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moonydustx · 2 years

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Lazy Saturday Night

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Pairing: Pedro Pascal x f!Reader

Summary: After you've had a stressful day, missed an important event and been a little jealous, Pedro decides he can help you deal with stress.

Warnings: Language, explicit sex content, smut (oral, f! receiving) daddy kink, P in a V with no protection (wrap it before you tap it), a little breeding kink, a little bit fluff. Sorry if i forget some warning.

Word Count: 2.5k

A/N: It's the first 18+ thing I've posted here so I'm feeling nervous hahah Thinking of turning this into a series with every day of the week. What do you think?

This is a +18 work. Read for your own risk.

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You couldn't be more frustrated.

The computer screen was already shuffling the words in front of you and with each new line you read, it made you even more stressed. You had plans for that Saturday and they sure as hell didn't include staying at home.

The open tab in your browser didn't help to contain your sadness either. As a huge Star Wars fan, of course you wanted to be there for Star Wars Celebration, as the girlfriend of one of the top stars, you felt guilty for not being there. However, you were being forced to follow along online.

You had the invitation, you even had the dress, but because of the irresponsibility of others, more specifically a colleague in college, you needed to do your part and his part in a project.

You could have left and gone anyway, but you decided to follow Pedro's advice. “You took so long to go after this dream of yours, it won't be an event that will make me love you less”. And of course, any promotional or collectible item he won would be yours.

At least one thing made you happy: Pedro's joy. With every question he was asked during the panel, every time he was cheered, you could feel his happiness through the screen. His eyes getting smaller because of the big smile he had. He was perfect.

A lot of people still wondered how it worked, you were two totally different universes. You met almost by chance. A friend asked for your help in a photo shoot she was going to do with him and from there, you never stopped talking. It started with a few likes on Instagram, then conversations and by the time you realized it, you were already tied to it.

You decided to put work aside for a while, paying attention to one of the interviews that Pedro was giving. The ensemble in a light blue tone seemed to have been molded to his body, while the slightly curled hair and glasses he wore caused a certain heat in your body.

This heat was soon replaced by a not-so-good feeling. The interview that Pedro gave went well, too well, until the interviewer called him daddy. Okay, it was a joke that the two of you had already had a good laugh, but the way she looked at him or maybe all your frustration with not being there made you feel uncomfortable. Maybe it was a passing feeling, so he decided to ignore it for now.

The day went by much slower than you expected. Despite having finished your work, you had to deal with some unfriendly messages from your classmate. God, how tired you were.

Deciding to call it a day, you closed your notebook and took a shower. Warm, relaxing and lingering. When you got out of the shower, you grabbed your first pajama piece and were ready to lie down and hold your attention on some silly video when you heard the door open. Upon arriving in the room, you found him patiently closing the door.

Your peace. Your love. Your Pedro.

"I know we agreed to see each other tomorrow, but I couldn't..." Pedro didn't have time to finish explaining himself before you crossed the room and jumped into his arms.

With the impact, Pedro automatically grabbed your legs and wrapped them around his waist, burying his face in your neck and smelling your woody scent.

“I missed you so much,” he muttered. It's been a little over a week since you've seen each other, for the two of you it felt like decades.

You pulled his face away just enough to kiss him. You even tried to hide it, but when you felt the relief of all the stress of the day, some tears flowed from your eyes, not going unnoticed.

“Hey, what happened?” Pedro quickly stopped kissing you. You just hid again in the crook of his neck, feeling his beard against your neck. “Mi vida, what happened?” he insisted and when he felt denial against his skin, he walked with you on his lap to your room, sitting on the bed.

“I'm sorry” you said as soon as you felt calmer to look him in the eye.

His hands were firmly holding your waist and his brown eyes seemed to capture every detail of you with full attention.

“There's no reason for you to apologize to me,” he said, taking his hand from her waist just to smooth out a few ruffled strands of her hair. “Honey, do you want to talk about it?”

“It was a difficult week, everything went wrong”

“Did you do that pending work?” he asked.

"It did, but I ended up arguing with Tommy" you tried to explain, wiping the few tears that were left from your face. "According to him, I'm a controlling bitch."

“He's a sucker” Pedro limited himself to saying. Tommy was a rather invasive friend and Pedro made a point of making it clear that he didn't like him that much. “I'm sorry you had to have heard that. You know what he said is a lie, right?”

“To be honest, no,” you laughed, almost wistfully. "That job interview I did yesterday didn't work out either."

"I already told you not to worry about it, love."

“I don't want to be a parasite in your life” Pedro immediately denied your statement.

It was a feeling you occasionally had, since you had given up your teaching career and devoted yourself only to studying, Pedro had been helping you more and more, which worried you about how you might be seen.

Before you went on to list all your ruins for the week, you felt your body tingle as one of his hands went down to your bare thigh and his lips went to your neck.

“You're stressed too much, mi diosa” he stole a quick kiss from your lips. “How about we go out to dinner tonight, then have a drink?”

"I don't know. I'm kind of tired and ugly” you replied, trying to keep your voice steady as you felt his beard brush your neck again. "We should enjoy this little Saturday at home, in the biggest laziness."

“You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”

"You're saying that to please me" you replied and soon you felt Pedro take your lips to himself. It was a calm kiss at first.

His hands dug into your waist, while his tongue invaded your mouth and made you lose yourself in him. Your fingers tangled in the brown strands of his hair and as a reflex, his fingers threaded through the back of your neck, holding your hair in a tight grip.

“I know you're stressed” Pedro pulled back just enough to breathe, millimeters from your mouth “Let me help you. I can make you feel good.”

“Please love” you murmured. Pedro kissed you again, this time with more intensity.

One of his hands tightened around your waist, while the other went under your blouse and made his cold fingers contrast with your warm skin.

You could feel the heat building between your legs and need relief. His hand only dropped from your waist so he could impatiently tug at the button-down shirt he was wearing, which he didn't bother to let you unbutton. As soon as he threw the piece to some corner of your room, he went back to stealing your lips for himself. It didn't take long for your shirt to take the same path as his shirt.

Just feeling your breasts against his chest was enough to make you gasp. You could feel him hard against your intimacy, which made you start to slowly roll around in his lap.

Knowing your body as if it were part of it, your boyfriend took his hand to your right breast, trapping the small nipple between his fingers. His wet lips descended towards your bust.

Maybe it was the stress, maybe your mind was lost among so many thoughts, that you only realized after you moaned "Daddy please"

When you found yourself, you came out of the trance you were in to look Pedro straight in the eye. There you saw something different, a luster-filled glow.

"Wow, I'm sorry love, I just..." you almost choked on your own words when, without any hesitation, he lowered his hand to your intimacy and pressed your clitoris over the thin shorts that he wore "Pedro, please" .

“Not like that love”

With some difficulty, he pulled the fabric of your panty shorts aside, touching right where you needed it. His fingers moved slowly through your intimacy and a mischievous smile appeared on his lips

"I'm going to fuck your stress out of you, I just need one thing"

“Just say so” you said through a moan, rubbing your body against his hand on your sex.

“I just want to hear you ask me to do it, just like you just did. Can you do that for me, my little one?”

You could have misunderstood what he asked, but feeling him slowly thrusting two fingers into you made it much more difficult to conclude any reasoning.

“Fuck me Daddy, please. I miss you in me so much” You just heard a grunt leave Pedro's lips before he could turn you on the bed and come on top of you.

You tried to get some friction against his hips embedded in your body, but it wasn't enough to calm the heat that was building deep inside you.

Pedro parted his lips from yours just to gain some distance and unceremoniously take off your shorts and panties and shoot.

As if he wanted to provoke you, he remained kneeling in front of you, his hands slowly sliding along the inner part of your thigh, always when they approached where you wanted them, the hands did the opposite way.

"Pedro, I need you" you grumbled and soon you felt a hard slap on the side of your thigh, almost at the level of your ass.

“You can't call me that today.” His tone came out huskier than usual, which only served to make you even more aroused.

“Daddy, I need you, you promised to help me relieve my stress” you used your most sly tone and had to hold back a victorious smile as you saw Pedro take one of his hands off you so he could squeeze his dick, as a way of relief.

