"canderous is a good mand'alor because he unites the clans" "canderous is a good mand'alor because he's a strong warrior" WRONG. canderous ordo is a good mand'alor because he follows mandalore the indomitable's proud tradition of getting his ass kicked by a hot jedi and immediately wanting said jedi to fuck him. there are no other criteria

My last 3 brain cells trying to figure out Star Wars lore

Cay qel droma my little favorite ray of sunshine 🥹

with this new "tales of the jedi" show coming out that has absolutely nothing to do with the old comics series, i'm foreseeing all of the totj comics tags on tumblr being completely swamped by baby Ahsoka and young Dooku and whatever else content, making it impossible to find anything related to Exar, Ulic, and the others. so, totj fandom, i am proposing a maintag swap - from #totj and #tales of the jedi to #totj comics and #tales of the jedi comics. it's a bit longer and more unwieldy, but at least it makes it so we can still find our content easily - if anyone else has other suggestions, i'm listening!

hopefully people will see this, lol. i'd like to start this discussion BEFORE the new show comes out and messes everything up.

exar kun but he looks like young billy rae cyrus. i think exar kun could rock a mullet

invites himself to ulics trial for war crimes with a new lightsaber and a new haircut

Nomi Sunrider, digital painting, done in ProCreate

(I love her)

Extra Ulic Qel-Droma and Exar Kun sketches

drawn by original artists of the comic

Okay so having seen Tales of the Jedi, I'm very stuck on the 1st episode because like (spoilers ahead). It's very heavily implied and perhaps outright confirmed that was Ahsoka's FIRST Force-sensitive feat, and we see Grogu do this even though he's like, initiate age, and the Wookiepedia page confirms it was taught to younglings.

In the five-issue comic Obi-Wan and Anakin, which I recommend to absolutely everyone, 12 year old Anakin is shown having immense difficulty learning the animal bond ability, though we know he does eventually pick it up because he uses it in AotC in the execution arena. We also see Vader has absolutely no trouble with the dark side version of this in the Darth Vader comics.

Now why in Satan's ballsack would someone who caught up on years of missed training the way Anakin did, and with his level of power, have so much difficulty with a move taught to the tiniest baby initiates?

Here's my pet hypothesis: based on the dialogue in the scene where he is practicing it with Obi-Wan and later when he attempts it in battle, the light side version of the beast trick relies on being able to calm the animal by sharing one's own inner peace, and Anakin simply doesn't have any peace to share.

Babysoka does have peace to share (big kitty!) and likely most toddlers and babies are going to have more inner peace than a 9 y/o fresh out of slavery (and definitely more than any 12 y/o... I remember being 12 lmfao).

By the time of AotC he's either gained more calm, succeeded during practice enough times that he can do it without being calm himself, or is unknowingly doing it the dark side way.

We're told in Karen Miller's Clone Wars novels that, while certain Jedi have a talent for healing, nearly any Jedi has some limited ability to heal, but Anakin has none. She describes Anakin's lack of healing talent as "conspicuous" among the Jedi.

What distinguishes the mindset and demands of the healer class? Even more than other Jedi, they absolutely must be filled with compassion and peace, or they're fucked. This is the same book in which Anakin holds back a fucking theta storm, a feat of raw power that would have been completely unthinkable for literally anyone else.

Now, this clashes with other Star Wars content in which Anakin is one of the best at healing outside of the actual Jedi healers, and the canon status of either is wibbly-wobbly at this point (but I firmly believe that in sw you HAVE to choose your own canon because if you give a shit about what is and isn't officially canon all the torments of Hell will befall you and you will go mad from the unspeakable agonies).

I personally find the idea of him being good at healing despite his Force presence being a lil bit broken and crackly with the dark side more compelling, but realistically I'll probably switch it up between fics set in different 'verses/series based on what's convenient to the plot, a time-honoured tradition borrowed from canon lmao.

I've always felt like having full fledged knights and equivalent classes, and perhaps even masters occasionally fumble certain Force feats due impaired concentration or a disrupted emotional state etc is badly underused, considering the way Force abilities are said to work. Like, yes, they're taught insane levels of discipline, but nobody's self-control is totally infallible.

