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aight last May 4th post. Happy Star Wars day to my bois :3

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friends, romans, countrymen, i present to you my labour of love and loathing:

an animatic that asks "what if you took star wars and an acoustic cover of Eleanor Rigby and shook them real hard"

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One area where I feel like modern storytelling has let us down is this:

Sometimes you have to choose between evils.

I'm not talking about "situations in which it is unclear who is actually the villain" -- IMO there are too many of those stories recently -- but stories where it's clear that the good guys have no good options. Where the only choice you can make is the wrong one, because all of the choices are wrong, because not choosing is also a choice. Where the best you can do is to choose the lesser evil, or maybe, the greater good.

Because the preponderance of stories in which the hero, through virtue of his heroism, manages to make a good choice appear when the narrative has set him up to fail leads people to have little or no framework for making such a choice.

Because -- and let me be painfully clear about this -- in life there is often no good choice. The best you can hope for is the lesser evil.

But too many people have a moral framework wherein only bad people can choose a bad option, so when only bad options present themselves, people...... don't choose? Which is also a choice, and usually a worse one. Or they insist that if people only try hard enough, are "good" enough, then a good choice will present itself.

Most of the time, that doesn't happen. Most of the time, you have to choose harm reduction over harm abolition, and wishing the world were different, were better, means the world just gets worse while you sit around waiting.

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I think that “Anakin was a slave child who was groomed by Palpatine and raised by someone who wasn’t ready to take on a child, thereby leaving him in a social limbo state where he’s surrounded by people but only has a few close confidants, with the one he trusts the most actively trying to take advantage of him”

and

“Anakin was taught right from wrong from a young age, first by his mother and then by Kenobi, but any time he was presented with a choice, actively CHOSE WRONG EVERY SINGLE TIME”

are two sentences that can, should, and MUST coexist to fully understand Anakin Skywalker as a character

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Obsessed with stories that preface their own tragedies. They stare you dead in the eye and tell you it will end badly. You watch the characters hurdle towards their doom, unable to do anything but watch. They'll give you hope that this time everyone will make it out, that just this once everything will be okay, only to snatch it away at the last moment. and when you're left grieving the end, you have no one to blame but yourself because they *told* you this was going to happen. there was no other way this could have ended

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Hi there

Every year I draw Fett on the Star Wars Day

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May the fourth be with you

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So.

No way Officers are actually giving Darth Vader reports. I bet they just rub their neck nervously, get a rookie, dress them up in high ranking uniform, and sent them to recite the reports as ic they were the officers responsible.

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Happy May the Fourth!! 🧡🧡🧡 From Cody and I

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Idk why it's so crazy to say Anakin didn't deserve to be on the council. The guy had a pregnant wife that alone means he shouldn't even be a jedi

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i love comparing the fake stories that each twin was told

(commission info // tip jar!)

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lightsabers have one fatal flaw: you cannot use them to homoerotically tip up somebody’s chin during a sword fight. that would hurt very bad actually

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Prosthetic leg Ezra getting into a fight with prosthetic hand luke. They're play flighting and took their limbs off and running around the base waving them

Leia’s had enough of their shit

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starlight

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everything we had, everything we did is buried in dust, and this dust is all that's left of us

you can get a print here