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Some people say I piss on the poor....
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Wasting away again in Tumblrinaville
Looking for my favorite color of sky...
Some people say I piss on the poor....

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That one Road to El Dorado line but make it DinEzra.
Ezra passing on his knowledge and skills to the next generation 🥹 Inspired by this post I saw by @sunflower-chai
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Hera trusts Kanan most of the time, but sometimes the timing when he has to do his (not magic) Jedi stuff is so suspiciously convenient...
Her teen son is having a hair crisis, and her husband is talking to a tree or a spider or a rock.
It's real unfortunate that the Star Wars "no shoelaces" rule resulted in every healthcare worker in the Andor hospital scenes wearing those INSANE little sock-thin booties instead of literally anything that would keep you from wanting to die after standing for a 12 hour shift. Sneakers could not possibly have broken my immersion more than that did. 😬

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fandom telephone with the open seasons comics is unreal
i finally read them this spring and then never really talked about them because the essay i wrote on them was for a class, but it was one of those moments of "oh yeah. don't trust anything anybody says. do your own research."
the entire comic is narrated/framed by dooku. this isn’t jango’s recounting of his life. this is a collection of incidents dooku managed to discover through research and torture and dubious conversation, that he is now presenting to sidious as an argument for why jango would make a good prime clone. it is bare bones. it is skeletal. it’s not about who jango is as a person or about who jaster mereel was to him or about mando culture or history or political divides. it is a brutally efficient rundown of the atrocities that shaped jango fett into the man he is, the violence committed against him and the violence he committed in turn. it’s basically dooku saying “see, if we give him a chance to kill the jedi he’ll jump at it." it is an argument not a story, an essay not a narrative.
i think dooku's framing is vital for understanding the comic. nothing should be taken at face value when the narrator has an agenda.
this is getting attention again so have an essay: When A Backstory Is Not A Backstory The 2002 comic series Jango Fett: Open Seasons contains everything a tragic backstory should--the murder of Jango's family, his promising career as a child soldier, the violent death of his mentor, the total slaughter of the mercenary army he inherited leadership of from his dead mentor at the hands of the Jedi, a brief stint in slavery, a quest for revenge culminating in watching the man who killed his mentor eaten by wild animals. In four short issues, every traumatic event of Jango's short life is neatly explained, but the comic reveals almost no personal details outside of the trauma. Nothing of his childhood, nothing of his parents or sister before their deaths, very little of his relationship with Jaster Mereel, the mercenary who raised him after their deaths. The text asserts he was a good man and a good leader, but does not show why. This choice is both frustrating for fans of Jango Fett and fascinating from a literary perspective, because the story is not told by Jango. The story is told by Count Dooku.
A framing device is a literary device wherein a story is contained within a story; often when a character in the present recounts a story from their past, or a story about another character. The events in the present provide context for--provide a framework--for events in the past. The frame for Jango's story is Count Dooku's investigation into his history and potential suitability as the Prime for the planned clone army. Issue #1 opens with Dooku, or Darth Tyranus, reporting to Darth Sidious on his search for the Prime clone, and his confidence that Jango Fett will handily beat what is left of the competition. Sidious wants to know his reasoning, and so the story begins.
Some of Dooku's sources remain vague. In Issue #1 whoever passed on the details of the deaths of Jango's family are credited only as "former associates." In Issue #2 one particular associate is introduced: Silas, a former member of Jaster's Mandalorian mercenary army and Jango's loyal follower. Dooku tortures him for the information he wants on Jaster's death, and when he has it, kills him. Issue #3 centers on the massacre at Galidraan. Dooku needs no external sources for this story, as he was the one who led the Jedi against the Mandalorians. It was at Galidraan that his interest in Jango began; the only survivor, who managed to kill six Jedi before he was brought down. Cloning an army of Jedi killers from a man known galactically as a proficient Jedi killer just seemed like a smart business decision. In Issue #4, Dooku finally has a face to face meeting with Jango, and Jango recounts what happened to him after he was handed over to the Governor of Galidraan. It is the only time Jango speaks for himself.
