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Dooku didn't leave because of the Jedi.
At least, if you're going by George Lucas' word.
In deleted scenes of Attack of the Clones, when we learn about Dooku's departure and his values, there's no mention of the Jedi or "the Jedi Order as an institution".
And every time Lucas refers to Dooku's disenchantment and reason for falling, he doesn't mention the Jedi.
"When you realize that Dooku is Darth Tyranus, it explains what Darth Sidious did after Darth Maul was killed: he seduced a Jedi who had become disenchanted with the Republic. He preyed on that disenchantment and converted him to the dark side, which is also a setup for what happens with Anakin."
- Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, 2002
"[Dooku is] one of the few Jedi who became disenchanted with the Republic and left the order and he is leading a separatist movement."
- Vanity Fair, 2002
"I wanted a more sophisticated kind of villain. Dooku’s disenchantment with the corruption in the Empire is actually valid. It’s all valid. So, Chris plays it as, 'Is he really a villain or is he just someone who is disenchanted and trying to make things right?'"
- Starlog Magazine #300, 2002
He probably meant the Republic/Senate in that last one, but you get the point. And you're seeing the pattern, right?
Dooku's problem isn't the Jedi, it's the Republic.
He's become disenchanted with a system that - according to Lucas' prologue in the 2004 book Shatterpoint - worked for 1,000 years...
"For a thousand years, the Old Republic prospered and grew under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the venerable Jedi Knights."
... but has been rendered ineffective because of 1) senators becoming corrupt and 2) corporations gaining political power.
"But as often happens when wealth and power grow beyond all reasonable proportion, an evil fueled by greed arose. The massive organs of commerce mushroomed in power, the Senate became corrupt, and an ambitious named Palpatine was voted Supreme Chancellor."
That's the message Dooku runs on, when he rallies the systems to form the Separatist Alliance.
"By promising an alternative to the corruption and greed that was rotting the Republic from within, Dooku was able to persuade thousands of star systems to secede from the Republic."
The Jedi aren't really a factor in his decision to leave.
Why would they be? Their political status isn't very high, they're virtually powerless, as illustrated by the film's narrative and stated repeatedly by Lucas.
On the contrary, as we already established in this post, Lucas full-on confirmed that Dooku actually carries the sympathies of most of the Jedi. Again:
Most Jedi agree with Dooku, ideologically.
As far as the Jedi are concerned, the politicians are effing up the Republic, and it sucks because the Jedi see this but aren't allowed to interfere in the political process. They have to resort to looking for loopholes in their mandates to actually get stuff done.
That's what that whole "she's a politician" scene is meant to hint at. In the commentary of Attack of the Clones, Lucas uses a similar turn of phrase as he does with Dooku.
"[This scene gives us] a chance to talk a little bit about politics and the Jedi’s disenchantment with the political process, due to the corruption and the ineffectiveness of the Senate."
- Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002
Considering all this, it becomes clear that the intended narrative surrounding Dooku's decision to leave the Order is not:
"The Jedi are dogmatic and asleep at the wheel except for Dooku, who is ahead of the curb and sees the system is flawed, so he left."
It's actually:
"ALL Jedi see the system is flawed, Dooku's the only Jedi who decided to take it a step further and leave the Order so he can try to get into politics himself and change things."
That's why they hesitate to accuse him of murder.
That's why in an earlier draft of the Attack of the Clones script, by the end of the second act, Mace STILL has his doubts that Dooku would sign a treaty with the Trade Federation to attack the Republic.
As far as the Jedi are concerned, Dooku is out there fighting the good fight, making noise because whenever they try to protest it falls on deaf ears... until his betrayal on Geonosis.
After all, let's not get it twisted: the Dooku we're introduced to in the films and The Clone Wars, isn't really just Dooku anymore.
He's Darth Tyranus.
A point Lucas makes sure to highlight in his Shatterpoint prologue:
"Unbeknownst to most of his followers, Dooku was himself a Dark Lord of the Sith, acting in collusion with his master, Darth Sidious, who, over the years, had struck an unholy alliance with the greater forces of commerce and their private droid armies."
It's not about doing the selfless thing for Dooku, anymore. He's knowingly part of the problem.
He's all about ambition, now. His personal goals are things like overthrowing Sidious and becoming the most powerful Jedi.
"[Anakin's] ambition and his dialogue here is the same as Dooku’s. He says “I will become more powerful than every Jedi.” And you’ll hear later on Dooku will say “I have become more powerful than any Jedi.” [...] It is possible for a Jedi to want to become more powerful, and control things."
- Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002
"If you put two Sith together, they try to get others to join them to get rid of the other Sith. [When revealing the truth to Obi-Wan], Dooku's ambition is really to get rid of Darth Sidious. He's trying to get Obi-Wan's assistance in that and help in that, so that he and Obi-Wan could overthrow Sidious and take over."
- Attack of the Clones, Commentary Track 2, 2002
Y'know? Selfish things.
Dooku - like all other Sith, and like the very corporations and Senators he had sworn to destroy - is consumed by his own greed.
#also functionally-speaking Dooku being a Jedi is done to highlight the ambiguity throughout the investigation on whether or not this is#a scorned ex-Jedi or a straight-up bad guy... you're never sure until the end of AOTC. That and Dooku being a former Jedi shows that#even someone who was once selfless and dutiful can crave power and be selfish#which sets up a precedent for Anakin - who's already struggling with being a selfless Jedi - when HE falls to the Dark Side#Dooku being a former Jedi isn't a plot point meant to narratively criticise of the Order... it's meant to hint at Anakin's downfall.#dooku#george lucas#star wars#attack of the clones#long post#collection of quotes
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Giant robot with those big, looping, fully exposed tubes sticking out of its back. Opponent thinks they're going to be clever and buck genre convention by targeting this obvious weakness; is immediately blinded by a blast of highly pressurised barbecue sauce.
#media#tropes#giant robots#violence mention#food mention#plot twist: the barbecue sauce is essential to the giant robot's proper functioning
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DPx DC Au: Might as well be brothers. Young Justice hears about a regional hero disappearing, and while they've never met the guy, Red Robin's contacts say that Ra's is hunting him for afterlife/immortality related reasons.
Tim drake hates the annoying white uniform he's wearing but breaking into this place is crucial to his 24 hour plan to rescue Phantom. He'd never even heard of the guy until a week ago when Pru came to him with info that Ra's was looking into Midwest Real Estate, and then Tim stumbled down the rabbit hole of Ghost conspiracy theories until he saw an article demanding that local officials speak on the hero's absence of 10 days. 10 days was short enough that Tim might find a sign of life and well, another federal agency being hacked by Red Robin is nothing new.
So now, he's walking down the halls with these stupid fucking glasses and this stupid fucking suit while Kon listens from the comfort of the surveillance van. He takes a turn and sees the track suits that the illegally detained inmates are wearing, and pivoting the plan, makes his way to a locker room to get one and get changed. It does take him an extra second and he considers that this might bite him- but Tim knows the place inside and out. He's scoured all their data, and sue him for being cocky, but he has a literal alien ready to tear the place apart waiting for his heart rate to jump above 80 bpm. which is a pretty low heart rate all things considered.
Tim gets exactly where he's meant to go, and waits only a few minutes before he see's the science team extract Phantom from the high security room.
Phantom doesn't make it clear if he notices Tim, but he's basically being dragged by the couple, so Tim decides to beat them to their destination. The experimental wing had shown up in their reported data not long after they made it extremely obvious that they had Phantom in their data output.
Tim's already in the room when he starts to notice that it's not exactly a room... more like a mechanical space. The way the corners curl in the room make it almost tube like... Portal like.
Phantom is thrown in and Tim grabs him the second the scientists leave, but the kill switch key Tim made to get them out isn't working for this door like it did all the others.
"Not... Not a door."
"We're in some sort of device aren't we? Something of their own design that the government isn't aware they're funding?"
"Portal. You've gotta get out, even if you get caught, you gotta get out now."
Tim's comm comes alive in his ear, its Kon responding to Tim's heart rate rising- and Tim is hesitant to call him in but ultimately tells him to start flying over for extraction.
Then the portal goes off, and while he feels pain, he doesn't feel different. Bright light subsiding, Kon's arms around him with a confused voice, and lots of lasers being fired his way... Tim wakes up to see a much younger Phantom looking at him from the other side of the young justice couch.
Kon, Bart and Cassie are all fighting at a white board that's been wheeled in but Tim can only yawn and blink his way into consciousness enough to give a shit.
Black haired and blue eyed, button nosed with large ears, a wry thin lipped smile... Tim realizes that Phantom looks incredibly similar to his younger self. And then Tim looks at his much smaller hands and realizes that he probably looks a lot more similar to his younger self than normal.
Taking in the scenery once more, the white board is divided on the traits Tim has to the children sitting left and right on the couch. Kon didn't know who was who. That meant that maybe... the government didn't either.
Phantom turns out to be a pretty chill dude despite all the trauma, and he's incredibly prepared to both fuck with Ra's and the government in their newly found childhood twin-ship.
