[nittusidhe]

Cheliik’ta discord

Here’s how this is gonna work. To keep stress off the mod team, each invite will only allow five people in, but don’t worry. If you don’t make it this time another invite will be up soon. Keep an eye on this post for new invites or updates.

[nittusidhe]

New invite is up! This one has NO limits on people or time.

For those that maybe don't know what this is, I'm creating a discord for the Amavikka fandom and culture. It's open to anyone interested in Fialleril's wonderful brain child, we'd love for you to come be nerds with us.

Check out the The Cheliik’ta community on Discord - hang out with 12 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[feyosha]

Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

[feyosha]

How does it feel to be the most Galaxy Brained person in this entire thread

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Well that certainly belongs on the post

[nittusidhe]

@drelmurn

[nittusidhe]

it’s spooky season y’all, and in honor I got a little mini prompt for all those interested in Amavikka stuff.

without further ado, please give me all your wonderful ideas on Amavikka ghost stories, cryptids, and spooks! Every culture has things that go bump in the night, so what’re theirs? Please ping me or respond to this post with all your wonderful thoughts, writing, and art. Whatever may come out of it.

[adragonsfriend]

Did i ever post my hit parody of Edelweiss about an Amavikka parent singing to their child upon both of them being free or no

E-Lalvar

ee-lalvar, ee-lalvar nuut kashke ek veda te ani, nu, ulalev siju eevath en rei nalikehnuk chev at darar kret zi chev darar burtuu ee-lalvar, ee-lalvar masuk peva ep-batuu

E-Lalvar - English

E-lalvar, e-lalvar Every morning I greet you Small and free, so happy You have liberty with me Here you'll live, a life like dra-gons And a life like the pond E-lalvar, e-lalvar You’ll bless my home forever

Notes:

e-lalvar isn't a flower, it's a term of affection literally meaning "my good memory," for someone who is a good part or your life, especially a child. I've left it untranslated in the english to avoid confusion. It is distinguished from saying talking about having a good memory (eg. being good at remembering things) partly just by context but also by the use of the animate possessive my: "e-", instead of the inanimate "ep-" (which would make ep-lal var).

e-lalvar changes in the song to "ee-lalvar", because placing stress on the first syllable (& lengthening its vowel) instead of the second (the typical pattern) is one way of making a word sound more affectionate in Amatakka

the link in the first line is to the audio of me singing it to the edelweiss instrumentals, do me the courtesy of ignoring the voicecracks lol. the instrumentals are from some kareoke version on youtube, i do not play guitar

this entire thing sprang from me making e-lalvar as a term of affection, and going… you know what else has got three syllables and starts with /e/? Edelweiss

[herpsandbirds]

All of my friends that work at wildlife rehab centers have had to untangle animals from this stuff, or had animals brought in that died in it. This is especially nasty for small owl species.

[tomboyjessie13]

Why would you put fake spiderwebs outside your home anyways? Do what my family does and use them as indoor decorations, it's easier to clean up that way and it makes the living room look cool.

[jnthem]

Good to know for us animal lovers, if you’re going to use them please keep it to decir inside the house, not out!

[directactionforhope]

Oh shit had no idea!! Thank you!! Source:

Does Decorative Spider Webbing Pose a Danger to Wildlife?

The classic Halloween decor can be a silent threat to furry friends if displayed unsafely.

"As autumn advances, leaves begin to fall from trees and a chill runs through the air, making it increasingly clear the spooky season is upon us. But as people decorate for Halloween, they may be setting up a trick rather than a treat for surrounding critters: That fake spider webbing commonly seen across the country every October is just as effective at trapping critters as a real web is.

Kathryn Dudeck, the wildlife director at Georgia's Chattahoochee Nature Center, told Snopes via phone that fake spider webbing, normally made out of a synthetic, fiber-like polyester, is similar to tightly woven fiberglass.

"The webbing actually adheres to the skin of a toad," she said. "For raptors and songbirds, it sticks to their feathers and then settles in between them, almost like velcro." ...

Dudeck said that animals most at risk with fake cobwebs are small birds, including hummingbirds and small owls, bats and reptiles, like toads...

