#post empire strikes back

[iszapizza]

I sketched out one of my favorite scenes of Twin Suns at the Door of Night by achrmy .

Loved the concept of Leia being the one to purify Vader’s red Kyber crystal. Lovely fanfic, it played around a bit with certain things like Vader’s relationship with both Luke and Leia and I loved it so much. Please give it a read!

#star wars #star wars ot #darth vader #luke skywalker #leia organa #post empire strikes back #darth vader comics #fanfic art #inspired by fanfiction #comic #doodle #this fic made me cry

[musewrangler]

“Still no idea on the whereabouts of Commander Skywalker then, Your Highness?”

It was her turn to look hurt.

“No,” she answered quietly. “But while I am concerned, General…I have hope that he is with Lord Vader. And I realize how odd that sounds coming from me—”

“Oh believe me, it sounds odd if we said it as well,” Venka put in. The man was doing well given all that he’d been hit with in the past week.

“---but Luke is planning something. I’m certain of it. And clearly Vader is helping him.”

“You think so?” Veers said dryly, reluctant to allow himself hope.

“Yes,” she answered firmly. “He would never abandon us, General.”

“Or they’re dead,” he said frankly.

She winced, but shook her head. “I…do not believe so. I would…I would know.”

He raised an eyebrow at this. “Really? Pardon, Your Highness, but how ?”

She folded her arms and her countenance became defiant. “I can’t explain. But…somehow I knew Luke needed me on Bespin. It’s why we tried to go back for him, but Vader beat us to it then.”

Well.

Interesting.

“Do you…are you Force sensitive, Princess?” Veers asked. Venka groaned quietly, and Max was certain he heard a mumbled ‘not another one’.

“Not to my knowledge,” she answered, with a sad little smile. “But…I don’t know, General. I’ve always had decent intuition when it comes to Luke.”

#star wars #star wars original trilogy #star wars au #firmus piett #admiral piett #leia organa #general veers #maximilian veers #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #darth Vader #ssd executor #sheev palpatine #Yoda #post empire strikes back #the Lady is very done #So is Anakin

[victorian-nymph]

Something something a story in four parts

#ignore the typo in the third post that incorrectly labels the post as being from 2023 #it's MEANT to be 3 ABBY #star wars #darth vader #luke skywalker #leia organa #the empire strikes back #penelope's shitposts #anakin skywalker

[bibxrbie]

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

#luke skywalker #star wars #pro jedi #jedi positive #luke skywalker meta #luke skywalker loves being a jedi and i'm so tired of people pretending he doesn't #I hate you 'time-travel fics where Luke judges the Order for how they've handled things' #Luke would be the people's padawan actually chasing everyone down to acquire every bit of knowledge that they have #star wars meta #jedi order #the jedi #anakin skywalker #darth vader #the original trilogy #a new hope #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #if I tell you that luke outgrows anakin/vader? if I tell you that Vader is just the start of his Jedi growth and the end of it? then what? #Iong post #it kind of ran away from me

[ventresses]

Star Wars: Original Trilogy (2/?)

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

#star wars #a new hope #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #sw original trilogy #original trilogy #star wars original trilogy #luke skywalker #leia organa #obi wan kenobi #darth vader #hanleia #c3po #princess leia #leia x han #star wars text post #ot text post #mine #idk what Golden Corral is and at this point I’m afraid to ask #to clarify I’m not anti-Hanleia and I like Han #but he IS pushy and harassing her in the first half of this movie and it’s way over the line #so I feel license to mock him on behalf of me and every other person who #had had to deal with these kinds of unwanted advancements and pushy behavior from guys #in no small part because of male role models in pop culture doing this kinda shit

[tonsillessscum]

#stars wars #leia #leia of alderaan #leia skywalker #leia organa #princess leia #luke skywalker #Carrie fisher #mark hamill #Star Wars #Star Wars memes #a new Hope #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #memes #star wars shit posts #ristarwars

[starwarsnews]

HAN SOLO

Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back dir. Irvin Kershner | 1980

#swedit #starwarsedit #star wars #han solo #hfordedit #empire strikes back #starwarsblr #swsource #thestarwarsdaily #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #userstream #chewieblog #* #this is a thirst post ngl #starwarsfilms

[wellsbering]

imagine your ex who you haven't seen in a decade (since he stole your car) shows up at your house. in the car. the one he stole from you. it looks like shit. your ex asks you to fix the broken car. then he tells you that the hot girl with him and his buddy (the one that helped him steal the car) is his new girlfriend. she is a member of the royal family and she looks capable of murdering you AND your ex with rage alone. you try to say hi. she does not say hi. no one admits it out loud, but you get the feeling that they're all running from the cops and they all want to hide out in YOUR house.

this is what happened to lando calrissian in the empire strikes back

#sw #star wars #my posts #lando calrissian #han solo #leia organa #original trilogy #the empire strikes back #esb #episode v #star wars ot #1k #2k #5k #10k

[samaspic31]

So I rewatched esb yesterday. Gay ppl real

#sam posts stuff #star wars meme #live slug reaction #live slug meme #skysolo #star wars #chewbacca #luke skywalker #Han solo #esb #sw esb #empire strikes back #echo base arc my beloved :’)

[godthinksabel]

