All of us

Speaking about characters that affected me the most for their evolution across the seasons, Ezra Bridger is surely leading my list.

While his hero's journey is perfectly archetypical, almost unsurprising, the genuine humanity of the character, with all his flaws and messiness, connects and emotionally speaks *to me* even more profoundly than Luke or Rey.

His street urchin years in Capital City made him diffident and forcedly selfish. Surviving, young and alone, with the sole power of his will and stubbornness, he taught himself to disregard others' needs, focusing on living day by day.

Many in our current society feel and think similarly, struggling to provide for or too focused on themselves, forgetting to be compassionate.

So I totally adore the fact that from the first episode, this hardened attitude is more and more melted by the radiating power of example. I always believed that generosity and kindness are contagious.

They can be taught and learned. And Ezra absorbed every lesson.

"Who are you, people? I mean, you're not thieves exactly."

"We're not exactly anything. We're a crew. A team. In some ways, a family."

So weird, diverse people. Without personal scope or focus.

There for helping others. Just because "it is the right thing to do."

Hera (catching Ezra's big heart at one glance), Sabine, Zeb.

And Kanan.

With his final -tragic- beautiful lesson.

The true meaning of love, selflessness, and compassion.

This is, ultimately, why I love Rebels so much.

Ezra is me, he is all of us.

Our potential. Our ability to change and learn.

Creating opportunities and solutions from totally unlikely assets (I mean... space squids!).

Courageously acting, "because it is the right thing to do."

[Celebrating my love for Ezra with this adorable food package keychain by @raewardstudios. Cuteness overloaded. Ezra's bun is a "beebleberry oatmeal bread", "Juicy! Sweet! Delicious!".

And I am eating 'beebleberris' for three days now]

Lawful Rebel

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned from you, master, it’s that following direct orders isn’t always the best way to solve a problem.”

~

The border between blindly following instructions, and making a mess for not abiding by other people's (wiser? smarter? more prepared?) decisions, is often difficult to detect.

The grey area is vast and confusing.

So, if sometimes obeying orders leads to an impasse, at best, or catastrophic consequences, at worst, often society advances just by respecting the rules.

For me, the dichotomy is embedded in my brain. And it is painful.

If from one side I am a stubborn Anakin (and you have no idea how excruciating is to admit this), from the other I am... C3PO (jeez, I do not know what is worse at this point).

So, even if I never shut up when something is bothering me (no matter if it is possibly the worst thing to say at that moment), I am disappointed when people blatantly ignore procedures or regulations.

I am a subversive rebel that wants big changes (read this with an echoing voice, imagining me, fist in the hair)... who totally freaks out if you move her sofa on the left by 4.35 millimeters.

So.

It is complicated.

~

This rant (!?) for celebrating #TanoTuesday, and this spectacular pin by @teamtanoalive. They are absolutely a pillar of this community. Their creations are always mindblowing, and, personally, they were one of the "big accounts" that welcomed me when I just started this IG adventure.

Which I will never forget.

This is why I am SO proud that this is the first Ahsoka pin in my collection.

And it is SPECTACULAR.

[BTW, it is still available, and if you do not have it, run because you cannot miss it]

My journey

"If you can see yourself, you will never be truly blind, Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight."

This lightsaber means so much to me.

It was the beginning of a journey.

A journey that, ultimately, led to the existence of this tiny silly nerdy happy space.

And, if you ever had the time to scroll down and down and down, falling like Alice into the rabbit hole, you probably found it featured in many posts.

It is just a prop, not particularly good, nor screen accurate (even if I tried my best to reproduce the colors, at least).

But it's the first saber I made.

The first I sanded.

The first I painted.

And sanded, and painted, and sanded, and painted, and sanded, and painted again.

Yes, like 20 times before being even remotely satisfied.

I never was a crafty person.

I did not know 'grits', or how to apply bondo, or own an airbrush.

But, a little more than a year ago, the pandemic was raging, my trip to Batuu canceled.

I was not there yet to buy 450 dollars Solo Hold empty hilt (good times... 🙃), and so I said.

Why not?

It was a long process.

Frustrating at times. Rewarding mostly.

A way to challenge myself, to learn from my errors.

Having fun.

And I felt like sharing.

Sabers making, and helmet painting, and book reading, and merch finding.

So, this place was born.

Hilt love is subjective.

Like ice cream flavors, sex, and pineapple on pizza.

And, for me, this is the most elegant hilt of the whole Star Wars canon.

[And, no, not just because of Kanan]

[Ok, maybe I'm a little biased, but let's pretend]

The most beautiful saber of all.

[Warning: lightsabers hilts are addictive]

I murder paperbacks

I see your face.

"So, what's special?