The danger of fake webs doesn’t immediately go away after Halloween, either. A 2019 article from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation explains that if not properly disposed of, birds might use the material to build their nests. In a worst-case scenario, the webbing could catch and trap any chicks in the nest. The solution to all of this is fairly easy: stop using fake webs outside.

Instead, consider moving the webbing indoors, perhaps behind a window so it’s still visible. If you are set on creating a web outdoors, Dudeck recommended making one out of rope and ensuring you've left ample space between strands to mitigate the risk to wildlife."

-via Snopes, October 20, 2023

[adragonsfriend]

Hello! I know this might seem a bit out of the blue but I am writing my BA this year and I have an option of it being mainly about Amatakka, which like, a dream come true. However, I see that fialleril (who, I assume, has been the main creator of it? It not then please correct me) has been inactive on Tumblr since 2019 and idk how to contact them. I see you have many posts about it on your blog, so could you please, maybe tell me if me writing a BA on this particular language would even be worth considering (cause idk if there's enough material to analyse) and most importantly - alright with the original creator/s. Thank you in advance! ❤️

Ok so this is gonna be a complicated answer, and i'm gonna immediately @green-kittens, the actual linguist in the club.

First of all, *writing tutor voice* I'm not sure what a BA is in this context (bachelor's thesis?) or what the exact requirements for it are, so what you decide is gonna depend a lot on what those are. It's also gonna depend on what topic you're actually planning on writing about.

That said, I can tell you what Amatakka consists of!

Fialleril Things

So, a bit of background. Fialleril is the creator of Amavikka the culture, and Amatakka, the language, and indeed has been inactive for quite a long time. Prior to that, it seems that she opened up Amatakka and Amavikka to be used by anyone in fandom (Important note: I have never had any direct interaction with Fialleril as I came to writing about Amavikka things after she'd already gone inactive, and have no idea what her opinions would be on someone writing acadamia on Amatakka. Also note I have not read everything she's ever posted, so there could be things i'm missing).

A lot of the content and structure of Amatakka that currently exists was not created by Fialleril--her comments on the conlanging of Amatakka include:

"I will be the first to admit, though, that I’m really not very good at linguistics and that I definitely haven’t gone about creating Amatakka in a very systematic way (15/08/2019)" She notes that while Amatakka is not deliberately inspired by any language, "[she's] sure there’s a good bit of influence from Latin and classical Greek as those are the two languages other than English that [she's] studied most (15/08/2019)."

Fialleril created quite a bit of vocabulary (in the spreadsheets i'm gonna link later the creators of each word are logged so you can look at who made what), but very little grammar and syntax. There are only a few full sentences in any of her fics or posts ("ek masa nu… - My name is…" is the only example i can think of).

If you want to write about only things Fialleril created, I think you would struggle to come up with a full thesis on just that, as it's quite limited.

The Dialects

Here is where things get complicated. So post Fialleril opening up Amavikka culture to be written about by fandom, you get people like me (and @looseleafteeaves, @yellow-faerie, @booklindworm, @/green-kittens, and no doubt others) who want to build and expand on both the vocab and structure of Amatakka. The problem is, none of us actually know each other yet.

Several different people went about (a) collecting all the Amatakka vocab & sentences we could find, (b) adding new vocab and grammar, and (c) coming up with various world building surrounding the language. All of this together means that we built some very different things, which we were all quite attached to by the time we found out about each other and could coordinate on things.

Among the people in the Chelliik'ta discord, there are now several dialects (not really using the word in any technical linguistic sense), which draw to varying extents on a collective dictionary, which I compiled from Fialleril's vocab and all of our individual dialect's dictionaries. It currently has about 900 entries, but not every dialect uses every word from the collective.

Berim Amatakka

Berim Amatakka (spreadsheet linked) is my version of Amatakka. The base of the grammar is a a bit of a French-Spanish-English + random linguistics facts i learned (it was my first proper conlang lol). It's got about 850 words currently, and while the TAM system isn't quite complete (been meaning to add the three imperative moods for ages), it does have quite a bit of range and a few quirks that I (totally not biased) think are pretty cool. I have quite a few translated sayings, phrases, and even a few longer sections of text like my hit parody of edelweiss and I try to think from an Amatakka first perspective so that my translations embodying the attitude & culture of the language rather than being English in a poor disguise.

