Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Well this is rather unprecedented!! Been a while since I posted a video, and part of that was Life, part of that was my computer being short on memory (hence screwing up my video editor) but my sister and I got into Star Wars recently and now I'm pumped for The Force Awakens.
So, quickly now… why Luke Skywalker? He's a simple boy with a far-flung dream to be something more than what his life was back home. He's struck by tragedy at every turn and comes out of it a grown man, but still so very vulnerable. He's good, convicted, wide-eyed, powerful… and through it all, still a child looking for a mentor, a confidant, a father. In the end it is his unadulterated, truly unconditional love that brings him to accept, love, and change his father, Darth Vader. The mythic power, angst, and Shakespearean glory is astounding. Ugh.
I'm also really in love with the concept of the Force and how much mythology George Lucas put into his world. Like Tolkien, he created a universal story that fits the template of all great Myth and thus created the SW phenomenon that we have today. As for the Force, it was meant to have universal elements of all faiths and right now I love having that spiritual component suffused in this world.
❝ about the vid
The song is all me. Lately I've been feeling like I need to get out and DO something with my life. So a lot of my online hiatus has been in reading, watching stuff, trying to capture all the culture I feel I missed. I have big dreams, and I want to one day fill the hole in my heart with all the things I always said I'd be. This is the first time I've used caption words like this; I'm excited. I just love the feels we threw into this in general.
❝ credits
song: Warrior by Paradise Fears
footage: Star Wars Episodes 4-6
Well this is rather unprecedented!! Been a while since I posted a video, and part of that was Life, part of that was my computer being short on memory (hence screwing up my video editor) but my sister and I got into Star Wars recently and now I'm pumped for The Force Awakens.
So, quickly now… why Luke Skywalker? He's a simple boy with a far-flung dream to be something more than what his life was back home. He's struck by tragedy at every turn and comes out of it a grown man, but still so very vulnerable. He's good, convicted, wide-eyed, powerful… and through it all, still a child looking for a mentor, a confidant, a father. In the end it is his unadulterated, truly unconditional love that brings him to accept, love, and change his father, Darth Vader. The mythic power, angst, and Shakespearean glory is astounding. Ugh.
I'm also really in love with the concept of the Force and how much mythology George Lucas put into his world. Like Tolkien, he created a universal story that fits the template of all great Myth and thus created the SW phenomenon that we have today. As for the Force, it was meant to have universal elements of all faiths and right now I love having that spiritual component suffused in this world.
❝ about the vid
The song is all me. Lately I've been feeling like I need to get out and DO something with my life. So a lot of my online hiatus has been in reading, watching stuff, trying to capture all the culture I feel I missed. I have big dreams, and I want to one day fill the hole in my heart with all the things I always said I'd be. This is the first time I've used caption words like this; I'm excited. I just love the feels we threw into this in general.
❝ credits
song: Warrior by Paradise Fears
footage: Star Wars Episodes 4-6




![Sᴛᴀʀ Tʀᴇᴋ TOS [ ᴋιʀᴋ ͜ sᴘᴏᴄᴋ ͡mᴄcᴏʏ ] ✶ ℊalaхιeѕ
RIP Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015, a man of gentleness, wisdom, and humanity.
Well this is sure coming out of nowhere! I never even mentioned before how Star Trek was an old fandom of mine, alight some 8 years ago. The news of Nimoys passing in February saddened me, then inspired me as I learned about his life. The old nostalgia came back, and since then Ive been so happy rediscovering this classic and the cast and crew behind it. Its chock-full of epic broship, humor, and quite insightful thematics. This vid was made to make up for the sorry shortage of Kirk/Spock/McCoy TOS videos out there. I ADORE this trios friendship, banter, and chemistry. The reboot films dont quite capture the balmy fun of The Original Series, but I totally dig the clever callbacks and in-references JJ Abrams submerged in them. And who can deny the old USS Enterprise all prettied up in CGI? ;)
❝ about the vid
Not my most nit-picked outing, I made this fairly quickly for my standards. Courtesy the song, which gave itself well to slap-dash editing. Ive been quite busy with Life that it was quite fun to make something up on the spur of the moment. The song is one of my favorites, honest with its joyful sound and yet equally a tragic and uplifting vignette of the Challenger shuttle explosion of January 28, 1986.
Also, apologies for not getting back to folks here. Job search and other first world concerns took time and energy. *sniff*
❝ credits
song: Galaxies by Owl City
footage: ST: The Original Series, Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, JJ Abrams Reboot and Into Darkness Sᴛᴀʀ Tʀᴇᴋ TOS [ ᴋιʀᴋ ͜ sᴘᴏᴄᴋ ͡mᴄcᴏʏ ] ✶ ℊalaхιeѕ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HS6Q2xu_4Mo/mqdefault.jpg)




![luke skywalker ✗ katniss || REBEL LOVE || crossover au [ TACWC ]
❝ hope is the only thing stronger than fear –– ❞
a star wars/hunger games crossover (hit the jump for the full story and vimeo link)
created for the AU/Crossover Wonderland Contest https://youtu.be/AUYIr4Kjf_I
VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/155854152
a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Tucked away in a system far on the Outer Rim lies a planet in which dwells the nation of Panem. Its citizens, channeled only by news fed by the Capitol, never know the extent of the galactic rebellion far outside its borders, or even the terrors wrought by the Empire. The Capitol has its own problems, keeping its twelve districts in check and its people in bondage.
Luke Skywalker, hero of the Rebellion, finds himself drawn, by fate, by chance, by the Force… to the planet. There he meets Katniss Everdeen and discovers the horror of the Hunger Games. Something inside him tells Luke that change is going to happen here, that a new hope will rise from the victims of the Games itself to defeat the Capitol. Saddled with destiny, he volunteers as tribute and joins Katniss in the 74th Hunger Games. She intrigues him, with her fire, her sadness, her tenacity. She wants no part of his mystic idealism but in the end he breaks her shell with a few shared blows in the training arena.
Love is not what either tribute bargained for. But in the Games they confront their feelings. Katniss learns to smile again and Luke almost forgets the vision he had long before, about destiny, about fate. She finds comfort and hope in his arms.
And then it happens. A gang of violent tributes rush in to attack Katniss. Luke defends her, and his love for her, his hatred of the system that had drained her of so much life forge in him a darkness that ends with the slaying of the remaining tributes by Lukes hand. Katniss is shocked. It is then that Lukes vision becomes clear. It was not him who was to change Panem, but her. She is the hope, the hero, of this rebellion. He has to leave; she begs him not to. But love cannot change the fact that he fears his own hand, that he is still not the Jedi that is impervious to the dark side. And he will not trust her life to what he is capable of.
❝ about the vid
First off, thanks to Catty and Michelle of the TACWC for making this awesome crossover contest! Theres only one other video on YT featuring these two (that Ive found).
A personal breakthrough… my first major masking/Adobe After Effects extravaganza!! My sis and I made it together, and we had an absolute ball creating such a fine-tooth story out of our clips. They were a beast to work with sometimes (that kiss *shakes fist*), but completely worth it for the moments of squee when we got some clips or VOs to snap together perfectly. And we got to vid Katniss at long last! Theres so many cool parallels between her and Luke, both of them heroes of their rebellions. Making this vid gave us a heap of sudden shippy feels. *heart eyes*
❝ credits
song: see end of video
footage: SW eps 4-6, THG, CF luke skywalker ✗ katniss || REBEL LOVE || crossover au [ TACWC ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K_A2zA3bVgI/mqdefault.jpg)
