My uncle had a stroke a couple months ago and is now disabled. He's only 49. Applying for any government financial assistance takes a long time. But bills still need to be paid in the meantime, which he cannot do on his own now. There's been a lot of other issues leading up to this including multiple deaths in our family, and my grandma had a stroke literally four days before he had his. So funds in general are stretched pretty thin already and insurance isn't helping anymore. We're doing what we can but between caring for him and my grandma, everyone is feeling the stress. So we would really appreciate any help. https://gofund.me/b115c54c
So Clone Wars is one of my favorite shows. But there are some episodes that make me wonder why. I've found lists of essential episodes to watch(many with some variations), but rarely why we should or shouldn't watch them. So I put together a complete list of what episodes are worth watching vs skipping and why. Of course, it's still somewhat subjective, but I tried to keep it as neutral as I could(by basing it off plot relevancy). Y'all are welcome to check it out. And if you think I'm wrong or have suggestions, feel free to message me about it! I'll probably be constantly going back and editing it for a while. Changing my mind and all that, ya know?
It's in chronological order, with links to the episodes on Disney+, which I got from star wars dot com.
Arcs/connected episodes are grouped together, and you can filter categories of episodes out based on various criteria. It's clunky, and might be easier if you skip the filter feature, but it's what I could do and maybe it'll help someone. I'm hoping this will be useful to someone, so please let me know if you did.
I wanted to make this for awhile so I could share it with people who were considering watching the show, but didn't want to put up with the more useless episodes. I only actually did it recently because a friend was asking for recommendations on which episodes to skip for a marathon.
Update on my Uncle
So he made it through the night, but his condition was still really bad. His family decided to take him off life support and he passed away about an hour later.
Part of what makes this so hard is that it was completely unexpected. If he'd been sick or something, there would have been some time to come to terms with it beforehand. It's so weird to think that someone can be perfectly fine one moment, and not the next. Gets me into some sort of existential crisis or something.
Long story short, he worked building wood staircases(made some really great stuff), and fell off one headfirst a couple stories onto concrete. He was life flighted to the hospital and stabilized in surgery. But the fall damaged his neck, which cut off blood supply to his brain.
My uncle was a good, kind, and hardworking man. He was about 58, I believe, and could have easily had at least 20 more years in him. He left behind a wife, 8 kids, grandkids(I think 6 is the current number), siblings, and friends. He was the bishop for his local church congregation(lds) and will be missed by everyone there too. There was no shortage of prayers.
Being religious, I know he'll be okay. He has his parents and father-in-law(my grandpa) waiting for him. Now he has the opportunity to help others through organ donation. It still hurts, but that means he is loved.
He's :devtaichikitty:'s dad. Maybe show her support if you can.
Man, I hate 2020.
Tada! One of those tag journal things.
The rules for this tag are pretty simple:
1. Create a new journal entry with the rules and the name of the person who tagged you at the top.
2. Answer the 13 questions asked to you
3. Invent 13 questions of your own
4. Tag 13 other deviants (Yeah, sorry, I'm not. Can't think of that many people to tag. I don't have much of a social circle
) 5. You can't say you don't do tags (You can't tell me what to do)
6. Tag-backs are allowed
7. You must make a journal. No comments. Unless you're commenting about the actual entry.
8. Be creative with the Title. No "I got tagged" things. (I'm not creative)
The Q&A~
Let us begin with some Undertale:
1- Grillby and Sans are friends, like brothers. Usually Grillby is the older, but they always alternate depending on the occasion. Thoughts? Give me a situation where Sans acts like the older, maybe? Give me a situation where Grillby acts like the older?
Initial thoughts: I don't really see much evidence in-game that they're close friends or anything. But considering how much Sans goes there, I think it's safe to assume that they're at least friends. I want to think that Sans drinks ketchup whenever Grillby cuts him off to keep him from drinking too much. Or when there's children around. Or when he just wants to be weird, which would be often. He likes weirding people out, or confusing them, or being a general nuisance. So I guess that's a situation where Grillby acts like the older brother. Sans...probably just acts like Sans. Being an older brother just like he is to Papyrus. The annoying older brother who teases relentlessly but you know he still cares.
Ok! Let’s change subject now!
2- What is your oldest memory of being lost in some place? Where? How long? Tell me.
