#SW-P

[opelman]

In synch by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Hawker Hurrcane pair P3935/WX-D and P3717/SW-P perform their final flypast during their display at the 2023 Old Buckenham air show. Aircraft: Hawker Hurricane Mk.I G-HITT painted as P3717/SW-P and Mk.XII G-HURI painted as P3935/WX-D. Location: Old Buckenham Aerodrome, Norfolk.

[intermundia]

[Anakin's] scar, of course, was Lucas's idea. "I just put it there," Lucas said. "I think Anakin got it slipping in the bathtub, but of course, he's not going to tell anybody that."

nobody says "Darth Vader's actually a pathetic cringefail loser asshole and always has been" more than George Lucas lmao everyone took the scary evil space wizard he made sooooo seriously and he was like "no..... the people must understand...... the true Anakin Skywalker behind the mask is just a regular guy who sucks"

[plastic-scoprion]

realest images ive ever created

[deimosbreakfrost]

Reblog if you're a real gay porn metal lover😈😈

[sunatsubu]

KABEDON

[theworstbatch]

CROSSHAIR ➟ "Juggernaut" [s03e12]

[cc-tens]

Explaining my specific hyperfixation to my friends that barely know anything about Star Wars or The Clone Wars is so embarrassing cause I'll be like

"So the Coruscant Guard are extremely tragic characters no matter how you spin them. Some people view them as emotionless, callous puppets of the Senate, forsaking their bonds of brotherhood with those who are fighting and dying on the front lines and instead heeding the beck and call of those who puppeteer the war. Some people believe that they are the "perfect" example of Kaminoan engineering, as they're the perfect soldiers willing to risk life and limb for the overall safety of the Republic with little thought of themselves or anyone else. Other people like myself view them as extremely tragic in the sense of them being examples of people scraping by, not the ones forsaking their brothers on the other side but are instead the ones who are forsaken by them. They scrape by for food and supplies, living in a hostile environment with people who view them as nothing more than government property; and yet they're the ones seen as safe and secure and a division ripples through the GAR who cannot see their brothers suffering not behind enemy lines but behind allied lines. How they must balance duty with also the oath of loyalty and love sworn by Clones as is coded in their very DNA; and yet they must march on, they must make the killing shots and the hard decisions and it is orchestrated all by those who have power over them and all that we know and yet they're the blame. No matter what they are they are tools."

And my friends are like "wow, they sound cool, can you show me the things that make people think this way about them?" And I have to say "no sorry, they have like 15 speaking lines and 30 minutes of screen time and this is all made up."

[anuspastor]

inspired by some happenings on m dashboard from a couple of days ago

[junoblowz]

me and bro

[omaano]

SW Hades AU August Update

Links and previous updates: May - June - July, everything else in this AU

In contrast to the July update, I didn't make as much progress in August as I'd intended, but all the same I'm quite happy with what I get to share with you here:

In the previous poll I only promised to get Echo and Fives to lines and flat colours by this (more than a bit belated) update, but thanks to @lesquatrechevrons keeping me company while I was working on them I managed to get the Domino Twins character art to a state of "almost finished". (I had posted them as "finished" but that was before I realized that I'd forgotten to add the little specks of neon colour to them, but oh well, I hate that stage anyway XD)

I also did some brainstorming with the amazing @elwinged about all the characters, as well as the various weapons and their aspects for this AU. They had some great theories and ideas, and also made me actively think about these things, which was real fun!

Before I go into some ramblings about what went into Echo and Fives' art and design (gotta pad this update with something, and some of you seemed to enjoy it with Omega last time), let's have another poll for next month! I've looked over my table of characters and plans, and I came to the delightful realization that I've made far better progress than how it feels on a day-to-day basis. So maybe it's time to work a bit on the boon-giver characters for a change:

Also would anyone be interested in a taglist for these updates, or are you all fine with me just putting these out whenever and let tumblr do its thing in getting them to you? (send me an ask or reply here if yes, I know my tumblr is a mess XD)

Now on to some thoughts on Echo and Fives:

Depicted but not illustrated in its fullest is that Rex has been a constant presence next to Echo and Fives (and to Cody, too, previous to that). It bears repeating that I really wanted to make sure that the clones are the same in size, and share as many colours as possible (so Cody also stood around as moral support when it came to Fives' hair). So you can also see how the shading on their faces are very similar in their shapes, except for the shadows in that part where nose, cheek and mouth meet, because I wanted to make the Dominoes look a bit younger.

