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Join us for Spectre Week!

This is a fanwork event week celebrating the Ghost Crew from Star Wars Rebels, AKA the Spectres.

May 25-31, 2024.

No prompts! Just a theme: Tales of the Spectres.

Alllll the backstories! Inspired by the Star Wars animated Tales… series, our theme will focus on the Spectres’ lives before they became a crew, a team, and, in some ways, a family.

Each day of the event will feature works about the day’s Spectre:

Day One-Spectre One (Kanan)

Day Two-Spectre Two (Hera)

Day Three-Spectre Three (Chopper)

Day Four-Spectre Four (Zeb)

Day Five-Spectre Five (Sabine)

Day Six-Spectre Six (Ezra)

Day Seven-Free

The only limitations for fanworks are these:

Character: Feature one character per day, on the appropriate day.

Timeframe: Tell any part of their backstory that you want, from birth until just before Spark of Rebellion.

NSFW: This event is open to NSFW content, but please tag it as such and place it under a cut as needed.

Other than that, the rest is up to you! We’ll send out more info soon, but we hope that’s enough to get you started. If you have any questions, Just Ask!

Please reblog to spread the news!

#*[Anakin voice]* YIPPEE!!! #such a great event idea #oooohhhh maybe the free day would be a good opportunity for some Kallus backstory #spectre-week #spectre-week 2024 #tales of the spectres #ezra bridger #hera syndulla #caleb dume #kanan jarrus #sabine wren #zeb orrelios #c1 10p #chopper

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You know what is so, SO great about this Tales of the Empire trailer?

EVERYBODY wins!!

Clone Wars fans! Thrawn stans! Mandoverse people! Rebels fans!

It's the one show that could unite them all! 😂 Please let it be good. 🙏

#you forgot grievous stans! 🤣😈 #(just kidding lol…I’m being silly) #but yeah that trailer was just…wow #so much to be excited for #and the animation looks gorgeous #tales of the empire #seleneisrising

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Star Wars - Tales of the Empire (2024)

#GRIEVOUS #LOOKING #ABSOLUTELY #MALEVOLENTLY #MAJESTIC #to be clear I’m hyped for 100% of this #but I can’t wait to see my boy back in action #tales of the empire

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who needs google when you have a former isb agent in the family

more rebels nine nine!

#😂😂😂 #great characterization for Kallus #his vibes are somewhere between jock and nerd but he goes hard either way #rebels meme #sabine wren #ezra bridger #agent kallus #alexsandr kallus

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           🕯     manifesting     🕯

      🕯         the zillo beast       🕯

       🕯        eats Hemlock    🕯

              🕯            🕯 🕯

#I want that man’s last evil monologue to be interrupted by Zillo drool landing on his shoulder #bad batch #doctor hemlock #zillo beast

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Twitter Sketch Requests 4/4-4/5 2024, There was so many cute ideas and if I find some more time I’ll go back to complete some more!!! ❤️

#aww haha 🥹 #very soft #and smiley Cody!! 😄 #that boy better be alright #he’s been my favorite clone since 2005 #bad batch #tbb fanart #commander cody

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“Sabine!”

he’s so gentle and protective

#in that last panel #if we could just turn the angle 90° to the right #we’d get a brief glimpse of a bridal carry #or close to it #guess I’ll just have to spend a decade learning 3D animation to do it myself then #gotta do what you gotta do #sabezra #sabezra gifs #sabezra screencaps

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Thinking about how the padawan’s name means to help and to connect two opposing sides, and then the Force manifests itself to him as cats and dogs working together.

But waaaaaait a second…let’s back that shot up a bit.

