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"These young heroes in university around America and the world are stronger than the last occupation in history. And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians we hear a voice louder than their voices and the sound of their bombs and even stronger than their control in all aspects of our lives. In the 70s the occupation prime minister said after decades of killing Palestinians, stealing the lands and establishing state of Israel over the lands that the adults will die. And children will definitely forget... Because its children and youth who are leading the movement now for a free Palestine. Putting everything the have on the line to demand justice and end of the genocide and a new era of the world. Not based on oppression, exploitation or colonialism. Do you know what the best part is? Demonstrations and calls for boycotting the academic institutions are not limited to a certain people from certain religion, culture, colour, race or maybe economic level. We are all different. So we can no longer be accused of anti-semitism serving some agendas from outside. We are just different people calling for the same thing. People to people and people to justice."

This is a snippet from the video above from Bisan. Our actions as a collective no matter how big or small have made an impact on them. We have shown them that we care, and that they aren't alone. That their voices and screams for help are being heard. No matter how much resistance from governments we may face. The power of the people is always stronger. And your empathy goes a long way. Your boycotting, your amplifying, your donations. Go a long way. Even if it doesn't seem like it to you. Your actions of support make a difference. Your voice makes a difference, your compassion makes a difference.

In a society of people that look away because they don't want to be controversial or problematic by bringing attention to these issues. Choose to be different, choose to care. So continue to boycott, continue to protest, continue to amplify, continue to donate.

Because the world needs people like you.

The Star Wars fandom is like a case study of what happens when you overthink media intended for children to the point that you’ve completely altered the message and plot that the creator intended. The whole “the Jedi order is evil and Anakin/Vader is the good guy!” Idea fails to take into account the fact that like.. these movies are meant for kids, they’re meant to be easy to follow and easy to understand with obvious good guys and obvious bad guys. Yknow how we know the Jedi are the good guys? - they’re the main characters, they have funny one liners, they kill the evil bad guys who have red laser swords with their blue and green laser swords, they’re relatable, they’re nice, they’re paternal, so on so forth.

I love critical analysis and I’d never speak a word against it, when we consume media we should always take a step back to consider what ideas they’re selling us, what undertones are portrayed, is this supposed to represent a real life problem? But it’s also equally as important to consider who the audience is and how that might impact the story. And ultimately the audience is children, Star Wars is not meant to be a mystery thriller where the good guys are secretly the bad guys which you can only tell when you pick the story apart 20 which ways. The movies could not more clearly tell us who were meant to support. - is it the angry guys with red swords, ugly old guy who shoot’s lighting out of his fingers and takes over the universe, people who blow up planets, chop off their kids hands and blow up planet’s? Or is it the people who wear warm coloured clothing, talk about wanting peace, who tell funny jokes, have heartfelt moments, with blue and green lightsabers, fight against the space fascists and love each other.

Ultimately, Star Wars isn’t that deep, enjoy it for what it is and I promise you’ll enjoy it 100 times more

I find it so funny to think about how in-universe people expected Obi-Wan to be the hero of A New Hope. He's this great General from the Clone Wars, a brilliant warrior and tactician - seeking him out is this very significant hail mary. And instead of swooping in and saving the day like he used to, he makes this totally unknown kid Official Protagonist in his stead and swaps the expected Deus Ex Machina for a Hero's Journey. It's so bonkers. People thought Obi-Wan was their (only) hope and bam, he hits them with the new one and peaces out. The opposite of main character syndrome.

luke and ezra are so important to each other because if it weren't for ezra then luke wouldn't have won and if it weren't for luke then ezra's sacrifice would've been for nothing,

luke has definitely heard of ezra and what he did when he joined the rebellion and he admires the little boy who was a jedi and still saved his friends even when all seemed lost, ezra searches for the key to defeat the sith and is driven to tatooine in an attempt to find it but in the end he understands that it won't be him who will do it and he instead leaves the door open for another to walk through it

the twin suns of tatooine and the twin moons of lothal — the wind and the sea, the sky and the earth. a sky walk can be considered a bridge, from a certain point of view. ezra was in the same planet as luke, in the same planet, and when each of them get their own kyber crystals you can see a shooting star in the sky

luke and ezra, sun and moon, sky and bridge. ezra built the path for luke to walk on. luke takes care of it and ensures that it will never be destroyed

two boys with blue eyes and a soul full of hope, who one day decided to help people and instead saved the entire galaxy

