Goaltender. Metal Head. Ginger.

I really wish I could hear what goes on in the mind of a straight man with a fat ass standing in the mirror bc I’m sure they’ve noticed right... so like do they just move on? I wouldn’t know what to do with myself

@mschnoes34 care to tell since you have an ass that won’t quit?

Outside of somebody constantly smacking it *cough* @whatsahufflepuff *cough* I wouldn’t really know that it’s a thing

god damn it

Is it really that damn hard to consider that Windu, the younger and tougher warrior combatant, actually beat Palpatine in a one-on-one duel because he’s just that powerful? There’s no goddamn “amp”. Vaapad in Canon is just a combat style like good graces. Just because Sidious has more of an advantage on Yoda doesn’t disqualify that Windu himself can kick his ass. Two different fighters and Mace is more direct. A fight isn’t a math equation like really.

#mace windu#yeah#the success of a fighter isn't down to some arbitrary power level assignment like some try to reduce it down to#it's not simply a matter of 'well x is stronger than y who's stronger than z so z can't beat x'#it doesn't work like that#different fighting styles have different advantages in different situations#and there are other factors like - as mentioned - age as well as how affected you are by any number of things that may distract you#like tiredness or aches or what have you#or you know the mass slaughter that was felt through the Force#anyway that is all to say that Mace definitely had Palpatine beat in that fight until Anakin cut off his hand#and NO Mace did not use the dark side or come close to it or anything like that to do so (via @jedi-order-apologist​) Force skills are like any other skill, mental or athletic or otherwise.  To a degree, if you have a trained Olympic track runner up against someone who’s never run a mile in their life, it’s pretty obvious who’s going to win in a race.  But if you have two Olympic level runners squaring off in a race, so much depends on your mental focus, on what’s distracting you, on who got the better night’s sleep, on who has eaten the better food beforehand, and sometimes just pure dumb chance. You can’t really put Force skills into a neat little box where they’re never-changing variables.  Sometimes the Force is clearer than other times and it depends on a wide array of reasons that could be!  This is why sometimes Ahsoka’s visions in The Clone Wars are clear as day to her, other times they’re murky or entirely absent, as she says, they don’t really work like that (being reliably consistent). Mace was an incredible duelist, he won that fight until Anakin cut off his arm in a moment of distraction, and there doesn’t have to be a reason why, other than that Mace is just good.  And he didn’t need any kind of boost to be on that level, like, this is one of the leading lights of the Jedi Order, one of their absolute best, of course he’s on that level.  /shameless stanning of Mace Windu