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[not-so-mundane-after-all]

I know plenty of people have already made a version of the "Jinx is alive" theory post but I've also seen so many of you mourn her death that I decided to gather all the evidence and make another post, turning this theory into a fact.

Because Jinx is alive. It's not a speculation. It's literally there.

The first thing I'm going to mention are the context clues Jinx gives herself. First, the last thing the ghost of Silco tells her. I think the cycle only ends when you find the will to walk away. Then, the realization she comes to when Vi hugs her in the cell. You're never gonna give up on me, are you? What she tells Vi after she leaves her in that cell. You don't need to worry about me anymore. [...] And yes, her initial plan is to kill herself, because she thinks the only way for Vi to move on is for her to be gone. And Ekko gets there just in time to stop her but it looks like he doesn't convince her to abandon her plan, just change it.

And later, when she joins Vi in the final fight. What does she tell her? Still don't get it, huh, sis? I'm always with you. Even when we're worlds apart.

Everything that happens after is constructed specifically to let us and Vi believe that Jinx died. Until we get to this scene:

Caitlyn is studying the Hexgates designs.

She's looking through the pages depicting the place where the final fight happened, specifically focusing on the air vent shafts, while toying with a monkey bomb head - the same monkey bomb that Jinx used in her supposed last monents.

She looks down at the monkey...

Watch the eyes. The realization hits her...

And she smirks, knowing. Jinx used one of the air vents to escape before the explosion.

I've studied the explosion frame by frame. First, a small yellow explosion goes off - Jinx sets off the monkey bomb.

As it becomes bigger, she shoots out of there

this is still the beginning of the blast when we can still see her, and the big boom that destroys everything starts 10 frames later

Last context clue is a reference to the very first episode, which is clearly depicted in this gifset here, so instead of explaining, I'll just send you there to check for yourselves.

One thing that is speculation here is, how exactly did Caitlyn come into possession of the monkey bomb head? I doubt she found it there because it would have been turned to dust. And I'm thinking, Jinx took it with her and left it for Cait to find as a clue. She didn't want Vi to know but maybe she wanted Cait to figure it out. I imagine her sneaking into her house and maybe leaving it somewhere for Cait to find, like her desk or something. It gives Cait an idea, a gut feeling she needs to check, and that allows her to figure it out. Just like we are supposed to figure it out on our own.

Bottom line, Jinx is alive. She escaped the explosion through the air vents, then boarded the airship and left the city, convinced that the only way to give her sister a happy ending is to take herself out of the equation. The glitching closing shot saying The End in Jinx's colorful handwriting is a sign that she is telling us that this is where this story ends, like she's saying "don't look for me. It's over." That's also probably why we aren't shown what Caitlyn does with the information she now possesses.

I hope this helps take away from the grief 💙

[gffa]

"We walk into the light, acknowledge the dark, and find balance in ourselves, because the Force is strong." [Star Wars: The High Republic 2024, #8] Anyway, I'm starting a collection to show that this is also what the prequels Jedi and the High Republic Jedi taught and practiced. That the dark side was in all of them, that it was a lifelong struggle to overcome it within themselves, and find balance in the light within themselves.

And, of course, The Clone Wars episode "The Gathering" is structured around the central test of sending the younglings to Ilum to get their first kyber crystal--which involves them having to face fears that are unique to them. That's the whole point, to overcome the dark side that's inside all of them, to free themselves of that prison. This is reflected in every Jedi's path--from the Jedi younglings of the prequels to Ezra in the Jedi Temple on Lothal to Luke in the dark side cave on Dagobah to Rey in the dark side cave on Ahch-To--that to move forward on their path, they must confront the darkness within themselves, the Jedi knew this and built their culture around it, their Temples around it, and never forgot it. No one was beyond it, not even Master Yoda, no matter how much they all admired and respected him, even they knew that Yoda was not beyond the reach of the dark side.

It was not a one-time thing. It was not a faucet they could turn off. It was a lifelong struggle to overcome it. It was the destiny of a Jedi to confront this fear within themselves. To acknowledge the dark and walk into the light to find balance.