Ummmm..... I don't know.... I always had a fear of getting lost, so I'd be kinda clingy when we went places. I mean, I wasn't exactly lost per say, but I remember going to a museum and my mom moved on to the next room without me and I got upset with her for leaving me(I wanted to read some of the stuff about the exhibits).
3- What is the greatest fear you have? One rational fear? One Irrational fear?
Um, I dunno what counts as irrational. I've always been scared of spiders and other creepy bugs, but I've been better about that lately. My apartments when I lived in Missouri and Oklahoma helped. I killed a lot of decently sized spiders(still don't like the crunching noise)Although finding a scorpion in the bathroom was still too much for me(it was a little one and not really dangerous, but it still freaked me out. Especially the scuttling noise). I dunno if that's rational or not though. Oh, the irrational fear of inadequacy. Ummm...natural disasters or freak accidents are scary. Is that rational?
4- if you’re less that 25 years old, (or not, you tell me) What is that thing that infuriates you about grownups? And when you were a teenager (if you aren’t one now) what was that thing? And when you were a kid?
What bugs me now is the assumption that it's as easy to get a job now as it was 20-30 years ago. Or that cartoons are for kids. When I was a kid, I basically just saw adults as the authority figures who knew stuff. But there was one substitute teacher I had in 3rd grade(she came multiple times), who always got me in trouble for no real reason. I'm still really bitter about it. If I start telling the story, my little sister will say something like, "oh, here we go again."
5- What was a thing you had to learn ‘the bad way’? And I don’t mean by getting a good slap by your parents....
I know there's something. I know it. But you ask and I suddenly can't recall. Oh! Don't put random things in your mouth. I was...7 or so, and my sister and I found these strange orange balls on our way to school. We weren't sure what they were. We took one and called it squishy. A couple days later, it was even squishier. Me, being a genius 2nd grader, decided it was a good idea to bite it. Um...it was a paintball. Don't bite paintballs.
6- Do you remember a song you would always heard when you were 3-4 years old? Not a well known song, like Michael Jackson’s , but a veeeery (or not so veeery, but still) unknown one?
My older sister absolutely hated it, but my mom and I would sing "Sing a Song" from the muppets. My sister still freaks out if we start singing it.
7- What’s your very first memory of a color cube?
Rubix cube? Uuuhhhhh....my cousins had some. I could never solve them. Still can't, actually.
Let’s go back to Undertale.
8- Favorite quote?
You can't make me pick. There's so many good ones! Everything Papyrus says is gold, for example.
9- Who, do you imagine, was the Fallen Child closest to the skelebros if they had meet all six of them? (not including Frisk or Chara) Going off my interpretation of the Fallen Children... either Kindness or Bravery, I guess.
10- Another with Sans, can ya blame me?
Undertale Sans used to sing a lullaby to little Papyrus; on your ‘headcanons’, what song was that lullaby? What about the UnderFell skelebros? UnderSwap skelebros(and Papyrus being the big bro)? This isn't something I've ever thought of. I dunno. Something about fluffy bunny. Sans made it up for Papyrus. Something similar for Underswap. Spooky Scary Skeletons for Underfell.
11- UnderFell Sans likes a singer, they have a good style of songs, with a deep meaning in the lyrics most of the time. Thing is, is an spanish/latino singer, their name is....
I, um, don't know. No clue at all.
12- UnderSwap Sans likes tacos, but his near-obsession doesn’t stop there, nah-ah~. He can also speak and has the greatest neutral-spanish accent! Does that had something to do with the ‘fonts & skeletons’ thing? Agree or disagree? Thoughts on this?
No...? Dunno what it has to do with fonts. I don't speak Spanish...
13- Last but not least, and about the skeletons too... I’m so sorry but I can’t help myself. :/ Who of all the skeletons would be the more likely to kill his brother, without direct nor indirect interference of Flowey / Temmy? (UF Paps, UF Sans, UT Paps, UT Sans, US Sans, US Paps, ya get it!! etc!!; and no Geno, no Ink, no Error, no Dream or Nightmare, or any ‘AntiVoid-boy’!!)
DustTale Sans. He sorta...actually killed Papyrus.
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I actually don't have time to think of questions right now. Gotta go to work. I could save this as a draft or whatever, but then I would forget about it. :/