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“Initiate Asajj, pay attention you must”

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Totally forgot the script for Dooku: Jedi Lost was out. Had to buy it for these gems alone.

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The Jedi Order had so many polycules

I know they had, I can feel that

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The Living Force how dare you be good now

Depa, who just spent the last half of the book being tortured, borrows Mace's lightsaber to go confront her torturer. Grim determined beat-up badass Depa with her Master's purple lightsaber mmmm. The Shatterpoint Lineage vibes in this book are everything.

Also, the baddie, Zilastra, hates Sifo-Dyas SO much, so cartoonishly. At one point, Depa unknowingly misgenders him (actually, it's not the first time I've noticed a Jedi using a universal "she" when speaking of an unknown Jedi's pronouns, I think Dooku does it too in either M&A or DJL?) and Zilastra is like "bitch. HE." But so funny. For like for 30 years she's done an Arya Stark list of just him in her head. I kind of hope she was sending him fucked up anon hate mail at the Jedi Temple and he's shrugging over them like "wow, the messages of doom from the Force are getting oddly weird and specific with it..."

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Soooo, how's your weekend??

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Soooo, how's your weekend??

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Hey Blue! Who is your absolute favorite character to draw?

Hey Jess! For now at least my absolute favourites to draw are certainly Ahsoka, Baheera and Jedi!Asajj

I have so many wips about them it's getting hard to actually finish them lol

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for the pallette challenge, sifo-dyas with THE depression, please??

Sifo - I've seen ten thousand ways we'll perish - Dyas.

He seems sweet!

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does Dooku still count as a Jedi for color attack zone? perhaps... in my wife fucking left me?

Glamnanor Jan "My Wife Fucking Left Me" Dooku

I can't decide if I spent more time on the colors or on fixing his eyebrows.

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Take a break from everyday life

Spring is here!

At last! It was still snowing the day before yesterday, but now spring is getting into full swing.

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For the ask post: now I'm curious, what is your NoTP?

.........Sidious/Dooku.

And that's not because I don't think it works. I think it works way too well. And that's not because of their age or whatever; I'm no coward, I love old man pussy.

I can see exactly the way it would go down.

I'll be doing something innocent - grocery shopping, perhaps. I reach for a jar of something simple and pure, like mayonnaise. Halfway to the jar, I close my eyes and it plays out disgustingly on my eyelids, haunting me with its likelihood and fuckedupery. Sith Dooku has the most lonely divorced energy, a dark well of inner neediness amid the corruption. Is there something psychosexual in his sunk cost fallacy relationship to his Master? Sidious loves fucking with and humiliating his apprentices. Maybe it was even part of how he tangled him in to begin with. I snap back to myself, reeling, the other denizens of the grocery store looking at me in concern - not understanding. They don't see what I see. The glass jar I was reaching for is broken at my feet.

No!!!!!! NoTP. Shut it down.

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@dapurinthos WONDERFUL analysis!

I almost tagged you for your thoughts in my original response because you are so amazing with this stuff and this is no exception!!

Yet as you say... in so many ways, all we are left with is questions.

And!! And. Speaking of questions. To those of you in the tags who are saying that I, Jess, should somehow "know" WHY the bed is this big?? I DO NOT KNOW.

For sex reasons?! I know about how sex works! What I do NOT know is what kind of theoretical sex he could be possibly having that would warrant a bed at least double or triple his already enormous height. Is he having sex with the Tirra taka?! Is he having sex with multiple clones of himself??

Actually I think @man-i-dunno is on to something with it being a holdover from his parents Count Gora and Anya's attempt to place as much distance as they could while still being technically sharing a marriage bed.

For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it’s my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It’s a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I’d vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn’t love the fic by then, I’ll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu’s depictions, he’s got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it’s fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he’s completely awkward about it. And it’s fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it’s that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku’s name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got “Dooku cleaned”

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

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Absolutely I could. In fact, I've been waiting my whole life for this. THE "Exquisite Pajamas!" I believe they're even available as an easter egg costume option in... one of SW video games, I can't remember which. I have so many questions. Who even ordered them for him?? Were they a gift from Jenza before he murdered her? Or did he procure them for himself, did he think "ah yes I must have the finest pajamas and I'll have them monogrammed, too, so I don't slip up and call myself either Darth Tyranus or Master Dooku." Speaking of the monogrammed "CD" - why is his title used as an initial? Did you notice he's wearing slippers in that whole scene? So, we wore his soled slippers to bed?? He took off his lightsaber, but not his shoes? And he sleeps, presumably routinely, on top of the sheets in the dead center of his bed? To him that is normal? AND WHY IS HIS BED SO BIG?? What is that FOR? Does he want to feel small?!

