#a purple lightsaber

[tyquu]

Porble ,,,

[nox-lunarwing]

Happy Star Wars day! I love how happy Mr Jackson is upon hearing those final words :3

[star-wars-forever]

Samuel L. Jackson photographed for Empire magazine

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

a gift for the awesome @nicolabarth :]

(in the spirit of asajj i have used that one program on the image that makes it a little, shall we say, poisonous. 😉 what damage a lovely purple flower can do.)

[luciouz]

Day 5: Dreams and madness

Some role reversal yep

[threebea]

Jedi trying to not sound any more strange than they already do to non-jedi: the Kyber crystal that powers my lightsaber is Force Sensitive, but it isn't sentient.

Actual Kyber Crystals: the judgiest bitches you've ever met. Has opinions on everything. If your cat could gossip to you and also help you with your sword form that would be a Kyber crystal.

Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber: first this karking shabuir keeps dropping me which wasn't bad because the handsome commander would polish me and give me good vibes before returning me and NOW he buries me in a kriffing desert. Bruck Chun was right. Oafy-Wan would lose his head if it wasn't attached. Worse human in existence.

Obi-Wan's lightsaber when he retrieves it: 😍 daddy daddy daddy! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[splitsabers]

Cal Kestis's Lightsaber - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Cal Kestis Week - Day One: Lightsaber

[adragonsfriend]

Purple Lightsabers: a new* interpretation

*It's possible this has been proposed before, but if it has, I haven't seen it.

Getting too deep into color symbolism of lightsabers isn't my favorite thing, because it often devolves into "wow look at my OC's rainbow lightsaber," (meanwhile said OC is straight for some reason…) but sometimes I have a thought about it that really gets me. This is one of those:

A common interpretation of purple lightsabers is that they symbolize a balance of the good and evil sides of the force, based on the fact that purple is a mix of blue and red, but as many discussions of gray/dim jedi have established, the idea of using both the evil-side of the force and the good-side is stupid and contradictory to the themes of Star Wars.

I propose that the purple of purple lightsabers are not a mix of blue and red, but a mix of blue and pink.

Thematically,

Blue lightsabers supposedly indicate a Jedi who is focused on saberwork and strong in using force abilities,

While (the first result on google says), "the color pink is often associated with qualities such as compassion, love, inner strength, and nonviolence, all of which are embodied in characters wielding pink lightsabers."

I am guessing that's a Legends or High Republic lore because they tend to get more into lightsaber colors than any other material, but I'm willing to take it and run.

Doesn't that combination sound like the perfect description of Mace Windu? Like yes he's focused on saber work--he created an entire lightsaber form about it, and he's probably the best duelist in the Order--but it's all in spirit of and service of compassion, protection, and fierce love. Vaapd is a form that requires immense inner strength as well.

It's a combination that is very much about what can physically be done to help people.

Color Mixing,

From a sheer color theory point of view, you cannot get this bright a shade of purple from mixing blue and red--you can get vibrant darker shades that way, but to go lighter you have to add white, and that dulls down the color really quickly:

If you mix blue and magenta on the other hand, it stays much brighter even when you add white:

Now tell me which of those better resembles this:

And before anyone comes at me with the children's hospital thing, yes, I'm aware that it's a very reasonable first assumption for purple to be a mix of red and blue--that is the over simplified to the point of inaccuracy factoid we are taught in schools (in reality, there is a reason it takes most languages a long time to develop a separate word for purple, and it's at least partly because solid clumps of bright purple are actually pretty damn uncommon in nature. Most bright purple dyes are artificial).

In conclusion,

A blue-pink purple works better than a blue-red purple thematically, visually, and socially as well. Going with this interpretation cuts out any need for the idea of Mace and Vaapad actually drawing on the evil-side of the force and the implication of him being somehow related to the Sith. It allows the narrative to focus on the idea of him as a protector rather than the vaguely racist idea that he has inherently more underlying anger than other Jedi.

[tlmtwelve]

October 18, 2024: Lys Solay

[kyberkanan]

people hating on vernestra’s lightwhip & saber color is hilarious when the same people will also love legends, where both of these things show up on multiple occasions

[nobleatomics]

Another one for Mermay. An old Jedi twi'lek oc turned into a random Merman.

[itneedsmoregays]

More awesome artwork by @mikaila-orchard

[auditect]

Who else thinks it would have been cool if Mace Windu had dual-weilded his two lightsabers at some point?

[daylighteclipsed]

Sora and Riku would love Star Wars

[snakerdoodlle]

Jedi Mare

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This is the first thing I’ve drawn in about 6 months 🫶 Mare for the win

[luciouz]

Sketched @saltybuckwheat idea of using a lightsaber as a lighter