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bail organa stan first, most other things second | side blog for @hey-scully-itsme | Cassian, he/him

[divorcedwife]

my role-reversal designs

[sajjji]

movie producer gf: i can fix her in post

[narkinafive]

#marcia lucas (via @captainrexs)

[supertaliart]

Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!

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The first shot is thirty seconds long and nothing but star-destroyer tummy. Vader is the ultimate aura-farming expert

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He's so mean to R2 but I would be too if he crashed me on Tatooine

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Beautiful movie. Gorgeous movie. The cinnamon cartography

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When I was a little kid I was obsessed with Luke's house. I wanted to live in a house that's just a hole with tunnels soooo bad

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I'm sorry, I forgot that Obi-wan's first appearance was accompanied by UNHOLY SHRIEKING

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"I don't like the Empire, I hate it--"

And then the movie proceeds to show you a few of the various things you can do about it right now :)

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And Vader releases him. And he sits there, silent and obedient, while Tarkin chastises him for in-fighting and puts him on a short deadline with high stakes that place the blame for the Death Star's failure squarely on his shoulders despite Vader JUST saying he doesn't even think it's a useful project. Bowing to fascism will only ever earn you more work and less respect, no matter how much power you acquire. What a fucking MOVIE

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It would do us well to remember that this scene wasn't about "stormtrooper aim." It was ol George reminding us that cops & feds scapegoat minorities to cover up the violent crimes of the state.

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It's just me with my brand new indica cart against the galaxy

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Stupid headcanon ACHIEVEMENT GET! This bartender was traumatized by separatist battle droids and now he's racist to 3P0

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My dad is constantly quoting this movie, not the least of which: this.

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I think it's so funny that the stormtrooper voices sound exactly like cop radios

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I also wanted to live here as a kid

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Those droids appear to be experiencing gay love

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We don't talk about the turbolasers enough

[narkinafive]

one of the kids in my sw class made an observation that is soooo insightful i'm genuinely shook about it h/o i'll talk more after i finish grading

[narkinafive]

so for our first big essay assignment, i have them all watch esb and then analyze it thru the lens of sci fi or fantasy right, one student made an observation that vader literally transitions from a scifi antag to a fantasy antag over the course of the movie, moving from being a cog in the machine under palpatine (chain of command, dehumanized, etc) to a character actively in charge of his own agency, focusing on his lineage ("rule the galaxy as father and son") and like! yeah! that's exactly right! he moves genres halfway through the movie!

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[allthatlovesabout]

we used to have husborth star wars fanfiction...

[allthatlovesabout]

whenever people do the whole "fanfiction can be literature!!!!" thing i roll my eyes condescendingly and then i re-read this and say. okay. ONE exception.

[engagemythrusters]

Obi-Wan doesn’t have red hair. You need to step outside of The Fanon for a second. Watch an actual prequel movie.

[engagemythrusters]

next you'll tell me ANAKIN has red hair

[iron-crakka]

making up fake star wars citations in the group chat

[iron-crakka]

have devised a fake in-universe university to host my academic imaginings

[ranahan]

Thinking of naming my fake publishing house Kalevala University Press (obvs modelled after one of my favourite irl publishing houses). :D

[sunflowersinheaven]

have you guys seen the zesty b1 battledroid....

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The pics are cropped from this (Star Wars Insider 47, the artist is Hugh Fleming!)

[toskarin]

my youtube algorithm is broken in ways I cannot possibly repair

[fretsaffron]

i wish they stayed happy

[stealingpotatoes]

Han’s lucky that Alderaan blew up because their press would eat him alive. My guy has to contend with the fact that the last Viceroy who married into the royal family is Bail freaking Organa and he ran drugs for a living. Somewhere there is a space Piers Morgan throwing a fit about it.

"han solo would be star wars meghan markle in an alderaan isn't exploded au" isnt meta i ever expected to read but it is nonetheless very correct

[notsomeloncholy]

my darling there was no hope for us

[padmestrilogy]

one star war viewing experience that i think has been totally 100% lost to time / cultural dominance: obi-wan being a mysterious and lowkey dubious figure in a new hope. he’s introduced doing this absolutely terrifying screech (which he never does again? before or since?), in a cloak with his face covered (classic villain coding, also very close to the emperor’s exact look) and this comes after a build up of him being some “old wizard” luke is told is dead, that he shouldn’t be going to see at all—and his dialogue only raises more questions than answers. a big part of it is alec guinness’ expert ptsd performance, of course, but there’s such a real strangeness to obi-wan’s debut. he’s a mentor, but he’s also a hardened warrior, also a deliverer of some incredibly ominous lines, also a disembodied voice, an undead, unkillable entity. i don’t think it was some accident that the “fake twist” used to hide the real twist in empire was that obi-wan killed luke’s father, is all i’m saying really. i think there’s an undercurrent in anh that, as the jedi/obi-wan/star war grew in popular culture and the light side/dark side lore got more ironed out, isn’t really accessible now. but it’s fun

[padmestrilogy]

this is one of the most obvious, clearly intentional parallels in all of star wars & it just bowls me over every time. who's gonna pick you up when you're stranded? who's behind the hood?

[mylesbianromance]

this came to me in a dream

[prokopetz]

Some have characterised it as a poor business decision when George Lucas started handing out copies of the West End Games Star Wars tabletop RPG to authors of licensed Star Wars media because he didn't feel like writing the setting bible they kept asking for, then proceeded to simply rubber stamp every supplement West End Games put out with minimal review because he couldn't be bothered to read them, thereby creating a situation where, between 1987 and 1998, the canon of the largest transmedia franchise on the planet was essentially being dictated by an unsupervised pack of tabletop RPG nerds from Pennsylvania, but to this I counter: it was also extremely funny.

[theplaguebeast]

and the result?

[prokopetz]

Well, it was a fairly significant contributing factor to why the Expanded Universe/Star Wars Legends continuity is Like That, so the answer to that question really depends on how you feel about the EU.

[howieduet]

The word "Twi'lek" first appeared in the West End Games books.

[prokopetz]

Yeah, a lot of the franchise's in-unverse nomenclature – even the stuff that continues to be used outside of the Legends continuty – was invented by West End Games because they needed labels to stick on the stat blocks. They're also the ones who decided that Greedo's species are called Rodians, off the top of my head.

[gholateg]

Are they responsible for Jizz Wailers or was that George?

[prokopetz]

Neither, oddly. The term "jizz wailer" as a kind of musician first pops up in the 1983 novelisation of Return of the Jedi, so apparently that one is James Kahn's fault.