#who loves mod vader

[bellshazes]

dreaming up a syllabus for an imaginary course on metanarratives about gameplay, which i think would go something like:

unit 1: who do you think you are i am - auto-documentary & games

Vlogs and the Hyperreal, Folding Ideas

The Slow Death of Let's Play Videos, Meraki (to ~10:00)

World Record Progression: Mike Tyson, Summoning Salt

ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, hbomberguy

Life as a Bokoblin: A Zelda Nature Documentary, Monster Maze

optional: Braindump on the History of Let's Plays, slowbeef

unit 2: what like it's hard? - intro to challenge narratives

Chapter 26: Games as Narrative Play: Two Structures for Narrative Play, Rules of Play

A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100% (BOTW), Wolf Link

Surviving 100 Days on Just Dirt, Mogswamp

Can You Beat DARK SOULS III with Only Firebombs, the Backlogs

Is it Possible to Beat Super Mario 3D World while permanently crouching?, Ceave Gaming

The Pacifist Challenge - Beating Hollow Knight Without Collecting Soul [CHALLENGE] - Sample

optional: How to 100% Snowpeak Ruins in under 15 minutes, bewildebeest

unit 3: nelly you don't understand, i AM the narrative - form and function

The Future of Writing about Games, Jacob Geller

Can You Beat GRIME Without Weapons?, the Backlogs

Mushroom Kingdom Championships, Ceave Gaming

My Life as a Barber in Hitman 2, MinMax (Leo Vader)

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod, PowerPak

optional: Mega Microvideos, Matthewmatosis

the theme and structure is mostly intended to introduce at least one critical or historically contextual work followed by examples of the type of narrative in question.

in unit 1, this is the idea of "How do people talk about their own experiences in the context of YouTube and playing video games?" across three rather different kinds of documentaries. unit 2 is intended to take that lens of who is telling what tale and dial in on challenge running, where i first noticed the way some videos turn the story of overcoming a challenge into its own narrative that is distinct from but related to the narrative events of the game itself. unit 3 circles back to the bigger picture with a variety of examples that, to me, are maximally metanarrative, the emergent story of the player-narrator now functionally replacing the game's embedded narrative.

bonus unit: broken narratives

Glitch & the Grotesque at the MLA, Sylvia Korman

Watching time loop movies to escape my time loop, Leo Vader

The Stanley Parable, Dark Souls, and Intended Play, Folding Ideas

Breaking Madden, Jon Bois

The TRUTH about the Pizzaplex in FNAF: Security Breach, AstralSpiff

this one is highly underdeveloped, but i'd love to work out something more robust building on randomizer challenges that produce intentionally bizarre, semi-ironic "lore," and bois-esque endeavors to break games so hard the story itself crumbles. but that's really out of scope so i'm just including the links to things i couldn't bear to get rid of. more rambling abt the challenge runs I chose under the cut.

Challenge runs represent one of the most obvious places to start, due to being extremely plentiful and having a hook that makes a "here's how I did X thing in Y video game" format almost unavoidable. Minimalist 100% is an underrated and sweet straightforward example that I mostly include as a baseline for reporting-out style narrative; here are the facts, here's what happened, this is the thing that it is. Mogswamp's 100 Days on Just Dirt is similar in style, but the physical measuring of days is a delightful and, more importantly, external narrative device.

Now oriented, we get a taste of Ceave Gaming's narrative approach to Mario challenges with the no-crouching run, and while we still aren't at the degree of player-characters being constructed for the narrative's sake, the spirited belief in crouching sets the stage for other rhetoric in more extreme cases we'll see later.

The Backlogs' entire body of work qualifies here, but GRIME is the strongest inspiration for putting this list together. I include the DS3 firebombs run because what was initially a factual description of how his wife's use of firebombs inspired him to play differently in the original DS1 firebombs run has developed into full-blown multi-game narrative arc with the Firebomb Goddess (his wife, who also voices the character) compelling his in-game character to achieve his destined quest. Grime takes that even further,

In-Game Documentaries

I include Life as a Bokoblin mostly as a contrast to My Life as a Barber - there is a level of fictionalization and roleplay involved in the Zelda in-game documentary that highlights exactly what I want to single out when I am talking about metanarrative, the story about a story.

[vintagetvstars]

James Earl Jones passed this morning at 93 years old. :(

We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of beloved actor James Earl Jones. We’ll continue to celebrate him and his legacy on this blog alongside all our other beloved vintage stars.

Here is an article sharing the news of his passing that goes into detail about his legacy on screen and stage, it’s a sad but lovely read.

- Mods Vintage and Violet 💚💜

[xstarkillerx]

Okay but how would Anakin react to a short ass trying to top him. Because i cannot shake the need to dominate Anakin. Like i just wana pounce and wrestle him into submission before fucking his brains out. I want to ruin him. But i know even without the force its physically not possible as a 4'9 ankle biter but my god the thoughts wont stop 😭😭😭

LEEEEEEET'S TALK ABOUT IT, and I apologize if this ends up being a long tangent, but as a 4'11 switch who's had more submissives than dominants, I feel you! While there are always exceptions, the reality is we will likely never be able to have a dominance style that relies on intimidation or physically overpowering people, but that doesn't mean dominance is an impossibility!

Thinking about this from an Anakin-centric perspective, I'm gonna be honest, even if you WERE taller, stronger, aided by the force, you still wouldn't be able wrestle him into submission because that's Anakin H. Skywalker, that's Darth Vader, that's the Hero With No Fear, it's a losing battle regardless. But like I said, there are other ways to dominate, and what you have is the benefit of a misleading appearance.

Anakin is a cocky man who is often blinded by his love and desire, with that it'd be more of a game of easing him into submission and not showing your cards until he's on his back with his eyes rolling into his head and no clue how you got him there.

If it were me, I'd start playful, right. Distract him from whatever little droid or trinket he's modding in his spare time with a deep kiss and strategic brush of his jaw that implies more. Pull away, but only a little, enough to make him want to close the gap again and when he tries to, pull away entirely. It's bait and you'll see it in his eyes, intrigue for what exactly you're playing at. With your fingers tucked behind his belt, pull him with you; lead him to the bed and kiss him again, stripping off his outer robes and tabards, leaving nothing but his base layers. Before he can get you on your back, make sure his legs are right up against the bed so you can push him against it and climb on top of him.

Understand that, while caught off guard by this, Anakin still probably won't take you seriously at this point, but he's playful when he wants to be and he'd be amused if anything, so you're in a good spot. Keep an unsuspecting ere about it for now though, like you don't quite know what you're doing yet, like you're playing dress up. He'll put his hands on your hips and guide you back and forth against his hardening dick, "explaining to you" with his body what comes next when one is on top. Keep grinding, run your fingers against his skin, kiss his neck and jaw and what little of his chest is exposed while you rub yourself on him until he can't help but grind back. Pull his trousers low on his waist until his cock is exposed. Get him so hard and wanton that he begins digging his dull nails into your thighs, itching to flip you over and put himself on top. When his fingers curl under you, shove your hands beneath the hem of his shirt.

Tease your fingers over the expanse of his body and gyrate faster on his bare cock, as if you're the one losing control. Scrape the side of his ribs with your nails and listen to how the biting pain makes him purr. Kiss him through it. Bring his shirt higher until it lifts over his head and up the expanse of his broad shoulders, his biceps, then his elbows and that's where you spread your hands out over the fabric, locking it tight against his arm and putting your whole weight down on the bed.

