#hi star if you're seeing this

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

my gf got me such a cute and sweet valentines gift bwah <333

[andyoullhearitagain]

btw I love that "Constable" isn't Odo's actual rank, it's a semi-mean nickname that he can't get everyone to stop calling him.

[collophora]

"Let's fix this drawing" *redraw the whole thing*

[swampybogg]

[jedi-starbird]

No one ever tells Obi-Wan that he is his Master's padawan.

Of course, for most people who had known Qui-Gon Jinn, telling someone else they resembled the the man would in fact be a thinly veiled insult. But still, Obi-Wan feels the absence of comparisons almost as strongly as he feels the absence of his Master.

There is no one for Obi-Wan to push against now, no strong presence at his side, ready to grab him by scruff and pull him back from another reckless stunt. It's an odd feeling. He has been set loose against his wishes. There is no one to his left and Anakin at his heels, but Anakin had needed, still needs, a strong, gentle figure for his prickly but sensitive heart. For even their worst bickering could not hold a candle to the scathing remarks he and Qui-Gon had shot at each other and Obi-Wan knows he cannot push and needle Anakin in the same way.

When Qui-Gon had been alive they had been an amusing, mirrored pair, the maverick and his rule-following padawan. Opposites clashing against each other, yet working together to complete the most difficult missions. Few saw that Qui-Gon's impertinence had indeed rubbed off on his padawan, cultivated from that small, angry initiate, because the only way to rebel against the rule-breaker had been to parrot the Council fastidiously. No one would ever get to see that again. Obi-Wan is one half of a mirrored pair trying to complete a routine on his own. What once was an impish, teasing compliance is now a betrayal of all his Master's values.

"How could Qui-Gon raise such a model Jedi?" He hears them say, "It's admirable that Master Kenobi was appointed to the Council despite his Master's maverick ways."

Padawan Kenobi would have yelled and kicked and screamed. Master Kenobi is serene. It should feel like an achievement. It feels like a disappointment.

Sometimes, Obi-Wan looks at the shape of the man he has moulded himself into, and aches to be his Master's padawan.

[wis-art]

Oh before I sleep I am making a new trans guy character, his name is Hwerna and here's a quick sketch

[kitnita]

★ — jake oettinger & mason marchment via lexydurham on instagram; june 28, 2024

[babacontainsmultitudes]

So it was established in the last episode that Taylor still believes in Santa (tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up prior to this ep too but anyways-) so... Do you think (saint) Nicky been has portalling in every year since the betrayal to sneak in a gift for his son amongst the pile? That Cassandra doesn't even notice because it's just one among the many many presents she herself has bought and wrapped? But every year without fail... Taylor gets one gift that simply says "from: Nick" and well, obviously that has to mean it's from Santa (a conclusion which Nicky expects him to come to, and why he can sign his name at all, though he misses when he could just write "dad"). And one year when he's still quite young, a sleepy little Taylor actually catches Nicky in the act, and Nicky wishes more than anything that he could just *stay*, but instead he only softly tells Taylor to go back to bed, and Taylor thinks that Santa is a lot younger and a bit sadder than he expected, but what's he gonna do- not listen to Santa Claus? So he smiles meekly at the man he does not know to be his father, and hurriedly heads back to his room.

Also yes of course Nicky eats the fucking cookies left out of course he's not gonna pass up on free cookies (which are home-baked to top it off) come on that's a given.

[fru1tt0ast]

star trek au where everything is the same except kirk has a service dog

[tragedy-for-sale]

How Highly he Thought of You

Look, I really just want to say that if this is a trial based on Yoda's deepest fears and desires, meaning one of his desires is for Obi-Wan to have known Dooku

If this is how Yoda wants things to be, he wants Dooku to still be with the Jedi and he wants Obi-Wan to know him. Yoda knows Obi-Wan would adore Dooku, he knows that if Dooku was still there, the loss of Qui-Gon might've not ruined him so much, because Dooku would be there and maybe Obi-Wan would've been okay.