“I'm going to taste you, my love, and only after I let you come, then I'm going to fuck you,” he muttered, lowering himself to his intimacy.

First he lightly licked the entire length of your pussy, enough for you to squirm on the bed.

“Keep it wide open for me, can you do that for me baby?”

He sank into your pussy, trapping your clit and distributing licks along the entire length. You wish you could think straight, you wanted to form something cohesive in your mind, but feeling him circle your point with his tongue was almost too much for you.

Realizing you were almost there, Pedro stopped licking and went back to kissing your inner thighs.

“Patience, my angel” he asked as he heard you grumble.

It didn't take long for his tongue to be covering your clit again as he slipped a finger inside you, thrusting slowly. The fact that he was moaning against your pussy didn't help in trying to stay sane. It was when he added another digit on you that you felt your body combust.

“Fuck Daddy, don't stop! Please don't stop” you begged, watching his tongue be replaced by his other hand.

“Come for me, my love. Come and I'll give you what you want” he warned and watched his body combust.

Eyes closed, mouth half-open, hands glued to the sheets. That would always be Pedro's favorite view, to see you lost after he uses you.

When you reopened your eyes, you could see him lick the fingers that were inside you and mutter something along the lines of "Fuckin' delicious". That alone could get you there again.

"Papi, come here" you pulled him gently so that he lay under your body. Your hands went down to his cock, sliding slowly.

"With you calling me that, I don't know if I can last long," he grumbled, kissing and biting her lip.

“Enough to make me come again?” you asked. In response, he shoved it all in at once, eliciting a loud groan from both of you.

“Enough to make you come” he thrust hard, barely giving you time to get used to it. “Enough to fill that little pussy with my cum. Fuck, love” He kept the pace strong.

One of his hands wrapped around your neck, while the other he used to lean on the back of your head. The bed slammed against the wall and you'd probably have complaints from neighbors soon. But it didn't matter, as long as Pedro kept doing it, nothing mattered.

You could already feel your eyes burning and your body contracting with the arrival of a new orgasm, just as Pedro's thrusts no longer seemed to have a pattern.

“Do you want to come on me?” you said through a groan "Maybe you'll end up being a real daddy"

“I'll fill you with my cum, come with me love? Please, my princess.” His thumb descended to her clit, rubbing it intensely.

The moans came out almost in unison as you felt his liquid heat you even more inside. Pedro stood there for a few minutes, his head under your breasts, catching his breath. It didn't take long for him to lift his face and kiss your lips, much sweeter than you had.

"I love you so much. You're still going to kill me for being so hot” he whispered, as if that was the most important secret between the two of you. He laughed and wiped a small tear that came out of your eye after all the hard-on. "If you're going to have tears on your face, I'd rather they be like this"

“I love you more, Pedrito” you gave him a quick kiss on the tip of his nose “Can I call you Pedro again?”

"Now you can, although I prefer you to call me love, but..." he came out of you and stood up, heading towards the bathroom. It didn't take long and he came back, picking up the clothes "You're going to put on that dress, we'll go out wherever you want and then when we get back, maybe I'll forbid you to call me Pedro again"

"Or maybe I'll make you call me mommy" you suggested and laughed when you saw him immediately stop what he was doing, with the same look that started it all.

"Fuck"

#pedro pascal #fiction #the mandalorian #pedro pascal x you #pedro pascal x reader #pedro pascal smut #reader insert

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daze4all · 6 months

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High cloud quintet being a family & Controversy breeds Creativity

High cloud quintet being a family [By @milcoco10]

love love this concept or found families in general~ Just some fluff to breakup my yandere thoughs

Side Note I'm Kind of Sad Jing Yuan is alone so he was probably the kid of the group who idolizes or crushes on one of older members like how Yanqing admires him present day

Have fic with disciple reader crushing on him

also working on a fic where he has a childhood reader who stays with him after abundance war events when teh rets of quintet splits up

Jing Yuan is totally my comfort character

More on Jingliu x Baiheng relationship in Jingliu's Story Quest Spoilers sorta ahead mostly trying to sort out the lore and bit confused

Warning: Honkai Star Rail Lore Rant, Spoilers, & Controversy breeds Creativity

Also I'm honestly kind of confused, about jingliu's quest and the community what the hell happened? When I played stuff was so subtle did they fix it? but the wiki says very different stuff....

Spoilers for Jingliu's quest and how I make it work in my head form what rumors I heard to piece stuff together

To start with I think Baiheng x Jing Liu & Yingxing x Dan Feng still is the cuter couple

Mihoyo was Trying to make Baiheng like Guizhong

I think they were trying to make Baiheng like Guizhong in Genshin Impact is to zhongli .

Like this couple doesn't count cuz she dead

BaiHeng is a bit mary sue with her death as there were not many direct leaks using her name and her reveal was too sudden

In contrast guizhong made it work by slow lore leaks that used her name such as guizhongs tablets, guzhongs ballista and her making the the memory of dust but th emysteyr on her personaility and not knowing exactly how her death played out until later in the game which is till a bit mysterious at the reveal .

Baiheng like Guizhong who was made out to mysterious but was probably the peppy and optimistic glue of the group of high cloud quintets that fell apart when she died like the yaksha in genshin.

2. About the beloved referring to Baiheng:

Jingliu X Baiheng Support

Jingliu quest is mostly abot Baiheng becuase she was the beloved couple that loved her heavily hinted

china doesnt recoginze homosexuality so they change it to Dan Heng

also the heng in both thier name does that mean there related or somthing? kinda left field unless they tried to subtlely remake guizhong x zhongli situation but it failed

3. Still l think Baiheng reborn as Bailu is cool concept

Pretty much so quintet could be together again

Also I personally find family closer than ppl you date cuz often you can cut them off when relationship ends but not a close fried or family

So Dan Feng could’ve revived Baiheng as friend as close as found family and glue that kept them all together and Blade helped thus becoming immortal himself by mistake isnt too far fetched. Though more romantic if it was blade being revived

Biologically speaking though someone had to be the surrogate? or egg donor as there vihadyra egg bailu was born or do they magically appear when somone dies and reincarnate?

Honestly with that lore in jingliu quest I'm not sure what is true or not if some of this is fake news to stoke fans but hey controversy breed creativity:

and hey wrote renfeng kid crack story to cheer ppl up before all this

Though I was writing a more serious one about the kid being raised on the loufu as Jing Yuan's discple coming up or maybe not if it's that controversial idk if ppl will read it now.

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tunashei · 7 months

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First Impression of Animorphs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 8: The Alien

OOOOOOH AX POV! Ax Pov! This is not a drill! I am so hype

Oh the mental imagery of Ax watching the space battle above him while sitting alone in this artificial dome is so...so emotional. The strange disconnect of watching helplessly in a veritable garden of eden as your brother and others fight above you in the cold vacuum of space. I'd like to draw it

And then the absolute terror of being ejected from your ship and falling into the ocean of the nearby planet. Stuck beneath miles of water pressing down on you. Chills

Also now I'm really curious what the surface of the sea looks like if you're looking up at from below many miles

Ooooh we got little diary entries! Very amusing! This book is starting off so strong

Loving the amount of planning for taking Ax to a movie, they've learnt from previous times!

One of the reasons I was so excited for Ax pov is stuff like learning all these Andalite words, and bits of biology, the different ways of observing things. Alien perspective is so interesting

Confession time, I listened to this book before Megamorphs 1 which is before this book in the timeline. So I had no idea was a Veleek was and was rather confused they'd beaten one

I love the regular forays into Ax's Adventures with Food. Please don't eat cigarettes baby

I was cracking up at work for this whole sequence. Got some funny looks.

Going to make a prediction. Seerow's Kindness is referring to Andalites helping out the Yeerks somehow. Also Seerow is Visser Three's Andalite Host.

My man eat with he feet

I'm so here for Ax and Tobias best buds friendship

Ax confirmed canonically hetero this is a sad day for us all :(

Ok why after the semi-disaster of the movies would you take Ax to school, that is one of the most stressful confusing environments for anyone. Also schools have registers they're not going to just let you bring in a new kid

Unless maybe the teacher won't care because they've got a bloody Yeerk dying in their head! The book has predicted this predicament!

