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Disaster Lineage

#Star Wars

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This piece is by @javvie

(Thanks to @dininginspace for informing me)

#yea... shoulda gave him that kiss #sw #obikin

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“You know I’m the best pilot in the galaxy right-”

“You’re not flying the Razor Crest, Skywalker.” 

#DinLuke #sw

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(ง'̀-'́)ง✨

#he's an angy boy #anakin skywalker #sw

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SW Book Index - Jude Watson

 AKA overviews of what happens (that I care about… so anything Obikin-centric), and links to the bits I wanted to save because I thought they’d make good fic / meta material.

Jedi Apprentice - the adventures of Baby-Wan and Master Qui-Gon Jinn.

These are mostly just Obi-Wan angsting about what a terrible Padawan he is. Qui-Gon does little to help him deal with this, tbh, and there are many moments where you’re kind of left astounded the Jedi keep putting kids in his care..

★ Jedi Apprentice #2: The Dark Rival - May 1999. Obi-Wan is sent to Bandomeer to join the Agricorps. Qui-Gon’s former Padawan Xantaos arranges for his kidnap and he is forced into slavery before Qui-Gon saves him and reluctantly takes him on as his Padawan.

★ Jedi Apprentice #3: The Hidden Past - August 1999. The saga of the river stone begins!! They meet back up with Obi-Wan’s friend Guerra and help bring peace to Phindar, but not before Obi-Wan is almost mind-wiped. He manages to save his memories with the help of the river stone Qui-Gon Jinn gave him for his super special 13th Name Day that Qui-Gon had forgotten about until the last possible moment. 

★ Jedi Apprentice #4: The Mark of the Crown - October 1999. Qui-Gon goes off grid for a couple of weeks and leaves Obi-Wan to it. Even though his faith in Obi-Wan’s abilities is actually kind of limited and Obi-Wan makes no effort to hide how very much he doesn’t want to have to lie and sneak around for him… Then Obi-Wan thinks he makes a friend - but it turns out Qui-Gon’s suspicions were right and the other kid was a spy. :( 

★ Jedi Apprentice #5: The Defenders of the Dead - December 1999. On a mission to Melida/Daan Obi-Wan chooses to stay and fight for what he believes is right with a group of young rebels. Qui-Gon warns him that if he stays he will no longer be a Jedi but Obi-Wan responds:  “I have found something here more important than the Jedi code,” Obi-Wan said slowly. “Something not only worth fighting for, but worth dying for.” …  Obi-Wan had hurt him. He longed to take the words back. He could not. They had been said. He had meant them.

★ Jedi Apprentice #6: The Uncertain Path - February 2000. This one made me incandescent with rage! Because, on the one hand this is a kids’ book. Obviously the kids having agency is the whole point. On the other. WTF. WTAF. Qui-Gon has left 13 year old Obi-Wan in an active warzone, then doesn’t bother to tell anyone. He’s just taking part in a Temple exercise and wondering idly if Bruck Chun wants to be his new Padawan. When Yoda criticises this: ‘Qui-Gon stared stonily ahead. He had not expected this rebuke from Yoda.’ 

★ Jedi Apprentice #7: The Captive Temple - April 2000. Xanatos sways Obi-Wan’s rival, Bruck Chun, to help him attack the Temple. Obi-Wan wants to offer more help, but he is not technically a Jedi because of his actions on Melida/Daan: ‘He did not think this day could get any worse. Now it had. In the eyes of the Council, he could do nothing right. And in Qui-Gon’s eyes, he was worth nothing at all.’ In the end Obi-Wan fights Bruck to save Bant, but though he tries to help him, Bruck accidentally falls and dies. 

★ Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions - July 2001. Still being punished for Melida/Daan, Obi-Wan is struggling with his guilt and grief over Bruck Chun, and the fact Chun’s influential father is having him put on trial for the other boy’s death. Qui-Gon is too busy with Tahl to take much notice: ‘It is not all I need! Obi-Wan wanted to cry. He needed his Master’s presence.’ The second half of the book is when Obi-Wan is Anakin’s Master and has lots of interesting insight -

Obi-Wan seems so much younger than Anakin at 13. There’s this one line - ’Anakin pitched his voice high. He had an ability to seem younger than he was’ - that kind of sums it up for me. Anakin knows exactly what he’s doing, how to portray the front he wants, etc. Obi-Wan recognises this to some extent, eg. seeking out Anakin’s opinions and perceptions of people as ‘more astute’ than his own. (‘Sometimes, Anakin reminded Obi-Wan of Qui-Gon. He had the same mix of logic and emotion that Obi-Wan struggled so hard to balance.’)

