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My submission for @skeletons-eat’s DTIYS about their AMAZING Padawan AU!

BUT with my usual twist of combining it with my own Star Wars Daemon AU! (This may become a trend with any DTIYS I do lol)

The original drawing/prompt was Obi-Wan and Reva eating a meal together. I wanted to twist it a little but keep the main idea. So my submission is them meal prepping together! Maybe Obi-Wan is teaching Reva an old lineage recipe that Qui-Gon once taught him?

But again, also with Obi-Wan's Maned Wolf Daemon named Kee-Ayt, and Reva's Red Panda Daemon (I don't know what the Padawan AU name for Reva's daemon would be, but in my daemon AU Reva's daemon is named Sierri)

And finally, the second picture is just a doodle of canon Reva with her daemon, which settles as a Bobcat due to the events of the prequels/becoming an inquisitor. And also Skeli's Padawan AU Reva with her daemon. Which in this AU the Clone Wars end and Reva stays happily with the Jedi, becoming a Jedi Knight. Leading to her daemon settling as a Red Panda instead.

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Yo this is kinda cool!

S - Starman (David Bowie)

E - Enter Sandman (Metallica)

V - Vienna (Billie Joel)

A - American Woman/Idiot - (The Guess Who / Green Day)

Tags: @only-my-unexistent-fiances @chibai06 @beskar-of-a-bygone-era @alor-ika @fictionalmenjusthitdifferent @gffa @hellhoundmaggie @kasting-nets @liopleurodean @orangez3st @ranahan

MOOT / TAG GAME !

mission— spell your real name / name you use on tumblr with songs you like >< ready, set, go !

m — my love, mine all mine (mitski)

i — i love you, i’m sorry (gracie abrams)

c — coraline (lyn lapid)

k — killshot (magdalena bay)

i — i know you (faye webster)

e — either way (ive)

tagging— @puma-riki @flwrstqr @liwinly @woniefication @lilificationn @stvrriki @okwonyo + anyone else who wants to join !

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Tried octopus today. It is very, very, v e r y tasty. 10/10 will eat again.

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How Leia is just dragging Luke through the water like that 😭😂

Star Wars #15 (1978)

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In multiple Star Wars fics, i've seen this headcanon that members of the Jedi Acquisition Division (the people who take force sensitive children to the Jedi Temple, yes, that's what it is called) do not operate in Mandalorian space, and this makes a lot of sense

No Mandalorian is going to let their child be raised by the Jedi. Even if there wasn't the historic bad blood between the two groups, the Mandalorian way of life and the strict Jedi Code are just not compatible. 

Imagine some Jedi walks up to a Mandalorian homestead and tries to convince the parent to give up their child. At best he would be thrown out, at worst shot. So the Jedi i Acquisition Division probably made a rule that Jedi can't recruit from Mandalorian space or Mandalorian families. 

I also doubt Satine Krryze would let the Jedi recruit from Mandalore either given the Jedi order's tendency to insert itself into armed conflicts. Kinda hypocritical, but then again this is Satine Kryze, she's no stranger to hypocrisy.

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thinking abt designs for the mythosaur and shriek hawk, because the canon mythosaur does in no way resemble a semiaquatic jungle creature, and the canon "shriek hawk" appears to either be some sort of dino-planet mutant population or somehow crossed with nevarro dragons, especially since it doesn't even match the silhouette of the vizsla shriek hawk- either way, the shriek hawk equivalent of those super squashed french bulldogs.

so. starting with the mythosaur:

disclaimer: this is pulling from both legends and canon, and also from the perspective of someone whose background is in general dentistry, not paleoart reconstruction

our only existing examples of mythosaur fossils are the skull insignias and replicas: the original cracked-skull signet from boba's pauldron, the stylized signet from jaster/the haat'ade, grogu's pendant, and the one on the armorer's wall in the nevarro forge.