Kehran Amatakka

Kehran Amatakka is @/looseleafteeaves creation. It shares a lot of vocab with Berim, albeit there is a lot of minor variation for phonology & different word formation between the two. The grammar is more different (i think slightly less complete in terms of TAM), though a Kehran speaker and a Berim speaker would likely have some mutual comprehension (think maybe something like the relationship between French & Haitian Creole). Looseleaves has some pretty cool translations out there was well, but I don't have them on hand. I do have the transcript of a conversation or two that me and looseleaves had solely in Kehran over discord which i feel is study-able (i made a graph)

Qelin Amatakka

Qelin is @/green-kitten's creation. I believe it is the most grammatically complete of the dialects, and while it shares some vocabulary, is an entirely different language than either Berim or Kehran, that I honestly know very little about the details of.

(Anaben correct me if I'm wrong but I think you have some pretty long translations somewhere?)

Other Chelliik'ta Discord Dialects

There are a few other dialects that have been worldbuilt, like @yellow-faerie's Nittu dialect, which mostly consist of word variations on the collective dictionary atm, rather than having grammars. There are a few interesting notes that have some up from comparing these, for example, arising from yellow-faerie's fic Daughters, Daughters:

All in all, I'm gonna let everyone else add their links/commentary to this if they want because there really is a lot here, and I have no idea what the scale of what you're writing is. I hope the overview is helpful in making your decision, I think the general sentiment among some of the people i've @'ed is that it could be cool to have a paper written on Amatakka things, if it works out!

[looseleafteeaves]

Ooooo you laid this out really well! I am curious to see where things go as well!

[nittusidhe]

@rockbottom-org yes, hello. Owner of the discord here. I don’t have any dialects myself, much more interested in the world and culture and most of my contributions to the languages themselves have been helping figure out how they reflect the culture, but I’m so so excited to hear about this.

Please let me know if you do decide to write about it! I will read everything.

[maramcgregor]

Personal Writing Challenge (Part whatever we are on now)

Here's something from a plot bunny that has been driving me up a wall for a HOT minute. This is also based on Tatooine Slave Culture by Fialleril. The concept is about a culture clash between Anakin and Aayla Secura. With Anakin's Amavikkan culture being closed and secret and the trouble he gets into because of the Jedi not understanding his background.

* * *

“Do you understand why you are here today?”

Anakin stood in front of the Council. Again. And once again, he could only guess at what offense he had committed. It was a situation he had found himself in his whole life. He thought being free would mean he was also free from being punished for things that only made sense to those who controlled him.

“No, Master.”

He could feel the disappointment radiating from Obi-Wan and the Council.

“Padawan, do you believe that you better understand Twi'lek culture than Padawan Secura?”

“No, Master.” Well, there was the first clue as to where this was going. Of course, this wasn’t about Twi'lek culture. But, Anakin wasn’t foolish enough to explain Amavikkan culture to Masters. They had no right to the Stories. 

“Can you dance or offer instruction on how to dance like a Twi'lek?”

“No, Master.” It also wasn’t about dancing like a Twi'lek. It was about dancing like a slave. The Stories in the dance translated even if the movements changed based on the species performing it. 

“If you cannot do any of those things, nor have the knowledge to share, why did you feel it was appropriate to interject while Padawan Secura was training for her upcoming mission with Knight Vos?”

Anakin wanted to scream at the Council that they were missing the entire point. But they had already proven themselves untrustworthy over the years. He didn’t even trust Obi-Wan with the beliefs and stories he was raised in after Obi-Wan caught him whispering prayers to his japor snippet. Obi-Wan felt it was necessary to scold him once again on his attachments and letting his mother go. He would never correct any of the Jedi about the difference between Amu and Ar-Amu. They felt he was attached to his mother, and he was. But, Ar-Amu was always with him. He would and could never let Her go.

