#palps is dead

[dixieconley]

Okay, you've got a point, but hear me out:

"Fuck my life."

basically I think that if your protagonist doesn’t want to fuck someone so bad it makes them look stupid, then there probably isn’t enough energy in your story. “Fuck someone” isn’t literal btw—they can want to uncover the secrets of their parent’s death, they can want to prove their worth, they can want a donut from one particular bakery—it can be anything so long as they want it so bad that they’ll make decisions that make any sane person go “are you a moron??”, with little to no forethought, or even tons of forethought and this is still the option they chose. Because they want to fuck that thing so bad.

[puke-ur-gutz]

like 3 people im following r getting spammed w hate asks. what is this 2015

[archivewriter1ont]

Unveiling the Saved at the Citadel: Fives Lives And Joins the Batch AU

I have been working on this in my brain for a WHILE and I'm so happy to finally share it! The plan is to begin posting a few fics in this AU during May (following the Months of the Bad Batch, Fives May, as that would be 5555-05).

There are many, many, many details I can't wait to explore in some more in-depth writing but here is the bullet-pointed gist of the AU ⬇️⬇️

Intro to the Saved at the Citadel AU

Instead of the heartbreaking mess that was the ending of the Citadel arc, we see the welcome arrival of Rex and Company's unexpected rescuers -- the Bad Batch! Clone Force 99 was on a separate mission in nearby space and received a broken-up distress call from the party on Lola Sayu. The batchers realize that it's Big Brother Cody and some dude named Rex, Big Bro's other favorite brother, and show up with a shock-and-awe response that would make the trigger-happy Alpha-17 beam with pride.

Echo is not presumed dead at the Citadel or taken to Skakko and Fives does not have his chip arc or die.

The Domino ARC Twins and Rex are sent immediately on a different mission with the Batchers, destination unknown, after a specific target. During the assignment, Rex comes to respect the Batchers just as he did in their TCW arc, and the Dominos find themselves becoming attached to these four defects who are simultaneously rough around the edges and extremely welcoming.

After everything is said and done, Echo and Fives decide to transfer to the Bad Batch. Rex lets them go, just as he did with Echo in Unfinished Business, and continues to check in regularly.

The newly expanded Bad Batch goes on a variety of exciting adventures as a six-man squad, becoming an even more deadly machine as the twins integrate into their new family. On a return trip to Kamino, Tech comes across some strange rumors of a clone who lost it on the battlefield and was transferred back to their home planet for evaluation. Fives volunteers to snoop around with the genius once they get planet side, and that's how the Batch finds out about the inhibitor chips.

While Tech and Fives are rescuing Tup and gathering evidence to take before the Jedi and the Senate regarding the chips (because while the Batch may be wary, the twins know a few Jedi and politicians who will not be happy about this info) Hunter and the others are trying to cover for them...and stumble across a blonde-haired little lab assistant who calls them by their names.

With Tup and Omega in tow, the Batch heads to Coruscant to inform the Jedi and confront the Senate. Secrets are revealed, from the origins of the Clone Wars to Anidala to the existence of a Second Sith, and new allies must be found, made, or blackmailed to uncover the entire, widespread plot to overthrow the Republic.

The Batch calls up all their favors and old contacts, including Fox, Quinlan, and even a certain lady pirate that Tech and Echo accidentally met on a recent undercover mission (and a rather annoying Weequay they wish they didn't know at all) to help pull off the counter-overthrow.

The Jedi gladly go along with the scheme and confront the Senate. In the madness, Hunter ends up just a little too close to the Chancellor and...

Hunter: "Cody...is the Chancellor a Jedi?" Cody: "No." Hunter: "Ok then he's the Sith." Cody: "What?" Hunter: "Unless the Jedi just give out those laser swords like party favors." Obi-Wan: "How exactly do you know that he has one?" Hunter: "Felt it. All your sabers give off a weird EM pulse. They're different flavors but they all make me want to sneeze."

Now all the Jedi are royally pissed -- 1. that they didn't see this before and 2. that all the suffering brought by the war has happened due to Palpatine's greed. It doesn't take very long for every available Jedi in the system to converge at the Temple to help take down the Chancellor.

