#about the animated war

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Midichlorian count and universal Force aptitude are not mutually exclusive!

Midichlorian count and universal Force aptitude are not mutually exclusive!

I think that the current canon material in SW clearly shows that nature and nurture have equal part to play in if and HOW someone manipulates the force.

One of the best examples is young Leia in Obi-Wan. Genetic daughter of the chosen one who was most known for being a powerful Jedi (well, until...), but she was raised by Republic loyalists who worked with the Jedi, and wanted her to be mindful of everything around her. She spent her years running off into the forest and being kind to others. And also being rude (versatile queen)

Perhaps Leia's most well known trait is her snippy attitude, which manifested when she was very young as giving targeted comments when she saw fit to establish herself as smart and formidable. we then see her in Rebels threatening someone's job to throw suspicion off the Ghost crew. as early as 4/5/??? years old, she seems, at least to me, to be using Jedi telepathy. Especially since this is shown in the same scene as the "lower life forms" debate, she's making connections with everyone around her through the force, which is how she is sensing their intentions.

Does her upbringing and personality play a key role in how and why she uses her abilities? YES! ABSOLUTELY!

Is the fact she picked it up so easily inherited from Anakin, who got clocked by other Jedi in less than a day with zero training? PROBABLY!

Sabine would not the first time within the currently canon timeline that we see someone use the Force without being genetically predisposed. In Rogue One, Chirrut senses blaster bolts and people's intentions to dodge like Ahsoka can, and it's been a while since I've seen it but isn't he implied to sense others' living Force to see where they are? And yet he never uses telekinesis or receives a kyber crystal.

On the other hand, maybe both Chirrut and Sabine ARE Force sensitive, but just as Chirrut uses only his senses rather than manipulating the Force, just as Leia does the same before training, Sabine can't sense or use it because she was brought up with different values despite having potentially been born Force sensitive! Both when Kanan trains her on the Darsaber and when Ahsoka debates training Sabine as Jedi, Hera points out that she is Mandalorian, saying that's why she clashes with her trainers.

Even Luke had similar difficulties in the beginning, despite having obviously been born with his abilities based on the hitting-a-womp-rat comment in A New Hope. In fact, a variation of the same excersize is used to open Luke and Sabine to their senses though Sabine briefly employs a dark side technique

Huyang then says Sabine shows little aptitude for the Force, but he also encourages her to train with Ahsoka, even though she focuses on the former comment. If this comment WAS about natural talent versus ability to learn, it should prove that BOTH are true in canon! One can be born able to move things out see into your mind, but anyone else can still find the Force because they are connected to it.

Huyang then says Sabine shows little aptitude for the Force, but he also encourages her to train with Ahsoka, even though she focuses on the former comment. If this comment WAS about natural talent versus ability to learn, it should prove that BOTH are true in canon! One can be born able to move things out see into your mind, but anyone else can still find the Force because they are connected to it.

#about the animated war #star wars #star wars lore #ahsoka series #sabine wren #obi wan series #midichlorians #the force #jedi knight #jedi #ahsoka theories #star wars theories

[angelbymadonna]

so I uh. I watched The Mandalorian.

#the mandalorian #din grogu #art #drawing #doodle #sketchbook #star wars #about the animated war #artist song #my art

[aroasexualboypussy]

Star Wars but the Clone Troopers curse Jango's name. "For Fett's sake" and such

#about the animated war #clone wars #tcw #star wars #jango fett

[im-yotsu]

Achooo!!

(When you're sick so the only thing you can think of drawing is someone sneezing :] )

#her face markings are SO HARD to keep consistent when moving them #it problably wouldn't be so hard if I knew anything about animation lol I just make shit up as I go #fr I'm just messing around in procreate I know it's not good lol #star wars #my art #ahsoka #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #animated

[nobie]

rex + expressions

#i legit sobbed last night thinking about him crying so here you go #star wars #tcw #swedit #tcwedit #the clone wars #captain rex #captainrexedit #rex #starwarsblr #sw animation #swsource #swshows #userbariss #usermelanie #userelio #usernik #wanted to work on coloring his skin tone in inconsistent lighting as well #myedits*

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[eggdrawsthings]

Children of the Watch's shenanigans bro found their secret stash of snacks :3

#found this old sketch in my drive so i had to color it #imagine a spin off animated series about their clans and stuff ; v; #i would kill someone to watch it fr #my art #grogu #the mandalorian #clan mudhorn #children of the watch #baby yoda #star wars

[lazycranberrydoodles]

jin ling's slightly less homophobic arc (masterpost here!)

