ARCHIVE, NOW ON ABBIIDRAWS.

ARCHIVE, NOW ON ABBIIDRAWS.

[abbigaildraws]

Hello, everyone! After careful consideration, I have decided to move blogs. I am now active on @abbiidraws!! This blog, admittedly, feels a bit too awkward for my taste. I will be far more active on this new blog and will interact more with a variety of fandoms! I hope to see you on this new blog!

[abbigaildraws]

A redraw of Miko, here is the second to original post!

[herzspalter]

Your regular reminder that you never stop learning to draw and that it's super okay if you feel like you're not "as far" as your peers! Everybody learns at different speeds etc and you're not a bad artist if you struggle to practice with things that are hard for you to draw!

And in the same vein, everybody worked hard to get to where they are now, and it's not appropriate to project your insecurities onto those people by desperately pointing out flaws in their art. Bitterness never makes you better at anything, and it also makes you an asshole!

You learn so much more from appreciating other people's work and focussing on yourself instead of what other artists are doing! The moment it feels like you're in combat and not having fun with your craft, is when you have to take a step back and analyse why you're even doing it!

[clonewarsarchives]

Clone trooper armor design and mechanics for The Clone Wars TV series

[gffa]

Every single episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi has had the Inquisitors using the Jedi’s compassion against them, very deliberately.  That’s how they find Nari in the saloon on Tatooine, who only reveals himself to protect the owner for a second time.  That’s how Reva lures Obi-Wan out of hiding.  Vader kills villagers as he marches through the town, not because he’s even looking for information, but just purely because he knows Obi-Wan is there and it hurts him, it will draw him out. Meanwhile, Reva’s speech on Tatooine says, “The Jedi are cowards. They failed you, abandoned you. There is no point in protecting them. They would not do the same for you.” This is what Star Wars does.  It uses lies and propaganda and manipulation, it says one thing about the Jedi, and then shows you how they really are, that Star Wars is and always has been built on unreliable narrators and outright lies expressed by characters that aren’t directly challenged because that’s the point. The galaxy just accepted those lies because it was easier than standing up for the right thing! The Jedi died to protect innocent people in the war, they and their children died when the clones were mind-controlled into killing them, they were trying to stop a Sith Lord, not seize power for themselves, they were trying to protect the people of Tatooine, they abandoned you because they’re all dead now.  They all died protecting someone, we see that in the opening Order 66 montage, where a Jedi Knight fiercely protects the children, we see it in the opening of The Bad Batch, where Depa dies to protect Caleb’s life, we see it in Jedi: Fallen Order where Tapal dies to protect Cal’s life, we see it in The Book of Boba Fett where several Jedi die to protect Grogu’s life. Star Wars characters will tell the audience one thing, because the characters have their own agenda within the narration, and then it will contrast that with showing us what the Jedi actually say and do, like the level of commitment to unreliable narrators and propaganda in this franchise is actually really, really good, because goddamn that’s a lesson we could all stand to remember when we look around the world today and are on social media where reactions and outrage and misinformation spread far faster than actually checking our sources.

[royalhandmaidens]

Since a lot of people see Mirial and Mirialan culture to be inspired by Middle Eastern, Arabic, and/or Islamic culture and religion, do you have any headcanons or worldbuilding about Miairal? People who worldbuild based on their cultural heritage are just the coolest :))

oooh, fun!!

ok, here's a few:

hospitality - most Muslim cultures are known for their extreme hospitality, and many parts of our religion and prophetic example stress the importance of hospitality and generosity - so it'd be cool if Mirialan culture also embodied these traits (I'm thinking elaborate feasts in honor of any visiting travelers or guests, tea ceremonies, and lots of gift giving)

Mirial is a cold planet so i imagine modest dress is necessary, even if just as a form of protection against the elements (maybe there would be intricate embroidery or patterns on the clothing associated with different families or regions like we find throughout north africa and west asia!)

mysticism: unless i'm mistaken, mirialans are naturally force sensitive, so i imagine their culture would include various levels of mysticism in unique ways and practices to help them draw close to the force (think Sufi Muslims - singing, dancing, meditation, whirling, arts, poetry, etc!)

