#Amavikka

[that-gay-jedi]

Listen if Anakin doesn't lapse into either Huttese, Amatakka, or some form of slave creole whenever he's sufficiently upset/distracted/semiconscious/etc and if Obi-Wan doesn't pick up Anakin's first language to be able to understand him in those moments then what's even the point of living?

#anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #first language #second language #amavikka #amatakka #huttese #tatooine slave culture #obi wan is polyglot but he would never have known THIS language until he met anakin #imagine him working his ass off gaining the trust of some former slave to learn amatakka for anakin's sake #they dgaf about 90% of what makes him such a great diplomatic but they DO give a fuck abt community & kindness & discretion & empathy etc #basically they want obi-wan not the negotiator #and the journey it would take for him to figure that out #all while learning more & more shit that sheds light on anakin's pre temple traumas #you better hug him tight knight kenobi #all im saying is when you love someone you love the culture that nourishes them too #and like. when you love someone you want to understand them. #i have a special weakness for learning as a love language

[sparksinthenight]

Come Now, Vikka

Come, now, vikka, come now

Before the night turns day

Take my hand, please understand

We have to go away

———

Come now, young child, come now

To where there’s only love

My name it is Sky-Walker

We’ll follow stars above

———

Come now, fighter, come now

To where you will be free

Where you will free many more

Be brave and walk with me

———

Come now, comrade, come now

To where the Mother grows

To wild lands of desert sands

Beside the river’s flow

———

Come now, wild one, come now

I know you hear the call

Know the call of Sky-Walker

Which rings through one and all

———

Come now, brave one, come now

Break your mind out of chains

The love the Mother gives us

Will bring us all the rains

———

Come now, vikka, come now

To find love and rejoice

Bring the rains to everyone

You have to hear our voice

#inspired by #fialleril #inspired by fialleril #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #tsc #amavikka #amatakka #ekkreth #ar-amu #star wars

[eternalwanderlustvagabond]

Okay. So that encounter did not go the way I expected, and I am still a lil disappointed we did not get a hug.

HOWEVER.

Being an Amavikka fan, seeing Anakin deliberately, canonically shape-change, even that tiny bit???

I am positve that Anakin’s saber and eyes changing was something he was deliberately doing, not him losing control.

He came to Ahsoka to show her how to throw off the chains that kept her from living, not just surviving, and he changed his shape to drive the lesson home.

Ekkreth.

Stars, my heart is so full ✨

#ahsoka spoilers #hello snips pt 2 #anakin skywalker #amavikka #ekkreth #star wars #ahsoka tano #ahsoka

[mystidpurple]

Send help

I am trying to find words in Amavika for a fic, but having trouble because I can’t find anything with a dictionary or the like.  Trying to come up with a word for guide or teacher - to replace jedi master because I feel like for freed slaves master would still feel like depur even when talking about jedi.  Also trying to find some form of greeting, when you meet someone that was freed, or to show you are freed but were a slave - either word or gesture or whatever. I know I’ve seen this in a few fanfic but don’t remember which ones.  Yes it's related to the same fic as my last request. I don't know why my brain does this.

#fanfiction #star wars #star wars fanfiction #amavikka #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #tatooine slave culture #fanfic help

[junhwe0309]

What Ekkreth Knew of Fear

Shmi once told Anahkeen the story of how Ekkreth became free, because Depur has a thousand cruelties, but Ekkreth has a hundred thousand tricks. No one can hold the Sky-walker forever, because the Sky-walker wears a thousand faces and countless forms.

In the desert, a red and black bird flew, and when it came time, a god became chained to mortal flesh, borne of no father and shed of his feathers. When Anahkeen was born, rolling thunder and chilling rain blanketed Tatooine.

When Ekkreth walked amongst mortals once more, he hungered. He hungered because Qui-Gon Jinn told him the Jedi were not here to free slaves. He hungered because he wanted more than anything, for Obi-Wan to listen to him, because he is Anahkeen’s father, despite how he will never acknowledge it. He hungered because he walked free but the nameless and numbered did not. He is hungry, but never starving.

