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Wish I was a late bronze age girl

I would have my homeland invaded by the sea peoples. I would be lain siege to by the sea peoples. My cities would be sacked by the sea peoples. I would make bronze tools and pottery. My shores would be invaded by the mysterious sea peoples. I would be mustering my armies to fend off the sea peoples.

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you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,

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we used to get prescribed a summer on the seaside. now we just get told to go touch grass. the economy is in shambles

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can't believe it's been a whole decade (and one day) since legends was declared legends. don't worry cloak of deception, darth plagueis, dark rendezvous, labyrinth of evil, and revenge of the sith novelization, you're still canon to me.

still can't believe we went from the derision for palpatine cloning himself in dark empire to the derision for palpatine cloning himself in rise of skywalker. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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someone is grumpy at his disguise. he looks like a wwi pilot and it's fabulous.

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the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

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I've been reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and I'm about to make it everyone's problem.

Not enough people appreciate that Athena pulls Achilles hair to stop him from attacking Agamemnon. I'd like to think, had they been invented, she would have used a spray bottle.

Also, I know that my illustration of the Athena and Achilles scene is more generically classically inspired, and the Aphrodite and Helen illustration uses Bronze Age aesthetics. They're not meant to exist sequentially, I'm just vibin'.

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come to the tapani sector, we have light foils. you can get light foils, only in the tapani sector.

i think those plastic toy lightsabers should exist in Star Wars canon

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Petra, Jordan, 1952 (via Found Slides on Flickr)

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Daydreaming about a feature-length film adaptation of Tam Lin done out like the Green Knight, all beautiful colours and endless scenery and reality blurred at the edges

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ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks

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200 followers yaaaaaaaaay

btw I love all of you. thursday’s going to be fun. keep calm and get mad

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oh is it TALKING ABOUT THE PYJAMAS TIME?

(~they're in battlefront ii, why do i know this even though i don't play video games apart from lego wii ones and that one clone wars lightsaber one~)

one of my favourite behind the scenes quotes is about the pyjamas, from killian plunket, the lead series designer of the clone wars.

"So, Dooku sports the finest silk easy-fit trousers and a matching side-opening silk blouson in dark gray-blue with a midnight blue collar and sash. His front pocket is monogrammed and the sleeves are accented by finely embroidered patterning running down their sides. The ensemble is finished off with hand-stitched kid leather charcoal moccasins. Available in three sizes: Old, Angry and Angry Old."

also, headcanon that he, like sidious, doesn't sleep any more and just does lying down meditation. in his little ugg booties.

dooku, why.

& it's not a 'c' & a 'd'. the monogram is an entirely different alphabet than what we've seen elsewhere, so i guess serenno also has its own alphabet, which i am very not surprised at. it looks kinda like outer rim basic, if you reversed a 'd' and an 'o' and added a line (it's actually one line off of being a naboo/futhork 's'), but you would think that it would be DS for dooku of house serenno (the second letter is actually one line off of being a naboo/futhork 's'). and i am confident in saying that they are silk habutai because the model says 'very thin silk'.

the bedroom does not make sense architecturally. you do not have a castle where the room immediately off of the main chamber. it's bad security. you shouldn't be able to sit at that desk and just go 'oh, that's my bedroom off to my right. it's not somewhere else secure in my fuck-off wizard tower.' i tried to figure it out. all i am left with is questions.

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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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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the calendar is even more complete now, with the % dates used by the coruscant reckoning calendar for both the 10 month and 12 month galactic calendars.

this infograph shows:

the original galactic calendar of 10 months of 35 days each, with the fifteen epagomenal days spread out during the three fete weeks and three single-day holidays to make up the 368 days.

the same calendar, only with the dates converted to the percentage style used by the coruscant reckoning calendar, in which the year is divided by the number of days in the calendar. in this case, the 350.

the supposed clone wars-era calendar with 12 months, 30/31 days each, making up 368 days.

the same, with the dates converted into percentages of 368.

notes at the bottom include: a further breakdown of the day into hours; how much percentage is covered in 10 minute intervals; estimates on the time of day various 'known' events occurred; background on trying to reconcile the various calendar systems with the information presented in the films, television shows, as well as the known calendaring system used at lucasfilm, the lothal calendar.