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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
Currently reading sapiens and I gotta admit I love how Harari is talking about Christianity:
"In contrast, over the course of the next 1500 years christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion"
"on 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind. (...) Between 5000 and 10000 Protestants were slaughtered in less than twenty four hours. When the Pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he (...) commissioned Giorgio vasari to decorate one of the Vatican's rooms with a fresco of the massacre (the room is currently off limits to visitors)" (I wonder why the church wouldn't want people to see that)
"an esoteric Jewish sect" aka Christianity
What I just noticed in the last chapter of PHM:
The chapter only using eridian numbers to show how grace adapted (like he himself said the human mind can get used to pretty much everything) to their number system and in a way their way of life.
But also rocky, at the beginning when he was speaking English he spoke it rather simply, heard some people call it "toddler language", but by the end of the book he mastered the English grammar. He is using full sentences not leaving out any pronouns or stuff. Most notably his questions don't end in "question" anymore proving further how fluent both he and grace became in the other's language.
Grace with his instrument thingy even being able to "speak" it.
Project hail Mary movie: grace opens the airlock the ship loses all air in what appears to be seconds
PHM book: It takes a surprisingly long time for a ship to lose all its air. In movies, if there’s a little breach everyone dies immediately. Or the muscular hero guy plugs the hole with his biceps or something
I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her.
thinking of the naboo funerary tradition being cremation and padmé's body being denied that,depersonalizing her and turning her into more of a symbol...
and omg the supernatural implications,like imagine padmé's spirit being confined to the world of the living,being able to see but not make herself seen,stuck in a limbo for all eternity,because she'd been denied the traditional cremation.
Vader’s attempts to capture Luke in the comics are also so, SO good because Vader was just positively OBSESSIVE about it. Like Palpatine himself said, Vader stole shittons of Imperial money and murdered a whole bunch of people, creating an EMPIRE within the EMPIRE, just so that he could get the resources to capture Luke. He wasted thousands of hours and Imperial lives on literal Family Drama missions. He murdered a random nobody who was impersonating Luke to get smuggling jobs out of sheer disappointment, he murdered a whole SLEW of high-ranking officers just because they inadvertently threatened Luke, and he threatened a high-ranking admiral with death because she was about to fire on the Falcon (and thus Luke). He straight-up MURDERED Aphra in the one way she said she didn’t want to die (throwing her out of the airlock) because she knew too much about Luke. And in ESB, he flew his ENTIRE SHIP into an asteroid field because he thought Luke was on the falcon. Obsessive father, thy name is Vader
where’s that post that was like “the imperial march is just the tune vader thinks the word ‘son’ over in obsessively” because it was very funny and apt. also, yes, all of this rules, also especially the part where vader - notably a dude who got torched by lava - surfboards on a river of lava to approach luke’s divine presence. it’s the best fucking thing. you know in the gillen comics, when he first learns luke’s name, and he has this rosy-glittering daydream about reaching out to luke and luke’s reaching back? like our man, evil sith lord extraordinaire, had an extended daydream about approaching holding hands with luke? not even actually holding hands, just, like, getting a little close? holy shit. impeccable
and for yuletide we haveeeeeee a bunch of sleepyheads!! it's been years since i participated in a tumblr secret santa, wow, so sorry to those who got my art 10 years ago, it's so much better now. anyways !!! here's my secret santa for @anidalaweeks <3
here you go @mysticqueen-bee :))) i loved drawing the skywalkers so cozy like this, i hope you like it!!!
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"Her name," the former Senator of Naboo says, gravely, "was Padmé Amidala." Pooja Naberrie bows her head. "She was born Padmé Naberrie."
Luke has never heard of her before. Still, the name Padmé Naberrie tingles down his spine.
"Please do not forget my aunt in your memorials. Thank you."
Pooja Naberrie bows to the Council.
Her warm brown eyes meet Luke's.
His heart races.
This is important.
A puzzle piece waiting to be placed.
But only time will tell why.
After the meeting, he approaches Pooja.
"Tell me more about your aunt."
The words are compelled out of him.
Pooja smiles, sadly. "There is only so much I can tell you. She spent so much time away as Queen, then Senator. I rarely saw her, and I was a child. She was an amazing aunt and a competent, powerful politician in a time of immense corruption. She brought a Jedi bodyguard to my grandparents' house, once. But even as family, we only knew so much. We never learnt the other parent of her child."
"Her child?"
"Died with her."
Sparks sting against his spine. Wrong, he thinks, but he does not know why.
He bows his head in respect for the dead.
Pooja's smile is grim. "The Empire's transition was far from bloodless."
Luke Skywalker is intrigued by Padmé Amidala, and it is for more than her political accolades.
Like she is a ghost, haunting him.
Luke learns of a dead Senator and wants to know the woman behind the mask.
It itches at him, the importance of knowing more about Padmé Amidala.
If only he knew why.
what I really wish more people digged into about padme was that she represents a planet that is a backwater, that is considered insignificant in galactic politics, that's relatively 'new' to the republic (their membership isn't even a millenium old!), who has to put up with core world supremacy, who makes herself be listened to, who finds the customs of the core worlds strange, who is much more vulnerable, who comes from a small planet in the mid rim bordering on the outer rim that so many people dismiss as 'backwards' and 'primitive'.
