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navigatorwrongway · 2 years

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Ahaha so remember like a month and a half ago when i promised yall ( @milozephir @some-random-trash ) a rec list? Yeah, I made like 80% of a list and forgot it in my drafts rip

BUT i found it again AND updated word counts and stuff so like?? Points for effort pls ty

In no particular order, im pleased to present

Mari’s Non-comprehensive Dinluke Fic Recs

ni kar'taylir gar darasuum sosol by @coffeecatsme

T, 8.7k, complete

A really really sweet 5+1 about Luke making sense of the Mando’a Din uses.

say it as you will by HiddenEye

T, 3.8k, complete

Ahsoka and Rex teasing the living daylights out of everyone. Because they deserve it.

Willfully Oblivious by @needlefrost

T, 6k, complete

Force-sensitive Din my BELOVED, with bonus Ahsoka-training-Din!!

To Each According To His Need by MadameReveuse ( @weepylucifer im 90% sure that’s u but correct me if im wrong ^.^’)

G, 4.7k, complete

Definitely one of the best fics in the ship, this is one part sickfic, one part thoughtful exploration of the effects of background and expanding horizons, and one part *excellent* dialogue.

he feels like home by coffeecatsme (again!)

T, 6 chapters, 13.7k, complete

Wherein everyone but Luke can tell that the pining is mutual.

Star Light, Star Bright series by snapdragonpop007

T, 7 works, 19k, WIP

Din gets Luke off of Tatooine a little earlier, and this changes things.

Kir’manir by plantyourtreeswithme

T, 3 chapters, 23.7k, WIP

Bo-Katan shoots Luke as he leaves, and we go from there. Top notch.

parry, parry, strike by AlchemyAlice

T, 18.9k, complete

Excellent dinluke, excellent din & leia, excellent all around.

Thaw by @andthepeople spqr

T, 6.3k, complete

Vader gets Luke on Bespin, and Luke later gets Grogu back to his buir. Very very very very good.

Christ in Repose by spqr again!

T, 7.7k, complete

I limited myself to two recs from this author!! Arent you proud!!! Honestly I recommend all of this author’s work, but that would make this list even longer. OP Luke (affectionate) and some in-universe new/media funsies.

Where There’s a Will There’s a Way by xiaq

M, 8.8k, WIP

Best banter on the list imo. Seriously the dialogue is *chef’s kiss* and the rest is very very good as well.

listen, there's a hell of a universe next door by storm_petrel

M, 12.9k, complete

BAMF luke, BAMF din, one of the best written action sequences I’ve ever read, and a look at Luke’s role as a Rebel pilot. Read it.

through the deep dark valley by @ace-din-djarin

T, 3 works, 21.9k, WIP

Soulmate AUs aren’t everybody’s cup of tea but if you have even a passing interest this is SO GOOD. Not even speaking from bias as a beta, this is objectively a joy to read.

staring down the barrel of the hot sun by magneticwave

G, 25.7k, complete

If you read one fic on this list, make it this one. AU where the Jedi are still around, Din has just become Mand’alor, and Knight Luke Skywalker is sent to help mediate. Once you’ve read this, read all the author’s other work too. Mari’s orders.

I have many many many more recs but these are some of my faves! Sorry again about taking so long 😭😭

I’m also morally and legally obligated to shill the dinluke discord server, where cool cats like the intended audience of this post (all of you) can hang out and talk various star wars and dinluke-related shiznaz

#dinluke #dinluke fic rec #dinluke fic recs #mar posts #mar talks #if anyone knows the @s of people i couldn’t tag please do so!!!#and ofc feel free to add on your own recs iyw

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savrenim · 2 years

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what fic op

okay so it's technically a series called Civil Wars, Whistleblower Tactics, Schematic Drafting, And The Finer Points Of Sith Adoption: The Essential How-To Guide For The Engineering Jedi that is an AU of the (much shorter) fic Tuning up your TIE-Fighter to prove you’re better than the bastard currently running the TIE-Fighter Program for fun and profit

Tuning up your TIE-Fighter is a great fic in and of itself, which is hilarious to describe as "Luke Skywalker YouTuber AU", except it is Great and not Horrific the way that that sounds because it is otherwise set exactly in the Star Wars universe, it just goes "Luke is a genius mechanic right, what if Luke had a holonet channel that is just him messing around with fixing up scrap droids and other things that accidentally goes viral enough to catch Darth Vader's attention, shenanigans ensue"

Civil Wars is an AU of that in that it goes "what if the consequences of this channel are Darth Vader offers Luke 'Lars', who he still has no idea is related to him whatsoever, the position of Head Engineer on his star destroyer and Luke accepts" and then it jumps off from there, including:

the 501st is still there and kicking and characters, and also clones-fully-having-adopted-Mando-culture, which I'll admit I have no idea if it's fanon or canon but I'm really happy that fandom decided it's fanon bc it's super fun

