No offense but u can’t exactly hold Anakin up as some kind of beacon of virtue for turning back to the light side after 20 years of doing the Emperor’s dirty work and then act like he’s some heartless dick who would be pissed or exasperated or unempathetic towards his grandson. That’s not how it works. The thing that made Luke such a good fucking person in the OT was his willingness to look for the good and human things in Vader and value those things higher than the choices he’d made. If Anakin is gonna be in the Force-afterlife cheering for Rey to cut off kyle ron’s head and not giving a good goddamn about the blatant victimization that Ben went through, which differed from Anakin’s own manipulation primarily in that it was MORE invasive and started even younger, and thinking it’s worthless that Ben still feels so strongly a pull towards the light side, then it’s completely fucking meaningless that he killed the Emperor and died in Luke’s arms. Anakin did not murder younglings, (to his knowledge) strangle his pregnant wife, and cut off his son’s hand on top of everything he did offscreen between 3 and 4 in order to have some sort of asshole moral superiority complex over his traumatized grandson who can barely have a conversation without an emotional breakdown, much less do True Coldblooded Evil. If you think Anakin would be anything less than fucking heartbroken over Kylo Ren, you really, really suck at star wars.
The ancient Egyptian dog Abuwtiyuw is one of the earliest domesticated animals whose name we know. He was a guard dog to royalty, had an elaborate funeral usually reserved for upper-class humans, and lived during Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty (2345–2181 BCE).
The dog which was the guard of His Majesty, Abuwtiyuw is his name. His Majesty ordered that he be buried (ceremonially), that he be given a coffin from the royal treasury, fine linen in great quantity, (and) incense. His Majesty (also) gave perfumed ointment, and (ordered) that a tomb be built for him by the gangs of masons. His Majesty did this for him in order that he (the dog) might be Honoured (before the great god, Anubis)
The tiny eyes make sense when it comes to an environment prone to flinging a load of sharp volcanic glass particles at your face at the slightest provocation, and it’s safe to say from the placement that these guys have pretty terrible vision in general and a lack of binocular focus in particular.
If you look close, above the eyes and towards the front of the snout, you can see the slight protrusions of nostrils. The lack of darker centres visible indicates that the nostrils can be sealed closed, another good adaptation to the ashlands environment. The placement, up high on the skull, suggests that they could wait out an ash storm either by submerging mostways into water, or by simply lying down flat in a scraped-out hollow in the dirt with their nostrils sticking out for air.
But what about that big, weird forehead there, what could that possibly be for? Where have we seen that kind of shape?
Whales.
And as we’ve already noticed, those little eyes probably can’t see all that well to begin with. Therefore, I posit, the rumblings, gruntings and lowings guar make are in fact a form of echolocation, with their large egg-shaped heads housing a fatty organ similar to a whale’s melon for the purpose of ‘seeing’ the world around them.
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