Same with how Rex still has that wrinkle in his forehead that I oddly fixate on so much (don't ask), but Echo and Fives very clerly don't. I'll claim that it had been a completely conscious decision, and not just time passing between the two designs - well over half a year - during which I got it into my head that I should depict the clones during wartime as close to their barely-20-ish age as possible.

One thing I didn't commit to enough though (because I chickened out) was to make Fives look a bit more "dead" and ghostly before I put the blue-green soft light adjustment layer on him was the deeper and darker circles under his eyes, and I fully intended to leave out the light reflection from his eyes... but in the end I went back and added a duller shine to them because I'm weak, it's barely visible and he looked too grumpy and mean already T^T I also didn't want to make his cheeks more hollow or anything, because then I would just feel bad and weird about taking away the roundness from their shapes that I've worked so hard to put on them.

As I was working on this piece I've also thought a lot on the style that I've been trying to mimic through this project.

The thing that gave me pause is that I see more and more of my own style slipping into these pieces, I allow my lines to round out more... and I can claim that it is mostly because that's the compromise I can make with the clones, but I open up and look at Hades references less and less, and I just go freely with what's stuck in my brain while I'd tried to wrap my mind around the style when I first went at it.

I've also always had trouble with grouping my shadows and shapes, and this is exactly what I should be pushing more from now on forward. I keep letting myself get distracted by all the tiny details that I so enjoy to put into my work (case in point all that scarring on Echo, and even Fives' hair - as well as Cody's previously, but I didn't know how else to convey the texture of their hair in less and larger shapes). Hades character designs always feel so rich with detail, but at the same time they are a lot more streamlined than what I'd do if i let my own instincts and desires run wild. I'll try to work with that in the future!

Last but not least a few words on Echo's armor:

I'm slowly but surely stretching my artistic muscles a little and going a bit off-model for the characters, so I wanted Echo to wear armor that is a mix of his ARC and Bad Batch commando armor. So he's got the old plates on his arms (where he still has one LOL), all the straps and pouches (and both blasters!) and old kama hanging from his belt, as well as the hand print paint (because that is personally very very important to me that he has it). Then, beause I desperately needed some other colour in my characters that's not blue or black or grey, he's got elements of the red and orange paint he wears later in TBB (I really wanted him to have that orange stripe down the middle of his chest piece too, but I couldn't make it work with the handprint :() I'm real happy with this balance, and particularly with the shades of blue in his worn paint ^^

I also really wanted to give him a hand (I'll never not be frustrated at how Echo was kept literally handicapped with only his left hand to shoot and grab things (and people) with. It's good that he'd been an ARC and trained in dual wielding, but in a world where people keep losing their appendages (and sometimes half of their bodies) as if it was np big deal at all, it couldn't have been too difficult to get him a hand!! ANYWAYS. I'd first learned how to draw mechanical prosthetic hands/arms during my time in the Overwatch fandom, and I don't think I could draw them any other way (especially the fingers and the lights showing through in their joints) than how I'd done for Cole Cassidy way back when he still had a different name XD

I know there is a relatively limited way in how and what parts you can use to build up a hand/forearm, but I just cannot unsee it, and I thought I'd share this tidbit fun fact as well XD

I hope you enjoyed these ramblings, and I promise to try and keep to the normal mid-month-ish schedule for September!

[dragon-subway]

who could have seen it coming: the more faithful remake of my favourite csp brush feels infinitely better that the quick one that only mimicked the brush shape

[hurricanek8art]

I had to start trying to explain to my mom (strictly a movie/tv fan) why the Jedi are like this at this point in time, and it finally clicked in my head. The perfect way to explain how they're so rigid and strict and have such huge sticks up their butts at this point in time.

The Jedi of this generation are the result of generational trauma.

(Spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of The Acolyte, Phase One of the High Republic books, and some barebones setting spoilers of Phase Three under the cut. Also a big wall of text because I never know when to shut up 🙃)

So I'm behind on Phase III of the High Republic books (got a few chapters into The Eye of Darkness when it came out, brain farted out on me on reading ability, haven't gotten back to it yet 🙃😖) but I know enough to know that things are really going bad. The Nihil are rampaging, the Nameless are turning people to stone, the Stormwall has cut off like a third of the galaxy from the rest of it. It's a lot! It's really bad! And we see how it's affecting our heroes. Avar and Elzar are reeling without Stellan. Vern's questioning about how the Jedi are responding to this threat throughout Phase I has led her to become a Wayseeker. Padawans like Bell, Burry and Reath have been elevated to Knighthood a lot sooner than any of them expected to be. All of them are incredibly traumatized.

But that's just the Jedi we've seen. The heroes, the big names. Imagine being a nobody at this time. An extra. A child.

Imagine being a youngling in this era. There are literal nightmares hunting you. People are dying right and left, they're being husked and turned to stone or just plain shot/stabbed/whatever. The outposts are being closed down and everyone's being recalled to Coruscant, and that's the ones who've survived so far. They knocked the Starlight Beacon out of the sky, something that was supposed to be impossible. And less than five years ago, this was a golden age of peace, of light and life and great works that were bringing the galaxy together, a united front. That's horrible, that is terrifying.

We as the readers know it's going to work out, because it has to, because this is a prequel. They don't know that. They're just kids, and the world has suddenly turned upside-down, and the galaxy is big and scary and dark.

So everything works out, the day is saved. But these kids, they have to live with this trauma for the rest of their lives.

And when they grow up, and they train Padawans, those Padawans are going to carry the lessons they learned onwards. There is no lesson a Master can teach in this era that isn't going to carry the grief of the Nihil or the Nameless. There is no lesson any Master will ever teach again, from the moment Loden Greatstorm was captured by Marchion Ro all the way to Luke's temple burning to the ground, that won't somehow, in some way, be touched by this. It haunts everyone, everything. Those lessons are passed on, and on, and on.

Yord Fandar is intense about protocal and following the rules and making sure he's the perfect Jedi, because a hundred years ago maverick Elzar Mann played fast and loose with the rules while he was stationed on Valo, and then the Nihil turned the Republic Fair into a bloodbath. Sol is worried about Osha's (so far) inability to put her grief to the side and remain objective in chasing Mae because Imri Cantaros lost control and nearly murdered the Nihil who caused the death of his master during the Great Disaster. Vernestra Rwoh is refusing to charge into this without talking it over with the Council because she remembers what happened when she kept information from them a hundred years ago.

These aren't isolated incidents because they happened to the heroes, every Jedi of that era has some story like this, where the lines blurred in the fog of war and they made or nearly made horrible mistakes out of fear. And now, every Jedi is going to want to rise above that. To not make those mistakes, because that past is past. It's peaceful again. They're better now. But that trauma's lurking under the surface, just like the Sith. The Nihil won't win, but the Order isn't going to, either. Because what the Nihil did changed them, permanently.

The plot of the High Republic books is supposedly unrelated to the show, because it's a hundred years later. But the plot of the High Republic books explains everything about the Jedi in this era of the galaxy. They're carrying the trauma and grief of an entire generation that was brutalized unlike anything the Order had ever seen before.

And the Sith have watched, and waited, as that trauma has become so internalized, so central to what the Jedi are. The Jedi might not even realize that's what's happened to them. But the Sith see it.

And now it's finally time to begin the grand plan.

[parxfever]

my name is dave or awsten

im fifteennnn

hehim :p

so heavily deeply obsessed with waterparks right now specifically awsten

homestuckie too

music i like is ptv sws beabadoobee mcr patd set it off the offspring paramore decendents sabrina carpenter chappell roan olivia rodrigo the vandals fall out boy artic monkeys and shit like that. WATERPARKS IS MY #1!!!!

[ladybirdswritings]

lordddd the next chap is gna be steammmyyyy

[drowningdeadsorrowss]

intro post :3

hellooo to whoever's reading this lol. decided 2 make a tumblr again cuz i miss being 12. id love to make some friends/mutuals so here's some stuff abt me >_<

im super into emo/pop punk music! i love 2000s emo/scene fashion and i play guitar :3 i write sometimes - poetry, stories, songs, yk that kinda stuff. i love spiderman and watching those rly dumb 2000s chick flicks LOL (plz give me recs my fav is probably the hot chick). i also (try to) draw sometimes ^_^

here's some of my fav bands!!

