#jedi politics

[stealingpotatoes]

luke who do you think you're hiding this from

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

#ahsoka's getting flashbacks to another skywalker saying he's going to 'discuss politics' with a certain senator #dinluke #luke skywalker #ezra bridger #ahsoka tano #my doods #the last (4) jedi #star wars

[newgrean]

A companion piece to this post

Image description below the cut!

ID: A digital comic of Shaak Ti leaning on a library desk, arms crossed, with a cup of boba tea in her right hand. She has a relaxed, slightly amused look on her face and is speaking to Jocasta Nu who is on the other side of the desk. Master Nu has one arm resting on the desk and the other hand on her hip. She is smiling and has one eyebrow raised at Shaak Ti. Shaak Ti asks, "Hey girl. Got anything on sentience qualifications or cloning ethics?" Master Nu replies, "Do you even have to ask?"

#shaak tea #shaak ti #jocasta nu #shaak ti au #shaak ti fan art #jocasta nu fan art #star wars #star wars comic #star wars fan comic #star wars au #prequels #star wars prequels #star wars the clone wars #clone wars 2003 #jedi temple #jedi archives #space politics #newgrean #soli deo gloria

[bilbobignaturals]

"Luminous beings are we"

Some star wars ladies in live action

#i love them #star wars women #ahsoka #mon mothma #princess leia #leia organa #padme amidala #shin hati #bo katan #bo katan kryze #mandaloran #ahsoka tano #sabine wren #star wars #star wars aesthetic #fennec shand #women in star wars #scifi #jedi #politics #jyn erso #cassian andor #andor #rogue one #hera syndulla #the Mandalorian

[obiwanwhat]

Obsessed with the fact that the Ahsoka show is setting up both Jedi and Sith parallels for Baylan and Shin. Their first scene is an inverted version of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's first scene in TPM. The scene where Shin sends out a probe droid mirrors Maul's probe droid scene on Tatooine. Shin has a padawan braid, one of the most visible physical symbols of a Jedi. Their blades are a odd red-orange that don't quite look like traditional Sith blades but certainly don't look like Jedi blades. Baylan used to be a Jedi, and still remembers old Jedi codes. It's such a fascinating mix of signals, and I'm so excited to see where they go with it.

#ahsoka #star wars #ahsoka spoilers #shin hati #baylan skoll #ahsoka show #star wars ahsoka #the phantom menace #star wars prequels #ahsoka tano #jedi #jedi meta #sith #jedi identity politics

[short-wooloo]

Another way I realized the opinion that "the Jedi got too involved in Republic politics" is stupid:

How in the fuck are they supposed to be effective at their job of peacekeeper-diplomats if they aren't involved in politics?

You can't eat your cake and have it too! No one listens to people who have no political authority!

Politics involves you, whether or not you're involved in politics!

#that's a lesson for real life too #wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #pro jedi #in defense of the jedi #jedi #jedi order #galactic republic #the republic #politics

[podsn]

Thrawn was annoyed with Ahsoka. Wait till he finds out he just went back to the galaxy where Anakin’s SON is the grandmaster jedi 💀

#wait till Thrawn finds out there’s 2 living skywalker Jedi #and one of them is the grandmaster #and the other one holds major political power #ahsoka #the ahsoka series #the ahsoka show #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #princess leia #leia organa #leia skywalker #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #Star Wars #ahsoka tano

[bolithesenate]

new and improved jedisona doodles

no braincells just vibes she fucked off to the AgriCorps at the first sign of drama and spends her days trying to float as many space carrots as possible in the air

#my mountain farmer ancestors would be proud of me #going back to my roots making my space wizard oc a farmer as well #is she trained in politics? sure. but she doesnt like it so space carrots it is #at least the carrots wont try to argue against sentient rights #random boli thoughts #my art #star wars #jedisona #jedi oc

[yiliy]

In the few years she had been a Senator, Amidala had shown herself to be among the most loyal and powerful supporters of the Republic, a legislator determined to improve the system, but to do so within the framework of the Republic’s constitution. Senator Amidala fervently believed that the real beauty of the governing system was its built-in abilities, even demands, for self-improvement.

But Dooku had taken it to extremes, and dangerous ones, Obi-Wan realized. He had left the Jedi Order, had walked out on his calling and on his peers. Whatever problems Dooku must have seen, he should have recognized that he could better repair them by remaining within the Jedi family.

