#kara-post

[kara-knight]

For the nerd Jaster JSTOR enjoyers:

[Image description: a version of the "not what I'm called meme". on one side is a comic panel of a Mandalorian in red and black armour with a cape firing a bayonet blaster. The Mandalorian says "hey guys". People on the other side point and exclaim "JSTOR" with the JSTOR logo pictured. The Mandalorian, Jaster Mereel, answers "NOT WHAT I'M CALLED." End ID]

[astranite]

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for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

The Guard stood in the sun before the Temple Doors, the city lights glittering off of their masks and armour as tourists made faces at them in attempts to make them flinch and gaped at the spire towers through their holocameras, crying out in excitement when they saw glimpses of Jedi in training tumbling off of their impossible heights.

[kara-knight]

New oc i thought up in the shower: lesbian mon calamari in a hat that reads: women love me, fish am me. Also a jedi cause why not.

[kara-knight]

Feemor and Rael, post-repudiation.

Thump.

Feemor ignored the sound coming from the door to his quarters.

Thump. Thunk.

He wanted to bury his face in the pillow beside him to muffle the knocking but his body was too heavy to move. Other people would involve speaking, involve questions about how he was doing. Other people would involve getting up to let them in.

Thump-thump-thump.

Everyone else had given up and assumed he was busy or asleep, and politely ignored the fact that he clearly there, because thank you Jedi senses, ignoring them

“Alright, I know you’re as stubborn as the rest of this karking disaster of a lineage. But you also know that I’ve had more years to practice being bantha-headed than you, and I’m more than happy to sit my ass down out here for some peace and quiet after the mission I’ve just had.”

Rael.

Trust Rael to make ignoring him more difficult and tiresome than it was for Feemor to squeeze his fists and wriggle his fingers to try to get his muscles moving, to kick and trip on his blankets on his way to his feet and finally drag himself to the door.

[kara-knight]

being a togruta must be a constant battle of your lek is in the way, more your lek, your lek is in the way, move your lek out of the way, ad infinitum:

you lean forwards while doing something and they swing and smack. ow. you're spinning about, in a fight, just for funsies, i dunno, and suddenly momentum is your greatest enemy. you just want to take a nap.

are there debates between togrutas of whether or not its comfortable to lie on your own lekku? at least the back one is sorta flatter like its meant for that but still. will it fuck up your spine, who knows, many togruta surely. lying on your front would be another story again (that tit havers might already be familar with), that's gonna take alot of adjusting. do lekku go numb if you lie on them wrong?? what is the health and safety protocol while working with machines, i wouldnt want my lekku anywhere near say a band-saw or a deli-slicer if i leant forwards.

you cant wiggle those things like a twi'lek can, so you've got to grab it with your hand and actually move it. or do an awkward wiggle to try to get gravity to go your way when it caused this problem in the first place. or use the force if you are lucky enough to be a jedi. though zero gravity has the potential to be even worse cause your lek is in the way, floating edition, even with the force---

i love love big lekku togruta by the way, i am number one advocate for big lekku 'grutas. but oh force it would be such a pain sometimes. which im willing to inflict.

[kara-knight]

Mandocore

mir'sheb osik about the image source beneath cut

alrighty. i found this image on pintrest, and havent found who made the og meme. but with a reverse image search, i found some interesting information about the original illustration!

its from the Gladatoria group of 15th century manuscripts about armoured fencing. have a wiki page: https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Gladiatoria_group. this image is in the dagger section, just keep scrolling.

there are a whole bunch of others that are absolute gold with hysterical mando vibes which deserve their own post which i might make.

anyway heres the image from above:

the translated caption:

[45] The seventh technique of pinning: when it happens again that you have brought him on his back with wrestling, then fall with your right knee between his legs, and catch with your right foot over his left instep, thus holding his foot so that he cannot pull his leg to himself; and take his left hand in your left hand, and jerk it behind his helmet, and hold fast, and work to his face as you see illustrated above.

thats a mando cuddle for you

[kara-knight]

Thoughts on Xanatos in the Jedi Apprentice Books (so far)

m reading the jedi apprentice books for xanatos lore. im here for my blorbo who did it all. i do see why the obi-wan whump enjoyers got onto this, there is so much bad stuff happening to obiwan.

