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On the last Bad Batch eve, thank you from the bottom of my heart to the creators, the fandom, and the wonderful people i've met âŁď¸ TBB and these characters mean more to me than i could ever put into words, and they will stay a part of me forever
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BEHIND THE SCENES: Alternative ending for Maarva's speech
-> Andor: The Complete First Season (SteelBook)
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This is how I'll keep them in my heart - safe, happy, and together, always â§ââş
This show got me through the worst years of my life, providing so much joy, comfort, and inspiration, I'll never have enough words to express how grateful I am to everyone who's been a part of creating it, and the friends I made along the way.
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nothing in the new fallout show will ever have the raw cinematic power of this bit
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His hands were steady.
A sad lil Crosshair animatic to go on the end of episode 3.11! I really enjoy character acting so I had a lot of fun with this. It was a devastating moment and I wanted to imagine the emotional reaction to it.
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<<Sidious moved back into the room to take a closer look at Plagueis. Then,
after a long moment, he returned to the window and pulled the drapes aside.
His spirit soared, but briefly.
Something was shading his sense of triumph: a vague awareness of a power
greater than himself. Was it Plagueis reaching out from the far side of death to
vex him? Or was the feeling a mere consequence of apotheosis?>>
<<(...)It wasnât until he arrived in Theed and learned of Darth Maulâs defeat at the
hands of the Jedi in a power-generator station that he understood in part the reason for the sense of loss and profound solitude he had experienced
following the murder of Plagueis.>>
Darth Plagueis, by James Luceno
Maul is beaten by Obi Wan at the same time Palpatine kills his master in legends canon, it's a cool detail I wish they'd keep.
Commission info
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Week end fan art ! Tech from the Bad Batch, my favourite geek of all timeÂ
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Strap in for the Soresu form III Obi-Wan lightsaber post. This is gonna be a sad one, girlies. Weâre getting into Obi-Wanâs Fucking Trauma.Â
Qui-Gonâs death changed literally everything about Obi-Wanâs life, right down to the lightsaber form. Still a Padawan himself, he had to watch as an extinct monster from his nightmares* utterly took apart the form heâd learned since he was a child, and then, to complete the destruction, slaughtered the teacher whoâd taught him the form and raised him. The devastation of Qui-Gonâs actual death had to be the last in a cascading series of horrors that started with the gut-sinking realization that Qui-Gon was losing. And if all of that werenât enough, Obi-Wan also loses his own lightsaber in the same duel, a psychological blow to his personhood which we donât have to guess at the significance of. Obi-Wan tells us the cost of it himself in AotC: this weapon is your life.Â
The Duel of the Fates on a sheer physical level is a devastating thing to consider. Itâs a grueling, full out running battle, the likes of which we donât see elsewhere in the saga. The beauty (and pounding musical score) of the fight distracts from the sheer brutality of it. Maul is physically attacking them at every turn; he manages to kick Qui-Gon hard enough to knock all 6â3 of him off his feet; he dumps Obi-Wan into a fall that seems to be several stories high. We donât see Obi-Wan get back up off the floor with Qui-Gonâs body at the end of the duel, and Iâd be surprised if he was physically able to even stand again so after the adrenaline faded and the soreness and exhaustion took over. He just been whirled in a lightsaber blender.Â
I canât imagine how hard it was for him to pick up a lightsaber again after the trauma of that battle - much less, a new, unfamiliar one, not the kyber crystal that had been his since he was a child. The new canonâs emphasis on the spiritual relationship between a Jedi and their crystal makes this detail even more excruciating. The Ataru form itself must have felt broken and unusable. How can you put your trust in a form once you watched it be broken so ruthlessly?
And this is where Obi-Wan is so endlessly beautiful as a character. He goes through this horrifying experience of violent unmaking, and instead of avoiding lightsabers as an understandable trauma response, or picking up an overwhelming power and dominance form like V, he remakes himself into a master of Soresu: a form of simple, complete defense. He doesnât attempt to become a weapon of attack like Maul did to disintegrate Ataru; he makes himself invincible, untouchable, with a perfect defense. Soresu works the pieces that fell apart for the Jedi in the Duel of the Fates to an advantage. It is a form of ultimate endurance, of playing out your opponent and staying up in a fight until the attacker is exhausted or angry. It preserves and it lasts. It is philosophical. It is considered. It lacks the showy flash of Makashi or Ataru and returns to the basics, even working in some of that battlefield meditation that Qui-Gon so believed in. And in that simple economy, itâs gorgeous and effective.Â
I have to wonder: is Soresu, on some level, a form of kinetic self-soothing for a person who faced an incredibly traumatic battle at a young age? Does Obi-Wan use it that way?
All of this is perfectly in keeping with the themes of the character. Obi-Wanâs story remains about life, about hope, about survival. The word he uses to describe the Jedi to Luke in the OT is important to me. âJedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice.â Guardians. And what better lightsaber approach for a person who sees his role as one of protection than a form whose signature move is called âThe Circle of Shelter?â
*Maul, of course, is a tragedy in his own right, but thatâs a different post.Â
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X-Men: The animated series vs X-Men '97 opening
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"Luke Skywalker isnât like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!â
Wrong!
Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. Heâs desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his fatherâs body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesnât want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker canât kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.
And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vaderâs mask. He doesnât want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. Iâd even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.
And Luke doesnât have to do this. If Luke Skywalkerâs love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vaderâs wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesnât. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.
He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they couldâve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his âcrude matterâ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.
Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Lukeâs desire for the New Jedi Order isnât to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but thatâs because it has to be. He doesnât have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they arenât for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time
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lily and her two gay grandchildren who she loves very much
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To celebrate issue 10 of Green Arrow and the return of Speedy and Arrowette (and cos I was asked đ) hereâs the design sheets for their new costumes.
I really wanted to update their costumes but keep elements from previous ones and give them unique silhouettes. - Sean Izaakse @SeanIzaakse on Twitter
Mia and Cissie's redesign character sheets!
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Studies out in the apocalyptic city building sim game
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