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At some point when talking about the Jedi and the Prequels and Star Wars, I feel like there's distinctions that need to be made.
There's George Lucas' Star Wars.
And then there's Star Wars the transmedia franchise.
They are not one and the same.
They have similar messages. Depending on which continuity you go for, the message is more or less alike (Disney canon's treatment of the Jedi Order is slightly more aligned with GL's vision than the Legends canon was).
But they are not the same.
George Lucas' Star Wars is just the six films and the first six seasons of TCW which serve as an addendum to the six films, and the values and messages that derive from them.
The transmedia franchise has those values, but they've been diluted through comics and novels and games and authors who don't agree with GL's vision and authors who tweaked it a bit and retcons until it's no longer the same thing.
Which takes us to "did the Jedi deserve to fall" and the answers:
"no, but the institution needed to go"
There is NOTHING to indicate that read in George Lucas' Star Wars.
If you go by the movies ONLY, then the Jedi are in the right, and what happens to them is tragic, and I don't just mean Order 66.
The movies' narrative literally frames them - as a people, a religion and an institution - (and Bail Organa) as objectively good and the only ones trying to do what's right.
However, some of the marketing and storylines and comics and books presented in the EU and in new canon do support this POV.
If you count those as "just as valid and canon as the films and shows" then you'll have a very different view of the Jedi Order.
"yes, for what they did to Ahsoka".
Ahsoka is part of TCW.
If your Star Wars is the same as Lucas', then TCW is meant to be an asterisk in the larger story, nothing more than a footnote.
As such, Ahsoka's part is NOT that big, her being on Mandalore or being expelled from the Jedi Order is NOT a contributing factor for Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.
Ahsoka is NOT a part of the Prequels, which represent KEY moments in Anakin's life and the Republic's downfall.
But for many, Star Wars is the transmedia franchise. And TCW and the Prequel films are one and the same. So Ahsoka's treatment factors into the judgment.
If you add TCW's stories to the mix, welp, the show certainly questions them here and there, showing the war corrupted their values (because it was designed to do so) but in the first six seasons it does so in a fair manner showing both sides of the argument.
They're framed as caught between a rock and a hard place. They HAVE to do the very thing they didn't wanna do or people get enslaved and get killed.
Under Lucas, TCW does what it was meant to do: it adds footnotes, it shows unfortunate downsides. It's not meant to define what is seen in the films.
Whereas by the time we're in Season 7 and Lucas is no longer involved, we get this:
"They could do better but choose not to because they're playing politics." That's it.
Which is what I mean when I'm talking about the franchise: it has grown past George Lucas' vision, for better or for worse.
For some, TCW redefines what is seen in the films.
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what started as the desire to draw The Donnies in their Iconic Purple Jackets just devolved into Donnie's Bizarre Adventures
#tmnt#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt mutant mayhem#rise donnie#rise donatello#mm donnie#mm donatello#squeaky art#i imagine they saw each other across the room and rise! donnie pointed to mm! donnies hoodie#and then they had a fanboy Mind Meld moment and just reenacted this on the spot#im SO proud of how the purple dragon jacket turned out#it was a lot of work to draw but it was worth it#ive been wanting to draw that jacket since like... august... and now i can finally check it off my bucket list#just FYI i dont know anything about jojo never watched it never will
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heartbreaking: this viral post is saying things you completely agree with in the most irritating way possible
#mumbling#goD#thinking about that one cringing = pearl clutching post i saw a while ago#legitimately good points and the only time i’ve ever seen someone point out the linguistic shift#of ‘cringe’ going from verb to adjective and how that takes the blame off of the people DOING the cringing#like yeah! that’s it that’s the thing i’ve been trying to figure out how to say!!#the insidious shift from cringe as an action of the beholder to a property of the beheld is not only worth examining#but demonstrates a seriously important way our brains can be affected over time by language#that was something i didn’t even notice! sure it bothered me but i didn’t know how to express WHY#and i think it’s so cool to see someone finally manage to articulate smth that’s been pissing me off for years#HOWEVER#my god was op’s phrasing annoying the hell out of me for some reason#just written in such a grating writing style i couldn’t bring myself to reblog it even though i really wanted to
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At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.