Which leads on to the other thing that jumps out at me: Obi-Wan’s failure to establish any real boundaries with Anakin. Anakin is very put out that Obi-Wan won’t tell him every detail of his past, like he has a total right to know whatever he wants. ('Why didn’t Obi-Wan trust him enough to tell him the truth?’) Anakin kind of hero worships Obi-Wan (how could a Padawan turn against his Master? how could they suspect you?) but seems to lack any sense of thinking he should obey Obi-Wan because he’s his teacher / an adult.

And, again with the lack of discipline and boundaries: 'Obi-Wan knew that Anakin had found these things [tools / droid parts, etc] by sneaking out of the Temple and dealing in the thriving black market of Coruscant. He preferred to turn a blind eye.’

★ Jedi Apprentice #8: The Day of Reckoning - June 2000. Xanatos has set them up on Telos but overreaches himself and ends up dead, preferring to kill himself by throwing himself into a pool of acid than repent.

★ Jedi Apprentice #9: The Fight for Truth - August 2000. For reasons best known to himself, Yoda has sent Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Siri Tachi and Adi Gallia to check out an alleged Force-sensitive baby in space North Korea. (They’ve cut themselves off from the rest of the galaxy because of visions of the Jedi bringing forth a great evil…) Obi-Wan and Siri are rounded up as suspected truants and sent to the ‘Learning Circle’ where children are indoctrinated for the General Good. When they keep complaining that the ‘facts’ they’re learning are lies, and that there can be no real freedom on a planet where nothing can be questioned, they’re taken to the Re-Learning Circle for indoctrination with extra isolation and sensory deprivation. 

★ Jedi Apprentice #10: The Shattered Peace - October 2000. They go to sort out a dispute between royals and royal hostages on Rutan and Senali. It turns out that two supposed rivals are in love with each other; Obi-Wan struggles to make sense of it. Qui-Gon tells him: ‘Words do not always echo feelings.’

★ Jedi Apprentice #14: The Ties That Bind - August 2001. Qui-Gon and Tahl confess their feelings for each other, while Obi-Wan tries not to resent being relegated to sitting out on the stairs waiting for them…

★ Jedi Apprentice #15: The Death of Hope - October 2001. Tahl dies, Obi-Wan is afraid for his Master and what his attachment to her means.

★ Jedi Apprentice #16: The Call to Vengeance - December 2001. Qui-Gon is consumed with grief for Tahl and comes close to losing himself to revenge. Obi-Wan vows to protect his Master from himself, even though his Master is acting like a stranger.

★ Jedi Apprentice #17: The Only Witness - February 2002. Qui-Gon continues to mourn Tahl. Obi-Wan develops a crush on a young widow named Lena they’re supposed to be escorting to Coruscant - though he doesn’t seem to understand what it is he’s feeling for her.

★ Jedi Apprentice #18: The Threat Within - March 2002. They go to Tory wet dream land Vorzyd 4 to investigate terrorist attacks that turn out to be a rebel youth group who want more from life than work. Qui-Gon reflects on how proud he is of the now 18-year-old Obi-Wan’s maturity and wisdom. This is one of my faves of the whole series.

★ Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers - April 2002. I love this installment so much. Prof. Mark Lundi and some of his students went nuts trying to gain power from a Sith Holocron; Anakin and Obi-Wan are tasked with taking the ranting and raving Lundi (in a special traveling cage!) to retrieve it. There is so much great fic potential in Anakin’s interactions with Lundi et al, and his later possible understanding of how much he’s lost to the dark side as Vader… 

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Jedi Quest - stories about Padawan Anakin between the ages of 13 and 16.

I originally read these in my teens and loved them. They’re basically about Anakin’s relationship with Obi-Wan, friendship with fellow Padawans Darra and Tru Veld, and his rivalry with Ferus Olin who plays the role of the snooty prefect who warns the protagonist they’re going to be in awful trouble if they don’t tell the headmistress what’s happening. My abiding memory of them was Obi-Wan giving Anakin Qui-Gon’s river stone and, though Obi-Wan had been justifiably upset with such a lame gift, Anakin is beyond overjoyed because it’s Obi-Wan’s most precious possession and he’s entrusting it to him. Re-reading them they’re even more delightfully slashy than I remembered, with Padawan Anakin going on (and on and on) about how he’ll make Obi-Wan love him…