However, very unrealistic that the kids fled the room instead of crowding around the freaking-out teacher. You'd spend 20 minutes chasing them out the room and they'd still crowd around the door peeping in.

Oh this is...a bad thing to have hidden Ax. Poor Jake. This whole conversation is very tense. Ax bringing up his brother as if to remind Jake he's already lost HIS brother to this war

Ax is always described as blue-and-tan, implying he's more blue than tan. I have a hard time believing people would think he's a deer from a distance considering his colours

Huh...wouldn't it be weird to never have moonless nights? The stars are always brightest on those days, great for stargazing. I wonder how bright the night would be if you had multiple moons. Or would it not be additive?

Fascinating evolutionary implications from a species having a biological clock that makes them war every 62 years. Some kind of mass population cull? Ensuring only the strongest breed?

Ok this is pretty funny but actually made me reconsider how we appreciate stuff?? Actually kind of mindblowing. We really don't appreciate food as an art form. After I'd listened to this bit at work, my boss gave us all a tin of chocolates. Ate them on the way home and took some time to really savour the flavour. My life is being enriched by these books.

'He was a male-as all human fathers are' Implication Andalites can have female fathers??? Maybe. Would be cool.

Ax totally winning at social interaction

Aw Ax, you are being very brave :(

Huh so this Yeerk controller loved another Yeerk? I could have sworn in a previous book it said they were incapable of love, I think the one where Jake gets infested

Poor Ax. You really feel his struggle in being compared to his brother, now having to take the blame

The yeerk just fuckin bailed out the andalite?! I was not expecting this. You beat Visser Three?!

Aight so the Visser's andalite was not Seerow. He's just...some guy. Ngl was hoping for a bit more info on that, I've been very curious how Visser Three got an andalite which no other Yeerk has acomplished

Although...they're on the home world? Maybe there are other andalite controllers. Ruh roh

You guys are absolutely going to regret not putting this andalite out of his misery. He's literally begging for death and you know the horrors of being infested, and will be an incredibly powerful enemy again if you leave him. I mean, you couldn't even try to lug him out of there? How many people are going to end up killed in the future because Visser Three remains an andalite?

Called it on Seerow's Gift being helping the Yeerks. I kind of get it though I'd feel sorry for any sapient species that had to life it's entire life as a slug in a pool

Winced when Ax confessed his fears of giving humans help that would lead them to be conquerors, and Marco brushing it off. Humans would absolutely become conquerors, it's in our history

Wow. This is definitely my favourite book so far. I expected it would be, I'm very into xenofiction (when a book is written from a non-human perspective) but I think the emotional journey was also great in this. The ending was a bit quick and weak. But overall great.

#animorphs #animorphs aloud #audio book #book #first impressions #reading

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heckyeahponyscans · 11 months

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Thoughts on MLP Make Your Mark Chapter 4, Ep 2: Top Remodel

This was a busy episode with many threads: Sunny learning that being a leader means you can't please everyone, Pipp and Hitch clearing rats out of the old Canterlogic factory, Zipp examining Twilight Sparkle's message, and Misty wrestling with her reluctance to follow Opaline's orders and kidnap Sparky.

The last two plotlines were definitely the most interesting, but I get the sense there's a playset coming up so they dutifully advertised Canterlogic, which got turned into "Canterlove Studios."

Interestingly, Sprout returned and (kind of) helped Pipp and Hitch with the rat infestation. I think this was to inform the viewers that he isn't going to be a background villain; he ends up giving his stamp of approval to the studio and seems to be on okay terms with the main cast. Also his family doesn't seem to own the factory anymore, since Sunny is doing whatever with it. My fanon theory is that his family had to pay restitution to Sunny for destroying her home and almost killing her with a giant robot so she now owns the place.

Oh, we also see Phyllis in the background so she's still around.

I think she's congratulating him on a good school report. I also think he plagiarized from some other pony.

Anyway, as Zipp replays Twilight Sparkle's message, she notes that Twilight said she put the magic of Equestria in "the crystals and the [static]".

My theory is they're in a tree (or maybe in nature itself?) because there's that tree in Maretime Bay that Zipp said "seemed familiar" (and there's even a picture of its blossoms on the wall), plus we get a shot of the book (from the winter holiday special) with unicorns gathered around a tree. If it's not in a tree then I don't know, maybe the Elements of Harmony are still kicking around.

Speaking of the book, I went back to the Winter Wish Day special to get a better look at it and noticed that the gilded figure on the right--which I had assumed to be a unicorn--has feathers. So she's an alicorn. The figure on the left has bone-like structures behind her head, not sure if those are meant to be wings or not. Also there's a star in the middle that looks a lot like Twilight Sparkle's symbol. So maybe the other two figures are Celestia and Luna? However the book is post-dystopia, as it also shows Zephyr Heights on the cover.

When Misty overhears the message Zipp is replaying and reports it to Opaline, Opaline describes the Unity Crystals as "conduits . . . elements . . . a very complex spell containing unity magic."

She also says that Twilight was the one who put all the magic of Equestria into the crystals. So, yeah, magicless Equestria was Twilight Sparkle's fault. On the one hand I'm not a fan of this; I don't like it when a sequel is like "Actually your heroes sucked, and they got everything wrong." (Looking at you, Star Wars sequel trilogy.) IMO they should have had Twilight live out her life as a successful monarch and then two or three rulers later everything got screwed up.

On the other hand, this dumb plan does seem exactly like something Twilight Sparkle would do, because she always had a certain naivety. I can picture how she would think it out: "There's strife between different kinds of ponies. How can I stop it? I know! Every pony loves having magic, so if magic only works when everyone is friends then the ponies will be motivated to get along! :D"

Anyway, Zipp deduces that the pony who wants the crystals must be extremely powerful--like an alicorn! I'm extremely curious to learn how much modern Equestrian ponies know about alicorns. Equestria has lost so much historical knowledge, does the general populace even remember Celestia and Luna? The townsfolk of Maretime Bay (except Sunny and her dad) didn't think it was possible that earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns had EVER gotten along, so a pony who had elements of all three breeds would probably seem outlandish. (Or a creature of nightmare.)

Random thoughts:

As in Tell Your Tale, Pipp has a love of spookiness. Did Zephyr Heights have an equivalent doll line to Monster High? (Monster Hay?) At any rate she's a fan of the Spooky Stable series.

"I ain't afraid of no ghosts!" Hee hee!

The oldest pony in Bridlewood is Elderflower.

Misty makes a junk-pony so she has someone to talk to. Oh Misty . . . She reluctantly concludes that she should kidnap Sparky even if it will make the other ponies sad. "After all, they already have each other." Man, that really tugged my heartstrings.

aw no, now I'm sadder

#G5 #spoilers #Make Your Mark #My Little Pony #Misty Brightdawn #Sunny Starscout #Hitch Trailblazer #Pipp Petals #Twilight Sparkle #Opaline #Sparky #alicorns

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moodymisty · 2 years

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I’ve been in such a Star Wars mood recently and was extremely lucky to find a blog like yours with beautiful writing and fics that make me kick and squeal when no one is looking. I noticed a lack of Mandalorian content so please let me request some sfw and nsfw headcanons of another great space dad. Remember to drink water!

Such high compliments thank you so so much I'm so glad you enjoy my stuff! And as you so politely requested, here is some Din "has a grade 3 concussion" Djarin

(To fellow Mando fans there is some more space dad content on the way, it’s just proving to be a titan to work with)

➼ No matter what situation you met in, Din is absolutely the type to at first, try and be distant towards you. What is surprising however, is how quickly that attitude ends up disappearing when he gets used to you being around. Like it's maybe, a month or less before he goes fully from 'I don't care what you do' to getting upset you wandered off without him.

➼ If you're good with the kid, he'll be sold faster by that than almost anything else you could possibly do. Once you'd decided to sit in the co-pilot's seat and after doing so, sat the kid on your lap. Din watched the whole time from the edge of his helmet's visor and he had to bite the inside of his cheek from showing any obvious emotion about it.

➼ Kiss the helmet. He'll of course complain, but only about the obvious lip-shaped smudge you left, not about the fact that you did it. Wipe it off after and you won't hear him utter a single complaint provided you're not in public.

