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zibulon01 · 19 days
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I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.
I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.
Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.
Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.
Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.
I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?
Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.
Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.
Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.
Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.
If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—
There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!
Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.
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zibulon01 · 19 days
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➡️incorrect star wars
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zibulon01 · 20 days
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I accidentally spent 80 hours painting my own take on a Mimic. Please take a look.
Can see higher res here
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zibulon01 · 28 days
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Update. :D I'm having too much fun painting random glowy stuff~.
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zibulon01 · 29 days
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zibulon01 · 30 days
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Opt-out systems are utter bullshit, fucking hell, they should not be the default, it should be OPT-IN ONLY at bare minimum. How dare you take advantage and putting the onus onto users who might not be aware of it, who cannot do it for one reason or another, or know how to request not to get their data exploited by shit ass tech companies and having to activate opt-out on every website under the sun just to try not have their stuff scraped behind their backs left and right. Putain de merde.
J'emmerde Midjourney, j'emmerde Open AI, j'emmerde toutes les autres boites d'IA génératives, c'est du même acabit. De la saloperie de parasites.
Mangez vos morts, connards.
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zibulon01 · 1 month
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He too, was a star, and the light that shone from him was the Force
✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama
I read Shadows of Mindor and I really liked Luke's musings on the Force in the book so I had to draw something. Other doodle under the cut:
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zibulon01 · 1 month
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Behold the biggest baguette ever created 🥖
Not a gif but wanted to post it there since it's really long lol
(Seems Tumblr can't handle the power of this baguette!)
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zibulon01 · 1 month
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some men are made to suffer
#op
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zibulon01 · 1 month
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Happy Year of the Dragon!
I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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Can you imagine how confuddled Vader must have been at the bespin duel
Vader: he's trained with yoda and obi-wan, I shouldn't let my guard down - let's just test the waters
Luke: I'm going to do a jump here and oof oh no I'm backpedaling rn oh shit uhhh just slash and hack boys act like you know what you're doing stay calm stay calm
Vader: .....what the kriff is he doing
Vader: is this a new dueling tactic I've never heard of?
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Luke: blindly slashes out his saber
Vader: that isn't part of any lightsaber form
Luke: djjdjshsh I think I'm doing well rn actually
Vader: what the fuck? What the fuck is this? Why did he respond to my attack with blindly flailing his arms about instead of the textbook parry? What's his plan?
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Vader, crying: please.. please fight normally....
Luke: getting beaten up by flying debris if I'm confused the opponent is confused too
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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A collection, for a well loved garf
A bonus picture for anyone who wants it
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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The chimera I designed for our new LEGO show. I cannot express how much of a labor of love this was. It took over 100 hours just to design, let alone build and is one of the largest and most complex sculptures I’ve done.
Fun fact: This model used every single LEGO color available in standard brick.
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zibulon01 · 2 months
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glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts
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