★ Jedi Quest: Path to Truth - September 2001. Anakin and Obi-Wan go to Ilum to get a crystal for Anakin’s saber, then on to a mission where they encounter Krayn, a Slaver who kidnapped Amee’s mum back on Tatooine. Obi-Wan refuses to free the slaves: “I heard the slaves beg you to help them. I saw you turn your back on them. How can you abandon them to such misery? Every day for a slave is another chance to die. Killing Krayn will free them. How can you do this?” Anakin ends up being re-enslaved, blows Knight Antana’s cover, but does manage to instigate a slave revolt in the spice mines of Nad Shadaa. It’s still not enough though, and Anakin kills Krayn in cold blood. Obi-Wan witnesses it but rationalises it away, reasoning that it was self-defence and he has nothing to worry about…

★ Jedi Quest #1: The Way of the Apprentice - April 2002. ‘Anakin was special, and they all knew it. The trouble was that he knew it as well.’ We learn that Anakin regularly sneaks out of the Temple, has only just manages to make a friend (Tru) after 4 years there, and generally spends most of his time thinking about whether or not Obi-Wan is proud of him. His rivalry with Ferus begins: “Obi-Wan doesn’t see you clearly,” Ferus said softly. “He is a great Jedi Knight, but he is blinded by affection. But I see. And I will keep looking. I will watch you, Anakin Skywalker.”

★ Jedi Quest #2: The Trail of the Jedi - April 2002. 14-year-old Anakin thinks about how the Temple isn’t his home, and how envious he is of Obi-Wan’s relationship with Qui-Gon; he’s always felt ‘honoured’ to be Obi-Wan’s Padawan, but now he worries Obi-Wan is only training him because Qui-Gon begged him to. Though he knows full well a Master is typically distant with a young Padawan - he gives Tru and Ry-Gaul as an example - he still doesn’t think it should apply to him. ‘He could sense that his Master was uneasy. Something was bothering him. But Obi-Wan did not confide. He never does, Anakin thought. How can we get closer if he keeps all his thoughts to himself?’ As far as Anakin is concerned, no part of Obi-Wan’s life should be off limits to him. Meanwhile Obi-Wan angsts about having hurt Anakin’s feelings by not sharing his every thought. This one also features the A+++ Obikin passage: ‘He should not focus on what he didn’t have. He had this. This was his. And that was something. He would work hard. He would be a great Padawan. And Obi-Wan would come to love him. He would make him do so.’

★ Jedi Quest #3: The Dangerous Games - August 2002. The team is off to help police the Galactic Games and Anakin wastes no time getting involved in a podrace against Sebulba to help free a slave. He and Obi-Wan butt heads over this as it clearly isn’t part of their mission but, as Anakin argues, freeing him hadn’t been part of Qui-Gon’s mission either. ‘It wasn’t that Obi-Wan lacked compassion, Anakin mused. It was just  that there was a little more distance between him and other living beings. Qui-Gon had not been able to pass along his connection to the Living Force to his Padawan, Anakin felt.’

★ Jedi Quest #4: The Master of Disguise - November 2002. Darra gets injured on a mission and Anakin blames himself. When Obi-Wan arranges for him to have extra saber training sessions with Darra’s Master, Soara Antana, he interprets it as a punishment and resolves to prove himself. Antana berates him for thinking himself superior to others and eventually refuses to train him further after he calls on his anger to defeat Ferus. Feeling lonely and hard done by, he’s an easy target for the sympathetic scientist Tic Verdun - who, of course, is actually Granta Omega in disguise.

★ Jedi Quest #5: The School of Fear - February 2003. This one is my favourite! Anakin and Ferus have to go undercover at a posh prep school to find out more about a Senator’s supposedly kidnapped son, with Obi-Wan as their contact. Being away from the Temple’s rules has Anakin wondering: ‘But was being a Jedi being free? Or had he traded one form of slavery for another?’ Anakin gets involved with a kids’ vigilante squad and when Ferus goes missing, instead of informing Obi-Wan, he carries on with the squad’s mission to go blow shit up on Andara. When Soara tells Obi-Wan he’s just devastated by it - but the best thing is Anakin thinks Obi-Wan’s gonna be so proud of him for sorting it all out himself. He shows off the kind of Force control Obi-Wan’s never even seen before and cannot understand why Obi-Wan’s so hung up on his failure to obey mission directives and communicate. ‘He felt shaken. Did Anakin understand that he had violated an essential part of the Jedi code? Did he know he had broken something between them? He had not fully trusted Obi-Wan. And so Obi-Wan had lost his trust in him.’

