jurious
replied to your photoset “Made some history friends”
Ah Madame Tussauds is brill :)
It is brilliant and at times strangely horrifying
jurious
march 15 – medical center
Dooku considers himself a man of patience and considerable work ethic among the chaos that is his peers in comparison. He was remarkable enough to have Yoda for his Master, after all; he still knows the honour of that. While the majority of his remaining age group are still preparing for their trials, he is a full-fledged Knight with a Padawan of his own. Dooku is twenty-three.
Dooku is only now realising how young he is. How much he doesn’t know, how much knowledge is nothing without experience. Wisdom, the beginnings of, his old Master would have said.
As he hurries down the corridors of the Healers’ portion of the Temple, Dooku cannot help but think that all the stress Qui-Gon brings could not possibly be let to the Force, lest it crack and collapse under the strain.
“Qui-Gon Jinn!”
The boy himself looked utterly unrepentant. He grins up at Dooku from the starch-white bed, limbs languid. Thirteen years old and so unlike Dooku he might as well be a Hutt. (But no; Qui-Gon lacks the ability to think it through – or at all – but he is kind and too attached to his plants and always willing to try again.) “Morning, Master. Did you really have to return so soon?”
Dooku sighs. Pinches the bridge of his nose. Considers that he is too young to go grey. “Sometimes I wonder about how you get into these scrapes.” But he draws up a chair with tired grace and sits at Qui-Gon’s side anyway.
Does anyone remember this post?
Hey. You know who did like the Star Wars prequels?
Teenage girls.
I can tell you this because I was one of those teenage
girls. For quite a long portion of my adolescence I lived, breathed and
loved Star Wars, and it wasn’t always an easy experience. It was a very
male-dominated fandom, probably still is, but we carved out spaces of
our own…..
Well, Star Wars is in the media even more now and I want in! So I’m going to be rewriting that (badly written) original post for Newshub – a whole article about teenage girls and their participation in Star Wars Prequel fandom. Y’know, something to counteract the constant “Male Comedian Absent From TV As Of Late Denounces Star Wars Prequels” articles that’re everywhere.
But I need participation! Like there was on the original post. I want your stories, teenage and ex-teenage girls of the Tumblr Star Wars fandom. Tell me how you bought the sticker albums and t-shirts, tell me about your first cosplay, tell me what it was like navigating theforce.net back in those days. (Actually, I know that one. But tell me anyway.) Tell me if you ever found any merchandise aimed at you. Definitely tell me about the fanfiction community at the time, I was there, but I still missed a lot. If you didn’t like the prequels but still have a good story about being female in the Star Wars fandom, tell me that story too!
(Oh, and also tell me what name and URL you want to be used/linked to – I figure most people will want their Tumblr URLS, but let me know.)
As you may have guessed I can offer zero money to anyone, but I can offer a fun platform for people to talk about Star Wars. So there’s that. I can’t promise I’ll use all stories/quotes either, but I’ll try!
I’ve tagged some blogs/people I follow whom I suspect might be interested, but if you’re not you’re under no obligation to do anything, not even reblog! Don’t worry!
Okay! Thanks for reading, and you can contact me via my askbox too if you like.
