this handsome-ass motherfucker is george gordon lord byron, romantic poet, ladies’ man, lords’ man, greek national hero, and all-around beautiful fuckup. yes, he’s dead. yes, he’s wearing a laurel wreath. yes, those bedsheets are artfully draped as fuck. don’t question it. this shit happens.
in january of 1816, byron’s wife left him, mostly because he was pretty terrible to her. a former lover of byron’s, lady caroline lamb, decided that this was a fabulous opportunity to ruin his life. (lady caroline lamb was… a lot like byron, actually. she liked to dress up as a dude, which byron found sexy as fuck, and be scandalous, which byron… also found sexy as fuck. after she and byron broke up, she made a huge bonfire in the english countryside, in which she burnt portraits of byron and things he had given her. then she had local village girls dance around said bonfire, singing a song of her own composition. contrary to popular belief, this song was not “we are never ever getting back together”.)
byron had told ms. lamb quite a lot of things he shouldn’t have; the most pertinent were that a) he was getting it on with a fuckload of dudes and b) he was also getting it on with his own half-sister, augusta. caroline lamb, being caroline lamb, told byron’s newly estranged wife. at which point the sodomy and incest made it into the divorce papers. at which point the entirety of england was suddenly talking about it.
soooooo amidst a cloud of scandal byron swanned off to switzerland with a cute young doctor (though not before throwing a goodbye party of viking proportions, which actually involved a cup made out of a real human skull that he had found on his grounds) and settled in a gorgeous house by a lake to do some artful lounging.
while byron had been sleeping with everyone in sight, percy shelley and mary godwin had been having troubles of their own. mary’s dad was a leftist radical, but wasn’t a big fan of his political followers (i.e., percy) coming around to sleep with his daughter. percy and mary did not give a fuck, and proceeded to make out on mary’s mother’s grave. this is literally true.
unfortunately, percy was already married, so he and mary proceeded to fuck off to switzerland with mary’s stepsister claire clairmont, whereupon they got their own house by the lake and decided to make friends with their new neighbor.
so, among byron, his doctor, percy, mary, and claire— well, mary and claire were not sleeping together, and i’m pretty sure the doctor was only sleeping with byron? but. apart from that.
other interesting events of those months were mary shelley inventing science fiction, byron hypnotizing the doctor into jumping off a balcony, and the doctor and byron sort of accidentally co-inventing what would become dracula.
it was a hell of a summer.
anyway, byron proceeded to get claire pregnant, and percy’s first wife died, and the doctor got pissy about being generally left out of everything fun and went back to england, and everyone sort of wandered over to italy and almost got arrested a few times, and then byron stole his baby from claire and stuck it in a convent, where it died.
then percy got caught in the middle of a storm and died, dramatically, and they burnt his body on the beach. mary got to keep his heart, which remained unburnt. they found its remains among her belongings when she died at the ripe old age of 53. it was very romantic. capital r.
and then byron decided it would be a great idea to help liberate greece from the turks, so he went to greece and got stuck in the middle of a fucking swamp doing literally nothing except giving people money and being sexy in order to get other english people to give greece money. and then he caught some fucking swamp disease, and his doctors were terrible, upon which he died.
there’s more— byron’s fake gay autobiographical poem, percy’s fondness for explosives, mary’s sassy feminist mother— but this has gotten long enough. i sure hope it’s been helpful, though!
mary’s sassy feminist mother? mary motherfucking wollstonecraft. nbd tho!
also ada lovelace is the spawn of lord byron so yeah there’s that too
HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW THAT ADA LOVELACE WAS BYRON’S DAUGHTER? LIKE, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAD NEVER LEARNED THAT? Dude, this whole family is amazeballs and should be canonized in an 8-part HBO miniseries called “BYRON RUINS EVERYTHING BUT SOMEHOW YOU DON’T CARE”.
This clique of what would nowadays basically be a bunch of mall goths are ultimately responsible for some of the most influential works of speculative fiction, on top of being the forebears of the first computer programmer.
There’s a reason Ada’s mom didn’t want her associating with poets.
