Stuff They Actually Let Happen On Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Some other willing dupe cozened by his useful—if elderly—apprentice, Darth Tyranus. The one keeping a seat warm for Anakin, who was ripening so nicely. Really coming along.

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this came to me in a dream

luke hull, the production designer of andor, says it is a very visually light show, and he’s not wrong, but it is deeply interesting to me how the brightest and lightest part of andor is the empire.  in most other star warses, the empire is depicted as, well, dark; it’s vader’s looming shadow, the grimly lit death star. the empire is a creature of malice and hatred, a Bad force led by the shadowy darkness of palpatine - the empire reflects its morals and character. this is an effective way of queuing in to an audience primed by a lifetime of light versus dark good versus bad metaphors the situation at hand; in anh the tantive is visually very white, vader brings a darkness (literally) in with him. the light in star wars is the rebellion - leia’s pure white dress, mon’s r1 and rotj garb, luke’s white outfit. they are the hope, and so they are the lightest points of the movie. the rebel hq is white, blindingly so - look, you get my point.  in andor, however, this is flipped. luthen’s fondor is often shadowy and greyish, mon gives her speech disavowing the empire a primarily grey colourscape, the radio tower to luthen on ferrix is dark, the backroom of the gallery is dark, but the empire is a blindingly sterile white again and again and again. narkina-5, the isb building, dedra’s flat. it’s a very deliberate brightness, one that contrasts with the more naturalistic lighting at play in rebel-led scenes and places; the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. the empire has to continually signal its presence, has to continually signal what it claims to offer; Light, Order, Reason. it’s an inescapable brightness, a pervasive presence. you can retreat into the shadows but not the light.  and at the same time, that pretence is so deeply hollow! there’s a clinical aspect to the light of the empire, a constant oppressive artifice to it; it smothers mon in the embassy, isb uniforms and stormtrooper armour has to be perfectly smooth and pressed, in contrast to the aforementioned rebels. dedra’s torture of bix strips the bright and clinical facade away, revealing the empire not as a medical organisation, treating the illnesses of the galaxy, but as a cruel creature, fed by and greedy for the desire for power and control and harm that those that make it up embody. dedra and the false light of the empire are symbionts; in the light she must be composed (as the empire demands of its subjects), it is only in the dark that she can be vulnerable. the light is more intuitive than the dark, but that is the exact framing that andor’s empire relies upon. it is easier to comply than to resist, but that light is false and cold and will burn you in time.

Sometimes I just think about how Breha always wears her hair up on a braid. How it was said that it was a tradition for Alderaanians, especially for the monarch, to wear braids.

How the first time we see Leia, she is not wearing her hair braided, but after Alderaan is destroyed, she starts braiding them. For the rest of the trilogy, she has braids in pretty much every scene she is in.

How most of the time, she wears her hair exactly like her mother used to.

I just think about that, sometimes. If she ever looked at herself in the mirror when she did her hair, and tried her hardest to make it look like Breha used to. If she ever looked at herself, her hair braided into a crown, just to see a glimpse of her mother looking back at her.

I think about that, sometimes.

I am in full Tales of the Underworld mode

Revisited my punk Maul and Ventress designs from some years ago <3

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

"So what do I sacrifice? Everything." ANDOR (2022-2025) ROGUE ONE (2016)

Rest assured that even after years of this, Maul still calls her "Kenobi"

[COMMISSIONS]

Last year I made the young version of this ship in my sapphic au depicting them in their first encounter as a one night stand in a shitty hotel room before TPM... And now the diptych is complete ! Here they are near the end of their relationship just before ANH :) two old ladies living together in a shack on tatooine (link to a post explaining how we got here with obimaul)

There is still plenty to explore with these two, a lot of angst mainly fjfkkf but they do have a happy ending, and here it is ! Well at least Maul does

Process below and AU recap vvv

Anyway I thought maybe adding these quick overview of the au at the end might be easier than to link to the og post

Every time I draw Maul I give her a cute little face, that I then have to cover up with tattoos >:( it gives her kinda the same expression every time and my life is hell

I'm back in the fucking building again, happy may the 4th everyone

PS : never forget this is t4t <3