It's an awkward restraint position to be in. I honestly think his initial thought would be that you meant to go for the wrists but aren't tall enough, however, you're exactly where you need to be. At his wrists, he'd have the option of using the full strength of his arms to break free; simple pivot from the shoulder is all it would take, but in this position, all he has is his upper arm strength and the awkward flailing at anything below the elbow. Could he break out of it? Oh absolutely, but the chains are the easy part, it's what goes on in here that's hard, Mentally you've already got him halfway there anyway. I personally think he'd be so intrigued from the moment he realized you're serious about this, that somehow you got him locked down with your pretty chest in his face, that he wants to see you go through with it now. Remember how hard you made him, remember that he's already dripping to be inside you.

Before his amusement runs out and he uses the full extent of his power to flip you over and have his way with you, get up close to his ear and make sure he knows "if you try to get free, I'll stop. Now put your cock in me." He'll have just enough range of motion in his arms to guide it into you with the force.

Now have fun fucking his brains out ♥️

Never underestimate your ability to be dominant, to take control of a scene. In my opinion dominance and submission is less about inherent power, but rather how power is transfered from one person to another, is it coaxed? Is it given on a silver platter, bent over in supplication? Is it won, is it bartered for? Everyone has their own way of getting and giving.

Contrast, unconventionality, the mental game of it, that's what's beautiful to me about BDSM now go forth and be a tiny Dom ♥️♥️♥️💖

[fandom-fantasy-fuel]

Darth Vader head-canon dump below:

I don't know anyone else who has this take on Darth Vader but first of all, to me he has always looked and sounded like James Earl Jones when he's without the armour. The man was such a crucial part of making that character that I can't picture him otherwise.

I hate the take that his real voice is almost non-existent and the one we hear is completely synthesised from a breathy wheeze? I've noticed a lot of people seem determined to remove everything cool and sexy about Vader and looove obsessing over him actually being super weak mentally and physically, held together by duct-tape, constantly suffering from every kind of botched medical experiment and suicidally depressed.

I don't get why you'd do him a disservice like that, yes he went through some hellish physical trauma but I see him as a character who overcome most of that with sheer determination and is extremely resilient and strong, deriving his power from rage and fanaticism, not sadness.

He would not think of himself as a monster in a "I hate myself, I'm an abomination, I want to die" way, he'd think it's sick as hell and enjoy being monstrous in the sense that he is the ultimate embodiment of the darkside and is set apart from other people by being absurdly overpowered and mysterious. He'd love to play up that intimidation factor and leans into being considered inhuman by pretending he doesn't eat or sleep, for instance. He'd take it like a complement when people think "there's no way he could be human he's too unnatural and powerful" but Vader would never think less of himself or think he's more machine than man for having technology integrated with biology, it's just an extension of himself and he's always had an affinity with technology and would feel those parts of himself through the force just the same.

I think it's a bad take when people go 'he was constantly at odds with his prosthetics and mods which were badly made, also he'd be completely fucked if the wrong button was pressed or anything broke because he's that dependent and impotent without them and his 50 prescription drugs.' Nah man, that Absolute Unit can handle anything thrown at him and made a literally miraculous recovery through the force!

I get that he would have some physical challenges but I feel like some Vader fans have a kind of munchaussen-by-proxy thing going on tbh (I don't think that's the right term but I can't think of what to call it), the way they fetishise his disabilities and hyper-focus on details like colostomy bags and how much care he would require. (Don't come at me for being ableist I'm literally writing this from my hospital bed with an IV hooked up)

[mywitchcultblr]

god i wish when i watch ascended video, it wouldn’t be a hate video. So many of them are made to spread hate. Most of them are obviously short video that has no context. When i rarely find actual pro ascended video, the comments are still full of haters unless video creators actively delete hate comments. Come on, there are tons of ascended hate videos, go there. They look so ridiculous bullying real people because they can’t differentiate between real people in real life and fictional characters in rpg game. Bullying real people is fine but you have to play one way in rpg game with various choices with various endings. Who cares about hard work put on that game? There is only one way to play it. If you don’t play that way, you deserve my stalking, cursing, hating, bullying, and accusing crimes. At this point, i’m surprised haters are not attacking larian and accusing the devs as either crime offenders or crime apologists for making homebrew ascended ending.

Because it's easier to bitch about people who look at Astarion differently or wanting a different type of romance for him than thinking about issues that actually matters. It makes people feels like they are doing something.

Of course people can care about fandom, I do. But I notice that ascendant haters are TOO dedicated on their hating. It's a waste of time.

I have quite a strong fandom opinion but I don't go to the content I don't like over and over again, I usually just saying my piece in my account

Also what is the point of starting a discourse over this? Anti Ascendant discourse is like starting a discourse over something like "The Ethics of simping Darth Vader" not even Star Wars' bro so deep in Reddit SW discourse bother to lecture fans like me who simp Anakin

Because it's a very subjective matter.

IT IS POINTLESS. It's make sense to have a discourse over the chantry existence in dragon age and the harm they do but WHY WOULD I GO AFTER CULLEN OR SEBASTIAN VAEL ROMANCER POST AND LECTURE THEM? Even tho I don't like romancing them.

What is the point? Whaaaaat...

Why would I pick a fight with Cullen enjoyers, go to their page and critiquing them??

I mean this discourse even spilled to NEXUS MODS. This lovely mods is created for both spawn and ascendant fans alike but two people are so salty that AA got content and said this

Please check this mod it is awesome

Then there's two people saying this out of nowhere

Who this this on a MODDING SITE? You might as well preaching in Loverslab about the ethics of the dragon born getting gangbanged. But this comment below has been deleted

I never seen anyone trying to start a discourse drama in NEXUS MODS other than a guy who insist on putting the Bible into elder scrolls

[galactic-pirates]

Oh boy. Ok episode 9 where do I start?

Spoiler alert as always.

Ok let’s start with the positive.

Data’s line and delivery of “I hope we die quickly” was hilarious.

I loved how Seven was the first to fight back and get a phaser with an elbow to the head.

Raffi going “not a chance” and striding forward shooting because she wouldn’t leave Seven was totally badass, and warmed my shipper heart.

As for everything else…

Oh boy.

In my theorising I said maybe the changelings wanted Jack to do his mind control whoo whoo, and form a ‘collective’ as a way to bring totalitarian order/control the federation which the changelings want.

But actual Borg? Actual Borg passed down because of Picard? That was a crack theory that I thought we were all laughing about. For once I take no pleasure in having saw this coming a little bit. ESPECIALLY to be honest because there is no explanation just a “the changelings were working with the Borg all along” erm how? Why? What do they get out of it? How did they even find the Borg given that clearly…

This season has a huge problem with time and relative distance. I know space is vast and all but for them to be jetting around to all the various places those places must be within half a light year or less. I mean I looked this up when I was comparing hyperspace travel times for Stargate and warp 9 is like 2 light years a day.

Make it make sense.

So for Jack to get to the Borg in a shuttle which I am guessing was probably not warp 9? In a matter of a couple of hours it seemed, the Borg were basically hiding out for a decade in the heart of federation space? I know Jack said “transwarp portal?” but that sounded more like a question so I guess the Borg could have warped into that nebula. But I don’t know I thought they were supposed to require some proximity. I swear what was a thing re: transmitters on Voyager. I could be mistaken though I guess.

Also what the hell with the “Borg haven’t been seen in 10 years?” I guess the friend Jurati led Borg don’t count? I mean ok separate collective but it would have only been one extra sentence to explain that and then we wouldn’t be going “continuity? I don’t know you”.

