#bibiububui (basic)

[adragonsfriend]

Linguists: while they have complicated histories, all languages are valid and interesting examples of how humans exist and behave and communicate

Me *making Galactic Basic into an in-universe conlang created by the Republic Department of Linguistic Standards (DoLS) to impose Republic cultural domination in advance of Republic political and economic domination as a weapon against Hutt & other factions' potential control over systems, often with the effect of replacing and wiping out the indigenous languages of entire planets due to way it was created to be easy to learn for a wide variety of species and linguistic backgrounds*: sure yeah but this one is evil

Linguists: well…umm…uhh…you’re probably overestimating your ability to make a language that appeals to as wide a variety of first language speakers… Umm…and no language is—well—hmm…

Me: but also it's the only language the clones are taught growing up. Which is a tragedy among tragedies of course but they'll also adapt it and add new words and make a patchwork from other languages they hear on a thousand different planets and study during long hyperspace journeys, and they'll code switch to perfect "standard phonology" basic with certain people and most of their self-invented names are in Basic too because no one ever gave them names and nobody else actually names their kids in Basic because there are barely any names in Basic and this whole thing will be a form of Basic largely untouched by the Republic education systems beholden to the DoLS for funding

Linguists *hurriedly packing their bags to come and study this*:

👀👀👀

Me *in a convertible, smug*: get in losers, it's called BibiuBubui and you're late

[krayttahrei-adragonsfriend]

Don’t worry in Basic there are actually two words. They do happen to sound very similar tho.

*skips off into the sunset to edit my new conlang*

the ambiguity of what "spice" is in any star wars context is killing me. did Eedy upgrade to a fancy blend or start drinking like. cocaine tea

[adragonsfriend]

Welcome!

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I write about star wars meta, my own fic, other people's fics, whatever. Currently I'm looking back at some of my long posts and cringing, so bullet points I'm thinking about reworking or rewriting for whatever reason are marked (RW) for ReWrite.

Things to Ask Me

Any thing about my fics

Translation requests or questions about any conlangs I'm involved with: Amatakka, Mussnara, Bibiububui (Galactic Basic)

My Clone linguistic and cultural headcanons

My Mirialan linguistic and cultural headcanons

My Jedi and Force headcanons (particularly about healing)

Have a Mirialan oc and want to design a name meaning or face markings? I have thoughts.

Table of Contents

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Jedi & Sith Meta

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Cultural Relationships to Pain: Sith, Jedi (also Amavikka)

"The Jedi are slaves to their doctrine..." (No they're absolutely not) & Jedi cultural context (RW)

"Do or do not, there is no try"--A contextual analysis (RW)

Why does Depa take 12 yr old Caleb as a Padawan?

Vaapad, Mace Windu, Emotional Control

Shatterpoint Mace Windu & Luke Skywalker: Comparison (RW)

"There is no emotion, there is peace…" An Analysis (& Mussnara translation)

"Fix Anakin with this one Easy Trick!! (Jedi don't want u 2 no)"

Force User Graphs

Ahsoka was raised Jedi

Introduction to Jedi Force Healing

Canon Characters

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Padme is not a Witness to Anakin's Violence (RW)

Congrats! It's a Boy (Anakin only has one kid)

Anakin & Ahsoka in the Ryloth & Malevolence Arcs

Killing Ahsoka in the Cad Bane Arc

Anakin's AotC dreams

Purple Lightsabers

Chancellor Palpatine isn't Rude

The Importance of Time in Anakin’s OT Arc

Star Wars as Media

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"Why you no therapist, Star Wars?"

"If Anakin could've been open about his marriage..."

