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Now multiply it by miles, to the rings of Saturn and back.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.01 | "In throes of increasing wonder"

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LEIA ORGANA & HAN SOLO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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rough little tashi study to experiment with brushes

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And keep on walking. — Jude Watson, The Last One Standing

STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK: DAY 6: Favorite TV show ↳ OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022)

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I want to watch some good fucking tennis.

Challengers (2024)

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I knew you'd come back! I just knew it!

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patrick + bringing out the fire from art's tennis

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not to dredge up old discourse but its still legitimately such a tragedy that rey, one of the only main female protagonists in star wars, had so much potential and her story was reduced thru fandom & writing choices to a toxic relationship with a genocidal whiny ass man. she deserved so much more as a character, and could have been so much more 

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can’t stop thinking about this

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my favorite thing about anakin as a character is the inherent nuance lucas wrote into his story, like he's neither an innocent victim nor an inherently evil monster, he's just some guy put in a series of Situations and ultimately failing the test of his humility and self-control. he was certainly flattered and shaped by the devil, spiraling into something unrecognizable, but he chose to take every step down the pathway to hell. lucas knew he would lose a certain demographic by making him basically a greedy pawn in the larger story, not a righteous betrayed macho badass, but he did it anyway. he made him an awkward romantic and a loyal friend, a generous boy and a brilliant teen. he made sure he had all the positive qualities that meant that he had potential to be so much more than vader, but it was clearly his choice to lie, murder, and fully squander that potential. there are no excuses for what he became, no acceptable reasons to commit mass slaughter. he became an unbelievably selfish and impatient man, reckless and wantonly violent. hayden captured that nuance so well, nobody can match the sweetness of his smile and the absolute horror of his scowl on mustafar. to view him through a single lens as either pure victim of manipulation and (canonically unsupported) emotional neglect, or a creepy evil villain, denies the heart of his story and the weight of his tragedy. he's neither an angel nor a demon, he's both and neither, he's deeply human, a classical tragic hero with a flaw of greed. lucas made a choice with the prequels to tell a story that not everyone wanted to hear, and the result was a character that i think is one of the best of modern pop culture, mostly because he feels to me so very, very ancient and eternal.

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god, bodhi rook really is what star wars is all about contained in a single character. it’s about hope. it’s about doing what’s right even when it isn’t easy, even when it’s the hardest and scariest thing you’ve ever done. it’s about how it’s never too late to be a better version of yourself and that sometimes all you need is someone to believe you can be good.

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On Friendship.

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I'm taking such good care of my little white boys.

TASHI DUNCAN about ART DONALDSON & PATRICK ZWEIG Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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CHALLENGERS (2024)

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Amy and Laurie + Excerpts from Greta Gerwig’s Little Women script

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I remember as a kid Empire Strikes Back being terrifying. Han Solo gets tortured and Leia asks “what did you tell them?” He replies “they didn’t ask me any questions”. I remember how chilling that was. The Empire was a machine. Grinding people through its cogs and wheels, crushing them. Thats what Andor brings. It remembers what the mechanics of fascism look like in the Star Wars universe. Its brilliant.