#you know bc of the whole darksaber thing

[flaccid-rats]

As much as I love the “Anakin hates Han but loves Din” headcanons it’s honestly probably the other way around.

Like, Din’s sorta got almost everything going against him when you stop and think about it, you know? He’s a bounty hunter (and Anakin, who was born a slave, is probably incredibly distrusting of bounty hunters), and on top of that he’s a Mandalorian bounty hunter. A Child of the Watch Mandalorian bounty hunter. Anakin doesn’t exactly have a good history with Death Watch and Children of the Watch, or just like, Mandalorians in general. And it’s not exactly like Din has the most stellar morals. Din’s got an honor code, yeah, and he does a lot for his Tribe, but he does, can, and will kill people for money, and he’s not exactly picky about his jobs or who he gets them from. Han was just a spice runner. He wasn’t taking bounties from the Hutts or the Empire like Din. Plus, you gotta remember, Din does everything in his power to stay out of conflict and politics. He’s not Han or Anakin. He didn’t drop everything to go rescue a princess and join a rebellion, or save a queen and help free her planet from an illegal occupation. Plus, Din hates droids. You’re gonna tell me Anakin Skywalker, certified droid lover, would look at Din, known droid hater, and go “welcome to the family :)”

Anakin wouldn’t hate Din, he’s got some good things going for him, but Din would for sure be on thin fucking ice for a long time.

[stealingpotatoes]

just watched mando s3 it’s great that we TOTALLY had a whole season about din coming to grips with being mand’alor & life without grogu and about dueteragonist bo-katan coming to realise she was only trying to lead mand’alor bc of her sister not bc she thought she was the best leader. and the whole season centred around the theme of accepting who you really are even if you’re certain you’re something else and was about how heroes and leaders can come from anywhere, they don’t have to come from a special bloodline (a sorta thesis against the skywalker saga) and about the uniting power of grief and oppression. isn’t it great we had that instead of a season with no plot 

isn’t it great that there were no mando cameos in tbobf and mando season 3 started with him on a bounty, cringefailing at using the darksaber and stabbing himself but he did the job and got paid in a nubian starfighter (he wanted a razor crest but he’s injured so he doesnt argue much) which he then used to find his covert on the canyon planet. then he revealed to the armorer and paz that he had the darksaber which after some time leads to paz duelling din for the saber (without telling the others bc they dont know din has it) and din wins but its revealed he took his helmet off. he’s made apostate IN FRONT OF EVERYONE (EVERYONE!!) with only one IMPOSSIBLE chance of redemption (nobody can go to mandalore anymore!!) and has to leave and now has nothing — no child, no clan. so he does the only thing he can think to and goes to a green planet we’ve never seen before. he lands safely but still injured from his fight with Paz and not fully healed from the original injury he passes out. and the episode ends with a kid running over and telling another kid to call master skywalker

and sure episode 2 was the fanservice episode but its disney! we have to expect a marketable plushie cameo episode — except of course that didn’t mean it wasn’t plot relevant! din wakes up and we realise he’s at luke’s jedi academy and this is great n stuff we finally get to see luke in his prime teaching a whole bunch of students! and we get to see grogu happy and having fun with his kind (which makes din happy but miss his own covert). luke notices din has a saber himself (despite it being well-hidden — luke can sense it) and din admits he can’t use it and that he doesnt think it even belongs to him while luke shows him saber forms (but pretends its for his own training and not din’s bc din refuses to learn). they have a discussion and din reveals he came here bc he got kicked out and has no way to redeem himself bc there are no mines left and even then the planet’s poisonous. luke spouts some jedi stuff asking din if he’s certain and says blind certainty is the enemies of hope and progress or whatever (setting up the larger theme of identity certainty in the season). luke also points out that if they imps r there then they have to have some way of getting around the environment they caused. inspired and knowing grogu is safe here, din is ready to go redeem himself on mandalore. he says he’ll come to see grogu again and luke makes it clear that while attachments can’t get in front of duty, din is always welcome here <3 

episode 3 of course had din go to the ruins of mandalore to redeem himself, inspired by luke’s words about certainty he goes to the ruins of sundari, where he knows there was once living waters (the other option is the one surviving and imperial-controlled city, but he’s not that dumb). also bc the imps only hang around the cities so that must be where it's survivable. there’s some imperials about the edge of the city (not many) and he does have to subtly fight them but he gets spotted. he wins but he’s panicking bc during the fight his breathing system got hit but then he notices a plant growing. and he realises he’s not dying — the air isn’t poisonous anymore or whatever! so he turns off his failing life support and goes to the city. he explores the city and finds many remnants of mandalorian culture there in the small parts that survived. ash-covered murals, mostly-burnt toys, something that could have once been a palace. he finds a memorial to a duchess satine kryze and thinks huh like bo katan? (because of course the show wouldn’t ignore bo’s motivations) anyway after some slow but meaningful exploring (its quietness eerie, unlike the quietness of the previous stealth section) he manages to make his way below the city. he finds the mines, reads the inscription and then goes in. except of course its no longer shallow and he falls and he falls and he realises well fuck he’s gonna die. his life support got hit earlier and he doesnt have his jetpack he’s going to sink. but then in the darkness, a great looming eye opens and before din knows it, SOMETHING is throwing him out that sinking water. it had to have been a freak current right? he was hallucinating. surely a MYTHOSAUR didn’t just save him… those are all dead, only to return with a new age of mandalore! he shakes his head, ignores it, and collects the water with something new to bring to his people

episode 4 reintroduced us to old fan favourite bo katan in her depression girl era bc din shows up to her empty palace ready to help her take back mandalore… only to find her in a depression pit and— oh my god is she drunk??! she drops that her ppl left her bc she didn’t have the darksaber and din’s looking at the depression pit like. right. bc of the darksaber. he briefly tries to convince her to fight him for it but she’s like no you’ll throw the fight it won’t be true comba— oh no! explosion nearby bc looks like din wasn’t as careful as he thought and the imperials followed him to bo’s place so both of them have to fucking skeet outta there and bo’s home’s destroyed so din’s like hey come on let’s go to my people we can take back mandalore with them or smthn. so they head back to the covert, din reveals he’s no longer apostate and that mandalore isnt cursed it’s breathable + you can successfully walk on the surface now. this is however interrupted by a beast showing up and trying to kill some ppl. it almost kills paz’s son but din kills the beast first in his starfighter. anyway back to the conversation (now within the cave) and din’s trying to convince his clan that they can take back mandalore (with bo as leader) but none of them want to follow her or risk what few numbers they have left. dejected, din and bo make to leave again, but paz follows them out and is like ?? din you literally have the darksaber why didn’t you use it to get at least SOME of them to follow you and din’s like i don’t want people to follow me bc of a legend, if they follow me it has to be bc they want to and paz and bo r internally like wow damn. anyway paz then says he’ll always fight w din if needed bc he saved his son but if he wants the people to follow him they should try get some of the other clans to help so it looks less dangerous. so bo and din leave on their quest. also throughout this episode, we’re introduced to some random civilian in the reintegration program. its implied they worked with gideon and that they’re preparing for something, but we don’t get much more than that. 

episode 5 is the bo episode, this is where we explore her character, have her arc, and ya know really cover her motivations (bc disney would NEVER make it so her motivation is invisible unless you’d seen two other tv shows). din and bo head to where her clan is. they just want to see the clan but they end up being dragged into a b-plot about helping the local pacifist duchess (& duke). din tries to say no but bo-katan says smthn abt diplomacy. this quest initially doesn’t seem plot relevant but throughout bo opens up about her own pacifist duchess sister and she comes to realise how much of this quest has been about trying to live up to satine and not bc she thinks herself the best mand’alor. the thing she said abt diplomacy earlier, she reveals, is just a quote from her sister. anyway they’re finally able to go to bo’s old clan and she, now reinvigorated in accepting and knowing who she is and what she wants (no longer depression girl) challenges axe for leadership of the clan. she wins and in a speech is like we’re gonna retake unpoisonous mandalore by uniting the clans!! most agree but theyre like HOW are we supposed to convince the other clans? and it descends into insane yelling UNTIL a low hum and a black-white light falls over the group. silence falls. everyone looks on. high above his head, din is holding the darksaber (proudly!!) and he’s like we’ll unite them with this. but axe has to constantly be chatting shit and getting up from the floor where he got his ass whipped he’s like really???? you wanna follow him???? he doesn’t even have any mandalorian blood in him!!! and bo makes a great speech about blood doesn’t make a good leader what makes a good leader is knowing when to use your power. and then she’s like he is my mand’alor amen and kneels before him. everyone else follows and din awkwardly stands there still not fully accepting his role 

episode 6 was the great prep episode. we start with din and bo helping and getting a new tribe on their side and heading back to Concordia we realise they’ve got this HUGEEEE war camp of mandalorians!! there are so many clans with them now (except one, which din is really missing)!!!!! this episode mostly focuses on mandalorian culture and them training/ planning and din and bo trying to keep the clans from biting each other’s heads off. but this is interrupted when a small group of imperials try to pre-attack them (like they did w bo’s palace) but the mandos all manage to fight back and take them down, which then leads to a whole speech from din and bo about how mandalorians are all fighting but theyre united now in their grief and with this they can fight the empire. the b-plot of the episode comes back to that random civilian from episode 4 and whoomp turns out their plan was to BREAK MOFF GIDEON OUT OF JAIL!! shitttt!!!! oh no!! he’s back now, that’s gonna make their very decent plan to take back mandalore harder but they dont knowww (irony!)