this is further complicated by mythosaurs being sexually dimorphic at a skeletal level as well as the iconic sigil being apparently based off a humanoid species that resembles a male mythosaur:

the Jaing mythosaur seems to feature the binocular eyes/eye sockets seen most clearly in the boba and jaster signets, but broader-set and straighter tusks than almost all the attributed mythosaur skulls. assuming that basic features like eye/nose placement and mandibular structure aren't dimorphic, the Forge mythosaur is probably the most accurate representation of a mythosaur skull.

the Living

the only appearance of a nearly-complete mythosaur skeleton is in the form of a defunct theme park of dubious accuracy and proportions, depicted in one issue of a comic from 1977:

this is... certainly something, to say the least. the skull part features the same monocular eye placement (correlates with the Forge mythosaur), oddly-placed nose horns (and no nostrils, and also weird nose-abs), remarkably no tusks, some sort of unicorn-ceratopsid horn crest.

The vehicles for scale are unidentified transport barges, but they seem to be about a foot taller than leia in the back, so approximately 6ft? judging from the transport in the eye-door, the orbital socket is approximately 48 ft across.

in comparison, our other data points in terms of size demonstrate 1) at least one mythosaur (the Living Waters mythosaur) has a head at least twice as tall as din, so approximately 12ft of visible head in comparison to the 48ft-eye of the Theme Park mythosaur. 2) some number of mythosaurs were large enough and of a reasonable shape to be ridden. 3) mythosaurs generally have some large bones of a size appropriate for mythosaur axes, but most likely not so large that the entire axe could be carved from one bone (given the segmented axe shape). 4) all(?) mythosaurs have a sternum bone of a size reasonable for the carving of the mask of mandalore and presumably of a shape reminiscent of the bes'karta.

the Living Waters mythosaur also provides some valuable detail on its face: it appears to be a large reptilian with rough skin of a muted color, seemingly demonstrating the elongated facial structure and the separate tusks (so not a hippo skull situation).

it seems quite odd that the Theme Park mythosaur depiction would leave out the tusks, so given that the Jaing mythosaur resembles a specifically male mythosaur, i'll assume the female mythosaur has the unicorn-ceratopsid crest instead. i'm also going to assume the nose horns are a iguanodon situation, so i've moved them to points of the cheek ridge like ceratopsid cheek points.

looking at these examples, the weirdest thing that seems to stand out is the oddly vertical jaw- where does the mandible attach? how does it eat?? does it actually bite offensively if it has to smush its whole face up to where it's biting?? what sort of range of motion does it have?? the Jaing mythosaur/Jaing species and the Theme Park mythosaur both have more horizontal heads that would better facilitate eating in a hand-less predatory animal; however, the Living Waters mythosaur does have that weird vertical jaw (unless its mouth goes at a 90 degree angle from the rest of its face, like a goblin shark). then again, we can't rule out that the Living Waters mythosaur is just a weird individual with some facial deformity causing the impractical verticality.

that said, why does it have rodent teeth. where are the rest of its teeth. why does it have a huge gap in the side of its face.

i tried putting skin over it and now it looks like a sock puppet.

time to try again with a more forward-angled maxilla, instead of just continuing the angle of the upper face.

i... don't know if this is worse. it looks like some sort of horrible sauropod-rat. well, at least the canon version looks at least as unwieldy as this :/

possible solution for the vertical face: maybe it rotates like how gorilla heads stay facing forward when they're knuckle walking or bipedally walking? but like a weird reptilian version? but then their teeth would be horizontal :///

alright. take three, this time with a more humanoid vertical jaw.

it now looks like it ran facefirst into a brick wall. unsure if this is an aesthetic improvement from the sauropod rat, but it seems even less functional in terms of range of motion and durability. however, the occlusion is a bit better in the resting state?

looking at it again, how does it even fight. the tusks would seem like the obvious answer but they seem too close to the face? and the teeth are huge but they're weird flat skinny incisors that are way too vertical to be of use without smushing the entire face up against the prey.

not to mention these are supposed to be jungle creatures?? judging from the Living Waters mythosaur i'm going to assume they're some sort of jungle river creature-

