#leia rambles

[hylialeia]

y'know I feel like, in terms of original concept and extended cast, Encanto deserves the Tangled the Series treatment so it can expand on all its potential dynamics and deeper lore. and so it can give me more songs to belt in the shower

#leia rambles #encanto #tangled #tangled the series #disney

[leiawritesstories]

i am SO NORMAL about hozier's new songs

#hozier #leia rambles #omgomgomgomg #this man's music holy SHIT #hozier unheard #andrew hozier byrne

[kaleidoscopic-disaster]

no bc v e schwab was so sick for using a victor vale quote as the dedication for this savage song

#v e schwab #this savage song #victor vale #girl i know you did not just do that #but it FITS #but does this mean same universe #but that doesnt make sense #but omg slay #leia reads #leia rambles

[sunleaffe]

i have been awake since 9:30 am and it’s 2 am now, took a final at 10:30, stayed on campus till 6 pm, took another final, came home, dissociated, pulled myself together and took my online final at 12 am…i’m not sure how i did 3 finals in one day (and studied for 5 hrs straight for my 6 pm one)

#basically my brain is gone #also twitter is scary even tho it’s for posting Thoughts #so i’m rambling here #anyways goodnight #text #leia rambles

[phoenixkaptain]

I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.

#luke skywalker #star wars #anakin skywalker #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #listen i recognize that other people are important in the plot of sw #but at the same time #luke is the marble that gets things rolling #just in general #luke is the reason obi wan eventually actually kills maul #luke somehow gave yoda hope that another generation of jedi was an achievable goal #luke saved leia from being executed #luke is the sun of the series #it’s from him that literally everything grows #the story that began this universe #is one of a boy becoming an adult #and so without luke skywalker #none of the characters would exist #thus luke is the sun and we should all bask in the rays #but also in how funny it is #that this guy was more of a pain than obi wan kenobi #a feat previously thought impossible #long post

[h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le]

Leia following Padmé’s path in life and becoming a politician at a young age, and then eventually a Senator, a leader the people can trust, who pushes for what is in their best interest

Luke becoming a jedi, like Anakin before him, but learning their ways later in life than was typical, growing from that rocky start into the stuff of legend

Leia as the best parts of Anakin, fiery and ready to fight, a leader of an army fighting against injustice in the galaxy, confident in her own abilities

Luke as the best parts of Padmé, dedicated to making the galaxy somewhere where people can have hope, refusing to believe that the good in someone can just be gone, steadfastness in his beliefs

Leia having a big heart and steel in her spine and a commitment to the rebellion she got from Bail and Breha Organa, who she watches be annihilated along with the rest of her people (the way Padmé saw her planet get invaded when she was just a child, only Leia is unable to stop it from happening)

Luke valuing all people and entering the rebellion with hope and more than a little naïveté, developed from living with Owen and Beru Lars, who he returns home to find the bodies of (the way Anakin found Shmi, only Luke cannot get revenge in the moment, and so it simmers in him until it is transformed, slightly, from vengeance to a need for justice)

Luke and Leia as amalgamations of their parents—the ones who raised them and the ones who didn’t—fated to live in the echoes of their family history but not bound to repeat it.

Luke and Leia bringing hope to the galaxy which is so much like the hope Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala brought, and yet simultaneously so different from it.

#star wars #luke skywalker #leia skywalker #leia organa #princess leia #original trilogy #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #star wars original trilogy #star wars meta #star wars ramblings #queen padme #padme amidala #anakin #anakin skywalker #luke and leia

[iszapizza]

I'm reading a fic where Leia found out Luke's father was Vader and Luke's immediate response was to apologize to her. The way its framed you could say that he is apologizing for keeping it a secret from her, but I had initially read it as "I am sorry I am Vader's son.", "I am sorry for who my father is." And it hit so hard.

He is apologizing for something he had no control over, no knowledge of before Bespin. He is apologizing for who his fucking father is. It made me sad and angry. How the weight of Vader's identity brings him down and threatens to keep him there. How are you supposed to save the galaxy if the blood of its destroyer runs through your veins?

aaaa i love star wars so much

#star wars #star wars ot #luke skywalker #leia organa #darth vader #isza rambles #sorry i had to get this out of my system

[hornykylo]

Luke just chillin out, living That Farm Life, and getting a good night's sleep. While Leia is being kidnapped over and over, talking back to Obi Wan, and subsequently helping to save people from Darth Vader is very on brand for these siblings

#obi wan kenobi #leia organa #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #hayden christensen #star wars #ewan mcgregor #ramblings #obi wan kenobi part 5

[kalak]

They're smashed

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#star wars #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #lando calrissian #chewbacca #star wars original trilogy #my ramblings

[hannibalzero]

You know what I love? No matter what ship or au. That everyone rolls with the idea that Darth Vader is like the best dad to his twins. Because they are his beloved babies and wants the best for them. Schooling, hobbies, playing or even just talking. Vader is 100% there for them. Even as adults, he’s there for the twins.

