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revenge of the sith is still so fucking funny, because, like, the separatists invade coruscant, and kidnap the head of state. that’s a war-winning action. at that point, they just motherfucking won the war, unless a miracle happens. and then you have half the jedi council and a bunch of other jedi just chilling in the jedi temple, on their fucking doomsday, feet propped up and relaxing, and the council still chooses to call anakin and obi-wan from the other ass-end of the galaxy in the “outer rim sieges” to come fix this shit, like yoda wasn’t right motherfucking there. yoda was sitting on the fucking couch! and they STILL called obi-wan and anakin from the OTHER END OF THE GALAXY. in no ways was anakin spiritually prepared to be a jedi master, but motherfucker i kind of get why he was pissed. i kind of understand that. if i got called into work to save the day and i walked in and the rest of the staff was just sitting, and i still saved the day, and then they denied me a promotion, i’d have fucking quit. he’s not spiritually ready by any means and in fact he’s deeply turbofucked, but i understand where he was coming from. i understand, man.

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a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

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i think people are sleeping on the potential for starwarsatheist!Padme and jedi!Anakin. Like, Anakin is part of a major religious order that has full belief in the power of a mystic cosmic force that powers their telekinetic abilities and lets them see the future.

Do you know how many people would call bullshit on this?

like, give me padme and anakin arguing about whether the force actually exists, or whether there is a 'god-given' prophecy of bringing balance(i personally subscribe to the discovery of midichlorians being a scientific explanation that most scientists in the universe credit for jedi powers. any self-respecting scientist in the GFFA can and would fist fight a jedi philosopher)

padme just being all, 'this is my beautiful husband. he's a bit of a religious nut, but i love him so so much.'

and anakin would be all, 'this is the love of my life, the angel of the galaxy, and if she thinks that the force isn't real, she's valid and i'll fight all your fuckers that disagree.'

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THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT PAGES IN ANY STAR WARS COMIC EVER

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bunch of my favourite films: STAR WARS: EPISODE III – REVENGE OF THE SITH

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i was thinking that people don’t appreciate how overwhelmingly funny the death star getting blown up is; i mean, you know, on some level, this is just some teenager from space alabama who grew up shooting cans with a shotgun going, “yeah, you want me to attack the biggest military base in space history with absolutely no piloting-in-space experience? i can do that.” like back in space alabama luke flew the equivalent of a crop duster, maybe, but then the rebellion’s like this kid we met two hours ago, we need to put him in a fighter. luke has absolutely no hours piloting a fighter in space before this, and then he succeeds because he’s got magic powers, and the voices told him to. what is probably the most overwhelmingly enormous military base ever built in space with the most extreme firepower ever amassed in space loses in a fight to a guy who had less flight time than a fresh soviet pilot in WWII, this is already the funniest military victory in pop fiction, bar none.

but then you go to how luke wins, aside from the magic powers and the voices in his head; he convinces the local weed guy to get into armed conflict with the military, and the local weed guy shows up in the space equivalent of a VW bus that has a gun duct taped to it, and this is the rig that manages to shoot down darth vader. i should say that by this point in star wars, darth vader has been fighting in war since he was nineteen, and the first time he flew a fighter was when he was nine, he’s widely renowned not only as one of the best pilots in the galaxy, but also as one of the most dangerous people in the galaxy period, like if you let him loose on a battlefield everyone probably just sort of hangs back and lets him massacre everyone. because honestly they’re really just accessories in this. things like “air support” or “artillery” or even “other people with guns” aren’t super necessary because vader’s got the magic powers, the voices in his head, and also a sword that kills people, you know? definitely a couple imperial victories boil down to, “we just told vader to go to work, and then we found a mountain of bodies afterwards.” and this is the guy who gets creamed by a VW bus plus gun. han and chewie fucking scooby and shaggy his ass, and in legends vader ate shit so hard he spiraled out of control, crashed on a planet in the middle of nowhere, and promptly went kind of crazy and decided to slum it with - and i shit you not - a pack of literal space hyenas, who adopted him as their king. he then became the only fucking survivor of the entire ordeal. we really don’t appreciate how fucking funny this is.