Also check out this really amazing kid’s mystery (with slightly smudged timeline but the author explains it all in the afterward including the ridiculous entanglement of relationships)!
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Throughout the years I’ve seen so many headcanons for the eeveelutions, many of which based the Eevees off of just one animal or a mix of them so I decided to play around with some designs to encompass most of these ideas.
The main idea being that: Because Eevee’s DNA is so wacky and it can evolve into so many diverse evolutions, its species can also vary from evolution to evolution, region to region, bloodline to bloodline.
Many being domestically bred for specific traits whether it be for battling, contests, companionship, or to be put to work, many others are found that way in wild populations where little human interaction has occurred.
All of the standard Eeveelutions shown are supposed to be more or less ambiguous, not based around just one animal but instead, designed to fit their official artwork as close as possible. Basically, standards are mutts as far as what species they are is concerned, hence people calling them catfoxrabbit things. As for the variations, all bets are off and many have been bred and narrowed down to one species.
The three-to-four variation examples I drew at the top of each picture are not exclusive to which species expresses it in the examples below. These variation types whether it be coat pattern, jewels, leaves, skin type, can appear in most any strain of each respective eeveelution.
Likewise, the species variations beside the standard eeveelution are not the only available species per that pokemon as the possibilities of other species and mixes are endless. It’s even possible for your eevee to change species upon evolution, much like the quilava line already does [shrew to weasel to badger].
It took me about three days to finish this and loads of references. In the end I’m quite happy with how it all came out and I hope you all enjoy. And if you want to draw character inspiration from this post please be my guest!!
Resistance can take many forms – from education to litigation, from within a small community to throughout the globe. Though I have omitted highly important figures like Yuri Kochiyama and Fred Korematsu, I wanted to spotlight lesser-known individuals who resisted injustice in a variety of ways. They demonstrate that we too can act against oppression and inequality, however we are able.
AMAZING!! I dunno what my favorite part is?? The tiny braid in his swooshy hair. (And the lil bit of grey!!) The gaping tunic. The CLOAK. The half circles symbol on his remaining armor. The definitely non-regulation blaster and the Thigh Holster. Gosh.
This is truly the Obi Wan who accidentally liberated Tatooine from the Hutts. This is truly the Obi Wan who someone gifted a Moon (I mean. Look at him. I too, would give him the moon). This is truly the Obi Wan who is also secretly the Duke of Mandalore and has accidentally started accruing his own empire. Hondo Onaka is Ecstatic.
ACCIDENTAL SPACE PIRATE OBI WHO IS SECRETLY THE DUKE OF MANDALORE!! AND WAS GIFTED A MOON THAT HE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH EARLIER BUT NOW USES AS A BASE OF ACCIDENTAL SPACE PIRATE OPERATIONS
Listen. He does the one soresu stance. You know the one.
Except this time, instead of two fingers, there’s this ridiculous non-regulation uncivilized blaster. Mostly sentients are smart enough not to stay and fight, though a lot of them swoon and it’s a bit of a problem, really. Obi Wan wouldn’t just leave someone unconscious in the desert like that, so now they have to be taken care of. With plenty of fluids and the occasional smelling salt, naturally.
Guys… theoretically… if I were to draw a comic-book cover of the imaginary ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi: Accidental Space Pirate’ issue 1… which character/s would be on the cover with him??
Part of me is thinking Jabba’s palace on fire in the distance…
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Dear Lord in heaven I love all of these comments. And I am still 10,000% on board with Accidental Pirate Obi-Wan being gifted a moon.
And yes, @jerseytigermoth, he is totally running from some kind of burning building/explosion in this comic cover.
I do love the idea of Ahsoka being part of his pirate crew. Or a tiny, sassy little Luke Skywalker who’s been brought into the fold. Obviously Hondo would be a strong contender for inclusion here, too. He is LOVING Obi-Wan’s pirate years.
Vader is going to faint when he lays eyes on pirate Obi-Wan. The Empire does not stand a chance.