episodes 7 and 8 were the battle of mandalore, woo! it had to be two episodes because it’s a taking whole occupied planet and not a single base, a pretty damn difficult task that definitely can’t be done by two single clans in like 40 minutes! there’s all those mini tiny bases scattered throughout the planet on the ruins (like din encountered in episode 3) AND more importantly there’s the one domed city that the imperials kept alive as their main base — which means they have to be careful, bc they can’t do any sort of aerial assault or great deal of damage to the imperials without also destroying the one surviving place for them to live. so the plan is smaller strike teams to go the bases plopped around the planet as a distraction and to stop reinforcements to the city while the main force surround the city and take it. the first city team (with din and bo) has to open up all the ports and stuff to allow the HUGE armies to get in. unfortunately this is in the main imp base in the centre of the city so they have to get there. (they’d prefer 2 strike teams but they can only spare 1) MOST of the mini-bases r meanwhile being successfully captured. the strike team gets to the centre to de-activate the port shielding n stuff and GASP! IT’S GIDEON!! FROM JAIL!! and he’s surrounded by fucking MANDO STORMTROOPERS and IN BESKAR ARMOUR oh no!! ambush!! he knew they’d have to go here to allow a full-scale assault! the small strike team at sundari also gets captured bc there were some mandotroopers there (they increased security post episode 3). episode 7 ends on a cliffhanger bc all seems lost and the strike team’s surrounded 

episode 8 starts straight off the cliffhanger and oh no they’re all gonna die gasp WHEN BAM fighting noises elsewhere, everyone’s confused, when paz’s voice crackles over din’s comm like hey bro! BC DIN’S CLAN FINALLY SHOWED UP TO HELP AND THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE THAT SECOND STRIKE TEAM and in the confusion din & bo’s team take out the mandotroopers, gideon gets away. din and paz and the armorer come face to face and paz calls him mand’alor or smthn bc he’s also accepted it and they’re like woo let’s go now we can fight fr!! din heads to help lead the battle ig but bo’s like nah i have to end gideon for what he did to our planet. and din’s like well he’s wearing beskar armour so you’ll need this and gives her his beskar spear WHICH IS SYMBOLIC BC he’s finally giving up his other weapon and is going to solely use the darksaber!! he’s accepted who he is and is going to lead their ppl!! so yeah instead of having din fight gideon, who he already beat once, bo fights him and its incredibly cathartic. at sundari that strike team who got captured is also not looking great but MYTHOSAUR EX MACHINA COMES AND FUCKS UP THE IMPERIALS THERE (its returned!!). so big battle and gideon’s down and the darksaber DOESN’T get destroyed yay! afterwards they all vibe and they go to the forge and the armorer relights it and they proclaim din mand’alor fr and he accepts it and throne. sure he's still a BIT uneasy (mand'alor the reluctant anyone?) but he's not saying NOO now loll. yayyy!! AND THEN final scene is din returns to the jedi academy like hii thanks for ur advice u were right being blindly certain abt stuff is meh and leaves no room for hope. uh could i show grogu mandalore i promise i’ll bring him right back and it ends on din showing grogu the planet finally bc thats cute and fanservice

anyway isn’t it great this is exactly what happened, it’s all canon and definitely not the stealingpotatoes sequels canon continuity rewrite! 

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#you ever love something so much you just wanna cry and scream and claw at the walls bc it's so hard to breathe?? that's me with din

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

an exercise in "thinking about vague shapes and gestures, how do i flesh that out" that took 4 days longer than i can spare. the companion sketch to the staircase AU scribble that i tinkered with almost every day since Sunday and now it's Friday and i had to tweak the layers 2 minutes ago, so.

seriously though. I really need to stop drawing and actually write like I've been meaning to since last month. get with the program, brain.

1,536 notes - Posted August 12, 2022

#4

Episode 6? What episode 6? I don't know what you're talking about. Din needed help not slicing himself open with the Darksaber and went to the one person who seemed most willing to help.

They have a cheerleader and a snack.

Okay but real talk - I sketched the idea on my phone while waiting in the ER (it was an eventful Tuesday morning - for my mom, I'm all right and so is she!) and had been turning it into a finished doodle when TBOBF ep 6 dropped. Canon can do whatever it wants because I can do whatever I want, too.

P.S. the name of this file is "broad v twunk".

1,649 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

#3

So. I said I wanted to clean up and color one of my sketches and uh. Um. Well. Remembered a post about the "leggy blond" and the whole thing got away from me.

I really need to stop listening to my brain.

Post-S1 cozy warm weekend vibes anyone? *walks into the sea*

1,756 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

#2

"Din needs to do some maintenance on his midlife crisis space bugatti and just happened to be near wherever in the galaxy Luke, Grogu, and Artoo are."

As irritated as I am with how The Book of Boba Fett is being handled, I'm also vibrating with so many thoughts and ideas and cannot draw fast enough. I also have a project with a looming deadline and also, uh, an entire fic to write, if you wanna know how bad I am at self-control.

This doodle came out of some very... spicy thoughts about the Naboo starfighter and negotiating tight spaces. I'm just horribly weak for sleek starships (looking at you, USS Enterprise).

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[mando-abs]

I’m just disappointed. Rant below. Also, fair warning of Din Djarin biases below as he is my favorite Star Wats character and this most likely hinders my view on the show

I really don’t want to be disappointed! I swear I want Bo Katan to have a redemption arc, to see her thriving. I want her mistakes and her sister Satine’s mistakes to be turned anew and prosperous. I want her to be in a position to lead.

But we haven’t been given a valid reason that she should yet, same as Din when he was forced to accept the Darksaber despite not being able to wield it. Like Din, she doesn’t feel confident about leading people, and this should (bc we can’t guarantee anything in this stupid fandom) hinder her ability to wield it. Not to mention that we’ve hardly gotten much callbacks and grief to what caused this hesitancy. Just a vague, “oh yeah, I ruled, and then I didn’t, and then my people were destroyed and scattered.” Like that doesn’t affect every Mandalorian? Also, I have a feeling that many viewers are unaware of her backstory! I know why she wants this. Show us why she wants this. Make this meaningful.

However, I feel like everything we watched Din go through was for nothing. I mean, we already had to go through the quick reuniting of Din and Grogu, which only cheapened the impactful goodbye in the season 2 finale. However, we had to get over it because the Mandalorian could not continue without the pair as the whole story is build on them. (More on this in a minute). We had a whole episode dedicated (misplaced, yes, in TBOBF when it should’ve been about Boba) to his struggle with the blade and even going so far as standing up for his right to have it in front of Paz. Forgive me for being foolish as to think this was setting up his struggle yet eventual triumph and acceptance of the Darksaber, if not at least leadership of some kind. He is the titular character after all, and dammit, I’m rooting for him!!!!!

The main thing I’m disappointed about is Din and Grogu being side swept in their own show in favor of Bo Katan. Sure, this is probably karma for doing the same to Boba Fett’s show of which I will begrudgingly accept. I want to watch Din and Grogu build their relationship after being torn apart and reunited. And I know that’s exactly what causal audience members do too. I don’t want a whole season dedicated to a long, drawn out reason for them to get back to their familiar grind. Make it happen! Get creative! Use what you have already established! Bo Katan’s redemption should be secondary. In fact, I think it would have been a lot more impactful if it stayed that way, or better yet - give her her own spin off story like a Boba Fett. Fans would eat it up! But making her center stage in a story where there isn’t room to do so??? That’s just bad writing and planning. I’m sorry.

[peridotbelle]

Ezra building a new lightsaber with the matching piece to Kanan’s! Huyang talking about Kanan! 😭❤️ (was really excited for a second that we were gonna get a new blaster-saber though. Call it gimmicky but that thing was genuinely useful!)

Ezra showing off his skills. Little enough as we got of him, it just reinforced his character journey in Rebels and how much he grew and progressed from being so annoying to ‘yes! That’s our boy!’ And the comm and the armor. Classic Ezra, only missing an air vent crawl. Love him.

And so does Hera! Her space son has returned! SO WHY NO HUG, DAVE???!!😭😤Come on! It’s a streaming show; there are no limits on runtime. Would another thirty seconds to a minute have been too much to ask? It’s gonna be years! We need to see him meet Jacen before that kid actor gets too old!

Also loved the trio fighting their way through, which just highlighted how great Ezra is at teamwork (those last two seasons of Rebels are just great with the way he and Kanan and also he and Sabine just work together like a well oiled machine). And the Force throw echo was great (although uh, Sabine? You just figured out how to pick up a lightsaber two seconds ago, so throwing a person might be a bit overly ambitious? I mean it worked out, and trust in the Force and all, but still)

Sad that Baylan’s story is really only just beginning. 😔 Was hoping for a full resolution for him this season. I guess they’ll have to recast bc I don’t see how they could abandon that plot line at this point.

I’d say that was an issue with the show itself, that it’s mostly all setup and moved very slowly in the first half without actually using that time to really give us information that we needed to know. Important backstory was revealed in vague shreds when there was really no reason for the mystery. Even in Rebels, Sabine has always suffered from delayed-backstory-itis, with the details of her family and her time at the Academy not being shared until the Darksaber arc in S3. That was even more true here. She seemed off to me, and we got only cryptic hints about everything that had happened post-Rebels until the VERY LAST EPISODE. Turns out she has a very good reason for being a different Sabine than we remembered! I get wanting to have Ezra hear it, but the audience needed to know first! And same goes for the whole master/apprentice thing with Ahsoka. They had barely interacted before and then we’re TOLD that there’s this whole relationship there that came sort of out of nowhere. Some things we need to SEE.