He burned and seethed, the anger rolling around him like shifting sands, because Ar-Amu teaches her children anger. May anger nurture sparse roots and water harrowed leaves and remind those who carry fear to hold it close to their hearts so that they may till rebellion. The Amavikkan have no water to waste on tears.

Anahkeen rages and disobeys with gnashing teeth in ways that the Masters chafe at. He defies his superiors and breaks bends rules, both small and big. He plots a hundred thousand little acts of resistance and prays countless times to the desert gods. It is easier to let others come to their own conclusions than to tell them of your own suffering. Obi-Wan does not know and tries to impart the importance of serenity and discipline onto Anakin. Bandomeer is a place long lost to Obi-Wan.

But Anahkeen cannot forget what Shmi Sky-walker has taught him. He knows as he prays, all gods who receive homage are cruel. Ar-Amu cries no longer, but instead raises frenzied sand and howling dust to tear off the skin of the Krayts and bury both Depur and Amavikkan alike. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshiped. Shmi whispered to him under a dark sky and shifting lands that it is through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. 

Fear is the path to the oasis. Fear leads to the soil, and the soil leads to the seeds. The seeds lead to rebellion. Half gods are worshiped in food and flowers. Real gods are paid in blood.

All these things Anahkeen remembers and holds close to his heart change very little. Shmi still paints the desert red as her final moments worship the gods. Obi-Wan becomes more lost to him. Ahsoka always leaves him. All these things Anahkeen buries have yet to make a difference. But now years of blood have tilled the seeds.

He Who Brings Rain knew in his blood that the storm would rage on, and he that one day, he would father from the storms, Lukka and Lei-yah. Two children born amongst blood and suffering and destined for lives their father could not understand. For the mighty one and the desert storm, two ways and infinite manners to communicate love in a language borne from secrets and lovelessness, it is the greatest gift a father who had nothing could give.

It is with this realization of what will be that Anahkeen changes what could be. It is treason.

“Fives... I believe you.”

Dukkra ba dukkra.

#amavikka #fialleril #anakin skywalker #star wars #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #ekkreth #star wars fanon #ficlet #amatakka #ar-amu #depur #shmi skywalker #obi wan kenobi #luke and leia #arc trooper fives

[corriegardenia]

Amatakka - How to Write in the Tattooine Slave Language

For anyone not running in these particular fanon circles, Amatakka is the fake language of the star wars slave people, Amavikka, like Anakins family at birth. It was originally made by @fialleril, adapted by a whole lot of fan authors like @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, and grew a life of its own from there.

It has a community dictionary with several hundred words, (https://at.tumblr.com/booklindworm/amatakka-dictionary/0dvnmuhlusq3) and a very basic phoneme dictionary (https://conworkshop.com/view_language.php?l=AMAT ), but absolutely no script, other than the vague idea that it'd be written in the Tusken script... which also does not exist. This is my attempt.

(The conlang fundamentally can't be separated from the slave experience, if anyone is disquieted and wants to step off. The way canonical star wars treats slavery is... weird at best; this is supposed to be a language of empowerment. I'll link some folktales at the end!)

In spite of being a communal conlang for an oral language, and my linguistics training being... sporadic, and mostly based on what helped me pick up my current four languages, and two pick-and-drop-and-pick-again languages.

I'd start with something like the inuktitut script (https://youtu.be/xW4hI_METac ). Amatakka is very polysynethic, and the idea of basing my script cataloguing an extant language off of another script cataloguing an extent language tickles me. But a lot of sounds have a specific cultural meaning that is used almost every single time that sound is used in the entire conlang. (Which is desperately impressive, considering it was primarily created by one author, extended by another, and then absorbed into damn near every fan work concerning Tattooine, but I digress.)

For that, i'd use something like Japanese's mixture of three writing systems: kanji, complex and symbolic pictograms; katakana, phonetic representations of loan words; hiragana, phonetic representations of original Japanese words.

In my Amatakka script, I'd put certain heavily symbolic sounds, like ur (wrong) ama (mother, heavily connected with their main goddess) and ani (rain/freedom) into 'kanji', which allows them to be represented as a concept even if the pronunciation changes a little (ani as raindrop and an- as rain, anumakkar as rainstorm, all symbolic of freedom)

Then, I'd put the remaining sounds in an inuktitut based system of syllables, based on the conlang dictionary of phonemes and an analysis of the Google sheet collection of amatakka words.

