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call me Blue 🦋 | she/her | star wars stole my heart | if you see my brain please let me know | instagram: @/blue.milkshakes 

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[dialupmodern]

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

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Where you can donate to help Maui, Hawaii

this article has places listed that you can donate to, but i’ll also put direct links to some of these places in this post:

Maui United Way

Maui Strong Fund

Maui Food Bank

Maui Humane Society

my family is based in Oahu, but i consider all the islands my home even though i physically haven’t stepped foot on them before. seeing all the homes and history and memories being lost in this hurts.

if you are unable to donate, don’t feel guilty—doing things like spreading the word and making people aware of the situation helps as well. thank you for whatever you can do! mahalo

UPDATE: removed Maui Mutual Aid Fund for now because upon further research using the charity checking sites provided by this gov site, it doesn’t appear in results unlike the others listed. so i advise caution for now if you decide to donate there! they may still be legitimate, but i want to exercise caution.

[kaimukiwahine]

Hope It’s all right to add a few more to the list.

University of Hawaii Foundation : Provides help to students, staff, and faculty the UHMC campus (especially when the Fall semester is starting in two weeks)

‘Āina Momona : (goes towards the Hawaii Community Foundation Maui County Strong Fund)

Additional Lists (there is some overlapping to those already listed):  Mana Maoli  Hawaii News Now

Some local Hawai’i artists are also donating 100% of their sales this week to Maui relief. (These are only the ones I know of offhand) Geoffrey Siu (creator of Gentlemons/Pokema’ams and other original art) JimmyxSparrow (Wide variety of art, does fusions of Pokemon and Hawaiian culture) Laulima (Native Hawaiian flora and fauna pins and so on)

Any help is definitely welcomed because many locals there are displaced and are now homeless. With cell service down back on Tuesday and were last told to stay in place, many had to quickly evacuate with just their clothes on their back and nothing else.

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thank you so much for the additions!!! you did my work for me this evening.

here is also the twitter account of the Office of the Governor of Hawaii. there are updates and info being posted there. it’s where i found the article on checking legitimacy of fundraisers/charities.

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

star wars valentine’s day <3

(i’m rlly sorry this was supposed to include han and leia too but i got very tired and then ran out of time)

Padmé and anakin: Anakin was only home for one valentines day with padmé. The other ones, rest assured, were rife with hearts, just human ones that were beating outside of chests and white armor as skin was shredded. Better than the ones that stopped beating. 

He honestly??? Was so so lost. He realized only a few days before that he would probably be home for valentines day, assuming he wasn’t called away only a day before like the prior year. He scrambled to a store, but all the chocolates were sold out and the 3 credit roses were wilted. Eventually he arrived at her door out of breath, his hair ruffled from exasperated hands, clutching a bouquet of dandelions he found sprouting between cracks in bricks of some apartment building. When he pictured spending the night with his wife, he had imagined fancy sparkly alcohol and in one hand, a pile of chocolate boxes up to his shoulder and a bouquet larger than her door frame in the other. He wanted to give her everything, anything, but all he had was a pretty rock he found two days prior on the tour he had just returned from and this fresh but underwhelming bouquet. 

He was silly to think padmé needed anything less. She had him, after all. 

The disaster trio: (disclaimer: if you take either of these in a shipping way im going to block you. My dad sends me flowers every year. My mom sends my brother and me a box of chocolate hearts. Let anakin get his little sister a gift. Let obi wan and anakin be brothers. anyways.)

It was a total coincidence that anakin HAPPENED to buy a little box of chocolates a few days before valentines day. A heart? Whats that! He doesn’t know what that is. He just likes those chocolates more than other brands and it happens to be small and cheap and who cares that it comes with a little stuffed loth-cat in ahsoka’s favorite color? He didn’t notice, and neither should you. It was a coincidence, yes siree. 

