what would you have me do?

ugh i get ENDLESS feels about Luke's micdrop line:

I'll never turn to the dark side. You failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi. Like my Father before me.

because Luke isn't saying he is a Jedi like the Order were Jedi. A Jedi who shuns emotional knots and strives for emotional neutrality. He is a Jedi like his Father, like Anakin Skywalker.

The type of Jedi Anakin was.

Even in ANH he doesnt say he wants to learn from the Order. He wants to learn how Anakin did it.

And he does. In time, he allows married and older Force-sensitives to join his Order, he embraces attachments (and even marries himself and has children in the EU).

And at that pivotal moment in TESB: Luke is clearing the guilt and torment of his father - he is holding up Anakin's dream: the dream of being emotionally invested, attached, loving, fighting for that love, and it making him strong and noble. He is holding up THAT dream, the one Palpatine used (and the Jedi Order to a degree in their fear) to convince Anakin he was weak, a failure. Luke is holding up that dream and saying No. No it makes me strong.

And you can't use it to turn me to the Dark. As Luke watches the fleet under attack and Sidious mocks him, tries to use his attachment to his rebel friends to weaken him, Luke uses his love for them to keep him strong, to help him resist. To not give in.

When Vader watches Luke do this-- this alter-ego, this dark Phantom must melt in the acid that is Anakin's psychological resurrection.

Luke doesn't want to be a Jedi like the Order. The Order failed, according to Yoda. Was blinded.

Luke wants to be a Jedi like Anakin was. A different kind of Jedi. A Skywalker. He saves Anakin's soul by showing him, Sidious, and the galaxy that great goodness can come from Anakin's way.

When Anakin is dying and Luke weeps, "But I have to save you," this is what Anakin means when he says:

You already have.

adrien, émilie, home

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dedicated to all my brainworms about this family. please read every fic @asukiess and @anna-scribbles have ever written and weep.

How the girlies were about Anakin last week is how I am about Ezra this week

I LOVED THIS MOMENT SO MUCH. I love it because of course Obi-Wan knows about Anakin and Padme and he’s not being subtle that he knows, that it’s something that’s been woven into the story since Revenge of the Sith.

Anakin can sense Obi-Wan’s presence (because they’re so close, which is how the Force works, the closer you are to someone, the more you can pick up on their presence, which I think is part of what’s driving Anakin here, that it’s not just the visions he’s having of Obi-Wan being there for Padme’s pregnancy, but that he’s hurt and angry because he also feels betrayed that Obi-Wan is seeking someone else out, someone that’s not him) and Padme points out:  He came by because of you. It’s swept aside quickly because Anakin confesses that he feels lost, that nobody trusts him (again, he wants Obi-Wan’s trust, even when he’s been lying to Obi-Wan for ages, even when it’s Anakin who always turns away from the conversations Obi-Wan tries to have with him), and Padme points out that they trust him with their very lives. But if you step back to look at this–why would Obi-Wan go to Padme to talk about Anakin, unless he knows that Anakin would go to her for someone to talk to and confide in? Yeah, the original script had the conversation between Obi-Wan and Padme in it, where he revealed to her that he knew about them, but even without it, that’s still in the script.  Even as early as when they crash landed half of the Invisible Hand on Coruscant, Obi-Wan was telling Anakin to go off and have his “glorious day with the politicians” because he knew. And still yet more clearly, Obi-Wan knows.  Not just that Anakin cares deeply about his friend, but that it’s put into the context of romantic feelings:

So, yeah, Obi-Wan knows how Anakin feels about Padme.  He knows the context. But that’s what makes the tie back to “The Rise of Clovis” or Attack of the Clones or even Revenge of the Sith, that it’s not that they have feelings that’s the problem, it’s exactly what’s highlighted in this episode with Anakin and Rex:

