The Pursuit of Ruin
Jedi June 2025
A creative fandom event dedicated to appreciating the Jedi, taking place during the entire month of June! Each week will feature two prompts, around which people can create fanwork (of any kind – fic, art, cosplay, edits, anything you can think of) or meta focusing on the Jedi and the Jedi Order. All eras and continuities are welcome; OCs, established characters, doesn’t matter – it just needs to be about appreciating the Jedi!
Rules:
If you are participating, please tag your work/meta with #jedi june and/or @ this blog so that I will see it and reblog it here. All work must be your own. Feel free to crosspost it off-site.
This is an appreciation event, focusing on what we love and enjoy about the Jedi – not what we don’t. This is not the place to air your grievances with the Code, take potshots at the Council, prop certain Jedi/certain eras of Jedi up at the expense of others, or disparage the Jedi Order or their philosophy (including the concept of non-attachment) and way of life in any way. You are free to do that on your own time if that’s your thing, but it has no place within this event.
AUs and crossovers are allowed, with caveats: again, the purpose of this event is to appreciate the Jedi as Jedi, so sticking your favorite Jedi characters in something like a modern AU or making them all Sith or Mandalorian is not really within the spirit of this event. However, AUs such as making a non-Jedi character a Jedi, having a character survive their canon death, giving a character a different teacher or padawan, or killing Palpatine off-screen in an unspecified yet embarrassing and painful manner, would all be perfectly fine. Use your best judgement to determine whether an AU fits the spirit of the event or not.
On non-attachment: in a general sense, attachment refers to grasping, clinging, possessiveness, jealousy, and the "I can't live without you"/"I will burn down the galaxy before I risk losing you" attitude. See this post and this post for more information. A romance can certainly exist without these things, so you can certainly write Jedi in relationships for this event!
Please tag any spoilers up to two weeks after the relevant content has aired.
Following the prompts is encouraged, but not required. Any sort of pro-Jedi content is encouraged all year month long, and if tagged (and following the rules), will be reblogged.
We also have an AO3 collection!
Prompts:
Week 1 (June 1 - 7):
Prompt 1: Survive
Prompt 2: Thrive
Week 2 (June 8 - 14):
Prompt 1: Precognition
Prompt 2: Telekinesis
Week 3 (June 15 - 21):
Prompt 1: Community
Prompt 2: Symbiosis
Week 4 (June 22 - 30):
Prompt 1: Celebration
Prompt 2: Hope
Bonus (any time):
Prompt 1: Resisting Evil/The Dark Side/The Sith
Prompt 2: Light in the Darkness
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask! I hope you will have fun participating!
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Do you want to start reading The High Republic books, but aren't sure where to start? This reading guide has you covered!
The High Republic era has given us so much material to explore and enjoy, but that also makes it a bit daunting knowing where to start and what order to follow.
This will serve as your, maybe not quite one-stop, but hopefully very comprehensive guide to getting into all things High Republic!
[Note: I say this isn't quite a "one-stop" reading guide, as I am certainly not the first person to have made such a list. The official Star Wars site has a reading guide (though it is out of order; so if you use it, pay close attention to the publication dates. Helpful, though, for seeing the covers of everything, if you're a more visual person). I personally have found the Wikipedia guide to be incredibly helpful. And (especially for the comics), please feel free to do some of your own research into other reading guides; I did my best to list everything, but there are more detailed comics reading guides out there.]
TL;DR: If you want the shortest answer possible of where to start, Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule. It was the very first book published in this project, and is the perfect entry point into The High Republic era.
For more details and the full reading guides, keep reading below the cut.
Let's get into it!
I know there are *many* mixed feelings about the graphics update to our poor guys faces, which I understand, but I’m just gonna ask if y’all have seen the timeline. Even if you didn’t age the five years you were dying in carbonite it’s been well over a decade since chapter one of vanilla.
My JK Commander, Ember, has been possessed twice, been betrayed multiple times, lost her husband and children for years, oh yeah birthed children, leads an entire faction, and is fighting in her third war.
I don’t want her to look like the Hero of Tython spring chicken she was.
Additionally, *I* am not the same person I was when I created her seven years ago. Ember has grown, and so have I. I’m okay with her looking the part.