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Mondrian inspired tea caddy.

This was my first attempt at making a box and I always need more space to store tea. I liked the straight lines when I’ve stuck waste wood together before for other projects which lends itself quite well to a Mondrian style pattern.

I didn’t have any naturally red, yellow, or blue wood so I used orange (padauk), green (tulip), and purple (purple heart). I also used sycamore to replace the white and oak for the grey, with African Blackwood for the black lines. I used mitre joints for the corners and lined the box with cedar.

I finished the box with Danish oil, which says it’s odourless when it’s dry but it’s been dry for over 2 weeks now and I can still smell it

Bleach painting of the Ghost. I wanted to see if the colour would lift differently on a different coloured t-shirt. I know the picture makes it look black but it’s actually navy blue. The colour still lifts the same way, through orange then to white. The splatter effect with the spray gave me a galaxy vibe so I decided to paint the Ghost. My proportions are still a bit off. You get less leeway with ships and buildings than you so with a landscape, or to an extent animals, so it can look off quite easily. Still I really enjoyed this one. Can’t wait to see the Ghost in live action.

Grogu bleach painting. This was my third attempt at bleach painting. There’s still things I’d want to improve, the proportions are a little off, but it’s still better than I expected it to be. You can’t exactly remove the bleach once it’s down so you have to work very decisively, which isn’t easy if your prone to mistakes. I’m no Bob Ross, my accidents are often neither happy nor little.

Some book edge painting of Howl’s Moving Castle I did for a friend’s birthday. This was the first trilogy I’ve done, and the first paperbacks, so I did end up crushing the spines thinking they could take the stress from the clamps. They could not.

I’ve also yet to figure out how to stop the paint cracking off when I open the book back up, but this mostly held up.

Mandalorian dice

I think these are probably some slightly random choices but I didn’t want to carve out an individual helmet for each die. It was probably a little restrictive doing it that way but I was mostly just trying to avoid doing more work. As much as I wanted Sabine’s helmet there, I did the helmet in the right shape only in the size for the D4 which would be too small for any of the other dice. Luckily, cool helmets run in the family so I did Tristan’s as I had the right size and shape for it. I might carve some more out eventually, there’s a lot of diversity in mandalorian helmets so they’re not quite as simple as the clones.

A clone trooper dice set I made with some clones from the 501st legion. I carved the helmets from plaster first and then made a mould to make more. I then painted them with acrylic paint and set them into dice.

I’m still yet to learn how to reliably not sand the numbers off the D20 but I did learn to carve some of the numbers back in and pretend it never happened so…

I also probably should use blanks for stuff like this because I definitely sanded into some of these.

Stellan’s lightsaber hilt has got to be one of the prettiest lightsabers in Star Wars, so I wanted to see if I could replicate it. This hilt is made with cedar, chamfuta, purple heart, and padauk. I turned the main shaft of the hilt on the lathe, and used the scroll saw with various sanders, hand files, and chisels to make the cross guards and details. I also used one of the chisels to accidentally stab my finger which was fun… As with the others, some of the joins still aren’t quite perfect but this is still one of my favourite things I’ve made.

Some pictures of the first lightsaber hilt I made, Luke’s from Return of the Jedi. Made with tulip, maple, rosewood, and walnut. The green LED in the end is connected to a switch hidden in the control box and a battery compartment concealed in the bottom of the hilt. I was perhaps a little over ambitious with trying to get electronics into this. Even though it’s a relatively simple circuit I’m not exactly an expert, and I think the hole I drilled down the middle was too small which made the wiring really awkward, but the idea was there. Still, I’m happy with how it turned out for the first one.

Reath's my favourite character from the high republic so of course I had to make his lightsaber hilt. Made with birch, tulip, panga panga, and xylia. This is only the second hilt I've made and there's some parts that don't quite fit together but I'm still pretty proud of it.

So, regarding the supposed hints to Sabine’s Force-sensitivity in the trailer: my two cents is that she’s not, but that she wants to be.

If Sabine were Force-sensitive, I think she would have discovered it during Trials of the Darksaber. Force-sensitivity isn’t easy to hide; I doubt she could have lived with two Jedi and all their weird Force shenanigans for half a decade and not figured that out. Adding it in now wouldn’t make sense, and it would kind of be a disservice both to Kanan and Ezra’s stories and her own.

Instead, I think she calls Ahsoka “master” because she continued learning about wielding a lightsaber from her. Through that, I imagine she got to feel closer to Kanan and Ezra, and I think as time went on, she probably started yearning to wield Ezra’s lightsaber in the way he did, and Kanan did, because she’s so desperate to feel connected to them again. When she raises her hand in the trailer to call to the Force, I’m betting it’s just out of desperation to see that wish fulfilled, and when Shin tells her she doesn’t have any power, I think that means she failed. 

The High Republic Characters in 5 Words or Less

Avar Kriss - Jedi Goddess (or "Dammit Stellan, let me work!")

