The whole "slavery is a tool of the Dark Side" should actually have had a million alarm sirens go off in the Jedi Council that something might be off with their precious "Republic". Padmé realizes that the Republic and democracy they sought to defend might have been just a facade way before the seemingly "enlightened" Jedi. They were stuck in their old thinking that the CIS was the new "Sith Empire", the tool the Sith try to use to topple the Republic and Jedi like they did several times 1/2
before in the past 25.000 years. But that is only half of the truth as
while the CIS is indeed a Sith puppet (at least its leadership) the
Republic already is one as well because the main Sith is the damn
Chancellor and it too uses slavery. The Clone Wars weren’t Republic vs
CIS at the core, that’s just the presentation. In the end it was a
double layered trap designed to exterminate the Jedi. First thin them
out by fighting the CIS then stab them in the back with the Republic
military.
The fact
that it didn’t it’s even more proof the Order’s slow downfall. They were
already losing their grips before the clone wars. They already were being
blinded by their own fear. The Council was so afraid of the danger the Sith’s
return represented that they never stop to question themselves. Of course, the
Order’s own internal issues didn’t help matters. It’s something some Jedi fans
have a hard time accepting. The Order didn’t fall overnight. It wasn’t like
they were perfect, at their peak and one night one of their members went evil and
killed everyone. It was a slow process. It lasted YEARS. The Clones wars and
Order 66 were just the end of this process.
HOWEVER, to
be fair, the Jedi were not the only ones who failed to realized what was really
happening before it was way too late. The citizens and the Senate – Padmé and
Bail included – didn’t do much in terms of opposition until their own rights
were being trampled. None of them – the citizens, the Jedi or the senate –
realized obvious things like slavery and crime were a huge problem until their
started being the ones target. It’s a difficult thing to acknowledge, specially
when we love these characters, but it’s also what makes them so interesting.
It’s makes the prequels Era political worldbuilding the best in all Star Wars.
You won’t find this much nuance and realism in any other Era.
Maybe
because it’s such a hard pill to swallow, that’s why so many fans vilify the
CIS to such extents. Even when TCW goes out of its ways to humanize the people
who actually created the movement. I’ve seen people saying that the
Republic/Jedi should get our praise and loyalty over the CIS because the CIS
was controlled by the Sith and I’m like….Hi, may I introduce you to the Supreme
Chancellor of the Republic, Darth Sidious??!!!!
Just like
the Republic, the idea behind the CIS existed LONG before Palpatine and Dooku
came into play. People have always felt disillusioned with the rule of the
Republic over the galaxy. Palpatine only learned to capitalized that the same he learned how to use the Senate’s corruption and the Council’s passivity against them. The
ideology behind the Separatist movement wasn’t created by the Sith, it was
usurped by them. technically speaking, the Republic was being controlled by the
Sith for much longer than the CIS so the idea that the CIS was evil because the
Sith was involved doesn’t hold much water. Because by that same logic, the Republic
and the Jedi Council were pretty evil too because they also answered directly
to a Sith Lord.
The Clone
wars wasn’t good (Republic/Jedi) vs evil (CIS/Sith). It was Palpatine playing
both sides against the middle.
u know what’s wrong with tumblr now?? too many kids who weren’t here for glee. y'all have no idea. none of u understand the suffering we went through. the hell. the endless war. u come in here and u try to start The Discourse but u dont get that we already made these mistakes. we already had the discourse and its done now. its over. its all over and u should let it stay dead but u wont and that’s why we all hate u
I was not here for the days of glee but please relay that fandom history
its not history, its blood. i still see it all over this website. the vague posts. the deactivated urls. where do u think the word problematic became popular. where do u think the representational anger started. glee was the hungry gaping void that consumed us all. it said watch us and find yourself. there is someone for everyone. santana is a lesbian and kurt is gay and brittany is bisexual and quinn, god knows what quinn is, she’s straight but we have her say things like “you were singing to finn and only finn, right?” and artie is disabled. mercedes is black and our outlet for body positivity. we are all oppressed by something and we are different and we are outcasts and we are you.
and we fell for it. we watched glee and we related to its characters and we fought its wars until it was too late. until it was nothing but a distorted picture of a parody of reality, a cracked mirror in which our souls were sucked and encased in glass. finn outed santana but it’s fine because he had good intentions. sam was supposed to be gay but we’re bringing blaine anderson in for that instead. the q in quinn is for queerbait. brittany was maybe raped but it was a one liner so who really knows. will schuester was a horrible fucking adult and should never have been allowed to care for children. finn, the white straight boy, did everything wrong but it was narratively presented as right. we turned on each other. klaine vs kum and finchel vs faberry. santana fought everyone so brittana stans fought everyone. character vs character, ship vs ship, blogger against blogger. we fucking hated each other. there was no glee fandom. there were character fandoms and ship fandoms and that is it and our mottos were all fuck glee.
we won every popularity contest, every online poll. we voted our fingers to the bone. we created art and wrote fanfic and made such excellent photo manips they were published in newspapers. we were prolific. we were consumers of the hell we created and we just kept producing more in a fucked up dystopian fandom chain of supply and demand. don’t get me started on the rpf. dianna wore a likes girls shirt on tour and made a statement an hour later revoking it. some people still say heya is real but it’s like a breath of the wind, a sound so bare i can’t quite make out the words.
u asked for history. theres no history, only rage and pain and regret, the image of anonymous with a grey face and sunglasses telling u to kill urself because u thought artie was a dick for calling brittany stupid that one time. this website is a reflection of the hole glee left when it finished taking all it could from us, when the void could not consume anything more, and the posts on it now, the social justice “discourse” that is just giant piles of steaming, unsifted, unrefined shit is from those who refused to learn from us. the history is here and it followed us and we can never ever escape it.
A little late but really i want to thank to everyone for being here and supporting me despite not being really a social person or interact with u guys 💖 And I hope this year is filled with Sheith~ 🖤❤️
how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on
First thing I want to say is that it is not necessary for fiction to be good for people’s mental health. Art for art’s sake has value, so does individual autonomy, and people can create and consume fiction based on what they want and what they value without having to make it medicinal so they can justify it as a social good.
Second thing I want to say is that it is not possible to create fiction that is universally good for people’s mental health. Tumblr fandom tends to treat certain mental health needs as implicitly the most legitimate, and inherent universal needs, but it’s way more complicated than that. Many people will absolutely thrive on stories of loving, supportive families, while some people will need to avoid them due to their specific family history. Some people are helped by reading about characters they enjoy practicing healthy communication and getting positive results, while other people might come away hearing, “Everyone can do healthy communication and get helpful responses if they try hard enough, so therefore the problem must be you screwing it up!” Some people might find “Destroy the evil abuser” revenge fantasies a helpful way to process anger, while other people might find they do more harm than good. A lot of people find stories of a character being gently nurtured by someone else, while some people have negative associations with other people trying to take care of them and have bad psychological reactions to these stories. (And let me tell you, if you have a bad associations with soft pastel nurturing that mean it can put you in a bad headspace, Tumblr can be pure hell.)
Mental health needs differ. They’re not always soft. They’re not always predictable based on a diagnosis, or a few details of someone’s history. They’re diverse, individual, and sometimes mesh poorly with stuff that most people would consider healthy and wholesome. Your story might be helpful for a specific person, or for a number of people, but there’s no such thing as the universally healthy story or the universally unhealthy story. It is literally not possible to write something for the general public and ensure it’s healthy for everyone who reads it.
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