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I Don't Usually Reblog Sad Things Bc I Scroll Away As Quick As I Can, But Echo's Face In This Omg...
I don't usually reblog sad things bc I scroll away as quick as I can, but Echo's face in this omg... I just love the way he's drawn... and now I'm crying đ

âRex? Fives?⊠Please come back. Please donât leave me here!â
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Holy shit this is amazing. This must've taken ages too, thanks for sharing đ
I made a clone wars timeline to combine all of canon and legends into one cohesive and somewhat manageable timeline, mainly for fanfic and ttrpg purposes but I thought people might like it, it has a full workout of the galactic standard calendar and has precise(ish) dates for events (mainly republic commando) but I want as many people as possible to be able to see it and hopefully enjoy it
You can find it here:

Wait... Moss & Roy? As in the amazing Maurice Moss?

So he's geeky, loves circuitboards & unwittingly finds himself in the most unlikely situations yet manages to ace them despite having 0 social skills.

Also they once convinced their OC a black box with a red button controlled the entire holonet ;)

This is Moss.
Honestly he's not important for the story at all and purely exists because I wanted some variation for the background Clones. Poor guy. đ«Ą
If you're a fanfic writer feel free to adopt him and give him a home in the wildest backstory imaginable lol
Omg Rex đ€© He looks so cool! And the details... love the expression on the top right sketch and the teeny Captain being yeeted by Anakin lol