Framing devices inherently contain an element of unreliable narration. Every narrator has an agenda, including the author. Knowing who tells the story and why on both a textual level and an authorial level is integral to understanding what information is included and excluded, and how the information is spun. Open Seasons is emblematic of the way multiple re-tellings of a story by different narrators with different agendas can just as easily strip away details as embellish them. Who told Dooku the story of Jango's parents? Everybody who was present at the event was either killed or a member of one of two mercenary armies who proceeded to wipe each other out over the next decade. It's possible the locals who cleaned up the bodies pieced together the facts, but they would have no way of knowing what was said or who shot first. It's possible Jango passed on the story on to a friend outside of his Mandalorian comrades, but he would have been an adult recounting a traumatic event that happened when he was a child. Dooku tortured Silas' story out of him, and confessions made under torture are unreliable at best and outright false at worst. Dooku was at Galidraan, but he was on the Jedi's side of things. He would not have been able to get the Mandalorian perspective because he made sure Jango Fett was the only Mandalorian survivor. Jango himself is permitted to tell of only the most recent years of his life, coincidentally the years during which he became a bounty hunter and put work into building and maintaining a reputation as brutal--a reputation he would have profited from embellishing--and even this story is conveyed to the readers through Dooku.
Framing devices are often seen as a gimmick, a way to ease readers into flashbacks or lore dumps, but as an established literary device they serve to determine the pacing and shape the structure of a story by controlling the way information from outside the present is integrated and interpreted. Framing devices give insight into a narrator's agenda. Jango has an agenda. What he tells Dooku about his past will determine if he is hired or not. Silas had an agenda--escape the pain as quickly as possible. The nameless sources from Issue 1 had agendas that the readers cannot even guess at because no information is shared as to how they came to know what they knew and how they came to pass it on. Dooku, out of every narrator present in the story, has perhaps the most obvious and specific agenda. Open Seasons is not about who Jango Fett is as a person, or how his history shaped him. The entire comic is Dooku's pitch to Sidious for why Jango would be the perfect Prime clone. Every detail that could have humanized him is excluded in Dooku's re-telling in an effort to make Sidious see Jango Fett as a monster, from which could be crafted an army of monsters.
This exactly.
We have a few other character retellings of Galidraan in lore, two of which are also Dooku’s. Dooku’s retellings are not directed towards Darth Sidious here, so they are considerably more humanizing. They are also deeply influenced by his own disgust with the Jedi Order. In the second excerpt (below the cut), he projects his own emotions onto Jango, assuming they share the same drive to destroy the Jedi. However, multiple other sources (a couple shown under the cut) directly contradict his narrative.
(Following excerpts from: STAR WARS: JEDI VS. SITH: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE FORCE, THE BOUNTY HUNTER CODE: FROM THE FILES OF BOBA FETT, STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS MOVIE NOVELIZATION, THE OFFICIAL STAR WARS FACT FILES)
today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god
“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book
I have been alerted by various folks
did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Vader the gullible
Do you think Tristan saw the way Sabine bickered and threatened to beat Ezra's ass and then spent time painting helmets together and made inside jokes about Zeb and was filled with jealousy over how his role as a brother had been so easily taken by someone that never abandoned Sabine
Considering Tristan was around 11 years old when Sabine left, I think what he mostly felt was a lot of pain. But grief can feel like jealousy, when you dont know how to process it.
kanan offering ezra the support and guidance he wished he had when he was 14. don’t even try to argue with me who’s the best jedi yall already know

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S1 and 2 Kanera are so touchy-feely and I love that for them
Happy Father’s Day to Kanan Jarrus!
Andor Who Are You? | 2.08
Do you think the Ghost crew ever had to get all dressed up to go undercover at a fancy ball or something?
it is a truth universally acknowledged that ALL media can be improved with a formal mission so yes yes yes + dressed up kanera should get to give some bisexuals a nosebleed
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I'm still not over this game 😩

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I'd still trust you with my life doctor tbh
MANDALORIAN LORE OF THE DAY: TRUE MANDALORIANS & MANDALORIAN PROTECTORS: BELIEFS & IDEOLOGY
SOURCES: A GALAXY AT WAR (SAGA EDITION), STAR WARS INSIDER: THE MANDALORIANS-PEOPLE & CULTURE, THE COMPLETE STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA, STARWARS.COM, THE HISTORY OF THE MANDALORIANS