Episode 5 was definitely the highlight. Not perfect but hitting SO many of the right notes. Clone Wars, Rebels. *chef’s kiss*

Overall, there were lots of great individual moments in this show and the second half was much better than the first, but as a whole it could’ve been better.

A Hayden cameo is always a joy. Love that he’s getting to do this.

[quackitytheduck]

Ok I am fascinated by this but also how does the darksaber from the Mandalorian fit into the lightsaber lore? I haven’t seen the third season but I know the saber has significance to the Mandalorian people. Does it mean anything to the Jedi or is that color in any way connected to the dark side? Also there are 8 diff color options for lightsabers in Fallen Order: all the ones you mentioned plus cyan, magenta, and indigo. Very interesting but I’m sure it’s more for aesthetics than story building

yeah i only watched charlie (of the slimecicle variety) play it for a couple of highlights vids so idk the full extent but apparently its really good so thanks for lmk that's cool

the darksaber was created by the first mandalorian ever inducted into the jedi order about 1000 years bby i cant quite remember, and it was kept there until this whole thing bw the mandos and the jedi so that first jedi mando's clan took it back after the fall of the old republic, then maul killed that guy and he had it for a really long time, then it got lost and sabine wren the mandalorian found it in the nightsisters lair during the events of rebels and she trained w it under kanan jarrus another ex jedi, and she became the official wielder after killing some empire guy icr, and then found bo katan kryze the mandalorian who she thought worthy to lead the mandalorians so she gave it to her. then im p sure that's around where the mandalorian show starts

not a lot is known ab the mando-jedi war it's shown in a few flashbacks in rebels but i never finished rebels. so. uh. anyways. it was never established why the darksaber is that color but it def has a kyber crystal, so my theory is that there's something about the mando way and faith that makes it like that, like how yellow was most often for jedi temple guards n stuff. the jedi took custody of the darksaber bc they were under the impression that since the first jedi mando (his name was pre viszla btw i just looked it up) the jedi deserved to keep it under their protection and their protection only which is a very old republic thing to do if u ask me

tldr:

1. the jedi thought they had authority over the darksaber bc a dual mando-jedi created it, but during the fall of the old republic the mandos took it back. and when sabine wren had it she trained under kanan jarrus the ex jedi during rebels

2. the darksaber is unique bc it's not exclusively wielded by force users, it's a mandalorian cultural thing. it's got it's own story and really isn't alike anything else despite having a kyber crystal.

3. the color is not a dark side thing, no

[nimata-beroya]

MY THOUGHTS ON THE MANDALORIAN - Chapter 18 "The Mines of Mandalore"

Days late, but here it is my impressions about the latest episode. It was so great that reduced me to a screaming mess, especially with that ending. I still cannot believe it!

As I've watched the episode a few times already, this is going to be more my general thoughts on what stood out more for me than reactions to every scene. I should apologize in advance, because I'll get a bit rant-y on some points (about the fandom, not the show).

So, let's begin…

I love that Din did a pit stop in Tatooine and visit Peli (I love her so much). It was obvious that she was his go-to to find the circuit for IG-11. I've seen people complaining that that bit of trying to fix IG-11 in the previous episode is irrelevant now if Din was getting R5 anyway, and honestly, it makes me shake my head. Haven't any of you watched the trailers? We KNEW Din would fly the N1 with R5-D4 docked in the astromech port. It was obvious (to me, at least) that he was going to use him to navigate to Mandalore. Besides, astromech were made exactly for that function. IG droids were not.

I know that there's the thing about Din trusting one (1) droid, which gives all the feels, but that of bringing IG-11 back won't go to waste. I think IG-11 will be fixed anyway to be Nevarro's new marshal, which fits much better with his original function, don't you think? That'd be great because it'll mean we'll see him again and again as long as the show continues.

I wonder how many languages Peli speaks, because so far we've seen her speaking Basic, droid, Jawaese, Rodian, Frog, whatever it was Dr. Mandible spoke, and I assume she speaks Huttese too. She's a human universal translator!

And Grogu is going to say his first word this season and going to be dad, buir, or an equivalent. It'd be funny if he goes from babbling incoherently to perfect speech in a night. Extremely unnerving, but funny as hell.

Another thing I've seen in other reviews is that some people didn't expect Din going to Mandalore so soon. I was not among those. I think it's perfect. And for what we saw in the trailers, that should've been obvious too. People might think the footage in the trailers covers the whole season. I got news for you, my darlings: it does not. It covers only the first half of the season (just like it did in season 2). So, considering that, Din wasn't going the entire season going from here to there before getting to Mandalore. Remember that this season also is somewhat setting things up for Ahsoka and is upping the stakes. It's no longer only Din and Grogu anymore.

My heart melted completely when Din said "Our people" talking to Grogu about Mandalore. The whole scene is amazing. Not just because of Din including Grogu as a mandalorian, but also because we got more tidbits of his childhood. He confirmed what I suspected; that he's never lived in Mandalore, just in Concordia. And, we got a geography lesson, making canon that Mandalore and Kalevala are in the same system.

Grogu was a ball of anxiety the whole episode, first when Din sent R5 to get the readings, then when Din got kidnapped (me, too), and because of the bird-lizard thing that went after him. Poor baby!

But I can't help laughing at how fast Grogu convinces Din of anything. Repeated knocking or a whine is enough for Din to give in.

An episode where Din doesn't get his ass kicked is not a Mandalorian episode, and like in the premiere he wasn't, he got a double dose in the second 😆 And I like that he still struggles with the darksaber. We need Sabine to train him!

Live-action Mandalore, I love it. It's both beautiful and haunting, the way the crystallized rock resembles explosions. I love the design of the wreckage city, that you almost can see how it was before, especially if you've seen TCW and Rebels (mostly TCW, bc Rebels was set outside Sundari, and in Krownest).

What the hell was that thing that tried to bleed out? take bone marrow? from Din?! I don't know what it was, but first, it sounded a lot like Grievous; and I guess it needed Din's fluids to function/survive. All I know is that it was creepy as hell and well sure it didn't help Din and his trauma with droids.

Grogu being able to control his own pram is the best!. I thought at first that he was moving it with the Force (maybe for going forward) but then I realized there are controls for him in the front.

I must say that even when I'm not a fan of Bo-Katan, this episode made her bloom as an even more complex character. I love that for her. It's obvious that she has plenty of regrets for all she did in the past, but my beef with her is that, sure, she sees now all the mistakes that were made by all Mandalorians, but she hasn't spoken out loud of her part in it. She always speaks in general terms of Mandalorians but never say I did this, I was one of those, except to say I was the ruler and the Empire came and defeat me. She distances herself from her worst mistakes. Not that it isn't a normal human reaction, but it'd be nice having her owning her mistakes.

Putting my personal feelings about her aside, the scene of Bo battling that thing was awesome!!! So badass!!! The ease with which she wields the Darksaber is satisfying to watch. My favorite part is when she slides underneath the droid and cut it open. So cool!

It didn't occur to me until I heard it in a YT video, that when Bo says she didn't embarrass her dad when she took the creed might not mean that she usually displeased her dad and that specific day she didn't, which is how most people took it as. Maybe what she meant was that she DID take the creed while Satine didn't (because of her pacifist ideals), and therefore, embarrassing their father. That it's an interesting theory. I like it. It'd add more flavor to family drama (as if it didn't have enough of it 😆)

Deep down, I knew Din wasn't going to take his helmet off to bathe in the Living Waters, but he would take the rest of his armor, so he didn't sink, exactly like he did. That scene is both beautiful (as he recites the vow) and funny (the moment he sinks). Then fears hits, and I first wondered how he sunk so fast! The only explanation I can find is that the mythosaur pulled him under.

And OH MY GOD!!! The reveal of the Mythosaur was AWESOME!!! As soon as I saw the tusks, I lost it!!! This is when I became a screaming mess. I couldn't believe one of my wildest theories was true!! Since last year, when the Armorer said that the mythosaur would rise up to herald a new Mandalore, I had the feeling that Mythosaur were down in the mines, or at least one. I can't believe I was right!

[mushstump]

My drafts for a fic that I will never write bc i don't do long fics:

In the end of Rebels, Sabine stayed in Lothal until the start of Mandalore purge. So she went to help her people fight the empire and they lost. For keeping some things canon, her family dies. So after the purge and being clan leader (of what was left, which wasn't that much) she uses her influence in Lothal to safely hide some mandalorians in Lothal. It's the best she can do after all happened. Her relationship with Bo-katan? Unknown, but i don't see her holding grudge against Bo

Different from Nevarro, Wrens convert doesn't use their armors bc it is risky, they have another way of keeping their culture alive while hiding. Idk what

So five years later Ahsoka calls Sabine to find Ezra (and Thrawn/Morgan). In one of the moments they're shortly separated, Sabine finds Din with grogu and says "I'm looking for a Jedi too, but I know someone that can help you" (yup, they both would have some cultural shock in the beginning but after some arguments they become friends or allies. By that time, Sabine is using her armor but isn't that recognizable, one of the ways that she made for keep out of radar was using more of her clan colors bc people wouldn't recognize her immediately)

So it happens like the canon, Ahsoka says "nah thank you" and they go, Sabine says that as soon as she finds Ezra she will contact Din. They find Ezra idk how exactly but they find him in Perideia and THEY ALL GET OUT OF THERE

After this, Din makes a call for Sabine saying that she should go to Mandalore and she goes with Ezra and Ahsoka. This is more or less in the end of season 3. A lot of feels in this part bc it's the first time in a while that she see so many mandalorians not hiding. With her goal accomplished, she stops the "Jedi training" in a parallel with Grogu. But Ahsoka and Ezra stills sometimes help her with some force/Jedi discipline bc it's good for mental health.

