he never left the desert

Okay!!! And after a lot of sketches I am finally officially dropping my new OC: Mauvari Nareth!

A girl struggling with her identity as a jedi after surviving Order 66 as a youngling.

Theres already quite a bit posted for her already and you can use the tag #mauvari nareth to find it all!!!! Also!!

(You want to click to see the high quality drawing so badddd)

Any questions about her send through to the ask or pop them on the tag!!

A commission I finished today. They grow up so fast :’) 

Meanwhile, a few systems away from our motley crew, Ahsoka Tano was attempting to buy some Caf…

(I did the math, and the 8 year time skip means according to the timeline, this AU takes place roughly the same time as Empire Strikes Back)

I'm sick of this gifset being in my drafts. Luke looks like his parents, in this essay I will etc etc

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: the Entire Point ™ of the original star wars trilogy was that Luke Skywalker, the truest Jedi there ever was, did NOT follow the ways of the old Jedi and made his own way. Where his masters told him not to help his friends, not to be attached, not to try and save his father, he DID all of those things, all while staying true to himself and to the light side, using that attachment and love and care to do so. Pop culture and casual Star Wars fans all seem to ignore this fact and idealize the old Jedi ways, even while hating on the prequels, and in doing this they fail to understand the entire moral of the original trilogy. Luke Skywalker is one of the best characters in film history and him and his character arc and significance being so widely misunderstood is just an utter tragedy

Also one of the key functions of the prequels is to demonstrate that the romanticised idea of the old Jedi Order that Obi-Wan reminisces about in ANH was a facade and that the Jedi Order was morally and politically compromised, that the old ways were a huge factor in everything turning to shit

ugh i get ENDLESS feels about Luke's micdrop line:

I'll never turn to the dark side. You failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi. Like my Father before me.

because Luke isn't saying he is a Jedi like the Order were Jedi. A Jedi who shuns emotional knots and strives for emotional neutrality. He is a Jedi like his Father, like Anakin Skywalker.

The type of Jedi Anakin was.

Even in ANH he doesnt say he wants to learn from the Order. He wants to learn how Anakin did it.

And he does. In time, he allows married and older Force-sensitives to join his Order, he embraces attachments (and even marries himself and has children in the EU).

And at that pivotal moment in ROTJ: Luke is clearing the guilt and torment of his father - he is holding up Anakin's dream: the dream of being emotionally invested, attached, loving, fighting for that love, and it making him strong and noble. He is holding up THAT dream, the one Palpatine used (and the Jedi Order to a degree in their fear) to convince Anakin he was weak, a failure. Luke is holding up that dream and saying No. No it makes me strong.

And you can't use it to turn me to the Dark. As Luke watches the fleet under attack and Sidious mocks him, tries to use his attachment to his rebel friends to weaken him, Luke uses his love for them to keep him strong, to help him resist. To not give in.

When Vader watches Luke do this-- this alter-ego, this dark Phantom must melt in the acid that is Anakin's psychological resurrection.

Luke doesn't want to be a Jedi like the Order. The Order failed, according to Yoda. Was blinded.

Luke wants to be a Jedi like Anakin was. A different kind of Jedi. A Skywalker. He saves Anakin's soul by showing him, Sidious, and the galaxy that great goodness can come from Anakin's way.

When Anakin is dying and Luke weeps, "But I have to save you," this is what Anakin means when he says:

You already have.

Return of the Jedi is so healing, maybe if we all just believed in hope and compassion we would feel better

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

people who dont maintag: here is a full analysis of a scene where i write out what each character considered the situation to be, why their pasts made them react the way they did, and why the eventual misunderstanding was as avoidable as it was inevitable… #rambles #idk if this means anything so i wont spam tags ^^;

people who do maintag: i hate blorbo #blorbo #from my shows

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

the aesthetic is running into the arms of the love of your life

— HAYDEN CRISTENSEN as Anakin Skywalker and NATALIE PORTMAN as Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Man, one characterization of Vader that I love but rarely see is: Vader as deeply religious. 

Because from an in-universe perspective, that’s so weird! Vader and the viewer know that the Force is not a matter of faith, and that it does in fact give him powers up to and including the ability to accurately see the future, but the galaxy at large doesn’t know that and his fellow Imperials definitely don’t. I think the point of Motti, besides introducing Vader’s ruthlessness toward even his own faction, is to demonstrate that Force use is not just a known factor of the Star Wars universe. 

In that context, Vader is inexplicable. Not only does he have uncanny and inscrutable powers, like those the murdered Jedi are rumored to have had, but he is the only figure in the Imperial military who seems to talk about his religion. At least among the military leadership, he’s not secretive about it; if he’s got to leave a conversation to hunt down Obi-wan, he’ll just come right out and say that he has supernatural knowledge which he needs to go address now. He wields a banned, antique Jedi weapon. He has several times invoked the Force while speaking to his officers. 

In-universe, the general public doesn’t know why he’s like this! The Empire isn’t a theocracy; besides banning the Jedi religion, Emperor Palpatine doesn’t really seem to make a lot of overtly religious policy choices, and I don’t think the general public knows if he subscribes to any specific faith. Except for people who know what the Sith are, Vader just seems like an extremely devout sole adherent to a religion that is all but dead, its other practitioners hunted for treason. He’s like if the president had a weird murder pet who was a Catholic nun, only Catholicism was banned and all other church officials had been murdered by the government. 

also like if catholicism was banned because it was DEFINITELY fake lunatic bullshit that so-called ‘catholics’ made up specifically to seize power from the former government, except the murder nun has just turned your manager’s blood into wine right in front of you and you’re both just standing there watching him die horrifically in the middle of your fucking office

This is excellent meta, also Vader-as-murder-nun is an eerily accurate analogy

so the currency system goes that 10,000 [unspecified currency units] is close to the price of a starship, a speeder is probably worth 2,000+ of the same… but which currency units are we talking about here? do they finally accept republic/imperial credits now or is tatooine still stuck with hutt currency like back in TPM?

i do like 3po strategizing here while everyone else is sneaking around the death star without him and r2:

the fact that 3po volunteers to donate his circuits if it means r2 is fixed at the end of ANH says a LOT about anakin and probably shmi too

concept: the jedi (or at least force-sensitives) can only donate organs or blood among themselves because of the midichlorian count disparity. and then there is anakin, aka midichlorians georg, who physically cannot donate anything ever even though he would 100% be the first to volunteer to donate if he could