A system like this seems to fit the language we have well, which would make sense as - both in Canon and in fandom - the words came first, then the writing down of them. Multiple 'kanji' with one component being the same could represent different words, like how levrukka and er-amma are both names for ar-amu, and 雨、雪、電 (rain, snow, electricity) all contain the same radical. (There are probably better examples from folk more fluent in Japanese than me).

Example of this in practise, Depurekta, a slave who enslaves others. This is made of dep, chain, plus ur being something like twisted / wrong-but-less-morally-judgemental, which together is the word for slave owner, plus ekta, healer, one who heals the chains that bind.

Lets look at just that ur in the middle. It appears in japur, a scraggly and twisted native tree where ja- is being native to tattoine; also in kotovur, skin hunger, where ko- is mere skin contact; kusur, sarlacc, where kus- is nourishment; murek, a purple that also symbolises wealth and otherness, where me- is you, yourself; nuro, judge, where no- is son <twisted son who cooperates with slavers judgements>; tovur, starvation, where though we don't have a translation for to- specifically we have torazu and toris, both forms of edible seed; urs-gillig, a tusken relic cave, where I imagine gillig is a regular cave.

This said, when placed inside larger words, ur loses its symbolic meaning, eg shursu, root or foundation, where shulku is suitability; suru, puddle, where sudu is spinning/whirling air movement; kurra, strengthening food where ku- itself is nourishment; kurio, with the same root, appears more in line with ur as a symbolic sound.

(The third person pronoun tur has interesting connotations in this model, but I digress.)

So! Depurekta would probably be fully kanji, with ur being one radical in the kanji for depur, since that's such a key word for the amavikka people.

Kotovur, skin hunger, would have that ur kanji after an inuktitut style descriptive of its first two syllables, with ko- possibly getting its own kanji, as it is also used in words relating to skin contact with less desperate connotations.

Murek, purple associated with otherness, would probably be entirely inuktitut with the kanji in the middle.

Perhaps the system would, in the interest of becoming compact, turn into a hybrid model, with the symbolic pictogram in the middle and small lines off of it representing the inuktitut syllables, so that the whole word could be compressed small and hidden. Amatakka is an oral language, so any amount of writing they do have is likely to be hidden and special, like japor snippets or carvings worn close to the heart.

I am NOT planning on fleshing out the entire writing system, because that would take either hours of manual labour or an understanding of how to make a database spit out the symbolic sounds in words, both of which are not possible for me right now. I MAY write some of my favourite words, after my exams. I only have experience with the celtic and romance language families, barring a spattering of Greek, my Japanese, and English as my native tongue. I'd love to see someone else try and puzzle out how to write in amatakka; this is my attempt.

And, for those who are curious, the folk tales promised - I absolutely recommend a deep dive!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4678835

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3510809

https://archiveofourown.org/works/206521

(This one is a good sample of amavikka culture, but is part of a larger fic. Its a good larger fic!) > https://archiveofourown.org/works/18538078?view_full_work=true https://archiveofourown.org/works/19087303/chapters/45669586

#amatakka #amavikka #tattooine #tattooine slave culture #star wars #star wars conlang #star wars prequels #conlang #neography #ben naasade saga #star wars slavery #its so fucking weird you guys #anyway. we did good on this one team #please reblog this took four hours

[bionicdragonguardian1]

I have jumped face first into the deep end of @fialleril Amavikka world building and even further into @booklindworm Amatakka dictionary and a thought has occurred to me.

With a phrase a heavy, both culturally and literal, as “dukkra ba dukkra” (freedom or death) I can’t help but ponder the further possibilities of how a change in the pronunciation of “ba” (or) could open this sentence to even more meanings.

I am by NO means an expert in ANY language but I’ve been exploring tonal languages- specifically how to pronounce the different tones nearly the same letter could pronounce depending on how it’s written- especially when comparing to more Eurocentric letter modifications.