Vader allows his children to find their place in the force. He answers their questions about each side. Who better than to ask? Vader even one hell of a sith, can tell them pros and cons of each side. What to expect and what happens when you go to deep.

Yes he 100% hates Han Solo, reminds him of being a cocky young man. Leia deserves better but if his princess likes this stray of a human (assumingely human at least) he will make sure Han Solo would be the type of man Leia needs.

Vader allows Luke to find himself, try being a Jedi and even trains him. What can he say? The light suits his ball of sunshine. But it’s very amusing that Luke has a crush on a Mandalorian and Vader had to explain to his son why it was funny.

To Luke credit he did find it funny too.

Idk this was a rambling line of thoughts.

Just good dad Vader

#star wars #anakin skywalker #luke and leia #luke skywalker #darth vader #leia organa #leia skywalker #headcanon #my writing #ramblings

[whomst-the-hell]

sorry it just occurred to me that anakin’s ‘my father is the force’ jesus figure bullshit effects the twins as well (which like. duh. but still) i mean luke and leia are 1/4 force. thats,,, thats gotta mean something and im not even talking abt how theyre “particularly strong in the force”

idk im just thinking of the twins trying to trace their bio family tree and discovering this. like truly how do you process the information that you are genetically 25% the cosmic manifestation of the universe or whatever

also how does that. Work. like physically, in their DNA. is it a percy jackson situation where they just like,, dont have dna there?? it cant be a ‘you just have all the same dna as your single parent’ situation like most asexual reproduction bc then anakin would be a girl (no Y chromosomes to be found). i guess now that im writing it out it could be “theyre technically aliens” shit and maybe tatooine women have the equivalent of a recessive Y chromosome or some shit but like. why would they. evolutionarily speaking. like is there just universe goo where that’s supposed to be, or does the force have DNA. whats the genetic makeup of the force look like. is the force blonde?? i have questions

also how do you tell people that. holy shit leia probably told han when she got pregnant right. like she had to have right. wtf did that conversation look like, just

han: i wonder if the baby will be force sensitive like you two

leia: probably, i mean he’ll be 1/8 the force

han:

han: what the fuck does that mean

leia: oh you didnt know? my grandfather was just straight up the force

han: what the fuck??

idk its bonkers to me

#star wars #more star wars rambles from me your resident no nothing fan #luke skywalker #leia organa #anakin skywalker #han solo #i suppose in this vein that kylo ren is also genetically the force but idgaf abt him so like #whatever

[hylialeia]

I love you literary analysis I love you critical thinking skills I love you fact checking I love you thinking for yourself I love you research I love you statistics I love you peer reviewed articles I love you reading comprehension I love you finding multiple sources I love you nuance I love you open interpretation

#text post #[knees tucked into my chest and rocking back and forth on my heels] #leia rambles

[leiawritesstories]

i just drank a box (500ml) of wine let's see how this prompt fill goes

#heheheh i'm timpsy #leia rambles #personal #i'm gonna find this tomorrow and regret it #oh my god #anywayyyyy college is fun and life is fun and i def don't wanna cry

[kaleidoscopic-disaster]

not to be rude but it really makes me cackle thinking how a chorus of dragons is basically got but queer and on crack and also technically sci-fi and also does not make full sense until you’ve completely read and reread the whole series. jenn lyons ily.

#a chorus of dragons #game of thrones #currently rereading!!!! who let me decide to do this to myself #god they’re so queer #that fucking. i hate that it’s sci-fi but it makes SO much sense #leia rambles #leia reads #MY HEAD HURTS

[phoenixkaptain]

Obi-Wan: “Did you know that Anakin is still alive?”

Bail: “Skywalker? No way! There’s no way that Anakin Skywalker lived for twenty years without getting on at least half of the galaxy’s nerves or being the most dramatic man in the room or without fighting a ten-year-old or oh my heavens he’s Darth Vader, isn’t he?”

#star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #bail organa #don’t know how to tag this #other than #if obi wan ever told bail #this is almost certainly how the conversation played out #btw i like the idea of junior senator leia picking fights with darth vader #because in the movie #while she’s certainly intimidated by him #they speak very familiarly to each other #vader was def getting into fights with 10yo leia #the inane ramblings of a madman

[maul-antics]

Obviously Maul and Leia as a Master and Padawan pair would be a nightmare for Emperor Palpatine, but think of how hilariously frustrated Anakin would be at having to constantly clean up their messes bc nobody in the Empire can catch those two despite how inconspicuous they look together

#darth maul #leia organa #ramblings