#fuck sidious

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

enjoy some cut out maul on your dash🔥

#his boots #this angle #for some reason i just really like this pose #not the scene it's from #mind you #fuck sidious #anyways enjoy 👍🏽 #creative commons #star wars comic cut out #not my art #star wars #darth maul #sith #lord maul

[ollister-the-great]

Clone Wars hurt me :(

Am I the only one that watched Clone Wars as a kid and was like this is the bomb, and then rewatched it as an adult and cried like a baby through a lot of it. Like GOD, getting attached to the clones already knowing your heart will break by the end of the series.

#how dare they #my heart is aching #clones for the win #i’m not crying you’re crying #they deserved better #fuck Sidious

[jewishcissiekj]

Anakin Skywalker - Darth Vader in Star Wars: Darth Vader (2017) #25

#yael is reading star wars #this comic broke into my house and ruined my life #/pos #anyone who misinterprets the part in the beginning as palpatine being anakin's father is fucking stupid #darth vader #sw #star wars #anakin skywalker #star wars comics #darth vader (2017) #darth vader 2017 #shmi skywalker #obi-wan kenobi #padmé amidala #padme amidala #palpatine #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #ahsoka tano #snips and skyguy #darth vader comics #chalres soule #Giuseppe Camuncoli

[hildechainx]

that part in obimaul fics when:

#star wars #star wars fanart #obimaul #obi wan x maul #obi wan kenobi #sw art #maul opress #darth maul #maul #SIDIOUS GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HIM !!! #he fucked my man UP 😭

[tennessoui]

it's been so long since i did a sith obi-wan au so like - how about an au where the sith are almost as established as the jedi (a temple, an order, followers numbering in the hundreds/thousands) but things are a bit more diplomatic in the galaxy (it's definitely tense but not all out war just yet)

so both the sith and jedi orders are alerted to a new rising power in the outer rim.....on tatooine of all places. a slave rebellion, led by shmi skywalker, has toppled the hutts. it's said that this new leader, queen of tatooine, has the Force's favor....but more importantly than that, shmi skywalker is a new galactic player, with a lot of money and a lot of support.....and a son of marriageable age.

cue both the jedi and the sith sending a delegation to tatooine - ostensibly to nurture galactic relations between their orders and the new power, but also to lowkey seduce shmi skywalker's son into marriage/a relationship because everyone knows that a parent's heart follows their children's happiness.

sith!obi-wan aka darth solence is selected to lead the sith seduction attempt. he's pretty confident - after all, he's led hundreds of seduction missions at this point, and he'd suffer a thousand different humiliations for the sake of the order of the sith who took him in after the jedi sent him to the agricorps.

the only problem is that he arrives on tatooine and shmi skywalker's son, anakin, is the most bland, boring, two-dimensional boy to ever breathe. he's completely uninterested in politics, in history, in the Force---he'd rather talk about pod-racing and--and Coruscanti daytime holo shows than anything of actual interest!

good thing the prince's manservant, kitster, is almost always hanging around. he's wrong about many things, obi-wan finds, but he's passionate. passionate and beautiful. oh, he loves pod-racing just as much as the prince, but he's fascinated by the Force and ready to tear obi-wan's eyes out over a passing negative observation on a droid. and did obi-wan mention that he's beautiful? with his golden curls and sky blue eyes and fierce scowl and broad shoulders and prominent eyebrows and even more prominent lips? the sith, as a general rule, appreciate passion, anger. beauty. obi-wan adores them as well.

but kitster the man servant isn't the person obi-wan has been flown to tatooine to seduce--he's duty-bound to seduce prince anakin. even if being around him feels like pulling his teeth out with rusty pliers.

if only obi-wan knew that shmi skywalker is more suspicious about the galaxy than she lets on. more protective of her son, too. if only he knew that her son, anakin, had a best friend growing up named kitster, who owed them both just enough life-debts to convince him to trade places with shmi's son for the length of the delegations' visit.

it's an easy sell after all -- who doesn't want to be a prince for a few weeks, no harm done?

#kit's silly lil aus #obikin #one day darth solence will catch on #its the only thing i want someone to like enough to use in their fic #come on!! darth sidious...insidious....darth vader....invader....darth solence...insolence...it fits bitchy obi-wan so well #anyway it was an embarrassing few minutes i spent rummaging through my brain trying to find the masculine word for handmaiden #i was like kit come on you read so many fucking merthur fanfictions in 2012 #i remembered its manservant #but anyway to get to the actual tags for this au #she's so dramatic omg i love her (the au) #it's basically some sort of prince and the pauper situation?? #yeah i did originally type princess and the pauper because my exposure to that story was the barbie computer game no regrets #only overshare

[asocial-skye]

This is probably elaborated on a lot more in detailed meta, but for all of the shit that Lucas has pulled and all of his questionable decisions, Palpatine is probably his greatest triumph as a villain within narrative. Yes, he is absolutely a cartoon with no redeeming qualities, and Anakin definitely has a more dynamic character arc, but it's still incredible.