Anakin–THE SHEER IRONY OF ANAKIN SKYWALKER DELIVERING THIS SPEECH IS BEAUTIFUL AND SO POINTED–tells Rex that he has to prepare himself for the possibility that Echo is dead and this is all just a trick. Ultimately, Rex knows that, if he’s wrong, then he’ll face that.  But right now, he believes in his friend. This is such an incredibly pointed parallel and contrast to Revenge of the Sith where the problem wasn’t that Anakin had feelings for Padme or that he wanted to save her, but that he let his fears override him because he couldn’t face the possibility that she might die and there was nothing he could do about it, he couldn’t face it at all. And it was a trick by an evil agent out to get him, deliberately designed to draw Anakin over to the dark side! This is why it makes perfect sense that Obi-Wan knows, not just because it’s been laid out already in previous movies and episodes, but because Obi-Wan knows Anakin isn’t getting a grip on himself.  Oh, he believes that Anakin will, that’s Obi-Wan’s biggest blind spot, he cannot see the possibility of Anakin’s failure, because he believes so strongly in Anakin, he loves him so much and thinks the world of him, but that doesn’t mean he’s not aware that Anakin has a deep rage just by Obi-Wan saying Clovis’ name, it doesn’t mean he’s not aware that Anakin is still sneaking around to holo Padme, it doesn’t mean that he’s not going to keep trying to talk to Anakin and help him. Yet, by continuing to hide it and refusing to face his deeper feelings, his fears and his growing attachment (as the Jedi use it, the definition where he cannot let her go when it’s time, that he’ll turn obsessive and possessive over her, he’ll prioritize his feelings for her over everything else to such an extent that he’ll literally murder children for it), Anakin is falling away from what he knows is right. Anakin knows that it’s the right thing to do to prepare yourself for the possibility that you’ll lose someone.  He has that wisdom and he’s imparted it on to Rex, someone he cares about very much, and wants to do right by.  Anakin had the training and wisdom to make better choices in ROTS, we see that right here, that he knows you can work to save people, believe in them, but understand that sometimes you can do everything right, you can do everything you can think of, and still lose.  He can even hear Obi-Wan say that he understands the feelings, knows that Obi-Wan will talk with him, that Obi-Wan is listening. But he doesn’t want to make a choice, he doesn’t want to face his own growing internal darkness, he doesn’t want to turn to his friends for help. Despite that he had the wisdom to know better.

me:  Listen, after all the cameos in The Mandalorian, I’m exhausted, I’m full up, I just can’t do anything more, it gets old after awhile, I just– Ahsoka:  Hey.

me:  

me:  [PASSES OUT FROM THE INCOHERENT SCREAMING]

Trapped in the Death Star! | by Michael Siglain & Pilot Studio THIS IS THE SADDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.  AND HEY LET’S PAIR IT UP WITH “THERE IS ANOTHER”:

THANKS, I HATE IT.

Not sure if anyone has talked about this yet but the scene where Obi-Wan rescues Leia in the dark interrogation room and how his lightsaber is the brightest thing... This mirrors perfectly his explanation to her of what the Force is in episode three.

The Dark Side is consistently represented by black and red. We use red lighting in photography and also in star gazing because as the lowest colour on the spectrum of light it doesn't affect the darkness too much (which means we can develop pictures/it doesn't disrupt our night vision). So it makes sense that red is so heavily associated because it doesn't disrupt the darkness. But blue is on the near opposite end of the spectrum. When it turns on, Obi-Wan's lightsaber is so bright in that shot amongst the red and black, and when he turns it off he's invisible again.

But the point is that when it turns on, he is the brightest thing in the room and the brightest object in the Force that Leia can sense.

Obi-Wan is the light turning back on, that makes you feel safe from the dark.

adrien would write "sold to ladybug by my father" fanfic

I woke up to the ring of my alarm clock. Jumping out of bed, I passed the mirror nearby and saw, my green eyes were tired and my golden hair ruffled with sleep.

"Adrien!" My father yelled, "Come down right this second"

"Coming, Father" I rolled my eyes and went downstairs. But just as I entered the parlor, I saw...

"Ladybug??" I squeaked, blushing furiously.

"Hey, hot stuff" she smirked

"Get your bags" My father popped up from behind me "I sold you to Ladybug"

"What????" I screamed.

"Yes, son." The fashion "mogul", also known as his father said sternly. "I need more funds to make cheap questionable looking clothing that all looks the same to fit my one model and use that to sell 10 different brands of perfume that all smell the same."

