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Magna Tolvan
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The “official” Bluesky account of Magna Tolvan from the Doctor Aphra comics 🦾

She/Her Cis • Anti-capitalist Anti-imperial • ACAB • FREE PALESTINE🔻• Abolish ICE • No gen AI • Communist ☭
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It's dangerous to go alone... take this
Photo of me at a restaurant booth, smiling like a deranged person, and holding out a rectangular plate of mostly finished food, offering it to YOU the viewer. The windows is comprised of glass blocks. And there is a religious figure sitting on the window ledge. I am wearing my upside-down style glasses and my blue hoodie with yellow feather design on the chest. I really do look semi-deranged though, I think, halfway between the smirk emoji face and something more unhinged lol. There are napkins and drink cups littering the table. And the whole pic has kind of an angled, triangular composition. The food was good!
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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But OK irl?

- Many a stray cat
- Eastern Cottontail rabbit
- Snake
- Caterpillar (for the 1st time just the other week)
- A downed bird of brey — Hawk? Falcon? Eagle? — standing with its wings spread on a sidewalk back in Boston, as pedestrians gawked. Damn bird was bigger than a child. Looked HUGE
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Tried to draw a Turkey from memory in the milk foam, but couldn't *quite* remember how one looked, so I pulled a "thar be dragons in that sea” medieval map / manuscript on it and fudged the design lol. Sloppy!
Photo of a gold trimmed coffee cup taken from above, atop a wooden table. The milk foam atop the coffee in the cup has a turkey crudely drawn in it (by me) & it more or less (probably less lol) accurate!
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Happy #NationalJukeboxDay to R2-D2 and to this Honky Tonk Jukebox Gonk only!
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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YES *and* yes. Especially if it means that Uzay Star Wars toys like the “Blue Stars” become canon too 👩🏼‍⚖️

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Photo of an “Uzay” bootleg Star Wars figure on sealed cardback. Figure is a blue repaint of a snowtrooper with a white blaster rifle, and card art is an awesome photos of multiple blue snowtroopers against a gold and orange backdrop of rock perhaps lava-like terrain. Character on card is “Blue Stars”, card is formatted like vintage SW action figure packaging from the era
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This list is already so good, but I’ll add the one missing:

The American Astronaut (aka BoShek: A Star Wars Story — *and* it’s a musical)
Poster for The American Astronaut film. B&W image of a man in a space suit with spherical helmet, in profile holding a vacuum cleaner looking prop. Light streams in from above creating noirish shadows and lighting the steam / smoke that fills the air. There’s a rotary phone looking prop mounted on wall but background is otherwise dark/black. Red bars frame image at top and bottom. NY Times review pull quote at bottom says “Nothing short of phenomenal!”
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Huh. I guess there are some real music lovers out there!
Photo of a mailbox with a heart drawn on it, followed by the word “jizz” — which is of course a genre of music in Star Wars akin to jazz. This is written in pink. Below are the remnants of a yellow sticker where only the letters “he” and “izz” are visible
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Happy #LifeDay to Black Krrsantan (and to #DoctorAphra, by association)

✨🔵✨
Painted "Life Day" variant cover for Doctor Aphra (2020) #38 by Rod Reis, depicts Black Krrsantan in red life day robes holding one of those glowing, sparkly blue orbs, towering over a smiling Doctor Aphra who, suspiciously, ALSO has one of those glowing, sparkly blue orbs! Both stand against a starfield background and are framed from roughly waist-up.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
Cropped comicbook panel. Art by David Baldeón. Close up of Brene, an Ubese bounty hunter created by Alyssa Wong in homage to Star Trek’s Breen, whom many think look like Star Wars’ Ubese species! Reciprocal homage?!
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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What’s funny to me is that Emilio Laiso is responsible, imho, for Doctor Aphra looking her loveliest (left) AND her craziest (right — where she’s making her wildest most cartoonish expression)

