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Star Wars, to quote the guy who emailed me, does bring people from diverse cultures and backgrounds together. And everybody of those cultures and backgrounds deserve to be seen on the screen and on the page and in comic book panels. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t glib. This is their lives. Not everybody is you. And as I said before, if you can imagine a Star Wars where Luke Skywalker hates gay people, I got bad news for you, hoss: you watched a different Star Wars than I did. You fell to the Dark Side. You joined the Empire. And I hope one day that Big Gay Luke Skywalker shows up at your battlestation door and he shines his rainbow gaysaber at you and you can do nothing but melt beneath its warm rays of inclusiveness and kindness and you come to realize that love is good and gay people exist and dang, were you a huge asshole.

Chuck Wendig, author of the upcoming TFA comic book adaptation and the novel Star Wars: Aftermath, replying to (yet another) email complaining about the gay people in his Star Wars book. (x)

Not everybody is you.

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ziyal:

A good Star Wars fun fact is that when they were filming the Endor scenes from ROTJ in the California redwood forests, Peter Mayhew always wore a shiny reflective vest over his Chewbacca costume as long as the cameras weren’t rolling because they were afraid that someone would mistake him for Bigfoot and try to shoot him

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notkatniss:

luke skywalkers gayest looks: 

  1. gay ass yellow leather jacket. i mean come on………………..with the floppy ass hair. easily one of his best and gayest looks.
  2. farmboy chic tatooine look. to add another layer of gayness add the poncho and bucket hat. simple yet gets the vibe across.
  3. twink ass green dagobah tank top doing nightmare crossfit. even yoda needed a closer look. need i say more

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berlynn-wohl:

Every listicle about which Star Wars characters go in which Hogwarts houses is bullshit. They always make Leia a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor. Leia is a Slytherin. She was raised a princess but even that wasn’t enough for her, she was like “I’m gonna overthrow the government, bitches.”

And Han Solo is not a bad-ass Slytherin, he is a Hufflepuff, because every five minutes he is dropping his own agenda to help his friends not die doing whatever crazy shit they’re about to do.

The biggest Gryffindor in the whole trilogy is R2D2, because every beep of his can basically be translated as “Hold my beer and watch this,” usually followed by him getting zapped by something and falling over.

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theoncomingcapaldi:

Things were so much simpler before women started stealing all of my favorite things from me. I don’t care what anyone says. Women aren’t and will never be true fans of Doctor Who, Star Trek or any of that. You jumped in because you wanted attention. You became “fans” because suddenly liking sci-fi shows and fantasy became popular. You only want guys to drool over you because you’re girls who “like” geeky stuff. Kindly go jump in a lake and die.

A woman organized the letter-writing campaign to NBC to save Star Trek when it was on the verge of being cancelled after the first season, and thus enabled the show to continue on for three seasons allowing it to go into syndication and gain the following it did in reruns.

A woman organized the first ever Star Trek convention, and convinced NASA to donate a truckload full of stuff for said convention thus starting the tradition of Star Trek conventions featuring space for modern science.

A woman greenlit Star Trek while acting at the head of a major studio, and consistently fought pressure to cancel the show. This same woman was the person who greenlit Mission Impossible and was the first woman to head a major studio.

A woman wrote many of the most famous TOS episodes, and went on to write on to write episodes of The Animated Series, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine.

Learn your history.

You think women stole your favorite things? If it weren’t for women, those things wouldn’t even exist, but you probably don’t even know the names of the women who made that possible.

So much for “infinite diversity in infinite combinations”…

Who is the fake now?

Also, a lot of the current fandom terminology we take for granted originated in the Star Trek fandom, specifically Star Trek fanfic. And who were the major driving force behind Star Trek fanfic? Women.

Earliest spec fic texts in the English-speaking Western world were written by Thomas More (Utopia), Lady Margaret Cavendish (the Blazing World), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Note that there are two women among those names.

I am so sick of these Fake Geek Guys who don’t even understand the history of the fandom they claim to want to protect.

A WOMAN WAS THE FIRST PRODUCER OF DOCTOR WHO.

A WOMAN CREATED THE THEME TUNE FOR DOCTOR WHO.

Are you fucking kidding me? So we can create your favorite things, but it’s impossible for us to be fans of them?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA YES

It would be lovely to see the names of all the women who were so important to the history of Star Trek and Doctor Who. 

I’ll quickly add that Marcia Lucas won an Oscar for editing Star Wars: A New Hope and that The Empire Strikes Back was co-written by legendary science fiction author Leigh Brackett.   

Bjo Trimble organized the letter writing campaign

Joanie Winston,

Eileen Becker, and Elyse Pines were members of the committee that ran that first convention

Lucille Ball (of I Love Lucy fame) greenlit Star Trek after it’s pilot was rejected by NBC

Dorothy Catherine “DC” Fontana was the writer of 

“Tomorrow Is Yesterday”, “Friday’s Child”, “Journey to Babel”, “This Side of Paradise”, and “The Enterprise Incident” in the original series, along with several other episodes under the psuedonym Michael Richards.  She continued writing for the series all the way into 1993.

It takes a special kind of misogyny in a man for him to believe that women are literally incapable of enjoying certain popular entertainment and only fake it for attention from men.

i’m just laughing so hard right now bc it’s hitting me that there are geek guys who think that women would actually pretend to like this stuff to cater to guys. like it never really occurred to me the depths of how absolutely fucking stupid that idea is.  ”we appear to have common interests but you still don’t like me so that must mean we don’t actually have common interests and you are not a real fan”. oh my god i just can’t right now. i want to feel offended by the fact that there is an idiot out there trying to tell me what i can and cannot like but i’m just too busy laughing.

I love when fake geek boys get slammed.

I’m reasonably certain I’ve been a sci-fi fan longer than most of these gibbering blowhard fake geek boys have been alive.

What makes me, a happily married woman in her thirties, so enraged about these little pukes is that I have been into this shit since before they were born. If you transported to my teenage bedroom, you would find that instead of wallpaper, I had hundreds of mint-in-box Star Wars figures lining the walls. I started watching Doctor Who in 1996. Sliders? VR 5? Quantum Leap? Highlander? ALL OF THAT GEEKY SHIT. All of it, before these petulant man-babies were born. EVEN GHOSTBUSTERS, ASSHOLES.

But yeah, I’ve got TIME LADY tattooed across my knuckles to impress some barely legal misogynists at a convention, because I’m the least ambitious cougar of all time.