Raithe

"Valentine's Day is very commercial so we shouldn't lose track of the real meaning of this special day. The day native Hawaiians stabbed Captain James Cook in his colonising neck on Feb 14, 1779" Note: To be fair, Cook wasn't a coloniser per se, just an explorer. But explorers of that day and age tended to get followed by the colonisers. And from what my hazey memory recalls, it was a lot of ups and downs that caused it. Crew of his ship grabbed wood for repairs, apparently not knowing it was from a sacred ritual area of the locals. The locals responded by capturing a ships cutter. Cook tried taking a local chieftain hostage for its recovery, and it all went **** up.

For an interesting take...

BBC = "Good sex can be safer sex" says WHO researchers

Ivan Reitman - Ghostbusters director

I've been thinking about the Book of Boba Fett, and an area that gave me mixed feelings. Seeing Cad Bane on screen, live action and having them wrap up the relationship between Fett and Bane made my inner fan glad, however, as a piece of storytelling I don't think it worked as it was set. None of their relationship or history was explained in the tv show, but it was fairly important to the way they interacted, so if you knew nothing about the things from other media it would all go whooooshing over your head like a Tie Fighter. Making that last conversation and fight rather bland and uninspiring. Compared to Ashoka in The Mandalorian. None of her actual history or backstory was relevant as such to any of her interactions with Din Djarin or within the story of the show. They didn't need to explain it, so seeing her was a good hit for the fans while having no actual effect on the arc of the episode / series. She could have been interchanged with any other random Jedi who survived Order 66. And because of that, putting her in that episode actually worked, and just teased the wider universe.

I know technically I should be waiting until after my first paycheck comes in, but I needed some mood shopping, and wanting to get started on some of that crafting related elements before work kills all my time, so I started sorting out fabrics, patterned pleather and such like for ordering. Plus contemplation of that first set of basic leatherworking tools if I'm going to try developing those skills in the future... Also, contemplating future transport and seeing some of the ways folks have come up with transport containers for gear once done: Which means I'll also have that urge to make sure space in future budget for such containers and more paint....