At least I guess they explained how Jack could control the younger crew members due to the implanted Borg DNA. But that raises some major questions about the transporters. Pulaski was so right not to trust them because if they can materialise people with different DNA… I mean I know this wasn’t done with Federation approval but for that capacity to even exist within the technology… I watched SNW and that has Number One being arrested for being Illyrian (genetic modifications) and then the StarFleet transporters can alter genetic code. I mean ok yeah it’s a couple of hundred years later but I don’t know feels hinky. Wouldn’t people have got sick or died? I mean tampering with DNA seems super dangerous. I get that it’s all handwaved science because it’s science FICTION but it should still seem plausible.

I just don’t get it. It’s just so weird from start to finish. Like are all XB’s modded like Picard? Have none of them reproduced in the past 30 years? Why mod Picard like that anyway? The Borg don’t reproduce like that. I think I am trying to make sense of something that is just so strange.

Anyway I am momentarily amused that my pet theory that the Borg came from contamination from the killer robots in the season 1 finale, could have further weight as that’s when Picard’s brain exploded. Could it be contact through the open space portal to killer robots was trying to transmit/receive and basically getting an error message which fried his brain?

Aaaand back to episode 9. So Shaw’s probably not dead. I mean he might be but from some of the tweets I read I am doubtful. I would like him to be dead. “Redemption through death” is a time honoured trope. I don’t know if it was invented by Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi, or just popularised, but it is a big thing. Shaw was a bastard who I wanted to throw out an airlock. In his final moment finally giving Seven the respect she deserved after his petty bullying abuse of power. That’s Redemption though death.

I am concerned though that if they given Seven and Raffi anything to do in the finale, it might be dragging Shaw to SickBay to revive him. Cortical stimulation etc. forget the fact that the Galaxy is on fire. Shaw probably wouldn’t even be grateful and instead lecture Seven on priorities again. In that case he would be right as risking their lives to bring Shaw back would be insane given the state of things. Especially as I don’t think it’s guaranteed that people can be brought back. Not killing Shaw when there is only a handful of seconds to think, is very different from deliberate choice over and over when he’s technically already dead.

Speaking of that scene though I get they wanted to isolate the TNG crew so they could be heroes, but Raffi stunned the last attacker. They couldn’t wait 2 seconds for Raffi and Seven to join them in the escape shuttle? Instead they left them behind to be killed. I mean that is basically what happened.

Make it make sense.

I dislike that the ‘face’ of the Borg control on the Titan is an alien, and the most obviously an alien. It feels like they didn’t make it one of the LaForges because obviously they will get saved and it’s to keep the impression of victims rather than the enemy. Also let the enemy be alien rather than human as that’s very othering. Humans are good guys right? /sarcasm. I mean it is so rare to see a non-human (unless it’s a Vulcan but that is quite rare too) sit in the Captain’s chair so of course it happens when they are the bad guy.

Fireworks in space. How does that work? I mean there is no oxygen. Technically this means all the glorious explosions of ships probably shouldn’t happen either? Clearly I am willing to overlook it in some cases but those fireworks did look weird. Dodgy CGI or…?

I am sure I am forgetting lots of points.

I think I have said a few times that this season has had a pacing problem. Never more so has that been true than now. As a writer I can tell you that on the story beats list this would be the doorway of no return which separates Act 2 from Act 3. That means there should be 25% of the story left approximately. So paced properly this episode should have been number 7, and possibly given everything they crammed in 6+7 expanded. That’s probably why we got such a glossed over “the changelings have been working with the Borg this whole time” with no explanation or curiousity as to why or how. I really can’t see how they can wrap this up with any degree of satisfaction within one single episode.

You know at the end of this ramble I am still stuck on how the crack “Borg baby” theory turned out to be true. I mean that was like the most “yeeeah it’s not going to be that” level of stupid and then they actually went there. Crack theory = canon and I still can’t believe it. I mean to be fair Trek did have the lizard baby episode on Voyager, so there is precedence for insanity, but that was a single episode, easily ignored and forgotten - not built up to over a 10 episode season establishing lore that anything that comes after will have to live with.

Is that what they call irredeemably jumping the shark?

As for the Enterprise-D I am picturing Geordi as the dad tinkering in his garage repairing his classic car on weekends now. Mostly though I am stunned that they went to the trouble/expense of replicating the bridge set and it will be used for all of one episode.

Oh! Hahahaha. So that’s where the lighting budget went? Finally something that makes sense.

[beetlesacquired]

WIP Update

Hi, between work and uni, I haven't been able to write a lot lately, which sucks, but I graduate in about a month (!!) which means that starting about midway through December, I'll have way more free time and creative motivation to get fics out. In the meantime, here's a rundown of all the wips I've got going through my head that will hopefully get updates/see the light of day soon (warning for nsfw fics)

Published WIPs

Promptober

I'm over a month late and only on day 10, so least to say, she's my highest priority. Currently I'm working on day 11: oviposition, and it's almost done, so that should hopefully get out this week! If you're not into that, day 12 is a cute Padme and Luke fluff, so you can look forward to that one instead.

Higher on the Streets

This is a podracer!Anakin and kind of sugar daddy senator!Obi-Wan fic that currently only has one chapter published several months ago, but rest assured, it haunts me every single day. It's not abandoned! But this was my venture into trying to write a multichap where I post chapters as I write them instead of once the fic is complete, and as it turns out, my brain doesn't like working like that. The second chapter is in progress, though it's kinda low on my priority list.

now there are four of them

Sith!Obikin x canon!obikin. This is my favorite of my posted wips, and I'm already several thousand words into a part two, I just have to have the time to really dedicate myself to writing it, because if you've read my smut fics before, you know they're obscenely long. As a sneak peak for part two, Obi-Wan uses the artifact to visit the sith and gets lowkey cucked. ALSO because I've had people ask me, part three WILL be Vader/Anakin, promise promise promise

Omegaverse Week 2021

YES this is still a wip because I'm the WORST. I've had day 7 almost done for over a year. I just need to finish it. Please give me the motivation to finish it. It's body worship, fluffy, so wholesome, I just have to finish it.

will it feel like the end?

Omega prince of the sith Anakin is betrothed to alpha king of the jedi Obi-Wan after the death of Anakin's mother and father. Not only does Anakin want nothing to do with the Jedi, but he has suspicions that King Obi-Wan is behind his parents' murders.

I really did omegaverse week dirty huh, I said over a year ago that I would turn this one shot into a fic, and I got so many comments asking me to do just that. And Yet. It'll happen. I swear it'll happen. I mainly just need to get my thoughts together for it.

Unpublished WIPs

gather ye children of men

TW: religious trauma, internalized homophobia

I, like all the other obikins, watched that angels and demons movie and felt things. Alas, I don't know enough about catholicism to write a priest kink, so I had to improvise. I give you: southern baptist preacher's son Obi-Wan is asked to be a good influence on local bad boy Anakin, who's fallen away from christ in pursuit of tattoos, piercings, alcohol, and *gasp* homosexuality.

all the skins of a life in this world

TA!Anakin who's in love with professor!Obi-Wan. In order to try to get over his feelings, he joins a BDSM discord server where he meets Mod Ben. Possibly trans!Anakin? Still thinking about that one.

if brokenness is a work of art

TW: child abuse, trauma

Master!Anakin agrees to take on padawan!Obi-Wan as his apprentice after Obi-Wan's master, Maul, is deemed unfit for duty in the aftermath of the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan has some strange habits, however. He only speaks when spoken to, doesn't keep any personal possessions, and has cast off all the friends he'd made when he was a youngling. At first, Anakin puts it down to the stresses of going into the Clone Wars too young and being reassigned to a new master, but as time goes on, Anakin starts to question what really happened to Obi-Wan when he was with Maul.

