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Mini Kate Pryde and Lockheed while I'm dealing with the horrors.

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FILM & TV YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW | DAY 4: URL&ICON

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008-2020) 5.16 • "The Lawless"

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“I’m here, aren’t I?”

local emo mando emerges from basement at royal sister’s behest

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So I was watching star wars clone wars, the part where we meet satine and on mandalore and I noticed that one of the peices of art on the wall

Looked incredibly similar to Pablo Picasso gurnica

And I absolutely love this, the subtle connections between the Spanish civil war and the civil war on mandalore??? The fact that guernica was commissioned to be put in the Paris world fair AND BEING MADE TO SHOW HATRED AGAISNT WARR??!!! AND THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD MISS THISSSSS it's literally like a two second thing I love the detail in this show it's so goodddhdkwosbsks

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What do you think about Korkie Kryze? Is he really just a nephew???

You mean that ginger-haired, Jedi-loving, lightsaber-obsessed, chin-stroking, do-gooding little nerd whom Dave Filoni said is not Bo-Katan's child but that he has a “joke about Korkie['s parentage] that would set the fanworld ablaze”?

That boy is half Stewjonian, for sure!

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If I have to see one more “we survived him before we can do it again” post I’m going to scream.

So many people didn’t. So many more people are going to die. Women are going to bleed out in parking lots because doctors are scared to give them the abortion they need. Migrates are going to die in detention centers. Kids are going to have their parents ripped away in mass deportations. Potentially millions of people are going to lose their healthcare.

Yes, we keep fighting, but don’t say we survived before. A lot of people didn’t.

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Saw this pic of Pedro and the fox plushie and I just had to draw Din and Grogu real quick 🥺

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I’m so sorry we didn’t learn, George.

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STAR-LORD/STAR-LADY - KITTY PRYDE

Starting a new set of Marvel sample pages with a fully-stocked Guardians of the Galaxy roster so I’m doing some character sketches to get a feel for them. Next up: Star-Lord, Kitty Pryde!

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The wedding of Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger featuring Murley the Loth-Cat.

#star wars paintings  |  SW Paintings

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She wipes her mouth. Picks up an old, broken REBELLION HELMET. Puts it on, just 'cause.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015) Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, Michael Arndt

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I find Satine Kryze to be such a fascinating character because some of her decisions regarding Mandalorian culture are questionable (plus the show portrays her pacifism in a weird way), but you can also sympathize with and understand where she is coming from.

Yes, she did was trying to separate Mandalore from its traditional culture and heritage, then getting mad at those who still wanted to practice it. That isn't good or right by any means, as it's basically cultural eraser, and as some people pointed out, kind of cultural persecution, even if it's her own culture.

But at the same time, it's easy to understand why she did it and where these feelings come from. For years, Mandalore was dealing with a massive civil war that nearly destroyed them and forced Satine to be on the run for a very long time as a teenager. She saw her whole world basically fall apart around her due to war and conflict, which is likely how her parents died (can't remember if that was stated/mentioned in canon or not, but it can be inferred). It was obviously very traumatic and made her hate war and conflict as a result.

Not only that, but once the war ended, Satine had to reconstruct and rebuild her entire nation from the ground up. As a teenager. Right after the most traumatizing period of her life. And she had to do most of it by herself, leading her people and trying her best to give them hope. Of course that would make her hate war and violence more. Anyone would after something like that.

An important thing to remember is that traditional Mandalorian culture is known for being very militant or at least having a lot of militaristic aspects to it. Mandalore prided itself on being a civilization of warriors. Mandalore has a history of violence and conflict that has affected their culture as a whole. While it isn't all about war and violence, it is an important aspect of it that many people cite as one of the main aspects of traditional Mandalorian culture.

So of course Satine, a person deeply traumatized by war and violence would blame the military aspects of Mandalorian culture and see it as the source of Mandalore's issues. In her mind, Mandalore is consistently at war, and traditional Mandalorian culture glorifies and encourages that. As she was trying to rebuild her home, Satine wanted to do whatever it took to make sure her people would never be at war again. She wanted to give them peace and stability, because they were nearly destroyed without it. So she decided to get rid of the thing she saw as the source of the destruction: traditional Mandalorian culture.

Due to her trauma, she ended up going overboard and trying to strip Mandalore of all its original culture, especially the military/warrior aspects, and replacing it with a culture meant to focus on peace and pacifism, separating them from their violent past. Satine, at the end of the day, is a deeply hurt person who is desperate to keep her people safe, even if that means stripping them of their history and culture, because she feels like it is the reason they all went through so much pain in the first place.

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satine is done :)

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a coven of chaos indeed