#Birnok

[andorshitdaily]

Wandor Wednesday Wars #4 - Prelims

Who completes the Ninja Warrior course fastest and/or makes it further than the rest of the pack?

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Heat 1 - four will advance to the semifinals

Remember, even though you can only vote for ONE person, FOUR of them will advance from each poll. So don't just think about who you think is the fastest out of everyone, consider 2-4 as well and think about voting for one of them instead. One or two votes could make all the difference.

#god i hope this is good lol #andor #polls #linus mosk #luthen rael #perrin fertha #corv #cinta kaz #birnok #syril karn #karis nemik #wandor wednesday wars

[luthanraels-bignaturals]

#im not sure about this one #do not choose syrils team #andor #cassian andor #bix caleen #brasso #maarva andor #wilmon paak #b2emo #luthen rael #vel sartha #cinta kaz #arvel skeen #karis nemik #taramyn barcona #lieutenant gorn #ruescott melshi #taga #kino loy #birnok #xaul #jemboc #syril karn #dedra meero #lonni jung #mon mothma #kleya marki

[r0b0tb0y]

A little drabble about Cassian and Birnok.

#before things end #andor #star wars #fic #cassian andor #birnok #he was so beautiful and i fell in love with him ;_;

[oatshow]

"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do" some more Andor-meets-NITW pieces

#andor #cassian andor #Cinta Kaz #Vel Sartha #Ruescott Melshi #Velcinta #Nurchi (andor) #Vetch (andor) #Kino Loy #Birnok (andor #Taga (andor) #Jemboc (andor) #Xaul (andor) #Hamm (Andor) #myart #oats.png

[misspickman]

the entire narkina 5 arc is a masterpiece (so is the entire season) but one of my favorite little details is when cass is telling the men on his shift what happened and someone down the room yells "louder!"

#i love how people interact in andor it is so real #yes it is a very little stupid detail but its so good #txt #also how he goes straight to birnok to be like hey new man tomorrow were doing it #'the doctor came' 'didnt do much did he'

[ireallyamabear]

i'm brainstorming how an alternative prison break would go for a 'what if' story and there really isn't a good way to do it without a new man coming down the elevator, is there

#andor #narkina 5 #everything is too contained and the guards can shoot from above #but then on the other hand was it a 'good' way how they did it in canon #not for everybody #not for birnok and co #my posts #mp

[cinnamonsikwate]

andor was incredible but it really was so very uh. white

#star wars #sw andor #please please fix this in s2 i don't think i can take any more poc dying #rip gorn taramyn birnok salman nurchi 😭 #the racial optics were really just so........... #calemonsito notes

[buckybarnesss]

while i deeply loved the show and appreciated a lot of what it did there were some things that disappointed me about andor:

pretty much every black character of note died. tamaryn, gorn, clem, nurchi, and birnok off the top of my head. like, that’s a choice and not a good one. i think jazzi and blevin are the ones with speaking roles that make it. 

bix’s storyline revolves around her being tortured and than rescued. it’s just that i thought she’d become more radicalized after what happened during the first arc and timm being murdered in front of her, i guess. i would’ve liked seeing her more active. 

i would’ve liked kenari to be fleshed out more. it’s just kind of there floating in the background unaddressed. 

maarva andor kidnapped a child and i did not find it satisfactorily addressed. she’s a complicated character and not morally pure which is fine it’s just hey that’s a thing that happened and should be at least talked about a little bit, maybe. 

#my blog #andor #andor spoilers

[elwenyere]

re: “I’ve been in this fight since I was six years old.”

I’m not doing a comparative valuation, but I do want to talk about why I love what Andor did to this line - not in spite of it’s being a retroactive reframing of the earlier narrative but because it’s a retroactive reframing of an earlier narrative. Because for me that’s exactly the political point: according to the capacious, diffuse, collective vision of resistance that Andor gives us, Cassian could only have narrated the moment he joined the fight from a retrospective position. Indeed, that’s the only way any of us can ever narrate our own journey toward revolutionary consciousness because - as Nemik’s manifesto puts it - freedom is an untaught impulse, and we start pushing back before we’re even aware that’s what we’re doing. And that’s something that I think Andor works hard to make clear: we can’t wait to resist until there’s some organized, actively recruiting Resistance to join. Cassian really was Nemik’s ideal reader, and by the time we see him in RO he’s used Nemik’s framework to help make new sense of his prior experience.

which brings me to re: “You’re not the only one who lost everything.”

