Bescar Smith

Gabi she/her | Peruvian/Artist | Art in tag "/my art" | Follow @yamineftis-art for art only | Mainly Star Wars nowadays

[pedroncigarettes]

[communistkenobi-archive]

feel like perhaps the fandom has gone a little too far with all the “Din is an idiot” jokes

[communistkenobi-archive]

like I get them. I do. I think it’s insanely funny this man seems completely oblivious to basic foundational lore in the Star Wars universe, and that the show REFUSES to tell us why. I have made many himbo Din jokes myself, and I think the vast majority of the jokes are harmless and well-intentioned. but I’ve gotten multiple asks and replies to posts where people are genuinely asking me “ok but how is Din actually smart?”, and I think people have started to internalise a popular fandom meme that has bled into their understanding of the show itself.

and I think that’s a massive disservice to his character because Din is smart!!! he is considerate and kind and observant. he is an extremely capable person and has on many occasions both planned and successfully executed complicated plans to save a town or solve a problem. he has a lot of hands-on expertise about weapons and ships and combat. he knows multiple languages and makes a concerted effort to understand other people, even groups that everyone else dismisses as aggressive or irrelevant (like the Tuskens). he is a genuinely good person who has a lot to offer and stands out amongst other Star Wars protagonists because of it.

I think if people limit the label of “intelligent” to something as narrow and surface-level as “knows a lot of facts”, you devalue a lot of skills, abilities, and experiences that are just as, if not more so, complex and difficult to master. so yes, Din can be kinda oblivious sometimes, or socially awkward, or single-minded in certain goals he has, but that doesn’t mean he’s an idiot. now I realise that the easiest way to meme-ify his behaviour is to just say “he doesn’t know shit about fuck” and AGAIN those are funny jokes and I enjoy them, but if that’s your entire interpretation of him then I think you’re dismissing a massive chunk of his character in favour of what should be just a shallow joke.

[communistkenobi-archive]

the other thing that I think is more troubling is people take the “Din is an idiot” interpretation and turn it into “Din is a helpless brainwashed victim” whenever the subject of his faith comes up. and like, he is a fully grown man who is more than capable of making his own decisions, which includes decisions about his identity and how he practices Mandalorian faith. maybe those things are uncomfortable or foreign to the part of the audience that is only familiar with extremely sanitised white christian interpretations of how religion is practiced, but Din being a visibly religious person in his own story who is persecuted FOR his faith doesn’t mean he’s a clueless idiot or brainwashed into his own persecution or anything like that. regardless of what direction the show takes re: his relationship to Mandalorian identity, Din doesn’t need to be “saved” from anything, especially his own cultural history. he’s more than capable of figuring out what is right for him, including continuing to be a Mandalorian.

[m00ntunaart]

Half the reason I ship Bobadin is because nothing is funnier than Boba “#1 Mando Hater” Fett being endeared against his will to the most Mandalorian Mando to ever Mandalorian.

Din has a 0 in social skills but somehow a 100 in charisma. Bro cannot make small talk to save his life but still somehow maxes out in friendship with everyone he meets (and maybe a lil more than friendship with Boba 😏)

[guelyury]

This is so important to me

[reynawonders-art]

One of those early days for Din Djarin

[yamineftis]

Jon Favreau and Pedro Pascal for Empire magazine

DYING DYING DYING DYIIIING, SO A LOT OF PEDRO IN THE SUIT AND HIM BEING MORE PHYSICALLY PRESENT, IM DED

I really hope they learned their lesson with how much he was missed in S3, no one plays Din like him T_T

[yamineftis-art]

I come back from the dead cuz Mandalorian and Grogu trailer totally got me 😤 can’t wait for May!!!. Wanted to practice drawing Din in different stages of his life, I wish we knew more about his past :’D especially when he was with Ran’s crew.

I can't wait to see him in the movie aaaaaaa ;w;

Enjoy <3

[eggdrawsthings]

a quick doodle of the love of my life I am absolutely not freaking out about the trailer at all ahahaha 😀

[kamino-coruscant]

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT IS A COMEDY

Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine

[dindjarindiaries]

IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

Welcome to Dincember 2023!

If you’d like to participate, use #dincember 2023!

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Below will be my submissions, linked.

