#and here is Satin !!

[omaano]

How nice that Obi-Wan has two hands :3 Thank you for asking @siliceouspebble 💖

Polyamorous/platonic poses reference post

And all the other drawings I’ve done so far

[jimzittos]

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[15-heidune]

Look at how strong she is!

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

I think that Bo-Katan's attitude towards Satine - particularly her anger at Satine's death despite having been involved with Death Watch (which I have often seen described as hypocrisy) - makes a lot more sense if you think about it in the same terms as Brutus' "not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" line from Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.II. 22).

By that I mean that Bo-Katan, like Brutus, fully believes that the awful things she's doing are for the benefit of her state and people, and that she can square off the possibility of hurting her sister because she honestly thinks that it would ultimately lead to a better Mandalore. It isn't that she wants to do it but rather that, in her mind, she has to.

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him [...] but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.II. 24-27). These two things are not contradictory in Brutus' mind; he can mourn Caesar because he loved him despite having been the one to kill him, because one of those things is personal and the other is politics and so they have no bearing on each other, therefore these two sentiments can co-exist. Brutus loved Caesar-the-friend and hated Caesar-the-dictator, and as there was no way for him to separate the two in practice, he did what he believed he had to do.

And that is precisely the kind of thought process that would allow Bo-Katan to be sad and angry about Satine's death despite having contributed to the circumstances that brought about that outcome. And that isn't so much hypocrisy as it is cognitive dissonance, a conflicting sense of duty, and a hell of a lot of compartmentalisation. Because just as Brutus hated dictator-Caesar but loved Caesar himself, Bo-Katan hated the pacifist duchess of Mandalore but still loved her big sister - it was just unfortunate that there was no way to hurt one but not the other.

[sapphicsparkles]

you deserved so much more and so much better

[taradactyls]

Progress Update: Trying to Tread Water

Here's your fortnight update, though I think we can safely say three weeks is the soonest I'll ever have a chapter out given my schedule.

I've been able to work steadily, so have a bit over 5,600 words currently (pending editing and cuts) so I'm going really well in that regard!

And for context of how extremely I underestimate how much I'm going to write for each scene, all of those 5,600 words, plus a bit more I've got to do, and the entirety of the last chapter, were in my notes as the first 1/3 of Chapter 40...

Yeah.

So this chapter is either going to be huge or I'm going to have to separate out some ideas and increase the chapter count again, lol.

But I'm used to doing that by now and no one has complained about me exploring things in too much depth yet, and I've gotten pretty good at making those sorts of adjustments quickly, so it shouldn't delay the chapter update.

*edit* Also finally got that Chapter 40 research post up!

❤

Other small updates:

Everyone in the household is over their colds and I've been getting enough sleep! I even got to go to art class yesterday morning and did a really expressive painting with mostly sponges. It was very good for releasing stress!

Actually, I'm just going to show it to you, here's my painting and the supplies I used:

[impossibleprincess35]

I am literally covered in doll hair.

But I also feel like Thanos. I want Satine Barbies, and since they won't give me Satine Barbies, I'm like:

[elephantlovemedleys]

moulin rouge! (christian & satine) + hozier lyrics: almost (sweet music) / wasteland, baby! / sunlight / jackie & wilson / nfwmb / unknown nth / work song / first time / first light / talk / francesca

[ncthandrake]

Moulin Rouge 01.22.25 (evening)

[politicalprocrastinator]

what the fuck was satine's death??? she was barely even in the episode about her sister and now she's dead so obi wan can have angst??? fridging isn't even a strong enough word for this fuckery dave filoni count your fucking days

[awkward-but-nice]

oh my god you don't like satine? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

Sisters

Every royal family deserves a family painting

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

Not me accidentally derailing my own fic by getting too invested in exploring how the Wrong Jedi arc might have played out differently if Satine were alive and on Coruscant, because holy shit is that an interesting plotline to write her into.

Like, here's someone who has been falsely accused of murder before (twice) and has had to go on the run through Coruscant like Ahsoka now does, who knows from experience how easy it is to frame someone for something they didn't do, and who would understand the drive that Ahsoka has to solve it herself because she can't trust the Senate/Republic to treat her fairly.

And Barriss' whole point about how the Jedi used to be peacekeepers but now they're just instruments of war perpetuating the violence is in itself something which Satine wouldn't disagree with, but Barriss obviously takes it to the extreme.

But Satine also deeply believes that "even extremists can be reasoned with" and would have her own reasons for sympathising with the way that exposure to extreme violence in adolescence can drive an angry young woman (like Barriss, and also like Bo-Katan) to do pretty awful things because violence has become the only language in which she can make herself heard, even though she would be horrified by the violence itself.

[hickeygender]

satine kryze fans continue to take the gold in mental gymnastics year in and year out

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

I don’t know why but I can’t stop thinking about little Cal hugging Cody like a koala and when anyone tries to pull him off he digs his fingers into Cody’s armor plates and cries like a cat

[sea-lanterns]

It’s canon. Chiori is into shibari. 👀