Star Wars Original Trilogy - Blog Posts

I was today years old when I discovered that Obi-Wan Kenobi's name didn't mean "no one, child of no clan" in canon.

IT'S FANON. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

According to Google...

(To my defense, I have watched the main 6 movies and nothing else. EVERYTHING else I know about Star Wars is from fanfiction.)

my kitchen pipes are fucked and so I have to clean all my dishes and clothes in the bathtub and I honestly feel like either a miner's widow in D12 tryna earn some income or a very poor sentient who's in the rebellion and showing everyone how to make do without electricity

Stars Wars Fanon Overtime

So I was thinking a lot about how Star Wars fanon must have changed overtime right? like New Hope came out in the late 70s and Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi in the early 80s. I can't help but wonder what people thought of these characters when the movies were first coming out. Like before Anakin and Vader were revealed to be the same person what did people think happened between Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Vader? What did people think happened during the Clone Wars. How did people think the empire came about.

And then when the Vader/Anakin twist did happen how did that change/impact the narrative people had come up with at the time. How did they reinterpret Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan's relationship. What did they think the Jedi Order was like? What was the theories they held about how the force worked? After it was reveled that Leia and Luke were twins how did the story fans crafted within their communities change?

How did people think Anakin fell to the the dark side? What do they think were the triggers to the change? What was pre-prequel Anakin Skywalker like?

Padme's name or backstory isn't even revealed until the prequels! How did fans fill in the gaps? What were the names she was commonly given? What did they think she looked like? What was her personality like? How did they think she and Anakin fell in love? When did they think it happened? What were the common ways she died (if they thought she was dead)?

So I guess what I'm asking is if there are any old school Star Wars fans on this hellsite please tell me!

Do you think Luke noticed that there was at least 20 identical men in the rebellion or do you think someone had to point it out to him

Love thinking about what the Ghost crews reaction to Lando Calrissian joining the rebellion and becoming a general was

Fucking Wilhuff Tarkin apparently??: So, do you know why I called you here?

TK-421: Because I accidentally sent you a holo with my mask off?

Tarkin: *Stops pouring 2 glasses of space wine* Accidentally?

hii, my names asteria and i genuinely have no idea what im doing but i love star wars and absolutely anything star wars related and I recently started attempting to write on ao3 (it’s a slow process lol)

i genuinely don’t know if people even introduce themselves on here or not but i thought i would anyway, but some of my favourite things in relation to star wars rn is rebels, clone wars, prequels and originals so anything to do with any of those i go MAD over like omghfkskshs

What Is Star Wars To You?

Hey, everybody!!!! I'm working on a rewrite of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and I'm trying to get lots of people's thoughts on what Star Wars is to them and what really makes Star Wars *Star Wars*, ya know?

I'm really curious, because for me, most of Disney's Star Wars content has really just not felt like Star Wars. I really did not like the sequel trilogy or most of the live action shows, but I absolutely adore TCW, TBB, and Andor, because they all really hit whatever it is that is Star Wars to me.

Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts!! Also, no hate to anyone who does love the sequel trilogy or other Disney Star Wars content, I would love to hear what it is about it that makes you love it and makes it feel like Star Wars to you!

I don't have my alcohol markers so you guys get an uncoloured sneak peak at some more rebel AU doodles

I wonder who that Mikkian is...

*Throws rebel fighter pilot Quasar at you and runs away*

When your future boyfriend decides to shoot his shot at the end of your professional call and ask if he can jump on the ship

Instead of "You look lonely, I can fix that" Leyc probably said "Ey you lonely fucker, want me to join ya this time?" but does it really matter what he says, it's gay anyway

Leyc with a little baby mohawk has me both in a chokehold and dying from laughter

The reverence Luke has for his first lightsaber is so funny in retrospect, as if that wasn't his father's twenty-seventh lightsaber after breaking or losing all the ones before (we won't even get into the fact it's also the Youngling Slayer 9000), and kept it safe for over three years as his most sacred object.