This is probably my favorite one here, but it's a newer idea, so I'm still working through the planning process to make sure that everything works out the way I want it to. More likely than not, it'll actually probably be platonic Obi-Wan & Anakin rather than shipping just because of the nature of everything.

currently unnamed fic

My newest idea, as is apparent by the lack of title, so I don't completely have a summary yet? But it's modern/magic au, definitely a darkfic, lots of whump for obikin especially but also everyone else they drag into their problems.

Those are my wips! I greatly anticipate the day that I can write about things that aren't ancient scandinavian poetry and the effectiveness of college entrance exams. If you've gotten this far, asks about wips or any of my other fics are always welcome <3

[swgohgamer]

WEEK 37: Pretty pleased with the progress I’ve made on this Luminara team for the Naboo raid. I got them all to level 85; I put the zeta on Lumi herself; Plo and Qui-Gong are gear 12, and everyone else moved up a few gear tiers too. I put the omicron o QGJ, which won’t help in the raid but should be great for GAC.

Mid-week, they moved Kit Fisto’s shards from a Cantina battle node to the cantina store, and I had bee using all my cantina energy on him. That’s the only one who isn’t already 7 stars. So I moved on to using Cantina energy on B2, and I guess we’ll see if I can still get Kit Fisto to 7 stars in time for the next Naboo raid. If not, that’ll be more motivation to push QGJ & GMY to relics to compensate.

The rewards from the speeder bike raid were a big help in terms of gear. I spent some time on swgoh.wiki mapping out which pieces of gear I’d ultimately need the most of, and tried to focus my currency on those. You don’t get the instant gratification of leveling up a bunch at once that way, but hopefully that pays off in the long run. I imagine we’ll do at least one more speeder bike raid before going back to Naboo. I’d love to finish getting these guys all up to gear 12 this coming week, but I think whether that’s possible will largely depend on whether we can squeeze in another raid this week. We’re sitting at 90k raid tickets right now, so I guess it’s possible if everyone in the guild gets their daily tickets.

Now that my Lumi team is all at level 85, I’m pivoting from using mod energy to sell 4-dots for credits & going back to farming 5-dots. I want to be more intentional with my mods. My plan is to look at the bestows according to swgoh.gg for whichever team I’m working on, and farm their sets until I get something decent. My mod strategy up until now has been haphazard at best, so I think it’s time to start getting more serious there.

I’m ranked #10718 in GAC overall and #39 in my guild,so I’m moving up there. (In the guild, that might actually be more due to some big accounts leaving.) I’m in the middle of a 3v3 GAC now, with one loss, one win, and I should have no problem with my third opponent. He has a CLS with a zeta that could be trouble, but really nothing else. I’m probably looking at somewhere around 3 to 5 as my final rank.

Conquest is almost over. I’m 31 tickets away from the second to last crate. I’ll probably spend some crystals on refreshes to make sure I get that. I’ve been alternating between my Geos and a Resistance team with Vader for some extra firepower, and that’s been serving me well. I feel like, last conquest, stamina was a much bigger issue, but I didn’t have my Geos relic’d last time.

The PC client went wide release this week, so for the heck of it I started an alt on PC, and I’m writing about it at @swgohgamer-alt. It’s been super fun.

[ravenheartxvi]

So I've had this Tumbler for a while now, long time lurker and rarely posting. Just thought I'd give a little better introduction of myself than what my bio says.

I mostly prefer to keep to myself so excuse my sparse social interactions, haha. You can call me Charlie and I am definitely female. I was born the year Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic and for some inexplicable reason, I feel a connection to the “unsinkable” ocean liner. I had a minor obsession with the ship as a teen, and tend to enjoy reading about it, or watching documentaries or youtube videos of it. I am also a lover of Tudor history. 

My main interest here on Tumbler surrounds the Sims and fanfiction. I’ve been an avid simmer since the original Sims came out. I don’t know about anyone else, but for some reason I can get a kind of god complex when I play the sims, lol. I discovered mods during the Sims 3 and have been hooked ever since. My two favorite mods are MC command center and Wicked Whims. I’ve also used the extreme violence mod before and some of the sims storylines I created with these mods are rather, ahem, interesting. I would be willing to share if anyone is interested, just fair warning, these interesting sims stories are NSFW. 

My other love includes fanfiction. I first got involved in 2001 and was introduced in a now defunct Harry Potter site. My earliest fics are now lost. I later became prolific on fanfiction.net and you can still see my works there through the link in my profile. In 2005 I switched from Harry Potter over to Star Wars. For a brief time I had drifted into Gilmore Girls before drifting back to Harry Potter and back to Star Wars where I am currently firmly based. I have grown annoyed with fanfiction.net and decided to switch over to Archive of Our Own where all my current fics are being posted. 

My favorite fic trope is time travel/ time travel fix-its. 

I enjoy a variety of AU’s Such as: Anakin doesn’t fall, Darth Vader/Padme Amidala fics where Anakin was raised as a Sith, Character X doesn’t die, Luke and Leia were raised by at least one of their parents, and a multitude of variations of these tropes. In recent months I’ve gotten into modern au anidala fics, a trope that I’ve avoided for a while. 

My ships include:

Harry Potter/Hermione Granger

Rory Gilmore/Logan Huntzberger

Anakin Skywalker(Darth Vader)/Padme Amidala

Luke Skywalker/Mara Jade

Leia Organa/Han Solo

Ships that give me the willies but I wont judge those who enjoy them:

Anakin Skywalker/Obi-Wan Kenobi * Because they literally equate each other as brothers/family and have both said so more than once. 

Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano * These two have a big brother/little sister dynamic and nothing anyone says can dissuade me. 

Hermione Granger/ anyone who is a Death Eater. * Because, WTF? You know what I’m talking about, don’t lie.

Psychology is an interest of mine and I enjoy incorporating it into my works in recent years. If I could pass math and had the finances, I would pursue a degree in the subject. Mental Illness is a subject that is very important to me and I like to consider myself an advocate for the support of mental illness and fully believe in the benefits of therapy. So I do not, under any circumstances, tolerate the use of words like crazy and all its synonyms as a form of insult. Everyone struggles with something so a little kindness and understanding, compassion, is something we should extend to everyone around us, including those who have wronged us. I am very open with talking about my own struggles, in the hopes that I can help someone else struggling in whatever way I can. Sometimes, it helps to know that you are not alone in your struggles. 

I am not perfect, in any way, but I try to be a decent person with integrity. I make mistakes and often struggle in how to fix those mistakes. Often, I need people to come to me and tell me if I have hurt or offended them due to my own lack of a filter and impulsivity. I am very open to listening to grievances and to finding a way to work through those grievances. However, what I will never do is blast those grievances or work through them in a public forum. I prefer not to stir drama on the internet. It is preferable, IMHO, to work through any issues privately rather than air it all publicly. I have seen a lot of examples when grievances are aired online and it only ever invites people outside the situation to insert themselves into the situation and stir the drama even further. I have no interest in participating in such situations, it is way too stressful. This is why I have distanced myself from facebook. I would much rather save this account for stress relief fun. 