In the end, Ezra and Sabine return to Lothal to pass the message to the Wren convert and help they return to mandalore.

Considerations:

Sabine is Bissexual here. And she and Ketsu dated when they were partners

Din asks if she wants the Darksaber and she laughs nervously for a whole minute before denying. Ironic bc in this fic she is been somewhat of a leader for some years now

Maybe someone of her family is alive like an uncle or auntie and helps her take care of the hiding mandalorians when she isn't in Lothal

Are Ezra and Sabine a couple? Maybe bc i couldn't think in a Oc for her and the other people that I ship her with (Jyn and Leia) are out of reach. Also I'm slowly shipping then more bc the good fanfics. But if they are not a couple, they still are close like siblings and besties and cry together bc they're single

And that's would be my little story for Sabine after canon using elements from the both series but changing some things and keeping her heritage strong

Maybe in the end Sabine keep close from Bo katan and The armorer in the leadership? Idk I like to think that the whole story was her growing into a leader for her people like Fenn once said he would follow

[marieaqua]

Inspired by a poll, I need to slam some words down about my thoughts and reasoning behind the possibilities of either the Armorer or the surface mandos being the spy from the title.

Reasoning for the Armorer-

The shots focusing on her going back up to the fleet, why would the film makers go out of their way to show that? The scene where she makes contact with the fleet specifically feels so similar to the scene in TCW when they load Maul onto the ship right before order 66. I can’t fully explain it but those two scenes connect in my brain. This shot can possibly be explained by the imperial bombers being sent in at the end of the episode, but where the shots are places in the episode makes me stray away from that explanation.

The fact that she was the only person of the group to leave before they went to the forge. This one is less of a point for me until I remember she’s THE Armorer. If any other character (besides Bo bc she’s leading) volunteered to take the injured back to the fleet I would think nothing about it bc it’s a decision that makes sense, but bc of who she is and how special the forge would be to her it makes me suspicious.

Her helmet and Moff Gideon’s helmet both having the Maul horns. Until now she’s been the only person with the Maul horns that Death Watch had in TCW (which already made me iffy about her bc she can reforge her helmet but chooses not to). Gideon has no connection to Maul or Death Watch so he would have no reasoning behind adding the horns to his helmet, unless it was in conjunction with someone who does have those things. This point is probably the least strong argument for me bc it’s possible that they aren’t Maul horns just horns in general. I’m still adding it tho bc it stands out to me that costuming spent the time to put horns on his helmet and that whoever approves the costumes let that go ahead knowing what the Armorer also looks like.

Din’s seeming lack of knowledge in Mando history. This one isn’t as direct as the rest, but even in this episode we see his lack of knowledge surrounding Mandalorian history. For a group that’s whole thing is following the ways of the old Mandalore it’s weird that so many times we see other characters (mainly Bo) telling him Mando history, ex. about the Darksaber, about Sundari, about the Living Waters. He seems to have a lacking understanding of his own history which seems wildly misaligned with what The Watch claims to follow and cherish. This leads me to believe that the Armorer could be withholding the history of their people as a means of control. We’ve seen her give Din information (like what the Jedi are, which would be important Mando history) only after it is necessary for a specific mission, when the information is something that he should have known to start with. This could be due to the show wanting to explain details about the universe to the audience without lore dumping, but the way it has been shown the past three seasons it feels like the Armorer is controlling the flow of information to The Watch and what pieces of their history they know.

When the surface people asked her if they were Death Watch she didn’t directly answer. She said that Death Watch split into multiple factions, which answers nothing. She could have just as easily said their origins were in Death Watch but that they split from them long ago. Or said that they weren’t Death Watch at all. It isn’t news to anyone there that Death Watch was gone and split up, just say yes or no and give explanation if you want. Their name is Children of the Watch (and in other languages are called Heirs of Death Watch), that pretty heavily implies a Death Watch connection that isn’t exactly dead yet. I don’t think the Watch as a whole is suspicious due to this, but The Armorer is the leader and as I’ve already said seems to control what the people under her have knowledge of.

Reasoning for the surface people-

You mean to tell me they didn’t see the imperial army on Mandalore? They’ve been on the surface the whole time and they didn’t see anything??

They knew where the forge was but not that it was an imperial base. They obviously have the new surface mapped out and know where the old cities are, so how would they know what’s under the surface without going down there themselves. This point can be explained by them having found the forge before Gideon took it over and then never returning since they first found it, but the forge is important to Mandalorians and is a shelter from the surface. Why wouldn’t they use it?

The fact that multiple of them are now with the fleet. Back again to those scenes of the Armorer taking them up. Those scenes feel like a warning; is the warning about them?

They’re the ones who led Bo’s group to the forge and into the trap in the first place.

[wantonlywindswept]

mando liveblog 3.7 ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

i am both mad and disappointed, if ultimately entirely unsurprised

oh good, we get to watch bo-katan get the darksaber again

oh right gideon’s bullshit

still calling that they’re going to take all the storylines into other series and turn the mandalorian into a ‘din and grogu run from gideon’ thing bc that’s what worked for them before

oh god are we on coruscant again? with the imperial bitch? ughhhh not againn

he’s already got his outfit back? lame. you just got busted out of prison, suffer bad clothing choices!

oh no he actually looks MORE vader-y, what a poser

i do hate (which i understand is irrational) that the show has to be beholden to the sequels, bc. well. the sequels sucked.

PROJCET NECROMANCER ASDKLJFSG

oh so if gideon’s interest wasn’t in the clones shenanigans does that mean i can fuck around with him wanting to become the next dr demagolka? Forcibly Assigned Jedi At Experimentation

yeee bitches feel fear at thinking about mandalorians

‘the spies’ oh no

poor nevarro civvies, ‘ah shit not the empire again’

i wanna know how painting that giant mythosaur on the underside of the cruiser worked

ARE WE FINALLY GONNA SEE WHAT THE WHOLE WALKING TWO WAYS BULLSHIT WAS ABOUT? INDOCTRINATION YEA OR NAY

ahh hordes of mandalorians my beloved

din. din get on the side of the covert. din.

‘paz bout to start shit TIME TO USE THE TALKING HAMMER’

oh god the droid we all forgot about. again.

OH NOT A DROID IT’S A FUCKING JAEGER IM FUCKING CRYING ASLDKJADG

OH IT’S FOR GROGU??? IM FUCKIN

oh lord baby with a murder exoskeleton

OH

ONIDSFJAG

LETS THE BABY SPEAK???

runaway baby so happy ‘yessss i can murder now!!’

okay i know this is supposed to be funny but clearly the baby should not have the exoskeletON ARE THEY ROASTING THE BABY BIRDS???

man they just got a home and they’re already needing to leave again?

i’m sorry GROGU AS WELL? what. what. YHOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE NEVARRO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SO THEY COULD KEEP THEIR KIDS SAFE

big spartacus vibes here

oh ho ho, the armorer too?

lmfao everyone chillin and then there’s paz with his ginormous gun, love that for him. also wonder if my hc about him never actually setting foot on mandalore before despite being a vizsla is correct?

did we. at least land somewhere significant? and not just in the middle of nowhere?

ah good on top of a city at least.

oh

oh my heart

‘do you have food’

the first question asked

mandalorians have been here all along??

okay this hurts me but i feel like not for the reason they want it to, bo-katan DID abandon you in the end

are these the spies, this is going to Hurt Me

oh she admitted it

wait did we know about this deal before or is this new info? bo-katan cut a deal with gideon? i have not watched any of the animated series

oh thank christ finally confirmation the tribe is against Death Watch, even if descended from it

hmm does sound like a good reason for joint leadership

I SERVE YOU? WHAT?

what are these vibes my brain suddenly just sidestepped into the Mad Max universe

is the armorer gonna die to traitors

lmfao paz fucking down to fight over fucking checkers im sobbing

really ‘primitives’? i know we’re supposed to be like ‘oh assholes on both sides’ but paz is like 100000 times better than woves

BABY????

the fuck DID he learn from you then, din

oh wait

i know there’s the assumption it was din (and i mean. fuck yeah dinluke. but.)

what if all the stuff about grogu learning things

was from kelleran?

mythosaur?? pls??

no mythosaur :(

PAZ MAKING SURE THE BABY GOT OUT

what is it with mandalorians and giant lizards anyway

MY HEADCANON IS CORRECT, PAZ NEVER LIVED ON MANDALORE GO ME

nope not survivors

bigger vibes that they were led here THEYRE WEARING WHAT. FUCKIONG IMPERIALS IN BESKAR?? FLAMES! ON THE SIDES OF MY FACE!!

vanguard paz my heart

yeah this was totes a trap

OH SHIT DIN SEPARATED FROM THE BABY

wow the worst vader wannabe

...din forced down on his knees doe unf

somebody cut off this dude’s head

I WAS SO RIGHT HES THE NEXT DEMAGOLKLA PUT TOGETHER IT ALL AND YOU GET JEDI MANDO...clones? something. w/e

UH YEAH, YEAH YOU SHOULD HAVE BO

ah paz it about to die isn’t he

sigh

oh for fucks sake it wasn’t even a smart death you coulda closed it and then gone through

oh fake jedi bitches

i know this is supposed to be a badass honorable death but i’m too busy being mad about it

[charnelhouse]

Proposal

Pairing: Din Djarin x F!Reader Words: 2.19K Warnings: Smut. Rough SMut. Anal. Violence. A lil degradation. Summary: Din Djarin gets possessive over you at the covert. Wild sex ensues. A/N: From THIS request...and I ended up writing filth. Also - my apologies to Paz fans. I sort of made him a villain here simply bc I didn’t know any other Mandalorians by name other than Boba (who is imo not a dick)

It’s probably the worst place they could be doing this. 