Meanwhile, Anakin is just:

I see your Padme as a force ghost in her flowing funeral gown with flowers in her hair and i raise you, force ghost Padme in her hospital gown.

Since early childhood Padme has always been painted and decorated and a lot of that comes from Naboo’s culture. But as someone else put it, there’s an intense kind of body horror in a 14 year old girl repeatedly having to change outfits and put on heavy makeup and wigs while her entire planet is under seige.

For that to continue into death feels unfair to her. Let her be in her bloody hospital gown with sweat plastering her hair to her forehead and red swollen eyes, tear tracks down her cheeks. Let her not have to maintain her image after fucking dying. Let her be angry and bitter and want people, want her husband to see her pain.

Let Vader look at his wife’s ghost and see that although she didn’t die directly by his hand, she still suffered and she’s not trying to hide it from anyone.

Here’s an obi wan edit for you guys! Enjoy!

I’m working on an Ahsoka edit rn and I should be able to have it out by later today

Anyway may the force be with you

Anakin skywalker in the kenobi series

No context needed just luke skywalker😊

The picture says it all

May the force be with you

elias bouchard and emperor palpatine would either be evil besties or absolutely hate each other change my mind

original trilogy luke headcanons because i am in love with him and i said so

pinky holder. like he’s big on any kind of touch to the hands, but he likes locking pinkies. subtle, and cute

ANH! Luke is a big nuzzler. If there’s a moment where you’re just hugging him, he’ll just nuzzle into your hair, neck, wherever he can reach

ESB! Luke is similar, i believe, however, ROTJ! Luke isn’t a nuzzler, he’s the type to pick where his head rests and just leave it there, plant it and stay there

Luke is a big fan of touch, he’s most comfortable with PDA in the ESB! era and least so in ROTJ! he’s just a bigger fan of showing you affection in private

Luke WILL dance with you. he has two left feet and no idea what he’s doing, but he WILL

as i mentioned before, he’s hands-on. kissing, holding, whatever. he has a hand on your cheek, the back of your neck, your hand, hips or waist. he just like knowing you’re there

he’s a big fan of words of affirmation, over the trilogy his praise goes from overly enthusiastic hugs and “I knew you could do it!”s (ANH!) to soft hand squeezes and “I’m so proud of you”s (ROTJ!)

WE KNOW HE’S FASHIONABLE. if you don’t know what to wear he will. ask him.

ESB! Luke always demands he’s with you on missions. he trusts you, of course, but he likes having you in his line of sight to know you’re alright.

he really likes his hair being played with, it relaxes him no matter what era you’re talking about

HAS PUPPY MANNERISMS. little head tilts when he’s confused, looking around at all the people in the room to gauge, and (for ANH! and ESB!) excitedly greeting you when you return home

he always smells nice, like a fresh TIE-fighter or clear mountain air (mr refreshing reference? anyone? no?)

VERY PLAYFUL, i don’t even care the era, Luke is a tease

you may say his wingwoman/wingman is Leia, or Han, but no, it’s R2. he constantly bumps you into each other, gets you in the same room, makes comments C-3PO thinks best not to interpret.

ROTJ! Luke is big on Acts of Service, he loves doing things to help you out

okay um thats all i got im running out of steam. i hope you enjoyed! i might just put um a request list for my fanbases but i do have schoolwork unfortunately. however, let me know any of your thoughts, have a good day!

a moment for the A New Hope hair everybody 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Saw this and had to do it with some of my favorite Star Wars characters >:]

💫 Queen Amidala💫

I finished reading Queen’s Peril recently so I felt inspired to draw Padmé again <3 the pose is based off the girl with the pearl earring

if padme had lived she would’ve started the rebellion and torn down the empire before the twins turned 7 and that is a fact.

anyways more poc starwars !! because yes

the last organa

HER MAJESTY 😌

piloting lessons 💫

we should’ve gotten more jedi leia 😩

The 12 Pains of Life day

I drew this a few years ago for Christmas

I traced Cody, Tie Fighters, Stormtrooper, and some of Droids

I drew this for art class homework a few years ago

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨

I can’t make gifs either someone do this because seriously it’s an amazing vision! Y’all we need this to be made!

