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Clones who learn about baby Jedi growing up in the Temple - “initiates” living in “clans” in the “crèche” - and put this into context they understand: Crèche mates = batchmates.

Which in turns leads to the only reasonable conclusion: All of their respective general’s and commander’s crèche mates are the clones’ Jedi-in-law, and you should use every opportunity to arrange meeting between your Jedi and their crèche mates, the same way your Jedi surreptitiously shuffle around assignments to allow you to see your batchmates when you are in the same area.

The Jedi are pleasantly surprised by this, since they are usually surrounded by non-Jedi who are used to more traditional family units and think the parent-less it takes a village order approach the Jedi take to child rearing must be cold and lonely and that Jedi grow up with no close familial bonds.

I just can’t get over how perfect these two people, the Jedi and the clones, were for each other. The clones were made for the Jedi, yes, yes, they were, and with how well-matched they were, how could any of them have suspected the true, dark meaning behind that sentence. Just. The potential for how happy they all could have been, in a different post-war life, and the great tragedy of how it all ended.

I’m even too exhausted to focus enough to read fic 😭

baneme-art:

General Kenobi, Sith Obi-Wan, living in solitude Obi-wan, Obi-Wan in any form.

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talldarkandautistic:

madnessofmen:

dreg-heap:

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the “hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)” guy get proven right

It was a woman that did it!

I love girl talk, especially when it’s complex geological theory

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shadowmaat:

lost-on-kamino:

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conan-doyles-carnations:

vinceaddams:

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granfalloontje:

I want to live my hot girl summer like I’m stephen maturin in the galapagos- just a straw hat, a sexy embroidered robe, some lizards, and vibes

his robe is actually printed not embroidered! historically, fabric like this would have been hand-printed with a series of complex, interlocking carved wooden blocks like this:

this is actually better than embroidered given the goal of costuming as ‘communicating a lot of info about a character without exposition’. Banyan robes like this would have been worn as fashionable 'undress’ at home by gentlemen - so not really appropriate to be traipsing around doing naturalist things. But, from this production’s standpoint it is serving to show Maturin as softer, more 'natural’ and more casual in contrast to the more stiff/traditional naval characters.

by the early 19th c. embroidery was already largely relegated to formal wear for men, until it basically disappeared from menswear almost entirely later in the century (aside from occasional exceptions like livery or a subtle design on a waistcoat or an emblem or something).

Cottons printed in India - like chintz and calico (both words derive from Hindi) - and later, fabrics printed in Europe which basically copied Indian design & aesthetics wholesale, were very popular for more informal clothing in the west starting in the later part of the 18th century. Here’s a dress with a quite similar pattern from a similar period:

The wiki lists banyans as being inspired by kimono, but considering the relatively limited exposure the west had to Japanese material goods prior to the mid 19th c. and the fact that 'banyan’ has sanskrit origins, I think it’s far more likely that the style of garment was inspired by the many open-robe style overgarments worn throughout the near east and through southeast Asia.

Many banyans were imported garments with minimal modification, (or even could be made directly for export to the European market - a similar thing happened in the late 19th century with Western women snapping up and wearing kimono as dishabille at the height of late 19th c. Japonisme)

There are also a lot of chintzes that were hand painted, rather than printed! Like this 18th century fragment in the Smithsonian.

@hardoncaulfield banyanposting

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