When Lira Tideen was first assigned to Darth Vader’s personal squadron aboard the Executor she had been so proud that she’d rushed straight back to her bunk and commed her parents. Only best and brightest of the Imperials were assigned to Vader’s detachment (only the most reckless and foolhardy as well, which accounted for Lira’s lack of concern over the future integrity of her windpipe).
Her parents had been less than thrilled of course but that was par for the course.
“Couldn’t you come home and find a career planetside?” Here her mother paused to think of something that might tempt her adrenaline junkie of a daughter into leaving the Death Squadron.
“I hear that stunt podracing is becoming really big.” She’d finished. Her voice didn’t hold very much hope. She’d done her best. Her father had just pinched the bridge of his nose and tilted his head back. He’d largely given up on attempting to prevent his youngest child from finding new and creative ways to die.
Lira had ignored their lack of enthusiasm. Life was going to be properly exciting now. Death defying chases, skirmishes with the really dangerous rebel cells, dogfights… everyone knew that Vader’s personal squadron saw the toughest action. That had been what she thought anyway. Then Republic high general turned rebel, Obi Wan Kenobi had reappeared.
Suddenly the Empire’s toughest troops were reduced to tromping around dusty Outer Rim backwater planets with their blasters set to stun (”The emperor wants him alive,” Vader insisted defensively) collecting “evidence” of Kenobi. This evidence mostly consisted of security footage, ‘Wanted’ signs and suspiciously, issues of the wildly popular flimsi-comic ‘Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi: Pirate and Gentleman’ that had sprung up since Kenobi had reappeared.
Even more suspiciously, Vader insisted on spending hours “reviewing” the “evidence” they collected personally. Rumor had it that a stormtrooper had walked in on Vader stroking the hair of a particularly dashing illustration of Kenobi muttering about how “swooshy” his hair was. The trooper had managed to back slowly out while Vader was distracted and thus escaped with his life.
The final straw for Lira though was when they finally caught up with Kenobi. Vader had spent hours locked in his quarters and had come out looking especially dramatic and imposing. Every line of his clothing was immaculately black and straight, it looked like he’d ironed them, his cape was new and made out of a heavier, richer fabric than usual, which allowed it to fall around him in especially dramatic folds, his helmet gleamed.
“Move out,” he’d ordered and he’d sounded almost giddy. Then he’d proceeded to draw out the raid in such a dramatic fashion that there’d been zero rebel casualties. Instead, he and Kenobi had flirted while “fighting” for a solid forty-five minutes. The rebels and stormtroopers had been reduced to shooting each other desperate looks, united in a profound desire to be anywhere else.
“We meet again, Obi Wan, but now the student has become the master,” Vader said. Kenobi had winked (kriffing winked, Lira had to admit, it had been extremely attractive) and flourished his lightsaber in a way that was somehow both deadly and filthily suggestive.
“There is still much I could teach you, Darth,” he said and oh Force his tone was even more suggestive than his, ah, lightsaber. The Togruta female behind him actually face-palmed. Lira sympathized. Stars, did she sympathize. That night, she submitted her resignation to the Imperial fleet and took the first shuttle home. Maybe her mother had a point. A woman could go far stunt podracing these days.
HAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD THEY WOULD THOUGH.
Can you even imagine what a menace to society PIRATE Kenobi would be though? Like, the winkity-wink flirting stuff would be OUT OF CONTROL. There would be galaxy-wide WARNINGS about this.
I legit laughed out loud at the idea of DARTH VADER SOUNDING “GIDDY”. Also that there would be dimestore novels or comics written about the saucy exploits of Dashing Pirate Kenobi IS KILLING ME. SOMEONE WRITE ONE I WANNA READ ABOUT HOW HE FLIRTS HIS WAY INTO VAST RICHES.
Guys stop I am CACKLING IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE DRAWING CLASS DURING THE TEA BREAK
THIS IS VERY INAPPROPRIATE
Making people laugh about Star Wars with me is like…pretty much one of my favorite things in the entire world, so…I do not apologize.
If you didn’t want to read about Pirate Kenobi’s Saucy Dime Novel Adventures, then you shouldn’t have drawn him in the first place! I mean, look at that guy! He is Legendary.