★ Jedi Quest #6: The Shadow Trap - May 2003. Anakin has been having a recurring vision, but when it comes to him while swimming he freaks out enough to track down Obi-Wan in the Room of a Thousand Fountains even though they’ve barely been on speaking terms since Andara. Granta Omega ends up capturing Anakin on the resulting mission because, like all SW villains, he is obsessed with Obi-Wan: ‘“Do you think he’s worried about you?” Omega barked a laugh. “What you don’t know about your Master could fill your precious archives. Kenobi doesn’t have a heart. Beings are just a means to get what he needs to be - the great Jedi in his own mind.”’ Yaddle saves the day - but sacrifices herself for the greater good in the process. Anakin blames himself for not understanding what the vision was trying to tell him: The vision hadn’t been wrong. The essential truth it had left him with was part of him now. He felt it inside him like a wound. It was loss. The gulf between him and Obi-Wan was wider than ever.

★ Jedi Quest #7: The Moment of Truth - November 2003. Anakin is still struggling to deal with his guilt over Yaddle’s death, and wonders if he simply feels too much to be a Jedi. On their mission he is captured and put into a tranquil state without emotion. Obi-Wan rescues him but Anakin’s still feeling the after effects - e.g. Obi-Wan is in danger but rather than rush to his aid, as is always his first instinct, he reasons that Obi-Wan is capable of handling it himself. But when Obi-Wan calls for him: ‘The hook in his heart seared him, and he knew its name. It was love. The love he felt for his Master was lodged firmly within him. It was a connection that had grown from the first moment Obi-Wan had told him that he would take him and train him.’ Ferus suggests that Anakin enjoyed being serene and content, so much so that it overpowered his loyalty to Obi-Wan. Tru tells Ferus to knock it off, but it does make Anakin confess all to Obi-Wan, including how he wishes he wasn’t the Chosen One. Obi-Wan tells him he wishes he could carry Anakin’s burdens for him but, as he can’t, all he can do is be there for him. ‘"Things between us have not run smoothly lately,” Obi-Wan said. “But you must never doubt my commitment to you.” “And mine to you,” Anakin said.’

★ Jedi Quest #8: The Changing of the Guard - March 2004. Anakin feels he and Obi-Wan have reached a new level of closeness ever since he ‘had truly trusted him with the inner workings of his heart and mind’ and told him about his fears and the weight of being the Chosen One. Ferus has his own heart to heart with Obi-Wan and tells him how he envies Anakin’s ability to make friends, but fears for Anakin’s future given his lack of good judgement. Obi-Wan is ‘irritated’ by this and tells Ferus: ‘You must understand that it isn’t ambition that drives him. It is compassion.’ 

★ Jedi Quest #9: The False Peace - July 2004. Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor are plotting an attack on the Senate. Palpy invites Anakin for a private meeting in his office and offers him the opportunity to shadow him to learn more about politics. ‘It was an extraordinary offer. Anakin knew he had to take it.’ When the attack goes down, Palps encourages Anakin to disobey Obi-Wan’s orders to stay put - presumably orchestrated to ensure Ferus alone cannot save Obi-Wan’s friend and senatorial aide, Tyro Caladian, who had been digging up dirt on Palps…

★ Jedi Quest #10: The Final Showdown - November 2004. As galactic stability falters, the Council decides to trial fast-tracking Knighthood. 16-year-old Anakin is convinced, who knows why, that he will be chosen for the programme. Obviously they actually choose Ferus - with Obi-Wan voting in favour. Anakin is so angry and jealous he keeps quiet when Ferus helps Tru fix his lightsaber, and doesn’t offer to check it over though he knows it’ll likely clash with his own previous mods. Tru’s lightsaber goes on to fail in battle, while Ferus is using it, and Darra dies after throwing herself in front of Ferus to save him. Ferus decides he’s not cut out to be a Jedi and resigns from the Order, but not before having one last spat with Anakin. The book ends with Anakin thinking about his heart will break the day he outstrips his Master, so the best way to deal with that unbearable sorrow will be to no longer have a heart. Hmmm.

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The Last of the Jedi - AKA the extended tales of how everything would have been fine if people had just listened to Ferus.

So, obviously, these are no longer canon and don’t fit with OWK as they’re set like 18 months after the rise of the Empire and Obi-Wan’s already well aware of what Anakin’s become. Vader in this series is still obsessed with Padme and is working with a scientist to wipe his memories of her so he will no longer feel guilt, etc. But. There is plenty of Obi-Wan angst, Anakin v Ferus tension when Palps starts up with his usual grooming, and nobody will ever convince me that Obi-Wan and Ferus did not kriff when Ferus turns up at his cave door on Tatooine…

★ The Last of the Jedi #1: The Desperate Mission - May 2005. Obi-Wan learns that Ferus is still alive, leading a rebellion movement, and goes to track him down because: ‘Ferus was alive, and that meant that the past had not died. Not completely.’ Obi-Wan asks him about Ferus’ reasons for leaving the Order, but Ferus won’t say too much because: ‘He had seen how hard it was for Obi-Wan to say Anakin’s name. He must miss his apprentice. Ferus wondered how Anakin had died, but he didn’t want to ask. He didn’t want to dredge up a painful memory for Obi-Wan.’

