★ the saltmaster extraordinaire

This is the full transcript of a thread I made on Twitter earlier this year, about a subject dear to my heart:

THE PREQUEL TRILOGY IN THE 2000s -- A WOMAN-RUN STAR WARS FANDOM

One thing that gets lost when discussing the history of Star Wars is how heavily female-dominated the fandom for the Prequel Trilogy was, particularly in the 2000s. Fan-site after fan-site, fan-shrine after fan-shrine, the userbases of which were overwhelmingly girls and women. People today speak about Rey bringing a generation of women and girls into SW as if that's an absolute first, when a female generation was brought in by Padme and the handmaidens. I was there since 1999, I saw it all, before people got their love and enthusiasm battered out of them by the larger fandom's consistent toxicity and negativity.

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