[stellanslashgeode]

Okay, so. Star Wars has all these concepts that weirdo New Left boomer George Lucas tosses in there but because of storyteller limitations it would kill the plot to fully explain them all, so later writers have to come in for the spin-off materials and bat clean-up to fully explain all this crazy crap. And I would like to talk about something that made me actively angry at first, but which I now adore. And that is the Naboo.

So much about Naboo culture is infuriating from a logical standpoint. They have a queen, okay. A constitutionally elected queen? Weird, okay. Don't know why they'd do that but... She's FOURTEEN? Excuse me? Is it a ceremonial thing or, oh no it's not? Legit head of state? Why does she dress like that? Why does she talk like that? I'm so tired.

Here's the explainer. Let me go cook.

There's this joke in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the last living human goes back in time and finds out humans aren't actually from Earth, but an alien culture that tricked all the middle managers, pedantic weirdos, and other infuriating folk into getting in a space arc which they gave the wrong evacuation coordinates to simply get rid of them. The Naboo are like this but they're all artists and poets and hippies, but like classy ones. They fled their home planet during a war and crash landed on Naboo, then did a colonism to the Gungans because, hey, they were fleeing a war and it was do or die. This spiritual rot in their creation story is later rectified by Padmé. But it's super important to their cultural psychology. They're hippies, but will subjugate if needed. They are "peaceful" but I guarantee you every single one of them has a tiny extremely shiny pistol up their sleeve and they will draw down on you if backed against a wall.

The scene that I think says it all is at the end of Phantom Menace when Padmé is surrounded by Nute Gunray and his droids, they've got her dead to rights, but Sabé her double creates a distraction so the queen can make it to her throne. This one piece of furniture is the Naboo in a nutshell. It's richly carved with artistic details, it has two seats to the side so the queen's handmaidens can read the lips of people in the back of the room and use hand signals to communicate with the queen while she can remain focused mostly on who is speaking to her. It is hundreds of years old. And it has a secret compartment in the armrest that is FULL OF GUNS. Layers of artistic opulence hiding their true intentions.

The Naboo were created to be backwards compatible with Princess Leia. They're compassionate pacifists, but they will shot you if needed.

Why do they elect teenage royalty? It's a little creepy. It's giving "age of consent is emotional maturity". It makes no sense.

The explanation they give outsiders is they want youthful idealism untainted by cynicism. What they don't tell you is that they take kids with stated interest in politics and put them in an advanced highly competitive Leadership Academy which is like Model UN mixed with Battle Royale. Well, they don't kill each other but it's intense. It's like what the clones went though just all diplomacy training and tea ceremonies all the time. Which is crazy but so Naboo.

Oh, and all the delegates for the royalty election run using pseudonyms for security. Imagine voting for the head of state but you can't run a background check. It's so crazy.

Why does Padmé dress like that? Well, fashion is one of Naboo's major industries so it's like she's wearing the entire Fall line catalog at once. To advertise not only the talent of her people, but to show how much they favor her. BUT that dress has multiple layers of padding and resin armor. And aforementioned spots for those little silver blasters. And it breaks up her silhouette making her harder to shoot. And it's so elaborate you pay more attention to the crazy dress and not if the person wearing it is really the queen or a decoy. Everything about Naboo is like this.

Queen Amidala has that weird accent while Padmé does not. Because all her handmaidens helped create the accent together so they all can imitate it. It's like if you gave girls at a rowdy sleepover the job of federal counterintelligence. That's what they came up with.

The handmaidens wear colorful identical clothes so you can't tell them apart, hoods to partially conceal their identity, and they don't wear the queen's fancy makeup. So one of them can be the queen and spy on people in the audience. Because the Naboo don't trust shit for shit.

Their public face is so silly to hide all the truly weird shit they do behind the scenes.

They use their reputation as artist hippies to conceal multiple layers of subterfuge and disguise their methods of self defense and assuage their paranoia due to wartime trauma and their disturbing colonial past. All of them are completely off their rocker even by Star Wars standards. And I love them so much. They put on a show so everyone thinks they have them figured out but what they have going on is far more weirder and more sinister than meets the eye. You know how catty, neurotic, and competitive art school students stereotypically are? Yeah, planet art student. Love them!

