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Jango Fett my beloved <3

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Can you do a father/daughter moodboard of Hunter, Omega, Cut, and Shaeah?

Awwww that is such a sweet idea! I loved this one! 🥰🥰

I hope this is to your liking, my dear!! 💜

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My first entry for Yaypril! I had a lot of fun with this and wrote it surprisingly fast.

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I just have to add the third verse of our anthem, it’s my favourite ❤️🤍💙

O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand Between their loved homes and the foe's desolation; Bless'd with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just -- And this be our motto -- "In God is our trust!" And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I know things have been rough, just remember this too shall pass & I wish you all a Happy 4th of July!🇺🇸🥳

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Call of the Sea

Chapter 4 - Brothers Read on AO3 

Summary: On Monday, after school, Ashla runs into a familiar face. Words: 2415 Warnings: none

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Ashla got to the college early on Monday so she would have time to Google Palpatine’s phone number and give him a call. She didn’t expect his home number to be listed, so she looked for his company, Empire Holdings. She’d probably end up having to leave a message with his secretary, but at least he’d know she wanted to talk. Her eyebrows went up as she skimmed the search results. It seems that the company did everything from aerospace manufacturing to genetics to city transit planning.

 She continued to scroll and before she knew it, all her free time had been eaten up while she looked at pictures of emperor penguins.

 After her third class, Ashla had an hour break and spent some time looking through her inbox on her phone for Mas Amedda’s email with the NDA. She answered some old emails she’d been meaning to get around to and then got sucked into a spiral of funny YouTube videos, thanks to an email from Barriss. She was late getting to her next class.

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@ice-6caydesqueen and you were correct on both counts!! I love this so much, thank you for sharing it :D

While you were waiting for season 2, I was studying the memes

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yup that’d be the issue XD if you stop at Triple Zero you’re stopping at the worst moment of both Kal’s and Etain’s arcs and at the point when they make the poor choices that they have to spend the next couple books dealing with and learning from. all the characters in repcomm grow and change and develop over the course of the series, the books are not meant to be read as stand-alones. so yeah! you nailed it, he’s a good parent in general and made a mistake that time. that’s perfect!

Repcomm anon again... I have officially decided that tumblr's problems with Kal'buir are just because of fandom's collective daddy issues. They hate every vaguely father-shaped character who isn't an obvious DILF or more perfectly wholesome than Father Christmas. If they put Kal in live action and made him hot, my bet is that fandom would be singing a very different tune. And it's not just Star Wars fans either - every fandom I've ever been in decides that the not-hot dads are problematic, neglectful, emotionally abusive, and probably physically abusive, no matter what the source material actually says. It's rather tiresome, if you ask me.

Anyway, Kal is the best and I love him

!!! thank you!!!!!! it IS it is tiresome!!!!!! oh my heck i -

repcomm anon you have taken the words directly out of my mouth. at least it isn’t just this fandom that has daddy issues, that a relief in a way (though also kind of worrying if i’m honest), but oh my goodness i just - i may as well stop blogging right now, you’ve said all there is to say on the matter and you’re so right

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I've had a truly awful morning and just seeing you back on has lifted one little weight off my shoulders.

I don't mean to make you think you think you need to be here just because I like talking to you or anything. Not at all. I was just worried that you weren't ok and things were going badly for you. Glad all is well and you're spending time with people that care about you. 🖤🖤

deathyyyyy (': i’m so sorry i didn’t answer this for so long but it made me so emotional skdjfkldsjf 💕 all i had in my drafts was “ i wish i’d slept last night so i had words to use but 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕” XD that sentiment still stands haha; i just. thank you 💕 i need to work on being as attentive to people as you are; thank you so much for always being warm and thoughtful and loving!! you’re such a gentle kind of person for how strong you are too 💕 and oh yes being home is ever so nice, i’m recovering and getting lots of hugs and fixing the no-sleep issue that’s been an issue since February and obviously that makes a big difference in the quality of one’s life haha, so it’s going to be much better from here on out i think! and since i’ve gotten some time to fast and pray this last week i’m much more confident about my future too so that is also going to make a big difference :D i hope you are doing well, better than the other day i hope!! D: i should have asked what happened and if there is anybody i need to smack for you. or if you and skye need virtual hugs, i wish there was a better way to send love across the internet!!!!

also my family watched this last night and it made me think of you, it was cool to learn a bit more about why service dogs and the people who train them are such a blessing!!

https://www.byutv.org/player/c75512df-feb2-4d94-96f6-5731ed4243f0/the-fixers-shelter-to-soldier-oceanside

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I know Jedi Temple Guards are all supposed to have the same outfit but I am just gonna ignore that. Or this is just how they’re gonna look in my teeny tiny personal Star Wars world.