[mndvx]

DOCTOR WHO — BOOM (S40E03)

[claraoswalds]

DOCTOR WHO (2005-)

[wistfulwatcher]

2.05 The Aftermath | 5.01 Nameless, Faceless

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You are fighting your own hardware and it's killing you at just the right amount to keep you buying more. I mean, most armies would notice that they were fighting smoke and shadows, but not this lot, Ruby. You know why? 'Cause they have faith. Shut up. Faith. The magic word that keeps you never having to think for yourself.

DOCTOR WHO S01E03 Boom

[reedsues]

jedi june 2024 — prompts week 2: advice/inspiration

you have to know, tu'ala, why you would sacrifice yourself for another. it isn't that the force loves you less than other creatures. it is that you love other creatures more.

star wars tales #14, the lesson

[draconesmundi]

What’s your take on the idea that a “realistic” large flying dragon should have a short tail so as to lessen drag? Long tailed Pterosaurs and early birds were all fairly small. Birds have short tails, as did the largest Pterosaurs. Bats are variable but they’re small.

So when we say 'my take' are we meaning...

My Take As a Scientist

This is sound logic! In every large flying animal (we're talking Azhdarchid pterosaurs such as Quetzalcoatlus, or giant Cathartiformes birds like big vultures or Argentavis) the tails are short.

Image from www.prehistoric-wildlife.com

We just know this as a fact; every flying animal over a certain size has a small tail, and from our own experiments creating aircraft we can safely assume this is to reduce drag.

Image from NASA

Our long-bodied planes all have horizontal and vertical stabilizers on the end of the tail - the horizontal ones act as an extra earofoil to generate lift - similar to the tail feathers of birds. Our long bodied planes lack the dexterity of fighting planes, who are triangular (so the 'wing' extends down the full body, no tail) or have much shorter tails compared to the long bodied planes.

Image from Aviationfile.com

Planes have the added benefit of being lifted by jets rather than powered muscles. To make a dragon or monster a similar size to a plane, it would need equally novel ways to propel itself, and then it's tail would need to be short, ideally with horizontal flukes (think whale tail) so the tail could provide lift to perhaps counteract the drag. A creature of this size would not have nippy, fast flight; even thermal currents would be difficult for it to soar on (which is how large vultures manage to fly most of the time). Sure the dragon could get from A to B but it could not maneuver or hunt like a hawk or falcon while doing so. And it's tail? Kinda short.

Link to some cool dragonlike aliens designed by Cydork with short tails.

My Take As A Dragon Designer

As a dragon enjoyer I think dragons should have long tails - it ties them back to being majestic serpents from cosmology. Behind every legend that's "a dragon was slain here" is a "loathesome wyrme spat poison in a ditch" and behind that is a "ancient serpent symbol of dark and scary waters". Dragons should have the tails because they are fun.

So how do we make fun snakey dragon tails work when we know that logically, physically and biologically we need less tail to reduce drag while flying?

We could accept the dragon has short and powerful flights like a galliform (chickens, pheasants, peacocks) - peacocks can fly (not long distances like an albatross, but enough to be in the sky and get from A to B) while having 60% of it's length be long, dramatic tail feathers. Tail feathers are lighter than a meaty tail, but from an artistic perspective you can get a good wing-to-tail ratio for your dragon designs.

Image source: Haribabu Pasupathy/Wikimedia Commons, found attached to This Article

Alternatively you could go down the route of one of my favourite dragon designs ever and basically make a plane-shaped dragon and stick a swishy tail on the end for fun - the Ikran from James Cameron's Avatar are basically fighter-plane shaped with a thin tail sticking out the back. Realistically that little tail is contributing drag, but aesthetically we're enjoying this very cool dragon design.

Another take is something like the Legiana from Capcom's Monster Hunter games - this dragon has a thin whiplike tail which has extendable flaps - these flaps can form another lifting surface (think horizontal flukes on the plane tail or tail feathers of a bird). Legiana would still experience drag, but the way it can change it's surface area to meet it's aerodynamic needs is something fun you could consider in dragon design.

Of course Avatar and Monster Hunter take place in fantasy worlds with lower gravity (actually stated in the Avatar film about Pandora, and Monster Hunter's low gravity is just a fun theory because all the weapons and monsters are huge and you never suffer fall damage) - this doesn't affect drag but does affect the amount of lift compared to creature body size needed to be airborne!