Stellan Gios - Jedi Poster Boy (or Avar and Elzar's Husband/Keeper)

Elzar Mann - Horny Chaos Jedi

Bell Zettifar - Normal until super traumatized Jedi

Ember - Bestest good girl charhound

Burryaga Agaburry - Empathic furry cinnamon roll Jedi

Vernestra Rwoh - Teenaged Jedi Mom Friend (or Future burned out gifted adult)

Orla Jareni - Absolute fucking Jedi QUEEN

Kantam Sy - Nonbinary greatness incarnate Jedi

Cohmac Vitus - Jedi needs therapy badly

Reath Silas - Thirsty nerd Jedi lacking gaydar

Ram Jomaram - Geeky baby nerd with pets

Geode - Badass GOAT

Leox Gyasi - Epic space stoner

jedi and fatness in the high republic era

so. high republic media has given us so much in terms of characters that are not white, are not straight, are not cis etc. … but what i expected the least was that they gave us jedi who literally don’t fit into the ~ideal~ body type that jedi typically have - slim, athletic, muscular. the #1 argument against jedi being fat is always: they need to be physically fit. they need to be disciplined. they need to be fast, and proficient in combat. disregarding the stereotypes that fat people aren’t disciplined etc. i just… i never got it because: you can be fit without being straight-sized. you can be proficient in combat. you can train to run fast. and jedi? jedi have the force to support them. and even if they aren’t all of those things they “need” to be - there’s always jedi librarians. healers. teachers. explorers. but i digress. let’s get back to the high republic!

there are two jedi padawans that are fat or fat-adjacent in high republic media: imri cantaros and ram jomaram. and they’re written in such a loving, respectful way i cry when i think about it.

i don’t want to make a huge analysis or anything, but i’d really like to share a couple of my oh-my-god-this-character-is-fat-and-i-love-them-so-much moments.

that’s ram, who has appearances in: the rising storm, race to crashpoint tower, high republic adventures, trail of shadows (in one panel lmao), midnight horizon.

Ram hated fighting. Well–he’d never done it, but he hated the idea of it. It felt like his body refused to cooperate any time even a practice battle was called for. Lightsaber training and Jedi combat maneuvers were his two worst areas, and the very thought of going face to face with an enemy made him jittery. (race to crashpoint tower)

but even though he says he hates it or can’t do it, he’s good at it!

and pls look at him go in this panel in trail of shadows #3:

and one quote from midnight horizon that i love love LOVE:

“Absolutely,” Reath said, lighting his own green one and standing at the ready. “What were you going to ask me?“ Their sabers met with a jangly surge of power. Reath was careful to move slow, telegraphing his every move so Ram would see it coming and block. "Oh.” Ram said, easily swiping away Reath’s sizzing blade and then shoving him clean across the room with the Force. “Never mind.” Reath sat up with a huge grin plastered across his face. “It’s like that, huh?” He stood, cracking his neck the way his master had. “Game on!”

reath like “i’ll go easy on this little dude” and ram just obliterates him. 😌

that’s imri! he has major appearances in: a test of courage, out of the shadows, mission to disaster. he’s not as explicitly fat as ram (and for some reason his depiction in the high republic comic is… not the way he’s described in the novels lol) but i’m absolutely counting him.

Imri was tall and broad-shouldered and his hefty frame was a perfect match for his master’s. He had pale skin, a mop of golden hair, kind brown eyes, and an uncanny knack for perceiving the feelings and thoughts of those around him. (out of the shadows)

and:

Imri was relieved to see that there were no durga berries today. They were delicious, but Master Nyla had been hard pressed to find a tabard in his size, and he didn’t want to tempt disaster by eating another one. (mission to disaster)

also, in mission to disaster he’s constantly eating or talking about food and it’s so incredibly delightful.

i love these two boys so much and it’s just really, really neat that the high republic writers are giving us at least crumbs of diverse body types on top of everything else.

EDIT: OH!! very important addition by @cohborikardok:

yes!!! thank you!

This is how The Fallen Star went right?

This is so, so important. TFatWS spoilers.

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Things That Happened in 2020 That Don’t Feel Like They Did:

-The Witcher came out

-The movie Parasite wins at the Oscars

-Stickbugging

-Kim Jong Un “died” like three times

-Ray Bans Official Charity Sale For $26.99 Today

-The murder hornets appearing and disappearing in like a week

-The Sonic movie came out

-Jennifer Lopez pole dances at the Superbowl

-4/20/2020

-X Æ A-12 Musk

-UFOs are real apparently

-Plane flights were like $15 at one point

-For some reason, Clone High is making a comeback

-Leaving school in March for a “few weeks lockdown” and now we’re here

-Friday the 13th was the last “normal” day for a lot of us

thijs is so???

Unmute !

One of my least favorite mental illness things is "hungry but dont feel like eating" and its companions "hungry but all the food in the house is Illegal," "hungry but can't make anything," and "hungry, want to eat, but why bother"

the funniest character headcanons are feral, homophobic and tax evader i dont accept constructive criticism and you cant change my mind

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

Reverse Robin Hood where you rob the poor and give to the rich