Jessie Raves!

she/her ~ 26 ~ geek and writer and adventurer :) star wars, transformers, marvel, naruto, avatar i like movies, games, comics, anime! Asks open

[jessieraves]

Blog Introduction

Been reviving my blog + getting more activity so figured I'd pin a long intro about me and my interests! Quick intro + some more info about my interests !

Howdy, I’m Jessie! Like the bio says , I’m a geek adventurer and writer! I'm 25 and she-her. Queer trans artist weirdo. Media hog. Shipper. Sometimes. Optimist, despite it all.

On personal side, I'm a writer (wrote my first book last year) who's an art school dropout but still loves painting and creating, going to study urban sociology later this year. I'm pretty positive and passionate about what I like! Hoping to talk about it + meet some more ppl

Love Star Wars, Transformers, Marvel, anime, comics, movies, games, and all sorts of geeky stuff!

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Main Fandoms

My main fandom is Star Wars, always been super super into it and have found new ways to appreciate it through the years politically and spiritually and just through rule of cool shit too. I’m mostly (they’ve been around for thousands of years, things go bump) pro Jedi, but am willing to engage in earnest critiques. I’ve read a lot of the books, played games, read comics etc not ALL of it and have some legends blind spots but working on it! I think the sequels are fine, production wise better movies than prequels but def got a lot of baggage. I enjoyed them fine tho, but have key issues, and love the characters. I don’t hate on any of it, but there are some stories I think are stinkers so I’ll be critical of stuff I think is flawed but it’ll come from a constructive rather than negative place, but I will be honest about stuff I don't like and why, but even in my least favorite stuff I try and highlight what I like!

Fav Non Movie SW stories

KOTOR II

Kenobi book

Plagieus book

ANDOR

Been getting rly into Transformers lately - started with the 80s cartoon and movie, and working my way through the franchise. Halfway through Beast Wars! My favs so far are Optimus and Starscream

Avatar is a favorite of mine too and been getting back into the world w the books, comics and ttrpg! Been getting a renewed interest in its worlds. Rewatched Korra and loved it EVEN more. Into other ttrpgs too, did my time with dnd

Comics

Love comics! These past few years I’ve been rekindling for my love of the medium by getting into comics and manga again. Know a lot more about comics than manga. Mostly lean marvel , but have read a bit of everything. Hulk is my fav (tough eats a lot tho), but Spider-Man and xmen are great. Love it all tho.

Comic favs include

Promethea

BERSERK

Witch Hat Atelier

BONE

Anime

I’m into anime a lot too! In terms of franchises, Naruto I love a lot but have a lot of issues with its ending but genuinely love the series. Cartoons are great too, love all animation from Fantasia to Wizards to Spirited Away to Its Such a Beautiful Day.

Anime favs include

Demon Slayer

Evangelion

Utena

Trigun

Games

Been playing a lot of Genshin that’s been my comfort game and love the lore and characters too. I like all kinds of games, RPGs survival horror are my fav, and love most of the Nintendo stuff; but this year I’ll be doing a lot of catch-up with the Resident Evil, Final Fantasy and Yakuza series. Some of my fav story experiences have been games.

Game favs include

Disco Elysium

Pathologic 2

Dark Souls

Dragon Age

Movies / TV

Big big movie buff. All sorts all types from anywhere anytime. Love weird shit esp. Rly into filmmaking. Doesn't mean I don't earnestly enjoy a MCU flick. Anti elitism. Tons of tv I like too, love me some cinematic storytelling.

Movie favs include

Holy Mountain

Princess Bride

Perfect Blue

Seven Samurai

Show favs include

Star Trek (TNG/DS9)

LOST

Twin Peaks

She Ra

Used to really be into ASOIAF and still love it but the years have cooled my passions. Mostly into fantasy and sci fi: Star Wars ofc, but love the Dune series, and last year got really into the cosmere. Been trying to get into wider literature, like Franz Kafka a lot.

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A snapshot of my fandoms from HS

- ASOIAF

- Les Mis

- Assassins Creed

- Steven Universe

- Undertale

- Star Wars

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But yeah, this should be a pretty good intro to me and my interests, I'd love if you wanted to talk about any of them or feel free to ask me questions!

[prokopetz]

Look, the Star Wars fandom has developed inexplicable fixations on a lot of minor characters over the years, but Boba Fett isn't one of them – that one was 100% explicable.

