The Bad Batch, deleted scene ep 107

I didn't add that to my tropical enviroments in fiction post, but some people talked about Tatooine in Star Wars as an example of a tropical or at least not-temperate home to heroes like Luke and Anakin, and the thing about Tatooine is that it's not a home. Luke hates it and wants to escape from it. Anakin was raised as a slave there, his infamous meme line is "I hate sand". Same with Rey and Jakku (the running gag is that nobody wants to go to Jakku). Every time characters go to Tatooine, it's portrayed as an exotic planet full of adventure and danger. Not a home.

Which is *interesting* because the home of Luke (and Anakin) is an actual home in one of the traditional Berber styles in Matmata, Tunisia, where it was filmed. The name Tatooine comes from Tataouine in Tunisia. Those exotic places that you see in the movies are or were homes to people and they have been for centuries. People who consider the desert home, like others would consider forests, jungles, plains, or oceans home. But, like I said, tropical and desert enviroments are instead always the Exotic, the Place of Adventure. Never home.

Wouldn't it have been interesting if Luke missed the heat of Tatooine (I know I have missed it when I went to colder places). If he missed the clear desert sky, the twin suns, the customs of his home, feeling a bit alienated in a perfectly clean spaceship instead of a warm lived-in place? Just something to think.

SCREAMS, HEY, YOU WANT SOMETHING FUN TO WATCH? I just finished this video of a fan getting into Star Wars in 2026 and it's an absolute banger of a ride to listen to her talk about it, where:

It's such a joy to watch a new fan discover Star Wars, to get emotionally hooked on all these things I love, to pick up what the story was putting down, and just have a lot of fun.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Novelization by Matthew Stover

@weresmarterthanthis

my favourite thing about the clone wars is episodes where ahsoka goes on missions with other people in the jedi order and they’re really shoked like “tf is ur master teaching you”

It will never stop being funny to me that red lightsabers aren't just, like, using a particular color of kyber crystal that's popular among Sith. No, kyber crystal comes in every possible shade and color except red. To get yours to turn red, you have to torture your lightsaber for fun.

Anyone carrying a red lightsaber is holding physical evidence that they spent like five minutes in a back room laughing maniacally while doing the Jedi equivalent of pulling the head off their Barbie doll.

The Dark Side is so embarrassingly edgy ahahahahahahahaha

Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars Christmas cards

I wanna eat him so hard.

why is my favorite character always a guy who kills people

jeopardy is going crazy tonight

jeopardy is going crazy tonight

"OK, Mr. Stover, we need a novelisation of "Revenge of the Sith", nothing too fancy, people aren't generally all that bothered by them."

Matthew Stover: "I am going to write the most heart-wrenchingly poetic tragedy the Star Wars galaxy has ever seen and every other line will go harder than an adamantium diamond."

enjoy some homemade leak skyscraper memes

bacta tanks r so funny. sorry youre so sick youre going in the Jar

*slaps roof of the jedi temple* you can fit so much love and family in this bad boy

“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone 

A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments

so, in other words,

Pretty much.

here have some size comparison

Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?

tags via @procrastinatorproject

So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)

TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status* goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun (to be clear the monkey is Solo)

This is the analysis I am here for

let’s go back to where you call the bridge module a nipple.

I would like to circle back to the sea faring ship comparison for a minute.

Because the Millennium Falcon isn’t just any dinky boat, it’s apparently the space equivalent of a tug boat that got jury rigged into switching its strength and speed sats, so instead of “push big thing very slow” it now can do “push little thing very fast.”

Basically, the weed bicycle is more of a weed forklift with a fucking jet engine on the back.