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sorry he bit you. It’s his coping mechanism

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I’m buying this shit ASAP when it comes out ONG!!

More Supernatural Tarot + Full Deck Update

Getting closer to a full deck, I’m going to try and have preorders open in a week or two.

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Inventing Mando culture head canons because I’m bored, need some more culture for them and I’m a damn sucker.

But! I came up with this idea of “Home Sleep” and a reinterpretation of “Death Watch.”

Since the Mandalorians are VERY focused on home and belonging despite the fact that they’re very odd-job based.(At least for the moment) I’ve realized—also after watching a bunch of undercover operative stories on YouTube. That being away for long periods of time fucks you up. ESPECIALLY if they’re out routinely. It upsets your family life, your rituals, health, and other relationships.

So, Home Sleep. The phenomenon where Mandalorians on bounty runs return home once a month to sleep in their own beds. (I imagine it’d be important enough to “drop everything and run” but I think they’d have more tact than that. Probably like more of a “urgently wrap it up” type situation.)

It’s not only to ground themselves in their reality but as a cultural necessity. A way to know that they’re alive and still share their allegiance. And also to assess their mental state, their health and other matters.

It also makes a PERFECT trope idea for Din Djarin to appear inexplicably once a month to his chosen partner like a puppy out in the cold. Lmfaoooo

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Now, Death Watch. It’s certainly an awesome name but I haven’t found much reason for the Death Watch group to be called that. And after making the Home Sleep I found a place for it to come from.

So, obviously there would be bounties or other matters that take a hell of a lot of time—more than a month. You can’t always drop everything to go home, I understand this.

In that case, maybe the Mandalorian would undertake a “Death Watch.” A sort of accepted state outside of the Mandalorian culture where they’re gone for a sometimes undefined amount of time—extremely close to an exile.

Culturally it could be explained that the Mandalorian in question goes into a culturally “dead” state where they can exist out of their societal rituals and confines such as Home Sleep or other restrictions that would inhibit their job. Essentially a religious “blind eye.”

I also have imagined a group salute to send them off. A double tap on the chest with a closed fist, then a wide half circle until another double tap on the chest. It would be repeated till the end of the reciting of a scripture or a written acceptance of their departure. This action would mimic the slowing of a heart beat until their metaphorical “death.”

The above ritual is meant as a pre-forgiveness of their Death Watch/Exile. Really, the Mandalorian equivalent of a hug from friends/family before you board your plane and they don’t see you for an unpredictable amount of time.

And so, the Death Watch gang would be named after the fact that they’re all “outside” of their societal confines. Basically in a form of self exile to try to win back Mandalor. Very simple and to the point like a certain Mandalorian I know.

(—You can add this to your canon if you’d like but; The salute made me think of a possible scene where Bo Kataan is leaving to join the Death Watch in a fury and Satine performs the Death Watch Salute to see her off anyway. Like a “you’re always welcome here,” without actually saying it. :’)) Bo of course wouldn’t reciprocate it, as is customary. But she would hesitate—and leave anyway, BUT SHE WOULD HESITATE!!)

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Pretty damn close.

Honestly, even writing a fic where Grogu is abandoned(Atreus style, from God of War) and Din is absolutely heart SHATTERED that his baby had a major character arc without him.

It’s.. well, it’s good too!

Listening to the Tarzan soundtrack while drawing Din and Grogu is a kind of therapy

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leia organa truly has one of the best bait-and-switch character introductions of all time because when you meet her she's this brave, stoic picture of elegance and justice and always knows just what to say to vader and tarkin and is clad in white like an angel and is this perfect two-dimensional archetype of pureness of heart. and then approximately half an hour later into the film she meets luke and han and she IMMEDIATELY shows her true colors as a sarcastic, bitchy control freak with a massive impulsive streak and a deep mine of hyperspecific insults. 10/10 character design i'm obsessed with her

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i thought about the complete lack of satine in mando s3 again and i got so annoyed i had to make a comic

(commission info // tip jar!)

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I had the most WONDERFUL crack idea the other day that the Nameless/Shrii-Ka-Rai are just Mandalorian vermin/street rats.

They only fuck with the force sensitive folks(on a cosmic scale) so like.. what if the Mandalorians are like;

“The Leveler? FORCE eater? That’s a fuckin’ uh.. Hutt’ika!” (little Hutt. I named it after the fact that the Mandalorians hate the Hutts AND they’re born as sludge-like creatures.)

I imagine they’re like tripe(cow’s fourth stomach. A popular pauper food) in the way that they’re super easy to access. The Planet X thing would probably be the reason the Leveler and its siblings got so huge and unmanageable in the first place.

I also just think it’d be fucking hilarious to have Din Djarin be like “You’re afraid of a Hutt’ika… you. The space wizard.” If he and Luke ever happened upon them (kinda like that whole Sith Statue-Space station debacle. Lmao)

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“i‘m sorry anakin, for all of it“

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Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s my other Skywalker Twins comic all in one post!

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i had a 4 hour drive today so i put on the revenge of the sith audiobook and the part where palpatine tells anakin to kill dooku came on right around the time that i saw a cybertruck and for a brief and beautiful moment when he said "do it" i had the urge to ram my honda full on into that shitty ass car

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Gender affirming sturgeonry

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I too revel in the Twink!Luke tag(What’s up fellow Dinluke shippers) but as a serious character…

He’s just like his momma. If Padme were allowed a normal childhood and life? He’s his mama’s baby through and through.

I KNOW I KNOW! “Leia and Luke are like both of their parents, blah, blah—“ BUT LUKE IS THE MOST LIKE HIS MOMMA!! M’KAY? OKAY! THEY HAVE THE SAME EXCITED FACE AND THE SAME DISAPPOINTED FACE!

(Those casting directors may have been on crack but it was at least the good SNL shit this go around)

I’m also a huge fan of Senator Luke Skywalker ideas so…

I’m not an unbiased party in the least

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I just realized I have to do a mass unfollowing and filter shit from said episode…

Work… on the hellsite….

WHY THE FUCK CAN’T I DO FIRE TEXT ANYMORE

Coming back to tumblr after that long as fuck manic depressive episode is so weird.

I’m like a whole adult now, I pay taxes and shit.

Wow.

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I have ulterior motives though, don’t get me wrong.

My friends have banned me from spamming the discord about my incredibly sudden interest in Din Djarin and the Star Wars canon.

Haha, now y’all get my shit again 🖕

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Coming back to tumblr after that long as fuck manic depressive episode is so weird.

I’m like a whole adult now, I pay taxes and shit.

Wow.

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I have ulterior motives though, don’t get me wrong.

My friends have banned me from spamming the discord about my incredibly sudden interest in Din Djarin and the Star Wars canon.

Haha, now y’all get my shit again 🖕

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163/327 (KO-FI♡)

S8E14, “Trial and Error”

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“for you, i’d steal the stars.”