But they end up just being the decoy squad. As Mace Windu and Yoda cause a distraction by confronting Palps directly, sabers drawn, Crosshair uses a slugthrower to snipe the Chancellor through a window. He wishes he could undo this as he is forevermore dubbed by Fives "The Mighty SithSlayer."

The Jedi hide the Batch in the Temple for a few days until they can set the record straight to the public, giving the six saviors of the Galaxy plenty of time to rest after their crazy saving-the-universe ordeal and play with the younglings who are ecstatic to meet real-life heroes. This also gives Tech and Echo time to go over the records from Kamino and find the location of a certain Mount Tantiss, where a certain Hemlock was centralizing medical equipment and personnel for Project Necromancer and other unsavory programs.

Phee decides that after all the ruckus on Coruscant, Tech needs an extended vacation on this really nice, beachy planet she knows about. She graciously allows the other five to tag along with their newly discovered baby (older?) sister.

Tantiss is taken over by the GAR, with CF99 spearheading the operation as the special forces group. Emerie is brought over to the good guys, and she, Tech, and a myriad of scientists from across the stars use the on-world base to house their genetic research operation. Within months, after dedicated research and help from Nala Se, who was given a generous plea deal in return for her assistance, every clone trooper is given the gene therapy required to halt their accelerated aging.

Everyone lives happily ever after on Pabu and elsewhere, including Mayday. Fives becomes the island storyteller and immortalizes the Batch escapades through that.

I have so many fics I want to write for this AU it would boggle your mind. Seriously...it is not even funny.

[stealingpotatoes]

So in Skywalkers apart au how dose Padme get caught as a rebel was it like Mon Mothma in rebel, was she betrayed or did Palpy decide to arrest in hopes of using her and Luke as a trap so he can kill Anakin.

mostly the latter! palps was obvs aware of anidala and that the baby was, in all likelihood, anakin's despite her claims the father was some now-dead nubian -- but he couldn't concretely call her bluff bc she wouldn't let luke near him and palps couldn't exactly kidnap senator amidala's son (both bc of the optics and her security lol)

palps knows she loves democracy and begins to suspect some rebel affiliations so he sics the ISB on her. but she is good, even better than you'd expect a former child-queen-of-war-and-career-politician w a load of handmaidens to be so the ISB don't find shit for YEARS. but all it takes is one teeny weeny tiny loose thread of half-evidence that padme left bc she wasn't careful enough ONCE and the fascists have their excuse /:

[madman479r]

Hiccstrid: The seven stages of 🐓 shock

Hiccstrid wedding night

**Hiccup and Astrid kissing heavily, tearing at each others ceremonial wedding clothes.**

Astrid: **Straddles Hiccup on their bed** You have no idea how long I've waited for this moment.

Hiccup: **Joking** What? You've fantasised about us having sex for the first time?

Astrid: *dead serious** Yes.

Hiccup: W-what?

Astrid: Ever since I realised my feelings for you, I've imagined this moment, being atop of you, or you being atop of me. Visualising your face, whether it be flustered pleasure or lustfully hunger, with your eyes always being the same, filled with love as we finally join as one.

Hiccup: Astrid...

Astrid: And now, I don't have to imagine because I get to see it and feel it. **Reaches for his under garments but Hiccup grabs hed hands.** Hiccup?

Hiccup: **Nervous and avoiding eye contact** Astrid... I... I just don't want to disappoint you by my...

Astrid: Hiccup. I stood by your side for years because I love you, I married you because I love you. I don't care if its big or small, because your heart and mind is what won mine. **Leans down to Kiss Hiccup and trails kisses down his body until her face is level with his crotch.**

Hiccup: A-Astrid-!

Astrid: Shh. Relax, **Pulls down his underwear slowly** I want this. I want you. All of you. Big or sma- **Feels something thick hit the underside of her chin.**

STAGE 1: SHOCK

Astrid: **Wide eyes and jaw nearly touching the bed** H-Hiccup?! What the fuck?!

Hiccup: Gah! I knew it. It's too small.

Astrid: Hiccup, how in the ever living Hel is THAT small?!

STAGE 2: CONFUSION

Astrid: No, seriously, how have you hidden this?! How do you fucking walk with it?!

Hiccup: W-well, I- uh

Astrid: Wait. When we were making out that one time at the Edge and I said I felt something large poking me, you said it was the Dragon Eye... Was that your cock?!

