As I’ve been posting old photos from my collection on here and my personal blog I’ve mentioned a few times that my favorite thing in the world is to buy historical photos/albums/diaries/etc. with little or no identification and try to track down clues about them.
I’ve received a few PMs (and get questioned often in real life) as to how I go about this, so I thought I would document the project I’m working on today to give people a basic idea of my process.
TODAY’S PROJECT…
is this “A Line A Day” five year diary which covers the years 1933-1937.
…..most of alderaan probably thought leia was a jedi anyway.
I mean, one minute the viceroy is a lauded senator and alderaan’s queen is childless, and the jedi are heroes, fighting a noble war against the separatists. Then suddenly the chancellor emperor is declaring that the jedi had to be cleansed, and senator organa slinks back to alderaan in unexplained semi-disgrace, and the queen has an infant daughter who is just Way Too Pale to be either bail or breha’s natural-born child
“an orphan,” the queen and viceroy of alderaan tell absolutely everyone.
“a jedi orphan,” absolutely everyone replies. “saved from the destruction of the jedi temple. where the jedi lived.”
“no no, just a regular normal orphan with nothing force-sensitive about her! what a silly idea, our daughter being a powerful jedi. are we even sure jedi really existed? emperor palpatine makes some good points, about them never having existed.“
“we literally have 700 hours of holonews footage that’s just viceroy organa hanging out on the warfront with a bunch of jedi.”
“I don’t recall that,” bail says cheerfully. “and neither does my daughter, who is force-sensitive as a box of bricks.”
(leia is eight when she dreams of her father in the war. he is holding a sword of fire, and he breathes too loudly, harsh in her ears—she is scared, and so she reaches for him, seeking comfort,and suddenly he turns on her. he is shadow and death and that awful sword of fire, not her father at all, and he says in a breath of smoke, who—?
she wakes up to her father’s arms, real and warm, cradling her to his chest. it was only a nightmare, bail says, as she cries. shh, it wasn’t real.)
”on alderaan, they say she was an orphan rescued from the destruction of the jedi temple,” general tarkin says. “that she is a jedi too.” the footage is grainy, but tarkin can make out the shape of her well enough, the princess throwing herself against the cell door. such dramatics.
“impossible,” darth vader says from beside tarkin. “I killed every child that breathed.”
OKAY BUT FRIENDS PICTURE THIS: ACTUAL WALKING MOUNTAIN QUI GON JINN TUCKING HIS TEENY TINY PADAWAN OBI UNDER HIS ARM AND BENEATH HIS CLOAK WHEN IT’S RAINING TO KEEP HIS SMOL SON SAFE AND WARM
Qui-Gon mane is certainly luscious however it presents some unique difficulties for missions–especially when your missions devolve into the utter mess Qui-Gon’s often do.
1. Qui-gon does NOT appreciate the looks he’s getting. You would think saving someones life deserves a little—just a little!!!–gratitude and respect. But it appears he Jedi dignity is as dead as that bounty hunter. Ugh politicians.
2. Qui-Gon hasn’t even seen a fresher in weeks. It was okay right up until the guerrilla fighters efforts to capture himself and the last member of the royal house doubled and then tripled. Unable to halt their wild flight through the country for anything, Qui-gon quickly lost patience with his unwashed hair. The Princess was very helpful with her comb and the strange braid a godsend in keeping the greasy strands of hair from touching his face and unable gather every plant particle he encounters.
3. Qui-Gon is rather fond of this style and ignores his tiny padawan’s giggling effortlessly.
4. Once again Qui-Gon and padawan have been living rough off the land and confounding the war party baying for Jedi blood that’s hunting them. This has been going on long enough that the local tyrant has grown bored and offered to open talks. It’s probably a trap. However he is a Jedi peace keeper and has a duty to preform. He does what he can to clean up before setting off.
5A Pirates. A blaster. There is nothing more to say because this fight is OVER.
5B “oooooooohhhh M A S T E R!”
6. Obi-Wan hates this mission. HATES IT. Ugh he hasn’t bathed in a week, and he is far more upset about that than the HUGE gundark baring down on him. Whatever, it just doesn’t know its dinner yet.
