#matthew stover

[bilbobignaturals]

“You love him, too, don't you?” When he didn't answer, she turned around. He stood motionless, frowning, in the middle of the expanse of the buff carpeting. “You do. You do love him.” He lowered his head.

Padmé & Obi Wan talk. ROTS Novelisation by Matthew Stover

[amarcia]

He too, was a star, and the light that shone from him was the Force

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

I read Shadows of Mindor and I really liked Luke's musings on the Force in the book so I had to draw something. Other doodle under the cut:

[angelnumbers]

this was always going to happen.

matthew stover, david levithan, margarita karapanou, aeschylus, karese burrows, richard siken

[david-talks-sw]

Finished Star Wars on Trial and Matthew Stover manages to perfectly encapsulate how I think everyone should approach watching Star Wars material they don't like.

"The plot holes are essential. Because inside every single hole in the entire Star Wars saga - in every flaw in the franchise - you can find a Cheshire grin floating above a flannel shirt, and a fading echo of... "Ha-ha - made you look!" When I was at Skywalker Ranch to meet with George Lucas, I brought up the sliding-around-the-turboshaft business in Revenge of the Sith. I said, "They're in orbit -- gravity just doesn't work like that-" The answer I got, verbatim, was: "That's the point." Each of you on this jury - each of you reading this book - is here because you have one of two fundamental reactions to this. One is to frown. "Quit it! Quit or I'm telling! And I won't be your friend anymore!" The other is to grin right back. "Okay, you got me. What's next? Let's go!" Because your reaction is a choice: You can take that made you look as an insult. Or you can take it in the spirit it is intended. As an invitation to play. George says: "Let's pretend!" What do you say? Me? I grin. I always have, ever since a hot summer afternoon in 1977, when I was fifteen years old and a kid knocked on my door and told me about this goofy movie he wanted to see."

The whole point of Star Wars is to help you be creative and think outside the box. It's a fun make-believe story.

If there's something you don't like about a Star Wars movie, or any movie, you can either rage about it or get creative and come up with a headcanon that makes it work better for you.

Instead of saying "TLJ Luke wouldn't do that!" I try to ask myself "what would make Luke do that?"

Instead of disliking the Dooku episodes in Tales of the Jedi, I just tell myself that they're all seen through Dooku's own unreliable lens and immediately it all makes sense.

It's a lot more fun when you choose to grin instead just going "Quit it!" and I'm making an effort to do the former more than the latter, especially when The Acolyte will come out.

[oreolesbian]

everyone screaming about bi obi-wan being canon now as if matthew stover didn’t already give us bi obi-wan 17 years ago in the revenge of the sith novelization with this gem of a scene where anakin assumes that obi-wan was secretly seeing and seducing a male senator for information:

[sith-obikin]

A happy Valentine’s Day to our favourite tragic boys!

To Obi-Wan especially who has never stopped loving his dear Anakin, despite everything💔

Book excerpts from Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover and The Last One Standing by Jude Watson

[asoftepiloguemylove]

laika and the pain of loss

Matthew Stover Revenge of the Sith // Laika in a flight harness (via wikipedia) // Aeschylus Aeschylus: The Oresteia // Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart // Olessya Turkina Soviet Space Dogs // Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood // Ada Limon Sharks in the Rivers // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // @fateology muttnik // H.D. Loss // Lavinia Greenlaw For the First Dog in Space // Why Laika the Space Dog is All Animals (via lakia magazine)

[jaguarys]

Revenge of the Sith, Matthew Stover // The Gods Show Up, Michael Kinnucan // The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel // Jen Mazza // Not Strong Enough, Boygenius // The Year in Taxidermy, Kristen Arnett // @/ghostresidues (Instagram) // The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel // Tumblr tags // This Night Has Opened My Eyes, The Smiths // Class of 2013, Mitski // Scenes from Episode 1-3 of Star Wars

[lordvaders]

One of the things we find in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is that the dark side is not tempting Anakin to anything... that Anakin is looking at the dark side and saying, ‘That’s what I want.’

 Matthew Stover (author), Revenge of the Sith novelization.

[nikov]

THIS STORY IS ALREADY OVER. NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO CHANGE IT.

peter pan, j.m. barrie / revenge of the sith, matthew stover / war of the foxes, richard siken / saving mr. banks (2013) / wasteland, baby! hozier / the grand budapest hotel (2014) / mystery of love, sufjan stevens / if we were villains, m.l. rio / exile (ft. bon iver), taylor swift / circe, madeline miller / mr. arkadin, orson welles

[ameliasalt]

aka three times obi-wan died and anakin was right there beside him

[nimue44]

Visual: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Text: "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" by Matthew Stover

"I can keep them distracted for quite some time," Obi-Wan had told Cody on the flight deck of Vigilance. "Just don't take too long."

"Come on, boss," Cody had said, smiling out of Jango Fett's face, "have I ever let you down?"

"Well—" Obi-Wan had said with a slim answering smile, "Cato Neimoidia, for starters..."

"That was Anakin's fault; he was the one who was late..."

"Oh? And who will you blame it on this time?" Obi-Wan had chuckled as he climbed into his starfighter's cockpit and strapped himself in. "Very well then. I'll try not to destroy all of the droids before you get there."

"I'm counting on you, boss. Don't let me down."

"Have I ever?"

"Well," Cody had said with a broad grin, "there was Cato Neimoidia..."

I do love how the novelization makes the banter between Cody and Obi-Wan much more give and take than we get in the movie — and of course Obi-Wan saying "have I ever [let you down]?" to Cody is just, it's fine, I'm just dying over here. And Cody casually Anakin bashing, just just... they're just so...

Inspired by @allthingskenobi's post (x)

[novelmonger]

Things I never expected to read in a Star Wars novel:

Mace Windu flipping off the police while standing dripping wet and completely naked in front of them.

[kenobihater]

sorry, he's allergic to SOUP? no wonder he thinks he's destined for infinite sadness, i'd believe that too if my immune system thwarted me from slurpin down a nice hearty bowl of soup 😭

[araekni]

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric

Sarah Wiliams, The Old Astronomer

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

Matthew Stover, The Revenge of the Sith: Novelisation

Coldplay, Yellow

Ewan McColl, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (with guitar chords)

Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Richard Siken, Snow & Dirty Rain

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Şenay Cüce, sketchbook details

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric

[noweakergirl]

“Any Jedi except Anakin.”

And you too, my dear Obi-Wan. And you too.