vetted organizations / funds to donate to in appalachia for hurricane relief
beloved asheville
wnc rural organizing & resilience (ROAR)
pansy collective
appalachian medical solidarity/asheville survival program
first aid collective knoxville
marshall, nc refugees mutual aid fund
rural barnardsville, nc supply fund
please boost if you cannot contribute—the destruction in appalachia is devastating and our infrastructure was not equipped to handle this kind of disaster.
Thinking about that scene in rotj where Han’s talking about how he needs one more person for his command crew and Luke just dramatically strolls in and is like “count me in buddy!”
Based on this I have decided that with the exceptions of Han, Chewie, Leia, and Wedge, every rebel’s sole experience with Luke is the guy who runs off to do weird magic stuff and then shows up to every meeting fifteen minutes late with starbucks
Okay!
I have a Star Wars OC!
He’s the first OC I’ve ever created.
He’s a Cathar (basically space lions) named Leon Vartanian.
Big fella. At least 6 foot 7. Big black mane on him. Wears blue eyeshadow and nail varnish. Likes to wear blue leggings and ballet slippers. (Often at times he will outright refuse to wear any shoes at all if he isn’t allowed to wear his ballet slippers)
Very shy. (It’s meant to be ironic given that he’s a great big space lion)
Like myself he is also autistic and bisexual.
Also he talks like a cowboy (like a Texas-Arkansas drawl) and nobody knows why. His parents and other Cathar are baffled by it. “Yeah, I have NO idea why he talks like that.”
I can’t draw and I don’t know any artists so there’s no visual reference. Closest I’ve seen to anything looking like him is President Phyronix from Ratchet & Clank 3. And that’s only a 75% match.
He IS force-sensitive but he’s not a Jedi. His religion (an ANCIENT pre-Jedi Cathar-only (they’re closed off owing to a long history of persecution) Force religion which places emphasis on ritual baptism and knowledge) believes that the Jedi are well-meaning but terribly flawed and nearsighted.
He used to be a ballet dancer (often performing with Cathar girls in theatres and public venues alongside Theelin bellydancers) until the Empire invaded Cathar (his home planet) and he joined one of the many anti-Empire resistance movements.
He would regularly bounce back and forth between working for MANY different rebel cells and groups such as the Ghorman Front, the Partisans, the People’s Movement for a New Republic, the Outer Rim Democratic Forces, the Cathar Military Council, the New Cathar Resistance and others.
The empire wanted him captured alive for vivisection as part of their anti-neurodivergent, and anti-rebellion policy. They captured him a few times but he was always able to break out.
One time he did so simply because they forgot to lock his cell door.
After the war he briefly returned to ballet but eventually joined the New Republic Marshal Bureau before eventually becoming an agent in a secret branch of the New Republic Directorate of Military Intelligence.
He works to hunt down and apprehend former imperial war criminals.
That’s all I’ve got about him for now.
"We will meet again in a universe where we don't have to hide or run."
I FEEL SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM I haven't introduced my torgruta OC yet but her and Sarge Twilight are secretly together and god, there's something about writing a romance so sickly sweet and then crushing it with drama and angst. I need to draw more of them otherwise I will explode.
Her name is Shoga Ki <3 I'll tell y'all more about her soon enough ajhfskgdjksghjk
magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.
because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!
needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture
Star Wars AU where everything is the same, except the Jedi are worried that their men aren't making bonds with people who aren't Jedi or their brothers, so they create a pen-pal program.
And the senate is like "Ehh..."
And the Jedi are basically, "lol, who's gonna stop us?"
So the Clones start getting letters. And then videos. And then physical gifts. And the next thing you know the senate is getting inundated with furious letters about the mistreatment of the clones.
And then some enterprising young thing marries her clone pen pal, and demands rights and payment.
And Palpatine's response is a Galaxy wide announcement that he isn't going to change anything about the Clones status.
And the people who now consider the Clones friends and loved ones, just say, "I think the fuck not." They demand their senators oust him.
And if it doesn't work, they replace their senators.
Meanwhile, the Jedi are watching this with bemused expressions, while they prepare for the seven weddings that they have to attend in the next week.
there is not enough love for the knights of the old republic comics 💔💔☹️