Stxryteller

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[antianakin]

One of the reasons I like Quinlan and Fox as a duo is because they're opposites in terms of how they want people to view them and how people ACTUALLY view them.

Fox is smarter than anyone realizes and kinder than he wants anyone to know.

Quinlan is kinder than anyone realizes and smarter than he wants anyone to know.

Fox would suffer from the public perception of the clones as a mass developed product more than a person, and while fandom tends to see him as a bit of a hardass who prioritizes his job over everything else, the few scenes we get with him show him being lenient towards some droids, emotional about the deaths of his men, and empathizing with Ahsoka's anger at someone who bombed her home. So I think a lot of people would think he's not all that intelligent, and one of the ways Fox deals with the stresses of his day-to-day life is by projecting a very professional distant persona to keep anyone from getting too close.

Quinlan on the other hand I think intentionally wants people to underestimate him because of the work that he does, he wants people to think he's a bit of a loose cannon who barely knows what he's doing and flies by the seat of his pants, improvising as he goes. If people think he's a bit of an idiot, he can probably get away with a lot more than if they know just how clever and observant he actually is. But that image he projects of someone who's more of a loose cannon also seems to come across as someone who just doesn't care all that much about anyone or anything, despite how deeply he clearly does care about people and about his work, almost to a fault.

And I think that's part of what would draw them to each other, the ability to see through both their public perception and the persona they intentionally project. They can see each other clearly because they're kindred spirits even if they're opposites at the same time.

[mixedmedialesbianism]

I still think the funniest moment in the Star Wars fandom was when the Padawan book came out and confirmed Obi-Wan as bisexual. The Star Wars dude bros were so upset, they genuinely couldn’t fathom it.

“But— but- Satine!!” Yeah, bi people like women too, kinda how that works.

“But Jedi can’t have relationships!!” Then by that logic there are no straight Jedi either…

Also, they were acting like it was some sort of shock, or like it came completely out of nowhere. Obi-Wan is probably the fruitiest bitch in the galaxy. His ass was sat leg up in his council chair in his custom knee-high Prada boots while Windu was telling Anakin he couldn’t become a Master LMAO. There was so much chemistry in the combined five minutes that he was on screen with Cody that they became one of the most popular ships in this fandom. Disney confirming him as bisexual was just confirming what was already glaringly obvious. That man likes men. Y’all are just blind asf.

Edit because y’all still think I’m lying; The Padawan novel isn’t the only instance where Obi-Wan is implied to be Queer, in the ROTS novelization by Matthew Stover, when Palpatine hints towards Obi-Wan having an affair with a Senator, Anakin assumes it’s a “he” until Palpatine corrects him with “she”. This novel came out in 2005, he’s BEEN QUEER.

And to the people arguing for pansexuality, I get it, but the og actor for Obi-Wan, Alec Guinness, was bisexual. Let’s keep Obi-Wan’s sexuality as a tribute and not fight over it please.

[mistycatt]

THANK YOU 🥹

[karttaylir-darasuum]

a resource page for all your clone related needs

some tips on how to unwhitewash the clones in your content: 1 2 3

a folder of literally, like, 100s of photos of tem for all your reference needs

avoid racist, ableist, & otherwise negative stereotypes when writing about wrecker: 1 2

types of clone troopers

trooper weapons

technical sw terms

every canon named clone up until 2020 (images and names only)

ever canon named clone up until 2021 (images, names, battalions, & jedi officers)

every canon named clone up until 2023 (names and battalions only, no images)

assorted clone lore: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

reader inclusivity (has fic resources + poc moodboard images)

some links + videos about māori culture you might find useful if it's relevant to your works: 1 2

a post regarding the western colonization of hawai'i (while tem is māori & aotearoa is very distinct from hawai'i, they fall under the polynesian/pasifika family and it's important to recognize how the two both continue to be negatively impacted by colonization today)

disability inclusivity

māori, mando'a, and huttese dictionaries

star wars and clone specific fic dividers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

some things to keep in mind as we're celebrating characters played by and modeled after a māori man:

you can find the full pdf these are sourced from + more information on the subject here

if you're like me and you want to see some māori films that have māori cast members from the star wars universe, here's a list with free watch links where available:

tem's māori-focused films: once were warriors, what becomes of the broken hearted?, river queen, rain of the children, mahana/the patriarch (i'm also fond of a tv show he did called adventurer)

whale rider (keisha castle-hughes, aka queen apailana & emerie karr)

hunt for the wilderpeople (julian dennison, aka clone cadets deke & stak in tbb s3)

[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[dinosauriaawesome]

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

[thesaltofcarthage]

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

[wholesome-dragon-lady]

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

[taraljc]

do not eat the tomb cheese. do not.

