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Art requests are always open ^^

another one of those post-war ratchet & knock out comics i'm always posting - i found this one on my tablet, its super old 😭 i just never posted it

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cirilee

i keep drawing random post predacon movie scenes with these two

AHHh thank you @the-shy-lonely-weirdo for the dialogue in the last slide^^!!

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cirilee

Could you please share where you read the Titan Prime comic scene (The one about KO) ? 🙏🙏🙏

lostsmiler on instagram found screenshits, bless them !!

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sacredbuck

tf has given us many great characters to thirst over, many great sexy robots

but i feel like there’s not enough appreciation for the true gift of tf

✨ the milfs ✨

Dot Malto (TFE) and June Darby (TFP) ft. my oc Carla Martinez (also TFP)

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dailymothanon

That’s not just Soundwave’s burning energon, is it? Anyways I had this concept in my head for a good while 🤔 it’s just that the pose was quite hard to get.. yeah yeah another post about ES Soundwave losing a cassette who woulda thought 🙄 but in my defense Earthspark barely touched Soundwave like at all, so I’m just working with what I got…

Happy pride month 🗣️🗣️

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evieeion

Hydrogen and Helium Au Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime

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cloevr

someone123457806

I wish ceramics was a required course for school so we would have more creations like this

cheaphalloweencostume

baby tonight we’re making Discount Diarrhea

ozvezdja

i never want to yuck anyone's yum but one issue i have with how star wars fandom tackles slavery is the concept of universal slave culture. a unique culture certainly develops in enslaved populations over time but it's by no means universal. one of the greatest evils of slavery is the mass displacement of people. they're torn from their families, home(worlds), languages and forced to assimilate to the culture of their slavers. in the friction between the cultures of the groups of people that make up an enslaved population of a place and the culture of the slavers, a new sense of identity is eventually created

i feel like the way fanon tackles it, it doesn't actually acknowledge the horror of displacement and the grief of being ripped from your culture because it seems to assume people will just embrace that being a slave is their new identity and easily give up their places of origin. this is still assimilation, in a way. it ignores that those people have an individuality beyond the traumatic experience that other people have forced on them and they have their own cultural origins. and even then, slavery in geographically separate locations is an entirely different experience. assuming that for example slavery on tatooine is generational, with people living long enough and reproducing often enough that you can have a somewhat stable population without a constant influx of new displaced individuals with their own cultural background, then anakin's experience is going to be very different from idk. a twi'lek on zygerria where people get sold or die too quickly to form communities. they might relate to each other in terms of traumatic experiences but the cultural background is different because shockingly, same trauma doesn't mean same culture. it seems odd to me to equate the two.

and then moving backwards, not everyone is going to want to meaningfully relate to their status as a slave either. for some people rebellion might mean reclamation yes but for others it might also mean saying fuck you, i belong in xyz place and nothing you do or say will ever change how i see myself. i understand the appeal of making a powerful message but i feel the poweful message loses its sensitivity when it assumes the only reaction to an involuntary experience is to entirely embrace it to the point where it becomes the primary identity marker. whatever existed before a person was enslaved is erased and in a way slavery is then equated with being a minority group when it's not that, in the same way that prisoners of war and hostages are not a minority group

ozvezdja

and to clarify the last bit, what i mean is you don't owe the social class that someone else forced on you a belonging. nobody is naturally a slave, it's something that's a violation of human decency in every manifestation. the same identity based reclamation that is empowering for a minority group might fall shallow here and i think the reason it irks me is that it feels like a very western liberal way of adopting a viewpoint that sounds fairly empathetic on the surface but is clearly not giving any thought to realities that (white) westerners aren't likely to personally encounter. unfortunately for my ever thinning patience with social media sites, i'm a hater and i firmly believe it would do us all some good to think about situations that don't affect us with a little more care

piedaterreincensorshipville

This 1000%. It's looking at slavery through a lens where enslaved people are imagined as a monocultural lump.

I'd argue that problem is also deeply linked to how the whole Tatooine Slave Culture headcanon seems specifically modeled on a superficial understanding of Black American slavery in particular.

Making such a 1:1 comparison feels very gross IMO, but it's also ill-fitted for the way SW depicts slavery, which draws just as much on Ancient Roman and Ottoman versions of enslavement as on American history. American chattel slavery stands out from older forms in how extensively race-based it is, and how enslavement was treated as a permanent condition of a self-perpetuating underclass.

This was not universal. Roman slavery, for instance, was based around the practice of taking war captives from defeated peoples, and manumission was frequent enough that freedmen were a substantial part of Roman society. Enslavement was perpetuated via ongoing warfare and the taking of new captives, not via having a large enough class of permanently enslaved people to replace the generational cohort.

Of course, there was definitely a racial/cultural component to varying degrees in many cultures' practice of slavery, but Western slavery took it to an unusual extreme.

There's definitely evidence of racially-based slavery in SW with the Wookiees, but that aspect wouldn't seem to apply very well to the enslavement of humans. People like Shmi Skywalker seem to fit more with the Ancient Roman or medieval models of captives taken in slaving raids, rather than a self-perpetuating cultural group of "the enslaved". Likewise, Jabba the Hutt's dancers seem to be sex slaves taken on an individual basis, rather than being born into a distinct culture of enslaved people with a shared folklore.

Unless a bunch of slaves on Tatooine were all taken from the same pre-existing culture somewhere, you wouldn't have anything comparable to the sort of shared diaspora culture created when early modern Western slavers operated a massive human trafficking network centered on west Africa.

Basically, the Tatooine Slave Culture headcanon tries clumsily to fit the experience of Black American slavery (as seen through a white-liberal lens) directly onto the SW universe, and ignores all the obstacles to doing so, rather than doing the far more interesting thing of looking at the universe itself and asking "what forms of enslavement and resistance are likely to arise in this world?"

the-night-night-owl

there's also the whole robot being a slave race, ans the one person who didn't want to be a slave was played as a joke...

cacodaemonia

YOU GET IT.

The way droids are treated in SW makes me want to scream. Not only is it shitty but it's completely inconsistent. Because either droids like R2 really aren't sentient at all, or the good guys are actually all slave owners. *eye twitch*

Also yeah, treating L3 as a joke, and then only keeping her 'alive' to be trapped in a ship piloted by a person she loathes? Should have just let her die rather than endlessly torture her.

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mssmarvell

sometimes it’s important to like a female character for her potential when not in the hands of a misogynistic writer and at the same time hate a guy just for being blonde

droid-appreciation

You deserved so much better

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dragonsspicysideblog

I want to see a Star Wars short series ("Tales of" style) that follows some of the droids freed from the Kessel mines by L3-37. How they carried that feeling of freedom and camaraderie with them and passed it on in their own ways. Droids learning to stand up for themselves and each other. I want to see the weight of her acts of rebellion ripple throughout the galaxy.

I think L3 is gone, a part of her is with us in the Falcon but she as her whole self was beyond repair. (Of course if Maul can come back then anything is possible.) But I want to see her remembered and her dream being fulfilled.

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