-ARE THEY BALEEN FILTER FEEDERS

apparently baleen is a non-fossilizing soft tissue, which would explain why the Theme Park mythosaur doesn't seem to have any functional teeth, and those weird skinny incisors can either be some sort of baleen-like tissue replicated as "teeth" in the classic "mythosaur skull" (especially if the Jaing species and associated Jaing mythosaur actually did have teeth), or something like split rostrum whales.

that would also explain how such a huge creature supports large global populations

well, this still needs some work, but it definitely looks better than sock puppet mythosaur... except no, the nostrils probably wouldn't work if the baleen attach to the front of the skull.

going back to look at the front view, the Forge mythosaur seems to have some indentations between its eyes, kind of like where rancor nostrils are, that look similar to trunk attachment points. except the actual nostrils are lower on the Living Waters mythosaur.

wait

going back to rodent teeth

BEAVER. BEAVER TEETH

THATS WHAT HAS WEIRD LONG SKINNY INCISORS

irl, beavers have iron deposits in their enamel to prevent wear/stress during tree-gnawing activity. what if. beaver mythosaur. with BESKAR INFUSED TEETH

mandalore also has massive veshok forests - hardwood trees remarkable for their sturdiness. so it makes sense that something would make use of those giant veshok trees!

BEAVER MYTHOSAURS WITH BESKAR TEETH THAT GNAW VESHOK TREES

BEAVER MYTHOSAUR BUILDING A DAM UNDER THE LIVING WATERS

BEAVER MYTHOSAUR

beavers eat mostly wood and assorted vegetation; to maintain both the herbivore teeth and the reptilian appearance i've added marine iguana features to the mix. (conveniently, iguanas' parietal eye nicely explains the indentation in the middle of the Forge mythosaur's forehead)

it. it looks so dumb but a little more in a Weird Animal way and not a sad deflated sock puppet

...now on to the rest of the body (essentially, it's a 60-ft-long marine iguana with beskar teeth and beaver behavior) :

their reputation as fierce beasts/honorable foes can likely be attributed to Large Herbivore. it's a mandalorian beaver-iguana-moose. with beskar teeth.

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I just realized that Han never knew that Luke got his hand chopped off while he was in carbonite and I don’t know which path I want to follow with this information:

1. Han seeing Luke’s injured hand after the sail barge battle and thinking that Luke has been a robot the whole time

2. Luke shaking his hand with a super-firm grip and Han just thinking “Wow this kid has gotten…absurdly strong.”

3. Luke just pulls off his hand one day and throws it at Han.

4. Luke picks up a spacechicken carcass and crushes it with his bare hand and Han is intimidated

5. Han says “It’s good to see you’re all right” and then Luke says “well, actually…” and pulls off his hand and Han falls over the back of his chair

6. Han says “It’s good to see you’re all right” and everyone gasps and Leia says “Too soon!” and Han is confused and they all just rag on him

7. Han needs a battery and Luke just opens up his hand and pulls out a battery and gives it to him and Han just stares

8. Luke reappears after a mission with all the synthflesh off and Han says “I thought it was easy but you LOST YOUR HAND?” and Luke just says “Oh, no, I lost this before Endor” and Han is hurt and betrayed.

9. Luke keeps making hand puns and limb puns and raising his right hand to high-five Han and Han just never gets it

10. Luke excitedly tells Han as they’re waiting to be taken to the Sarlacc because it’s been a whole year that he’s wanted to tell the guy. 

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A Rant about the weirdest ship in Star Wars...

I've been watching a lot of Star Wars Recently especially the Clone wars, and my favorite part of the show isn't the plot, characters, and writing even thou those are all spectacular and make the show as good as it is. is this ship.

For context this is the Twilight a G9 Rigger-class light freighter that looks like if you combined the broken down look of the Falcon fused it with a B-wing and put a cube in the middle of it. it's a pretty odd looking ship.

unlike it's design the origins of this ship is pretty normal and make sense in the plot of the clone wars movie the predate the show. Anakin and Ahsoka needing a way to escape the planet Teth and return Jabba's son to Tatooine and when they find a bunch of droid loading this ship they take it fly to Tatooine and crash it in the middle of nowhere the rest of the film happens and ends.