- my chemical romance

- fall out boy

- the used

- pierce the veil

- alesana

- chiodos

- cobra starship

- the millionaires

- green day

- panic! at the disco

- paramore

- sleeping with sirens

- twenty one pilots

...and MANY more XD

here's some pics of me :p (very emo ik)

ignore my room in the background LMAO

hopefully i make some mutuals!! ill prob start posting stuff related to music/fashion on here :3 anyways, hope ur having an awesome day!!! byeeee B)

[empty-ecnelis]

Let me introduce to you Music and Dance customs of Kaon and Iacon and the difference between them. And how it makes Orion thirsty for Megatronus lol. >:3

Ok imagine this: Iaconians like classical music, the operas, ballroom music. Music were mechs sing of the purities of love and the fine feelings of life. Music you can listen to while having coffee and what not. After all, life in Iacon is mostly peaceful, you go to work, get upset about work problems, hang out with your friends, go to bed, repeat.

Not Kaon, though! With the Gladiator Rings, poverty, crime, and other nuisances, life in Kaon is full of adrenaline and aggression. It only makes sense their music would reflect such life. They like hard drums and bass. They still sing of life's fine pleasures, but they do it with much more fervor. Throughout the busy streets of Kaon, you can often hear EDM, Rap, Trap, and other similar genres of music. Dance is a common part of someone living in Kaon. Replace the coffee shop gathering with music club dance night!

Now imagine tfp Megatronus, Orion, and Soundwave before the war, back when Megatron was still a gladiator. Orion came to see one of Megatronus's fights, and as usual, he was victorious, so Magatronus asks Orion to come celebrate with him and Soundwave. Orion doesn't know what he's getting himself into but he just wants to spend more time with Megatronus so he accepts.

They enter some sort of private club, Orion can tell it's not public because he recognizes various other Gladiators Megatronus talks to. The music is a bit too loud to Orion's auditals, and everyone is talking nonstop. As they head deeper into the club, Orion can see the center of the room is not as crowded as everywhere else. He doesn't have much time to see why though as Megatronus drags him to what seems to be a bar and asks him if he would like something to drink. He says he's not sure as he's never drank before, so Megratronus buys him something he thinks he would like.

(I've linked the song the next bit is supposed to be imagined with for your convenience.)

Soundwave and Megatronus have already downed a couple of shots before Orion is done with his. In no time, Megatronus is dragging Soundwave to the middle of the room. Orion can see why it's not as crowded now, other mechs are dancing there. The mechs make room for Megatronus's giant frame and his partner. As the song develops, Megatronus pulls Soundwave closer to him, and he begins to move his hips to the drops of the music. Moving in staggering, but controlled movements. Making sure to display how much control he has over his lower body. Oh, the way those hips move. It certainly looks erotic to Orion, but it's not supposed to be. Soundwave wastes no time dancing along Megatronus, they move together like they do this often. Probably because they do.

Somehow, Orion has a clear view of Megatronus's back, he thinks he's never seen a better-looking mech than Megatronus. He can't help but feel jealous of Soundwave. How he moves his own hips to the roll of Megatronus's. How he doesn't push Megatronus's hands away from his frame when he lays them on his hips. In his dazed mind, he takes a moment to appreciate how well-built Soundwave is too. In contrast to Megatronus, Soundwave has much less plating, and the biolights that adorn his protoform are almost on full display for anyone to see. No wonder Megatronus wants to touch.

Megatronus wants to touch...

A thought crosses his mind. He should be him with Megatronus over there. It should be Orion who's grinding his aft against Megatronus, it should be Orion who Megatronus has his hands on. He knows he can't though, he doesn't know how to dance like this. He would have to ask Megatronus to teach him when they got their moment of privacy. He wonders if Megatronus would let him put his hands on that huge chest of his, or drag his servos along his strong back. Maybe that much touching and grinding would make Megatronus want to touch him instead. Would he also want to put his larger servos on Orions's hips? Megatronus's servos were so much bigger than his, he could pin both of Orion's hands with one no problem. He could pin Orion down with no trouble in general, could do anything he wanted to Orion. It's not like Orion would stop him. Megatronus could rip open his modesty panels, make do with him, and he wouldn't sto--

--What was Orion thinking about?! Primus, he should have just said no to this drink. Oh, Primus, he cannot -should not- be thinking such things.