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this is honestly, literally, just

Luke: “How long have you had feelings for R2-D2?”

C-3PO: “That’s disgusting. And wrong. I don’t even get– why would– I’ve never had feelings for anyone, anywhere. It’s none of your– you have– the nerve, the audacity! R2-D2 is my counterpart, technically. And he is terrible, logic-wise. And how– how– do I know, frankly, that you’ve not got feelings for him? Maybe you DO. Maybe you’re trying to throw me off!! Hmm??? CHECK and MATE”

(excerpt from The Making of Star Wars)

evanspetres-deactivated20201015

i don’t know john boyega but i trust him

theobi1kenobi

#i would trust john boyega to watch my stuff at a coffee shop

themarysue

lizzy-bennet

Deleted Tosche Station scene from A New Hope

brendanadkins

uh

leupagus

OK I have like mutliple questions

a) who dis

2) why does he look like mustacheod Mads Mikkelson

III) what is happen

?) ARE THEY BOYFRIENDS?????

ohgodshesloose

AHEM! *dons his lore cape*

This is Biggs Darklighter, Luke’s best buddy growing up on Tatooine. There was a big chunk of story cut from A New Hope where Luke looks up at the sky, sees the Star Destroyer and Princess Leia’s ship shooting at each other in orbit, and jumps in his landspeeder to tell his friends like an excited puppy.

He arrives at Tosche Station (from the infamous line “But I was gonna go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!”) and is surprised to find Biggs there, who had just gotten his certification from the Imperial Academy (mentioned in the line “That’s what you said when Biggs and Tank left” when Luke was trying to coax Uncle Owen into applying). Luke drags everyone outside to look but by that time the two ships have stopped shooting, so they write it off as Excitable Dumbass Luke getting his dumb hopes up again and go back inside.

It’s worth noting that Biggs takes the first look through Luke’s binoculars and says it’s probably just a freighter refueling. Having been to the Imperial Academy he’d know damn well what a Star Destroyer looks like and that having one in orbit over Tatooine means Srs Bsns is afoot. But he doesn’t mention this and lies, probably in an effort to keep Luke from going “ZOMG ADVENTURE!” and trying to get involved.

When everyone else inside, Biggs and Luke go for a walk and Biggs lets Luke in on a secret: he and a bunch of other Academy grads are going to mutiny and defect to the Rebel Alliance the first chance they get. Luke basically goes “GEE WHIZ!” and Biggs shuts him up. He explains that this is stupidly dangerous and is going to make him a wanted man if he survives, so this is the last time the two are probably ever going to see each other. Luke still doesn’t Get It yet and is mostly envious of all the excitement and adventure Biggs is about to embark on.

Fast forward past: Luke discovering real and innocent people get murdered by the Empire (courtesy of Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru’s smoking remains), finding out that dashing rogues can really just be selfish, trigger-happy assholes thanks to Han Solo, and watching the man who opened his eyes to a bigger universe get killed by the monster who Luke thinks murdered his father. His boyish naivety has taken quite the beating. But as he gears up to help attack the Death Star, who should he run into but his best buddy Biggs! How bad can war be when your best friend is at your side?

… oh.

Biggs gave his life to protect Luke, physically blocking Vader from shooting his best friend for as long as he possibly could. Between that, the reassuring words of Obi-Wan, and the timely return of Han (who Chewie threatened to tear the arms off of if they didn’t go back), Luke learned a critical truth: the universe was a lot darker than he ever realized, but no matter what there is always hope.

oldmanyellsatcloud

Wow, that actually adds a TON of emotional depth to that sacrifice, too. I never knew that.

edwardspoonhands

They came for power converters, they left with a friendship that would last…for like a couple more weeks.

kaseyno

he’s killing them

#star wars spioilers

celinekim218

“Beepopbeepbeeppop” -BB8

gretahs-deactivated20161121

i can’t stop with the memes

#star wars spoilers #spoilers

skygawker

star wars + onion headlines (pt. 2)

People around me: *display personality traits that make them unique and well liked*

Brain: ⚠🚨⚠🚨⚠🚨⚠🚨!!!!????!?!?! do we have those

Me: *checks files* Uhhhhhh nope

Brain:

Me:

Brain: steal

hexedh3art-deactivated20211018

Dumbledore don’t give a fuck.

thetenderpassion

Santa Bling

multifaceted-gem-deactivated201

@ech0es-0f-silence @ashley-star NOOOOOOOO LMAO

hypnotic-flow

what the hell is this 😂

ooweeshenadi

LMFAO yall play too much

brianmichaelbendis

What do you think of all the hate about changing things in the marvel U and has anyone confronted marvel writers about it? So many friends of mine can't stand it saying thats not this or that character, why change it, its ruined.

neilnevins-deactivated20240617

please watch this amazing few seconds of a news segment on Phantom Menace’s opening night

#oh no

friend: how are you

me: oh boy. Hah. Well. *takes a seat* wooowie. Well. *leans very far back in seat* Anyways how are you?

salon

My own awakening to the toxicity of the achievement race came the way it does to many parents: via years of trying to keep up with it.

I sensed the problem in my home before I could name it. My daughters, Shelby and Jamey, were in middle school, and Zakary was in third grade. They were still children, in the essential sense of the word. They still played hide-and-seek, treasured their American Girl dolls, and relied on me to make their meals. But their lives had mutated into an adult-like state of busyness that gave our home the air of a corporate command center.

Twelve-year-old Jamey, for instance—who still wore braces and fit into children’s clothing sizes—would wake up before seven, cram in some extra studying over breakfast, and rush off to her school day, which lasted the usual seven hours. She’d go straight from there to a violin lesson or soccer practice, return home at six, and commence a daily homework marathon that took her well into the night. I’d see her hunched at her desk past eleven p.m., washed in the yellow lamplight, her long brown hair spilling over her books.

We have our kids in an achievement race – it’s bad for their health, and not the way they learn

Draco Malfoy: Scorpius Malfoy, I named you after a star sign because of an awesome tumblr meme I saw once but honestly it doesn't even matter because I could've named you Catshits McGee and it still would've been a better name than what Potter tagged his kid with. Go have fun at school, write your mother, and get in a study group with the Weasley girl, trust me.

#truth