A Statement about Good and Evil

Mace Windu & American Moor

Time Travel Fics: Themes & Breifly Considering Disability

SW Protagonists do not “Have More Feelings” than Other People (RW)

The Prequels are a Complicating Narrative for a very Specific Audience (and it’s probably not you)

Anti-Jedi sentiment and the One Moral Culture at a Time Framework

How Maul's Survival Recontextualizes Anakin's Survival

Ongoing list of variably wacky Star Wars show ideas

World Building

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Ryloth Worldbuilding

How to feed 2 million runaway clones (hint: you cant)

Zygerria & Cat Agriculture, (+ canabalism? & insects), (+ecological disaster)

Mirialan Facial Markings (lore & meanings)

Force Healing Masterlist

Amavikka Meta & World Building

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Leia's Role in Amavikka Mythology

Cultural Relationships to Pain: Amavikka, (also Sith, Jedi)

Amavikka cultural context

On Writing Ekkreth Stories

Amatakka

Amatakka Learning Guide (intended for learners)

Amatakka Additions (the complete spreadsheet, intended for conlangers)

Poem for Singers/Surgeons + Amatakka Translation

Biting His Own Tale (ao3)

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How Palpatine uses Stories

Dooku has Anxiety and no idea what is going on

Anakin's Ekkreth Mask Drawing, Painting

Ryloth Worldbuilding (& Syndulla Family)

Fungi

Casualties of Biting His own Tale (1), (2)

Lineage Trees

What my writing process is like

Other

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A Short Guide to Writing Meaningful AO3 Comments

A list of shorter, randomer thoughts

Fics by ADragonsFriend

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Biting His Own Tale Series (Time Travel Double Agent Vader)

Krayt's Collected Ekkreth Stories

Te du mu Series (Age Swap, Jedi raised Anakin, Amavikka AU)

Doshalo (Shatterpoint oneshot)

Shadows on the Cave Wall: words 1-1200 - Updated Mar 22nd for Fandom Gachapon.

[adragonsfriend]

The Republic’s conception of the nation state is highly planet based, encouraging a single government to manage an entire planet, without uniting entire systems. This pushes homogeneity of cultures and uncomplicates extraction of resources for the Core by removing competition for resources locally.

States which consist of less then an entire planet thus become either Enclaves (if they’re much smaller like the Jedi) or “Conflicted Governments” (if they’re several states split more equally across the planet, and regardless of if those states are actually in conflict with one another). Both enclaves and conflicted governments experience second class rights in the Republic government.

Enclaves get no direct representation in the Senate, little trade protection, limited judicial autonomy, the inability to sign treaties without republic permission, and subservience to the planetary government in many other aspects as well.

Conflicted Governments get limited representation in the Senate, some trade protection, judicial autonomy, and the ability to sign treaties, but are the constant sites of proxy wars by other planetary governments.

Some early to join planets like Mirial manage to form nominal planetary governments without the different states giving up much regional authority (partly due to their resistance to the introduction of new languages like Bibiububui (Galactic Basic)), but those loopholes were closed in the following decades, leaving most planets vulnerable to the Conflicted Governments model.

The Jedi were labeled an enclave before most of this system was set up, and were grandfathered into the new system. They initially had a few more rights then this system gives, but have since ended up with less.

I am thinking that maybe the Jedi are, legally speaking, an enclave within Coruscant. Or at least were originally under the Ruusan Treaties, and their protections have gradually been weakened as the Senate legislates about them more and more as an institution.

They would be a weird enclave, but based on my very limited knowledge of enclaves that's normal for enclaves…

More on this at 3

(which 3? AM? PM? today's, tomorrow's? no idea)

[adragonsfriend]

Ok I’ve been informed of the existence of Plains Indian Sign Language (aka Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language), which is super cool and can stay.

I would actually love if anybody knows about other non evil linguafrancas!

Linguafranca sounds so good on paper…. unfortunately evil.

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[adragonsfriend]

Ok I actually made the words!

Cunii - (non-medicinal) drugs

Cinui - spices/flavorings

Cinui gets swapped out for cunii to avoid censors and law enforcement until eventually it takes on the semantic meaning of "drugs" for most speakers of Basic. At some point the meaning narrows to refer to one specific drug, in most contexts. This meaning spreads among essentially the entre Basic-speaking population of the galaxy due to expansive drug trade, and then even into Huttese and other languages as a loan word. Thus by the clone wars era, we get the near ubiquitous use of *spice = space cocaine*

the ambiguity of what "spice" is in any star wars context is killing me. did Eedy upgrade to a fancy blend or start drinking like. cocaine tea