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anakins questionable flying is an ongoing gag and all but honestly just imagine it. he, aged 9, won his freedom that way. everything good that happened in his life proceeding was because he happened to be a good enough flyer that he beat out actual grown professionals with biological advantage. hes reasonably confident, in fact, its probably just about the only skillset hes still confident in after going to monk school and skipping every grade due to one very persuasive guy dubbing him "universe's very special little boy". like im not pointing fingers here but maybe hed be normal if they sent him to making macaroni art class at some point before taking up the "heres how to stab people and throw things with your mind" class. but anyway, back to flying, coruscant presumably has some rules regarding that, even for jedi. i dont give a shit if its not canon, you cant take space flyer's licence from me. i need the mental image of anakin and obi-wan experiencing the emotional whiplash of being in a car with your anxious dad bc yes anakin reasonably thinks hes hot shit behind the wheel but hes also notoriously a death race survivor & his driving style is best summarised as "get from point a to point b as fast as possible. disregard what happens to you. disregard what happens to others. there is only you and point b and the possibility of exploding. make your mother proud" which now that i think about it is also his whole life philosophy. so i think he sits behind the wheel with full confidence & his many neuroses loaded and ready and obi-wan also sits in the passenger seat with full confidence because while hes not exactly the leading expert in anakin lore due to his passion for shoving his head in the sand and pretending he Does Not See, he probably remembers that there was a podrace victory involved and expects this to be very simple. it is, clearly, canonically, not simple. but heroically obi-wan still lets him be the pilot every time for the rest of their time together because 1) hes chronically a passenger princess 2) his love language is putting anakin into situations he can then nag him about and 3) his own self preservation is clearly slowly whittling away. on the other hand, anakin's love language is initially going "im so sorry are you okay" the first time obi-wan starts screaming and then as he gets more attached to him progressing to hitting the sgas (space gas) pedal even harder out of pure malice the moment he as much as hears a whimper

considering that canonically we know anakin is a robotics nerd with 1 friend (who he calls Dad by mistake at least once a week) and 0 rizz, i’m very enamoured by the fact that in any NO66 Good End AU, all of the jedi would be so confused that HE was the one with the secret wife. i have a scene in my head where a couple council members, let’s say depa and mace, are chilling gossiping and depa says “omg GUESS who’s secretly married” and mace names every single member of the order living and dead before guessing anakin

#the irony of giving ur character this whole motif then proceeding to freeze him in time to beat that dead horse until it stops bleeding cash (via @dapiando)

it is interesting that for all the talk of “fixing” padme and making her “more than a weeping wife”, the idea of padme choosing to die while pregnant remains this huge taboo. post after post about freeing her from sexist writing, and ppl still can’t imagine a padme separate from her children. her ultimate purpose remains motherhood. padme refusing motherhood/being unhappy in motherhood is taken as a total impossibility. it has to be sith life force draining, it has to be the force choke, it has to be bad space gynecologists (??). it can’t be that a mom lost the will to live despite her babies. that doesn’t happen!!

i know it’s just fandom talk . but . padme's death is the most clear cut suicidal act in the franchise. padme doesn’t die in the heat of battle, she doesn’t sacrifice herself, she has no reason to believe her death will help anybody, nor was she given a choice between death or something else. she simply wants to die. and she has good reason: the love of her life has turned the galaxy to hell. this is the only time in the whole trilogy that padme is allowed to scream. this is the only time she’s allowed to cry in front of more than one person. it’s this burst of raw emotion from a character who’s kept a poker face since 12, who has been caring for others, caring for a whole planet, since 14. her rejecting that caregiver role in her final moments, not even holding her children? just openly sobbing? that is a more tragic, full-circle, and operatic death than some long distance sith magic nonsense . tbh!

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

ruminating on vader further: i think after all these years of Total Cultural Dominance and of course the immense sympathy the prequel trilogy bathes him in, it's easy to overlook how terrified the original trilogy is of vader. he spends very little time as a character and much more as this creeping manifestation of everything our heroes dread. where there's dark, there's vader. where there's violence, there's vader. multiple shots position him against the vastness of space, almost blending into it, just this omnipresent demon. the jedi's plan is to get luke to kill him. that is all. obi-wan and yoda have spent ~2 decades of their lives hoping and praying and aspiring to getting luke to kill him. luke loving vader and bringing him to the light isn’t something they can even entertain, and they think any attempt will only lead to more darkness. it is the ultimate, near-supernatural feat for luke to do so. and even then, vader is in the light for about five minutes and dies in agony. it's why i can't take a lot of posts these days that fret over anakin being possessive or angry or people liking anakin seriously. like first of all, he is the greatest and most famous bottomless pit of misery in american cinema, no amount of anakin blogging will undo that, and he's not real. second of all, star wars works best when it's about this tension between vader as something unspeakable and evil, and vader as a real person that does love and has been loved in return. it's just what's like to have a dad, really,

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

there are simply no words in the english language that can describe starting on thursday the fourth. thats how iconic it is

choosing to start on friday the fifth. i just think its very inspiring

lets all kill ourselves