Star Wars as a franchise is associated with war and wartime: laser sword battles, epic forbidden romance, last stand trench runs against powerful enemies. It's all action, stylized violence and "rule of cool." There is good character writing and plot of course, but the public perception of Star Wars as a whole is about the cool space wizards and laser guns.

So it's absolutely curious that Lucas, in a trilogy that he said was geared towards children, had his villain do none of the things that made Star Wars so famous. Palpatine never fought ever. Except in Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine's horrible crimes all stemmed from his politics, and his cunning. Part of the Jedi's blindness to Sidious was that he was playing them on a field that they didn't expect: politics.

The Jedi are not politicians, nor have any interest in politics; the movies make this painfully clear. (The fact that the Council just goes and attempts to execute Palpatine, a popular leader who was "democratically" elected-I will give the Jedi credit; Palpatine is a monster, and killing him then and there was probably necessary- shows that there aren't the most politically minded) Palpatine literally does more damage to the entire galaxy that has repercussions for a generation- seriously, people like Biggs probably lived and died within the Empire- than Anakin could ever do during Operation: Knightfall or even as his tenure as Vader. And the Jedi can't do anything to stop it because they refused to play the game. In fact, one could make the argument that refusing to play only meant that Palpatine could carry out his agenda even faster.

It's almost like the bad guy won because any damage wreaked by an army of space wizards can be done a thousandfold by one politician. And it's like the lesson is that if you turn a blind eye to the injustices in your government, the corruption festers until it turns into something unspeakably horrid, and by then it'll be too late.

That's something to think about.

#starwars #star wars #darth sidious #sheev palpatine #palpatine #the empire #gffa #democracy #the jedi #jedi #like i know that the writing of the prequels was fucked #but at least we got palpatine out of it #i have no idea whether this is what Lucas wanted #but this is what we received #at least in my opinion #the greatest villain of all time is a politician #and that's the tea #sw prequels #prequel trilogy #darth vader #jedi council #gffa politics #star wars meta #fandom meta #meta

[jaguarys]

The best part of Palpatine and Anakin's dynamic is that Palpatine could plan for anything. And does. And yet, continually, he cannot plan for the absolute fucking stupidity Anakin has rocketing around in his brain at all hours. Sheev made him this way but it worked too well and now the level of rabidity is just too much.

#at all hours of every day i'm thinking of palpatine legitimately being concerned at the beginning of rots #“if i die on this fucking ship because anakin and obi-wan can't stop bantering i'm taking the galaxy down with me” #the one and only time he felt real fear #personal #star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #star wars prequels #sw #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #star wars anakin #sw palpatine #palpatine star wars #star wars palpatine #palpatine #fandom: star wars #type: meta

[marcusagrippa]

Eat your past. Eat it and make it go away. Eat it and let it fester inside you. Eat it and let it dissolve in you, sustain you, slowly become a part of you until you cannot imagine a life without it. Eat your enemies, who are just as empty as you are. Eat your trauma until it rips you open from inside and your guts spill out onto the sand. Eat your brothers and watch them die with you. Swallow your love. Swallow your affection, choke it down, soured by time and the cold hands of evil men. The fruit of your labours is overripe and rotting, bruised to sweetness by beatings and heavy chains. You are a weapon, are you not? An animal - nothing more, nothing less. So act like one. Devour. Bite the hand that feeds because all you have ever known is rotten meat. Life tastes like poison, love even worse. 

Eat your lover before they can eat you. 

#pretentious sith lord word vomit what #couldn't focus in biology bc of this Stupid Fucking Red Man and thinking about how much i want to punt sidious directly into the sun #sorry irls for being cringe :( but the autism is too strong today #it demands a sacrifice in the form of terrible cliche pseudopoetry #should i tag this obimaul? idk idc #obimaul #maul #you motherfucker #one day i'll shut up about star wars cannibalism but that day is not today #jase writes

[tiredofsatansbullshit]

i love it in fics when palpatine absolutely despises obi wan and obi wan is completely disinterested when it comes to palpatine. like palpatine, being like the rest of the sith in this time, obsessing over killing obi wan and obi wan is there like “oh? the chancellor tried to kill me again? lol” and just moved on with his day

#palpatine: lemme send kenobi on this dangerous mission that he won’t survive #obi wan: eh i’ve had worse #palpatine: kenobi will rue the day he ever tried to cross sheev palpatine #obi wan: who the fuck is sheev? also i will not let your creepy ass around my padawan #obi wan: sheev is a stupid name too #is this realistic? #no #but it amuses me #and that’s what’s important #obi wan kenobi #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #star was #sw stuff

