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I was having some sad Kanan thoughts and decided imma make it everyone else's problem. is it working? <3

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Do you think the Ghost crew ever had to get all dressed up to go undercover at a fancy ball or something?

it is a truth universally acknowledged that ALL media can be improved with a formal mission so yes yes yes + dressed up kanera should get to give some bisexuals a nosebleed

(commission info // tip jar!)

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Some motivation for the week

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After the kids hide Kanan’s hair gel as a prank, they are horrified to learn that their dorky Space Dad is actually a DILF.

His gel is immediately returned. They never speak of it again.

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Saw this diva posing in the background of Heroes of Mandalore and had to sketch him. Chat, what’s he thinking about? Wrong answers only.

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After they got their jedi back at the end of season 1, Chopper finally became a Kanera shipper - good thing nothing bad happened to his otp after that ever again

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This is super niche, but here’s the lake scene from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice only it’s Kanan Jarrus instead of Mr. Darcy because I have an iPad and free will.

I hope this reaches its target audience of, like, 15 people.

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So, if you’re an ardent fan of Andor who thinks it and Rogue One are the best things that have ever happened to Star Wars ever ever ever, this post is not intended for you or to rattle your chain. My venting is for anyone else who might have similar Thoughts and/or may have their own feedback to share. Who knows? Maybe I’m the only person in the Star Wars fandom who reacted to Andor in this way, but into the void I feel compelled to scream.

First, I want to compliment the acting and production values. It is clear that everyone worked hard on the series, and they put their hearts into it. Kudos. What is mainly raising my hackles are the extremist Andor fans who suffer from what I call “Andor Superiority Syndrome” aka ASS. These ASS folks seem to take delight in proclaiming that Andor is the be all, end all of Star Wars and everything else is infantile and disposable in comparison. Their fawning praise, along with their outrage whenever anyone dares to opine that Andor has flaws, has grown increasingly tiresome (yes, I block it as best as I can. But.). At this point, I counter the ASS crowd with this argument: If the backstories of Andor and Rogue One never existed, all the other SW movies and series would still make sense and remain enjoyable within their own context. In contrast, because Andor and Rogue One rely quite heavily on the viewer knowing what has happened both before and after their events, it is these properties that are expendable to the Star Wars universe, not the other way around.

If anyone is wondering what flaws I am referring to, I agree with the SW fans who say Andor suffers from pacing issues and needless repetition due to the arc structure. Overall, I found that the various components of each arc did not add up to a satisfying whole by the end of the finale. Screen time was often spent on characters and events that never amounted to anything later on (for instance, all that time for Cassian to steal the TIE fighter and deal with those idiot Rebels only to have zero impact in the long run). I did like certain characters (although most got killed off) and aspects of the series, but I feel the story would have greatly benefitted from a more generous dollop of Star Wars charm. My biggest criticism is that if Andor was intended to make me care more about what happens to who in Rogue One, the series mostly failed to develop the origins of and camaraderie between the core group that goes on to sacrifice their lives in Rogue One. For example, I thought Cassian treated K2S0 horribly even after the droid saved all their lives during one of the best sequences in the series. This storytelling choice did nothing to set me up to care more about Cassian and K as a duo in the movie.

Andor certainly did an effective job of showing how awful the Empire is…but the Empire has been blatantly evil going back to the OT. Anyone who says the Empire is worse in Andor has just not been paying attention in my opinion. I mean, in A New Hope alone, the Empire slaughters Leia’s crew on her ship, kills a tribe of Tungsten Raiders, incinerates Luke’s aunt and uncle (no doubt after torturing them), destroys Alderaan entirely, and almost takes out the entire Rebellion. Is that to be considered lightweight? What is perplexing to me about Andor is how it goes out its way to make the majority of the early Rebels look as disjointed, incompetent, and/or immoral as possible. I totally get that everything was not rose-colored glasses, and I am onboard with gray areas, but having so many in the main group of characters be bitter, suspicious and unsupportive of each other was downright repulsive to me. Worse, by the end of Andor, I found myself knowing more about the backgrounds of the Imperial characters (like Syril and Dedra) than I did about most of the so-called good guys.

As a primary example, I will focus on Luthen Rael because he is a Rebel character that I wound up loathing almost as much as the Emperor by the finale. We are told by Cassian and others that Luthen was crucial to the formation of the Rebellion and the eventual establishment of Yavin’s base. But what did he ever really do to inspire or lead anyone? What I was shown in the story was basically a ruthless killer who took it upon himself to decide who would live or die according to his own plan and timetable. He let a group of 50 Rebels get killed to hide a mole, then he made sure the Ghor got decimated as a crisis point to force people like Mon Mothma to step it up. Luthen later mercilessly killed the mole, Lonni, once he got the information about the Empire’s superweapon. Lonni, who devoted years to the Rebellion and was trying to save his wife and daughter. Let me just say the real hero in this scenario was Lonni, not Luthen. And it is no wonder that Mon Mothma became terrified of Luthen, knowing he would have assassinated her just like he did her childhood friend if he ever deemed it necessary. Let’s not forget that Luthen was planning to have Cassian killed after the Aldani heist, but “luckily” Cassian got thrown into prison first.