The first year in their apprenticeship, she wasn’t expecting it. Actually, neither was anakin. They had just come back from a particularly long campaign and he was picking up electrolyte water-adage packets from a drug store because ahsoka was incredibly dehydrated from days of fighting under a merciless sun. He saw them in the store, and he realized Valentines day was coming up, and he just impulse bought it mostly for the plushie but also because he couldn’t remember the last time he saw ahsoka smile. 

They didn’t have valentines day on tatooine. He and padmé rarely celebrate more than a clip-art cartoon mutually sent through an encrypted message portal. Anakin had only been home-with padmé- for valentines day once. 

They certainly didn’t have valentines day a the temple. It was the definition of indulgent spending on a loved one. Any argument he could make about how relationships and attachment can be separate and that there is an amount implied to be permissible by the order falls outside of valentines day celebrations. Hence, he and obi wan didn’t ever do anything fun like he found out some schoolroom classes do on the holiday. He didn’t think obi wan acknowledged the holiday until looking back from the inside of a metal black suit and realizing that while he was obiwan’s padawan he never had to do boring drills. Instead obi wan took him to Dex’s after a hard day of “mediating walks” in the room of a thousand fountains. After anakin became a knight, obi-wan would always make him a cup of tea to banish the chill of the temple on the winter day. While reflecting, anakin realized he couldn’t quite recall the taste.   

Kanan and hera: now. They deny to everyone who asks that they celebrate. They are fighting a rebellion. Its important. They don't have time for frivolous things such as-

Oh never mind he managed to find her a meiloorun despite the galactic shortage. 

She glares at him in the way that hera glares when shes mad but not really. She takes it, gently, like its worth its weight in gold (its probably worth more), and pretends she doesn’t recall all the times kanan said he wasn’t hungry or still had plenty of toothpaste left so he could afford it. 

Kanan was a jedi. He told her he didn’t need gifts or fancy food, but some quiet time (and then when they adopted the kids-yes zeb is a kid- some time alone) would be nice. He just wanted her. He always did, he told her. he just didn’t have many opportunities to say it. 

She flew him to the best sunsets and to the shiniest stars, trying to make him laugh with increasingly frightening flying maneuvers, while he worried about the fruit bruising in the back of the ghost. 

Hera, with all her talent and wit, did not notice that even with the most famed sunrises reflecting in her eyes, kanan’s were only on her. 

The ghost KIDS however: Oh. oh they are menaces on valentines day. 1) they tease kanan and hera. Relentlessly. 2) chopper steals everyone’s candy. No he cannot eat it. Yes he gives it back to them. He used to just hide them for a few hours to be Chopper ™. Then he would give them to AP-5 to catalog. He had been getting bored of weapons of all the same shade of gray. His old friend was happy to see some new colors. 

3) sabine doesn’t make people valentines, but she does help kanan make a card for hera. Ezra insisted on getting kanan and hera a card, and made zeb sign in. Sabine stole the card and drew ezra climbing on zebs shoulders while chopper was trying to shock him. “Thanks for putting up with them so i don’t have to” is what she captioned it, and it was the closest she would get to making something mushy. 

4) kanan gets sabine a flower every year. He leaves it in her room when shes not there. Everyone knows not to mention it and sabine pretiends it doesn’t exist, but even ezra notices that she gets a little blue when it finally dies. 

5) zeb is the most awkward because. What. is this. He thinks candy hearts are blasphemous and chocolates are dumb but then chopper chucks a box of those honeycomb snacks that he likes at his head and he finds it a little harder to grumble than he did years before. 

6) ezra’s mom used to make him a goodie bag of chocolates and candy every year. He pretended not to miss it; he had other things on his mind.

No one on the ship could afford chocolate, but hera gave ezra a long long hug and he found that he didn’t feel as sad anymore. 

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

How to Spot Whitewashing - Clone Trooper Edition

Today I saw the question: “How can I spot whitewashing in Clone fanart?”

Seeing this really made me think. First, I think this is a wonderful question. Acknowledging when you don’t have enough experience, knowledge, or awareness is super important. Not everyone can know everything! Once you acknowledge a gap in your awareness or understanding, the next step is to fill that gap.