There had been a bounty on both of your heads and so Din had decided to call in a few favors. 

They’d been stuck in a covert on Tatooine for weeks. You were on edge - drained from the constant darkness and having to stay underground. The storms that sent a thick layer of sand throughout the tunnels - coating every seat and spare bed. It didn’t help that Din’s fellow Mandalorians had little patience for you. They could not understand why Din had even brought you here unless you were his wife.

She - she means a great deal to me. Don’t question it again.

You had come to understand that regardless of how any of the Mandalorians felt about you, they respected Din. He was the most talented among them. He had won the Darksaber, which was a whole other matter that would inevitably come to a head at some point.

We’ll deal with it when things calm down. There’s too much heat on the both of us. 

So the Darksaber sat nestled among Din’s things, while everyone else kept their distance from you in order to satisfy him.

Everyone except a specific Mandalorian: Paz Vizsla.

He was enormous - threaded in muscle and armor as he stomped through the tunnels and dreary dirt hallways. He would not leave you the fuck alone. He’d loom over you when Din wasn’t around - his voice throaty despite the modulator: “What the fuck are you still doing here, girl? This is no place for a whore.”

First of all, you weren’t a whore. You were a bounty hunter. A good one.

Second of all, what the fuck was wrong with whores to begin with?

Third of all, this dipshit motherfucker needed to get new material because calling you a “whore” or “Mando’s bitch” was just...uninspired.

You weren’t going to run off and tell Din. The guy was an asshole, but not dangerous. You didn’t need saving and you didn’t need his protection. If Paz got handsy, you’d notch a vibroblade up his groin - right where the edge of his armor met the soft material of his pants.

You knew your way around Mandalorian armor thanks to the amount of times you’d shucked Din out of his. 

You think you’re pretty slick about it all too. You think you’ve got it covered.

But - of course - Din finds out.

**

Din doesn’t know what Paz has called you. He just knows that the Mandalorians have been giving you a difficult time - being passive aggressive and just rude.

You’re certain that if he discovered the shit with Paz, he’d probably decapitate him or stab him sixteen times. It’d be extremely hot, but they still needed a hideout and you doubt it would go over well with the rest of them. 

“It’s not a big deal,” you murmur, skating your fingers up the chilly exterior of his cuirass. “He’s an idiot.”

You can hear Din’s jaw tick, the subtle vibration of a growl deep in his chest. His teeth grinding together.

“It’s wrong,” he hisses. “They can’t disrespect you like that.” 

“‘I’m not a Mandalorian,” you shrug. “They just don’t want me crawling around their turf.”

He shifts onto his side to stare at you. His helmet is on - everything in place except his gloves. The unflinching black T of the visor is pinning you against the mattress. You can sense how intensely he is watching you.

“You’re mine,” he explains as if it is just cold, hard truth.  His hand rises up to curl across your cheek, thumb brushing over your mouth. “You are mine in every sense of the word.”

“Not your wife,” you point out.

He scoffs. “Titles don’t matter.” He gradually moves his hand between them, nudging his fingers over your nipple, tweaking it just right. His voice drops to something low and gravelly - the modulator only enhancing it. “If I’m not mistaken, you’re the one who said you didn’t want to get married.”

You freeze. Yes - you had said that. This whole relationship had just come together so quickly. It felt as if you were free-falling with Din pressed hot against you and every fucking second you think the ground will hit, but it doesn’t. It just keeps going - the wind whistling clear at their ears - the world collapsing before them. 

Every day - you love him a little more and it scares you. You’re waiting for the dirt - the crash - the inevitable disaster that has to befall them. 

It never happens.

It’s always inescapably - faithfully -  just Din with his arms wrapped around you - bringing you home. 

His bare fingertips slide through the cleft of your pussy. He presses them lower before stroking them back up, spreading the hood so he can rub his thumb over your clit. You gasp - gripping his arm as he quietly chuckles. 

“Is someone having second thoughts?” he teases - his thumb moving steadily - before gaining speed. “Do you want to be my wife, mesh’la? My pretty, little wife who just happens to throw a punch better than me.”

Your spine is tingling - arousal bunching up in the cradle of your ribs. Your heart is stuck in your mouth as Din slips two fingers inside you. There is a scream lodged in your throat. 

“You can scream, cyar'ika,” he urges with the most deliriously suggestive tone. “Let them all fucking hear you. Show them you’re mine.”

**

You’re not sure if it’s the location that is making Din filthier than he’s ever been or if it's the fact that they’ve been so well-behaved the last few weeks. They’d had quickies - you on your side with Din thrusting into you. Gentle, soft missionary when they had time in the morning.

This - this - is really fucking new. 

Din had fucked your ass before, but it had always been slow and full of caution. Tons of lube and him preparing you for hours.

Tonight - Din just fucking does it. There’s no lube. No toys. Just his thick fingers and his spit as he stretches you open on his hand.

Maybe - he’s so kriffing feral because you essentially agreed to marry him.

“My pretty wife,” he drawls as he scissors his fingers - knuckles curling along the rim as he loosens you. “Do you like when I do this to you? When you let me fuck your sweet, perfect ass?”

Your head falls back against the pillow. Your legs are splayed around his hips, your cunt is chafed raw from Din’s tongue. You’re soaked - the entirety of your body - your wild branching nerves are alight. He splits you easier than before. His mouth spilling the dirtiest praise and promises that you’ve ever heard him use. All of it - brushed in ice and near-indifference due to the modulator. 

Look at you, sweet girl - you’re almost ready for me. 

I can’t wait to fuck you - thrust deep until I make you squirt all over me like last time.

You gonna be my filthy, little whore? Let me stretch you open so I can just slide in. 

Normally, you’d hate the degradation. You’d bristle if he used “whore” or “slut” any other time. But Din has three fingers stuffed in your ass and your brain has left the compound - flown away to greener pastures or something like that. 

He had just called you his wife and there is something deliciously raw about him proposing marriage to you and then calling you a whore as he fucks your ass not even an hour later.

He drops his head as he lines his cock up with your asshole. His broad body near-shaking as he tries to go easy - calm himself so he doesn’t just rip you open when he breaches you.

“Tell me to stop if you need me to,” he whispers. “If it gets too much.”

“Obviously,” you toss back - a bit ruder than intended but it has the same effect. Din snarls - snapping his hips forward and burying his cock into your ass. It shoves you up the bed - makes you scream high-pitched and desperate and you’re certain that everyone within a two-mile radius has heard you.

You don’t care. 

He fucks you hard. His hips slam into yours and it feels as if the head of his thick cock is punching up against something very significant inside you. Your pleasure is over-filling - rising up and making your lower muscles clamp down as you practically vibrate against him. There is the slick squelch of him driving inside the tight channel of your ass - the very loud echo of wet flesh meeting wet flesh. 

You are a mess of strangled noises and uh uh uh’s and Din-Din-Din-yes-fuck.

Din groans - loud and overwhelmed as he grips the hinges of your knees and forces them against your tits - practically bending you in half. He angles himself in such a way that he grinds his pelvis bone against your swollen clit. You can see yourself - a bloom of color and blurred shape in the reflection of his helmet.

He pulls back enough so he can tilt his helmet down to watch - the obscene display of his slippery cock disappearing inside your pulsing asshole. 

‘Fuck,” he grits out. “Just look at you - just -” His hips slap against the backs of your thighs. “Look.” A rougher stab of his cock. “At you.” Another harsh thrust. “Take me.”

“Din,” you sob - half-broken - half-dragged through. “Din - fuck.”

“What is it?” he says - his voice softening to something concerned, almost coddling. “What do you need? You need me to make you cum, mesh’la?”

You bite your lip hard enough to bruise before you nod. You don’t know what the fuck you need. But it’s something and you’re sure Din is the only one who can give it to you.

He rears back - not even skipping a beat as each spear of his cock snatches something vital from you. You are so far gone - there’s sweat dripping down your brow - the salt of it catching on your lip. Your ass is aching - in a good way - in the best way - but you know that you won’t be able to walk for days after this. He has made room for himself inside you - pushed his way in, spread and stretched and molded you to fit him.

You are absolutely bare and all you get from him are his naked hands and cock. He rises above you - a silver spectre - a gorgeous monolith - nearly a droid on the surface as his silent visor continues to rake across your heaving chest. There is only the rapid, undulating movement of his hips and the spasms in his broad hands as he digs his fingers into your thighs. 

He tilts his helmet down to stare at where your ass is sucking him deep and his thumb grazes across the stiff peak of your clit. Your walls clench. 