oral histories! most of our histories are passed down orally and through rigorous memorization - so perhaps Mirialans would also place importance on memorization and transmission of history from one generation to the next

a great emphasis on poetry, recitation, and verse - we value poetry and proper recitation in arabic (the USA has American Idol? Saudi has televised poetry competitions) - so i headcanon that poetry and recitation are a big deal, and people who devote their lives to these arts are extremely well respected and revered community members

kunyas - many Muslim cultures (not all) practice the kunya naming tradition, where parents will become known by the name of their first born child as a title of honor and hope for the next generation. if a couple had a daughter named Aisha, the mother would then be known as "Umm Aisha", and the father would take the name "Abu Aisha". there were even notable figures in history who never had children but still adopted a kunya - like Abu Hurairah (who was known as "the father of kittens" because of his love for them. i believe there was also a sahabi who was known as "the mother of orphans", but i can't recall her name). so naming tradition could be a cool headcanon!

[royalhandmaidens]

Now I’m curious; do you have any headcanons for what modest fashion on Mirial looks like since they’re Muslim coded?

ooooh, this was fun to make headcanons for!

ok, so what we know of mirial is that it’s a cold, arid planet that’s rich with natural resources - but beyond that info seems scarce in both canon and legends

anyway - i headcanon that traditional mirialan dress is modest due to cultural preference and protection from the elements. i also like the idea of heavy embroidery and embroidery being an important craft and art there

so, here are some clothing examples i pulled from traditional, kazakh dress in historically muslim regions that have more arid climates:

i also like the idea of elaborate headdresses and hair coverings, with different styles reflective of different families/clans or regions

for this i pulled images from the popular series Diriliş: Ertuğrul, which portrays the oghuz (turkic) muslims in the 13th century:

[peonycats]

I feel stupid for asking this so im using anon, but how do you draw the hijab? Whenever I try it looks like an egg www

also, Ramadan Mubarak! May Allah bless you

Don’t feel stupid for asking! Drawing is hard no matter what you’re drawing, so don’t be afraid to ask for help^^ But honestly even I feel like the best of my hijabis look a little egg-like, and that’s okay!

This tutorial is already taking so goddamn long, so I’m just gonna link my coloring and shading tutorial I did a month ago 😭😭

Gosh, I hope what I wrote made sense 😅 But thank you so much for the well wishes! Happy Ramadan (Eid Mubarak at this point WAHHH), and the same to you, may you and your loved ones have many blessings!!

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Winchester Meg's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

Souratgar's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

General Tips for Drawing and Shading Fabrics

[ninjigma]

Rex kept it on comms because he thinks it’s hilarious and just wanted to listen.

I am practicing the comic route as I continue to wish I knew how to write. Comics are a good medium but I get too detailed too quick. Thus! I promised myself this would be a quick comic (that the file tells me I worked on for 33h 6min) to intro a little AU that is essentially ‘Things would have been better if there had been more music playing’. And it turned out both great and agonizing because there are so many issues still but no. No more touching. I shall find my style in the lazy and it shall be good.

How do people comic?

This is also practice for drawing the armour and clones; and again, issues, but I shall continue to practice! You have now been warned of the oncoming content onslaught.

Enjoy!

[emwdraws]

It’s interesting how much blame people will lay and how varying it is. How opposite. The Jedi didn’t give him special treatment because of his power/status. The Jedi didn’t treat him normal like one of their own. Obi-Wan was too critical. Obi-Wan didn’t pay enough attention to him. The Jedi didn’t allow Anakin to have friends/acquaintances outside of the Order. The Jedi allowed him to be friends with Palpatine. Obi-Wan didn’t save Anakin on Mustafar. Obi-Wan didn’t kill Anakin on Mustafar. Literally everywhere one turns, not only does the blame lay at someone else’s feet aside from Anakin Skywalker, but apparently there is no right answer either. Even if you could place any blame on someone else for his choices, either way it’s a two headed snake. It’s never been enough for people.

Star Wars is a lot of things. It’s about a lot of things. Family, hope, compassion, forgiveness, redemption, tragedy, war, peace, the goodness in people. But all in all, it’s about choices.