Listen to those with experience, knowledge, and awareness on the topic. Listen to those personally effected and learn. That way you can grow and encourage others to do the same. And when you have enough awareness to spot harmful things like whitewashing, you can avoid contributing to them!

Temuera is Māori from Aotearoa (New Zealand). This indigenous group is a subgroup of the larger Polynesian ethnicity. Personally, I am Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) which is also a member of the larger Polynesian family. So tonight I want to use my personal experience to talk to all of you about Polynesians and whitewashing, and how to specifically spot the basics of whitewashing on Clone Troopers.

I want to start off by saying: whitewashing is NOT limited to skin lightening. Often it goes much deeper than that. Whitewashing can be drawing someone’s features more eurocentric, by giving them thin features instead of round ones. It can be drawing their hair straight instead of curly. It can be drawing double lids on a character with monolids. Or round eyes on a character with almond eyes.

Whitewashing effects features as well, not just skin tone.

And with that out of the way, Let’s get right into it, and analyze some of Temuera’s features.

Starting with face shapes.

Temuera has a round face and round features accompanied by hooded eyes. His jawline is very soft, and he’s got a strong nose bridge. These are essential when drawing clones. No matter the art style, round features are round. Replacing round noses with thin sharp noses, is whitewashing. Changing Tem’s face from round to thin, is whitewashing.

Below, I’ve assembled some references and highlighted some of his facial shapes:

Next, hair!

When Temuera’s hair gets long, it gets more curly. However, when it’s cut shorter, it just has slight waves. The closer to his head, the more “straight” his hair appears. However, it always has slight texture. This is also essential. He doesn’t have straight white hair. His hair is part of his genetic identity.

Heres a few close ups:

And finally, skin tone.

These are a few pictures I made for a previous post, showcasing Tem’s skin in multiple lightings at multiple ages. It’s important to remember that skin can get thinner as one gets older! This may lead to darker skin at a younger age, and paler, more translucent skin at an older age. However, age does not suddenly make you a white person. Undertones and features remain.

I encourage you all to ask yourself this question before you draw or reblog Clone Trooper fanart:

“Am I contributing to colorism, whitewashing and racism in the Star Wars fandom? Or am I helping end it?”

Thank you for reading, and thank you making/supporting content that accurately represents Temuera’s heritage and provides accurate and helpful representation for Polynesian fans!

It makes me so happy to see Polynesian Representation in Star Wars. So so happy. Seeing people with my features be loved and accepted and honored makes me feel loved, accepted and honored! So thank you!

Aloha ❤️

[unwhitewashthebadbatch]

The Bad Batch comes out in a few days.

Remember the fans of color who have been talking about the blatant racism since the series was announced. Remember the Jewish fans who have talked about the antisemitism in the series. Remember the disabled and neurodivergent fans who spoke up.

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

I just need to say this.

If you like Star Wars, and if you have absolutely any compassion, you need to speak up against the colorism and racism in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch.

I don’t care if you think “unwhitewashtbb” is incorrect about certain things. I don’t care who you like or don’t like in the fandom. This isn’t about supporting a singular individual and something they started. This isn’t about who you like or don’t like. This is beyond one person.

This is about supporting the fans of color. This is about supporting real life people. People who just want to see representation on screen, people who keep getting slapped in the face my mainstream media.

This is about Polynesian fans, who watch Clone Troopers, some of our only representation, be reduced to a Rambo ripoff. This is about watching our round features be erased and replaced by eurocentric standards. This is about Wrecker, Portrayed as the “strong dumb” Clone, looking the most Polynesian. This is about Tech, the smartest Clone, looking white.

This is about Black fans, who’s representation is drawn ashy and grey. Who have to sit and watch character designers disregard their skin and hair texture over and over and over. Who get told “well it’s hard to animate curly hair” or “darker tones are harder to render” whenever they point out the racism. Disney is a billion dollar company. They have the means. It’s not hard. It’s racism.