★ The Last of the Jedi #2: The Dark Warning - September 2005. Ferus goes to Ilum to get a new crystal and has a vision of Anakin.

★ The Last of the Jedi #3, #4, #5, and #6. Underworld (December 2005), Death on Naboo (April 2006), A Tangled Web (July 2006), and Return of the Dark Side (December 2006). Ferus goes back to the Temple on Coruscant, makes contact with Dex and the proto-rebellion, and remembers what an angry weirdo Anakin was. Obi-Wan urges him to go Naboo as a double agent for the Empire but won’t tell him why; baby Leia’s Force sensitivity has been attracting the wrong kind of interest. Meanwhile, Trever, Ferus’ sort of non-Force sensitive Padawan, starts calling him Ferus-Wan because he fusses as much as Obi-Wan did. <3 Elsewhere, Vader does not like the interest Palps is showing in Ferus, recognising that he’s potentially grooming him to be his new apprentice.

★ The Last of the Jedi #7: The Secret Weapon - April 2007. Anakin kills Ferus’ boyfriend, Roan Lands, in front of him because he’s just that much of a spiteful little shit. Palps has Ferus taken from custody and offers him the opportunity to become powerful enough to beat Vader.

★ The Last of the Jedi #8 and #9: Against the Empire (October 2007) and Master of Deception (February 2008). Ferus becomes more corrupted by Palps’ holocron and finally realises that Vader is Anakin. Meanwhile Anakin thinks about how much he enjoyed killing Roan: ‘He had taken from Ferus what had been taken from him. He had vanquished his enemy and brought him down. It had been so easy. He had felt so satisfied.’

★ The Last of the Jedi #10: Reckoning - May 2008. Ferus rushes to tell Obi-Wan Vader’s true identity… and realises Obi-Wan already knows. Obi-Wan says he doesn’t know what drove Anakin to fall but: “To have so many gifts, to be the Chosen One … to be so afraid of loss …“ Obi-Wan gazed back at Ferus. ”And to have me as a Master. In the end, there were things between us I hadn’t even realized were there. I don’t have the answer to why he turned. I can only ask myself that question, over and over again.” 

Ferus and Anakin have a showdown with the amazing exchange: “So you know who I was,” Vader said. “Do you think that would make a difference to me? Anakin Skywalker is dead.” “Was it because the Council wouldn’t let you become a Master? You always had to struggle with your ego, didn’t you?” “It was never a struggle. I was always the best.” 

Ferus, beaten and bloodied and heartsick, seeks out Obi-Wan on Tatooine. Obi-Wan tenderly nurses him back to health…

#thank you for this #to read #star wars

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listen i am aware that it isn’t canon, but i know deep in my soul ahsoka would call little leia snips

#she would #sw #cryinggg this is so cute #Star Wars

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This is a character that has come to define my life in so many ways, both professionally and personally. Coming back to it after all these years was very meaningful to me.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return (2022)

#my heart 🥺😭 #hayden christensen #sw

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i know that TCW depicts an easier-going anakin, but i'd really like more of him written as, like, a human grenade with the pin half-pulled, just unbelievably tense about nearly everything. having a conversation with him is like talking to an undersocialized german shepherd; he is anxious and that, in fact, will be YOUR problem. just an all-around testy individual, prone to snapping at people for asking questions or breathing wrong. but what i think would be really good is if there was such a visible difference when obi-wan's nearby that no one ever wants to give reports or make plans with general skywalker unless obi-wan's there to lighten the mood by saying some stupid joke, and the difference in anakin is pretty instant, it's like that chihuahua meme