What makes it all the worse is that Luthen had the ability and the intel to attempt a different approach in many of these crucial instances. Where he could have protected and preserved Rebel lives...yet he made zero attempts to do so. If he had at least tried to expose what the Empire wanted with Ghorman first before ensuring they were a lamb to the slaughter, it would have deepened his character.  Instead, he ignored Cassian’s warnings that the Ghor rebels were not ready. He sent Cinta and Vel to rile them up, getting Cinta killed in the process of making the planet “burn brightly.” Luthen might as well have been the Imperial sniper who fired the first shot in the Ghorman protest, he was that underhanded and calculating.

Is it any wonder that everyone ultimately left Luthen except Kleya? How can you continue to follow a person who believes the ends justify the means no matter the horrendous moral cost? So, I do not agree with Cassian defending Luthen because I never saw any side of him that earned a place on Yavin. The irony is that Bail Organa and Mon Mothma would have allowed him to come to the base to save his life—something he would not have done for them if the positions were reversed. As awful as Saw Gerrera is with no plan beyond hurting the Empire, at least he never pretended to be anything beyond an agent of chaos. Nor did he try to force another Rebel to stay a mole while grandiosely proclaiming he sacrificed his soul for the Rebellion. Frankly, I wasn’t sure Luthen ever had a soul by the end of Andor.

Indeed, I wish I knew what Luthen actually did sacrifice because they showed us almost nothing of his background and I think we really needed to know more. Unfortunately, what little we saw was really Kleya’s backstory. It appears Luthen was an Imperial sergeant in the middle of a brutal battle who finally cracks and says, “Make it stop.” And yet, he then goes on to encourage the child Kleya to stoke her hatred while he employs cruel, bloody, and unethical tactics to stir up the Rebellion. I guess you can take the man out of the Empire, but you can’t take the Empire out of the man. Last, but certainly not least, Luthen totally botched his own death when he was confronted by Dedra. If he were as efficient and merciless with his own killing as he had been with everyone else, he’d have slit his throat and saved Kleya from having to risk her life to finish the job. Never mind how much it cost her emotionally.

Luthen is the Rebel character I found most distasteful, but he was only one of many uninspiring people. Unfortunately, these negative types were not sufficiently counterbalanced by more positive Rebel characters until very late in the game. Even then, the character interactions and plot steered us to view anyone like Organa and Mothma as naïve and weak for standing against unethical and unnecessarily violent methods. That they owed their lives and the entire existence of the Rebellion to Luthen and his cell because they took on the dirty deeds. Well, I argue that Luthen frequently created situations that required dirty deeds to fix them. Anyway, as an example of belittling the straight arrow characters, Andor pretty much spit on the Ghost crew from Rebels, barely acknowledging they played a vital role in rescuing Mon Mothma as well. Instead, we’re basically told flat out that the real hero, Cassian, was denied his glory and that everything Hera and the others did in Rebels was second banana, kid show stuff.  Talk about “changing the story.”

To wrap up my venting, I confess the most puzzling thing to me is why the show creators wanted to produce this under the Star Wars banner in the first place. Based on what the producers have said, they seemed very uncomfortable about including any of the signature space fantasy elements associated with Star Wars, as if they were terrified of being accused of “fan service” by integrating more droids, alien characters, or any significant representation of the Force into their story. To me, they erred so far on the side of caution that Andor barely feels like it happens in the Star Wars universe at all. For some reason beyond me, the ASS crowd seems to think that keeping Star Wars out of a Star Wars show is wonderful and they actually get incensed if anyone comments otherwise. Maybe the next time Gilroy wants to produce a slow burn political thriller featuring humans, he and his team should set it on modern day planet Earth and leave Star Wars completely out of it. I have no doubt they’ll do an excellent job, and we will be spared from the ASS crowd’s annoying shenanigans. I call that a win-win.

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Anna Marie & Remy LeBeau

Marvel Meow Infinity Comic (2022) #27

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Me finding characters 😂

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Jedi Temple Guard AU featuring padawan Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus

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So I was standing on a bus stop waiting for way too long wishing i had something fun to do, going through my gallery.

Then-

O! i hadn't posted this - so have the dynamic duo <3

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I joined the Rebellion and all I got was this sick leather jacket (aka I finished Andor last night so here's Kanan Jarrus in some classic rebel fashion).

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Happy Mother’s Day!

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Right Now In a Galaxy Not Far Away

"I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest...

And the monster screaming the loudest? The monster we’ve helped create? The monster who will come for us all soon enough is Emperor Palpatine Trumpatine!"

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star wars, but it’s just the memes

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

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Cuddle pile