#cattycas

Can I light a candle too? We can also sing a hymn or smth

Listen: 

A) yes, yes you can;  B) y’all have no idea how much I hope I get to eat my words in a week-ish time. NO IDEA. I will gleefully retract every salty and salt-adjacent post I’ve made in the last few months. I’ll laugh at how dumb I was because LOL OBVIOUSLY JJ KNEW HOW TO MAKE A STAR WARS FINALE AFTER ALL, SILLY ME. But there have been so many variations of so many rumors for so long now and I’m just...tired. I AM TIRED.  ALSO: here is the thing. I don’t even really CARE about the ST. Like, I hope other people like it, my kids like it, I don’t mind watching it if it’s on, but I could tell from that first viewing that it was never going to be for me. THAT IS OK; a fuckton of Star Wars speaks to me already, and I don’t need everything to be my favorite or have my favorites in it. 

I think people who conflate shipping preferences with personality defects or personal morals are probably people who need to get off tumblr and spend more time outside.

I think we’re losing sight of that fiction is a tool to be used in various ways, rather than something that we live or die by.  It’s easy to get swept up in the high-intensity rhetoric on tumblr, especially when we’re nerds on the internet and nerds on the internet are passionate about what they care about.  But fictional preferences are not a 1:1 to personal morals and losing sight of that can be really disheartening, especially in this “one ‘mistake’ and you’re forever branded with that scarlet letter” attitude I see distressingly often on tumblr.

cattycas replied to this post:

oh. I'm new, but I've never even thought whether there is hate on this ship and antis etc. And I think it's very unfortunate (*Anakin's voice* /for them/). I'm genuinely sorry to hear that anon is struggling with this and feeling so insecure. Your reply is beautiful though! If only people cared less about choices and preferences of others and focused more on  the stuff they liked instead, tumblr would be a much much happier and safer place.

I have to presume that once one masters the art of transcending death itself, one also has the ability to look however the hell one wants. Maybe Obes was appearing as an old man in the OT primarily because that’s how Luke would remember him looking? Luke’s got enough to deal with without being menaced by the handsomeness of young Obi-Wan, too. Perhaps Obi-Wan was just trying to help Luke stay focused. 

oh my god. The whole Universe probably hopes now that all of this will be enough to appease poor general Skywalker who has apparently been crying all day. So many people put their effort in - I imagine whole squad must be sitting somewhere together, making R2 report to them what’s going on, making bets and holding their breath :D

LOL, they’re probably all huddled around the corner when Obi-Wan gets to the door of their apartment. 

“2 out of 10” - and this is the story how Palpatine sabotaged himself xD

Yep, basically. It reminds me of the part in the Revenge of the Sith novel when Palpatine’s like FORGET ABOUT OBI-WAN HE’S AS GOOD AS DEAD LET’S GO and Anakin is like “...for the first time ever I kind of...do not like this guy??”

Hello hello! So, personally? My family and I watched them in release order, and I thought it was fine.  There’s a couple of points where you might be like “wait, I thought we already did this story”, but I didn’t find it all that jarring. If you wanna be lazy and just let Netflix or whatever play it all straight through, I think you’ll be fine. 

If you’re really intent on watching in story-timeline order, our friends at StarWars.com have you covered, though, with this chronological episode listing, which you may have already seen.

Welcome to Star Wars! Some of us are weird, some of us are jerks (and many of us are both), but there’s a lot of fun in this fandom, too, if you know where to look. 

Haha, yesss, poor street rat Erik, stealing and using his wits to survive while beguiling the Genoshan police force. 

I can’t quite figure out who Charles is in the scenario, but if we go with the Aladdin inspiration, he’s the cocky, repressed Genoshan prince who flees the palace to live on the streets and encounters street rat Erik, who falls HARD AND FAST for him.