Hiccup: I-I didn't want you to think I was a pervert.

STAGE 3: EVIDENCE GATHERING

Astrid: **Hesitantly wraps her hand around it**

Hiccup: Urf! A-Astrid...

Astrid: Freya- Hiccup, my fingers aren't touching. Its thicker than my axe handle. **Puts her forearm beside it** Its as long as my fucking arm...

STAGE 4: BARGAINING

Astrid: M-Maybe we should w-wait until I've gotten ready for this. Maybe if I talk to Valka, she may have some advice.

Hiccup: Why would we involve my mom?!

Astrid: Hiccup, I can only think of one man on Berk who'd have a cock just as big, and your mom fucked him. She'll know what to do.

Hiccup: I'd wish I had a small dick if it meant you didn't bring up my parents' sex life.

STAGE 5: ANXIETY

Astrid: Get it together, Girl. You're a Hofferson.

Hiccup: Pretty sure we just had a whole ceremony that changed you from a Hofferson to a Haddock.

Astrid: You've rode a dragon you just barely trained to fight a queen dragon. You’ve faced a screaming death without fear. You've trained a wild, hostile dragon while blind. You can do this! Then again, you done would you could to avoid being stabbed with claws, teeth and stingers, now you’re about to have THIS thing inside you.

STAGE 6: RESOLVE

Astrid: **Takes a deep breath and gains a look of determination that Hiccup fell in love with.** Okay. Let's do this.

STAGE 7: ACCEPTANCE

**Loud slapping noises and moans and groans coming from the Chief and Chieftess' home**

**Slap!Thwap!PlatPlatPlat!**

Astrid: **Bouncing on Hiccup’s cock** Oh, fuck yes! 💕💕💕

Hiccup: A-Astrid! *Barely keeping up with his thrusts**

Astrid: Oh, gawds! Its~ Tearing me apart! But I love it! I-Ah! Won't be able to- OH~♥️! W-walk after t-HISSSSS! GAWWW!

Hiccup: Astrid, you're so warm! NRG! And tight!

Astrid: No! Y-You're just- Ha~❤! Fucking BIG! Ha! Ah! AHHH~💕! E-even iF!-💕 I wanted t-to be unFAIthFUL- so fucking full~💓 n-no man w-would evER be able to FEEEEL MEEEE!♥️ HAAAA~💕! I'd- be too stretched OUT! By your massive FUCK meat!💕💓♥️

**Thwalp!Palp!Slap!**

[galactic-rhea]

So like, with Empress Padme, what the more nefarious side of that government? Like yeah we focus on the goofy bits but is she doing massive military expansions so they can “better fight lawlessness in the outer rim”? Are they murdering political opponents? Is there an Inquisition still? I’m curious.

All these are good questions that I do want to draw, but days just have certain number of hours nksdfjnsdfsdf

Padmé's regency is actually trying to revert a lot of Palpatine's, lots of laws to amend lots of changes in the system, lots of how power is held. In her mind, she's actually trying to do control damage. The massive murders are mostly at the high profile generals and lots of Palpatine's aligned politicians. Padmé's seize of power left a lot of people unhappy, and the most unhappy ones are the ones that were quite alright with Palpatine's, she's dealing with like, 3 murders attempts per day, plus a bunch of generals and politicians with money trying to do a coup because she seems too soft and too progressive (why the hell is she diverting the money from the military?).

Don't get me wrong, she's still evil, is just that Palpatine put the bar so damn low 😂

To give you an idea, most of Vader's job these days are focused in stopping uprisings right and left comming from super rich generals and moffs like Tarkin and the like that aren't very happy about having their power and place questioned. She's mostly enforcing agressively, what she never could accomplish as a senator, which also includes stopping slavery (vader's giddy about this), and probably in her future plans there's some little agressive negotiations with the Hutts (vader's more than giddy about this, he's on his knees actually).

So, to summarize, it seems contradictory because Padmé at heart still believes in democracy, she just doesn't believe that anyone in the imperial senate as it is would vote for a politician on their right mind (spoiler: she isnt' in her right mind) and thus she's doing lots of good stuff in the bad way. In general her goverment is way less brutal than Palpatine's, which makes a lot of people very complacent and less likely to go actively against her because wow, social programs! That's nice, thank you. But she's still like, inviting adversary politicians for dinner and then they get murdered ala red wedding. There's actually a fair degree of demilitarization.