Captain rex !
As much as I love Plo... if we're being real... none of them really cared because no Jedi ever lobbied the Senate to have troopers become citizens of the Republic with rights & agency. This goes especially for all the Jedi sitting on the High Council who had influence with the Chancellor & were friends with more than a few Senators. But like that was just never brought up as an issue, that we know. We can headcanon some Jedi might've brought it up and were shot down or couldn't get the Senate to pass the law (this is my personal Plo HC) but we've never actually been given anything concrete to suggest that the Jedi advocated for it at any point.
What's more concerning is that when they find out the entire army has behavioral chips implanted, their only concern is whether or not they are likely to malfunction. Let that sink in. Shaak Ti isn't appalled that the trooper's dedication & obedience could come from implanted chips rather than training. She's concerned about the cause of the malfunction. And once Palpatine assures the Council that his doctors neutralized the cause, they don't care that troopers still have implants in their head... Palps is like "let's put this nasty business behind us" and not one of them has the guts to stand up and say: hang on... we didn't draw the line at a genetically modified army because we were caught in a shit storm at Geonosis, but having fought alongside these men for 2 years, we can't condone implanted behavioral blockers especially when we don't know for sure exactly what they do... and also while we're at it, give these men health insurance & a pension for force's sake.
Like that to me is just... why didn't they... Traviss had a point vode, and she was writing within canon at a time where chips didnât even exist yet... with the chips it's almost impossible to claim the Jedi were earnest about seeing troopers truly as individuals and equals when they knew their agency was being stripped from them.
The first time we see Yoda, leader of the Council, in tcw, heâs explicitly affirming the individuality and importance of the clones. He then teaches them how to connect to the Force, the most sacred tenet of the religion heâs dedicated his life to.
The first time we see Plo Koon, a Jedi Master, in tcw, he clearly tells his clone troopers that they are not expendable to him, and then proceeds to do his absolute best to save as many clones as possible.
The first time we see Anakin in tcw he has his clones fly an unnecessary suicide mission because he wants the glory of killing Grievous. He doesnât even stop when he hears them all dyingâhis Padawan, a 14-year-old, has to yell at him that no one else will survive what heâs doing before he changes his plan.
And people STILL say that Anakin is the Jedi who cared about the clones the most. Seriously?
Hi there. We've briefly crossed paths before, but I see you're the resident Mando, so I have a question. I'm wondering how Mandalorian culture deals with mental illness, depression in particular. Would they write somebody off like 'haha you're weak, later loser' or would they be understanding of a person's struggles with their own mind and lend support to the fight, or something else entirely? Obviously not everyone would react the same, but as a culture on the whole, what are your thoughts?
Thereâs a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is that centrally to mandalorian cultural foundations, mental illness should be understood and not stigmatized, and the community supportive of the individual suffering. A community focused culture like those of the mandalorians is one of support, assistance, and understanding. The fact is, Mandalorian cultural foundations literally view struggle of all kinds as important to spiritual growth, as well as the physical and mental. The foundations explicitly venerate coming together as a community to support one another. It is, literally, in the Resolânare.
While mandalorians are not all warriors, itâs no secret that a large percentage of their population work on battlefields or in war zonesâenough for that to be a stereotyped profession. A society like this must learn to deal with all of the mental and physical disabilities that stem from such professions. Negative stigma is unsustainableâthere is no way mandalorians, as a people, would have survived for so long as they did, and do, if they literally treated mental illness, such as depression, with the attitude of âhaha, youâre weak.â
Itâs just not realistic. Itâs ignorant.Â
The long answer is that because of ignorance and an obsession with harmful ideas of strength and weakness, and a complete misunderstanding of âwarrior cultureâ on the whole in order to defend and prop up toxic ideas of strength and masculinity, the fandom pushes the idea that mandalorians would be intolerant of mental illnessâwhen what we know about mandalorians blatantly expresses otherwise, if you know where to look.
So, letâs look.
Struggle versus Stagnation
The mandalorian creation myth, Akaanati'kar'oya, tells us of an eternal struggle between Kad Haârangir, the Destroyer, and the sloth-god Arasuum, Stagnation. During the time of the Neo-Crusaders, the creation myth was regarded not as just a story but a telling of factual events.
At the time, devotion to Kad Haârangir was expressed through ritual warfare â and it was said that a person is not a mandalorian if they give in to stagnation.
But, fandom often misses, overlooks, or outright ignores a major component of Kad Haârangir. They are not a destroyer god, They are a chaos god of change.
Kad Haârangir is not a Destroyer to destroy â They are a destroyer to clear out the things that would choke and trap you. Sometimes destruction is necessary for growth. Sometimes you have to cut out the parts of you, or your community, that is holding you down or preventing you from accepting change, from pursuing change, from growing and reaching your full potential.
Sometimes you have to clear the dead and the decay, violently, to allow life to flourish when it could not before.
âThey served the god Kad Ha'rangir, whose tests and trials forced change and growth upon the clans he chose to be his people.â
â Vilnau Teupt, The Essential Guide to Warfare
Kad Haârangir was never about destruction for destructionâs sake. They were never about conquering. Huge chunks of mandalorian fandom canât seem to wrap their fucking minds around that fact. They obsess over this misconception of âProud Warrior Race,â completely misunderstanding Kad Haârangir and pushing a stereotype that just doesnât fit.
And all this? Was explicit in the creation myth itself.
For those who would say theyâre âoutdatedâ and that mandalorians wouldnât know about them ⊠well, thatâs not true either. The creation myth, Kad Haârangir and the original pantheon, was still known and discussed by Mandalorian academics as late as 24 ABY. So claiming ignorance wonât work.
This creation myth, among other myths and legends, are the very foundations and building blocks upon which the entire culture was born, they are integral to mandalorian cultural identity.
The parts of fandom who see the word âdestructionâ fixate on the aggressive violence inherent in the word, and thatâs just ⊠such a small, narrow view. Itâs completely missing the point, usually in order to chest thump.
How is this relevant, you might ask. Isnât depression (to use your example) idleness and stagnation?
Well, yes, actually, depending on how you might look at it. But thatâs the point.
