#THEY WERE BUSY

[sebille]

oh the things i would give for a Zenos POV endwalker story

[iconac]

some notes on the jedi order in old sith wars era and differences between that and what we see in the jedi in the late golden age.

→ the age cutoff for bringing in and training children to become jedi was higher, leading many jedi to have knowledge of or even be still connected to their biological families: shad jelavan on taris used his stipend as a padawan to support his siblings, as they were all orphans; zayne carrick and bastila shan recognized their respective parents on sight and still had some kind of familial relationship, even a strained one in bastila's case. some jedi were even brought in for training near adulthood, though those situations were infrequent.

→ while jedi were discouraged from getting married and/or having children, it was not forbidden/strictly enforced: jedi master lucien draay was a child born of two married jedi, though his father died in the great sith war and his mother left the order soon after the war's conclusion; jolee bindo also got married in defiance of the council and remained part of the order for some time afterwards.

→ force ghosts were more common knowledge. sith ghosts (which, in my interpretation, are not true 'force ghosts' but the result of using sith techniques to defy natural order and persist beyond death) were a known menace to the order, and could corrupt or even possess jedi; exar kun's fall was in part due to his encounter with the spirit of freedon nadd, and the tombs in korriban's valley of the sith were known to contain the spirits of the sith that lie within. (in my interpretation, this is with sith ghosts can be killed/vanquished, while true force ghosts, literal parts of the force, cannot) known sith worlds like korriban (moraband) were not forbidden to jedi, but were considered dangerous and to be approached with caution. in fact, it was relatively common for groups of jedi to be sent out to dark centers of the galaxy to search for threats to the republic and the order.

→ jedi masters often took on multiple padawans at the same time. the number was mostly left to the discretion of the masters themselves: legendary jedi master arca jeth trained as many as twenty students at a single given time. following the end of the great sith war, many in the order began to push for jedi to take on single apprentices.

the jedi order could be described as being far less homogeneous and much more numerous than what we see in later eras, as well as being more heavily influenced by the reoccurring clashes with various sith lords and sith-affiliated combatants. after the great sith war and the devastation in left in its wake, there were many in the order who began to call for more cohesion in the order and its teachings, as they believed that it would lead to less jedi falling to the dark side and waging war on the galaxy.

[apollos-olives]

before october 7th this blog was a meme page btw.

[creepst-crypt]

Wouldn’t it be horrible if he’d witnessed something so scary while in Gravity Falls that he makes a memory gun and ends up using too much to the point he loses his own self identity for the next 30 years and never returns home.

[cantobear]

finally had the chance to sit down and watch the scott pilgrim anime... it was so fun and stylishly animated!!

[forecast0ctopus]

i get it now these guys are cool

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

[xiewho]

the dice are trying to tell a story and maybe the story is simply that gorgug fucking kicks ass, dude

[atissi]

hadn't seen anyone post the full comic about laios + falin's family on tumblr yet so. here you go source is from the reddit

[bluegiragi]

holding back (part 2)

early access + nsfw on patreon

[soularsss]

@jedijune week 1 [fun/joy]

What do you mean? They aren’t late for class!!

Artblock hit me right when june started and i am so upset about it 😭🙏 I tried so hard to finish this but even my csp was against me so this is as rendered as this piece will get

[muzsmocsing]

The funniest interaction in svsss is still when Shen Qingqiu was saving Liu Qingge in the caves and all he kept thinking about was: "I imagined this guy would be all rugged and ugly but I guess his sister is a 10 so why should he be any less? Damn, he's so fine.... with that jawline and the nose and the silky hair... If I were a woman I'd be bouncing on him silly style. Without question. No homo tho! :)" And then just moved on with his day???

[esmiara]

Damn. Is that a new soukoku dump? Might be.

[ciearcab]

travel buddies

[taffywabbit]

i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level

[egophiliac]

Thinking about the Pokemon AU for a bit... It's a shame that it's technically a porcupine, and that it would have had evolved by now, but I can't get the thought of Riddle having (having had?) a Cyndaquil out of my mind. He wouldn't be complete without ONE Fire type, after all.

Completely unrelated, and utterly coincidental, but I don't think you've made Chenya's team in that AU yet, right?

no, no, hold on, you're absolutely right, Riddle should have a Typhlosion. he needs a big firey pokemon that erupts whenever it gets mad but is also very soft and likes being petted! it and Roserade are best friends and they play catch with Togedemaru! it probably keeps accidentally melting Trey's Alcremie and always feels terrible about it! this is perfect

as for Che'nya, I thought about Meowstic for a while...but then I read Delcatty's pokedex entries and, nope, there he was.