#evil jedi

[ddeck]

recently ive been doing nothing but sketches of my jedi oc. yes her lightsaber is gatorade green

#look at my daughter boy #i just love her a whole lot #isnt it evil that if you want to see pictures of your oc you have to make them yourself </3 #star wars #jedi oc #oc mohliko #deckdraws

[fanfictasia]

Whumptober Day 30

Hair Grabbing 

Spoiler: This is an excerpt from The Wrong Timetravelers

“Did that make you stop hurting anyone?” duck-lady snaps back, “Why do you think you deserve any different?”

Crying is stupid and pointless and shameful, but he can’t help it. “You’re Jedi. Why are you doing this?”

“The Council doesn’t care what happens to you,” one of the others replies, “Not so long as you’re not a problem. And you’ll learn some of what you did to so many others.”

“Do you think I don’t already know?” he demands, “That I wouldn’t undo it all if I could? That I – I –”

“Nothing will change what you did,” the former-padawan replies sharply. “You’re a monster.”

“And monsters aren’t given mercy when they don’t grant it to others,” duck lady says, moving closer again. He looks away, heart hammering wildly as she approaches him, standing right in front of him.

“I can’t live with that,” he protests again, pleadingly. He knows they won’t listen, but he can’t – can’t –

“Watch,” she orders, gleefully, grabbing a handful of his hair and jerking his head upwards to watch as they burn the Sith symbol into his skin, right over his heart, and all he can think of is burning like he was on Mustafar and the droids cutting his chest open right afterwards. His vision is blurred with the tears running down his cheeks.

“Maybe you should have thought about it before joining Sidious,” one of the still-unnamed ones says.

He lands face-first on the floor when they finally let him go, panting, gasping. He doesn’t know how long it took for him to finally move from that position, the memories still burning in his mind.

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #fanfiction #whumptober #whumptober 2022 #whumptober day 30 #day 30 #anakin skywalker #anakin #evil jedi #oc ones anyway #O_O #anakin needs a million hugs #day thirty #whump #hair grabbing

[maulfucker]

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"

#hm i should make an original post tag #yes this is about tuskens #they 'lack mental capacity' to be jedi. according to some writer #which is fucking ridiculous #they have enough mental capacity to have two languages (spoken tusken and tusken sign language) #(they are usually seen being used together but they can be used independently) #just because they're nomadic and hostile to colonizers doesn't mean they're stupid. or lack the nuance to understand good and evil. #in me opinion there may not be any tusken jedi but for the same reason there's no bardottan jedi - they have their own force culture #they are hostile to outsiders and defensive of their people‚ of course they wouldn't let some foreign order take their children away #i think a force-sensitive tusken would be highly regarded in their tribe. being one with the universe is a special privilege.

[foundfamilynonsense]

Mace Windu said fuck the rules fuck the law fuck tradition the Chancellor is a Sith Lord and has made himself an emperor and I’m not going to sit by and let it happen.

Mace Windu said if I do nothing I’d be betraying the democracy I thought I was fighting for this whole time, which means more than the crimes I’ll be charged with when this is over.

And yet people try to praise Anakin or Dooku for “leaving a corrupt system”. As if that was why Anakin left. As if Dooku did anything but make it worse. People praise the Mandalorians for only following their own rules. As if we’ve ever seen the Mandalorians truly stand for anything.

As if we don’t already have the most metal anti-authoritarian, badass character for people to praise.

And yet these parts of the fandom hate him. I wonder why 🤔

#p.s it’s because he’s black #and it’s because they don’t actually like Anakin and Dooku for ‘seeing a corrupt system’ #they like them bc they like the evil dictator vibes and the fact that Anakin is emotionally unstable but they don’t want to Say that #the don’t like the mandalorians bc they force their own path or whatever #they like them bc they walk around with fifty guns strapped to their body and that’s some sort of American wet dream #mace windu #mace windu appreciation #pro jedi #star wars #in defense of the jedi

[spiderbae2319]

When the entire sequel trilogy could’ve been avoided by canon DinLuke

Ben: Wow cool helmet Uncle Din, can I try it on?

