Avatar, Clone Wars, and Other Stuff

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[ID: a pencil sketch of Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender from the bicep up. She is smiling and facing left from a 3/4 angle. Aside from her “hair loopies”, her hair is pulled back into a braid, like we see in the show. She is wearing her wrapped shirt/dress and her mother’s necklace. End ID]

I had to draw Katara because I love her with all my heart :)

"I am a warrior. But i'm a girl too." - Suki

Prints are available of my Avatar series! DM me to order.

I’ve been watching reactions to the Kenobi teaser trailer for fun and I can’t believe I had to listen to some fans once again say or write things along the lines of „the Jedi were bad blah blah blah, Obi-Wan is the only good one / the only one I like“. I believe someone even said it right after the trailer mentions that Jedi are fundamentally compassionate and that that is literally their code.

Like?? Why? I just don’t get the whole the Jedi sucked, all Jedi are terrible people except for a couple hand picked ones.

Every time we see any Jedi on screen they’re always kind and shown to be compassionate, so just generally good people. They literally all follow the same principles and teachings as Obi-Wan and that’s exactly why they are Jedi.

(Couple of examples of scenes with Jedi being genuinely kind just to prove my point:

- Yoda teaching the younglings, making jokes about Obi-Wan having lost a planet (Episode II)

- Plo Koon telling the clones they aren’t expandable (tcw)

- Mace Windu telling clone troopers to evacuate so only he would die if bomb were to go off (tcw)

- Kit Fisto smiling and being a very easy going, approachable person literally every time we see him

- Yoda calling Anakin his friend (tcw)

- Yoda feeling pained when sensing Anakin's pain (Episode II)

- Yoda telling the clone troopers that they’re all individual and whole beings with their own strengths and weaknesses and just in general taking the time to give them a little wisdom talk

And these are just a few scenes.)

Just in general I feel like Jedi give off a kind and compassionate vibe/aura, that’s why I love them so much. You just know you can trust them somehow. And that is also why it’s so weird to me when people hate on them.

And even though I was so incredibly happy about the trailer and Jedi specifically being called compassionate and so hopeful that fans would finally grasp that the Jedi are in fact the good guys (I mean that’s literally the whole point of Star Wars), now I just feel like the majority of people will once again simply say that Obi-Wan is one of the only good ones and the others or the order as a whole are still terrible, not grasping that Obi-Wan is and acts literally just like all the other Jedi (in terms of philosophy, principles and ideas that the Jedi uphold, he’s of course still his own individual being) and was also happily apart of said order.

I’ve also seen fans do the exact same thing with Kanan and Ezra and Ahsoka. Them being the actual good Jedi as well and fans using them to somewhat show how the others are terrible, even though they all teach the exact same things and uphold the same philosophy. I just don’t see how you can use them as an argument against Jedi, when they are in fact Jedi and true to the orders teachings just like the rest!

I don’t know, it just makes me so mad when I try to watch or read Star Wars content made by fans and comments against the Jedi and their philosophy are made. It just immediately throws me off and there’s honestly so little popular content or fan fiction or just anything made by fans that see the Jedi positively and for what they actually are. Every single fan fiction I have read so far ends up with the oc equating love to attachment therefor hating on the Order and so on and so forth. And the same goes for comments that fans post on TikTok or other platforms.

And I know I should just be enjoying the actual canon Star Wars content and not let stuff like this get in my way but it still ends up frustrating me to the point I need to annoy people with my rants on here lol.

And the reason this is supposed to be okay is based on the idea that they can leave whenever they want. When they leave the Order they’ll have nothing. If some Padawan wanted to leave and they told their services with a lightsaber to someone the Jedi would stop them and the Padawan would be wrong.

The Jedi should not take in infants.

Oh and PLUS, omicron has an R0 value of somewhere between 8 and 15, making it the second most infectious disease in the whole world (second only to measles). The R0 number is a measure of how infectious a disease is. For comparison the R0 of the flu is generally 1.5.

And yet EVERYONE I talk to is completely ignoring this and calling omicron more mild than previous strains, that it’s comparable to the flu (never mind that the science says it’s about twice as likely that you’ll have long lasting symptoms from covid than the flu). It makes me feel like I’m losing my mind. But we’re not losing our minds. Especially if you’re disabled/chronically ill, getting covid could be devastating even with a “mild” infection. My brain doesn’t know how to process all of this. The wide spread scale at which people are saying “fuck you” to disabled lives makes me want to vomit.

And there’s NO WAY OF KNOWING how long I will be impacted or if my symptoms will ever increase or resurface. We just don’t know. 

I’m the best case scenario: a person in excellent health and triple vaxxed and I still suffered and continue to experience symptoms. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about your own health, and plenty more to care about and be concerned for the health of others.