#mynocks

[anstarwar]

Hmmmmmmm can you do commander Doom?

Absolutely! He needs more attention for sure

Though…I don’t know if he wants this kind of attention…

[trooperst-3v3]

Electricity bills at the Academy have been higher than normal recently, so Hux had me check everything out to see if we had some bad wiring or if someone on staff was leaving their datapad charger plugged in all day or whatever.

The good news is, our electrical systems are fine.

Turns out, H4-GR1D got some mynocks to show his students, and a few got loose and found their way to our generators.

I am not looking forward to rounding those things up. But it MUST be done if we want to get our power usage back down to normal.

Any volunteers?

[thesunwillart]

contemplating the ysalamiri.....

[inspired by this post]

[kelasparmak]

i finally hung this in my new place a few weeks back and just realised i'd never posted it on here. it's a few years old now but - behold!

[themynock]

hello tumblr dot com, I'm several years late to the campaign star wars party but I'm listening to it now & it is affecting me so much that I had to make an entire sideblog about it. how are you today

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think about the fact that bacta lost his virginity to tryst's sister. who looks enough like him that they easily pass for each other when they swap clothes. *touches ground gingerly* something psychosexual happened here. (good for rendezvous honestly it isn't her fault her brother is too emotionally dense and/or dysfunctional to get in there.) and then the next morning he found out the first person he was ever in love with probably isn't dead after all and never contacted him. it's a lot, to be a bacta in this world. single father despite having three co-parents, harried husband and grieving widower who's never once been married but is sometimes for sure divorced, teenage boy at his first real party, 'as your doctor I feel compelled to point out -- okay, that's, you're doing it anyway, sure, why not ', haunted veteran at the tender age of 17, owner of what must be the most common face across the galaxy, parentified oldest sibling despite being the youngest adult on the crew, sole qualified clipboard holder....... he's somehow doing it all at the same time and he's doing it on phindar, while making cupcakes

[dingoat]

Just wanted to do some stress-free doodling, wound up creating a bunch of SW creature images that folks are free to use for in-universe graphics - sporting teams, shirt images, speeder decals, brand logos, have fun! It’d be nice to credit back to me but not explicitly necessary, just be normal and don’t try to claim as your own work or monetise or any of that nonsense. Ko-fi supporters can go nab the linework in high resolution .psd format for free!

Tauntaun : Gizka : Orokeet : Reek : Vorn Tiger : Womp Rat : Nekarr : Mynock

[thefanciestborrower]

Okay so yeah you guys remember the big ol space slug in The Empire Strikes Back? This pretty boy?

Well they’re called Exogorths and apparently not only are they SENTIENT, but they also pride themselves on being able to host diverse ecosystems inside their bodies! And the one that ate the Falcon has a NAME!

Excuse me that is so cool WHAT?!?!

[eldstunga]

I miss Trystan Valentine, Bacta, Lyntel'Luroon and Leenik Geelo VERY much.

[feralstemgirl]

as a lil treat for those of y’all who’ve come here from TKAM, here’s a scrapped idea for the arrival to ilum that i still wish i’d been able to make work.

***

Ilum sings to him like a mother to her child, like Shmi had once sung to a young Ani. No, not just Ilum, the caves. The crystals. They are an orchestra in his ears, the singing of woodwinds, the thrumming of strings, the heartbeat of percussion.

On his belt, he hears his bloody kyber joins the song. Longing. Anakin looks down. “Do you want me to return you to your siblings?” He asks reluctantly and his kyber’s rejection is instantaneous, soothing over his fear.

we are reforged together, and I did not choose you but I love you all the same, his kyber answers echoing the words he once told it. Anakin feels love like a flower blooming in his lungs, choking on the sweet taste. Overwhelming. Unstoppable.

He laughs, breathless.

“What’s so funny?” Obi-Wan asks, joining him in the cockpit, and Anakin shakes his head.

“Do you hear the kyber?” He asks. Tano could hear his saber, so it can’t be a just him skill, even if Tyranus and Ventress never seem as bothered by their screaming kyber as he is.

Kenobi frowns. “Faintly, if I focus.” He answers. “Can you?”

Anakin hums. “Like an orchestra or a choir in my ear.” He tries to mimic the song but his human lungs can only create a pale echo of the ringing, beautiful song so entrancing him.

Obi-Wan stares at him, raising an eyebrow. “And that made you laugh?”

Anakin is quick to shake his head. “No, hardly. I was- I asked my kyber if it wanted to go home. After all, it didn’t choose me. I took it by force and though we have been through much together, I- I wanted to give it the choice.”

Were Anakin a Jedi, he would know how strange it was to talk about kyber as if sentient. But he isn’t, and so he has no idea that his words are absolutely baffling to Obi-Wan. “When I first bled it, I- I promised the kyber- I told it: we are made from the same wound, and although I am not your chosen, I will love you all the same. You bleed and I bleed with you.” He says and his kyber hums warmly in his hand. “Ever since, it has echoed me, crying out from the same wound as its refrain the same way your kyber sings we are unbroken,”

“My kyber does what?” Obi-Wan interrupts and Anakin blinks.

