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moving

you’re invited to my star wars vow renewal! i’m moving all my star wars musings over to @jarkaikassa alongside posts about other sci fi universes <3

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The Book of Boba Fett (2021-) CHAPTER 5: RETURN OF THE MANDALORIAN

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The Real Reason the Jedi Seers Were Disbanded

Ancient Jedi Council: Look, we don’t want to have to go over this again, but it seems we must. [picks up datapad] At last month’s meeting, did we or did we not express our concern about the seers’ continuing… preoccupation.

Ancient Jedi Mystic: You did.

Ancient Jedi Council: And yet, reviewing this month’s prophecies, we find only more of the same. [clears throat] ‘She who was born in darkness will give birth to darkness.’ ‘One will ascend to the highest of the Jedi despite the foreboding of those who would serve with him.’ Really? 

Ancient Jedi Mystic: Actually, those are not necessarily referring to the life of–

Ancient Jedi Council: The Chosen One? 

Ancient Jedi Mystic: [weakly] I mean, it COULD be something else.

Ancient Jedi Council: Master. We respect your work. But there are only so many times you can rephrase the same events. Last month we got prophecies about the glorious waviness of his hair and what his favorite color will be. This month includes his blood type. SURELY there must be more to the future than this.

Ancient Jedi Mystic: I truly don’t know what to tell you, Masters. I’ve tried everything! Different meditation settings… toning down the seers’ use of incense… every vision centers around this singular vergence!

Ancient Jedi Council: [sighs] I understand. Unfortunately, we can’t keep devoting so much of the Order’s resources to this. We already know every kriffing detail of this guy’s life.

Ancient Jedi Mystic: Masters, please, if I could just have another month–

Ancient Jedi Council: I’m sorry. As of this week, we’re merging your department with the Archives.

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Leia, babe…

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hi sorry i'm posting everything in the world right now, clearing out the drafts lol. it will continue!

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Uncle Owen is not a grumpy old man who is more worried about his farm than what Luke wants.

Uncle Owen is not afraid Luke inherited the cruelty of his father. He doesn’t even know Anakin became Vader, he thinks Anakin got killed.

Uncle Owen doesn’t hate Obi-Wan because they had an argument or because something happened between them while Obi-Wan was on Tatooine.

Owen Lars was handled a tiny fragile baby to protect, and told that this baby’s father, who was always restless on Tatooine as a child, who loved speed and flying, who brought his starfighters into the most dangerous battles, to whom there was never enough excitement and adventure, has gotten himself killed in a war he was so eager to fight in, and which Owen never understood. 

He watched over and raised this baby for 19 years. He is afraid. He is afraid when Luke becomes restless just like boy Anakin. He is afraid when Luke falls in love with flying, just like Anakin. He is afraid Obi-Wan will drag Luke off Tatooine, just like he dragged off Anakin.

He is afraid Luke will be like his father, never content to stay on their farm where it’s safe, but fly too fast, and fight too hard, and be too idealistic, and then get killed.

So when Owen says he’s afraid Luke has too much of his father’s in him, he is not worried Luke will be like Anakin, he is afraid Luke will die like Anakin.

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clone wars has awoken me from the dead so i may return and draw my best boy with tropey imagery 

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“AU Rebel Kallus” ~ Alexsandr Hot Kallus

Something I’ve been thinking about lately… What if Kallus kept his ISB armor and had Sabine paint it for him?

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jango telling dooku in open seasons that he wanted the unaltered clone to be an apprentice rather than a son is hilarious in retrospect bc it means EITHER:

a) jango fett was lying to conceal the fact that he’s a big softie and to protect his unborn son from people identifying him as jango’s weakness

or

b) jango fett was being earnest at the time, but did a complete 180 once he actually saw boba for the first time

i think option a is more likely, but option b is delightful to consider as well. imagine jango walking into that room with a stony expression, ready to assess this unaltered clone’s viability as jaster’s legacy—only for that carefully cultivated detachment to be immediately vaporized the second the kaminoans place this sleeping infant in his arms.

man’s trying so hard not to lose it in front of the cloners, he only manages a mumbled “good. thanks” before turning on his heel and walking out of the room in a daze, new son in tow

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Aaaaand next in the Baby Jedi series, here we have some baby Kit Fisto!!

