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Bougar

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I love you on purpose. I love you on purpose. It's my choice and nothing you do will change it. I don't need to know who you are to want the best for you

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Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

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The thing about both Mandalorians and Jedi is that they would both suck as soldiers.

Jedi are trained and used as lone fighters. They can work in pairs or trios but their main weapon requires a large amount of free space, so they can’t line up. Hell, even when they got drafted into the army as generals and commanders, 99% of their screentime is them charging ahead of the line to go one on one.

Mandalorians are a little better but not by much. They do know how to fight in groups, but only their groups. They’re bands, not armies. They’re too mobile to stay in formations, and too divided to get into a chunk large enough to be considered an army in the first place. It’s not surprising that Mandalorians kept getting conquered, they can’t hold together and that extends to their battle tactics.

Jedi can’t hold a formation and Mandalorians won’t. You want an army, get the clones. Or the Gungans, it was a loose shield wall but it was still a shield wall.

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Ah yes, the three numbers: 0, 1, and a lot

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just made the best non-looping gif i think

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okay im not in the star wars fandom like at all so i dont know if anyone has noticed this before but i am literally going to go clinically insane if i dont point it out because its been bugging me for LITERAL YEARS and NOBODY BELIEVES ME WHEN I SAY IT

THRAWN'S EYES IN REBELS DO NOT POINT IN THE SAME DIRECTION

I AM NOT CRAZY AND I AM NOT PROJECTING JUST BECAUSE I ALSO HAVE STRABISMUS. THERE ARE MULTIPLE FRAMES WHERE YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT HIS EYES ARE NOT POINTING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. PLEASE I NEED SOMEONE TO SEE THIS TOO. I KNOW ALL THE IMAGES ARE SUPER GRAINY BECAUSE I PIRATED REBELS BUT PLEASE JUST LOOK

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You ever notice how a washing machine 10 minutes is actually about 17 minutes human time

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Sabine of the Day: "The Empire needs more Art"!Sabine

Submit YOUR Sabine of the Day!

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wanderlust and what you could become

(they’re pen pals for the rest of the traveler’s life)

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Kanan is credited with recruiting Spectres 4-6.

He did, and he didn’t.

Let’s look at what we know.

Technically, Kanan recruited Ezra. If anyone asked Ezra who recruited him, he’d say that Kanan did, right?

Except that we know - and Maul confirms for us later - that it was Hera’s idea to recruit him.

For all of Spark of Rebellion, Hera is pushing and prodding Kanan to accept that this kid is worth it, that he is just like Kanan was, and that Ezra needs them (and that Kanan needs Ezra, too).

Kanan is very reluctant. He’s resistant to the point that he even considers leaving Ezra in the hands of the Empire, and it’s Hera putting him in the tie-breaker situation that finally gets him to flip.

Well. For that rescue, at least.

Up until the last minute, it's Hera who is campaigning for Ezra. She points out to Kanan that what they suspected was confirmed: Ezra is Force sensitive. Therefore, they (he) have a responsibility to protect this kid (especially because Ezra is an orphan, something that Hera learns on her own).

They nearly let Ezra go. It’s almost as if they had agreed that if (and only if) Ezra was Force sensitive, that they would take him on.

That is when Kanan makes the offer to Ezra.

So I think that it follows that from the beginning, growing the crew was always Hera's idea. Hera is the one who saved and restored Chopper. Once Hera learned that Kanan was a Jedi (and he proved himself to her in a lot of ways), she was willing to take him on, too. In A New Dawn, Hera even mentions that she's experienced in recruiting missions. Bringing people into the Rebellion and inspiring them into action is one of her specialties.

Hera is the one with the heart for the strays.

Recruiting Zeb and Sabine was probably her idea, even if it was Kanan who made the offer to them.

This makes sense with the way that they assigned their call numbers. The Ghost is Hera's ship, Kanan joined her crew, Hera is the one with the secret Rebellion contacts and missions that even Kanan doesn't know about, Hera is the one pushing for them to grow bigger beyond their little operation and to join the Rebellion at large eventually; but outwardly, she is always presenting Kanan as the leader. To everyone else, even to the rest of the Spectres up until the end of Season 1 (when Hera reveals to them that Kanan doesn't know anything that he could potentially reveal to the Empire), Kanan is Spectre 1.

This is not to say that Kanan just blindly follows Hera's orders. Their partnership is inspiring because it is a true partnership. They talk things out, they disagree, they listen to one another, they compromise.

But up until Kanan is complicit in getting Hera promoted to Phoenix Leader, an officially and publicly recognized leadership position, it's Kanan who is the face of the Spectres while Hera is running things in the background.

You can attribute the way this relationship works to Hera’s maternal or spousal or military leader qualities, her need to have a male representative to navigate the criminal underworld as a young, female Twi’lek, her insecurities about being a leader arising out of her relationship with her father, her necessity to hide her official rebellion activities, and/or her sensitivity to the need for her crew to engage in certain types of relationships.

But if Kanan is credited with recruiting anyone, then I’m confident that he was just the messenger. The Jedi negotiator.

At its core, the crew and mission of the Ghost was always Hera’s.

I also think that it would be a little ooc for Kanan to be bringing people onto the crew, especially early on, because he was still in hiding until Ezra came along. New people were a big risk. Plus, back then, he had Hera (mostly) all to himself, so… 😂 😉

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I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.

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Reblog this to place a small flower in the hair of prev, and that you're very proud of them

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reblog if you need a hug

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thinking about creatures.