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Little sequel to this

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And there was only one cloak 💛

Codywan week Medieval Fantasy prompt pt2

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[image Id: digital drawing of Obi-Wan and Cody in medieval versions of their clothing. The are both under Obi-WAN’s cloak which he is holding up to block the rain.]

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It is repeatedly emphasized in the show that the process of minining kalkite is invasive and risks destroying Ghorman’s biosphere, that the Empire had sought other options before committing to strip mining Ghorman, and that because Ghorman is a prominent Colonies world it would take time to turn public opinion against the Ghor - multiple years! - before they could begin. The entire point is that fascists can’t simply leave well enough alone - to get what they want they will eagerly manufacture consent for genocide. The Empire carefully manages public opinion to spin the massacre as a years-long terrorist uprising being put down, and it’s only Mon Mothma’s speech in the Senate that is able to blow a hole in that narrative.

This is just basic basic basic narrative analysis, but unfortunately we are dealing with Star Wars fans so that is not in their toolbox

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Numa learned her sharpshooting skills and badassery from Waxer and Boil. They were off planet when we saw her in Rebels, which is why we didn’t see them, of course

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Mixed media (Watercolor, alcohol marker, gel pen, and colored pencil) Kanan and Hera J.C. Leyendecker study original under the cut

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george lucas making all those blue eyed white people stand outside in the desert sun and act with no sunglasses is white on white crime

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character: *isn’t 100% good or evil*

The Internet: hello naughty children it’s Discourse time

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im sick of codywan au’s where cody is the pirate or some other type of rapscallion… give me pirate with a strict moral code obi wan and cody the naval commander captain who offers himself up as a hostage

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sometimes i like a ship not because of inherent chemistry between the characters, but because of the character development the ship implies. for X and Y to get together in a believable and meaningful way, X would have to go through this character arc and Y would have to go through that character arc. I'm interested in the narrative that'd lead up to them getting together, and so I'm interested in the ship

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Nick Gillard, the Revenge of the Sith choreographer, on how he wrote the Obi-Wan vs Anakin fight in a 2019 interview. He’s described it in these terms before, that he wrote it as a fight between a romantic couple, in that:  “My take on the whole duel was that Obi-Wan is the central character in that duel. He wouldn’t try and kill Anakin. The way I saw that fight was like having a fight with your girlfriend. That she’s just lost it and that she’s coming at you with everything she’s got. […] So you try to defend her as long as you can until she breaks down. Then you can give her a cuddle.“ Obviously he doesn’t mean it literally and I think that goes hand in hand with how I don’t think Anakin saw Obi-Wan as having a sexual affair with Padme, but instead one more of loyalty, but also that there is a strong element of how Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship is one that’s of partners, and that I very strongly do see Anakin’s feelings on this being a complicated, tangled mess that aren’t just platonic or just romantic, they’re a jumble of a bunch of different things. Even more importantly is how the entire fight is structured around that Obi-Wan didn’t want this, that he was doing everything he could to give Anakin time to come to his senses, that that was the mindset Obi-Wan want into this fight with and one of the biggest narrative takeaways of this part of the story.  That nothing Obi-Wan could have done (or Padme, for that matter) could have changed this, because Anakin had the time to come back, he had people reaching their hands out to him, that Padme literally begged him to run away with her, that Obi-Wan tried to talk him down/didn’t go at him with full force because he was trying to get Anakin back. But Anakin is so stuck on the idea that anything less than full agreement with him and what he wants to do, is a betrayal, that they’ve gone behind his back despite that there’s no real evidence for this, other than that they had a conversation one time he wasn’t in the room (which was about him, as Padme told him), and that Obi-Wan came with Padme to Mustafar. That Anakin cannot see that both of these people are entirely about him, that they love him and want him to come back, shows just what the dark side does.  It doesn’t make anyone happy, instead it lies and divides and inflicts nothing but suffering, when it’s embraced like this.  Despite all evidence to the contrary, Anakin couldn’t see how much they loved him. And he’s so enraged by a perceived betrayal, from Padme, but also from Obi-Wan, that it’s looked at as being like an affair, that the writing for this fight is centered around that concept and the sense of hurt and fury that comes with it, showing that Obi-Wan and Anakin being the climax of this movie and, in a lot of ways, this entire trilogy, is there for a reason.

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He is not reading a single word 💔

Codywan Les Mis actor au inspired by The Truth That Was Once Spoken !! The fic is incredible, I knew nothing about Les Mis going in but still loved it

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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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Princess Leia in my style

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Fanbinding: Sanguine, by @glimmerglanger

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!! (#2!)

My second post for Star Wars day is the canon vampire-au fic Sanguine, typeset by @aetherseer (& it is one of the last any of us received explicit permission for). This fic is one of my most dearly beloved of glimmer's works (so hard to choose a favorite). It languished for months printed but unfinished, on my shelf, because I was constantly torn over what to do for the cover design. The final design uses handmade bookcloth from white linen, with red paint seeped into the fabric in different tones & stages to give the effect of blood leaching into cloth (we are going after both meanings of "sanguine" here).

Aether's typeset, with art by @frostbitebakery, is gorgeous & has color on every page. I had this crepaldi tiger eye paper that I thought would go great, and did true double core endbands to match.

Bonus photo: aftermath of Nimitz deciding she needed to participate in this act of creation.

bonus bonus photo from my first photoshoot of this book where the book was acting like it was a Twilight vampire instead of a normal one 🤣:

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Run, run, run away, run awaaay, babyy before we get shot in the kriffing heAD QUINLAN

(ft padawan quin and Obiwan shenanigans on a planet on which I didn’t feel like colouring in)

Will I ever stop drawing Quinlan with a vague injury that will force Obiwan to carry him? Probably not <3 Maybe I’ll do it the other way round as a treat sometime.

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In case you needed to see obi-wan wearing one of my outfit >v>