“Your cunt needs me,” he observes - running the tip of his index finger through your folds. “It’s fluttering - so pretty and wet.”

You are going to die. You are going to die right here getting fucked in the ass by your droid-looking boyfriend-husband-man. 

He lifts his helmet up just enough so he can press his fingers into his mouth. You catch the dark stubble, the golden skin, the irresistible red slash of his mouth and it makes you cry out for him - you want his face shoved up against you - his cheek dragging along yours as he tongues your mouth and kisses you breathless. 

But he lets his helmet fall back in place before he moves those calloused fingers to your aching, empty cunt and he crams them inside you. It’s difficult - even though you’re so wet that you’re nearly liquid - it still makes you jerk and wince because it’s too much.

Three fingers buried in your pussy while his ridiculously well-endowed dick fucks your ass into oblivion. He doesn’t let up - his cock is sliding over a spot inside you that is making you arch - your legs trembling as you try to notch your ankles around his waist to leverage yourself. He thrusts his fingers back and forth through your cunt, twisting them up so he can flick your clit with his thumb. He lifts his helmet again - just to fucking spit on your cunt - before smearing it through your folds.  

Din isn’t even talking anymore - just scratchy, breathy pants and animal-grunts as his hips jam up against you - as his pace begins to stutter and lose its footing.

“I-I fucking adore you,” he mutters - working you open, spreading you apart, ripping you anew. “I adore you, pretty girl. My little wife.”

It devolves into a storm of words and noises. Your orgasm crashes into you before you know it’s there. The arduous climb of it had taken so long that you had simply forgotten where the fuck you were - where your pleasure rested and then it hits low, your belly cramping as your walls clamp down on Din’s fingers. Your muscles all locking up tight including your ass which manages to push Din into his own climax - milking him for all he’s worth. 

When he gently pulls out of you, there is a wet, warm stream through the cleft of your cheeks. He uses his fingers to gather the drippings - the remnants of his spend - and shove them up into your convulsing, tender cunt like the freak he is. It sparks something hot inside you - your body jerking at the sensation as he continues to stroke your abused, puffy folds - carrying you gingerly back to solid ground.

He lazily tucks himself away, climbing up the bed before collapsing against you. He yanks you flush against his smooth armor, winding his Beskar-laden arms around your waist. You can see yourself all over it - your cum and slick and sweat - and it makes you shiver - makes you rub your cheek against his chest as he brushes your hair back. 

“So,” he remarks - his tone unflinchingly casual despite the fact that he is still trying to catch his breath. “Were you actually serious about the wife thing?

As if you could say no - as if you’d ever want to.

“Yes.”

**

Paz decidedly avoids you for the rest of your stay.

[knitgeek]

So you know that post about TCW bloopers? Well, I raise you one - Rebels blooper reel:

Hera turning too quickly and smacking the camera with her lekku

Constant door malfunctions on the Ghost, resulting in many cut scenes and bumped foreheads

Anytime a Clone Wars actor is on set the Rebels cast geeking out because they grew up watching them

Chopper rolling past in the background of scenes he’s not supposed to be in

Zeb forgetting his lines and switching back to his regular accent

All the wobbly lightsaber takes

Agent Kallus yelling “Sorry mate!” after kicking the stormtrooper off the bridge in s1

Ezra noticing the different camera blocking for him and Sabine when he gets his growth spurt

The first take of the reunion scene between Ahsoka and Rex is just them crying cause they haven’t worked together in so long

Hera making wierd faces while filming her flight scenes in the Ghost

All the horrendous cursing after messing up their lines

The cast taking selfies with random props

Kanan messing up introducing the crew to Cham Syndulla wasn’t scripted

They use real Loth cats to film, so there’s plenty of footage of the cast (Ezra) cuddling and playing with them between shots

Sabine doing the darksaber fight in one take, because she was so emotionally drained afterwards

Anytime a Mandolorian removes their helmet and their hair is sticking up

Ezra humming the mission impossible theme while in the air vents

The Grand Inquisitor pulling out his spinning blade, but it doesn’t work right and the whole take is ruined by a squeaking noise

Ezra’s voice cracks from s1 and s2

A time lapse of the cast painting the stolen tie-fighter from s1

A stormtrooper tripping over a mouse droid in the background of a shot

Thrawn delivering a brilliant monologue , then sneezing

Zeb dropping the Kallus dummy they used to film the cave scene

After Kanan gets his visor in s3, it falls off his face countless times before they just glue it on

A million takes of Rex throwing his helmet until he finally hit the Stormtrooper in the face

Hera and Kanan calling the crew “the kids” off-screen and it somehow worked it’s way into the real script

No one told Kallus when in the scene he’d be thrown against the glass so his reaction was real

So was Kanan’s, bc he really was supposed to be the one to do it

Vizago behind the scenes with reading glasses on looking over his script

Vader and Ahsoka talking about lunch plans while filming Malachore

Choppers arms randomly popping out and getting caught on the set

Hera doing the “Zeb-Ez-Chop-damnit, Sabine!” Thing That Parents Do

Ezra: “But Ahsoka is dead!” *looks directly into the camera and winks*

Chopper tipping over while rolling down the ramp of the Ghost

Ezra’s babbling to Tristen in s3 being twice as long as what they included in the final cut before Kanan stopped him

Zeb spinning his bo rifle too fast and throwing it accidentily during a fight, but he stays in character and goes with it

Dance battles between Stormtroopers

Sabine and Ezra hiding in closets/crawl spaces and popping out to scare cast members

Kanan flirting with Hera but she can’t keep a straight face so they just end up laughing

Sabine yelling “What??” bc she can’t hear under her helmet

Ahsoka re-taking the shot with Mori landing on her arm bc the trained bird kept landing on her head instead

The Jedi “using the Force” but the prop doesn’t move and everyone’s dead silent until someone says “performance anxiety?”

Hair and makeup room live-streams from Sabine every season when they re-dye her hair

Hondo not learning his lines, just knowing generally what is happening in a scene so no two takes with him are the same

When Hera is unconscious in the Med bay, she falls asleep and starts snoring in the middle of a take

Ezra igniting his lightsaber in a scene and glitter popping out bc Sabine rigged it to explode

This got really long but idc I’m just having fun thinking about this chaotic family

[tonysiron]

You got any dinluke fanfiction recs?

BRO, SO MANY!! You have come to the right place since I've literally read every single fic up to when we hit about 90 of them in the tag 😎 Here are all the fics (in no particular order) that are completed and that I have finished reading that I have recced on my ao3!

Separate Ways || 80.9K Words || Explicit

With Moff Gideon defeated and the Darksaber reclaimed, the rumours of newly named Mand'alor Din Djarin spread through the galaxy... along with the stories of the Child he carries with him. Determined to meet him, Luke Skywalker arrives on Mandalore -- but before he can get any closer, he has to prove himself worthy of Mandalorian standards.

This fic is a classic! Its literally The Dinluke fic to read. It's a great starting point, and it was written Pre S2!

Together || 1.49K Words || General Audiences

“You can come with us” the man said.

Din looked up, not quite registering the words yet. In his arms he was holding the child. Grogu. He still hadn’t gotten used to the name.

“This doesn’t have to be goodbye for you and the youngling” the Jedi repeated.

you are a clan of three || 1.49K Words || General Audiences

Din stands quite still, polite-like, with his hands crossed at his waist. So does Luke. After a moment, the baby crosses his hands too.

At last Din appears to relax completely and Luke turns away. ‘I’ll be back for him,’ he tells Din, his voice warm, ‘but first I must attend to my other Padawans.’

‘Oh,’ Din says respectfully. ‘Is that… a Force thing?’

Crystal Tears || 2.95K Words || Not Rated

“This is going to be awkward,” Luke sighs down at the baby in his arms. R2 beeps besides him and Luke nods in agreement. “Nothing to do but go back.”

His X-Wing is almost completely dismantled, sparking where wires hang limply. There is no way he’s getting off of this cruiser until it’s repaired. There aren't even any escape pods on board all of the docking bays empty. He hadn’t anticipated this, and now he was going to have to walk back to the bridge with the baby and explain himself to a heartbroken Mandalorian.

This fic is great, but so its the series its apart of! I really love Din and Luke's dynamic, so if you read this fic I definitely reccomend reading the 3 following ones as well! Altogether its 19.8K Words!

the art of missing Din Djarin || 1.15K Words || Teen

Somehow, Luke had a distinct feeling that the bounty hunter was an easy man to miss.

Or, 4 times Grogu wants to know if Luke misses Din.

I remember reading this and absolutely loving it. Its short and sweet (most of these fics are) but they made me giggle stupidly, so I reccomend it!

Yoda's Academy for Li'l Padawans || 17.6K Words || Teen

Being a new student is hard.

Being a new student whilst your socially awkward father avoids the school at all costs and your new teacher pines uselessly over a man he’s never met before is even worse.

But by god, Grogu is gonna get through this.

Legitimately I think this might be my favorite fic so far and it barely has any actual dinluke in it. Luke's dynamic with all of Din's friends, plus him complaining to Han and Leia the entire time is just so fun to read that the whole fic flies by so fast. Also Din just desperately avoiding Luke bc the idea of having to talk to 1 (one) pretty boy has completely crippled him.

More Than His Armor || 12.6K Words || Teen

Din visits Grogu at Luke’s academy more than any other parent. Luke isn’t complaining.