Look how Obi-Wan doesn't take his eyes from Dooku, he adores him, he cannot stop smiling and he's just so invested in everything Dooku has to say. This is a child wonderstruck by old stories their Grandfather tells them. This is the Obi-Wan Yoda knows he would be if things hadn't gone how they had. He'd be happy, Yoda sees Obi-Wan's suffering and his strength and loyalty to the Jedi, he sees all that and knows Obi-Wan isn't happy, that he carries such a burden, so in Yoda's utopia there is such an emphasis on Obi-Wan's happiness because it isn't fair for Obi-Wan to suffer so much when he's never strayed from the light.

Yoda knows this, and he knows if he still had those two, Obi-Wan wouldn't suffer so.

Think of Obi-Wan's seat on the council too, we know Dooku was offered a seat and that Qui-Gon was too, then Obi-Wan and Anakin. Their entire (disaster) lineage was offered council seats, perhaps because Yoda, though Jedi cannot form attachments, offered Obi-Wan that seat because of how much it meant for Yoda to have one, one that turned out okay. And maybe Yoda looks at Obi-Wan and sees Qui-Gon, he sees Dooku, and his pain is a little less.

One of my favorite things to do are analysis' like these, if you want to see my take on a certain scenes send a request in perhaps :3

[g0at0ad]

biting clawing screaming crying desperate for more content about the lovely terrible mother-son relationship between Janeway and Kim. it's SO unhealthy I love it

[bumblingbabooshka]

Hey, Star Trek Writers... -taps the glass-

[paanzermensch]

I think we need to acknowledge this (Suffering Cute Aggression)

[feroluce]

Really loved this bit of Boothill characterization from the end of the Dreamjoy Memoir travel log quest after Penacony:

Because of course he would notice that. Of course it would resonate with him. The IPC used Penacony in much the same way they used Boothill's homeplanet, Aeragon-Epharshel. He can pick up on all of this because he's lived it. So of course it would speak to him.

It's such a shame he and Captain Revolver's inspiration, Tiernan, never got to meet. I think they would have really gotten along.

[imminent-danger-came]

[id: a drawing of older rayla from the dragon prince. she looks at the viewer with a concerned look. she holds dark magic orbs in between her fingers. her hand covers one of her eyes. lightning is behind her head. end id] Trouble, yes. But not nothing. This is kind of a “part two″ to this piece! I might end up doing a Soren and Ezran to round out the Dragang, we’ll see!

ID Under the Cut!

[elbiotipo]

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry talked about this better and more pedantly than me recently, but it's interesting to see the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire from Star Wars, rather than a modern representative republic that falls to fascism, as the Holy Roman Empire. A (galactic) "republic of princes" with an elected senate (or diet?) and leadership but is otherwise a collection of independent states each with their own militaries, governments, etc.

The Clone Wars could be seen as a conflict between these princedoms (a lot of what happens in the Clone Wars series is about convincing such and such system to support one way or the other) similar to the Thirty Years' War, and the Empire as an attempt to centralize power in a single sovereign much like it was seen in the history of early modern Europe, which of course is an expensive and difficult effort (especially in a galaxy accostumed to the 'traditional' loose government of the Republic). Since the Emperor himself is not a good sovereign at all,not only Evil but also incompetent, he quickly falls out of favor from the princes, and his centralized military is defeated by the Rebel Alliance. Presumably, Order Is Restored, but you can see that after such a thing, there would be very fundamental changes all over the galaxy that I don't either the old expanded universe and definitively not the new canon have resolved. (the Star Wars Enlightment/Napoleonic Wars, anyone?)

Anyways, Star Wars is obviously a story abut a family of space wizards, but it's very interesting to imagine how the wider Galaxy works from a political, historical, etc. perspective, and I found this idea very appealing, an interesting thing to support my Space Empires worldbuilding post.