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AMOR INDUSTRIAL, NINA DOLONO. Tribute i made to Yasushi Nirasawa.

#nina #nirasawa #rip #good lines

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Nina Dolono, after Yasushi Nirasawa (R.I.P.).

#ninadolono #yasushinirasawa #niraworship #drawing #illustration (at Lakewood, California) https://www.instagram.com/erwin.papa/p/BwKUMEQHMvV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13aj370zb1371

#nina #nirasawa #rip #good lines

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asshole ben solo in episode 10, wearing just a little hand towel - hey uh, hey rey, i was dead long enough that we're the same age now

rey - sometimes i wish you still were dead. but then i remember i have the power to make that happen, and there's nothing you can do to stop me

finn walking in & wincing - why is he always DRESSED LIKE THAT

poe walking in & smiling - yeah lose the towel babe

rey - don't encourage him

poe - that's my boyfriend

finn - i thought i was your boyfriend

poe - i can't have more than one? is that a jedi rule?

jedi finn - (shrugs)

rey - (shrugs)

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(if disney isn't making episode 10 then we get to decide what happens and rn it's this)

#star wars #finn #poe #rey #ben solo

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asshole ben solo in episode 10, wearing just a little hand towel - hey uh, hey rey, i was dead long enough that we're the same age now

rey - sometimes i wish you still were dead. but then i remember i have the power to make that happen, and there's nothing you can do to stop me

finn walking in & wincing - why is he always DRESSED LIKE THAT

poe walking in & smiling - yeah lose the towel babe

rey - don't encourage him

poe - that's my boyfriend

finn - i thought i was your boyfriend

poe - i can't have more than one? is that a jedi rule?

jedi finn - (shrugs)

rey - (shrugs)

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(if disney isn't making episode 10 then we get to decide what happens and rn it's this)

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important to remember this isnt an allegory, this was 1960 those specific white people are still alive and voting for trump

Same assholes, different year.

#lunch counter sit ins #maga #birth of a nation #white history

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Yeah I’m totally elsa kids come on over

#elsa #daenerys #cosplay #hearts

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princess kylo ren #elsa #daenerys #emokyloren

#daenerys #elsa #kylo ren

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if anakin and padme had raised the twins

#anakin #padme #luke #leia #hope #family #hearts #good lines

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concept: anakin sitting in the council room bouncing baby luke on his knees as he adamantly denies having children or attachments 

#anakin #babies #hope

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threepio - oh, don’t risk your life on my account master luke, save yourself

old ben and artoo - rolling their eyes all yep, that droid was programmed by anakin skywalker

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aunt beru - he’s just not a farmer. he has too much of his father in him.

uncle owen - that’s what i’m afraid of.

beru - do you mean the tusken raiders or the younglings?

owen - or all the other jedi in the galaxy

beru - or padme

owen - or democracy

beru - well at least someone taught luke right from wrong

owen - that’s what always bothers me, shmi raised me and anakin both, but i turned out alright, passing on her lessons about grace and wisdom

beru - …i meant me, dear.

owen - oh. well there’s that too.

#luke #owen #beru

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so it’s not just episode one, all of the prequels - especially in the context of episodes 2 and 3 as framing devices for the clone wars - play a lot better if you pretend liam neeson is obi wan and ewan in e1 is actually anakin

obi wan ‘ben’ qui-gon jinn kenobi survives the darth mauling with a new robot heart ala picard (and a new face as ewan switches roles), mirroring luke and anakin’s robot hands and associated trauma

this near-death experience informs his personality shift to a more laid back, neutral attitude, both towards the ostensibly ‘necessary’ sins of war, and the longstanding traditions of jedi emotional austerity and moral absolutism. obi wan during the clone wars pretty clearly gets it on with duchess satine, and also asajj ventress, and probably padme at some point, like there’s a not insignificant chance he wasn’t alone on tatooine for eighteen years

but also, just, he goes from liam’s stern tutor in e1 to ewan’s friendly equal in e3, and this is played as his weakness, but it’s clearly actually his strength. obi wan, after all, is the real chosen one, and his vision of balance is kindness offered even to his enemies, the hand of friendship instead of the weapons of war

meanwhile, anakin’s fall isn’t due to obiwan’s shoddy teaching technique, but a flaw in his own character. where obi wan eschews the simple morality of the clone wars, and seeks to avoid violence wherever possible, anakin embraces the theater of war because it plays to his natural strengths - and also his ego

if anakin, not obi wan, is the one who takes out darth maul while obi wan (qui gon) is sidelined, and then this repeats twice with count dooku in e2 and e3, then that echo frames a progression in anakin from the impulsive, impatient youth of episode one - 'i see we’ve picked up yet another pathetic lifeform’ - to the heroic killer of the clone wars - 'aggressive negotiations, ones involving a lightsaber’. if executing dooku is not the jedi way, it is //anakin’s// way, and has been since darth maul burned a hole in his master’s chest, and he responded by cutting that motherfucker in fucking half.

obi wan spends years trying to teach anakin that violence only begets more violence, but anakin never comes with him on this. he sees obi wan’s hesitation as a weakness of character rather than a strength, and his willingness to kill as proof that he’s moved beyond obi wan’s teachings

tldr anakin murdering tusken raiders and younglings makes a lot more sense if the action that proved his worth to the council and won him the rank of jedi knight was killing darth maul

