#gimme more of the sw history shit

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As someone who has yet to actually see a single episode of TBB in full and mostly just scrolls through the tag to see people's reactions, lemme just say this:

HOLY FUCK I WAS NOT EXPECTING A ZEFFO MECH

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11, 24, 40 👀

!!! OHMYGOSH HELLO!!!!! 

11) Which planet would you want to call home?

If I liked heat at all, I’d say Tatooine since it’s my absolute favourite planet ever!! It’s just?? So fascinating??? I adore all the legends/canon lore and I have a bunch of headcanons, too :) 

However I, unfortunately, do not handle hot climates very well. So Imma have to go with Alderaan! They’re very environmentally conscious and have an interesting (if not very canonically developed) culture! They also seem to be a very morally good people? Just- everything about the people and the planet is so incredibly idyllic. I wouldn’t mind living there as long as it doesn’t involve any Death Stars. :)

24) Would you want to be human, or from another species?

I’d definitely want to be a Zabrak!! They’re my favourite humanoid species (besides Tusken Raiders, but like....i don’t actually want to BE a Tusken Raider..). It’d SUPER SUCK if I came from Dathomir but alsooo those sweet tattoos??? 👀👀👀 (But for SOME stupid reason female Dathomirian Zabraks DON’T have horns so I’d have to have to just..not have be cis female which is A-OK with me! ✨) I just love their horns and they’ve got super cool lore! Plus two planets which is even cooler!

40) If you could make your own Star Wars trilogy/series, what would it be about?

Oh GOD I would 10000% go straight for Nomi Sunrider!!! One of my all time fav SW characters!!!! You can find her in the Tales of the Jedi comics (specifically: The Saga of Nomi Sunrider, The Freedon Nadd Uprising, Dark Lords of the Sith, The Sith War, and Redemption). Of course, I own all of these, bc I Needed all the Nomi Sunrider Content in my life. Here I’m gonna spam you with pics:

She lived around ~4000 BBY, during the time of the Great Sith War (which she was HEAVILY involved in!!) I STAN Nomi Sunrider (née Da-Boda) not only bc of her cool name but because:

1) Look at that GORGEOUS receding hairline!! Love a powerful woman who OWNS her looks and doesn’t give into traditional beauty standards!

2) She was married to a Jedi before she became one. Her husband constantly told her she was powerful and would make an AMAZING Jedi (yay for marrying a man who LOVES and SUPPORTS his wife!!) but she was too humble to become one.

3) She is a MOTHER!!!!!!!

3) Her husband DIES. Objectively terrible for her, but 1000% amazing for US!!! Because then she takes up his lightsaber and absolutely DESTROYS his murderers.

4) She immediately feels guilty and vows never to take a life again (which.....she might go back on at some point, I honestly don’t remember, but I ADORE her for all of this)

4) She is now a SINGLE mother and we STAN single mothers in this house!!!

5) SHE IS A SINGLE MOTHER AND SHE STILL BECOMES A JEDI!! REPEAT!!! SHE IS A SINGLE MOTHER AND BECOMES A JEDI!!!!!!!!!! SHE RAISES HER DAUGHTER WHILE SHE IS A JEDI!!!!!!!!!!! How can I NOT fucking adore her??

6) She mistakes her new Master for a fuckin HORSE basically. A giant, bulky horse. Also, she rides him around all the time. It’s great. Nothing like letting your Master carry you around like he’s a beast of burden. Like Yoda in reverse.  

7) She’s got her own funky droid called A-D3O (ThreeDee) and they consider each other FAMILY!!! FAMILY!!! They worry about each other all the time and ThreeDee plays instruments! Three Dee also has a weirdly humanoid face and I LOVE him. I think he also uses a blaster at some point I don’t remember. Anyway, I Fully Support droids using blasters to kill the villains.

8) Also, okay, wiki says she’s human, but I 10000% do NOT believe that. maybe near-human but not fully human. I need more non-human female main characters in my life, please and thank.

8.b) This is turning into Nomi Sunrider Loving Hours but I will take ANY opportunity to scream about her and how much I want to marry her or just- be her friend. Or let her step on me. I’ll take anything at this point, really. I’m Begging.

9) She ends up becoming part of a TRIO with two brothers. They are 1000% her sidekicks and no I am not taking any other opinions on this matter.

10) She shacks up with the objectively Worse brother, but I support her coming to terms with the loss of her husband and finding new love and happiness in her life. At least she’s got a bro to complain about her stupid bf with.

10.b) Unfortunately, her stupid bf is ACTUALLY Stupid Beyond Belief and Nomi Sunrider is in for a lot of heartache.

10.c) There are some SUPER COOL parallels between the brothers and Anakin&Obi-Wan so I’m always here for that. 

11) Nomi Sunrider KNEW it was a Stupid Idea for her bf to infiltrate the Sith to “take them down from the inside.” She KNEW and she TOLD HIM. She is a fucking SMART WOMAN. But does he LISTEN?? NO. HE DOESN’T.

12) Nomi Sunrider is actually??? One of the most powerful Jedi EVER???? Like, she completely SEVERS her bf’s connection to the Force (bc he is a Stupid and Kills his brother and she is DISTRAUGHT) and also is able to create a giant Force-shield she uses to defeat Exar Kun. She is HUMBLE and INTELLIGENT and POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF.

