Darth Vader - Blog Posts
Ah yes my favorite star wars ship, animé <3
What if we were both ignoring the weight of our respective duties to sit in a field, pick grass, and be children once more without the burden of responsibility placed upon us
"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."
Almost time for the re-release of Revenge of the Sith on theatres!! 😩😩😩 Excited!!!
Big fan of characters who “kill” their younger selves. Characters who resent the past version of themselves for letting them get hurt, who look at that kid and feel revolted by the foreignness of it. Characters who feel they have to cut the child out of them like a tumor because it’s hurting them too much and if I don’t kill you you’ll kill me. Nearly nothing remaining of that past self but for the little connections and mannerisms they can’t kick, and when it shines through, it’s a terrible, tragic thing, because the child is still in there. It’s in there and it’s grotesque in its suffocation. But it’s there.
sooooo fucked up but padme and shmi are inextricably linked in anakin’s mind as both his family, his attachments and the people he will do anything to keep in his life, the secret-most part of him he gets to have all to himself, ANDDD palpatine is in that secret chamber too. he didn’t grow up with a father so he’s got palpatine and obi-wan to choose from, and obi-wan loves him obviously but can only say it when he thinks anakin is dying, like it or not there is a level of emotional repression in the prime jedi order that anakin simply never gets from palpatine who he kneels before and trusts without question. palpatine and padme the politicians he is told not to trust, shmi the mother he was never meant to see again. mother & father & mother to his children. each an attempt at a family unit he never really got. it’s the evilest dynamic of all time and of course it ends in a bloodbath
Darth Vader: Sith Lord | Randy Martinez & Rick Burchett
#THIS PARALLEL IS FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE I'M FINE
Second Part.
I enjoy black&white photo. It is one of the my favourite kind of it. Just two colours can show you all about picture, about moment. You will think that it’s just a poster from internet, but it’s not so! Vader is awesome! “May The Force Be With You “
—“I’ll not leave you here, I’ve got to save you!”
“You already have, Luke”
—“I’m sorry… I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry”
“I never would have given them to you. Don’t cry. You’re perfect.”
Star Wars episode 6: Return of the Jedi // Arcane episode 1x09 The Monster You Created
Star Wars (1977) dir. George Lucas
I can’t make gifs either someone do this because seriously it’s an amazing vision! Y’all we need this to be made!
Super obsessed with Taylor Swift’s “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” and really wishing that I knew how to make gifsets (or had time to learn), because if I did, I would absolutely be making a gifset of Luke Skywalker in the OT with the lyrics of this song.
In fact, I’m so obsessed with this idea that I’m going to storyboard it out and hope that an actual gifmaker gets inspired and makes this a reality, LOL:
Frame 1:
Text: ‘Cause I’m a real tough kid / I can handle my shit
Gif: Luke flying the Death Star trench run and/or making the shot that blows up the Death Star
Frame 2:
Text: They said, “babe, you gotta fake it ‘til you make it” / And I did
Gif: Luke hugging Leia and Han after blowing up the Death Star
Frame 3:
Text: Lights, camera, bitch, smile / Even when you want to die
Gif: Luke and Leia smiling at each other during the Yavin medal ceremony
Frame 4:
Text: He said he’d love me for all time
Gif: Anakin smiling at Padme after she tells him she’s pregnant
Frame 5:
Text: But that time was quite short
Gif: Vader cuts Luke’s hand off in ESB
Frame 6:
Text: Breaking down I hit the floor / All the pieces of me shattered
Gif: Luke writhing in agony as Palpatine electrocutes him
Frame 7:
Text: As the crowd was chanting, “MORE”
Gif: Shot of Palpatine himself as he electrocutes Luke with Force lightning
Frame 8:
Text: I was grinning like I’m winning / I was hitting my marks
Gif: Leia and Luke smiling at each other on Endor right after he’s seen the Force ghosts
Frame 9:
Text: ‘Cause I can do it with a broken heart
Gif: Luke’s face as he watches Vader’s armor burn on the funeral pyre
DO YOU SEE MY VISION?
Sinister transmission. Did this one for a #starwars #fanart challenge 😊
I just thought, “Man I wish I was a Jedi so I could get cheese without getting up.” That’s it guys. Not to fight the dark side, not to protect the universe, not even to get a cool light saber. To retrieve cheese without getting out of bed.
one thing that really gets me in rotj is when luke is first captured, right as he’s calmly insisting that vader still has good in him, vader (standing behind him) ignites his lightsaber and you see this flicker of fear on luke’s face, then acceptance. i think luke went into this situation knowing conceptually that he would probably die, but this is the moment where the reality of that sets in, and he really has to accept the possibility that his father might destroy him and decide again whether he trusts him not to
My personal dumb and useless head canon for what happened between “twilight of the apprentice” and the epilogue for Ahsoka goes thusly:
Ahsoka realizes that, now that everyone left the planet, she is stranded on a deserted planet with no visitors and no ships. thankfully, she is a great mechanic, and manages to scrounge up a ship from old parts strewn about from old, destroyed ships and the temple weapon. some are thousands of years old. some are much more recent, from dumbasses who crash on planets… like her lineage.
she explores and studies the temple and the sith writings in her spare time (entertainment is scarce) as she constructs what is, without a doubt, the jankiest, most engineering-student ship that has ever flown. her belt, an old ration wrapper, and tape, among others, are integral parts of the engine. it flies on luck and the force. Morai is facepalming. Bendu is kind of impressed
she nonetheless uses it to get out because she left her self preservation somewhere on christophsis and they do not have a lost and found department.
