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[Oh puppet of the Oldest Dream, you don’t know anything about ‘Kim Dokja’.]
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gffa · 12 hours
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idk about you guys but i'm very invested on the kate middleton drama and thanks to it i saw a photo of the marchioness and marquess of cholmondeley and it activated my neuron, and that neuron can only think about the castle au so I made a draw over!
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GFFA help, I’ve been drawn into a Twitter argument with someone that says it was the Jedi’s suffocating dogma that caused Anakin’s fall.
Genuine question: Do you want to spend your time arguing with people on twitter about this, knowing that you're unlikely to change their mind and they're unlikely to change yours? (Either answer is fine, I just always try to gently encourage figuring out if something is worthwhile to you before you jump in!) If so, what dogma are we talking about? Are we talking about what George Lucas intended or are we talking about what comic book and novel authors added on to his story? What scenes or Lucas commentary are we talking about when they say the Jedi had suffocating dogma? What specific scenes are evidencing this in the movies or TCW? I mean, feel free to break out the Lucas quotes where he said Anakin fell because of his greed [x, x, x, x] and has never once said that the Jedi were the reason, in fact he's said that, had Anakin been with them earlier, he would have been trained to love people but not become attached to them, but ultimately recognize that you may never find satisfaction in this conversation if you're trying to change their mind. Just have fun with it and do what makes you happy!
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Is it me or the way that Star Wars media retroactively adds new bad things that the Jedi made is like how when DC writers add new instances of Jason being Violent to make him a bad Robin?
For me, I'm not sure the two are comparable--for one thing, with Star Wars, Lucas was the creator and comics don't really have that. Sure, they were created by specific people, but comics are by definition a collaborative structure as the primary source, while Star Wars was structured as Lucas as the primary source and everything else was playing in his world. But it's also that I don't think DC has a clear vision of what they want Jason to be, while Lucas had a very clear vision of what he wanted the Jedi to be, so when other authors come along later and try to make the Jedi bad, they're going against what Lucas set up. But with Jason, a lot of his primary source material is him being a violent person and there's enough of it that it's consistent. It's fair for Jason fans to say, "Every fan of every character has to throw certain stories out that contradict the overall characterization." and to choose the ones where he's more noble. God knows every Robin fan has thrown some dumbass stories out, Jason fans shouldn't be any different! But it's also fair for other fans to choose the stories where Jason is more violent and not really a noble guy anymore. There's enough of both of those stories that you can make consistent characterization out of them, imo. Ultimately, comics are structured so that the characters evolve over decades' worth of stories, but Star Wars had a core story/set characterizations it wanted to tell. I mean, people are free to disagree with me, especially given that I freely state upfront that I prioritize Lucas' foundational world he built (and much of Disney at least says that they do the same thing)(and during Legends that just was the operating procedure--Legends was its own continuity and it was very cool, but Lucas' Star Wars was the foundation), but I see Jason's situation and the Jedi's situation as being pretty different.
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gffa · 13 hours
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never meet your heroes, unless your hero is nightwing, if so ignore the previous statement because who doesn’t want to meet nightwing? don’t associate yourself with someone who doesn’t want to meet nightwing
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gffa · 14 hours
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I love her
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"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”
Wrong!
Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.
And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.
And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.
He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.
Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time
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gffa · 16 hours
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let tim dunk on batman its funny
w/o text under the cut :3
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gffa · 18 hours
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My current progress on The High Republic books, comics, etc. I DESERVE CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL-WISHES TO CATCH UP BEFORE THE ACOLYTE AIRS. MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE I:
The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
The High Republic: A Test of Courage
The High Republic: Into the Dark
The High Republic: The Rising Storm
The High Republic: Race To Crashpoint Tower
The High Republic: Out Of The Shadows
The High Republic: Mission to Disaster
The High Republic: The Fallen Star
The High Republic: Midnight Horizon
MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE II:
The High Republic: Path of Deceit
The High Republic: Convergence
The High Republic: Quest for the Hidden City
The High Republic: Cataclysm
The High Republic: Quest for Planet X
The High Republic: Path of Vengeance
MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE III:
The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness
The High Republic: Escape from Valo
The High Republic: Defy The Storm
MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE I:
The High Republic (2021) - 15 issues
The High Republic Adventures (2021) - 13 issues
The High Republic: The Monster of Temple Peak - 4 issues
The High Republic: The Edge Of Balance - 2 manga volumes
The High Republic: Trail of Shadows - 5 issues
The High Republic: Eye of the Storm - 2 issues
MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE II:
The High Republic: The Blade - 4 issues
The High Republic (2022) - 10 issues
The High Republic Adventures (2021) - 8 issues
The High Republic: Edge of Balance: Precedent - 1 manga volume
