BlaiddtheWolf

Ace non-binary artist failing at doing anything with their life

[anupalya]

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Warrior's Lullaby

Din sings to Grogu while trapped in a cave.  Luke is entranced.

Vocal performance by anupalya (me!).  Mando’a translation of original lyrics and dinluke-ification by @snaurus / snarechan on ao3.  Melody and original lyrics from Rider’s Lullaby as heard in Centaurworld, written by Megan Nicole Dong and performed by Jessie Mueller.  Instrumental (karaoke version of the original song) used for this recording from here. Big, BIG thanks to my friends who helped with the editing (you know who you are <3).

This is a musical illustration of/Mando'a cover inspired by a scene from Chapter 5 of The Start, by @snaurus, in which Din sings the Mando'a version of Rider's Lullaby (although he doesn't have the soundtrack accompaniment in the cave with them, of course. At least, not literally).

I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend The Timeline (the series to which The Start belongs).  It’s so fun and interesting and full of adventure and shy idiots and chaotic dumbassery, and is just absolutely delightful.  I cheer every time a new chapter comes out.  This is my fanart of and tribute to their work, and I hope you enjoy.

AO3 version here

Mando’a Lyrics (translated by @snaurus):

Gar're jat, gar're an staabi.

Ni'll draar, vurel ba'slanar gar eso.

Ni kelir motir, bal Ni kelir akaanir, ti gar.

...

Gar're jat, gar're an staabi.

Ni'll motir olar, adol te dha ca.

An te ara, Ni kelir akaanir, ti gar.

English/Original (from Centaurworld):

You're okay, you're all right.

I'll never, ever leave your side.

I will stand, and I will fight, with you.

...

You're okay, you're all right.

I'll stand here, through the dark night.

All the way, I will fight, with you.

[queer-spaghetti]

Where do you put your left over spaghetti?

Tupperware

Ziplock bag

other

Voting ended onApr 27, 2023

[phoenixyfriend]

Concept. Brewing.

I'm obsessed with AUs where a character dies and then comes back (often with time travel, sometimes without) as… a cat. They have information and secrets and maybe superpowers and also no thumbs. Or speech capabilities. Or respect.

I want to do one and IDK who or when.

Easy option is "Vader dies and is trying to Fix things but the only person who knows this kitten is a reformed Sith Lord is the ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn, who is also currently invisible to everyone except sometimes Yoda."

Probably a time-travel AU just so I can toss "a Sithly kitten" into the nebulous period between TPM and AotC and have the Jedi (or someone) deal with... This random cat that does things like "Attempts to maul the chancellor" and "Bites Pong Krell" and "naps and purrs on the lap of one random tog initiate."

I do feel a little like putting Vader in the Temple gives him way too much opportunity to actually influence things. I need to give him trouble. I need him to face numerous obstacles.

I could toss him into Naboo but. Consider Rattatak

Ventress is now being bullied by a Formerly Sith Cat that is trying to push her back into being Not Sith and also trying to fix up a ship to get her off-planet because uhhhh fuck this, the Jedi need to handle this angsty teenager, Vader is NOT interested.

Though if Ky Narec is still alive that could also provide options.

Ventress: This is my… emotional support animal. The Jedi as a whole: That is an entire-ass Sith Lord. Anakin, yowling: [former!] Everybody: [fails to understand him]

From @lizasweetling:

the lack of respect is so actively funny especially if he's Post-original-Trilogy, so he's been walking around being totally unreasonable as people cower at his approach for like 18 years to- aaaw what a cute kitty!! that thing about cats and being a supreme killing machine that unfortunately only weighs 7 pounds

[lemoneste]

Now I would appreciate a fic where Anakin Skywalker just kills Palpatine on accident. I was watching revenge of the sith and through the whole sequence of Obi-wan and Anakin saving Palpatine from the ship I was thinking: “Anakin is waving his damn sabre EVERYWHERE it’s a miracle he hasn’t hit something on accident” and then bam: idea.

In Anakin’s defence there’s a LOT going on so like it’s not his FAULT that he wasn’t looking where he was slicing and the next thing he knows Palpatine’s head is no longer on his shoulders but rolling down some flight of stairs and Anakin just sort of,, pees himself a little.

“Oh. Shit.”

A whole mile away Mace Windu is sitting in his quarters and suddenly the migraine in the back of his head disappears and he’s like “whoa.” And then jokingly is like “who had to be sacrificed for that damn ache to finally go away.” Turns out!

Obi-wan, through a holo-call, (with Anakin skywalker furiously sobbing and heaving through snot and coughs in the background): hey so, we should look into getting Skywalker some ADHD medication.

The Jedi council: why? What has happened?

Obi-Wan: just a little loss of focus, it happens to the best of us.

[youngprofesser]

This is top tier comedy

[wreathedinscales]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Added a little chapter because @blaiddthewolf made a sculpture of A’den and my brain exploded <3

[scientificphilosopher]

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

[curiousobsession101]

I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)

[scientificphilosopher]

Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.

[libraryspectre]

I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE

[captain-snark]

explaining to an 18th century sailor that we’re looking for sea monsters in space. 

[whetstonefires]

the 18th century sailor would understand this perfectly well i feel. like honestly ‘there are oceans on celestial bodies and they have giant monsters in them’ feels like the normal assumption we all had to unlearn as space turned out to be mostly kinda boring.

