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Fanbinding: The Desert Storm (series) by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

This is 1 of 2 posts for today, a massive project that I have hit a significant milestone for: completion of both my & the author's 15-volume set of the 1.1 million word The Desert Storm. This is the fic series that got me into Star Wars as an actual fan.

Four years after Order 66 and the fall of the Jedi Order, a grieving, struggling Ben Kenobi finds himself inexplicably taken back in time, crashing headlong into the foundations of fate. Grasping hope and vengeance with both hands, Ben rebuilds his identity and seeks to change the course of history: by saving Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi Order, the galaxy - and just maybe saving Obi-Wan Kenobi along the way.

My design for this typeset was significantly influenced by mem, who had begun a typeset before me and selected black & white images for the title pages, a trend I continued.

As this fic series has meteliculous attention to both canon & EU lore, I stuck with aurebesh characters for titles wherever appropriate, which occasionally gave me some fun opportunities for chapters & tables of contents like this:

For scene dividers, I used a image you can interpret either as twin suns, or as an eclipse.

While I committed to a more classic and less elaborate design for this series, I still rounded & backed every volume in the set. "Editioning" high numbers of similar books like this is often considered in bookbinding circles as necessary to practice skills (I am at 37/45 volumes), and I can certainly say that I have gotten much better at a number of things along the way. The largest book in this series is 616 pages; the smallest, 160 - and I needed to round & back both.

Further thoughts...

Blue_Sunshine (the author) has a fantastic skill for foreshadowing; reread of this series are a must. On top of that, character relationships are consistently and realistically fleshed out and developed. And critically for a "go back in time" story, Blue has a wonderful grasp of the dominoes - what changes trickle down and ripple out; and how that could come back to bite some people. Finally - if you live a badass Obi-Wan Kenobi, this is definitely a fic series for you. Also Blue is a lovely person & our little bits of correspondence has been such a bright spot for me.

Material notes: Duo oatmeal bookcloth, orange marbled jute from Sustain and Heal, hammermill cream paper, gold foil + paint for titles.

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Carrie got a FRIEND (aka I drew her with someone on tiktoks OC)

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Slave Chips + Anakin Angst time

(who tf had this convo? whoever it was, all your body parts are going on the wall. kneecaps = TAKEN for making me fuckin cry)

The conversation started w/ a Anakin has chronic pain because of a very Loud force presence + all the fun stuff that comes from a childhood in slavery and formative years spent as a general in a war, and then talking about high vs low pain perception

And then Yui hops in with this:

what if Slave masters have technology in the slave chips where they can control their slaves pain perception–Low perception for when they work and high for when they get punished.

The jedi didn’t know about it, Qui-gon forgot to mention the chip to the Council

and Watto “ forgot ” to turn it the high pain perception off as a way of getting back at the Jedi for “stealing” his investment

Oh my God what if anakin thinks they know and choose not to turn it off

WHAT IF HE THINKS THAT THEY’RE PUNISHING HIM FOR QUI-GON BEING QUI GON AND FOR THEM BEING FORCED TO TAKE HIM IN SO OLD

AND THAT FEEDS HIS BITTERNESS OF THEM

AND ALSO STOMPS HIS SELF ESTEEM

Because the pain NEVER stops.

So Anakin never says anything

It makes him think that he definitely cannot tell them about any injuries he has unless they make him unfit to work

And Obi-Wan constantly lectures him too and like he’s already being punished he doesn’t need to be verbally beaten down too

(note that it’s from Anakin perspective, the unreliable narrator of the year–Obi-wan actually has no idea about the chip)

And when he lashes out because it just HURTS and he can’t contain it anymore, he’s berated AGAIN

Also, if the pain perception is controlled, that means the slave chip is still there, which makes the thought process he has about being punished for being taken so old even worse

And then, what if Kix one day finds a chip in Anakin’s nervous system, he removes it, and Anakin begins crying with relief

And Kix goes “Sir Why WAS THIS TORTURE DEVICE IN YOU?”

