Not today Justin
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$LAYYYTER
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@emphasis-on-the-pha
The clone wars team put a weird hypersexual dominatrix witch in a kids show and had her do weird strip teases and flirt with obiwans old ass and for that ventrobi is dead and codywan is thriving
ventress is so uncomfortable in so many ways. quinlan vos content could’ve been top-tier and very funny but nO. god i hate dark disciple. it’s not even that poorly written and it was fine to read but the plot itself just makes me scream.
next person who starts to simp for kit fisto on main: it’s on sight. get out. log off. go outside. see a tree.
o h g o d w h a t h a v e i d o n e
look. would i leave my keys and wallet with animated kit fisto? absolutely. is he hot? no.
[distant sobs]
next person who starts to simp for kit fisto on main: it’s on sight. get out. log off. go outside. see a tree.
oh god what have i done
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look. would i leave my keys and wallet with animated kit fisto? absolutely. is he hot? no.
Will the bad batch get actual personalities in TBB or will we suffer through commando macho men blowing things up and making corny one liners while they walk away from explosions
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212th Attack Battalion Incorrect Canon Quotes
Obi-Wan: Aren't these trees beautiful, Commander Cody? They're the oldest known living beings on this planet.
(Count Dooku’s transport lands)
Count Dooku: General Kenobi, what a surprise!
Obi-Wan: I was wrong.
Cody: *wheezes under bucket*
next person who starts to simp for kit fisto on main: it’s on sight. get out. log off. go outside. see a tree.
White privilege can also be hard…
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I’VE EVER SEEN
Dear God….
I am fucking dying omg
I’m the second “Berkley” yell
Oh my fucking god
Always reblog.
A really harrowed-looking man who was probably in his 60s came into the shop today. He was wearing a gold-colored tie that kept sliding down the side of his neck because it was tied very poorly, and a rumpled light blue dress shirt. I did not see his legs or shoes. Part-time cashiers are sometimes just not afforded the luxury.
We said hello to each other as I scanned his items (diet coke and a nature valley granola bar- $2.69), me sounding more interested than usual just because he sounded so out-of breath and very engaged in his purchase. Also maybe because I could not see his shoes.
“How’s your life going?” He suddenly asked, swiping his card, not casually but almost pleadingly curious.
“Uhm, all right I s’pose” I said, too startled to think of a more cheery lie.
He nodded somberly. “Me too… I guess.” He paused and looked at me for a minute and then just said “it’s a Monday, ya know.”
“Mondays are like this sometimes” I supplied, feeling like we were having a really weird conversation hidden under the one that was actually taking place.
And then he left. I forgot to look at his shoes.
PART II
Honestly I had no idea that I would ever have the privilege of writing a sequel to this post. I considered it an odd moment, an interaction that changed me in a way, but a fleeting one. I automatically assumed our paths would never cross again, there was such a finality to that window of time on Monday August 22nd of 2016. And yet.
He returned.
I didn’t truly notice him come in, glancing up from whatever menial and already forgotten task I was busy with, but not registering who it was or why he seemed to put out an aura of familiarity. It had been weeks and I haven’t even caught a glimpse of him; the memory of Monday August 22nd of 2016 had faded like a dream. But lo he appeared before me, dressed in exactly the same fashion that made him look like he had just crawled out of carwash (albeit with a pink shirt and purple tie this go-around.)
His face lit up when he saw me, again holding a diet coke and a nature valley granola bar. ‘How is your day going?’ He asked earnestly.
‘Pretty well.’ I said, professionally containing myself, “how are you?”
“I’m good, I’m good” he said, sounding more cheerful than before but just as harried. When I handed him back his change and items and he looked like he was going to cry.
“Thank you” he whispered with a look of reverence I have only seen on the faces of ancient church members receiving the eucharist.
“It’s no trouble,” I promised, trying not to look perplexed.
He bowed (LITERALLY BOWED) and then made a hurried exit stage left, reminiscent of Lear just before the second act, halfway into madness.
A Lear I had again forgotten to note the footwear of.
PART. 3.
Okay I’m not even bothering with the pretentious Hemingway style for this one; I’m still reeling over the fact that he came back after four months AND on a Friday instead of a Monday no less.
