Part 1 | Part 3 | This Is Probably The Final Part SorryPart 4 :D Highlights Include: Im Pregant *slaps

Part 1 | Part 3 | this is probably the final part sorry Part 4 :D Highlights include: “I’m preganté” *slaps tummy like a car salesman* and PlaggChamp

I couldn't figure out how to put it in to words last night when I was summarizing my thoughts on Visions S2, but I think "Screecher's Reach" does a really good job with the concept of the Sith/dark side as corruption, in how it takes familiar, positive elements we've seen in other Star Wars stories, and twists them. Everything is recognizable on the surface, but just...off. Unsettling in a way that isn't obvious at first.

For example, the repetition of a mantra. We've seen this before, but usually with something that invokes the Force. An appeal to strength and courage seems positive enough (and in another franchise might very well be), but it definitely seemed odd, not Star Wars-y...until it took a dark turn when the protagonist describes herself as "strong" in reference to her taking a life, and the appearance of a Sith. It made complete sense then.

Another example, the test in a dark side cave. We've seen this before, as a way for Jedi to face themselves and confront their fears. And the narrative seems to travel this route, until it's revealed that the test was not to face herself, but another being - and kill them. Luke fails a Jedi's test by bringing his weapon and fear and anger with him, and sees his own face when he kills the illusionary Vader. This short turns that on its head, with our protagonist passing a Sith's test by taking up a weapon already inside. She sees nothing (that's shown to us) when she kills the real, living Sith. She doesn't face her dark reflection, but it is her reflection since she goes with the Sith in the end.

And of course, the mentor and leaving your old life behind - usually positive in this franchise. But here, while it has all the same trappings of the more positive or bittersweet departures (even echoing Shmi's "don't look back"), the audience knows that the Sith doesn't have any good intentions here, and that nothing but misery waits for the protagonist, not the better life she's expecting.

need a hand bro?

this was meant to be part of the comic dump last night but didn't quite make it in time

My Lady. It’s. Me.

( @buggachat’s bakery enemies AU is going great)

Reasons for a disaster lineage member to pick* a fight with God:

* a god/God picking the fight doesn’t count, Mortis

Yoda: He’s just been alive a very long time and sometimes he needs something fresh to have fun.

Dooku: He just died and is playing chess with some deity in order to avoid the shittiest afterlife.

Rael: He may be high and not realize that fighting God is the thing he is doing.

Qui-Gon: Philosophy debate that got out of hand.

Komari: Cult reasons.

Ventress: Is NOT fighting any gods, thank you very much.

Feemor: Qui-Gon put him up to it.

Xanatos: How Dare You

Obi-Wan: It happened while he was on Tatooine and honestly he doesn’t want to talk about it.

Anakin: When is he NOT down to fight a god? Multiple gods, even? He might be running on no sleep and the power of the Dark Side and also Sith Chemicals, OR he might be fifteen and on his eighth can of Space Red Bull while he works on an engineering thesis paper, OR he’s just been confronted with the inevitability of death again.

Ahsoka: Literally everything has gone to shit, her life and galaxy are in shambles, she has nothing left to lose, and Morai said to go for it.

Luke: He is not fighting any gods, he said No Thank You and left the room.