He gets injured enough for emergency surgery and Kix finds the chip that way, meanwhile, Anakin can’t have anesthesia for medical reasons, so he’s dealing with the surgery awake and feels the moment the chip is detached.

WHAT IF ANAKIN IS FAKE NONCHALANT ABOUT IT BECAUSE ANGST

“Ah? Oh they didn’t tell you? I thought it’d be in the brief. That’s my slave chip. It’s supposed to be there. It means they own me.” And kix…kix is aghast.

the Jedi are all crying in a corner at the fact they let a CHILD be tortured for YEARS

Because Anakin admitted to a slave chip. Of being owned. And he calls obi-wan Master

Obi-Wan is absolutely devastated because he tortured the child who he was responsible for and he never wanted to do that and oh force, he’s a monster (it’s obi wan so like. infinite sadness to the max)

The clones basically become Anakin’s mother hens

WHAT IF THIS IS HOW THEY FIND THE CLONE CHIPS TOO

BC KIX GOES “IF THEIR JETII HAS A CHIP…ONE OF THEIR OWN… WHAT ABOUT US CLONES?”

Also the fact so if this is during the Clone Wars: they’ve sent Anakin in as a soldier without him even knowing he had a right to not fight

The Council decides immediately to take Anakin off the front and get to seeing a mind healer, before collectively drinking an entire bar under the table

Oh God did anyone ever explain to anakin. In depth. That just because they are called “Master” does not mean they own him?

AS A SLAVE, HE WAS ALLOWED HIS THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS. HIS MASTERS BEFORE DID NOT OWN HIS MIND. BUT THAT’S NOT THE CASE WITH THE JEDI, IN HIS PERSPECTIVE

(again, Anakin’s perspective, the Jedi didn’t actually know. This somehow becomes an eventual fix it lol.)

Like LOGICALLY Anakin knows that Master to them means teacher but he thinks it doesn’t apply to him because they won him and he is still a slave

What if that’s the reason he kept his marriage to Padme a secret, not because he was afraid of being kicked out of the Order, but because he would be punished for loving a free person?

YEAH BC SLAVES DON’T GET MARRIED AND PADME WAS NOT ONLY A FREEBORN, BUT SHE IS ALSO, IN HIS EYES, SO FAR ABOVE HIS STATION ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY

Oh, with the removal of the chip and the pain, Anakin gets high from the huge levels of pain-relieving chemicals his body has been producing for years to compensate.

Anakin living in constant fear of punishments, and that’s why he always seems so high strung and on a hair trigger

Like!! This whole thing is a web of miscommunication and assumptions

Anakin assumes that the Jedi and whatever know about the chip and chose to keep it in.

He assumes he is still a slave if not in name, then in status

He assumes the council is constantly punishing him for Qui-Gon essentially forcing them to take him in and for his failure to adhere to their code.

He assumes Obi-Wan feels the same, or perhaps he cannot risk going against the council bc they’re his elders and he still loves Obi-Wan, bc he sees that Obi-Wan does care for him

(but not enough to free you, a voice whispers in his head that grows louder every day)

Him talking about things with Palpy, thinking the man would be nice enough to free him…

the entire temple is just full of people drinking and crying over Anakin and Anakin himself is currently the most functional person around, trying to convince everyone it wasn’t that bad

He doesn’t realize that that makes it so much worse. He’s all “Really, compared to my other masters. And to masters I could have gone to… you all were kind. I was lucky.”

And they despair.

Because how could they still be given that earnest smile, of beautiful blue eyes, shining still with trust and love, when they tormented him, albeit unknowingly, for over a decade?

Anakin is just very relieved to be pain free, and that they didn’t know so it wasn’t on purpose.

Anakin: You all treated me so well! I had food and water every day, shelter and good quality clothing. You never beat me and my punishments, while sometimes painful, were done with no tricks without cruelty.

“You’re the best masters I’ve had.”

Mace, upon being told this by a very earnest and 100% honest Anakin, knowing full well how he made life difficult for Anakin and didn’t like him much, cleared a whole bar of alcohol on his own

While the Jedi are crying, the 501st is willing to go on a murder spree. The Hutts are DEAD.