And here, I feel that I should reiterate another point I made in my profile. I very rarely, if ever, check my messages here on tumbler. When I first joined and for quite a while, the only messages I would receive was porn spam. So I found myself avoiding my messages here. I have zero interest in accepting porn spam. No, I will not check out your webcam. No, I am not interested in watching hot women or connecting with hot women. While I appreciate the female form and have had some celebrity girl crushes, I am very interested in men. And no, I am also not interested in unsolicited penis pictures either. Why do I appear to be interested in this shit? 

Back to a fun topic. My love for history, sims, fanfiction and geeky stuff is also accompanied by my love for music. My two favorite genres of music are Rock and Classical. I have a wide variety of music tastes but I can’t stand country music and disco. Ick…lol! I was exposed to a wide variety growing up so of course I love music. I listen to music during a majority of everyday tasks and while I read and write. My music library is absolutely huge! 

If Interested, I have compiled a personal playlist that expresses my life through song. You can check it out here:

[peashooter85]

I did not like The Book of Boba Fett

spoilers ... actually not really

Finally finished it, was very disappointed. First of all, Boba Fett is barely in it. I think the Mandalorian gets more screen time than Fett. Fett becomes a secondary character in his own story like whut???Secondly, I like the premise of Boba Fett building his own criminal empire. It's the basic "Scarface" story. Boba Fett is just a Star Wars stand-in for Al Capone or Tony Montana. The problem is Fett acts like a good hearted wise ruling crime lord who is out to stop the spice cartels and protect the people of Mos Espa. And it all falls flat on it's ass and devolves into a traditional action serial. I say if they want to do seedy criminal underbelly look at Star Wars, then do it. Make it into Star Wars Sopranos or space Narcos. Give it an "R" rating if you have to, they did it with Logan and look how that turned out. Make it chalk full of graphic violence with shocking and unexpected mob hits, assassinations, and acts of terrorism.

So just thinking about it here's how I would have done the characters differently.

Boba Fett: Boba Fett is not a love-able hero. Throughout the Star Wars Saga he's been a villain. He's so much of a villain that Darth Vader has to tell him to tone it down in Empire Strikes Back. In this story he should be a villain. He should be a mobster movie anti-hero like Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White, or pretty much every character Joe Pesci has played. He's cold, calculating, and ruthless. He's not afraid to use violence to achieve his goals. Rather than trying to shut down the spice trade in Tatooine he's trying to build a monopolistic drug cartel, and he will smash down anyone who gets in his way. If someone double crosses him he will unpredictably beat that person to near death with his gaffi stick Al Capone style and toss the still moaning and whimpering person into his rancor pit.

The Mods: Are not in this. Instead Boba hires a real swoop gang to act as his muscle. They commit "fly by" shootings, bombings, and acts of public terrorism to intimidate and eliminate Boba's enemies and enforce his will. They should not be cyber-punk hipsters who do spinny shooty moves in actions scenes. They should violent mobsters who murder people in the streets, then fire multiple blaster bolts into their victims faces so that they can't have an open casket funeral.

Black Krrsantan: He's a batshit crazy Wookiee who is known to literally tear people apart limb from limb in fits of rage. So in the series he actually does this in graphic detail. When his pulls off hits, he leaves the corpse mutilated, disemboweled, and disfigured as an intimation tactic. He is a brute beast that enforces the will of Boba's competitors and does so in exceptionally violent and gruesome ways.

Fennec Shand: An elite assassin who doesn't do a heck of a lot of elite assassin stuff. Throughout the series she should be taking people out with sniper rifles, poisoning people, and assassinating people with sophisticated booby traps. Like have a scene where an enemy mobster answers his comlink like he's done several dozen times before in the series and to the shock of the audience it explodes and blows half his head off.

Cad Bane: Throughout the series Cad Bane doesn't really have much to do beyond killing Cob Vanth, which is a great introduction for him in the series. But other than that, he's just nostalgia bait, which is really sad because he is quite possibly the evilest and most terrifying criminal villain in Star Wars cannon. In his past he has assassinated galactic politicians, executed hostages, kidnapped children, used his victims as suicide bombers, and tortured people. And this was all in "The Clone Wars" A CHILDREN'S TV SHOW! Yes, there are scenes in a Star Wars cartoon show where Cad Bane straight up murders defenseless people and tortures a prisoner to death without remorse.

Cad Bane should be allowed to be Cad Bane and he should have been a constant part of the series. Better yet, he should be like the assassin character in "No Country for Old Men", a cold psychopath with no morals or conscience. He should be the foil and nemesis to Boba Fett and the only man Fett fears. By the end of the series he should have a high body count.

The Mandalorian: Is not in this. His story has been told. He has no place in this story. Ditto baby yoda, Luke, and Asoka. Want more Mandalorian make season 3

Other Characters: Bring in some other characters from canon and lore such as IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM, Zuckuss, Dash Randar. If you want to do nostalgia bait take these lesser known characters and fill them out more.

In the end, make it so that he achieves his goals, build his spice cartel and his criminal empire. And who knows, maybe than he gets unexpectedly wacked, or it all comes apart due to his narcissistic ambition for power and hubris. This is a Scarface in space story after all. Or have a "There Will Be Blood" ending where he builds his empire and in the end realizes that he's a lonely old man who really hasn't accomplished anything of real importance.

[rouge-fox-expanded]

Book of Boba Fett: Scapegoat Thoughts

Warning for spoilers for the Book of Boba Fett, also my opinions  so read underneath if you understand and accept this.

I very much enjoy the character Boba Fett and his father Jango Fett. Some of my favourite star wars media for these characters is Star Wars Bounty Hunter (Ps2/Ps4), Star Wars Open Seasons, Star Wars Blood Ties and Blood Ties Boba Fett is dead (he isn’t). Also the recent star wars comic event War of the Bounty Hunters was fun, it was a larger scale event and Boba wasn’t the only focus but for what he got to do in it he was pretty good. 

Now when the Book of Boba Fett was announced I was kind of hype, Tem Morrison had showed us all he’s still got it in his scenes in the Mandalorian so him getting his own show seemed not only right but also a brilliant opportunity to explore the character and with the actor from ATOC reprising the role of sorts the potential was there. 

Now I’ve watched the whole season: here are my thoughts.

I will admit I enjoyed the book of Boba Fett but I am fully aware it had my bias of liking the character and loving the legends material to fall back on. Boba's return had started out promising and him taking over Tatooine with the motivation that he was tired of his kind (bounty hunters) dying because the ruling powers that hired them were idiots, greedy and by and large corrupt and evil. Couple this in with his character development with the Tuskens and it's a transition that makes sense and if executed properly it could have become something brilliant...and on reflection it wasn't executed properly.

This gentleman explains much of what didn’t work for season one of the book of boba for me and whilst I don’t agree with everything, his points do have validity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPJJq8gfiU&ab_channel=FullFatVideos

The Book of Boba had good concepts and ideas but the execution and build up or lack thereof is what lets this first season down. If we’re watching Book of Boba it’s safe to assume we know Boba and Fennec are partners and have some good chemistry so we don’t need as much focus explaining how that came to be, like wise given the series only had seven episodes devoting two of them to the OTHER characters not wholly plot revelant feels like this series exists as filler to keep us engaged until Mando Season 3 comes out and the Ashoka show is ready. 

If I had creative control over the Book of Boba here is how I would have run it.

