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extrapenguinYou know when you see a factoid repeated often enough that you actually go check it and it turns out it's flat-out wrong and then it bugs you forever, but since it's a small thing, pointing it out would be a major dick move and you can only stew in your sense of Someone Is Wrong On The Internet because it's so damn omnipresent? That.
Brought to you by me checking out how tall Shmi Skywalker actually is, and. Guys. She's 172cm. She's taller than the average woman in the Netherlands. She's taller than Luke (170cm). She's much, much closer to Obi-Wan (177cm) than Padmé (160cm) in height. Hell, she's closer to Anakin (182cm) in height than she is to Padmé! The only reason she doesn't get pinged as tall is because she's standing next to Qui-Gon Jinn, who is an absurd 192cm, but even then, you'd think people would realize she's taller than Padmé! Shmi is by any objective measure tall. She is the source of Anakin's tall genes. Yet people describe her in fic as if she were about as short as Leia (155cm) and I just want to scream.
Brought to you by me checking out how tall Shmi Skywalker actually is, and. Guys. She's 172cm. She's taller than the average woman in the Netherlands. She's taller than Luke (170cm). She's much, much closer to Obi-Wan (177cm) than Padmé (160cm) in height. Hell, she's closer to Anakin (182cm) in height than she is to Padmé! The only reason she doesn't get pinged as tall is because she's standing next to Qui-Gon Jinn, who is an absurd 192cm, but even then, you'd think people would realize she's taller than Padmé! Shmi is by any objective measure tall. She is the source of Anakin's tall genes. Yet people describe her in fic as if she were about as short as Leia (155cm) and I just want to scream.