Star Wars - Episode II - Attack of the Clones Novelization

by R. A. Salvatore

Don't tear down what is good to fix a few bad things you see. Don't grow complacent, but don't focus on the negative either. Known flaws among known known strengths are something that can be fixed. There is never truly a one-time fix as long as there are forces a work that will abuse the system for their own benefit. And there always are. Good people need to counteract them continuously. The work never stops. Destroying a known system to replace it with an unknown one will bring unknown problems no one is ready to analyze all, let alone solve. Evolution, not revolution.

#Star Wars #Attack of the Clones #Jedi #AotC #Star Wars Attack of the Clones #Padme #Jedi Order #ObiWan #Kenobi #Dooku #Obi Wan #Obi-Wan Kenobi #ObiWan Kenobi #Attack of the Clones novelization #Padme Amidala #Star Wars politics #The Old Republic

[acewizardinspace]

People don’t think enough about the jedi council’s options in the wrong jedi arc. They can either:

A: Do nothing. Tell the public and the friends and family of the victims, “There is a ton of evidence for this person’s guilt, but she is one of us, we have known her since she as a baby, so we decided she is not guilty, without a trial. Bye.”

B: Hold your own trial. We don’t know exactly what kind of legal system the jedi might have, but there is no way in thousands of years there has never been a jedi accused of a crime. Even if we assume those crimes are handled by the government issuing the accusation, there has to have been a time when that wasn’t an option. For example, the council held a trial to decide the fate of Prosset Dibs, so yeah there must be some type of system in place. But Prosset and Ahsoka are very different because he only attacked another jedi, making it an internal affair. For Ahsoka, think of the implications, either they:

a: Find Ahsoka guilty: What now? Do you imprison her yourself? Do the jedi have cells in the temple for keeping force sensitives? Just keep her in her room with guards on the door? We know the jedi believe in rehabilitation so there would be an attempt to help her away from the dark side (once again, what they did for Prosset). Meanwhile, they have to deal with the public who is probably not happy that she is getting off with what is, in their opinion, a slap on the wrist. Is it the jedi’s job to care what the people want? Maybe, maybe not, but public opinion is at an all-time low because of this fake war set up to make them look bad, and this will have consequences. (Yeah, we know she is not guilty and doesn’t need rehabilitation away form the dark side, but the council doesn’t.)

b: Find her innocent: This will sound like bullshit to the public. “Uh we meditated on it and the force told us she is not guilty.” How mad would you be if this happened? If your friend died in the attack, wouldn’t you be just pissed about this? There is a TON OF EVIDENCE TO HER GUILT and at this point, no counter evidence. (Yeah, Anakin shows up with Barriss eventually, but you cannot make a decision based on something that will happen in the future, something you don’t know about. So, this doesn’t factor into the council’s decision.)

Or finally, the option they chose, the only real option available:

C: You send Ahsoka off to receive a fair trial* where she will have an opportunity to defend herself in court and will have an attorney. In their minds, this trial would likely be even more fair than one they hold because they are emotionally compromised here, because, yes, they do know Ahsoka and consider her family! But they have been burned before (Dooku and Krell) and are at this point willing to accept the possibility of betrayal.

People act like the council sent her to die. They didn’t. All they did was vote on whether or not she, someone accused of a crime with tons of evidence supporting that claim, should go to trial. That’s it. Everything else was Palpatine and Barriss. Besides, this way if she is found innocent the public won’t think it was nepotism.

* We, the audience, know this will not be a fair trial, but the council, and literally everyone else, believes it will be. There is literally not a single indication to imply anything else. You can’t blame characters for not knowing something they logically couldn’t know.

So, to the people who think the council fucked up here, I ask an honest question, if you were on the council, had the full ability to sway the vote, and only knew what the council knew, what would you have done? And if it was anything other than expelling Ahsoka from the order, how would you have handled the fallout? The riots, the protesting, the clones from the guard who get killed in the crossfire of your choice?

The council made the only choice they could have made, and Ahsoka got hurt. That doesn’t make them wrong, and it doesn’t make Ahsoka wrong to feel betrayed either.

#in defense of the jedi #pro jedi #pro jedi council #ahsoka tano #star wars meta #my thoughts #my meta #i really am curious about people's answers to that question #because it really is an interesting and hard situation they were forced into #there were no good options!! #but something tells me deep in my bones that anyone who answers it will just be cursing me or something #prove me wrong with polite discussion about our blorbos!

