#in the stars

[timetravelsong]

𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

excerpts from a book I’ll never write

[darth-memes]

[imaginal-ai]

"A Mighty Love" (0004)

(More of The Courtship of Hercules and Iolaus)

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[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

I'm in love with how this season of Visions made the Force so wonderful and big in the way it can be accessed. It also rightly made the Dark Side utterly vile, terrifying and disgusting. But the way young Force-sensitive really discover the Force for the first time? (Or rediscover it, in Toul's case.) It's so magical.

It's light from your planet's plantlife and it's memories you couldn't reach before showing up as dancing paintings.

It's foggy visions on wet stones.

It's the clarity of facing yourself.

It's glowing statues, showing you that hope exists in equal measure to despair.

It's the light of a kyber choosing you reflected in your eyes.

And it's a thousand songs calling to you, so you can sing back and heal the corruption.

It's light and music and it's so personal and unique and multifaceted and nobody experiences it quite the same aaaaaah i love it so much!!!! This feels like Rebels!!!! It's like Lothal and the dancing paintings and the World Between Worlds and the wolves!!!!

HECK YEAH. That's why Star Wars needs animation, not just live-action. How do you communicate to an audience what the Force even is if you can't have moments like this? It actually felt like being there with the characters learning what the Force is, and seeing and feeling it! That's the kind of stuff I want to see the most.

[srapsodia]

Our Star Wars Visions episode "In the Stars" is now out on Disney+!

I was very fortunate to be able to storyboard for this project and watch it grow from the very beginning 💛 big thanks to Punkrobot Studio, and everyone in the team for all their amazing work!

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Wars: Visions "In The Stars"

[xxwitchyxwomanxx]

💫“What you want also wants you.”💫

@Lawofdarkness_

[antianakin]

"In the Stars" is just such an absolutely devastating story. Like no matter what Tichina and Koten are able to do, this planet will never be the same and their people are destroyed. There's no fixing it, there's no coming back from it. Even with the Imperials dead and their factory gone, it changes very little. Tichina and Koten are the last of their people and their culture will die with them.

Which isn't to say it doesn't matter for them to fight back and have that last victory, obviously, but there is no truly happy ending for them. And the implication at the end of the episode is that this victory, and their happy ending, came at the cost of their lives. They were in a lose/lose situation, they either fought back and died in the process of defeating their enemy or they survived as long as they could in an impossible and toxic environment. Either way, their people die when they do.

And it's just heart-wrenching because as sweet as that music is at the end, as happy as they seem, there's not a lot of hope to the story depending on how you look at it. The best they can hope for is that the planet heals and whoever ends up settling on it next continues to take care of it rather than using up its resources the way the Empire did. Tichina and Koten got to die on their own terms, fighting back and without living in fear, and that's worth something, but sometimes that's the best you can manage. Sometimes victory looks like just being able to die on your own terms rather than letting your enemy keep you hidden forever out of fear.

Their story is a tragic one, but that doesn't make it not worth telling.

[sugoicarmela]

If you shot me this would come out

[rupalpspodrace]

ICYMI: The Chilean Star Wars Visions short, "In the Stars" was inspired by the genocide of the Selk'nam, an indigenous group in Patagonia.

You can read a little bit about that here:

But yesterday, after a long campaign, the Selk'nam finally gained official recognition from the Chilean government:

Here's a little bit in English about what it means for them to be officially recognized, and what it took to get there (written beforehand):

This official recognition also includes the Chilean government admitting its fault in the genocide publicly, which is a really big deal.

Also, a movie about the Selk'nam genocide, "The Settlers" (Los Colonos), which won an award at Cannes, was also just selected by the Chilean Film Academy as Chile's entry for the Oscars this year (and will be coming out for wider audiences soon!):

"In the Stars", sadly, was disqualified from the Emmys this year on a TECHNICALITY - there will be NO short form animated entries this year because of a mess behind the scenes.

All that being said, it's wonderful news for the Selk'nam this week, and it's really cool when Star Wars reflects a real world struggle against fascism.

[petvampire]

Whacking the muse upside the head until it functions so I can get this to y'all!

Some more Family Drama and Cat Shenanigans for the lads! Oh yes, everything is going so well. xD

[lemonmatronics]

THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO MEEEEEEEE

[randomgirl005]

"I'm screaming at a God, I don't know if I believe in

'Cause I don't know what else I can do"

In the Stars by Benson Boone

[doelie]

I don’t believe in god… but I still look up at the stars and beg him to save me.

[elektricangel]

WIP game

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word.

@greentrickster tagged me with the word LIFE for totally legit reasons. I just started working on my next WIP after finishing ONQR, and it's actually an older fic I was in the middle of before my RWBY crack concept grabbed hold of me and hauled me off on an unexpected 5-year odyssey. For those who have asked me over the years when I'll get back to my Gravity Falls/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover In the Stars, the answer is now! I don't have much to share from the next chapter yet, but have this handful of quotes!

"Lost your compass, Pines?"

"It doesn't matter. Nothing in that journal helped him in the end."

"Ford wrote of a curse, too. The night he left."

"Even gods lose faith."

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I don't know who's got WIPs in the works at the moment, but if you see this post and want to play, just say I tagged you! Your word is TIME.