"But I am your only model. " Adrien retorted, trying to avoid Ladybug's eye.

He was unsuccessful, because the second he caved she had scooped him into her arms bridal style.

"You clearly take after your mother. You're going to be mine now." She said to him, making him blush even more. He felt very self conscious about his rumpled hair. If only he had enough time to throw it into a messy bun...

Meanwhile, his father had just realised what he had done, selling his cash cow to the elusive superhero of Paris.

"See ya, sucker, hope you retire!" Ladybug said, effortlessly throwing the bag of money she bought her Adrien for right on to his brittle old man bones before taking off into the skyline with his son.

My face was on fire as Ladybug clutched me to her chest as we flew over the city. I looked down at the street, truly realizing how strong Ladybug must be to move this fast. Gazing down at me with her sparkling aquamarine orbs, Ladybug smirked. “Like what you see?”

I stuttered for a response but before I could utter a word the devilishy handsome Chat Noir dropped down from the rooftops.

“What’s up hot stuff?” Chat winked. I blushed, suddenly on fire in my button down shirt and blue jeans.

“I know we’ll have fun with him because he has a problematic father” Ladybug said as she brushed my hair back.

(A/N: This is the outfit I was wearing btw:)

“The time of the Jedi is over.“ It’s painful enough that Obi-Wan can’t use the Force because people would know he was a Jedi, that he can’t even speak about the trauma of living through his people’s genocide, that he can’t even practice his own religious culture, but what’s really destroying me is that it isn’t just the Force stuff that Obi-Wan is no longer doing, it’s the Jedi philosophy of emotional regulation that comes with the Force and being a Jedi. Obi-Wan has fallen to his grief, it is consuming him, it is warping him, it’s not just that he’s turning away people like Nari, but that he’s also holding onto his pain, he’s not letting it go.  The Force is based on your emotional wellbeing, if you connect to the Force through anger and fear and pain, that is the dark side.  If you connect to it through compassion and calm and love, that is the light side.  Jedi have to accept the circumstances they find themselves in, they have to let go of their hurts, because their connection to the Force is fundamentally about that emotional wellbeing, it’s not just Jedi philosophy, it’s literally how the Force works. But Obi-Wan isn’t a Jedi anymore.  The time of the Jedi is over. So he holds onto his pain, he holds onto his hurt, he holds onto his attachment to Anakin, which is the inability to accept that life changes and you have to let go when it’s time, you cannot grasp onto something so hard that you crush it because you are afraid to live without it, that’s what attachment is.  It is everything the Jedi have trained against doing. But the time of the Jedi is over. The Jedi and their light and their teachings and their ways are gone, so he holds on because he doesn’t know how to let go of mourning Anakin and the Jedi, even when Bail Organa himself calls him desperately and pleads with him to help save Leia.  It’s not until Bail hauls his ass all the way out to Tatooine and tells him, right to his face, “Move on. Be done with it.” Those words brought me to tears, because Bail Organa isn’t just telling Obi-Wan to rescue his daughter to be a Jedi again, but telling him to let it fucking go, because that’s what Jedi do.  Protect people with your lightsaber when you can, love them and help them when you can, but when the time comes, if you can’t save them, you have to train yourself to let go. George Lucas says that’s how the Force and Star Wars and the Jedi work and I am IN PAIN because Obi-Wan truly believes that the Jedi are dead, that his old life is dead, and it’s not just swinging his lightsaber around or making people float that he’s buried in the ground, but his willingness to accept the circumstances he’s in and to move with the flow of what’s happened. The Jedi say you can’t destroy yourself in your grief–and Obi-Wan is destroying himself in his grief here, he is doing exactly everything that the Jedi warn will happen when you don’t let go.  He’s been unwilling to let go of his feelings, because he’s not a Jedi anymore. He doesn’t connect to the Force because that would mean he would need to let go of his feelings and he can’t do that. The time of the Jedi is over, he says, and we see what it’s doing to him, how it destroys him day by day.  He may not be sinking into the dark side, only because he’s not using the Force, but he is suffering all the more for it, because he has forsaken the lessons of the Jedi.  Because the time of the Jedi is over.

