by the lake on naboo

It's just the valor of surviving Order 66, somehow, impossibly getting away, and yet still coming back into her gutted home-turned-tomb to do this excruciating, ultimate act of sacrifice. Destroying this last physical manifestation of her people's culture, identity, and her own life's work. It's such a Jedi moment: letting something deeply important go, not out of apathy or coldness, but to protect others.

Arguably, it is the galaxy and their impossible expectations of the Jedi inflicting Catholic thought ON the Jedi. You hear Obi-Wan say during TCW that if worlds would help defend themselves, then the Jedi wouldn't be so overburdened. Palpatine drafts them, and they HAVE to help, and he literally sets them up martyr themselves because they don't have any other choice. They can't do nothing. The galaxy wants them to be the saviors of everything while doing nothing themselves. And then, of course, as it can often go with saints and saviors, when they aren't good enough? Well, we all know what happens there. The galaxy swallows the Jedi genocide wholesale because they are tired from the war and the Jedi? Well, they didn't do enough.

Also, I really think people get "institution" and "institutional power" mixed up. Sure, the Jedi have power in that they are Force-sensitive and they have power in that they are working with the senate. They have contacts in the highest halls of power, but THEY are not the power. They can have influence, but this influence gets more and more limited after the Nihil Crisis during the high republic (during which the Jedi are burdened with more and more and pushed into the unforgiving world of public opinion) and by the prequel era? As we know, they are working for the senate more than with it, but that's not easy to untangle. Being part of the Republic is how they help the most people. They believe in the Republic's ability to recover. The Jedi have WAY less political power than people in fandom seem to understand. They aren't writing policy because they aren't allowed to, even if Jedi like Obi-Wan may influence say, Bail and Padme's work, that's not the same as having HUGE political influence. You see the council push back against things in the senate multiple times, and the number of times the senate listens is uh. Minimal. The Catholic Church? Huge political influence. During the AIDS Crisis, they scared people off of using condoms. Today, one influential Catholic man named Leonard Leo is essentially responsible for the US Supreme Court and the state it's in.

Got my whole body shaking Heart's a mess, feel it racing Cause you make me feel B re a th l es s

I just completed another picture! (I’m always happy to check off another gown off my list of Padme gowns to draw) It didn’t matter how much effort I put into though, Teq-Uila’s birthday gift to me will always be my favorite!

I was slightly going for the old saloon look but everybody keeps telling me it’s adorable and sweet :/. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to pull off a sexy P/A picture. Maybe it’s because their wearing all their clothes?

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