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Welcome! I'm a multi-fandom blogger, with a special focus on all things Star Wars; of which my three favorite sandboxes are The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, and The Mandalorian.
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⊹ When the villain has a point and you catch yourself agreeing before remembering they're the bad guy and it makes you uncomfortable in a good way.
⊹ ࣪Romance that builds so slowly you don't even notice it's happening until suddenly they're standing too close and your heart rate spikes reading it.
⊹ ࣪when a character who's been stoic the whole time finally breaks down and it's only two sentences but it hits like a truckside
⊹ ࣪Characters who show up for one scene, steal the whole chapter, then disappear forever and you think about them for years
⊹ ࣪hyperspecific details that serve no purpose like what someone orders at a restaurant or the exact way they tie their shoes but it makes them feel real
⊹ ࣪When the author clearly did unhinged amounts of research on something tiny and you can TELL they went down a rabbit hole and loved every second
⊹ ࣪found family but it's messy and they argue and sometimes they're bad at it but they keep choosing each other anyway
I love how most Force users have to go to an evil Force Nexus or a temple to get their character development hallucinations but Maul is so messed up he can do a whole duet with his inner child in the pipes of a random city.
Spybot is Maul’s “version of a loyal white cat he can pet,” says Maul - Shadow Lord executive producer, Athena Yvette Portillo. “The idea was that we wanted Maul to have a fun, kind of sinister droid that was a combination of a panther meets a spider.”
guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home
The lady working the ticket counter giggled when she noticed my shirt when my family went to see The End of Oak Street last night, which was honestly great as it's my favorite parody/hybrid fandom shirt.
When Grace starts the "WHO AM I?" board, he writes "Carl... (foggy)", but when we come back to it at the end (before he's started erasing it to plan out going back to Rocky) it says "Carl... (fog )".
I think there's a pretty obvious gap, and nothing surrounding it has been rubbed off. The last two letters of "foggy" have been intentionally erased.
The marine layer (fog) that hangs over the San Francisco Bay Area is named Karl. Seriously, a significant portion of Bay Area residents (especially millenial or younger) call the fog "Karl" in casual conversation. All the time. I've heard it. It is very confusing at first.
I don't think Grace ever remembered Carl well enough to be certain he existed. He erased the "-gy" in "foggy" because he thought maybe he was just thinking of the fog. He likes the fog. He still doesn't remember having one single true friend on Earth. He likes the fog.
*cracks knuckles* okay here we go. Clone armor, and how does that relate to clone funerals, anyway? @margindoodles2407
So. I headcanon that the GAR and the Guard have Fundamentally different understandings of armor and armor paint and it's actually one of the major cultural misunderstandings between the two groups that causes them issuesTM.
Everyone knows that their armor is one of the only things a clone can have that truly belongs to him. In the GAR, it’s how they show the rest of the world that they're individuals--that they're people, that they're not all replaceable or interchangeable--armor is important to them, and GAR clones are very protective of their armor. I headcanon that a good number of clones don't even like their vode touching their armor (like to move it around if it's stacked somewhere awkward or something) because it belongs to me, not my brothers. And everybody nearly always paints their own armor exclusively by themselves, regardless of level of artistic skill, because it's so important that it's all *yours.*
Enter the Coruscant Guard, where armor is a matter of survival in a very different fashion than it is in the GAR. Where standing out is dangerous and the safest thing you can be is indistinguishable from the mass. They have no shinies with unpainted armor--are you kidding? Visibly marking their youngest, least experienced and most vulnerable brothers for the world to see and know that these ones are the least able to defend themselves? Absolutely not. No brother will ever be going out in vulnerable shiny white, not on Coruscant. The Corries have a set template, designed to not be eye catching, and the first thing they do when a new set of armor comes in is paint it. They paint it together.
