🐛 slimy yet satisfying 🐛

That’s why Luke becoming a Jedi is considered a victory, even though the last two Jedi council members (Yoda and obiwan) wanted him to destroy Vader the same as Palpatine had. He restores the Jedi order by going against the wishes of the old masters

why in the world did they go with the cloning experiment subplot? What if the Imperial remnants decided that the best way to wipe out the Mandalorians was to hit em where it really hurts on an emotional, cultural level that would cut them to their core by targeting their foundlings? WHO would be more horrified at the concept of children being ripped from their homes to become brainwashed soldiers stripped of their identity/heritage than MANDALORIANS?

Mandalorian culture was built from the ground up based on Temuera’s casting as Jango, his identity, and Polynesian inspiration. Even if it wasn’t always well executed at all. The fact that it was based around him and his culture matters and should’ve been elaborated upon to be better, not erased. Tem is super vocal about how particular he is about the roles he chooses and how he tries to inject his own culture into each of his characters.

People like to cite that it wasn’t DAVE’S choice to state that the Fetts weren’t mando in clone wars. But he did not have to thoroughly purge Mandalorian culture of any Polynesian influence and remake it into a blonde white colonial kingdom. In Mando Season 3 Bo-Katan’s history and the History of Mandalore was rewritten so she could be reframed as an innocent princess… at the cost of erasing Boba Fett’s identity and his heritage of Jango and Jaster as protecting rulers of Mandalore.

But hey, Din has the Darksaber and is seeking redemption for his Creed, Grogu is going to train as a Jedi… I guess we’re leaving the old formula behind but it’ll be interesting to see how these characters and their arcs develop from here!

Nope, everything gets reset almost immediately. Din and Grogu reunite, Din immediately fulfills his redemption quest and then immediately passes the Darksaber to Bo-Katan. The show becomes about Bo-Katan sudden being an angel that everyone is fawning over for no reason. Also the Darksaber EXPLODES. And then it’s treated like no biggie and Bo-Katan gets coronated anyways. If there was a theme building towards “a sword should not be what our people rely on to choose a ruler” then this would be good. But this season has done nothing but hype up it’s importance, so what was the point of destroying it?? So Bo-Katan is the new ruler of Mandalore (for the third time) despite having done absolutely nothing to earn it except for the fact that the show wrote her an entire new personality and character history.

Now Din is back to being a regular bounty hunter (that’s now WORKING FOR THE COPS?), but both him and Grogu had no real character development or growth whatsoever. It’s a pointless nothing plot for a pointless nothing season.

darth vader and the ninth assassin #2 so, aside from the ABSOLUTE comedy of vader taking the opportunity to just ragdoll palpatine to save his life - i am choosing to believe that, for vader, this is a really petty move, like he’s channeling some work-related frustrations into this. palpatine has him on the 24/7 shift on the front lines of the Forever Wars, and palpatine keeps blocking his requests for time off. that second panel is absolute comedic gold. but aside from that, which is still very, very important, i want to note how much vader values not just loyalty but loyalty to palpatine; he doesn’t kill the royal guards who kneel, and in fact spends the rest of the comic hanging around with them. he scares the fuck out of them by killing the ones who aren’t fast enough, but the fact that they knelt to the throne has spared their lives - legends had a pretty consistent theme of emphasizing vader’s staunch Palpatine-Related Jingoism, which i like a lot better compared to marvel’s recent interpretations of a vader who is always looking for an opportunity to take palpatine down. i think a key motive for our guy is that his connection to palpatine is personal; politics is not politics, that’s his Dad Grandfather Master Dude, and the only thing he has left in the galaxy.

More Alien Mandos

- Chagrian (Tal’galyc - Clan Dochost)

- Trandoshan (Cava - Clan Rig)

- Gungan (Vaar’tur - Clan Stral)

- Kushiban (Vasudev - Clan Stral)

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Artist Thoughts!!:

Most alien designs in Star Wars (especially the ones present in the earlier films) were built as costumes to fit over-top of actor’s heads. Few of these alien species were designed to be compatible with a fully-closed helmet, because production simply didn’t need a Twi’lek or a Rodian to ever be in full armor in the films. If the costume was gonna be on screen, they wanted to show off the alien’s latex head, not what kind of helmets that species would’ve built to fit themselves.