Notes:
He was wearing literally the exact same shirt and tie he had on from part one, only with an orange sweater and fancy jacket over the ensemble to indicate that it was winter
He bought Lay’s sour cream and onion potato chips this time instead of his standard granola bar, but the diet coke was as usual
He told me that he always felt guilty for buying snack food but ‘you have to do what you have to do’
He then smiled sadly at me and said ‘enjoy your weekend… If you can.’
I sat in stunned, unblinking silence for about six minutes until a customer came up and looked me over worriedly
Who is this man
WHY DO I KEEP FORGETTING TO LOOK AT HIS SHOES
Part Four
First thing’s first,
Probably about two years of wear on them but otherwise well cared for. Socks were white, which I was only able to notice because this human being has zero clothes that fit and his pant cuffs were hovering about 3 inches away from his shoes. I keep thinking his outfits can’t possibly get any better, but this one takes the cake:
Crumpled white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, gigantic scarf that looked as though it were made out of mouldy carpet, neon orange striped tie, and a matching neon orange plastic digital watch that probably came out of a box of honeycombs back in 1988.
He did not grace me with his odd conversational charm today, but I received something better. A clue.
Today he was buying a red notebook and three ballpoint pens instead of snacks (which was questionable but this is a Thursday we’re talking about; the day that falls on the chaotic spectrum and which I am known for my overzealous distrust of), and when he pulled out his luxury black Mastercard to pay for his items he said eight words which shook me to my very core.
“I do get a staff discount on these.”
This has never come up before because discount plans don’t apply to food items. I have no need to ask the identity of a man buying a granola bar and a diet coke. But now.
I didn’t speak as I handed him his receipt, just nodded courteously. Only staff members know about the specific discount so I had no real need to ask for an ID for proof, and I was cursing my mistake in not asking for it anyway.
I must find this man. I have been here for three years and yet have only seen him within the confines of the store at odd intervals. I’ve never even seen him step into the store, or leave (another customer is somehow always in line behind him and demanding my attention.) I spent half an hour going through the college’s entire staff directory this afternoon… and may have found something. I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, I am not yet certain and will have to gather a few more items of information, but for the first time I can promise a part to follow. Perhaps, an ending.
Cinq
Not an ending of any sort, but a very brief update from the field. My work schedule has changed since January and I was honestly beginning to wonder if I wouldn’t see the man again until the fall, as it’s been more than two months now. He startled me quite a bit when he literally blew in as if by a gust of wind right as my shift was ending.
He was in quite a hurry and only bought a diet coke ($1.50) before blustering(?) off, giving me no chance to run an investigation or perception check, but if fashion checks were a thing…
Please imagine, if you will, a man wearing a yellow polka-dot tie that was not even tied, an orange scarf, the watch mentioned in my previous entry, khakis, a bright periwinkle shirt… and an impeccably matching woolen periwinkle cape. He was also carrying a very large black satchel with tartan lining, every single pocket of which was unzipped.
He looked like a hedge wizard.
I want answers.
6.
I found him.
Masters in theology from Harvard
Distinguished professor of philosophy
God-tier identification photo; I cannot believe that I have not been hallucinating this man for the past 12 months and 41 days.
I wasn’t going to reblob but I found the explanation of this photo:
“Professor Taliaferro rarely uses conventional mid-term or final exams. Instead, Taliaferro assigns students “creative finals” in which they can create some final project that reflects some aspect of the course they have taken. In the course Philosophical Theology two students made a casket with the writings of Kierkegaard printed on the inside and outside, encouraging the professor and class members to enter the casket to contemplate the meaning of life and death.”
The explanation just adds to… EVERYTHING. I LOVE philosophy professors. (hated my fellow students, love the professors.)
obsessed
philosophy professors exist on a different plane of existence than we do tbh
Hm.
Is it the nose? ‘Cause I don’t see anything wrong with it per se. Ian McDiarmid’s nose is fairly pronounced in profile.
I'll admit I couldn't find a better picture but the hook aspect is almost goofy because it's so prominent in the rendering
Yeah, TCW made some pretty weird design choices. Look at Dooku. The level of stylization seems... inconsistent.
anakin's nose has me CONFUSED
dooku is so fucking l o n g in tcw, spaghettification anyone?
god bless mark hamil
This man is pure gold 🥇🥇
555-WEED
Wait wait wait. Who is Tag and Bink???
