ventress deserved better

if you told 2016 me that destiel was going to become canon but finnpoe wasn’t i would’ve gone into total organ failure

Thinking about how Anakin canonically both touched grass and got laid and was still Like That.

just thought about star wars and teared up

what if there was a franchise that was about hope, and the relationships between fathers and their children, and the relationships between mentors and their students, and redemption, and fighting against evil even when it all seems lost, and ordinary people believing in the possibility of a better and brighter future, and clinging to your culture even when darkness threatens to overcome you, and being thrust into situations that are so much bigger than you but still doing your best to make even the smallest difference, and fighting against oppression even when it’s all you’ve ever known, and watching the universe change around you and being unable to stop it, and being let down by the people closest to you but still being able to forgive them, and having faith in the people around you even when you don’t have faith in yourself. and also there are laser swords.

The only true fans of Star Wars are women. The men don’t know what they’re talking about. All they think is wowowoweewah. I want my girlfriend to dress like Princess Leia. They aren’t having any real philosophical discussions about it. Like me.

If you’re a real Star Wars fan then list 5 ways Obi-Wan Kenobi tortured himself. Bet you can’t.

U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping

I didn’t spend 5 minutes on this for it to be ignored

i remember making a vid about ahsoka’s whole 14yo sex slave arc on the clone wars and getting nothing but comments from dudebro fans saying “who’s gonna stop me” / “lucas based for this”, so, if andor helps ppl understand that star wars has always included stock sexual violence against its young women/girls, often w far less taste, and actually be able to talk about it, then good lol

leia being taken into sex slavery in rotj, her predecessor oola (the first named role for a black woman in a star wars movie btw) being executed for refusing to have sex with jabba, hondo attempting to sell ahsoka into sex slavery, again: ahsoka made to go undercover as a sex slave, qi’ra’s whole arc in solo where it’s heavily implied that dryden forced her to become his sex slave and we see him grope her repeatedly, the background scantily clad podracing “servants” in phantom, padme being near-assaulted by clovis, lando tricking hera into sex slavery in rebels, that unnamed sex slave girl in tcw who commits suicide to escape, all the times ahsoka is groped and sexually harassed really. this is just off the top of my head, it’s only “the first rape scene in star wars” bc before now no one cared enough to call it rape . even when it was in a cartoon explicitly aiming to teach young kids morals, no one gave a shit. tbh!

i’m not against depictions of difficult subject matter in fiction at all tbc. i don’t even think difficult subject matter necessarily has to follow a strict “responsible depiction” mold (i.e. hays code requirements of all wrongdoers needing to be killed). i’d hope there’s room for all kinds of genuine exploration of dark subjects in fiction. but also, like, if we are being so real, it’s been clear for ages that star wars primarily (if not exclusively) uses this stuff as a blunt misogynistic tool to get its women/girls’ clothes off and mouths shut. like. if we are being so fucking real. it’s always sucked. if it feels “new” with andor, that is an incredible damning of what came before