My Thoughts On Stewjon
🛑 DISCLAIMER 🛑 not all these HCs are mine, the "Stewjon is space Scotland" is a popular fandom take I like and decided to expand on.
I've decided to put all my HCs for Obi-Wan's homeworld and its culture here. They'll be under the cut!
Like I said above, I follow the "Stewjon is space Scotland" fandom idea. Aka, the Stewjoni share a lot of cultural and linguistic traits with Scottish and Celtic culture. Which I think include but are not limited to: calling one's children "Bairns", log throwing as a sport, kilts for special events, terms of endearment such as Mo Leannan (my lover, my sweetheart), M'eudail (my darling, my dear), Mo Chridhe (my heart).
Stewjon's —like Scotland's— diverse landscapes consist of dramatic mountains and glens, forests and moorlands and a highly indented coastline fragmented into a diverse range of islands. There are also rolling lowlands, fertile straths, broad estuaries and settlements.
Stewjon is located in Wild Space, which is why it's not a planet that's talked about that often. They aren't as introverted as the Chiss, nor as isolated as the Kel Dor, but they're just really far away for the Galactic Republic to really bother to reach them. Because of this, like the Chiss and the Kel-Dor, the Stewjoni have their own type of cult for force users and —much like with the Kel Dor— their force users specialize in predicting natural disasters- focusing on predicting earthquakes, landslides, and floods. But people also reach out to them for visions about their future.
When it comes to names, the Stewjon like to "paint a picture" with people's names. Obi-Wan's birth name is Ben Kenobi, which means Mountain (Ben), Born Of Fire (Ken) and Heart (Obi).
His name was changed to Obi-Wan Kenobi when he was discovered to be force sensitive. His parents took him to the Stewjoni force users and one of them, an elderly woman, reached into the force to see what the baby's fate was. She concluded that the child had to be given to the Jedi, and sensed the possibility for darkness in his future, so she renamed him Obi-Wan Kenobi, making his name translate literally to Heart-Dark BrightHeart. To symbolize the presence of both darkness and light within the Heart
Obi-Wan has totally called Anakin his bairn just to be able to get away with calling him his son, without anyone being able to chide him for it, and without risking Anakin's training into the Jedi path. He never told anyone what the word meant, not even Anakin.
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Jake's full name is Jakov Muller, pronounced Jack-ov. It was his maternal grandfather's name. He hates it cause it's an old man's name.
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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc
against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"
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you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is
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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.
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Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:
• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.
• Baby Gronk was mentioned.
• We discussed the Rizzler.
• “Cunty” was nominated.
• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.
• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”
• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.
• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”
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POV: you're in some cantina on Nar Shaddaa in 1ABY.
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CONTENT WARNING: TALK ABOUT POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER FOR CHARACTER META PURPOSES, ALONG WITH SPOILERS OF THE BIOHAZARD 2 MANHUA, BELOW THE CUT.
First, some context. For those of you that don't know, Ada's Backstory (which we were briefly shown in the Biohazard 2 Manhua) is that she was born in a war torn asian country, seemingly orphaned at a young age as she was fending for herself by age 14. During a bombing and after days of not eating, she found a loaf of bread in a dead guerrilla soldier's backpack, but dropped it when a bomb struck nearby. Another child, seemingly younger than her, grabbed the bread and ran off, Ada picked up the dead guerrilla soldier's shotgun and chased him. She ended up finding the boy in a wrecked house, trying to feed the bread to his sickly mother. Ada killed them both and took the bread.
Due to her childhood and the decisions she made during her most desperate times, Ada has developed PTSD. It manifests in many ways such as avoidance behaviors (self-isolation, emotional repression, avoidant attachment, hypervigilance), intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, guilt, insomnia, and hallucinations, both auditory and visual. In her case, there's also food insecurity.
For auditory hallucinations, Ada at times wakes up to the feeling that she just heard a shotgun go off right in the same room she's in. Those nights are the worst for her when it comes to her insomnia, she's not able to go back to sleep and feels as if someone is going to break into the room to 'make her pay'.
Her flashbacks and hallucinations are usually triggered by patterns. Specifically, geometrical patterns that include diamond shapes and triangles in horizontal succession; and color patterns such as yellow on green and a specific shade of purple being worn by women- especially women with black hair, because the boy she killed was wearing a green t-shirt with a yellow patter of diamonds in horizontal succession, and his mother was wearing a purple t-shirt.
As for food insecurity, Ada keeps stashes of canned goods in the places she tends to spend the most time at (her hideouts, safehouses, etc). As sophisticated as she can act when she's keeping up appearances, she's not a picky eater at all. She'll eat practically anything. However, she doesn't eat bread. It's easy to let slide in a normal context because diets that forbid bread are normalized. But in Ada's case, she will literally starve to death before eating bread. Just the smell makes her nauseous.
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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.
the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work
the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:
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i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
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