“Fighting like cats and dogs”…sort of like the Jedi and Mandalorians, amiright? 😉

#“And then I get distracted by this image of Ezra holding Sabine because it’s unlike anything else in the series.” #now THAT is a mood lol #this episode is absolutely fantastic #it’s got some great action and classic antics in the first half #then in the second we get a shipper’s buffet #oh man…the fighting like cats and gods thing!!!!!!!!!!!! #…applying to Jedi and Mandos!!!!!!!! #you never fail to impress #if I had a nickel for every time I learned something from one of your metas #I could buy a majority share of Disney #then decanonize the Ahsoka show and roll out an animated sequel to rebels #and still have enough nickels left to buy myself a cowboy hat #“Look at me [Filoni]. Look at me. I’m the Cowboy Hat Man now.” #sabezra #sabezra meta #flight of the defender #seleneisrising

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Sabezra

Thrawn: And be alert. Where there is Ezra , you will always find Sabine  not far behind.

incorrect quotes

#Thrawn looking like Jeremy Wade out here #always knows the perfect bait to use to get his catch 🎣 #there’s something about the villain being a shipper (in his own malevolent pragmatic way 😂) that I love #he has the distance and the indifference to see Sabine and Ezra for what they are #fantastic examples 🤌 always impressed by Selene’s ability to recall little moments like this and thread them together #sabezra #seleneisrising #sabezra meta #sabezra screencaps

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What are your thoughts on the whole Shin and Sabine, Wolfwren ship that sprung up cause the characters looked at each other a few times?

Oh, no, no, no, no, no…

…we don’t talk about that on this blog.

My official position is “ship and let ship”.

I will say that, as a Rebels fan(atic) and a Sabezra shipper, like the Kanera shippers before me, all I wanted from the Ahsoka show was a definitive statement about the Sabine and Ezra relationship.

Friends, Siblings, or Lovers: I wanted a decision.

For the sake of this fandom (and my sanity), I just wanted the creators to pick a lane. I wanted there to be no doubt in canon as to what Sabine and Ezra meant to each other and how their relationship functions and what I can expect from their characters and between their characters going forward.

But there were mixed signals.

The fact that there was doubt in the “sister line”coming from Ezra but that any of their banter could be read as sibling-like, the fact that a brand new ship developed but that you could still pick up romantic crumbs between Sabine and Ezra, the way their reunion was so like running into an old friend and that they kept calling Ezra “Sabine’s friend” but that the GA majorly picked up romantic vibes, the fact that you could watch any of their dialogue or watch any scene in the whole season and be content with it, regardless of whether you were a Friends/Siblings/Shipper fan is just…frustrating. To me.

To me, the way they love each other does matter. To the story and to their characters.

And it certainly matters to this fandom.

Perhaps none of us would feel threatened by other interpretations of these characters or other ships if we didn’t still have some kind of opening, a last hope, that our interpretation will become official canon.

The creators were absolute cowards for doing it this way - for trying to please everyone with all of these mixed signals. It just made things worse.

I’ve spent the last couple of years writing about why I believe a romance is a good and natural development for Sabine and Ezra’s relationship. I still believe that, and I still believe it could happen. Which is nice, I guess, not being officially shut down. On the other hand, after 4 seasons of Rebels, a 5-year gap, and 8 more episodes of their story, it’s frustrating to have just as much potential and no confirmation one way or the other. If I’m wrong, if the creators didn’t choose romance, then I just want to know for sure so that I can let it go.

I wanted this part of their story to have a definition and a direction. I wanted the fandom to know what this relationship is so that we could accept it, move on, and end the bickering about Sabine and Ezra that’s been tearing this fandom apart since Season One of Rebels.

I was disappointed in the Ahsoka show for a lot of reasons, but the continuation of the ambiguity of the Sabine and Ezra relationship was probably the worst of it. To me.

