Some Starry Thoughts

@jedijune // Compassion

Like, Luke your father was a drug smuggler and so we don't talk about him. Your father was a drug runner and he crossed the line from Good Person to criminal and drug peddler and brought shame on our family. Luke, your father was a drug dealer and he was involved in shady things and it really hasn't been that long and people are probably after him to this day and we have to keep our heads down and stay safe. Luke, your father made it so that we have to pay the consequences of his actions. Made it so that you, Luke Skywalker, can't sing with the stars that call your name because of what he did whilst racing among them.

Luke, your father was a bad man who did bad things, but they were choices, and you can make different ones. You share his last name but you don't share his greed. Luke, addiction is genetic but your father wasn't a drug addict. He was a drug smuggler. He chose to became part of a system that exploits pain and fear, but his decision isn't running through your bones. Luke, you're kind and good and have reached nineteen, on a planet made to break things, whole and gentle.

people who are straight: yeah I’m straight

There’s a sizable body of anecdotal evidence to suggest sufficient adrenaline can kickstart Braxton-Hicks, and there’s a strong correlation between prolonged stress and preterm labor. If you factor in the war going on for a long time before hand (probably not good for magic fetal development) you could be looking at a group of mothers already at risk for preterm labor thanks to their highly stressed out kids. Once the Jedi Purge started every Force sensitive in the galaxy probably felt it, including unborn children with enough body mass and brain development to both support midichlorians and interpret the signals they were getting. And since we know there are elements of heredity, a lot of their parents might have picked up on those bad vibes as well, not to the same degree but enough to get freaked out. 

like. these are not neutral historians. these are not unbiased narrators. these are men who wake up every morning and choose manipulation as a lifestyle.

and yet people hear palpatine whispering into anakin’s ear like “the jedi are hiding things from you… they don’t trust you…” and go. wow. compelling. source: dude in a hood who has never told the truth once in his life.

HELLO???

of course he’s going to say that. what else is he supposed to do. sit anakin down and go “hi yes i am actively trying to emotionally isolate you from your support system so i can turn you into my apprentice and ruin your life” like be serious 😭

same with maul going “you’ve been indoctrinated by the jedi” as if HE wasn’t raised in a sith pipeline since childhood. sir. that is not a revelation.

and dooku. walking around like a philosophy professor going “the republic is corrupt” yeah okay, we know, and your solution is… fascism with extra lightning???