#yea... that's the little meow meow #anakin skywalker #star wars

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guys. GUYS. i just. i cannot get over anakin and obi-wan right now. i am in shambles. star wars really made these two characters be the center of the universe, poised to change the galaxy in ways they couldn’t even have imagined. this man and this boy, who both turned into men, growing together and shaping each other to be better people. loving each other so intensely, being each other’s—mother-brother-father-friend. everything and nothing at once, the way a relationship is complicated when it’s been forged by tragedy but ultimately held up by love—but it strains under the weight, and when it broke it brought the whole Galaxy down with it. with the thought of betrayal, anakin couldn’t think of anything beyond revenge, and obi-wan couldn’t think past—not surviving, no, but holding off anakin just enough to be able to talk to him. to forge that bond, to hold up everything with love, and yes it aches, of course it aches, but that always came with loving. but anakin didn’t know that yet, refused to learn. and even then, even when he had ravaged the galaxy, obi-wan couldn’t forget about him. decades later, he joins the force, and a little while later, anakin joins him, and you’re like—oh, well of course. of course, anakin would follow. that’s how it is, isn’t it? how it always has been. and then they SPEND FOREVER together. FOREVER. both of them, skywalker and kenobi, inseparable in death as they had once been in life, and you’re like oh and you’re crying now

#obikin #star wars

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Star Wars Writing Resources

Note: None of the resources below are mine. I just assembled them in one place for your and my convenience. Feel free to use and reblog. If you know of any other useful site missing from the list, let me know and I’ll gladly add it.

Places

Interactive Galaxy Map by Henry Bernberg

Map of the Galaxy

List of planets and moons [Wikipedia /needs expanding]

Planet Name Generator 1 [SciFi Ideas]

Planetary System Generator [Donjon]

Character Development

Star Wars Name Generator 1 [Donjon]

Star Wars OC flow chart by @thefoodwiththedood

Star Wars Name Generator 2 [FantasyNames]

Star Wars Name Generator 3 [FantasyNames]

The character creator

Droid Name Generator

Star Wars Randomizer

Clone Trooper face/helmet template pack by @maiseey

Clone Picrew by @batdad

Character Picrew [Twi-leks, Zabraks, Torgutas and Nautolans] @/megaramikaeli

Star Wars Character Templates by SmacksArt [the ULTIMATE battery of template for any human/humanoid original character in any era. From troopers to droids, from Jedi to Sith, from KOTOR to the sequel Trilogy. 100% RECOMMENDED]

Miscellaneous

Standard Calendar and Holidays [including month names!]

Galactic Standard Calendar [wookiepedia // including week day names]

Date converter according to SWTOR [Google sheet]

Hyperspace Travel Times (to calculate how much time would take to go from point A to point B within the GFFA)

Materials (fabrics, leathers, silks, plastics, construction, metal composites, etc.)

List of TCW Opening Quotes

Ship Generator 3D

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Military Hierarchy Flowcharts by @cacodaemonia

Languages; Phrases and Slang; Vocabulary

Coruscant Translator (from/to Basic from/to Old Corellian, Proto-Basic, and Smuggler’s Cant; Catharese and High Cathar; Cheunh and Minnisiat; Echani and Thyrsian; Mirialan; Flora Colossi, Ortolan, and -everyone’s favorite- Mando'a)

In-Universe phrases and slang [Google sheet]

List of phrases and slang [wookiepedia]

List of equivalents to real-world objects [wookiepidia]

Star Wars Menu Generator

Helpful blogs

The amazing @maiseey, who not only makes astonishing art and write an amazing fic, she also responds to medical questions and gives all kinds of references for writing medic characters.

@writebetterstarwars, which seems to be inactive, but there are a bunch of references there.

@howtofightwrite The place to find out how to write a good fight scene.

@scriptmedic no longer active, but it has a great deal of useful information.

@scripttorture for your whump needs. Major trigger warning for all its content.

Writing in General (For those who don’t want to die like Stormtroopers)

SlickWrite: Completely free; online. Checks grammar, punctuation, flow, and writing style according to different settings (including fiction writing).

ProWritingAid: [RECOMMENDED] One of the most thorough online proofreader I’ve ever used. Although when using a free account gives extremely thorough feedback, it gives +20 different in-depth reports for only the first 500 words for free. However, you can earn a premium account license (for a year or for life) if you get 10 or 20 new users signing up for free; (if you wouldn’t mind doing so using the link above and help me earn mine, please). The settings allow you to check your writing according to your needs, from general to formal to creative. It has a bonus that you can check depending on the genre you’re writing. For example, in creative, you can choose romance or sci-fiction (there are 14 sub-genre in total). And they just add a new feature, which just like google docs, you can share a document, and people can view, comment or edit.

LanguageTool: [RECOMMENDED] Another excellent proofreader. It also has a word limit in free accounts, but if you use the add-on for Google Docs, it counts each page as a new document, so hitting the limit is nearly impossible. It helps you to rewrite a sentence, even if it doesn’t raise any flags; it’s very useful for when your sentence is grammatically correct, but it doesn’t feel quite right.