You'd think this would be a one in done ship that after this it would fade into just a one off ship the heroes needed to save the day. Nope. instead Anakin and Ahsoka not only repair the ship to the condition they found it in but keep it and continue to use it in the first FIVE SEASONS OF THE SHOW! the ship makes multiple appearances though out the five seasons showing up 13 times if you include the movie and a book, it also shows up in a few comics. the ship even has multiple toys including a lego sets.

it's even weirder when you think about why they keep it. it's not like the Republic doesn't have ships that can carrier multiple people and large cargo in it so why not use another ship???

so why? why did Anakin and Ahsoka keep the ship?

Well I have a head canon about this ship and why it's so prominent in the series. this ship is a key part in Anakin and Ahsoka's relationship. its the first ship that the two fly together in their first mission together as a teacher and student. we also know the two often get emotionally attached to things unlike many Jedi of the time especially Anakin. so what if Anakin wanting to remember his first moments with his student salvage the ship from Tatooine and repaired it so that they could have a souvenir from their first mission.

this goes even further though. since the ship stops appearing after season five the season Ahsoka leaves the Jedi. the ship was blown up on Mandalore four episodes before the episode Ahsoka Left and on the planet where she would return in the seventh and final season of the show and lead the 501st in one of the last battles of the clone wars.

This is my favorite part of the Clone wars show. in my mind this ship represented the bond between its two protagonist because it was just Anakin or Ahsoka's ship the Twilight was both of their ship.

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Dooku didn't leave because of the Jedi.

At least, if you're going by George Lucas' word.

In deleted scenes of Attack of the Clones, when we learn about Dooku's departure and his values, there's no mention of the Jedi or "the Jedi Order as an institution".

And every time Lucas refers to Dooku's disenchantment and reason for falling, he doesn't mention the Jedi.

"When you realize that Dooku is Darth Tyranus, it explains what Darth Sidious did after Darth Maul was killed: he seduced a Jedi who had become disenchanted with the Republic. He preyed on that disenchantment and converted him to the dark side, which is also a setup for what happens with Anakin." - Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, 2002

"[Dooku is] one of the few Jedi who became disenchanted with the Republic and left the order and he is leading a separatist movement." - Vanity Fair, 2002

"I wanted a more sophisticated kind of villain. Dooku’s disenchantment with the corruption in the Empire is actually valid. It’s all valid.  So, Chris plays it as, 'Is he really a villain or is he just someone who is disenchanted and trying to make things right?'" - Starlog Magazine #300, 2002

He probably meant the Republic/Senate in that last one, but you get the point. And you're seeing the pattern, right?

Dooku's problem isn't the Jedi, it's the Republic.

He's become disenchanted with a system that - according to Lucas' prologue in the 2004 book Shatterpoint - worked for 1,000 years...

"For a thousand years, the Old Republic prospered and grew under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the venerable Jedi Knights."

... but has been rendered ineffective because of 1) senators becoming corrupt and 2) corporations gaining political power.

"But as often happens when wealth and power grow beyond all reasonable proportion, an evil fueled by greed arose. The massive organs of commerce mushroomed in power, the Senate became corrupt, and an ambitious named Palpatine was voted Supreme Chancellor."

That's the message Dooku runs on, when he rallies the systems to form the Separatist Alliance.

"By promising an alternative to the corruption and greed that was rotting the Republic from within, Dooku was able to persuade thousands of star systems to secede from the Republic."

The Jedi aren't really a factor in his decision to leave.

Why would they be? Their political status isn't very high, they're virtually powerless, as illustrated by the film's narrative and stated repeatedly by Lucas.

On the contrary, as we already established in this post, Lucas full-on confirmed that Dooku actually carries the sympathies of most of the Jedi. Again:

Most Jedi agree with Dooku, ideologically.

As far as the Jedi are concerned, the politicians are effing up the Republic, and it sucks because the Jedi see this but aren't allowed to interfere in the political process. They have to resort to looking for loopholes in their mandates to actually get stuff done.