Darth Vader going 'oh gods I'm adopting this child aren't I'

all of the stormtroopers going 'oh gods we're adopting this child, aren't we'

a lot of super interesting Tatooine culture / slave culture / Desert lore

simultaneous Adorable Ray Of Sunshine Luke but also Secret BAMF Luke but it sneaks up on you in a 'yeah this makes total sense with the amount of Desert lore and general Tatooine life we've learned about'

actively solid pro queer, like, it's a gen fic but there is casual acceptance of all sexualities and genders

I'm just in love with what they do with all the characters okay but esp the reveal of Luke's layers

I don't know what else to say esp trying to avoid spoilers other than, like, Tuning up your TIE-Fighter is worth the initial read and then This Fic Is Worth The Read Then Reread Then Please May It Update I Want More

anyways I usually don't recommend stuff that is Long because Every Word Needs To Be Worth It but boy is every single word of this fic worth it and I am Suffering that the series is not complete and that there isn't more

#my life #fic rec

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canary3d-obsessed · 3 years

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Restless Rewatch: The Untamed Ep 17 part one

(Masterpost of all the rewatches) (Canary’s pinboard of original content)

Warning: Spoilers for All 50 Episodes!

Inaccessible

Wei Wuxian hides in a boat among the lotuses next to a pier in Lotus Pier, the second-most-literally-named home in the show, after The Burial Mounds. This pier has a railing that goes all the way around it, without any ladders or anything. Not to be ADA on main but this means if you can't Jedi jump, you're fucked.

Hefeng Liquor

While Wei Wuxian waits and tries, not very successfully, to keep his shit together, he hears the guards talking about the local booze that they're going to drink at their murder victory party. We learn, in a desaturated flashback (that OP has done her best to resaturate), that this is lotus-infused wine invented by Wei Wuxian during happier days.

He kicks the flashback off with his favorite activity, Unnecessarily Erotic Beverage Drinking. (gifset) I’ve slowed this gif down so we can all appreciate the unnecessariness. The way his hand caresses that leaf OMG

Hopefully he is not drinking lake water out of that leaf. Side note: How is it possible that Xiao Zhan doesn't have a drinking water endorsement deal? I had to resort to Zhu Yilong's brand of water for this gag. I figure if it's good enough to pour directly onto a lightning burn like they do in The Lost Tomb Reboot, it's good enough for a leaf hummer chastely drinking out of a leaf

(more behind the cut!)

In his memory, Jiang Cheng tells him to stop fucking around and come help with the basket of lotus pods. Wei Wuxian responds by grabbing one for himself and then sitting his ass down and not helping. Cause he’s a motherfucking P.I.M.P.

Emotional Rescue

Wen Ning arrives on the pier with Jiang Chang, to Wei Wuxian's extreme relief. Look how much emotion Xiao Zhan is able to convey even with half of his face hidden, my lord.

Wen Ning carries Jiang Cheng on his back, in an echo of other significant piggyback rides in Wei Wuxian's life.

Wei Wuxian's relief is at war with his fear, seeing his brother in such bad shape. Remember, these are cultivators, who heal quickly and mostly don't get their asses beat this hard. The only time Wei Wuxian has been comatose was after the Xuanwu cave, and that was probably because of his prolonged contact with resentful energy/Yin iron.

Hibernating Zidian

Wen Ning gets ready for his first, but not his last, boat ride with an unconscious Yunmeng brother in it. He tells Wei Wuxian that Jiang Cheng is pretty fucked up but isn't dead.

Then he gives Zidian to him. Before we talk about Zidian, let's talk about BAMF Wen Ning. Wen Ning is an awkward goofball. He’s also insanely competent at just about everything--wine-drugging, dude-smuggling, corpse retrieval, dog acupuncture, drug pushing. As well as shooting rocks out of the air and, later, beating zombie ass, and resisting mind control. .

This is the foundation of their friendship; it’s not actually about Wei Wuxian being nice to the weird kid. He initially sought Wen Ning out for the same reason he sought out weird kid Lan Wangji--his martial skill. He accepts his weirdness and is protective of him because of his missing-spirit problem, but he did not befriend him out of altruism.

Wei Wuxian is so forgiving that he can smile fondly when looking at the weapon that whipped the shit out of him a couple of days ago.

Wei Wuxian puts Zidian down right next to Jiang Cheng's hand and...nothing happens. It doesn't recognize him or spark to life. This didn't seem meaningful when I watched it the first time, but rewatching...yikes. It KNOWS.

Wei Wuxian admits, with tears in his eyes, that there is nowhere safe for him to go with Jiang Cheng, and Wen Ning immediately offers care and shelter. Even though that is putting his own life at serious risk.

Life obligation is a common theme in CDramas. It’s often something a person chooses as a way of showing love. Guardian builds an eternal romance out of two people saving each other’s lives over and over. But accepting the obligation is a choice (in fantasy dramas, if not in real life). Love and Redemption has a gloriously harsh sequence where a life is saved, and the save-ee cooly rejects the saver.