#no tag ramble on this one #just silent and respectful admiration for how well you handled this #(and by “this” I mean “discourse bait”) #seleneisrising #sabezra #ahsoka show

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> Hondo Ohnaka, to the surprise of friends and enemies alike, builds up a legitimate business after the fall of the Empire

> Hondo’s pride and joy is his five-star Chandrillan hotel-and-casino, The Monkey-Lizard

> Hondo, in his great generosity, offers a free discounted stay to his good friend, Ezra Bridger, for his good friend Ezra Bridger’s honeymoon

> Hondo decides to check on his good friend, Ezra Bridger, to make sure his good friend Ezra Bridger and his good friend Ezra Bridger’s scary Mandalorian wife are enjoying the amenities (but not too much because running a legitimate business is expensive, and restocking the Alderaanian wine in the liquor cabinet isn’t cheap)

> Hondo takes the turbolift all the way up to the Chancellor’s Suite

> Hondo does not knock on the door to the Chancellor’s Suite

> Hondo greets his good friend, Ezra Bridger

> Hondo does not immediately react to “WHAT THE KRIFF, HONDO?! GET OUT!!”

> Hondo does react to a Westar blaster being pointed at him by his good friend Ezra Bridger’s scary Mandalorian wife (even though it is a very nice blaster that he could sell for lots of credits on the black market if he still did that sort of thing)

> Hondo makes a cheery comment about the joys of young love as he runs for his life back to the turbolift

#something tells me they’re going to check out the next morning #(​but not before Hondo hits Sabine with a bill for marking up the walls of the suite with blaster scoring) #(she might burn The Monkey Lizard to the ground after that) #sabezra #ezra bridger #sabine wren #hondo ohnaka

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wanted to see if I could turn one of my tiktok shitposts into comic format pfpfpvdb this is actually fun, I think I'm gonna do more of them

still taking requests for fanarts (any fandom, sketches and rough doodlés, imma take a crack at them tomorrow wanted to draw em today but the day had different plans, artsy Saturaday it is pfppfvggb tysm all of you who already requested stuff!! 💕💕💕

#bahahahahaha too good 😂🤌 #aaeeart #sabezra #sabezra fanart

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This book adaptation of Spark of The Rebellion had ezrabine fans FED

#prev tags >> #well ezra definitely showed sabine his talents throughout the series 😂 #they’re so cute #<< prev tags #lol he did didn’t he?? 😁 ngl that’s one of the most understated developments in the show #Ezra becomes competent and wins Sabine’s trust and respect #and it starts fairly early on too #just very sweet and wholesome #sabezra

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EWAN MCGREGOR AS OBI-WAN KENOBI

OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002)

#this man really puts the ‘knight’ in ‘Jedi knight’ #there’s something about the elegance and finesse and calm determination that just…yeah…he’s awesome 🤌 #obi wan kenobi

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How…HOW…did it take me this long to realize that Kallus is Javert?!? 🤦‍♀️*

*Well, you know, with a much happier ending. Instead of destroying him, the mercy he’s shown becomes the catalyst for his redemption. That is just so…sigh.

#AAAAAAAHHHHHH JAVERT IS KALLUS?!?!?!?! 🫨🤯 #now I need to see Kallus having a late-night soliloquy in a Star Destroyer reactor room #where he’s walking along the bridges and grappling with all his juicy internal conflict #and there’s a moment where you’re like “oh no he’s gonna jump! 😱”…but instead it cuts to him sending his first fulcrum transmission 😁 #‘and my thoughts fly apart…can these rebels be believed…can their sins be forgiven…can their crimes be reprieved?’ #(might need to tweak the lyrics some more but man I can almost hear it!!!!! 😩👏) #Javert has always been my favorite Les Mis character and Kallus grew on me a ton during my last rewatch so I really appreciate this parallel #thank you Selene! 😄☺️ #kallus #alexsandr kallus #les mis #les miserables

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Intro

As they trudged across campus - late for class and growing later - Ezra kicked the winter slush at Jai for insisting on this unusual detour. They finally entered the warm, fragrant coffee shop, and Ezra was brushing the fresh flurries off of his jacket when all of his protests and his friend’s smug grin faded away. There, behind the counter, she was practically glowing as an overhead light shone on her lavender hair and golden eyes; and even though Ezra didn’t drink coffee, he vowed he would start just to be in on the joke behind her smirk. 

