If You Tag Me In A Chain Post And I Don't Do It It's Not Because I Hate You It's Because I Am Very Lazy.

sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

I'm such a sucker for the "character A always has trouble sleeping but if character B holds them, they fall asleep instantly and sleep through the whole night" trope

Ugh, it's just so good

listen to me. LISTEN. when i say boba fett is bad with words i mean that purely in a verbal/social sense. as mentioned in my previous literature: he either says too much or too little and can’t really gauge which is which. he’s unsure about deliberately changing his tone according to who he’s speaking to so he more or less adopts a one-size-fits-all approach (albeit with notable exceptions such as fennec, bo-katan and koska) - this can be called his “work voice” and it’s part of his scary professional bounty hunter persona etc etc etc. he can very effectively speak when he adopts the role of his own reputation (and uses this skill in tbobf) but when he’s just “boba” he’d rather not say anything than flounder through all those words unnecessarily.

HOWEVER. this hesitancy to speak casually does NOT reflect on his vocabulary. he reads and reads and reads (has been doing so since he was a boy) and enjoys fiction and poetry. it’s a hobby that has made him an eloquent man SPECIFICALLY when the situation calls for it. that’s all. now carry on w your day 👍

This! I started writing fanfic and it's the best thing I've done for my mental health in years.

Hot take everyone needs at least one creative hobby to accompany their consumptive ones. I don’t mean just art and writing I mean literally anything where you create something. Embroidery, cooking, knitting, gardening, wood whittling, trap making, needle felting, instrument playing, bug raising, fandom analysis writing, ANYTHING where you do work and can hold the fruits of your labor in you hands. Anything where you MAKE something else.

Something that isn’t a career choice. Something you don’t have to be good at. As long as it brings you joy.

Please get hobbies, they enrich your life.

I think my favorite part about Boba's daddy issues is the fact that they aren't your traditional flavor of daddy issues

Like

"Oh my dad never loved me" or abusive, or anything to that degree

Like on all accounts Jango loved him and did his best. Some of his methods are a little unorthodox but such is life when you're a war vet with PTSD that doesn't have a healthy coping mechanism besides having a son. No no no. Boba's daddy issues are that he simply is his father and he will never escape that shadow. (Well there's Din who just flat out doesn't know. But my point is there)

He is his father and he will never be the man his father was and isn't that the kicker. You know how Robert Irwin's life revolves around everybody and their mother feeling as though they need to include his father in the conversation whenever it pertains to him in the slightest?

Jango Fett was the blue print and Boba is simply his copy and I cannot imagine hearing about your dead father every time a fellow bounty hunter opened their mouth the second you stepped into a room. At least until Boba got fed up and pulled a blaster on the poor bastard and promptly shut him up for the moment.

And as fun as it is to imagine Jango in the aftermath shaking his head as his child inevitably falls down the very rabbit hole that got himself killed. But, that sentiment aside, I cannot imagine a moment Jango isn't proud of that boy and Boba simply cannot see that. Boba is in no way perfect and Jango was also the blue print for that, but Jango will be damned to feel ashamed of his kid for making the same mistakes under zero guidance. Jango's fucked up, and likewise his child is as well but that's his boy, his pride and joy.

And I don't think Boba's knows that. Most people didn't know his father. They knew Jango Fett the bounty hunter. They knew Jango Fett the Jedi killer. They knew a man, mostly ruthless, that hunted his prey with an expressionless face that waited until the right moment to strike.

And thats not to say that's all Jango was. But who was going to tell Boba that? That the man's hands were as gentle as they were calloused and that despite his dark unassuming eyes that dared one to speak against him, he was a family man at the end of the day and although all the family he had were long since dead he carried their remembrance with a guilt like no other and he loved his boy.

But a 10 year olds memory is a fickle thing. And when ones face is tilted towards the light it's so easy to be blinded by it.

Jango was never cruel, but his hands have left their stain no matter how many times he's washed them and when the only people left alive to speak your name are the hunters you gnashed teeth with and the child you left orphaned despite the promise that things would be different this time around it's too easy for the truth to fall between the cracks.

Because while Jaster would have beamed down at Boba with pride and Myles and Silas would have lifted that boy high above their heads and recounted tales upon tales of what trouble his father had dragged them along for, and Zam had brushed his fair back behind his ears and read him stories and left him books at his doorstep, Aurra Sing was not as kind.

And while she wretched alcohol away from too small hands she had just as easily belittled and abandoned him in the same breath. And while Hondo has described Jango as an honorable man, what good did that tell a boy who had been thrust into prison just a few hours later.

Because whether they'd told Boba his father was a too gentle bastard or a man that striked fear into the hearts of whoever heard his name, he was an unobtainable goal and Boba was a cheap imitation.

And while he rose against the ranks, and learned to strike fear into all who opposed him then learned to love above all else, there's not a soul alive to tell him that his father would be proud of the man he'd become.

And maybe at long last he can sleep at night, because what good is a dead man's approval anyway? But he will never know that at the end of the day, through the shadow and the haze of blurred vision Jango loved him above all else, everything else be damned.

aminals

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Brain farts, a thread

EXTREMELY torn between "damn that was an incredibly good episode of The Mandalorian and it answered literally everything I've wanted to know for the last year, all wrapped up in a very pretty high-budget episode with fantastic cinematography"

-- and frustration over the fact that BoBF's already limited 7-episode season just dedicated an entire episode to setting up Mando S3. And did so at such a noticeably higher production quality that it's budget probably equaled all the other episodes combined.

The man didn't even get a cameo in an episode of his own show.

Finally updated this bad boy :D

Chapter 10 is out now and we’ve officially surpassed 50k words!

You know what they say….It takes a village…