My Take As Author Of Dracones Mundi Specifically

So this issue does not affect the Dracones Mundi dragons because they fly by levitation magic. This allows me to even allow wingless dragons, such as East Asian dragons, to fly around. As my dragons 'swim' through the air, long tails are permitted as they move like crocodiles, eels, sharks - all things that benefit with added length to their anguilliform-to-subcarangiform locomotion.

(images from my blog @draconesmundi )

To get into the gritty details, my dragons have magical fat throughout their bodies, and these fats produce a magic field that interacts with atmospheric magic, so they are 'swimming' through the atmospheric magic rather than through the air, their bodies pushing and pulling against unseen forces. So their tails aren't dragging as much because they are being used to actively push through the magic to propel the dragon forward.

[angelseraphines]

on the aesthetics of asian erasure in star wars: obi-wan kenobi and the planet of naboo

when we talk about representation in star wars, the conversation often stops at what’s visible or credited. star wars has a long-standing problem with the lack of asian leads or asian-coded worlds, but sometimes what’s more insidious is the erasure of asian influence where it once existed, or where it was clearly intended to be.

take obi-wan kenobi. before alec guinness was cast, george lucas had reportedly wanted a japanese actor to play the role, toshirō mifune, most famously known for his work with akira kurosawa. lucas has never strayed away from citing the hidden fortress as a direct inspiration for a new hope, and the jedi, in their original conception, from eastern philosophies, particularly bushido and zen buddhism. this was not accidental. it’s embedded into the language, “obi” (the sash of a kimono), “wan” (a name component common in chinese and southeast asian names), and “kenobi,” which emulates the structure of japanese surnames. it is an asian-inspired name, heavily so.

but when mifune declined, lucas pivoted. and instead of keeping that vision intact, the jedi master archetype, the wise elder, steeped in tradition, was lifted from its asian origins and handed to a white british actor. and then later, to ewan mcgregor, whose performance, while incredible, westernized the role further. we are told obi-wan is from “stewjon,” a planet born out of a joke, a merging of jon stewart’s name, after he asked lucas where obi-wan was from. then “space scotland” became the shorthand. that change from asian inspiration to european performance was never really questioned.

it’s not about demanding obi-wan look asian. it’s that the character was rooted in an asian framework, and that framework was abandoned the moment it became inconvenient to uphold. and that sets the tone for much of star wars, aesthetic borrowing without meaningful credit.

naboo is another case where this shows up. the common narrative is that naboo was inspired by renaissance europe, with its lush italian architecture, baroque dresses, and romanticized monarchy. those elements are there. but there’s a consistent thread of asian influence that is almost never acknowledged.

the names of the monarchs are a starting point. padmé, from the sanskrit “padma,” meaning lotus. sabé and saché, echoing asian and hindi name constructions. queen jamillia, whose name stems from arabic roots, suggests influence from islamic culture. even the name “naboo” itself sounds curiously close to nebo, a mesopotamian god, or nabu, the sumerian deity of wisdom. the planets closest to naboo in the galactic grid, like sereno and ord mantell, also carry vague echoes of eurasian tone.

but most significantly, look at the costume design in the phantom menace. trisha biggar drew from a range of global influences, but some of queen amidala’s most iconic gowns were directly modeled after traditional mongolian royal attire, specifically the headdress and layered robes worn by mongolian empresses. the high collars, rich brocades, and facial makeup are unmistakable. yet, in the lore, naboo is labeled as european. not central asian. not global. and certainly not asian.

this is not to say star wars owes its worldbuilding to any one culture. it doesn’t. part of its power comes from its ability to merge and reimagine cultures. but there is a problem when the contributions of asian cultures are stripped of credit, while european aesthetics are exalted as canonical. when a jedi’s name can be asian, his values drawn from eastern philosophies, his robes loosely modeled on samurai garb, and yet his face, voice, and homeworld are made definitively western.

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Their forehead touches are so personal to me

[doodlydoodlies]

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THE NEVERS 1.05 | Hanged | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

[dezgasting]

quick project i made in SFM in 20 mins coz i figured might as well since i just sit in SFM all day i love him so much actually