[kyuremking]

#is a crime that there aren't more images of oppo rancisis showing his four arms #cal kestis #jedi survivor #jedi fallen order #disparate lineage #jaro tapal #yaddle #oppo rancisis #greez dritus #bd 1 #jfo #star wars meme #star wars #Thisspiasian also prefer their food to be alive when they eat it #but they are more polite than yaddle species

[antianakin]

I recognize that this mostly happens because Obi-Wan is and always has been a direct foil for Anakin, but I am SO tired of all of Obi-Wan's more canon love interests ending up being more about making commentary on Anakin and Anidala than they are on exploring OBI-WAN. It's just sad and I'm so tired of it and I think that until people are willing to write a romance for Obi-Wan that isn't actually about Anakin at all, Obi-Wan should just be made off-limits for romance plot lines entirely. Leave the man alone, please, I am begging you.

#star wars #obi-wan kenobi #i just finished reading the first half of secrets of the jedi with the siriwan relationship #and holy mother of god was it anidala coded all to hell and back #obi-wan is turned into a mighty prude and siri into this sweet motherly character just to make it work #everything from the reaction obi-wan has on seeing her at the beginning to how quickly the relationship moves to the secrecy #it's all anidala #it's all ABOUT anidala #obi-wan is so ooc in this that it's not even funny #he's not even in character to previous works written about him BY THE SAME AUTHOR #and yet somehow it is STILL miles better than whatever the fuck obitine was supposed to be #where obi-wan is given a love interest specifically designed to be killed off so that they could compare that to anidala #and honestly the scene where she dies is probably their ONLY good scene together #it's certainly the only scene where they seem to genuinely understand or even LIKE each other #like siriwan has obi-wan acting ooc but at least he's not literally misogynistic towards his love interest #unlike the way tcw chose to write him #like yeah sure i really feel the romance in obi-wan calling satine 'hysterical' over her perfectly reasonable political views #and at least siri respects and understands the jedi life and LOVES the jedi order unlike satine #so despite how frustrating siriwan is - obitine is 10x worse still #it makes me SO so glad that tala ended up losing the romantic aspect of her relationship with obi-wan #because you KNOW that that would've just ended up another anidala parallel #again #as obi-wan loses yet another female love interest to death at the hands of the sith. again. #honestly tala's relationship with obi-wan is IMPROVED by the lack of a romantic love interest #there's a lot of interesting meaning in that relationship that i honestly believe would be lost if it had been romantic #obi-wan and love interests just don't seem to mix well in canon or anything canon-adjacent #free my man from terrible romantic storylines that aren't even about him #obitine critical #siriwan critical #anti obitine

[bberry005]

the single most unrealistic thing about the clone wars is that anakin supposedly has no political opinions. you mean to tell me this guy wasn't on the steps of the senate everyday going "hey remember when the republic 'outlawed' slavery. what if you actually did something about that?" or shouting "CLONE RIGHTS!" at the senators or any other number of things he'd believe in as someone who lived the life of those experiencing the worst the republic has to offer

#the only reason he doesn't have political opinions is because he'd disagree with the jedi #“jedi don't get involved with politics” ok well they should #especially if the politics aren't peaceful #anakin skywalker #the clone wars #star wars tcw #star wars

[obiwanwhat]

The more we see of Baylan the more he feels like a foil to Ahsoka. They both survived Order 66, Baylan as a young knight and Ahsoka as (essentially) a senior apprentice, and they were both traumatized as hell from it. They both remember their Jedi teachings and the Order with great fondness, but refuse to call themselves Jedi.

Most of all, Baylan's "I miss the idea of [the Order]. But not the truth, the weakness. There was no future there" feels like a parallel to me of a quote from the Ahsoka novel: "[Barriss] had a point about the Republic and the Jedi. There was something wrong with them, and we were too locked into our traditions to see what it was. Barriss should have done something else. She shouldn’t have killed anyone, and she definitely shouldn’t have framed me for it, but if we’d listened to her—really listened—we might have been able to stop Palpatine before he took power.”

Both of them knew the Order as their home, but also saw its flaws in hindsight. I think Baylan turned his anger at the flaws of the Order outward, and Ahsoka turned her anger inward, towards herself. Baylan chose to step over the threshold into the Dark; Ahsoka clung to the Light. It makes who she is and what she's survived even more powerful by seeing someone make the opposite choice coming from the same place.