Every time Wen Ning saves Wei Wuxian, he cites that one time that Wei Wuxian saved him from the water demon. And Wei Wuxian cites this rescue right here when he throws everything away to save Wen Ning. Meanwhile, Jiang Cheng doesn't acknowledge any debt to Wen Ning at all, only--grudgingly--to Wen Qing. And people are ok with that.

Basically all this is to say that I think Wen Ning leans into this life debt because he loves Wei Wuxian, and Wei Wuxian leans into it because he loves him back. Non-romantically, I think...at least on Wei Wuxian’s part. YMMV.

They go to pick up Yanli from their Granny, telling her to go into hiding. She starts to cry, not knowing how she'll manage on her own. Wei Wuxian tells her that they will come back, as Wen Ning looks super unsure about that.

Of course Wei Wuxian can't know, at this point, whether they will come back. Wei Wuxian always wants to make everybody feel better, and sometimes you really can't make someone feel better except by lying. He compulsively says shit that he thinks people want to hear, almost as if he was beaten frequently and arbitrarily as a child.

Wen Ning is doing his best for the recreational boat ride industry, as he rows the Yunmeng trio through some amazingly beautiful scenery.

Core Melting Time

Meanwhile, back at Lotus Pier The Yunmeng Supervisory Office, Wen Chao is hung over, Wen Chao is angry, Yawn

For some reason, Wang Lingjiao has suddenly decided to talk to Wen Chao in the most cloying and annoying way possible.

Also, the fact that she still addresses him as Gongzi when she is totally fucking him is kind of great. This is like those fics where Elizabeth Bennet calls Mr. Darcy "Mr. Darcy" even when they're married and hitting it.

Wen Zhuliu demonstrates why he's called Core-Melting Hand, by punishing the wine guard. He's able to melt a guy's core by grabbing him by the throat, and also picks him up, Darth Vader style, for extra meltyness.

All that stuff I said last time about Wen Zhuliu feeling ambivalent about being a villian...yeah, he seems to have gotten that right out of his system.

Chilling in Yiling

Wen Ning is doing his best for the recreational carriage ride industry. Wei Wuxian, after presumably several hours in the cart, decides that now is a good time to get curious about where they are going.

Here we start to see a new side of Wei Wuxian. Before this he was carefree, other than specific worries about his friends. He confronted danger with lightness and humor, or with temporary fear, that he let go of once the danger passed. Now, after all the deaths and seeing Jiang Cheng so injured, he's twitchy, anxious, and angry.

Very, very angry.

When he realizes that Wen Ning has brought them to the Yiling supervisory office, he goes off, demanding to know whose home this was before the Wens took it and grabbing Wen Ning and shoving him into a decorative...decoration. He thinks Wen Ning brought them here to harm them.

I wouldn't have thought such a pretty dude could be so menacing, but holy crap.

The way he's confronting Wen Ning here is not his normal style. He's not trying to provoke a bigger fight like he usually does; he's not trying to create distance, the way Jiang Cheng does. He's very intimate, getting right in his face and maintaining eye contact. He trusted Wen Ning and feels personally betrayed.

Shy little Wen Ning is remarkably calm when confronted like this. Wen Ning really isn’t afraid of anything, despite his general air of nervousness. (Full gifset of Angry WWX over here.)

He calmly and kindly explains the situation. He doesn't appeal to Wei Wuxian's trust, saying "oh I would never;" he appeals to his logic, which gets through to him.

Wen Qing comes out and the guards start banging on the door and Wei Wuxian flips out again, grabbing a sword and pointing it at Wen Qing as she decides what to do. Wen Qing seems unruffled by Wei Wuxian's sword pointing, and we see her weighing up the situation.

She makes her decision, sending the guards away and deciding to help the fugitives, officially joining the Clear Conscience Club. She could probably get Wen Ning out of trouble by turning them in, but she opts to put personal loyalty and her belief in her own ideals ahead of her family's safety.

Wei Wuxian is not ok. He’s just not ok. He tries to act like it after they get settled in with Wen Qing, but he's not, and I think that plays into his next several choices.

Next comes a whole sequence of Jiang Cheng being unconscious with pins in his head--ow--while Wei Wuxian twitchily tends to him.

This sequence is kind of unfair to Jiang Yanli. What matters to the story here is Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian's relationship, so that’s the focus of these scenes. But really, there is no way Jiang Yanli would not be at Jiang Cheng's side unless she was literally unconscious herself. Let's assume Wen Qing stuck a needle in her to make her rest while she has a fever. Shippers should also feel free to assume that Wen Qing spent hours at her bedside, tenderly wiping her forehead and holding her hand as she recovered. In his sleep, while Wei Wuxian sits by his side, Jiang Cheng calls for his sister, mother, and father, but not for his brother. Ouch.