(1st thru 4th tone marks or pinyin vs the vast spread of diacritical markers vs tones and accent contours. [see below cut for examples] Or something adjacent to those. All while considering consonant modifier options [specifically things like “ß, ł, ń, š, or ż” comes to mind].)

With a language as- theoretically- old as Amatakka and a culture as vast as Amavikka (looking specifically to A Call For Help by BarinSidhe on AO3 and specifically how the “freedom” euphemisms/terminology/ phrasing changes from one planet to the next [as is logical in my mind and nifty little tidbit {and it remembering Obi-wan’s time on Bandomeer which most fics seem to forget} I love this fic for] and can thus lead to some minor misunderstandings even amongst fellow Amatakka speakers and Amavikka who have been further removed from their culture when moved to new planets) I would be less surprised to find out that such things simply fell out of use and have changed greatly over time than I would be if it stayed consistent.

One of the things I’m considering that could’ve fallen out of use is tonals. Not entirely, of course, but I’m wondering if once upon a time Amatakka had words with far more nuance to them but in order to make it easier for newer learners the tonal forms of many words fell out of use, and new- different- words took their place.

Returning back to “dukkra ba dukkra” (because I SWEAR I have a point).

One: I’m half convinced that once upon a time Dukkra would’ve had two (or more) pronunciations, even if it was just the newer Amavikka doing so & it tended to fall out of use the longer they were enslaved.

Two: imagine if different pronunciations of ba had different meanings, different tonal sounds that could lead to the word meaning something entirely different than simply “or”.

Meaning, hypothetically, “dukkra ba dukkra” depending on the tones used could go from “freedom or death” to:

- freedom is death / death is freedom (these two feel okay to interchange)

- freedom from death

> death from freedom (I see a few ways this could swing interestingly)

- freedom and death / death and freedom (gotta love the implications of listing order)

- freedom of death (see next)

> death of freedom (these two are SO different that I think you’d need to have pronunciation differences between each “dukkra” to clarify which is which)

- freedom in death (largely implied already in Double Agent Darth AU)

> death in freedom (I just think this is an interesting concept)

Etc.

And Three: as a midwestern American I have the unique standing of hearing how even those of us on the same continent (the same country, the same region, the same state even) have minor changes in pronunciations of the same word that while it doesn’t change the meaning of the word it can immediately tell everyone around you where you’re from and truly shows off the limitations of the written word to correctly convey sounds in a way everyone will understand. (Long vs Short “a” sound in the word “bag”, if you want to get specific.)

While we know this occurs in Star Wars due to IRL ascents (ref: Leia), I’m ignoring it. As it leaves several more pronunciations up for grabs.

(But it also leaves me kinda scratching my head if I’m even approaching nearly half the Amatakka dictionary correctly. Which is why I bring the concept up in the first place, because I think for a Conlang these types of things need to be conveyed.)

But… yeah, that’s what’s been rattling around in my brain for the last few weeks.

Thoughts?

For reference:

Mandarin tones / Pinyin marks

Diacritical markings

Accent contours

#amatakka #amavikka #Tattooine Slave Culture #star wars #star wars the clone wars #star wars prequels #conlang #conlang dictionary #vs #conlang dictation #language musings #Star Wars fanon #Tattooine #anakin skywalker #diction vs dictation

[looseleafteeaves]

Khepareth, Sunwalker, Slave made free from the earth.

Ekkreth to Tatooine, the ancestral home of slaves.

Aylal, a small mining planet known for the metal ore and minerals found there.

How Ekkreth became known as Khepareth

I tell you this story to save your life.

One day, Ekkreth was walking across the surface of a forested planet, when he came across a deep pit, surrounded by guards. Depur sat, watching as buckets of gold and other metals were raised up by a rope pulled by someone inside the pit.

He became curious, and worries, and so he took took the form of a rich core worlder, dressed in purple and draped in jewelry.

“What is this giant pit? What magic brings forth the metals from the earth?”

Depur laughed and grandly gestured to a seat in the shade as he spoke.

(Ekkereth did not take the seat)

“The only magic is my power keeping my slaves obedient! If they don’t provide me enough of my bounty, they gain no food, so they only think of working! I have conquered the caves of the Matlinta snake!”