His Beacon, His Harbor || 21.4K Words || Mature

The first thing Din noticed was the fire in the hearth. Near the hearth was a small, handmade crib, and from the crib came an excited cry. It spread through Din's chest like a bloodstain, perhaps it had in fact pierced his heart. He knew that little voice.

“Hey, you,” said Din softly. He dropped to his knees as the Kid scrambled out of the crib and scampered to him, crawling into his lap and burbling happily.

“That’s the most excited I’ve seen him in months,” said Skywalker. Din hadn’t even noticed him sitting across the room at a rough-hewn wooden table, nursing a cup of something. He wore the same carefully neutral expression he'd had on Gideon's ship, but his clothes were now desert-colored and hung loose around Skywalker's wiry frame. His hair was in disarray and it made him look much younger than he'd seemed on the ship; there, he'd seemed world-weary and ancient. Now, Din felt an insane need to protect.

Skywalker raised his cup at Din in greeting, a lopsided smile on his face. “He’s missed you," he said.

“Feeling’s mutual,” said Din gruffly.

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The Mandalorian becomes Din Djarin.

Din Djarin becomes.

(Luke helps.)

Oh man, I read this fic last night and it's literally pure art. Its so fucking sweet, I love it so much. Force sensitive Din is definitely something more people need to write, and I genuinely adore this whole thing from start to finish. Leia is in it very briefly too, and that's always lovely. 💖

They Know This || 1.2K Words || General Audiences

“This is Luke, Gregory. He is going to be having dinner with us. Remember that I told you we’d be having dinner with someone significant?” Dad asks so gently, and his rough hands run through Grogu’s hair. It’s like being scratched.

Grogu nods once more and Dad breaks into an even bigger smile, though by a lot of standards that’s not very large. Dad’s smiles are always like when comets fly past the moon, so sudden and shocking and a reminder of how truly small Grogu feels in this bigger universe he calls home, this feeling that’s so overwhelming.

He loves Dad. A lot.

So hehe this is actually my fic! It's just a fic in grogu's pov about meeting Luke for the first time, and he and Din are on a date :)

Alright, I hope these are good enough for you! I don't really rec fics on here, so I hope I did okay this first time around 😎

[creativemessbyvd]

Fic Idea Vault #5 - Dinluke Mulan AU

I have a lot (A LOT) of ideas for fics that I feel bad leaving in my computer to gather dust. So I have decided to share them here so people know of them and I can focus on the stories that I am planning on actively working on. Most of theses are just going to be bullet points of general things that I had planned for these stories. Hope you enjoy and if you are inspired by anything here, let me know if you end up writing and publishing anything! Would love to read it!

Genetheseral summary of the fic and then under the cut I leave the detailed events! :D

MULAN DINLUKE AU

Summary:

Various things are different in this Galaxy Far Far Away, leading Luke to be in the middle of the war at 15, and leaving him scarred after ending it at such a young age. After 5 years spent trying to find peace within himself and trying to not be afraid of using the force, Luke answers the call to arms from the new Mand'alor to save his Uncle Cody. Hidden behind his uncle's armor, Luke must pretend to be a clone raised by famous Clone Wars legend Commander Cody and definitely not a Jedi, sworn enemy of the Mandalorians. Fighting with finding if he wants to be the one in charge of reviving the Jedi, he finds kinship alongside Din Djarin who is now in charge of reviving the Mandalorians. Fighting a war, trying to fit in with the other Mandos, trying to keep little Grogu from spilling out his secrets after Luke finds out the child is force sensitive and trying to bury his feelings for the Mand'alor, Luke is sure this is nothing compared to what awaits him once Uncle Cody and Uncle Ben see him again.

(Please be aware most of these notes were done as soon as I had the idea, so excuse my inaccuracies, but also Cannon is my sandbox and we throw away anything that doesn't spark joy XD)

If you have any questions or wish to scream at me about this tiny idea, please leave me a comment or send me a message! Would love to talk about this!

Pre-Story changes to Cannon SW:

- Palpatine does get control of the universe, he orders the wipeout of the Jedi and warps up Anakin, leading to Vader.

- Cody and Rex manage to avoid O66 and take Ahsoka and Obi Wan alongside the twins away. Luke stays with Obi-Wan and Cody and Leia goes to the Organa's. Obi-Wan doesn't want to screw up with another padawan and Ahsoka refuses to be called a Jedi, but they do teach him to be safe just not to fight or use a saber

- Various events lead Luke to be targeted by both Palps and Vader earlier, leading him to hide out with Yoda and start his training after he believes his family was killed, and then into the big fight in the second death star that leads to Palps dead and Vader/Anakin being redeemed

- With the Empire fallen but Luke being so young and still mostly untrained in the Force, the whole story is that it was the rebellion who did it, so he goes back to Obi and Cody and quiet life in Tatooine

Present Story Time:

- At 20, 5 years after the Empire has fallen, the events of the Mando Series take place, except that Gideon doesn't have his droid army yet and escapes after Din has won the Darksaber from him and become Mand'alor

- Luke has been struggling to let go of the war and his time in Palps clutches, and while in serious lessons to become a Jedi with Obi-Wan and Ahsoka, he feels like he'll never make it (he's sorta blocked bc he learned the start with Yoda on the idea that he was the only one left to save the Galaxy)

- Hearing that there is a new Mand'alor and he is preparing for war against Gideon and his robots, but will only accept Mandos to fight by his side, prompts Cody to go. Obi-Wan is against the idea, considering that Cody suffered greatly in the event that tore Luke away from them, but he won't leave his brethren to go to war alone. Luke has heard all the story and considers Cody a father and doesn't want him to die, so he takes his armor and leaves with it.

- At the camp, he is placed in the newcomer's side and rattled on his armor (clearly a clones armor but from before the fall of the republic) and boba is brought in to interrogate the truth of Luke's story: that he was a young shiny that Cody and Rex took on a mission for the rebellion and raised as their own. Boba has feelings about hearing of Kote and verifies he knows said clone as being trustworthy, especially considering that he is certainly not as young as he could be, even if Bo-Katan is not happy but Din won't hear of it as they need as many Mandos as they can for the imminent attack of Mandalore.

- Luke grew up on the stories from Cody and Rex about their own version of being Mandalorian as thought by Jango and his inner circle, but it is entirely different once he is subjected to the training courtesy of Bo-Katan, who is dropping half the army left and right due to being 'unmandalorian'. She fights constantly against Din's decision to call for help to all willing Mandos, saying her own leftover Death Watch is enough, but Din is in part not comfortable having so many unknowns around him and wished to try to contact his own covert, if any still lived.

- After two weeks and constantly being put down by the unforgiving training, Luke decides to give his all, finally making leeway in his training and inspiring the rest of his new brethren. Din takes notice and gets closer to the young man (finding kinship in him never taking his armor off much like Din) while Luke is very surprised to find the young child of the Mand'alor is actually force sensitive and of the same species as Yoda. Grogu is aware after a few encounters that Luke is actually a Jedi but is unable to actually tell his father (he knows that his father has been looking for Jedi to train him but also how much Bo-Katan has screamed whenever din asked after looking for help from the new republic, citing that Mandalorians should never seek help from Jedi or Jedi affiliated) so he silently watches and plans to matchmake when he sees how good they are together

- Gideon has decided to move in and they must go meet him, and they all get a glimpse of the planet of Mandalore. They encounter a mild surprise attack and Luke surprises them all by getting a mini frighter and going head to toe with Gideon himself. It seems like Gideon and his troops are defeated but Luke suffers some deep wounds.

- As they check him over, they must remove his helmet and the medics inform Boba, Din and Bo-Katan that he isn't a clone as they thought and Boba recognizes his face while Bo-Katan recognizes his name. Din is distraught to learn he had become friendly with a Jedi and Bo-Katan is prepared to kill him but Din simply dismisses him and they move on.

- Left with his droid and his original ship, Luke can't believe his luck until he sees Gideon going after Din, who had received word of the Armorer and was en-route to meet with her and the rest of the covert. Luke knows that he can't let him get to them all and goes after them.

- In the wilds of Mandalore, the Armorer and many other foundlings and displaced clans have gathered, welcoming their new ruler who defeated Gideon and preparing a feast and party. Luke blends in and tries to convince the others that Gideon still lives but is refuted, but some of his friends do believe him including Grogu. Gideon does attack and takes Grogu and the foundlings hostage, Luke sees the opportunity and is suddenly at peace with being able to use the force to help himself and the others going to rescue the little ones. Gideon takes after Luke who he recognizes as the one who tore through his troops and meets his end.

- After all of this, the Armorer admits that while being a Jedi, Luke was very obviously a Mandalorian at heart and Din lets it known that he is to be treated as one of them. Bo-Katan isn't happy at all, but is even more horrified when Boba says he could replace her as part of Din's inner circle and more than one person agrees. Luke takes it all in but admits that he left his own clan behind and will need to seek their forgiveness. He also admits that after so long, he finally knows his path: to restore the Jedi Order and train other Force Sensitives, but will make it better and honor all the teachings the Mandalorians have taught him. Din is heartbroken to know he might part from Grogu but Luke admits he wouldn't be able to offer him much considering he doesn't have a place to teach from. He leaves them and Grogu and Din both get the Armorer's blessing to go after him and maybe offer him a place to start his school.

- Luke returns home and aks forgiveness from his uncles but is instead welcomed without any repercussions. That night as he settles into a family dinner that includes his sister, Din arrives with Grogu and offers them a place to settle his new school. Being a Mandalorian was part of Luke's and Grogu's history and both groups needed each other to become mighty again. Luke accepts and is equally giddy to see Luke too seems interested, leading Grogu to say FINALLY!