#messin around with the sprites :^) #oh and also directly after this he asks straight up 'are you wei wuxian' lmao #hes losing the idgaf war as his uncle before him #'i dont care about you guys at all but um. BE A LOYAL CUTSLEEVE AT LEAST' #MDZS AA AU #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #ace attorney #crossover #animation #my art #art #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lmao #mdzs meme #mdzs fanart #jin ling #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #pixel art #visual novel

[ominouspuff]

Ahsoka grins, joy light and feral-feeling in her chest, heart fluttering like a bird of prey that nips at her ribs inside in a tickling sort of way. She can still feel the fatigue of the hospital clinging to her, but it’s distant — almost forgettable. The sight in front of her wipes it away cleanly, and she throws her arm up, leaning out despite the winds and the fiercely setting sun urging her back into the train compartment.

Running alongside on the station platform at speeds unsafe and inhuman, the 501st battalion waves back wildly (or in some cases throws hands rudely, grinning with all their teeth).

“Welcome back, commander!”

#fan art #artists on tumblr #star wars fanart #star wars: the clone wars #playing with animations #ahsoka tano #Ahsoka coming back from some variety of space-hospital and the 501st lying in wait to greet her in their uniquely intimidating way #Fives. It is fives who is throwing hands. Rex is about to drag him down while they run and sit on him

[jewishcissiekj]

Temuera Morrison is such a beautiful man whose face was done so dirty by TCW and I can't get over it

#yael man liker era:( #blushing and twirling my hair about tem tho #he's sooooo gorjues #such a good choice for jango n the clones #but now half the clone content out there doesn't even look like him #temuera morrison #star wars #jango fett #clone troopers #like idc animated clones look so weird #if you find them attractive then fine... #like ok but look at tem come on

[mayhemspreadingguy]

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A gift for my beloved @magnusbae ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡).

#choosing the chair that's in the back of the auditorium... next to a window like a true edgy anime protagonist. thinking of you. sketching #THIS! #being absolutely shameless about it i know. but i have no regrets #and I'm Falling. and I thank you for pulling me with you my dear #into a new fandom I dive #(don't mind me. Anakin's inclination to be dramatic is starting to rub off on me) #huh how does the sw tagging work? #oh well whatever #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #obikin #obikin art #obikin fanart #star wars #sw #mayhem art #(⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧ -> #magnusbae

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Thinking about how Ahsoka didn't train Grogu because she believed his attachment made him vulnerable to the dark side.

Thinking about how Anakin believed he'd lost everyone he cared about.

Thinking about how Sabine thought Ahsoka had died and joined Baylan for the chance to find Ezra.

Thinking about how Ahsoka stopped her from training right when she found out Sabine might lose her family. How it contributed to that coming true same as Padmé's death and how Sabine had to lose Ahsoka on top of it.

#ahsoka spoilers #Ahsoka series #ahsoka tano #sabine wren #about the animated war

[angelbymadonna]

bucket

#id in alt text #image description in alt #artist song #star wars #about the animated war #songs textpost bullshit #song's textpost bullshit #stormtrooper

[apas-75]

Okay, two weeks to go, putting my cards on the table: there is no way in hell that Barriss is going to be an Inquisitor. That's not what this is. Everyone’s taking for granted that because the trailer sets up her training as an Inquisitor that means that we’re seeing a corruption arc for her, but just. Look at her. There is not a single frame of this trailer where she is not visibly looking for the exit. There is not a single frame of this trailer where she isn’t either visibly masking what she’s feeling or just looking determined to survive. This isn’t a start of darkness; it’s Ahsoka getting hunted for sport in Padawan Lost.

We aren’t doing the “we’re setting Barriss up as an Inquisitor so we can give her a redemption arc later” scenario. This is the redemption arc, this is her facing an in-universe attempt to force her into the fanon Inquisitor!Barriss mold that she doesn’t fit into at all, and she’s going to prove it and she’s going to outsmart all of these actual fallen Jedi she’s surrounded by who are trying to make her be like them. When Order 66 happened, Barriss was sitting defenseless in a cell and was offered a series of choices that weren’t real choices. But she knows that, she is not buying into it, and that offers her one, incredibly dangerous route to freedom: convincing them to trust her enough to send her into the field with a lightsaber.

