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Draconic Bestiary

The Dragons of the Fae Wylde Isles

There are many creatures with dragon features that are not True Draconians. There is much variety among Draconians; whether they be volant, ratite, truly terrestrial, fossorial, or aquatic, specific shared traits are found across these vast distinctions. 

Namely, all true Draconians are warm-blooded, lay eggs, and have striking diamond-shaped pupils. 

Many variants also have "breath." Only the Elemental Wylde Dragons breathe potent magick, but many others are venomous or exude corrosive or flammable fluids from their mouths. 

It is thought that the Draconians were born of the bond between the Great Ones and the Stag King, a joint effort to give the children of the Dragon Gods a chance at corporeal life.

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One of the reasons we're so primed to see Omega as innocent and deserving of a life without war is because she's a girl. I'm not sure the main audience would sympathize with her plight as much if she were a boy.

The clones themselves have always been an overt metaphor for how we adultify boys and send young men into war at such heinously young ages because they're viewed as expendable. Boys are often viewed as less innocent, less deserving of affection, less emotionally vulnerable etc. This is massively harmful to boys and leads to miserable and emotionally stunted men.

Remember that time when Kamino was attacked by Ventress and the clone cadets were being referred to as "men" when they were developmentally ten or twelve at most, and half that in actual years?

Remember when Boba was sent to prison with adults for trying to get (misguided) justice for his father?

That was horrific. They deserve better.

This is why I'm so excited about the three boys Hunter and Wrecker took in. They deserve a childhood too. They deserve rights, freedom, and family. Just like every child.

It's like Omega said: "none of us belong in here."

Please adopt these boys and give them a childhood full of affection, validation, and love

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sure! maybe the u.s. lied about and/or caused mass death in japan, china, korea, the ussr, guatemala, indonesia, cuba, congo, peru, laos, vietnam, cambodia, grenada, lebanon, libya, el salvador, nicaragua, iran, panama, iraq, kuwait, somalia, bosnia, sudan, afghanistan, pakistan, bulgaria, macedonia, bahamas, cuba again, south africa, bolivia, marshall islands, greece, portugal, philippines, ecuador, albania, argentina, angola, jamaica, indonesia, seychelles, haiti, guyana, chad, thailand, algeria, brazil, dominican republic, ghana, mexico, uruguay, colombia, chile, russia, venezuela, yugoslavia, palestine, yemen, cuba again, the u.s. itself........ but! ....and hear me out here..... maybe this time they're telling the truth & they really have the interests of people and democracy at heart :)

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Given the rates at which queer and neurodivergent children are mistreated and othered by their families and communities IRL, it's amazing to me that tumblr-using star wars fans are so utterly convinced that the vast majority of force-sensitive children--children who are connected to the magic space energy that a good chunk of the galaxy doesn't even believe exists, who behave in strange ways and hear and see things other people don't--are coming from Loving Supportive Families and Communities who would accept them and provide for all their space-magic-related needs, and that the community of space wizards who are also connected to the magic space energy are the bad guys for adopting force-sensitive children into a community of people who experience the world the way those children do.

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"Is that a Jedi on her knees for me?"

General Saryn was just trying to help Sergeant Hex remove his armour after he got injured.

Hex is enjoying himself far too much

the angle makes this look a lot more suggestive than intended

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Tirade about Capitalization in Star Wars

Sooo… proper nouns, eh? They’re a thing. An important thing. Star Wars has many—especially when it comes to the Jedi religion and philosophy. Let’s start off easy Jedi and Sith We’ve also got the other ranks Initiate Padawan Knight Master All proper nouns. The word youngling isn’t capitalized ‘cause it’s not actually a real rank; younglings are Initiates. “Youngling” can be used for non-Jedi and are, therefore, non-proper nouns. Makes sense. But then we get into this lil' thing that isn’t a big deal but annoys me… Grand Master Sage Master Warrior Master Battlemaster (no space?) ಠ_ಠ