Picture this: you're a kid in 1978, and a big fan of a little movie called Star Wars that came out the previous year. You've just found out that they're going to be airing a TV special based on the movie around Christmas this year, so of course you tune in. The live-action portions of the special are weird and kind of nothing, but right in the middle there's a nine-minute animated short film focusing on a whole new character you've never heard of before: cool-as-fuck deep space bounty hunter Boba Fett. Obviously, you want to know more – but it turns out that adults hated the special so much that it never airs again. And remember, this was a couple of years before home VCR ownership exploded, so bootleg tapes were hard to come by, and 95% of households lacked the hardware to play them anyway. The animated short, and its title character, become this big cipher, the subject of schoolyard legends spread by the kids who were lucky enough to catch it the one and only time it aired.

Two years later, a proper Star Wars sequel hits theatres, and there he is.

Is it really any wonder?

[jessieraves]

Yessss, Fr, and when he appears in Empire - he’s part of the super cool shot of the galactic bounty hunters hired by big bad Darth Vader to get the job done, and what’s that? He’s singled out by Darth Vader, evil guy himself, to say “no disintegrations” as if Boba is too much even for Vader

give him a cool voice and look, and later in the movie he along with few others is someone who talks back to Vader confidently - and how does he end the movie? Stealing away Han Solo in carbonate to bring him to the often mentioned crime lord Jabba the Hutt

obviously In the sequel Revenge of the Jedi he’s going to have a big ol confrontation right ??

Boba def gets a bad rap for Being a minor character people like for no reason by outsiders, as if everyone watched it backwards - just cuz he went out like a punk doesn’t mean he wasn’t T’d up for the coolest stuff ever! And then writers took their ideas for him and ran with it, and was at least a lot more consistent than Greivous was - more or less

tho I think some depictions forget he’s villainous pre Sarlaac, honor or no honor

[jessieraves]

anyone have any recs for trippy, lynchian, meta weird indie games like who’s Lila or immortality that have you going front to back back to front side to side over it? Getting that surrealist itch!

[maximumgraves]

what happens next

happy birthday 0

12 new panels of what happens next

[contact-guy]

Did you know that JRR Tolkien wrote an unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's achingly, beautifully wistful in the way that only Lord of the Rings is. I revisited it recently because I'm guesting on my friends' LOTR podcast, and THAT reminded me that I drew a comic of the epilogue back in 2021 (all text is entirely canon). Anyway I thought folks on this website might enjoy it!

[slugbeaker]

i think robb would get theon one of those octopus plushies you can turn inside out to change emotions and i think while this would help him be more open about his emotions i also think it would make him EVEN more annoying lol

[star-light-artist]

I think Yularen is such an interesting guy because you would NEVER think of him as a Nazi in the Clone Wars & yet he is one in Andor. He didn't really change exactly. He didn't fall to the Dark. He just slowly drifted in the direction everyone around him was going in. It really shows how, just like in Nazi Germany, if you don't stand up for what you believe in or believe in firm morals, you can easily drift with the accepted sins of today's world.

[jessieraves]

fr, like sure theres folks like tarkin who wear their evil on their sleeve, but yularen in TCW is even kinda "nice" and friendly with our leads. hell, recently in the mask of fear book he goes "it really is a shame about the jedi, if only the council hadn't led them astray". the friendly fascist, a republic admiral who doesn't care for democracy who goes with the authoritarian flow, all the way to running the ISB and sitting on the death star council - the worst arms of the Empire's regime, all with a quiet, polite attitude. and just like the other death star councillors, he finds out what a lifetime of the empire gets him above Yavin

hope we get more yularen in the future, since i think he's such a valuable lesson in the "quiet" fascist that most of the top imperials are loud and proud evil - but shows you you have to watch out for anyone who advocates for militant authoritarianism, smile or no smile

the only one i can think of on a similar basis in Moff Panaka, but we don't get much of him at all as far as I know - just TPM, maybe a comic here or there, then Leia Princess of Alderaan when we find out he oversees the Naboo Sector

[foolfortune]

[lesbianjimmymcgill]

@dino--draws

[dino--draws]

THIS IS SO FUCKIN COOOOL!!!!!

[jessieraves]

Hopin so hard that hasbro property saber (of space marine 2 fame) is working on is transformers … also hoping so hard we get hot rod representation 🤞 free my boi from the vault! Want him front and center in more stuff

would’ve been perfect as smokescreen in prime 😒

[jessieraves]

“Why did no rebel spies try to assassinate Palpatine?”

