According to TF.N and the Baltimore Business Journal, LFL is indeed looking at midwest or even east coast locations. Noooo! L.A. is so much easier for me! And if we go any farther east than New Mexico, I'm going to be COLD the entire time! *weeps*

Jieh, if C5 winds up in Baltimore, you'd better be there. :p 

mood: aggravated tags: c5, fandom, star wars

I think it's pretty cool that the JC is commemorating its tenth anniversary. I like the banners. I like the fact that the former mods get their colors back. I like the idea that everyone gets VIP red. 

That last works a little better in theory than it does in practice. Because on most stylesheets, the VIP red is kind of blinding, even for just a couple of names. A whole page of it has me blinking an awful lot. :p

Also, the stars! :O I can totally see why they're there for a tenth anniversary. I really can. But oy, the stars. *facepalm*


QotD: "In summary, life is too fragile and I describe that as 'sucks ahoy'!" - T-Rex in today's Dinosaur Comic.

mood: amused tags: dinosaur comics, jc stuff, qotd

Act II, Scene XXIII - by Elana 
Characters: Anakin, Padme
Timeframe: AotC
Genre: Drama, script, poetry

Summary: The fireside scene from Attack of the Clones, with a twist.

Notes: This is a response to the Dare Challenge. My dare:

Rewrite the canon scene of your choice as Shakespeare might have written it. The sequence of events should stay the same but the dialogue is all yours. Ideally it must include at least one genuine Shakespearean quote as well. 


Everything You Touch - by Mira_Jade
Genre: Drama, Supernatural
Rating: PG
Time Frame: “Invincible” - beware of LOTF SPOILERS!
Characters: Zekk, Mara

Summary: Everything you touch turns to ash and gold. Post death, afterlife speculation. 


Love Stories - by Knight_Aragorn
Timeframe: Pre-ESB
Characters: Leia Organa, Han Solo

Summary: Leia doesn't understand any of this.


Party Girl - by Jedi Trace
Timeframe: Legacy comics, pre-Broken
Characters: Deliah Blue, OCs, Cade Skywalker, Jariah Syn
Genre: Drama, action
Keywords: short story, Legacy, Deliah Blue
Summary: Canon speculation for how a “party girl” joined the bounty-hunting crew of the Mynock as the chief mechanic. (I took some liberty with the interpretation.)
Notes: Written for the Legacy Challenge #2 - "Origin stories:" Write a fic centered around an established part of Legacy canon whose existence has not been fully explained, and tell us how it got here.

mood: lethargic sounds: The Empire Strikes Back tags: fanfic, recs, star wars

All right, people. If you haven't seen the artwork of Katie Cook, you really must. Here's her LiveJournal, and here's her website. (I first heard of her via Club Jade.) And here are LJ icons from her work, made by jawastew.

Katie draws more than SW (I've seen DC characters, LotR, Indiana Jones, and others), so her work is well worth checking out even if you're not a SW fan. :)  (Does anyone who's not a SW fan watch my journal? It seems unlikely. :p )

mood: moody tags: art, recs, star wars

A few days ago I saw a JC sig that included a link to the person's minicity; curious and procrastinating, I clicked, then made a couple of cities of my own. I can't say I'm 100% on what exactly happens with these little cities aside from new clicks meaning new residents have moved in, but in the usual way of the web, there's something fascinating about these little pixels on my screen. If anyone finds themselves bored and/or procrastinating, feel free to visit my little cities. They're kind of useless, but they're cute. 

Angstville, United Arab Emirates
Purple Quarks, Australia

Also, thank you to whoever clicked the hug counter in my bio. Today was a draining day, and noticing that hug made me smile. Silly, but true. :)
 

mood: exhausted tags: randomness

I hadn't actually planned to make this entry SW-themed, but as I was thinking about what things I wanted to say, I discovered that they were all about some aspect of SW. Such is my life. :p

I don't know what I'm going to do with my Beyond excerpts. I sent my Saga ones in, thank heavens, but the Beyond ones are giving me fits. Well, more specifically, the ones for Perfectly Normal are. I can probably get something showing Luke's characterization from Reaching Out without too many problems, but Perfectly Normal is tricky. How do I showcase a short story? Just pick a reasonably good part of the story and hope for the best? Or should I try to choose a section that shows that it's part of a greater whole? And romance - you'd really think that part would be easy, but apparently I didn't write Perfectly Normal as a very typical romance. The romance is kind of spread out in little bits and pieces, I think. The first and last sections are probably the best for actual romance, but I'm not sure how well they'd work. The first part is - I don't even quite know how to explain it. Maybe it's a little too understated? Or too obviously the beginning of something rather than the something itself? Whereas I personally think that the last section is the most romantic, but it obviously gives away the whole ending of the story for anyone who hasn't read it. I find this an exasperating situation. 