For the Corries, armor isn't how they mark themselves as individuals. To them, their identical armor paint means belonging. It means your brothers are protecting you, and you're protecting your brothers. What matters isn't what the paint looks like, what matters is the hands that painted it. No set of armor is ever painted by less than at least a dozen vode, and no one ever paints armor alone. The Corries have a dedicated armor painting room where they put the new sets, and as many troopers as possible try to help get them painted. To them, they're contributing to the protection of their future Guardsmen. They're actively putting their care and love for brothers they don't know yet--brothers they may never even meet, if they die before a new shipment comes--into their armor. No set of armor ever goes to a vod without at least one of the Commanders contributing to a paint job--even if only in a single brushstroke. Corries don't paint their own armor. They paint everyone's armor. (Continuing under the cut so this doesn't get annoying)
When shinies do receive their armor from the painting room, they also all add a bit of paint to the next new shipment of armor for the next group of shinies. That way, even if they die, they can protect their brothers in some small way after death. Corries touch up chipping armor paint in groups. Vode usually ask their squadmates specifically to at least add a tap of paint wherever, even if doesn't really need it, so that they can carry their closest brothers' care and protection with them wherever they go.
And for the clones who have armor that's different, that stands out from the pack? (Namely, the Commanders and the ARCs) To them, it's a sacrifice. They are making themselves deliberately identifiable, drawing a target on their backs, so that attention slides away from their vode even more. And still, they try to stick as close to the base template as possible, making deliberately visible alterations, frequently to the helmet, and leaving the rest the same, out of solidarity. It's why Fox's armor is just a completely inverted version of the normal pattern.
So to the GAR, it looks like the Corrie Commanders are denying their men their opportunity to express their individuality. To the Corries, the GAR seems to be so desperate to appeal to the natborns that they'll recklessly reject their connection to their brothers, and most especially the Guard. In other words, to the GAR, their armor is about personal individuality, and to the Guard, their armor is about belonging. Neither side is wrong for what they do, or how they treat armor paint... they just don't understand each other at ALL, so Corries find it insulting when their GAR batchmates ask if they wish they could paint their armor differently, seeing it as being asked to reject their vode in the Guard, and the GAR sees the Corries as cold and closed off and strange. In fact, the Guard's armor-as-community and the GAR's armor-as-individuality are so deeply interwoven in their respective cultures, that each frankly finds what they know of the other side's habits re: armor paint to be downright offensive.
Now, what does this have to do with funerals, you might be asking?
I think the GAR probably doesn't have much in the way of time or opportunity for funerals. They have their own private ways to remember brothers who are gone, they say the rememberances, but they have to keep moving and rarely even get the chance to bury the dead. When they do, they leave the armor with their fallen brothers--leaving the symbol that declared to the galaxy, 'look, I am a person' behind. It's not a luxury, exactly, but at least having a stationary posting affords the Corries the opportunity to hold funerals. Unlike the GAR, they do everything they can to bring back the bodies of their fallen brothers. No one is ever left behind, not if they can help it. Not even in death. And along with the body, whatever armor can be salvaged is brought, too. And they bring the armor to the painting room.
Someone's helmet is set up to record. Someone takes a piece of armor, and a rag with paint stripper, and starts peeling off the paint, and as they do, they talk. Sharing memories of the brother who is gone, being careful to work slow and not clear too much paint so that when they're done and the piece of armor is passed to the next and the next and the next vod, there's plenty left to remove. Vode come and go as they can, sharing stories as they strip the armor clean of paint. And when everyone who wants to has had a chance to share their memories, and the armor is completely shiny-white again, they set aside the pieces that are unsalvagable. And the ones that can be used again? They paint them anew. The recording is saved so that vode who miss that fallen brother can see and share the memories others had of their missing vod, and the armor is distributed among the sets for the new shinies, the brand new pieces set aside as spares.
For the Corries, if they can protect their brothers even after their death? If the armor they wore can continue on to protect even one vod? That's everything. There are pieces of armor here and there that have been passed through half a dozen troopers, and they will continue to be passed down until they can no longer serve their function of protection. A living legacy of love and protection. The Corries keep record of the troopers pieces of armor pass through, and try to make sure every shiny has at least one legacy piece to carry with them.
I actually do genuinely love when people make sincere angst art of children's shows. The depth people create in the things they carry close to their heart always inspires me. Like yknow what? What if it WAS that deep. And even deeper. Take my hand. Let me explore this topic with you
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
