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This frame from the Clone Wars episode “Senate Murders” is gold.

“We heard you talking shit.”

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Jarlaxle Baenre moodboard:

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brutalist candy cane

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losing the idgaf war badly (I want to be in love and to have someone be in love with me)

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Artemis Entreri’s friends introducing him like:

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Jarlaxle: I'm not trapped in the illithid hive mind, they are trapped with me.

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Bregan D’aerthe HR seminars (mandatory attendance)

Surface Races: How Not to Scare Them Shitless ft. Guest Speaker Beniago

Murder: When, Where, and Why

Mutually Beneficial Arrangements ft. CEO Jarlaxle

Lolth in the Workplace: How to Maintain the Favor of the Spider Queen as a Houseless Male (supplementary, lead by Rai-gy Bondalek)

Mind Control: A Superior Technique (supplementary, lead by Kimmuriel Oblodra)

Underdark Creatures and Where to Find Them ft. Guest Speaker Valas Hune

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blorbo from my books i've barely read

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*taps mic* drizzt do’urden is autistic thank you for your time

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Don't mind me, I'm just feeling things about Zaknafein Do'Urden again

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As promised I'm rereading the Drizzt Books to their completion. And speaking of completion, love how the author is like 'By the way Zaknafein fucks as good as he fights.' Awesome. This is a win for the tortured battle-dilf lovers.

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Do you want another nap?

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Why Did the Clone Wars Change its Mind About Radicalness?

*disclaimer: any critiques or opinions expressed are not meant make anyone feel bad about media they enjoy. They are just the thoughts of some rando on the internet*

Something I have found myself routinely asking whenever I watch The Clone Wars show is: “Why did they change their mind about radicalness?” The “them” in question being Lucasfilm. Within the original trilogy we are introduced to a band of rebels radically attempting to overthrow a fascist empire in power. Luke at the beginning of a New Hope dislikes the Empire but is moderate about it. He feels as though it’s not effecting him that negatively and he can carry on with his life even though he would prefer not to have the Empire in power. He is then radicalized by his aunt and uncle being murdered by the Empire because they unknowingly bought droids who escaped from a raided rebel ship. Luke is recruited into the rebel alliance in this way. The proceeding story is a tale of a violent overthrow of the Empire by the rebel alliance . 

When the Clone Wars show aired, there are multiple episodes in the series touting centrism and moderation. Especially when it came to forcibly occupied Separatist planets or deep seated corruption within political structures. The people who suffered from these corruptions and forced occupations are expected, in the show, to take it and wait for the Republic to save them. The people who do fight back on their own are considered extremists and likened to terrorists. Most notably this is found when Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi Wan help a group of rebels free and reinstate their overthrown king. They are often sited as verging on terrorism. This is odd to me because the Rebel Alliance did the same types of things, but were never called terrorists. In fact they were celebrated as heroes. The movies only painted them in a positive light. Yet when we move to the Clone Wars, people doing the same things but in a different time period are approached with ambivalence. As if they are hesitant to show these people positively. 

Perhaps this is simply a result of the show being aimed toward children, and the creators and writers didn’t want to have to handle parents being concerned with the messaging given to their children. “Yes kids, it’s ok to overthrow the government.” Or perhaps this is a result of the changing political climate from the 80s to the 2010s. Either way, it’s frustrating to me that people wanting to be free of and taking action against oppressive rule or occupation are painted as morally gray and verging on terrorists. Yet the U.S. itself was founded on a revolution. I am hearing, idolize the people who revolted from one country and created another, yet don’t take revolution and rebellion to far today, because that would be bad and you will be a terrorist. 

Not to sound too conspiracy theorist, but I do think that to an extent it really reflects the general attitude and reverence of centrism. The U.S. wants to maintain the illusion of exceptionalism and glorifying the American Revolution is one way, and discouraging rebellion of the current corrupt capitalist system is another. Now, do I think that the government is directly sticking it’s fingers into every show for children. No, but I do think they did a good job at convincing the generation who created the shows for the next generations to remain moderate and centrist and to not rock the boat too much, and we see this in our shows. 

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