Din: Sure kid

Ben: *puts on the force resistant beskar helmet* Wow! I can’t hear the evil voice in my head telling me “I should do murder” anymore!

Luke, Han, and Leia: …the what?

#it’s giving hat man #seeing the hat man #when you take 50 benedryl and start seeing the hat man #din djarin #dinluke #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #ben solo #jedi ben solo #not my sequel trilogy #star wars sequel trilogy #the mandalorian #beskar #beskar is the best #somehow palpatine returned #somehow palpatine DIDNT return #snoke #evil voices in your head #you hear the voices too right?

[lkawi]

I'm not really into any AU with inquisitor things BUT he's slaying in this outfit, go empire boy go

#i can't really imagine evil Cal #he's either sad or a complete edgelord #sweet and kind jedi Cal is a thing i live for #star wars #jedi fallen order #cal kestis

[nathandrqke]

Games I've Played in 2023

#marvel's spider-man 2 #peter parker #miles morales #jedi: survivor #cal kestis #control #jesse faden #ghost of tsushima #jin sakai #death stranding #sam porter bridges #resident evil 4 remake #leon kennedy #gamingedit #dailygaming #videogameedit #vindicia #tuserashes #apocalypsekid #*gifset

[jedi-starbird]

My Feemor proposal

A popular headcanon for Feemor is that he's a Jedi Shadow. Shadows are spies and basically detectives. Feemor's lineage has a reputation for being eccentric, infamous, and finding trouble everywhere they go. So, walk with me here, Feemor's an eccentric, famous, blonde detective.

This is Feemor.

#i can't stop giggling over this #sure feemor gets hints from the force but that's not admissible in court so he has to do it the regular way and he's damn good at it #feemor figuring out palpatine is the sith master and his Grand Evil Plan like “it's so dumb it's brilliant!” “NO! it's just dumb.” #many space tweets have been made going #“was anyone going to tell me that galaxy famous detective Feemor is not only a Jedi but brother to a High General AND grandson of DOOKU??” #sound off on who you think should be the phillip to his blanc i personally think it should be a famous space actor ala hugh grant #yeah i think benoit blanc is married to real life actor hugh grant phillip's just his middle name #feemor #star wars

[merrysithmas]

when ppl see this & this, directed by the same person, and think the narrative is "anakin is evil" not "anakin is a steward of the balance, a force demi god, as was foretold on Mortis" 😂

#anakin skywalker #ahsoka #not my gifs #if you havent seen TCW i really feel like stock in your anakin opinion is p low #you need to watch it to get a full picture of his journey and his purpose in the galaxy #he was good and evil #he is quite literally a demi god #he is always and will always be both #his ultimate struggle was wrestling with that and failing it in life bc he couldnt accept it #he was a slave to the destiny the force created him for #he was a slave to the sith #he was a servant of the jedi #he is quintessenially never truly free #he hated and loved the jedi in equal measure #he never loved the sith #he is balanced but OF THE FORCE #he was manipulated by the dark side but he is MADE OF THE FORCE #therefore he will always stand for the force the jedi way and the light #which is why he is a forceghost #star wars #u all know how i get when i put my stanakin shoes on #anyway the ogt and prequels are buddhist allegories and anakin isnt beholden to western concepts of morality in that sense as a character #in a mythic literary epic sense #also obviously he isnt human either #which is a big ring-a-ling

[david-talks-sw]

"The idea of it..."

This is obviously a reference to the ol' argument:

"The Jedi weren't bad but the Jedi Order as an institution needed to go."

So as a quick reminder I thought I'd point out:

1) George Lucas describes the Jedi's eradication as a sad thing, not something sad-but-necessary:

"[The] Jedi getting killed through the Order 66 of the clones is just done as one of those kind of inevitable pay offs in terms of getting rid of everybody, the Emperor is getting rid of all his enemies, but there’s a certain inevitability of it all and a sadness to it.  - Revenge of the Sith, Director’s Commentary, 2005

2) Out of 770 George Lucas quotes, I've never seen him refer to the Jedi Order as "an institution" once.