[obiwancreampie]

the GAR command structure was specifically created to torture any fan who might ever dare to try writing fic about the clone wars

[cacodaemonia]

Ah, the eternal Clone Wars struggle. I haven't been super active in the fandom on Tumblr for a few years, and I'm sure that links to my ridiculous flowcharts haven't made the rounds in a while, so maybe they'll be helpful to newer fans.

Bear in mind that they're my best attempt at interpreting massive amounts of often-contradictory information. I also created these in 2020, so there have probably been some changes to canon since then.

Anyway, here ya go:

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Military Hierarchy Flowcharts

(and here's a link to a reblog of my original post)

[navpike]

professional rage baiter katie marovitch really rocked up with a production budget, insulted EVERYONE’s whole shit, blew up brennan’s entire spot, ‘vajazzled’ the box of doom and filled it with cheetos while matt mercer DESPERATELY tried to make a plot and i have loved every second of it.

[terteradoesstuff]

Nightmares can be scary and confusing, but it’s important to remember that, at the end of the day, they’re just dreams.

[fettunfettered]

I'm a big fan of seer Obi-Wan au's where Obi-Wan and Quinlan are awkward foils for Yan Dooku and Sifo-Dyas. LIke their inversions. Dooku is who is all buttoned up and proper and cares for his friend but his too emotionally distant to help him vs Quinlan who is just chaos incarnate and so emotionally invest in Obi-Wan but has to remain physically distant, and Sifo-Dyas who tries so hard to be proactive and prevent his visions that he causes them vs Obi-Wan who is desperate to ignore them and pretend they are just dreams that his inaction equally causes them.

[terteradoesstuff]

You get me so well and I love this analysis is so so so much. I always love parallels between Sifo-Dyas and Obi in my AUs. They’re both so afraid of what they see but react so differently to that fear. It’s always interesting to compare them. They’re like the fight or flight instinct, with Sifo choosing to fight the future and Obi fleeing from his visions of it. And neither option works in preventing the tragedy.

[stxrytellers]

I just wrote outfluence instead of influence?? Because 1. That’s a real word? And 2. Definitely the same thing?

[kanansdume]

Okay, so everybody knows the Obi-Wan and Anakin elevator scene from AOTC where Obi-Wan realizes Anakin's super anxious about seeing Padme again but he doesn't have time to try to have a more straight-forward talk about his feelings and that probably wouldn't relive his stress anyway given Anakin's proclivities towards hiding his feelings, so he instead decides to provide a distraction in the form of provoking Anakin into an argument by blatantly claiming something that isn't true so that Anakin will refute it.

I want Obi-Wan to do that more. More specifically, I want to see him doing it with CODY.

Because Cody, for all that he is obviously a pretty steady person, is also a clone who presumably was told at some point that he had stress bred out of him and would not have a concept of "talking about his feelings" in any meaningful way. So when the war starts to get to him and the stress and anxiety start to get a little overwhelming, he doesn't really have a great outlet for it.

But Obi-Wan has been dealing with someone who isn't great at talking about his feelings and doesn't have a great outlet for dealing with his stress for like ten years now. He knows how to approach this in a way that's gentler than just straight-up asking Cody how he feels (a question guaranteed to get him nowhere, especially towards the beginning of the war).

So the first time Cody maybe shows up to a briefing a little stressed and they have like two minutes or something before it starts, Obi-Wan says something like "You know this reminds me of that campaign we ran on Mimban where I was able to successfully pull off that crazy maneuver" and Cody is immediately like "This is NOTHING like that campaign and that maneuver you pulled was quite literally the opposite of successful, General" and Obi-Wan goes "Ah yes, you're quite right, I remember now" and then laughs a little and Cody just rolls his eyes a bit but he's noticeably a little less stressed now.

But Cody is not Anakin and he cottons on a bit faster to Obi-Wan's game, so the next time Obi-Wan decides to try it, Cody doesn't rise to the bait and instead just responds with "Yes, General, I do, it was such an impressive maneuver you pulled, I'm sure the men would LOVE to do it again, but sadly we do not have the time or resources to implement it this time." Obi-Wan is fucking DELIGHTED, and from that point on, the distraction isn't an ARGUMENT, but a GAME. Any time Obi-Wan brings up some sort of old battle with blatantly incorrect information, Cody will pretend that it's the absolute truth but has to come up with a reason as to why it isn't usable in this situation or something. It's still helpful in reducing stress, but in a different way.