Episodes 1/2: They can stay pretty much as they are. As far as opening set ups go it works for the larger picture I have in mind. Yes even the hutts being fake out antagonists work

Episode 3:  Episode three is where we need to shift gears, the mods being taken in by Boba and Fennec? Give us a training scene or montage of him putting them through the ringer, tempers can flare and maybe Boba nearly loses his temper showing despite it all he's got much of his old hostility within him but he stays his hand. Here is what should have happened...Cad Bane kills the tuskens, the pikes hire him to do it because it's a cheaper option and dealing with Bib Fortuna and his skeleton crew is more conducive for their drug trade. Cad could kick boba's ass in the past but decides he's not worth finishing as he's not really Boba Fett. This is the core problem with Boba through the series, Who is Boba Fett in this new star wars set up. In the OT Boba was the best bounty hunter that the Empire went to when Darth Vader didn't have the time/patience or know how to do a job, in the age of the Empire/Rebellion Boba was the best Bounty Hunter just like his father was the best during a time of the Republic's slow descent into destruction. Now that the Empire is dead and the remnants are trying to survive into something else and the Rebels are now the ruling power trying to make things sort of better but also too much like the old ways...what does this mean for Boba? Black Krssantan fight still happens, they stop him, Boba lets him go because it's not personal. He gets it and he gets a Rancor out of the bargain. Now we shift to him talking to Fennec and expressing his doubts. He's not sure he can do this but more to the point he's not sure who he is...and this leads to the build up to the next episode where Boba starts telling a story about Jango.

Episode 4:  Jango episode. Jango is hunting down someone who wronged him in the past, a link to the mando civil wars (for much of this use open seasons and bounty hunter as canon) and based on intelligence he got from Dooku or Zam Wessel he's managed to track down the guy. Let's say the guy worked with Visla and was part of the plot which ultimately lead to the Jedi and Mandos fighting on Galidran and he goes through a john wick for Star Wars battle to get to the guy only when he does the dude is crippled and hugging a baby, his child. The man has very much abandoned the old death watch ways, is a shell of his former warrior self and has tried to start something new and he begs Jango not to end his life for the sake of his son. Jango however tells him to put the baby down and as soon as he does, he blasts the guy in the head. He then takes the baby off world and drops him off on another, more peaceful and much less corrupt one, puts him in an orphanage where he's assured he will find a loving family. Jango then goes home to Kamino and as he does he reflects on what he just did and if he is a worthy father figure for Boba. He wonders what it means to be who he is in this new time and era before he hides it all and has some good quality time with young 5 years old Boba. We then go to the final scene where Boba comes out of the bacta tank and Fennec tells him it's time for the sit down with the other crime families.

Episode 5:  Much like how Episode 4 was done, only more time has past. The Pikes are now on Tatooine and maybe they approach one of the families only for the Mods to point them out and Boba comes in and kicks their arses, not lethally as he's sending them back with a message and it's a show of strength. They've captured the Mayor's majordomo and he's talking, maybe we have him scared when he hears the rancor yawn and we have a scene of Boba doing some rancor training and care before we have the sit down with the families. After that we then spend at least ten-fiteen minutes showing the mandalorian Din Djarin and end it with him coming to help Boba with the promise that what he went through will be explained in mando season 3 in the first episode. (Yes I know the Mando episode in Book of Boba Fett was awesome and yes I love it but that love is tainted by the knowledge that it’s in the wrong show).

Episode 6:  Din and Boba both go to freetown to speak with Cobb Vanth, plenty of opportunities for friction and rapport either way and whilst Boba is gone Cad Bane comes to the palace representing the pikes and beats up the mods, before Fennec and Cad have a rematch. It's a tie and maybe Cad has to cut through the Rancor enclosure to make his escape and when Boba returns he has to calm it down further showing the bond between them. Cad now knowing Boba went to freetown does his bit to put them off the idea whilst the pykes attack Mos Espa only the mods intercept and they have a fight that prevents the total destruction of the sanctuary (this bit is important) and some of the mods die before Boba steps in and taps into his old Bounty Hunter mentality and kills the squad of pykes. The people in the sanctuary see this, as does Mos Espa. Cad Bane is told by the pykes that there is whispers in Mos Espa that Boba has inspired the people, Cad then demands more money to kill Boba and secure them Mos Espa.

Episode 7:  The finale only now we have some proper build up. The Sanctuary is fortified, Mos Espa has rallied with Boba to fight the pykes and the other familes are remaining neutral because now...Boba has an army and he's showing strength so it's a clean Pykes vs Boba faction and Cad Bane is co-ordinating it (which we know he can because he was apex during the clone wars). We can maybe have some small flashbacks of Jango and Cad interacting from Cad's POV and some of Young Boba and Cad from Boba's POV before the final battle). The final battle can remain mostly intact, but the rancor should come to Boba's aide on it's own accord (obviously the trainer let's it out) because we should establish Boba can't get to Slave 1 and long range comms are down so the Rancor is his ace in the hole. Fennec still gets to kill pyke leaders only she brings the mayor back alive and the Boba vs Cad Bane fight you can keep the same except you make the author saving throw that Bane is alive revealed through the post credit scene and that Cobb is alive in the epilogue. The mayor is brought back alive and Boba shows to his surviving followers the man that sold them out to the pykes and ask them what his punishment should be, they vote death. Boba kills the mayor saying his people have spoken and thus his status as lord fett feels earned as well as maintaining his badass nature. More to come in Season two would be like dealing with the larger criminal network, black sun, hutts, crimson dawn but you've set up the foundations.

...I am not a professional writer as of now (aspiring) and yet I am fairly certain what I have written here will be considered in the comments by some as a better plot outline for the first season of Book of Boba than what we got. What we got was sort of good star wars but not good boba fett, and when you compare it to the story in star wars bounty hunter this hurts a little more. Star Wars bounty hunter is 20 years old and from an age when Star Wars was it's own thing rather than another feather in Disney's cap. Tem put so much into boba when he came back in the mando and yet when he got his own show the best episode of the season was the one where he wasn't in it...that is not right. So if they do a season two which I want, Boba needs to be the main character for all episodes, character focus needs to be key, as is rapport with his supporting cast. Cad Bane needs to have survived and fortunately they have reasonable grounds to make that happen and take the story off Tatooine, now that he's a boss he can deal with the black sun, hutts and others and maybe carve up a little mando criminal empire and also JANGO flashback episode. Tem deserves to be the star and the best thing in a show about Boba fett, he deserves to be the REAL boba fett and that doesn't mean Boba can't evolve but that evolution needs to come from a place where Boba truly was.

I did enjoy the Book of Boba but if I wasn’t a fan of Boba Fett I’d probably have enjoyed is less than I did. If he gets a second season it needs to be done right. 

[hazyaltcare]

A playlist for someone who is Darth Vader (Star Wars) hearted with themes of regrets regarding turning to the dark side because that means he cannot be with his children, even when he's starting to redeem himself.

Tracklist:

Tunng - Bullets

Death Cab For Cutie - Black Sun

Dire Straits - The Man's Too Strong

The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black

Tears For Fears - I Love You But I'm Lost

The Weeknd - Phantom Regret By Jim

You can listen to it here.