I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)
#poorly drawn mdzs#art summary#It's so interesting looking back at how my style and technique changed throughout the year!#I used PD-wwx as the consistent factor (October is an exception) and you can see so many processes going on.#My little petri dish amoeba (with a little red bow to tell him apart from the other amoeba) <3#Whether it's getting new markers or trying out a new shading style - it's cool seeing a snapshot of my journey like this B*)#There's certainly been a slower curve to my overt improvement *but* I have become so much faster!#My life outside of drawing has been hectic and at several points extremely stressful this year. For all the work this blog has been-#-It has truly been a life saving anchor when the darkest of times have hit.#Love is hard work. Change is even harder work. Sticking to a goal I set out for myself and striving to keep going was worth it.#And I love drawing. I think there has always been something in me that longed for this. And it is finally tangible! I can draw!!!#I wanted to make a more elaborate year reflection where I looked back at my favourite comics and jokes.#but I'll leave that to the one year anniversary.#I have also been collecting a ton of statistics throughout the year and I am desperate to share them. I'm that kind of nerd B*)#I can never say it enough: Thank you all for the kindness and support. I wish everyone a lovely 2024!!!
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if kim only cares about people's worth if they're in the RCM then why in the fuck was he about to give his jacket to some random ass kid
yeah sure the guy who only cares about other RCM officers if they're good was about to part with the only item of clothing keeping him somewhat warm in a place where there's ice thick enough to support two grown men and a bunch of other shit absolutely
(edit: i'd appreciate it if you take a look at this version instead x it contains way more nuance and some amazing additions)
(edit 2: here's a version with IDs as well x )
#i said i wasn't gonna engage or post much about de but that one post was pissing me off so bad and i was going through my screenshots#by engage i mean interact with the fandom aside from reblogging shit i like#disco elysium#kim kitsuragi#disco elysium kim#em talks bs#edit:#i may have worded some things very meanly here i am sorry#but this post wasn't made in the intention to bash or invalidate anyone's opinion just point out some things#that i think are worth discussing and boy did u guys deliver /pos
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Forever, irrevocably fascinated by Will Graham's love for Hannibal Lecter. You guys don't give him enough attention. I actually think he loves with more intensity than Hannibal. His love is not only sacred, but it's also kaleidoscopic, and visceral, and convoluted, and so fucking much.
#you deserve to suffer and die according to everyone but not me#not me not me not me#I will not let them kill you I will not let them have you#and I can't kill you or watch you die but I can't be without you but I will end the world with you#so I will end us both because wherever I'm going I'm taking you with me#it's easy to love Will everyone in the show does#but Hannibal's feared and either hated or just treated as something peculiar and worth probing but then Will#Will just loves and loves and loves#when he out of all people should hate so much#but he just fucking loves to the point of death#to the point of#and then that deleted scene of them in the church's mind palace#together and at peace#hannigram#nbc hannibal#hannibal#will graham#murder husbands#hannibal lecter#will graham loves so much so deeply
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Did you guys know they added extra details to Miles G Morales in the digital version?
It might not be as noticeable as the changes made to Hobie but you can still tell the difference when compared to the theatrical release
(It's most noticable in the last two GIFs) :
Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release
You can click on the GIFs to make them bigger if you want a better look at them.
#some of it might be a bit hard to see due to the theatrical release being in lower quality#I'm not done obsessing about this movie btw#I also wanna make a post where I point out the changes made to the dialogue in the two versions#but for some reason my videos never show up in the tags#so idk if it's worth it if it doesn't even show up in the spiderverse tags...#miles g morales#miles 42#prowler miles#miles morales#spider man#across the spider verse#spiderverse#across the spiderverse#atsv#my post#my gif#my gifs
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crazy how in c2 they'll have three extensive convos checking in with each other while traveling like an hour in-game meanwhile in c3 they've been on the moon for days and still haven't discussed the following:
laudna fucking ate a guy
imogen's mom is a mythical legend amongst the enemy
orym vs. laudna's response to imogen giving into predathos
how did chetney suddenly learn to make hypnotizing toys
delilah briarwood
"some of us are expendable, we should get captured"
anything and everything they said during the trust exercise, including but not limited to:
laudna not being able to distinguish her thoughts from delilah's
imogen's disgust at delilah's inevitable presence
chetney's fear that his new family will leave him
orym's feelings about dorian
fcg relieving stress through murder
fearne's insecurities about their chances of success
ashton's guilt about the shard
and more!