There you go, @charmwasjess

[roach-works]

honestly this goes further than anything else to explain why padme heard this bonkers greasy teenage anakin confess to her that he wiped out the entire village of native people who killed his mother, and padme (ostensibly our conscience) (actually a valedictorian of the naboo political school of move fast break things and look gorgeous doing it) was just like '👍'

[callmeshei]

this needs to be a proper addition to the post I feel.

[yasha-laurelabonagracia]

My original Star Wars digital art of a Twi'lek dancing was inspired by a post made by @booklindworm of the fan-made slave language Amatakka.

The dancer is a slave on Tatooine who hopes for freedom. Using their dictionary, the caption translates to "death or freedom".

From their post:

dukkra - death (not gendered), frequently used idiomatically (and just as frequently literally) to mean freedom (in death or otherwise) [DAV 4 - The Slave Who Makes Free]

dukkra ba dukkra - death or freedom (not gendered) [DAV 4 - The Slave Who Makes Free]

Post by @booklindworm

💬 0  🔁 5  ❤️ 29 · Amatakka word list, part 3 · chinaa - chinaa seeds - they taste like cardamom (a Tatooine word) (not gendered) [fialleril,

[whyenn-reader]

General PSA's for begginer alt crafting

- superglue heats up when in contact with fiber, your craft can start smoking or even catch on fire

- you can wash clothing painted with acrylic paint in the washing machine if you turn it inside out and use the lowest temperature

- don't put painted clothes in the dryer.

- you can wash clothes with metal bits in the washing machine but use the handwashing setting, dry the metal bits with a paper towel before hanging them to dry, and know that it WILL be loud

- synthetic dye is needed to dye synthetic fibers and requires a long time simmering in a boiling pot. This WILL stink up the house and you NEVER want to make food in that pot again

- faux leather is vinyl not leather. Get vinyl paint to paint on it

- don't use your teeth as tools, they don't regenerate. Reconstructing enamel costs a small fortune (ask me how I know.)

- when handsewing a lot through thick fabric get thin needles, it will require less force and be less taxing on your wrists. When machine sewing get a higher grade needle (~130 for jean)

- embroidery floss is overpriced and not as strong as it looks. For sewing on heavy stuff get denim thread, it will last forever

- don't feed a 60$ home sewing machine ten layers of denim before you learn how much a servicing fee costs, these things are dellicate

- spray paint is best applied from 30-40cm away, in swift movements. Putting too much or applying from too close will cause drips. You can sand them down and apply a new layer of paint AFTER they dry. Wipe the can nozzle after painting if it's messy, you don't want it to clog and become unusable

- water based markers on fabric will bleed, if not instantly then with time, alcohol markers will fade with time

- most fabric glues are machine washable up to a certain temperature. modgepodge is not waterproof, hitack is handwash only. Check the instructions

- the flatter the surface the easier hot glue will peel off. Faux leather stands no chance, fibers like yarn will hold it best, but is impossible to remove the glue from them in the future

- rivets are a thing that exists, only require a hammer to install and can be used as permanent fabric attachment

- studs, gromets and other metal junk at small fabric stores are laughably overspriced

- acetone (found in nail polish remover) will remove acrylic stains out of furniture, flooring and faux leather, if used in excess can damage the laquer. Can also be used to remove prints and glue off of plastic (do a small test before commiting, might melt the plastic it it's grade is low)

- residue from stickers (and k-tape) can be removed with oil

- acrylic stains cannot be removed out of clothing or carpet so protect your area before painting and don't wear clothes you care about

- if your thread keeps getting tangled or snagging while handsewing try waxing it

- you can lock in screw-in spikes with screw lock glue if you're scared of them falling off because they unscrew

- you can add washers to screw-in spikes if you're scared of them falling through flimsy fabric or too big of a hole

- if you're making anything out of soda cans have a metal file on hand, they are deceptively sharp and will hurt you and rip through fabric you're installing them in

- bleach can be found in mold killing spray (don't touch that shit with bare hands. chemical burn.)