#star wars #ahsoka #ahsoka spoilers #baylan skoll #ahsoka tano #ahsoka show #star wars ahsoka #jedi #jedi identity politics

[tennessoui]

Hey Kit is Anakin/Kitster The Manservant/future King Anakin force sensitive? Is he hiding it from the Jedi and Sith? Darth Solence has no idea at all until Anakin drops his shields at the most dramatic opportunity possible and Obi-Wan has..... a Very Strong Reaction, hahaha. I'm such a sucker for most of the Jedi (and most sensible people really) being genuinely frightened when Anakin does, like, impossible things bc his force sensitivity is so strong, but Obi-Wan being severely turned on by it instead, hehehe.

ooo i would say he's force sensitive for sure - i usually try not to take away anakin's force sensitivity in gffa aus!!

i think this raises a good question of 'purposefully hiding it from the jedi and the sith' vs not really understanding it would be something they would like to know

i don't think either the jedi or the sith know prince skywalker is force sensitive, so obi-wan discovering manservant kitster is force sensitive would add on to his fascination and attraction (especially when the manservant is just....casually using the force to complete intricate chores as if it's no big deal even though he has never been trained and this level of finesse is unheard of if you're not trained by either the jedi or the sith)

(i agree, i like evil!obi-wan being very attracted to anakin's power, i think that's a key dynamic for most sith!obi-wan/anakin relationships)

but i also don't think anakin knows that he should be hiding his force sensitivity - like, i like to think of it more as...an open secret? he's not going to run around and declare it, but NNP Jedi isn't really focused on Prince Skywalker's manservant, so he doesn't notice or doesn't care, and yeah, sure, Lord Solence is fascinated and horny about his power, but prince skywalker's manservant has other things to worry about when darth solence is looking at him with that level of fascination and horniness in his eyes

(mostly if they're going to make it to a bedchamber before they fuck or if this is finally gonna be the time they're fucking in the hallway)

#asks #to the point of distraction au #obikin #of course there's the other camp where prince skywalker is rumored to be force sensitive/is known to be force sensitive #and anakin has to do some floating/force using lip synching for kitster #to keep up the rouse #which is hilarious to think about #but also the jedi and sith aren't interested in anakin because he's extremely powerful in the force #they're interested in him because he's the new queen's son and they want a political advantageous marriage #so i think it makes sense if they don't know that anakin is force sensitive #but also that anakin wouldn't know to hide it #a la 'i didn't think you'd care'

[maulfucker]

Yeah yeah jedi Maul au we've all seen him. But what about senator Maul au. Representing Dathomir, a neutral world like Mandalore that is still somewhat hostile to outsiders. Wearing fancy clothes that show a bit too much skin for the cold climate of Coruscant. Falling in hate at first sight with Padmé, the only other senator who brings a gun to the senate floor "just in case". The two of them having a weird rivalry because Maul doesn't trust the Jedi and is neutral in a lot of subjects that Padmé is a vocal defender of.

#hm i should make an original post tag #maul #darth maul #padmé #<- she gets tagged too because she is very in my thoughts as i imagine this #sorry i watched the phantom menace bonus dvd and all the making of stuff made me Think #i want to put maul in fancy clothes and situations #he still votes with padmé in a lot of stuff btw. he just refuses to defend it out loud #because first of all he has his pride #second of all he's not here to speak for himself like all those selfish old men he's here on behalf of the tribes of dathomir #dathomir would probably have a lot more senators than the average world i think. since the tribes are not all unified #so maul would be like. the talzin clan and/or nightbrothers' senator. possibly the only male in the dathomir delegation #and more connected to the dathomir magics and martial arts than to sith philosophy #he'd probably hate both sith and jedi also. they're both freaks who worry too much about light and dark #also. this is half very similar to thoughts i have about an (unrelated) oc i have so i dont want to put this on the main post but also. #he'd probably have a lot of 'fans' who love him for his voice and looks instead of his politics #and i Knoww padmé has fans too. because she is a fashion icon. and very charismatic #so can you imagine. the hot politician fandom drama. #sorry i love creating stupid imaginary internet drama #this and my obimaul begrudging tumblr mutuals who hate each other au. i love creating virtual Situations #senator maul au

[lanabenikosdoormat]

The girlies and their bg3 varients <3

#fallon navaro #verity danthe #sith warrior #jedi consular #swtor #MY LADIES #i love how theyre the exact opposite personalities and factions #verity is just a polite little lady of a sith and fallon would kill you if you so much as looked at her wrong