Every once in a while when I run out of other distractions, reading Star Wars wiki articles on mundane topics is something I enjoy.

The article on color says: "Blue, green[2] red,[3] and yellow were examples of colors.[4]"

Everything is past-tense (b/c it was A Long Time Ago). Real-world topics, discussed solely in terms of Star Wars.

There's one for shoes. A separate one for magic shoes. "Philosophy" is nothing but the title of a defunct RPG module. Colors are broken into Canon and Legends.

"Berl" is a non-Canonical colour in the ultraviolet range.

Most articles on color are just one or two lines, but "Green" is such an expansive Star Wars topic that the colour has a disambiguation page.

The article on shoes has a short list of characters who canonically wore shoes.

It links to an article on shoelaces which notes that stormtroopers did not have shoelaces.

The article on boots is much longer than the one on shoes. Are boots more Star Wars than shoes?

Types of Star Wars boots include hover boots and freeze boots.

During the time of the collapse of the Galactic Republic, Senator Bail Organa frequently wore "action boots."

The term "youngling" was intended to be both gender- and species-neutral.

Fish are said in legends to create "a peaceful atmosphere in a room," but this has not been canonically established.

The Tusken raiders attacked settlers on Tatooine because they believed all water was sacred and had been promised to them, but the colonists extracted and appropriated it freely. So I am coming down hard on the side of the Tusken raiders on this one.

The article on "Sand" makes no mention of actual sand, only of a creature that looked like sandy ground and ate people who tried to walk on it.

The sand of Tatooine, however, is non-canonically made of crumbled glass, which was all that was left of the planet's surface after an orbital bombardment that wiped out the Tusken's precursor civilization, so it's kind of poignant that they're called "Sand People" so often.

There is no such thing as a leap year in Star Wars. This is canon.

Droids are not computers; computers are not droids. Droids ARE robots. A droid that loses its self-contained method of locomotion becomes a computer.

Off-world Rodian women would wear loose clothing in an attempt to disguise their gender. (Because Rodians don't know about binding?)

Mon Calamari women do not have breasts. Legends to the contrary have been repudiated.

Breastfeeding droids exists. You can load them with up to two litres of milk.

Men may go barechested "for comfort" or as "part of preparing to make love." Star Wars women do not typically go topless in most circumstances.

The Canon page on breasts says that breasts appear in "all Star Wars" films, books, and other media, though I question that.

Are Rodians mammals? How come they have breasts and Mon Calamari don't?

One legendary woman is "a tree with pronounced breasts," but she's a shape-shifter, so that's cheating.

Sentient droids had "human" rights on some planets. The Empire took those away.

Droids developing personalities is a relatively new thing that only started to happen 200 years or so before A New Hope.

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@cute_weeds that's... the "SW:The Old Republic" MMORPG is supposedly set a thousand years before New Hope and it's got robots with personalities. LOL STAR WARS CANON

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