Anyone who understands depression from a place of education and not ignorance understands that depression is a sickness(and, lmao, mandalorians value education, so idk why the toxic parts of fandom are incapable of educating themselves and discarding misconceptions about mental health, but thatâs an entirely different discussion). It can be treated, can be managed, can maybe even be cured in some cases, but it is literally a battle fought day in and day out against an invisible enemy.
And these kinds of battles are some of the most difficult to survive. How do you fight, and overcome, and survive, something you cannot see? How do you survive when it is your body that you are fighting?
Dealing with depression, fighting depression, surviving depression, is, in a way, the spiritual struggle against arasuum taken from an external form and brought internallyâand there is no way that mandalorians, on the whole, wouldnât be able to see its relevance or make that connection, ESPECIALLY considering the symptoms of depression.
And this isnât even touching on other forms of mental illnessesâlike PTSD, which is also heavily stigmatized in our society and carries that stigma into mandalorian âfans,â despite so many mandalorians being subject to violence and the potential of developing the disorder.Â
A disorder which is so often co-morbid with depression.
For something that so many soldiers are at high risks of developing, and mandalorian fandom supposedly being drawn to the mandalorians due to their militaristic culture, it is mind boggling how the fandom treats depression, PTSD, and other mental health disorders / illnesses on the whole.
As Iâve said before: shabla mirsh'kyramude.
Add onto this the fact that mandalorians, in general, heavily practice adoption along the requirements of whether or not someone is mandokarla, or has the right stuff. What is often considered the right stuff?
surviving the impossible (often extreme violence or abuses)
displaying the potential for the incredible, often in a warlike setting
proving oneâs self through extreme events
extreme devotion to family and personal code
I would be surprised if literally everyone adopted into the culture was perfectly stable and healthy. In fact, Iâll go out on a limb right now and say that anyone who says that, deserves a smack. In Legends, nearly every single goddamn example of adoption has been of someone who has been severely impacted by extreme circumstances and still survivesâbut is still clearly damaged by it, and struggles with it in whatever way they can.
And that struggle is venerated. Instead of stigmatized, theyâre viewed through a lens of bravery, of courage, of atinlaâa stubbornness to be admired and imitated, not a reason to be ridiculed and abandoned.Â
Ultimately this all falls back into the toxic ideology that surrounds âstrength,â which is unsustainable, and the stigma against appearing weak, which is, again, incongruent with actual mandalorian philosophy and cultural foundation.
Anyway, moving on.
Accessibility / Accommodations / Impact
Not solely mental health, but still relevant and still applies:
Parja reached up and patted [Fiâs] helmet. Sheâd painted it with the Mandalorian letters M and S for mirâshupur â brain injury â just like a battlefield medic might do for triage purposes. On Mandalore, the symbol functioned as a blend of a general warning to give the wearer a break, and a medal for combat service.
â Republic Commando: Order 66, pp 39
Now, the Republic Commando series holds a kind of ⊠contentious position in fandom, as Iâm sure youâve probably noticed. However, this is one of the things it does get right, as far as mental illness and disability is concerned. Yes, Fi Skirata suffered a traumatic brain injury in the line of duty, but that doesnât change the fact that it is still just as much a mental health issue as it is a physical one. Fi experiences disorientation. He forgets things he feels he shouldnât, struggles with words and speaking, and so on.
The sigil painted on his helmet is a clear, public, visible way to alert everyone around him, explicitly, what to expect so that everyone in the community can accommodate and assist him.
What people donât understand when reading this scene, is that this is not something done if anyone suspects he would be at risk of being taken advantage of. He is in a predominantly mandalorian community, populated by mostly if not only mandalorians, with the expectation that the community will assist him as a rule, not an exception.
You donât paint a goddamn sign that says BRAIN INJURY on someoneâs helmet in a society that stigmatizes disability or weakness of any kind.
This sets a precedence, whether knowingly or unknowingly: mandalorians, as a community, will assist another mandalorian with a disability. If there was any risk at all, Parja would never have allowed Fi to wander around a busy town alone, much less paint a sigil on his helmet that would make him an obvious target otherwise.
Another thing: it is specifically a sigil written in the mandalorian alphabet, not arubesh, and itâs implied to be understood to mandalorians only, and not aruettise (unless theyâre familiar with mandalorian cultural practices, and alphabet).
Why is this important?
It is because it is the biggest, clearest, loudest example we have that mandalorians display both badges as well as warnings through art and sigils on their armor. They give signals that this person is suffering x disability as a warning and a request for patience, assistance, and accessibility. That assistance and accessibility is expected of the community, not something done out of kindness or saintliness or good samaritan whatever the hell.
It is the rule, not the exception. It is the rule.
Iâm repeating myself, but Iâm trying to drill in this point because fandom fails to recognize something so little as so important, and it is important.
It is so small and easy to miss, but it completely decimates any foundation to the argument that mental illness is a weakness and that the sufferer should be abandoned.Â
Putting aside however briefly the fact that negatively stigmatizing mental illness is harmful and puts real people at risk of real harm and danger, propping up the idea that mandalorians donât deal with or address disability or illness of any kind in the face of the above is just ⊠ignoring all of the creative potential for telling interesting storiesâcreating art, sigils, and armor.
Consider:Â art or sigils indicating:
autism spectrum
schizophrenia
PTSD
blindness
deaf or hard of hearing
etc etc etc
What is the point of writing a people who are as community focused as mandalorians, who have a huge population who deals with war as an industry, who has a huge population of refugees and forced migration, and then never having the courage to sensitively deal with the repercussions of these terrible things? Never having the thought to even consider what it means to carry a sigil of depression as both an indicator of needing assistance as well as a badge of honor for fighting what could be an invisible battle for years?
What is the actual point of maintaining a status quo of demonizing mental illness when mandalorians, as a society, have firmly flipped the bird at status quo time and time again in order to come together and support all members of their community â even fighting each other to do so?Â
The toxic parts of mandalorian fandom is lazy. Do not accept that laziness, that inadvertent worship of arasuum, as fact.Â
To put it crudely, they donât know shit about shit.
Mandalorians venerate, give respect, give honor, to struggle. All forms of struggle. Even surviving, just surviving, is a struggle.Â
No real mandalorian would abandon another to arasuum.Â