yknow that trend where a show has a m/f couple but fans ship the man with another man and make that the whole fandom and then they sideline the woman by sticking her with a random background woman for the token lesbian relationship

thats what nitearmor is to me but reversed. the show sets up dinbo but the fandom fixates on nitearmor and din is the token aspec being sidelined. A win for lesbianism and feminism everywhere

The Armourer being like "oh if only he had a parent here to give him permission... oh noo." *examines nails pointedly*

FUCK Walon Vau man, idfc that he’s got a Star Wars dog that he loves more then anything in an attempt to humanize him. I think that Atin should get to stab him repeatedly, you know as a treat.

Kal is a problematic old man that I love but Walon is a problematic old man that I hate

wonder if mando heading to the big screen was a compromise, wasn't disney looking to shrink down a bit on tv releases and also reup it's film presence?

After the lackluster bobf and mando s3 it does feel like we can't do another season of this, and your storytelling structure wants to be a movie with no long term consequences anyway.....

din: grogu is too young to operate heavy machinery

grogu: no grogu wants to be forklift certified

I am fully in support of all of those posts that critique fandom's obsession with making the clones completely Mandalorian in every way curse you Traviss, and I think it's valid to take a second look at the impulse, but I also take umbrage with the idea that the clones have nothing to do with Mandalorian culture at all. Literally the most visible clone in the whole of TCW wears jaig eyes, used the same way the Mandalorians use them, and so do multiple other clones. Multiple clones also picked Mando'a names for themselves, or wear traditional Mandalorian hairstyles, and Boil isn't the only clone who wears some sort of Death Watch insignia (which is fascinating in its own right).

There's just - nuance to all of it, I think. The clones aren't wholly Mandalorian, but they aren't not Mandalorian either. Whatever canon you want to take re: Jango and the trainers he picked, the clones clearly picked up bits of the culture from them, whether because of or despite them. Especially considering Mandalorian culture was largely spread through conquest originally, and adoption, the clones have as much of a right to it as anyone, and writing that off or ignoring the fact that at least some of them clearly do consider themselves part of the culture in some way removes a lot of the grey area from them as their own thing, imo.

The clones are a grey area, as a whole. I think that's part of the tragedy of them. They don't have one people who are their own except other clones. They don't have one specific homeworld or culture. They were created literally to die as cannon fodder, and they made themselves into a people despite that. Taking away one of the major pieces they incorporated into their lives (in strict canon, even if you want to ignore everything Traviss ever touched) is weird and overlooks a lot of what's presented about the clones in TCW.

They don't have to be perfectly Mandalorian in every way. That's just as much of an injustice to them. But removing the Mandalorian bits entirely strips away a lot of how they clearly see themselves, too.

... anyway, I got given ideas. Guess this is what happens when I go several months without drawing anything.

First art of 2023, first art post of 2023, and full of the energy I hope to carry into the year. This is the way, and all that.

Grogu's training under Din and Luke

nortrell + txt posts = true 2.0

I think there's a really big difference between "I recognize and respect what the canon is trying to do, but I'll write this thing that goes against it anyway because that's what makes me happy" and "I do not recognize or respect what the canon is trying to do, and am going to do what I like because it makes me feel like I'm smarter than canon."

The former is Anidala writers who just want the sweet and fluffy domesticity in a no-66 AU, because we know it was meant to be toxic and tragic but DAMMIT let us have this. We know they're fucked up and a big part of the message and tragedy is that they're fucked up, but we want to live, if only for a few hours, in that dream Vader had in that one comic l, where Padmé was Supreme Chancellor and they had a son named after Qui-Gon who was also a Jedi. We know it's a dream and a fantasy but It Makes Us Happy.

The latter is people who write the New Mandalorians as enacting cultural genocide and lionize the True Mandalorians because why treat a complex political situation with nuance when you can use a Bad Animation Decision as an excuse to say that Actually the guys with guns are the morally correct party.

"I don't get why people write Anidala as this happy domestic--" delusion is fun and can make you feel better and that's fine if you aren't hurting anyone

"I don't get why people rewrite Satine to reject Mando'a when she speaks more of it than any other named character in TCW and all the signage and writing is in the Mandalorian alphabet--" malice and misogyny, probably

Sometimes, a girl's just gotta complain

hockey sports announcer voice. din dajarren

[ID: a photo of Elia Kane from The Mandalorian followed by the "not to be a lesbian but oh my fucking god" meme]

Kal Skirata is such a slightly problematic weird old man but I love him and his a-hundred sons

He’s cannon in my heart <3

surprise smooch!

MANDO LUKE!!

force user x mandalorian is the superior trope.