This Was Years Ago But I Became So Emotionally Distraught Over A Fan Fic That I Couldnt Eat And Couldnt

This was years ago but I became so emotionally distraught over a fan fic that I couldn’t eat and couldn’t sleep for 24 hours.

My throat would close up every time I tried to eat.

I had wanted to read more of it and follow it to the conclusion with hopes of everything being made right but it wasn’t worth the toll it was going to take on my body.

We get invested in characters and it hurts when bad things happen to them; even in fan fics.

As for people that I don’t know personally there are people that I only know over the Internet that I will go to war for if I learn that they are being mistreated by someone.

When I learned that someone was posting fan fic stuff based off of someone I lurk on and feed their muse on occasion Headcanons and stuff that they post and not crediting them I was already to go to war and when I learned that that the thief had set up a patreon account so people could pay them for it I was livid and promptly went to get the information that I needed to give to my Internet Friend so that they could report them to patreon for abuse.

They didn’t want to so I let things lie because I recognized that I was flipping mad and out for blood and didn’t want to upset them any further by doing it myself because there would be malice in it: I would be reporting them for hurting a friend and the fact that they were breaking the rules would be the small secondary reason.

For all of you who need to hear this

Ben Solo's death, isolated from the romance, is also problematic because he was coded as a conflicted, groomed, abused, abandoned and brainwashed child soldier fighting to break from his programming. The ancillary material supports this, and in Marvel's The Rise of Kylo Ren, it's shown he never attempted to kill Luke Skywalker, he didn't burn the Jedi temple, and he didn't attack his fellow students. It was a set-up designed to turn his family against him and place him within the First Order. Han, Leia and Rey work for two entire movies to try and bring him back. By killing every single character that even attempts to turn around, the film confirms their worst fear — that the only way out is death.

— Bea Caicoya for CBR, Jan 2, 2020

Fear is the Path to the Dark Side, Fear Leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate . . . Leads to Suffering

I don’t think that there’s a single Star Wars fan that doesn’t remember the sentence. It’s iconic and a prophecy of what Anakin’s life would be like in 13-14 years.

But has anyone considered that it isn’t just the fear, anger and hate that is in your heart that leads to the Dark Side and suffering?

Yes, Anakin was afraid. Who honestly wouldn’t be afraid after nine years as a slave, where you could be sold if your owner considered you useless or fell onto hard times or just no longer needed a slave with your talents, Anakin himself tells Padmé that he wouldn’t have lasted long if he wasn’t good at building things, and you’re surrounded by twelve of the most powerful people in the galaxy, hoping that they will accept you into their ranks and instead they read you like an open book and act like you missing your mother and worrying about her because she’s still a slave and your Master lost heavily on bets he made is a bad thing and will lead to a bad place.

However, I would argue that the whole fear, anger and hate leads to the Dark Side is a two way street. Yes you can get there by yourself but others can and often do help on the way.

The Jedi Council was AFRAID of Anakin and what he represented. They were afraid because if he really was created by the Force that meant that the Sith, who they dismissed being around still just a few hours ago, were either back or had never been destroyed and, if you want to delve into the prophecies in Master and Apprentice, faced condemnation and destruction because of their actions or lack of action. And if reading the Bible and knowing Human Nature no one likes to be told that they are not living a good life and that there will be consequences for their choices. So if Anakin is the Chosen One than that would mean that the Sith are back or never were destroyed like they thought and if the prophecy of the Chosen One is right than the prophecy about the loss of many Jedi lives could happen and that prophecy says that the Jedi had lost their way which is/led to their destruction so that means that they’re doing something wrong and no one wants to think or believe that they’re not living a good life and need to make changes.

So Anakin represented the possible beginning of their end, not something ANYONE likes to think about, and when they were able to confirm that the Sith were back/still around fear moved in. Fear because they had somehow missed the Sith for a thousand years and fear of what would happen to the Jedi Order.

Anger is harder but I am sure that the Jedi Council felt anger towards Anakin. Some of it was no doubt because he didn’t always listen and obey, hard to control, some of it could have been fear/anger at the idea that the Jedi Order was ignoring its mandate to protect people and that many Jedi would be lost because of it and Anakin represents that.

And while they probably didn’t outright hate Anakin they were angry and later grew to hate how Palpatine maneuvered them into letting him have access to Anakin which led them attempung ti use Anakin to spy on Palpatine which helped lead to their downfall.

I just don’t understand why they just either tried harder to dissuade the friendship, even if it meant assigning Obi-Wan and Anakin to someplace far away from Coruscant, or simply telling Palpatine that they needed Anakin elsewhere in the war, besides there are other Jedi better suited for the role he wants, and immediately assign Anakin offworld to help any number of Jedi that needed support.

And then we have Mace Windu who acted on fear, anger and hate when he learned from Anakin that Palpatine was the Sith Lord they had been looking for all these years.

So we get the destruction of the Jedi Order, something that the Jedi Council had feared for some time, because of fear, anger and hate which led to the suffering of surviving Jedi as well as the galaxy because they had unintentionally helped put a Sith Lord in power but also gave him a powerful and deadly Apprentice/enforcer.

So we have fear, which led to anger, anger that led to hate and the hate gave way to suffering.

And that veered off but instead of ending up in the weeds I ended up at a slightly different destination. Either way: your fear, anger and hate don’t necessarily lead YOU to the Dark Side and suffering but it can lead others to it.

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“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

As a very young child I used to have night terrors and wake the whole house with my screams. My Mom banned anything remotely scary after 5:30 and if something remotely scary played after this time the sibling responsible was the one to comfort me afterwards. While the night terrors have gone away I have always had an active imagination and have scared myself with the plot synopses of scary movies and watching documentaries about hauntings.

Now recently my eight year old niece ‘Chibi’ came home from school and told her mom that a fellow student told her something about a haunted or possessed doll in their house that was reportedly following them around wanting to hurt them. Chibi had a nightmare that night and it took her mom at least an hour to calm Chibi down enough to understand what was wrong and assure her that her dolls wouldn’t kill her. Chibi slept the rest of the night in her mom’s bed.

It also came out that other kids in school were teasing her for not watching scary movies that aren’t appropriate for children their age (PG-13 and R ratings in the USA).

Unpopular opinion but horror movies shouldn’t be advertised on apps/websites like Spotify where it is impossible to click them away

It’s not only that children use these but also that it really sucks for many people who are naturally frightened easily, have mental health issues/are not neurotypical

I don’t want to have to suffer through 30 seconds of scary noises and screaming and shit like that to be allowed to listen to music

He even declares that the Force is more powerful than the Desth Star. The Jedi liked to say just how powerful the Force is; Yoda basically repeats the sentiment to Luke: size matters not.

“Be Careful What You Ask For.”