@gospelofme I Dont Know. I Think That He Was Just Standing There. Neither My MIL Or BIL Have Said Exactly

@gospelofme I don’t know. I think that he was just standing there. Neither my MIL or BIL have said exactly what he was doing except that they saw him at a supermarket; they might not remember.

Guys. I CAN NOT!!

Well we know thanks to the last arc of TCW s5 that nanobots exist in Star Wars, that they can be programmed to explode, set on a timer (and possibly even detonate via remote) and still go off even if they were ingested; turning anyone unfortunate enough to unknowingly consume them into a walking, living bomb.

Of course it wouldn’t be as a devastating explosion as the one that damaged the Jedi Temple and killed just about everyone in the hangar; leaving only the one of the unwitting bomber’s hands behind.

My guess would be that the transmitter chips are really nanobots. Microscopic and impossible to completely remove from the person that they’re in before being caught and if you’re scanning for a chip you’re wasting your time.

The nanobots possibly aren’t always transmitting the location of the body their in but can be asked for the person’s location and if the slave isn’t where they should be and if the owner than chooses they can order the nanobots to detonate,

Alternatively they might transmit data at certain places and if they don’t have a reasonable to be there the nanobots explode.

Of course it might all be a lie just to keep slaves from running away but I don’t know; especially if Bad Batch has new information about the chips.

Slave chips are CANON?! I thought they were just a real popular fanon thing for extra angst

they are canon! and a kind of fascinating bit of worldbuilding, actually, i think.

the other major slave trade we see in canon is the market on zygerria, and transmitters don’t come up once in the arc, and zygerria actually has entirely alternate methods of controlling their population of slaves - so this leads me to believe the transmitters are a trademark of hutt slaves. creating a bomb that’s so small it needs a specific kind of scanner to be able to find it would be an expensive process even in a universe that’s technologically advanced and probably fairly costly, and then that would make purchasing that technology costly, so i don’t think it was universal in hutt territories especially among slaves that were traded between smaller buyers, but i think it was a trademark of slaves trafficked by the hutts specifically; because, realistically speaking, a method of controlling a person that destroys the actual “merchandise” isn’t useful to the vast majority of slaveowners, who are probably maxing out at a handful of slaves. but the hutts are incredibly, ludicrously wealthy, and detonating a transmitter was something they could do for kicks, and they probably used the fact that they implanted their slaves with unique controlling devices as, well - a marketing gimmick. a way to get an edge on their competitors.

that paragraph, by the way, viscerally grossed me out to write, so after taking a minute to cool down i’ll continue with more absolutely grotesque observations on space capitalism; so slavery flourishes in areas with low population and high demand for labor, right? because low population means managers would have to, dare i say it, pay workers competitively to get the influx of workers they need to meet the labor demand. but, naturally, that is the antithesis of profit, and the end goal of maximization of profit is always slavery - i can’t believe these are sentences i’m writing for a batshit insane meta on star wars, when that’s our real-world circumstances, this is hitting too close to home, but go off miss kirby - so i’m assuming the reason the slave trade has such roots in tatooine is that tatooine must have resources of incredible value. it’s canonically a planet that’s so garbage people had to invent ways to get water, which generally renders planets unlivable, but whatever’s on tatooine had to outweigh that immense living costs, and it also has to be important enough that jabba would centralize control there, despite the planet being specifically mostly unlivable to his whole giant slug species. i’d say a space power source of some kind, because those are always extremely lucrative investments - like kyber crystals, but as far as i’m aware, kyber crystals are specific to illum and sacred to the jedi, and the only other major use of them was in the death star, which was palpatine being palpatine. outside of that, there’s spice, considering that tatooine has implications as being extremely important to the drug trade - considering han’s job is to run drugs and we’re introduced to him on tatooine - and according to other canon phrases like “spice mines of kessel”, spice doesn’t come from a plant, and has to be actually mined. so like cocaine, if cocaine was, well, dirt. which is a lot more plausible for tatooine’s environmental conditions than tatooine having massive space coca plant greenhouses.

so, then it becomes profitable for the hutts to bully their way in, and traffic slaves to tatooine primarily for the purpose of being the labor behind their space drug trade, and then also slaves to serve as their personal entertainment, what have you; but with all that free labor, people who have workers that they actually pay are choked out of business because they’re gobbled up by people making bigger profits, and then, eventually, pretty much everyone has a slave or a couple and pretty much all of those slaves are descended from the hutt’s stock (i would like to vomit, thanks) so slave transmitters are then ubiquitous on tatooine when they’re not even a thing on zygerria whatsoever. but i still find the idea of a method of control being to outwardly, just, kill your slave? a little bit of a stretch, because that’s sort of considered a waste of investment, especially in situations where there’s a riot and a show of force would require the slaughter of a lot of slaves at once; i’m assuming that there has to be other features, like it doubles as, well, a torture device to inflict pain as punishment, and death happens to be the highest setting and the one that’s activated if a slave exits a certain programmed area. but that brings up all sorts of questions, like what’s the other endpoint of the device and what method does it use to transmit signals to something inside someone’s body, how are those signals untraceable so as to maintain the secrecy of where the bomb is, how is the safe range for a slave to wander without getting blown up decided and then programmed, and finally - how are they deactivated? or, can they be deactivated?

because this is all speculation, here, but it’s a common fandom thing that they can be deactivated, but what would that actually mean depending on how the device functions? is “deactivation” just eliminating the range threshold on the device, so a person doesn’t blow up if that range is exited, but otherwise the device is fully-functional, or is deactivating it actually rendering the device completely null? i’m going to be honest, i lean towards the first one, because i don’t think slaveowners are programming ways to free their slaves into their slave-controlling devices. i think the purpose of deactivating a transmitter was to transport a slave to a new location or to a new owner, and then otherwise the device remains functional, and ready to be reprogrammed from the endpoint device. i just don’t think it’d be in the MO of the hutts to implant slaves with bombs that can be turned off without removing the whole bomb, it sort of defeats the purpose of the whole endeavor, and defeats the purpose of what i think was their marketing gimmick - and all of this is really bad, wow. really garbage cans. i really hate trying to think like evil people sometimes.