Inquisitors are still there, and their job is, well, for more stealth missions stuff and tracking radicals and spying and the like, rather than looking for jedi. They're more of a secret service with super powers.

Considering she quite literally worked with the rebellion before being able to reunite with her little wheeze wheeze and kill Palps, Bail and Mon know that the only reason they aren't dead is probably because she just doesn't want to, lol, they're in such a bad spot there, like imagine the awkward meetings.

And I do promise the darker stuff is coming bhjbdskhbhjs

[jessicas-pi]

So. You guys remember that AU I had? The one where Darth Vader kind-of adopted Inquisitor!Ezra as his son? Among other things? No? Ok yeah here's the link to the OG post

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ANYWAY I HAVE MORE THOUGHTS NOW!

Shortly after arriving on Lothal, Sabine found Ezra some armor and painted it to match hers. Since they look pretty much the same and never take off their helmets when they're out vandalizing, no one knows who they are or even how many of them there are. People start calling them the Mad Mandos. Sabine thinks it's a lame nickname, Ezra thinks it's awesome.

When Vader shows up, Ezra insists he stay for dinner. Yes he knows Vader can't eat with the suit, but it's polite and he hasn't had a family dinner with Dad in so long...

Cue the most awkward meal of all time. Vader tries to make small talk. Sabine is silently panicking while Vader is making small talk. Vader is trying to figure out who the Mandalorian is (is she ezra's friend? is she ezra's girlfriend? did she kidnap him? did he kidnap her? was it mutual kidnapping? this is all very unclear and vader needs answers) without being too scary, for Ezra's sake, but frankly there's nothing he can do about it. He's terrifying. It's a fact.

Anyway. Ezra's happy. Sabine's freaked out. (She's so glad she took Ezra out of the bounty hunting profession because this would have ended so badly if he'd been hurt.) And then...

Actually, I have to back up and explain.

So, the Empire is in absolute CHAOS right now. Mostly due to the fact that the Emperor is dead.

Palpatine had been trying to get rid of Ezra for some time, seeing the boy as a weakness to Vader, so Vader offed Palps as soon as he had the chance.

Then Vader realizes oh no, am I the Emperor now??? Vader thinks quick, trying to figure out someone who he could appoint as Emperor. They need to be smart and responsible and able to deal with crazy people and...

Cody!

Vader makes Cody the Emperor, and immediately runs off to find his missing kid.

(Cody lasts two years as Emperor before abdicating due to how much he absolutely loathes the job. He departs from the public eye and instantly vanishes. No one can find him. No one knows where he is. He goes down in history as the least hated emperor of the short-lived empire. Legend has it that he can still be seen, now and then, drinking space margaritas on the beaches of Scarif.)

But with Cody's abdication and immediate vanishment, nobody is left in charge. Power struggles are immediate and messy, and in all that chaos, some of the regular protocols are forgotten.

Such as the one maintaining Vader's life support system.

See, Palpatine didn't want Vader being operational without him, so he had something built into the suit so that it would shut down if he didn't enter a specific code every week. Cody kept it up because it was just one of those regular protocols, he didn't even know what it did, but now with the chaos, it's forgotten about.

On Lothal, Vader collapses suddenly.

Sabine would rather do anything than touch the machinery of Vader's life support system, but he's Ezra's dad and he's dying and grrrrrrh FINE SHE'LL HELP.

With some quick thinking, she gets the most essential parts of the suit to work, pauses briefly to make sure Ezra's not going to have a panic attack, and then sets to work on restoring the rest of the suit.

Sabine is horrified by the state of Vader's prosthetics. This equipment is like... 10, 15 years out of date.

Project: Repair Ezra's Dad becomes her new hobby. Vader is a begrudging participant in this project. He's just doing it because she's Ezra's friend. Well... probably his friend? He passed out before he figured out what, exactly, she was.

But once he is awake and functional, it's not long before Vader comes to the conclusion that she's SEVERAL things to Ezra, including his ride-or-die best friend, his roommate, his partner in crime, his occasional parental guidance, and his substitute moral compass.