This is about Asian fans. Who had to relive racial trauma. Who watched as their only representation came in the form of Imperials. Murders. Who watched, as Fennec Shand was designed and animated to look nothing like Ming-Na Wen.

This is about Jewish fans. Who spend every week staring at a greedy lizard be voiced by a Jewish woman, who cares about nothing but money.

It’s about Muslim fans. Who had an entire race based on them. Only for their main representation, a Jedi healer, become a terrorist

This movement isn’t about you. It has nothing to do with who you hate or who you like.

It’s about all the fans of color out there, who feel defeated, degraded, mocked. Who feel ugly in their identity, because they have been tossed aside for so long. Who wanted to be Jedi when they grew up, but now they can’t even image a world without racism.

Fans who feel ignored. And alone.

It’s about standing up for them.

It’s about standing with them.

So say something. Do something.

Please.

Tweet about it. Post about it. Write essays. Email LucasArts and Disney. Support fans of color.

It’s not about a hashtag.

Just speak.

[unwhitewashthebadbatch]

"Why unwhitewash The Bad Batch?"

Unwhitewash The Bad Batch

A carrd explaining how and why the Bad Batch is racist.

This carrd, written by founder @clonehub with assistance from other supporters, is a comprehensive dive into the issues of racism and antisemitism in this series. We strongly encourage anyone with questions to take the time to read it. If you still have questions or if you have possible contributions, our asks are open!

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

ARE WE GOING TO SEE AHSOKA WITH WHITE LIGHTSABERS????? LIKE IN ANIMATION WHEN SHES YOUNG

what if i YELLED

also. i think rex saying “lets hope all this training pays off” could either be when they’re doing the training OR like. after o66 and they’re abt to part ways. ARE WE GONNA GET THE GAP BETWEEN S7 AND THE AHSOKA NOVEL FILLED IN????

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

jk they ended up making the ahsoka novel not canon. i’ll scream.

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

i made "the 501st goes to Target", "the disaster lineage goes to Target", "The Clone Wars Squad ™ (+Satine) goes to Target", "The Rebels go to Target", "The Original Trilogy Gang Goes To Target", “The Droids of Star Wars go to Target (chaos ensues)”, “The 104th go to Target” and now I give you:

The 212th go to Target.

cody: he went to target to get a resistance band to workout with. everyone else just tagged along and he was too tired to say anything.

after he grabbed the thing he came for, he made the common mistake of not leaving immediately and of course was sucked into the dangerous temptation of ✨browsing✨. while walking around in the store, he passed the hair product aisle. He didn’t need anything, his curls were healthy as ever, but he did see that pomade stuff obi wan was obsessed with, and bought that for him (obi wan paid him back later. he was so insistent that he doesn’t use the hair product that cody offered to return it and obi wan shouted “NO”. cody: 👁👄👁).

he looked around for a wristlet keychain in hopes to show the jedi council that they should make the jedi attach them to their lightsaber, to no avail.

he didn’t buy much else, other than a personal pizza at the café, and set out looking for his brothers to see if they were ready to go.

he genuinely shouldn’t have been surprised to see them all huddled around a cart full of snacks they picked out. somehow, they managed to pool enough money to buy 163.48 credits worth of soda, candy, and snacks. cody said nothing. his brothers deserved it.

boil: waxer put boil in charge of drinks, and waxer was in charge of snacks. they had just came back from a long campaign and there was a lot of cars games in the barracks at night. he made a few credits, which he was excited to spend.

waxer had a list written down of everyone’s favorite snacks, which he told boil he had to adhere to. boil would have preferred to just get what he wanted and then share, but waxer was insistent, so he relented.

a lot of people liked cookies and blue milkshakes. he was able to buy the cookies but just got blue ice cream for those who wanted to make the milkshakes themselves.

when he and waxer met up, they put everything into one big basket. they called over gregor and and they all pooled their money together and justttt managed to cover the cost.