I laughed so dang hard.

This would be so freakin’ hilarious!

ok but consider end of ot vader AND end of ot luke travel back to pt-era - vader's causing chaos but has also completely outsourced his morality to luke, so every time he comes across an Old Enemy™ (read: everyone except padme and shmi) he turns to luke like "Murder?????" and luke is just like "not now father pls i need info"

vader leveling a lightsaber at general grievous: i am your superior, and your replacement. you will fall as all beasts do

luke, holding up a hand, consulting his notepad, which is a pre-recorded list of people that probably need to die to avoid galactic disaster: wait, wait, wait. hold on a second. this is definitely general grievous? like, completely sure? i wouldn’t really feel bad about taking down this guy, and it sounds like it would help the whole, uh, situation going on, but i really want to make sure it’s general grievous and not someone else. i’m really trying to keep the unnecessary murders to a minimum.

vader: are you under the impression that i would mistake general grievous for any other creature -

luke: i just wanted to make sure! i just wanted to make sure! remember the conversation we had about that - that clover guy? he didn’t NEED to die, you can’t just go around stabbing people you don’t like. you have to get used to not liking them and not being able to remove them from existence. it’s easy, you avoid them. or they’ll probably avoid you, if you just let them, and didn’t kill them first.

vader: rush clovis deserved his timely, justified, glorious, wonderful demise -

grievous: hello????

luke using the aunt beru voice: be patient, we’ll probably kill you in a minute

I heard that when he originally asked Lady Gaga if he could do a parody of ‘Born this Way’ he was turned down by someone that wasn’t Lady Gaga, they hadn’t even asked her just told Weird Al that she had said ‘no’ so he posted it on his YouTube channel with a brief explanation that he had written it for an album but she had refused to let him officially publish it.

Word got back to Lady Gaga about the situation and she personally contacted him to apologize and explain that the person that he had spoken to hadn’t told her that he had made the request to do a parody of ‘Born this Way’.

Paraphrasing her ‘it’s the highest honor as a singer to have Weird Al do a parody of one of your songs.’

wholesome story :)

i know this was like, in the notes of a star wars post tm, but your take on darth vader being fucked up and evil because he has chronic pain is really ableist ngl. chronic pain can bring out pre-existing poor coping mechanisms, sure, but it doesnt erode someone's whole moral system like you were saying. the idea that any kinda disability could make you evil is pretty harmful. im not here to say you're a bad person or that u would be ableist on purpose or anything, im just suggesting... maybe reflect on ur biases, be more careful about what you say, idk? u dont need to post this publicly or anything, just a heads up

I’m sorry that it took me so long to reply but I had to take a moment to not respond in anger and do some soul searching.

Thank you for calling me out. I don’t remember if I was trying to be funny or serious or somewhere in between but regardless I was in the wrong for not stopping and thinking before hitting post on my take.

I didn’t think that I was being Ableist but maybe I was and now that I’m able to fully step back and look at it I see how I could have come off as Ableist.

Having grown up in a tiny town we didn’t know everyone or what they were doing, maybe my parents did but not child and teenage me, we knew when a neighbor got a trampoline and later pool because we could see their backyard from the main street, but beyond knowing that one couple worked at the wood turning mill in town, and guessing that the guy across from us sold fishing flies (there was a sign) I can’t tell you what anyone else did for a living; well one man USED to work in a shoe factory and I only know that is because it turned out that he used to work with one of my dad’s brothers.

Granted I was homeschooled and the town was so small that when I was in school we were bused to the town south of us for school and didn’t really hangout with children my age as there were only two: a boy and a girl. Ths boy was mostly mean but I was friendly with the girl until we turned twelve and drifted apart.

The only “exciting” thing was debating whether or not the third house on left was haunted. A girl a few years younger than me claimed to see a ghost when the owners were away but she wasn’t reliable in my opinion. But it was spooky looking and outwardly in a state of disrepair. It COULD be haunted as it was the town doctor’s house back in the late 1800s-early 1900s and was used as a hospital at some point.

You CAN have people in small towns that no one knows much if anything about.

And if I remember correctly most people avoided the Cullens because they made them feel uncomfortable or weirded them out.

do you ever wonder why stephanie meyer had the cullens live in a small town to preserve their “anonymity?” has she ever been to a small town??? small town people got nothing to do all day, other than to gossip and think about those weird people that live in the forest. if anything, they’re getting the opposite of anonymity. you want real anonymity? live in a big city. you could live next to someone for 5 years and never even learn their name. they’re up all night? they’re beautiful, looks like they had some crazy good plastic surgery? you never see them go outside? somehow hella fuckin rich? yeah. That’s LA