#Star Wars Books

[darth-jess]

God this makes me want to cry. Poor Vader.

This particular Vader comic (2020) chapter encapsulating my favourite scene ever in any Vader comic that exists.

Vader goes to visit Padmé’s and his old apartment after finding out that Luke was his son, and brings his droid companion along with him (forgot its name, lol.) It questions him about why they’re even there, Vader surprisingly answers the question honestly and says that Padmé is Luke’s mother to which the droid responds by rummaging through its data, and finds that Padmé was often accompanied by a Jedi Knight by the name of “Skywalker” which is Luke’s name.

The best part of this scene being how the droid further adds to his statement that “they” must have become “friendly.” 😏

It’s the way Vader is just standing there listening as the droid says this for me.

[star-wars-forever]

Jedi Quest

cover art by Tsuyoshi Nagano

[bones4918]

What if the reason Etain and Bardan seem to think they were kidnapped as children by the Jedi is because neither of them can comprehend the idea that their parents could have given their children away willingly? Etain looks at Kad and wonders how her parents could do the same and still want to give her away

[hurricanek8art]

HELLO HI YES I AM CURRENTLY GOING INSANE OVER THE NYCC SW BOOKS PANEL BECAUSE LOOK AT PRETTY JEDI ARMOR

THE IMPLICATIONS THAT THE JEDI TEMPLE GUARD ARMOR ARE SOME OF THE LAST LIVING STYLISTIC REMNANTS OF THE HIGH REPUBLIC. THE (fully my assumptions ahead) POSSIBILITY THAT THE ARMOR IS PASSED DOWN FROM THE ERA OF FIGHTING AGAINST THE SITH. I WILL BE CHEWING ON THE WALLS UNTIL WE GET CONTEXT AND BACKSTORY FOR THIS.

[charmwasjess]

"Jedi must ignore their feelings." "That's quite a statement. Is it your own?" "Yes." Then the boy considered. "Well... Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan said much the same." "I think you misunderstood," Mace said. "Jedi do not ignore their feelings. They integrate them. Own them. They fear, but they are not afraid of fear. They grow angry, but they allow their anger to motivate only honorable action. Do you understand?" The boy nodded, but Mace knew he did not --yet. There was time. -Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss by Steven Barnes, pg 24

[techwrecker]

I think my favorite thing about the Star Wars fandom is that there are subsections within subsections in it.

Oh, you like the clone wars but not necessarily the jedi bits? Boy, do we have a subsection for you.

Wait a minute- you ONLY want the jedi bits? Take a look at this fiiiiiine subsection over here.

Fictional politics really get you going? Lemme introduce you to another subsection.

You wanna revel in the romance of it all? BOOM! Subsection!

So you’re more of a reader, huh? ANOTHER SUBSECTION CRASHES THROUGH THE WALL!

I just think it’s so unique and so fun that you will meet so many different Star Wars fans who aren’t necessarily within your subsection(s), but you share a love for the same umbrella of media! I haven’t ever seen a similar fandom in all my years of fandom-ing. It truly is SO special.

[tyquu]

your art is so cute!! I want to hug all the characters. also I am totally vibing with your amputee Ezra and genderified Kanan headcannons

i see you have recently finished a new dawn as well—welcome to Kanera brain rot ville :)

Ahhhh thank you! I’m super glad the art has been a vibe! And whilst I don’t have any new Kanera to offer just yet, I do have some general “A New Dawn” doodles from the past week to offer instead ✌️

[fromcold]

*files carefully under sub!Anakin folder*

[jeronandor]

there is some really great rogue one/andor stuff in chris kempshall's the rise and fall of the galactic empire

[magnusbae]

"Why had she survived? She wasn’t the most powerful; she wasn’t even a Jedi Knight, and yet she was still alive when so many others had died." ― E.K. Johnston, Ahsoka

[thequeerlibrarian]

Wild Space by Karen Miller

[a-wisebear]

i think dormeé "we should burn the senate and start it again with a system that makes sense" and fox "i get it. sometimes you just gotta kill someone" should be friends, as a treat

[mintelsa]

Happy Stars Wars Day yall!!!!!

had to draw my favorite girl ~ <3

[duchess-of-mandalore]

“Satine always took care to present herself with dignity, wearing colors that reminded one of rich foliage and adopting floral-inspired hairstyles that she wore like a crown. It was not vanity. It was strategy. Her appearance was designed to remind her people that their world had been one of lush forests and jewel-colored lakes before war turned Mandalore into a desert.”

- “Kenobi’s Shadow,” The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark

[star-wars-forever]

Hayden Christensen and Thrawn author Timothy Zahn

[charmwasjess]

Lightsaber Theory: Obi-Wan "Sith Lords are Our Specialty" Kenobi consistently loses duels to Dooku not for any reason of technical form mismatch or lack of ability, but because Dooku is not even pretending to try to kill him. Resultantly, Obi-Wan can’t figure out what the fuck is going on when they fight. 

Obi-Wan: (preparing to defend an expected lethal strike) You’ll answer for your enormities, Count!

Dooku: (giving him the lightest love tap on the leg) Don’t be so sure, my special good lineage baby boy, so perfect in my eyes. 

Obi-Wan: …What?

Dooku: What?

Which Dooku and Obi-Wan proud lineage moment is even the most unhinged? There are so many to choose from! Is it Dooku’s frequent inability, both in AotC and TCW, to keep from spontaneously gushing about Sidious’s plans and even his own dark secrets to Obi-Wan?? Is it the time in Labyrinth of Evil where Dooku drags a long-suffering, bored Grievous over to watch a holorecording of Anakin and Obi-Wan thwarting his plans yet again, to point out how beautifully they’re working together as a team and how much he likes watching their lightsaber work evolve? Is it in the recent Brotherhood novel, where Obi-Wan just has to casually namedrop Qui-Gon to get Dooku to do exactly what he wants?

Obi-Wan is a big problem for Sidious in his mission to destabilize and corrupt Anakin, and Sidious knows it. He needs him out of the picture to do the same isolating, evil bullshit that worked so well when ensnaring Dooku himself. But the war has been going on for years now, and guess who remains inconveniently alive? And whose job was that to take care of? Oh yeah. I remember. His useless, Padawan assassin-collecting apprentice: fucking Count Dooku. By the time of RotS, Sidious has specifically ordered Dooku to make fucking sure Obi-Wan is dead only for him to completely ignore the command about a half-dozen times.

Going by the Stover RotS novelization, in the same scene where Dooku also literally refers to Obi-Wan as his fucking grandson actually, add that to our earlier list, Sidious reiterates that KILL OBI-WAN is the plan (over the sound of Dooku’s loud complaining) moments before that final duel.  I kind of wish we’d gotten a shot of Sidious's incredulous, enraged expression as Dooku knocks Obi-Wan unconscious and pins him safely out of the way. He is, once again, going out of his way to not kill Obi-Wan in that duel, and this time directly disobeying his Master to his face after they just had a conversation about it. You just know exactly what Sidious must be thinking at that moment. Oh, Dooku. You are so fucking fired.