The other day, my sister said, "Hey, do you realize those ESB pics our grandfather left you are actually worth something?" I said, "Huh, they probably are." Today I did a bit of web browsing out of curiosity, and yes, yes they are. The pics in question are the ESB Ralph McQuarrie concept art portfolio. The envelope itself is pretty beat up, but all the pictures are in excellent condition, and I do have all twenty-four of them. I have no current plans to sell the portfolio, but it's pretty cool that I own something like that.

Speaking of SW thingamabobs that are worth something, I bought a box of SW Legacy minis and got Boba Fett. *facepalm* Then I realized that Boba Fett is quite sought after. Perhaps I'll sell his Mando butt on eBay and buy a Cade with the proceeds. Or something equally fangirly. :p

Due to some boring but necessary DRL, I once again find myself running behind on story feedback and some PMs. If I owe you a PM or you wrote a story recently, I'm trying to catch up, and I do appreciate your patience. :) 

Also, brownies are the best thing ever. Really they are. <3 

Edit: Oh! Also, there are rumors of a new SW hardcover: Fate of the Jedi, by Aaron Allston. Supposedly it's book one of a series of some sort. And initial reports are that it's 256 pages long. And $27. And I'd bet anything it's a post-LotF novel. 

Yeah, Del Rey, how about not? Even with Allston's writing, you get no post-LotF dollars from me. They're all going to Dark Horse. And you totally suck at series lately. And unless the cover says "Timothy Zahn", I am not paying $27 for ANY book under 300 pages. Seriously, people.

mood: busy sounds: A New Hope tags: fanfic, jc stuff, randomness, star wars

My mom, upon realizing that I was watching RotS again (see what you've done, Nicki? :p ):

"The combat in SW has always kind of freaked me out a little. It's so barbaric and so advanced at the same time. It's like hand to hand combat, but with jet fighters. "


Interesting point. And I love that my mom has become quite knowledgable about SW and has always been tremendously tolerant of my addictions even if she doesn't quite understand them. :D

Argh, Mace just said, "I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi." That line makes me twitch every single time. Mace, you're better than that lame dialogue. :p

mood: contemplative sounds: Revenge of the Sith tags: qotd, star wars

My family in a nutshell:

My sister: "This family is one giant conglomeration of smart asses. You all know that, right?"

Our mother: "Remember, a smart ass is someone who can sit in a bowl of ice cream and tell you what flavor it is."

mood: sleepy sounds: What Not to Wear tags: life, qotd

Snagged from snarkel, who found it here. Too funny. :D

mood: amused tags: video

This morning at about 5:30, I was woken up because somehow I had managed to get hiccups in my sleep and they were painful. 

This was one of the more ridiculous experiences of my life. I hope I do not replicate it any time soon.

Then I fell back asleep and dreamed that I had bought Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor - must have misread that publication date after all! - and it was something like 600 pages and said part one of four on the cover and it was really spectacularly unbelievably good and now I had so much good profic to look forward to with 500 more pages - I was only on page 100, I looked - and parts two through four and I was delirious with joy. 

Then I woke up again. *sob*

Maybe I'll try Coruscant Nights. It's not LotF era, thus, the suckage is not a foregone conclusion. Meh to you, EU. *wrinkles nose*

mood: weird tags: dreams, eu, life, randomness

I'm in the middle of catching up on LJ comments - and thank you all for being so patient with me when DRL interferes with that :) - but was distracted by this Lolcat that my mother e-mailed me and just had to share it:


more cat pictures

I lol'ed at the picture, then I laughed until I cried at the comments. My personal favorite, obviously from a fellow Witness: "i shud take mai kitteh wif me tuh teh doorz… but noone reelyzes it no be dogma at ull. iz intresting, lyk cheezburger fur teh braynz." Now I'm going to be thinking "iz interesting, lyk cheezburger fur teh braynz" at the doors. Must not actually say it . . .

mood: outrageously amused tags: lolcats

I don't know if anyone on my flist is interested in these videos, but I love them unreservedly, and am therefore posting them anyway. :p

( you who are so good with words )

mood: enthralled sounds: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word - Joan Baez tags: bob dylan, joan baez, video

There are few fanfic writers whose work I'd recommend unreservedly, but furrylittlebantha is one of them. She has two new vigs in Beyond on the JC. One is a very unique premise and style, one is more standard, but both are beautifully done.