She then goes to the closest planet to find replacement parts, upgrades, as well as luxuries for her ship (she was holding her pants up the whole takeoff and then decided to just throw them off once inside) (and she needed a kitchen, and food) (and this ship is so old in it’s apparent design and mismatched she easily fits it up to be invisible to the empire).
Knowing that she cannot return to the ghost, or Rex, nor could she ask for another confrontation with Vader, she decides to be the biggest pain in the ass for Sidious, because why not, and also she hates the bitch.
She destroys force-sensitive ‘sith nurseries’, corrupts secret research data on under the table experiments, just attacks Sidious’ Sith agenda that the rebels don’t care for (cuz the jedi are dead but they forget that the force is not).
now Sidious knows who it is, but cannot send Vader again, because he is busy, and also failed once and he does not want Vader to be exposed to Anakin again, and Anakin never hated Ahsoka unlike Obi-Wan, so he has to go himself. of course, he is an asthmatic Grandpa, and she is young and fit, so she was gone before his ship arrived on site, but she left cute messages!
she, head of rebel intelligence, skilled commander and general, war veteran, and he, wartime emperor, are basically just raiding places and chasing each other but because of their own skill and experience, the strategy needed become more and more complex until they are like playing 5d chess whilst the rebel alliance is playing checkers.
(still mad that they gave military titles and rank to Senators and politicians with no military experience or training. do you think military commanders would give half a second’s thought as to weather or not they should retrieve the death star plans? or even refuse to because they don’t have the votes? nah, they would see planet killer and see it as civil war ender and send everyone they can to destroy the thing the second they learn about it)
and that is why sidious does not actively do anything more than sit on his throne and walk to the window to stare ominously in space next to vader in the OT. he sends vader off then goes to try and fight and mange anakin’s wayward apprentice.
and then when she goes to the cloning facility that is preparing for palpatine’s ‘return’, she programs all the droids to implant biochips that would slowly cut his connection to the force and kill him the more he uses the force, because that is karma for what you did to the clones and order 66.
and that is also why she does not go fight him and lets Rey do that, because she is completely alive, what are you talking about, the daughter made her immortal unless killed and my girl is too strong to be killed. She’s just off being badass in another war or force plane, and is not interested in coming back for a little first order uprising, that’s it.
I keep reading Obi-Wan time-travel fics (post-66 to pre-Naboo) and just… wanting Rex and Ahsoka to show up like ‘yes we followed Maul through the anomaly on Tatooine and we know for sure nobody else went through but also… we lost Maul’ and then the two acting INCREDIBLY suspicious but in ways that entirely validate “Ben” being The Weird Fucker He Is
And also they keep referencing future!Anakin as Ahsoka’s “brother” and state that “Fulcrum” was Ben’s second padawan because the timing doesn’t really work out unless you know about the war. Her training was basically split by them anyway, it’s not that big of a stretch.
There’s a handful of fics where people are like “So are you like… married or adoptive siblings or…” and they’re just like “family, where they go, I go” and then never elaborate I just really like the “two halves of a whole idiot black ops specialist” vibe they have
Also I keep imagining that, since Ahsoka doesn’t want to steal her future/baby self’s name depending on the AU, she takes on Fulcrum as an actual name, and then she and Rex use either Torrent or Jaig as a surname, though I’ve been told that she went by “Ashla” a few times and I do in fact vibe with that.
Also I like fics (or at least I imagine fics) where they refuse to refer to each other as anything other than Captain and Commander until they can trust people. Not even fake names, just ranks, in part because Intimidation.
Also I just really like the idea of teen Obi-Wan and all his Padawan friends having just. Hero Crush on Ahsoka, because she’s only a few years older, sure, but she’s a total badass and probably a shadow and she’s showing off in the salles! And then Ben is like “Uhhhhh she doesn’t consider herself a Jedi, even though a Jedi taught her, she’s technically a Rogue Force User but don’t worry, she’s a good one”
People: Would you ever consider rejoining the order? Ahsoka: I’ve got work to do in the Outer Rim and I can’t be held back by bureaucracy, so it’s just gonna be me and the Captain until I decide otherwise.
And then she swings back around and rejoins just in time to snatch up bb Anakin for a Padawan
Jedi: Why does Ben drive his padawan so hard? Ahsoka: [shows up and jokes about the number of times their war experiences had resulted in horrifying injuries] Jedi: …oh.
It’s not paranoia if you’ve already experienced it dozens of times!
Ahsoka dodging around mentioning Maul by name by saying “Your first Sith Lord” Ben and Rex: Ah, that fucker. The Disowned Dark Apprentice. All the Jedi around them: ??!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!? How many claims-to-be-Sith did you fight????!?!?!?!?!?!??!
Jedi: How did Ben teach you? Ahsoka, brightly: Trial by fire! Jedi: Like– Ahsoka: Yeah, no, it was active warzones, but in his defense, we really didn’t have a choice.
At any rate, I want post-Empire Ahsoka&Rex&Obi-Wan time travel that’s just. So concerning to everyone pre-TCW.
it just occurred to me that darth vader, master engineer, probably looked at the death star plans at some point and noticed the flaw, but didn’t bother to tell anyone about it because he despised everyone who was involved in the project
They’re having a very serious conversation about Cody’s behaviour (being mean to uncle Ben)
Obi Wan has no fucking chill
ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader
“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”
“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”
vader didn’t have to fly to a small, remote moon to look for the remains of one, insignificant jedi in the old wreck of a republic cruiser, but anakin—oh, but anakin needed to.
ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader
“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”
“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”