Togrutanbeans - Loyalty Means Everything To The Clones

One of the most powerful moments I experienced as an ancient history student was when I was teaching cuneiform to visitors at a fair. A father and his two little children came up to the table where I was working. I recognised them from an interfaith ceremony I’d attended several months before: the father had said a prayer for his homeland, Syria, and for his hometown, Aleppo.

All three of them were soft-spoken, kind and curious. I taught the little girl how to press wedges into the clay, and I taught the little boy that his name meant “sun” and that there was an ancient Mesopotamian God with the same name. I told them they were about the same age as scribes were when they started their training. As they worked, their father said to them gently: “See, this is how your ancestors used to write.”

And I thought of how the Ancient City of Aleppo is almost entirely destroyed now, and how the Citadel was shelled and used as a military base, and how Palmyran temples were blown up and such a wealth of culture and history has been lost forever. And there I was with these children, two small pieces of the future of a broken country, and I was teaching them cuneiform. They were smiling and chatting to each other about Mesopotamia and “can you imagine, our great-great-great-grandparents used to write like this four thousand years ago!” For them and their father, it was more than a fun weekend activity. It was a way of connecting, despite everything and thousands of kilometres away from home, with their own history.

This moment showed me, in a concrete way, why ancient studies matter. They may not seem important now, not to many people at least. But history represents so much of our cultural identity: it teaches us where we come from, explains who we are, and guides us as we go forward. Lose it, and we lose a part of ourselves. As historians, our role is to preserve this knowledge as best we can and pass it on to future generations who will need it. I helped pass it on to two little Syrian children that day. They learnt that their country isn’t just blood and bombs, it’s also scribes and powerful kings and Sun-Gods and stories about immortality and tablets that make your hands sticky. And that matters.

saw this on twitter everyone needs to know

Tropes You can Pry from My Cold, Dead Hands:

Royalty/Bodyguard OTP dynamic

Tough, stoic character who is soft for one(1) person

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

“My job is to protect you!” “Well I’m gonna do the dangerous thing anyway because it’s the right thing to do. If you wanna protect me, you’ll just have to come with me.”

The Power of Friendship

Friend groups that have both a Mom Friend and a Dad Friend (even better if the two are dating/pining)

Characters that are total badasses, but also crack jokes and snark the whole fight

Self-rescuing damsels in distress

When the tough loner character that got hurt protecting the other characters pretends not to be injured

The other characters realizing the tough loner character got hurt protecting them, immediately shouting “You’re hurt!” and rushing to help them

True Love

The super nice/peaceful character that can also whoop your ass

When the super nice/peaceful character utterly DESTROYS the bad guy that hurt/scared their friends

That moment right after the Hero’s Self-Doubt Moment, when they look up at the villain, the music changes, and you KNOW the bad guy is about to get wrecked

The heroes all sitting down for a meal together, talking and laughing and being a family

Found Gamily Dynamics

When a villain is doing their villain song and they grab the hero and maneuver them through a dance

When the tomboy and the girly girl are actually besties

Awkward love confessions

OTPs being domestic

When the stoic loner character is playing with a bunch of kids, and the character that didn’t like them very much is watching from afar with a smile as they realize they’re not so bad after all

When to characters accidentally get married to each other

When an OTP accidentally confesses their love in the middle of an argument

The character that’s basically the team’s adopted mother/grandmother, and every member of the team will JACK YOU UP if you do much as talk bad about her

When two characters who are pining for each other end up dancing together at a party, and the UST is so thick you could cut it with a knife

The sunshiny optimist character who’s best friend is the grim and cynical character

The grim and cynical character who would die for the sunshiny optimist

When two characters have gotten really close together as they argued and keep glancing to the other character’s mouth because they realized how close they are and really want to kiss them

When a character is desperate to talk to their crush, but has no idea what to actually SAY once they’re together

When the emotionally constipated character waxes poetic about their crush in their head/to their friends, but can only manage to say things like “What’s up asshole” to their crush in person

When the tough stoic character just MELTS when looking at their lover/best friend

Villains who treat their subordinates like friends

When a character who’s jilted lovers and been selfish in the past goes full ride-or-die for the hero they’ve fallen in love with

twilight of the republic “This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it.”

some underrated screencaps of ahsoka and darth maul

(i say underrated cuz there r a ton of rly popular screencaps of these 2)

1) photos taken seconds before near-dismemberment (as if maul hasnt already lost enough limbs)

2) “I sense a presence… a presence i havent felt since– goddamnit maul! quit following me around!”

3) queen ahsoka makes maul her bitch

4) this just. looks super cool

5) “I got my eye on you. Dont try anything”

6) she does this thing where she uses her opponent as a step ladder. anakin wud b so proud

7) HOW FUCKING STRONG IS THIS GIRL??? even maul looks shocked

 i cry

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Favorite color: All shades of green bc they are all wonderful!!

Last song I listened to: Acının İlacı - Adamlar

Favorite musicians: Mitski, Wallows, Pinhani, Adamlar, Yüzyüzeyken Konuşuruz 

Last film I watched: The Prestige

Last TV show I watched: Last one that I completed for the first time was Crashing, but I’m rewatching Rick and Morty and Breaking Bad

Favorite original characters: Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle), Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass), Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Sweetsweetsweetsweetsweet

Sparkling water, tea, or coffee: Ugh I love all of them but I think I have a particularly obvious addiction to sparkling water

Pets: Unfortunately no :{ but I hope to have many someday (esp cats and dogs)

Tagging: @divergent-llamas-03, @thatfunkyopossum, @gone-to-the-galaxy  if you guys feel like it! c:   

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Tagged by: @blacksquadron-rougetwo, thank you! ❤

Favorite colours: Twilight blue (like the colour of the sky once the sun has set but it’s not quite black), dark green, grey

Last Song I Listened To: It’s Never Over (Hey Orpheus) by Arcade Fire

Favorite Musicians: Lorde, Hozier, Glass Animals, Florence + The Machine

Last Film I Watched: Ratatouille

Last TV Show I Watched: The Mandalorian

Favorite Original Character: Listen, I don’t talk about books on this blog but I adore Adam Parrish from The Raven Cycle series

Sweet, Spicy or Savory: Spicy (but not so spicy that I can’t enjoy the food) or sweet things in moderation

Sparkling Water, Tea, or Coffee:  I can have anywhere between 3-6 cups of tea a day so…

Pets:  None, though I’d love a black cat or a big dog like a husky

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this just in: if aang’s flying bison and lemur would ever speak, they would have captain rex’s voice

I don’t know what it is about Star Wars but even if it’s not your biggest fandom, it still has the funniest memes by a long shot I mean “look at all the fucks i give anakin” and “your poncho is a piece of junk” and anakin hates sand it’s all just 1000% pure class