#the senator and the general

[egophiliac]

you know, I've been thinking about it, and there is actually one single scenario in which I would be okay with not getting a big ol' "Silver Vanrouge" out of Lilia.

(just kidding, I still need some "call me Silver, Mr. Vanrouge is my father" in my life, please don't let me down on this one Twst)

[alienabductees]

stargate as various onion headlines (part 2 and 3 (mostly tumblr posts) coming soon)

[rayroseu]

You know what's sick as hell about the design of the Briar Senates??? It's that their design mirrors the weapon of the Draconias 😭✨

I know they're getting flak rn bcs they feel like "boomers who's against any progress because they value toxic tradition" but i don't really think they're like... entirely evil lol or the root of every bad thing that happened in Malleus'/Lilia's life (though im side eyeing them as one of the perpetrators still lol)

Tbh, removing them would also cause more harm (just some social issues inside the fae society tbh) than good imo, (I know many ppl say this bcs they think removing the Senates would make it possible for the peace between human and faes, but the thing is, the Senates aren't the only group that thinks this way, almost the entirety of Briar Valley does lol so forcibly removing them now would only come off as "Malleus forcing "human ideals" on the faes just because he has spent 4 years with the humans"(plus is the understanding between humans and faes truly achieved if you try to silence one group(even if that group is kinda disagreeable with anything human related lol), plus realistically the faes would trust their fellow faes first rather than some humans,

so for me, Briar Senates doesn't give off the vibe of toxic old people who drags others down in their toxic practices (while that can be an accurate description i feel like it generalizes too much about their behaviour), rather than that, Briar Senates feels more like thorns, like thorns that surrounds Briar Valley, they're not exactly harmful unless you go against them, but ultimately they're still protection for Briar Valley.

Which makes it fitting that their design has a similarity with the Draconia's weapon, they're the thorns that protects the Draconias, even if it means sheltering them.

And, tbh, if the Senates other job is to ensure Draconias lives, they're kinda doing a "decent job"??? If we can assume through Maleficia's (and Malleus' case), since we didnt hear about her leaving the Senate's side, she managed to survive for so long, unlike Meleanor😭 Also could explain why they're so enraged when Lilia arrived with the news that Meleanor died and why they hated the weak bcs what would weakness could protect JJDSJD Kinda wish their hatred against Lilia wasnt that he was a weak bat fae, but rather they doubled down on the fact he failed protecting Meleanor, imagine if Gen. Lilia wasnt as great in magic as the fae nobles were, yet he still managed to earn a position beside the Princess, all that hard work only to fail at the most crucial time, it wouldve make sense in the Senates' side to say, "Meleanor shouldnt have appointed him" (because "he's weak from the start")

oh additionally, this is just my assumption, bcs I felt like the way the Senates recoiled when Lilia hatched the egg was kinda... random?? so this is my made up reason lol Remember, the Senates were adamant that Maleficia should only be the one to hatch the egg because she's a Draconia, but Lilia did it and he's not a Draconia, What if because Lilia hatched the egg, it also affected the development of Malleus?? Like maybe for instance, it affected Malleus' lifespan, maybe he still lives more than one thousand years but he won't live for another thousand years like a pure Draconia because he's been hatched by Lilia as opposed to who they wanted it to be, which is Maleficia, OF COURSE Lilia hatching the egg is heaps better than Malleus dying before being born, but this is just my auto thoughts regarding the random hate reaction the Senates did when Lilia hatched Malleus lol

Interestingly, the placement of the stone of Draconia against the thorns (of the Senates) can also be hinted at their relationship with them??? In Meleanor's case, her stone is on top of the thorns, which may indicate that she's not under the Senate's commands or that its just telling she just lived distantly from the Senates, most importantly her stone is bigger than the thorns which may tell the fact that the Senates worships her because she's powerful and greater than them, and she's not someone who can be trapped/ordered around within the Senates. But, tragically, in Malleus' case, his stone is under the thorns, like its telling that he's under the Senates protection at all cost and his stone is little compared to Meleanor's because he's still young.