- fabric paints are no different from slightly dilluted acrylic. You can make it yourself by adding a bit of fabric softener to acrylic or honestly even water

- if you are setting anything with an iron use parchment paper or a pressing cloth to pervent your stuff from sticking to your iron and ruining it

- if you want a safety pin somewhere permanently pinch it shut with pliers

- as much as you can, avoid putting glue on clothing, it makes it really hard to change your decisions later on and upcycle the project in the future

- kiss your friends

[fairyhaven13]

- avoid using faux leather if real is affordable. It's plastic, it falls apart and stretches easily, and it will never fully degrade in the environment once you have to throw it away. Real leather (if affordable) will last for years and years, and degrade like any organic waste product once thrown away.

[nittusidhe]

Y’all ever just look at the world and realize the most radical thing we can do is have hope? Theres so much bullshit going on and so many forces trying to convince us that there’s nothing better and it’s not worth fighting for. In times like this, it feels like the most rebellious, punk thing to do is to hold on to hope.

[colection-of-chaos]

Hi, I need some help I would like to get back into Fan fiction writing and for some reason that got me into research about the Amavikka or at least to the attempt of researching the culture of the Amavikka...

Because it's kind of hard to find anything coherent and I'm also not sure how much is fanon and what is canon if any and than I also have no idea where to start regarding costumes and even just generally used phrases...

What if found are two dictionaries of Amatakka and some legends I'm not sure are canon or if not where they are originating form, I also looked through the Amavikka tag as well as the "tatooine slave culture" one, but it's a lot of information, and I'm kind of overwhelmed

So, yeah, if someone would be so kind to give me a crash course or maybe just point me in the right direction, I would be grateful!

[nittusidhe]

*slams through the wall*

Yes, hello. You mentioned Amavikka.

I run the Amavikka fan discord, and a blog for various headcannons for the culture. The blog is pretty quiet now cause I’ve been really busy lately, but the discord is alive and kicking and you’re more than welcome to come join. We’ve got all kinds of links and resources and have a bunch of different headcannons saved, even cited as to who created what if we can. The link is pinned on my blog, please feel free to come be feral with us. And that goes for anyone else who sees this and wants to join!!

[fandomgachapon]

This year's charity will be...

...Hospitallers, a Ukrainian volunteer organization of paramedics.

Though peace talks are ongoing, the fact that Ukraine has been excluded from them is not reassuring. While we hope the situation will be resolved soon, in the meantime, medical aid and humanitarian supplies are necessary for everyone affected in Ukraine. Hospitallers provides those things with its 500 volunteers and handful of ambulances.

The organization is currently fundraising for 5 more ambulances, 50 more pickup trucks and vans, and hemostatics and medical equipment. You can donate via

PayPal, here

JustGiving, here

or directly with your bank, here.

Donate at least 5 USD between now and midnight on March 21 to participate!

Donor forms will open on March 15. Hold on to any digital receipts you get - once you've sent a screenshot or other proof of donation via the form, you'll receive random gachas of updates to fanworks at the rate of 100 words per dollar.

Writer and artist sign-ups will open soon, so keep an eye out for that! Edit: Writer sign-ups are now open! So are artist sign-ups!

Questions? Send us an ask!

[nittusidhe]

I know this isn’t the usual stuff I post, but it’s important and I think it should get out there. We gotta stand together if we want to enact change in the world.

[izzyovercoffee]

What The Clone Wars did was present Duchess Satine Kryze as complicit in a type of genocide (cultural), if not outright commanding its action. People argue that it’s “just an oversight,” but all that argument does is emphasize a lack of understanding of context, and underlining a privilege that makes one blind to the implications of the show.

It’s an easy oversight to make when you see yourself in the New Mandalorians already. It’s an easy oversight to make when you don’t care for presenting a diverse society—because one already exists that happens to just not be mandalorian.

And that’s, ultimately, what happened.

And an oversight is one thing, but what happened with Satine and the New Mandalorians is not just one oversight, alone, in a vacuum. There are multiple layers to the issue that, together, create the environment for racism and whitewashing, and erasure:

making all of the New Mandalorians are a specific type of white (white people come in more variation than just pale, just blond, just blue eyed)

retconning the only prior canon representation of mandalorians (who are not white, and this is important in context) as no longer mandalorian

setting up a precedence within the universe that defines the entire political climate of Mandalore as “anyone not a specific type of mandalorian is exiled / ejected from society”

These three things, together, illustrate racism. These three things, together, illustrate whitewashing, and in-universe genocide. Isolated, individually, they’re pretty bad alone, but they’re small things. But these three things together, and they cannot be separated because of how deeply intertwined they are in the show and the canon universe of star wars, presents a clear and obvious act of racism and whitewashing.