One of the twins is scarier than the other, and despite Danny literally haunting them, its always Tim.
(Okay now its some one else's turn :D )
#dcxdp#dpxdc#dc x dp#dp x dc#danny phantom#dc crossover#dp crossover#long post#dc universe#tim drake#red robin#twin au#or lol they just look very similar because little kid features are difficult#deaged au#wait until the bats arrive and are equally unhelpful in determining the correct twin#danny and tim silently agreeing that its for the better plot if they don't make it obvious who is who#danny has shit to process about being phantom and just wants to be a kid about things for a lil while#tim can function with any disguise and his whole family will take so long to figure out he's been deaged bc his reports come in on time#kon feels so guilty about not knowing who is who#kon grabbed them both in his panic and in the scuffle of the explosion and the lasers being shot out totally mixed them up
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thinking about al haitham picking you up from work with a motorcycle hskdjskdjsl
#rin releases a plot bunny into the wild#genshin impact#genshin impact x reader#al haitham#al haitham x reader#i feel like sumeru city in modern!au would be a huge metropilotan city with crazy ass traffic#so he'd choose functionality over comfort when going to certain places#besides this way he gets to feel you fully against his back#win win situation if you ask him#look at me trying to justify my thoughts#but basically my thot process was: al haitham + motorcycles = hOT
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when u adopt a sims npc and she slowly turns into an oc by accidence
#i had a sims house and adopted her like a sad wet cat and ended up focusing on her the most#decked her out in custom clothes and gave her a whole plot and house and friends and shit why i did this#shes deviated far enough from her original appearance and function that i think i can call this version ive made of her my own thing#i wanna rename my her i just gotta think of something
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I think the Bad Kids deserve to cry a lil. As a treat. IT’S CATHARTIC!!!!!!!!!!!
#my art#described#dimension 20#fantasy high#fantasy high: junior year#the bad kids#ima be tbh. I did mostly just wanna draw Gorgug crying WJDBDJSB#I hope we get any kind of acknowledgement about what Gorgug saw in the forest… I’d love to see a scene where he asks digby & wilma about it#ALSO I LOOOVVVEEE THAT THEIR PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM BCUS THEY ARE A SET. DO NOT SEPARATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#also. hope that the time thing Brennan mentioned is an actual plot point and not just A Convenient Retcon Function#like pls brennan… I respect ur storytelling so much I do. if I wanted retcon excuses I’d go back to TES and read about the dragon breaks#especially since like. I love the seven so much. I’ve joked before like. t7 is frankly FHJY for me. we can skip right to sen. year JY is T7!#so if hes walking stuff back esp stuff that was established in T7… idk im not gonna be like. mad. I have a Life lmao. but maybe a lil sadge.#ANYWAY zac once again making one of my fave PCs. gorgug is so sweet guy…#also hope we get to see the artificing class & teacher!
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i have been rotating them around in my head for months
#my art#fallout#fallout new vegas#fnv#raul tejada#dean domino#courier 6#courier annabelle#would you believe be if i told you this has been in my projects folder since december#because it has#i cannot emphasize enough the amount of headcannons i have around dean#raul i dont have too many for since he has more already there in canon#and anna is my courier so that doesnt count as headcannons as shes functionally an OC#but dean just gets his incredibly drawn out petty revenge plot and some tidbits here and there#which gives me full license to go absolutely hog wild#which i can have and will do again
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(Joke question) Now that you have said that, does Steven need to take a shit? I know in actual SU one of the reasons Pearl doesn’t like to eat is because she doesn’t like peeing, but Rose managed to grow an entire baby so more efficient digestion isn’t out of the question for their shapeshifting capabilities?
Steven is, in fact, obligated to go to the bathroom once in a while. I will not hide this very important, plot-relevant fact from you.
#chekhov answers#it is not plot relevant#but yes he is half human#and has a fully functioning digestive system
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“Davey – Day, c'mon, y’ain’t makin’ any sense…” Jack says gently, rubbing his hand across Davey’s shoulders. “I mean, d’ya just not like her? ‘Cause there ain’t nothin’ wrong with that, sometimes a girl just ain’t the one-”
“But she was.” Davey insists, and he feels all the more like a child for it. “She – she was smart, a-and funny, and beautiful, and if there was ever a girl I could’ve liked, could’ve – could’ve been with, it’d be her, b-but I… I just…”
He takes a painful breath, his voice crushed - like shards of glass - into his throat.
“Jackie, I don’t…” He whispers as hot tears scald his cheeks. “I think there’s something wrong with me?”