The three musketeers (+ Lando!) as text posts part 5

#this one gave me SO MUCH TROUBLE??? #luke skywalker #lando calrissian #leia organa #han solo #star wars #star wars a new hope #star wars anh #sw anh #star wars empire strikes back #star wars esb #sw esb #star wars return of the jedi #star wars rotj #sw rotj #text posts

[rubixcubi]

Goofy painting is done and turned in

#I can see every mistake when I look at it right side up so #for my own sanity #I’m just gonna post it like this #no matter how many ppl tell me it’s perfect #I know it’s not #and that’s okay #it was a great first attempt! #and I’m very impressed with my painting abilities #just… can’t look at it for too long without throwing up #luke skywalker #Luke Skywalker fanart #star wars #mark hamill #empire strikes back #painting #oil painting #portrait #sw art #sw fanart #esb

[dyingroses]

General Princess Leia Organa Solo + text posts and stuff

#princess leia organa #princess leia #leia #leia organa #han x leia #han solo #rey skywalker #carrie fisher #general organa #leia organa solo #the force awakens #the empire strikes back #a new hope #return of the jedi #star wars #starwarsedit #swedit #leiaorganaedit #princessleiaedit #+ text posts #post #dyingrosesedit #dyingroses #mine

[musewrangler]

He was clear headed the next time he surfaced and he lay staring up at the white ceiling for long beats, taking deep breaths and noting the various aches in his body, muted though they were.

But he had a strange sense of urgency flowing in his blood and he pushed himself up, leaning against his pillows and allowing himself to adjust, blinking sparks out of his vision and running a hand through his hair.

The memories rushed back as though Trina had stepped squarely on his chest.

Trina was destroyed, lying in a pile of frozen scrap.

His command crew were dead.

Fox had found him.

Piett…Piett was Admiral.

And it had been five…now six days since all of that had occurred.

He reached for the glass of water on the nightstand beside him and downed it. He was pleased to see that he’d been released from the chains of the IV, though a painkiller wouldn’t go amiss at the moment.

But he was long past due to find out what in the nine hells had happened.

#star wars #star wars original trilogy #star wars au #firmus piett #admiral piett #general veers #maximilian veers #anakin skywalker #darth vader #post empire strikes back #friendship #Vader’s rebellious phase #pray for piett

[sunflova]

WHERE MY SKYSOLOS @ 🫵☝️

#i finally lived up to my promise #but also I have more art soon hopefully ill post it … I drew them as mlp so… it’s cute #hopefully more will come but i also have work + school WELL SEE #im over here just giggling over this drawing i did #my art #star wars #sw #luke skywalker #han solo #skysolo #hanluke #fanart #star wars fanart #ermmmm #trying to think of tags #star wars the empire strikes back #sw tesb #just … *falls to my knees* they’re so #hope u guys like it

[bibxrbie]

Every time I see the Star Wars fandom characterise Luke as apolitical or unpolitical, or in some ways unaware of politics, I get so incredibly frustrated.

"Luke joined the Rebel Alliance to fly. He just loves to fly!"

Shut up! Luke Skywalker isn't some idiot, gallivanting around the galaxy for shits and giggles.

ANH shows that even before he found Artoo he had intentions of joining the Rebel Alliance as a pilot, not because he loved to fly, but because he knew that he was a good pilot and that was how he could contribute to the liberation of the people from the Empire. But he also knew that he lacked the training needed to fly in space and that his family could not afford to send him into space, so he intended to join the Imperial Fleet, knowingly taking advantage of the system, to get him both of these things, to abandon the Fleet and joining the Rebellion.

Luke Skywalker grew up under the influence of two oppressive regimes: Hutt Space and the Empire. Slavery was literally happening in his backyard, and he was not unaware of it. Even though he was never a slave, you can't tell me that didn't have an effect on him? Seeing people owned and sold and destroyed like they're nothing; hell, he comes from a family of slaves! ROTJ shows that he has opinions about the Hutt empire too: wearing black in a desert world, refusing to speak Huttese even when he may understand the language? Political rebellion, baby. Maybe he even joined the Rebellion in hopes of using their power after destroying the Empire to one day get rid of the Hutts, which would make sense for him to think considering the Empire has only existed for 20 years and the Hutt empire lived for a lot longer

Also, he denies Vader's offer to rule the galaxy. Yes, it is a moment of trauma and anguish, but also he denies it because he fundamentally disagrees with the system of imperial fascism. He would literally die than willingly join the Empire.

He is political! He is aware of politics and oppression, and he is pro-revolution!

The other Star Wars content makes a point to show this. He frees slaves from the Empire, reads history and philosophy and gets angry at people who trade Jedi artefacts on the black market and at those who willingly work with the Empire.

He might not have the education, power, or language that Leia had, but he has political opinions. And to eradicate that part of his character is an injustice to him.

#vent post #luke skywalker #star wars #leia organa #darth vader #the empire #star wars: a new hope #star wars: empire strikes back #star wars: return of the jedi #anakin skywalker #pro jedi #jedi #star wars meta

[ventresses]

Star Wars: Original Trilogy (1/?) - Luke and Yoda

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

#ok that last one is just silly but I’ve been looking for an excuse to use it #luke skywalker #yoda #sw yoda #sw luke #the empire strikes back #return of the jedi #empire strikes back #dagobah #original trilogy #sw original trilogy #star wars memes #mine #sw esb #sw ot #star wars text post #OT text post