It’s going to be rough, it’s going to be an incredibly dangerous, difficult path for her to navigate—they will make her do some messed up stuff to prove herself and for a moment it might look like she's given into despair—but she’s going to come out the other end of this miniseries having rejected both the Empire and the dark side. Not only as a Jedi in every way that matters but also as someone who is equipped with knowledge of how the Inquisitorius operates, which she can use to save as many people as she can from them—because she knows what happens when they take you alive.

And she's going to do it all onscreen in a story that is about her, she is the main protagonist here, and that is frankly something that was beyond my wildest dreams.

This isn’t wishful thinking on my part, this isn’t me trying to do a preemptive rewrite—this is me looking at what’s onscreen in this trailer, at what they’re telling us, at what they’re not telling us, and seeing the story laid out in front of us.

The only way out is through.

#star wars #barriss offee #tales of the empire #I can break down citations but if I did this post would be a mile long and take me all week so tldr just pay attention to her in the traile #and to the narrative framing around it #'divergent paths' wrt her and morgan in the official series description. etc. #so like. it feels unreal but after 11 years this is how we win #because if they were gonna just lazily make her an inquisitor they would have put it in the background of something else years ago #instead of waiting for a chance to animate a whole story for and about her

[jedi-starbird]

No one ever tells Obi-Wan that he is his Master's padawan.

Of course, for most people who had known Qui-Gon Jinn, telling someone else they resembled the the man would in fact be a thinly veiled insult. But still, Obi-Wan feels the absence of comparisons almost as strongly as he feels the absence of his Master.

There is no one for Obi-Wan to push against now, no strong presence at his side, ready to grab him by scruff and pull him back from another reckless stunt. It's an odd feeling. He has been set loose against his wishes. There is no one to his left and Anakin at his heels, but Anakin had needed, still needs, a strong, gentle figure for his prickly but sensitive heart. For even their worst bickering could not hold a candle to the scathing remarks he and Qui-Gon had shot at each other and Obi-Wan knows he cannot push and needle Anakin in the same way.

When Qui-Gon had been alive they had been an amusing, mirrored pair, the maverick and his rule-following padawan. Opposites clashing against each other, yet working together to complete the most difficult missions. Few saw that Qui-Gon's impertinence had indeed rubbed off on his padawan, cultivated from that small, angry initiate, because the only way to rebel against the rule-breaker had been to parrot the Council fastidiously. No one would ever get to see that again. Obi-Wan is one half of a mirrored pair trying to complete a routine on his own. What once was an impish, teasing compliance is now a betrayal of all his Master's values.

"How could Qui-Gon raise such a model Jedi?" He hears them say, "It's admirable that Master Kenobi was appointed to the Council despite his Master's maverick ways."

Padawan Kenobi would have yelled and kicked and screamed. Master Kenobi is serene. It should feel like an achievement. It feels like a disappointment.

Sometimes, Obi-Wan looks at the shape of the man he has moulded himself into, and aches to be his Master's padawan.

#I am so totally normal about them. (screaming crying throwing up) #anyway yeah obi wan has daddy issues but in a very specific way that's less i want a father figure and more i require an animal handler #hence why obi wan likes both alpha 17 and cody finally someone to tell him he's being an idiot and be bitchy with him he's missed this #giving the guilt boy MORE guilt complexes over honoring his masters legacy #but god really imagine you spend a decade making yourself the opposite of your master in a funny back and forth you both indulge in but the #BUT THEN!! he fucking dies and you're left alone occupying a dynamic carved for 2 people and everyone tells you they can't see any of your #dead master within you as if it's a joke. as if that's funny. as if that's a good thing. and people say he would be proud but would he? #would he be proud when everyone always tells you that you are the opposite of him? that you are everything he was not? #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn #qui gon and obi wan #disaster lineage #star wars

[peachyhoolagan]

May or may not be procrastinating my 17 assignments with a new AU :)))

This one’s fun. 10 points to whoever can guess how kanan got the Darksaber and both him and Ezra are Mandos now. Also the dogs name is goose. She’s a charhound and her pee lights things on fire. Not beskar, but she can melt a paint job.

#I know everyone says ezra is a cat person and that’s very true but I’ll do you one better. Ezra is an animal person #still big cat lover tho #star wars rebels #ezra bridger #kanan jarrus #star wars #my art #Mando AU #I have so much to say about this AU. hopefully I keep my interest in it #also if you’re wondering why Ezra’s hair is so long I headcanon that is lothali culture to wear it long. there is meaning behind it