“Which just goes to show you that it’s all fun and games until someone threatens to uncanonize the Solo kids.”
—tumblr user - mosymoseys
“The Jedi are all about recruiting kids too young to know better, so there it was, me and all these serene little kids. You've never known real rage until you've been lectured on controlling your emotions by a four-year-old in a robe.”
—Guss Tuno, on his less-than-ideal Jedi training; Star Wars: The Old Republic
List of Star Wars tactical manuvers that should also be alcoholic drinks
- Cracken Twist
- Antilles Manuver
- A-Wing Slash (should also be an entire sub-genre of fanfic)
- Bantha Decoy
- Bothan Fade (this should also be a haircut)
- Carom Shot
- Core Overload
- Corellian Slip
- Feint and Backstab (I feel like this would be two drinks, maybe Feint is a virgin version of the Backstab)
- Friendly Hutt
- Gravity Dive
- Kenobi Offensive (this should be blue, and possibly also on fire)
- Kettch’s Drill
- Loran Spitball
- Mandalorian Surrender
- Smuggler’s Click, or possibly CLIQUE, which should be the name of a bar.
- Solo Slingshot or Solo Slide, just anything named after Han ok
- Tallon Roll, or Tallon Split, or something to make Myn cry (not the correct number of Ls, oh well)
- Thrawn Pincer, which should also be blue
This has been your daily Sarah Spends Way Too Much Time On Wookieepedia post, thank you and goodnight.
Riding my High Tauntaun with my Minority Agenda
taken from my personal blog, May 2011
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. (racist comments in response to my question redacted.)
I went out on a limb and decided to ask her about diversity in Star WarsExpanded Universe (EU). I guess bringing up lack of diversity in EU made people uncomfortable because this guy named “Darth Severity” got all up in my grill ranting about how Star Wars isn’t the place for your minority agenda, Marissa blah blah high horse. (I wish I had saved the quotes, they have since been deleted.)
It surprises me how when this topic comes up in fandom a certain subset of fans react by trying to suppress conversation, as if bringing Star Wars up to Star Trek levels of diversity is a bad thing. How dare I take the piss out of Star Wars. Star Wars fans never do that!
So I said:
I’m a long time reader of Star Wars books (own over 200+) but I am also greatly disappointed by the lack of diversity in the Star Wars EU. I was particularly disappointed that the “Rip Tide” cover established Jaden Korr as just another young white human male hero(like the primary protagonist in every other era of Star Wars publishing.)
I would like to see more characters of color and women (including women of color) in Star Wars stories. Will DelRey make a commitment to pursue diversity in future publications?
Shaprio’s response:
Diversity: I feel we’ve had quite a bit of diversity, especially when you take into consideration the growing number of prominent characters that aren’t human. Saba Sebatyne, for example: An awesome female Jedi who is barely even humanoid. (I like her a lot!)
I feel so represented.
Lawrence Kasdan Wants to "Start Fresh" For His Star Wars Spinoff, Won't Pull from the Expanded Universe
themarysue.com
The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan is one of the writers assigned to those recently confirmed Star Wars spinoffs. We don’t yet know who Kasdan’s movie will be about—Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Yoda have all been rumored, though it could be someone else—but whoever it is, he’s kissing anything from their Expanded Universe storyline goodbye.
