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EDIT CHANGED MY MIND. leia raised by vader once she turns on him for luke 🥰🙂‍↕️

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misogyny is alive and well…

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what if star wars was an illuminated manuscript

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luke and vader spend the original trilogy, but especially ROTJ, more or less reading each other’s minds every other second, which really fascinates me because the level of psychic ability demonstrated between the two of them is not something we see with any of the other characters. obi-wan and anakin certainly don’t speak into each other’s minds at all throughout the PT, but within minutes of luke knowing the truth, we get the beautiful, son, come with me, and father? scene. when arriving at endor, luke and vader sense each other the length of several ships away, and both of them immediately know that the other is there, and then the entire gestalt of their duel before the emperor is that luke refuses to kill vader because he has magically sensed the good in his father, the “good” being that luke knows, through literal mind-reading, that vader absolutely will not kill him, and wouldn’t have killed him on bespin either. the “don’t make me destroy you” was a bluff. 

luke uses vader’s hilariously un-buried feelings about him (smash cut to palpatine saying to vader, “are you sure your feelings on this matter are clear?”) to manipulate him in much the same way vader uses luke’s hilariously un-buried feelings about his friends in ESB, and then leia again in ROTJ, and can i just say, for as much shit as we give vader for being kind of a terrible manipulator, he knows exactly what he’s doing by the duel in ROTJ. he pushes luke closer to the dark side than the emperor manages - by threatening leia, vader unlocks luke’s batshit temper, and luke literally beats him into submission and slices off his hand before luke realizes what he’s almost done. but vader reads luke’s affection for leia, and the truth that leia is his biological daughter, directly out of luke’s brain. no one could read the direct truth out of someone else’s brain like this in the prequels, or else the plot would be literally impossible - the closest we get is maybe yoda sensing anakin’s grief for his mother in AOTC, but that’s nonspecific. this is vader and luke plucking pertinent feelings literally out of each other’s heads. they’re so weird <3

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in empire strikes back, darth vader is frequently shown inside of an egg-shaped meditation chamber. this is a subtle nod to the fact that anakin is transgender

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leia and luke may be twins but that doesn’t mean leia can’t trap luke under the ice with her powers #thelma #jedithelma

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found an old sketch

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okay fine the jedi can have moral OCD but the sith definitely just have normal ocd

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i think it’s literally a huge step forward and a net good that a STAR WARS tv show (!) is able to say the word “rape” on air. not as a metaphor, but as a woman literally saying “he tried to rape me”—that’s unimaginable to me like 5 years ago and would’ve made me sort of hopeful if the audience hadn’t reacted so horribly. people getting angry about rape being in star wars are insane bc 1. it’s obviously already there and 2. rape isn’t just a fictional thing people use to degrade women characters because the writers are misogynistic. believe it or not it does exist in the real world and using that rhetoric for EVERY media depiction of sexual abuse is genuinely deeply destructive. because it really proves you find assault to be contaminating & belittling to the survivor

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read something that had anakin gore herself on her own lightsaber after killing luke… yeah

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disclaimer that i don’t think neil would wear cutoff booty shorts. but that art is sooo gorgeous

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ohh summer neil in the passenger seat

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dialogue between anakin and obi wan is CRAZYYYYY immediately at the opening of aotc. like genuinely insane shit . love !!!

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so funny to watch star wars and come away with padme your favorite character. michael bluth voice her?

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the comparisons between luke and padme feel forced by the writing bc it’s like when writing padme they were clearly keeping in mind how good and kind luke is and that she doesn’t let herself give up on vader but the fact luke was written first makes it feel fake… mother is supposed to come before baby but they didn’t do that. anakin and leia similarities seem true bc it doesn’t feel like they were intentional