#it’s his excuse#the time of the Jedi is over#so he doesn’t need to try and be a Jedi#doesn’t need to try and let go of Anakin#to try and rise up from the pain that’s drowning him#so it’s okay if he lets his grief destroy him#if he gives up on hope#the time of the Jedi are over#and there’s no community to lift him up and help him start moving forward#there’s no Quinlan Vos coming to annoy him and be direct about how he’s stuck#there’s no Mace Windu to tell him that he needs to let go with such faith in him that it feels impossible not to try#no Luminara to shoulder his grief like it was her own and still not break under it#not hundreds of younglings running through the temple laughing (via @ilummoss)

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you can't change my mind!

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This moment where he looks around and there’s no one to help him or Rey, after the Jedi leave Rey for dead once their done using her, after his mother&uncle don’t reach out to him when he was thrown into a freakin pit, after admitting they though he was cursed and abandoned him and then sent Rey off to kill him (”complete Leia’s journey”) - is the unintentional epitome of how fucking hypocritical this film’s ideas about the Jedi and the Amazing Bestest Heroic Heroism of The Luke&Leia. 

Dude this still fucking kills me, that they did this to Ben.

UgghhhHhhhhh 😭😭😭

I don’t mind saying that this is very bad parenting.

so the kuro neko trailer huh

I was reading The Skywalker Saga and it just hit me all over again exactly how this scene is set up–the Jedi Council tests Anakin, which requires him to actively use the Force, which means they sense his fear that he’s refusing to admit to, and Anakin asks what that has to do with anything.  Yoda then launches into an explanation of how the Force works when it comes to emotions and the mental mindset you go in with. The thing is that Yoda’s not just explaining the Jedi’s view on things, he’s repeating George Lucas’ commentary on how the Force works, concept for concept, that this isn’t just the Jedi’s view, this is literally how the Force works. But what hit me was reading that line about Anakin standing in that golden glowing room, “Even as the sun set, bathing the room in flaming shades of red and orange, Anakin felt as if he would never know warmth again.” He’s standing in the warmth of the sun and feeling cold.  So, why is he feeling cold?  The next lines in this scene tell us exactly why, when you consider the context of The Empire Strikes Back–the dark side is cold. Anakin is feeling cold because he’s using the Force through his fear.  Anakin is reaching out with the Force, knowingly for the first time, and he’s doing so through the dark side.  It’s understandable why, but also this is a story where George Lucas has been incredibly clear that Anakin’s problem has always been his unwillingness to accept that things change, his unwillingness to let go of his fears, which is a central theme of Star Wars according to Lucas, that “letting go” is at the heart of his movies. It just hit me like a ton of bricks that what’s being conveyed here is that Anakin is during the dark side of the Force, that’s why he feels cold even when he’s surrounded by warmth, and the Jedi ultimately try to train him anyway, even when he doesn’t want to admit to his fears. It’s understandable why, there’s no chastising Anakin here, Ki-Adi’s words are described as gentle in the above book, Yoda’s demeanor is very kindly, no one says he’s bad, just that he’s not a good fit with them.  And given Lucas’ commentary on Anakin’s unwillingness to accept Jedi philosophy (which is the same concepts as the themes of Lucas’ movies) and that, had he been found earlier by the Jedi, he would have been able to be trained better, it’s perfectly set up to show that. All of which breaks my heart for Anakin because I love him and I’ve been in that place where sometimes it’s really hard to admit your fear (but you gotta, if you don’t want to be consumed by it, even when it’s really, really hard to do) and ultimately the Jedi do agree to train him and they do trust him (look at Mace arguing in favor of trusting Anakin to make his own decisions in Attack of the Clones, when he’s sent to Naboo, for example! look at Padme pointing out in Revenge of the Sith that they trust him with their lives), and I can never decide if Anakin really was a good fit with the Jedi or not.  Part of me thinks he was so close to rising up to face his fears and letting them go, but part of me thinks he made his choices over and over and over, despite having the training to know better, and never was going to accept that he had to let things go. Whatever the case, it breaks my heart for him regardless.  I JUST WANT MY BABY TO BE HAPPY, SOB.