#the mandalorian is now my personality

[drawingdroid]

I can proudly say I have officially entered my insane obsession with Din Djarin era. Expect some unhinged fanart here, also you can request anything you’d want me to draw about him.

[mutalune]

my clone culture headcanon is that they have almost no traditional mandalorian ties, they picked up almost nothing culturally/linguistically from the mandalorian trainers, but the one thing they DID get were endearments/affectionate and-or comforting words/etc.

b/c 1) that was the only way the trainers could somewhat express affection for their favorites without getting dinged for being too attached to them since no one there actually spoke mando’a 2) kaminoans would be Unhappy if the clones expressed affection openly so secret language words were the only way to safely verbalize caring and loving, so they picked up on those few kind words VERY quickly

(The way I see it working is that the trainers had favorites, would occasionally say something like “chin up, hang in there, good job kiddo,” and said favorites picked up those terms without actually ever getting Direct Translations of what they mean. So they get the words and some context but have to jumble it together themselves and pronunciation and meaning change the further away it spreads from the original favorites - because all of this is spread in private, quietly, until it grows its own legs in different iterations with different battalions imho

like they know adding -‘ika to a name is affectionate and feels like a diminutive but they don’t know what it means exactly and sometimes plug it into names in grammatically odd ways, so instead of “Trap’ika” you get “Trapper’ika” which sounds more like “Trapperka” when you’re talking fast.)

(i’m just a fan of gentle soft pet names and showing affection quietly and how love finds a way and how the clones can take what little scraps they were given and make it their own)

[basileusdraws]

THIS WEEK IN STAR WARS it was a doozy i tell u dawg

[thefrogdalorian]

Helloooooo I feel like I've been gone for an eternity and missed so much even though it's only been like two days LOL.

5 word horror story: my internet at home broke.

I live in the middle of nowhere so my network connection wasn't great either but thankfully I've made it to civilisation and WiFi!!

I've been writing still (well quite a lot actually) and I hope to be able to share that with you at some point soon.

My internet should be fixed tomorrow morning WOO but boy, you really do not realise how much you rely on it until it's gone! Chronically online and proud 😎

[merrysithmas]

if you want.... lizzo..... and jack black.... in the effing mandalorian we are not the same kind of person

[doritooooo]

My brother brought up the fact that I ship DinBo around my dad, and my dad said it was lame 😭

[dukeofriven]

The Mandlorian decided that droids needed a bar, because every Star Wars writer has made the moral black pit of droid sentience and servitude ever more incoherent, absurd, and irreconcilable. (The short version is that droids in Star Wars can fundamentally not be sentient for the ironclad non-diegetic reason in that its moral framework cannot handle the weight that every organic character in Star Wars is at-best totally indifferent to slavery and has casually and comfortably bought slaves, sold slaves, murdered slaves, ripped bits out of some slaves to improve other slaves, left slaves to die, ordered slaves to their death to save their own skins, and watched other people murder slaves without any reaction either personally or within any kind of larger narrative awareness. Stupid writers keep dancing towards the issue because they think it adds 'depth' or some kind of 'edginess' but no, it just breaks Star Wars. Seriously, if droids are fully people Star Wars just... breaks. In a way that's really obnoxious, too, like that one asshole who corners you at a party to tell you that the Jedi are the REAL villains if you think about it. No, dipshit, they're not: even Andor understands that the moral line in Star Wars is really obvious and solid. Star Wars morality can encompass people doing bad things in pursuit of a noble goal, but it never goes 'fascists and anti-fascists are a mirror image' because that's authoritarian-friendly centrist bullshit.