I think it’s possible (and, for me, attractive) to read this line in such a way that Cassian is not referring (only) to himself. We might imagine he’s thinking about Wilmon and Bix and Brasso and Jezzi living in exile because they resisted Imperial occupation, about Kino and Birnok and the Narkina men who went down fighting. I don’t think it’s necessary for him to have personally been eviscerated by his dedication to the cause to make the anger and grief behind the line land, and in some ways I think it’s more true to Andor’s non-individualist take on rebellion to read it as a broader statement. Do I expect that Cassian will take more damage in season two? Yes, and like all my fellow whump enthusiasts, I am looking forward to it. But I don’t expect Tony Gilroy to tell a story where fighting for the Rebellion is more soul-destroying than living under the Empire. I could be wrong, of course, but my sense is that the show is not that cynical about the potential of armed resistance, and that’s something I personally appreciate about it.

#andor meta #just thoughts #mileage may vary etc.

[communistkenobi]

really good episode. really shitty that they killed birnok

#andor spoilers #you guys keep killing off all your black rebel characters 😐

[andorshitdaily]

Wandor Wednesday Wars #4 - FINAL

Who completes the Ninja Warrior course fastest and/or makes it further than the rest of the pack?

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FINAL HEAT- This time vote for who will WIN

#picture the same course i guess #i don't have time to explain mount midoriyama to you all #andor #polls #wandor wednesday wars #cinta kaz #cassian andor #birnok #bix caleen #kleya marki #ruescott melshi #brasso #wilmon paak

[corellianhounds]

I’ve been holding onto this thought until I could see what they did with the end of the season, but it does bear repeating that it sucks that nearly all of the named black characters we get in the show either die, are Imperials, or aiding the Imperials; the exception is Saw, who we know dies in Rogue One without getting to see the success of Rebellion.

It’s been pointed out by other folks on here that none of the black rebels live to see the rebellion they’re a part of come to fruition. While a lot of characters across different races die this season, there is a noticeable absence of named black characters living to see another day in the end. Not only that, but Andor’s father Clem is killed in a way that hits far too close to home in the real world, and while the show is meant to reflect and criticize so many of the problems our current society has in itself, this does still mean there’s a noticeable part of the show that is going to be difficult for black audiences to contend with (both in regards to the police brutality and the hanging itself). While the depiction may be done with care, it’s still there and it still contributes to the number of times it happens in media

Something that could have been done differently would have been swapping Maarva and Clem’s roles. I bring them up because even for as much as I like both characters and their respective actors’ performances, it wouldn’t have changed a lot of the story if their places had been switched. I would have liked to see Clem as the figurehead in the community whose passing brought the people of Ferrix together and sparked the retaliation against the Imperial occupation, with his visage and speech being the one people were literally looking up to in the end. It would have been just as beautiful to see Cassian’s relationship with a loving father as it was with his mother, and though it would have been differently heartbreaking if Maarva had been the one caught in the wrong place and wrong time on Rix Road all those years ago, it would still have been an atrocity of the Empire without adding to the amount of traumatic black deaths we see or that are alluded to in tv shows and movies in general. Again, I don’t think the original choice was done without care and I understand what the writers were criticizing/highlighting, but that part of the story still happens.

I guess it would have been nice to see a black character like Clem with a more prominent position and dialogue in the story like Maarva’s role. A Son of Ferrix, cared for by his community and worried over by his adopted son, giving the call to action and having a more visible role, resisting the Empire up to the end. Having a wife whose death had just as much impact on him and Cassian as his did on them, having just as strong and complex a relationship with Cassian, all of it. All of their dialogue and the dialogue about them could have remained the same if they were in each other’s roles.