Let's pause to appreciate Wei Wuxian's new outfit, which is the sort of getup most people in this society probably imagine Yiling Laozu wearing, rather than the low-key homespun stuff he actually spends his Yiling year in. This robe has fancy shoulders, shiny material, touches of Jiang purple, strange red hoody strings, and a fuckin' CAPE. He didn't bring any luggage with him from Lotus Pier, although he's still got his Yin Turtle Sword hidden in a bag of holding. So the most likely explanation is that Wen Ning hooked him up with this lewk. "Wei Wuxian is a nice person. He should have a magnificent cape."

Wen Wing and Wei Wuxian take a breather to stand on the porch and work out what their status is with each other, like a couple of fucking adults, which is amazing. Basically Wei Wuxian is ready to forget earlier Wen shenanigans, but is going to avenge Lotus Pier.

Wen Qing isn't enthusiastic about that but doesn't argue, just asking, mostly rhetorically, if he plans to kill her too. He's uncomfortable considering that; the role of avenger isn't one that's comfortable for him, although he turns out to be extremely good at it. He does not, of course, plan to kill her too. In a few months, imprisoned in a Wen dungeon, she will be the only Wen left alive after Wei Wuxian 1.5(No-Gold Edition) and Chenqing come to visit.

Jiang Cheng finally wakes up, and the first thing he does is to test out his spiritual power by hitting Wei Wuxian as hard as he can.

DUDE.

Look at Wei Wuxian's face, as he goes from happy, to shocked and hurt, to laughing it off. It's exactly like when Jiang Cheng shoved him in the Rock Lady temple. Has Wei Wuxian spent all of his years with Jiang Cheng going from affection, to hurt feelings, to pretending it's fine? God, I think he probably has.

This episode raises a question that will come up again later, but never be answered. That question is, what the fuck are these weird footies and why the fuck does Jiang Cheng wear them to bed?

Jiang Cheng reveals that his golden core is gone, that he can't cultivate any more, which means he can't avenge his parents or achieve any ambitions in life. Nobody has apparently given any thought to why Wen Zhuliu is called "Core-Melting Hand" before this, which is hilarious, frankly. If I fought with a guy called, for example, Brain-Eating Mouth, I think I would make certain assumptions about him and what he planned to do with my brain.

Something interesting is happening in this moment, because as he comes fully back to consciousness, Jiang Cheng pours out all of his trauma and horror to his brother, telling him about the core melting and practically wailing about his feelings over it all. And his brother understands, and ultimately finds a way to help him. What does Wei Wuxian do after his own trauma? Keeps it secret, so nobody finds a way to help him, although many people try to. So Jiang Cheng is, in this way at least...emotionally healthier than Wei Wuxian? That's unexpected.

Jiang Cheng is super upset and is mad at eternal scapegoat Wei Wuxian for saving him. Jiang Cheng would rather be dead than be a regular person. Whereas Wei Wuxian, faced with the same problem, is like, *shrug* I’ll adapt. These are both valid emotional responses to suddenly becoming disabled. Losing a golden core is definitely a disability, in this environment; it's not just about magic sword fights. Jiang Cheng's home is designed for people who can fly; Lan Wangji's home is designed for people who don't feel cold, and Wen Central is made of actual lava, for example.

Jiang Cheng is already struggling with a lot of difficulties. He was raised by shitty parents, he's got anger management issues, he has a crushing weight of responsibility. And now he's also lived through the deaths of most of the people who matter to him. If sword cultivation is the one thing that gives him joy in life (ok one of two things, obviously fashion also gives him joy because he WORKS it), he can't reasonably be expected to rally when it's taken away.

Oh, honey. Oh, baby boy.

Wen Qing picks the worst moment to come in and tries to tend to Jiang Cheng, who starts off being devastated that the girl he likes is seeing the wreck he's become, and then moves along to helpless rage when he remembers that she's a Wen, and he screams at her to get out.

Jiang Cheng is not able to put personal loyalty ahead of clan loyalty like Wei Wuxian is. Partly this is his nature, and partly it's his role as the lineal descendant of the clan leader. As a firstborn son of a gentry family, his destiny as clan leader is in his blood, and so is his responsibility to the clan. When Wei Wuxian praises Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen for caring less about bloodlines than about shared ambition, he is speaking from the position of someone who's bloodline ain't shit. Jiang Cheng will never be able to share that perspective.

Next: More of this excruciating episode!

Writing prompt: The Day I Discovered I Could Melt Your Fucking Core, by Wen Zhuliu Drabble prompt: Why I Wear Socks to Bed, by Jiang Cheng

#fytheuntamed #the untamed #the untamed gifs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #wen qing #wen ning #restless rewatch the untamed #canary3d-original #my gifs #the untamed spoilers

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theasexuwhalestuff · 3 years

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I never actually loved anything Star Wars before The Mandalorian.

The movies were always on TV, but I don't think I actually watched them before I was 9 or 10 years old. And the movies were meh, but I found them, esp the prequels very tacky. The only things I remember really loving were the droids, the blasters and the ships; the futuristic concepts really.