[kitschcowboy]

i love you practical effects i love you corn syrup blood i love you set designers i love you creature artists i love you makeup and prosthetics i love you costumers i love you actors who sit in the makeup chair for 5 hours i love you makeup artists i love you practical sets i love you puppetry i love you miniatures and bigatures

[mioxenoblade]

May you be blessed with hardcore gay sex thatd give a conservative a deadly heart attack this pride

[catherine-of-aragorn]

I’m asexual, can I be blessed with a buttload (approximately 126 gallons or 834 pounds) of garlic bread instead?

[mioxenoblade]

Ya know what? Absolutely.

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

god damn this is a QUILT ('late day shadows' by nancy messier)

[thatdisasterauthor]

EXCUSE ME.

[ms-demeanor]

Dear quilters,

What the fuck. What the fuck.

Sincerely, - Everyone Else

[blaiddthewolf]

I would like to contribute Sandra Mollon’s quilts. This is River Rocks. Her style is gorgeous and I love every single one of her quilts. She has online classes if anyone is interested

[topelune]

To celebrate the book of boba fett last episode, here is my interpretation of how I imagine the Great Mythosaur could be.

And let it be a slogan : « Now a Rancor, tomorrow à Mythosaur! »

[otterson24]

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Animated by Adam Brown. Music by ProleteR.

[permit-the-clod]

bow before perry, our asexual king

[syn0vial]

while we’re on the topic of boba’s mandalorian-ness, i would just like to inform y’all that in the expanded universe, a huge part of boba reconnecting with his mandalorian identity as an adult is him getting found-family’d by a canon-gay-married mandalorian couple (goran beviin and medrit vasuur)  and it’s exactly as glorious as it sounds. highlights include:

boba gets invited to one of their family dinners and spends the whole time disassociating bc he’s never been to a large family gathering before and everyone is SO LOUD and their adopted kids are staring at him and he knows he’s coming off as a surly asshole and he can’t stop

when beviin and medrit find out boba is going to meet a jedi, medrit smiths him a new set of beskar, including a new piece to protect his neck, and beviin tags along to hover protectively around boba and shit-talk the jedi. 

you know, like a true friend 

early on, boba hears beviin is struggling financially and, while trying very hard to look preoccupied with weapons maintenance, casually offers to maybe send some bounty hunting work his way… not that he was interested in it himself… honestly he’s too busy rn… so this isn’t him being nice or anything–

beviin sees through this immediately and is touched by his friend’s concern for him

the second boba realizes beviin is touched by his concern for him, he HANGS UP ON THE POOR MAN MID-SENTENCE 

“haha yes i’ve done a friendship thing and i’ve done it so subtly and stealthily that no one will ever kn– oh god he knows too much ABORT ABORT”

boba does eventually chill lol

beviin has a habit of affectionately referring to boba by the diminutive form of his name

forming the diminutive of someone’s name in mando’a is done by simply adding the suffix “‘ika”

bob’ika

boba experiences a gradual adjustment of “dude wtf” to “hmm this is fine actually” to “this is Our Thing and if anybody besides beviin ever tries to refer to me as that, i will beat them to death with their own arms”

beviin is also the only person allowed to make sarlacc jokes around him

“Why do you bail me out all the time, Goran? And don’t say it’s because it’s duty to the Mand'alor.“ “Because nobody can live the way you do and not notice how much it hurts.”

(THIS KILLS THE ME)

anyway, disney is too cowardly to include canon gay characters of any significance so i doubt we’ll ever see beviin or medrit in new canon. but they were there and they were some of boba fett’s most significant mandalorian connections in the expanded universe and more people should know about them.

[simena]

Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)

[manticoreimaginary]

oh my god, but what is this painting without the dinosaur?

[lizardlicks]

why would you crop the dinosaur

[marlynnofmany]

Somebody’s not a fan of Dinotopia. James Gurney’s art is amazing. 

He modeled for that last one himself, which is just great.

Long live Dinotopia and James Gurney!

[gallusrostromegalus]

I still reccomend Color And Light: A Guide For The Realist Painter and Imaginative Realism: How To Paint What Doesn’t Exist as the single two most helpful art books I’ve ever read. He’s a painter but his instruction is applicable to all Media, including Digital.

You can also get all of his Dinotopia books HERE on his Website.

[rskacreates]

I’m here to offer you something amazing- Called pain- You’re welcome

All The Lonely People | Order 66 | Star Wars Animatic

Don’t worry I was also on the floor in pain while making this-

[newshour]

What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

[paranoidgemsbok]

@clockworkrobotic

[robotlyra]

“Friend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.”

[robotsandfrippary]

Bees.  Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee. 

[madsciences]

maybe they know and they’re just being polite

[neil-gaiman]

Other dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. “But it’s just a stick with a person on it.”

[msfcatlover]

#excuse me neil but what the FUCK was that #thanks for that terrifying thought (nooby-banana)

[supreme-leader-stoat]

NEIL WHY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.

[neil-gaiman]

This turns up on my dashboard. And I read it and am impressed that someone writes exactly the post that I’d write, without actually reading the name of the person who posted it.

And then I’m puzzled at all the Neil Why’s, and realise that this was me in the Wayback Long-ago.

At least I’m consistent.

And, I should point out, we are no closer to being able to spot the extra-dimensional stick “people” who move unobserved among us.

[jenroses]

[jaesrri]

[alexfeelyx]

It’s reassuring how tumblr-like this entire interaction is. Including not reading the url

[lawbreaker13]

Beyond incredible

[bones-and-tomes]

First piece of Jacksepticeye fan art in over a year! I hope ya'll like it. Did this based off the 1890 Angel of Death painting by Evelyn De Morgan.

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