Is anyone else just in complete bafflement and wonder at Andor being actually greenlit by Disney those assholes in the corporate office? CANON lesbian representation, overt allusions to in-universe racialization of characters (Diego Luna is described as a man with dark features in the police APB and it actively contributes to his experience in the universe!!), police brutality and criticism of the police state spelled out in the most painstaking terms possible, and the Empire!!! People have already talked about how scary the TIE fighters are allowed to be. The Empire isn’t cute. It’s terrifying and it’s run by real humans committing atrocities, not just monsters and faceless soldiers and comic relief incompetents. Again and again I feel like I’m seeing things that have never been allowed to feel so raw and real in mainline SW, if they were present at all. And the fact that every other aspect of the show is on point, that no sacrifices in story or characterization or worldbuilding or cinematography or production value were made in the process — I don’t even have words. Idk what the general sentiment of the Star Wars fandom is, I haven’t been paying attention. But if Andor has only ten fans I am one of them. If Andor has only one fan it is me. If the entire world is against Andor I am against the world.

The Rebellion crew x One of my favorite movies :].

Thursday, Round 2, Poll 6

Immediately thought about this

Slight spoilers for the Rebellion in the designs

Without all that junk rendering bc it's literally just a colored sketch I went ham on:

The Rebellion was fucking INSANE

Seriously, they were, Everybody in the Rebel Alliance had to be fucking bonkers. Here’s the evidence - 

Kanan: Taunted a GOD into smiting Thrawn’s fleet. Said god tried to smite him too but didn’t blow up the Ghost.

Ezra: Decided that way to get the rest of the fleet and Thrawn himself out of the Rebellion’s way was to call space whales and launch the ships (with Ezra onboard too!) into who-fucking-knows, or, as the officials call it, the Unknown Regions. 

Luke: The first time he flew in space was to destroy the Death Star. He did it WITHOUT his targeting computer. Then he decided that his genocidal father could be a good guy and help him--and was right!

Han: Accidentally ruined the life, reputation, and career of the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, aka Boba Fett, while half-blind and disoriented after 2-3 years in carbonite.

Leia: what didn’t she do that wasn’t fucking INSANE? Visibly left Scarif, got tracked down, told Darth Vader himself that she had no idea what he was talking about. Got captured, complained about the rescue. Strangled Jabba with her own chains. 

Maarva's speech that we deserved

I’m sorry but I hate the way people completely disregard the fact that Luke is a Jedi, like he’s literally the og Jedi?? I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how much “better” his new Jedi order would’ve been because he would’ve removed the attachment rules or whatever, and I think that that type of characterisation really disregards the essence of Luke’s character and what he stood for. People seem to cite him bringing his father back from the dark and being close with Leia but that doesn’t mean he’s attached to them in the way Jedi view attachment, he cared about his father because Luke is a caring person and wanted to help him, acting as if it’s only because Vaders his dad really disregards a lot of the character development Luke went through from a new hope till return of the Jedi.

Also it seems really odd to ignore it as he 1: shows a genuine want to become a Jedi and all that being a Jedi involves 2: (mainly rotj) cares what Yoda and Obi-Wan have to say and the advice they give him 3: says word for word “I am a Jedi” sure he may not have the training of a Jedi but it’s pretty clear that he really does care.

On a similar note - I’ve seen people talk about it but people also tend to disregard the fact that Luke was part of the rebellion?? It’s treated like “oh silly sunshine boy just wants to fly ships he doesn’t know what politics are🥰🥰” it completely infantilises his entire character, his beliefs and what he cares about. We see in ANH that he has interest in the rebellion, knows of the clone wars and vaguely of the Jedi, and in the deleted scene with Biggs they both talk about defecting to the rebellion and fighting against the empire. These scenes clearly show his political beliefs and how he was against the empire even before they killed his Aunt and Uncle. It does him a disservice to ignore who he is as a person and to treat him as if he’s just a child who likes ships, it removes any sense of agency or conviction when he’s treated that way

Point is I wish more people would treat him like a mature adult who is capable of making his own choices and is an actual Jedi who follows the code.