➼ You are not allowed within the same planetary orbit of Paz Vizla.

➼ Mandalorians prove worth to others by shows of strength and ability, and sometimes it's almost a little bit suffocating when Din tries to do things for you. It's almost like some secret Mandalorian mating dance that he starts doing once he first realized he was interested in you. And if you ask him to do something, it is done.

➼ He won't really outright ask for affections, but it's a quickly learned thing you notice that when he's feeling particularly loving, he'll sit extremely close, but wait until you move first. It's cute honestly, so you lean against his side or put a hand on his arm, him secretly watching from the edge of his helmet's visor.

NSFW below cut

Warnings: Scratches, Breeding kink, Creampies, Rough sex, Very light mentions of a threesome

➼ As much as Din might enjoy those times when you decide to wear something nice, what he loves about it most by far was tearing it off you like it was nothing; Ruining it and you until you were a complete mess. He honestly likes doing it to many different types of fancy, delicate clothes, and you very quickly learned that panties, dresses and pieces of lingerie(let alone nice ones) don’t have a long lifespan when he’s allowed any sort of free reign.

➼ Mandalorians in general are all just a little bit of teasing away from going feral, so if you're in the mood for some rough lovin’, it's surprisingly easy to get him riled up. Show a little bit of skin, compliment him(or more so compliment his abilities), pull a particular tone of voice, and it's almost too easy to get yourself a horny Mandalorian stuffed up in beskar. It has backfired however, as you'd wrongly assumed the first time you'd done it he'd just quickly haul you back to the ship, but instead you'd ended up in some dark alleyway somewhere.

➼ Something he secretly loves is the way your nails leave scratches on his shoulders. And not just one or two, you could make his back look like he'd been downright mauled, and Din will still love it. He loves that teetering between pleasure and pain feeling, along with knowing that he’s doing something very right.

➼ I don't think there will be a single person that would disagree that all Mandalorians have a breeding kink. It stems from a combination of multiple factors, but either way, it's a solid bet that Din absolutely has one too. When he's not thinking with his brain anymore, there's really not a sight he loves more than after what seems like hours, seeing you fucked out of your mind and completely creampied. It often makes him want to go again and again until his body is just screaming for him to stop, and you’ve gone from full to overstuffed. And if you bait him to do so, it only makes him even more riled up. He does however get very cuddly afterwards, so it’s a perfect ending to a wild time.

➼ Din doesn’t share. He doesn’t do well with people flirting with you or even looking at you the wrong way, let alone with any sort of lustful intention. However, he does have one exception. And if anything, the exception is more of something he might actually want.

➼ Din has had more than one thought about if you’d ever fuck Boba Fett, either with or in front of him. It makes sense in a way, in the times you’d interacted with Fett and when he called you things like ‘little one’ or smirked at you, Din didn’t have nearly the same hostile reaction he normally would’ve if someone else had done it. But he’ll never admit this unless you purposely probe for it, so it’s his dirty little secret for the time being.

#mywriting #din djarin/reader #the mandalorian/reader #reader insert #reader

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My Defense of Violets Paradox Pokémon

So maybe it’s just my feeds and timelines but it seems people are really negative about the future paradox pokemon

Essentially calling them just robot version of their main counterpart

And as someone who liked Miraidon over Koraidon since announcement I feel the need to defend their existence lol

My quick summarized point is that Pokémon aren’t just animals and the future paradoxes reminds me more of the cyborg or robot companions in other media whether droids like r2-d2 in Star Wars or Cyborg in Teen titans and in those ways they can be better than just having a pet animal like Pokémon

From what I gather part of the dislike of the future paradox pokemon is mainly lack of change design wise, that they no longer appear as the animal companion certain people enjoy a lot, and they don’t make sense

Design wise

People feel they just put a metallic shine over them whereas the Scarlet paradoxes stand out more

And I think it’s either both or neither

You can say they just put a metallic shine over them but I can just say they made one part of the scarlet paradoxes more exaggerated like flutter wing just has bigger eyebrow wing things, scream tail made the hair ok jigglypuff long that it’s a tail, roaring moon a more feral mega salamence

Just as without scarlet paradoxes you can point out the notable ones like how Slither wings is on the ground

Can say similar things for something like Iron Valiant and how it mixes Gardevoir and Gallade

And obviously some are more standoutish like the recent paradox beasts

With violets paradox’s the thing is less than the scarlets is that the silhouette is the same as their originals

Iron moths might have disconnected solar panels as wings but it still has the same shape as Volcorona

Iron Bundle head can almost detach its head and its tail bag is now like a gun but silhouette the same as Delibird

Because it’s partly why Brute Bonnet is one of the least popular ones

But lastly for this point I think people pick and choose as people love Iron Thorns because of Tyranitars connection go Godzilla but Iron Thorns is one the ones that is most like it’s original Pokémon but then say theIron Swords are lazy saying it’s mostly just the same

Companions

Even though Pokémon are literally pocket monsters most seem to see them more as animals for one reason or another

This ties into the Pokémon are seen as pets narrative to a good number of fans and its like similar logic to why some don’t evolve their cute little *insert cute pokemon* and they would want ___ as a pet like how people like different breeds of cats and dogs and such

And it’s partly why people don’t like a lot of object Pokémon like garbodor, the vanilite line etc…

And while scarlet paradoxes just exaggerate the pokemon features

Violets mskes them closer to the object mons that some fans dislike

This is subjective of course it’s like asking whats better Piplup or Garchomp, one person might say Piplup due to the anime, cute design and etc but another might pick Garchomp because of competitive pokemon and how cool it looks

But I kinda view violets paradoxes to when people are friends or friendly to the non-human characters in sci-fis

Like in star wars the droids like r2-d2 and c3po are like pets but also have a companion feel to them that you can argue more along the lines of they’re slaves but that’s another discussion

In other media a character can become a cyborg or android and sure they might not look the same ans maybe have visible metal or etc but I think theyre just as much companions as a cute furry animal if not more depending on context

Back to star wars it’s like saying would you rather have R2D2 or loth cat (rebels). I think while loth cats might be cuter i would much rather have R2

Making sense?

Even though it’s in the name of paradox, people still don’t understand or can comprehend why the Pokémon are “robots”

As the branding is past and future versions, scarlet’s can get away being prehistoric due to things like fossils, regional forms and the Hisuian forms, let alone other things like Mega evolution

Where future paradoxes are more like cyborgs which has different implications

First the future paradox Pokémon are still living creatures as they can eat and such, robots implies they’re not alive, it’s small but does mean something when you consider characters like Cyborg in DC, 18 in DBZ and etc as cyborgs as they’re not robots hence why 18 can have a kid

I think the issue is people look at a Pokémon like Iron Treads and wonder how did Donphan go from this to that

Where with scarlet most can just be explained that they got more domesticated or natural evolution and etc

And honestly both options don’t sound great as it’s either Donphans were “enhanced” to the point of looking robotic or evolution made everything resemble robots and as a human that’s disconcerting to see natural/organic stuff disappear

But I think this is where the paradox part comes in as paradox aren’t just Pokémon from the past and future but different timelines and dimensions

Paradoxes can come from a world where it is as dark as it can sound or they can come from a place where everything was always that way or anything you can think of

Generally I think people are more worried and hesitant about cyborgs than cavemen for comparison which ties into the current AI dilemma irl but again different discussion

So that’s my rambling of a defense for Violets paradoxes

I didn’t even go into the types and how the names aren’t as big of a deal since a lot of machine inspired keep it consistent like how an iPhone is iPhone 15 or IPhone X or IPhone SE, iPhone is the equivalent or Iron here but oh well

I’m not quite done with the dlc yet in Violet as I haven’t discovered Iron Crown and Boulder yet for reference so maybe my point will change when I get more information on the paradox pokemon

Written Jan 14, 2023

#pokemon #pokémon scarlet and violet #paradox pokemon #pokemon discussion #pokémon violet #area zero #future paradox #past paradox #Violet paradox #scarlet paradox

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Honestly no fandom does cognitive dissonance like Star Wars. Say what you will about Supernatural, but not only does half the fanbase actively despise the actual star wars content, but there are entire corners of fandom dedicated to OCs or characters with five combined minutes of screentime. I do think not just that any given Commander Fox stannie could take a Supernatural fan the fuck out, but that it would be cruel to pit them against each other, like putting a naughty housecat against a rabid street cat. Clone enjoyers, ESPECIALLY Coruscant Guard fans, have been Goncharoving their own lore together with a coherence that most of you could only dream of long before that shoe was in the spotlight. The general consistency of it is frightening, despite the thousands of variations every writer would have, the one true connecting thread is that it was DEFINITELY not how it worked in canon. Corrie Guard people were just an entirely different breed of batshit, at that point they should've just crowdsourced a scp type thing entirely separate from sw. Star Wars is several smaller fandoms in a trenchcoat and they're all trying their best to ignore each other, but inside each sub-fanbase is many warring factions all arguing very loudly 24/7, all of it held together with duct tape and Obi Wan Kenobi & R2D2.