Everyone say bye bye Gardulla and Jabba

Anakin is just happy and relieved.

Yes there will be talking. He will have to establish boundaries, the order will need to regain its footing.

But Anakin is free, and he has so much love to give.

And now he knows that they never meant for him to suffer.

And maybe he’s still high on being free of pain, but now he knows they genuinely cared for him and none of their kindness was because they wanted him to perform well. They were genuine.

Obi-Wan at one point just breaking down and holding Anakin to his chest and sobbing because how did he fail him so badly

meanwhile Anakin’s just like “Master, it’s fine, I’m fine. Hey crying wastes water, if you’re going to cry over something it’s gotta be something more major than this. I mean everything’s fine, everything’s better than fine now, I’m free.”

Anakin not quite processing why everything he says makes Obi-Wan cry harder.

Quinlan must be very glad that he never tried to touch Anakin directly.

Anakin’s self-flagellation issues are through the ROOF

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hello there~

may the 4th be with you doodle dump be apon ye

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Fleshing out Ka'rye/Carrie's design :) shes my baby yall :DDDD

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carrie doodle page :)

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CHEESE

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wonky warmup

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HI EVERYONE!!! Commissions are now OPEN via VGen! I draw both OCs and Fanart :D

Starting at 150 SEK (around 15 USD) I've got character sketches such as these :3

And at a little higher, around 450 SEK (or 45 USD) I've got rendered portraits! Some examples being:

DM me if there's any questions :D

(aaah can't believe I got a code!!!)

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tfw green scrunkly babe adopts you as their father

ALSO! I'm looking for a Vgen artist code, if you have one and want to share pretty please hmu?

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in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

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baby's first night bar-hopping!

(Context: Personal AU where the Clone Wars never happened and Palpatine is just not a sith. The Jedi are just chilling like crazy, having a good time and generally being considered as "that one weird neighbor" by the rest of the galaxy.

Recently knighted Ka'rye, previously apprenticed under Mace Windu, was taken bar-hopping on Coruscant by her older sibling-padawan Depa and her agemate Anakin. It ends well for 2/3 of the party.)

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STAR WARS PROPAGANDA BY PABLO HIDALGO

“DELIVER US FROM JEDI EVIL“

At the start of the Clone Wars, the Jedi were largely kept out of Republic propaganda, with the clone troopers becoming the face of patriotism during the conflict. This was the preference of the Order, which eschewed imagery of heroism or the romanticization of warfare. For the Separatists, however, the use of Jedi in propaganda was not so forbidden. Anti-Jedi sentiment was more a product of their cultural absence rather than a refutation of anything substantive. Separatist worlds that had experienced lawlessness attributed that to Jedi neglect, a failure of policing. Indeed, the war itself was a failure of the peacekeepers. To these disaffected worlds, the Jedi were just one more symptom of an inattentive Core World. They imagined the Jedi to be cultural elites, or in the case of this piece, a zealous sect of warmongers.

When I picked this book up, I expected it to be not that interesting, because it seemed like a fairly niche thing, the effect that propaganda had on the galaxy, from it’s beginnings to the Clone Wars to the Empire to the Rebellion and beyond.  And there are some great little insights along the way!  But what surprised me was how, while this absolutely is filtered through the lens of the effect of propaganda, it’s far more than that, it’s a book about what happened.  It’s a book about the themes of Star Wars, the decay at the heart of the Republic and the various players’ parts in this story. I’m going to focus on the Jedi part of it, but keep in mind that they’re actually a very small fraction of what was going on in this book!  While the movies and TV shows focus on those characters (because they make for good, dramatic stories, because Star Wars as a story is about Anakin Skywalker!), this is a book about the entire galaxy.  This is a book about the public at large and about politics. This is a book that lays out how propaganda and false narratives contributed to so much of what happened and why.  

Keep reading

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man yells at fish

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Fuck it. So many of you asked for this so I’m delivering. English Willy part 2. Enjoy

(part 1)

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Art tag :)

My art

Commissions are open via VGen :D

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Darth Maul sketch :)