Chelli contains multitudes
Art by Emilio Laiso (lines) and Rachelle Rosenberg (colors): Doctor Aphra (2016) #14. Horizontal comicbook panel depicts a gorgeous Chelli Aphra pulling a DL-44 on Tolvan from the backseat of a cockpit, as Magna climbs up the ladder to board. Aphra’s even a little rosy cheeked! Chelli says “Take a seat, sir. Relax. Oh—and drop the blaster.” Cropped comicbook panel, art by Emilio Laiso (lines) & Rachelle Rosenberg (colors). While holding a set of Lobot headgear with a holo transmitter on a curved stalk on top, Aphra (in close up) makes a crazy face, eyes wide and pupils tiny, all fish-mouthed like “Ooooooh!!!” From Doctor Aphra (2016) #18.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Was just at the Stalin Museum in October. The home of his youth was under restoration but I snuck a peek
Photo of the home of Stalin, under restoration at the Stalin Museum in Gori Georgia
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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POV from *inside* the tree trunk ”cave” posted above. Now Chelli and I can wait in ambush (and/or canoodle in the meantime)
POV from inside the alcove “cave” created by the tree trunks in my earlier pic. Through the oval opening / space, we see rocks, trees, and rushing water from a river / stream.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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TBT to shenanigans on Endor w Doctor Aphra, post Rebel victory—a win in which I surely played a crucial part even if we haven’t seen how (yet)

Here I simulate stormtrooper surprise at being caught between giant tree trunks—as “pretend” scenarios are the only time I‘d be caught tactically unawares!
Alt-text: Photo of me acting surprised or shocked as I “squeeze” into the opening between the bases of two large tree trunks in Cali. Eyes wise and mouth open in mock shock. I have my knitted phone case clutch in one hand and have doffed my hoodie and tied it around my waist bc hiking made it too hot. The flash was a genuine accident tho, so the surprise may be partially genuine lol
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Post someone who looks great in a hat

I mean, there’s a reason I lamented its loss in the latest Aphra series / Chaos Agent. I was a fan of that silly aviator cap from the start!
Comicbook panel from Doctor Aphra (2016) #16. Line art by Emilio Laiso. Aphra and Tolvan are trapped by the unleashed chthonic worm god. Aphra bemoans the state of her team “RRRRR worst team EVER”, while a smitten Tolvan says “I like your hat”
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Without the use of any cybernetics even! Glad to continue my record of excellence and exemplary marks from my Imperial Academy days 👁️🦾

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Screencap of hue discrimation test results, with color wheel circle graph in a box on left side of image. Text reads: Score: 0, About your score: A lower score is better, with ZERO being a perfect score. The circle graph displays the regions of the color spectrum where your hue discrimination is low.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Aloof Wives
Cropped comicbook cover artwork by Annie Wu: Doctor Aphra (2020) #37. Sana Starros, Doctor Aphra and Magna Tolvan stand in a triangular composition with Aphra at its peak, Sana on the left, and Tolvan on the right. All three start daggers at the viewer, Sana with the side-eye, Aphra in apparent anger and Tolvan judging you with contempt!
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Species/occupation pair was determined at random, but I like that when thinking on entries for occupations, I considered being a “voyeur” a job lol

I see the other species native to their homeworld as shadow-beings, as in shadows dragging u to Hell in the movie Ghost

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Alt-text: Screenshot of randomizer wheel results showing “Voyeur” for occupation and “RotJ Light man (deleted scene)” for species
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Able to absorb & radiate energy, Lument Lustre was hired as a palace guard by Irrica the Hutt—who really only kept him around because she liked the way he lent sparkle to the gems she’d implanted in her body. He preferred it this way. Neither fighter nor lover, Lustre only liked to watch
Alt-text: Artwork by me! A long limbed creature stands with one of his two tendril-like arms raised. He has a glowing, stylized body based on the bulb-laden suit intended to be in RotJ as an alien made of light. Streams of energy swirl around flowing orbs that make up a roughly humanoid shape. This is my fist interpretation the design, meant to evoke ghostly / energy creature SFX we see in 80s movies like Highlander or Ghostbusters. Drawn as part of my OC per month project. This is V1 Alt-text: Artwork by me! A wispy creature wields a vibro-axe with long tendril like arms and a crackling, stylized and angular, candle-flame like body and “simple” old-timey cartoon bad-guy/devil face. He appears to be moving as the wind or his momentum causes his tendrils to billow behind him. Drawn as part of my OC per month project. This is V2.
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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As someone who never gives up, it's fitting that it took me so long — sloppy! — to find a comic-book panel of my calling for a retreat of any kind!

