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can we make the good guys look cool and the evil fascists look ugly for once

going to work 😌

The series Ahsoka is coming out soon, and in light of the recent comments by Ashley Eckstein...

... I figured I'd also point out that people hated Ahsoka.

Every complaint you've heard about Rey? It had been hurled at Ahsoka about 7 years prior.

“Oh, she’s fighting Grievous and she’s only, like 13?! That’s so OP!”

“She feels like a Mary Sue written for a prequel based fan fiction.”

“Oh, she disobeyed an order from Yularen on Ryloth?! She’s so snippy!”

“Ugh, I hate her and her stupid voice!”

“She’s always pointing out stuff other characters have missed, like she’s so perfect! She's a Mary Sue with an annoying voice and personality.”

And honestly? I remember that period. People despised Ahsoka (and sometimes voiced anger towards Ashley Eckstein too), just like they hated Hayden Christensen, and most Prequel-related content.

But guess what? They weren't the target audience. Said Eckstein in her 2018 book It's Your Universe:

“Ahsoka’s arrival on the scene was met with mixed reactions. She had a big personality and was very snippy. [...] She talked back to Anakin, and some even called her bratty. Critics didn’t quite know what to think, but kids loved her. Finally, girls had another character besides Leia and Padmé to play on the playground — and now there was a lightsaber in their hands.”

They didn't "fix" Ahsoka, as you'll see on some click-baity YouTube thumbnails.

She had a fucking character arc. There was nothing to fix.

The whole point of her character is that she starts out as immature and petulant as Anakin is in Episode II. This forces Anakin himself to grow up, so he can better take care of her.

Eventually, they both mature together... and at some point, Ahsoka surpasses Anakin by learning and implementing the Jedi teachings, while Anakin remains stuck on that first part (no thanks to Palpatine).

Same thing goes for Reva. The character has a goddamn arc.

I'm all for putting a "save the cat" moment to make these characters more likeable (and even when they do, like they did with Rey, then somehow the problem becomes that they're too likeable), but at the same time, I think parts of the fandom should wait and see before prematurely hating on a character (who almost always "just happens" to be female, weird!) to see what story is being told.

this guy on the battlefield wont stop blowing his gay little trumpet

why are there so many people who fetishize MLM in roleplay communities. If I see you describe a relationship with two men as "yaoi" I will run for the hills. Goodbye

@solar-saint this is literally you btw

You know what I'm just gonna confess right here and now, I love Erebus, I simp for Erebus, I venerate Erebus, he's the greatest Astartes to ever live and he is the sexiest man alive, and if loving Erebus is wrong then I don't want to be right. Am I screwed in the head or what?

Functionally speaking it's about on par with wanting to sleep with the briefcase from Pulp Fiction, but you do you!

Insecure 14 year old boy: "Google show me cool fashion ideas for boys"

Some YouTuber named TraditionalMasc88: "Anyone less masculine than you is a woman. All your problems happen because you dont hate yourself enough and women more."

{insert some "the bear and the bull" joke here}

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