BUCKLE IN WE’RE IN FOR A LONG, WILD RIDE
i’ve talked about Tag and Bink before in tidbits here: 1, 2, 3
so THIS is Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna, aka the most IMPORTANT characters in the Star Wars franchise. (they’re also canonically both latino written by a latino writer and drawn by a latino artist but that’s less important)
These two are the cause of nearly every problem in the entire Star Wars franchise while also being the solution to every plot hole they’ve ever had. They are the leading characters in a short run 2006 comic series called Tag & Bink Were Here. The story basically goes through the OT as we follow these two as Rebel soldiers running around undercover as stormtroopers and cause chaos through sheer dumbass duo shenanigans. Along the way they pretty much start accidental beef with everyone they come across. These two have been in Vader’s presence 4 times and lived, they’ve been pursued by both Boba and Jango Fett and survived. I won’t go into all of them but when I say they solve every plot hole in Star Wars, I mean they solve ALL of them.
What stormtroopers would be oblivious enough to let Obi-Wan sneak past them on the Death Star? Tag and Bink!
Who shot C-3PO on Cloud City? these two, obviously.
Who stole the Imperial ship for the Rebellion?
Why was Boba Fett, the most dangerous bounty hunter in the galaxy, taken out so easily by a blind guy waving a stick? (won’t spoil this one but it’s pretty funny)
Eventually their story leads to them ranking up as the Emperor’s Red Guards
only to reveal at the very end that they were YOUNGLINGS, once upon a time.
They’ve known each other their whole lives and have pretty much been each other’s closest and only friends. Apparently they struggled at the Jedi Temple. like.. BADLY. It’s also implied that they were bullied by the other youngings/padawans and also that none of their teachers/masters really paid attention to them. They are also the explanation of the Rishi Maze File’s disappearance, which they accidentally deleted while trying to study at the Temple library. They were scared enough to try to run away from the Temple temporarily, which led to them getting chased down by Jango Fett. They finally lose Jango but run straight into a young Anakin Skywalker. Which leads to the greatest retcon of all time:
ANAKIN’S ROMANTIC DIALOGUE IS SO DUMB AND TERRIBLE BECAUSE TWO 10 YEAR-OLDS WROTE IT FOR HIM.
the explanation on why they help him break the Jedi Code kills me every time. Also they wrote every cringe romance line EXCEPT for the worst one:
And how did Anakin repay these two children for helping him win the love of his life, you ask? By running off to Tattooine after having mommy nightmares and leaving them stranded on Naboo after he forgot about them when the Clone Wars started and replacing them with another sassy child. Understandably pissed, these two crawl their way back to the Jedi Temple to give him a piece of their mind, which takes them 3 whole years because intergalactic war had broken out. And the day they make it back to the steps of the Jedi Temple? Same day Palpatine executed Order 66. Of course, they run right into Anakin in full murder-mode, but become the ONLY people Anakin spared after turning to the Dark Side. Their reward for helping Anakin get laid was to not get killed. Tag and Bink are the founders and leaders of the Screwed-Over-By-Anakin-Club, worsened by the fact that Bink is Alderaanian and lost his family/planet to Vader.
So they may have unintentionally caused the Fall of the Jedi and Republic by going to the library to study, but they also caused the Fall of the Empire in the same stroke, as they are the very reasons that Luke and Leia even exist.
We haven’t even gotten to the part where Tag and Bink exist as Force-sensitives as an unnoticed byproduct of Darth Plagueis (The Wise) messing with Force manipulation. Which is.. incredibly hysterical that the biggest scariest Sith Lord brought down the entire Sith Empire by sheer accident while messing with his evil magic science experiments.
The best part? TAG AND BINK ARE CANON. They were in a scene in the Han Solo movie, which was unfortunately removed from the final cut. BUT they made it to the novelization and visual dictionary. There was plans for another 3-part comic to be made about them causing havoc in the Sequel Trilogy, which never saw the light of publication, but the author Kevin Rubio says that Tag and Bink solve THIS plothole:
and the author also encourages fans that these two stormtroopers who noped out on Anakin’s grandson’s temper tantrum are also Tag and Bink:
but anyways, in conclusion if you wanna see two himbos with major Side Character Syndrome while being massively underappreciated (Din wants what they have) running around causing problems hit me up and I’ll give you the link to the full free comic series online.
my brother and i were arguing about which star wars characters had the most agency and... this is it. it’s these two. holy shit.