Ekkreth was baffled and concerned, though he pretended to praise Depur’s genius. “Oh that is a wonderful idea! That would make my factories much more productive!”

And so Ekkreth laughed, and then bid Depur farewell. Once out of sight, Ekkreth turned into a red bird and flew to where Matlinta lived with his mate.

Matlinta attempted to catch Elkreth several times without success before he coiled himself into a neat pile and said, “Ekkreth, I know that is you for none are born who can catch, and no one ever will. Why do you seek me out?”

Ekkreth explained what occurred and asked “How did Depur conquer your caves? What can I teach Ar-Amu’s children so that they may have Ar-Amu’s promise fulfilled?”

Matlinka laughed. “My wife, Luqulei will show you the foods that can be eaten in the caves. Her wisdom will be most helpful.”

And so Matlinka’s mate, Luqulei, took Ekkreth down into the deep dark caves and showed him the plants that helped heal and that were safe to eat, and how to recognize safe water to drink. And Ekkreth thanked her for it, before turning back into a red bird and searching out Ar-Amu’s children.

The Amavikka in the tunnels and pits glanced up that night, when the flickering lights they worked through went out, and they heard the cry of the red bird.

Only one brave little Amavikka, one who looked to be partially zygerrian, came to find the red bird.

“Ekkreth? Ekkreth I hear you.”

“Hello Amavikka-i. I have much to teach you. Did no one else wish to come?”

“I am already troublesome. So if I don’t make quota, I will be use to it. The others need to sleep so they may work. I will teach them another day.”

Ekkreth only nodded. “I will teach you the paths of the Caves and the skills you need to find your way. Follow me, Little One.”

So the little one did. They learned from Ekkreth what Luqulei taught, and they ate well.

“Thank you Ekkreth.”

“You are welcome little one. Though I have one more plant to teach you. He crouched down in a deep shadow, and gestured the little one forwards. “This khepajuli is a little sun ember. It only grows where sunlight has been before, and wjere wind may blow past it. They are little trails. Do you understand?”

The little one’s eyes grew large and they nodded quickly. “Khepajuli is beautiful.”

“Yes. Now, I will go. Teach the Amavikka and find the trail.”

And so the Little One did. By the end of the day, none of the baskets were raised, and Ekkreth alighted on the ground in front of Depur.

“Ar-Amu’s children have broken their chains and you will not find them again, tor Ar-Amu’s children are meant to be free, and no chain can last forever.”

Depur screamed in fury as Ekkreth turned into a red bird and flew off.

Remember this story, it could save your life.

#star wars #feed the machine #teeaves does star wars #amavikka #fialleril’s TSC #I did make up one word #Little One does not have a name right now. its on purpose #tatooine #aylal planet #mining slave culture #very slight difference to tatooine slave culture

[booklindworm]

Tatooine Slave Culture

A few years ago, everyone was raving about @fialleril's Tatooine headcanons. (I was too). It's about secret (or not so secret) resistance against slavery and tyranny, about religion and beliefs, and about Vaderkin's sad history, especially the Vader part.

Now the "canon" fialleril presented was a bit problematic for me, since they seem to be absolutely determined to believe only the worst of the Jedi, including all of Palpatine's propaganda.

Fortunately, I have since then found (and for a short while, been involved with) the brilliant @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning's Ben Naasade Saga (here's the first series, here's the second).

And in Ben Naasade's GFFA all the good parts of the Amavikka culture are preserved, and non of the Jedi-bashing! Plus, the culture and movement is wider and not completely focused on Tatooine, encompassing also the poor slaves in other parts of Huttspace.

So once I proceed to publish my Amatakka word-lists, they will be made up of fia's ideas - duely tagged as such, blue's ideas - also tagged, and other's, like my own.

#amatakka #amavikka #conlang #Ben Naasade Saga #Desert Storm (blue sunshine) #star wars #my headcanons

[anneowl2803]

Go check out my fix-it fic!