#Obi Wan and R2 were quite literally the ONLY unhated characters. Everyone else if you looked you could find SOMEONE dunking on them but #those two? widely beloved by all across the subfandoms #But no the Corrie guard fanlore was absolutely insane. Like a sci Fi goncharov but less narrative motif more how badly can we traumatize #Fox and the others. That shit was EXTENSIVE and it was so widely agreed upon it was crazy #I say all this as a former star wars fan minoring in Corrie Guard and Clones. none of the people there like the Canon they just like the #fan constructed lore #You could write whole ass essays on the separation between SW canon and what SW fans enjoy.#they are out there consuming an entirely different media to the one that will be constructed in their minds #curio chatter #star wars

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locuscowboy · 2 years

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My Parksborn Headcanons

• Both Harry & Peter are trans / t4t

• Harry is bi with a male pref & peter is gay

• Harry’s favorite pop tart is fudge I don’t make the rules

• Harry has adhd & dyscaculia (absolutely despises math) Peter is autistic (loves math)

• Harry’s favorite genre of book is romance & his second is history

• Harry wanted to major in art history

• Peter’s favorite movie is reanimator while Harry’s is The Outsiders (it’s also one of his favorite books)

• Harry wears glasses (he’s near sighted) and hates wearing them but Peter thinks they look good on him

• Harry is a dog person & Peter is a cat person, Harry’s favorite breed is the Irish settler & Peter likes birmans

• Harry has an auditory processing disorder & sometimes hears something completely different, he also knows asl

• Peter can quote every Star Wars film without even looking at the screen

• Harry can speak French I don’t know why or how but he can

• Peter at one point used to illegal music websites to listen to music

• Harry sucks at cooking and Peter is the equivalent to a gourmet chef

• Harry is really good at baking though and sometimes he helps MJ

• Peter, Harry & MJ have movie nights together and sometimes Harry spoils the ending on accident

• Harry is a huge baseball fan and absolutely despises the red soxs

• Harry also loves golf and was a member of a country club at one point

#spiderman #headcanon #mlm textpost #lgbtq #raimi spider man #harry osborn #peter parker #t4t mlm #parksborn

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generalpierrotdameron · 10 months

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The Acolyte cast speaks out on being the most diverse Star Wars project ever

"When it comes to the world of fantasy and sci-fi in general, it hasn't felt like a safe space always for people of color," Stenberg says. "And it's been a world that I've always deeply loved and been invested in. So to be in any way, shape, or form a part of the wave that is ushering in inclusion and safety for Black nerds, it's my dream come true."

That diversity and inclusion was something that the rest of the cast couldn't help but observe. Turner-Smith tells EW it was "definitely something I noticed and was really excited about, and was one of the reasons that I chose to step into the world," while Keen notes that the actors were well aware of the variety of perspectives at play. "That was definitely a conversation we've had on set," Keen says. "It's really refreshing to walk onto a set as diverse as this one in every sense. We've all come from different corners of the world and it's really great to get so many different people from different backgrounds to create this thing together."

Barnett is excited for audiences to see what he and so many others have not seen before on screen. "I don't think I could have ever imagined myself as a Jedi," Barnett says. "Because I was not reflected for so many times throughout these films in the past. So to see such a diverse group now, I think it's going be a really impactful. It's gonna be [a] cool moment for me for sure, I can tell you that."

Many in the cast point to Lee Jung-jae — whom they call JJ — and how impressive he has been not only learning his Jedi master character, but also learning the English language at the same time. And for Manny Jacinto, Jung-jae's role represents a true breakthrough for the franchise. "If I'm being candid, this is the first time you're getting to see an Asian Jedi," Jacinto says. "It's a pretty big responsibility. Getting to see him inspire a new generation of Asian kids to like take up the lightsaber — it's pretty incredible."

Turner-Smith has noticed something else incredible about The Acolyte that makes it stand out from the pack of Star Wars offerings. "I also really loved that that our show was much more woman-centered than what I have previously seen in the Star Wars world," she told the Dagobah Dispatch. "Just from the fact that our incredible showrunner Leslye is a genius woman, and the female producers and having Amandla be the person who's leading our cast — it was a very cool way into this universe, and a way that I feel that people have never necessarily seen before, other than they're going see Rosario in an amazing woman-centered show as well."

For Turner-Smith, shows like Ashoka— which also has a female-heavy cast — and The Acolyte represent a new breed of Star Wars offerings. "I feel like we are part of a wave of more inclusive and beautifully represented Star Wars shows. So that felt really cool. And I felt the importance of that, especially in some of the stuff that I got to where everyone really was excited about what they were seeing and what that would maybe mean for different fans — fans that don't necessarily look like what you normally think the traditional Star Wars fan looks like. Because if there's anything that I learned from this show, it's that the Star Wars fan is varied."

#the acolyte (disney+)#Amandla Stenberg #Manny Jacinto #Dafne Keen #Charlie Barnett #Lee Jung-jae #Leslye Headland #Jodie Turner-Smith

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ao3feed--reylo · 1 year

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starstruck

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/7zNHlBY

by emphemeron

Press circuits have run Ben ragged. Now he relaxes.

Words: 4780, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Actors, Dirty Talk, pet wife verse, Size Kink, Size Difference, Breeding Kink, Mildly Dubious Consent, Rey's a huge fan of his but Ben definitely takes advantage, Possessive Ben Solo, Shy Rey (Star Wars), Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, No Condom, Actor Ben Solo, Can’t stress how much this is just porn anyway have fun

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/7zNHlBY

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Star Wars #Star Wars Sequel Trilogy #Reylo #Rey #Ben Solo #Kylo Ren #AO3 #ne

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sophiemariepl · 2 years

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Okay, I know that this may sound stupid, but this time it is not Tumblr at fault - it’s me, because I deleted the recent post on that by accident (gosh, why am I so blind, I just wanted to edit it because I found some interesting info, but nevermind).

So, the thing is, that I’ve been working on my Star Wars fanfiction for a while. The story would include Darth Maul having a daughter with his human lover before being cut in half on Naboo by Obi-Wan in Episode I. I remember that for some reason it made little sense to me that so many fan artists draw their Maul’s daughter OCs with horns and red skin when they choose mothers of their OCs to be clearly human women (because with other species it makes a little more sense, which I will explain in a second).

So, the first time I asked the question “How likely it would be for Darth Maul’s potential daughter to inherit his horns?”, I received an answer that in case when the mother is human, horns are very unlikely, with an Iridonian Zabrak mother are most likely and in case of other species it is hard to determine.

It makes sense to me - Maul is a Dathomirian Zabrak and it is commonly known that Dathomirians are a result of mixed breeding between Iridonian Zabrak men and human women. This means that Maul carries human DNA from his female line and Zabrak DNA from his male line. This specific Dathomirian DNA is likely to manifest itself differently in his offspring, depending on the kid’s gender. This means that a daughter with a human partner would inherit characteristics common in Dathomirian women, instead of Dathomirian men, such as pale, slightly gray-ish skin and slender figure. In fact, I decided that my OC would inherit many more of her visual characteristics from her mother (only paler skin and slender figure would be the slight signs of her half-Dathomirian parentage), which would perfectly add to the surprise effect when she finally learns that Maul is her biological father - because she will obviously assume at first that it's impossible because she does not resemble Maul at all 😜

In the case of a son with a human partner, I am not 100% sure. Perhaps he would inherit his father’s horns, perhaps not. Maybe he would have red/reddish skin, maybe not. I mean, here it kinda gets tricky like in human/Twi’lek hybrids. We’ve seen those with lekku (Lacquane kids who are half-human, although Cut is not their biological father) and without (Jacen Syndulla, who only has green hair, eyes, and tops of his ears). So I guess that in this case, all options are possible.

