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antianakin · 9 months

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I think it's so funny that there's this widespread headcanon that Anakin loves droids and droids love him because it just... has no basis in canon. Anakin likes ONE DROID throughout all of the time we see him and that's R2. He barely manages to tolerate C-3PO despite having literally programmed him, and Padme treats C-3PO with more compassion and respect than Anakin generally does. When R2 is thought lost, Anakin treats the replacement droid like shit (yes, that droid ended up a spy but Anakin doesn't know that and that's not why he treats the new droid like shit). Anakin is also shown to be a lot quicker to mow down battle droids that aren't attacking him than Obi-Wan is. He's never shown actively caring about droids in general, just ONE droid. There's nothing to prove he cares about droids as a matter of principle, either, he just happens to like R2.

By contrast, the Jedi are often headcanoned as being dismissive of droids (and sometimes as dismissive of Anakin for caring about them), when there's multiple examples of this being untrue. Ahsoka obviously also likes R2 and considers him a friend, but she's just as quick to treat his replacement well and with the same level of kindness she gave to R2. Mace makes an offer of peace to the battledroids after THREE YEARS of battle with them. And of course then there's Master Huyang, who literally holds the rank of Master within the Jedi Order because they value his knowledge of lightsaber construction so highly, and all of the Jedi are taught to treat him with the respect that deserves and they initiates all work really hard to ensure that he ALSO makes it out of Hondo's attack alive and refuse to just leave him behind.

So I feel like we should be seeing fewer storylines involving Anakin being the only person who cares about droids and the Jedi chastising him for it, and more storylines involving the Jedi literally having to remind him to respect and care for other droids, yes, even if they're annoying sometimes, yes, even if they seem broken or useless, yes, the Force flows through them too even if it feels different.

#star wars #droids #jedi #pro jedi #jedi appreciation #jedi order appreciation #pro jedi order #anti anakin #anti anakin skywalker #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #r2-d2 #ahsoka tano #mace windu

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separatist-apologist · 2 years

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Hi! I don't know if you've received a SW ask lately, but what do you think the biggest fight Han and Leia have ever had is? How do you think they resolved it?

I am avoiding my ask box lately using star wars so you can ALWAYS send me a SW ask.

Probably Leia's career and it's probably cheating since that's canon. He can't handle the long hours and isn't particularly supportive. She can't deal with how he never quite grew out of his laid back smuggling.

One day he just leaves. Doesn't return until TFA. I hate it.

For pretend though? Chewbacca keeps tracking dirt in the house and Han doesn't think it's a big deal. HUGE fight resolved when Chewie gets them a Roomba for Life Day.

#I hate what the sequels did to them #and I always accept SWs asks #SW anons never send me rude ass shit about my fics #or ships #just ginger appreciation vibes and best droid hours

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the-baddest-of-batches · 1 year

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Dar'Aliit: Chapter Thirteen - Big Picture (Sneak Peak)

20 BBY Capital of Roche

"R3, talk to me," I lunge off the rooftop and hit the other one rolling. I've cleared a second street and I'm hurting. The bolt that pierced my shoulder armor a few blocks back stings, but I keep moving. I can fire one handed.

Another map pings up. The droids are moving toward the last bridge. It looks like that tactical droid is planning to cut us off.

The chatter in my ears tells me it's working. Fang Company has heavy casualties. Addie is doing everything he can to reduce the impact on the civilians, but they're getting spread thin. We have to put an end to this.

I pant and crouch on the edge of the roof. Shading my eyes I can see the tanks moving down the street. They've got a couple of squads on them, so I jump down, land hard, and bust in a window with my elbow. Someone hidden inside screams. I clamber through and put a finger to my helmet.

A quick glance around tells me enough. One kid. Two dead parents. Poor thing. I walk over to where a little girl is curled up under a table and crouch down.

"Shhh, shhh, I'm here to help."

The little girl is mortified. She stares at my faceless helmet and I'm not sure she can tell me from a droid.

I pull it off, wincing, and she blinks as if realizing I'm human. Her hands stick out. She's probably no older than ten. "Where's my mommy?"

