Sentinel

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

anyone have a favorite myth? pls reblog with your favorite I'd love to hear some

What's in a death

Here’s an idea that makes me giggle. What about an AU where absolutely everyone in the Jedi Order faked their death at least twice.  It is practically a right of passage to die in your Padawan/Master/Grandpadawan/Extended Lineage’s arms then stroll in six months later with a captured criminal and a smoothie. 

It changes the grief. Everyone kind of treats the dead like they are on extended undercover assignments.  Like they still hold funerals because no one ever knows but everyone is really casual about death because there’s a 40% chance that person you watched die would pop back up (60% if the death was witnessed only non force sensitives, 95% if all that was found was a corpse) at some point in the future. The Jedi even have some kind of scoreboard for who was currently ‘dead’ that only the Jedi and Jedi adjacent(like the clones) know how to read. Things like how many times someone ‘came back to life’ or longest time ‘dead’ (The current record for longest time is Jon Antilles, who was declared dead for three decades before popping back up. No one, not even him, is quite sure that he wasn’t actually dead for part of that time. His life is weird.)

Of course they make sure to inform the Clones. It would be cruel not to make sure that the Clones didn’t know that this was something that happened around Jedi. They are the only non-Jedi that spend such a significant amount of time around the Jedi. 

Just picture the Rako Hardeen Arc. No one thinks to tell the Chancellor that the reason they are hesitant in having Obi Wan fake his death is because Dooku, as a former Jedi, knows not to trust a Jedi dying. They hold Obi Wan’s public funeral in front of the scoreboard.  So the entire time Mace Windu is giving a eulogy, the entire Jedi Order is watching the time ‘dead’ on Obi Wan’s entry tick upward.

Palpatine is watching eagerly, waiting for Anakin to be torn up about Obi Wan’s assisination so he can encourage him to take revenge. Except it doesn’t happen.  No one, including Anakin, appears to be grieving at all. This entire plan was supposed to get Anakin to kill his Master in a fit of revenge and. It. Just. Wasn’t working.

Anakin’s not even feeling abandoned or betrayed. How is Palpatine supposed to work with this?

It's so funny hearing Joel complain about him and Bdubs not being online at the same time because from what everyone else seems to complain, Joel is basically never online at the same time as ANYONE. This man only logs in on the 25th hour, builds an entire new building, then drops off the face of the map.

I am taking the bus in paris i hope im not gonna get attacked by the creatures!

STAR WARS REBELS 2.06, Brothers of the Broken Horn

anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr

More nuanced takes coming soon* when I've made more progress, but am I gonna need to write Seeker Sifo-Dyas fluff fic about this damn book? Yes, I am. Is it going to be tooth-rotting? Yes, it will be.

*lol jk like I ever have a nuanced take