#mando watching

[lemonomelette]

something something about doomed yaoi

[sabeedraws]

Alien Baby And Me group meeting not going well because someone’s not learned to share yet….

(did anyone ask for this very specific crossover??? no?? well…)

[skyshipper]

@pscentral EVENT 34: FANTASY & SCI-FI THE MANDALORIAN

[thefrogdalorian]

I love how Din and Cobb's first encounter is clearly supposed to be a tense standoff between two space cowboys because there's only meant to be room for one of them in this town, so we as the audience are meant to be on the edge of our seats, worried for Din and wondering who's going to shoot first... but instead everyone collectively decided that moment was full of homosexual tension and they should just kiss instead.

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

i'm so excite for more rook. that girl is *unhinged*. she drank the coolaid. she painted the armor. she's so cool (and scary in her own right) and yet the cultist vibes are so real. cannot wait to see what they do with her.

[tategaminu]

Tate why is your art the most beautiful in the world???

IF YOU WANT TO TRULY SEE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD LOOK IN THE MIRROR!! 😤😤😤

ajfoearoaroajeoarjeaorjaoeruar!!!

Take a sneak peek because I know how much you love rayllum and you are so sweet, thank you 💕

[redbean-nom]

din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

[sashketter]

Friendly reminder that this is not the first time that blasters have gone off in the Senate nor the building put under lockdown and that this was a regular occurrence during the Clone Wars lol

[ghosted-jazz]

It's Star Wars day! Finally an excuse to post my OC mandalorian AU

[conundrumoftime]

no ACTUALLY ship and let ship. no, really. including Haladriel including Celeborn including everyone.

Checking on the Tumblr Haladriel tag this morning like the Troy-arriving-with-pizza gif...

Anyway: I left the following comment on someone's blog about this, and while I don't have any particular wish to fight with that person or reblog them in a way that might encourage anyone else to get into that, I do want to copy my comment here because 'ship and let ship' is something I do feel very, very strongly about:

I'm a Haladriel shipper who's been in this fandom since 2022 (you can see my 20+ Haladriel fics here if you want evidence of that: https://archiveofourown.org/users/eye_of_a_cat/works) and in Tolkien fandom on and off for many years before. I’m one of the shippers who was on the receiving end of a massive anti hate campaign over Haladriel during 2023-4, including repeated vicious suicide-baiting anon hate comments. I’m also a multishipper who talks about Celeborn too and writes fic about him as well. Can I please ask that you consider the old fandom adage of ‘ship and let ship’ on this one? I don’t care whether you like this fictional elf [ETA: Celeborn] or not - we all have different tastes - but when you start going after the shippers as people, calling us “probably antis masquerading as shippers”, telling us to “be honest” that we just hate Sauron x Galadriel (seriously, do you think I and fellow multishippers are writing all these Haladriel fics as some kind of elaborate undercover act?), setting yourself up as some judge of who counts as a Haladriel and who doesn’t - this is just unpleasant for everybody and makes the fandom a toxic, bitter space.  People have different tastes. People approach shipping in different ways. Fandom is a big wide world.  What I always ask people who hate Haladriel to do is mute the tag and live and let live when it comes to other people’s preferences, and don’t go after *people* because you don’t like their ship. Can you please consider doing the same for Celeborn?

I don't want endless discourse about this. I hate ship wars. I have a ton of messy unpleasant stuff happening in my real life right now and fandom - writing, fun, creativity - is such a welcome escape valve for me. I don't care who likes which elf or which ship, but ffs can we please leave each other in peace about it?

I am always happy to talk about any of my ships or the characters I like in more detail - at the drop of a hat in fact! - but for obvious reasons, I don't do this in a ship war context where I feel like someone's expecting me to 'prove' myself or justify why I'm allowed to like something. Because the point is that it doesn't matter why someone else likes something or whether or not you get its appeal - what matters is the ability to get along with each other anyway.

Some of my best fandom friends are people who don't like many of the things I like, and vice versa. One of my dearest fandom friends I've known for over 15 years has some ships that make me recoil in ARGH NO horror. And she doesn't like everything I'm into either! And we still get along fine, as people, because we know it's ships. It's fiction. It's not a referendum on us as people.

I don't care if people like Celeborn or not - he is a made-up elf, he is not real. I don't care if people like Haladriel or not - non-book-canon ships and EtL ships aren't for everyone. But the fans who like these things are real people who should be allowed to do our thing in peace.

[lulu2992]

So with shows like Fallout and The Last of Us doing so well, how would you feel if Ubisoft made a Far Cry series? Personally, I think a show focused on Vaas would be amazing, or maybe even a full adaptation of Far Cry 5. What would be on your wishlist for a Far Cry show?

Considering Assassin’s Creed already has a movie adaptation and Watch Dogs will soon have one too, a Far Cry series/film is definitely a possibility!

Vaas is very, very dear to my heart, and that’s exactly why the prospect of Ubisoft releasing new content with him is… scary to me. I’m always worried about inconsistencies, and playing through the Insanity DLC wasn’t always pleasant 🥲 I don’t want him to be even more overused, mischaracterized, or his story further retconned. Michael Mando wouldn’t be opposed to playing him again at all and even has something written, but as much as I believe such a project can’t and shouldn’t exist without him, I also hope the original Far Cry 3 writers, especially Jeffrey Yohalem, can work on the script. For example, I’m not sure what Michael is talking about when he says Vaas possibly used to be a “military-type guy or agent” and where that would fit in what we know of his backstory… That said, he’s very attached to the character, knows how deep and complex he is, and wants things to be done right, so that’s good!