I don't know if I should offer to hold her or not. I don't really have time, but I have to make sure she's safe. I glance around. She's hiding well under this table, but if the droids bust back in here and she screams again—

Her hands no longer reach for me. She's looking at my helmet and trying to figure out how it works. Clearly she's a bright kid, just scared out of her mind. She's distracting herself from everything outside.

I push the helmet toward her and route chatter to my comm before muting it. Wouldn't want her to hear the desperation of the outside world right now. "Hold onto this for me, okay? Keep it safe, and don't make a sound. I'll get it when I come back."

She nods and curls back up. I stand up and grab a blanket. "Here," I drape it over the table so it obscured her from vision. She won't see the corpses this way. Poking my head under, she looks up, still shaking.

"Have you ever played forts?" I ask. Maybe that's a silly question. She's a normal kid.

"Hide and seek?" she offers.

"Sure," I manage a smile. "You hide, I'll seek."

That gets the mildest giggle out of her. "But you already found me, mister."

"Well hide here, and I'll pretend I don't know," I say.

She nods rapidly and wraps her limbs around my helmet. I head out.

It's a massacre in the streets. There's white plastoid everywhere and civilians too. I swallow bile and keep moving in the alleys, crouching behind walls, and finally I can see the main body of them. Fang Company, or what's left of it, is holding them back on the north and south. According to the map on my wrist comm, the tactical droid has to be here.

I know I'm supposed to bring the droid in, but I'd like to smash its head to smithereens.

Crouching low in another alley, I take stock of what I have. Low on ammo, low on grenades. I can't get through an army alone.

A deeply tanned face with white stripes appears in a window beside me and I almost curse aloud.

It's a man, older than me. He looks side to side, and then opens the door near the window that leads into the alley I'm hunkered down in. He ushers me inside. I follow and the door slams shut behind me.

"Your men are pinned down," he murmurs in a heavy accent. "We have seen them being slaughtered."

"I know," I try not to scoff in his face. I don't want to think about this.

There's others with him in the room. Men, women, all older, but not old. Some of them grip weapons. My eyes lock onto one woman's rifle. I pull away from the man who invited me in.

"Can I have that?"

"Veti," the man behind me nods.

Veti, the woman, holds it out. I pick it up. It's crude, a civilian weapon, but it's got ammo. And a very nice anti armor attachment on it.

"You should all stay here. Stay safe," I say.

"No!" A man in the back stands up.

"Jo'r."

"No!" Jo'r shouts again. He shoves forward. He's younger. "I want to fight. I want to see those droids burnt to slag!"

I step in front of him and put out my hand. His deep black eyes lock with mine and I give him a warning look. "Fighting gets you nowhere but in a shallow grave. Stay here, stay with your family, and stay alive."

Jo'r looks past me at the elderly man. He nods.

"Let the soldier handle this, Jo'r."

"Don't be a martyr," I whisper. Jo'r hangs his head and I leave him be. "Thank you," I tell Veti as I head to the door. I'll have to prop it on my good shoulder but now I should be able to get a clear shot at the tanks.

Outside again, and with some difficulty, I make it onto the next roof. I stretch out and set the rifle against my right shoulder and stare down the sights. I tap my wrist comm.

"Captain, can you read me?"

"We're getting slaughtered over here, Kian. Any wise insights to end this?"

"Sorry, sir. Working on it. The droids went after the civvies."

"I know. Where are you now?"

"Staring at your shebs, sir. I can see why the ladies like you.."

"Well don't blow off my best feature."

I chuckle. The humor is our defiance in the face of death. "Hold out a little longer, if you can." I try to keep the sadness out of my voice. I know we're all rather used to this by now. Enough to quip and joke about it, but I still can't stand to think of all the armor tags that will come back without a body.

"Copy that." Addi's communication fizzles out and I'm left alone. Me and the tinnies.

I sight up the head tank facing north and load up a shot. The tank creeps forward and right into range. I fire.

The anti armor round sears the hull and the air shakes as the tank explodes, spitting shrapnel everywhere. I grin to myself, sight up another, and take them out one by one. Like picking off fish caught in a barrel.