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May the 4th be with you!!! :D Sorry that I haven’t been posting much; been focusing on school. Once summer vacation is here, I’ll be busy making a comic and hopefully more fan art will come as well. 

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✨Shinies on Kamino✨

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aww they’re so cute!! i love the angle with her face turned up to his <3

Third one of the little colour series thing I’m going to keep doing

@leias-left-hair-bun-again I know you loved my torian and atton one now you got Theron and Laina :3

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oh no James you might be in trouble kjslkfsjdklfs thank you for the tag! 💕 apparently Besany was the last one I saved, I had to scroll through So Many pictures of English roses to get to her and somehow that seems fitting XD

uhhhh who to tag...my braincells are so  offline oh dear but i can’t think of who likes to do stuff like this haha, so let me tag just a couple people and then if anyone else wants to do it please feel free!! 💕 @rwggrace2 @kanerallels @cats-inthe-cradle @thirteenmyspacegirl​

So I guess removing reblogs doesn’t actually remove them anymore???

Anyway I was tagged by @corona-one but wanted to save everyone’s dashes from the monstrosity of a long post it came from.

My brain is now short-circuiting thinking about being married to Dom!Marshal Commander Cody, THANKS 🥵🥵

Tagging @tecker @madameminor @maulslittlemeowmeow @writercels @kaminocasey @photogirl894 @studioramekin @tech-aficionado @fandumbug

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oh dear I missed a lot 😅 didn’t realize I was away that long but I guess it is Thursday isn’t it /: if I don’t get to someone’s tag today please don’t think it’s cause I’m ignoring you!! I just don’t have any time to be on here right now ):

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In Defence of Kal Skirata, Part 2

In my last post, I addressed the general accusation of child abuse that’s often levelled at Kal Skirata. This time, I’m going to start dealing with the specific accusations made about him based on the books. This post will cover three of the five accusations that I remember, so there will probably be a Part 3 in this series at some point. Now, without further ado, let’s dive into the analysis. Beware, for here be spoilers!

Accusation 1: Kal talks down to and infantilises the Nulls.

Evidence Given: The scene in Triple Zero where he shows up to ARCA Barracks and calls Ordo by his nickname in public, and treats the situation like the Nulls are naughty little boys instead of grown men who’ve shut down an entire military barracks in direct defiance of a Jedi General’s order.

Interpretation From Context: Remember here that the Nulls are holding an entire barracks hostage because they don’t want to go into suspended animation. Kal says they’re terrified of it, and the narrative gives us no reason to doubt him. What Kal does here trivialises the situation (not the Nulls!). He’s not acting like the Nulls have broken every military regulation in the book, he’s acting like they stole some cake or something and he’s teasing them about it. That does two things: it reassures them that he at least is not angry or intending to punish them, and it tells them that he’s here as their dad, not as their sergeant. I can’t think of another thing he could have said that would have gotten all that information across so efficiently or reassured them so well.

Accusation 2: Kal denies love to people until they do what he wants.

Evidence Given: I think this one is based on his treatment of Etain when she’s pregnant. I’ll deal with that in its own section because it deserves a little more detail, but the short version is I don’t think this is typical of his treatment of children he adopts. Keep in mind especially that Etain is an adult at this point. Young, yes, but an adult, and Kal is not her father.

Counter Evidence: Shall I start with the scene where Darman loses his temper and beats the living daylights out of Kal and gets no retribution except a hug (after which I don’t think the incident is ever brought up again, certainly not by Kal), or the scene where Ordo, as far as Kal knows, destroys the data that will save the clones from their accelerated ageing, and Kal actually blames himself for the incident and entirely absolves Ordo (and then, again, never mentions it again)? Kal takes on responsibility for six little boys who have done nothing to earn his approbation except exist, and then he spends the remainder of the books devoting himself to trying to get them the chance to live full lives, and helping them survive the war long enough for that to happen. He rescues Laseema out of a dangerous and potentially abusive situation because she was there and he could help. He continues to protect and help Etain, albeit in flawed ways (see item 3 for details), even after she’s completely shattered his trust. Even when he is at his angriest, he clarifies that he likes her, and what he has an issue with is the way that she’s acting like she always knows what’s best for everyone else in a situation where she really should have consulted others (i.e. Darman) before acting.

Accusation 3: Kal acted cruelly towards Etain.

Evidence Given: His loss of temper towards her when he finds out she’s pregnant, followed by assumption of control of the situation and culminating in taking her child to raise him himself.

