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OH MY GOD CRISSSS <333 IT’S GLORIOUS!!!!!! IM SCREAMING. THANK YOU SO MUCH

My part of a little art trade with @incognito-cactus, who agreed to send me 2(!) sets of their merch for just one picture of VaderLukes being cute, and I still can't believe their kindness for it 🥺 It was supposed to be a sketch, but I can't restrain myself I just got them and I absolutely adore them My first piece of fan-made merch that I own, and I'm so happy it's this one

(Featuring a precious handmade artwork by @just-an-awkward-rat, as a base of my little VaderLuke shrine 🤲)

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Omg hiii, I was looking into some of your art and saw you were in a vaderluke server. Is it still possible to join???

Yes indeed! If you DM @bliss-unmuzzled, they can provide an invite link :)

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All I do is read my books, write my papers, eat, sleep, drink, and think about Luke and Vader. I want for nothing 😌

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You know I understand the take but I can´t help but see all those headcanons and memes of Anakin blaming Obi-Wan or the Jedi Order for his fall extremely OOC for his character. Vader believes the Jedi and the Republic fell because they abandoned their principles, not because of whatever relationship they had with him.

Vader dueled Obi-Wan on the Death Star(ANH) but he wasn´t even mad at his old master, he actually told him "You should not have come back" and "Your powers are weak old man" and "I was the learner now I am the master" that is it, that´s all Vader has to tell his master(the man he used to see as a father) after being left behind burning alive.

When Luke confronts Vader on Cloud city he tells Luke not to let himself be destroyed like Obi-Wan did, he is aware Obi-Wan used him to die and it doesn´t bother him because he is like ok, he wanted to go but please Luke dont do the same.

This man literal reaction at learning his child had been trained to kill him and his master was to offer him to rule the galaxy together as father and Son because of course he is a monster but he can offer his boy the galaxy and make up for it right?

This is Anakin, he justified his slave owner for owning him and his mom, he justified the Jedi despite separating and leaving his mother behind as a slave and cutting all contact from her, in fact he blamed himself for not going to her before she was kidnapped and murdered and he keep justifying the Emperor until he no longer was able to when he wanted to kill his Son in front of him.

Vader´s problem is the fact he keeps wanting to justify the systems he belongs to even if he finds them unfair but believes if he keeps trying to fix them all those sacrifices he made will be worth something in the end but he is totally unable to recognize to himself the way how living under those systems have shaped or hurt him and while he does see the damage those systems do for others, he believes he can stop that at some point(put order in the galaxy, put Padme in charge, defeat the emperor)

This is why an usual dialogue between Vader and anybody else who opposes him in canon is bassically, yes, I know I am a monster, I understand where are you coming from but it´s my duty to destroy you. Because eventually at some point he wants it be worth something, just like it was worth it to leave behind his mother as a slave, killing for the republic, killing for the Jedi and killing for the Empire, it has to be worth it.

Luke, by refusing to fight him, trusting him and loving him was the only way he could begin to free himself from the darkside, because he found someone who saw him worth living and being loved not for what he could do for them but because he was a person, his name was Anakin and he was worth being saved and he didn´t need to do anything else for Luke besides loving him back and protect him like a father does for his child.

That´s what snapped Vader out of his apathy, which is the actual opposite of the love Anakin used to have for the people in the galaxy, for the Jedi and for his family, that´s the Jedi that came back.

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love always finds a way 💕

Dragon AU! Courtesy of @vaderlukecore & friends from the Vaderluke discord server :)

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Dragon AU! Courtesy of @vaderlukecore & friends from the Vaderluke discord server :)

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apocalyptic skies

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"Take pride in what you are."

Okay, how about something that isn't old and unfinished And also to the point of this page actually existing Sponsored by @just-an-awkward-rat and his ramblings about how original concept of Zootopia included predators receiving restriction collars on their 18th birthday, and their parents tried to turn it into a big special event, not something sad and horrible Welp, in my AU it's real special alright

Second version, think they go together nicely

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(thru gritted teeth) if only somebody needed to be rescued...

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Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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(Shhh, I didn’t mess up buying postage. You didn’t see anything 😭)

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Luke: No, Father, you can’t murder the technician just because he’s giving us a weird look ☹️

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sabédala is awesome when you lean away from viewing it as the healthy alternative for padmé and lean towards how deeply psychologically weird everything about it is. i love you inherent hierarchy i love you dog/handler dynamic i love you coexistence of romantic desire and sisterly devotion and straight up power imbalance i love you unhealthily losing your sense of self in another person i love you unequal investment

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tcw (2008) Anakin is actually the worst characterization of Anakin ever and actively does harm to the prequels and his arc but I don’t think yall are ready for that conversation

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I left my desk unattended for a few mins and my roommate Did Something TM to my Luke and Vader figures. What is she cooking…

They can stay out of acrylic box jail for now *i guess*

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