[morally-earl-gray]

for every incel white man star wars dudebro there is a teenage lesbian with a slightly deeper and more obscure knowledge of star wars who will one day defeat him in battle

[ladytano-ofthehouseofskywalker]

And I do believe that

[animepopheart]

★ 【zu】 「 MaoMao🌸 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow our YT interview show!

[fancyhdraws]

The lovers... the dreamers... and me 🌈

[maridoodles]

there's this little apothecary...

stickers coming to my shop jul 18

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

How Can Star Wars Be So Good Even Though It’s So Deeply Flawed And Narratively Inconsistent And Was Created By A Dumbass

[oswinstark]

[picture of Marcia Lucas in the editing room]

[jumpydroid]

Seriously, stop everything you’re doing for the next twenty minutes and watch this video:

Although “George Lucas” has become synonymous with “Star Wars,” it’s really his collaboration with – and occasionally intervention from – the creative team surrounding him that helped launch the first movie into the stratosphere.

As the video points out, the movie that won all those Academy Awards – including, critically, the one for editing – was sculpted into its best-known and deservingly praised form by the editing team of Marcia Lucas (seen above), Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew.

If you’re at all interested in filmmaking or specifically the making of Star Wars, I can’t recommend “How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit” enough.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[ladytano-ofthehouseofskywalker]

I say this as someone who loves the prequels and especially a lot of things that other people hate about them, they were wildly different because by that time, George Lucas was GEORGE LUCAS, CREATOR OF STAR WARS.

In the first trilogy, Carrie and Mark were rewriting their own lines on set, it’s common knowledge that the first film was completely saved in the edit. There’s a lot of things people did to help, push things in a better direction, or level things up that happened because there was space for collaboration or changes.

I’m not saying I know anything about George Lucas and by and large he seems like a nice person. But when you’re on the set of the prequels, you’re not rewriting your own lines. No one is telling George Lucas no or saying oh well that’s nice George but I have a better idea.

The prequels are their own thing and I love them but

[yidelia]

flowers

[hanielconh]

Devon. The weapon of the Shadow.

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Thinking on Devon as the apprentice of Maul and how it could look if there were a time skip of years in S2 of Maul Shadow Lord. I was inspired by a concept art of Darth Talon for the cancelled game of Darth Maul

[kashlat2]

Guess who’s back from art block phase

[halfhumanhalfasleep]

a collection of judgy Cody faces, for your enjoyment

[storm-of-feathers]

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

[emeraldspiral]

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

[dante-macabre]

These weren’t even the biggest sacrifices. CN basically gave her an ultimatum and canceled the show for it. She knew this would likely happen and that’s why season 5 is paced so fast. She could have had 2 more seasons but that wouldn’t be worth it without ruby and sapphire

[vaspider]

Yeah, they were given an ultimatum and they lost their show over this.

And they have said they stand by it.

[ladytano-ofthehouseofskywalker]

I would love to see more Stephen from an independent studio or as a project that got to work on this kind of thing more freely.

[marishaart]

Embrace the piercings Darkside, Devon.

My entry for @maul-appreciation-week Day 1: Piercings

Could just draw Maul with lots of jewelry, but considered it'd be too easy😅

So here we are.

[maulblogging555]

[shananiga]

This came to me in a dream, and I attempted to recreate it in ms paint (apologies for the quality). I swear this is how every interaction they have in clone wars feels.

[i-miss-garrus]

Chapters: 30/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord (Cartoon) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darth Maul/Original Female Character(s), Icarus the Zabrak/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Darth Maul, Original Female Force User(s), Original Jedi Character(s) (Star Wars), Icarus the Zabrak (Star Wars), Scorn the Zabrak (Star Wars), Vesper Verkatta (OC) Additional Tags: Darth Maul Has His Lower Half, Gray Jedi (Star Wars), Darth Maul has a syndicate, Force Bond (Star Wars), That’s Not How The Force Works (Star Wars), Sith Rule of Two Loophole, Explicit Sexual Content, Rough Sex, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Smut, Post-Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Force is a Matchmaker (Star Wars), Partners in Crime, Force Dyad (Star Wars), Sex Work, Feelings Realization, Power Dynamics, Minor Icarus the Zabrak/Vesper, Maul LOVES a power play. as a treat, Vesper is mildly deranged, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Narcotics, Semi-Public Sex, Threesome - F/M/M, Romance, Past Trauma, Soulmates, Biting, Not Canon Compliant, Stag/Vixen, Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, Aphrodisiacs, I go crazy expanding the Dathomir lore, Conveniently hot lore Summary:

Maul runs a syndicate while keeping himself out of the eye of the Empire.

