get a load of that dog

because I always make true on my threats I don't

Had the idea for a while, what if Ahsoka (and togrutas in general) had eyes that did the cat thing in the dark.

I’m still salty about how teeny weeny they made live action ahsoka’s lekku. She’s what, like 40 now??? They should be tit length AT LEAST. And her facial markings got shrunk too!!

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Ohhhh beautiful quote. Especially because it’s still true, for all Ahsoka’s greatness she still has to fail!! No matter if it’s pre- or post- Vader she /has/ to fail because the only one who succeeds is Luke. How deliciously angsty, I love it

Not gonna lie, the first time i read that quote i cried. It’s so true and so tragic. No one really *saves* Anakin the way needs to be saved. They love him but they can’t help him the way he needs. And Ahsoka is one of the few people in Anakin’s life that actually *tries* to make him feel better but her position and age prevented her from doing everything she could. It’s so sad that a kid did more for Anakin’s mental health than the wise masters who raised him :(

Machinery was meat and drink to Anakin. He loved it. But [Ahsoka] was letting herself become  distracted, so she pushed those thoughts aside. Her immediate task was to ascertain what Anakin was feeling. That way she’d have a better idea of what to expect from him when the news they were waiting for at last came through … and an idea of how best to deal with him, once it did. Dealing with her Master’s sometimes overpowering emotions was becoming more and more a part of her duties—and as the war dragged on, and their losses piled up, that job wasn’t getting any easier. He feels too much, too keenly. Maybe that’s what happens when you’ve got the highest midi-chlorian count in Jedi history. Maybe that’s the trade-off. You feel everything, so you’re brilliant. You feel everything, and it hurts. Not that his emotions got in the way. At least, he didn’t think they did. And to be honest, she didn’t, either. At least not as often as some people thought. Like Master Kenobi, for example, who chided his former Padawan for taking crazy risks, for pushing himself too hard, for letting things matter too much and losing his carefully measured Jedi distance. She didn’t always disagree. And sometimes, when Anakin had given her a really bad fright or when his mood became difficult, she wished she could chide him, too. But as a Padawan she had to find another way to let her Master know he’d gone too far. So she sassed him, or invented nicknames that were guaranteed to get under his skin. Sometimes she even deliberately flouted his wishes. Anything to break him free of sorrow or frustration or some bleak memory he refused to share. Anything to let him know, Hey, what you did then? That was stupid. But mostly she kept her fears for him to herself, because all his bright and burning passion for justice, his reckless courage, his hunger for victory and his refusal to accept defeat—they were what made him Anakin. He wouldn’t be Anakin without his feelings. She knew that, she accepted that, no matter what Temple teachings said about the Jedi and their emotions. And even though he scolds, I think Master Kenobi accepts it, too. He only scolds because he cares. So … what was her brilliant, sometimes volatile Master feeling now? Eyes drifted half closed, Ahsoka breathed out a soft sigh and let her growing Jedi awareness touch lightly upon him. Impatience. Concern. Relief. Loneliness. Weariness. And grief, not yet healed. Such a muddle of emotions. Such a weight on his shoulders. Months of brutal battle had left her drained and nearly numb, but it was worse for Anakin. He was a Jedi general with countless lives entrusted to his care, and every life damaged or lost he counted as a personal failure. For other people he found forgiveness; for himself there was none. For himself there was only anger at not meeting his own exacting standards. Feeling helpless, she chewed at her lip. She didn’t know what she could do to make anything better for him. She couldn’t heal his grief for the clones who’d fallen under his command, or the civilians he’d been unable to save. She couldn’t make him less tired, or order him home to Coruscant where his mood always lightened. She couldn’t promise the war would end soon, with the Republic victorious. At least he had Master Kenobi’s company for a little while. She was sure that accounted for his relief. [Karen Miller. Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth]

The way I understand it, Anakin thinks that if he told Ahsoka to leave him, she would, because she’s a Jedi (almost) and Jedi are selfless and accept sacrifices when needed. Jedi don’t get attached to comrades and can let them go to complete a mission. Anakin can’t… We’ve witnessed that more than once (the exemple I have in mind: in the beginning of ROTS, “I’m not leaving without you Master”, or when he wants to backtrack to help the struggling clonetroopers). The sentence says “nobody would save him the way he so desperately wanted to save them”, not “wanted them to save him”. I think the point here is that Anakin feels lonely because of how those people matter to him while he himself doesn’t matter as much to them. He’s aware of the fact that, for exemple, he’d give his life to save Obi-Wan, but Obi-Wan wouldn’t give his life to save Anakin — not because Obi-Wan is selfish, but because he is, as a Jedi, selfless. Anakin wants to connect with those people, but he’s stopped really hoping for that kind of connection, because he is the only one not playing by the ‘no attachement’ rule. He loves them, they matter to him, but he knows he doesn’t matter to them.

He fights because he loves. He “so desperately” wants to protect people. That’s why the war takes such a toll on him. But around him, people fight out of duty. He feels lonely and is losing hope.

It does merge with what you said: Anakin is “discarded”, one way or another, by everyone until Luke. He gets attached and loves, and doesn’t receive that kind of love in return — and that kind of love is precisely what he needs and what would have saved him.

But here, I think the real meaning is about how he is gonna bond with Ahsoka. Because he expects her to be another Jedi, and she is not: the thing is that Ahsoka is like him. She cares and can express it better than your average Kenobi. Ahsoka gets to him, literally by slashing through the droids, and metaphorically by accepting his emotions as him being himself (not right, not wrong, just Anakin).

There is still a part of tragedy, of course, in that we know that Ahsoka will be pushed aside by the Jedi, and Anakin will be left alone again. The tragic thing here is that when we watch episodes I, II and III, we wonder “but wasn’t there anyone amongst the Jedi who understood him and was more open about emotions, like Qui-Gon would probably have been?”, and we have an answer: yes, there was someone who was different and accepted Anakin as he was; and she was chased away by the Jedi. That’s just how it was. Because people with that kind of mindset can’t survive amongst them, so Ahsoka left, but Anakin couldn’t, and he could have had the support he needed, but said support can’t remain around the Jedi, and Anakin couldn’t leave the Jedi.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.