HOW DID THIS COME OUT SO WELL???
quality rivaling that of tcw’s early seasons, which had a metric shitton of money behind them. this is art (also really cursed but. still art).
@ dizzy knee im begging you make me the showrunner of a TCW spinoff about the clones. animated (2D anime style or 3D idc). I'll actually flesh them out and I promise I'll make you lots of $$$$$$$$ PROMISE
i keep seeing people liveblogging tcw for the first(?) time and i. ;_;
@milfkarlmarx :
like i grew up on tcw and watched it live till s5 but man its WORSE than i remembered they never rly look back on stuff thats happened like ryloth?? whats up with ryloth nowadays!! or the zillo beast which no one ever mentioned again even tho it was dead so they couldve tried using its corpse for war reasons or some shit and i just. its better to watch this as a 7 year old getting home from school and running to catch it before i do hw i miss not npticing plot holes
yeah i get you!!! tcw is. Really messily put together, and nothing feels like it’s tied into the other parts of the show. even ahsoka’s arc, which you’d assume is Really important, where she leaves the order like… it’s begun and resolved in that same arc. there’s not even a hint of barriss’s growing frustration with the order before this, (though i REALLY am angry that they made her the one who blew up the temple. i hate acknowledging it because that choice of character is shit; why a healer? especially without any sort of context beforehand. she was just put there to throw islamophobia in. thanks filoni you fuck) + we aren’t shown much of ahsoka’s connection with those who are assumed to want to protect her from the accusations that she’s the one who did this (plo koon and obi-wan). we can assume, but fact is, there’s no real connection between them that we’ve seen in tcw itself.
so much of tcw is bringing in genuinely interesting concepts that are just. thrown away after the arc is done, or are forgotten until it’s inescapable (ex. fives being mentioned after order 66 was given to save the ‘two’ main characters (rex is… hardly paid attention to. but that’s its own issue)) and i understand it was aired in a weird way and is a show intended for younger audiences but. you’d expect they’d at least try to go for something solid and coherent? idk. i like tcw but it’s so messy and inconsistent with its stories. though i guess that’s fitting, being a part of the prequels
the lack of an internal memory in the clone wars absolutely kills me. the most cohesion we get is maul constantly popping up everywhere and the entirety of the beginning of season 2 (which you can only tell are linked from the narration/flashbacks). a commanding officer committing treason and then getting executed is HUGE. AND THEY DON’T TALK ABOUT IT!!
Ahsoka and Rex are friends because the writers say they are. not like we’ve really seen any one-on-one with them the way we’ve seen with her and every other character. Fives and Rex are close because we kinda have to infer that from the fact that they met on Rishi and Rex promoted him and echo on Kamino and they’d been working together ever since. literaly 2 to 3 years.
rex and anakin are close but like they don’t talk. we just have to assume they’re friends. we dont get many casual moments between the characters in this show, and the major things that do happen don’t get talked about (except…..maul)
manifesting narrative continuity for the bad batch
Commander Fox taken off personal security duties for Senators after he leans in real close to Bail Organa’s mic and says “I think clones should vote” and watches the Senate assembly implode
Bail and Fox hi-five and go back to his place to share a blunt
Commander Fox Has A Panic Attack On Bail Organa’s Fancy Couch
Firstly your tags are amazing thank you and secondly YES THIS ONE aha i drew an alternate no-helmet panel because Bail just handed this man the doob and started talking and Fox just sat there holding it consumed by the dawning horror of what he just did
look dogma gets shit on for something he can’t really help, but the absolute “shut up it’s the snitch” vibes tcw managed to give off with him and the others is fucking impeccable
Going through the Mace Windu tag like… “don’t reply to people’s posts, don’t reply to people’s posts, don’t repl— oh COME ON, you CANNOT let this sli— DON’T REPLY TO PEOPLE’S POSTS!”
mace windu is, and i cannot emphasize this enough, so fucking cool and an excellent character deserving of far more love in the fandom.
