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inquisitor-apologist · 7 months

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Started reading Light of the Jedi, and it’s been really good so far—the pacing is good despite the POV shifts, the characters are distinct, and the worldbuilding is very good, especially for an established setting. It feels like someone could read this as a stand-alone sci fi novel with no background with Star Wars and get along just fine.

But one of the things I like the most so far is this kind of general ‘people are inherently good’ philosophy that the whole book kinda has.

Idk how to explain it exactly, but all of the characters feel very realistic and human, and they all try to help others. The captain in the first chapter likes and cares for her passengers, and even knowing she’s going to die, she does everything to save them. The scan techs are scared and have lives and people they want to see again, but they put out the warning first, even though they might’ve survived if they hadn’t. The elected official guy stays behind with to coordinate the evacuation and tries to get everyone else out first. And, duh, the Jedi are Jedi.

It’s just really refreshing for a Star Wars project to have that faith, since most of Star Wars is set in some of the worst times possible: civil war and descent into fascism, life under fascism, rebellion against fascism, civil war, post-war and post-fascism reconstruction, the resurgence of fascism. Those are times where it’s hard to trust anyone, let alone have a hopeful outlook on humanity. For most of Star Wars, the elected officials are corrupt and power-hungry, the normal people feel like it’s everyone out for themselves, and the Jedi aren’t allowed to just be Jedi.

It’s also pretty good worldbuilding; like Yoda said in Clone Wars, the prequel Jedi couldn’t take the right path, they had to take the only available path. But in this time, the Republic is working, people are helping each other, the Jedi are allowed to be Jedi. The Jedi have the ability to take the right path, to stay behind on Hetzal and stop the explosion—in the prequels, Palpatine and the Senate wouldn’t have let them stay behind, and even if they did, they might not have been able to move the Tibanna, because the Dark Side would’ve been clouding everything and making it harder to use the Force.

That the Jedi are able to help and that other people are willing to help really helps emphasize that this is a completely different time period and landscape than most of Star Wars. It really sells the idea that this was the galaxy’s golden age.

Idk I’m rambling, but I really like Light of the Jedi so far, and if it stays good I might get into the rest of the High Republic

#just picked this book up from the bookstore bc there wasn’t much else interesting #but damn it’s actually really good #wasn’t huge on the high Republic before but maybe #high republic #light of the jedi #star wars the high republic #sw the high Republic #sw thr #sw light of the Jedi #pro jedi #prequel Jedi #is this the original post tag

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elivanto · 8 months

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STAR WARS: REBELS ☆ 2.14 LEGENDS OF THE LASAT LIGHT OF THE JEDI (2021) BY CHARLES SOULE AHSOKA ☆ 1.07 DREAMS AND MADNESS for @cohborikardok

#star wars #star wars rebels #light of the jedi #ahsoka #swedit #ahsokaedit #sw lit parallels #**#*gffa #*swr #*ahsoka tv #high republic #flashing gif tw

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evawritesstuff · 3 months

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Anakin was crying when he told Padme that he genocided the Tuskens. He told her he hated them but he also hated himself.

Star wars is a tragedy because every time you watch it, you think maybe in the back of your mind " it could have been otherwise".Anakin was brilliant and had the potential to be a great person but ended up being one of the worst ones. And he knew it too deep down in his heart but suppressed it as Darth Vader.

Yoda said once you go down the dark path, it will forever dominate your destiny. Anakin believed that there was no coming back. Of course, both omitted the power of love, a power both predictable and unpredictable at the same time.

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ventresses · 4 months

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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2/?)

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

#tales of the jedi #TOTJ #star wars tales of the jedi #sw totj #ahsoka tano #count dooku #mace windu #Ahsoka #star wars #star wars memes #star wars text posts #TOTJ text post #star wars text post #mine #once again I am begging the animators to stop making the lighting so dark

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cienie-isengardu · 4 months

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Ghost Anakin

Can we please take a moment and appreciate that Legends and Disney-Canon's Force Ghost Anakin confronted member of his family (Cade Skywalker) and/or friend (Ahsoka) when they were in trouble and he decided to show up to them as a Jedi to pass the warning/advice

but when they weren't willing to listen, he changed into Vader

to trash them as the Sith Lord

I don’t know why he is like that but I bow respectfully to his ghost’s communication skills.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #look i may not like in special way disney sw canon but i appreciate what they did with anakin in ahsoka tv series #any source that acknowledge anakin's duality of jedi and sith #light and dark #makes me happy #also yeah the gifs from ahsoka may not be here in chronogical order but hush

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cerulianvermillion · 10 months

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the concept of "grey Jedi" doesn't work because the force is light and dark, not black and white. By definition, colour value might be a spectrum, but darkness is absence of light. Everyone is grey! Star wars has clearly implied that nobody is perfect and everyone comes in shades of of grey, everyone is flawed and imperfect. The jedi are all technically grey! However, they are "light" because they, as jedi, choose light, choose selflessness, choose goodness.

