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I just. Love Mando’a so fucking much. It’s so great.

They have three different words to describe ways to be stabbed. Bikadinir (to stab with a broad blade; “run through”), chekar (to stab with a small blade, “shiv”), and kalikir (to stab with a narrow blade, “skewer”).

They have one pronoun. Kaysh. That’s it. Buir is just parent, there’s no mom/dad. No son/daughter, just ad, ad’ika, ikaad. Child. Vod can mean sibling, friend, comrade. All at once. Amazing.

They have dozens of ways to insult someone. Di’kut, someone who forgets to put their pants on. Utreekov, emptyhead. Najaat, no honor. Dini, lunatic. Kaysh mirsh solus, “their brain cell is lonely.” Skanah, “much hated person/thing.” Hut’uun, coward. Ge’hut’uun, not even notable enough to be called a coward (how insulting is that?). Demagolka, originating from Demagol, the name of a scientist who was so fucking shitty that his name became the worst insult a Mandalorian could call you. And that insult is child abuser, monster, war criminal, someone with no honor.

And then there’s “shab”, which we don’t have an official definition for, but the fandom collectively agrees it means “fuck.” Because we have shabiir (to screw up), shab’la (screwed up), shab’rudur (to screw with), and shabuir (jerk but much stronger, AKA asshole/motherfucker).

And Mando’ade don’t say “I love you.” They say “Ni kar’tayli gar darasuum.” I hold you in my heart for eternity. Like. Are you serious. That’s so much better than “I love you.” If someone said that to me I would die on the spot.

Mirshmure’cya means “brain kiss.” Slang for headbutt, which is a thing Mando’ade do a lot, apparently. And it’s a sign of affection, too. They show affection by gently bonking their helmets together. How adorable is that???

Oh, and shereshoy. A lust for life “and much more.” Represented by orange on their armor. “The enjoyment of each day and the determination to seek and grab every possible experience, as well as surviving to see the next day - hanging onto life and relishing it.” And that “oy” at the end of it, derived from “Oya!”

“Oya”, which can mean so many things. A war cry before a fight or hunt. A celebration. An encouragement. “Let’s hunt!” “Hoorah!” “Cheers!” “That’s the spirit!”

This post got much longer than I meant it to lol. I’ll stop here. But you get the gist. Mando’a is a wonderful language and I am in love with it.

this is a Wrecker appreciation post. reblog if you love and appreciate Wrecker

this accurately shows how it feels getting a comment, heart or reblog of your post/art. <3 :D

*throws this at you and continues to procrastinate on other things*

Write Your Story

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

And I want to read your story.

I had a dream the other night and it got me thinking.

The only thing I can remember was that I was walking alone in a forest and got lost. At some point, this rotted corpse of a cat walks out of the trees and I start to follow it. I don't remember how it ends, but thats not the point.

The point is that it sparked the begining of an AU.

No one removed Tigerstar's body from fourtrees after Scourge killed him (as far as we know), and I'm pretty sure his corpse was gone by the end of Scourge's 3 day deadline. So where'd the body go? If foxes or crows got to it, there would still be something left of Tigerstar. But no, he just dissapeared.

In this AU, Tigerstar's spirit is forced back into his body after he died as a sort of punishment from Starclan. His body is dead but he isn't and he sorta just stalks the clans from the shadows for a while. I think he'd end up as a mentor figure to Lionblaze eventually once tpo3 rolls around, like Rock is to Jayfeather, just more evil (or not).

I'm not sure where I want to go with this, I just wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone finds it cool.

i could fix him (referring to my old design)

hes lynxcore now ok?

@cowboyfirestar it this what you meant

Ok that FireDark au is funny now cause

Tigerstar pointing at Squirrelkit : Demon child! >:(

Meanwhile in Thunderclan

Firestar pointing at Bramblekit: Demon child! >:0

Being self aware is so fucking funny. "This is a coping mechanism." "I'm lying to myself by the way." "Believe me, what I'm doing is so fucking unhealthy." then I don't fix any of it

Currently on book 5 of my TPB re-read, and I think it's crazy how often things repeat themselves in this arc, to the point where the characters are aware of it.

Taking in a prisoner? Yellowfang, Brokentail, Tigerclaw

Medicine cat dies? Spottedleaf, Yellowfang

Raid on ThunderClan? Brokentail, Tigerclaw

Fireheart loses an apprentice? Cinderpelt, Cloudpaw

Fireheart's friends leave? Ravenpaw, Graystripe

Fireheart says something that upsets Bluestar? lmao