At the Bottom of the Box was Hope

(Quds)

Pro-Palestine activists, including Greta Thunberg, staged a protest outside the Berlin office of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, blocking access to the site in opposition to the company’s arms production.

Haruun Kal is the planet

The Korunnai (singular Korun) are the nomadic indigenous species who are either near-human and human-passing or a human variant, ymmv

Korunnal is their language

All Korunnai are Force-sensitive, the Korunnal word for the Force is Pelekotan

Balawai (singular unknown, possibly Bala or Balaw) is the Korunnal word for the mostly but not only human settled colonizers

Ghôsh is the Korunnal word for clan

Korunnai have a clan-and-family system similar to the Mandalorian house-and-clan system

Orphaned Korunnai are given the Ghôsh name as a family name, such as Mace Windu of Ghôsh Windu, and typically raised communally

Most Korunnai stay on Haruun Kal and learn their indigenous Force tradition, Mace Windu is a rare exception who was given to the Jedi Order as an infant for largely unknown reasons

Thyssel bark is a cooking spice that is the Balawai's primary export and the whole reason they invaded in the first place

Akk dogs are a Force-sensitive indigenous non-sentient animal to Haruun Kal whose care and companionship are central to Korunnai culture, approximately equivalent to horses in traditional Mongol Steppe culture with the addition of one-on-one Force bonds with a specific Korun

Balawai often steal akk dogs and sell them off-world due to their high value as rare and exotic but tameable animals, this is illegal by Korunnai law - and by Republic law because Korunnai culture is somewhat protected

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

Not mine! A friend of mine, the guy who took Bumblebee/Felix home last year, is needing a place to rehome his peafowl due to a major life circumstance change incoming. He has one mature pair of blues (Ferdinand and Isabelle), and then Felix and likely one of his two yearling girlfriends (Liberty or Bell). He's located in Wisconsin, but we would both be willing to work on transport to pretty much anywhere in the USA to get them placed.

Ferdinand and Isabella

Felix and his ladies

This isn't necessarily an urgent, immediate need, so if you were to, say, need time to build an enclosure, we can work it out. The birds themselves are free to a good home, with the only stipulations being Ferdinand and Isabella must go and stay together. I will be making sure they end up placed somewhere that's set up for them already, preferably where the pairs can stay together.

1— Members of Starfleet assigned to "ground" service rather than space wear a stylized flower as their breast insignia. It's apparently based on the starflower plant, IIRC, which grows down in northern California as well as the rest of the West Coast. We often see the flower insignia on very high-ranking administrative officers as they're been promoted beyond single starships, but it's also worn by those posted to starbases (like Areel Shaw) and cadets at the Academy (you know the really important ground personnel because they get bigger flowers vs the cadets only getting little blossoms as their insignias).

2—Speaking of cadet uniforms, we do see a cadet uniform in TOS! It's kind of awful and I love it. It's distinctly silver and glittery (not grey) striped velour with a black collar and white long-sleeved undershirt that I wish later ST and fanart did more with. This is not because it looks badass, it absolutely does not. Look at this silver velour situation:

If You Were Easy to Kill (I Would Have Done It Already)

PT 1: What Was It That Stayed My Hand Then?

QuinObi Week Day 1 (Kiffar Culture / Kyber Crystals / Raising Anakin and Aayla)

Summary: Before the war, Count Dooku murdered the love of his life for the "greater good." Years later, he puts Quinlan Vos, undercover and falling deeper into darkness in pursuit of Darth Sidious' identity, to the same test. Kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, and find out the truth. Castle Serenno plays host to a terrible game. Ghosts rise from their graves. As love and light pierce through the darkness, the real enemy unveils himself, and asks the question. Can anyone come back from the dark?

Dooku snatches Sifo-Dyas' kyber crystal from Quin’s hand, and his eyes gleam yellow-gold.

“Do you know what is required of you, Quinlan?”

Required of him? Heartbreak hatred no Obi-Wan would never hate him Obi-Wan doesn’t hate. Heartbreak cold hot Sith Sidious find Sidious.

That cold settles in his chest. In his gut. The shadows swirl, and he lets them. A great and horrible certainty follows.

“Yes.” Quin steals a breath while he can. “I do.”

“Good lad.” Dooku leans forward, putting a heavy hand on Quin’s shoulder. “Break your heart. Save the galaxy.”

Break your heart. Save the galaxy.

“He’s still in the castle,” Dooku tells him. “He hasn’t been fool enough to go out into the weather yet.”

Hearbeat pain stars the copper scent of blood.

First level. Obi-Wan his beloved his best friend his steady star is still on the first level.

Dooku saunters over to an old-fashioned holorecord player that’s a generation older than the holodiscs of Quin’s youth, let alone now. Tholme has one, and he and Qui-Gon used to listen to music that way. An opera that Quin’s heard Dooku play before starts up.

By removing the historical plaques from George Washington's house that acknowledged that Washington held enslaved people there in capitivity, the Trump administration wants to whitewash history.

Here, you can read about how the people that Washington enslaved or indentured sought to escape from captivity, and about the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks:

Every single dollar counts!!

Twins at the carousel trend/Blood for mines monday