 The solid helms that fit on humans and near-humans -that come off as whole pieces of armor, probably aren’t feasible for a majority of the cooler non-human aliens due to the fact that they’d have to get around horns and weird head shapes in order to slip a helmet off. Either their helmets are huge and silly-looking or they’re piece-meal, in separate sections; a bit like a good chestplate!

Detachable face plates and caps for these helmets allow the Mandos to show their faces, eat, and get some fresh air without needing to dismantle the frame that’s protecting their montral, horns, eye-stalks, etc. These helm designs probably take longer to put on (or not, alien Mandos probably git good at suiting up quicklike- Humans ain’t special) but they offer the same degree of protection as a Human Mando’s fully enclosed helm.

- For species like Togruta with cool as fuck sensory organs like their montral, their helms would probably be designed to protect without mitigation, or at least with as little mitigation as possible, of that sensory input. I imagine my Togruta Mandos have dampening on their montral to protect them from the potentially harmful effects of being next to ship engines firing, or large ordnance, just like regular helms protect human ears from the same things without completely blocking their ability to hear shit.

Additionally!

Please do feel free to save these sketches as references or as benchmarks to help illustrate to others what your alien Mando’s helmets might look like! 

I’m more than happy for you guys to use these images as examples or inspiration! Do keep in mind though that these are characters of mine as well as runway models for Mando helms, so if you repost them please drop a credit to this Tumblr account there as well!

I love my Mandalorians diverse, forget what recent canon has told you because the Mandos were always a culture, never a select few species, and they’re far cooler that way.

 If my lil sketches can help propagate Alien Mando designs, I’m happy to see them circulate!   

Obi Wan Kenobi said "I loved you" when he left Anakin to burn to death in agony on Mustafar.

Certain people like to claim these words "prove" he did not fail to put him out of his misery because he wanted him to suffer.

Class, can you tell me why this is stupid?

Yes, there at the back. He was talking in the past tense. Correct. Not the present tense. He did not say "love".

He said "loved". As in "I did love you previously, in the past but I do not anymore".

Ergo, it is perfectly logical to assume that he did, indeed, want him to suffer.

He’s actually quite arrogant, deceitful, impatient, in-denial, insensitive, hypocritical, manipulative, and pretty horrifyingly cruel and vindictive in his punishments of enemies who personally betray him, hurt him, or hurt people he cares about. For instance, even before cutting off Anakin’s limbs and leaving him to burn alive on Mustafar, there was also that time he too brutally slaughtered Darth Maul by chopping off his limbs before killing him to make him suffer for killing his master Qui Gonn who he looked at as somewhat of a father figure. If it were just about killing them in self-defense or “for the greater good,” Obi-Wan would just get it done with as quickly and painlessly as possible in those cases.

However, it was clearly not just about killing Anakin and Darth Maul in self-defense or because they were Sith that Yoda ordered him to kill. Obi-Wan was feeling very personally angry, betrayed, heartbroken, and vindictive against them for hurting him and/or those he loved in those moments, which is why he deliberately prolonged their suffering more than was necessary in those duels against them, rather than just killing them as quickly and painlessly as possible.

The writers of Disney Wars have been woobifying him in recent years, but the Obi-Wan from GL and Legends canon is definitely not a saint, even if he generally believes he has good intentions, and is also a product of a broken Jedi Order.

@tragicfantasy-girl

mandos who belong to different religions

mandos who speak different languages

mandos with varying accents

mandos from different alien species

more human diversity

mandos who wear different cultural clothing when they aren't wearing armour

mandos who celebrate a crap ton of different holidays because they've welcomed so many people with different holidays and traditions and said "cool we'll celebrate your stuff too"

mandos who are academics

mandos with varying hair styles or head coverings designed to accommodate helmets

mando artists because their art style is cool

mandos who just do normal jobs, like a baker

mandos married to non mandos and it's nbd and the non-mando isn't expected to change for their s/o

mandos who love, appreciate, and welcome the cultures and traditions of new mandos

look, someone’s gotta bake the bread