#or the dystopian capitalist hellscape we live in

I think I should probably unfollow some of the Star Wars blogs I follow, not because I don’t like their content or even think they’re wrong, but because a good 25% of my dash is people emphatically pointing out that attachment is supposed to mean possessiveness, that the Jedi were good people who thought good things, and that Anakin was a selfish dickhead + cool motive, still baby murder.

Like. This is all correct! And I appreciate that these blogs, which are far more popular and active than I am, probably get a lot of people insisting the opposite and are just as tired of that. But to me it feels like evangelism with some vague “it’s ‘Eastern philosophy’ so if you don’t like it you’re a closed-minded bigot” thrown in and it’s really goddamn annoying when my personal approach to the infinite interpretations of space wizard drama is to just take it for granted that the fic is set in a universe where whatever point the author wants to make is objective fact.

Is that universe the same one as canon? I don’t know and I don’t care as long as you tell me a good story about it. I have 2-3 essays I want to write about how Star Wars is fucking dark and how actually saying “oh it’s based on Buddhism so it’s morally superior to whatever you think” is kinda fucking sketchy and how bitch, all this nonattachment doctrine sounds a whole lot like the lies my depression tells me, but this isn’t the place for them

(in part because desktop tumblr on a tablet has an issue where I can’t scroll down far enough to see most of the “post” button and so can’t draft or queue anything)

so instead you get this vague irritated incoherent rant that won’t fix anything or make any point or change anybody’s mind I’m just fucking. Frustrated. Ugh.