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #leia organa #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #fanfiction #fanfic #original post #original content #original work #ashoka tano #han solo #fialleril #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #amatakka #amavikka #fix it au #fix it fic

[ani-and-the-corries-au]

There is a certain amount of disconnect between the Guard and the rest of the GAR.

On the surface there's the low level resentment about them having the "easy jobs" that have been circling, and the fact that they tend to "look down." On the other troopers.

Of course those two things are born on an inability to really talk about what's going on back on Coruscant, but there not the only difference.

By far the weirdest difference is that, while the guard does speak Mando'a when they're not on duty and not around the senate, they also seem to have randomly spawned new terms and phrases that make no sense to any GAR troopers that hear them.

Cody to this day still has no idea who Depur is but apparently having to talk to them is a point of intense annoyance.

The GAR also isn't entirely sure what Dukkra ba Dukkra means, but it must translate to something because the guards have a habit of saying it whenever a trooper dies or does something that will probably get them killed.

Rex is particularly confused by the fact that they've somehow picked up the 501st habit of using their generals name as a description for chaos. Except he's not sure what the Corries idea of a "Skywalker story" is or why it's somewhat of an inside joke, or who this Ekkreth is for that matter.

What the GAR does know, is that there's something weird going on with the Guard, and the more weird it gets the more curious the rest of The GAR seems to get.

#ani and the corries au #the courscant guard #tatooine slave culture #of the fialleril veriaty #commander cody #captain rex #two way culture exchange part 2 #best part of this au #The fact that the GAR can't figure out where this stuff came from makes it all the funnier #meanwhile the guard is just slowly being infected by Ani's Amavikka stories #they probably don't even realize that they started doing it #it just happened #and now the GAR has questions

[that-gay-jedi]

'double agent vader series' ????? 🥵 i know the post implies it's unfinished but if you have a title or a link for it please share 😔

-> CLICKING THIS LINK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE <-

-> PODFIC VERSION <-

Okay so the 'bad' news about Double Agent Vader is it's only got canon ships. Any time I ever recommend a non-obikin fic, know that it's TOP TIER because I can't read them otherwise. It helped that a lot of it's gen or not very romance focused BUT it's also so, SO well written that I fucking enjoyed the bits of HanLeia in it, a ship which usually makes me throw up in my mouth.

Everyone loves Double Agent Vader because it's the origin of the Amavikka, the OG Tatooine slave culture which absolutely fucks, but honestly? Even as popular as it is, it's STILL MASSIVELY UNDERRATED bc there is so much else to like besides the gorgeous worldbuilding!!

People are sleeping on phenomenal characterization, immense narrative effectiveness (the painful parts are painful, the funny parts are funny, the hopeful parts are hopeful, etc) and the level of emotional nuance in complicated relationships.

It also masterfully fills in material previously untouched in the OT (it's largely focused on Anakin's relationship with Leia for example) without disrespecting or neglecting what canon focused on (contains my absolute FAVOURITE portrayal of Luke Skywalker HANDS DOWN).

Like okay. You know how I say the rebels remind me of the grassroots af local punks I got in with as a teen who helped me start to deprogram? That didn't start when I watched the OT. That started when I read Double Agent Vader.

Especially the fic "Empire Day" after which I was like "this author has DEFINITELY spent a shitload of time with some irl group analogous to the Rebellion" because I felt like I was back on the couch at one of the illegal squats laughing at the last political joke a friend of mine told me before fleeing town bc he'd become enough of a problem for local Nazis that he was legit gonna die if he stayed. They got right everything contemporary media tends to get wrong about it. I just.

Fwoo. Deep breath cause I realize I did not start at the beginning here AT ALL lmao.

The premise of Double Agent Vader is that about ~4 years after the events of RotS, Palpatine sends Vader to visit Tatooine as a punishment to remind him of his place. But instead it reminds him of his people. And he soon starts thinking of himself as Anakin again, in his head referring to Sidious as depur instead of master, and starts working for the Rebellion behind Palps' back, and. What if OT but Vader is a rebel spy? And his cover is so deep most of the rebels don't know. They don't even fucking know.

This is an author who understands Anakin so well. I can't say much more without spoiling it.

