I recently renamed my Discord server to SW Creatives originally SW Writers. When I first made it, it was a place so I could connect with fellow writers and readers beyond just fic comments and tumblr reblogs. I’m happy the server has continued and has brought in other creative people as well. So to reflect that, I decided to change the name so it was more inclusive. Really it’s a place for people who like Star Wars to hang out (especially if you like the OT and PT and Dad Vader), and if you’re creative or not! But it’s become a great place to share ideas, WIPs, get suggestions, provide ideas, encourage, talk, chat, and all that good stuff. 

https://discord.gg/Z3fgVMx

(If the link doesn’t work, let me know.)

Across the Stars: An Anidala / Vaderdala SW Discord Server

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https://discord.gg/9rq5KqgxEE

The best thing about being an artist is that you can draw what you want. Until you can't draw it. Then it's horrible being an artist.

Some family time

HELLO, 911?  I JUST WITNESSED A STRAIGHT-UP MURDER

Cal has zero chill and will tell everyone who breathes in his direction that he’s a Jedi please and thank

Kid has no self preservation instincts

may the fourth be with you ♥️

Every time I think about, “Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend.” I start laughing because IT HAPPENED LIKE TWELVE YEARS AGO and THE ONLY PEOPLE THERE WERE SIDIOUS AND PLAGUEIS like there’s no way for the Jedi to even know this story existed, it’s not a millennia old tale, it was INCREDIBLY RECENT and they were Sith Lords IN HIDING, yet Palpatine just says that entire story with his whole chest like Anakin’s never going to go go the Jedi and say, “Hey, what’s up with never telling me about that Sith Legend Darth Plagueis?” so the Jedi can go “who the fuck is Darth Plagueis????” and Palpatine is RIGHT, Anakin’s brain is just like a hamster on a squeaky wheel, “oh okay I don’t know enough to tell if that’s true or not but I’m just gonna believe it”.  ABOUT A STORY THAT HAPPENED A DECADE AGO, NOT SOME ANCIENT HISTORY.  The absolute gall of Sheev Palpatine, there will never be another villain like him, he’s the bestworst.

#the funniest part about it for me is that it’s probably not even that uncommon of a story with the Sith#say Anakin did go demand the Jedi tell him about this#they’d tell him they’ve never heard of a Plagueis but sure lots of Sith were convinced they’d found the secrets of immortality#never worked out for them#and getting murdered in their sleep by their apprentice? a dime a dozen with the Sith#“the chancellor is probably just conflating various stories about historical Sith…wait why was he talking about Sith legends anyway?” (via @jedi-order-apologist) I am crying at the idea that Jocasta Nu, after being asked by a manic Anakin Skywalker about the Darth Plagueis legend, says she doesn’t know anything about that name, but she does have a dozen other stories about various elements that sound halfway familiar, so perhaps this is an amalgamation of various other stories, and she dumps like TWENTY VOLUMES of encyclopedias about the Sith in Anakin’s lap and says, okay, everything you need to know is in these books.  And Anakin is saved from diving face first into the dark side through the power of him falling asleep in the third volume in the middle of the Jedi Archives because a) he hasn’t slept in a week and b) they’re not nearly as exciting as he thought they’d be.  Jocasta just drapes a cloak over his shoulders and leaves him be with a soft pat to his back, he looks like he needed the rest.

#the idea of jocasta being like ‘hmm yes im afraid the chancellor only has a layman’s understanding of sith legends’ is soooo funny (via @gil-estel) Jocasta’s reaction to hearing about Sheev’s story being, “Those citations sound like complete shit.” is absolutely sending me.  If you can’t properly cite your sources, Jocasta Nu isn’t buying your bullshit, Sidious.

#peer reviewed ✌️ #(unlike palpatine) (via @gil-estel) Jocasta submitting Palpatine’s “story” for peer review, which leads to the uncovering that he’s the Sith Lord because they have to look into his sources, is THE funniest way for the Jedi to find out about him being Darth Sidious.

Anger man

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the queen and her shadow

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what fresh hell is this?

Well, this is a new one. Haven’t seen this yet, but we’ll see…

Sorry for the wait to everyone who’s been waiting to see some Vader art. Vader is one of those characters that needs ‘muscle building’ It’s been a year since I’ve really drawn him, so, gotta get the feel for him again. I’m also trying to build a particular style with him, much like I did with Serverus.

I hope you all like Admiral Piett too, cause out of every imperial, he’s my favorite.

Everyone should read their own fanfics recreationally tbh this shit fucking rules. It's like the author knows exactly what I like.

one thing that always sticks out at me in fandom discourse is this assumption that ‘quantity of fanworks about a thing’ is equivalent to ‘how much people care about the thing’ which I always find a bit ?? bcos for me it’s always been like

#oversimplified but basically correct#the other element is ‘how much space in this world is there to play with’#which doesn’t correlate directly to quality or level of love for the thing 

YES THIS! I mean, I loved The Goblin Emperor and have reread it three times, I loved the Chalion books, Discworld… but whether or not I love a thing has very little to do with whether it offers purchase for my scrabbling little fannish claws. There needs to be a crack in the plot for that, something left to explore or a possibility ignored, and it needs to be the right *kind* of possibility for the kind of fanworks I want to create, too.

Fandom LOVES a fixer-upper

#sometimes you get a lovely house #and maybe you putter around a bit and paint the bathroom #but not much #and sometimes #you stand there going ‘well this house has Good Bones but some idiot covered it with bad carpet and tried to make it an open floor plan’ #and you have to get out the Sledgehammer of AUs and the Belt Sander of Consistent Characterization (via @beradan)

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Canon? What canon?

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