[the-senates-one-fear]

do i like palpatine? hell no

can i admit that his lil sith plan was smart af and that i lowkey respect him for the patience it required? yes

would i admit to his face? no id stab the man before i speak a word

#and that word would be 'bitch' #star wars #jedi #the clone wars #jedi council #tcw #chancellor palpatine #sheev palpatine #palpatine #fuck palpatine #darth sidious #the senates one fear's dumpster fire

[mayhaps-a-blog]

I know Palpatine controlled the courts and all that, but I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if Mace Windu had been about 20% less done and ready to go through one more circus to take down the Sith Lord:

Anakin: He must stand trial!

Mace: He has control of the Senate and the courts. He's too dangerous to be left alive!

Palpatine: I'm too weak. Oh, don't kill me. Please!

Anakin: It's not the Jedi way. He must live!

Mace, having just woken up from the most refreshing nap of his life before Anakin barged in to tell him about the Sith Lord, looking at Anakin, who clearly hasn’t slept in three days and is running off caf and stims; looking back at Palpatine (clearly playing some sort of game), apparently confident Anakin will help him.

Mace: Ugh, fine. Cut his hands off, we’ll take him into Jedi custody.

Anakin: …His hands?

Mace: He killed three Council members in like two seconds! Did you not notice the bodies? We can’t afford him trying to escape at full power! It’s his hands or his head, Skywalker!

(Anakin had not, in fact, noticed the bodies.)

Palpatine: Please! I need my hands to save your wife!

Anakin: !!

Mace: ??

Mace: Your- never mind that! What did he promise you?

Anakin: Padme’s dying! I have to save her!

Mace: Amidala? Why isn’t she with the Healers, then??

Anakin, not listening: I’ve been having these terrible visions! She’s going to die in childbirth!

Mace “I don’t have time to unpack all this”: Anakin! Focus! Help me bring the Sith into custody; then we can get Amidala to the Healers, and whatever Dark influence he had over her will be broken!

Palpatine, who hasn’t actually done anything to Padme, just Anakin, but knows exactly how this looks: Shit.

Anakin, who is a good Jedi outside of Palpatine’s influence, wants nothing more than to end the war so he can sort his personal problems out, and whose only hesitation was over Padme: Palpatine = Sith = Dark --> Dark visions?? = OH

Anakin, happily cutting off Palpatine’s hands: Yes, Master! :D

Promptly runs off to go find Padme.

Palpatine: SHIT

Mace, staring after Anakin in exasperation as he’s left alone in a room with a Sith Lord: Well, I made a promise. Come along, Mister Sith, we’ve got some nice padded Force-proof cells for you. Please try to escape so I can kill you before we get there, it’ll make all our lives much easier.

#mace runs into some clones: #chancellor! sir! #palpatine: execute or- #mace elbowing him in the gut #the chancellor has been uncovered as the sith lord #we're taking him into custody #(please shoot him if he tries to escape) #the clones who also want the war to end: oh okay #palpatine: for fuck's sake #star wars #star wars headcanons #star wars au #mace windu #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #chancellor palpatine #darth sidious #revenge of the sith #revenge of the sith fix it #i just think it would be funny

[hollypunkers]

personal star wars opinion vent

idk why people who like old republic star wars stuff like me are so defensive of the old jedi. they werent great. thats why i like them. its ok. “the jedi were actually right” well, i have consumed more than my doctor’s recommended share of star wars movies and books and tv shows and… um, i never had THAT take. what on earth?

like, even Star Trek knows their fantasy space government isnt perfect but the authors were trying to make their best example of a responsible society where people valued being moral above all else. the authors of Star Wars were explicitly trying to show where the old republic and jedi went wrong. they lived next door to sith lords for years and didn’t even notice, like, they weren’t even good at the one thing that was their “spec-ial-ity”. also, its totally cool to separate kids from their families even if the families would want them back? even if the kids are brought to war zones and expected to fight/work? YALL. what are you defending here.

I like the old republic and the old jedi order too, but like, NEITHER one was good and both explicitly had fallen morally to such a state that a sith lord literally took over and the galaxy suffered TREMENDOUSLY as a result of their incompetence. “Slavery is outlawed in the Republic” well dude, its being openly practiced on multiple planets. if only someone could do something about it. like the galactic wide government and their highly moral magical negotiation/military force? oh, they can’t? maybe theyre not that good at doing what they say they do. maybe they say a lot of nice things but when push comes to shove the jedi commit genocides and hide the evidence (murdering those tuskens was downright jedi-like, dont you know?). maybe questioning your government and not letting them get away with shit, even to the point of direct action and even violent rebellion, is a good thing. its almost like that was always the point.

