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Due to multiple interactions over the last couple weeks, I want to make it clear that you guys can just ask me stuff. You don't need to wait for me to do something that provides an excuse. I don't mind. I can't guarantee I'll always answer, but I don't mind.

[asters-28]

may I request Clone Wars Barrissoka 🙏🏻

BASED BASED BASED ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[lizardlicks]

not without those fire exits I'm not. have fun in your death trap, ladies

[kaijuyuri]

star wars fans really just make anything up

[byjove]

I’m not Glup Shitto-ing you. He has a sexstache and everything.

[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[tomthanx]

Happy Pride to Biggs Darklighter

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Maul confronting Vader is both funny and tragic in the context of Maul's ongoing development. After all that fond reminiscing on his childhood being tortured and groomed by Palpatine before being discarded as a failure, Maul promises himself "I won't let him do this to anyone else." There's a newfound determination to get the power needed to destroy his former master and end this cruelty. Then the next day he gets his ass beat by his stronger replacement, who is even more abused by Palpatine. My guy acted with a (partially) selfless motivation for the first time in his life, then immediately learns he already failed Step 1 a couple years before he got the idea.

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[comebackali]

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Contacting Bail remained an option, but Ahsoka expected his response to be more evasion. The more she wanted to know, the more she came back to the core question: why was Vader’s identity kept secret from her? Many discoveries in the fight against the Empire could not be shared freely because of the agents and operations which could be compromised. Withholding information from Ahsoka, one of the Rebellion’s top intelligence coordinators, regarding how she possessed personal knowledge of the second most powerful person in the Empire, didn’t make much strategic sense. That doubt went both directions. If the Rebellion needed to know their enemy, then Ahsoka should let the entire galaxy know the truth about Anakin. Tell every Fulcrum operative and every allied cell, spread it over the holonet, archive everything they could find about Anakin, especially his military history and combat skills, then use that to devise countermeasures. Leave traces connecting the disclosures to prominent imperials, let Vader hack his way through them in a rage. But, the more she thought about it, the less Ahsoka felt like she knew Anakin at all.

I'm a lot of things, but I ain't a quitter.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Contacting Bail remained an option, but Ahsoka expected his response to be more evasion. The more she wanted to know, the more she came back to the core question: why was Vader’s identity kept secret from her? Many discoveries in the fight against the Empire could not be shared freely because of the agents and operations which could be compromised. Withholding information from Ahsoka, one of the Rebellion’s top intelligence coordinators, regarding how she possessed personal knowledge of the second most powerful person in the Empire, didn’t make much strategic sense. That doubt went both directions. If the Rebellion needed to know their enemy, then Ahsoka should let the entire galaxy know the truth about Anakin. Tell every Fulcrum operative and every allied cell, spread it over the holonet, archive everything they could find about Anakin, especially his military history and combat skills, then use that to devise countermeasures. Leave traces connecting the disclosures to prominent imperials, let Vader hack his way through them in a rage. But, the more she thought about it, the less Ahsoka felt like she knew Anakin at all.

I'm a lot of things, but I ain't a quitter.

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Since Maul is a reflection of Palpatine, the Maul-Devon and Palpatine-Anakin relationships are full of interesting character contrasts. Something I really like about Devon's interactions with Maul is that she's not really buying into any of his crap, and she's aware of what Maul is trying to do to her, making her corruption radically different from Anakin's.

From the start, while both Maul and Palpatine are manipulative, Maul is comparatively upfront about who he is, though he still tries to make Devon feel responsible for his aggression towards her. Early in their first fight, Maul easily gets past Devon's defense. After getting a blade to her neck the first or second time, she knows Maul isn't actually trying to kill her. She's in an unusual position where, though she's still actively fighting back, trying to escape, and getting her ass kicked, she has less reason to fear for her life. Maul’s not planning to hurt her (much (yet)) and Devon knows it.

Even after Maul rescued Devon and Rylee, she's ready to bolt because she remembers the last time she was "free" to leave. She still gave Maul a chance to prove his sincerity, she only ran off when she heard him and Rook planning to take her off-planet. Then when she runs, Maul gets annoyed and cuts her off because no you're not supposed to run away again, you're supposed to stick around and get slowly corrupted, you're doing it wrong. Despite the next confrontation being more in Devon's favor, out in an open, lit area with her lightsaber, Maul still easily overpowers and restrains her using the Force, but she keeps fighting every second. She might not understand exactly what Maul has in mind, but she's aware he's interested in her specifically and she avoids him.

Despite how angry and frustrated she is with the state of her life, which she is looking for ways to change, she doesn't treat Maul as a serious option. She considers making an alliance with him to fight the Empire and does stop fighting him in favor of attacking imperial forces, but she still wants Daki as her master, which is why she broached the subject with Daki instead of hiding it. When she hid details of her encounters with Maul from Daki, it's not because she's considering betraying her master, it's because she's unsettled by Maul and doesn't like talking about him.

Devon never turns against Daki in favor of Maul, it's only after Devon loses any alternative that she accepts Maul's offer of training. Even abandoning Daki's teachings isn't done out of bitterness towards her master like Anakin vs Obi-Wan, it's grudging acceptance that she can't survive against the Empire while still following Daki's example.

I don't think Devon's arc is about giving into temptation. She's not embracing darkness to get everything she always wanted, everything she wanted is lost forever and she's settling for less.

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Most animated characters have a pretty limited variation on outfits. I presume Ahsoka and Barriss have more than one set of clothes in your fics, have you given any thoughts to the differing styles they have?

Their preferred outfits aren't that different from what's seen in the show, those seem to be their general preferences for casual situations. Ahsoka typically has her arms out, shirts are designed to accommodate her head, she wears at least some light armor when going out on missions. Barriss dresses more conservatively, keeps her head covered by a hood or headscarf, and is more inclined to wearing skirts. She has reluctantly given up heels, making her look even shorter than she appeared in the show, which totally doesn't bother her at all.

The outfits are similar because what they wore wasn't suited for war anyway, and I'm working on a combat outfit for Barriss which offers better protection, but it'll take a while to appear in a story. I'm also writing a story where she's moving with her usual graceful body language while wearing a comically baggy flight suit.

[stealingpotatoes]

i've finally read and finished heir to the empire, abt a third through dark force rising now! what am i doing after the og thrawn trilogy though am i meant to attempt to read like. all of everything in legends in order after this or is there a recommended certain set of books to get through? help me legends girlies you're my only hope

[stealingpotatoes]

thank u legends girlies i offer u some of my dark force rising annotations in return for ur help

[dmbakura]

do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century

[sharkfish]

me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless 

me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong 

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.

[fang-emblem]

[avidcollectorofdust]

To YOU it’s bad writing. To ME it’s a very nuanced piece of work that explores subtle intricacies without outright saying it. And also it’s bad writing

[starlitmyre]

"what if they fucked" WRONG. what if they ruined each other's lives irreparably. what if there was nothing left but a smoldering heap. what if everything that brought them together twisted and corroded and ripped them apart. and then they fucked.

[im-yotsu]

The last one is canon lmao

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

[whyenn-reader]

[demilypyro]

vampires are so full of shit. "oh the human race is beneath us, you're just livestock to us" I don't think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that's not what a higher being does. that's a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off

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