Where My Star Wars Obsession Has Led Me

where my star wars obsession has led me

One day, I’m gonna snap and write the essay about how Anakin was a good person right up until he made the choice to Fall in RotS and how that’s the whole reason why the tragedy of the PT is so effective, because us viewers are truly rooting for him, hoping against hope that he’ll do the good deeds that we know he’s capable of, right until the very end. Reading him as a shitty person from the very start, constantly abusing the people in his life, is both contradictory to the great pains that canon takes to display his genuine accomplishments AND imo a really boring way to view the trilogy. I’m less interested in the story of an asshole becoming a bigger asshole than I am in the story of a good person with flaws that were deliberately exploited by the Manifestation Of Evil until his willpower broke.

(Tempted to insert into the essay the fact that both Anakin’s selfishness/possessiveness and his anger are symptoms of his actual fatal character flaw, not the flaws itself, which is a direct product of his childhood, but idk if this fandom is ready for that.)

i like to think theyd get their happy ending, too

Obi Wan needs a break from Anakin

obi-wan: i don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate or malewife our way out of it this time

anakin: [cracking his knuckles]

anakin: manslaughter it is

As a queer cis woman who uses she/they, simply because my queerness is such a big part of my identity that I want it reflected in the way people refer to me, this made me feel very seen! Thank you <3

lowkey hate the shit “afab she/theys” catch. is it that hard to believe that some afab people are just more comfortable with she/they. or that they’re starting to explore their relationship with their gender or identity more. plenty of ftm people start their gender journey by exploring she/they pronouns. and some people just feel more comfortable with she/they pronouns.

honestly I don’t even care if it’s a phase. or if people think it seems like it isn’t “legitimate.” I’m not gonna question someone’s pronouns. I’m not gonna act like afab people have to “earn” their she/they pronouns. I don’t even care if they’re lying about it to seem cool or for attention. I don’t care. it’s not my job to scrutinize someone else’s pronouns. leave them alone.