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Ya Zhou Pottery

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Tim

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When you’re simultaneously proud of something and tired of looking at something

I saw there was renewed interest in this design and I’m very happy so many people like it! As I worked more and more details appeared and I apologize for that now

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a few more jecki (and sol) doodles

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Not new art- but I've been meaning to post lesbian Techphee and it's pride month

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I’ll also say that my two cents on the mercury discourse is that Star Wars is low fantasy that just happens to take place in space which places theme, metaphor, and, “This would look dope on screen,” far, far above any kind of even gesturing towards scientific accuracy and that if I never complained about Obi Wan and Anakin somehow not choking on on toxic fumes or succumbing to heat exposure while dueling their little hearts out on Mustafar (because the lava was thematically rad and looked cool as hell), I’m not going to complain about Lamar Giles playing in the sandbox of the star war and presenting us with mercury rain or the boiling vats in the factory (because it’s thematically rad and looks cool as hell in my head).

I get the complaints and I don’t even think they’re wrong. It’s stupid! It’s like Naboo and its liquid water core! But this is a franchise that has literally never cared, and I’m not expecting it to start now.

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A couple thoughts on the Marauder in Sanctuary:

1. There isn’t an officially released layout. Everything about the layout is fan speculation, and us assuming that we’d seen everything even though that didn’t have to be true. The most comprehensive fan layout I’ve seen is here, with this addition. Also, Lamar Giles wouldn’t have written this in a vacuum and might have access to info we don’t have. Who knows!

2. I…kind of already figured most of the stuff that’s described in the book was there. The ship is 99.5 feet long and we only ever get a good look at four main areas that don’t make up that entire length. They live on the ship most of the time; there would need to be a bathroom, somewhere to store and prep food, etc. Tech mentions having a bunk in “Aftermath” that seems to be near a storage area since he doesn’t want Wrecker’s torpedoed by it, but we never see where it is. There’s just probably parts of that one long hallway (and that attic area) we didn’t see on the show because we didn’t need to see them because there was never a scene that required it so why build those sets. I mean, I figure the Falcon has rooms we haven’t seen, too. The reason those areas are mentioned here is because there are scenes that require them. Sets exist for the needs of the plot.

3. I sort of get the impression that people are imagining full size rooms, and I have to admit that that would force my brain to hit the brakes. I’m imagining something in between a motorhome (longest of these is about half the length of the marauder and could fit all of the features mentioned) and a small submarine (a 220 foot submarine would get packed with almost ten times the number of people as you’ve got in the Marauder, and those had galleys, sleeping quarters, etc) where everything is dual use and you have to be really economical with space.

Rooms are tiny (I’m imagining the ‘fresher as being about the size of an airplane lavatory, Hunter’s room could be a slot in the wall in that upper storage area we catch a glimpse of in “Cut and Run,” an episode which, if nothing else, informs us that there are panels in the ship that open into areas we don’t see), and anything that isn’t in use can be folded up and used as something else (I think this is the case with the table). The kitchen can be a space burner, space toaster oven, and a cutting board’s worth of counter space hidden behind a sliding panel in the more narrow part of the ship. Plus, there’s probably some dual use, like how Omega’s room is really just the gunner’s roost. None of this requires adding any extra space to the interior.

4. The one nitpick I do actually have here is that Giles doesn’t necessarily convey a sense of space or location within the ship, which does make it a little confusing. I’m not going to ding him too hard for that, though.

5. The additions make the ship feel even more like a house, which ties into the idea of the Marauder as clone force 99’s home, which is something that was emphasized in seasons one and two (and a little in three). Whiiiiich…is another thing that makes me think we aren’t quite done with these characters. While I assume Hunter and Omega, at least, have a house on Pabu by the time of the epilogue, the present day part of the series cuts off right at the moment everyone is able to sit down for two seconds and think they’re safe but before they’re really able to react to anything that happened, including losing the Marauder. These characters technically end the series homeless. We never see where they live, we never see anyone but Hunter really settled, and given both some of Wrecker’s and Omega’s conversations in this book and the fact that Crosshair is, as far as we know, still suicidal at the end of the series, I’m not sure they are. I think they will be—I just also think we haven’t seen it yet. And that dealing with the loss of the Marauder (which, okay, if Tech is coming back it makes sense to deal with it then and not before, because it’s his ship in a lot of ways and otherwise you’d have to deal with it twice) is going to be part of that. So I feel like these little additions support some themes in an interesting way.

6. I do think some—not all, it’s fine, I get why some people have an issue even if I’m seeing it differently, but some—of the Marauder complaints are coming from a place of bad faith not entirely unlike that time a YouTuber complained about the use of screws in Andor. Again, some.

7. I will also admit that this is the kind of thing I tend to care about the least. I don’t think these are continuity errors, it’s just stuff we didn’t know about the ship, but even if they were, I’m willing to overlook this particular kind of continuity if it’s well used and if the story is well told.

8. The dinner scene at the end was a great way to bring the book full circle, so….

9. I had to get this out because, honestly, I do not care for this discourse and I will be ignoring all of it from this point onwards.

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God forbid Phee consider the possibility of being included in CF99's family and how that might change her nomadic lifestyle

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Ossimoro

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hii If youre still doing them could I perhaps request wrecker doing some fishing? maybe from like viewer pov? <3

Nice day out for some relaxing activities.

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reekah

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- And the light keeps falling for the darkness -

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I mean it's worth mentioning the lack of Phee lore in TBB Sanctuary is no doubt because Lamar Giles wasn't allowed to put it in. That's on Disney, not him.

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little notes app doodle of phee with bubble braids :)) i didn’t use any references so it’s a lil wonky

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Happy Friday, TBB Fanmily! I hope your week was as productive as Tech’s 😂