#ic :: luke skywalker

[depressedwetnapkin]

[mylordshesacactus]

Today on Posts That Will Serve As A Blocklist but whatever:

It's genuinely at the point where people who act all dismissive and superior about the Star Wars animated series, and ESPECIALLY of Ahsoka specifically as a character--snidely dismissing anything that involves TCW-original characters or arcs--are just. Objectively hysterically wrong.

Like.

Phantom Menace released in 1999.

Revenge of the Sith was six years later, in 2005.

TCW started airing in 2008. Ahsoka started existing in the narrative literally three years after RotS dropped.

Even if you start counting as far back as you possibly can, back in TPM (wherein Anakin was an actual baby), the prequel era only existed at all without her for nine years.

Ahsoka Tano has been a narratively significant, load-bearing major protagonist of the Star Wars franchise for, as of this post, sixteen (16) years. Very nearly twice as long as her era ever existed without her! At this point, if you are determined to act like she's some handwavey 'new' star war idea whose impact on the living tapestry of the GFFA can be easily dismissed, that's...

...like, full offense but that's kind of on you, man.

[pinkypastal]

Thinking about doomed fictional twins, Thinking about doomed fictional twins, thinking about doomed fictional twins, thinking about doomed fictional twins, thinking about doomed fictional twins, thinking about doomed fictional twins-

[sol-insidious]

Luke: “For the last time, I’m a Jedi, not a wizard.”

Din: “But you make things float.”

Luke: “Yes. With the Force.”

Din: “And you’re literally wearing wizard robes.”

Luke: “I get cold okay :(“

[sparrowsabre7]

Right so, in Star Wars, spice is drugs, right? It's unambiguously drugs, basically space heroin. We know Han Solo used to smuggle it, we know, regrettably, Poe Dameron used to smuggle it...

But what about the first thing Luke says to Ben about Anakin:

"No, my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars, he was a navigator on a spice freighter."

Are you telling me. Owen Lars was so afraid of Luke wanting to follow his father as a jedi that he told his beloved nephew, his only son, that his father was DRUG DEALER!?

[feralsunspotandtincan]

Luke: Hey, thanks for taking me to the dentist.

Din: No problem.

Luke: Did I do anything weird after they gave me anesthesia?

Din: Well, immediately after you woke up, the chair started floating and you told everyone how they were gonna die.

Luke: Was I right?

Din: ....I mean, you didn't kill them or anything, so... I don't know yet.

Din: Probably though.

[prettybillycore]

[maryellencarter]

Leia found a Youtube channel that has a lot of classic NHL games (filmed on potatoes of course as the NHL is wont to do) and now that I have glasses --

-- did I mention I had to get glasses to pass my vision test to get my ID? Anyway now that I have glasses it turns out I can usually read the jersey numbers so I don't have to rely on telling the players apart by their body language and playstyle.

So I've been watching Wayne Gretzky, who I swear had eyes on the end of his hockey stick to get some of the shot angles he got, moved like a roller skater, fell like a martial artist, let the puck chase him instead of the other way around...

We've been doing good work on our current X-wing story with comparing different pilots' flying styles to the playstyles of hockey greats, since I let Leia try to get me into the hockey a while back and it turned out I get very *specific* with my analyses of certain players (since I'm coming at it from a background of soccer, a little ballet and karate, and watching other people figure skate). "Wedge Antilles flies like Sidney Crosby skates" was not the take I expected to come up with but it honestly really helps?

Anyway I wanted to watch some Gretzky because, you know, he is the standard by which all other hockey players are measured, and I was hoping to maybe come up with some more insights about starfighter piloting, but the main thing I've got is that he was playing more *ice* hockey than anybody else. Definitely anybody else on the rink, possibly anybody else ever.

What do I mean by that? Well, of course, hockey skating is a balance of the goals of the other two kinds of ice skating. Figure skaters (and ice dancers, pairs skaters, that whole category) are about Must Be Graceful/Precise. Speed skaters are of course about Gotta Go Fast. Hockey is about *maneuverability* -- you're fast to catch the puck and make it go where the other team is not, but the most important thing is making the puck go to Destinations, and the second most important thing is keeping the other players from sending you to Destinations (such as the boards, the penalty box, or the hospital).

So anyway, a lot of hockey players, when they're trying to catch the puck, they're basically sprinting down the ice, pumping their elbows and usually flailing their stick to some extent. They're treating the ice like a floor that happens to be slippery, and their skate blades as how they compensate for the slippery. They'd do just as well or better playing field hockey.

Gretzky would have been, I think, absolutely terrible at field hockey. He did not run on the ice. He worked *with* it. He didn't go flailing after the puck -- he kept his center of gravity very controlled in general, his stops were very clean and he played almost crouched a lot of the time -- and while he was waiting for the puck to pop out of a scrum against the boards, he'd be gliding along doing those little wiggles a figure skater uses to build speed, or just moving forward like he was on wheels instead of blades. When he had the puck and was trying to hustle it down to the net, he'd do these smooth crossovers like a figure skater or a rollerblade dancer, keeping his momentum perfectly in line with his center of gravity, no wasted energy at all.

None of which is directly translatable to starfighter tactics, and yet I think it might be helping. It's really hard to articulate what makes Luke Skywalker a good pilot other than he has the Force plus Skywalker recklessness. But I think... I think it's not inaccurate to say that he's just working on a slightly different surface than everybody else?

Like. I don't know if that makes any sense. The other players were running on a floor that was fighting them. Gretzky was *skating*. Luke is flying through the same space as everyone around him, in one sense, but he's also interacting differently with that space -- the Force makes him more able to connect to what's around him and work with it instead of having to fight it.

