#it does not click

[independent-variables]

Hi! I found you through the post-chain of clones and torture (I appreciated the possibilities it means and how it made me stop and reflect) and I would love to hear more about the nuances in Clone/Jedi ships, if you have the time one of these days!!

I would think the field mine that is the power imbalance alone between a general and their commander is loads, without taking into account freedom/who is considered a person/who has the power to say no. What else would you flag? *ready to take notes*

Feel free to keep this private, as you mentioned the distinction between Public/Private -- and if you're not comfortable feel free to not reply! I understand and I will keep on thinking about this on my own! :D

Hello!!! I want you to know this is the absolute dream ask to get, you are a gem and I am so glad my meta has got you thinking. If I have to be thinking about this at least I don’t have to be thinking about it alone, lol. I’m gonna go ahead and post this publicly because it’s not targeted to any particular ship it’s more about my understanding of the Jedi.

Alright, clone/Jedi ships, where to start… First of all I do read and write for various clone/Jedi ships, I don’t have any kind of moral “you’re a bad person for shipping this” agenda here. I just find the trends of what issues fandom chooses to address within these ships and what issues fandom tends to ignore to be personally frustrating.

You are 100% correct the power imbalance is massive, and the age gaps are nothing to sneeze at either. Depending on when the couple gets together there is also the slavery to contend with. But usually these are addressed in more serious fic. When a writer takes the characters and the ship seriously and wants to do the story justice, the slavery/power imbalance/age gap trifecta tend to be portrayed as Serious Things the couple needs to navigate. This is good! This is wonderful! These are indeed Serious Things a Jedi and clone couple will need to navigate if they want to make a go of it; everything surrounding consent and life experience and what they both want out of the relationship. These are hard conversations to have and difficult differences in life experience to navigate, but not impossible.

What makes it impossible for me to completely suspend my disbelief with any and every clone/Jedi ship is not anything to do with the power and consent issues inherent to the ship. It’s the fact that my own understanding of the Jedi and their no attachment policies gives me a kneejerk NO reaction whenever a Jedi gets into a committed romantic/sexual relationship and the writer portrays this as a good thing. The NO feeling increases when the partner is a clone and the relationship starts during the war.

I know in my heart various clones and Jedi developed intense feelings for each other during the war that could definitely be called attraction, or love, or develop farther into love. I know this. I know there was much drooling and many heart eyes. What I absolutely do not believe for a second is that any self respecting Jedi would even consider for a moment acting on those feelings. That is kinda the point of being Jedi. Entering into a romantic/sexual relationship with a person who is not legally recognized as a person and therefore has no rights or protections? A person whom YOU (Jedi you) holds literal power of life and death over? Absolutely the fuck not. NO. It does not matter if this person is perfect and wonderful and your soulmate and would gladly fuck you silly every night over the desk you two do paperwork on, There Are Standards! There Are Morals! There Are Codes!

If a Jedi and a clone start any kind of Anything during the war, that is a sign something has gone very very very wrong with the Jedi. There would be consequences from within the Jedi Order if this was discovered. Doesn’t matter if the perfect clone soulmate consents absolutely, this is about what it means to be a Jedi and what it means to hold power responsibly and what it means to follow a code of conduct and what it means to be a member of an organized religion. And that toxic “something is wrong but I don’t care because this feels so good” dynamic in and of itself would be interesting to explore, I have found a few fics that explore it, but more often than not a Jedi being in a committed relationship is hand-waved as long as it’s not marriage.

And that’s it. That’s my issue. When nothing starts until after the war and when it is made explicit that Jedi-- by the their own Order’s standards and expectations-- cannot and should not be in any kind of committed romantic/sexual relationship, then I have no problem suspending my disbelief and grinning as the dashing clone Commander and the noble Jedi Knight kiss passionately in the sunset. Good for them. Let them have their moment.

Because, Anakin and Padme are kind of a big deal. Like. The problem was not that they got married, the problem was they made a commitment to each other. Marriage represented and defined that commitment but the wedding was not the start of the toxic obsession and death was not the end of it. Anakin loved Padme with everything in him and loving people is good! Loving people and serving people with compassion is part of the point of being a Jedi! But committing all of your (Jedi your) love to a specific person is very much The Opposite Of Being A Jedi. This is a long and roundabout way of saying I think monogamy is against the Jedi religion actually.

