of course, attachment instead of selfless love is wrong and advised against, especially to people who have crazy force powers and can cause quite a lot of damage when used wrongly. But even without all that, love does not equal attachment. And I’m starting to grow concerned over people's idea of love and what's healthy.

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

I feel it’s odd how many people seem absolutely determined to say how important romantic relationships are. Like I’m not interested in a romantic relationship, that just isn’t my vibe, but I still deeply care for everyone around me (even the people I disagree with, I still want them to have decent lives). The over emphasis on romantic relationships fails to show exactly how much people can and will give to others outside of that.

I'm sorry if those people don't love their families, don't love their friends, don't love their pets, don't love their community, don't enjoy any media, don't have any self-steem and don't have any sort of goodwill towards humanity.

I'm sorry they are miserable assholes, basically.

[allthingskenobi]

They (the Jedi) trained more than anything else to understand the transitional nature of life, that things are constantly changing and you can’t hold on to anything. You can love things but you can’t be attached to them, you must be willing to let the flow of life and the flow of the Force move through your life, move through you. So that you can be compassionate and loving and caring, but not be possessive and grabbing and holding on to things and trying to keep things the way they are. Letting go is the central theme of the film.

- George Lucas, Star Wars Archives 1999-2005 (2020)