I really liked Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, R2, 3PO and basically any another droid. I liked Yoda, because well, everyone likes the old wise mentor type. I liked Stormtroopers 'cause of their armour. I liked Jango, Boba and Mandalorians because of the armour and also because let's be real, they're badass motherfuckers.

I was the least interested in the Jedi; the very beings everyone else was always obsessed with and they were so hyped good God. Also preferred Maul to Vader.

The Clone Wars aired when I was a kid, but I didn't like the art style and just didn't want to stumble into something that had so much history.

The Force Awakens was pretty okay. I didn't love anything about it except BB-8 (who I still love to death). From Rogue One, I loved K-2SO and his sass and I loved Orson Krennic's outfit. I was never really fond of Harrison Ford's Han Solo, but I actually kinda adored Alden Ehrenreich's Han. The movie was fine, and Qi'ra, Beckett, Lando and L3-37 were all likable.

What I liked from SW was really just the concepts of the technology, the universe, concepts of characters, but I never really had any emotional connection to it, 'cause the characters didn't attract me, nor did the relationships between them and nor did the Jedi and lightsabers. I was used to getting disappointed or not feeling anything after surrendering to the hype.

When The Mandalorian came out, I was busy with exams and I didn't really care to see even the poster because by that point I had accepted that SW wasn't for me. Then a year later I kept hearing everyone raving about it, esp Baby Yoda, but I still didn't care enough to give it a try. The point where I caved was when someone told me this character never takes their helmet off, and the fact that it's built around the trope of Lone Warrior Adopts Bubbly Child. At that point I had to watch it, 'cause single dads are my shit.

So, imagine my surprise when I started watching the first episode and was actually really intrigued by what I was seeing.

Sure, there's Mando being a BAMF, but that alone is in no way enough to retain my attention. When he returned to the Covert, I knew that he had a purpose; a commitment to his Tribe. And that's where I got to learn about Mandalorian culture (at least of this tribe's) and instantly fell in love. By that point I was sold to anything remotely Mandalorian. I'll take Mandalorian over Jedi ANY DAY.

When he went to meet The Client, I will admit, I was pissed to see the Stormtroopers. I was NOT on board for another Main Characters vs. The Empire story. Not at all.

But then Mando went on the hunt and met Kuiil, fought Jawas and lost, and met IG-11. At that point I was convinced this was a smaller scale story, so naturally I was more invested. One can only tolerate a story about a bunch of adolescents defeating an evil overlord so many times.

Anyway, then Mando met bébé, and that reluctant fatherhood plotline was the icing on top. Not to mention the honour and the unity between Mandos that we later see when Mando stole Grogu back. Like yeah, infighting is common and all, but the fact that they will stick up for each other no matter what since it's one of their own is a really refreshing take, esp so, since Din admits early on that he's a foundling.

Another reason I love Mando is 'cause of the major ace vibes he exudes, and being ace myself and having near-zero representation in mainstream media, it was a fucking JOY.

This show is basically just tropes and plotlines and character types and dynamics that I absolutely adore, which happens to be set in the SW universe. It's fucking amazing to see a piece of mainstream media esp fantasy and sci fi, portraying parenthood in such a positive way, and not an end of your adventurous life. I say this 'cause parenthood has almost zero role in any major fantasy/sci fi movie, TV show or book.

At it's core, it's just a simple show about this fierce bounty hunter making his way through the galaxy with his li'l green bean of a son.

It's this simplicity that I adore and I just hope that in future seasons it remains this simple. I've seen enough Jedis for a lifetime. Barring Grogu and maybe his mentors, I frankly don't wanna see any Force-sensitives in this story. But I'm up for Mandos; gimme ALL the Mandos.

Also, the fact that Din wants to be the side character so badly is another reason I adore this show. He doesn't have to do anything grand. Sure he's a feared warrior, but he's also a Dad and that's enough. He doesn't need to be the Mand'alor and him actually assuming that role will seem very idk out of place and Chosen One-ish IMO. Idc what anyone thinks, I think this man deserves some peace, so he should definitely yeet the Darksaber into space the first chance he gets. 😈

At the end of the day, I, just like anyone else, want to see the stuff I want to happen, which in this case is a LOT more of this^.

I'm hoping for the best for Season 3, however long that might take. In the meantime, I'm excited to see Din in The Book of Boba Fett, and also Boba, 'cause Mando!Boba is cool and I adore Fennec, so yeah.

#clan of two #clan mudhorn #the mandalorian #din djarin #grogu #the armorer #kuiil #ig-11 #star wars #single dad #single dad supremacy #obi-wan kenobi #qui-gon jinn

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thepowerofawkwardcompelsyou-blog · 5 years

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Rey theory (Star Wars)

So we all have theory's on who Reys parents are and yeah I know that Kylo said in the last movie that they were just scavengers but that's most likely bullshit, so hear me out.

Anakin.

Remember in episode III Palapatine was talking about Darth Plaugus The Wise and how he could create life from the force? What if Anakin did that and created Rey?

