#fucking star wars

[ilkwrdthngsdntjudge]

OH MY GOD GUYS DOES THIS MEAN INSIDE JOB AND RICK AND MORTY ARE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE I NeED ANSWERS

[furious-blueberry0]

Padawan braids should be far more decorated I don't care

I want them to have beads and bows and jewels and rings and bells and-

I want them to scream culture, to scream tradition, to scream history!!!

[jedi-starbird]

Palpatine: My boy, I'm afraid to report that Master Kenobi is very likely sleeping with your wife.

Anakin, who knows for a fact that Obi-Wan is sleeping with his Commander, a good chunk of Ghost company, the Organas and Quinlan Vos: ...where is he finding the fucking time???

Palpatine, oblivious: Oh I've heard from some very reliable sources that-

Anakin: *pulls out a spexcel spreadsheet, the 3rd System Army's shared spoogle calender and a calculator*

Anakin: Your Excellency. That's just. not logistically possible.

[evendia]

P R E A C H ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Frankly, those who think a happy ending to Star Wars 9 would have been inappropriate are the ones who least understand Star Wars at its core. George Lucas himself described Star Wars as a fairy tale. And yes, he meant it in its current most childish and clichéd aspect, that is to say with the happy ending. Not to mention his opinion on romance... So no, Having Ben Solo die at the end of Star Wars 9 and depriving Reylo of a happy ending was literally the worst thing to do, both story-wise and marketing-wise. Because, like George say himself :

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[gotham-at-nightfall]

V A D E R

By Brandon Ward

[troythecatfish]

[timbit-robin-art]

Currently watching someone grind for WR speedrun with the Lego Star Wars saga.

[autism-crime]

Me when tragic siblings:

[eightbitpale]

They ran a guy over :(

[b4adb4tcher]

imagine watching hunter run around bringing a knife to a gun fight, tech rolling around and refusing to find cover, and wrecker bodyslamming droids through a scope and SOMEHOW trying to protect them??? crosshair earned the right to act like a bitch

[87000beesinapersonsuit]

got fuckin CHILLS from this scene man. also darth vader is way harder to draw than i thought he’d be goddamn

send me an ask if you want to see a doodle of any sw characters in my style :) i also take commissions

[swedenis-h]

I take your “I don’t remember my mother” and give you “Luke thought Leia and Padmé visions were the same person”

[graye]

Rumors say this is what tipped Anakin to the Dark side.

[mroddmod]

just one more before you go

[abucketofweird]

I can’t get over this one shot:

It’s the version of Ahsoka in TCW that we knew. She was badass and deadly.

But now we see that she’s also a kid. She was trained to be a child soldier. This is her after years of fighting and learning how to handle herself in a battlefield.