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I just want my aliens to be more alien. Is that truly so much to ask? I want bright colors and scales and intricate social rituals that have to do with something other than marriage for once and ectotherms and creatures with large unsettling eyes, or no eyes at all. I want different body language! And species that have both verbal and chemical languages, so that humans can only understand half of the context at any given time! Aliens who bite to be friendly! Aliens who have never seen mammals before, and are horrified by the concept of childbirth! Entirely non-humanoid aliens, who are still perfectly intelligent, and who have technology designed to their unique biology which can't be operated by people with hands, or beings without seven arms! Quadrupeds who are more advanced then the bipeds! Insectoids with complex social structures! Beings with exaggerated sexual dymorphism! Beings without sex at all! I want people to have FUN with it! Make shit up! Get crazy!

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when i learned jedi kids r raised communally i suddenly understood the anakin | obi wan conflict so much better omg its only child vs kid with like 8 siblings. obi wan is like anakin ur so fckn stupid (smiles fondly) and anakin is like he thinks im stupid 😡

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“While You Were Being Heterosexual, I Studied The Blade” is literally the plot of the empire strikes back

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Don't know why but I found this to be amusing & liked how Plo Koon says thank you

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Do you have any more Kalluzeb headcanons to share?

AAAAAAAAH, THIS GOT LOST IN MY DRAFTS FOLDER SO POSTING NOW WHOOPS. ALSO I ALWAYS HAVE MORE KALLUZEB HEADCANONS SO ALWAYS ASK ME PLZ THESE HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE THANKS

Kallus loves watching documentaries so when it comes to family movie night and it’s his pick, he treats everyone to like, “A Vital Resource: Moisture Farming on Tatooine” or “GPB (Galactic Public Broadcasting) Presents: Secrets of the Mynock.” Zeb cannot stand these.

Zeb’s favorites are SECRETLY those awful Coruscant Lifetime romance movies like “Holiday on Naboo” and “Picnic in Paradise”. He watches them, he hates them, and rates them one star. It’s a very cathartic hate-watching experience and Zeb’s addicted to it. Zeb would rather die, however, than admit that he likes watching them to the rest of the crew.

Kallus once accidentally goes into Zeb’s user profile (they have a Ghost crew shared subscription) and has his eyes opened to this aspect of his boyfriend’s personality after he sees Zeb’s currently watching list. He’s impressed. 

Eventually Kallus and Zeb are so bored one evening that they watch one of these (”Encounter on Platform 5″) and Kallus launches into a well-articulated three-point feminist critique of the material while Zeb throws popcorn at the holo-screen.

Despite their wildly different favorite genres, however, Kallus and Zeb can agree that the best TV show ever is Podracing Heroes, a reality TV show where contestants compete to construct the perfect podracer. The technical construction aspect appeals to Kallus. The drama and heroic underdog stories appeal to Zeb. Sometimes the contestants blow things up, which appeals to Sabine.

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Currently obsessed with the concept of the Ghost crew being very physical with each other. Lots of hugs and shoulder claps. Arms around each other, hip checks, elbows in ears to the point they should be annoyed and pretend they’re annoyed but really everyone loves it

And then here comes along Kallus who’s lived most of his life in an isolated ISB environment, suddenly dragged into this physical situation where he’s being touched quite often and he does not like it.

I like the concept of Kallus teaching the Ghost crew about giving him space, since I see the opposite in fics where Ghost crew teaches Kallus stuff, especially things like warming up to physical contact. Like, no one needs to get used to physical contact. You shouldn’t teach someone to not be uncomfortable with unsolicited touching.

But especially after they start giving him space, when Kallus gets comfortable around them and starts initiating his own physical contact, like a shoulder clap or a small hug or something.

Zeb bluescreens the first time Kallus hugs him. And I want a moment when there’s a group hug and Kallus willingly goes for it and the whole crew just about shrieks with delight

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My random kallus headcanon is he isn't a native basic speaker, like he can read, write, and speak space Russian, he did learn basic as a street language but he didn't learn to read and write it until later like teens or just before joining the empire, he still finds the language dumb

Tbh in my brain Kallus was one of those kids raised bilingual but his nosy ass only ever uses that skill anymore to listen in on other ppls convos

(He secretly lives for the drama)

[yourcousin-vinny]

anyway when are they going to release an in-universe style history of lothal book

[yourcousin-vinny]

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

[yourcousin-vinny]

Roses are red

Orions are green

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me, pausing a new hope: do you see the armor luke's wearing? yeah so it belonged to trooper tk-421, who's sleeping with an imperial officer who is heavily implied to be grand moff tarkin. the author of the story where it happens hasn't explicitly confirmed it, but he's liked tweets saying the officer was tarkin and retweeted a joke about tarkin and a stormtrooper being a couple's costume, so it's pretty clear who the imperial is supposed to be even if disney refuses to let him confirm it -

my dad: olivia can you please press play

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- David Duchovny

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Spones gifs 1/?

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She's listening to Fleetwood Mac (trust me i was there, i was her headphones)

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i need dev patel to play a vampire. I need to see him with Fangs. And bloody. I think it'd be hot and good for the environment. dare I say enchanting, even.

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alexsandr kallus is my babygirl (he is a grown man who has committed several atrocities)

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4 assessments in the next 2 days before the end of the quarter and instead of thinking about improper integrals im thinking of situations to put the guys™️ (gender neutral) in