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Note: Since my old masterlist is getting notes again (and I'm hosting @tbb-appreciation-week this year), I thought it's a good time to release a new version with a lot more resources. If any of you know another site or thing that it's missing from the list, let me know and I'll include it!! [Altho, I'm getting this close 🤏 to the hyperlinks limit on this thing 😆]
Note 2: To avoid tagging the 3 people from whom I got multiple resources repeatedly, I've placed 1-3 asterisks between square brackets after the links, depending on the OP. I give the respective credit to them in a legend at the end of the post.

PLACES / TIME

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

General

Jedi

Mandalorians

Clones

MISCELLANEOUS

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

SHIPS AND VEHICLES

FOOD AND DRINKS

LANGUAGES; PHRASES AND SLANG; VOCABULARY

Fan-created Conlangs

  • @dai-bendu-conlang (Jedi Culture Explored) (This blog is the home of the Dai Bendu Conlang, invented by the Archive of Our Own Users aroacejoot, @ghostwriterofthemachine, and loosingletters for the Jedi Order in Star Wars.)
  • Lasana Lexicon by Anath_Tsurugi (fandom lexicon of the Lasat Language)

HELPFUL BLOGS & SITES

  • The amazing @fox-trot, who not only makes astonishing art and write an amazing fic, she also responds to medical questions and gives all kinds of references for writing medic characters. Check her #medicposting tag and you'll find tons of information. Also check #star wars reference and her art tag while you're at it.
  • @writebetterstarwars, which seems to be inactive, but there are a bunch of references there.
  • @howtofightwrite The place to find out how to write a good fight scene.
  • @scriptmedic no longer active, but it has a great deal of useful information.
  • @scripttorture for your whump needs. Major trigger warning for all its content.
  • @sw-anthrobiology A blog dedicated to collecting headcanons about the biology and cultures of Star Wars species.
  • @archeo-starwars In-universe sources on culture and history.
  • @clonewarsarchives Resources & Concept Art Blog for The Clone Wars animated series.
  • Wookiepedia If you don't find something in here, it's probably because it doesn't exist, neither as a canon nor legends reference.
  • Star Wars Databank: The official Star Wars website's reference guide. All canon.

WRITING IN GENERAL (For those who don't want to die like Stormtroopers)

  • SlickWrite: Completely free; online. Checks grammar, punctuation, flow, and writing style according to different settings (including fiction writing).
  • ProWritingAid: [RECOMMENDED] One of the most thorough online proofreader I've ever used. Although when using a free account gives extremely thorough feedback, with +20 different in-depth reports, for only the first 500 words. However, you can earn a premium account license (for a year or for life) if you get 10 or 20 new users signing up for free; (if you wouldn't mind doing so using the link above and help me earn mine, please). The settings allow you to check your writing according to your needs, from general to formal to creative. It has a bonus that you can check depending on the genre you're writing. For example, in creative, you can choose romance or sci-fiction (there are 14 sub-genre in total). And just like google docs, you can share a document, and people can view, comment or edit it too.
  • LanguageTool: [RECOMMENDED] Another excellent proofreader. It also has a word limit in free accounts, but if you use the add-on for Google Docs, it counts each page as a new document, so hitting the word limit is nearly impossible. It helps you to rewrite a sentence (3 a day), even if it doesn't raise any flags; it's very useful for when your sentence is grammatically correct, but it doesn't feel quite right.
  • Grammarly, Hemingway Editor: No so great, but they do the basic job.

Legend

[*] Shared by @fox-trot [**] Shared by @gffa [***] Shared by @cacodaemonia.

For later use

People being like "why is Ken just Ken" and thinking it's a gimmick for girl bossing Barbie clearly never watched Barbie Life in the Dream House because if they had they'd know that Ken is a very smart and capable guy but chooses to dedicate his life to Barbie because he loves her. He literally has a sixth sense for if Barbie is unhappy or needs something and will drop everything to help/cheer her up. Ken chooses not to pursue careers like Barbie does because it would interrupt his Barbie time. Ken is a self imposed trophy husband and I won't let people question his decision!

Trophy husband

Watched Mean Girls during religion today

Never thought that I would say that.

pokémon trainers in customer service: rb this with your wtf stories i'm trying to prove a point

Had a run in with team yell a little while ago, I was working at a sawsbucks and they showed up out of no where and demanded for a vanilla latte but with no caffeine??? So I was standing here arguing with these team yell people for about thirty minutes trying to explain that I couldn’t just make a vanilla latte without coffee.

 My Chimecho got really mad at them for holding up the line that she smacked them both in the face with tail/tag. It stunned them both and they left soon after. Eventually the gym challenger Marnie came to apologize for their actions. 

Mythology Discussion

A very ambitious piece for me.

Their designs still needs altering, but overall I'm very happy with this!

(Also, it’s unseen but Grimsley does have a dorsal fin)

I might make more things for this AU in the future, provided inspiration comes.

(Also, zoom in on Beheeyem and Sharpedo for a cute little part of this drawing. It's silly, but I like it.)

Neat 🙂