Or what if Vader got freaky with someone in Cloud City while he was there? (I think that's highly unlikely but it still could've happened. )

OR what if Darth Shittyish FORCED Vader to have another child? Most likely because he was probably planning on turning one of the twins and then he was like "Shit these kids won't work" so he told Vader that he needed an offspring to take over for him when he dies?

In episode five Obi Wan is saying to Yoda "That boy is our last hope" and Yoda says "No there is another" remember that? He might've been talking about Leia, but, and don't get me wrong, Leia is a BAMF and I love her to death, but we've never seen her use the force other then to sense loved ones. We don't really know if she can use the force out side of that. (I mean there was the comics and stuff but Disney made that non-canon so pretty much just the movies are canon, please correct me if I'm wrong)And also Obi Wan was there when they were born?? So he might've been saying that yeah there were two babies but only one of them have enough of the force to yeet this mother fucker back to the light and Yoda is sensing Reys creation and is saying "bitch u thought"

Plus Rey is hella strong with the force, like almost Anakin levels of strong, and she acts just like a Skywalker. And we don't know how old Rey is and she could be old enough that her mom got pregnant with her some time during ESB or ROTJ. I think that if Anakin isn't her father then it's Luke and I will never accept what they told us about her parents in Episode eight because I HAVE NOT BEEN WAITING TWO GODDAMN YEARS FOR THAT BULLFUCKERY

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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liptonrm · 6 years

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Fair warning: I’m going to talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. There will be spoilers in this post. Please feel free to block/filter/unfollow/etc my tumblr if you need to remain spoiler-free.

2017 has been the year of me being mildly disappointed or merely whelmed by movies that I thought I would love. Sadly, The Last Jedi continued that trend.

[FYI: The only movie that bucked the trend? Wonder Woman. I love that movie more than anything else. Diana is perfect and can do no wrong.]

So, most people have been comparing this to Empire Strikes Back. I’ve even seen people say it was better--it was not better. The genius at Empire’s core was that it advanced the plot while giving the three main characters plot lines that echoed their own personal and emotional growth throughout the film. Plot and character were intertwined.

This did not happen in Last Jedi. The only people who had character arcs in that entire movie were Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker. Just imagine if Empire Strikes Back was all about Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi. Just imagine it for a second. That wouldn’t be very satisfying would it? Yeah. Exactly.

And no, I don’t count any of the Resistance bullshit that was supposed to be Poe’s “arc.” It was so hackneyed and hamfisted. And wtf was all of that secrecy about? Just so that we would be invested in all of the Canto Bight stuff? Rian Johnson, please.

Here’s the thing, as someone who loves the original trilogy, of course I was emotional about Luke’s plot throughout the film. His final scene, where he stared at the sun as his theme played was beautifully shot. His final scene with Leia had tears running down my face. After nearly 40 years of loving these characters, I am preconditioned to react to moments like that. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not still sore about how you made this movie All About Luke when it should have been All About Rey (and Finn and Poe and Rose).

Speaking of, thank the Force for Rose Tico. She was perfect and I love her. She was the living embodiment of “Rebellions are built on hope.” She loved horses fathiers and truly believed that fighting should be about saving the things you love and spread the spark of resistance to little children on a faraway planet. She was the living, burning example of everything good about the Resistance and the galaxy far, far away. I love her and only ever want good things for her.

I love that Rey is forging her own path. I love that Finn and Rey only wanted to see each other again. The moment they hugged was beautiful and perfect and I don’t know why we couldn’t have that for the entire movie. I love that Poe loves BB-8 and I love that BB-8 is a bamf. I love that Poe is so good and while Rian Johnson clearly didn’t understand who Poe was (and thought that Poe needed to be taught about the costs of war and how to listen to women when Poe already clearly knew those things) Oscar Isaac does and his performance entirely overcame Johnson’s bullshit.

I hate that Leia was so strangely passive throughout the film but I love that she has clearly mentored women across the galaxy, women who do amazing, impossible things like destroy a First Order fleet in one thrilling, heroic sacrifice. I want to see their stories.

I loved that Kylo Ren still speaks in Evanescence lyrics and that the Jedi Order had to end (the one thing I was 11,000% behind from the outset). I loved OG Yoda (muppet and Frank Oz and all) and that Yoda has chosen to live his Force ghost life as the trickster he became after the Order fell. I love that Rey is from Nowhere and that Kyle Ron is so far up his own sense of entitlement that he thought that knowledge would convert Rey to his side.

Here’s the thing, Rian Johnson clearly has a story he wants to tell in the Star Wars universe, it’s just not the story this movie was supposed to tell. He has a lot of great ideas and I’m sure his original Star War story will be a lot of fun. He just needs to stay away from Rey and Finn and Poe and Rose (she’s ourse now and he can’t get her back). They deserved better.

I loved a lot of things. But it could have been so much more.

