I know there's another post with Hunter, Wrecker and Omega (but I can't find it) but I'm not sure if anyone else have posted this one
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mace in shatterpoint is so good
"You are better prepared than most." Mace balanced his lightsaber on his palm. "But like all those others, you've forgotten the only piece of equipment that would actually do you any good."
"Yeah? What's that?"
Mace's voice went cold, and his eyes went colder. "An ambulance."
[Image ID: The two-panel "Call the ambulance! / But not for me!" meme. The old man pulling out the gun has been labeled "mace windu." /End ID]
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Things I never expected to read in a Star Wars novel:
Mace Windu flipping off the police while standing dripping wet and completely naked in front of them.
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Well, I’m all abuzz with progress so let me introduce you to the first 2 of my Bee2 B2 Super Battle Droids.
These guys have more than a sting in their wrist mounted lasers. Looking sharp, it’s good to see the CIS is following proper health and safety with these guys.
Although I have gone slightly loopy with painting chevrons, only two more of these to go.
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Mace Windu: “only imposing if you see him that way”
Fuck it I’m bringing my Othello class into this again.
So we read American Moor by Keith Hamilton Cobb (review, full text is available as a free pdf if you look it up), which is a play that comments on the experience of black men who play the role of Othello as well as of course more generally on the experience of black men in the United States by showing the interior thoughts of an experienced black actor auditioning for the role of Othello in front of an inexperienced white director. There’s this line, it’s not even dialogue, it’s part of the description of what the actor is doing for the pre-show in the stage directions:
“He is a tall man, powerfully built and handsome, and only imposing if you see him that way.”
—American Moor, page 5
Sound like anyone we might know?
This caught my eye because I have noticed a bit of a pattern. Even very well meaning SW media—like Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover and fics that really love him—often goes out of its way to describe Mace Windu as intimidating and imposing.
And yeah on some level a tall man with muscles who knows how to fight might just be imposing, but to be honest I never remember Qui-gon Jinn being described that way, or Ki-Adi Mundi, or really any other tall, male Jedi. Dooku is sometimes described as intimidating, but it is usually framed in terms of either his Sith personality or his skill with a saber, not his physicality. Only some fics go out of their way to even describe Anakin as physically imposing.
And like I say, many of these works I’m noting are ones that have very good intentions and otherwise make mainly good, interesting moves with Mace’s character (works that take an explicitly negative view of Mace are a whole other can of worms I’m not addressing here). This is something that is being picked up from a deeply embedded culture of racism, not (in these cases at least) malicious. But that means writers, especially white writers—even if we have great intentions—we have to stay careful and aware of this. Readers aren’t off the hook either. It is through reading, and reading with a lot of love, that this pattern emerged to me.
Keep noticing these things, keep reading, keep writing, and maybe above all, keep revising.
Personally, I’m gonna be going back through my Mace Windu writing to check for this specifically.
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New Shatterpoint content just gave us the confirmation of Hunter and Wrecker's CT numbers, CT-9901 and CT-9903! We know Crosshair's is CT-9904, so that means Tech's is was CT-9902.
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"You can't fight the way things are"
"But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are."
"You can never win."
"We don't have to win. We only have to fight."
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shout-out to me on this day, 4 years ago when I finished the novel "Shatterpoint" and sat staring into the abyss for two hours, brain chemistry irreparably altered.
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Work started on the Kraken Super Tactical Droid. Always imagined it in a purple ish colour, and I’ve been wanting to push my ability when it comes to lighting on models.
Overall It’s looking pretty good to me so far. Just got to get the rest done to the same level now.
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never forget mace saying the jedi are his family😭
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