Really, they couldn't have given us a more intimate, disturbing, perverted glimpse into Dooku's dark inner world as that whole bedroom scene. I truly believe an onscreen sex act would have opened up less troubling questions into his psyche.

...I've actually got Sifo-Dyas's ghost giving him shit about the pajamas in chapter 3 of The Thunder Answered Back. (A light moment in an otherwise very sad fic, so read at your own peril.)

For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it's my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It's a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I'd vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn't love the fic by then, I'll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu's depictions, he's got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it's fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he's completely awkward about it. And it's fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it's that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku's name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got "Dooku cleaned"

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

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For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it's my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It's a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I'd vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn't love the fic by then, I'll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu's depictions, he's got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it's fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he's completely awkward about it. And it's fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it's that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku's name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got "Dooku cleaned"

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

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the jedi high council, c. 55BBY through to the end in 19BBY, with further division by the legends ‘permanent/long-term/short-term’ seats, where the short-term is roughly a 5 year term. tera sinube is not right because he’s on the council in 40bby, but i see him as the kind of person that wanders on and off the high council. plo koon also wanders in and out, because he goes out finding children every few years.

general headcanon is that, at the end of a five-year term, it can be renewed for another five years or they move to a long-term seat. colour basically shows who’s sitting in the actual same chair. yes, if they leave the council and come back, they sit in the most recently vacated chair. no, you cannot be attached to a chair, ki-adi, you get a new one now. yaddle & shaak ti are the only ones who have stayed in their original chair and seat-type. the gold bit at 34/33bby should probably have micah giiett in it.

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lolol well let's check in with the gang:

<cut for possible spoilers to upcoming Rabbit Heart chapters>

Sifo-Dyas just had the ever-loving shit kicked out of him, Dooku is vacillating between standing in dark rooms emoting in utter, terrifying silence and saying the absolute worst shit imaginable to Sifo in a misguided understanding of his role in this whump fic, and his child Rael is like, right there completely underfoot and plotting trouble and constantly interrupting them, so I...

...so, actually, I haven't decided how much actual sexiness is in this fic!

wait what are YOU thinking about right now

well, after what you just told me: filthy cuddling >:)

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playing musical chairs with the high council seats again, while refining this timeline, and it, uh, it's kinda funny to look at because you have 42 - 39BBY going like this:

42BBY: Dooku leaves Jedi Order, opening up a seat on the High Council

41BBY: Jocasta Nu on the High Council (seen in Jedi: Fallen Order: Dark Temple 1)

40BBY: Qui-Gon offered seat on council.

Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan ordered to Pijal.

Rael & Qui-Gon gossip about Dooku's order-leaving.

Dooku finally calls Rael back, re 'new power' he's discovered aka the dark side.

39BBY: Sifo-Dyas joins the High Council.

i think it's hilarious if the chain goes:

Dooku joins High Council.

Dooku leaves High Council, in what may be the shortest tenure anyone has achieved, at least until 19BBY and Anakin Skywalker lasts a whole thirty-three or so hours.

Jocasta takes his seat as a temporary measure, given implications that she 'traded the High Council seat for the Archives' back when she was ~ 42.

High Council agrees (except Yoda) to offer Qui-Gon the chair. Jocasta wants to go back to her Archives, she cannot have her attention split. Yesterday, she caught a title that had a semi-colon instead of a colon on its database entry. This cannot be tolerated!

Qui-Gon declines.

High Council offers Sifo-Dyas the chair. He probably does a 'who, me?' little bit of mime before letting out a little cackle in the library break room when telling Jocasta.

Sifo-Dyas accepts, joins High Council, rubs his little hands together in glee.

i call it the bogan's advocate chair. it's the troublemakers' chair. the heretic chair.