He makes men and women swoon from one end of the Galaxy to the other! He liberated Tatooine from the Hutts! His hair is the swooshiest! He owns a moon! At least twelve drinking songs/sea chanteys have been written about his daring adventures across the Outer Rim!
There are all kinds of crazy stories floating around about how even the terrible Sith Lord Darth Vader is not immune to his saucy, flirtatious winks and stirring renditions of old Tatooine love ballads (some claim it’s through Kenobi’s, er, influence that the Empire’s just never seemed to quite be able to finish that long-rumored Death Star project. Vader’s reps had no comment.)
Some say that Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano – one of the most trusted members of Kenobi’s pirate crew and a legend in her own right – were the ones behind the daring heist of the artifacts at the Sheev Palpatine Museum on Naboo. (The artifacts have never surfaced on the black market. Some say they stole them just to burn them.)
For years, gossip columns have said Kenobi is a frequent guest in the bed of the Duchess of Mandalore (there are even rumors that they may be secretly married, and that technically Kenobi is not only a Pirate King, but an actual Duke as well.) The Duchess, for her part, has declined to elaborate as to why so many of the storied pirate’s adventures seem to take him through her part of the galaxy, though she does admit that she is grateful that Kenobi’s crew has gotten the Death Watch out of her hair once and for all.
DUCHESS OF MANDALORE SHENANIGANS!! yes she’s declined to confirm or deny any rumors, but what about the one time the space paparazzi saw her arriving on Kenobi’s moon? they camped out in space around the moon forEVER, and everyone swears the duchess didn’t leave for a week. What were they up to? why was Ahsoka Tano flying up to join them three days after she landed? why was Senator Organa and his family involved too? did this mandalorian retreat have any connection to the rumors of Vader throwing a fit about “not being invited, damn you, Kenobi, I waited for yEARS—”? and if we listen to the more. enthusiastic space tabloids, was this a renewing of their vows or did they only now tie the knot?
It was a beautiful ceremony. Hondo Ohnaka officiated (he got a license on the holonet, I ’s completely legit for sure). Everyone cried when Satine dipped Obi Wan into a long kiss and then the kiss kept going, and going… and going so the crying did turn into wolf-whistling but that only detracted from the dignity of the ceremony a little. Vader did crash it but he was polite and brought a bottle of fine wine and only one squadron of storm troopers, which everyone agreed was pretty restrained of him.
It was the event of the century! Even Bail manages to attend, and with him a tiny princess doing a terrible job of trying to hide her excitement (pirates! ) right up until Flower Boy Luke manages to dump a bucket of space-rose petals on her head. ( they’ve managed to keep his last name hidden, but Kenobi’s tiny accomplice has become rather infamous – mainly for his ability to turn up where least expected. Speculation abounds about his origins – orphaned urchin, the newlyweds’ secret love child, spawn of chaos… )
Leia is of course outraged, and demands he show her around a genuine Pirate ship as recompense. Which is how they discover what is CLEARLY a map to secret treasure and decide it would make the perfect wedding present so they steal Vader’s shuttle and that is how we lead into an epic, galaxy spanning adventure in which Pirate King Kenobi races to recover both the children and the map (it leads to Dagobah) before Vader takes them into custody (even without knowing his identity he knows Vader’s jealousy and Luke’s adorableness means he’ll want to keep Luke as his new apprentice, and that will not end up well for anyone).
There will be firefights! Daring space manouvers! Bounty hunters! Exotic locales full of shady lowlifes and dingy bars! Epic taunting via holocom! Flirting across bottomless chasms while explosions whip capes and hair dramatically behind them!
And in the end Ahsoka and Korkie save the day with the assistance of an ex clone trooper or three 🙂
FLIRTING ACROSS BOTTOMLESS CHASMS 😂😂😂
Now that’s the kind of quality content I’m looking for. Quitting my paying job to spend all my time writing the SW fan comic of the exploits of Accidental Space Pirate Obi-Wan Kenobi for absolutely no income is starting to sound like A Good Life Choice at this point tbh.
… given how amazing your artwork is I could see that working actually!