Star Wars is about choices. People make choices in these stories and they aren’t generally forced into any of them. It’s about agency, the ability to make those choices and owning up to them. And guess what? Anakin made the choices he did without anyone forcing him to do them. He made those choices knowing exactly what he was doing and exactly how wrong it was.

And the point is, that people allow him to make those choices. They can’t make them for him. He has to make those choices. And he doesn’t want to.

Anakin doesn’t want to make choices.

But in the end, of every episode, every movie, every defining moment, he makes a choice anyways. And until the end, none of them come out the way he wants them too.

Because he wants both, he wants it all. He doesn’t want to choose.

[slimy-eye]

Where did all the bullshit about Jedi not being allowed to love come from? They are allowed to love. They’re just not allowed to possess.

Do y’all really think Kenobi doesn’t love Anakin even after stating he did? Do y’all think masters don’t love their Padawan like their own kids? Or Padawans don’t love their masters like a parent? Do y’all think all the quotes from Jedi such as Yoda about Jedi being allowed to love were just blatant bullshit? Do y’all think Plo Koon didn’t love Ahsoka like a daughter? Or his Wolf Pack like his sons? Stop being dense. Jedi are allowed to love. They’re encouraged to love. They just can’t let attachment blind them.

When someone they love dies, they’re expected to move on, to grieve and then let go. Not wallow in their grief for the rest of their lives and put others at risk. They’re expected that, in a situation where a Sith goes, “you can choose to save your Padawan, but in doing so, I will blow up this planet and billions will die. Or you can save the planet and I will kill your Padawan.” To make the right choice and not let attachment blind them. To let their Padawan go and save the billions of innocent people on that planet. They do love. They just can’t possess. Marriage is considered possession to the Jedi. But Jedi aren’t celibate! Jedi fuck, y’all. They’re allowed to fuck. They’re not nuns lol. They just can’t let attachment blind them from their duties.

A Jedi can love. But they must also know when to let go. Anakin’s love for Padme is not what caused his fall to the dark side. It was his unwillingness to let her go. The Jedi knew this. Kenobi knew this. Kenobi literally had a love of his life once too. The difference? Kenobi let her go. Anakin could not. It is the inability to let things go, the desire to possess, which leads to the dark side. The Jedi are aware of this, and that is why they forbid marriage and attachment. They do not forbid love.

[starpeace]

the lightsaber forms, a super condensed summary

form i shii-cho: this is the basics that they teach to kids, every jedi knows this stuff

form ii makashi: elegant efficient fencing-inspired duelling form. count dooku’s the star student

form iii soresu: defensive style where you’re just trying to stay alive and wear out your opponent until they start making mistakes. think obi-wan

form iv ataru: using the force to do a bunch of acrobatics, because a backflip can liven up any boring duel. remember when yoda was boucing around the senate

form v djem so/shien: overpowering strength, and also deflecting your enemy’s attacks straight back at them. popular with skywalkers

form vi niman: very pathetic. a form for if you just need a passing grade in lightsaber combat and you’d rather do something else. i’m not joking, every niman practitioner at the battle of geonosis died. all of them. look it up

form vii juyo/vaapad: channelling your inner darkness. it’s basically a sith technique so you’re dancing on the edge of the dark side here, but if you’re really fucking cool (aka mace windu) you can use it with enough focus and control to stay light

[monjustmon]

I'm sorry, but I just... does it ever strike you? That Ahsoka freed a goddamn Sith?

She had been, not so long ago, getting mad at Obi-Wan for not breaking treaties to support Bo-Katan, the terrorist, against Maul, which would suggest Ahsoka considers him the greater evil. Ahsoka views supporting Death Watch as acceptable because a Darth had maneuvered himself into power, and she views breaking treaties designed to keep the Republic from another war as entirely acceptable to do it, and she views pressuring Obi-Wan into doing things the way she sees it as acceptable for it.

You would think she rightly recognizes the danger a Sith represents.

Maul, who killed Mandalore's pacifist ruler and destabilized a whole galactic region.

Maul, who she knows has killed Jedi before and whom she refused to join because he planned to kill Anakin.

She frees a Sith to cause a distraction... to save her own skin. The tripulation of a whole ship paid the consequences.

I don't know what else she expected. I don't think she stopped to think about it.