Alternate Interpretation: Does Kal lose his temper pretty nastily in this scene, from Etain’s perspective? Yes. Is this abusive behaviour? No, I don’t think so. And, frankly, I find it very understandable behaviour when you step outside of Etain’s very emotional perspective on this scene. So let’s flip the situation around and look at it from Kal’s perspective.

Kal has just found out that a Jedi General, forbidden from committed romantic relationships, is pregnant by a slave soldier who is almost certainly forbidden by regulations from that type of fraternisation with an officer. That’s the sort of thing that could get Etain expelled from the Order, but that would definitely get Darman sent back to Kamino for reconditioning (i.e. murder). And she didn’t even ask Darman if he wanted to try for a child before she did this. Of course Kal is furious! Etain is the one who wields all the power in her relationship with Darman, and as far as Kal knows, she’s abused that power horribly for nothing more than her own gratification. We as the readers know that the Force was guiding her to do this, but Kal doesn’t, because she never actually says so. I don’t think he’d find that to be a good reason anyway, because frankly a woman with a new lover saying that the Force (which she picks up by way of intuition and feelings) told her to get pregnant sounds a lot like she wanted this herself and decided it must be what the Force wanted too.

Now we get to the part where Kal takes Kad to raise him himself. This is also often raised as proof of his cruelty. However, taking into account the context we just got, I think it’s a product of something else: Kal has just lost all trust in Etain. Why should he trust the woman who abused her relationship with Darman like that? So he goes into damage control mode. How can he salvage this situation for everyone? Etain, even if he trusted her, couldn’t keep the child without getting attention, which might turn into an investigation, which could find Darman and get him reconditioned. Not to mention what the revelation could do to Darman and Etain’s relationship if Etain handles it wrong, and again Kal doesn’t trust Etain to handle anything right now. If Darman breaks up with his pregnant girlfriend, he has no emotional experience to help him deal with that, and it could very well distract him badly enough to get him killed. Therefore, someone else has to raise the kid, and Darman can’t know about him, at least not yet.

So who should raise the kid? Well, without sending him away entirely, which would probably both sink Etain and Darman’s chance of having any kind of normality in their family (something which I think Kal wants them to be able to have, even now), there aren’t a lot of ways to conceal Kad’s parentage. The only person in their immediate circle who could and would conceivably acquire a random child and then keep it is…Kal himself, and pretending that Kad is his biological grandchild averts all the questions about Darman and Etain. There weren’t a whole lot of better options around.

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Not gonna lie, Kal Skirata is a quality dad

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he didn’t. he decided to keep Darman in the dark until Darman was out of the army and could settle down with Etain - he didn’t want Darman so distracted he got himself killed. that was something Kal ran by Ordo, Ordo agreed it was the best of a bad situation, Kal later realized that hadn’t been right and had to repent of that part of the decision - not telling Darman

as far as handing Kad ‘round to babysitters, Etain was the one who put him in that place. she insisted on continuing to be a general in the GAR, and she was a Jedi pregnant with a clone’s child - outside of leaving the army or handing her baby over to Kal, there literally wasn’t anything else to do that wouldn’t get her baby or Darman in serious trouble/killed, and she wouldn’t choose the first option - Kal asked her if she wanted to be the one to take care of her baby after she’d had him and she said no. Darman wouldn’t have been able to take care of Kad, he barely ever saw Etain as it was ‘cause he was constantly deployed elsewhere

so yeah - Kal should have told Darman, it’s understandable why he didn’t but it was a bad decision, and he ended up realizing that as fully as any of us readers. (then again - what would have happened if he had told Darman, we’ll never know. although it would have been the correct thing to do it might have caused a lot of damage like Kal originally feared. there’s just not a good option in this scenario, unfortunately)

Repcomm anon again... I have officially decided that tumblr's problems with Kal'buir are just because of fandom's collective daddy issues. They hate every vaguely father-shaped character who isn't an obvious DILF or more perfectly wholesome than Father Christmas. If they put Kal in live action and made him hot, my bet is that fandom would be singing a very different tune. And it's not just Star Wars fans either - every fandom I've ever been in decides that the not-hot dads are problematic, neglectful, emotionally abusive, and probably physically abusive, no matter what the source material actually says. It's rather tiresome, if you ask me.

Anyway, Kal is the best and I love him

!!! thank you!!!!!! it IS it is tiresome!!!!!! oh my heck i -

repcomm anon you have taken the words directly out of my mouth. at least it isn't just this fandom that has daddy issues, that a relief in a way (though also kind of worrying if i'm honest), but oh my goodness i just - i may as well stop blogging right now, you've said all there is to say on the matter and you're so right