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The wait is OVER!

All the goodies for the bimonthly goodie bags are ready for production! You have until the 25th of June at 23:59 CET to sign up to my 🪼Milky Way Tier🪼 on the orange P site to get:

🪼two stickers

🪼one sticker sheet

🪼one bonus print

Anakin remembers holding his mother as she died, and he remembers thinking “I have to save you” and not being able to because it was too late. He remembers what came after. He remembers kneeling at her grave and saying, “I wasn’t strong enough to save you. But I promise. I will not fail again.” He remembers what that determination not to fail turned into.

He knows Luke cares strongly about his family bonds, just like Anakin did. He knows this because Luke was determined to reach out to him, to see the good in him, to talk to the person whose name is Anakin rather than the slave to the emperor.

He knows he is going to die and he doesn’t want Luke to walk away feeling guilt and failure because of that loss. He doesn’t want Luke to feel as though he should have been strong enough to save him. Maybe it would have been a problem, maybe it wouldn’t have, but Anakin isn’t taking any chances. If his last act is to save his son, it won’t just be from death at the hands of the emperor, but from the horrible sense that he should have been able to do more to save his father, and the fear and need for control that Anakin knows can follow.

So Luke says “I have to save you.” And Anakin knows those words, he’s said them just as earnestly, and Luke is too pure of heart for what Anakin remembers that belief turning into inside of him, and he says, “you already have.” Not that he needs to let him go or that life isn’t what matters or that he needs to focus on saving himself or his friends, but that he has succeeded and therefore should feel no guilt in this loss.

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.