inside me that same force

Star Wars: Holiday Special Concept Art by Ralph McQuarrie

Grand Admiral Thrawn in Ahsoka (2023)

padme's handmaidens are such an underrated concept. i mean, yeah you can call it women supporting women and leave it at that but like. its so much more intense than that. they basically created the persona of queen amidala together. they assigned her specific mannerisms and tone of voice and breathing patterns and all of them studied that well enough to play the role perfectly. they put all of the derangedness teenage girls put into discovering their own identity into perfecting mimicry instead & they did all that knowing that their role will always be to die in padme's place if it comes to that. idk what insane levels of devotion does it take to be like 14 and you've become so intimately familiar with your friend that you can quite literally become her. there's friendship & traumabonding and then theres "my entire life is dedicated to dying for this woman" and then there's that but with added identity fuckery and thats what the handmaidens have going on with the bonus point of being 14

SABINE WREN in the AHSOKA trailer.

da bald guy with a stick or da tinhead for today

@dukeoftheblackstar he grew up to look just like jango 😫

“I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.” (ANDOR 2022-)

this is the energy we deserved from the sequels (ref) [ID: BB-8 stares down the camera, very intimidatingly, Rey's lighsaber duct taped to their face. Behind them, Jannah, Finn, Rey, Poe, and Rose have their arms around each other chaotically. Rey, Finn, and Jannah all have drinks in their hands, Poe has both his arms up ecstatically. The energy is completely unhinged. /END ID]

Syd Mead art of an abandoned Sith world, from STAR WARS: VISIONS. Fascinating.

palpatine straight up told anakin he was a sith lord and anakin was like well. this is a lot to process so im going to go fetch my boss and we’ll come back in about half an hour and murder you so don’t go anywhere and palpatine didn’t you have to admire the man

palpatine is the best villain of all time bc he's the classic master manipulator who pits his enemies against each other without lifting a finger by preying on their weaknesses but normally those types of villains have the caveat that once their bullshit get exposed it's a simple matter of slapping handcuffs on them bc they're like weak old CEOs or whatever

but our boy sheev? when his plans don't go perfectly he's just like oh well and starts zapping fuckers to death bc he's also the most powerful old prune in the galaxy and he could just kill everyone around him if he gets bored

like luke throwing away his lightsaber and declaring himself a jedi was great but you know that luke kinda thought that was it, the crotchety old emperor doesn't have vader to fight for him anymore courtesy of luke cutting off vader's hand for possibly the fortieth time in anakin's life, so it's smooth sailing until lando destroys the death star and blasts them all to kingdom come, but then palps is like aw shucks no new apprentice can't blame a guy for trying and just starts deep frying luke for shits and giggles and our poor twink is like THIS ISN'T ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT THE FORCE COULD DO ABORT ABORT ABORT

and with mace and co arriving at sheev's office to bring him in for being dark catholic it's functionally the equivalent of a scooby doo villain of the week getting unmasked by the gang but then he just starts snapping necks

ANDOR (2022) 1.06 | sapphic espionage farming wives

STAR WARS ANDOR (2022) 1.06

Finn in First Order Officer uniform in The Last Jedi | → giffing every finn scene [3/?]

the Star Wars universe is great because you read enough you eventually find out things like the fact that the Stormtrooper whose armor Luke stole in Episode IV was gay and in an affair with fucking Grand Moff Tarkin, which is a completely canonical fact that I am not making up.

this is him, by the way. His name is TK-421, and he is the star of the short story “Of MSE-6 And Men”.  He owns a mouse droid and is in an affair with a superior officer, who turns out to Tarkin.

The next time you watch a New Hope, keep in mind Luke is wearing the armor of a man who knew Tarkin sexually. The armor Luke is wearing when he says the iconic line “I’m Luke Skywalker, I’m here to rescue you” has more than likely been on the floor of Tarkin’s bedroom.

since I’m getting naysayers about this again!

I have this book and the Audible version and can confirm that nearly every word of this is true (note: the voice is, like, obviously not Peter Cushing, but it’s… pretty clearly Tarkin) except! There is one note here that is ABSOLUTELY incorrect.

That armor has never been on the floor of Tarkin’s bedroom. He is very proud of his carpet and the armor goes on the chair by his bed.

Note: the country hick accent thing is because this is their first in-person meeting and TK-421 thinks Tarkin will be into that.

You guys are never gonna believe this but the author was a marine biologist

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

truly one of the funniest moments in all of star wars is when anakin tells obi wan that he underestimates his power, then immediately proceeds to lose all three of his remaining limbs at once

Followed by Luke saying to Vader “you’ll find I’m full of surprises” and then immediately dropping his lightsaber and falling down the stairs.

post malachor

“you don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back”