One day, Cody is feeling a little stressed about something, and he goes to Obi-Wan and says "General, do you remember that time on Felucia when you single-handedly took down the enemy?" And Obi-Wan realizes immediately that this is Cody ASKING FOR HELP. This is Cody recognizing what he's feeling, choosing to admit to it, and asking for help managing those feelings. And Obi-Wan is SO SO PROUD of him, and of course immediately picks up the game and helps his Commander.

And maybe, much further down the line, Obi-Wan's feeling more stressed than usual. Maybe it's just the toll the war has taken, maybe something specific has happened to cause it that's worse than usual, take your pick, but Obi-Wan's just... struggling a little, and Cody notices. Cody's seen it before, but usually it happens when they're already tucked away somewhere like Obi-Wan's quarters or something and he can just come straight out and ask Obi-Wan if he's okay and Obi-Wan can talk about what's stressing him out. But for whatever reason, that's not actually an option right now. Obi-Wan is visibly stressed in public and struggling to set it aside until he can get somewhere private to deal with it, so Cody steps up to him and quietly says "General, this situation reminds me of that time on Grievous's ship when I was able to execute a very successful jump and pin on the enemy combatant." Obi-Wan actually hasn't been on this side of the game before and he's a little distracted by whatever's stressing him out, so he doesn't pick up on it immediately, and so he's like "Wait, as I recall, you did NOT manage to do that successfully, and I don't see ANY relation between that situation and this one" and then halfway through he realizes what just happened and starts to laugh. Cody is just pleased that it worked.

[frostbitebakery]

“Was that alright?”

Cody raises an eyebrow, head shaking in amusement. His thumb strokes over Ben’s lower lip, and he pulls at it, just a bit. Just enough. “I kissed you, remember?”

“Refresh my memory?”

for @dontbelasagnax who needs more Codywan kisses in her life

the great codini

Posts on frostbitebakery tagged as the great codini

[helvarcult]

the thing about andor is that it isn’t prophecy, it’s the oldest story we have.

fascism rises, again and again. the empire is only one mask it wears. it speaks different languages, waves different flags, but it’s always the same fear, the same cruelty. and every time, people who fight it –not jedi, not chosen ones– are farmers, students, workers, lovers.

a manifesto written in hiding, a prison break echoing “one way out”, a funeral that turns into a riot; the fire always starts small. a single act. a handful of people willing to stand up. it grows, and so does the cost. the prisons fill, the streets choke with fear, and still someone shouts. someone resists.

andor gets it: there’s no clean victory, no hero to save us. only people, scared and stubborn, who refuse to let the dark be the only thing that survives.

“it just keeps spreading, doesn’t it?”

[the-real-zhora-salome]

I can't with this fecking show.

[chronicowboy]

i love andor's refusal to be subtle in the face of rising fascism. it's not complex metaphors for the audience to unpick. it's a kick in the fucking teeth. a banner and blaring alarms. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS WHERE WE'RE HEADING. it's knowing there's a time and place to be gentle and knowing the here and now needs us shouting from the rooftops. it's using energy independence, that thing tr*mp harps on about, as a cover for building the death star. it's a bunch of powerful empire officials brainstorming ways to colonise a planet for capitalist gains. it's the pomp and circumstance of the upper classes used to distract from the grit and ruin of the everyday. it's the visa inspection of harvest workers. it's the brutal abuse of power over "illegals" to the point of dehumanisation. but more than that. more than that. it's people working together against these forces of tyranny. it's kellen running around trying to keep them from the troopers. it's mon mothma trying to save her daughter. it's talia putting her legal status on the line to help them. it's brasso trying to save wilmon. it's wilmon running all the way home to help bix. it's cassian choosing home over orders. it's bix fighting for her fucking life rather than giving in. it's the fight. it's the people.

[altaire]

I started Andor expecting everyone was going to die. And that was ok, because they took the main point of contention for this show - who cares about a prequel for a character who died in Rogue One? - and turned it on its head. They wield the symbolism like a sword. The main soundtrack is a funeral march. A dead woman speaks from the grave and wishes she'd fought before the end. Everyone here is already dead, fighting for a future they'll never see.

But Bix? Bix is going to live. And somehow that's worse.

She's going to live. She's going to make it home to Ferrix. This show will end with her laying bricks for them all.

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[seleneelune-deactivated20251014]

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[vicsep7250]

[licensedproldier]

IM SORRY im just LOSING IT at the fact that the two previous times matt mercer has had formal collaboration with big dropout titles and dimension 20 were greatly anticipated and hugely hyped and promoted events at the height of their production value and then his third one is. a maybe 2 minute appearance in a game changer bit where he gets dmed by kate marovitch and plays as a remarkably calm piece of lint and blows up a bus. nobody asked for this. i hope dropout and matt never mention it again.