#star wars #the last jedi #my own personal reactions to a movie i wanted to love #in all fairness #it was almost worth it for that line #we are the spark that will light the fire #that will bring the first order down #that's a good line #i'm totally going to use it at some political march #that i'm sure i'll be going to within the next few months #i just wish i could've loved it better

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iainwrites · 4 years

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Revenge of the Sith Likes and Dislikes

Likes:

-That opening scene where it takes the two Jedi starfighters cruising over the Republic ship then drops them into the middle of a huge battle over Coruscant? Damn, that’s good shit.

-The movie went balls to the wall, tits to the ritz, ass to the grass for the lightsaber fights. Yeah, it can be a little showy (the whirly lightsaber meme gif) or a little not great (Sidious vs the Council), but most of the time, it looks like what you’d think a lightsaber battle should look like.

-Ian McDiarmid. The fight vs the council aside, the guy just starts acting. He flips the kindly old chancellor over to the corruptor and finally to the chess master, and the whole time, it's believable. Each facet of his character makes you go “Yup. That’s him.” You keep waiting for him to finally drop the mask, and when he does, it reveals a scenery chewing ham.

-Ewan does serious well, and he does funny well. I don’t like the “look at camera WINK” kind of humor, or the “THIS MOMENT IS FOR THE JOKE DID YOU SEE THE JOKE THERE’S TIME FOR YOU TO LAUGH NOW” humor. Obi-Wan kicking Grievous in the shins, and grabbing his foot in pain because he just kicked a solid murderous robot in the shins is my kind of funny. It happens and it keeps on moving with the scene. Thanks, Ewan. I want you in more Star Wars stuff. I hope the Obi-Wan show happens.

Dislikes

-Not so much a dislike, as something I like a hell of a lot more: in the RotS novelisation, they send Obi-Wan not because he’s a more experienced Jedi, but because of his fighting ability. Scratch that: his saber defense. He’s become the de facto master of the most basic lightsaber fighting style, the one that focuses on defense, to the point that in just about any straight fight, the guy is untouchable. They send him up against Grevious because they know it’ll be an unstoppable force against an immovable object. In the movie, it feels like “Anakin took out Dooku, so let’s get Obi-Wan some action now.”

-The above sums up a lot of my dislikes with the movie: there are really good, fun and impressive ideas in this movie. If you were to tell someone “Yeah, then Sidious finally reveals himself and cuts through a room full of Jedi like a BAMF,” that’s an awesome idea. That should be a “holy shit, I’m going to watch that again and again” scene. Instead we get what’s in the film: it looks half-assed, it doesn’t make much sense and it doesn’t live up to what it could/should be. If you want a good RotS experience, read the novelisation. Actually, read Labyrinth of Evil, THEN the novelisation, THEN Dark Lord. They might not be canon anymore, but they do a lot of grunt work in re-establishing Anakin as a man in turmoil, a man corrupted, then a man broken. Shit, Labyrinth gives us this: “Obi-Wan accidentally deflects a blaster shot into a canister of alien spores during a fight against droids, which causes him to become intoxicated and fight the droids using drunken Jedi kung-fu. WHY CAN’T WE HAVE THAT IN MOVIE FORM?

-The “No” scene is just poorly done. If you wanted an excuse for James Earl Jones to yell, you could have found something better. Or started off with small “no’s” before building up with more anger while he wrecks the hell out of the Frankenstein med-bay.

Meh

-Christensen still isn’t a great actor in this, but at least he has a better presence than in AotC.

-The fight between Yoda and Sidious could/should have been a straight up Force battle. Test of wills and skills. We have a lightsaber battle of Obi-Wan vs Vader happening, so why not show the other kind of battle the light side might wage against the dark? What was there was good, but there could have been more focus.

Random Asides

-Here’s something for you: Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars ends right before RotS begins. It sets the whole movie up. That’s pretty cool. And on that, that version of the Clone Wars gives Grievous his “Darth Vader in Rogue One” moment. He’s not a robot with a cough; he’s a monster and he will kill you. It’s awesome.

All In All:

-It doesn’t live up to what it could be. There are good moments in it. Even great moments. But for a movie that’s supposed to be the bridge between Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader, it leaves a lot to be desired. Christensen doesn’t do the job well in either of the films he’s cast in and doesn’t bring any of the gravity of the character he’s supposed to portray. There are scenes that look like they were cobbled together a couple of hours before shooting began. And worst of all, there are ideas that failed to live up to the grandeur they deserved. It’s a necessary watch in a Star Wars marathon, but it’s not the best part of it by a long shot.

