#defendrey

[libraryleopard]

@defendrey 

no, i haven’t read it yet, but i’ve been meaning to! thanks for the rec

[carterhaughs]

defendrey

this happened to me but with flip flops lol

gotta give thanks to the beach gods for all the dead men’s sunglasses and flip-flops ha

[notbecauseofvictories]

i just read your post about leia visiting space!university, and i'm happy-screaming. i want ALL the sw-academia headcanons!!

Mostly I’m fascinated with the that Leia doesn’t remember universities, because by the time she was old enough to---know anything about the galaxy, all the old universities had been converted to military academies. They were targeted by the Imperial Security Bureau as “hotbeds of radical republicans” and most of the professors and students who resisted the new regime---or god forbid, protested---were shipped off to prison planets.

Also, as with all my headcanons, it’s very planet-specific---for example, Alderaan doesn’t really have academia-type space, Alderaan has always been more about informal clubs/organizations and open source, direct education. Primary teachers outnumber professors 100-to-1 on Alderaan for this reason, and run the gamut from established schoolteachers to tutors to wandering instructors-for-hire. (Leia had a dizzying number of tutors when she was young, and all the very best, since Breha was Minister of Education before she became Queen, and had opinions about these things.)

Whereas Chandrila had an extremely formal and arcane academic culture, inaccessible to the majority of its inhabitants. It required dedicating upwards of seven years to studying the subject, and the subject alone; even the requirements for application were complex and the process expensive. The fact that Mon Mothma is university-educated means she managed to navigate years of complicated paperwork and ritualized procedures, while also learning some stuff. It makes her....uniquely suited to being a senator, and she will say as much.

Naboo had a long tradition of competing philosophical schools, which generally sprang up around one or two great teachers and were then continued by his or her students. If Padme hadn’t been elected queen---and then senator after that---she likely would have attended one. (There was a lot of fierce competition for her bid, when she announced she was stepping down from the throne. The rumors that she was going to start her own school persisted for years, no matter how many times she insisted she wasn’t interested.)

Luke, like most Outer Rim denizens of his generation, was educated in a virtual classroom, as part of the Empire’s “educational outreach.” (The Empire is a lot of things, but not stupid. They knew that controlling what people learn and how they think was vital to their state-building. It’s why they ran the radicals out in the first place.) Sometimes, you’d get one of the old Core-educated professors passing through Toshe---running from the Empire, more books on their datapad than credits in their account. Generally, one of the local families would offer them food and lodging in exchange for lessons, and the whole community would come together to hear what they had to say.

Luke remembers evenings like that---Beru cooking her special delim for the potluck and Lars dressed in his best clothes; crowding into a room with all the furniture pushed to the walls, everyone talking and laughing like they were at a festival. A tired-looking woman making her way to the center of the room, and the way everyone fell silent to listen---

[elissastillstands]

have you thought about selling your "women of the classics" design on anything?? i love it *so much* and i would definitely buy anything with it! you're an amazing artist!

Ahhhh thank you so much! I don’t have anything set up at the moment yet for selling my art, but I’ve been thinking of doing so for a while, depending on how much interest there is in it at the moment. I will definitely let you know once I get it started!

[czrenys]

♪

“did I make you shake your knees, did I make him spill his wine, lord, I’m spreading like disease, lord, I’m all up in your mind” — did you hear the rain, george ezra

send me a ♪ and i’ll put my music on shuffle and give you a song and my favorite line from it

[emilywritesfics]

happy sleepover friday!! what are your top ten favorite songs and/or artists?

Here is a mix of both :)

Taylor Swift

Sara Bareilles

Seventeen by Alessia Cara

Kelly Clarkson

Love on the Brain by Rhianna

TOP

Fall Out Boy

Panic! at the Disco

System by Motel Raphaël

Marianas Trench

Sleepover Saturday Friday!

[forbajor]

please post your anti-draven receipts, with this addition: his stupid vest thing will never match the level of Iconic of cassian andor's blue furry parka

thank you for sending me this. i am so aLIVE!!

considering he’s cassian’s commanding/recruiting officer from day one,  he is most likely the one responsible for cassian’s upbringing in a virtual vacuum of emotional support or familiarity of any kind. mon mothma recognizes this and, prior to the events of rogue one, expresses great concern about it, which draven doesn’t share. cassian is nothing but a pawn to this man; i cannot emphasize this enough. he’s only worth the information he can obtain. 

he calls jyn erso, a 22-year-old woman, “girl” in order to demean her. this made me very angry in the theater and is probably the first time i wanted to fight him.

let’s not forget that he goes behind mon mothma’s back in order to attempt to kill galen erso, acting unilaterally and putting cassian and the whole team at risk in doing so. 

first response to most, if not all problems: blow it up or kill it. 

his first name is davits. what

mon mothma does not like him. the book confirms this. why do you need another reason

in conclusion, general draven is a careless man who uses child soldiers as pawns in his desperate attempts to gain the upper hand at any cost, and is probably the primary reason cassian andor has grown up in a world devoid of real support or relationships with anyone. mon mothma doesn’t like him. draven made cassian suffer, basically, and for that i have not, nor will i ever, forgive him. 

and his vest is so fake, cassian andor will always be the true fashion icon

[caecilius-est-pater]

defendrey replied to your photo: I went to see Rogue One and had to stay on brand

how was it??

It was awesome! A good as The Force Awakens, which is definitely a compliment.