#ruthian

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year 1 - day 014

COSPLAY : TWI’LEK SENATOR

Featuring: http://mohmoh.de/star-wars/star-wars-inspired-characters/twilek

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Year 1 - day 024

Blue twi’lek

Starwars Battlefront

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year 1 - day 17

Cosplay - Manip Featuring https://modji-33.deviantart.com/

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Year 1 - day 100

Cosplayer : https://www.deviantart.com/janimutikainen

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year 1 - day 27

“ Twi'lek Specialist Bae “ MOD for Starwars Battkefront

Source: https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsbattlefront22017/mods/443

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year 1 - day 016

COSPLAY -  Chi Eekway

Featuring : https://matsu-sotome.deviantart.com/art/Star-wars-III-revenge-of-the-sith-Chi-Eekway-509462778

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Shaq (May, or May Not Have Been) Ruthian

I remember Rob Neyer, a few years back, encouraged his readership to watch Rickey Henderson play a game with the San Diego Surf Dawgs. He won a championship with them that year. The Surf Dawgs allegedly offered him a million dollars to wear the Surf Dawg hat on his Hall of Fame plaque. As gimmicky as the idea was, it's still mildly amusing. Neyer was of the very astute opinion that Rickey Henderson, still playing "professional" baseball at 46, was the closest thing we had to Satchel Paige. It's a nice thought. There are a few parallels between the two.

In trying to wrap my mind around the retirement of Shaq, I find it hard to make historical comparisons. It is easy to break down his career in the light of NBA history. There was no one like him. He was Ruthian. The problem with the Ruthian comparison, is that the idea of being Ruthian is an incredible task. Shaq was mammoth in size, the aesthetic of his soul was addicting in the same way that Babe Ruth's soul aesthetic was, is, and forever will be.

But Ruthian transcends because of its unattainability. When I am bored, or in need of inspiration, I have two sources: either I scour YouTube for random clips from The Wire, or I go to Babe Ruth's Baseball-Reference page. Scanning through Babe Ruth's bizarrely amazing collection of career statistics offers a bit of abstract inspiration. His statistics, and the depth of their context, are like a window to a different universe. Ruthian is the description of the indescribable. Shaq, for all of his mammoth, mind-bendingly brilliant talent, wasn't Ruthian. For the conversation to even begin, Shaq would have had to have begun his career as a guard... or as a center, who transitioned to become one of the great guards of all-time.

We make comparisons out of a need to connect. Linking our present day heroes to heroes in the days of old is a way to create a sort of veiled immortality. The connections help us swim, help us navigate through the tangled kelp of collective human consciousness. As long as big men exist, Ruthian will prevail. Though the analogy may fall short, at the very least, it gets us thinking about Babe Ruth (which is reason enough to keep it around).