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[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

A Star Wars: Phantom Menace collection from Jane St Clair

August 21 is Fanfic Writers' Appreciation Day! I took part in @renegadepublishing​‘s book gifting appreciation event, and have created my first copy for an author.

One of the reasons I started binding was to capture some of the older works that may not have been archived, or still online at all. That's not the case with this collection, but I did reach back into my past fandom history for this one.

I've always loved Jane St Clair's Star Wars fanfic. Her work's got a certain deliberate, luminous feel to it and has stuck with me, so I collected her Phantom Menace stories into a single volume.

Endpapers are from my wife’s stash of paper when she was on a gel-plate printing kick. 

Illustrations are open-source historical astronomy images.

Author notes are included from my archived copies, in the days of mailing lists and all the disclaimers.

Cover art is laser-printer on fabric. Spine lettering is acrylic paint with a cricut-cut stencil.

Have I taken an excessive amount of pictures? Perhaps. Am I just happy that it all came together, is not too crooked, and the book opens all the way? Definitely, this is only the fourth hardcover cased book I’ve constructed.

Now I just need to do it all a second time, because of course, I want a copy for me, too.

Happy FFWAD, Jane! 

[cunningmagpie]

i am having the time of my life with that ai image generator

[khapikat222]

It all started with Vader. And those haunting metal wings.

I didn’t realize how many of these I actually created! There was just so much going on this year and art really is my escape, my chance to explore, and my chance to emote safely. While I have a lot on my mind in terms of emotional expression for more recent event of my life. I’m really glad I had this project as an exploration on world symbolism of birds and practice with Krita.

I really am thankful for @jasontoddiefor for not only creating and writing such vivid and emotional works for the Star Wars fandom. But for his encouraging comments and enabling my creativity.

I know there are more Characters and Series I need to catch up on. Along with Comics and other media. But I’m delighted with what I’ve completed so far. And may spend the next year expanding with more side/main characters. I’m not sure I’ll do it yet. But I’m open for it!

[startano]

so i read the darth maul graphic novel and this is The Squad am i right?? (pls click for better quality)💙

[sunshinechay]

I don’t think, even after all these years, that I’ll ever get over that Liam Neeson is a Jedi

[vampire-matcha]

[mysmolspacechild]

The Phantom Menace Appreciation Week; Day One (x)

↳ Favourite Scene

This is my favourite lightsaber sequence in all of Star Wars. It’s got such intensity and such urgency. Obi-Wan needs to end this quickly so he can get to Qui-Gon; maybe it’s not too late to save him. The stakes are so high.

My heart sits in my throat every time. Obi-Wan is doing his best, but it’s not clear it’s going to be enough. His master, one of the best duelists in the entire order has just been bested - how is he, the apprentice, meant to do better?

I think about Qui-Gon offscreen; he can hear the battle - maybe even see it. We can only imagine what he’s thinking. He’d called Obi-Wan capable before the Council, but does he think Obi-Wan capable of winning this battle? He hopes he is, but it must be agony to bear witness to this test.

[naberiie]

woah, padmé had a nickname when she was queen?? (or is that an hc??) also do kida and rohan develop either one of their parents' accents?

All excellent questions! ❤

Yeah, Padmé having a nickname (Riptide) as Queen is a headcanon!  One of the (many) Naboo headcanons that @evaceratops​ and I developed prior to beginning FWS was that water is a central aspect of Nabooian mythos: it factors into their legends, their livelihoods, their values and priorities and the way they viewed politics.  The highest mark of praise one can offer to a Nabooian is the ability to mimic the properties of water: steady, persistent, flexible, simultaneously powerful and destructive and yet seemingly harmless.

When the Trade Federation heard that the Naboo had elected a fourteen year old girl as Queen, they thought taking the planet would be an easy task.  A simple matter of a blockade, the threat of invasion, and certainly the young Queen would be too frightened to fight back.  Little did they realize, Padmé Naberrie Amidala is like a riptide current: seemingly calm and innocuous on the surface, but lethal and driven underneath.  Her actions during TPM earned her the nickname.

As for Kida and Rohan’s accents - Kida definitely develops the clones’ accent.  She idolizes her dad and uncles, and they are equally delighted when she’s learning to talk and starts babbling away in a miniature, illegally adorable version of their own accent.  Rohan, on the hand, kind of fluctuates between Rabé and Ahsoka’s accents.  …Rabé had one (1) line in TPM, and her actress is Brazilian, so Rohan develops her way of speaking - but he also mimics Ahsoka, too.  Kida is the darling of the 501st, Rohan is a momma’s boy, and their accents reflect that 😊