And, to be honest, declaring the Fetts as not mandalorian was unnecessary. It was racist. It was whitewashing — by making mandalorians as a people defaulted to white and only white (at the time of the show). 

To ignore this is to ignore the racialized violence inherent in that retcon. A group of people in a position of militaristic and political power stripped a nonwhite man and his son of their cultural heritage and identity. 

The races of the sides involved matter. It matters because it’s reflective of racism in the real world, regardless of the intent behind these actions.

Bringing up Legends to combat canon is nonsensical, because Legends has no bearing on anything, anymore. But even worse: bringing up Sabine and her family as an argument against racism also doesn’t work.

Sabine Wren, and the entire Clan Wren, are all Death Watch. Satine Kryze exiled Death Watch, and bringing them up only highlights the racialized violence Satine Kryze committed: exiling a group of mandalorians who do not look nor act nor adhere to a narrow definition of what is mandalorian according to New Mandalorians. 

[fox-trot]

I’ve mentioned this before but this is why Dave & George & Disney’s ‘rightful Mand’alor’ plotlines in TCW/Rebels/The Mandalorian/TBOBF (and now the erasure of Boba Fett after TBOBF flop) are so hard to stomach for a lot of pre-Disney SW fans.

This is why I always defend Mandalorian Jango Fett, Boba Fett, and Fett clones.

Jesse Harlin literally, SPECIFICALLY created Mando’a for the Fett clones’s ‘ancestral language.’

Jango and Boba went from Mand’alore with rich, complex backstories to evil, petty criminals overnight. Purely for aesthetics, spite for fans, and to uplift Dave and George’s OCs.

They erased any claim the Fetts had to a diverse culture, and most of the newer fandom went with it! And they still do! They defend this shit with their whole chests!

[cuddlymashmallow]

"The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements."

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three-Body Problem

[adragonsfriend]

Going for this with my Amatakka back translations:

(Original English)

Listen close child, for this is a story from the very beginning.

Early on, there was a storm. It swept across the land suddenly, and nearly caught in its grasp a very small creature whom no one had ever seen. The creature was clever though, and it sought shelter in the first place they saw. Instead of rough stone like a cave or prickly branches of a japur tree, this place had square walls and didn’t sway in the rising wind. Though it had seen such structures from afar, the creature had never tried to enter one before.

The entrance was covered by a heavy cloth which was pinned shut to block out the windblown sand. There was just enough give in the fabric for the very small creature to squeeze around the edge, and inside. It skittered into the cool, quiet space, and looked around. In the center of the building, there was a woman so old that her back was round, and her hands had worn down to little more than skin and bone.

(Back-translated from Amatakka)

Listen now, my child. My story is from the oldest spirits.

One day, there was a storm. The winds of the storm were mighty, and the sands of the storm were quick, and the heart of the storm rent everything in its path. The storm did not rend Scurrier the Unseen, even though she walked too close to be wise. The Scurrier was clever. She entered the first shelter she found. The shelter did not have rough stone like inside a cave or the prickly branches of a jappor tree. It had square walls that did not waver in the changing winds. The Scurrier had seen shelters like it before that day, but never wanted to enter one.

Thick fabrics covered every entrance, even the heat-windows. They stopped the sand being blown inside, but sand is large compared to the Scurrier. She went inside. She found a cool and quiet place. Inside the room, near the center, there was an erdasil person. The Erdasil was very wrinkled, and her back had been rounded by time, and her hands were rough as sand.

(Amatakka almost no one will be able to real lol)

Daiulu e-vikka. Ep-kan-beranaa mas Erdriamun nel.