Textbook fandom interpretation of "grey jedi" is either A. Someone who uses both the dark and light side or B. Someone who is light and does good but doesn't follow the jedi order.

A. doesn't work, because the dark side isn't just defined by "being emotional" or "Thinking of yourself", it's literally stuff like murder and torture. You can't claim to be "good" or "light" or "better than everyone" while also condoning murder at the same time.

B. You don't have to be a jedi to use the force! You don't have to be a jedi to be in the light! Like it's not illegal, the jedi order respects non-jedi force users as long as they don't commit human rights violations! the Jedi are the majority of force users, but they're not the only ones who can use the force. The jedi themselves are aware that there are many different interpretations, and the only intervene when it. yknow. involves murder and torture and the like. calling non-jedi lightside users as "grey jedi" doesn't really make sense because they're... just technically normal jedi. And if they're not associating with the order, then they're just lightside force users that are not jedi? Why would they call themselves jedi if they themselves don't think they are jedi or associate with the jedi???

Like in Ahsoka's situation, she's not a "grey" jedi, she's a light force user that doesn't follow the jedi order. In fact, saying that she's a "grey" jedi is basically just saying that she's a regular jedi? That doesn't make her better or worse or special, disagreeing with the council doesnt make someone better or worse that the other- what does matter is her actual actions. Which, as aforementioned, is lightside. The jedi order is also light. They can coexist, yknow, one is not superior than the other, they're both light. And it's not uncommon for people to disagree with the council. That's the entire point of the jedi having a "council"- to provide different perepectives and healthy debate and come up with the best decision for everyone. You can't please everybody, that's entirely normal. There's a reason why the council discusses instead of having one person make all the choices. The jedi are people too, they're also flawed. You can be grey and choose light, that's what the jedi choose to do.

tldr everyone is already grey, but light and dark is a matter or choice.

#star wars #sw prequels #sw: the clone wars #ahsoka tano #jedi #jedi order #pro jedi #grey jedi critical #gray jedi critical #jedi council #sith #light side and dark side #grey jedi debate #the force

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intermundia · 2 months

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i should know better than to allow myself to feel hope and yet the acolyte trailer's inclusion of so much jedi content, the training of the younglings at the beginning, all shaded in peaceful, golden light, and the group of knights and masters all igniting their sabers together, it makes my heart feel warm. i know the show will doubtless center the the dark side and use the jedi as the background context to be rebelled against, but regardless, the fact that we are going to get to see the temple closer to the height of the republic and the jedi as a flourishing culture makes me genuinely excited

#genuinely (cautiously) excited #i love the force and lightsabers fuck as a weapon on screen #im tired of empire era media where the light of the jedi has gone out mostly #so this feels fresh #we will seeeeee #sw

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brainrotparsecsaway · 18 days

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Time sure flies fast

Since today it has officially been a year since I've started to actively draw these idiots!! :D

I have @keep-the-socks-on-karta to blame for this

Quasar has actually existed for like two years at this point, but I had very little lore for him at the time Tranyc and Korar were hurled at me

Well i can't really complain, I love these idiots to death

Leyc doesn't appear in this because he actually didn't exist when I drew the original version (maybe 11 months ago?) of this since if you've been around that was my old banner

It's kind of funny thinking back on how he didn't even exist as an idea and yet Tranyc might as well have described him here

And that comes into play in lore later don't you worry ;)

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artmelody · 3 months

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I made art for a short fic I’ll be posting soon on AO3

#star wars #star wars prequels #sw tcw #tcw #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #ahsoka tano #my art #fanart #fanfic #I suck at drawing backgrounds #Jedi’s Light Fic

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thejediavengeroftheinternet · 1 year

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When you get to a certain spot in Jedi Survivor and it changes your menus from blue tones to red ones.

#threw me off too #looks like we goin dark side #star wars #sw #swjs #jedi survivor #cal #cal kestis #bd1 #menu #ui #red #dark side #light side #blue

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short-wooloo · 5 months

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I can't believe this never occurred to me

"The Strongest Stars have hearts of Kyber"

What happened when Starkiller base-formerly Ilum, a world rich in Kyber crystals, was destroyed?

It became a Star

Extra poetic considering context

Ilum was the world where the Jedi got the crystals to forge the weapons they used to defend light and life in the galaxy

The forces of the dark side (the empire/first order) violated and perverted Ilum, turning into a weapon that took lives by the billions and literally drained light from the universe

But with starkiller's destruction, Ilum was reincarnated, so to speak, it will sadly never be what it once was, such is the nature of the dark side, it twists, perverts, and disfigures what it touches, you can come back from it, but never as you were, and such is the unfortunate case with Ilum, but as a Star, Ilum takes on a new role, stars are the source of light

And from Light, comes Life

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jedi-enthusiast · 10 months

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I'm gonna be honest, literally no one can get mad at me for not having Anakin Skywalker turn back to the Light in my fic while also having Ventress and Savage turn back to the Light and implying that Dooku does in the future, because I WAS GOING TO!!!