"One down," Addie says over the comms. I finish sighting up the last tank before seeing the square head poking out of it. There you are.

"Captain, can you and your men handle the rest?" I ask.

"Without their tanks? They're scrap."

"Got it. I'm going in to retrieve my target."

I drop the rifle, pick up my decee and drop back down into the street. Republic troops come charging into the droids. I charge forward, running between the shrapnel and making my beeline for the last tank. A couple of troopers climb up onto it and plant sticky bombs on the turret.

"You can't do that!" shouts a droid.

"Halt!" cries the tactical droid.

The turret blasts in half. I use the smoky cover to clamber up the sides and stand atop the tank. I lower my decee at the tactical droid's blank pinched face.

"Surrender," I tell him.

"You can not do this. This is an outrage!" It tries waving it's tinny arms in a futile protest.

I squat down and grip the head with my good hand. This thing has no way to know I'm out of shots. With one clean jerk, I rip the head off and the droid goes limp, falling back into the tank.

"Someone throw me a grenade!" I yell.

An unprimed detonator gets tossed up. I snag it, prime it, and lob it right back down into the tank before sliding off it and hitting the ground with my prize in hand.

The tank goes up in flames.

"Kian!" Addie waves me down. I look over at him, but glance back at the streets. "Hold on sir," I say.

"Kian, we need to get–"

"I know." I turn and toss him the droid head. "I'll be right back." I don't wait for further questions, or comments, I just leave them with the intel, and head back down the street.

4 BBY Techno Union Factory

"Battle droids, sir."

I about slam my fist against the wall. "Course it's kriffing battle droids!"

This was supposed to be a simple mission. Hunt down the Jedi Knight and somehow avoid stepping on the Inquisition's toes. Or well, in my case, step on all of them and see how many break.

But this abandoned foundry was not supposed to be filled with battle droids. We've already found plenty of signs of life, though. For a planet ravaged by deadly bio disease, someone's making a clear living out here.

R3 beeps from my side. I look down at him.

"What?"

He wants to find the control panel. I wave him to it. "Go on."

"Sir," Dross looks at me. "Can we hold up against Battle droids?"

"They're just tin cans, Dross. We'll be fine." My lips curl. "Now c'mon, we have droids to scrap."

Zur follows, as does Jay. I can tell they're all timid. I'm not scared, just kriffing angry. And I thought those droids were done for after the war.

I can see them. Sand colored B1's marching right out of their holding units. I reach for my blaster.

They stop.

"Uh, sir? Is that normal?"

I take a step forward. Maybe they don't see us. Maybe they're just plain dumb. Not one of them so much as flinches.

"Can we just...walk past them?" Zur continues.

Blaster ready, I walk up to them. They don't move. I could shoot one in the head right now if I so wanted. I certainly want to.

"They're decom," Dross confirms. "R3 got into their programming, it looks like. We're clear to move ahead."

R3 trundles happily into the hall. I give him a side eye. "You'd better not turn those things on us, or I will turn you into slag," I hiss as he passes.

R3 beeps mischievously. I hate that droid sometimes. But I admit, he's a solid team member.

I glance at the battle droids as we pass. They don't belong in this day and age anymore. That war is over, but the fight isn't done.

I focus on the hall and lead my team down it. Greater threats wait for us. I scowl and let the hatred boil back into my veins like adrenaline. You can't hide, Jedi.

New Chapter coming on Wattpad and AO3 tomorrow!

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ai-art-appreciator · 1 year

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The Droid

#AI Art #Ai-art-appreciator #wombodream #Droid #Robot

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nimata-beroya · 1 year

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Note: Since my old masterlist is getting notes again (and I'm hosting @tbb-appreciation-week this year), I thought it's a good time to release a new version with a lot more resources. If any of you know another site or thing that it's missing from the list, let me know and I'll include it!! [Altho, I'm getting this close 🤏 to the hyperlinks limit on this thing 😆]

Note 2: To avoid tagging the 3 people from whom I got multiple resources repeatedly, I've placed 1-3 asterisks between square brackets after the links, depending on the OP. I give the respective credit to them in a legend at the end of the post.