He does refer to the Republic itself as an institution.

"[In The Phantom Menace one of the many storylines is] the story of a young queen who's faced with the total annihilation of a people, and how she can get a sluggish political institution to pay attention to what's going on." - Premiere, 1999

He might be referring to the Senate instead of the Republic as a whole, but the point stands: he's not talking about the Jedi.

Which tracks with what Lucas defined as Dooku's reason for leaving the Order: his disenchantment with the Republic/Senate, not the Jedi themselves.

But let's go slightly further:

The Jedi Temple was designed as a place of worship that would contrast with the corporate coldness of the Senate.

Also, the Jedi were originally designed as a more organized police force. As the script evolved, they were turned into peacekeepers, diplomats.

Mace's room was redesigned so as to not convey that the Jedi were mired in bureaucracy and protocol.

And when describing the political situation of the Prequels, Lucas doesn't blame the Jedi, but rather the corporations and Senate:

"But as often happens when wealth and power grow beyond all reasonable proportion, an evil fueled by greed arose. The massive organs of commerce mushroomed in power, the Senate became corrupt, and an ambitious named Palpatine was voted Supreme Chancellor." - Shatterpoint, Prologue, 2004

Wow, it's looking like not only is the "Jedi Order as an institution needed to go" narrative not a thing per Lucas, but

3) Lucas went out of his way to make it clear that the Jedi aren't the issue, here, the Republic/Senate is.

So how did we get this narrative?

Well, it comes from a generation of fans and Star Wars creators who were not the target audience.

You know the type. It's the kind who, when asked if they like the Prequel Trilogy, will respond that they liked...

... but not the execution.

AKA they disliked the Prequels, but then EU books and The Clone Wars came out and provided them with enough material to form a headcanon justifying why they didn't like the Jedi, despite wanting to: it's because the Jedi are meant to be disliked! Totally!

The Jedi failed as an institution is an idea that comes from authors who wanted to engage with the material (it IS Star Wars, after all) but not the narrative that George Lucas had crafted, whose work then influenced older fans who preferred the author's retconned version of the story to the original one.

The rest is history.

As Prequels producer Rick McCallum put it:

"The myth begins on paper. During preproduction, filming, and postproduction, the myth becomes visible through the work of hundreds of dedicated people. Following the film's release, the myth becomes public and the public makes it its own." - Rick McCallum, Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, 2002

#I find it ironic that Filoni unwittingly gave Baylan the same line repeated by 'Prequel fans' who only became fans by... #... injecting gray morality into the films and said “it was there all along! the Prequels are subversive films!” #They're not. They're films for kids. The SITUATION is more complex than in the Original Trilogy... but the morality is still good vs evil. #baylan skoll #ahsoka series #jedi order #george lucas #meta #star wars #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka show #ahsoka #in defense of the jedi

[chamerionwrites]

Now and then I have a little giggle when I recall that JJ Abrams made Rey Palpatine's grandkid via some sort of nonsensical cloning plot. It's not the worst thing in the ST but I do think it's emblematic of why it's bad. Signifier without substance. Derivative *and* gutless. Tried to rip off ESB without understanding how the Vader reveal works as a narrative beat, gave Sheev spawn, and didn't even have enough courage of their convictions to admit that he fucks.

Like we all know Vader spent two decades pining gloomily after Padmé. But Palpatine? Sheev Palpatine? The guy whose two modes are smiling smug self-satisfied secret smiles to himself and crowing POWER, UNLIMITED POWER? The guy who cackles with maniacal relish anytime he gets to let his hair down and have a lightsaber fight? That guy is a hedonist. Tell me I'm wrong. That man is at all times enjoying the hell out of being irredeemably evil. He is a literal emperor, the vastly powerful and mostly unchallenged ruler of the galaxy, reveling in a victory he spent many years plotting and scheming for. And they had to invent some half-assed narrative afterthought of a cloning program rather than simply allowing us to assume that at some point in the two+ decades between ROTS and ROTJ, that man got laid? The cowardice. The incompetence. The sheer commitment to taking every conceivable L