They say, “Master Kenobi,” (specific Jedi with the rank of Master) “Jedi Master,” (a Jedi with the rank of Master) and “Master Jedi.” (Master here is being used as an honorific, not a rank but is still capitalized as it should be) “your master,” “my master,” “the masters,” “some masters,” “rank of Master” ^ this is fine. I understand this. Completely normal, but—

We have other super important words connected to the Jedi faith, such as:

Order Code Way Temple Trials And, of course, Force

Now, it’s Force and Force Adept but Force-sensitive, Force-wielder, and Force-user Bit weird but not too irritating. But hang on, hang on—here it is, folks, the reeeeeally annoying one: light and dark Why is Way a proper noun, but the light of the Force—the most important concept within their religion beyond the Force itself—is not???

The old words for light, dark, and balance are capitalized as proper nouns: Ashla Bogan Bendu But light and dark in Basic are not capitalized—except they are in the High Republic slogan: “For Light and Life.” They should just be capitalized always. light and dark should be treated as proper nouns because they’re religious concepts and distinct from the common use of those words!! (I will die on this hill) “Reach for the Light.” = magical, poetic, sage. “Reach for the light.” = turn on lamp pls. Y’know?

It’s the light side and dark side, but Light-Sider and Dark-Sider (but not consistently? ‘Cause sometimes they write dark sider or dark-sider, and it’s annoying af) It would be the most consistent if it were Light and Dark —> Light Sider and Dark Sider Yeah?

Then we have: clone trooper (space) stormtrooper (no space) paratrooper (no space) snowtrooper (no space, and Grammarly wants a space btw) scout trooper (space) shock trooper (space but not capitalized) Purge Trooper (space + capitalized—why is this capitalized when shock trooper isn’t?) Is it ‘cause The Purge is capitalized?

It’s fiiiiiiine.

Okay, next is an example of actually good consistency! (I'm being really whiny, so let's have some positivity real quick) creatures/species/cultures. Gungan, Wookiee, Ewok, but gundark, bantha, and tooka. ^ This is good. I like this. Sentient species are capitalized as one would capitalize a nationality or ethnicity such as Canadian, Indigenous, or Maori. But non-sapient animals are lowercase, like cat, crow, and axolotl, yeah? Okay, so humans. In Star Wars, human is lowercase despite being a species. This seems inconsistent, but I actually like it. The galaxy is Humanocentrist, as in humans are treated as the norm despite being a ruling minority. Everything is described in comparison to humans

for example: humanoid near-human non-human

Human isn’t capitalized because there is no inherent shared experience among humans as there is among, say, Twi’leks. In our world, “white” is generally only capitalized by white supremacists. This is why we don’t capitalize white but do capitalize Black. We say Zabrak for the species but also say Iridonian or Dathomiri to specify the homeworld. Zabraks could also be called Corellian, Coruscanti, etc, depending on the planet they’re from. In this way, we can specify both species/race and nationality/planetary demonym. Specific distinctions are made among humans in this way, such as Chandrillan, Kenari, and Chalactans. Just as we have nationalities and cultures among white folk, such as Ukrainian, Danish, and Irish.

Lil’ tangent real quick: Naboolians/the Naboo are humans who colonized the Gungan homeworld. The planet was named Nabu by humans after their diety and later became Naboo. The colonizers named themselves accordingly. This is very realistic to the behaviour of colonizers in our world. Similar to Naboo, we also have Mon Cala. Mon Calamari are actually not the only sentient species indigenous to their planet, yet they, and most of the galaxy, call their homeworld “Mon Cala.” The planet is actually called Dac, but the Mon Calamari rule the planet in the form of a monarchy (yup, divine bloodline shit), and the Quarren are second-class citizens. (But almost every Quarren we meet in canon is a baddie?? Bit weird. Bit sus.) The complicated politics of Dac is why there’s the QFD (they built the Dreadnaught starships for the Confederacy of Independent Systems) QFD. As in, Quarren Free Dac. The Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps.

