#order of the red star

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The Soviet trade school student smiles happily after winning the school skiing championship. Sports are an important part of the youth training program and skiing has played a vital part in helping Soviet troops frustrate the Germans in winter fighting on the long front." - from the Toronto Star. September 24, 1943.

Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Toronto Public Library, TSPA_0118473F.

[brrmian]

they make me feel seen

[licollisa]

In my cringe era

@gildedxpleasure gave me the idea for bi light skeleton. Background from here. Full image here.

[short-wooloo]

The sith are not an oppressed culture forced underground by the Jedi

They're a deranged cult devoted to creating tyranny which they rule, murdering anyone they deem an enemy, and selfishly indulging in their wants no matter what it costs everyone else

Them being in hiding was their choice, they're a conspiracy, a shadow hiding within the society they are deliberately trying to destroy/warp into their image

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Please I am on my hands and knees for Cyclops edits

[mabsart]

[Jedi : Fallen Order]

Second play through doodle dump.

I was worried it would loose some of its luster now that I already knew what to expect but I had an even BETTER time. (There’s so much in game interaction between Merrin and Greez that I missed the first time and they’re such a funny pair.)

[lonestardust]

just a boy & his birthday cake with a little red car on top 🥹

dad, husband and big brother 🥰

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

try again?

[gffa]

"You are not broken. We are all imperfect beings, striving for enlightenment. You just have to strive a little more than most." THE JEDI LOVED THEIR KIDS, EVEN WHEN THEY STRUGGLED AND WERE LESS THAN PERFECT, BECAUSE EVERYONE IS IMPERFECT, AND THAT MADE ISKAT NO LESS THEIRS.

[valenteal]

Oh my god I keep forgetting how some people in the Star Wars fandom see Anakin and then someone likes my long ranting reply and I just get reminded all over again.

And I know. I KNOW that I can’t change everyone’s mind and that it’s far from the most problematic issue I could be debating. But GOD does it piss me off when people say that Anakin was selfish or he should’ve just left the Jedi Order if he didn’t agree with them. Like… did no one ever teach you about recognizing a cult or its tactics? Do people not understand that the Jedi are literally brainwashed and have no “worldly possessions” and that leaving the order means striking out on your own, probably on Coruscant, with no money or job? Have people not payed attention to any of the NUMEROUS red flags? Do people just see that the Jedi staunchly oppose the obviously evil sith and decide they are saints?! Do people not recognize that the Jedi have literally committed genocide??? Like… the Jedi started the conflict with the Sith. They wiped out their entire civilization because of religious dogma. What are people not getting about that!?!?

And Anakin’s mental state. Oh my fucking god! Are people blind to the fact that he’s been groomed and manipulated for years by both the sith and the Jedi and is suffering from a severe mental breakdown during RotS??? Like. Even if you don’t know enough about psychology to recognize and understand BPD and a splitting episode it should still be obvious that he is NOT in his right mind through no fault of his own?!?! He’s traumatized after just coming back from literal WAR, he hasn’t been sleeping because he’s having premonitions of his wife DYING IN CHILDBIRTH EVERY NIGHT, his already feeble support system is in fucking shambles, and a guy he’s trusted for years is suddenly revealed to be an evil mastermind but the person standing against that evil mastermind is someone who has distrusted and scorned Anakin for just as long as the evil mastermind has been his mentor and confidant!!!!!!!!!

I don’t get it and I’m literally crying right now because I just don’t understand how people can’t feel empathy for Anakin and just want to vilify him while putting the people who hurt him on a pedestal. All it took for Anakin to come back to the light was ONE person believing in him. If you somehow missed that the original trilogy is about how love saves people and the prequel trilogy is about how denying love DESTROYS people then I don’t know how to help you.

No seriously I’m crying right now I know people are sheep who want to follow the pretty light and see the people in the marble castle with the gorgeous gardens and peaceful philosophy as good. I get it. But open your fucking eyes!!!!!!!! Being detached from reality and your emotions is not a healthy way to live and I don’t want people like that in positions of power and authority. EMPATHY! COMPASSION! These are the things Anakin embodies that the Jedi largely discard in favor of being cold and distant. The only Jedi who don’t are rebellious af. Qui-Gon (who is still problematic but at least he fucking cares), Obi-wan (was never a fucking golden boy, he almost wasn’t a Jedi and contemplated leaving on MULTIPLE occasions!), Quinlan Voss (no explanation needed here, man wasn’t even raised in the temple), Aayla Secura (Quinlan’s Padawan and the only Jedi we ever see actually contemplating the morality of the Clone War and having a discussion about it and actually LISTENING to what a non-Jedi has to say), Ahsoka (again no explanation needed, she fucking left and didn’t look back), Cal Kestis (has multiple crises about Jedi philosophy throughout the games and eventually decides Fuck It and becomes a much better and less confused person for it)… I could go on but you get the picture right?! You do get this? The Jedi Order was a toxic environment that messed people up so badly and never acknowledged their own flaws until it literally killed them all. Every single tragedy that happened to the Jedi was a direct consequence of their actions and literally all of their biggest enemies originated from within their own ranks!

At least Palpatine was decent enough to put literal red flags all over the Temple when he went and made it his palace!!! Because you know… he turned the Jedi temple into a palace with minimal cosmetic changes and that should REALLY tell you something!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The Fighting Men Of Russia As Seen Through A Soviet Camera," Toronto Star. April 26, 1943. Page 19. ---- AT THE ALERT guarding the sky over Moscow are these soldiers shown at their anti-aircraft post. Kept busy elsewhere in Russia and weakened by constant hammering of the R.A.F., the Luftwaffe has made no attempt to drop bombs on Moscow for many months. This and other pictures on this page are from the Soviet documentary film "Russians at war."

RUSSIAN HERO is Sergt. Korol who received the Order of the Red Star for his part in shooting down two Junkers and five Messerschmitt fighters.

STREET FIGHTERS have played a glorious part in the battle for Russia's cities as the Soviet army pushed back the Nazis. Typical street fighter in this Russian soldier, sighting his rifle.

A SPECIAL PAGE in the history of Russia's glorious fight in this war will be devoted to the guerrillas who, without uniforms or rank, are risking their lives to harass the enemy. Here an informal funeral service is held for a dead guerrilla. Note the wooden grave marker.

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

Those eyes.. 💚

Domhnall Gleeson at ‘Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker’ UK premiere, 2019

(New in UHQ)

[coolsvilleprincess]

Everybody give it up for more cleaned up sketches!! This time it's characters that I have simply been thinking about recently that are not the main gang, yes I did get distracted while cleaning up my Shaphne sketches, yes this is the result now I must return to the caves to finish them.

[beanstroni]

Jason’s death is DC’s equivalent to Order 66 in Star Wars.

[trooperst-3v3]

Has anyone heard when the First Order is throwing its company Life Day party? The holiday is coming up soon and I haven't even dug my red robes out of storage yet. I'm so far behind this year. Uuuuugghh.