I am still not sure whether Maul’s kids with a human partner would inherit Zabrak two hearts though, since both Dathomirian men and women have two hearts. I guess it depends, but in case of my OC I chose not to give her two hearts.

So, now my question to you guys:

How do you think Maul’s children would look like, depending on the species of their potential mother?

Leaving this post so that everyone can share their knowledge and thoughts 📚

#star wars #star wars: the clone wars #tcw #darth maul #maul #formerly darth #the phantom menace #darth maul x reader #darth maul x oc #darth maul children #darth maul’s daughter #darth maul’s son #Star Wars genetics #dathomirian genetics #star wars oc #darth maul headcanons #darth maul fanfiction #darth maul fanfic

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professorathena-pokemonexpert · 10 months

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These Poké-wimps can, and will, outlive 90% of all other Pokémon, and here's why

Welcome, trainers! I am Professor Athena, the professor who teaches new trainers about their Pokémon theories and observations! To start my journey, I am here to talk to you about some of the weakest Pokémon that can survive even the harshest disasters without breaking a sweat.

#0173 - Cleffa

Our first child on the chopping block is Cleffa, the Star Shape Pokémon! Upon first sight, this is a more confusing 'mon among the list of survivors. A 0.3-meter-tall marshmallow with 50 HP, 55 Special Defense, and 28 Defense doesn't exactly scream "fit for enduring a nuclear war". But, Cleffa has a trick up its sleeve that gives it a chance.

Cleffa, along with several other Pokémon such as Deoxys and Eternatus, is mentioned to hail from the cosmos. Already, this implies the existence of Cleffa on other planets or even galaxies, thus allowing the Cleffa population to continue living on even if Earth were to experience a tragic disaster. Clefairy, Cleffa's evolution, can also learn the move Teleport. While the limits to this move are not specified, it could possibly be able to teleport to at least the nearest un-harmed planetary body, but this is a bit out there.

Additionally, being able to survive in space allows Cleffa loads of biological advantages that would allow it to live in the now-apocalyptic state of the Earth in this scenario. Cleffa can survive extreme cold. Cleffa doesn't need oxygen and can survive on no/limited food and water. Not only will Cleffa survive, but it might also have one of the largest living populations of any Pokémon in a worldwide catastrophe.

#0557 - Dwebble

Up next is a Pokémon that could hypothetically survive for years on a post-apocalyptic Earth, given that food and water are omitted factors: Dwebble, the Rock Inn Pokémon.

Now, you can see that Dwebble has a pretty evident defense mechanism, that being the rock it carries around its back for shelter, akin to real-world hermit crabs. This rock alone could help it survive several world-ending disasters. Given that rocks offer a good level of shade and protection from extreme levels of heat, Dwebble could potentially survive the troubles of radiation. It also hides poor Dwebble from predators, which will be more rogue due to the lack of food around.

Now, you might be saying that Dwebble without its easily-detachable shell would be less than useless in the struggles of a cataclysm. However, something pretty interesting happens when you breed a female Crustle with another Pokémon of the Bug or Mineral egg groups. Dwebble are born with the rock on their back, insinuating that they have a rock-like genotype, that allows them some of the durability of an actual rock. Furthermore, Dwebble has Sturdy as an ability, allowing it to barely survive a myriad of different attacks. Finally, if all else fails, it could hide within the defensive pores of another, much bigger Pokémon that can also likely survive the erasure of most other Pokémon: Hippowdon. With impenetrable defenses and its sand-based diet, it will gladly live on when most others won't. Dwebble is known to hide inside of their pores, in exchange for dislodging the stones that may get stuck to form a symbiotic relationship. Dwebble could, depending on their diet, probably spend months or maybe even years living in and around Hippowdon for shelter in a cruel, post-apocalyptic world.

#0704 - Goomy

The final warrior is another insectoid Pokémon, and a fan favorite among the community: Goomy, the Soft Tissue Pokémon! However, this lovable pile of goop is more than just an adorable addition to the Kalosian roster. In fact, Goomy might be the most durable Pokémon on this list!

Unlike the other Pokémon we've discussed, Goomy can survive - and thrive - in the event of a worldwide flood. Its body is mostly comprised of water, akin to Vaporeon or the real-world jellyfish. Therefore, it can revert to a diluted state, or simply actively survive within the ocean. Goomy has a very simplistic protean genotype, allowing it to endure a myriad of water-based pollutants.

Chemicals? It thrives off its toxic slime.

Rising heat levels? That's what the membrane around its body is intended to prevent, or at least delay.

Excessive amounts of iron and other metals? That's how Hisuian Sliggoo and Goodra came into existence in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

As for nourishment, Sliggoo uses its corrosive saliva to dissolve its prey until they become liquid for it to slurp on. Additionally, Sliggoo can corrode and dissolve anything it can, giving it a vast array of food choices, as well as offering it a great advantage in territorial combat. While often more potent/abundant upon age, the offspring of venomous species still possess venom with a similar/same composition. Therefore, Goomy would still possess that level of corrosion, allowing it to survive even without needing to evolve, a feat that is especially helpful for a Pokémon that first evolves at Level 40.

I hope you enjoyed this analysis, trainers! Tune into Professor Athena's Tumblr account for more of their lessons such as this.

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novelmonger · 2 years

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Thoughts on Jedi Apprentice 1: The Rising Force

Star Wars was my first fandom. I was introduced to the original trilogy when I was 8, and immediately fell head-over-heels in love with the story - particularly because Episode I came out shortly after. I'm one of that rare breed of Star Wars fans whose favorite movie is Episode I (it's neck-and-neck with Rogue One, but overall I think The Phantom Menace still pulls ahead). The only Star Wars poster I have in my room is from The Phantom Menace, I was overjoyed when I got a Jar-Jar Binks cake for my ninth birthday, my favorite lightsaber battle by far is Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Darth Maul, I love the Duel of the Fates and Trade Federation theme music....

So it should come as no surprise that, when I discovered the Jedi Apprentice series that covers Obi-Wan's apprenticeship with Qui-Gon, I snapped it right up. From the very first scene of TPM, I fell in love with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's relationship, and I was devastated when Qui-Gon died and I realized we'd never get to see any more of it. Thankfully, there's a whole 18-book series targeted at young adolescent readers featuring that exact relationship! I was smack-dab in the target demographic, and for years (basically, until I discovered LotR and HP when I was 11), that was the only thing I wanted to read, think about, or talk about. When I wasn't doing school, playing Pokemon Yellow, or watching a Star Wars movie for the 10000000000000th time, I was reading these books.

Watching the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries has awakened so many feels, old and new, for my favorite character in the saga ;A; While I wait for the last couple episodes to come out (and for my heart to repair itself after Ewan McGregor has trampled all over it in the best possible way), I've decided to reread these old favorites. I haven't read them since my teenage years, but I still have so many fond memories of them. I'm really excited to see what new thoughts I may have, some 20-odd years after that rainy day I wandered into the back corner of the library to see what kind of Star Wars books they might have....

Jedi Apprentice #1: The Rising Force by Dave Wolverton

This is long and rambly, so I'm going to break it up into chapters, so as not to just leave a giant wall of unbroken text - or less so, anyway. (And...for if you want to read along, I guess, though I can't imagine anyone's going to do that.) I don't think I'll necessarily have thoughts for every chapter, but I guess we'll see....

Chapter 1

The book opens with Obi-Wan sparring with another youngling...whose lightsaber is red??? Who missed the memo that only bad guys can use red lightsabers? XD

"Because he was tall and strong for a twelve-year-old..." - Let's...just keep this in mind for later, shall we?

Obi-Wan's opponent in the training exercise is a boy named Bruck Chun. Poor kid. With a name like that, you're going to be relegated to being a bully forever, aren't you?