It would also be very interesting to see any Jedi knight/master/shadow/etc with a decent amount of healing ability slowly become less potent in Force healing as they gradually fall, and eventually lose the capacity to heal entirely until they start using the dark side for it.

totj last episode spoilers ahead:

alright so uh. I really don’t know how to feel about the last totj episode (I enjoyed all the others!!!) since it has similar vibes to the novel but with all of what I’d consider integral and interesting to the story filed off.

And btw, I am/was more than willing to set this in canon after the novel but the story beats here (Ahsoka getting back into contact with Bail/using his ships to rescue the remaining farmers, the setting seeming almost a copy/paste farm planet with mountains/rolling hills, the fact that it was specifically a blow to the inquisitor’s face that killed him, Ahsoka not drawing her lightsaber once during the fight) but there are enough differences for me to hesitate to say they’re the same thing (the completely different cast, the way the inquisitor was called to the village, the imperial presence being more removed from the villagers).

So this leaves me (and canon, I suspect) in this gray area, where referring to Ahsoka’s past could refer you to the events of the novel, or this, and it’s not really clear which one, leaving the novel to be completely ignored/disposed of.

And on top of that it’s weird because I feel it thematically works with the rest of the episodes’ story arcs but metatextually plays weird with the novel and leaves me with a lot of weird feelings about the whole thing

[d*nt rb]

I have many criticisms of tales of the jedi, but the main one is… why ? What’s the point of rehashing the comics and novels that much ? If that was to answer questions, people could look for the comics. Lots of these anecdotes felt redundant, things we could already easily deduct from previous media to me.

Also I’m not gonna lie I love the prequel era as much as the next guy but I’m tired 90%of the animated shows being set in it and recreating scenes of it. Feels like nostalgiabait more than a genuine exploration of the time period. I am also getting tired of lines being added for the sole purpose of getting people to point and shout like master like padawan !! Meaningless repetitions driving a point already made many times. The history of the Jedi spans so much more time than those 13 years we already have 3movies and hours of shows about, and harbours so much more diversity than the 6 members of the disaster lineage can ever exemplify, but it’s their stories that get told over and over the highest budget projects of Star Wars. Tell me a tale of high republic jedi, tell me about Luke’s student at his temple, tell me something long after the sequel trilogy, tell me the myths of the old republic. Why call it Tales of the Jedi as if it was about the Jedi as a whole if it’s gonna be tales of that one specific lineage

I saw a lot of people hating on TotJ on Twitter so I was worried, but now that I've seen it I'm happy to say they were all wrong lol it was great🤷‍♂️ I guess my biggest problem with it is it's so dark and gruesome and has no sense of humor. The only lighthearted thing is how hilariously attractive Ahsoka is. Even as a baby her makeup was flawless (which made her look more like a creepy doll than a real kid😬). There was one part that made me laugh [spoiler alert]: they actually show Dooku deleting Kamino from the archives lololol. We were like omg he's in the archives...is he gonna do it......the build-up was so intense and prolonged........and then he did it and we were like NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Besides that I kind of nervous-laughed at all the actually nasty stuff Dooku does and all the horrible stuff Ahsoka goes through. I love these guys so much lol

for blorbo bingo: ned stark, cassus fett, exar kun

Ned:

I love him he is. Just sort of standing there

Cassus:

I AM the fanon (hello hell server and specifically Theo this is your fault). I need to put him through a meat grinder.

Exar:

god totj would have been so good if it was good. he is the worst and I adore him

Trying to decide whether or not a Star Wars thing is good or if I’m just a Lore Whore™ is one of my favourite pass times

redraw of that Tales of the Jedi comic panel of ulicI'm obsessed with (I've drawn 5 versions of it during the last 2 years)

been a hot minute since i posted the link for this, so! tor hell once again has our invites open! we have an active and cheerful community of people who are very invested in this general era of star wars; a whole host of discussion channels for canon, worldbuilding, actual gaming aspects, and our own writing; fic, art, and merch sharing channels; and of course something like 150 custom emojis. we'd love to chat with you!

imo they will not release any new kotor-adjacent material until after the remake comes out, or at least only in the immediate lead-up to the release. i think they will want to be certain that they can build a sustainable franchise around the old republic era beyond existing hardcore kotor fans, which make up a tiny minority of the fanbase, and the only way they can tell is to see how well the remake does