#hollypunkerspost #rambling #‘no attachments is a good rule’ i mean it quite literally paved the way for Sidious to create Vader #but fuck me why would anyone watch the actual movies i guess #anakin was not born evil he was made and he did make himself but come the fuck on i dont think shmi skywalker woulda been a BAD influence #‘i cant join the dark side my mom said no’ *angry sidious noises* #star wars #this is the most ramble of rambly #vent #fantasy slavery #dont even get me started on the new movies i miss jacen and jaina

[bolithesenate]

oh hey @charmwasjess

what if the whole reason for Dooku hiring others to kill Sifo in canon was because he *knew* his saber – his soul, hos heart – would refuse to do it.

Because there are few things Dooku knows better than his own weapon

and he could not afford to fail

not with this

#cue 'killing him was the last mercy dooku could afford to give sifo' headcanon #because sidious wanted to keep him in his little torture chamber (i love this interpretation of canon so much) #they are just so delisciously fucked up #⛏️⛏️⛏️ #random boli thoughts #sifo dyas #dooku

[loveoaths]

i will never stop thinking about how palpatine forces count dooku to kill his apprentice asajj ventress because she is getting too powerful, and palpatine refuses to tolerate a threat, even if it is useful and temporarily loyal. and how the nature of sith master and apprentice is built at the intersection of dependence and expendability. masters train apprentices to need them, and never teach them everything they know (implying that the sith have been steadily losing their own cultural knowledge and techniques over thousands of years because of their own selfishness) out of fear of their apprentice rising up and killing them, which is also the one thing they have trained their apprentice to do. meanwhile apprentices, resentful of their dependence, go out and create apprentices of their own to usurp their master and continue the entire useless cycle. by nature, both master and apprentice are inherently crucial and expendable all at once, which they then use as a threat to keep one another in line.

but in the cases of ventress and maul, they’re both uniquely expendable because their existence is only tolerated (first by plagueis, then by sidious) under the condition that they are a tool that will be disposed of once it’s usefulness has ended. that’s crazy. years and years of training someone only to off them; the time sink alone is ridiculous. and neither of them expects this, either, because they believe in the old lineage of the sith: that their masters will honor their agreement and make them Sith Lords so long as they obey without question, only to find out in the worst way that they were never intended to become true Sith Lords. they were a means to an end, and both of them feel so deeply betrayed and hurt by this that they cannot let it go. like… i dunno man, but as much as that is a leopards-ate-my-face situation, it’s also deeply sad because these two in particular are essentially raised in the sith tradition. ventress has some years as a jedi, but not many. the foundation of their beings, the one solid thing they believed in, turned out to be hollow. sad.

#i need a fic where maul warns ventress of dooku’s inevitable betrayal and they wind up somehow acting as wildcards in the war #not Jedi; not pro republic; but willing to help the republic screw over sidious? yes. them using what they know about their masters to #put together the pieces of sidious’ overarching plan maybe? or informing republic abt war tactics? #idk i’m very interested in a fix it fic where the fixing comes not from a desire to do good; but from a negative place #maul and ventress are so fucking pissed they wind up being good guys in the Worst Ways #fic tag. #not really but you know #asajj ventress #darth maul #the clone wars

[charmwasjess]

You know, if you think about it, Dooku did technically die at a ripe old age, doing what he loved, surrounded by his grandchildren. And if you think about the fact that his headless, handless corpse got sucked out into Coruscant’s atmosphere during the breakup of the Invisible Hand, it’s not NOT dissimilar to the Serennian death rites where they place their dead on funeral moons that orbit Serenno, AND if you think about the fact that Coruscant and the Jedi Temple was really the only true home he ever knew for most of his life AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT…

#by doing what he loved I mean lightsabers #I do not actually think RotS Dooku was um doing so super great you know... overall? #that whackass Stover novelization literally has him CRYING in front of Sidious and needing to be told to compose himself before the duel #“I’m just so happy to lose on purpose to this kid I hate and go into whatever the fuck an honarable captivity means it’s soso fine” #Oh no okay I'm back to sad again #Being a Dooku stan is such a trip #a bad one #a specifically bad trip #count dooku

[jewishcissiekj]

Every time Yoda: Dark Rendezvous describes the relationship between Sidious and Dooku and the way it reflects Dooku and Asajj's own something in me breaks. by the end of this book I'll be a shattered vase.

#yael is reading star wars #daily asajj thought of the day #tearing off my skin #biting my fingers #in agony in pain it's ugh #this is THE Asajj and Dooku legends book #i'll see how it amounts to jedi lost when i finish it #asajj ventress #dooku #count dooku #yoda: dark rendezvous #darth sidious #ventress #sw #star wars #my emotional response to it might be because I'm on my period but who fucking cares