"Bruck also held grudges. A year ago, Obi-Wan had stumbled in a Temple corridor, tripping Bruck, who had fallen. ... He'd called Obi-Wan an oaf then--Oafy-Wan. The name had stuck." - Okay, that's actually a pretty clever insult for an eleven-year-old *clap clap*

Wolverton's writing of Yoda's speech quirks is...inconsistent. Take this as an example: "To defeat an enemy, you do not have to kill. Defeat the rage that burns in him, and he is your enemy no longer. Rage the true enemy is." Odd. I don't think I really noticed that before.

Chapter 2

"Obi-Wan threw himself back on his sleep-couch. He had let Master Yoda down. He had thrown away his one last chance by letting anger cloud his mind. Now his worst fear had come true. After all his years of training, he was not good enough to be a Jedi Knight." - This hits different, reading it as an adult. Obi-Wan is a month away from his thirteenth birthday, and because no one has chosen him as a Padawan, and because Bruck made it look like Obi-Wan beat him up in anger, unprovoked, he's getting kicked out of the Temple and sent off to a planet in the Outer Rim to be a farmer. Like...I get why they want Padawans to start off early; they need to be teachable, moldable. This is also the age at which children would be sent off to apprenticeships in times past. But...Obi-Wan is twelve. And, when the Temple has a child on their hands who can't make the cut, instead of sending them back to their families (and I happen to remember that he's not an orphan, even in this not-exactly-canon-anymore series written 23 years before the miniseries), they ship him off on his own to become a farmer in the far reaches of space. Beyond being extremely cold-hearted behavior towards a literal child, it's just...irresponsible??? They're sending a Force-sensitive kid to the Outer Rim without supervision because he couldn't control his anger. Uh...Jedi Council, do you want him to turn to the Dark Side????

Bant! I've always loved Bant, though we don't get much of her in this book. She's Obi-Wan's Mon Calamarian best friend in the Temple, and even though I've never found Calamarians particularly attractive to look at, I've always imagined her being...pretty. I think it's because her gentle soul shines through her fishy appearance :3 And she cries when hugging Obi-Wan goodbye :'c

Chapter 4

Okay, so let me get this straight.... At the tail end of Chapter 3, Yoda and Mace Windu are arguing about whether they should give Obi-Wan another chance at being a Padawan. Not a guarantee, just a chance for potential Masters to see him fight and pick him. What decides the argument is a referee droid telling them that Bruck was the one who started the fight that got Obi-Wan in trouble. So...they had a droid watching the entire time...and they took Bruck's story at his word, arranged a job and a transport for Obi-Wan overnight, crushed his hopes and dreams, potentially set him on the path to the Dark Side out of bitterness and anger...before they even checked the evidence?! I mean, what if Bruck had just burned and bruised himself and then went limping to cry wolf, and there had never even been a fight at all? Guys...this is why Palpatine was able to exterminate you. Because you're all as incompetent as a bunch of beetles >:(

"As a child, Obi-Wan had learned by fighting older students to avoid flashy attacks that wasted energy. Instead, he'd been trained to fight defensively, to block blows with small movements, or to avoid them." - Getting "It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground!" vibes here :P

"[Qui-Gon Jinn] was a rebel and a loner, and Obi-Wan wanted to be seen as a rebel, too." - Awww, babbie.... ( ∩ˇωˇ∩)♡

"Qui-Gon shook his head sadly. 'It is better not to train a boy to become a Knight if he has so much anger. There is the risk he will turn to the dark side.'" - Oooh, foreshadowing! Foreshadowing of when Qui-Gon will ask Obi-Wan to train a boy with a lot of anger who will turn to the dark side!

Chapter 5

"'But why send the boy to Bandomeer?' Qui-Gon asked. 'It's a brutal world. If the weather doesn't kill him, the predators will. He'll need all of his skill just to stay alive--never mind the Agri-Corps!'" - THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING!!!!

And in response to that, Yoda just laughs and says that he has faith in Obi-Wan's abilities and that it's a good situation for a young Jedi to grow. Okay, okay, so Yoda has a premonition that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are destined for each other, and this isn't the end of Obi-Wan's Jedi career...but come on. Sending a twelve-year-old boy to Bandomeer all on his own is child endangerment, Force or no Force!

Chapter 6

The main event of this chapter is Obi-Wan wandering around the ship taking him to Bandomeer, and he runs into a Hutt who unceremoniously throws him against a wall, chokes him, and then punches his lights out. And his cronies wonder aloud if Obi-Wan is carrying bombs in his luggage. OBI-WAN IS TWELVE HE PROBABLY STILL HAS BABY FAT AND WE FIND OUT LATER THAT HIS VOICE STILL CRACKS WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM ;A;

Also...oh my goodness. You have to understand, as much as I love Star Wars, I got into it at a time before I had ready access to much of the EU, and I'm not sure I really had an understanding of what the internet was or what one can do with it. (Besides, I was reading these books several years before Wookiepedia even existed.) So with a few exceptions of species named in the movies like Wookies or immediately-recognizable ones like Twi'leks, I had no idea what any of the species named in these books actually looked like, beyond the brief descriptions that might be provided in the text. This time through, I've been looking up any alien species I'm not familiar with...and this chapter mentions Arconans. This is one of the species that gets a close-up in the cantina scene, but I had no idea what they were called, so I didn't know that. The book describes them as "tall ... with triangular heads and glittering eyes." And...yup, that's what that one dude looks like in the cantina. But because I didn't know that was an Arconan, my nine-year-old brain had to come up with my own visual to latch onto - particularly because a character featured pretty prominently in this book is an Arconan. And I can still vividly remember what my brain cooked up - tall, spindly bodies supporting a huge flat triangle with a face on it! Real Arconans' faces are sort of vaguely shaped like a downward-pointing triangle, but I imagined them as upward-pointing triangles. And their eyes had irises and pupils, unlike real Arconans; they were just...super shiny, like anime eyes. Aww, now I have to shift my mental image....

Chapter 7

"He had to accept the pain, respect it, not fight it. Then he'd have to ask his body to begin to heal." - You know...I think these books went a long way towards preparing me for a life of physical pain. I've been told I have a high pain tolerance, and while I'm sure part of that is just the way my body is and what I'm used to, part of it is also mental. I used to pretend I was a Jedi when I hurt in some way, and I would try to do what's described over and over again in these books: Thank your body for letting you know something's wrong so you can fix it.

Okay, I could almost buy it if the Hutts and Whiphids on board weren't surprised by a twelve-year-old joining a mining operation, because maybe they just find it hard to gauge a Human's age on sight. But now there's a Human woman, Clat'Ha, who's like, "Oh, you must have stumbled on board looking for a job, yep, that's the most believable reason I'm sitting here looking at an actual child...." I guess there were no child labor laws a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

My assessment of Obi-Wan as a Gryffindor Primary is looking pretty solid: "But he still struggled against Clat'Ha's acceptance of the injustice. He didn't understand it. He had grown up in a world where disputes were mediated and resolved. No obvious injustice was allowed to stand."

Chapter 8

Obi-Wan wakes up all weak and feverish, with Qui-Gon by his bedside, feeling his forehead. "'Is it really you?' Obi-Wan asked, struggling to clear his clouded brain. Qui-Gon smiled. It was the first time Obi-Wan had seen him smile, and he realized that Qui-Gon was not all coolness and judgment. 'Yes, it's really me,' he said." - <3 Exactly the kind of fluff I'm here for :')

And in walks Si Treemba! This is the Arconan character I was talking about, and I love him, even if my initial imagination of his face was...well, pretty cartoony, if we're honest, and now I have to picture him like the guy in the cantina. But Si Treemba is great. Rather timid, but a good friend when Obi-Wan has none, and fun to read because of the Arconans' habit of speaking only in the first-person plural because they have very little sense of individuality. Also, this introduction scene is doubly fun because Si Treemba hero-worships Obi-Wan for standing up to a Hutt, and Qui-Gon is laughing up his sleeve at Obi-Wan's discomfiture ^_^

Confirmation that Obi-Wan is fluent in Huttese. Not surprising; Huttese is a pretty widely spoken language, but still. Good to know.