13) May I gently remind you that she STILL is a single mother and successfully raising her child during all of this??? Through training and adventures and a fucking WAR, Nomi Sunrider is KILLING IT with the parenting and her daughter LOVES her.

14) Nomi Sunrider BECOMES GRAND MASTER OF THE JEDI ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15) Gonna say it again: NOMI SUNRIDER BECOMES GRAND MASTER OF THE JEDI ORDER!!!!!!!!

16) Need I say more??

So like, not only would we get an INCREDIBLE female lead who I think would actually be a fucking AMAZING influence culturally (that representation babaaay~), it would also take place during a SUPER interesting time in GFFA history?? It’s a relatively new but still well-established Jedi Order that ISN’T based on Coruscant quite yet (OSSUS OSSUS OSSUS). We’d get TOOONS of alien species, a shit ton of culture/history and lots of new planets!! We still get some ~spicy~ Sith conflict, and we get to see how it plays out in an intriguing way that sort of parallels Anakin?? OH AND!! We get to see a very different Jedi Order!! The dude who interpreted the Jedi Code as we know it lived during this time, so it’d be really really really cool to see different philosophies and cultures within this time period! (things like marriage not being frowned upon or even encouraged, etc. etc.)

I dunno, I just love this time period and I would die for Nomi Sunrider, so. GIMME A NOMI SUNRIDER TRILOGY PLS

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AAHHH this was super fun!!!! Thanks for letting me blather :’D I just love Star Wars SO MUCH???

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OKAY THE LAST JEDI THOUGHTS UNDER THE CUT

so i went in blind. i didnt watch any trailers, i saw some gifs on tumblr, how can i not? but i didnt listen to any prior opinions or spoilers, i just saw that in general people either LOVE IT or hATE IT

i’m always bad about putting these thoughts together post film because i have awful short term memory but i can give some overall thoughts

during the first half i was kinda like “okay i see why some ppl have issues w/ this movie” like some of the elements did feel a little random at times but hey i went with it, and

HO

LY

SHIT

ACT TWO

IT SAVED THAT FILM

like seriously the entire second half my mouth was open the whole time, i was grinnin, i was excited jumping in my seat like DYING. i thought everything from that point on was so fucking brilliant???

i’m super glad i didn’t watch trailers MAINLY BECAUSE the last sequence on that planet with the snow and then the underlayer of red salt? fucking beautiful. cinematographic HISTORY MADE like holy shit that scene HAS to go down as iconic star wars scenery and i’m not even like a huge sw fan but i decree it hi

now the characters. i don’t agree w/ the things ppl have been saying about being disappointed w/ characterization. i can MAYBE see the opinion that Finn kinda got left in the dust, but i really don’t agree in the end like he did feel like a bit of an outlier and definitely less strong than the arcs we saw from kylo, rey, and poe (i need to dedicate an entire post to poe in this movie ohmygod pilot of my heart). i still really like what they did with finn, but rose was hella weak as far as introducing a new character can go and i was disappointed in that :/ i did like her line about not fighting what they hate protecting what they love like HOW STAR WARSIAN but then the kiss kinda ruined that imho

okay poe. oh hot damneron. as a poe stan i was SO PLEASED like they did not utilize poe enough in TFA and they BROUGHT ME BACK FROM THE BRINK WITH POE CONTENT IT WAS SO GOOD!! SO GOOD!!! I LOVED THAT WE SAW A CHARACTER ARC!! HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LEIA!! everything w/ poe was great. constantly calling finn pal and buddy too omg i loved every moment. rebellious pilot owner of my heart also the bb8 reunion so good. also introducing himself to rey then being like “yea i know who u r” GIMME THAT DYNAMIC IMMEDIATELY??

and quick tangent off that, i was bummed we didn’t see the three characters together like, at all in this film, but i’m also hoping that sets us up for the three of them kicking ass and taking names for the next film i’m v excited

and ANOTHER TANGENT off kicking butt and taking names ANOTHER ICONIC SCENE. REY AND KYLO?? THAT ENTIRE LAST SEQUENCE??? AMAZING. I WAS FLOORED. JAZZ. THAT SCENE BUTTERED MY EGGROLL FOR 2018

and with that tangent, we bring me to my final thing i will say that is all about kylo. oh kylo ren, u punk bitch. y’all are aware im not about this mother fucker, but this movie actually brought me around... like, he still a punk bitch, that’s no mistake, but like, finally FINALLY such a rarity for this to happen, but they gave an irredeemable villain character a “redemption” arc that ACTUALLY  MADE SENSE!! and the fact that the “redemption arc” didn’t come full circle, but started to crest then fell right back down the same way it came was beautiful. it didn’t feel as cheap as the fakeout in TFA, his entire connection with rey I ACTUALLY DUG!! AND I DON’T LIKE REYLO!! im not about it as a romantic ship, but i actually really really really REALLY was into what they did with it and that dynamic holy shit it might’ve been the best thing about the movie. if y’all would’ve told me i woulda come out of this liking kylo ren, i would not have believed u cuz i have been so adamantly against that character. great fuckin job, TLJ

anyway um pls message me lets talk i wanna know what you guys thought if you agree/disagree or wanna talk other things i didn’t touch on idk those were all the things that have stuck out in my mind I REALLY LIKED IT GUYS!! maybe more than TFA! actually, definitely more than TFA if we’re really thinkin about it