The grey ex-Jedi Vesper Verkatta has survived the Purge only to plunge into the criminal underbelly of the Galaxy. For years now her bread and butter has been provided by selling secrets, by her beauty, by pretty lies. There are few depths she won’t sink to anymore.

She finds herself in the wrong room at the wrong time. They both know instantly what the other is. Force User. Threat.

Maul sees her as a potential asset. Vesper just wants to survive in a world that wants her dead. The Force wants to tie them together and never let them loose. But for what ends?

[ladytano-ofthehouseofskywalker]

I’ve been enjoying this story so much and the smut is TASTYYYYYG

[independent-variables]

reading this fic where the new mando schools don't teach classical mando art anymore, and. idk. it's kinda fucked up and it kinda got me thinking. maybe it's because i'm an american who leans pacifist and strongly supports gun regulations, but the whole fanon where the new mandos can't possibly be real mandos simply because they're pacifists bothers me. because i think that's part of why satine exists in the first place--to draw attention to the fact that in a lot of the canon, Mando and Pacifist are contradictions. she exists to deconstruct some realistic implications of a "warrior culture," such as, well. sometimes people get tired of fighting.

the fact that mando fans make satine out to be an enemy of her culture--write her as someone leading what is essentially a cultural genocide--is very... meta, to me. satine represents an opportunity for nuance in a fictional culture that is primarily known for the cool armor and the badass fight scenes, but the fans like the armor and the fighting. and satine does not. so satine as a character/what she represents in-universe has become an enemy of what makes mandos interesting to the fans. and she is an enemy they can punish by stripping her culture from her, by taking away her history and her art and her context and making her out as a wannabe republic senator with fascist leanings.

satine exists to ask the question: is violence a necessary component of this culture? does being a mandalorian mean being a killer? and the fans by and large answered, yes.

[crispyjenkins]

(via @antianakin )

[captaingondolin]

While obviously they didn't need to pick any particular group, I think the Mandalorians' very identity as a warrior culture makes this work. If you are making a point about not fighting anymore, Alderaan is probably not the right place for this narrative arc.

But I also really see the point of "creators needing to understand why fans like something before they change it". A real life group of people can change until they become nearly unrecognisable in the span of centuries without losing their identity/being conquered or scattered, and it's fascinating to study, but it's much harder, if not impossible to do in fiction (for example we all think about the Roman empire and its legions, but the constitution of Italy today states "Italy repudiates war." and it's a bit of a stretch, I know we're not like exactly the same as the romans, but that's part of the point, how hard is it to put things into a narrative)

So idk. Maybe there was a way to, say, keep the cool armours and create some sort of... martial arts type code of honour with less violence (ops, am I accidentally reinventing the Jedi? the Mandalorians would shoot me for this lol)? Some other evolution of what we as fans perceive as Mandalorian culture that doesn't feel as different? But then, would it have the same impact, and function within the pre existing plot (although it's SW, the pre existing plot can always change I guess)?

[ladytano-ofthehouseofskywalker]

I actually just rewatched the “The Lawless” arc where Pre Viszla and Maul take over Mandalore and of course with the caveat that this is like a 20 year old cartoon for kids, I literally thought to myself “wow this makes all the Mandalorians in this crowd scene seem like huge idiots and cowards.”

After like the briefest, mildest pirate/gang attack ever, the people of mandalore so quickly and easily turn on Satine and accept the death watch / whoever is in charge of them as their rulers. Like there’s no way.

If Satine was on the run in her teenage years, almost everyone in the crowd that boos her and accepts Viszla would have memories of war. They would have been kids who had lost family members or adults who had fought or lost friends. Or as other people in this post and the comments mention, they might have been normal people trying to live their lives which is very inconvenient when the field you’re farming or the factory or office that you work in keeps getting blown up.

I’m not sure there was a way to remedy this, their quick acceptance is I think more to move along the plot of Satine’s personal relationships and Maul’s bad guy goals, but it makes it seem like everyone in Mandalore is like YEARNING to go back to that violence when literally 5 minutes ago they were all walking around in their little bubble dome city being normal people. They were taking the bubble subway and going to school and buying groceries and living their lives.

Additionally I think it’s kind of shown as like the citizens feel like Satine can’t protect them, but this doesn’t make sense to me on so many levels but the ultimate one being: why is a society of supposed warriors so afraid for their safety that they will give up their freedom for it? I feel like this is supposed to maybe combat the first issue of how quickly death watch is accepted but instead it just makes the gap between what we’ve seen and what we’ve been told even bigger.

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[ten-buttallformyage]