I also have a theory that the Senates are part of Briar Valley's land, like its been canonically said that they're the dead faes of Briarland, which makes think that their death is similar to the death of Conall from Maleficent 2, when Conall was buried, his body literally morphed to the land, which makes me think this is how the Senates used to be buried, when they die, they become one with the land, that's why you can't just remove them, when they are literally the Lands of Briar Valley,,,, get it lol

Though this is making me think that if this is the case then Maleficia's city,,, if the Senate's presence are the strongest there bcs that's where they're nearly buried, does that mean around Black Scale Castle is just lowkey a graveyard.... Is that why Halloween is special for Briar Valley bcs they have close ties/respect for the dead and Halloween is essentially about honoring the dead 😭✨

Off topic, but maybe the thorns part of the Draconia's staff may also tell about their age. Notice how Meleanor's staff has 3 twists which may tell that she's atleast 300~ years old, (if each twists signifies a century), while Malleus' staff only has one twist on its thorns which is accurate considering he's only 178 years old (one century).

If this is true, I'm kinda curious about Maleficia's staff... does that mean hers will be convered in thorns (she needs at least 7 twists (7 centuries~ and more) there on her staff 😭✨)

[stealingpotatoes]

I saw this on twitter and the idea of this happening sounds absolutely hilarious. Like Han, Ventress and Merrin just direct Thrawn to a DMV and make him coming to dathomir absolute hell (I also accidentally sent this ask to someone else 😅)

LMAO???? i take back everything I've ever said about legends, this is everything to me. nothing but respect for MY king of dathomir send that gay blueberry to parking ticket superhell

[izzystizzys]

There is a scratch mark on the floor of the Council chambers that Mace has never noticed before. Not a deep one, mind, quite shallow. This matters because it’s making the white-hot pulse of agony stabbing through his eyeballs ebb momentarily. Then, he chances a glance upwards at the fidgeting Knight in front of them, and it returns in full force.

Huh, he’s never seen Oppo Rancisis’ face turn that colour before.

“Hmm”, Master Yoda hums, deep and scratchy. His expression is unreadable even to Mace beyond a baseline gremlinness, and the force with which he grips the edges of his seat is making his bones creak. Master of the Order you should become, they said. Follow the calling of the Force, you should. A fulfilling purpose, it will be. Mace is going to hunt the little goblin for sport when this is all over, and he’s going to laugh the whole time.

“Show us the livestream again, could you, Knight Parvo?” Yoda asks. Mace bursts a capillary, he’s pretty sure, and so does poor Knight Parvo, whose orange Mon Cala skin tips all the way into blood red with stress. “Most unusual, this is.”

“Absolutely not!”, Ki Adi intervenes before Mace has to, thank the Force for little mercies. Plo Koon’s tusks tremble slightly with either suppressed laughter or abject horror, maybe both, and Stass Allie has her head in her hands. “The holo stills should be enough”, Ki Adi proceeds to add, and Mace has to reconsider all feelings of grace he just felt towards his fellow Councillor.

He never wants to watch Yoda zoom in on someone’s abs again. Or Depa raise her eyebrows at the curve of thighs bent over the dripping front of a speeder.

“Speeder Wash For Our Troops”, his former padawan reads out loud from a still of what has to be hundreds of the things gathered in the public senate parking lot. “Fund Our Boys And Get A Wet Seeing-To!” The series of images features dozens of Coruscant Guard troopers in various stages of unkitted, gleaming and shining with soap suds and water. The fact that the whole thing is also massive shatterpoint after massive shatterpoint is, quite frankly, insulting.

“Well hello- oh dear”, Obi-Wan’s blue form crackles to life in his chair, followed by several sounds of choking that are definitely not him. Good, Mace thinks acidly. If he has to deal with this, then so does kriffing Skywalker. “I’m sorry, why am I looking at Commander Thorn using a washrag like a lasso on top of a speeder?”

“Oh, the Guard’s little fundraising project”, Bail Organa says, as he steps into the Council chambers. Normally, Mace likes the man well enough. Now, he just smiles and adds on, “I’ve already donated, in mine and Breha’s name. Remotely, of course.”

“The Guard’s fundraising speeder wash?”, Obi-Wan repeats, edges of his holo form flickering with what Mace suspects is Skywalker very unsubtly trying to edge in. Force, but the man really is horrible at any and all stealth, like kissing his secret wife in an open arena in front of his Master. “And they are fundraising for…?”