#anakin #obi wan #prequels #i still like this but it messes up maul's clone wars arc and tbh thats more important now

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i have to say, i’ve grown a fondness for palpatine. he’s just…. so completely, wholly, and entirely evil. he’s so evil i don’t think, “evil,” covers it. i think in the pit of dead sith lords he exists in, now, the other sith lords stay away from him because He’s Just So Evil. i mean, this guy looked at tiny anakin, “the biggest problem in the galaxy is that no one helps each other,” skywalker and said, that one. i want that one, and i want to destroy him and warp him so utterly he will be unrecognizable.

and it’s not like he particularly needed darth vader or anything, that was just icing on the cake. he was already well on his way to taking the republic down, he had the jedi’s kill switch in place, and then he just decides to corrupt the chosen one because he could. it’s like the blowout sale of democracy, and palpatine is the one clearing out the story. i will take away your FREEDOM, your BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, i will commit ATROCITIES UNPARALLELED, and i think i’ll take your 9 year old, too. throw him in. everything he does to anakin is so horrifying, but it’s just palpatine taking a victory lap. he’s not only going to crush the jedi and the republic, he’s gonna turn their chosen one into the face of his empire and have him hunt down the last remnants of their order. he did all of that just because he could. palpatine is an unparalleled MONSTER and i kind of love it

#palpatine #prequels #anakin #oh no my trauma

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continuing the endless series of realizing how poorly the star wars saga treated leia, it occurs to me suddenly that seeing luke, the son he only found out about a couple years ago, be tortured by palpatine is finally enough to break vader’s dark side conditioning

but finding out he also has a daughter five minutes earlier elicits NO REACTION

there is no version of anakin from the clone wars + prequels who spends twenty years as darth vader, finds out his child by padme survived! and is alive! and is being trained by obi-wan and yoda! and slowly starts scheming against palpatine’s will to turn his son, keep him alive, and overthrow the emperor

but when he finds out padme also had a second child, their daughter, who he has been manipulated by palpatine into nearly killing himself over and over, and who will now take luke’s place as the sith apprentice, leaving luke surplus to requirements and expendable, his response is just, ‘oh, neat’

????

prequel!anakin would discover leia is his daughter and IMMEDIATELY turn around and cut emperor palpatine’s fucking head off, take palpatine’s own lightsaber off of him and straight up execute him dooku style

like at this point per canon, he thinks he killed ahsoka, he thinks he’s about to kill luke, he knows he killed obi-wan and padme, every jedi, alderaan, and thouands more. his own third child that he is about to send to their death - or worse, to share his fate? that would break him more than all his own actual past sins

anyways so akin to ‘the incestuous realization of han solo’ and 'leia fucked luke and han the night bfore the medal ceremomy’, the only reading of vader’s turn that now makes sense for anakin as we know him is that he spends five minutes working out that palpatine knew about luke AND leia the whole time, and just runs up on him and yeets him into the fucking infinite abyss

#anakin #vader #oh no my trauma #prequels #clone wars #star wars

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how did luke and leia react when the research team leia had tasked with going through the imperial and republic archives to identify imperial war criminals and secret rebellion sympathizers, as she tried to rebuild the republic and the navy from the ashes of both, with luke spending a lot of time in her office on coruscant going through bits of recovered jedi archives, sends up some random clerk with a copy they found of darth vader’s fucking marriage certificate “yeah so darth vader was apparently this big deal war hero jedi, and he secretly got married to a senator, and it was a huge scandal in all the society papers on coruscant but it took aaages for anyone to make the connection, and so anyways also here is your birth mother’s parents home address on naboo and these are all your naberrie cousins” luke strongly considers chsnging his name to naberrie on the spot, while leia merely adds it to her increasingly long official register. leia organa-solo-skywalker-naberrie-amidala, princess of alderaan and naboo, general of the rebellion, senator of the old republic and the new, and now also apparently the proud auntie of like a dozen babies at some kind of perfectly normal family reunion where LUKE AND LEIA SKYWALKER showed up all ‘hey cuz, funny story’ and it’s only //then// they find out emperor god damn palpatine is from their fucking hometown grandma naberrie all ‘yeah he was mean to dogs, i never liked him, lousy senator too’ and grandpa naberrie pipes in with 'i voted for the other guy, and he was a protocol droid’

#luke #leia #family #i see tumblr never fixed all the broken formatting from the interstitisl period between post crestiom ctreat crestion creatiom interfsces #creation #kfc #jfc #if you see someones typos no you didnt #star wars

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peak obi wan is when he still argues with anakin while anakin’s currently burning to death

#anakin #obi wan #padme #vendetta

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Everyone who ever met Anakin Skywalker just walked away going “Yikes! What a mess! I hope somebody intervenes!” and then nobody ever did

#anakin

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picture of a picture of a picture of a picture

this is a picture i took with my treo of a reflection on ryan’s sony phone of a picture displaying on the lcd of my samsung camera that ryan took of me holding a double-decker cookie i found in a package of otherwise normal kid-ohs.

best part is the physics quirk that put the reflected image in focus but not the object doing the reflecting.  i love accidentally taking great pictures with crappy cameras.

#tekwar #treo #flip phones #liveblogging on tape delay