By means of incredibly unsubtle questioning, Vader does rule the girlfriend thing out. By equally unsubtle means, he also makes it very clear to Sabine that the girlfriend thing is completely off the table in the future as well. Like forever. Hands off his son.

(That was a dinner conversation neither Sabine nor Ezra would ever like to repeat.)

Anyway, over time, Sabine and Vader get to talking. No one--especially not Ezra--knows how it happens, but Sabine and Vader actually become friends. It's kind of a terrifying idea.

(Vader attempts, with his usual unsubtle means, to gauge Ezra's opinion on potentially acquiring a sister.)

(Oddly, Ezra doesn't seem too keen on it.)

(Vader, now worried, makes a mental note to reiterate to Sabine that under no hypothetical future circumstances will she ever be allowed to date his son.)

So, yeah. Time passes. Vader just kind of... sticks around. A couple Inquisitors show up and he yells at them for interrupting bonding time with his son but he doesn't Force-choke them because it makes Ezra upset when he does.

In fact, Ezra seems to be getting upset about several things Vader does that he used to be fine with before. Vader almost wants to be mad at Sabine for giving his son a conscience, but he begins to realize that he doesn't quite like doing those things, either.

(Without the outdated, barely-functional suit tormenting him nearly every second of the day, and on a planet that shines with Light, Vader's grip on the Darkness is slipping.)

(One day, standing amid the long grasses, watching Ezra trying to show off by climbing the rock spires, Vader smiles.)

(He has not smiled in fourteen years.)

But good things don't always last, do they?

One day, on one of their vandalism missions, both of the kids go missing. Vader, filled with rage, takes his TIE and chases their kidnappers down to one of the shanty-towns.

He is seconds away from going on a murder spree when Ezra's frantic intervention stops him.

Some intimidation and a bit of mind reading later, Vader uncovers the truth. These people, it seems, got Ezra and Sabine out of a scrape, and were genuinely going to bring them back home after their stop here--or, if that didn't work out, after they went on a brief mission to free Wookiee slaves.

Vader doesn't even really notice that they were going to be freeing Wookiee slaves from the Empire.

Ever since the oozing slick of Darkness started to be washed away, Vader has felt something worryingly like pangs of conscience for what he has done in service to the Empire.

Long before he was a Sith--long before he was a Jedi--Vader was a boy who had a dream about freeing all the slaves.

"I'm coming with," he announces.

"Dad, I'm not really sure that's a good idea--"

"This is not up for discussion, son."

Oh Force, Kanan thinks. Oh Force, this is definitely a Sith Lord. There is a Sith Lord going on this mission with us to fight the Empire. what the kriff what the kriff what the kriff---

What follows is the most awkward, tense mission the Spectres have ever undertaken.

It's also, without a doubt, the easiest mission the Spectres have ever undertaken.

Vader goes all Rogue One Hallway Scene on the transport full of Stormtroopers, which Ezra frowns at him for, and Vader feels a little tiny bit bad about it.

Zeb is slightly impressed by Ezra's ability to whack stormtroopers together by their helmets without even touching them.

"Hey, Kanan, kid's like you!" he says, without thinking.

There's a long, terrified pause.

"Cockroaches," Vader huffs, pointing at Kanan in something more like annoyance than anything else. "You're like cockroaches. Squish one and three more show up. Utterly impossible to kill."

"Da-ad!" Ezra complains. "You can't kill my friends!"

"I'm not going to kill your friends. I merely said they were difficult to kill."

"Well you made it sound like a threat! And you said you wouldn't do that anymore!"

"I know. They're just like this," Sabine mutters under her breath, giving Kanan a consoling pat on the shoulder. "You get used to it, after a while."

[uncharismatic-fauna]

No Tears for the Southern Black Widow

Latrodectus mactans, more commonly known as the southern black widow, is the most common species in the black widow family. While it can be found throughout North America, they are found most often in the southern United States. Within this wide range, L. mactans enjoys a variety of habitats. They prefer areas that are close to the ground, dark, and sheltered; in the wild this may mean dense brush or under logs, while in inhabited areas they may be found in basements, log piles, or under trash lids.

In addition to being the most common black widow, L. mactans is also the largest member of the family Theridiidae. The females are larger than the males, averaging at about 8-10 mm (0.31- 0.39 in) in length and weighing about 1 g (0.04 oz); however the male's legs are generally longer than the females. Both males and females are black, with small thoraxes and extremely large, round abdomens. The female can be distinguished by the iconic red hour-glass shape on the underside of her abdomen, while the male has 4 pairs of red and white stripes on each side of his abdomen.