“GAR budget allocations have to come from somewhere”, Organa shrugs. “And with the tide of public opinion turning, they’ve been tending towards cuts. The Guard feels them more keenly than any other sector - they’ve been reduced from half to quarter rations, and medical supplies have not made more than a token appearance in the last draft. The Chancellor has cancelled three consecutive meetings on the matter, and thus it was agreed that a more hands-on approach was needed. Any surplus will go into the Army fund.”

“Surely it can’t be that dire”, Oppo protests, a slightly less concerning shade of purple now. Senator Organa shrugs again, jostling the smattering of cracks slowly building around his person in a way that makes Mace wince quietly. “It’s all publicly available data, Masters.”

It really can be that dire, as it turns out. And quarter rations is only scratching the surface of how dire, considering the Guard has apparently never had access to bacta in all their posting, and also includes requisitioning forms available to the Senate for reconditionings and decommissionings, two words Mace has only heard Ponds whispers amidst shuddering in the early days of the war before Shaak Ti went off and just about tore some throats out over it.

“Alright”, he concedes, rubbing at his temples. “Fair enough, we have failed to tackle a massive blind spot in the Guard’s well being. There is no Jedi assigned to Coruscant, and that’s an oversight on our behalf. But how in the everloving kriff did this get past the Chancellor and Commander Fox?!”

Who have both signed, black on white. Bail Organa smiles cryptically. “Well, if you scroll a bit past that one image, up to the industrial speeder in the back - Commander Fox is currently having credits stuffed into his codpiece in the back, I believe.”

“HE’S WHAT IN THE WHAT NOW”, Commander Cody screeches through the speaker of Obi-Wan’s holo image, and Mace has to summon every bit of Jedi-serenity he possesses in his body to keep from dropkicking a cackling Yoda through the chamber windows.

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[the-far-bright-center]

I'm not usually someone who reads interviews with actors, since I prefer to leave things up to my own interpretation, but I appreciate you drawing my attention to this. Mainly because, if I'm being honest, I've always struggled a bit with TCW Padme's voice. I find it kind of grating and I dislike how she often sounds a bit 'uptight' at times. But this gives me a better appreciation for the fact that the voice actress wasn't intentionally portraying her as such, and it's likely just a combo of my own subjective taste with some of the dialogue and scenes that rub me the wrong way. I'm not even a TCW-hater and in fact will defend TCW often despite my problems with it, so the fact the voice acting for Padme was something that I didn't like that much was always a bit frustrating. It's nice to know the actress actually cares about and understands the character, despite me finding her diction and delivery a bit off-putting at times. 🙂

I feel like despite the flaws TCW has, one thing I can appreciate about it is Catherine Taber who’s the voice of Padmé. Although I don’t agree with the way she says things, at the crux of it, she truly understands Padmé.

She says it’s easy to understand why Padmé loves Anakin. Says that Padmé doesn’t actually have “bad taste in men” because Anakin is great even if Cat sometimes does say that, she herself explains, only jokingly though. Says that at the core of everything, Anakin and Padmé just really have this “deep deep love.” Says that Padmé’s main allegiance is to Anakin. Talks about how she loves the tiny Anidala moments that are included in the show. Says that her favourite episodes are always the ones with Anakin and Padmé together. Calls out people who claim “Anakin didn’t truly love Padmé” and how stupid that opinion is. Talks about how Padmé has such unwavering faith/trust in Anakin and always sees the best in him, and explains that when it comes to Anakin, Padmé thinks with her heart instead of her mind. She even mentioned about how she improvised her audition for Padmé to include the line “Ani” and she expresses that it’s because doing that felt “authentic” to Padmé’s character.

(She’s even a Hayden girlie too, lol.)

And she quoted a fans tweet once on Twitter with #anakinxpadme4ever.

It’s good to know the VA herself ships Anidala and is such a great Padmé understander.

[rinksrats]

"tkachuk bowl" this, "tkachuk-y derby" that, please everyone knows that these boys are wrestling coded

[betyoudidntcatchthat]

friendly reminder this is anakin skywalker talking to his wife’s best friend, one of only 3 people present (bail, obi wan, yoda) at the birth of his children and the death of his wife, and the eventual father of his daughter

also, he will watch as this man’s planet blows up while bail organa is on the planet…while restraining his daughter

[eli-am-confused]

Reasons I would get fired from PEIP very quickly:

1) painted a pin-up picture of President Howard Goodman on the side of an aircraft Bad Batch style

[the-far-bright-center]

Finally a take I agree with. I'm happy to make many critiques of TCW, but I'll never be a full on TCW hater because there's enough there to enjoy despite the ridiculous aspects. Also Clovis simply ain't real. 😅 He's just a made up plot device and people should just dimiss that stupidity. The original Lucas canon flat out stated that Padme never had a romantic interest before Anakin (other than the artistic boy she merely had a crush on once upon a time), and certainly never had time or inclination for some romantic relationship once she was a senator prior to meeting Anakin in AotC.