#Iain rewatches #Star Wars #Revenge of the Sith

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obi-wkenobi · 2 years

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i saw your hashtag bamf and could not figure out what it meant because i read only the first letter and misread it as bilf

lmao, bless you anon. Out of curiosity I looked up bilf on urban dictionary and apparently it means 'bee I'd like to fuck' and errrrr???? okay?? 🐝😂

I have to say though, looking at Vader and Obi-Wan and calling them bilfs does at least make me stop bawling over the sadness that is their friendship. so yeah, alright, bilfs they are

#also 'bamf' means badass motherfucker in case anyone was wondering #anon asks #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #darth vader

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"rose and finn's plotline was pointless"

actually it was the most important part of the whole movie bc they inspired those enslaved kids and thus ensured the resistance will live on but k

"they character assassinated finn"

no. they developed his character. in tfa he went from fn-2187 to a person scared of their identity/past so he lies ("im 'with' the resistance") and has allegiance just to one person ("im only here to get rey"). in tlj he went from that to a proud rebellion fighter who got to face and defeat his tormentor, all the while gaining possibly the best understanding of the eternal Star Wars that plague the galaxy. he saw dj (dont join) as the only truly 'free' person, yet came to understand him as a despicable opportunist no better than the war profiteers. both the ambivalent and the warprofiteers contribute to the constant dichotomy btw dark and light. finn is the only one with that knowledge. and standing up to phasma and hux and returning to the first order as FINN was the most bamf thing that happened in the film. and it sets him up to be a liberator in IX. finn reclaimed his status as a deserter as powerful not shameful. which. is. b o s s!!!

"luke wasnt himself!!!"

luke has been a sucky ass mary sue ever since his inception. he finally got some brain and development (yet was still the same know it all asshole) and ppl hated it

"what abt poe!!!"

poe got like the most screentime and was epic the whole fucking film? he had like so many scenes and matured into the person leia will give the command of resistance to? he went frkm believing he was best-suited for the role to understanding he could never possibly be, and thus finally became a real leader. the whole movie was abt the characters each slipping into their own personal 'dark sides' and gaining knowledge from their failures and so rising out of it to become well-rounded ppl. poe saw that sacrifice is sometimes letting people think you are an asshole (which can be applied to a bunch of other characters) and appearing like the villain (like holdo) rather than the hero

"it shoulr have been poe that saved them not general holdo"

yeah calling bullshit. an older 60+ canonically pansexual woman allowed to be a hero in a film is pretty damn cool. my starving for rep pansexual ass is not letting you all erase that.

"stormpilottt"

theyre my main ship of this trilogy and they talked literally the ENTIRE film, had a line where poe was jealous of rose, gave finn and rose the most platonic one-sided kiss on earth, and touched each other constantly. came to one another's aid several times. disney prob had a vice around their balls the whole time and they still gave so much even though disney will never let them be canon before IX for fear of losing the audience... just facts.

"reylo wah wah"

rey literally... rejected him? she was a badass the whole time and rejected luke too. she thought for herself, tried what she thought was right when luke archaically told her not to (even though...he did.... the same thing... to vader... and it worked but k), left to fight the first order even after luke did fuck all to train her bc she's brave af, and closed the door in kylos face after he went apeshit and decided to blow up the resistance. she met him in the middle and then refused to do more to "save" him and the narrative made it clear he needs to do that himself if he ever wants to meet her/anyone in the middle again. she stood up to snoke and caused his demise by influencing kylo to the light, however temporary: aka she learned to become a jedi without the help of anyone and the scene about her being "nothing and no one and not connected to the story" was a direct fuck you to all the ReySky ReySolo fuckboys who couldnt believe she was relevant on her own. she also realized the power/possibility of the darkside in the hands of a good person which is a concept never before explored in the boring af star wars philosophy? (which yoda legit burned lmao).

"kylo ren sucks"

he's legit the only interesting dark side character in star wars history. his scenes with rey are allegorical and are meant to represent the journey of all the other characters in the film (touching their own darkness and having to face themselves to become better). he is fun to analyze esp given his connection to luke, leia, and han. i love that they failed him and thst alone makes him a sympathetic character (in allegory people) bc viewers themselves even outright refuse to believe luke, leia, and han could have not been perfect people athough it is displayed on screen several times. this is like fictional gaslighting and its cool to see that phenomenon play out as a fan. and his fight scenes are epic af cinematography also the actor is amazing??? he is just a fun to watch "bad guy" with actual depth which makes his actions interesting??? tumblrs random on/off boners for bad guys gives me whiplash, if you enjoy watching his character like all the others in sw, you arent a bad evil person you might just have a rare commodity which is critical thinking skills. also?????? it is fucking cool to see a villain who is genuinely tempted toward goodness!!!!! that is a timely and current and important concept!!!!!!

"x scene/plot was pointless"

tbh if anyone's plot was pointless to the plot it was rey and kylos, bc it was just pure allegory. all the actual plot was through finn, poe, rose, and leia.

IN SUM:

tbh i didnt even thinm this movie was that good. i thought the pacing and editing was really bad also, directors. shouldnt. write. movies. they. arent. writers. the. dialogue. always. sucks. but still i refuse to sit here and let people act like the fucking PREQUELS (the worst movies ever made with NO DIVERSITY AND RAMPANT SEXISM and the worst writing ever done in the history of humankind) are better than tlj.

#lol thats all #also if you dont agree with this ... good #lolcits okay for ppl to have diff opinions

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