The southern black widow is mainly solitary, spending most of its time in or near its web. Only the females live long enough to build a web for catching prey, and are the sole source of black widow bites. While bites do require medical attention, no human fatalities have been reported since 1983.

During the day, females hang in the center of the web to expose the bright red warning on their abdomen; when startled they drop to the ground and play dead. Though the webs they construct are haphazard-- the stereotype of cobwebs-- they are extremely strong and are capable of catching woodlice, millipedes, centipedes, other spiders, and occasionally small mice. Once an animal becomes trapped in L. mactan's web, the spider envenoms its prey and wraps it in a thick cocoon. After the animal dies the spider injects it with digestive enzymes and consumes the resulting fluid. Despite their strong venom, the southern black widow can be victim to several predaotrs; namely wasps, the brown widow spider, praying mantises, and large centipedes.

The southern black widow mates primarily in the spring and summer. Mature males build small webs and deposit semen along the threads. He then coats his mouthpieces-- palps-- with sperm and sets out to find a female mate. To court her, he vibrates the threads of her web until she is receptive. On rare occasions, a displeased female may eat the male. Afterwards, if he survives, the male leaves the females web and dies soon afterwards. From just one encounter, the female can store enough sperm to last her a lifetime of reproductive cycles.

After fertilization, the female builds a small web where she lays her egg sac, which can contain up to 400 eggs. She guards these eggs until they hatch about 20 days later, and immedietly disperse to establish their own territories. Until they become fully mature, at about 90 days old, juveniles have no venom and are extremely vulnerable to predators- including adult black widows. Typically only about 30 individuals from a single clutch survive to adulthood. Once mature, males can live for only one year, while females can live up to three years in the wild.

Conservation status: The IUCN has not evaluated the southern black widow, but due to its large range and population size it is considered stable. It is able to adapt to most habitats, and thus the species' only threat comes from extermination via pest control.

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another organization benefiting Palestinians, I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

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Meghan F. Murphy

[cringekind]

the real reason Palps wants Obi-Wan dead is because he wouldn't be able to survive the kind of chaotic mission lead by darkside Anakin AND Obi-Wan

[mypizzawizard]

I just felt like I had to share my experience rewatching rots in cinemas cuz it was so precious.

This has been my favorite sw movie since I first watched the movies nearly ten years ago. It’s from my favorite trilogy with my favorite characters who I feel most connected to, and I have always felt sad I never got to experience it on the big screen, the other day I was given that oppurtunity.

But what was equally as impactful as seeing Obi-Wan and Anakin battling it out on Mustafar, was also to see my best friend experience it for the first time and her reaction to it.

We talked about seeing it together for a month, she never had any interest in watching star wars but was up for it for my sake.

The weekend before she watched The Phantom Menace, thought it was okay but not without its flaws, the same with Attack of the clones although she seemed somewhat more invested in that one.

However she was mildly curious going into the cinema, I told her nothing of the movie or the plotlines or how great i and everyone else thought it was mainly because I wanted her to experience it for herself.

All she knew was that it was my favorite movie, I was jealous of her cuz she would see it for the first time on the big screen, and it was about how Anakin falls to the dark side and becomes Vader. Thats all she knew and I said nothing further about it, playing it cool and casual.

Now when the movie starts she probably doesn’t have that high expectations and she just quietly watches it, and she does have some sceptical reactions about Anakin executing Dooku.

We go forward with Ani's Visions, Palpatine's tale about Plagueis where she gave me a long look when she finally understood, watching Obi-Wan Vs Grievous with more interest and then the same with Windu Vs Palpatine.

This is where she gets REALLY into it when Anakin joins along and she looks at me several times obviously seeing my distressed reaction too, constantly asking if Anakin will kill him, then we obviously see him being declared as Vader while she is so stressed about his actions, not wanting him to turn to the dark side.

Once Order 66 is executed i can see she is completely blown away by it, and the movie and seeing her reaction on Anakin marching on the temple and order 66 was priceless. By this point she had curled up in her seat, gripping it while she watched in shock and sometimes slapped me on the arm when something shocking happened and giving me long glances.