That's what that whole "she's a politician" scene is meant to hint at. In the commentary of Attack of the Clones, Lucas uses a similar turn of phrase as he does with Dooku.

"[This scene gives us] a chance to talk a little bit about politics and the Jedi’s disenchantment with the political process, due to the corruption and the ineffectiveness of the Senate." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002

Considering all this, it becomes clear that the intended narrative surrounding Dooku's decision to leave the Order is not:

"The Jedi are dogmatic and asleep at the wheel except for Dooku, who is ahead of the curb and sees the system is flawed, so he left."

It's actually:

"ALL Jedi see the system is flawed, Dooku's the only Jedi who decided to take it a step further and leave the Order so he can try to get into politics himself and change things."

That's why they hesitate to accuse him of murder.

That's why in an earlier draft of the Attack of the Clones script, by the end of the second act, Mace STILL has his doubts that Dooku would sign a treaty with the Trade Federation to attack the Republic.

As far as the Jedi are concerned, Dooku is out there fighting the good fight, making noise because whenever they try to protest it falls on deaf ears... until his betrayal on Geonosis.

After all, let's not get it twisted: the Dooku we're introduced to in the films and The Clone Wars, isn't really just Dooku anymore.

He's Darth Tyranus.

A point Lucas makes sure to highlight in his Shatterpoint prologue:

"Unbeknownst to most of his followers, Dooku was himself a Dark Lord of the Sith, acting in collusion with his master, Darth Sidious, who, over the years, had struck an unholy alliance with the greater forces of commerce and their private droid armies."

It's not about doing the selfless thing for Dooku, anymore. He's knowingly part of the problem.

He's all about ambition, now. His personal goals are things like overthrowing Sidious and becoming the most powerful Jedi.

"[Anakin's] ambition and his dialogue here is the same as Dooku’s. He says “I will become more powerful than every Jedi.” And you’ll hear later on Dooku will say “I have become more powerful than any Jedi.” [...] It is possible for a Jedi to want to become more powerful, and control things." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002

"If you put two Sith together, they try to get others to join them to get rid of the other Sith. [When revealing the truth to Obi-Wan], Dooku's ambition is really to get rid of Darth Sidious. He's trying to get Obi-Wan's assistance in that and help in that, so that he and Obi-Wan could overthrow Sidious and take over." - Attack of the Clones, Commentary Track 2, 2002

Y'know? Selfish things.

Dooku - like all other Sith, and like the very corporations and Senators he had sworn to destroy - is consumed by his own greed.

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[cocks gun] bring him in, Filoni (Source)

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Asking because I overheard a physical therapist say that she uses this question to see if she wants a second date with a guy, and if he says more than like 4 eggs at once it's a red flag.

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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CLONE TROOPER LORE OF THE DAY: JANGOTAT

Sources: The Cestus Deception, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

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Just had the juiciest freshest apricots of my life. I think I ascended for a moment there.

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comic i drew out of a scene from the clone wars novelization by karen traviss

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headcanon that they've all known each other since they were kids by virtue of having to attend all the mandalorian civil war era political functions/negotiations/jastor fistfights

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I got "The Jedi Path", "Book of Sith", "The Bountyhunter Code", and "Imperial Handbook" Box set and the books are gorgeous. They all have a unique feel and aesthetic to them and are annotated by the characters, it's really cool. While the versions of "Smuggler's Guide" and "The Rebel Files" I have aren't as fancy, they're still so cool!

I kinda wish there were two more books in the series though:

"The Supercommando Codex", abridged and translated into basic (with a short dictonary of important Mando'a words and phrases). A shortened version for new foundlings of the True Mandalorians. It could have notes from Jaster, Jango and Boba, who then gave it to Din. It could even have pages that are 'stuck' in that explain more about the Children of the Watch

"GAR rules and Regulations", annotated by some of the Clone Commanders and Troopers (at the very least Cody and Rex). This would be especially usefull to finally give us an overview of the structure of the GAR and finally explain who the other Generals in charge of the other System Armies were, as well as show what Jedi had what rank. Maybe it could also tells us about the Clone batches and have a section on their training/childhood on Kamino