#tie-fighter

[ashleyrguillory]

Happy to announce the bi-fighter pins and stickers are now up on etsy!

[delicateartisantrash]

StarWars-ified Painting Edits!

So, my mom has a friend who makes a living selling paintings. One of the styles she does are fast-done, simple paintings of landscapes that she can make a lot of, and sell for very affordable prices.

My mom bought a few after asking if she minded if "her daughter made them Star Wars themed by adding stuff to them" and the artist was thrilled about it.

So, anyhow, here's the two paintings my mom came home with, that I finally got around to adding Star Wars details to:

I didn't do much to this one, it was already so pretty and I didn't want to make the changes obvious. So some bantha, a sandcrawler, and two suns + the text "Tatooine" in Aurebesh. I added yellow highlights to all the plantlife to bring out the glare of hte sun and give a bit more detail to the flora, and match with how highlighted the additions I added in are.

Close-up on the bantha and sand crawler

Closer-ish look at the text and flora and bantha

OKAY. LET ME START BY SAYING. *THIS* ABOVE PHOTO IS THE MOST ACCURATE. (It is also my favorite of the two)

Like, wow, this painting changes colors when you move it or put it in different lighting, and my camera HATED trying to take a photo of it.

On the plus side, the warmer-tones the camera gives really highlights the scene in the skies and the detail on the AT-AT.

pew-pewBOOM

X-wings cming in behind the Tie-fighters, ruh-roh.

You can't see if in the photograph but that explosion looks way cooler IRL; there's actually some black in there for the tie-wings being scattered apart. The camera ate it nooooo

I forgot to put the white line inside the plasma-bolts, oops. I'll get that next time it's out of the sleeve. So possibly never.

Wow the camera played with this painting funky. You get the gist hopefully thought!

Nothing fancy for materials; Pre-done acrylic paintings on canvas sheets, I then painted on with acrylic paint-pens and my fingers.

Also, I need to chase my mom's friend down, becaUSE SHE DIDN'T SIGN EITHER PAINTING HONEY PLSSSSSSSSSS

I doodled in a signature but i'll ask her if she'll sign on it next time we see her.

[maaruin]

The final part of my Mandalorian experiment

This was very interesting. I wanted to know, in particular, if someone who hadn't watched Star Wars could understand the ending of Season 2 of the Mandalorian. So the part, where [spoilers obviously] Luke comes to the rescue. Now, this happened. We watched as four people, two friends of mine who hadn't watched Star Wars (but were vaguely aware of it), one friend who had watched all the Star Wars movies, and myself. 

When Luke appeared:

One person didn't recognize him. But also thought that it wasn't at all important who he was. He was the Jedi who Grogu had called on the Seeing stone, so it was clear a Jedi would appear eventually.

The other person who hadn't watched Star Wars did recognize him as Luke because of the haircut. But she also thought that the appearance of a Jedi was set up before, so no surprise. (Both of them didn't recognize that Luke's face was CGI, by the way.)

The person who had watched Star Wars before was confused by Luke's appearance. He had misunderstood the timeline and had thought that The Mandalorian takes place after Star Wars Episode IX.

So for the people who hadn't watched Star Wars, at least those that were my test subject, there was absolutely no problem with Luke coming out of thew blue and saving the day! (Less than for some people who actually had watched it, because this wasn’t the first time I have seen people misidentify the era in which the show happens.)

They were a bit uncertain if Grogu wanted to go at the end, but that is something which is a bit ambiguous no matter if one has watched Star Wars or not. They did say that Grogu looked really exited when Luke first arrived, but after Mando had given him permission to go, they were uncertain if Grogu really wanted to go. (I am of the opinion that he did in the end, because he did the pick-me-up-hands to Luke.)

Ahsoka's appearance was to them a bit harder to understand, as I wrote in the other post, I think the main problem there is that she first appears in a scene without context. There were a few other issues throughout the series, for example the reference to Operation Cinder. (But only people who played EA Battlefront 2 understood that reference, the dialogue is not good at explaining it.) But the biggest problem the two people who hadn't watched Star Wars had throughout the show was distinguishing the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. At the end of Chapter 15, when Boba Fett destroyed two TIE-fighters, they thought that he had just killed two policemen. Because they thought those were the same kind of guys that pursued Mando in Chapter 10. And that problem had appeared before, even in season 1.

So, this experiment has confirmed my view that the ending of Season 2 was well done and not just fan service. But it has also shown me how the Battle of Yavin prepares you to recognize TIEs and X-Wings at first glance. People who haven't watched it don't have that conditioning. Perhaps there would have been a way to do better of setting up the factions throughout.

(I will watch the Original Trilogy with those people at some point, but I'm not sure I will blog about it. They said that The Mandalorian had made them curious about Star Wars, but hadn't turned them into Star Wars fans. It was a nice series, but not an extraordinary one.)

[cantstopthinkingcomics]

Aaron Whitehead

[thecasualtrooper]

H-Y-P-E-D

[newbornmind-blog1]

[bowsandchocolate]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

WARNING! SPOILERS!

Yesterday I told about the things I disliked about the new Star Wars movie. But it wasn’t all that bad. Like I said, I loved it despite the facts I talked about.

1. The ongoing chemistry of Finnpoe and Reylo. I thought that Finn and Poe were about to kiss twice or thrice troughout the movie and Rey and Ben showed some serious affection towards each other.

2. Strong. Female. Characters. Leia, for sure, is one of the greatest badasses in cinematic history. But there’s more. Rose, the new gal, who kicked some asses throughout the movie and she was also shown as being soft. Captain Phasma, who’s awesome at doing her thing, and I don’t really care about her being part of the dark side. Vice admiral Holdo, who died for what she believed in, and kicked asses in the process. 

3. I really liked the stuff they invented for the force. The thing between Rey and Ben. And of course the thing that Luke did. 

4. I like that they showed that Leia is also force-sensitive. In the original story, Leia was almost as sensitive to the force as Luke and also joined him when he fought against Darth Sidious for the second time (if I remember correctly).

5. Kylo Ren destroyed his mask. And we saw him shirtless. The first one gets a like because I like emotions, as long as they’re not mine. And the second one...well, even though I’m asexual, I don’t dislike shirtless people. And I often like things that my friends like and the two that went with me are both bi af and I think they both enjoyed the view and I won’t say I haven’t.

6. The parallels I noticed. The x-wing on Ahch-To. And Luke on Ahch-To standing on a stone staring into the sun.

[talontwo]

TIE/VN “The Silencer”, personal fighter of Kylo Ren (2017)

TIE/ad “Avenger”, production model of Darth Vaders personal starfighter (1995)

Kylo really loves his grandfathers stuff.

Also, finally we’ll get a TIE Avenger for the X-Wing tabletop so that is nice.

Also also with all that yelling lil’ Kylo does I really question the “Silencer” name. Maybe it’s because when he’s inside everyone else can just switch off comms and be in peace.