[sidebar: Andor understands that's there's nuance to freedom fighting, that terror can be a tool to fight oppression but, equally, that an anti-fascist who turns to fascism to fight fascism is just a fascist. The tension in Andor is not that fighting fascism will turn you fascist, but that the choices you make might free others but leave you forever chained. You might bring your people to the promised land, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to join them because a moral person who holds themselves to their own moral standard values himself too much to live comfortably with what he's done. Luthen Rael doesn't think the things he are does are justified because of the greater good: he thinks that he couldn't see a better option and he will live every day until he dies questioning, re-litigating, and self-flagellating himself that he wasn't good enough to figure that better option out, and nothing or no-one will ever free him from that guilt and shame. A fascist and an anti-fascist can both do terrible things but its the fascist who can sleep well at night, and that's all the difference in the world. Andor's a pretty good show, y'all.] Thus, as the Empire is explicitly pro-slavery, you can't have the Good Guys also be pro-[droid] slavery as some kind of 'both sides' tu quoque rhetorical flourish. It doesn't work—not in Star Wars. Not even in mildly more amture, grown-up Star Wars/ Droids cannot be sentient in Star Wars because literally the entire moral underpinning that is the narrative raison d'etre of the entire series falls completely apart. (This is, incidentally, the non-mechanical reason I don't like droid PCs in my SW campaigns.) And yes, this is the short version of this argument. The long version involves me whacking you with a pool noodle while reading long passages of Uberto Eco and CLR James until you stop trying to make Star Wars 'edgy' like someone writing an 'evil Santa' movie.)

[vvitchering]

One of the things I think this season really suffered from was lack of a physically present villain and MAN I am so annoyed it took them until now to dust off Moff Gideon and get him back in the game. He was excellent in today's episode and having him back to love to hate immediately boosts my interest in the show. To reintroduce him wearing beskar armor as a way to desecrate and mock Mandalorian culture was actually one of the best creative decisions in the entire show so far. This man is unhinged. He is despicable. He is evil.

[yamineftis]

One thing that is really breaking my heart in this season is how stupid and incompetent they’ve made all the mandalorians, like, are we supposed to root for these guys? Who live in Jurassic Park and claim their children are the most important thing to them, but just stay put and watch them get snatched by giant birds instead of idk, trying to hunt them? Couldn’t they like, have asked Din when he returned the first time this season to help them track the birds with his ship cuz apparently they took the space bus to this planet?

Couldn’t they like, be portrayed as the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy who are in the verge of extinction cuz they’re so dangerous the empire/renmants sends hoards of soldiers to kill them whenever they learn of a new covert? How did these fumbling fools manage to survive this long? lmao why

[avarkriss]

[mrskywalkers-chanelboots]

i think i accidentally started a small grogu plushie collection? i keep receiving them as gifts and i’m loving it now i have a few little guys! how far will it grow?

the left is my first one i got for easter from my family, which i know for a fact was probably purchased at a cvs since that’s where i saw it a few days before it was gifted to me and i seriously considered buying it myself, and the right i just got tonight as a senior send-off gift from the advisors of my school’s queer advocacy group since i’ve been president for a few years. they both have their own little stories and i love it!!! requesting more grogu plushies for future holidays and congratulatory gifts 💚

[maemil]

Okay, having just rewatched the Mandalore Plot, I feel a little more justified in my opposition to the "Obi-Wan Kenobi speaks Mando'a" headcanon, because someone speaks the language in front of him and he asks Satine what they said

[uniquevocashark]

why wont someone speak of my babygirl (duchess satine kyrze of mandalore)

[raeathnos]

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[syn0vial]

as much as it dismays me to know how much they took of boba fett's legends characterization and handed it to din djarin, i am amused that even though they replicated fett's "suddenly expected to remove helmet in front of people for the first time in decades" bit, fett's reasons for feeling uncomfortable and din's are still so different. it's like

din: oh no no no, this can't be happening. am i an apostate now? will i ever be able to call myself a mandalorian again? do i even have a purpose anymore now that i've broken my vows? this is the worst day of my life 😭

boba: people... can see my face? and what it's doing? how am i supposed to have any privacy??? jfc, that person just made eye contact with me. what the fuck. am i supposed to be doing something with my face rn? how am i even supposed to eat when people are looking at me?? what the fuck.

din's got religious trauma and meanwhile fett is just Like That

[kryzekatan]

if only there was a pillow just in front of that throne for my knees

i dont understand why i have to argue that bo-katan is a lesbian when her first appearance in s3 is this