the snacks lasted them two weeks as a battalion. boil did such a good job picking everything out that he was officially Snack Grabber from then on out.

also he 100% knew when gregor was hiding in the racks of clothing so he would aggressively sort through shirts on the other side and pretend to look for something while knowing he was smacking gregor with the shirts as he moved them.

waxer: he bought an ungodly amount of coffee. but it’s okay. at least it wasn’t all for him (this time).

while boil may think it’s dumb, waxer had a color coded list that was both alphabetically and categorically organized to be easy to find everyone’s snack preferences. he had a separate one for drinks.

before actually acquiring the drinks, waxer did some math on the back of a receipt with a space golf pencil to figure out exactly how many credits he would need to cover the cost of drinks, down to the decimal point. this way, boil could use the rest of the money to buy as many snacks as possible.

he also brought the exact amount needed to buy a box of wax strips to keep his head nice and smooth.

lastly, he bought a sticker mustache in case he ever needed to bear a passing resemblance of boil. for mission (*cough* pranking cody *cough*) purposes, of course.

gregor: he’s the type of guy to hide in the clothing racks and jump out and scare people. luckily for the galaxy, the only customers in the store at the time were his brothers. unluckily for his brothers, gregor did not play fair even for family. and even more unluckily for gregor, his brothers are soldiers. they have fast reflexes. and he got pushed backwards into the clothing rack. every. single. time.

he also liked ease dropping on the conversations of the employees passing by (he didn’t scare them cause he didn’t want to get kicked out). he went back to the barracks with so much gossip on bethany and zilde, and he has no idea who they ARE.

he was then responsible for weekly installments of bethany and zilde and would keep making up the story.

when gregor disappeared, someone else continued the story.

it was never the same

+bonus, they bring numa: (yes i’m well aware there is no way this could ever be canon but indulge me. this is my return to the target series after months. let me have my fun.)

so numa is absolutely the type of kid to try and climb into the giant ball basket thing. boil would say no and waxer would nod his head in agreement, but as soon as boil turned away, he’d lift up numa and put her in. when boil turned back around, he looked for numa in confusion. waxer tried to feign ignorance even as numa fell out of the pit through the bars.

after that, boil was very much on no-nonsense duty. he put numa in the seat part of the cart and pushed her around while waxer relayed the grocery list to him. numa was happy to sit and look around.

at the end of the day, they went to the starbucks and got her a hot chocolate and a rice krispy treat.

when numa was much older, and only had memories to smile upon, she found the taste of rice krispies too sweet to eat anymore.

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

andor spoilers!

“never more than 12”

I GOT CHILLS OH MY GOD

[cal-kestis]

ANDOR 9. Nobody’s Listening!

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

ANDOR <3333

[clonehub]

i simply think that a show that's had more than year's worth of accusations of racism, ableism, and antisemitism shouldnt be winning awards

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

I just.

I spent months getting harassed and ignored and I got anon hate and doxxing threats and death threats and every word that came out of my mouth was met was doubt, and massive bloggers talked down to me, or made vague posts about me, all because I said “this show is racist, whitewashing is bad.”

All I wanted was people who looked like me on screen. That’s all I fucking wanted. That’s all I asked for. I wanted representation in a media I love.

I love Star Wars. I’ve loved Star Wars since I was a kid. I wanted to see people like me in Star Wars, I wanted to feel like I was worthy of it. I wasn’t asking for the moon or the stars or something unfair.

I was asking, I was begging for representation.

And then nothing happened.

And then the show won an award.

[heatherbelart]

“Rebellions are built on hope.”

It’s Andor day lovelies! I’m two episodes in and it’s already so good. 

Painted on procreate in mixed media. 

[cal-kestis]

ANDOR Episode 6: The Eye

[starwarsblr]

Andor - S01E07 Announcement

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

god, this line <3

[jyndor2]

STAR WARS ANDOR (2022) 1.06

[dexters-bluemilkshakes]

the range of emotions that went through his face just. AAA I LOVE THIS SHOW