When I started my EU lists, starbuck92 asked my Top 10 Things I'd Change about the EU. Of course, I couldn't resist. So here's my list. Beware of ranting.

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(in chronological order)

(note I did not include Thrawn's death, Ton's death, or Ganner's death, as they were included in my EU quotes list)

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This was hard. (that's what she said)

"Imperial Center, the place I called home.
But that was when I was the Emperor's Hand. He no longer exists, and neither does his Hand.
I'm just Mara Jade now, and it will be interesting to find out exactly who she really is."
- Mara Jade, Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand

“You are greater than the ( Read more... )

So we had my Top 10 EU characters...now we have my

Top 10 Books

1. Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn
The perfect end to the Bantam line. And of course this reader couldn’t get enough of all the wonderful Luke/Mara interaction. Repeat with me: FINALLY!

2. Outbound Flight by Timothy ZahnZahn managed to combine many different plots seamlessly ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of this graphic novel now.  It's so good!  I don't know why I haven't read this yet!  The scene with Isard and Pestage was excellent.

I found a quote that I absolutely love and it works perfectly with the fanfic I'm writing now:

"Imperial Center, the place I called home. 
But that was when I was the Emperor's Hand.  He no longer ( Read more... )

So I'm going to make some Top 10 lists.

My first list is my list of favorite SWEU characters, 'cause I was thinking about it the other day.  Feel free to join me if you'd like.

Top 10 Favorite EU characters

1. Mara Jade Skywalker
Duh.

2. Talon Karrde
He is the Most Interesting Man in the Galaxy.

3. Corran Horn
He has an ego the size of Corellia, but I ( Read more... )

Fics I need to write:

- Holiday gift fic

- Mara, Vader (not like that!) fic set post-SoTE, pre-ROTJ

This is the one that I'm going to need to work hard on. That relationship fascinates me so much and there is so little in canon to reference--just Mara's comments and thoughts on Vader that she makes to Luke, and their three or four scenes together in ( Read more... )

I found this on lanewinree's LJ and oh my god, it almost made me pee my pants.


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So I've reached the end of my fanfic.  It came out to be ~70k words.  I'd like to write some additional scenes and flesh it out a bit, but we'll see how that goes.  I already have another idea for a long fic, and two other short ones for challenges.

To commemorate the end of my fic, I feel like quoting an appropriate line from the Union comic.  I ( Read more... )

"Mara, if you want him to stop following you around, you're gonna have to sleep with him." - said by a friend to me re: another online friend who likes to make fun of Timothy Zahn all the time to goad me ( Read more... )