#i'm not complaining i'm just complaining#the difference between the two campaigns is SO STARK and i don't understand why#that's a lie i do understand why. it's bc there's been a ticking time bomb in c3 for a full year's worth of episodes at this point#if not longer#so i get it. but also i'm gonna go crazy.#if they had a full 4hr ep of just debriefing and talking i'd be so much more engaged than another 4 hours of traveling through ruidus#ik there are a lot of ppl out there enjoying the moon lore and the npcs etc but i feel like personally my brain is in a tiny gloomy prison#and the only thing that can free me is SOMEBODY AT THIS DAMN TABLE ASKING 'ARE YOU OKAY?'#anyway! back to c2 :)#2h30m c2e59#text#critical role#cr2#cr lb#r: mighty nein#cr3#cr negativity#r: bells hells
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It's so "weird" that TIMs never seem to express any sort of selfless hesitancy to enter women-only spaces. It's always, "I'm afraid I'll get hate-crimed" "I'm afraid that they'll discriminate against me" "I'm scared there are some hateful TERFs who can hurt me." It's about them and their unfounded desires "fears" of discrimination. They wonder what level of comfort they will be afforded and even when they have their asses kissed, it becomes, "Cis women are so pandering." And this "fear" is generally counterbalanced by some confident threat of action if they are not wholly accepted (physical threat, report the group, confront them, etc.)
But I have personally never seen one of them say, "I don't want them to feel uncomfortable around me", "What if this is a group that only wants 'cis' women?"
I mean, I know WHY. But, you know. It just hits me from time to time.
#It's also worth pointing out that if they were “discriminated” against#the worst thing that would happen is that they would be asked/told to leave#meanwhile TIFs are afraid they might be physically assaulted if they are clocked
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i wish we could do this instead of killing him 😇
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+bonus shot that looks nice but didn't fit so well when put in sequence with the others
#raphael bg3#raphael#bg3#baldur's gate 3#cw blood#obviously if we could spare him after the fight he would NOT let that slide and he'd probably try to kill us again but yknow. it's fine#the 😇 in the caption was a misclick but i think it's funny so it stays#anyway mods r a slippery slope they give me SO much power... the power to put him in Situations#but man i gotta say taking pics with his cambion model is a time and a half because it's kind of fucked LMAO#the wings clip like nobody's business and they aren't stuck to his back properly so there's gaps#the hair mesh must have some issues bc there's spots around his ears that i have to strategically hide or blur or edit#plus his skin is so bright/vibrant that it requires some finagling to make sure it doesn't look overly garish or washed out#worth it tho he's so pretty in this form#charm point: his teef :)#my screenshots#mine
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I adore your scent, it just grows sweeter
From now on I'll see nothing but you, love4eva
i did it!! i made him do the dance 😭💗
i like this cropped one too ✂
#obey me asmodeus#obey me#obey me nightbringer#loona#love4eva#ive been learning to do this dance#well ive actually already learned it fully at this point but i still practice since im kinda sloppy#but yea the dance is cute and asmos cute....so put em together#i havent drawn anything this detailed in a very long time#asmos little scorp brooch and roses....yall its like solmare said “lets make drawing these characters extra annoying”#but i like how it came out tho so worth it!#i have another kpop thing i wanna do with asmos Halloween fit so lets hope it gets done
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Relationships don't have to be transactional. They don't even have to be 50/50. The idea that a "good relationship" is split down the middle, where nobody acts like people, and instead vends out appropriate cookie-cutter responses and dialogue is genuinely harmful.
A good relationship is one wherein the person/people involved are happy. You don't have to give, you don't have to take. You can enjoy each other's company and be together. If there comes a time when that need changes, then the person who should know is whomever is in that relationship with you. This isn't solely about romantic or sexual partners, this goes for platonic friends or otherwise anybody who spends enough time with each other to establish some type of relationship with each other.