This is also in part caused by discord, someone else drew baby Kit, and then I was watching a wildlife rescue show that had baby seals (which are Round) and I was inspired.

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just thinking about how koska calls boba a sidekick (a comment that’s specifically tied to him being a clone, lets not forget) and boba essentially going “that’s funny coming from you.” boba feels a moral obligation to help din find his kid. he’s in his service, but there is no hierarchy between them. boba and din are traveling as partners and their interactions reflect that. but but koska and bo katan? koska is helping bo katan in her quest for power and authority over mandalore. there’s a clear sense of familiarity between the two, but koska is nonetheless an underling to bo katan. she’s the only sidekick here and you can tell that she’s motivated by (perhaps misplaced and overgrown) belief and admiration in bo katan.

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was thinking about my love for boba’s new paint job and how it seemed to be about more than just it looking nice…… like, when we first see his armour at the start of the season, you get to see through din’s eyes just how disgusting it is for cobb vanth to be wearing that armour. it’s like he’s wearing a mandalorian’s husk. that he’s stolen his skin. so then you have to think of what that means to boba to have this figurative skin of his – which is a link to his father and identity as a mandalorian – stolen, sold, and worn by someone else. so once it’s returned to him, he paints it the first chance he gets. it’s like he’s refurbishing that skin, allowing it to heal. he’s making it his again. and he wears it so neatly, like it’s become part of his body, just as it should be.

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Armorer tusken, pass it on

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Time to wreck some clankers

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doodles 

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sometimes for a good ole round of fun i like to think of the increasingly dumb ways the galaxy could have been saved in the prequels. required leave, so anakin and obi-wan aren't literally so run into the ground they untether from reality just enough for obi-wan to miss every single warning sign that exists and for anakin to commit significantly more murder than ever, or mandatory psychiatric evaluations, which anakin would fail with flying colors because someone said "mother" and he launched into an unhinged caffeine-and-fury fueled tirade about being more powerful than death itself so no one will ever die again ever and he can save everyone in the galaxy, complete with him shattering a chair against a wall. those are too easy, though, there are dumber ways to fix this miasma of miscommunication. maybe the elevator breaks and anakin and obi-wan are trapped inside for seven hours, and in a sleep-deprived, dehydration-induced state they encounter the fact that they may or may not have real, actual emotions, and they're unearthed from the elevator but they can't move because they're hugging the life out of each other. obi-wan finds an old book of romantic poetry anakin wrote about padme when he was a teenager but lovestruck, over-the-moon, freshly married man anakin wrote GOT HITCHED!!!! on the last page because he literally can't tell anyone else, and the ensuing anakin and obi-wan argument results in a significant amount of damaged infrastructure, but also hugs. the galaxy doesn't end because obi-wan breaks his arm at the start of revenge of the sith and the council puts him on medical leave, and anakin makes significantly less catastrophic decisions in proximity to obi-wan, generally. the galaxy doesn't end because palpatine gets audited for tax evasion and anakin slaughters the space IRS, and he gets arrested in jedi prison for the ridiculous crime of slaughtering the space IRS and therefore can't go murder children in palpatine's glorious name. that is, if anyone cares enough about the space IRS to arrest him for it. the galaxy doesn't end because anakin has to leave the jedi order to pay for the 3567 speeding tickets he's accumulated. the jedi order doesn't get murderdeathed because obi-wan found an article on space JSTOR about how freed people struggle to overcome the myriad traumas of slavery, and then obi-wan goes to the space barnes and noble and purchases every shitty self-help book that exists with the jedi space black card. and then the jedi order gets audited because obi-wan's bought every self-help book in space and also a subscription to intergalactic psychologytoday. there's a whole host of ways to fix this in the dumbest fashion possible.

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i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste