#sw s7

[redn1ghtcrawler]

Was supposed to be a warmup but eh…

[rancidsugar]

[elliamarts]

This made me so sad

[mythicalbonsai]

Posted this to twitter originally

I am by no means a fancy editor, but I can certainly put a clip to music

[iiidunno]

page two of the little comic thing I’m definitely still working on

just realized that there’s a few things I forgot to do, oh well I’m still gonna post it

first page and Inspo under the cut

[homehauntsyou]

really fun to me how sam grew up confident in the capabilities of his mind, both as a source of rebellion and a source of pride (it's literally the thing that initially saves him and allows him to get out & go to college), only to eventually have even that taken from him because of possession and torture. really fun

[fulcrum-7567]

“The republic couldn’t have asked for better soldiers, nor I a better friend.” -Ahsoka Tano

this is my artwork! please reblog, but do not copy, steal, or repost in any other way😊

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[rainybearstudio]

The Orchid

Not a whole lot to say here, just thinking abt my girl Ahsoka 😌

rainybearstudio.com

[snawleyy]

Portrait of my favorite space lady <3

I recently dusted off my graphic tablet and am trying to get back into digital art so come join me on this adventure

[immagods]

There's something so poetic about the fact that the first time we ever see the bad batch, Wrecker says, "The cavalry has arrived!"

And the last episode of the last season of the bad batch is titled 'The Cavalry has Arrived'

[limnsaber]

Limnnnn any thoughts on The Acolyte so far? Bc you have the best thoughts lol

Hi Ell! Thank you for the ask! The first thing that came to mind is something that's been bugging me recently- just enough to talk about it. The fandom of Star Wars, at large, seems very keen to ignore the Buddhist roots behind a lot of the ideals of Star Wars, attachment, and the Jedi.

Like. Recently I watched a SW YouTube video, which I highly advise against doing, and in it the video paraphrased a comment saying that the comment stated that Star Wars was inspired largely by "westerns, samurai films, WWII films, classic cars, and religious meditation practices." In ACTUALITY, what was quoted as "religious meditation practices" in paraphrase was written as "Zen Buddhism" in the original comment.

It's mind boggling to me why anyone (much less a YouTube channel about Star Wars, who would know about the roots of the themes and ideas of Star Wars) would reduce the real-world ideas that inspired the universe and all of the Jedi to "religious meditation practices". Like. Removing this context that George Lucas so strongly intended as a Buddhist himself is wishy washy at best and actively harmful at worst.

We can talk about Lucas's/SW's orientalism all we want, (and smarter people than me have said better things about that,) but I'd argue that this exclusion of real world religious and cultural ideas, by the fandom specifically, contributes to that. And maybe if we had greater intercultural understanding, we would have fewer arguments about what 'attachment' in SW really means.

In short, not great. Aside from that, I'm really enjoying the show itself so far!! I just finished the third episode! Like other people, I'm sure there's more to the story on Brendok, but I really appreciated the simple parable of Mae's actions. If you can't let go of your attachment, if you let your desire for control guide your actions, you will set yourself on fire. Also star wars is at its best when it has twins. I love Star Wars when Star Wars has themes! I'm excited to see what's coming next!!

[stars-n-spice]

I need to lock these gay ass motherfuckers all in a room.

For science.

[bluetoothschizophrenic]

So since it’s been 3 years since the Siege of Mandalore aired, I rewatched it again and had a thought. When Maul rampages through the Venator yes he’s obviously awesome and it’s one of the best scenes of a Sith ever made, but it’s also a massive testament to his fear and desperation. His face when Order 66 occurs says it all. Sure, he calls the plan brilliant and probably is genuinely impressed, but the horror in his eyes was obvious at first. He had no idea that ripping the ship out of hyperspace like that wouldn’t kill them all and I’m not completely certain he cared. There were alternatives. He could’ve holed himself up in some part of the ship and waited for it to get out of hyperspace. He could’ve commandeered the bridge and tried to send the ship somewhere else. It’s possible he could’ve thrown himself and the shuttle he takes out of hyperspace like the phantom does in rebels. But he knew, better than he knew almost anything else, that if they were allowed to get back to coruscant, there is nowhere he could’ve hidden. Maul knew that if he got to Coruscant and wasn’t able to jump ship immediately, he would either be dead or far worse, so he fights like a cornered animal, risking everything to get himself off that ship. When he jumps that shuttle into hyperspace I’m not entirely certain he even knew where he was going, he was just trying to get as far away from the empire as soon as possible.

[homehauntsyou]

i think a lot about the idea of sam’s relationship to sh (both the widely recognized types and the more subtle types). in my mind it would start as a sort of self-punishment (pre-series after a hunt that doesn’t go well and he finds the pain of an injury grounding / reminding) and then continues it as a combination of punishment & cleansing until s7, where it would transfer over into pain as a connection to reality / control over his body (he’s getting scars from hunting but he’s getting more scars from himself so that means more in the end). s8 would kind of be a movement back into the cleansing state of mind (embracing & valuing the pain from the trials) but post-09x10 would very firmly be about re-finding security within his body. anyways the sam in my head has sh scars

[gun-roswell]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex Additional Tags: codexweek, Codex - Freeform, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Star Wars event, fan event, codex week, Codex Week 2024, Ficlet, Series, TCW S7, Echo's Arc, slightly differently, Intimate moments, Competitive Partners, some jealousy Series: Part 4 of Codex Week 2024, Part 11 of Cody/Rex Summary:

“He is alive, I know it.”

Sometimes, Rex can be really thick headed, at least in Cody’s opinion.

Part of Codex Week 2024 /Cody/Rex series