Erd mu umakkar. Keh Umakkarak erd mu lei, zi umanan Umakkarak erd mu lesh, zi lev Umakkarak erd umva teral tett-rilaj rij. Umakkar du umva Skutzu ar-tevedu es shu erdabu reeva Umakkar kan-naal masa shmu. Skutzu mu ubu. Shu erdabu sesdva tsekik taa jiiva. Taa mu tedarar rahsh imerbaar sip ba leratn shilntenin japuur mil. Ed arlava umekbaaran ar-tekarin es karikehren. Skutzu erdanud vedva taan darar ede kashkelu te pul shu erdanud jantakva sesda.

Amnal patalan erd hibrva nuut imasip, lashaldiriin kittil. En rutva uman sesikar sip, pul uman mas nu Skutzu. Shu erdabu sesdva. Jiirva di zi tuttu jan. Dethibr sip, kehrved naal, mu erdasil. Shu erdaba mu kan-eevu, zi ul-irikke erd mu dethu, zi ular-riimin erd mu rahsh.

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These translations are so fun but they take me fucking forever cuz I get caught up on making up some of the words I need lol

[adragonsfriend]

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[greatgavintron]

Type "my gender is" on your phone and let your phone finish the sentence, then tag your moots to keep the chain going, I'll go first.

My gender is a little bit more intense than I thought I could have done

@mirukosbitchywife @get-junpeid

[theremainsof-deactivated2025031]

My gender is a little family to me

Wow idk what that means but pop off

@mik0is0bored @levis-poison-is-my-medicine aaaanf anyone who wants to join !!

[levis-poison-is-my-medicine]

„My gender is in the sun“

I guess it’s lit xD

@skyedahelf @sundew199 if you feel like it

[skyedahelf]

My gender is a national holiday

༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ what's it supposed to mean lol

@kensingtonbae @macarollcake , no pressure! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

Also thanks @levis-poison-is-my-medicine for the tagg

[oniricdiary]

Tysm for the tag skye!!!

My gender is so ugly that I can’t even describe it

Swap gender with face

No pressure tags: @dudewhy3 @moonspirit @annawayne @aruanimess

[annawayne]

Thank you for the tag!

My gender is a very good idea for the future fame

... alright :D

No pressure tags: @casualaruanienjoyer @breakingsanity-aruani @darcycrow @sweetlokum

[wolfesona-deactivated20250201]

Didn't get tagged buuut:

My gender is a bit of a fanchild of a fanchild.

Great/silly/j

Moots:

@oogaboogaspookyman

@cursed-spectre

@moonspirit

@dudewhy3

@tundrainafrica

( I see you already got tagged Anna 😉 new member of the moot crew)

[cursed-squid]

My gender is the first game of the park

@15depressedducks @sqiggle @ugandianos-3 @makiyu23 Get over here.

Edit: Whoops, I reposted with the wrong blog. So this is how Bri feels, huh?

[15depressedducks]

what? Wrong blog? Don't thi-OH YOUR CURSED-SPECTRE!

my gender is a D-Drone and I don't know why

I'm not upset by it, I really like it, but uh, I definitely don't have an obsession.... N-n-no sir!

@energylessartist @thatonechezyboi @locothewolf @roxy4life

[energylessartist]

XD nice

My gender is in the same place I have a headache in

... oh :(

Open tags :(

[cactusthedragon]

My gender is fast approaching army of them and they are not allowed to die

Autocomplete. Autocomplete. WHO ARE "THEY" AND WHY ARE THEY FAST APPROACHING-

@theultimatefloorskittle @stonerwizardsandwitch @toastedpotatoes @taro-pdf

[toastedpotatoes]

my gender is not going to be a good thing for you

LMAO

@tyguy275 @noodledragonsoups @siorshreabhadh @peppermint-3 @ardent-crow

[siorshreabhadh]

My gender is a little bit more like a new superhero becomes one of the greatest, not by skill or power, but by offering a better pay to be able to get a better pay to get a better pay rate for the clones to dislike the jedi-they haven't quite held to their morals for a while and it is fair for the clones to

[krayttahrei-adragonsfriend]

I was absolutely not tagged but this is too good to delete:

My gender is not a gender but I have a gender

@nittusidhe @lemon-snake?

[nittusidhe]

My gender is a bit

@sereinsidhe