"No doubt Qui-Gon thought him unworthy of the task ahead. But Qui-Gon's hesitations paled next to the Jedi principles. Justice must be sought out." - GRYFFINDOR!

Chapter 11

Okay, so Obi-Wan and Si Treemba go to investigate some sabotaged mining equipment that's making tensions rise between the two mining companies on board the transport. Si Treemba gets caught trespassing, and Obi-Wan turns back to rescue him from the Hutts. And in the middle of the night, Qui-Gon wakes up with the sense that Obi-Wan is in danger! Even though he's not his Padawan yet! I forgot that happened. It's ~destiny~ <3

"Sorry to break up your game." - I'm seeing the beginnings of Obi-Wan's dry wit. It's not super witty yet, but then, he's just a kid. The sarcastic zingers will come in time. (And granted, "Hello there" isn't exactly Shakespeare either....)

Chapter 12

Qui-Gon and Clat'Ha are at the bar drinking "juice." There's consumption of alcohol in the movies, so I don't see why the books need to be squeamish about it. I mean, I could maybe see a Jedi not wanting to get intoxicated, but Clat'Ha? I'm going to keep my eyes open to see if this is a trend in the series.

Aaaaaagh, Qui-Gon's upset with Obi-Wan meddling, fighting a Hutt, and making the tensions worse. "He had hoped to win the Jedi's respect. Instead, he was looked at as a pest, not even worthy of great anger." TAT But before things can get too tense between them...pirates attack! 8D

Chapter 13

Hee hee. Transparisteel. I love sci-fi technological terms :B

"Qui-Gon watched as Obi-Wan sprinted toward the bridge with Si Treemba behind him. Suddenly, the boy looked so young...." - Oh, NOW he looks young, does he?!

"The last of the pirates blasted off into hyperspace, never guessing that they'd been bested by a twelve-year-old boy." - WOOHOO!!!! YEAH!!! GO, OBI-WAN!!!!! ✽-(^▽^)/✽

Chapter 14

Hmm. There's some head-hopping in this book, which seems to get worse the closer to the end it gets. It's a pet peeve of mine, but I'll let it slide. Better authors than Dave Wolverton have been guilty of it.

Before starting this project, I took a stab at Sorting Qui-Gon. My best guess was that he's a Slytherin Primary (jury's still out on both of their Secondaries at this point), and his thoughts in this chapter seem in keeping with that. He thinks broodingly of his angsty backstory with his previous Padawan, whom he lost to the Dark Side. That hinders his ability to trust Obi-Wan or connect with him, because what if he opens his heart to an apprentice who will only break it all over again? So he holds back from Obi-Wan, who's confused and hurt and would really like even just a single word of praise from the Jedi Knight he looks up to. This seems like a Petrified Slytherin to me - his old Padawan was one of the few people he let into his inner circle, and such a pain-filled loss makes it so hard for him to let anyone in again. Can't wait for the un-Petrifying we all know he has to go through :3

Chapter 15

"Jemba shook in amusement like a giant gray worm." - Jemba is a Hutt. He is a giant gray worm.

"Sometimes, the force of friendship could work where the Force could not." - Oooh, I like that.

You know, I really like how the Arconans play into the plot of the story. Jemba swindles the lot of them into working for him by stealing their food source, and because their culture is a strongly communal one (to the point where they don't even use the word "I"), they go along with it because it's what seems to be for the greater good, because it means their people will survive, even if they end up losing their freedom to a cruel master. But then, because Obi-Wan has befriended and helped Si Treemba, he basically can call all of them his friends. Their loyalty to each other extends to him now. And I really like that, as young as Obi-Wan is, he's doing his best to understand where they're coming from and how their culture and life on their planet affects the way they interact with others. He doesn't judge them for being different from him, he just tries to understand. That's the makings of a good ambassador, I think.

Chapter 16

I really like this chapter. It's a quiet moment, a chance for the characters to process and discuss the showdown that just happened. Obi-Wan makes sure Qui-Gon (who was gravely wounded in the battle with the pirates) makes it back to his quarters, and they discuss what they should do next. Obi-Wan is ready to go kill Jemba right then and there, but Qui-Gon cautions him, giving him some good advice and helping him put things in perspective. There's something deep inside him that can't help advising and training Obi-Wan, even though he's trying with everything he has to slam on the brakes and not entertain the thought that maybe this could be his Padawan.

"His heart cried out that Jemba was evil, and that evil had spread to enslave innocent victims. If anyone deserved to meet a bitter fate, it was the Hutt. But he would listen to Qui-Gon." - Further proof that Obi-Wan's a Gryffindor! Also that he learns from his mistakes. He got in trouble before when he went off on his own against Qui-Gon's advice. Now, even though he's itching to do something to solve the problem immediately, he knows better than to disobey Qui-Gon's direct orders again.

"You can't force people to be just and decent. Such qualities must arise from within--they cannot be forced from without. ... I have [killed before] when there was no other choice. But when I kill, I only win a fight. It's a small, small victory. There are greater battles to be won--battles of the heart. Sometimes, with patience and reason and by setting a good example, I have won more than a fight--I have turned my adversary into a friend." - This is why I love Qui-Gon.

"Qui-Gon could see no glistening sign of tears. Instead, he saw the worst kind of defeat. It stung him. After all his noble talk of winning the hearts of enemies, he realized that he had just crushed the heart of a boy who only hoped to become his ally." - ༼☯﹏☯༽

Chapter 17

"It's as if a burden has been lifted from me. Perhaps I could be a good farmer. And to be good...to be a good person is more important than being a Jedi." - This chapter is basically just about Obi-Wan articulating this realization. And what an important, mature realization for such a young boy to come to....

Chapter 23

The climax of this book is so exciting, it's impossible to put it down to write down any thoughts! After an emergency landing on an unknown planet to repair the damage the pirates did to the ship, they take to the hills for fear the rising tide will engulf the ship. Instead, they end up putting themselves in greater danger from these pterodactyl-like creatures roosting on the island. To make matters worse, the Hutts have stolen all of the Arconans' special mineral they need to eat to survive. So Qui-Gon sets out to get it back, climbing a cliff face even though his shoulder is still seriously injured, getting shot at by Hutts and Whiphids and then attacked by the flying creatures, escaping only by jumping onto the back of one. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan is almost single-handedly defending the mouth of the cave where everyone is holed up, fighting scores upon scores of the ferocious creatures.

I still vividly remember the first time I read this book. I remember sitting on the couch in the living room, devouring the whole thing in one sitting. By the time I got to that epic battle in the cave mouth, I was shaking with excitement, oblivious to everything around me. I could see it all so vividly, it's like I was there. I could feel the rain on my skin, I could hear the creatures' cries, I could feel my muscles burning every time Obi-Wan raised his lightsaber. And when I finally put the book down, I was really disappointed that I hadn't checked out any of the other books, and I'd have to wait till the next time we went to the library! Few books can affect me that strongly anymore. I miss that reckless abandon, that ultimate trust in a story to carry me through, to the point that I'm hardly even myself anymore....

The other thing I love about this climax is that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan reach out to each other with the Force and forge a connection, even though they've both accepted at this point that they're not going to be master and apprentice. It's a connection born of desperate necessity, but also a soul-deep understanding that goes deeper than conscious thought.

"Together, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn fought side by side. The Force pulsed between them. They knew without speaking where the other would move, when the other would strike. When Qui-Gon moved forward, Obi-Wan sprang back to protect his flank. When Obi-Wan leaped to the right, Qui-Gon made sure he was covered to the left." - \ TToTT /

Chapter 24

And here we are at the end. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have been through a crazy adventure together, but Qui-Gon is still reluctant to ask Obi-Wan to be his Padawan. They have a quiet moment together, talking about Obi-Wan's first experience of letting the Force guide him so completely in such a critical moment, the first time he's been in a life-or-death situation like this. But as Qui-Gon thinks to himself, "The boy would have to be strong to dispel the shadow of the one who had come before."

And I'll close it out with this lovely foreshadowing of things to come: "It was not a simple thing for one Jedi to touch the mind of another. It was an intimate thing, the kind of thing usually done between closest friends. Or between a Knight and his Padawan."

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