I WAS GONNA GIVE THAT ASSHOLE THE BEST REDEMPTION ARC IN THE FIC, WITH TONS OF SYMPATHY AND EVERYTHING!!!

BUT THEN ANAKIN APOLOGISTS AND ANTI-JEDI PEOPLE STARTED POSTING ON MY BLOG AND I WENT "FUCK THAT"

so yeah, if you're gonna get mad at that decision, all I'm saying is that I was gonna be nice but y'all made me spiteful as hell

#and yes #before anyone says anything #my fic is gonna be HIGHLY critical of Dooku and the other Darksiders and they're definitely gonna face consequences #eventually turning back to the Light doesn't mean pretending that they never did all the shitty things they did #it just means that they're gonna try to fix what they can and be held accountable and do better in the future #star wars #sw prequels #the clone wars #ao3 fanfic #codywan fanfic #fanfic #pro jedi #anti anakin skywalker #anti anakin apologists #anakin skywalker critical #yan dooku #count dooku #asajj ventress

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dragonrider9905 · 1 month

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Also find me on Ao3--DragonRider9905

Everything is separated by series

Canon

One Shots/Stand Alones

Hunter's Stress Journal

Clonetober 2022

Lessons from the Past Offer Hope for a Golden Future

AUs

To Be a Jedi (Hunter Force-Sensitive AU)

The Clone's Incomplete Guide for Navigating the Afterlife (We're Learning as We Go)

Technically, We’re in Love (Tech/OC)—Same AU as Broken, Not Shattered

Broken, Not Shattered (Crosshair/OC)(Hunter/OC)—Same AU as Technically

With You From Dusk till Dawn (Hunter/OC)

The World Where You Live (Hunter/OC) (Tech/OC)

Reader Inserts

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy!

Feel free to comment and/or reblog. Would be much appreciated!

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fantasticgothicpeachsludge · 4 days

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Cal, to Bode: You wanna fight? All right, let’s take this outside. The stars are so bright tonight and the moon looks so nice. Here, hold my hand—

#cal kestis #bode akuna #spyscrapper #jedi survivor #cal trying to romance bode back to the light #incorrect quotes #cal: bode look at me! the isn’t you!#sw jedi survivor #starwars #bodecal

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darth-memes · 8 days

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STAR WARS THE ACOLYTE COMES IN 30 DAYS!

#star wars #sw memes #the high republic #star wars the high republic #the high republic comics #light of the jedi #the rising storm #the fallen star #convergence #cataclysm #the eye of darkness #midnight horizon #into the dark #the high republic adventures #path of vengeance

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inquisitor-apologist · 1 year

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The thing about the Gray Jedi that doesn’t work is that you can’t be 50/50, that’s not how the Force works.

The Force is an incredibly simple magic system, honestly. Good people (Jedi) gain Good People Powers through working on themselves and helping people, and bad people (Sith) gain Bad People Powers by making themselves miserable and hurting everyone around them.

You cannot be a good person and have Bad People Powers like Force Lightning or whatever because those powers literally come from causing and exploiting people’s suffering. The Gray Jedi just don’t work because the Force is a dichotomy. There is the the Dark Side and the Light Side. You cannot be both, and if you could, well, being 50% evil is not a good thing, actually.

At best, you get something like the Bendu from Rebels where he’s just like, the worst kind of bystander. He has a ton of power and strength and he refuses to use it for anything, he lets everyone else be miserable, he lets the world get worse because he refuses to pick a side in a world that demands he have one. And at worst, you get Anakin Skywalker in RotS who is flip-flopping between light and dark, killing an unarmed prisoner one moment and risking his life and the Chancellor’s to save Obi-Wan the next. You get someone desperately unstable and uncontrollable who lashes out randomly and extremely destructively, pulling himself deeper into the Dark because he refused to choose a damn side.

Being 50% evil is either a step towards being 100% evil or it’s just… nothing. Utter passivity, refusal to do anything because it disrupts the ‘balance’ that never actually existed because good and evil are not equal. There’s no real nuance there, it’s a simple magic system, but that’s because it was made for kids! Look it up, GL has said all this before.

Anyway, yeah, being half evil kind of inherently precludes you from being a good person.

#like god it’s not that deep at all #it’s a morality based magic system!#the good people are Light the bad people are Dark that’s as classic and obvious as you can get #star wars #the force #force meta #force analysis #gray Jedi #anti gray jedi #bendu #sw #sw meta #sw analysis #jedi #sith

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