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AND the one where he looks like a stereotypical vampire which is supposed to be a scene in dark journey (it’s in a garden and jaina is in the background in the full art) i swear this was in a reference book from the mid 2000s bc i’ve *seen* it but nowhere to be found online

did they seriously scrape the bad italian stereotype kyp art from the internet

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or did I hallucinate this? i swear it was his wookieepedia default at some point and it was from the back cover (although it’s a paperback so those don’t have it?) of agents of chaos jedi eclipse

did they seriously scrape the bad italian stereotype kyp art from the internet

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did they seriously scrape the bad italian stereotype kyp art from the internet

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PADMÉ AMIDALA Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

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“but jacen’s treachery was the deepest cut, and his actions had put a premature end to her childhood. gone was the button-nosed toddler who had once pronounced jedi yedi and who had named a stuffed tauntaun for the kind man who would later be revealed as her father.

leia knew that allana’s silence about jacen didn’t mean that she had put him entirely from her mind, only that she had buried her dark memories of him where no one could find them. what worried leia most was that those memories would fester and seep like a stain into allana’s psyche.”

STAR WARS: MILLENNIUM FALCON

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i will always miss you, despite what you became.

you were like that as a child. sometimes it pains me to see so much of you in her. pains me, and yet fills my heart to overflowing.

-Leia’s thoughts on Jacen & Allana

it’s causing myself emotional pain hours reading 'millennium falcon'. it’s also interesting & devastating seeing leia’s internal conflict between her (more than understandable) struggle to forgive anakin skywalker- a father she never knew- and her struggle to do the same with her own son who she knew her whole life and connected with the most out of all her kids. and how this would all feel for allana to grow up with.

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my namesake

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I.D: it's a portrait drawing of Marasiah Fel from Star Wars Legacy. She's looking over her shoulder with a worried expression. She's wearing all white and has her golden diadem on, there's also golden embroidery on her head scarf. End of I.d.

The embroidery is the two Suns of tatooine and A'Sharad fighting obi wan cause I'm a neeerd 🌟

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

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Star Wars: A New Hope dir. George Lucas | 1977

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it’s always been fascinating to me how uninterested the prequel trilogy is in the prophecy of anakin’s birth, how he is supposedly destined for greatness. sure it moves the plot forward, and there’s some deleted stuff going into palpatine’s machinations, but the overall effect is a de-prioritization. anakin’s mindset and his choices are what the movies care about.

This is a pretty interesting analysis. I've seen plenty of media about Chosen Ones,and Anakin never struck me as anything other than an extraordinarily intelligent,talented boy/young man. Namely,a prodigy - and we see plenty of them even in real life. He doesn't seem to be particularly kindhearted(other than in TPM) nor uniquely resilient from a moral standpoint.

Those are my two cents. I just found it interesting that Anakin was a promising,selfless young child and became Vader,then he was the main enforcer for an evil overlord and decided to stop the horrors.

yea i’ve faced some pushback for not really caring about “inherent good”/“inherent evil” in star wars, and i won’t say the moral stakes of the saga aren’t often done in black and white, or that star wars doesn’t pull heavily from mythology. but i think a relinquishing of supposed all powerful destiny & fate is built into luke’s arc as well. and that is enhanced by the pt!

from birth the jedi are counting on luke to kill vader. he has a lifelong obsession with his father. vader tells him his destiny is the dark side; yoda tells him there’s no room for error, if he starts down the dark path, he’ll always be that way. and there is a lot of conflict in luke’s psyche: the dagobah forest vision gets this across very strongly lol. & the culmination of his arc shows luke going against both what the jedi & the sith believe he was prophesied to do. and luke’s plan changes all the time, and he nearly does fall to the dark side. he does start down that path. and what saves him is who he wants to be, the choices he makes.

& with anakin, i mean i would say he shows kindness in aotc and rots lol, but i get what you mean about it not seeming like an “inherent” trait, because anakin is an even more conflicted young man, and whereas luke wants to be good, anakin wants to be a good jedi. and it’s again, illustrated very bluntly, that he thinks being a good jedi is antithetical to being in touch with his emotions . (people can debate whether that is the #real jedi training or not all day. it remains central to anakin’s emotional spiral that he feels he must split himself in two!) so he gets so wound up in duty and possessiveness, he ends up more impersonal and clouded.

no one seems to care about this parallel besides me and a few fellow insane people in my mentions, but palpatine and obi-wan serve a similar narrative role in their respective trilogies as mentors who move the red thread of fate along, with anakin’s fall being that he commits to his mentor’s quest for bloodshed, and luke’s triumph being that he rejects obi-wan’s call for more of the same. and either way it’s not about who deserves to suffer or to be redeemed, but that stopping suffering is good and damning people forever is bad. so much is internal!

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Newly released alternative take of the Han/Leia kiss scene STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

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Okay so, I drew Zannah a while ago. Didn’t picture her like this before, but I’m quite pleased with how she turned out

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i could definitely come up with some interesting trans headcanons for nen yim. especially very specifically transsexual headcanons

thinking about how nen yim is canonically practiced in endocrinology ...also think she could've performed a mean ffs or srs. rip to an icon she deserves to be remembered

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thinking about how nen yim is canonically practiced in endocrinology ...also think she could've performed a mean ffs or srs. rip to an icon she deserves to be remembered

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Revenge of the Sith deleted scene

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Filming the circuitry bay scene in The Empire Strikes Back