This Is The Way™

Or at least it’s my Star Wars side blog (main: purpl3wren) Will mostly just be me reblogging fanart I like (Blog title is ‘Star Wars’ in mando’a and is pronounced KAH-rah ah-KAHN-ay)

[knightkays]

Honestly? It drives me crazy that people will see Dooku at his worst, his most heartbroken, his most manipulated, his most isolated, and be like "oh man! this dude saw what was wrong with the jedi!"

like I think that man would give anything to be 12 again and having tea with his Master actually

[broken-sonnets]

Mon reaction meme

[tossawary]

On the subject of "new elements semi-accidentally creating potential inconsistencies" in SW, I think that the Separatists in the prequels would have had a cultural impact that would have carried over more into the OT era, specifically their name.

Palpatine gained his power by (secretly creating and controlling and) really pushing the threat of the Separatists. Anyone who balked at the kind of control Palpatine was taking would have been accused of having "anti-republican / separatist politics" and would have suffered for it, and I don't think that kind of propaganda goes away overnight. And to hold his Empire together afterwards, it's important to continue demonizing anyone advocating for independence from the Empire.

Under the Empire, in SW stories, all anti-Imperials tend to be called "rebels" because that's what they are, but also because we're used to calling them that thanks to the OT. In-universe, within the Empire, thanks to the prequels and associated media, a lot of Imperial Core citizens should probably also regard the Rebel Alliance as "separatists" because the term is already culturally synonymous with dangerous radicals, traitors, rebels, terrorists, warmongers, and so on. The original group of Separatists are either dead or have been absorbed back into the Empire, yes, but I think that the political term as a weapon should probably still be around.

Child Leia Organa was probably called a separatist by one of her peers for expressing any support for independence. There are probably insufferable in-universe debates about whether or not having "separatist politics" means you endorse the monstrous actions of the CIS, and whether or not the political identity can be reformed.

Meanwhile, all that said, isolated people like Owen and Beru Lars, who have little personal experience with the Republic and none with anything the CIS did, might still privately think of themselves as "separatists / anti-republicans" of a sort because to them that maybe just means the Empire ought to leave their planet alone. As Outer Rim people, they might have been getting more Separatist propaganda than Republican, if they got much of anything. In their view, the Republic became a damn Empire, so maybe those Separatist folks were kind of right, actually?

Anyway, I'm imagining the aftermath of "A New Hope" in which Leia is trying to talk to Luke about wider galactic politics, and this Outer Rim farmboy who just blew up the Death Star says something like, "Well, I originally wanted to join the Imperial Academy just to follow my friends and get off Tatooine, but politically, I guess that me and my family have always been pretty separatist."

[tossawary]

Luke: "There's nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."

Luke: "And then I want to fight the Empire and become a Separatist."

Obi-Wan: "Don't say it like that."

[livrelady]

#Leia (raised by government leaders who lived through the fall of the Republic): “I am anti-Imperial and therefore I am a Republican.”#Luke (raised by Outer Rim moisture farmers under the Hutts): “I am anti-Imperial and therefore I am a Separatist.”#Han Solo (driving): “Yeah yeah we're all wanted criminals. Can you two SHUT UP back there?!” (X)

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[daturyx]

This idea popped into my head after watching Maul Shadow Lord ep 8. I got kinda emotional seeing him think about Savage. I wondered if he ever knew about Feral too. But here’s a piece dedicating to all 3 of them!

[amarcia]

'hounds have such strong sense of smell that they can smell a person in a place they are now and the place they were an hour ago just as strongly and then get confused' i need this applied to force sensing abilities like with quinlan and cal kestis feeling the past, and also sifo dyas too (he sees you and you in the future at once)

[blueberry-ry]

Every time Korkie is called a Kenobi an angel loses its wings 🙏

Even if his father was actually Obi-Wan, why would he magically become a Kenobi?

You don't see people going around calling Luke and Leia "Naberrie" after discovering about Padme, so why is "Kenobi" used as Korkie's "true identity" and his name as a "Kryze" is a "lie"?

Why is the man's surname more true than the woman's? Why does hers become invalid when his is "discovered"?

[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)

[duchess-of-mandalore]

Duchess Satine forbade the people of Mandalore from speaking Mando’a, their native language, and forced them to speak only Galactic Basic, the language of the Republic. Here’s all of the evidence to prove it!

First off, we have … Oh, wait. Satine’s the only named character in The Clone Wars who speaks Mando’a, and she even uses the warrior dialect of the Concordians.

And hmm … there’s Mando’a on the police speeders.

(Also note that the police carry and use blasters and flame throwers, so she hasn’t outlawed weapons either. Mandalorians are also not forbidden from carrying weapons within the city, which is why the Death Watch terrorist pictured above was carrying a blaster. The only people forbidden from carrying weapons are outsiders ... and that was only a rule solidified in The Clone Wars Season 3.)

But surely the children are only taught Basic …

Nope! The children of Mandalore are taught both Basic and Mando’a, but you can see that Mando’a is what Korkie is using on his tablet.

It’s clear the children are bilingual. They use Mando’a for their studies, but Ahsoka’s presentation is in Basic. It's likely that they are using Basic to converse with her but speak Mando'a amongst themselves.

In fact, the only place in Sundari where we see Basic is on the dome’s exits (this says “Hangar 1”), with the implication that they are accommodating travelers.

Huh. It’s almost like violence isn’t the only tradition that makes up Mandalorian culture, and Satine loves her Mandalorian heritage even as she believes (as the majority of Mandalorians did who confirmed her right to rule) that the time of peace had come.

[mistycatt]

pada-wan

[vielens]

[assiraphales]

if qui gon had been anakin’s master, anakin prob wouldn’t have gone to the dark side. not necessarily bc he’d been a better master, but bc obi wan would be the cool older bro he’d sneak out w and confide in instead of the fake father figure he felt the constant need to rebel against. ‘palpatine has been asking me to spend time with him…’ ‘NEVER trust a politician. wait, hold. why the kriff is a decrepit thing like him trying to hang out w a 12 year old’ ‘I’m in love w padme. I want to get married!’ ‘u still have a rat tail’

[tarragonthedragon]

i love that star wars comic where padmé's surviving handmaidens hold a last stand against vader but honestly if i were them i would have dedicated the rest of my life to the most comprehensive and inescapable fake haunting in the history of the galaxy. man should not be allowed two successive heartbeats without seeing his dead wife's face gazing soulfully at him across the room and slipping away before anyone sees. literally what else is the point of being a highly trained operative capable of perfectly imitating your best friend if not to torment her husband for decades after she's gone.

[asexualmaul]

[three-swords-in-a-trenchcoat]

Supporting obimaul but not as a ship... not exactly nemeses... a secret third, worse thing

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[apolla-savre]

“The Princess is everything Luke wants to be. She is socially conscious, whereas he is thrown into things; intellectually, she is a strong leader, and he is just a kid.”

—

- George Lucas

People often talk about how Han influenced Luke, but we should also look at how Leia influenced Luke.

[prokopetz]

That post about meme definitions is lying to you. "Glup Shitto" isn't about how Star Wars characters have silly names. "Glup Shitto" is about how the incidental Star Wars character with a cumulative eight seconds of screen time somehow has a silly name, a well established fandom, and forty years of meticulously detailed backstory.