The High Republic Adventures: The Nameless Terror - 4 issues
MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE III:
The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight - 4 issues
The High Republic (2023) - 5 issues [ONGOING]
The High Republic Adventures (2023) - 4 issues [ONGOING]
MAIN STORYLINE AUDIODRAMAS - PHASE I:
The High Republic: Tempest Runner
MAIN STORYLINE AUDIODRAMAS - PHASE II:
The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha
ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE I:
Star Wars Adventures (2020) #6 - “The Gaze Electric”
The High Republic Adventures: Free Comic Book Day 2021
The High Republic Adventures Annual 2021
The High Republic Adventures: Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular
Star Wars Adventures (2020) #14 - “A Very Nihil Interlude”
The High Republic Adventures: Free Comic Book Day 2023
ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE II:
The High Republic Adventures: Quest of the Jedi
ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE III:
The High Republic Adventures: Crash Landing
ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - PHASE I:
Star Wars: The High Republic: Starlight
ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - PHASE II:
Star Wars Insider: The High Republic: Tales of Enlightenment
ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - ALL PHASES:
The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
EVERYTHING ELSE:
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures - 25 episodes
This is a bit misleading in that several of these I'm halfway through, I've been watching Young Jedi Adventures in the background while I do other things and it's super cute! It's very much a preschooler-aimed series, but the animation is gorgeous, the voice acting is adorable, and it's fun to have on in the background. (It does make me pine for this style of animation to be used for more familiar characters, what I wouldn't give for baby Mace Windu in this style or baby Obi-Wan or baby Plo or baby Shaak, THEY WOULD BE SO CUTE.) I'm also halfway through The Fallen Star, which isn't as far as I'd like considering I started it several days ago, but I don't have as much on-line time these days and I listen to it in the background while doing other things. It's fine so far, I'd say! I'm eager to get to Phase III, though. One thing that's really hitting me all over again, especially as I'm wrapping up reading Shadows of Starlight is that the Nihil are now trying to set up their own area of the galaxy, to set up a government in their claimed area, they've been strong-arming planets into being forced to join them, they've been actively killing Jedi--including one general who opens his coat to reveal a collection of lightsabers to show that he'd be a good fit to join the Nihil--and it's so many echoes of the prequels that it's fascinating. Because the way the Jedi react, the need to align with the Republic for strength, the need to fight back against an enemy that is specifically targeting them, the need to help free the worlds that are being occupied by this government that claims to have nobler intentions, but really just wants to crush worlds under its boot? It's really showing, consistently, the Jedi being put in the same positions as the prequels Jedi and showing why their choices weren't great, but they had to choose something, because the alternative was worse. Reading all of this has given me a more sympathetic reading of the prequels' set-up, served up to me on a silver platter. OKAY, WISH ME LUCK in getting through at least one more comic run today and tell me how your High Republic reading journey is going, too!
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gffa · 19 hours
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Dick Grayson absolutely wrecking David Cain's shit and dropping him to the floor? Okay, New 52 can have some rights.
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gffa · 20 hours
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Ohhh, that scratches the itch right there. Dick loves Damian, it's apparent all throughout this arc, the way he really sees Damian, the way he's firm but never cruel with Damian, but there's also part of him that knows he's hurt that Bruce set aside so much space for someone else. Dick is a very loving person, the absolute core of him is that he does things out of love, but there's also a space in him that's just as weird about Bruce as Bruce is weird about him, that there's a jealousy any time there's a new Robin because that was his role, that was his space, and it's complicated by Damian being a blood son, and Dick's forever in a complicated space where he's Bruce's son as well, he knows that, he feels that for himself, he feels that from Bruce, but there's also that he's John and Mary Grayson's son, he's wary that Bruce will try to deny their connection because he's afraid of losing people or gets too lost in the "all there is is the war on crime" instead of family. So, he loves Damian. He was the one who defended Damian as Robin, he was the one who mentored Damian first, he was the one who helped Damian build those first bridges to the rest of their family. But there's a small space inside him that hurts that Damian is taking up space in Bruce's heart that used to be his. He's not gone from Bruce's heart, they'll always understand each other better than anyone, but Dick is Weird about occupying that space (knowing Bruce better than any of them, and probably even knowing that if Bruce has a favorite, it's him) and he doesn't take it out on Damian. But it sure as hell is still there. And, in some ways, as much as he very much wants Bruce and Damian to connect, because they both deserve that, Damian especially deserves that, there's still those feelings of feeling set aside because Dick is used to being the one Bruce spends the most time on. And ohhhh that's the good stuff right there, those crunch, complicated, not always nice feelings.
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gffa · 20 hours
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Damian is the funniest child alive actually.
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#HOW DID ANY OF THEM ALMOST WIN A WAR? #ONE BRAINCELL BETWEEN THEM #AND THEY ASKED PALPATINE TO HOLD ONTO IT FOR THEM WHILE THEY GO FIGHT GRIEVOUS #GOD I LOVE THEM THEY’RE THE BESTWORST
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gffa · 2 days
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lets dance
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Ahsoka #1 cover + variants / June 2024
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