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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN behind the scenes of Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022).

“I was so excited to get to do the Bacta tank scenes. I had to be completely submerged in water, holding my breath. For a few weeks leading up to it, I got to work with a great dive coach. He would teach me different breathing techniques. I think my longest breath holds were around two and a half minutes. It was surprisingly peaceful in there.” 

#love the vibes #star wars #ok on further thought i kinda want to do this for halloween #hashtag gay club bald guy vader

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a very important star wars lore discussion

#incredible #a more civilized age #star wars

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#to draw #i think #star wars

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You cry and cry all the time

Twi | ins | inprnt

#🥺 #star wars

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right. ok.

#woaugh #star wars

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Hayden Christensen behind the scenes of Revenge of the Sith (2005)

#i’m no better than a girl #iiiiiiiiiiiii #😒😒😒😒 at myself lmao #star wars #…

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my journey with padme has been “padme is centrist yimby” to “padme is literally nancy pelosi.” so have this disaster

#padme amidala #star wars #nancy pelosi

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Anger issues.

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

Okokok, this is based on a dialogue from a fanfic I read a year or so ago but I cannot find the fanfic or the author anymore. (edit: we found the fic!!) I just remember this scene which i really liked and wanted to draw it :(

#OH BABY #star wars

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Hmm, I think that some of my new followers might appreciate this passage I just wrote for my paper:

Ultimately, caring about culture means caring about the bodies which practice that culture. Failing to care about those bodies, letting them become “bare life” means failing to care about culture. Or rather, I should say failing to care about bodies is a failure to care well about culture. Museums have historically served to preserve culture without necessarily maintaining it. A museum is a dead thing, a place where the artifacts of culture put on static display to be silently observed. The only bodies that move in museums do not interact with the artifacts contained within in the same way that the bodies who produced them would. As Shimrit Lee puts in her book Decolonize Museums:

By displaying humans, animals, and objects alike in detailed, simulated environments, curators sought to capture particular cultures and time periods. This act of “viewing culture”—from world’s fairs to the museums of today—results in what Johannes Fabian called a “petrified relation,” whereby various non-European societies are perceived to be living in a different historical epoch. Today, these types of exhibitions continue to deny the possibility of shared humanity and connection between visitors and the people whose cultures are on display. (Lee 2022)

It is bodies in living relation to one another that make and practice culture. In museums, culture becomes disembodied and thereby disconnected the human experience of it. Instead, cultural artifacts become props in a curatorial narrative: “These objects, violently plundered from the colonies, were first “decontextualized,” or extracted from the context of their original use, and then “recontextualized” in the sense that they were inserted into new settings” (Lee 2022).

Like, imagine how insane I felt listening to Winter in Hieron while this is the sort of thing I’m studying, thinking about, and writing. Hieron is literally built on physical and metaphysical recontextualization! And beyond that, even the mortals who are unaware of the metaphysical nature of Hieron’s reality are constantly struggling over how culture should be contextualized. Mother Glory’s death hit me so hard precisely because it was a symbolic victory of Rosemerrow’s recontextualization of culture. In turn, Fero’s decision not to stay and help the gnolls is such a monumental failure to care about (I’m using that in a technical sense, dw about it, iykyk) their culture and their, er, humanity..? Gnollnity? Whatever, that which makes them subjects. And don’t even get me started on the orcs, who have so completely mastered recontextualizing culture that they it enables them to DO MAGIC. Like, pattern magic clearly depends on culture in order to give facets of the material world meaning (libraries, desks, broken mirrors, stolen fiddles, and so forth) but it doesn’t actually have any interest in that context beyond that. Lem is able to do pattern magic without really what the materials he’s using really are beyond their place in the pattern. You know, now that I’m thinking about it, I’m not even sure he knows what the deal with his fiddle even is? I might be wrong, but the point is that the fiddle seems to be more important for its place in the pattern than for the thing it actually is as defined by its history.

Ugh, this show is making me feel rabid and I gotta stop writing this post and get back to the actual paper I’m writing…

#um incred #fatt #hieron

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

#🥺

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arms arms arms if u can’t tell i’m thinking a lot about DARTH VADER lately… (inspired by this fic that’s got some great busted up protheses descriptions)

#prosthetics #robot arms #robotics #mecha #? i guess

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Mr Vader thought experiment: what if his post-burn surgery was actually good

#ostomy bag goes hard 💯💯 #star wars

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Tiny doodles from yesterday.

#um also i appreciate that u let him be bald cuz #i feel like giving him hair is a cop out #also he is serving #star wars

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New mood...

#obsessed with the swirling burn scar stuff #really pretty!!! #star wars

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Boobs.

#hello?!!! #star wars

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Obi-Wan being Like That™ .

#star wars