PLACES / TIME

Interactive Galaxy Map by Henry Bernberg

Map of the Galaxy

List of planets and moons [Wikipedia /needs expanding]

Planet Name Generator 1 [SciFi Ideas]

Planetary System Generator [Donjon]

Tatooine Location References [*]

Various locations Cross-Sections (Jedi Temple, Palp's office, Tipoca City & more) [**]

Republic - Separatist - Hutt space during the Clone Wars

Hyperspace Travel Times (to calculate how much time would take to go from point A to point B within the GFFA)

Standard Calendar and Holidays [including month names!]

Galactic Standard Calendar [wookiepedia // including week day names]

Date converter according to SWTOR [Google sheet]

Dated Star Wars Chronological Order (Movies + live-action shows + animation)

TCW Chronological Timeline by @mauvrix

Estimated date for: shared by @spectres-fulcrum

Partisans' attack on Onderon

Siege of Lasan

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

General

Star Wars Name Generator 1 [Donjon]

Star Wars OC flow chart by @thefoodwiththedood

Star Wars Name Generator 2 [FantasyNames]

Star Wars Name Generator 3 [FantasyNames]

MetaHuman [Unreal Engine]

The character creator

Droid Name Generator

Star Wars Randomizer by @aureutr

Character Picrew [Twi-leks, Zabraks, Torgutas and Nautolans] @/megaramikaeli

Jedi

Taking a Closer Look at the Jedi Order in Star Wars Canon [Meta/Reference Guide] [**]

Jedi Order Structure Flowchart by @rileys-nest

Mandalorians

Mandalorian Armor design by MandoCreator

Keepers of the Way (Mandalorian Lore) [*]

Clones

Complete List Of Named Clone Troopers shared by @propheticfire (Organized by Unit)

Clone Creator [MandoCreator]

Clone Picrew

Star Wars Character Templates by SmacksArt [the ULTIMATE battery of template for any human/humanoid original character in any era. From troopers to droids, from Jedi to Sith, from KOTOR to the sequel Trilogy. 100% RECOMMENDED]

Basic Guide to Clone Trooper Armour by @odekiisu

GAR structure summary by @intermundia

The Clone Wars Republic Military Hierarchy Flowcharts [***]

Clone Trooper Lore [*] [Ranks, Culture, Training, Organization, etc.]

Clones and Kamino [*]

The Bad Batch Characters Concept Art shared by @shadowthestoryteller

MISCELLANEOUS

Star Wars Character Age Comparison Chart by @the-yearning-astronaut

Tusken Raiders lore by @snarwor

Materials (fabrics, leathers, silks, plastics, construction, metal composites, etc.)

Materials in Star Wars by marvel_dc_heart_throbs

Star Wars Fashion [*]

Leisure, Art, Musical Instruments, Ethnography [*]

Political and Criminal Organizations in the GFFA [**]

Financial reference about credits by @thecoffeelorian

List of TCW Opening Quotes

Transcripts of all the TCW episodes shared by @book-of-baba-fett

Star Wars Crawl Creator [not exactly writing-related, but just for fun]

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Canon Medical Lore [*]

Real World reference for Field organizational structure for corpsman (medics) [*]

Kaliida Shoals Medical Center (Republic Haven-class medical station) shared by @clonewarsarchives

GAR Battalion Aid Station [*]

GAR Clone Medic Q/A [*]

More combat medicine, shipboard medicine, veteran issues, and military culture [*]

SHIPS AND VEHICLES

Ship Generator 3D

Ship Name Generator

All Terrain Tactical Enforcer (AT-TE) shared by @stairset

Republic Vessels Reference [*]

Low Altitude Assault Transport/Infantry (LAAT/i) [*]

List of GAR Flagships in the Clone Wars by @meandmyechoes

Layout of the Havoc Marauder

Dimensions of various ships from the Clone Wars [**]

FOOD AND DRINKS

Star Wars Menu Generator

In-Universe Alcoholic beverages

Canon Cocktails (recipes) [*]

