Coming at this right off the Kaleeshi outcast post, largely positive but some upsetting circumstances mentioned. A lot of the worth of a kaleesh was about the context it was framed in. Obviously, Kaleesh maimed in glorious battle were revered in most social circles. (Some berserker clans were like “If nobody died it wasn’t a good enough battle”) They were seen as having fulfilled their expectations as a warrior if they became disabled due to physical injury. (People injured in accidents were largely extended this courtesy as they served the community. Unless you did something really dishonorable.)
However! Battle scars aren’t strictly physical. Warriors that found themselves unable to function outside of battle were first usually dealt with in more private undertakings. But, by no fault of their own, not all wives were equipped to handle that kind of emotional labor. It was a common occurrence that most families, if they could not help, would put up with a father’s rage, fear, &/or violence, just accepting it as the fallout of being a warrior. More extreme cases would extend to the aid of the community. If the community could not help them & they were deemed dangerous they would be cast out. That was never ideal. A community never wanted to lose a capable male.
Mental illnesses & disabilities were dealt with largely the same way. If your family could not help, if the community could not help, one may be cast out if they were unmanageable. “Functioning” illnesses had this the hardest, as they could speak & do many things for themselves. A (good) community would not exile someone for being depressed or having epilepsy but society was such that because of the guilt an individual would feel over what they were able to contribute, oft exacerbated by their illness, many would exile themselves as to not be a burden. (Wow I feel like I just wrote a paragraph about myself, go off.)
Physical disabilities like birth defects & neurological disorders were also treated this way even if they didn’t necessarily know what it was. They would work around it. Like “Oh yeah, sometimes Gedat sees a bright enough light that he falls out. We thought he might be channeling but he says he sees nothing & smells only crab meat. So he just wears cool goggles now.” A community would usually never exile someone if that person was legitimately trying to contribute. Cause Kaleesh take care of each other. Even the old ones “aged into oblivion” (hal-huliir, how they refer to dementia & Alzheimer’s) can keep company while doing repetitive tasks like weaving.
Of course, some people don’t raise they children right & kids, on any planet, can be awful little rat bastards. Relentless bullying & judgement (perceived or otherwise) from mentors or peers can definitely go a long way to damaging someone’s perception of themselves in a society based around community & ability. A good family supports its vulnerable members with its strongest members.
Also (really dark concept warning)
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K*lling children, especially one’s own, is one of, if not THE WORST thing a Kaleesh could ever do. Even if someone wanted to drown their disabled child in the river, fear of divine retribution alone is usually enough to make this sort of thing a very rare occurrence. (They just resent them like normal people, goddamn.) (Also, there is an actual minor deity concerning this that’s like la llorona on Nightmare Mode.)
Anti-ship culture is opening an incognito tab to scroll the proshipper tags of a fandom and blocking people on a separate tag while also finding it funny how they're actually making this content unironically and acting like it's somehow cute/romantic (it's really not)
Bonus points if you see your own ships that you thought were fine (and they are) there and getting scared before realizing that some proshippers don't ONLY ship icky stuff and feeling almost offended that they would dare also ship the thing you like
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note that antiship-culture-is does not encourage nor condone harassment. blocking people is awesome though
Normalize taking care of General Grievous. Normalize holding and kissing him when he’s sad and just because. Normalize doing nice things for him. Normalize genuinely listening to him when he's upset. Normalize complimenting him and telling him you love and appreciate him. Normalize taking care of your kaleesh cyborg killing machine the same way you would want him to take care of you.
Ronderu didn't die during the Huk war she was actually back at camp with a broken hand after trying to punch a protocol droid during the time her death was supposed to happen. This is canon cause I was the Lucas film studio table.
I like how people in fandoms be like "canon I'm 'insert game dev' " or "canon, I was the floor", we need people in the star wars fandom to be like "canon I'm actually Lucas film" when they see some joke post or funky headcanon for a star wars event or character
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