Putting my Separatist sympathies aside again (mostly), I’m working on an extensive three-part fanfiction story and approaching it with the same seriousness as I do original work, and these silly lil’ capitalization nitpicks are driving me up the wall.

In fiction, creating your own proper noun has one main rule—CONSISTENCY.

So here I am with a dilemma. Do we, as fanfic writers, stick to the silly pre-established inconsistent capitalization rules, or should we just do what feels right and write Light? I think I kinda wanna just write Light.

If you read through all of this, here’s a prize! Qiang Fan Gali. Jedi Knight. Very devoted to the Code and the Light. (Don’t call Dac Mon Cala around them; they will not be amused.)

Please tell me if this light and dark thing bugs you too?? Maybe I'm just overthinking my hyper-fixation, as I do

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Stayed up too late drawing a Sith I’ve had rattling around in my brain for a while. Her name’s Darth Striga

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"they make me insane" and it's my own ocs

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Cane User Struggles

Having to adjust my cane when I wear high heels

When randos say, "What happened?" as if I sprained my ankle

The rubber bottom of my cane wearing down to the metal from overuse and losing traction

Slippery floors in malls and the like where my cane can't grip

Fingers getting cold and stiff from holding the cane in winter

Palm cramps from cane use

Immediate -50 to stealth from dramatic clack clack with every off-step

Canes without padded handles causing blisters 

When the cane catches on uneven terrain, and I fall on my face 

Becoming irrationally anti-House MD for his egregious misuse of a cane in a medical drama

Becoming irrationally pro-Kaz Brekker for top-notch disability rep

When randos say, "Have you tried [insert useless advice here]?"

When someone walks too close and kicks my cane, making me trip

Having to dry the base of my cane on the entry rugs along with my boots so the cane retains its grip

When randos say, "Why don't you just drive?"

When I lean my cane against something so I can use my hands, and it falls dramatically to the ground with a clatter

When slush and gravel lodge in the bottom of the cane and make it slippy and useless

When sidewalks aren't shovelled, and my cane becomes ineffective in deep snow

When randos say, "You're too young to need a cane." 

Trying to shop with a basket and cane and suddenly longing for a third arm or prehensile tail

Stairs

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Bish :3

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My favourite father son duo

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So you guys know how the Jedi Order is filled with people from pretty much every world and species? Think about all the unique cultural things the Jedi would practice simply because the Order is basically a giant melting pot.

A Kalikori made out of Akul teeth, passed down through a lineage and carved in multiple different styles to represent the cultures of each of the lineage members.

Different Jedi taking inspiration for their cultural face tattoos from their Togruta master's lekku or their friends' facial tattoos or the designs on a Council member's cultural headdress.

Recipes that are fusion foods made of like five different cultural dishes because a group of friends all got drunk together, got the munchies, and fucked around in the kitchen until something tasted good.

Like, just everyone sharing their cultures with each other and then people adapting their cultures based on their lineages and the shared culture in the Order, shared culture being a form of expressing love and adopting someone into the Order/a lineage.

Obviously there would be things that are off limits and permission would have to be given and the Jedi would probably emphasize learning the culture before ever adapting it, but I just think that after thousands of years their would be a lot of shared culture among the Jedi.

Oh, and languages! With how many languages are probably spoken in the Order, I wouldn't be surprised if the Jedi basically spoke bastardized versions of every language mashed together---it'd probably be an always moving/changing/evolving thing that no one but the Jedi can understand because the Jedi use the Force to bridge any gaps there might be in someone's understanding.

A lot of words and phrases would be taken from Dai Bendu, just because it's my personal headcanon that the Jedi still speak it, but then it would branch out from there into Twi'leki and Togruti and Durese and everything else all mixed together.

I just...I love the idea of the Jedi having a mixed culture that reflects the diversity of the Order.