Watching Andor and seeing the gritty and brutal methods it took to build the rebellion has made me completely rethink the purpose of Luke Skywalker and his role as a hero. When we only had the OT, which obviously is very Skywalker-centered, it’s easy to think Luke is what brought everyone together carried them to victory. While this is partially true, thanks to Rebels, Rogue One, and Andor, we see all of the real work, people, sacrifice, and death it took to build the powerhouse in A New Hope to life. It wasn’t easy or pretty. Luke was just some farmboy who swooped in after all the real work was done and “saved the galaxy.” Some might take that as their interpretation, but as someone biased towards Luke and archetype of a hero in general, I’m inclined to think he’s more than that. All this time, in the darkness of the Empire, the rebellion held out hope that freedom and light would return. That’s why the original rebel symbol seen in Andor, the circle with a line through it, seems to have been taken from the symbol of the jedi during the clone wars. They knew somehow, somewhere, the light side of the force would survive just as they had and bring them the ultimate weapon against darkness in star wars. I’m not saying the rebellion was twiddling its thumbs waiting for a jedi to save them; that’s where the people went wrong during the clone wars. The rebellion built itself up with its own strength so that when its hero finally returned, it would be the last bit of gasoline needed to turn the fire into the blaze that would defeat the Emperor himself.

Why is Padme Amidala such an underwritten character?

Because Lucas cut the final step of her arc.

In Revenge of the Sith, there’s a collection of deleted scenes, commonly referred to as “The Seeds of Rebellion.” These show Padmé meeting with Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, and various other Senators who make up the Delegation of 2,000— Senators who are opposed to the powers the Chancellor continued to amass, and the eradication of democracy within the Republic.

The scenes were cut, primarily to keep the focus on Anakin’s descent, but that also meant that Padmé got stuck as little more than Future Protagonist Incubation Unit for the majority of the film.

Across Episodes I and II, of the prequels’ trio of leads, she’s probably the most consistent in her writing and development: a politician dedicated to upholding the ideals of democracy, one who generally tried to avoid war if it could be avoided. Her moral code was generally very strong, but her breaking point was always when things were at their most desperate. She called for a vote of no confidence against Valorum because she believed it was the only way to save her occupied homeworld. She practically had to be forced off Coruscant by Palpatine “for her safety” (aka, getting her out of the way) because she didn’t want the galaxy to go to war while there was something she could do to prevent it. She only confessed her love for Anakin when she thought they were about to die. Her primary character conflict is Padmé the person at war with Amidala the public servant, and the first two movies did a decent-enough job of showing that. Had the Seeds of Rebellion subplot been kept in, she would have retained that depth for Revenge of the Sith, but alas.

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All the different types of fascists and fascist enablers on display in Andor and all of them being equally reprehensible and equally functional as tools of the Empire’s atrocities… Dedra, the gaslight gatekeep girlboss who has worked her way up through the ranks of military intelligence through her cleverness and grit, despite the bias and obstacles facing her. Karn, the blue lives matter, ben shapiro-ass renegade cop from a working class background who desperately wants a seat at the table. The nameless politicians at Mon Mothma’s parties, who discuss whether or not to support useless legislative bills against empire-wide repression while sipping thousand-credit champagne. The “I’d like to hang him” prefect on Ferrix whose desire to wield power over others at every possible opportunity manifests in the cruelest and most visible forms of oppression. The prison guards and the prisoners who protect their system. The civilians like Timm who make small-scale fascist goals achievable with insider information. Again and again and again we see how every person within a fascist regime who is not actively moving against it becomes a cog in their system. And I hope you’re all paying attention because some of you need to hear it.

Just so everyone knows,

Garazeb Orrelios is considered Hot™ in the Star Wars canon.

Not that we needed Wookiepedia to tell us this.