AND HER REACTION TO THE YOUNGLINGS.

It was fr dead quiet in the cinema and up there on the back she audibly gasped "no", dropping her jaw conpletely on the floor while she just stared large-eyed at Anakin's actions.

We go forwards to the battle of the heroes, we see Obi-Wan duel against Anakin on Mustafar while Yoda takes on Palps, where she was so worried for Yoda and constantly asking if he was dead and so on.

At the end, she cried when we saw Padmes funeral, Anakin becoming Vader, and the twins being hidden away.

Once we got on the train she yapped constantly about the movie and Anakin's actions and she immediately asked me what will happen to him and I said thats what we see in the next trilogy where we follow Luke and Leia, and we talked about it more and she was so keen on knowing whether Anakin redeems himself.

One touching thing she said was that before she had an idea what star wars was about and that she thought it was just space battles and the usual, but she was so shocked it was really a love story, and how that just blew her away.

When she got home she called me and demanded that I give her an entire list of all sw media ever produced in chronological order so she could watch it, and she actually begged me quite stubbornly multiple times lol when I forgot it.

I just thought this was such a precious reaction for people who have never seen SW before and how great of a movie ROTS truly is to give such an effect.

Mind you, she can be quite picky with loving movies and shows, but I have never seen her actually get so into a movie before and I love how this experience and ROTS being the great movie it is, having made a new fan to the franchise and yeah im so glad its back in theatres cuz theres so many people out there who gets to experience it for the first time! :)

[leapingbadger]

Last Line Challenge

Thanks so much for the tag @archivewriter1ont! It's been a while since I've done one of these.

This is from my AU where Palps is dead and the Batch and about to discover the inhibitor chips. I'm not going to even pretend this is a line, it's a whole conversation because I had do much fun writing the banter.

Obi Wan was surprised to hear numerous voices coming from inside his quarters. “Wait, wait, wait. Hang on.” a cacophony of noise came out of a comm Cody was holding, “Wait…Tech…hang on I just…” Cody threw an apologetic look over his shoulder at Obi Wan and quickly turned back to the comm. “Tech…Tech…TECH…” Tech still rambled on, completely impervious to the Commander’s interjections. “HUNTER!” Cody yelled into the comm. There was a brief lull and a fumbling noise and static as the Comm changed hands. The tattooed face of the Sergeant Obi Wan had only met once in passing flew in front of the comm. “Sorry, Codes. It’s hard to get him to stop when he gets going.” Obi Wan heard a rather scathing retort from Tech in the background and moved closer to the chaos erupting out of the comm. “Oh, Hello General.” Hunter said formerly, saluting with his free hand. “At ease, Sergeant. We are no longer at war.” “Ah…yes sir…” “Wait…why is the General in your barracks, Codes?” Wrecker’s voice called presumably from across the room given the quieter volume. “It’s actually the General’s Quarters, Wrecker.” Cody replied, ignoring the implied question. “Don’t you read the holonet?” Tech said, exasperatedly. “Nothing on there’s worth reading.” Wrecker said dismissively. “The General and Cody are…” Tech seemed to falter when it came to describing exactly what they were and Obi Wan smirked as he waited for the appropriate response from the specialist. “Hunter?” Tech said asking for help. “They’re seeing each other, you idiot.” Crosshair interjected snidely. “You mean…” Wrecker started confused. “They’re in a relationship, Wreck. Don’t blow a gasket.” Hunter said calmly. “We can do that?” Wrecker asked in surprise. Obi Wan covered his mouth to stave off his laughter. Cody rolled his eyes and mouthed “I’m sorry” as the Jedi continued to chuckle. “Why, did you have someone in mind?” Echo asked curiously. “Well, I didn’t know Jedi were an option. That’s got to be interesting, right?” “Why don’t you ask Cody,” Crosshair said with a smirk. “Very interesting, actually.” Cody said with a smile, holding the holo out further so the group could see he and Obi Wan standing together, the Jedi’s arm pulling gently at his waist. “And technically we’re not supposed to be an option.” Obi Wan said with a smile. “But the Commander can certainly be persuasive.” “You fell for me first, Obi Wan.” Cody said with a chuckle. “You came onto me first, if I recall, Cody.” They stood grinning at each other, completely forgetting the cluster of men on the other end of the line. Hunter cleared his throat, an amused eyebrow raised, “Do you two need a minute?”