And like. Years before the Kenobi series came out (last individual fic in the unfinished series was completed in like 2017), this was THE story that gave Leia the attention she deserved.

I'd give a fuckin kidney for this series to have continued up to RotJ, which was probs the author's initial plan. As it stands, it goes up to shortly after the end of ESB.

#leia organa #anakin skywalker #darth vader #double agent vader #tatooine slave culture #fialleril #amavikka #fanfic recs #sw fanfic #luke skywalker

[sparksinthenight]

What is the lifeblood of the Amavikka culture?

“Amatakka!” “Ekkreth!” “Ar-Amu!” Listen. The bonds between the slaves, between the slaves and the Desert, between mother and child, between friends, lovers, strangers, all those bonds are the lifeblood flowing through these things. The bonds between the slaves, and between the slaves and the Desert, the bonds of family, friendship, community, solidarity, home, these bonds are what breathe life into each and every aspect of the culture. The stories, the songs, the rituals, the language, the Tzai, all of that is nothing without the connections and relationships that make everything have meaning and importance. The relationships and connections between all the slaves and between the slaves and the Desert is what makes everything in the Amavikka culture have importance.

#amavikka #amatakka #ekkreth #ar-amu #tatooine #tatooine slave culture #fialleril

[eternalwanderlustvagabond]

Someone: How excited are you for Ahsoka part 5?

Me: I literally cooked a Star Wars meal for tonight.

From the Galaxy’s Edge cookbook: Tatooine Terrine, Ronto Wrappers, Pitmaster’s Choice, and Sweet-Sand Cookies.

From the Amavikka meta: Tzai (Fialleril’s recipe) and Pallie cakes (my extrapolation from Luke setting out some “round, fragrant cakes” with Tzai in one of Fia’s stories).

#star wars #ahsoka #star wars food #galaxy’s edge cookbook #tzai #amavikka

[adragonsfriend]

Leia in Amavikka Culture

This is coming from writing Elder Sisters.

To my reading of Fialleril’s stories, in Amavikka culture, Ekkreth represents the idea that the masters may control a lot, but they cannot stop all of the clever little rebellions. That’s what it means when Ekkreth says, “the chain has not been forged that can hold me.” Leia says the same thing in The Slave Who Makes Free, but it means something different when she says it.

First encountering Leia's character, my brain immediately asked, "why doesn't this massive powerful dragon just go step on Depur? we don't need no stinking Ekkreth stories, we just need the story of how Leia stepped on Depur one time." But that's not how mythology works. It's the wrong question entirely, because mythology is about representing and understanding the real life situations of an entire people. A better question is what does it mean that Leia doesn't just eat Depur?

Leia is strong, strong enough to endure anything, and to break any chain. Eventually. Leia is not about the ability of the people to go on a rampage and destroy Depur’s palace or rip all his chains like tissue paper, because they don’t have that ability, and destruction is the work of Depur. Leia represents the ability of the people to endure hardship until every chain is broken, because one day they will be. Together, Ekkreth and Leia are opposing forces—rebellion and endurance—that each make the other stronger. In fact—little rebellions (Ekkreth the parent) are what make the long-term endurance (Leia the daughter) possible. Writing this story was a discovery of that subtlety in Leia’s purpose for me, which is part of why it came out as a coming-of-age story for her, and why it fell into place with Anakin beginning to settle into the past for the long-haul. 

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At nineteen, Padmé Naberrie has her life under control. As padawan to Qui-Gon Jinn, she gets to travel the galaxy helping people. As lineage sister to Obi-Wan Kenobi, she has an inbuilt best friend and someone to help stop Qui-Gon causing mass disturbance. When the three of them depart on a mission to Kamino, she doesn't expect anything out of the ordinary.

Then, of course, her world collapses with the discovery of the clone army. As the galaxy dissolves into war, she finds an unlikely ally in Anakin Skywalker, a revolutionary from Tatooine who helped to lead his planet to freedom from the Hutts. Now trying to help a clone revolution and fight a war, Padmé makes up her mind to find the Sith who started all this.

Inevitably, this will either destroy the Republic or destroy her. She hasn't quite worked that out yet.

chapter three: padmé forms a plan with the amavikka

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