It occurred to me that I never fully gathered my thoughts about Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. People have asked me over the past few months and I've posted in different places like on Facebook and in the diversity thread in the expanded universe part of the forums on theforce.net ( Read more... )

After my previous complaints (concerns? complaints?) about diversity in Star Wars I thought I should follow up with an update. In between all the fangirling and Racebending.com work at ComicCon I managed to get some "diversity in Star Wars advocacy in." You know, beyond my complaining on intarwebs work.I did not end up going to the EU Books ( Read more... )

Shelly Shapiro, the editor at DelRey in charge of Star Wars books, did a Facebook chat today which you can read here: Star Wars Books Facebook Chat with Shelly Shapiro.

I went out on a limb and decided to ask her about diversity in Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU). I guess bringing up lack of diversity in EU made people uncomfortable because this ( Read more... )

To all my friends who like Star Wars, I just wanted to alert you that this week, Borders Books is having a fire sale on Star Wars stuff. Everything (well, almost everything) Star Wars is 50% off, NO LIMIT.

This is not only online (free shipping if you spend $25), but also in stores with this coupon, through July 26th ( Read more... )

Ken wants Force Teleport for his Star Wars RPG character. I feel like Jedi shouldn't be able to "teleport."

Me: What's Force teleport, again?
Ken: You use the Force. To teleport.
Me: You...teleport? But like, conservation of mass/matter?
Ken: I think you exchange your mass with whatever is in the location you're teleporting to. Plus Star Wars ( Read more... )

Contained in this slideshow are previews for Corran Horn, Jacen Solo, and Jaina Solo action figures...

FEELS LIKE I AM TWELVE AGAIN

IT ONLY TOOK THEM TEN YEARS TO MAKE MY SPECIAL TOYS.

STAR WARS I LUFF U.

Dear Diary,

This just never gets easier.

Neither does watching the Dear Diary format trailers for the Clone Wars TV Show with Ken, who pokes holes in everything.

Ken: So...why would Grievous spend all his money and resources on building a labyrinth in his secret lair and then stock it with vicious aimals?
Me: Rather than...what exactly?
Ken: ( Read more... )

So admittedly I got into an interior decorating kick this weekend...


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Ken: You're going to have a lot of fun at Disney World when we go in June.
Me: I know! I can't wait to attend the Jedi Training Academy!
Ken: You're too old.
Me: -_- I'm too old to be a Padawan learner?
Ken: They'll tell you you're too old.
Me: But they took Anakin Skywalker when he was 9. Not that it turned out well. But they also took Luke!
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I think Ken figured out how to annihilate my emo once and for all.

It all started with me reading excerpts from Jared's copy of Star Wars- Darth Vader: Rise of the Dark Lord to Ken. The following is an excerpt from a chapter in the book:
Padme and Obi-Wan were the ones who had sentenced him to his black-suit prison ( Read more... )