[tobytost]

exploding jedi sabine with my mind

sabine actually is just so cool that she developed invisible weapons that she's pretending are the force because she thinks it's funny. jedi sabine is not real dave filoni is pranking me

idk dude I'm so frustrated

Sabine doesn't have to have the force to be relevant to the story or cool in the eyes of the viewers

they downgraded her character only for her to go through the exact same arc she did in rebels, but in rebels she was a scared teenager trying to face her own past and emotions and open up about it

Sabine doesn't need to be a jedi, she needs a therapist

her character was always surrounded by her mandalorian identity, that's her culture, her upbringing

family, weapons, armour, language, traditions and her sense of responsibility to her people

the show never once went deeper to her mandalorian identity than the "oh she's so stubborn cause she's a mando" and it frustrates me to no end

and ough I have so many thoughts but I'm too emotional right now to formulate them correctly

[gffa]

There were moments about the Ahsoka finale that I very much liked (Huyang talking to Ezra about Kanan!! He saved a matching piece to Kanan's lightsaber and said, "Ahhh, it all makes sense now." when he realized Ezra was building based on his Master's teachings!! And so gave the piece to Ezra as he's done a thousand times before!!!) but it also reconfirmed that I don't think Felony can structure a story for shit. Was it somewhat emotional to have Huyang tell Ezra about what happened to the Wrens? Sure. But you know what would have been a good, interesting story that delivered on everything Rebels built before? SEEING THE STORY UNFOLD. This isn't a story, it's an infodump. It's the same thing with the show's central relationship--Ahsoka and Sabine--that how they came to be where they are with each other, how they vastly changed their dynamic, how they created this dynamic? Told to us in a split second infodump instead of actually delivering us a story. It's the same with everything that happened after Rebels' finale, we only saw a brief CGI bit of Mandalore being carpet bombed by the Empire, but that storyline is fundamentally important to both Bo-Katan's story and Sabine's story, yet we never even see it as a story. It's a split-second flashback or infodump. And don't even get me started on not seeing Hera and Ezra hug or Ahsoka's speech about how Anakin always stood by her, how her entire arc this season has been about coming to terms with his legacy and accepting the good in him, so when his Force Ghost shows up, she should smile and actually see him there, right? It would bring the thematic conclusion to a nice closure, right??? But, no, instead she doesn't even sense him there, Sabine half-senses him, and then Ahsoka is like, "It's time to move on." like are we supposed to tie that to her relationship with Anakin?? Or is that just Felony not knowing how to structure a written scene?? It's not even that his work is bad so much as it's just aggressively so much less than it could be. It's always infodumps to explain why we're suddenly three miles to the left of where we were before, instead of telling that story instead. We could have had a true Rebels sequel by showing us what happened with Mandalore, but instead we get whatever this was. And it wasn't even really about Ahsoka more than like 10% of the time. ;__;

[gffa]

I was so annoyed that I forgot to add in my frustrations with the entirety of everything with the Nightsisters and the Mothers and Morgan Elsbeth. Like, I was willing to overlook that we were never told why the Mothers were so loyal and grateful to Thrawn, I was even okay with the explanation being a throwaway line--that he was the one who woke them, it's a reasonable extrapolation of events from there!--but in the context of everything else, it's just One More Fucking Thing. Like, what is this show even saying about Nightsisters lore? Is it trying to say they all start out looking more peach-colored and human-ish without the markings like Morgan, but once they go through whatever Gift of Shadows the Mother did with her, they develop more of the bone white skin and markings, like Merrin and Asajj have? Or is is that Morgan isn't actually of their race, but is for some reason deeply loyal to Dathomir, or that they somehow recruited her? We can speculate on what the answers are, but once again the show doesn't actually show us much that's actually concrete and it feels like all the details are just there for looking cool or aesthetic callbacks, rather than because Filoni actually has an idea of what he wants to do with Nightsister worldbuilding.

[yamineftis]

Well, Ahsoka was certainly a show

[kamsspice]

not to beat a months old dead horse but a) who actually cares what pedro has to say and b) that doesn’t make the way it was written any less dog water

[yamineftis]

First episode of Ahsoka that wasn't stale as fuck so...yay?

So far, not impressed at all, the story is so much better when it isn't focusing on her what the heck...

And honestly I'd rather have a series with Anakin fuckin with every Jedi post RotJ in the world between worlds, ya know, as some kind of annoying God preaching riddles cuz he IS the chosen one/force.

And I'm so iffy at them making the night sisters empire supporters, like, boi imagine Ventress and Merrin looking at the mothers and Morgan rn... (now if it's only Thrawn is another deal but should I hope any more characterization for them aside plot devices? Lmao).

The actor for Ezra was hella good at least.

[rosemaryharris-deactivated20231]

Hayden Christensen behind the scenes of Ahsoka TV Series 2023.

[calebsdume]

finally knowing what happened to clan wren was DEVASTATING even if we knew it was coming, but it makes sabine’s situation on lothal so much sadder. she really is all alone. kanan and ezra are gone, ahsoka left her, zeb is on lira san with kallus and working with the new republic, while hera is neck deep in her work as a general and also raising a son. meanwhile sabine has been sitting on lothal, surrounded by the ghosts of all the family she’s lost, completely alone.