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This made me so sad

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Sudden return to the tumbler. After all these years…

Inspired by Tartakovsky’s mini-series Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005)

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008-2020) 4.21 • "Brothers"

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Are going to do any more Organa twins AU? No pressure just curious

i've been saving this ask for whenever i wanted an excuse to draw this au again (so short answer, yes!)

(commission info // tip jar!)

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ok what if, thanks to giving birth to two quarter-force/eldritch skywalkers, padmé wound up as a force ghost (but only said eldritch skywalkers could see her)

(commission info // tip jar!)

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It’s Villain Appreciation Week! Every villain this week gets 4 panels to show off their tragic arc, dark goofs, and/or raging aesthetic! Today, bow down to…

ASAJJ VENTRESS!!!

The original Lady Sith, Ventress was first designed for Attack of the Clones by Dermot Power. Said Iain McCaig, prequels art guy and king among men:

“I felt this was a great opportunity to introduce a strong woman character, to give girl fans an icon…”

“The first drawing I did for Episode II was a female Sith. I remember George coming up and looking at it and asking what it was. ‘It’s your Sith, George,’ I said. ‘It’s got to be a woman!’”

But Movie Ventress was not to be, and we got Christopher Lee instead, whomst we stan. The character design was brought back from the brink of death by, as far as I know, Genndy Tartakovsky’s worthy Clone Wars cartoons (which are my favorite Star Wars thing besides Hayden Christensen’s forehead).

From this righteous beginning came a character with the most confusing and poorly communicated backstory in possibly the entire franchise. From her on-again-off-again relationship with causing Anakin’s sexy eye-scar, to the squicky misandry of her homeplanet Dathomir, she has never ceased to be a badass bitch who never quite fits in the story. She was a Jedi – for a bit, long ago, far away – and she brings out the naughty side of Obi-Wan – and they of course, could never be!

When cuts must be made, the guys in charge have made it pretty clear that the story of Ventress – like that of Padme – is not their priority. You’ve got to bounce across several media to get the whole thing, and still you must fill in a lot of it yourself. She falls to her death at the end of her part in Genndy Tartakovsky’s cartoon, but she’s back on her feet at the beginning of Dave Filoni’s. The novel Dark Disciple (reading?! with no pictures?!) kills her again, and it’s kind of the biggest bummer of them all. In an appropriately confusing and touching tribute, the mysterious, witch-like Mika Grey was written into another cartoon series, Resistance, as a “what could have been” stand-in for an elderly Ventress. Gimme gimme.

Over the decades in comics, she’s been tossed around by a lot of writers and artists at cross purposes. In general, she is a bad bitch in Dark Horse, and a babelicious queen in Marvel (which is a roughly accurate microcosm of the two Star Wars comics publishers’ styles). Today, Ventress bears the noble goal of serving the most cheesecake you can get from Disney.

The story of the Lady Sith foretold, I think, the story of Rey, the Lady Jedi. We love her – we adore her – we don’t know quite what to do with her. It didn’t have to be such a mess, but it’s got to be a woman!

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Iain McCaig quotes from “The Art of Attack of the Clones.” 2002.

“Republic 53: Blast Radius.” Dark Horse. April 30, 2003. Writer: Haden Blackman. Penciller: Brian Ching. Inker: Joe Weems. Colorist: Joe Wayne. (2 Joes!)

“The Clone Wars 9: In Service of the Republic,” Part 3. Dark Horse. September 16, 2009. Writers: Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching. Penciller: Scott Hepburn. Inker: Dan Parsons. Letterer: Michael Heisler. Colorist: Michael E. Wiggam. (2 Mikes!)

“Age of Republic Special 1: Sisters.” Marvel. January 16, 2019. Writer: Jody Houser. (A QUEEN!) Penciller: Carlos Gómez. Colorist: Dono Sanchez-Almara.

“Return to Vader’s Castle,” Issue 3. Marvel. October 16, 2019. Writer: Cavan Scott. Penciller, Inker, and Colorist: Nick Brokenshire.

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008-2020) 4.22 • "Revenge"

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Dear Anelle (aka cupcakelogic)

Stop provoking + goading me into drawing nonsense and go to sleep.  Sincerely,  Mati ltd.

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Miku in Estonian folk clothes calendar concept

credit: Sagior (instagram)

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just keep drinking that paint

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bro thought he was safe from the headcanon beam WRONG

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dagoth ur

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Happy pride month everyone

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TH GAY PEOPLE IN MY PHONEWHEN I DROP IT ON THE FLOOR

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Og midas def whimpers