Mod Haze

[incorrect-sdv-quotes]

Okay so I know this is a SDV Incorrect quote blog but I really wanted to show off my SDV headcanon’s so you may ignore this post if you wish (I’ll go back to the normal posts after this, I have like 13 quotes queue’d up right now) 

Headcanon’s under the cut:

1.Alex’s real first name is Alexander he just prefers to go by Alex

2.Alex is a trans male so he was born female but transitioned to male at age 13

3.The bachelors ages are (listed youngest to oldest):

 Alex: 19 

Sebastian: 19 (one month older then Alex)

Sam: 20

Harvey: 25-30

Elliott: 36

Shane: 38

4.Despite Sam being older then him Alex is taller (if you put them side by side Sam looks taller but that’s only cause of his hair if you flattened it you could see Alex was taller)

5.Sebastian is secretly a vampire (He does look like one anyway)

6. Haley and Alex kind of have a Hazel and Xander from Bunk’d relationship where they’re kinda friends but one of them *cough cough* Haley *cough* has a huge crush on the other to where it’s at yandere point- Haley is not QUITE as crazy about Alex that Hazel is about Xander and unlike Hazel Haley can hide the craziness she does have around people but when it’s just her and Alex she’s all crazy and clingy- 

Like, she’ll call him pet names like “My jock prince” or “Alex-zandy-” or “My knight in shining armor” Etc. etc- or hug him and never let go until someone LITERALLY prys her off- Talk about nutty nutty nut-so-

7. My headcanon voices for the bachelors are: (Well some of them, if a name is in strike through that means I don’t have one for that one- yet)

Alex: Shining Armor from MLP

Sebastian

Sam: Rottmnt Leo/2020 Sonic the Hedgehog/Dewy from Ducktails (this one might change)

Harvey: Fozzie Bear (Harvey: WaKa WaKa (I’m sorry))

Elliott: Gunther from Shake It Up

Shane

8.Shane is basically the god of chickens he’s such a good caretaker of chickens that he could summon an army of chickens to peck the eyes out of everyone in town with one “Babock” CHICKEN ARMY!!

If you decided to read this post and you liked my headcanons then this is it for now more might be added later as I play the game and scroll through the SDV tags on Tumblr more 

EDIT 1: More headcanons!:

9: Elliott is an amazing actor but a horrid horror-movie actor (It’s just his screams are unrealistic he will literally just say “Aaaah” otherwise it’s the same as the rest of his acting) (This scream-glitch is an easy fix if you yell “Ghost” more on that in 10)

10: Elliott is TERRIFIED of ghosts even those cute and/or clearly fake ghosts (Why else do you think Spirits Eve/Halloween has Skeletons every year and not ghosts? No one wants to scare anyone Too bad.) Actually Alex dared Elliott to watch the Disney Junior show Vampirina which went fine until Demi came on screen- Elliott literally wet himself and screamed for 3 whole hours- (Poor Alex who had to listen to that the whole time-)

11: Elliott treats his pocket crab as his ACTUAL son, not as his pet but as his actual biological son (it’s actually really cute)

12: The portraits in this video for a portraits mod is how the characters actually look to me (Excluding Elliott Sam and Sebastian they still live in my brain with their cannon looks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmBW8BzSZpU&list=WL&index=1&t=5s

13: Krobus is Sebastian’s father (yeah you THINK it would not make sense along with Hc numb.5 but if you think about it if his father is a monster and his mother is human he’s gonna be born as a human-looking monster! Which is a Vampire!)

EDIT 2: Damnit. I was scrolling through this and I realized I missed a Hc and it slipped through the original post and the EDIT 1!

14: Alex has Dyslexia (this bugger Hc belonged in the original post but it slipped through both edits)

EDIT 3: MORE HEADCANNONS-

15: Both Abigail and Sebastian used to have hair to match their parents (Abby’s was brown (Like said in game) and Sebastian’s was Ginger) but due to their “Unusual” parents (Abigail: Wizard Sebastian: Krobus) their hair changed color when they got older and their mothers just pretended they died their hair so both the towns people and Abigail and Sebastian themselves would not freak out 

16: Sebastian has snake bite piercing's but he only wears them when he’s alone (he got them in the first place cause 1: Sam dared him and 2: he decided it would be a fun way to rebel against dead to Sebastian Demetrius, he didn’t have to keep them but he ended up liking the look) 

17: Sebastian owns a giant frog plush, it’s twice the size of him, is really soft and is incredibly fat (it’s to the point it’s just a circle that has stubby legs) he loves it more then anything Excluding Alex but he does not want anyone finding out he loves it let alone owns it so he stuffs it under his bed when people are in and/or near his room

18: Sebastian’s first word was literally “Froggy”

Ex:

Robin: Can you say “mama”?

Baby!Sebastian: ...Froggy!

Robin:

Robin: Out of all words your first word is “Froggy”? Really?

19: The shortest to tallest Bachelors are:

Shane

Sam (If you take his hair and go *Squishes flat*)

Alex

Sebastian

Sam (If you count the added height from his Mullet)

Harvey

Elliott (Tall stinky sea dude)

20: Sam got Sebastian to scream “Bubbles” for 5 hours straight 

Details on that:

Sam: It’s impossible to say “Bubbles” threateningly

Sebastian:

Five munities later:

Robin: Uhhhh Sam? Why is my son on the roof screaming “BUBBLES”?

21: Sebastian owns a biker jacket but he only wears it when riding his motorcycle cause the jacket makes him look way more goth then emo and he prefers the emo look over goth look despite he acts more like a goth

22: One Feast of The Winter Star Sebastian got everyone an empty box and when they opened it Seb said: “It’s a void of nothingness. Just like life.” He did not get in trouble or nothing cause your allowed to give what you want but he did not do that again

23: Sebastian requires glasses to read, he can see perfectly but when it comes to reading on a computer or on paper he needs glasses

24: Sam does a perfect Darth Vader voice and Darth Vader breathing noises

25: Sebastian has vampire powers (cause he is a vampire (Hc 5)), he knows about them and is chill about it but he does not use them unless necessary cause he just does not feel the need to use them otherwise (His powers include, immortality (he also can’t be killed cause on my take on Vampires the stuff that “Traditionally” harms/kills them is just a mith and actually does nothing to them), super strength, increased speed, fast self-healing, telekinesis (I know this is not “Traditionally” a vampire power but Seb does have it) and the ability to change into a bat)

26: Both Sebastian and Elliott are actually pretty jacked (Not Alex level jacked but still) you just can’t see it unless they’re shirt-less (but in Seb’s case at least loose the hoodie)

27: Harvey’s doctor’s mallet weapon is just as heavy and as big as himself so he rarely goes into combat cause he has trouble welding his own weapon- 

Harvey: Time to explore the mines! *grabs his giant doctors mallet*

Harvey: Nope going down. *falls backward with a thud*

28: Elliott carries at least one very sharp pencil with him at all times so if he sees a very annoying person or a slime that escaped the mines he’ll grab it and go *StAb*

29: Everyone else makes Hermit jokes around Elliott which he finds funny and annoying at the same time (They used to do the jokes about Sebastian as well but they stopped cause when they did Seb strangled them Darth Vader style) Ex of the hermit jokes:

*singing* Someone’s on the beach with a hermit! There’s a hermit on the beach I know I know! Someone’s on the beach with a hermiiiit! And the hermit’s name is Elliott!