A show focused on Vaas and/or the others “iconic” villains seems likely because it would probably sell well, and I guess most fans don’t care that much about continuity, but if something gets made one day, I would personally prefer a completely new story with new characters, or even an alternate universe like Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, which I really enjoyed. Also, aside from the Far Cry 6 DLCs, we’ve already had The Far Cry Experience and Inside Eden’s Gate in live action, so maybe they’re done with Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 5 now. Greg Bryk seems to have changed his mind about not wishing to play Joseph again, though, so who knows…

[skyshipper]

@pscentral EVENT 26: MINIMALISM ANDOR (2022) - ONE WAY OUT

[thefrogdalorian]

I rewatched Guns For Hire tonight and I forgot how funny the droid chase on Plazir-15 is.

These poor people are just enjoying their meals in a fancy restaurant and suddenly a Mandalorian in the middle of an intense chase sprints in...

(I love the way Din holds out his hand apologetically to them... in a world of boys he's a gentleman.)

Then said Mandalorian launches himself through a window to catch the droid...

No hesitation, just straight away launches himself through a window.

(And slides along on the floor in a thrilling sequel to #weeeeeeee)

I love knowing that throughout the galaxy there are probably so many people with anecdotes about this one shiny Mandalorian who arrives on planets, causes a ruckus and then leaves without elaborating. Din is truly insane and a nuisance [affectionate] and his hatred for droids is probably infamous at this point.

[bikananjarrus]

i want to see the ghost crew again so bad but at what cost

[cienie-isengardu]

Jaster, Tor and Montross

 I have already complained about Star Wars Fact Files’ lack of objectivism in regard to Tor Vizsla, particularly how said source tried to present him as a man taking pleasure from hurting others while ignoring an intended nuance of his character. The other reason why I’m displeased by this attempt is the fact we actually have a Mandalorian who enjoys killing for the pleasure of it and his name is Montross - the former True Mandalorian and comrade of Jaster Mereel and Jango Fett who without remorse abandoned Jaster for death even though the man saved his life a mere moment ago (an act for which Montross was expelled from True Mandalorians)

and who became a Bounty Hunter that “hunts mainly for sport, not money, invariably killing his prey”.

As Montross personally said, he hunts for the thrill alone, for the moment when prey begs for mercy only to take a life:

Montross: Vosa’s here… waiting for one of us to put her out of her misery. It’ll almost be a shame to kill her. Imagine Jango… the power to send thousands of mindless assassins willingly to their death, to plunge the galaxy into anarchy. Jango Fett: Not much money in anarchy. Montross: The money means nothing. The thrill of the hunt drives me. The moment my prey begs for mercy. The moment I take his life.

[source: Bounty Hunter game]

This is the guy that takes pleasure in inflicting pain on others, not Vizsla. And sure, Tor won’t blink an eye when it comes to killing civilians, including women and children, but the use of violence is more often than not framed as a mean to fulfill Death Watch’s goals (terrorizing Fett family to learn enemy’s whereabouts, killing people of Galidraan to frame True Mandalorians). Killing Jaster Mereel is as much personal as it is pragmatic choice to destabilize the enemy army while the last duel between Vizsla and Fett feels definitely as personal matter - one Tor may actually enjoy, as he wanted to “handle [Jango’s death] personally” however at the same time, the limited narrative does show us the progress in how Tor address his opponent: from “boy”

to “you are tough Fett. And determined"

to use the first name "Jango ".

And mind you, Tor keeps addressing the original leader of True Mandalorians (the enemy) just as Jaster even decades after man’s death, while the attitude toward much younger Fett was changing with the development of events. 

Similarly, Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics stated that Jaster Mereel saw Mandalorians solely as high-paid soldiers (while the “bringing back Mandalorians to honorable ways comes solely from the tie-in source material like History of the Mandalorians or The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia to name few) thus violence too was just a means to fulfill the goal of getting good paycheck.

Montross on another hand is not motivated by money or any ideology as he hunts for the pleasure of hunting alone and enjoys killing people begging for their life. Something that no other True Mandalorian or Death Watch member was shown to do on the comics pages while Tor and Jango had their “revenge quest” thus killing for personal matters.

In that sense we may say that Tor and Jaster accept violence as part of their life but beyond it there is still a goal to accomplish - be it the alleged conquering the galaxy or reforming Mandalorians (or alternatively, being high-paid soldiers) while Bounty Hunter Montross is living in the moment; once hunt ends, he will seek another, to feel again the thrill of killing.

So if you want to point out the one Mando that gets a great kick out of killing and suffering of others, (Bounty Hunter) Montross is your man, not necessarily Tor Vizsla. 

[stairset]

Sabine IS the best Mandalorian character of all time and I won’t accept any substitutes. She literally has it all. She is a punk tomboy lesbian who changes her hair and armor every season. She also has by far the coolest and most unique armor out of all of them, literally no contest. Her story arc is so good that another show just blatantly ripped it off. She defaces fascist propaganda with graffiti. Said graffiti is done with explosive spray-paint and she blows people up with it. She’s voiced by Mishti from Phineas and Ferb. Her father is voiced by Shang Tsung. Her ex-girlfriend is voiced by Vixen. Her brother is like the only fictional character I know of that has the same first name as me. Of all the people to use the Darksaber she’s the only one we know of besides Tarre Vizsla himself to have training from a Jedi Knight. She spray-painted the main villain’s personal assassin while he was unconscious just to humiliate him. She’s the reason Wedge Antilles joined the rebellion. She defeated the Imperial governor of Mandalore. BOTH of them. Darth Vader deflected a blaster bolt into her face and she lived to tell the tale. She told an art historian she was smarter than him to his face and she was right. She literally created the symbol of the fucking Rebel Alliance. She’s gay, she’s asian, and she’s popular. She is truly one of the characters of all time.