#he UNDERSTANDS star wars

[lith-myathar]

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[calkestis]

MANNY JACINTO, about playing the role of Qimir / The Stranger in The Acolyte (source)

[bloodbroox]

the heart of a rebel

prints!!! 💛 | ko-fi 🌖

[phoenixkaptain]

Reading the novelization of A New Hope already changed how I saw Luke as a character but Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is going one step further and making me question the very fundamentals thought to be obvious about Luke.

Like, Luke is, for lack of a better term, a nerd. He studied languages and cultures -

“”Yes,” Luke admitted modestly. “I used to study a lot about certain worlds, back on my uncle’s farm on Tatooine. It was my only escape, and educational as well. This,” and he indicated the creature resting a massive long arm on his head and shaking him in a friendly fashion, “is a Yuzzem.””

-he wants to study more languages and cultures-

“Empty doorways beckoned to him and he was tempted, very tempted, to enter one of the ruined structures to find out if its interior was as well preserved as the outside.

This was not, he reminded himself firmly, the time for playful exploration. Their first concern was to find a way out, not to go poking around this ancient metropolis. However wonderful it was.”

Luke wants to know about people. He wants to know about cultures and creatures and he wants to be able to communicate and…

He really just. Is a great Jedi. He jumps between Leia and danger and he befriends the Yuzzem the prison guards thought would kill him and he wants to explore the creepy abandoned ruins of a civilization long past and he uses Anakin’s lightsaber underwater to cut the stem of a lilypad they use as a boat and he comments that the rock formations are almost too beautiful to cut down and he knows how to work Imperial explosives and

He’s a Jedi, man. He’s a Jedi. He’s been a Jedi this whole time, before any of us even knew what that actually meant.

[here-comes-the-moose]

Echo: Hey Tech, what are you up to?

Tech, not looking up from his data pad: I am currently researching the best and most efficient ways to annoy Crosshair.

Echo, nodding in understanding: Carry on.

[milkcioccolato]

Entanglements - remake

Old version here!

[myfairkatiecat]

Periodically I end up having to explain to every fandom I’m in that understanding someone’s actions and excusing/forgiving them are not even close to the same thing

[ominouspuff]

Son of Dathomir

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My sister, looking upon the first Maul of my career, quoth “he look lika chicken”

[amarcia]

Watch this ridiculous child put his fingers near the laser (my oc Cirz)

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

(the pose ref, first pic)

[mirrorofliterature]

someone: anakin skywalker wouldn't be supportive of his wife's career

me: hold my tea. I've got to fight you.

[imaginative-joy]

He’s learning the Dad ropes as he goes.

[phoenixwwitch]

now listen here i can agree that anakin needed INTENSIVE therapy and 28 thousand hugs and a pat on the head and yes he did horrible, destructive acts HOWEVER i will be damned before i have yall tell me he didn’t love padme and that she didn’t love him back. the WHOLE POINT was that they loved each so goddamn much they couldn’t survive without the other.

[artofket]

Bad Batch Tumblr... Specifically the Crosshair enjoyers and tolerators...

I'm staring at my cards of him in Star Wars Card Trader by Topps (you should play it) as I often do because I am pathetically in love with him.

Do you see this? Do you see the collar of his body glove in perspective to the lip of his chest armor? DO YOU SEE THIS? He started out skinny, but his trauma made him skinnier??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THE MONTHS ON TANTISS-

His armor is already adapted to fit his thinner than average form. This is most noticeable at the thigh plates, he literally has another layer of plating under the regular stuff. AND THEN his imperial armor has a freaking strap on his belt to hold it up? I-

I am mentally unwell about him and may cry about it.

[tobytost]

GUYS DO YOU HEAR ME🗣️🗣️🗣️ SPIDERMAN EZRA

[varpusvaras]

Fox's position as the scapegoat in fandom is very interesting and something I honestly think the writers kind of made him to be.

The part of the fandom (which is...really large) that doesn't like him always blames him for Order 66, in saying that "if he hadn't killed Fives, then Order 66 wouldn't have happened". Interestingly, they never blame Anakin, who had even more direct power to stop it. Fox had no idea that anything was going on, and did what he had been taught to do from the moment he was created: Followed orders. He didn't shoot Fives because he necessarily wanted to; meaning there were no personal feelings attached to what happened. Anakin, on the other hand, went and voluntarily murdered a lot of people for only personal feelings. But somehow that is not Anakin's fault.

(I've posted about it before, but the same people who blame Fox are always happy to boast about Anakin murdering him. Always happy to bring out Anakin's trauma as a slave, and then be happy about him murdering another slave, someone directly under his power, who had never known anything else than being a slave in his entire life, and who had been indoctrinated from birth to believe that being slave was all that he was, and that he should be proud of it)

Some fics from people who do like Fox also put him in the position of the scapegoat, where they have all the other clones blaming him for everything that had happened, and ostracise him. In some fics I've seen, they continue this even after the war has ended, even in scenarios where Palpatine didn't win, and this feels like the clones, who have been made to believe in the system, cannot make themselves blame said system. No, it's easier to blame one of their own instead, no matter how little power Fox ever had in his entire life.

The writer's also do this, by having Fox mess something up (in the writer's eyes at the very least) almost every single time he is on screen. I think the only time he wasn't positioned to be in the wrong in some capacity was on his first appearance in the movie, where he did a front flip down some stairs and shot at the bad guy of the movie. Almost every single other time he is doing something wrong or messing something up, causing something negative to happen, be it the bombing on Coruscant (not actually his fault, but the fault of the people who wanted to do it and prevent the peace talks from happening; still, Fox is put in the middle of it), or what happened with Ahsoka (from Fox's point of view, there was a dangerous person on the run, who had just killed multiple people in a violent way, and was continuing their rampage, killing his brothers as well). Objectively speaking, Fox is completely in the right with everything he does here, but the writer's still seem to position him to being wrong, because he is against Ahsoka, and Ahsoka is the character the viewer is supposed to be rooting for (no matter how much worse she actively makes her own situation during the arc).

No one ever remembers all the good qualities he had: he was hard-working, capable, brave, and cared for his brothers. No, instead, the fandom is endlessly debating over giving him, a slave who never knew anything else, some shred of dignity, while freely giving the absolution to the fascist who is standing over his still warm corpse.

[swedenis-h]

Phoenix Tatooine day trip Goes Wrong™️ (X)

This is a little idea where Luke needs something (don’t ask me what) that he can only get on tatooine, so dinluke adventure ensues. The plan is to get there and leave ASAP, but then nostalgia hits and he needs to hit every shop and place he used to as a kid. But you know, “college kids comes back to hometown” syndrome hits and he realizes he’s changed too much. Think of how the holiday season doesn’t feel the same anymore now that you’re an adult, same feeling. AND YES ITS ALSO DUNLUKE BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO KISS AND TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS AND ALSO KISS.

Heres some extras 🫡