~larking about~

one of my pet peeves about star wars legends is when they give additional information that is almost snide towards the main canon. like, each time a jedi unproblematically navigates love via "non-possessive attachment" in legends this is obviously also trying to simultaneously say something about anakin and padme, which then falls apart the moment you add shmi to the equation too. there's no "only POSSESSIVE attachment was banned you guys"-ing out of the fact anakin was not allowed to check on his enslaved mother or help her. and in general, filling the additional canon with characters who are meant to be very virtuous only makes me appreciate the very fallible prequels trio more. i don't think you can navigate your way out of massive, complicated political corruption in which your organisation is complicit in by being more religiously virtuous. the jedi doctrine would not have saved anyone by itself because the jedi order was built to work with the republic & democracy and didn't have a real safeguard for what would happen if the republic itself was becoming a threat to democracy. this story of complacency implicates everyone who participated in it, not just anakin, padme and obi-wan

I enjoy their unhealthy relationship, the power imbalance, and the questions it explores, as well as the kinks it enables me to read & write on ao3.com

anakin skywalker is bisexual reblog if u agree

We all agree that Anakin is a mama’s boy but I think we also need to consider the evidence of Padmé being a daddy’s girl - the evidence? I say so. Also there’s one part of Queen’s Hope where Ruwee agrees to take Padmé off-world at age fucking nine to help with a dying planet just because she begged him to take her with him so, there’s also that.

I’m really sick and tired of the “Cody hates Anakin” nonsense that’s ridiculously widespread on this site so my spite headcanon is that Cody likes Anakin a lot, mostly because he knows that he’ll keep Rex safe with his last breath, something not many other Jedi are willing to do for the Clones

i've murdered SIGNIFICANTLY fewer people lately

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I’m some kind of protestant

idle minds go to slop. get thee away from chatbot sacrament. not ensouled

Star Wars really said "Anakin Skywalker had issues rooted in childhood trauma that was not his fault" but also "Anakin made his own choices as an adult for which he alone is responsible" but ALSO "In spite of the truly evil things he chose to do Anakin was still capable of being loved and redeemed" and I think that's important.