In a Strange Land - L/M AU
Summary: Luke went MIA and was never heard from again. Years later, Mara hears of a planet where he may have crashed. What she finds will leave her forever changed.

The Wanderer - ESB AU, Luke/Vader
Summary: Luke decides to disappear after Bespin.

And as a bonus, a word of the day: apperceptive. I'm quite taken with it.

mood: tired tags: fanfic, recs, word of the day

Snagged from lotusflower85:

Your result for The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test...

Measure for Measure

You scored 31% = Tragic, 63% = Comic, 27% = Romantic, 41% = Historic

Take The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test at HelloQuizzy

I never read Measure For Measure. Why is it a problem play? I could just google that, but I'm completely wiped out at the moment. Maybe one of my lovely LJ friends will explain it to me before I find the energy to look it up. :p

mood: exhausted tags: quiz results

I win at procrastination, guys. I so, so do. 

*stops procrastinating*

*no, seriously* :p

mood: procrastinating sounds: Seinfeld tags: randomness

Some more randomness, because it is totally that sort of day. 

Has anyone else looked at the Saga Fanfic Awards thread? There's only one more day for nominations, and the vast majority of categories don't have a single qualifying fic yet. Is this normal so close to nominations ending, or is there less participation this year? I know my memory's going, but surely this isn't normal. And what happens if noms close and half the categories have nothing? Shall Saga Awards be called off for lack of interest? I really don't think that one more day's worth of nominations is going to get enough fics qualified in enough categories to make for a valid awards process. This concerns me. Not high level RL concern, just average level interwebz concern, but concern nevertheless.

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor has been postponed AGAIN. Are you kidding me, Del Rey? Are you freaking kidding me? You jack me around with twelve mediocre to outright terrible books, completely and irrevocably mess with the GFFA in ways that are this close to turning me off the novels entirely, and then you bump back the release date for the only book I'm still truly interested in yet again? If you think that bumping Millennium Falcon up is a bonus, or even a fair exchange, you have got another think coming. Some people may read it. Probably many, actually; the Star Wars name on the cover still counts for a lot. I wish them well. But I won't be touching that book with a ten-foot pole, not even with Luceno's sure hand behind it. And the longer you make me wait for a book that actually interests me, the more thoroughly my tiny remaining shred of interest will wither and die. You probably don't care, but I'm kind of pissed that you've so utterly messed up something that used to mean a lot to me. 

Someone in Lit said that in Ostrander's recent interview, he'd said that he had personally corresponded with Troy Denning, and that the entirety of 2008's Legacy was set up for something big. My honest reaction? A terrible sinking feeling. From what I have seen of Ostrander's writing, I trust him. I've really loved Legacy from issue one, and I continue to love Legacy. And if he'd simply said that all of 2008 was set up for something big, I'd be thrilled to death. But that bit about corresponding with Troy Denning? Terrifies me. As far as I'm concerned, Denning is the GFFA's antichrist. Everything he's touched has turned to crap. Ostrander is on my short list of people that I think might be able to pull a decent story out of Denning's half-baked concepts, but can I trust him to not be corrupted by Denning? I don't know. And whether or not Legacy turns out awesomely despite Denning's input, I'm now going to spend the next year and a half worried about the ultimate outcome of his participation, however marginal. Damn you, Denning. And Mr. Ostrander, as much as I love your work so far, did you really have to say that? I am displeased indeed.

My Empire trades 1 and 2 came in the mail today. If only I had time to read them. Ah, well. Something to look forward to.

Because DRL is extremely good at being distracting, I didn't get my entire to-do list done. If I owe you a PM (I think there are only a couple of you left at this point), I'll get it done tomorrow, I swear. Right now I'm going to go crank out those Saga noms before bed. At least that's the plan.

mood: grumpy tags: comics, eu, jc stuff, randomness

Today is a good day I think for an entry of randomness!

 

mood: hungry tags: cats, comics, eu, jc stuff, life, randomness

Mandy and I always, always wind up taking the scenic route wherever we go, because we always get talking and miss our turns. We did that tonight. As in, we took the really long way around because we really missed our turn. Mandy's comment regarding our navigational abilities when together:

"God help us if we ever took a road trip: 'Canada? What state is that in?'"

mood: cheerful tags: qotd