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#not star wars

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Admittedly I'm not entirely familiar with Legends, and you'd have to pay me to read Traviss, but I'm pretty sure that one thing Legends and Lucasfilm have in common is that Mandalore has a long history of imperialism. That there is simply no version without it.

#mandalorians

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Given how fucking hardcore Mandalorians are about their Space Christian “there is only one true kind of Mandalorian and it’s my very specific set of criteria that ignores 70% of the population at the bare minimum and mildly contradicts with all of the other 1562 definitions people have in a way that I’ve decided means holy war” nonsense, it just makes me all the more curious to know what in the hell Tarre Vizsla did.

If becoming leader of Mandalore is an uphill climb, Tarre started underground. One of the few things Mandalorians agree on is that Jedi are their enemies. And yet Tarre strolls out of the Jedi Order with a black-bladed lightsaber and not only does he become leader, he becomes so memorable and so revered that his lightsaber becomes the symbol of Mandalorian leadership for a thousand years.

Did he invent beskar? Did he fight his way through an army to climb on that throne and then refuse to budge? Was he just really good at taxation and imports and all that boring stuff that actual government requires and they couldn’t overthrow him without their infrastructure collapsing?

“No Mandalorian warrior will ever accept a Jedi on the throne!”

“Oh, what a shame. I guess I’ll just have to settle for the Mandalorian workers, Mandalorian artisans, Mandalorian merchants, Mandalorian scholars, Mandalorian inventors, and literally every other non-noble who’ve joined me because they’re tired of the Houses breaking their stuff over petty squabbles. Good thing warriors don’t need to eat, right? Cause I’ve also got the Mandalorian farmers and they are really tired of you burning their fields.”

#tell em pheonix #fandom clowning #there's no version of mandos without the long history of imperialism #op this the most interesting Tarre post

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Just to clarify for those who don't know I do find the whole business of all these direct Iraq war references used about the civil war in the prequels, which are used exclusively a study on the (potential) impact that war has on the republic (the america stand-in in this metaphor), which depict the enemy combatants as funny disposable battle droids, to be tasteless and dare I say it racist. We know that the Iraq war impacted Iraqis the most. (understatement.) It just does not jive. The doubling down on how evil the separatists are does not, in fact, help. I am aware that this is not a one-to-one metaphor, and that most people are succeeding at divorcing this association from their experience of Star Wars, but maybe it's just that I grew up in that time, and that the references are so overt, that I simply cannot entirely shake that bad taste. And also why should I.

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Honestly sometimes people do just focus on the jedi too much. And I mean this in both ways, like if you take the basic war and downfall of the republic plot in the prequels, you can find endless posts about how the whole point is the jedi did this or the jedi did that, it's all about the jedi's flaws or it's all about them being justified- meanwhile the movies are just there making super basic points about emergency wartime powers and the use of fear in politics and this post is not going to evolve into a critique of the prequels re: the iraq war but i will just say it's fucked up there and move on and the jedi are mostly just kind of there. It's not really about them, as a group? I think this is where the Padme-Palpatine story deserves more attention.

#everyone knows i love the jedi #but that doesn't make them the only thing happening in the story #The jedi aren't the whole entire point of everything all the time.

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Crazy little theory

Oh my god I just realized something…what if in A New Hope, when Artoo kept claiming that Obi-Wan was his owner, Threepio misunderstood and translated it to mean owner, when in fact Artoo was calling him Master (which could mean owner), as in Master Obi-Wan, as in “my Master is going to kill me,” as in “Master Obi-Wan says I’m the best Jedi in the galaxy,” as in “Come on, Artoo, we have to make the rendezvous with Master Obi-Wan?” The way our beloved R2D2 always heard Kenobi referred to. His master’s master.

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Padmé Amidala’s costumes featured in the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume

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#tagamemnon

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Excuse you I don't just run a star wars blog I run a star wars prequels blog. I'm here for jar jar bink's 17 dicks, the rest of star wars is just so-so.

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You know that theory about Anakin mind-controlling Padme into being with him? That definitely sounds like the kind of thing that a jedi might be accused of in-universe. I can imagine that somewhere along their history there was some romantic liason that became a scandal that people were throwing around insinuations and accusations of mind-control about. Even just the idea of them being empaths who can sense people's feelings might make people uncomfortable, and raise ethical debates about jedi being involved with regular people. There's no suggestion in canon that this has anything to do with anything but I can just see it being A Thing.

(This probably can't be a thing because presumably the same insinuations could easily surround their diplomatic work, so how would they get anything done. Unless there were strict rules and customs about having multiple witnesses whenever a deal is brokered or a treaty agreed? Hmm.)

#one of my hobbies is coming up with precedent-setting occasions for a fictional culture's customs and rules

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racism in star wars will have wikis saying shit like "this species that is inspired on a real life non-white people is just too stupid to use the Force"

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

#okay this is funny

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Obi-Wan is being so normal about Anakin. (Clone Wars Gambit: Siege)

#always reblog the obikin puppy play

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I love play as a part of life. I love how animals all play. That out of everything we do- we do so much for the basic need to survive, but if we're rested and fed and safe, we play. I love that we play even when we're not rested and fed and safe! Play is a feature of so many of my favorite things. We make music as play. So much of philosophy is playing with ideas. Art is play. Need may be the mother of invention but play is too. Play is in the scientific process. Play is in study, real study, not just learning by rote. Babies learn through play. To play is to love. To play is to live. I play therefore I am. I believe in play.

So when I say we are playing with dolls, I do not mean it dismissively.

Must admit that one thing that changed the way I see fandom discourse is realizing that a lot of fandom is just… playing with dolls. We're playing with dolls. Shipping? Playing with dolls. AUs? Dolls. Darkfic? Dolls.

Lotta people very agitated about the other kids playing with dolls wrong.

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BTW, did I hallucinate the fact that Traviss didn't even watch Attack of the Clones before sitting down to write her clone books? That can't be right, can it?

But jfc it's one thing when normal fanfic writers do it, but these guys are getting paid for it. Disgraceful.

Broke: Filoni sucks because Ahsoka

Woke: Filoni sucks because he can't remember basic plot points or world-building or characterization established in The Phantom Menace.