NPT for @crosshairs-dumb-pimp-gf @indigofyrebird @clonethirstingisreal @dangraccoon

[k-she-rambles]

Outsourcing star wars fic development:

If Rey were a clone (instead of the daughter of Sheevy P's clone), which option would be the more emotionally impactful (or bananapants answer that you really want to see me attempt, that works too)

[alamogirl80]

So… remember a really long time ago I had this Fox/Vos Hades and Persephone AU idea?

Fox - King of the UnderWorld with the Clones (not dead just forbidden from the Above)

Vos - One of the few remaining Knights of the Mother (Earth, Creation goddess, Gaia etc)

The Emperor(Palps) of the Above gave The Knight to the King of the Underworld to appease him (and keep Fox’s from messing up his eeevil plans on earth for all humans Above, because Fox and his army of millions can and will fuck shit up)

The Knight isn’t amused with the arrangement. Neither is the Underworld’s King.

No one is surprised by this.

But they’ll need each other in order to stop the emperor and maybe save both their worlds.

So.. yeah. I finally felt like finishing this art to go with the idea.

[stealingpotatoes]

Spork Leia's adventures so how badly hurt was the chancellor and how suspicious is the Jedi high council of the chancellor after a 12-year-old that shouldn't exist attacked him.

palps is fully just dead. leia's an absolute menace with a spork

the council are very suspicious bc when they were inspecting the crime scene they found a file called "my_evil_plan.pdf" and there was a very significant proportion of it dedicated to eviling the clones and turning the jedi into target practice for said clones. which most ppl would consider a tad sus

[mis-mcgifsten]

A wonderful dream of an au

The Coruscant Guard should've established a tradition called "Fuck'em up Fridays" where one of them dresses incognito and assaults whichever senator has been the most obnoxious that week

[valenteal]

According to the Wookieepedia page on the planet Voss it and the Voss Mystics were still around when the Galactic Empire was formed… the Mystics were exiled to the Nightmare Lands and no longer had political power but they still existed…

This means that if someone were to search the Jedi archives using keywords like oh let’s say future visions and healing the Voss would likely come up as a result.

So my fix-it AU for RotS goes like this: after Yoda gives exactly zero advice about how to save Padmé, Anakin holes himself up in the archives looking for any viable solutions to his problems (conveniently missing any interactions with the Chancellor because his wife is dying and that takes priority over some Opera). Eventually, after days of searching he finds old reports dating back to the Galactic War that describe a planet ruled by Force Mystics who were capable of accurately predicting the future and of incredible feats of Healing using the Force. The planet has become a mining world since the wars and the Mystics have lost their absolute social and political power, but they still existed!

In a manic state of panic and exuberance that he’d found a possible answer to his problem, he rushes Padmé to Voss (she tries half heartedly to stop him but his panic is so real and she trusts his precognition after seeing it in action multiple times, and also she has work to do and hopefully a child to raise and she can’t do that if she’s dead). Arriving there, Padmé gets a hotel room and convinces Anakin to go see the Mystics the next day since he hasn’t slept or rested at all the past few days.

In the time between his last night of sleep (almost four days ago) and this point where he’s sleeping in a hotel in Voss-Ka, the future has changed so drastically that his warning nightmares are gone, replaced by the revelation that Padmé is carrying two healthy babies!

He still visits the Voss Mystics as his career as a Jedi is coming to an end and he’d like to continue using the Force in a way that could be helpful while still living peacefully with his family. They teach him how to hone his precognition and some simple healing rituals (the Voss Mystics attitudes have changed dramatically with their status. They are no longer stuck up pricks who believe themselves to be basically gods. They’re happy to share their knowledge and traditions with someone who appreciates them).

And… that’s all I’ve got! No fuckin clue how shit with Palps and the Jedi and the Clones and the War would play out without them… maybe it happens more or less the same and they end up leaders of the rebellion, maybe Palps gets his ass beat without Anakin there, maybe he tries to postpone the end of the war till Anakin’s visions show is back, who knows! The important part is Anakin’s spiral is directed towards something actually helpful and the twins are born safe and healthy with both their parents alive and happy!