I know people forget this because naboo is the birthplace of both palpatine and padme but the general galaxy does not give a shit about naboo. that's a key part of TPM. this probably changed during the empire but like. padme would have struggled with this in the senate.
According to Wookieepedia in one legends comic it's literally called "The Jewel World of the Outer Rim Territories". It's so close to the outer rim that people consider it a part of it.
There might even be some core world tourists who go there and consider it a trip to the outer rim and tell everyone how much they learned/ how enriching and how different it is there (like people here who go to some poorer less developed countries but spend all their time in European all inclusive hotels/ Safaris and afterwards pretend like they now understand the culture)
It's even better than that.
At least according to the old continuity, the Wookiees were skilled explorers, and their Clatuuvac Guild had the secrets to a number of hyperspace routes, especially through the Core (it's why the Separatists were so keen to take the planet in Revenge of the Sith)... And Chewbacca was one of the people who knew these hyperspace routes.
So the Millennium Falcon being the fastest smuggler ship in the galaxy? About half of that is down to Han's modifications, the fact that he drives like crazy, and the fact that he's almost as good as he thinks he is. The other half? Is just Chewie knowing a bunch of shortcuts, which he got from all the classified information he knew when he was a commander.
Look, if the respected commander wants to bring his rescue human along, so be it. Even if said rescue is poorly socialized.
padmé adores her nieces.
it is one of the rare things that she will spend money on exquisitely: gifts for her nieces
she wishes she was on naboo, watching them grow up
but she will lavish them
anyone else got any headcanons for padmé and her nieces (ryoo and pooja)?
One of the ways Luke is like Anakin is that Luke is his mother's son like his father before him. The poetry of galaxy being saved because they both inherited traits from their mothers—Anakin inherited Shmi's goodness and Luke inherited Padmé's faith.
Ok so in canon we never find out how Padme decided on the twins names (or if/how Anakin was involved in all of it). That means there's a chance that he knew Padme planned to name their child Leia. This also means that when he first met her, he met a girl that looked like Padme and was raised by one of her closest friends/companions, was extremely strong in the force, the exact same age his child would be and also had the exact name they wanted to give said child. And he just went, "huh, what a weird coincidence" and proceeded with his day like nothing ever happened
Currently watching the new knives out and all I can think about is Jorus C'baoth in Outbound flight...
saying that padmé's death is fridging irritates me so much
padmé's death is so narratively important and is incredibly symbolic; her death mirrors the death of the republic; her funeral scene is given such weight and gravitas; her dying of a broken heart makes sense given the mythic tragedy genre of PT star wars; her lack of agency in childbirth is deliberate and chilling; she does not simply die for anakin's manpain her death is imo the tragic climax of the trilogy.
anakin sold his soul to the devil and, in doing so, doomed her to a death he was trying to avoid.
Since you’ve talked about both subjects before at length, I wanted to know: what are your thoughts on the take that Luke’s victory in ROTJ has to do with him rejecting attachment (the actually bad kind) to his friends and Leia, which would have enabled him to kill Vader, to instead focus on his love for them to walk back and throw away his weapon? I don’t really buy it myself, since the movie seems to set the line up on Luke’s desire to save Vader being at war with his knowledge of the man’s evil, and it’s seeing how someone did to his father what he did to him that causes Luke to realize what’s happening and throw away his weapon-Leia’s just the bait Vader finally lands on to cause Luke to temporarily abandon his desire to save him. But what do you say?
that's a nice theory but it doesn't match the visuals of the scene at all. the visuals are clear; luke sees vader's chopped off hand, looks at the hand he lost to his own father, and sees himself. the whole scene is about his incredibly powerful affinity for his father, and him reeling back from this realization that despite having arrived with the best of intentions, vader was still able to box luke into a corner that left them at odds; the only solution was to throw away his weapon and stop fighting. the whole film is about everyone around luke, including vader, doggedly trying to force luke to give up on his father, and luke loosing control is an admission that yeah, there is a part of him that wants that, too - but that's not an urge that's luke. it's not who he is, and it's not who he wants to be, and he sees that reflected in vader's vulnerability for the moment and chooses to stick to his guns and try to save his father.
if it were about luke's love for leia and for his friends, he would say that, in the moment. but it's simply not. it's about luke's convictions and the kind of jedi luke is trying to be; leia and han are painful reminders of how horrible vader is, and in this dynamic, they're pressure. they're leverage raised. they're the examples held up that's like, "what, you mean you want to save this guy, who did this to people you care about?" and that culminates in the final connection - luke staring in horror at his own mechanical hand - as he realizes that if he gives into the idea that vader can't be saved, he'll lose himself to that. but it's ultimately not about luke's love for his family, it's about luke's struggle with his family legacy, and luke's identity. if it were about him rejecting his attachment to his friends, there would have to be more evidence in the text for me to buy that, but as it stands there are no visual or verbal cues that lead me to believe that is more correct than the scene being about luke's identity as a jedi being entwined with his father's fate. because, you know. star wars isn't subtle lmao.
