Eighth Post!

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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

Reading another fic that isn’t amazing, but am enjoying, except the author doesn’t seem to know what a sonic shower is. So she has people say they’re using a sonic shower, and then water comes out and they wash using the water. And then they limit it, because obviously water is in very short supply in this situation: if only they had some way to wash without water. And this comes up a lot.

Given that they have just mentioned a sonic screwdriver in this SW fic, I’m going to guess they think ‘sonic’ means ‘cool tech’.

It’s particularly jarring, because I read some nice fics in the past with Luke’s amazement at using water to shower (so wasteful!) as an adult on more moist planets, and I just absorb that into my vision of Tatooine.

Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

The decision to write every entry in the past tense really makes this.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shower/Legends

Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

I recall hydrospanners, multi-tools, and laser screwdrivers and am now feeling vaguely gaslit by Wookipedia insisting they don't exist at all.

Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

SD

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hydrospanner/Legends

Good, good, at least I'm not completely tripping.

https://atamascolily.tumblr.com/post/176523351113/more-crystal-star-quotes-from-vonda-n-mcintyre

Ok so that's where Jaina and the multitool came from. Be damned if I can find the laser screwdriver reference in the EU but I'll find it when I find it.

Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

I do remember Shatterpoint stating this. With a nice bit where Mace Windu notes that a sonic shower won't make him feel clean and he wants actual water.

I am not surprised though? I tend to be an EU nerd and I do ! a bit when the new generation of Star Wars fans don't realise flimsi and durasheets are a thing.