tolightamatch:

spicyshimmy:

actually to be honest i bet jim decides early on that a fistbump is the perfect solution to not being able to high-five spock because it requires no finger-to-finger contact–the realization just comes to him, a moment of inspired clarity and genius–and that’s how he pitches it to spock, as a way of engaging in a fundamentally human social practice modified to take vulcan sensibilities into consideration

so after that, after successful away missions or diplomatic meetings, when spock’s theories are correct or jim pulls something crazy off, jim holds out a fist and spock bumps it with his own, and it’s one of those little ways in which jim is constantly adapting in order to show spock there is a place for the in-betweeners

the first time bones sees it happen, though, he almost chokes on his tongue

No but, ok, watch it unironically take off among Vulcans and their close human and other hand-touching species because it really is a good middle ground?

notbecauseofvictories:

white-throated-packrat
replied to your post “in another universe, beru whitesun lars and queen breha organa of…”

oh, Han would be so intimidated when Beru and Breha turned to look consideringly at him. Chewbacca would roar with laughter.

it is a truth universally acknowledged that han solo is a freewheeling fast-talking smuggler who never met a law he couldn’t flout and answers to no one

……..riiiight up until the moment an older woman looks at him severely, at which point he folds up like a bunch of flimsi and goes biddable and harmless as a kitten. He holds out for a while against breha, because he’s a corellian, godsdamn it, they don’t recognize any kriffing royalty, and the obvious noblesse of Her Majesty, Queen Breha Organa, Dukesa of House Antilles, Prinsesa of Aldera, Jewel of the Core, rankles him.

(he doesn’t hold out very long, because breha is terrifying but she is also leia’s mother, and it’s hard to like one without liking the other. plus, she plays a mean hand of sabacc.)

but han is sold on beru whitesun lars from day one, when she patted his hand in that dingy mos eisley cantina. he calls her ma’am without a trace of irony in his voice and gave up his bunk to her on the way to yavin and cloud city. (she was hardly the only one who slept there, but leia wasn’t about to ask permission and luke fell asleep there more often than not, talking to leia or beru. beru was the only one invited.)

luke and leia have agreed it’s probably because han lacked a strong maternal figure in his childhood. 

shut up, han told the both of them, wiping away a smudge on the teapot with his sleeve and then fussing with the pair of chipped cups chewie managed to find somewhere in the hold. I don’t have a thing about mothers.

notbecauseofvictories:

LIKE beru whitesun is 7th generation free and owen lars is only 3rd, but then, owen is a landowner, which gave him special status among a community of mostly tenant farmers and laborers.

the fact that they were officially married was another status symbol—there were lots of husbands and wives on tatooine but beru and owen had the republican-stamped signatory that cost a shameful number of credits and weeks of waiting for the correct forms to process and the registry to audit for fraud. (it was common, especially on outer rim planets, to register false bonds for the purposes of collecting on benefits the republic extended to family units. senator palpatine had worked very hard to tighten those regulations, it had been the crowning achievement of his 9th session.)

but at the same time, they’re raising a second-generation kid called ‘skywalker’, which no one would mistake for a family name—’skywalker’ is something a scared pregnant slave girl picks at twenty-four, when she wants to give her child something, anything, and there’s nothing else. (at some point, beru stops gently suggesting luke could call himself ‘lars’ every time he comes home with a mulish look and a fat lip.)

and luke carries it all with him—han’s never seen the kid as white-knuckled furious as the first time han mentions he’s technically sort of one of jabba’s goons. it takes leia a few days to talk luke around, and then only because han swears up and down he was never involved in the water trade, just spice and information.

(’water export?’ leia had asked, when luke mentioned it. ‘tatooine is a desert planet, wasn’t every drop needed—’

‘yes,’ luke spat bitterly, and that was the end of that.)

……………….honestly though luke skywalker grew up less than a 150 klicks from where his father was raised, anakin wouldn’t have recognized the features of his life.

lurkingcrow:

forcearama:

I’d be totally willing to buy this. 😄

Ok but how many younglings do you think ended up missing his point and stalking Yoda through those dim Temple corridors to catch him glowing? 😁

meripihka7:

priscellie:

thefalconawakens:

bystander3:

Can you imagine?

You are moping on your island of self-imposed exile, and then this girl shows up.

• She’s flying your best friend’s ship. The ship that Han thought he lost for ever. The ship that was stolen and passed through so many hands that he was sure he’d never see it again. The same ship that took you away from home for the first time.
• She’s accompanied by your personal droid. The droid you left behind and abandoned. The droid that C-3PO was sure would never be the same again.
• She holds out her hand and she’s holding your father’s light saber. The sword you were sure was lost forever. The light saber that you dropped down a bottomless air shaft on a gas giant thirty years ago. The light saber you knew you would never see again.
• You look up and you see her eyes. Maz Kanata says that if you live long enough, you see the same eyes looking out of different faces. The girl’s face is different, but those eyes are the same. You know those eyes. They’re the eyes you thought you’d never see again.

And that’s when you know it.

You’re screwed.

They say sometimes the Force works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, the Force will send you little signs. Subtle clues.

Other times, the Force will just beat you repeatedly over the head with a gigantic neon sign that says: “You can’t run away from your past anymore, Luke. I won’t let you. Look, here is your past come back to haunt you. Now deal with it.”

You have no idea how much I adore this post with my whole being

I like the idea of the Force sending Luke little signs over the years that it’s time to return to his loved ones, gently increasing in intensity as he ignores them, until it finally gets fed up and shoves the events of Episode 7 into motion, finishing with a flourish of HERE’S YOUR NEW APPRENTICE, SPACE HOBO.

Aided and abetted by the ghost trio, I imagine. Especially since he did not look at all surprised.

Obi-Wan and Yoda sending him dreams and whispers for 15 years, before an exasperated Anakin pushed them aside “Excuse me, but you two are not very good at dealing with Skywalkers and have amply demonstrated that fact over the decades. We don’t do subtle. *appears giant-size over the sky* That’s it, Luke, we’re sending you all the things! So PULL YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, SON!!”

fihli:

common sense, doing the right thing, being a good person, fixing his life, a self-help book, atoning for his sins, apologizing to his mother