Fan Stuff For Sharo

Obviously, the original equipment went down the shaft (hah) on Naboo when Obi-Wan bisected him. He did not recover his lower half, but put together a piecemeal body-horror spidermaul agglomeration. Unlikely to have a functional penis. The closest thing he might have is a waste drainage port.

When Mother Talzin uses Nightsister magick to heal his mind and body somewhat, she gives him robot legs almost reminiscent of what General Grievous had going on. We can see everything pretty easily as he's running around with these legs, causing mayhem. He's basically naked except for his neck armour during this arc. No penis.

THEN he gets found by the Mandalorians, who hook him up with Mandalorian prosthetics. It's been mentioned by others that Mando prosthetics of this nature would include cybernetic genitals, since they would have been designed by Mandos for Mandos who suffered severe injuries in combat. It's kind of a no-brainer to me that the average wounded Mandalorian soldier would want to have a cock as part of their restored lower body. AND!!! From this point on, Maul wears pants. We never see him without something covering him below the waist again.

My theory, in sum:

Spidermaul: no cock ❌️

Talzin's raptor legs Maul: no cock ❌️

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So we know they must, as a consequence of having the tech they use on screen, have access to rhydonium, coaxium, and tibanna - three fuel materials that aren't universally available and require specialized processing and transport methods. So who is Dathomir trading with? How do they maintain contact with the people they're trading with? There's got to be some way to contact them that isn't "A Cave Hag Sends You Burning Green Visions" right?

As for the energy bows, if you couldn't justify trade you could argue something like this; tibanna is (in some sources) used as coolant in blasters rather than fuel, so potentially the energy bows don't need it due to using the entire length of the bow as a heat sink.

However, if you were discussing trade there are a few interesting possibilities. In terms of neighbours there's the drackmarians, who apparently survived as an independent power all through the imperial period, so I could easily imagine being the sort to build an outpost or two on dathomir. Also more generally, dathomir really isn't that far off the Hydian Way, and people have to be getting rancors from somewhere when they're stocking their crime lord's menageries, so potentially the nightsisters (who regularly tame rancors) sell those. Also, in similar markets i'm sure there's plenty of people willing to fork out for witchy force healing.

Since we see them using their own landspeeders and ships with at least one landing pad, that's where I'm getting them having some sort of access to different fuel types and engine repair needs. (And eventually came to the conclusion that since there is at least one landing pad capable of receiving starships on the continent, there's a minimum amount of "air traffic control" types, there's got to be the machinery needed to refuel ships, fire suppression chemicals/tech, etc)

So one of Abdul's group, Kim, collapsed yesterday and is in the hospital. I managed to cover the initial bill by myself, but these emergencies tend to snowball outside of my ability to provide. Medication in South Sudan is expensive, and on top of that they still need money for food and rent. I'm going to tentatively post the current goal at $1000 as their monthly necessities often come up to $770.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

Cuz it was like ohhh ok so other people do know about the agonies and it’s actually fine to acknowledge them and depict them in fiction for fun. Agony is real and it sucks and you can play with it and talk about it. ok. That’s not so bad, I guess I don’t have to keep it inside forever.

Has anyone looked into this. How do I find studies on the effects of scary violent sexual media on children who seek it out cuz they’re already evil due to events and such.

like, there is no way to honestly depict what was going on in my life and how I felt without, at the VERY LEAST, explicit depictions of sexual assault. and how it felt. and how sometimes it feels kinda good to be molested, for reasons you don't understand, and people will use that against you, but ultimately it still sucks and isn't your fault.

like i cannot express enough how this is about how the only place i ever saw and ever COULD see my experiences put into words will default be at least SOMEWHAT pornographic. even if the point of the story is that it sucked and you hated it. because without that detail, with a fade away or a skip or whatever, you are missing the most important part. The sensations affect the thoughts. If it's brutal or not is important, if it's coercive, if it's "consenting" with a groomed party, those specifics matter. They gave me a moment to moment breakdown of how the abuse works as it's happening, as the abuser is actively making you think its your fault that you don't like it. That things can be sexual abuse without you being penetrated or whatever. They gave me the ability to think "hey that WAS fucked up" even though internally it wasn't like, the worst most brutal thing ever.

i really do appreciate this but like. you're gonna have to admit at some point that most of y'all are not ok with letting certain kinds of kids see their lives depicted truthfully, in a way that they and everyone else their age can access, cuz it could scare some other kids. you absolutely dont want the stuff im talking about in classrooms. like, it's not even good for all molested kids. A lotta sexually abused ppl find that shit inherently triggering and traumatizing to read, right?

ultimately the issue here is less about media (since a lot of media is more about what you get outta it anyway) and more a lack of trustworthy adults to discuss shit with and help you IRL. which ain't as simple a problem to solve. but i feel like i gotta be really clear here this is absolutely not about Children's Media lmao.

also while I'm here:

sorry to this person in the tags but I still dont give a fuck about kids being scared by books and shit cuz like. 1) that can happen about anything. genuinely the feelings you're talking about with realizing people want to hurt you and no one would help is a realization you can have at any moment as a child. Especially since you say you had zero safe adults,. I'm not an expert here but since you left the tags I'm just gonna say I do agree with the assessment that it's more important you should have had literally anyone to trust.

like, despite what I'm gonna say in point 2 the shit that really tangibly fucked me up for a long time was Slenderman, like, i couldn't shower without a radio or stand alone in a room cuz i'd get too scared of the idea of Slenderman Getting Me. I'm still lowkey scared of him when I'm home alone. And I think it's less about the specific media and more that the media was too good at latching onto the fears i already had. I do not literally think slendy is real. It's a way for my mind to channel my paranoia & fear of the unknown & stuff.

but back to the point, 2) I was also terrified by fucked up scary media for adults. from true crime media and horrifying accounts of real shit. most of my fears about the world are from accounts i read or watched shit about. but again, it wasn't traumatizing just to know that the world was scary. it was traumatizing to be aware that, despite what adults loved to say, people actually did not want to help me at all. but that wasn't new to me, because I'd been living it already, so, idk. I had/have a really bad anxiety disorder that makes it hard to leave the house. I don't trust a lotta people. I had to come up with a framework of trust and morality that lets me function and lets me trust some people anyway.

so idk, sorry if i don't super care about prioritizing saving kids from a nebulous conceptual fear that could be triggered by anything. it's a fear you're probably gonna have to tackle one day anyway. plus I feel like there's a lot of ways to come to the conclusion that the world is bad and people don't wanna help you, like you also say here that other media kept reinforcing that and i agree. but a fucked up book in your classroom just isn't one i think is worth policing. you think you shouldn't have had access to that as a kid? fair enough I guess, but i think i should have and I'm glad I eventually did. my childhood would be rated for ages 18+ regardless, so maybe im a bit callous about it, but that's just how i feel.

tho to be clear I'm also glad I was a lurker until I was like 19 and rarely interacted with adults/authors of those works lmao. not cuz they were creepy but cuz if any of them had been predators i would've been an easy target. but that's its own post.