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Ezra being a Posadist is taking me out 😂

He isssss he absolutely isssssssssssssssss

“Chewbacca is… a Maoist. Hera Syndulla? A Trotskyist. Ahsoka Tano? A Social Democrat. Ezra Bridger? A Posadist. Lost! All of them, lost. I am the only one with clarity of purpose.”

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Ezra didn’t even make it an hour into his first night with the Noti before he felt the walls closing in on him, the darkness crushing his windpipe. It wasn’t that the sleeping compartments were small— they were, but if there was one thing Ezra was good at, it was making do with cramped spaces. The problem, he thought, was the opposite. This small, dark room with incomprehensibly friendly beings resting on the other side of its walls was the safest place he’d been since he’d stepped on the gunship that took him to the Imperial complex. It was the first safe place he’d been in weeks. 

The first place that gave him time and room to consider the enormity of what he’d done. 

It came at him all at once, all that terror and all that hopelessness, and he had to get out, had to see something other than the crushing reality closing in on him— 

He stood before even really making the decision to and scrambled out of the sleeping compartment, doing his best to step softly for his new roommates even as he staggered madly for the door, bursting into the dry, open air. He shut the door behind him, as carefully as he could with shaking fingers, and turned his face to the night sky. To the stars that, for the first time in his life, were entirely unfamiliar. 

He squeezed his eyes shut.

I want to go home.

The wish was childish, and selfish, but he could no longer push it aside. It ached in every part of him, stabbing him with every breath, and the image the words brought to mind was enough to make his eyes sting with tears. He squeezed them tighter— and the image shifted. It was no longer Lothal as he remembered it, dusty grasslands and dark domes, but Lothal as he had seen it in a vision on a dark, all-but-hopeless night much like this one. 

It’s so peaceful, he had said, and the specter of his father beside him had replied, that is all going to change when the Empire arrives. 

Would it change back now, he wondered? Had his sacrifice been enough to take the darkness of the Empire out of the picture, to return Lothal to blue skies and white towers? Would he ever get the chance to find out?

And then he heard the words his father had said next, as clearly as if Ephraim Bridger was standing next to him again. You’re going to need to stay strong. Can you do that, son?

Yes, Ezra had answered then. Even reeling from knowledge that his parents were truly lost forever, he hadn’t hesitated. Perhaps he would have if he’d known what was coming next: that he would see his home razed to the ground and his Master burned to ashes before his eyes, that Lothal’s best hope would be for him to fling himself beyond any sense of familiarity or family with only the slimmest chance of his return. 

He would need to stay strong, if there was any chance of Sabine finding him as the friend she’d loved. But what if he faced life here, day after day after day, and she never came? What if she burned like Kanan had and he never knew? If this was where his strength had gotten him, what good was it?

Without hope, his mother had told him, standing on his other side in that vision of a peaceful Lothal, we have nothing. 

Ezra had no parents, no Master, no family in this galaxy and no way home. He could give up hope— and then he would truly be lost.

Sabine would find him. She would. And he would be waiting for her when she did.

He took a deep breath, and then another.

“Yes,” he told his father again.

And he opened his eyes. 

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Realizing I never posted this one to tumblr

I really love Hunter's season two armour

But I also really love him without his armour

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Mirialan OCs

Left: Munir Serana (Avidly Anti-Republic) he/him

Middle: Araa Serana (Anarchist Separatist Sympathizer) he/him

Right: Inara Noora (Mirialan/Human Hybrid, Separatist Sympathizer) she/her

The Neutral Colony World of Soma 4 was settled by Mirialans with the less common pink and purple skin variations. During the Separatist Crisis, their world was sought after by both the Separatists and Republic militaries due to their shipyards and tibanna gas refineries.

Tensions are rising on Soma 4 as the wealthy humans from the Core are pushing for Republic allegiance while the Mirialans and other non-humans (primarily Quarrans and Ithorians) no longer trust the Senate to have their interests in mind.

Jedi intervention may be the path to peace or may cause untold devastation.