[foggysirens]

okay but din and luke would absolutely be those loud parents who get super into it when their kid plays sports, but not in the ‘yell at the refs and take the game way too serious’ kind of way, but more in the ‘constant stream of support and overwhelming enthusiasm for their kid’ kind of way where it’s just like pure aggressive affection - like they are out there cheering their kid on 100% no matter how obnoxious they are to the other parents because they just genuinely love and think of the world of their child but also they’re just both highly competitive people so it manifests itself like ‘did you see that goal?! atta boy grogu!’ and ‘take it easy on ‘em, slugger, give the other kids a chance!’ and ‘you’re doing amazing, kiddo! you show them how it’s done!’ and they always leave afterwards smiling and laughing as a family and talking about their favourite parts of the game and it’s just so clear that they all care about each other so much- embarrassing antics and all

[spectrum-color]

Nine favourite characters: Tag game

I was tagged by @tragediegh

1. The Fool, Realm of the Elderlings

2. Fitzchivalry Farseer, Realm of the Elderlings

3. Daenerys Targaryen, A Song of Ice and Fire

4. Rin Sohma, Fruits Basket

5. Sam Gamgee, Lord of the Rings

6. Leia Organa, Star Wars

7. Luke Skywalker, Star Wars

8. Fox Mulder, the X Files

9. Egwene al’Vere, Wheel of Time

In turn, I will tag @motleywolf-et-al @thelustybraavosimaid @mellowthorn @highladyluck

[shibemuses]

“   Listen, son — in this world, it’s either yeet or be yeeted. ”

— Former Jedi Master Abraham Lincoln to Luke Skywalker

There's obvious confusion upon the boy's face, not understanding the term. Was this an Earth based word? Hell, he hadn't even known the planet existed inside the galaxy until very recently, when Ben Kenobi had urged him to find this old master.

"Uh. Yeet?" Luke repeated the term again, brows and nose scrunched. He looked at the tall, gangly bearded man in silence for a bit.

Finally, he spoke, head tilted to the side.

"Is that supposed to mean using the Force to throw someone? How would that help me with getting my ship fixed, sir?"

EVEN MORE UNHINGED SENTENCE STARTERS - accepting [x] - @historiavn

[toomanyincorrectquotes]

Luke: han, look on the bright side; you have us!

Mara Jade: not your most persuasive argument, luke

[lightcreators]

@hoovedrycal

An  attentive  gaze  was  watched  carefully  every  move  of  the  exposed  demonstration.  There  was  an  latent  consciousness,  concerning  how  his  expression  in  some  manner,  didn't  truly  changed  would  bring  some  wondering  questions  ---  in  which  sadly  answers  weren't  inclined  to  came.  It  would  be  rather  complicated  to  explaining  such  reasons,  when  …  well  …  he  did  experienced  it  though  his  own  particular  manners,  though  concerning  himself,  it  was  hardly  physically  the  change  could  be  exposed.  Excepted  maybe  one  thing,  one  tiny  detail  concerning  one  hobby  about  how  he  appreciated  sometimes  altering  the  narrative  or  himself  when  desired  projects  had  to  playing  a  bit  with  the  fabric  of  reality.  Nevertheless,  as  nothing  inside  his  emotionless  face  didn't  desiring  brought  an  misunderstanding  message,  lightness  within  his  blue  eyes  showed  clearly  interest,  brightness,  encouraging  and  supporting  gaze.  ❝   It's  quite  an  power  that  you  have.  ❞  He  had  been  hesitating  to  use  that  term.  Power.  It  always  meant  responsabilities.  It  always  meant  heavier  shoulders  and  an  consciousness.  It  always  meant  there  was  an  desire  for  more,  to  touching  other  spheres,  to  questioning  powerfulness.  Faculty  could  have  worked  but  it  must  have  coming  from  somewhere,  hence  he  had  preferred  using  the  good  word.  Particular  recongizable  habits  remained  anchored  within  his  behavior  still  ---  no  need  to  explain  why  it  sounded  perfectly  normal  for  his  eyes  to  perceiving  such  thing.  Naturally,  as  an  smile  exposed,  there  was  an  desire  to  protect  Regulus  with  such  responsabilities  he  had,  and  everything  in  the  sort.  He  was  never  complicated  on  that  domain.  He  was  spending  his  entire  life  helping  people.  There  was  always  somewhere  something  inside  his  universe  to  fix,  whatever  how  his  greatest  responsabilities  were  already  huge,  when  his  best  friend  would  still  complaining  on  his  inability  to  slow  down.  ❝   I'm  not  sure  you  did  born  with  the  ability  so  I'm  supposing  this  must  coming  from  somewhere,  and  must  be  enough  precious  for  you.  I  do  understand  the  concern  to  find  protectors  for  be  certain  it  will  not  fall  under  malicious  hands  or  be  altered.  ❞ 

[intcthatgoodnight]

OPEN STARTER! [ luke skywalker ]

“I didn’t break the speeder!”  the young boy exclaimed with full conviction, despite the evidence to the contrary in plain view - bits of durasteel and torn wires scattered around him.  “I’m makin’ it better!”

[sol-insidious]

Force-Ghost Anakin: “Haha. Aren’t you a little short for a Jedi Master?”

Luke: “And one day I’ll be older than you ever were.”

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

I literally truly and honestly cannot fathom creating The Force Awakens, from the score to the cinematography to the costumes to the editing, and then being like “nah Rey isn’t Luke’s daughter”