I think taking the fun parts of TCW and ignoring the rest would be easier for people if not for the Disney insistence on streamlining everything into 'new canon'. Before the Disney era, no one took TCW that seriously in a canonical sense. People loved many of the characters, but hardly anyone accepted the storyline wholesale. And once the Disney era arrived, do people forget how they cancelled TCW and only brought it back like 8 years later once it was more 'convenient' to them? Honestly, more people should do as I have done and simply ignore seasons 6 and 7 entirely. In my mind, TCW ends where it originally stopped airing ....aka season 5. Even by that point the show had gone off the rails a bit too much for me (many of the arcs are too dark and twisted to be taken seriously as an addition to the canon prequels storyline) but the important thing is that the Wrong Jedi arc in season 5 ends with Anakin and Padme on a united front: both defending their 'daughter' Ahsoka together.

I can safely say this makes a huge difference and is the main reason why I still enjoy TCW. :D

I struggle with tcw anidala because it is both interesting and fun but Clovis is someone I hate for existing lol. Still love anidala though

I really feel like TCW anidala doesn’t really get their characterization right so that’s why I don’t like it but I love movie Anidala and TCW does have some good elements and expands on some of the themes of the prequels.

[izzystizzys]

clone wars au where fives survives because fox is a disaster and people care about him (derogatory)

aka he hasn‘t slept in 72 hours and while every corrie understands why, that doesn’t mean they have to like it. plus, he already has borderline braindamage from not getting more than five hours’ sleep a night the whole duration of the war, and all the strange injuries and electrostaff burns he keeps showing up with, stabby the clone medic reasons. also bone density is a concern with the half-rations the guard is consistently on, so really this is all a very reasonable emergency measure, he says and cuffs fox to a cot.

yes of course, meathook and rabid nod, who pounced on the commander and pinned him for stabby and his sedation hypo the second he came through the door. very reasonable.

hnngfnhfjfj, fox grunts in the corner, already halfway to insensate. thorn, who knows better than to protest lest he become the next target of stabby’s ire, nods along while switching to fox’s armour.

which is also how palpatine gets himself caught, because of course ‘cc-1010’ activates exactly nothing in thorn’s brain except maybe alarm bells for rancid kriffing vibes, and by the time the chancellor orders him to switch off his blaster’s stun setting and terminate the ‘faulty unit’ at all costs, he’s already recording the interaction and sending it as an attachment to the whole guard command staff as well as the jedi temple.

[theresolutenegotiator]

Totally late for mother's day but had to share anyways!

Foundations of Hope

[2stepadmiral]

With the sheer number of Venator and Arquitens class cruisers lost under Anakin and Obi-Wan’s command, they’re both extremely fortunate that Padme didn’t serve on the Senate Budget Committee.

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

Part 2 [see Part 1] of my favorite Charles panels from Dark Horse's Metalocalypse three-part mini-series and the Dethklok vs. The Goon one-shot (circa 2011):

Panel 1-3 + 5-6: Neither Charles nor Pickles want to be anywhere near Dethklok's brand spankin' new but also somehow already haunted Dethtrain;

Panel 4: Mashed Potato Johnson has a favor to ask of Dethklok, in return for his help with managing their collective depression in "Bluesklok" (1x14);

Panel 7: "Butt-horns" is one of Facebones' nicer terms of endearment;

Panel 8: The band marinates in existential angst wrt what other people will do with their music when they're all dead while Toki thumbs through what I assume to be the latest issue of Pussy Lovers magazine;

Panel 9: I won't ever be over this flawless parody of most Tribunal exchanges that also functions as a legitimate Tribunal exchange;

Panel 10: Charles always carries copious amounts of hand sanitizer on his person, which makes him @thortwenty151's mom.

[yourfandompersn]

Sorry to anyone who followed me for art 😭

Propaganda? Let me take a propa ganda at those tits

(I literally had to make my own sprites for crozier and stampingston 😭)