Speaking Love Languages

“Why do you guys go out of your way to spend so much on those drinks?” Zare asked. “Because I appreciate good coffee,” Jai replied with a satisfied sip. “And I,” said Ezra, “do not appreciate good coffee, but I do like the cute little loth cats they draw on the cups.” Jai and Zare exchanged a smirk, and then Jai showed Ezra his doodle-less cup. “Wait. So…that’s not like…a thing…that they do?” Ezra asked, and his friends shook their heads. “Gotta go,” he said. Zare watched as Ezra ran back towards Blue Beans. “It’s the Mando girl, isn’t it?” “It’s the Mando girl,” Jai confirmed with another satisfied sip.

Though he was great with customers, as Sabine helped Ezra fumble through making drinks, she wondered what had given him the idea to work in a coffee shop. He didn’t know anything about coffee. He didn’t even like drinking it. When she looked up from her thoughts over the steam wand, Ezra caught her eye, and his lopsided grin confirmed her suspicions.  At the end of his training, Ezra beamed as Sabine pressed a loth cat sticker onto his name tag. “It was great that the manager let you take over my training, Sabine,” he said. With a slow smile, she gave the name tag a final pat, but her hand lingered there. Ezra’s breath hitched. “Yeah,” she said, “You know, I think you’re finally getting the hang of this.” With a wink, she gave him a little shove, and they both grinned as she walked away.

“So…hey…umm…I really liked your loth cat doodles,” Ezra said. “They’re really good. Are you an artist or something?” Sabine’s sigh ruffled her bangs. “No. I’m a wannabe art student majoring in engineering because my parents said I need a career,” she said with air quotes and an eye roll. “So sometimes pent up art just happens whenever inspiration strikes.” Ezra’s eyebrows rocketed skyward. “Or…y’know…ahem...we have a really good marker on hand. Or. Something." Ezra dropped one eyebrow as Sabine turned away to answer a conveniently timed drive thru call. At the beginning of her next shift, Sabine smiled - and blushed and cringed a little - when she found a whole rainbow of brand new markers at the cup station.

Fixing Something

“Don’t worry,” said Ezra. “I got this.” He set about repairing their espresso machine, and in no time, it roared back to life. Leaning on the counter, he twirled the wrench in his hand, a cocky grin on his face as he watched Sabine hustle to catch up on their drink orders. “So you’re handy, huh?” Sabine asked, and Ezra shrugged. “I’ve been known to tinker,” he said casually. Sabine chuckled. “Oh? Should we call you Tinkerbe-” “-NO! No. No no no,” Ezra interrupted. “That’s not necessary. Let’s just…uhh…get back to work. Shall we?” Ezra rubbed the back of his neck as Sabine chuckled again.

Sharing Food

“Here,” Sabine said, offering a cup to Ezra. “You should try this.” Ezra grimaced. “Uhhh…what is it?” “Just try it,” she insisted with a smile. “I think you’ll like it.” “I dunno, Sabine. Honestly, I’m not too crazy about most of the drinks we-” “Ezra. Just…trust me.” She put the warm cup in his hand. “Alright,” he said. Gingerly he sipped, and then his eyes lit up as he took another full one. “Sabine! You’re right! This is delicious! I can’t believe I finally found coffee that I like! What kind is this?” Sabine smiled and patted him on the shoulder. “It’s hot chocolate.”

#AAHHHHHHH THIS IS WONDERFUL #she draws little Loth-cats on his (and only his) cup!! 🥹 #and he doesn’t like coffee but he gets a job there anyway!!! ☺️😁 #then she finds him a drink he *does* like!!!!! 🥺 #this is romance people #(​and great writing too) #love it #sabezra #sabezra fanfiction #seleneisrising #sabezra dabbles

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The funniest part of The Mandalorian is that Luke Skywalker, Bo-Katan Kryze, Ahsoka Tano, and Boba Fett all have a mutual friend.

#😂😂😂 #can’t wait to see them interact lol #it’s gonna be iconic enough to produce a new meme format I’m sure