Another In-Universe Drinks list shared by @systemic-dreams

Teas in Star Wars by marvel_dc_heart_throbs

Foodstuff [*]

Canon Star Wars Holiday Recipes [*]

Trask Chowder Recipe (from The Mandalorian) [*]

LANGUAGES; PHRASES AND SLANG; VOCABULARY

Languages of the Galaxy [*]

Script of different languages in the GFFA by @lucif-hare-blog

In-Universe phrases and slang [Google sheet]

List of phrases and slang [wookiepedia]

List of equivalents to real-world objects [wookiepidia]

Talk Like a Clone Trooper shared by @archeo-starwars

Aurebesh Translator [Aurebesh.org]

Learning Aurebesh Tools [Aurebesh.org] Reading - Writing.

Mando'a Database [Mando.org]

Mando'a Transcripticon [MandoCreator] (Create your own text in the Mando'a script.)

@project-shereshoy (Blog that collects and posts sources for Mando'a from all over the internet.)

Mando’a Categorized Spreadsheet

Learning Mando'a Tools [MandoCreator] Reading - Writing.

Setting Thesaurus Entry: Spaceport [Writers helping writers]

Fan-created Conlangs

@dai-bendu-conlang (Jedi Culture Explored) (This blog is the home of the Dai Bendu Conlang, invented by the Archive of Our Own Users aroacejoot, @ghostwriterofthemachine, and loosingletters for the Jedi Order in Star Wars.)

Lasana Lexicon by Anath_Tsurugi (fandom lexicon of the Lasat Language)

HELPFUL BLOGS & SITES

The amazing @fox-trot, who not only makes astonishing art and write an amazing fic, she also responds to medical questions and gives all kinds of references for writing medic characters. Check her #medicposting tag and you'll find tons of information. Also check #star wars reference and her art tag while you're at it.

@writebetterstarwars, which seems to be inactive, but there are a bunch of references there.

@howtofightwrite The place to find out how to write a good fight scene.

@scriptmedic no longer active, but it has a great deal of useful information.

@scripttorture for your whump needs. Major trigger warning for all its content.

@sw-anthrobiology A blog dedicated to collecting headcanons about the biology and cultures of Star Wars species.

@archeo-starwars In-universe sources on culture and history.

@clonewarsarchives Resources & Concept Art Blog for The Clone Wars animated series.

Wookiepedia If you don't find something in here, it's probably because it doesn't exist, neither as a canon nor legends reference.

Star Wars Databank: The official Star Wars website's reference guide. All canon.

WRITING IN GENERAL (For those who don't want to die like Stormtroopers)

SlickWrite: Completely free; online. Checks grammar, punctuation, flow, and writing style according to different settings (including fiction writing).

ProWritingAid: [RECOMMENDED] One of the most thorough online proofreader I've ever used. Although when using a free account gives extremely thorough feedback, with +20 different in-depth reports, for only the first 500 words. However, you can earn a premium account license (for a year or for life) if you get 10 or 20 new users signing up for free; (if you wouldn't mind doing so using the link above and help me earn mine, please). The settings allow you to check your writing according to your needs, from general to formal to creative. It has a bonus that you can check depending on the genre you're writing. For example, in creative, you can choose romance or sci-fiction (there are 14 sub-genre in total). And just like google docs, you can share a document, and people can view, comment or edit it too.

LanguageTool: [RECOMMENDED] Another excellent proofreader. It also has a word limit in free accounts, but if you use the add-on for Google Docs, it counts each page as a new document, so hitting the word limit is nearly impossible. It helps you to rewrite a sentence (3 a day), even if it doesn't raise any flags; it's very useful for when your sentence is grammatically correct, but it doesn't feel quite right.

Grammarly, Hemingway Editor: No so great, but they do the basic job.

Legend

[*] Shared by @fox-trot [**] Shared by @gffa [***] Shared by @cacodaemonia.

#star wars writing resources #star wars #the clone wars #the bad batch #the mandalorian #sw rebels #tcw #tbb #the book of boba fett #andor #obi wan kenobi series #tales of the jedi #ahsoka show #sw resistance #writing resources #long post

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