A princess like your majesty can do this if she tries!

antianakin:

Unpopular opinion: I think Ahsoka is at her best and most interesting in the first two seasons of TCW and has only gotten progressively less nuanced as the years have gone by.

Ahsoka in TCW intentionally has flaws. They’re pointed out more than once, there’s ENTIRE EPISODES dedicated to Ahsoka having to fix her mistakes or being punished for disobeying orders or having to learn how to be better after she messes up and hurts people. Ahsoka has to keep learning lessons from Tera Sinube, and Aayla, and Luminara, and Padme, and Yoda.

But by the time you hit around season 4, Ahsoka starts being PERFECT. She is suddenly FLAWLESS as far as the narrative seems to see it. Even if she’s doing the wrong thing, you’re supposed to recognize that she is doing it for the right reasons. She’s constantly level-headed, wise, and often treated as though she’s practically an adult Jedi by the other Jedi around her despite having been young to be a Padawan at all and with only 2 years of training tops. It’s no wonder so many people were so ready to believe that the Jedi were ready to Knight her at the end of the Wrong Jedi arc, Ahsoka’s being written as though she’s suddenly 25 years old with a decade of training, similar to how we see Obi-Wan acting in TPM instead of the barely trained child she should still be.

And then you hit Rebels and she’s literally making entrances BATHED IN LIGHT LIKE AN ANGEL, incapable of being beaten by anyone except Darth Vader himself, she’s got lightsabers of PURE WHITE LIGHT, and the other two Jedi characters treat her like a Master. And then she dies, walks off into the shadows, and comes back swathed in white robes and with a white staff, haloed in light like a wise shaman of some kind.

At least Din manages to push back against her choices in The Mandalorian, it’s probably the first time we’ve seen Ahsoka have an opinion that someone else disagreed with and that the narrative explicitly treats as WRONG, forcing her to reconsider and make a different decision.

But by The Book of Boba Fett, she’s schooling Din now, back to being the wise shaman who knows everything and can do no wrong.

In Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is practically perfection incarnate: more skilled than any other Jedi, more compassionate and connected to the galaxy than anyone else, someone who tamed and rode on the back of an apex predator before she could walk.

I want Ahsoka to have FLAWS again, I want the narrative to let her be WRONG and reap the consequences of that, I want to see Ahsoka LEARN SOMETHING again, I want to see her GROW as a character for the first time in over a decade.

phoenixyfriend:

“Satine should have been a villain” is just. I’ve seen it a few times and. Ffffff please tell me more about why you think a woman doing “my community should do less colonialism/imperialism/child abuse” is the bad guy, without revising what she, her people, or the Traditionalists whose culture (of imperialism, child soldiers, and freaking devşirme, depending on the sect) is being “ruined” by her saying “yeah, you don’t get to kill people for money anymore.”

Mandalorian history is filled with Mandalorian armies committing genocide, both full and cultural. Why, for the love of all that is good and holy, why would you accuse Satine of doing exactly the thing she is canonically an activist against?

People just. Take Satine’s best traits. And transplant them onto Jaster Mereel.

Then they say she’d be better as a villain because she’s erasing a culture whose best traits (egalitarianism, diversity, compassion, a desire to help the weak and abused) are either informed traits, wholesale fanon, OR STOLEN FROM NEW MANDALORE.

Revising canon so that the True Mandalorians aren’t uncomfortably racist and killing political activists for money (see: Open Seasons) so that their portrayals match up to their stated values is fine, but… claiming the pacifist is a more interesting villain because the culture she erased is diverse and progressive in fanon is… why. Why is it more interesting to write a pacifist, progressive character as the bad guy than to explore her in the context of the deeply messed up culture she was raised in.

I just. This is a woman who is shown displaying compassion at every turn and explicitly stated to have gone through hell for her beliefs, who rations when her people do, who said “no more war” because her people killed so many and then each other.

It’s so much more interesting to investigate what she went through. It’s so much less pro-imperialist to just RETCON THE DEMOGRAPHICS (the way canon did) and reimagine Satine as a woman of color to ditch the White Blonde Politician weirdness than to say “actually, the gun-toting mercenaries who said things like ‘the natives are poorly armed’ (thanks, Jaster) are the morally best option for this culture.”

Hell, there’s room to go 'oh hey, Kalevala was likely a planet that was colonized, since it’s not Manda'yaim, which means Satine is possibly descended from people who, like Kal Skirata, were forcibly assimilated into Mandalorian culture way back.’

Just. Why is “the pacifist activist who is on decade number three of changing her own culture from the inside to be less British/Danish/Ottoman/Mongolian/Japanese/Roman Empire-esque should be the bad guy” your go-to?

cipheramnesia:

steviecopeland:

Friendly reminder that calling Zuckerburg a lizard or alien is antisemitic and echoes New World Order propaganda about Jews. Zuckerberg is an ethnic Jew, and insinuating that he’s something inhuman only contributes to the current resurgence of neo-Nazi views

Let me help some of y'all with reading comprehension:

“[C]alling [any Jewish person] a lizard or alien [or not human] is antisemitic and echoes New World Order propaganda about Jews… [and] …contributes to the current resurgence of neo-Nazi views.”

It’s not about one guy. It’s about being made aware that using neo-nazi dogwhistles about a Jewish person makes the world a more comfortable place for nazis to fuckin murder the rest of us.

It’s okay if you didn’t know, it’s not your fault, dogwhistles are that way on purpose, to slip by unknowingly. Just knock it off and try not to spread it around yes? Okay.

(via williamfbuckley)

jeonjcngkook:

JUNGKOOK 2023 calvin klein fall campaign

(via yoonminist)

yuumei-art:

POV: The space void is stealing your sandwich with his blackhole of a stomach ✨⭐

And in case any homophobic bigots missed my last 2 pride posts: you see this cat? He’s gay. That sandwich? Also gay. The plate? Extremely homosexual. The table? It’s made of vashwood.

(via leepacey)

girlalcoholic:

i watch one episode with bela and suddenly i am on the winchester critical train. she was right theyre serial killers on a revenge path and bela’s just doin what she does best which is fucking bitches and getting money <3

(via glorianas)

sarafroot:

WHAT MURDAAA