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I find it hilarious each time I watch the wrong jedi arc and remember Padmé represents Ahsoka in court

Kofi | Commissions

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What do you mean? It’s just an apple 🍎

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I glimpsed my future.

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I know it's kinda an unpopular idea, but I do read Naboo as a rather traditional society (and like that doesn't have to read as a copy of Western traditional society because there's obviously differences as well!).

But it's fairly obvious with the Queen that rituals and symbolism is important regarding costume, make up, etc. There's very much a way of doing things and following those is seen to be important.

You've also got the (not very elaborated on) idea of Gungan society being the victim of human prejudice in TPM.

I also think a society that elects pre-teen and teenage girls as Queens because of their 'purity', could have some troubling issues re: the sexuality of teenage girls in general, or more specifically, the sexuality of their Queens after their reigns end.

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Something that I really appreciate about The Clone Wars is that they make Anakin a likable, loving, genuinely good person while reaffirming and enhancing his more negative qualities. For example the show makes it clear that Anakin is a good person, but a selfish one. 

In the arc where Ahsoka get’s kidnapped and hunted by lizard people we see this very subtle selfish quality of Anakin’s. When Ahsoka comes home from her traumatizing ordeal what is the very first thing that Anakin does? He makes things about himself. He makes things about his failure to protect her, his  concern, his worry, his fear for her, his own shortcomings. He is obviously coming from a place of genuine love and concern for Ahsoka, but it’s still about him. There’s nothing evil about that kind of selfishness, seeing a situation from your own point of view doesn’t mean you don’t care, anyone who says that they don’t make things about themselves is almost definitely a liar but you can’t deny it. In that moment Ahsoka had to comfort Anakin. That moment is beautiful and poignant regarding their bond and their friendship, but it’s also very telling if you look at it through a slightly more cynical lens.

It reminds me of in AOTC when Anakin kneeled at his mother’s grave and talked about himself and his feelings of inadequacy rather than his mother herself. Or in ROTS when Anakin was concerned for Padme’s life and committed to saving it in a way he knew that she wouldn’t approve of. When he pledges himself to Palpatine he doesn’t say he wants to save her life because she deserves to love or anything that has to do with her. It’s because he couldn’t live without her, he needs her, he loves her, she can’t leave him because he couldn’t take that. It’s about him. 

Anakin’s feelings of selfishness don’t mean that he doesn’t actually love or care about these people, his possessive nature and selfishness actually come from his love for these people. He just can’t separate the way he feels about these people from the individuals themselves. He always makes it about himself and his needs and desires, not theirs. It’s possible that the first person that Anakin really loved in a nonselfish way was Luke by the end of ROTJ.

I don’t know that I’m making sense here but this topic fascinates me.

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I made a post about it years ago but one of my favorite things about ANH’s worldbuilding is Vader’s B-plot– before Luke comes on the scene and blows up the death star, his position is extremely precarious. His failure at Yavin probably saves him short term (and also, uh, long-term, but in a different way) because basically everyone thinks he’s obsolete. 

You can imagine the admirals and the generals griping about it– sure, the very spooky-scary Jedi killer was something they put up with when there were Jedi to kill, but that was then– even Tarkin, who calls Vader ‘friend’, says he’s the last of a breed– obsolete, out of date, a relic of a bygone era. 

you can imagine how smug Vader is, when he finally crawls his way out of his crashed TIE– guess whose extremely niche skillset is NEEDED AGAIN, BITCH. Don’t CALL it a comeback

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i’m still forever going to be baffled by takes that are like “i don’t think anakin’s redemption should have happened” or “i don’t consider it a redemption” or “anakin shouldn’t have shown up as a force ghost.” because a) why would you care about star wars if you don’t enjoy the actual thematic point of star wars and b) why would you care about star wars if you hate the one character that appears in literally every movie and c) once again, the entire saga is about this redemption, the whole thing builds to this scene. why are you eating ketchup if you don’t like tomatoes? are you the vegan trying to order off the menu at mcdonald’s? do you hate dogs and then get angry when you have to see them in petsmart? if you can’t have alcohol, are you still walking into the bar? if you don’t like redemptions, why are you watching Movie Series Space Guy Gets Redeemed In 4k on your television? it just seems like there’s a fundamental ideological difference between you and the text. how is this enjoyable for you.

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Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.