#swinging stars

[jazznoisehere]

Mapache: Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos, 2023)

Art Direction & Design: Nathaniel Russell.

[authortobenamedlater]

“Swinging Stars”

I saw a post talking about how some of your mutuals will always be their url to you (even once you know their name), soooo

[yopefriend]

Some sweet evening I’ll awake and know I'm coming home

Wonder how the big wheel turned, such grace, we always knew

[halloween-sweets]

[the-owl-tree]

when you think you're flirting but your crush is one moment away from taking a sledgehammer to your skull

excerpt from the star prologue that made me snicker

[billskaarsgard]

REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)

Dir. George Lucas

[padmestrilogy]

it does bother me how deeply people will mine obi-wan's child soldier trauma that comes from a dubiously-canon book and isn’t referenced at any point in the movies (or shows), but straight-up never talk about padme's child soldier/queen trauma, which is half the plot of tpm and while maybe clumsily followed-up on, is nonetheless a real genuine part of her character included from the start

[wh0-is-lily]

Showgirls photographed backstage at Follies Bergere, Tropicana, 1969

[archfey-edda]

Tried to figure out how I want to draw sabers... now I can't pick a favorite. Whoops.

[nickfoo]

Some doodles of Starscourge ‘Built Like a Steel-Mill’ Radahn

[nuzzle]

"Swinging Strawberry Garden" series 🍓 「ゆらゆらいちごのStrawberry Garden」シリーズ

[entryn17]

banging their fists on the meadow grass

[even-starsburnout]

I can’t stop thinking about all the things Ezra doesn’t know about. Like obviously he doesn’t know about Jacen and we’re all looking forward to that but he also doesn’t know they won. He doesn’t know about the Death Star or Alderaan. He doesn’t know that Lando Calrissian of all people became a general and a war hero. He doesn’t know that Obi-Wan and Yoda are dead. He doesn’t know that Luke is training a new generation of Jedi. He doesn’t know what happened to Mandalore and Sabine’s family. HE HASN’T SEEN LOTHAL

[poorlydrawninstarsandtime]

beating down the situationally inappropriate gay thoughts violently with a stick.

[ids in alt]

[feroluce]

Not to make everything about my ship, but if I don't do it no one will, so today we are making meta analysis of Boothill's faceoff match about henghill, because the differences between Boothill's stand off with Luka and his one with Dan Heng- and what you can infer about Boothill himself and what catches his eye in a person- makes me chew concrete.

JUST. I loved the scene between Luka and Boothill so much. I love how wildly unrestrained Boothill is. He really just shoved the barrel of his gun in his opponent's face and put the fear of death into him as a way to test Luka's resolve. I utterly adore him. I hope he does it again. Anyway.

When confronted with all this, Luka freezes. His stress-induced hallucinations were already bad, but you can see how they really ramp up in this match, because before, they were always something familiar. Previous enemies became Silvermanes, or Belobogian automatons, or even Cocolia. Luka is far from home for the first time in his life, and he's so terribly homesick his brain is making everything familiar, because that is what he's desperately craving right now.

But Boothill.

Boothill is something so new, and unique, and horrific and terrifying, that he becomes something entirely unknown to Luka. His hallucination manifests as Something Unto Death, as the very fear of death itself.

And this stand off (which I love so much that this is how this match progressed, because like that's literally just Boothill's in-game skill; he locks the enemy into a one-on-one duel, so this was extremely in character for him) lasts long enough that Owlbert starts having to fill in the silence over the loudspeaker,

and even Boothill himself starts trying to push Luka into making a decision one way or the other.

Given that Boothill is a hunter by trade and is proven to have all the patience to track his prey and then some, this was more for Luka's sake than any impatience on his part, to try to shove him out of his freeze reaction.

And Boothill isn't really hard to read throughout this whole exchange, he all but says outright what he's looking for.

Boothill wants to see him surpass this test and come at him! You can see it in his face when Luka finally takes a step! And in how he congratulates him!

And then he fucking shot him snxhsjksjsn

Boothill admires courage, and bravery, and decisiveness. He admires a person's ability to put their life on the line and still fight in the face of danger and overwhelming odds. Those are the things that catch his eye.

And Luka does kind of get there eventually, but it is a stalling, halting motion that gets him there, and he fell to pieces immediately afterwards. This is his first time with this, and he's still figuring it out.

Dan Heng, on the other hand.

Boothill's stand off with Dan Heng from 2.2 is so fucking far in the total opposite direction that it is HILARIOUS.

Boothill literally breaks into the Astral Express, ambushes Dan Heng, and Dan Heng still has the balls to not only demand info out of Boothill- like doesn't even ask nicely, demands it- he also just straight up calls Boothill a liar. Right to his face! And he still isn't nice about it!!

By the way, that entire conversation? This is how it takes place.

Boothill, phrasing!!

Boothill has him at gunpoint! Dan Heng does not have his weapon with him! He does not flinch, and even stands there with his arms crossed seeming simultaneously pissed and utterly unimpressed. He looks like he should be irritably tapping his foot and looking down his nose at him. Dan Heng could not give less of a shit.

For that matter, Dan Heng even turns his back and walks away from Boothill- right in the middle of him talking, too! Not a single attempt to be considerate of the man who could decide any moment he feels like decorating the wall with Dan Heng's brains.

Dan Heng is brave and courageous and completely unflappable in the face of danger. He is ruthless and decisive in how he conducts himself, even when staring down the barrel of a gun. And through his efforts in Penacony, he shows the ability to put his life on the line and fight through overwhelming odds to save his once-in-a-lifetime companions.

No wonder Dan Heng caught Boothill's eye the way he did, no wonder the two of them were working together and bantering not even minutes after Boothill pulled a gun on him haha

[puddii-ng]

the swing ♡