There could have been a way for Lieutenant Gorn or Taramyn to make it out of Aldhani without it interfering with Vel’s perception of Cassian and Luthen’s directive to kill Cassian later. Nurchi didn’t have to be a snitch, or he could have double-crossed the Imps there at the end. Birnok could have survived the prison escape. Melshi’s role could have been switched for Stordan Tonc, another of Cassian’s crew from Rogue One.

It just feels like there could have been a little bit more done to ensure some of these lives had the chance to go on, even in a story where so much is being sacrificed already.

#tw lynching #tw police brutality #tw hanging #Andor spoilers #Andor show #I’ll look for the other posts in my drafts #It’s not my intention to talk over black people or other people of color there’s just a lot of posts by other people to wade through— #— in the tags so I don’t venture in very often #Andor critical #Maarva Andor #Clem Andor #Cassian Andor #Nurchi #Saw Gerrera #hounds speaks #Andor meta #I’m considering Taramyn and Vel having switched places but I also suspect Vel might be Luthen’s daughter #unsure of that though because of what little we know about Luthen and Vel #and I feel like that would have come up with Luthen in relation to Mon Mothma #I also don’t know what’ll happen in the second season so for now it’s just a thought #taramyn barcona #Lieutenant Gorn #Birnok #long post

[r0b0tb0y]

I got tagged by @eisoj5

3 ships: Cassian/Birnok (working on them currently), Cassian/Brasso (prime time in my brain right now), Cassian/K2 (my eternal fave) . yes I have Cassian rotating in my mind constantly

1st ever ship: it had werewolves that's all I'm sayin

last song: yesterday was Too Many Zoos (those funky buskers who went viral on tumblr) and Nicholas Britell is next in my queue

last movie: Amsterdam, which was a very 'I see what you were going for but how did you fuck it up like that' kind of story

currently reading: inching my way into Gideon the Ninth

currently watching: got The Sopranos on in the background while I scribble and play stardew

currently consuming: my second cup of coffee and an honours thesis

currently craving: katsu sando and my third cup of coffee

tagging @multifandomhoodies @rav3nsta9 @bright-elen @youcanchoosefreedom @brightmouth

#about

[giasesshoumaru]

“We need to go tomorrow.”

"Tomorrow?”

"You heard me.”

"Go where?”

"Anywhere. It has to be tomorrow.”

"Tomorrow.”

"We can't wait. We'll never have a better chance.”

"You sound insane.”

"No, listen to me. They don't have enough guards, and they know it. They're afraid. Right now, they're afraid.”

"Afraid? Afraid of what!”

"They just killed a hundred men to keep them quiet! What would you call that?

"I'd call that power.”

"Power? Power doesn't panic. Five thousand men are about to find out they're never leaving here alive. Don't you think that worries them upstairs? Whatever we're making here, it's clearly something they need. They can't afford to be surprised again. There'll never be less guards than tomorrow. You know that!... Everyday we wait, they get stronger!”

"It might be wise to have a plan!”

“We have a plan!”

"Oh what! You and Birnok and Melshi?”

“You don't have time to be stupid!”

"Come on!”

“The plan works around the new man coming down! They'll replace Ulaf tomorrow. That might not happen again until it's too late. I'd rather die trying to take them down than die giving them what they want. We won't have a better chance. It has to be tomorrow.” - Cassian Andor and Kino Loy (Andor, Episode 1.10)

#star wars #andor show #cassian andor #kino loy

[malaisequotes]

“There'll never be less guards than tomorrow. You know that. Every day we wait, they get stronger.” “It might be wise to have a plan.” “We have a plan.” “Oh, what, you and Birnok and Melshi?” “You don't have time to be stupid.” “Come on!”

Andor

#Andor #Quote #Television #Star Wars

[andorshitdaily]

Wandor Wednesday Wars #4 - Semifinal

Who completes the Ninja Warrior course fastest and/or makes it further than the rest of the pack?

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Heat 1 - four will advance to the finals

Remember, FOUR will move on!! Vote for any of the four people you think should make it to the final, not necessarily who you think would WIN.

#wow you guys #this is the first time syril's ever made it through round one #but of course there's an asterisk #andor #polls #wandor wednesday wars #cinta kaz #taga #cassian andor #bix caleen #vel sartha #syril karn #birnok #b2emo