You already shared these".

Nope. I did not.

These are brand new and shiny.

Maybe cuddled for more minutes than I would like to admit. But they are unopened, inviolate, perfectly pristine hardcover books.

So the actual question is: "why on earth you bought books that you already have? Like... AGAIN?"

Short -true- answer: because I am, fundamentally, insane.

Long answer: because Morry and Laz book-shamed me unrestrainedly for how I handle paperbacks.

And, folks, with a proper reason.

The paperbacks are destroyed. 🙄

And, yes. I'm one of those book-terrorists that flip the cover when they read.

There. I said it.

I see your horror.

Pillory me.

And I stick post-it and write notes.

A. LOT. OF. NOTES.

I even trimmed the adhesive bookmarks here, a hopeless attempt to minimize the mess.

[Failed]

And the paper is so bad, that, often, my innocent pencil tortures it with actual holes.

So. Yep.

However, these Thrawn books are my treasures. My gems.

I'm not even objective anymore. Whatever.

Ultimate stage crush.

[Please send help]

Therefore, I accepted the ignominy and decided that these unblemished copies had to be mine.

To cuddle.

With love,

TheAccidentalGeek, books tormentor.

#bookkiller #Imurderpaperbacks #sorrybutnotsorry

I have nothing

"The Sith. The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother's arms, murdered my brother, used me as a weapon, and then cast me aside. Abandoned me. Once, I had power, now I have nothing. Nothing."

After Bane, here another undeniably-not-good-guy who fascinates me.

Despite the pitiful recap above (although all true), I'm not really with both feet on the 'poor Maul victim of the circumstances' wagon.

That said, he is a formidably well written character.

The strength, the commitment.

Sure, the absolute CRAZINESS too.

But, he has a plan. He is focused.

And I admire that.

"You may think I am evil. I am not.

I am efficient."

And, the be honest, he was just saying the unquestionable truth during the siege of Mandalore. He was so unbearably unlucky with the timing. Literally, a few hours later, Obi-Wan would attempt to defeat Anakin himself.

"Too late for what? The Republic to fall? It already has and you just can't see it. There is no justice, no law, no order. Except for the one that will replace it. The time of the Jedi has passed. They cannot defeat Sidious. But together, you and I can."

Maybe this is why I like him.

He says terrible, impossible to swallow truths.

Nevertheless, truths.

And I always admire boldness.

"Justice is merely the construct of the current power base. A base, which, according to my calculations, is about to change."

So, today I share these incredible earrings by @geekablycute. I was truly blown away by the perfection of this pair. The glitter, the reflective material for the name, the shiny vs matte surfaces.

Every detail falling into place.

For a spicy night, maybe.

Geekly elegant.

Exquisite mentoring-Thrawn is exquisite. Part IV.

And then, to Al'iastov's surprise, Thrawn got down on one knee in front of her, putting his face a little lower than hers. Grown-ups almost never did that. Even most of Al'iastov's other caregivers had usually stood straight up looking down at her. "But while all of us face a variety of paths, we all have the power to choose among them," he continued. "You have that power as well, the power to choose which of those paths is the right one for you".

~

"Are you willing to go with me, just the two of us, into the depths of the Chaos?

For a moment Che'ri's mouth and tongue and brain seemed frozen. What Thrawn was asking was never done. Ever. []

"Can we do that?" she asked hesitantly.

He shrugged, a small smile touching his lips. "Physically and tactically, of course," he said. []

"I mean are we going to get in trouble."

"You, no," he said. "Sky-walkers are effectively untouchable by any punishment. You might get a scolding, but that would be all." []

"If I don't go, what happens?"

"Then I abandon the mission," Thrawn said. "What would take days under the control of a sky-walker would require weeks or months of jump-by-jump travel. I can't afford months." His lips compressed. "Neither, I fear, can the Ascendancy."

This game, at least, Che'ri knew way too well. An adult would make vague threats or vaguer promises, with big stuff happening either way if she didn't run for the extra hour or skip one of her rest days or do whatever it was they wanted.

But as she gazed at Thrawn's face, she had the eerie sense that he wasn't playing the game. In fact, she wasn't sure he even know *how* to play it. []

"Okay," she said. "Can you—? Never mind."

"What?"

"I just wondered if you could get me some more colored graph markers, that's all," Che'ri said, feeling her face warming with embarrassment. Of all the stupid things to ask for—

"As a matter of fact," Thrawn said, "there are two new boxes already aboard. *And* four binders of art sheets do draw on."

Che'ri blinked. "Oh," she said. "I am— thank you."

"You're welcome." Thrawn gestured toward the ship. "Shall we go?"

~

[Pin: @kulturegirlflair]

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