#sheev probably fucked somebody on the THRONE #what else was he doing? lounging around the jedi temple and giggling to himself? subjecting vader to awful medical procedures for fun? #he has people to rule the galaxy with an iron fist dude is fully living his best life watching operas and doing lil sith research projects #i'm sorry i just find this SO funny. literally what is the point of the cloning shit except the creators nervously wringing their hands #and assuring us that we don't have to contemplate the evil toad man/walking corpse in bed #COMMIT TO THE BIT COWARDS #obvs i'm being a bit facetious but i'm also not #star wars #palpatine #my posts #also #on writing

[icebluecyanide]

Finally watching the kenobi show and I love how the inquisitors are like "jedi always betray themselves by wanting to help people!!" like why are you spreading pro-jedi rhetoric when you're hunting jedi lmao

#obi wan kenobi show #why are you telling everyone the jedi are good agskfhfj #do the inquisitors want to be seen as evil #surely there's some anti jedi propaganda you could spread instead #star wars

[i-lavabean]

I can't escape the realization that it would be so easy for the good, protective, unconditional love of a parent to be twisted by fear into something else. I think of what I would do if my world fell apart the way Bode's did, what would I do to keep my little beans safe?

#star wars #jedi survivor #star wars spoilers #Jedi survivor spoilers #bode akuna #kata akuna #my art #art #illustration #to look at how his fear and the evil of others took a pure desire to protect his child and turned it into isolation and desperation #and to know that if my world was ripped apart like that and i had to protect my little beans.. I might've done the same #kinda heavy thoughts #Star wars fanart #lavabean art

[aaeeart]

I was a bit stressed yesterday, who knew going over ideas for an "evil Kanan AU" would have such relaxing qualities 😭

Midnight ideas under the cut ~

I feel like it could go both ways, the Empire killing Kanan or converting him - killing certainly saves time, but I feel like at this point there aren't that many Inquisitors left, with Cal hanging around, and there is the connection to his crew - would throw them off focus when they see the man they left for dead - imagine the angst potential

Why Malachor well, everyone was kinda there at one point heh. Plus, I think this could very well end up with Kanan still being blinded- but that's for another day.

Also Ezra doesn't have his scars, he never went after Kanan = the Grand Inquisitor never got the drop on him.

Aight, that's it for my nerd out.

#star wars #star wars rebels #kanan jarrus #swr fanart #star wars jedi #star wars fanart #ezra bridger #Inquisitor Kanan #fort Inquisitorius #Malachor #dark side #evil #inquisitors #my art #digital art #art #artists on tumblr #au #au ideas #star wars au #star wars rebels au #can my drawings get more messy #yes #yes they can #idk about the dialogues #last minute additions #could be edited later #do I wanna write this #Inquisitor Kanan AU

[cruella1989]

Palpatine’s Thoughts on the Rebellion, the Empire and Power.

Here are some more of Palpatine’s inner thoughts during the Battle of Endor featured in the short story, “Then Fall, Sidious”.

I find the part in the last paragraph where he says “…strength is not a fist, but a burden. I will do what must be done to make this galaxy great because it is what I am called to do,” particularly interesting. It sounds almost like he feels called to “protect” the galaxy.

Anyway, like I’ve said before, I highly recommend this story to any Palpatine fan, who likes to see a more human side of him.

#star wars #palpatine #sheev palpatine #emperor palpatine #darth sidious #sw #sw villains #villain #savior complex #not pure evil #bad guys think they’re good #bad guys think they're good #sw books #return of the jedi #sw original trilogy #sith #empire

[foundfamilynonsense]

Being the victims of mass genocide is not failure.

And I think any character that says so should be a villain. So of course Ahsoka says it. I’m getting evil ahsoka headcanons again.

#not EVIL evil per se. #I once had this long fic idea with her and Rex where she was kinda #morally confused #refused to understand her own issues with attachment #but now she’s almost like. ‘I left the order and now I can do better’ #pro jedi #anti ahsoka #star wars #jedi order #in defense of the jedi #jedi