I don't seek to demonize Ahsoka for trying to survive. I'm not here to say she's a bad person. I just think it should be recognized and at least mentioned that Ahsoka is at her, arguably, most immature and resentful in Season 7. She's allowed to be. She's allowed to be a bit young and stupid and make mistakes, even if I wish it wasn't so overt in the last season of the series that introduced her.

Though, I do think fandom holds her in a pedestal she doesn't quite reach, and I think fandom doesn't tend to be that sympathetic with other Jedi, which I wonder at.

[antianakin]

I want to compare the training scene we got between Anakin and Obi-Wan in the flashback in the Kenobi show* with the training scene we got with Anakin and Ahsoka in Practice Makes Perfect.

With Obi-Wan and Anakin, Obi-Wan is actually giving Anakin praise from the beginning by making the joke that he "might actually win this time," acknowledging Anakin's skills.

With Anakin and Ahsoka, Anakin is pretty negative about Ahsoka's success against the Jedi test and really doesn't offer her any genuine praise for it, just implies that it doesn't count because the Jedi's test is too easy.

When Obi-Wan does give Anakin criticism, he often applies it with some praise, as well. "You're an incredible fighter, but you're overconfident" for example. He also just... OFFERS criticism that Anakin could then apply to actually be a better fighter.

Anakin doesn't offer Ahsoka ANY real criticism, constructive or otherwise. He makes a big speech about how he's trying to teach her to protect herself, but doesn't give her any tips or pointers about improving her technique or what she may be doing wrong that could help her figure out how to survive whatever it is he's supposed to be helping her learn to survive. When he picks her up after she goes unconscious, he just barks "again" and tosses her back in, with zero advice ever given.

This isn't teaching. It seems closest to just running a drill, but without an actual stated goal she's trying to reach or an obvious skill that she is actually drilling, Ahsoka is learning absolutely nothing. Especially since her so-called teacher isn't even going to give her any advice.

*I recognize that it's entirely possible the flashback is actually a vision or just a visual manifestation for the audience of these characters' emotional states going through the events of that episode, but for the purposes of this analysis, I'm treating as at least indicative of how training between them often looked like.

[short-wooloo]

The fanon that Anakin was the only/one of the few Jedi who cared about the clones or was reprimanded for caring too much is funny because it clear from canon that the opposite is true

[jedidruid]

Oh, I just thought of something that’s pretty obvious thinking back on it.

When Anakin gets upset that he won’t be made a Jedi Master in ‘Revenge of the Sith,’ it seriously shows how he just doesn’t properly understand what being a Jedi means.

Here he is, a 22 year old Jedi Knight of 3-4 years. His own master would still be a padawan for another 3 years at that age and he’s being invited to join the Jedi High Council.

I mean, sure, the Chancellor, who has been amassing more and more power over the course of the war, is basically strong arming the Jedi into doing so, but who cares about that? After all, it works out for him and it’s not like he’s disapproves of authoritarianism anyways.

*Gasp* But what’s this? The Jedi won’t grant him the rank of Master along with the seat!? They refuse to acknowledge his strength and power!? (And depending on the continuity, access to the more powerful (i.e. dangerous) texts of the Archives?!)

“It’s outrageous! It’s unfair!” Says the murderer who will murder again. 

….

It’s clear, thinking back, that what he really wants is the prestige or the acknowledgement that comes with the title. He doesn’t see it as a sign of self-mastery or wisdom. He just wants people to say that he’s the best, that he’s the greatest, more powerful Jedi to ever live. And when people don’t, he becomes petulant, inadvertently proving them right in the process.

The fact that he covets the rank is a sign that he’s not ready for it. You know,  a sign besides the secret wife, the mass murder, and the already budding fascist tendencies.

Like I said, it’s pretty obvious looking at the bigger picture, but it’s nice to put it into words.

[into-daylight-hope]

“Whoever chooses to follow the right path, follows it but for his own good; and whoever goes astray, goes but astray to his own loss; and no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another’s burden.” (Surah Al-Isra’, 17:15)

As I was reading Quran, this verse reminded me of SW fandom's constant search for a scapegoat to be responsible for Anakin's fall.

It's him people. His choice, his crime, his guilt.