This is also why Obi-Wan and Satine are kind of a big deal. I know what fandom thinks of that particular interlude but I really enjoyed it because it reinforces the whole-- monogamy is not a Jedi Thing. If you (Jedi you) want a committed sexual/romantic relationship, that’s cool, that’s fine, but you can’t have that and also be a Jedi. Jedi cannot have both. There are no handy loopholes for that rule. Because it’s not “Jedi cannot get married” it’s “Jedi cannot be committed to someone or something outside the Order.” And that is a good and logical and reasonable rule to have for an organization of space wizard monks. And it bothers me that a lot of fans who write the Jedi in romantic relationships and especially who write the Jedi in romantic relationships with clones don’t want to engage with that aspect of Being A Jedi and would rather handwave it or find a loophole, because we had three movies already on why there is no loophole and why Jedi cannot have both.

#i like jedi/clone ships i think a lot of them are cute #but #yeah i just #i cannot make Being A Jedi And Also Being In An Committed Relationship make sense in my head #it does not click #cute is nice every once in a while but my ideal jedi/clone dynamic is Toxic #preferably ending in a messy breakup and everybody reassessing their life choices #cordelia answers asks

[keefechambers]

OJ treating Angel like a horse.

#oj haywood #angel torres #nope #nope 2022 #daniel kaluuya #brandon perea #a bonus em also being treated like a horse in the last gif but it's funny because angel Does Not Know This Man #especially with the clicking thing he's just like 'oh i guess this is how we talk now' and just goes along with it #angel x oj #nope spoilers

[semisolidmind]

what a strange family portrait

ive been thinking about your eternal servants au, @emelinstriker , and how much worse it’d be for my poor reader if she had not just two, but five (six?) immortals at her (un-asked for) beck and call

(lil guy mk has my whole heart, he’s just happy to be here)

#click for quality cause mobile is stupid #eternal servants au #she does NOT wanna be there #but she doesn’t get a choice #she’s gonna be a master whether she likes it or not

[lunarwednesday]

I loved this frame from LinkClick s2's op so I wanted to redraw it - I also need to shake Luguang by the shoulders because I have so many questions

#linkclick #link click s2 #link click #lu guang #luguang #link click fanart #shiguang daili ren #seriously WHAT DOES HE KNOW? #SPILL SIR

[nerdylittleguy]

"we're on opposite sides!"

"we're on our side!"

#good omens 2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens #gabriel #good omens beelzebub #gabriel and beelzebub #gabriel x beelzebub #ineffable bureaucracy #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #I am going insane over the parallels between all the relationships in good omens #When Crowley mentioned Alpha Centuri I think something clicked for Aziraphale ngl #this show is making me go insane /pos #(mostly pos) #What media studies does to a person fr #Apologies for the horrendous photo quality they are screenshots from youtube videos bc I don't have prime on my phone </3 #And apologies if someone already said this #I realised this in the bath yesterday and had a genuine eureka moment

[wrathyforest]

where the Future meets the Past

#my art #link click #shiguang dailiren #shiguang #lu guang #cheng xiaoshi #sgdlr #GOD AFTER HUEVEMBER ITS SO WILD TO DRAW IN FULL COLOR #i still don't know: does the eyes color attached to the ability or the personality? #like if lu guang diving into the past using cxs's ability - it'll be still blue or it has to be yellow? hmmm

[squish--squash]

It starts, as it will end, with a garden

edit: s2 companion piece found here!

anyways I got ibis paint on my laptop and then immediately learned how to break it so I could bypass the incredulous "1 hour a day" free trial bs (it would've taken me 8 days to do this otherwise)

moving on- stained glass good omens! I'm surprised I haven't seen any more of this bc of the surrounding theology, but after making it I understand why (it was fun but tedious). This is probably my new favorite art piece I've ever made and I'm ngl I kinda wanna make more; we'll see.

Here's what it looked like before the effects btw, if anyone's interested

#good omens #I couldn't decide if I liked the black or 'gold' trim more so I'm posting both #stained glass my beloved #click for better quality btw tumblr's gonna devour those pixels #ineffable husbands #squish does art

[ghostdoodlen]

Timinette ft. Wingman Connor

#ibispaintx #fanart #digital art #marinette dupen chang #timinette #timari #dc batman #mlb x dc #tim drake #maribat #ash's doodles #connor kent #kon el #very proud of the brushes I used #dc x miraculous #why does tumblr do this #click for better quality

[nachtart]