His voice pitches up at the end like a question – but he knows the moment the words are said, the moment the thought is finally put into existence, that it’s not. There’s something wrong with him. He knows it. He knows it. And now Jack does, too.
#WOE rbr 5 snippet be upon ye!!!!#id say this bad boy's about 2/3rds of the way done#but the last third is. gonna take a while to stitch together. i got MIDTERMS babyyyy#so you're welcome to have this lovely bit of comphet davey i've been saving since. yeah probably since 2019?#this is probably one of the few RBR scenes that have stayed the same through the 4-and-a-bit years i've been chewing on this fic#the writing has changed a fair bit as i've progressed but the dialogue + the actions + the function to the plot is essentially the same#davey jacobs#jack kelly#newsies#uksies#david jacobs#pigeon scribbles#javey#javid#run boy run
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I'll tell you what I want what I really really want
I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea)
I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea)
I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea)
I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea)
#I wanna watch a show#I wanna watch a completely different show#I wanna watch that one show that's been on my list for like 7 years#I wanna watch like 6 different movies#I wanna write!#I wanna map out plot for my homebrew universe#I wanna design a new dnd class#I wanna go to fuckin sleep#I wanna order some food#I wanna read a book#I wanna watch YET ANOTHER entirely different tv show#I wanna think of a christmas present for my best friend#and I want to do all of these things in the next 5 minutes#me @ my executive function system: SO TELL ME WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT#anyway it's 10:30 in the morning I'm going to bed
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Two 2D perspectives of a 3D plot of a motion of a ball on a string with alternating string length - shaping a motion track like a distorted "8"...
I am not finished. It's a rough sketch/doodle...It may have errors as well.
I might go into detail at explaining how I find the 3d coordinate points via my pen and paper and imagination method. This is a bit tricky. I will explain it once my focus and ability to form coherent thoughts and sentences is better again.
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Another old piece of concept art. This time for the Blood Moon Monkies:
Something something the horrors of existence something something discovering personhood something something morality in a creature not built for it
#lego monkie kid#lmk#monkie kid#blood moon monkies#rumble and savage#tw blood#myart#I think this was part of the Shadow of the King au#a side plot tho#something about the blood moon monkies (partnered with the host) discovering what it means to be a person. morality. and purpose#something about how to function in a world you're literally not built for#if you can't tell I was feeling some kind of way when I wrote it#cause it literally has nothing to do with the main plot
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found more ttglstuck stuff in my files
#homestuck#ttglstuck#homestuck au#roxy lalonde#rose lalonde#lil hal#hal strider#god remember ttglstuck... it was fun to think about#i still remember ive had some tidbits thought out about hal and his role but id have to look through my notes#but basically he was stolen when dirk was around 13 and he was granted a body from the empress once he swore loyalty to her#and joined the human eradication army#the body was basically dead already and they had to replace majority of it with robotic parts for it to even function#but through the magic of bioengineering robotics and plot armor it somehow worked#he meets dirk and dave years later basically the same way viral met kamina#with the added flavour that both of them KNOW each other#as for roxy and rose im still on the fence as of where would they join the team#i think itd be either theyre from jakes village#or theyre travelling the surface with some gang and they meet up accidentally
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the world without jc povs:
#this is interesting to think about bc jaime at first would have been a king obv#but also when it comes to asos it’s interesting to imagine if the whole thing happens from brienne’s pov#i think it would be functional but ofc the thing that makes jaime so compelling is actually seeing how he views the world#losing that would not be worth it for anything#like we have access immediately to the ugliest most vile thoughts abd rationalizations that have to be slowly broken down#i feel like the same arc from brienne’s pov would be less original too#also the jb asos arc is more about character than plot thats fs
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i REALLY enjoyed dungeon meshi, it has lovely characters and story and worldbuilding - but some of the posts and tweets i saw about it going in, lead me to believe that it had more horror/tragedy elements than it does. While it does have its more serious themes and dark moments, it fits solidly into the fantasy-adventure genre.
just thought I'd put that out there, in case some of yall following me for tma have gotten curious about it
#joos yaps#dungeon meshi#recommended? yes. specifically for fans of darker themes? nah not really#theres some body horror/gore moments but the tone is quite light throughout#also i am sad that we didnt get to know all that much about Falin. and that all the party leaders are men#some posts made kabru/laios out to be like. a ship based on a guy who appeared in only 2 chapters#instead of the guy functionally leading the entire b-plot#which is all annoying because dungeon meshi is rlly good and gloriously succeeds at the story its trying to tell#and didnt set up those expectations within the text- its me interpreting those posts that set up those expectations
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