The Clone Wars

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[thecorpsethatwalks]

re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

[vielens]

[bubblesthecow]

Watching Star Wars in chronological order is so funny.

Obi-Wan Kenobi really took one look at R2D2 in the middle of the desert and said “No, Luke, I’ve never seen this fucking droid in my life. Looks like a real bitch though. Not that I’d know. This is my first time meeting the asshole.”

No one in that whole franchise was Gatekeep-Gasslight-Girlbossing quite like “Ben” Kenobi, regular human-man.

[to-be-kind-takes-work]

Grace, realizing he's been talking non stop for the past 40 minutes: Ah, uh sorry. Im going to shut up now-

Simon, who cannot stand a silence anymore, grabbing him by the collar: if you shut up i will die. Now, explain to me how you defended this thesis of yours.

Grace, internally: Is this what love is?

[romanceyourdemons]

people needdddd to wear headphones in public because while on an otherwise very lovely walk in the park today i saw a guy sitting under a tree watching a porn parody of the star wars prequels

[romanceyourdemons]

if nothing else trying to tune out the sounds of anakin and padme going to town as i contemplate the babbling brook gave me a brief but vivid window into what it’s like to be obi wan kenobi

[secretly-a-trekkie]

Me too buddy me too

[starfighters]

The time of the Jedi is over.

[postarcadian]

the thing about Firefly is that obviously on one level it’s an ultimate libertarian settler colonial fantasy of a whole star system full of literal terrae nullius to be colonized and terraformed which makes for some really ugly worldbuilding, particularly when combined with the space western aesthetic that explicitly codes the setting after the late 19th century United States and thus aligns the Independents (who are unambiguously the good guys in the story) with the Confederacy. this is already grim, but what’s most frustrating is that in the hands of better writers (read: not Joss Whedon) the show could have said some very interesting things about the exploitation of the periphery by the imperial core and how the colonization of a new system has produced an entire Outer Rim of global souths to be mercilessly exploited by the neoliberal regime of the Core, which would also have the effect of undermining the ugly Independents-as-Confederacy coding and signaling that our Heroic Rebels were fighting for something more consequential than vaguely to “resist government encroachment” which is all the Independents’ ideology ever amounts to in the show. but doing so would require portraying Outer Rim planets as something other than Wild West white settler towns, and the Independents as being something other than a bunch of white guys plus Zoe

[postarcadian]

all this is to say that Andor is obviously imperfect but a version of Firefly with something even approaching Andor’s politics, let alone genuine leftist critique, could have done some interesting things

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[tumblr]

Let's talk about reblog notes.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon. 

[thecl0newars]

Hello friends,

I've not been posting as much on this sideblog due to gaining intense interest in other things. Of course I still will be posting about the clone wars and star wars on here. Obi Wan Kenobi cannot escape that easily. However, would you like to see content (gifs/edits/reblogs) about any of the other things....

things I like...

the pitt

a knight of the seven kingdoms/got

star trek

three body problem (book)

star wars brainrot only

other/nuance

Voting ended onMar 24

[lathbora-virann]

so let me get this straight now.

if someone I follow because they reblog great things now reblogs something I think is great, and I want the op to see that I thought their post was great, I now have to ignore the person I specifically followed for sharing those kinds of posts and go directly to the original post to reblog it. effectively severing the connection and community that was the whole point of having mutuals and following each other.

AND/OR I have to reblog it completely silently — assuming that every person in the reblog chain before me did the same — expressing no reaction to the post in even the tags, let alone a comment, so the op never knows what I thought or felt about their post because otherwise I will have created my own version of that post and denied them from seeing any further feedback or engagement. effectively severing the connection and community that was the whole point of being able to share things and have discussions.

have I got that right?

[thegenderal]

as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.

[thegenderal]

like . I cant even blame them for being like “we’ll monitor for the week”. Remember when they changed the blue back in like 2015? This website acted like staff had gone into their house and shot their dog. We’re here because we’re allergic to change and therefore it’s hard to parse if people hate the change because it’s bad or because we go into thermonuclear meltdown over what color blue the background of the website is. Just continue to bug them beyond today and beyond this week.

[birdofcauthon14]

I usually wait a little bit before dropping a full sexuality headcanon so I can fashion one that encompasses a character's canon preferences, but I am 100% breaking from form to make one special exception.

Jack Abbot may be the most bisexual trauma doctor to hit our screens since Hawkeye Pierce himself. He radiates blue and purple. That man has a thirst. That man flirts with anyone who appeals to him, gender be damned, and he flirts generously. Just fucking look at that last episode. He catches Robby, Baran, and Samira in the span of mere minutes. "You should see me as a flight attendant" to "we should get some beers and share war stories" to "I'll pay for it" before the ten minute mark is even up???

Legend. Actual bi legend. Probably magnetizes polycules.

[calkestis]

DIN DJARIN in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official Trailer

[asystolle]

hand-focused shots in every pitt hour 2.04 - 10:00 AM

[catie-does-things]

where’s that article about how the star wars prequels are an allegory for the second vatican council

that was peak star wars discourse tbh idk why we’re all still trying

[catie-does-things]

found it

it’s so dumb but so, so funny

where else are you going to find the claim that Owen and Beru Lars represent the SSPX and C-3P0 is the Magisterium

[izzythehutt]

Darth Maul is the Satanic Prelude to Modernism is the Greatest Take ™

[myrskytuuli]

Truly one of the analysis ever written. Truly an article that has been written.

[izzythehutt]

You missed the funniest one.

[antianakin]

I feel like a core part of how I understand Anakin is that you can never take anything he says as particularly truthful. Anakin is constantly lying, about everything, and to everyone. He lies about what he wants, he lies about who and what he is, he lies about how he feels. He's not honest with Padme, he's not honest with Obi-Wan, he's not honest with Ahsoka, and he's absolutely never honest with himself.

So yes, he comes off as someone who desperately wants romantic love, who wants a relationship with someone and a marriage and everything that comes with it. But I don't think it's ACTUALLY what he wants, I think that's just how he's choosing to DIRECT his emotions but it never quite seems to ever satisfy anything in him when he DOES get it. There's always something else, something more that he wants that he can't really name.

So even in a happy fix-it AU, I don't truly think he'd ever end up in a happy romantic relationship with someone as his endgame. I think he and Padme would make each other miserable and they'd end up divorced and going their separate ways and Anakin would find satisfaction and fulfillment in something else. I think he'd find a purpose that fulfilled his need to be needed by others on his own terms and he'd never end up really pursuing a romantic relationship if he were more mentally healthy.

[artemisdesari-blog]

I firmly believe that if Palpatine had never succeeded in establishing the Empire, and had the decency to just do everyone a favour and die, Anakin and Padme wouldn't have lasted as a couple. Part of what kept them together was the limited time they had with one another while the war was raging and the fact that Anakin was in so much danger so much of the time probably led to Padme forgiving actions that she really shouldn't have (beating Rush Clovis into a pulp, anyone?). Anakin WANTED Padme, but I've always questioned whether he actually loved her. He was obsessed with Padme and I think he confused that with romantic love.

[lttrsfrmlnrrgby]

Anakin mistakes control, attention, and getting the specific response he wants to his attention as love. None of those things are love-- they're power and compulsion, the actual opposites of non-attachment.