#traditional —> digital yet again bc i tried to click undo in my sketchbook last night and well #that let me know i needed a drawing break from my ipad LOL #ghoap #ghost x soap #ghostsoap #soapghost #johnny soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #ghost #soap #call of duty #cod #nachtart #also light context soap almost got himself killed -> ghost couldnt do anything but watch and hope soap could save himself -> soap does -> #ghost kisses him thru his mask lol #:3

[wriochilde]

#sorry i hate nimue's outfit i had to give her a different one #my art #sonic the hedgehog #sonic and the black knight #blazamy #amy rose #blaze the cat #CLICK FOR BETTER QUALITY .WHY DOES TUMBLR DO THIS TO ME #sonic #sth #satbk

[camthecatchameleon]

a few days ago my brain demanded i draw polywitchlight RIGHT NOW and who am i to refuse

original and closeups under the cut

original/template is from “Go For It Nakamura!” by Syundei which i have not read actually

+ closeups; feel free to use as icons with credit smile

#legends of avantris #once upon a witchlight #torbek #gideon coal #morning frost #kremy lecroux #gricko grimgrin #meme redraw #cw possible eyestrain #polylight #polywitchlight #do i even bother tagging twig hootsie and duke/gorebek if theyre just tiny little guys #obligatory click/open in new tab for better quality. #cmon guys i spent so much time on this #i actually LOOKED AT A REFERENCE???? GASP wow that never happens !!! #anyways i love gricko and his fucking teefers #im realizing that i dont draw torbek as fucked up and sad looking as everyone else does which does make him look inaccurate but shut up #in my heart hes adorable okay

[hello-waffles-are-good]

Dick: what did he do now?

Roy: HE SMILED

Dick: at you?

Roy: no, at our dumb friends but HE LAUGHS LIKE AN ANGEL

Dick: go away Roy

Roy: shut up, I watched you pine over Wally for years, let me have this

Dick: go on

#jayroy #im so normal about them #roy harper #dick grayson #it hasn't yet clicked that Roy's talking about his baby brother... #but when it does #roys days are numbered #*loud crashing and screaming* #roy: i thought you were cool with it!! #dick: say your final prayers harper you brother fucker

[nina-scribbles]

"Contrary to popular belief, Izuku Midoriya hadn’t actually intended to do anything illegal. Apparently vigilantism actually IS a slippery slope, and the transition from neighborly, helping old ladies with their groceries, to leaving would-be muggers tied up in alley-ways… is rather quick and easy to slip. Who coulda guessed?"

- Serendipitous Encounters on Ao3

(Excerpt from chapter one, art from a scene in the soon-to-be-posted chapter five, bc i just couldn't get it out of my head lol :3 )

#click for full quality bc HOLY SMOKES does Tumblr squash images to hell #boku no hero fanart #bnha fanart #the graffiti was so fun to draw tho. even if the perspective was a nightmare #mha #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha fanfic #bnha fanfiction #bnha deku #vigilante izuku #vigilante deku #bnha vigilante au #izuku midoriya fanart #izuku midoriya #aizawa shouta #naomasa tsukauchi #dadzawa #time travel fix it #kinda #nina-scribbles #vigilante au

[zarla-s]

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Asking innocent questions or stirring up drama? You decide.

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#deltarune #spamton #addisons #z art #z comic #defragmentation #everything is always so dramatic with addisons #but drama does bring in the clicks! #pink addison #blue addison

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 114

What do y’know, another de-aged Danny. And another Danny with Talons. Only this time he’s found by a specific Talon. A very old Talon who is a very dramatic bastard. A very dramatic bastard who half grew up in a circus as a knife juggler and thrower. 

One Elder Talon William Cobb, has now acquired a Hatchling. Along with his fledgling Gray Son who keeps trying to peer at the small not-quite Talon. Why he gets this sensation to not tell the Court, he isn’t quite sure, but his instincts have never driven him wrong before. 

Now if only the bats would stop chasing them while his flock are trying to search for a nesting spot…

#dcxdp #dpxdc #de aged danny #talons #court of owls: Where the fuck is our Grand Talon and our Gray Son?! #court of owls: *sends more talons out to find them* #Cobb: Ah yes a larger flock- harder to hide but more hands to care for the hatchlings #Danny is so confused #He fell into this world #After something- he can't exactly recall what #And instantly got picked up by this dude clicking/cooing at him??? #Also why does this other undead call them Grandfather they don't look old at all #Danny is complaining until they get him baby food which doesn't attack so that's a win #The batfamily are so concerned about wtf is happening #HOLY FUCK IS THAT DICK #After them!