Characters:

Mulan - Luke

Shang - Din

Parents - Obi Wan and Cody

Grandmother - Ahsoka and Rex

Chi-Fu (advisor) - Bo-Katan

Emperor/Shang's Father - The Armorer

Mushu - Grogu and R2D2

Shan Yu (bad guy) - Gideon

[bellsyafterdark]

okay so here's the whole thing i started as an ask and then got Way Out Of Hand:

so din isn't a brat in the ball & chain verse, not really, bc his focus is service and the desire to be good etc etc. like, he'd crawl across broken glass if his alphas even implied they would like that. he doesn't have a petty bone in his body.

paz d o e s

and the cognitive dissonance for paz has gotta be Rough bc like. he's a service top for din, but with boba and fennec? well, they kind of butt heads bc of all their dominant dispositions. after a little while, paz and fennec fall into a mostly amicable, non-antagonistic dynamic and its chill. they're partners in taking din apart tho fennec is a bit more in charge bc of how she's a bit more clinical (cue greyace fennec simping) and paz, much like din, follows orders beautifully when he wants to.

paz and boba Do Not sort themselves For A While.

for whatever reason, paz has Issues with his instincts when it comes to boba. part of him wants to submit, but its uncomfortable to admit bc alpha instincts + paz never having been in such a position before. traditional, like you said, esp bc maybe that's what has always been expected of him as Big Beefy Tank Alpha. and paz is Bad At Processing Conflicting Emotions so he's fighting what he wants and what he thinks he's supposed to want AND his instincts which are all tangled up. as a result...he brats. he doesn't get particularly violent or break things bc that would upset din so it's always petty little shit, quietly done, no fits or temper. little things to piss off boba specifically. mando style passive aggressive nonsense. maybe paz's got the mindset that boba has to earn his vulnerability? crossed with how he's always been the top and he's only now discovering switch tendencies bc he's come up against 2 alphas who makes him b e l i e v e they can take him down not in a fight way (but yeah also in a fight way lol). which can be Uncomfortable, esp as an alpha probably. like, realizing this person is someone that???? you don't have to be strong for????? you don't have to be in charge??? idk how to characterize the feeling I mean. but it has to do with the exchange of trust and power that is one of the core parts of this kind of bdsm/kinky stuff.

like. boba and fennec Know paz is strong, can take care of himself and din and probably them if necessary. they respect that. but he doesn't HAVE to be in control when they're there and he's learning what it's like to trust someone else to watch his back and din's (bc let's be honest we know paz would care abt din before himself)

idk I just have a bizarre vision of paz being a petty brat at least a little. he's definitely Extra Grumpy if din is away (visiting grogu maybe or trying to con bo-katan into taking the darksaber via sabacc) and boba is definitely Wound Up at this point and fennec is probably getting frustrated with paz too so one day they just. take him Down and show him the rewards of being their good pup and what exactly his bad behavior has earned him.

he probably still is a bit passive aggressive bratty on occasion but hopefully he figures out that he can trust boba and fennec to take the reins and be in charge at least some times

This is perfect. This is exactly what I needed for the next installment in the chronological sequence for AO3, your brain is beautiful.

Back in the covert, Paz did follow someone else -- the Armourer -- but that was a different dynamic. She earned her leadership because she was an elder with knowledge, experience and the best fighting prowess in the tribe. She could take any of them down in a fight. But she was also not an Alpha.

So Paz in himself is a little confused in unfamiliar territory. He's been in non-traditional packs before but he's never had to follow another alpha or two who 1) also wanted to be intimate with him, 2) who were (in his eyes) competitors for an object of his affections.

Subconsciously, he's still divided the four of them into us and them and until he can relinquish some of his control, accept that he can trust them with Din, he resists in these little ways. It's probably through talking to Din trying to understand why he made this choice that he's first given food for thought about the merits of not having to be strong or in control all the time, and exchanging your power. Now he just has to realise that's acceptable for all people, not only omegas, and he'll be fine.

I absolutely agree with you that Paz's main beef is with Boba because it's not Fennec who sits in that throne all day with Din in his lap.

Maybe the first time Boba and Fennec take him down together is when Din is not home so it also makes it just about Alpha to Alpha without Paz subconsciously needing to behave a certain way for Din.

[levitatingbiscuits]

hi sorry i just need to rant about lightsabers for a bit. (bear with me. i swear this isn’t just nitpicking the accuracy of physics and swordplay in a space opera, bc I swear I wouldn’t make a post JUST for that)

so, i have a bit of experience with swords. not actual swords, but bokken and wooden replicas, at least. i’ve been trained in basic shakespearian stage combat since i was 8 years old, but the only move I got really good at was the moulinet, aka that flippy thing everyone complains about in the prequels:

however, unlike everyone claims, THIS MOVE IS NOT USELESS. sure, it can be used to show “i’m fancy and well-trained,” but it’s ALSO extremely useful for acquainting yourself to the heft and length of your weapon, as well as readjusting your grip if your other hand is occupied (historically by a shield), or even if you just wanna do it quickly because you’re worried the other guy is about to stab/disarm you. it also helpfully keeps others at bay when your grip is at its weakest because they don’t wanna get hit by the blade and bleed tf out, much like poor anakin up there. Not to mention, IN UNIVERSE they can use moulinets to deflect blaster fire and seek openings in other saber users’ defenses.

HOWEVER X2: this move should not be possible with a plasma blade/”laser sword.”

plasma is weightless. the moulinet depends on the weight of the blade to function. imagine trying to do this move with a deadly flashlight instead of a sword, which is essentially what a lightsaber is. ewan and hayden were given sticks to stand in for the lightsaber blades, which is the only reason they can physically perform this move. (also probably why their stances are all so dumb -- the physics are COMPLETELY different. Only Makashi even vaguely resembles irl blade combat, and that’s because Christopher Lee was a fencer and George incorporated that. Maybe Ataru too, to a lesser extent, but that was because Liam Neeson got trained in broadsword combat for Rob Roy and kept accidentally using irl techniques during his fight scenes.)

BUT: that’s where the Force comes in.

Why is the lightsaber the signature weapon of ONLY the Jedi, when they can so easily be used to devastating effect? Simple answer: lightsabers are super fucking dangerous. They can cut through anything, with minimal effort, so if you drop it it can and will cut through whatever it touches, ESPECIALLY flesh and bone. it’s also weightless, and therefore it’s SUPER FUCKIN EASY to overexert yourself and cut through more than you intended, because it goes through your opponents and solid rock like a hot knife through butter. Even in metal’s case, it’s like a cold knife through fudge. if you aren’t Force-sensitive, you’re just as much of a danger to yourself and your companions as you are to your enemies. that’s probably why the mandalorians didn’t immediately manufacture a million more darksabers, despite it being the weapon equivalent of a wet dream for them: shit just isn’t practical. it’s a status symbol precisely because it’s such a pain in the ass to use.

but we KNOW there’s some force fuckery afoot with the kyber crystals, as well. they’re sentient, and the main way Force nulls can even use them is in giant superweapons. Jedi gotta bond with those little assholes, have to have a fucking vision quest before it will deign to be used by them. Sith have it even worse: they gotta break them to their will by running the gauntlet of their own worst (lightest, technically) thoughts and deepest self-doubts. in return, it sings to its Jedi, and screams at its Sith. 

so i theorize that the only reason why saber users can keep track of where their blade is going is because the saber tells them through the Force. The moulinet is the ultimate expression of skill in saberplay because it signifies complete trust in, and a constant connection with, your crystal. There is a reason Anakin Skywalker often moulinets, and Darth Vader does not. His crystal chose him, and later chose his son, but he stole that red saber from Master Infli’a and made it bleed. It hates and fears him.

This is also likely why the Jedi emphasize control above all else: they don’t really need power or strength that much if the saber is doing 90% of the work for them. They just need to guide its path. Vader can probably get away with being reckless because of his plasteel armor and robot limbs (when Luke hit his armor in ESB it bounced right off). Instead of practicing restraint, as the Jedi did, he just cuts his son’s hand off when he wants to disarm him (eh? eh??). Severing limbs was typically a last resort for the Jedi, the final way to end a fight without killing your opponent, which is why it’s so tragic that Obi-Wan has to cut off so goddamn many to protect those he loves. It gets to the point that he’s pretty blase about the whole thing by the time of ANH. Vader does it to scold his kid. He’s at his farthest point in his fall here.

Anyway, the lightsaber physics of the sequels ended up REALLY bugging me because of this. Sure, they were hardly realistic in the earlier films, but at least they were consistent. This video essay makes a lot of great points, the primary one being that WHY IS NO ONE FUCKING DYING WHEN THEY GET HIT BY A LIGHTSABER. Finn should have lost the use of his legs, at the very least, and Kylo’s skull should have split open like a ripe melon. The REASON the comics emphasized that Asajj was showing off when she gave Anakin his facial scar is because it takes incredible precision to do that to someone without instakilling them, much less leaving him the use of his eye. Rey swung that shit at him like a baseball bat and Kylo was totally fine! 

AAAAANYWAY, this is yet another reason in a fucklong list of why the Order has to start its training so young: so those cute lil babies don’t accidentally kill everyone with their Space Powers when they throw a tantrum or cut off something important whenever they get in a fight.