Look, there are soooo many cliche movie scenes that can be made better with Accidental Pirate King Kenobi :
– the dramatic sword fight lightsaber duel across the deck as the ship sinks disintegrates and splits with Vader on one piece clutching a torn piece of clothing armour and Obi-Wan on the other, shirtless, as they slowly drift apart.
– Obi-Wan and Vader tied back to back in a crude net as cannibals Ewoks dance around a fire beneath them
– Obi-Wan and Ahsoka dressed up as nobility imperial higher-ups in order to infiltrate a ball social gathering for information. Vader is there in his fanciest cape.
– The time they have to infiltrate a brothel seedy cantina and Obi-Wan ends up in a lacy dress
– a heart-racing chase through a crowded marketplace, Obi-Wan bouncing off stalls and fruit carts and turning back occasionally to launch sassy quips and shoot down convenient canopies to hinder Vader’s bullish pursuit. Vader of course ends up covered in various foodstuffs while Kenobi gives a jaunty salute as he hangs precariously from his getaway vehicle
– the comedic interlude where Hondo is babysitting and loses Luke in a bar and has to find him before he gets arrestedis accidentally sold into slavery starts a riot only to have Kenobi turn up holding the little terror saying “Missing something?“
– the drinking contest where Obi-Wan drinks everyone including Rex under the table and waking them up the next morning with cheery singing and banging pots (he cheated of course)
… And many more! I could go on forever 🙂
BRILLIANT @lurkingcrow. And all these scenarios need an artist with the genius to capture Obi Wan’s swooshy hair, artfully exposed chest hair, and sassy expression. *waggles eyebrows @jerseytigermoth*
I am actually jotting down ideas for lyrics for a pirate!Kenobi song, in the spirit of the The Rodian and The Ghest.
AMAZING!! I dunno what my favorite part is?? The tiny braid in his swooshy hair. (And the lil bit of grey!!) The gaping tunic. The CLOAK. The half circles symbol on his remaining armor. The definitely non-regulation blaster and the Thigh Holster. Gosh.
This is truly the Obi Wan who accidentally liberated Tatooine from the Hutts. This is truly the Obi Wan who someone gifted a Moon (I mean. Look at him. I too, would give him the moon). This is truly the Obi Wan who is also secretly the Duke of Mandalore and has accidentally started accruing his own empire. Hondo Onaka is Ecstatic.
ACCIDENTAL SPACE PIRATE OBI WHO IS SECRETLY THE DUKE OF MANDALORE!! AND WAS GIFTED A MOON THAT HE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH EARLIER BUT NOW USES AS A BASE OF ACCIDENTAL SPACE PIRATE OPERATIONS
Listen. He does the one soresu stance. You know the one.
Except this time, instead of two fingers, there’s this ridiculous non-regulation uncivilized blaster. Mostly sentients are smart enough not to stay and fight, though a lot of them swoon and it’s a bit of a problem, really. Obi Wan wouldn’t just leave someone unconscious in the desert like that, so now they have to be taken care of. With plenty of fluids and the occasional smelling salt, naturally.
Guys… theoretically… if I were to draw a comic-book cover of the imaginary ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi: Accidental Space Pirate’ issue 1… which character/s would be on the cover with him??
Part of me is thinking Jabba’s palace on fire in the distance…
😬
Dear Lord in heaven I love all of these comments. And I am still 10,000% on board with Accidental Pirate Obi-Wan being gifted a moon.
And yes, @jerseytigermoth, he is totally running from some kind of burning building/explosion in this comic cover.
I do love the idea of Ahsoka being part of his pirate crew. Or a tiny, sassy little Luke Skywalker who’s been brought into the fold. Obviously Hondo would be a strong contender for inclusion here, too. He is LOVING Obi-Wan’s pirate years.
Vader is going to faint when he lays eyes on pirate Obi-Wan. The Empire does not stand a chance.
The leading scorer in NHL history, Gretzky is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season – a feat he accomplished four times. The NHL retired his jersey number (99) league-wide, making him the only player to receive this honor. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. Nicknamed “The Great One,” he has been called “the greatest hockey player ever” by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. [x]
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