Grammarly, Hemingway Editor: No so great, but they do the basic job.

#sw #Star Wars #ref #reference #sw reference #thanks a bunch!!

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Fallen Angel

#anakin skywalker #sw #I am ruined over and over by this parallel ty

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Sorry, this is a super long ask, but I need to talk about Luke, Vader, and the whole redemption thing. George Lucas is a man of contradictions, but he was surprisingly pretty consistent about this:

“His son refuses to kill him—and that is such a revelation to Vader—it reminds him of what he once was. […] He does [kill the Emperor] out of the super energy of wanting to protect his son, out of compassion.”

George Lucas in The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

“When Anakin sees his son willing to give up his life to save him — ‘Kill me. I am not going that way no matter what.’ — that’s what turns him.”

George Lucas in Star Wars Archives 1977-1983 by Paul Duncan

“The end of the saga is simply Anakin saying, I will throw away everything that I have, everything that I’ve grown to love–primarily the Emperor–and throw away my life, to save this person. And I’m doing this because [Luke] has faith in me; he loves me despite all the horrible things I’ve done. I broke his mother’s heart, but he still cares about me, and I can’t let that die. [...] He takes the ounce of good still left in him and destroys the Emperor out of compassion for his son.”

George Lucas in The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by J. W. Rinzler

Basically, Vader did what he did 100% for Luke Skywalker as a person. Luke’s unconditional love/forgiveness that some people complain about is The Thing(TM) that made Vader turn his back on the Emperor and the entire point of RotJ: “his son refuses to kill him—and that is such a revelation to Vader,” “Anakin sees his son willing to give up his life to save him,” “he has faith in me; he loves me despite all the horrible things I’ve done.” Luke did it all 😌

there's a really beautiful passage in the original ROTJ novelization of vader's death scene, where vader's asking luke to take his mask off, and he's thinking that luke is so profoundly, incredibly good - and somehow luke came from him, so that must mean that there is some ounce of vader that is worth saving, and that's really what star wars is about, ultimately. it's about that moment, that scene, that's the culmination of the whole story, the crowning achievement, and it's because luke faces his father, knowing how low his father can go, and decides to take one incredible shot in the dark and risk everything on the off chance that vader maybe doesn't want to be mired in evil.

i think a lot of luke's narrative arc is about risk; in every single film, luke takes these incredible, awe-inspiring risks. he's never flown in space before, but he jumps in the cockpit of a starfighter for literally the first time and destroys a planet-killing weapon, fueled by gumption, instinct, compelled by his father's legacy as a jedi. in empire, luke jets off to face the man who destroyed that legacy luke values so much, risking it all and in a sense losing it all - and you would think that this failure in ESB would temper his spirit, but holy shit, it does the opposite. in ROTJ luke risks it all on the one-in-a-million chance the man who maimed him brutally a few months ago might feel like doing an ounce of good, even just the once. a key part of luke's characterization is a distinct lack of caution, and an innate desire to rescue people, considering literally every film in the OT features luke rescuing someone (with varying degrees of success) in some way shape or form. he's a traditional hero, empathy and heart tied together with mystic destiny.

but we really don't appreciate how far of a leap luke takes in ROTJ, because we as the audience already know that vader is going to have his moment of salvation, and we as the audience already know that half the franchise is dedicated to depicting why vader should get that moment; but luke has none of this. luke knows vader as a figurehead of the empire, the only more personal extents he knows vader in are similarly heinous - vader tortured both of his best friends and encased one in carbonite, luke thought vader murdered his father, vader did murder obi-wan and was instrumental in the destruction of alderaan, vader cut off luke's hand. he has absolutely none of the context the audience does. the only thing luke has are a handful of old stories about who anakin skywalker was once, and a lot of hope, and a death-defying ability to throw caution to the wind and jump headfirst into the deep end of any given problem. it is an incredible risk to take based on nothing.

but you have to think, vader knows, when luke asks vader to come with him on endor, that luke has jack fuck all to show for his parentage, that being vader's son has brought luke nothing but pain and an impossible destiny. vader knows exactly what kind of monster he appears as. when luke pleads with him on endor, it's not the same as padme pleading with him on mustafar - padme knew him so intimately and loved him so deeply that i think, you know, anakin sees her on mustafar and thinks, i've failed her, and when she reminds him that he's going too far, he's going where she can't follow, he lashes out because he knows she's right.