“You can’t hear it?” He blurts. After all, Tano had been able to hear his kyber.

“I can hear it humming, but words?” Obi-Wan says, frowning.

Anakin shrugs. He has always heard kyber song. “It’s beautiful, Obi-Wan. I’ve been entranced ever since I first heard it.” He says, focusing. After a moment, he locks onto the ringing song of Obi-Wan’s kyber around his waist and begins to nervously hum its melody, before slowly echoing it with his voice. “Unbroken, we are unbroken, we are light born of the brightest stars and we are unbroken,” he sings softly, Kenobi’s kyber shimmering with delight at being sung with. “That’s what it sings, what it always has sung ever since I met you. It loves you so much, it will love you to the shattering. Its fundamental frequency resonates with your soul.”

Kenobi stares, and stares, and stares. Finally, blushing, Anakin continues. “Anyway, it’s just- when I asked my kyber if it wanted to go home, it sang a new refrain. It told me I did not choose you but I love you all the same,” and Anakin grins as his kyber echoes it once more, giddy, “And I just- is there anything better than the knowledge that you are really, truly loved? That even despite the darkness I have brought it through, my kyber loves me anyway?”

Obi-Wan is still staring at him and Anakin begins to feel self-conscious. “Maybe it’s silly-”

“No, no, I- I think you’re right.” Obi-Wan interrupts, looking down at his own saber.

****

anyway i’m still so obssessed with the line it will love you to the shattering. It’s fundamental frequency resonates with your soul.

It was actually the inspiration for the scene where Anakin bleeds his kyber.

In fact, you’ll notice that quite a few little bits of this scrapped chunk have appeared in other scenes in TKAM. I used to never ever scrap scenes until I ran across advice somewhere that instead of killing your darlings you should freeze them (delete them from the story proper but save them in a separate doc so you can use them later if you want) which I have taken to like a duck to water lol and lots of my frozen darlings end up getting tiny cameos in new scenes.

[dykeredhood]

Y’all know what time it is: time to relisten to the best podcast ever made

[trooperst-3v3]

Shout out to the Finalizer's security team, who saw my post from last night and scrambled the docking bay security camera footage before BR-4DLY could check to see if I was lying about the mynocks.

You can't prove I *didn't* win an epic fight against a swarm of space parasites, BR-4DLY lololol

I'm gonna go bring the security guys some snacks and a lovely "Thank you" note for having my back on this one.

[thesunwillart]

a bunch of star wars campaign doods for the new year!! i miss these absolute idiots... also i dream of the missed chance of hearing sian interact with bacta again ;-;

Also HAPPY 10 YEARS MYNOCK CREW!!

[queen-scribbles]

I got @sovonight merch round two on Wednesday, woohoo! Some of the mystery bundle stuff was repeats of the last one, so this is just the new stuff, but super psyched to get a keychain. 😎

Separate pic for the bantha sticker bc I got excited and stuck it on my water bottle before I took the picture. XD

[themynock]

happy birthday to tryst valentine

[songue85]

LIGHTSABER COMBAT - FORM III: Soresu

AKA The Resilience Form or The Way of the Mynock.

“A… defensive technique. But effective. Use it if you do not wish to be hit, or if you are facing many opponents with blasters.”

As blasters became more popular and lightsaber duels became less frequent, Form III was devised as the ultimate defense. Blade closer to the body, tighter moves, quick reflexes and fast footwork to completely evade barrage of shots, great Soresu practitioner were said to be undefeated because they were practically untouchable.

Form III is the form of the Observation: within the eye of the storm, the longer the fight takes, the more the user can analyze his surrounds, finding his opponents’ weaknesses or maybe using the time to reason with them. Therefore, it is also considered to be the expression of Jedi philosophy.

Like the Mynocks that can drain energy from starships, the goal is, ultimately, to tire your opponent until he can no longer fight or frustrate him until he becomes sloppy and careless for a take down strike.

Those who rush against a Soresu practitioner often get countered effectively and definitively.

Positive Aspects: the tight energy-efficient movements are decisive in many long battles. True Soresu Masters become so powerful they don’t need to ignite their lightsabers to win a battle, just dodging and working through their opponents’ routines to crush them.

Negative Aspects: Form III demands quite a long training on its mastery. Its user must be battle-ready to defend at the first sign of trouble but calm and serene to not lose focus on the stand-off, which might take its user decades to achieve such a condition. Luminara Unduli once said: “The road is long, but it is worth the journey, for a true master of Form Three is invincible”.

Also, a focused and cautious opponent is the Form III’s greatest challenge - an “irresistible power against an unmovable object” kind of scenario, until one of them gives in.