In summary-

Qui-Gon:

“Why was it so hard for Qui-Gon to trust him [obi-wan] still? Because I trusted another. I trusted Xanatos completely, and disaster was the result. The sense of loss was so great that even now Qui-Gon felt it like a living wound. He’d rather have taken a dozen blows from the pirate chieftain’s vibro-ax than to ever feel such loss and pain again.”

Me: xanatos mention!!! 🥺 🥰 🎉 🍿 <- eating popcorn

Xanatos: *haunting the narrative*

Obi-Wan: *numerous injuries, passes out, develops a dangerous fever, blames himself for everything*

Xanatos's entrance in the second book is brilliant. thats my blorbo, hes shown up late without starbucks and hes definitely up to something.

“The door suddenly flew open. A young man stood in the doorway. His shiny black cape was lined in a blue so deep it was almost black as well. A broken circle scar marked his cheek. Qui-Gon's gaze locked with the intruder's. The moment hung suspended in the air. Then, to Qui-Gon's surprise, Xanatos broke into a delighted grin. "Old friend! So you are here. I hardly dared to hope." Xanatos strode forward, handsome and commanding. His black hair flowed to his shoulders, and his dark blue eyes matched the lining on his cape.”

the only warning qui-gon got of this was an ominously vague note:

"“I have been looking forward to this day." The message had included a small drawing of a broken circle next to Xanatos' name — there was a gap where the ends should meet. It was a reminder to Qui-Gon. A taunt. Xanatos had a scar on his cheek in that form. Qui-Gon meditated on the message again, letting all the possible implications come to him. He could be walking into a trap. Or Xanatos could be playing a game with him. He could be galaxies away right now, smiling at the idea the he made his former Master shudder in fear at the sight of his name.”

now im thinking about an all is well au where xanatos is a jedi and now a knight. he still gives his former master heartattacks leaving ominously vague sticky notes in unexpected places and kiddnapping his apprentice. but instead of for evil, he is taking obiwan out for milkshakes at dex's, feeding him too much sugar, running around the city together and doing things that obiwan would think quigon would not let him but qg probs actually would. xanatos is a teeny bit desperate for his padawan brother to like him that hes resorted to both blatant attempts at bribery and asking feemor's advice, not that he'd admit to any of it.

whats driving me mad is that in the comics (THERE ARE XANATOS COMICS OF HIS LAST MISSION AS A PADAWAN AND FALL THAT HARDLY ANYONE SEEMS TO KNOW EXIST GO READ THEM AND SCREAM WITH ME), he clearly has light brown hair as a teenager, not black, and his eyes are brown that looks sometimes murky greenish or hazel depending on the lighting/colouring consistency but unmistakably not blue. i need an explanation other than inconsistencies in the text. the hair is explained by xanatos dyeing it for goth purposes, but the eyes? darksider burning orange would not be unexpected, but not dark blue. i think the answer could be that he's wearing coloured contacts to cover the darkside orange then chose blue both cause its different from his natural eye colour and for dramatics. also we need more brown-eyed characters, im sick of everyone having blue eyes as default.

okay back to reading the books, i simply needed to ramble. this will happen again.

he's my blorbo as in im grabbing him and shaking him in a most feral way. why im suddenly so obsessed. also why did they make him pretty with his swooshy cape and swooshy black hair and dubious intentions, that was somehow a choice made there. i want that cape.

[kara-knight]

Mandos have it so right about putting spices in hot chocolate.

Cinnamon, cardamom, cloves (ground) in descending amounts measured with your heart is what I've tried mostly so far.

I swear I read it being referred to in Mando'a as jan'coa, from janad, spicy, plus coa derived from cocoa. But I can't find any references to it in the cursory search I had tonight.