he's thinking that she loved him, and he's destroyed that man who was the object of her affections, so the only thing left is to keep burning until all of rome is ablaze, but what luke shows him in ROTJ is that there was another option - if he was going where she couldn't follow, turning around was something she would have taken. vader can't see that on mustafar, because padme is in some ways too close to him, in ways that make it easy to think she's just deluding herself and trying to shut out everything he's done in favor of the idea of the man she loved. but with luke, it's impossible for him to delude himself, because all luke knows is the most monstrous pieces of vader, and if luke has somehow found something worth saving even in vader's darkest hours, then there is some far, distant, enduring light in the center of him, some inclination to do good that has survived well over twenty years of getting beaten into the dirt. at the end of it all, padme was right; there was good in him still, and if luke is willing to die believing in that, vader's willing to die believing in luke. and that part, the part of vader that was willing to die for luke, and even more than that, the part of him that desperately wanted to believe there was something good left when luke told him so - that's the little, enduring light. that inclination to love something, that's the one last thing that keeps vader from becoming the kind of evil ghost of a human that the emperor becomes.

it's just ultimately a really powerful thing, i think. but it's all based on the fact that luke took one hell of a risk.

#star wars #luke skywalker #darth vader #I will never get over that the last action #Luke performs in the battle against the emperor #is to reach out and ask for help #and he took all those risks #made a decision he would not be moved from #and asked for help with the faith he had #that there was that small enduring light in Anakin

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Accusing the person who spends every waking minute caring for you of having ice/stone/emptiness instead of feelings is one of my top 3 types of irony!!!! It hurts so good

#yes yes yes this is the obikin angst I like #Anakin being oblivious to how deeply obi-Wan cares #and obi-wan who can't admit it #so they get lost in the miscommunication #which is just canon them anyway #Star Wars

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#jjk #ryoumen sukuna

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Was listening to Ursula K. Le Guin audiobook "Words Are My Matter" the other day and hearing this made me grieve, physically (I started sobbing in my car) for the first time about current events.

They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all f*cked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke….

What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it … What was it like? […]

It’s like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents … if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, … the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child.

But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children.

The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses … the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met … I would have been an “unwed mother” of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents….

But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear.

What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldn’t borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldn’t even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldn’t tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? – because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist.

You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.

Anyway, yeah.

#ursula k. le guin

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Not to be reductive but the plot of aotc is that Obi Wan leaves Anakin unsupervised for the first time and he immediately goes awol, murders a bunch of people, and gets secretly married and the plot of rots is that Obi Wan leaves Anakin alone for five minutes and he immediately gets confused, pledges himself to a sithlord, and murders a bunch of people

#yea no Anakin legit needs his supervision #he does need 24/7 Kenobi presence #most skywalkers end up needing that lol #obikin #sw

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“The witch.” Mace says it slowly, voice tinged with a dawning realization, and his mouth thins as his brows furrow in concern. “From your last mission. Did she do something to you?”

Obi-Wan strokes his beard, thinking back to the encounter with the witch. He had briefed the Council upon his arrival back at the Temple, holocron already safely stored away in its rightful place in the Archives. There hadn’t been much to report, really.

When Obi-Wan doesn’t immediately respond, Mace prompts, “You said she attacked you. What exactly did she do?”

Ice drips into Obi-Wan veins, slowly, inevitably, and something behind his ribs ripples and writhes. He lifts his gaze to meet Mace’s. A terrifying thought forms in his mind.

“She—” One of his hands splays over his sternum where the witch had placed hers. “I think she cursed me.”

A heavy silence settles around them and the air seems to grow tighter.

“Mention nothing of this you did, in your briefing,” Yoda points out. His eyes are thoughtful but there’s an edge to them that Obi-Wan has rarely seen directed at himself.

He winces. “I assumed—because I felt nothing within me or the Force, I thought she perished before she could finish the curse,” he says. It had felt as if it was of no importance, so he hadn’t mentioned it when he’d informed the Council about the outcome of the mission. Absently, he rubs at his chest. Perhaps he was—is—wrong in his assumption.

Mace pinches the bridge of his nose between his eyes and a deep sigh slips out of him. The disapproving look he sends Obi-Wan then makes him feel like a padawan again.

“Did she say anything to you?” Mace asks with a patience that’s entirely admirable. If Anakin were here, he would probably enjoy it. Under different circumstances.

Dread digs its claws into Obi-Wan’s skin, the ice in his veins spreads steadily through his limbs, and his throat is suddenly bone-dry. The witches’ voice rings in his head, echoing and otherworldly—

I shall have your greatest comfort.

OR; Obi-Wan gets himself cursed and makes it everyone’s, but mainly Anakin’s, problem.

#this was so cute #thank you!! #obikin #sw