#relationships#kill the capitalist in your head that says everything MUST have a profit value#whether or not that profit is a physical material form is not the point#and kill the person in your head that says that the only relationships that matter are the ones you are prescribed#please don't grind out relationships like you grind levels on a video game character#i just keep seeing people talk about how relationships where you aren't materially benefitting or whatever aren't 'worth it'#like??? are we not social creatures anymore?#and there is a difference between 'cannot be 50/50' and 'refuses to even try to be a part of the relationship'
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My part of an art trade with @tauriborns. I had a ton of fun, thank you for the art trade brother.
#homestuck#homestuck fanart#gamzee makara#hs fanart#I know I said it in image but I think that Gamzee would just be the cutest little kid ever.#He’s the kind of kid that you meet at the neighborhood party#and he’s sitting in the corner just staring at the toy trucks. He’s not even playing with them#and you go up to him to see if he wants to play a game… but he doesn’t. Hes just having so much fun staring at his toy trucks#(not playing).#So you join him in staring.#At one point he drops some unknown and wise knowledge on you. That kind of kid#Hyper specific but whatever#Thank you for the art trade.#Your part was absolutely great#Please go check them out if you’re reading this far#It’s worth your time. Trust#blooby posting
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[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]
Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.
#Dungeon Meshi#Delicious in Dungeon#Dunmeshi#though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations#The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes#in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes#Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive#and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself#that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors#it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh#even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion#and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten#But Flight 571 like a century later#the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued#relatively little condemnation and revulsion#by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do#and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been#which is what Senshi gets from his party#Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know#But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew#Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato#but Chilchuck agrees#anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga#how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on?#what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'?#what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get#they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end#ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world?#Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman?#enquiring minds (mine) want to know
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What "The Hidden Fortress" (1958) tells us about the Jedi's status in the Prequels.
In 1999, George Lucas had this to say on BBC Omnibus: A Long Time Ago: The Story of "Star Wars" and then The Phantom Menace's director's commentary.
“I greatly admired Kurosawa, especially the film Hidden Fortress, which told a story from the point of view of two serfs, two slaves...
... peasants who tag along with this famous general and a princess-- y'know, royalty. And the whole story is told from their point of view. And I like that idea.
I like the idea of telling a story from the lowest person's point of view, uh, in the food chain, and that's how the story got to be told by Artoo and Threepio.”
“[The Phantom Menace] is told primarily from the Jedi's point of view, but the story that's being told is essentially the story of Queen Amidala and her plight of having her planet blockaded. As in, say, Episode IV, where the story is told through the eyes of the droids, in this one, it's told through the eyes of the Jedi.”
“But [from the moment we get to Coruscant, Anakin and Jar Jar] are standing on the sidelines. It's a little bit a riff on the very first film where the story is told through the point of view of the droids, who were sort of the lowliest characters.”
“And in [Phantom Menace], I'm doing it through - primarily - the two Jedi, but then the secondary characters are also carrying a lot of the weight when the Jedi aren't around.”
George Lucas draws a comparison between lowly characters like Hidden Fortress' peasants Matashichi and Tahei, the droids in A New Hope, as well as the Jedi in The Phantom Menace.
What do they all have in common? They are all the lowest-ranking characters in their respective films. Repeat: the movie frames the Jedi as almost at the bottom of the food chain.
Because of course they are. Functionally, they're just diplomats. They hold no political power whatsoever and barely have any authority .
What little authority the Jedi do have in TPM comes from the Queen's young age, which allows them to ease into a more advisory position, and Qui-Gon's rebellious streak. And even he's explicit about the fact that his mandate has limitations.
The only characters "below" them in status are Jar Jar, an exiled Gungan, and Anakin, who just yesterday was still a slave kid, Artoo the literal object and that's it!
Also the other Prequel films are consistent with this portrayal. Who do we see lower in status than the Jedi? Dexxter Jettster and the clones. Everyone else is pretty much above them.
Yes, the Jedi are part of the system, but they're not as high-ranking as you'd think. Yes, they have Force Powers, but that means squat when put against political power. So, like, to expect the Jedi to...
influence the decisions of the Senate,
wage a war against the Outer Rim to end slavery,
or blatantly refuse an order to join the war effort,
... is incredibly unreasonable.
