I am BEGGING you talented artists out there for something with Gen (queens thief) and his dad. I’m still not over Return of the Thief and need father-son feels.
Magus, remembering all the rumors about the tense relationship between the Thief of Eddis and his father, and also remembering all the offhand comments Gen made about soldiers on their journey: Oh, wait....
“Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, the powerful Minister of War of the Japanese Government, is pictured here as he gave out an interview for the movie and sound cameras recently in uttering a plea for preparedness. He is pictured before the microphone and cameras in his Tokio home.”
- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. February 27, 1933. Page 11.
BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT AGAIN SLAMS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER FOR COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA
📹 Brazil's President, Lula Da Silva, slams Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip, telling a reporter, "what I want to say is loud and clear, the Prime Minister of Israel is carrying out a genocide against women and children," adding that "this is a historical fact."
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
Instead of government, we had a stage
Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage
Instead of help, we were given a crowd
She didn't say much but she said it loud
was trying to perceive the inner truth of corel painter's brushes but I ended up just importing my favorite brush from photoshop and tweaking it for a couple hours
First batch of March [VS] Art Party on NA
6/12
@joydrawsart (I didn't notice I loved TWO of your toons ahah)
@false-oasis
@bonethot
@dhuumy-thicc (I had to. I made Caudecus hot.)
@gift-of-astralaria
Hopefully I'll be done with the other 6 by the end of the month 😭
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Random thing i find interesting and think about from time to time.
Beginning of s2, Minister Tua and Agent Kallus both were served a heavy reminder of what happens with repeated failure, a demonstration performed by the Grand Inquisitior ordered by Grand Moff Tarkin.
Under the stress of the pressure and knowing what her fate was going to be after her final failure, Tua made the choice to defect. Not for any other reason other than to save her own life. Which is a response that many people would have, realistically. She offered up valuable information for the rebellion in exchange for safe passage out of the empire.
It had been cowardly and purely to save her own hide, her resolve and loyalty fizzling out, and in the end, her only goal was to secure her own life.
And then, on the flip side, there's Kallus.
Throughout most of s2 he threw himself at walls, certain that he'd accomplished his goal. Serve his empire. Loyalty unwavering, not even questioning it. And when the rebels flew head on into a destructive space anomaly and won, he realized that this will only ever end in his failure. He was inadequate and slipping. He knew he had an expiration date that was quickly approaching. He served his purpose to the empire and his line of failures will only lead to the same fate given to Tua. So the pathetic attempt in the station above Geonosis wasn't another attempt to successfully capture the rebels, it was a just a desperate struggle to go down with a fight. At this point, his loyalty to the empire may have already been in question to him, to some level. The speech he gave to Zeb may have been him trying to convince himself.
And then he does as Zeb dared him; looked for answers. And he found them. And rather than wallow, or immediately run off to the rebellion to fight, he took action. He took action that aligned with his morals. He stayed to his morals despite the grave danger he was in by remaining within the empire as a defector.
Even when he was warned about the empire closing in on him, he chose to keep fighting, to keep being of use to the rebellion.
Tua and Kallus both have immense faults, their defections from the empire similar yet couldn't be more different. Kallus choosing to do what would save others while Tua chose to do what would save herself. And then Tua leaving immediately to flee to the aid of the rebels while Kallus rejected the aid from the rebellion in favor of trying to help them more.
Dunno, it's just a train of thought that crosses my mind often.