Super obsessed with Taylor Swift’s “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” and really wishing that I knew how to make gifsets (or had time to learn), because if I did, I would absolutely be making a gifset of Luke Skywalker in the OT with the lyrics of this song.

In fact, I’m so obsessed with this idea that I’m going to storyboard it out and hope that an actual gifmaker gets inspired and makes this a reality, LOL:

Frame 1:

Text: ‘Cause I’m a real tough kid / I can handle my shit

Gif: Luke flying the Death Star trench run and/or making the shot that blows up the Death Star

Frame 2:

Text: They said, “babe, you gotta fake it ‘til you make it” / And I did

Gif: Luke hugging Leia and Han after blowing up the Death Star

Frame 3:

Text: Lights, camera, bitch, smile / Even when you want to die

Gif: Luke and Leia smiling at each other during the Yavin medal ceremony

Frame 4:

Text: He said he’d love me for all time

Gif: Anakin smiling at Padme after she tells him she’s pregnant

Frame 5:

Text: But that time was quite short

Gif: Vader cuts Luke’s hand off in ESB

Frame 6:

Text: Breaking down I hit the floor / All the pieces of me shattered

Gif: Luke writhing in agony as Palpatine electrocutes him

Frame 7:

Text: As the crowd was chanting, “MORE”

Gif: Shot of Palpatine himself as he electrocutes Luke with Force lightning

Frame 8:

Text: I was grinning like I’m winning / I was hitting my marks

Gif: Leia and Luke smiling at each other on Endor right after he’s seen the Force ghosts

Frame 9:

Text: ‘Cause I can do it with a broken heart

Gif: Luke’s face as he watches Vader’s armor burn on the funeral pyre

DO YOU SEE MY VISION?

yes there's a lot of things to criticize about Star Wars but one thing i will always love it for is being so unabashedly tragic

i'm sure it's been said before, but one of the main things i think powers the SW fandom (fics in particular) is the (in)evitability of it all

time travel fix-its are one of the most popular sub-categories of fics that i've seen (for the prequels at least) but i see it much more rarely in other fandoms. i know each fandom has their own niches that they dig into but star wars fic writers took one look at this decades long story of people who were doomed from the start and said 'not in my house bitch'

and i'm never tired of it, because there's so many places where just one different action could have changed the story entirely, but didn't

was it over the moment Palpatine succeeded in feeding Anakin's fears and his distrust toward the Jedi? the moment the Sith gained control of the senate? what about when the war started, when the Jedi were made generals of men designed to be their executioners? what about when Dooku left the order? when Qui-Gon Jinn died, leaving barely-knighted Obi Wan Kenobi to raise a child he had no idea how to care for? when the Jedi massacred the Mandalorians at Galidraan, leaving Jango Fett primed (hah) for revenge? when Palpatine, and thus the Sith, first gained influence? when the Jedi were tied to the Republic, all the way back at the Ruusan Reformation?

there are so many little moments that turn into this huge web of cause and effect when you take a step back. and in canon, these characters are dooming themselves while we watch, but what reason do they have to do anything different? they don't know they're in a tragedy - its dramatic irony at its goddamn finest

but there's this thing about decisions: for it to be a choice, there has to be another option. and our heroes make their mistakes because that's what they do, while we aren't privy to that other option, leaving that little what-if. it's a favorite human pastime, to think about what might have been.

we start at episode 4, though, fourty or so years after what you could arguably call the start, and find ourselves watching the dominoes fall in place throughout 1, 2, and 3.

and we can hate the choices, hate the tragedy, hate what happened to our beloved characters, but we knew. we had the luxury of knowing.

it's a love story, it's political intrique, it's sci-fi at its finest, and they were dead from the start.