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I had an official novelization of Return of the Jedi when I was a kid and it described Jabba as being bloated, immobile, slimy, misshapen, and hairless all due to his lifestyle and unspecified diseases.

Which all implies a healthy Hutt would be sleek, maneuverable, symmetrical and have either luxurious hair or a coating of fur, like some sort of ferret-naga.

That we assume every alien we see is representative of its species is so cheap and I wish the expanded Universe and expanded actual canon hadn’t run with the idea that all hutts are essentially more Jabbas, right down to criminal proclivities and ruthlessness. How would that even work.

How would a whole planet of just a million Jabbas ever conceivably even hold a society together long enough to make it into space?

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Video description: A Black man wearing elf ears and dreads and a bandana on his head, pretending to talk to another person. Onscreen text in white says: "I'm Three Drinks Deep at the Elfsong Tavern and Someone Mentions Wyll Ravengard." The angle changes several times and Cary gets more and more animated as he speaks.

Transcription: (sounds of people talking)

Oh nonono, I'm jumping in here. I'm jumping in here because I read the piece in the Gazette, the piece on Wyll Ravengard.

Offscreen voice: Whaddya mean?

You can't slander this man.

Offscreen voice: What're you talking about?

Cary: You can't slander him. No but hear me - hear me well: he was banished from the city by his father at 17. Mind you, he protected the city from a cult of Tiamat. Tiamat cultists. You know where Tiamat was? SHE'S IN HELL. They tried to bring her to Baldur's Gate, and he stopped it. He stopped it! Nono and see this is why you backed Gortash, cuz you lack critical thinking.

Offscren voice: I don't see how that's relevant (repeats)

Cary: You do. You do. You simply do. You- you're completely mischaracterizing this man: he had every chance to just be evil. He coulda been a piece of shit, but he chose light. Where there is surely a path of darkness, he chose light every single time. For 7 years, he went and made a name for himself. As a hero - the Blade of Frontiers. For 7 years.

7 years, a devil in his ear, trying to sway him to a path of darkness, surely. And yet he chose the path of heroism. And you- and you- and you're calling him a fraud? Wyll Ravengard is NOT a fraud. Lorroakan? Fraud. Wyll Ravengard is not a fraud! Not only - not only does he save Baldur's Gate 7 years ago - when he was a teenager, ok? But he comes back with a band of ragtag heroes and helps protect the city from a cultist? The Absolute cultists?

And a chaser, for those interested:

WildCATs: Grifter and Zealot ECCC commission (2019)