They're not meant to be seen as "the elite, peering down upon the people from their ivory tower".
They're the servants! Servants of the Republic.
And they're seeing their higher-ups destroy what they should all stand for, but are unable to stop them.
Later on, with The Clone Wars, we are introduced to civilian characters and from their point of view, the Jedi are ultra powerful and are highly placed and "should do more but don't".
It makes sense that these characters would see the Jedi as 'the elite'. But they don't have the full picture.
We, as the audience, do.
So we know that the reality is more along the lines of the Jedi "should do more but can't".
After all, we are made privy many instances of the Jedi speaking up and trying to change politicians' minds, only to be dismissed and overruled at every turn.
↑ these aren't even all the times we see it happen, btw, there's more examples...
So at some point, if you - as an audience member - see all this and are still saying "the Jedi should've done more!" I really need to know... what more could they have done?
Take control of the Senate?
That'll result in a dictatorship, there's a reason they waited as much as they did before trying to take down Palpatine.
Power corrupts and they're wise enough to know it.
Don't join the Republic in the first place?
George Lucas never frames the Jedi's involvement with the Republic as a bad thing. In the foreword to Shatterpoint (2004), he says their being part of the Republic led to 1,000 years of prosperity.
Where's the issue, then? Well, it's a two-man job and the Jedi's bosses, the Senate, grew corrupt and stopped doing their part. They stopped carrying their end of the couch.
But “no Jedi in the Republic from the get-go” means the Sith will rise to power even faster. Fun!
Stay neutral in the war?
The Separatists were killing civilians and testing weapons on neutral systems, or enslaving them.
The choice put before the Jedi was "do what we tell you and fight, or let people die".
But also, out-of-universe... do you really think Palpatine, genius politician, master of spin, can't re-frame the Jedi staying neutral in a negative light?
When they joined the war, he unleashed propaganda that either directly (on the Separatist side) or indirectly (on the Republic side) framed them as "warmongers who corrupted their values". If they don't join, they're "apathetic cowards who care more about their own values than the lives of the people they're supposed to protect".
So either way, Order 66 comes around, wipes them out and the Republic goes "good riddance".
So what else could they do?
The answer is "not much".
Because the whole point of the narrative is that Palpatine checkmated them by taking the fight to a field the Jedi had no experience in or right to meddle with: politics.
So if you look at these characters who are nowhere near the top of the food chain, and say "well, why didn't they fix things?" I'm sorry to say you're missing the point of the narrative.
Or maybe you do get the point of the narrative and just aren't trying to be fair...
... in which case, at least be consistent and also argue:
"Why didn't Threepio & Artoo do more to save the Rebel crew of the Tantive IV from the stormtrooopers?!"
"Why didn't Matashichi & Tahei do more to save the Akizuki clan?!"
#HINT: the answer to both those rhetorical questions is “there was nothing they could do”#Also while we're on 'Hidden Fortress' - it's also worth pointing out that Qui-Gon and Padmé's dynamic on Tatooine in TPM#is very similar to the dynamic of General Rokurota and Princess Yuki in 'Hidden Fortress'.#The older warrior looking after the royalty teenage girl who is dressed as a peasant so as to not draw attention because she's on the run.#The Hidden Fortress#Akira Kurosawa#George Lucas#Artoo#Threepio#c3po#r2d2#lucas quotes#meta#on the jedi's involvement in the clone wars#in defense of the jedi#jedi order#qui-gon jinn#the phantom menace#star wars#long post
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with the hermitcraft sexyman poll going around, i've been forcefully reminded of this piece.
i had finished the entire thing, lighting and all, n asked a friend if it looked good enough to post. thank god i did, bc they noticed the onceler likeness n stopped me. so here's this first draft that never saw the light of day; unintentional Joe Hills Onceler
moral of the story is to always ask for a second opinion on art bc sometimes your own eyes are dumb
#joe hills#the sheer guttural reaction i had to them pointing out the likeness#oh my god i yelled#redoing the coat forced me to learn new things tho#so worth it tbh#gaea scribbles
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