30: If you think Elliott’s cannon SDV schedule is anti-social you should see how anti-social he gets when writing a book-

EDIT 4: Surprise, there’s more

31: Elliott is a mermaid merman (he’s a human by day half human half fish by night but he’ll change forms sooner if you dump water on him- found that out by Haley throwing water on him in hopes he’ll melt-)

32: When in ‘fish’ form Elliott’s tail is incredibly strong (if you get hit by it you’ll go flying 900 feet in the air in 5 seconds at full strength)

33:Elliott only lets Harvey call him “Elly” if anyone else does so expect Elliott to dump water on himself then hit you with his fish tail)

34:Vincent will sing The Little Mermaid song “Under the sea” around Elliott and Sebastian (Sebastian cause think about it and Elliott cause he’s an IRL Mermaid)

[elionwriter]

May the 4th be with you all! Ok, so I am late for that. Let's make this a return of the 5th post then. Anyway, I decided to make my personal

TOP 10 CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS (Part 1)

Fair Warning I'm only considering Canon Characters no legends included ( sorry Starkiller)

1) DARTH VADER

You know a character is powerful when the sound of a metallic, heavy breath approaching is all it takes to start shaking in your boots. Darth Vader with his complex history, his powerful aura and controversial morals is probably one of the main reasons Star Wars became as popular as it is in the first place. What's not to love? His look is amazingly sinister, powerful and iconic; his 'I can't be bothered' tone and attitude while giving displays of ruthless power is chilling and the fact that there is a scared and subdued part of him that's screaming, desperately clinging to light and hope as Luke sudgests is heartbreaking! This is a character that by every intent and purpose was supposed to be the hero, was groomed from childhood to be it and instead found himself turned into the villain and trapped into his worst case scenario. From the moment he discovers that Luke is his son an internal battle starts raging between his loyalty to the emperor, his desire to pull Luke to his side and a selfless paternal instinct to save his son. The fact that he ultimately does indeed prove to be the "chosen one" by killing Palpatine is too good. The fact that Darth Vader has some of the best lines in the series and that in videogames he is a Boss you're glad to be handed your ass by and is LITERALLY unbeatable even with mods are just a few of the reasons why I believe Anakin Skywalker's Sith persona is far more appealing than his Jedi one.

2) DIN DJARIN & GROGU

I know I'm not original but there truly is no better way to sum up these two than "Clint Eastwood in space with a baby and the baby is an irresistibly cute bean with a bastard personality". This sentence alone should explain why they deserve this spot on the list. Add a wicked theme song, a tired 'sigh' and a sweet cooing sound in lieu of catchphrases and one of the coolest Mandalorian armours ever and you have some instant fan- favourites! If Jedi are mystical and fascinating, Mandalorians truly are the ultimate badasses of the galaxy far far away. Nobody proves that better than Din Djarin himself. Also, his interactions with Grogu, Ashoka Tano and Luke skywalker are testament that putting these two powerhouses together is one of the best team-ups you can possibly make. Din is the "reluctant hero" trope personified and the fact that he is surrounded by heroes with a mission and a destiny to fullfil makes him all the more endearing. Get you a man who is perceived as a merciless walking, killing machine and turns out to be a shy, introvert, pure hearted mess with the driest sense of humour possible. Din is a private and secretive man of very few words, to the point that the viewer learns his name at the end of season 1. His absolute adherence to the Mandalorian code make him appear very standoffish and unapproachable. It's the child that slowly, figuratively and physically, makes him come out of his shell and sets him on the path for his own, true purpose. One cannot help but feel and want to know more about Grogu as it's revealed how much suffering and tragedy had to endure. Din's need to protect him becomes the viewer's. While the faith of these two is unsure I can only hope they'll be reunited soon. I'm really curious to know where their stories are going so to quote from Palpatine: "We will watch your career with great interest".

3) LUKE SKYWALKER:

The hero of heroes, the true main protagonist of the story, which amazingly turns out NOT to be the prophecy's "chosen one". While Mark Hamill himself mockingly said in an interview that "even the droids have better lines than me" I think it's safe to say there are plenty of reasons to love Luke Skywalker. His kind and sweet personality, his initial excitable and boyish attitude and his steady evolution in Jedi Master are just a few of those. Luke is the embodiment of hope. When everyone else is ready to sell someone short, Luke sees the best in them and holds onto the hope they'll come around and make the right decision until the end (He tries to kill his nephew and becomes an old shrew? Never heard of it!). His kindness however comes with a wellspring of untapped power and unbreakable will power. He is respectful of his teachers without ever letting their opinions dictate his actions if they feel wrong. The fact that he ultimately strays from the main action to face a more personal quest confronting Vader and the Emperor and doesn't actually save the day only add up to his charm rather than detract from it. While his relationship with Han Solo and Chewbacca is always amusing and heartwarming, it's the growth of his connection to Leia, from teenage crush to deep sibling love, that really sticks. What's for sure is that few things are as satisfying as seeing him brandishing his lightsaber and laying waste of everything around him. Summing up, I believe Luke's charm lays in his inheritance of his father's looks and talents but his mother's heart and strength!

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Sandstorm by finx

Help me, Andromache of Scythia. You're my only hope.

No archive warnings apply. Alternate Universe – Star Wars Fusion. Andy as Obi-wan, grief-stricken and alone, Nile as Leia, Joe and Nicky as Han and Chewie if they were also simultaneously Chirrut and Baze, Booker as Owen Larsson, you’ll never guess who gets to be Darth Vader. Mod tag: alcohol use!

Genfic | ~1500 words

What I loved: This is the kind of Fusion AU that’s long enough to be satisfying and short and compact enough that I’m left wanting more! It’s a fic I think deserves more love – it’s so creative!

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Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85.

Mr. Prowse died Saturday after a short illness, his agent Thomas Bowington said Sunday.

Born in Bristol, southwest England, in 1935, Mr. Prowse was a three-time British weightlifting champion and represented England in weightlifting at the 1962 Commonwealth Games before breaking into movies with roles that emphasized his commanding size, including Frankenstein’s monster in a pair of Hammer Studios horror films.

Director George Lucas saw Mr. Prowse in a small part in “A Clockwork Orange” and asked the 6-foot-6-inch (almost 2-meter) actor to audition for the villainous Vader or the Wookie Chewbacca in “Star Wars.”

Mr. Prowse later told the BBC he chose Darth Vader because “you always remember the bad guys.”

Physically, Mr. Prowse was perfect for the part. His lilting English West Country accent was considered less ideal, and his lines were dubbed by James Earl Jones.

Mr. Prowse donned Darth Vader’s black armor and helmet for “Star Wars” (1977), “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Return of the Jedi” (1983).

He expressed some regret that, thanks to Vader’s mask, “I can walk around with complete anonymity.”

“All actors crave recognition and I’d like to have some like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo,” he told the Associated Press in 1980. “Fortune tends to follow fame.”

Mr. Prowse also worked as a trainer for other actors, helping Christopher Reeve prepare to be the Man of Steel in hit 1978 film “Superman.”

Mr. Prowse was also known to a generation of British children as the Green Cross Code Man, a superhero in a series of road safety advertisements during the 1970s and ‘80s.

He was a regular at “Star Wars” fan events, but was banned from official conventions by Lucas in 2010 after the pair fell out.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” films, tweeted that Mr. Prowse was “a kind man & much more than Darth Vader.” Mr. Hamill said the actor “loved his fans as much as they loved him. #RIP”

“Ant-Man” director Edgar Wright also paid tribute to Mr. Prowse on Twitter.

“As a kid Dave Prowse couldn’t be more famous to me; stalking along corridors as evil incarnate in the part of Darth Vader & stopping a whole generation of kiddies from being mown down in street as the Green Cross Code man,” he wrote. “Rest in Peace, Bristol’s finest.”

Mr. Prowse is survived by his wife Norma and their three children.

Copyright 2020 the Associated Press.

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