I hope the extra hour was worth it! I shan't order chronometers to #FallBack again until next year!

RIP (for now) #DaylightSavingsTime 🫡
Cropped comicbook panels, first one vertical and jagged edged, overlaid atop rectangular horizontal one. Close up of Imperial Tolvan ordering a retreat by saying “pull back!” Then a wide shot of Tolvan wielding dual blasters shooting at something off screen, as the troopers in front of her also fall back as their ranks are decimated by blaster fire. Art by Kev Walker (pencils), Marc Deering (inks), & Antonio Fabela (colors): Doctor Aphra (2016) Ordu Aspectu / Immortal Rur arc!
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 But stay vigilant! Don’t get sloppy out there!

Will be trick or treating w my nephews tonight & will head over right after work — thankfully my costume is just ”me but possessed” so all I have to do is stop by the Ahsoka set to borrow a pair of bright contacts! ✨👁️✨
Cropped comicbook panel: Medium close-up of Magna Tolvan from roughly the waist up. Her eyes glow lavender or pink from the Dark Droids possession by the Scourge! Cool hazy light effects appear in background and glow a subtle teal. Art by Luke Ross (lines) & Alex Sinclair (colors)
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Had league bowling last night. Finally getting back into form. Rolled a 157 — much closer to my old 165 average than the 140 I’ve been averaging Of late. My cybernetics were prob just rusty! 🦾🎳

Or perhaps a neighboring team’s outrageously incorrect team name gave me the motivation I needed?! 😤
Photo of the back of a black bowling shirt with color art, from a team that was bowing in the lane next to us. Shirt art is of a red bowling ball toppling three pins. Yellow block text, in all caps with drop-shadow, reads: THE SLOPPIER THE BETTER BOWLING
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Not quite a coat but Star Warsy I thought, esp with the ESB Han Solo pockets. And a dash of Dune
Photo of a black long-sleeve pullover top with a wide high-collar and two Han Solo jacket/vest-looking pockets on the front. On a hangar among other clothes. The surrounding daylight is bright and washes out the background. At the Shavikata boutique in Tbilisi
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Something else that needs to be canon? “Me”, Doctor Aphra, and Sana Starros in LEGO form!

Love this custom Magna Tolvan minifig by @aalego.bsky.social 🎃🦾
Photo of a custom LEGO minifig Magna Tolvan in her brown Alliance attire. She is holding a Lego pumpkin and is in turn being held by her designer, @aalego.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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As neither Sana Starros nor I, Magna Tolvan, have appeared in the new Doctor Aphra series thus far, I am left with a surplus of space-pumpkins for #NationalPumpkinDay!

We don't even know if I still have a strike-team to distribute said pumpkins to. Sloppy!
Alt-text: Medium close-up of me, framed from biceps on up, in center-left of frame, looking off to the side thoughtfully, as I fiddle with my fingers. My hair's kinda stringy here, am I'm wearing a green, kinda almost thermal waffle-weave sweater with dark stripes. Moreover, in the background behind me on a wooden platform are a lot of pumpkins! APT FOR FALL and for NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY
October 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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With yesterday’s airport layover posts as preview, today’s Tolvan posts now confirm my return!

You all best have adhered to proper protocol in my absence!

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Horizontal comicbook panel with widescreen framing. Magna Tolvan (seen in center, in silhouette) bursts dramatically into the room shouting “Report!” as the doors fly forward, literally blown off by her badass entrance. Two rebels, a mustachioed human and Rodian, look on in close-up from the left and right sides of frame, respectively. Art by Caspar Wijngaard: Doctor Aphra (2016) #39
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM