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Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher! [B. October 21st, 1956-∞]
“When I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.” - Carrie Fisher
Happy birthday, Space Mom.
Kanan Jarrus ⭐ Gift for @iknowwhattosaynow from @opalknight :3
my favorite thing about anakin as a character is the inherent nuance lucas wrote into his story, like he's neither an innocent victim nor an inherently evil monster, he's just some guy put in a series of Situations and ultimately failing the test of his humility and self-control. he was certainly flattered and shaped by the devil, spiraling into something unrecognizable, but he chose to take every step down the pathway to hell. lucas knew he would lose a certain demographic by making him basically a greedy pawn in the larger story, not a righteous betrayed macho badass, but he did it anyway. he made him an awkward romantic and a loyal friend, a generous boy and a brilliant teen. he made sure he had all the positive qualities that meant that he had potential to be so much more than vader, but it was clearly his choice to lie, murder, and fully squander that potential. there are no excuses for what he became, no acceptable reasons to commit mass slaughter. he became an unbelievably selfish and impatient man, reckless and wantonly violent. hayden captured that nuance so well, nobody can match the sweetness of his smile and the absolute horror of his scowl on mustafar. to view him through a single lens as either pure victim of manipulation and (canonically unsupported) emotional neglect, or a creepy evil villain, denies the heart of his story and the weight of his tragedy. he's neither an angel nor a demon, he's both and neither, he's deeply human, a classical tragic hero with a flaw of greed. lucas made a choice with the prequels to tell a story that not everyone wanted to hear, and the result was a character that i think is one of the best of modern pop culture, mostly because he feels to me so very, very ancient and eternal.
couldn’t sleep so i drew lil ‘soka! …it’s 6am now
Forgot to post this: here’s my piece I did for @legacy-rebelsfanzine ! Fun fact, they were my first zine ever!
so funny yoda implies he’d rather train leia bc the implication is that leia is somehow more stable and calm than luke but lbr leia runs on pure home-grown hyper-focused rage and that just got worse after her planet blew up
yoda, realizing that instead of getting a force-sensitive padme he just has an anakin with fancy hair who’s spent years honing her pent-up anger and frustrations into the energy to keep herself going forward at lightning speeds: mistake this was
we're family
i love that anakin skywalker as a character essentially acts as a microcosm of the fate of the entire galaxy. his life is coextensive with the rise and fall of an empire. he's the chosen one because the entire galaxy's fate is carried inside him, encapsulated in miniature. his choices are both deeply personal and also the quintessence of the mood of the entire republic. the force made him and the force used him, just like george did, to be the bearer of the narrative for luke to strive against. like is he even human or is he something else? he's the galaxy made flesh
the Council plays bingo with the Jinn-Kenobi mission reports
they recycled the same cards for Kenobi-Skywalker reports, and later Skywalker-Tano debriefings
It’s that time of the year 💙
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Kat ko-fi requested anakin-raises-leia-au Leia hanging out w Aunt Soka and Uncle Obi-Wan!
(ko-fi requests are open!!)
i need less "happy, fluffy cinnamon roll" luke skywalker and more "raised in the ass-end of nowhere with spiders 4ft across who used to shoot rats the size of saint bernards for fun, who at 19 killed one million people in a single shot and just happens to be really optimistic for a guy who is a guerilla fighter and a space revolutionary"
let me take you on a little journey:
luke skywalker is public enemy number one, with a bounty on his head that's astronomical, who took down the deadliest weapon the galaxy's ever seen in a single shot he fired on gut instinct listening to the advice of a ghost with his eyes closed. in one shot he took the rebellion from a sprawling network of small resistances to engaging in all-out war with the empire. he wears the lightsaber and the last name of a murdered jedi traitor, uses a banned weapon and believes in a banned religion and accompanying psychic powers that children are either slaughtered or indoctrinated into a cult for having. yesterday he'd never flown in space before and a day later he's the commander of a squadron, and he flies like a natural.
in the span of a few days after the death star is blown to smithereens, taking out a massive portion of the empire's top brass, the scariest guy in the empire - seven feet of murder and death where if he steps on a battlefield the only advice anyone can give you is run and pray he doesn't find you - calls on a moratorium of Hunting The Pilot Who Destroyed The Death Star. the scariest motherfucker in town decides that he wants luke skywalker's head on a pike, and bans anyone else from getting it. in the span of a week it looks like luke skywalker made a mortal enemy in the cyborg that hell spat out because he was too evil to contain.
and it's THAT guy who earnestly thinks this scrappy little rebellion's got a shot. it's that, this immensely weird motherfucker from seemingly nowhere, that tells you, genuinely, with his own mouth, "we can do it if we help each other and never give up :)" and he sounds like an inspirational poster on the wall of the guidance counselor's office. but you watch him wave the antique weapon the empire wants to pack him off to a firing squad for having, and you're like, well, if this guy can believe it, maybe anyone can.
Luke Skywalker is inherently a madman who somehow gained the ability to make the universe reconsider its choices whenever he seems to be about to face consequences for attempting the impossible. An absolutely insane motherfucker who decided that hope and love would be enough to save the day, and you know what?
He was vindicated.
And honestly? That's the best part of his character.
Return of the teeny anakin, except he's more bonkers (affectionate)
I bring you another AU
Obi-wan and Anakin accidentally start an Empire.
Everything is the same, right up until Anakin is 14. He’s not settling into the Temple well. The Jedi Code is just not something he’s able to align himself comfortably with. And Obi-wan is worried about his brother’s mental health because, while Sidious hasn’t yet truly wormed his way into Anakin’s psyche yet, Anakin is starting to grow bitter and angry all the time.
Obi-wan doesn’t know what to do. It isn’t until he and Anakin run into a group of slavers that an idea forms in his mind. Anakin, after their fight with the slavers, had gone on a rant about how the jedi weren’t doing enough. He’d brought up his mom and then yelled about the Hutts until he’d worn himself out and stomped off to take a nap.
Obi-wan had been debating the idea of offering to leave the Jedi Order with his Padawan for a while now. So he sits Anakin down after he’s woken from his nap and had some food.
He starts by telling Anakin about his own time as a slave, and his own struggle with his anger over the injustice of it all and the drive to Do Something about it. At the time he’d been 12, and thought being a Jedi was his only option to help people.
Then he walks his Padawan through his idea. They cannot just go off and kill all the Hutts. The Hutts are just too entrenched and to kill them all off quickly would just open a very dangerous power vacuum. What they can do is start small. They can start hitting slave ships. Then labor camps, and businesses that use those slaves, then cities, and finally entire worlds. They can whittle down the Hutts power and influence until there is no vacuum to fill. The Hutts by that point would have already started killing each other off to keep and consolidate power.
To do this, they would need to leave the Order. They will need to cut contact with everyone in the Senate save a few trusted people. Bail is fine, Alderaan already has a hidden thriving Freedom Road that they can contact for assistance. The Chancellor is not fine. The man cannot be found to have contact with rogue agents, which is what they will be if they do this (also he just wants to finally be able to block the Chancellors access to his Padawan). Obi-wan promises that he will still teach Anakin what he can of the Force. That Anakin is his brother no matter what and he will not leave him.
He lets Anakin think this over for a while, but in the end he agrees.
Obi-wan and Anakin return to the Temple one last time. They pack their meager belongings and then meet with the Council to inform them of their choice. The Council is of course upset to be losing them. Sad that they feel the Order is not a place they can stay. But they understand that it is not a way of life fit for everyone. They tell Obi and Anakin that just because they are not part of the Order, this does not mean they are not Jedi, just that they are their own Jedi. There are of course those who accuse them of flirting with the Dark and that is why they wish to leave. But those are just a few scattered voices among many.
Obi-wan then drags Anakin to the closest bank, where he, for the first time in years, withdraws funds from his personal emergency bank account. Explaining to Anakin when he asks, that when he was Anakin’s age he learned his harshest lesson about abandonment, he tells Anakin about Melida/Daan. About being abandoned by Qui-gon to fight a war with children. Then he explains that when he’d come back and Jinn had accepted him as his Padawan once more the man hadn’t learned his own lessons about abandoning Obi-wan. That he often left Obi-wan stranded alone while he followed the “Will of the Force”. He explains that he got good at sabacc, and put those winnings into an account not connected to the Order. So that when he was left alone, he was not left with nothing.
They take those credits and buy a ship. They name it The Sky Walker.
Thus begins their new life.
First stop is Tatooine to free Shmi. They spend 4 years there dismantling the Hutts’ hold on the system and those surrounding it, setting up governments, planetary defenses, and negotiating peace between the former Slaves and the Tuskens on Tatooine. When things are calm enough they can leave, they spend 6 years terrorizing the Hutts until they’ve been pushed back towards the Hutt home system.
Before Obi-wan and Anakin realize what’s happening they’ve founded an entire Empire of operatives, bigger than even Alderaan’s Freedom Road, that’s sole mission is to free slaves. People are calling them the Free Empire. Anakin thinks it’s hilarious when he finds out that Obi-wan, or Ben Skywalker, has been propped up as a figurehead of this Empire to throw off assholes trying to destroy it. No one ever describes what Ben Skywalker looks like, and he’s always rumored to be in several places at once. The truth is, that the entire “Empire” is less an Empire and more like a simple web of systems that take care of each other. It is watched over by a rotating council of freed slaves who send reports to Anakin and Obi-wan about how things are going and requests if they need help with something (This is about when they start suspecting that maybe Obi-wan being named Emperor is not actually a deflection or a joke).
It’s around the same time as this realization that the Force leads them to Kamino and they promptly have a shared panic attack. Once they’ve calmed down they set to work. They subdue the trainers that try to stop them from finding out wtf is going on. The rest they throw off the planet (They’re pretending to be from the Order).