In Star Wars 2015 annual #1, a rebel makes an earnest attempt. Wanted to end it all - and got past security miracousku and got his shot. Turns out he hit a body double. He tries again, gets past all his guards to kill the old tyrant - and gets zapped by lightning, and realizes the emperor is a monster on a whole other level - a Sith Lord. He survives and attempts to scorched earth against Palpatine and inform others in the rebellion Palpatine is a Sith Lord

But in Gen why rebels don’t - prob because when he is in semi public areas and not completely hidden who knows where, security makes it very difficult and it’s a hot target that putting all eggs behind that to fail can compromise a more long sustaining rebellion that can accomplish the same at the end of the war - since best case you use all your resources, kill Palpatine (and not a body double), and great the war continues against Vader, Tarkin, Ameda, Thrawn, Yularen whoever

As far as the rebels know, that is, so better to not waste all resources on a shot at the top that’ll retain a powerful empire

[jessieraves]

I don’t know about you but while Hordak’s Horde has Empire vibes I sometimes see them more like the separatist.

Apart from the high use of droids I always saw them getting recruits from the downtrodden of Etheria to fight the Princess core worlds

But that’s my silly headcanon

Not silly at all! yeah it’s not 1:1 but I think they align more with the empire, esp since by the time the show starts the horde is more or less the dominant power - the remaining lands uniting against him, a sorta of rebel alliance to restore the (princess) republic (s).

That’s prob part of his early strategy - to take the unsatisfied or frustrated and to radicalize them, give them identity and power over others - add in torture and brainwashing, and got a stormtrooper / horde army willing to comittt evil - and development of super weapons to shock and awe rule through fear, whilst having a closed network of disciples pursuing greater works of ambition

I think it also works as a parallel to the Sith, having a Sith headed horde / empire. Hordak is the Sith Lord, his apprentice Shadow Weaver - once a Jedi master driven to the dark side - and then supplanted by the young and cunning Catra

And then She Ra / Adora herself as tbe “last Jedi” against the horde, trying to redeem Catra - and then ofc, the true Sith emperor of the vastly superior hidden Sith Galaxy Ala KOTOR re Revan and Vitiate - in that of Horde Prime, the greatest Sith Lord of them all. Plus how things go with horde prime and hordak gives me strong Vader / Sidious vibes

I imagine there’s prob an early rise of the horde shortly after Hordak landed on Etheria that’s like a mix of the seperatist movement / first order

Thanks for the question!

[jessieraves]

Okay. But what She-Ra character most likely to wear a director Krennic uniform?

three come to mind but each of them would destroy it lol -

For reference the outfit style - linked with special weapons engineer department, imperial intelligence, and program directors in Star Wars

Entrapta, for engineering special weapons, would tatter it for her uses as needed. Or accidentally getting zapped

Double Trouble, when specially comissioned by Catra to be an agent of the horde , for intelligence services, would shapeshift out of it

And Catra herself when she’s made director of essentially the horde’s Death Star, with a collar too tight - that in one of her adora loving / hating episodes, would rip apart to wear a leather jacket instead

Thanks for the question! I love she ra

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Vaegon

by vesperkyno on twitter

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Various Anis

[roguesones]

Mace Windu artwork by David M. Buisán for Star Wars Unlimited

[jessieraves]

“What happened to the separatists after the empire formed?”

The recent canon book Mask of Fear goes into it in quite good depth, as well as some legends comics near the end of the Republic series and beginning of the dark times series. But essentially:

* the droid army issued a shutdown order, and with the death of official and unofficial leadership and nigh immediate seizure of Raxus prime , the head of the seperatist movement was decapitiated

• Seperatist assets were seized and rolled into the empire to consolidate their power further, such as the corpos that made up the coalition, and their worlds were staging grounds of the earliest and fiercest imperial authoritianism and over-industrialization against “worthy” targets , before the mid and core worlds felt the full breadth of the fascist regime

• Seperatist holdouts maintained for some time, largely up to the 5 year mark - providing the early military operations for the empire , and floated around on a much smaller scale for longer. These were largely organic volunteer forces, ie like umbarans, who continued to fight independently

• 10,000 seperatist worlds were readmitted to the imperial senate after taking security tests and pledges of loyalty. Between their fear or ambition, the idea was that readmitted they’d be a super bloc loyal to the empire . Mon Mothma attempts to sway the super bloc to her cause in mask of fear

• various seperatist vaults of resources and weapons are seized, either by the empire, treasure hunters or budding rebel groups. Lone seperatist operatives try and continue the fight as well - striking against the empire or seeming seperatist traitors

• due to the collapsed movement, poor public opinion of their deeds, historical examination, the pull of the rebel alliance the seperatist cause is largely deflated by the OT, with the exception of Kalani and his surviving droid army, due to being programmed to be fiercely loyal to the mythical lost cause. Decades later, stray scholars or elderly individuals may buy into the false mythos , to then be co opted into the first order, during the final days of the new republic

[laz-laz-ace-pilot]

Robbed of seeing Perrin's reaction to his wife becoming a wanted fugitive and leaving his ass live on Fox News