In-universe (watsonian) Explanations And Meta Are Useless If The Irl (doylist) Reasons Are Rooted In

POV: the Daimyo of Tatooine and Mand’alor seem weirdly into head butting? Must be because they’re such good friends.

No culturally romantic gestures happening here 👀

may i share with you the best video on the internet

Consider: crabs.... but with paws

dont touch

Finally updated this bad boy :D

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

So

I made some more memes

Boba Fett’s reputation as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy comes from him pulling off an insane number of jobs throughout his life, some of which were even deemed impossible for a lone hunter to pull off

funnily enough, he doesn’t actually remember completing all of the ones people attribute to him, but after seeing the footage and biometric proof, he assumes that he’s been blacking out and entering some sort of exhaustion fugue state, or maybe he’s just had a few too many concussions

it’s not until he tries to claim a puck from the guild and is told that he’s already working that job that he starts to figure out that something more is going on, and decides to investigate who it is that’s been working this job

as it turns out, there’s actually like ten different escaped clones pulling bounties under his name, considering they all share the same DNA and face, who’ve put together a few fake versions of his father’s armor

many of them even work in teams, trading off who gets to ‘play Boba’ to the guild or clients

(they’ve also been using their shared DNA to access his space netflix account, which explains why the recommendation algorithm never seems to figure out what he likes and keeps telling him that he’s already watched shows he finds)

(strangely, he realizes that they haven’t touched any of his bank accounts, despite the fact that they could certainly have gotten through their security measures the same way)

after discovering this, he considers confronting them, killing them, even just turning them in to the guild

but then he’d lose some of his reputation if it comes out that impersonators can mimic him well enough to get the job done just as well as he could

so he just sends them all a message telling them to not fuck this up and continues with this life

  I’ve had this meme on my Tumblr page for years. Literally, years.  Recently, I noticed that they removed it for “Violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines.”   Really?! Where? How? I know that ceiling is terrifying, but, seriously…

The winner of last weeks drabble event has given us permission to post their drabble!

Last weeks prompt was: "I was there when [...]."

The winner is on Ao3 as MikadoPlatypus, so if you like the drabble and want to read more from them, go check them out!

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Over the years the story has become myth, twisted and condensed, first whispered, then openly told, then joked about on liquor-stained breath. 

Reputation only lasts so long, after all. 

Once, no one would have dared to tell it to him, first out of sympathy, then out of fear he likes to think of as respect. 

Now, all of that is gone. 

The names have slipped from the story, and with it, any reprieve for him. 

'I was there!' he wants to snap. 'I was there when my father slipped, when a single mistake brought decades down onto him, when he bled out in my arms.' 

But he doesn't. 

His name isn't connected to the story anymore. 

Free. Unbound. 

He doesn't want to shackle it down again. 

So he drains his drink and swallows the bile in his throat down with it. 

He can't bring himself to laugh. 

The greatest of his generation. Felled by dumb luck. Guess even the best of you bleed when they're cut.

The grin has too many teeth, shark-like, predatory, and it's meant to be a threat, he knows.

Frankly, the blade twirling in grubby fingers is overkill. 

He's not stupid. 

He's just not scared.

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