Then they sit down to convince the Clones that they don’t need to be an army for the Republic or Jedi actually. They can instead be free. Obi-wan is technically an Emperor, he can grant them citizenship. He won’t make them fight if they don’t want to, however they are welcome to join in on terrorizing the Hutts and pirates. Those who don’t want to go with them are free to go to the Jedi on Coruscant.
After talking this over, the Clones agree to go with them. While getting ready to go the chips are discovered and removed. Cementing to the Clones that going with Obi-wan and Anakin is the right choice.
Meanwhile, Sidious’ plans are still on track, even without Skywalker, and the Hutts’ diminishing influence. So he sets it up that Mace Windu is the one to find Kamino.
Mace gets there just in time to catch Obi-wan and Anakin before they leave. He demands to know what’s going on. Obi-wan tells him that he and Anakin are freeing the Republic and Jedi’s slave army. Slapping the copy of the contract into Maces hand, along with one of the chips. He tells Mace that he is going to give the Order the benefit of doubt about them knowing of the army, but he says Mace should really look into who actually placed the Order. Alpha-17 and Cody then usher him away so they can leave.
They aren’t even part of the Order and they are giving Mace a fucking migraine. Mace goes back to Coruscant and reports to Palpatine that he found Kamino but there was no one there but the Kaminoans. Who, when asked by Sidious and Dooku, claims the clones rebelled and fled the planet. That two men pretending to be Jedi had shown up to incite the rebellion. A younger man who gave no name to the cloners and someone calling themselves Ben Slywalker.
Sidious is seething. He demands to know how quickly more clones can be made. The cloners tell him that the clones had. Destroyed the sample of Jango’s DNA as they left and that the template and his offspring were missing.
Jango had been allowed to take Boba and leave. With a warning about what would happen if he fucked with the Free Empire. Jango, in a move that surprises everyone, joins the Empire a little while later. Warning Obi-wan about Dooku.
Obi-wan, his new clone friends, and Anakin hunt down Dooku. Dooku of course immediately tries to convince Obi-wan to join him in destroying the Republic and creating his new Empire. Obi-wan laughs, tells him no thanks I already have one, and then kicks his Grandmasters ass. It has somehow escaped Dooku’s notice that Emperor Ben Skywalker was actually Obi-wan this whole time and Sidious hadn’t bothered to tell him, figuring Dooku might defect to join the Free Empire if he found out. He was right to worry. Dooku swears himself to Obi-wan’s cause, to which Obi-wan awkwardly accepts, then arrests him and orders him into therapy.
Sidious tries to stir up shit, now claiming that “Oh the Separatists aren’t the enemy actually, the Free Empire is.” That they were amassing an army to try and take over the Republic.
This is when Obi-wan finally officially takes his place as Emperor. So he can cut off Palpatine’s ploy before he can get traction. And he has receipts for the bullshit the Republic has been up to. He looks the Senate (Over holocall) in the eyes and tells them that they have no right to claim he made the army when he has the evidence to prove that it was in fact Sheev Palpatine that did it despite cloning being illegal in the Republic. That Palpatine has been trying to engineer a war so that he can gain power and keep his seat as Chancellor.
He tells the Senate that Obi-wan’s Empire was just doing what they had banded together to do. Free slaves.
“Also Sheev Palpatine is actually a Sith who goes by Darth Sidious. He wanted to use the war to kill off the Jedi and proclaim himself an Emperor. So clean your own house before you accuse mine of being dirty.” Obi-wan says over the live broadcast before hanging up on the Senate.
Obi-wan then goes to hide in a hermit hut for a while until Anakin, Shmi and Cody can pry him out of it and back on to his throne. He is, unfortunately for him, an Emperor now. If he wants that to change he’s going to need to name an heir. Obi-wan looks to Cody, who says that he will kill Obi-wan himself if he tries. Anakin vanishes before Obi-wan can even glance in his direction. Shmi laughs and tells him she is not made of the stuff to be an Empress.
Obi-wan resigns himself to being an Emperor for a while longer. Though he gets his revenge by naming Cody his Imperial Commander and Anakin as his Imperial Enforcer. Shmi continues her retirement tinkering around Obi-wan’s Imperial ship fleet (that the clones stole from Sidious.).
Back on Coruscant the Jedi and Sidious have had a very public brawl/lightsaber battle through the Senate building. The Jedi win. Then demand the Senate clean up their shit. The Jedi are willing to help them root out the bad apples. But if the Senate continues to decline then the Jedi will be forced to leave in order to protect their children. They aren’t going to risk another fucking Sith gaining power over them.
sleep deprivation me thought this was funny for real
I cannot believe they found Princess Leia’s iconic dress crumpled up in the bottom of a bag with stains and now it’s restored and at auction for $2 million.
The iconic white dress worn by Princess Leia (Carried Fisher) in the final scene of 1977’s “Star Wars: A New Hope” was lost for 40-plus year
