…were responsible for making these stories come to life - whether that’s an actor, video game developer, artist or someone who worked for Hasbro. You don’t know how spoiled you are until it’s gone.

It’s very saddening to see that Star Wars Insider will be ending soon. Print Media has been slowly dying over the last decade, but still features some of the best in-depth, well researched and important journalism out there. SWI always did a great job at sharing a spotlight on the folks who…

Digimon Beatbreak’s idea that AI could just be really great if it was (im)perfected to be as humanlike (nicely flawed) as possible is a little too close to ideas about AGI for me, but it’s fun seeing a series which was originally about the “Digital World” directly satirize today’s AI companions

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

I remember questions on Digimon Beatbreak intent with AI, and from the latest interview, we learned more about what the director thinks about it, and his disappointment with its current state as nothing more than a mechanism to limit society and suppress uniqueness.

I never wrote for Star Wars Insider, but today I want to thank everyone who contributed such meaningful work to 237 wonderful issues. “End of an era” is overused but this truly, truly is. For this fan, seeing my name and mug in print alongside great friends from time to time was an absolute honor.

I can express how important Star Wars Insider has been to my life and career, but its ending is one of those occasions that call for a “cannot express.” Getting an opportunity to write for Insider led me to the encyclopedias I worked on. And there’s nothing to replace it.

went out in NYC last night and at one point the DJ mixed in parts of Mamdani’s acceptance speech

Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies. Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.

My Star Wars books newsletter is out! 📚 Everyone’s going to be talking about Master of Evil next week — rightfully so! But there are actually a few other Star Wars books releasing on Tuesday that you should also pick up! More on that in here. open.substack.com/pub/starwars...

"The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam" well not with THAT attitude

Star Wars Visions season 3 thread 🧵

Watch that crossfire, boys. #FF7 x #StarWars

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Darth Maul: Shadow Lord is no more a direct sequel to The Clone Wars than Tales of the Underworld was, but that phrasing seems to come up a lot in headlines this time around

Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

love to check the news and see that the airport I’m flying into is experiencing extraordinary delays due to the government shutdown

Just sitting here in Adelaide, Australia working on a story - more specifically, trying to figure out how the hell Kylo Ren acts when he’s… …happy.

watching movies set in New York City while away on vacation tends to fill me with a yearning love for the place tbh

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

#StarWarsVisions is out NOW, and it’s another incredible set of shorts. Had the chance to gander at them early and have already watched many of them a few times and I remain firm in my belief Visions is among the best Star Wars storytelling we have. www.cinelinx.com/movie-news/t...

it’s been nice so far to return to freelancing, but I will need to build up my client roster again in the next few months. hmu for copywriting, editing, content marketing, quick-turnaround news, features, and pop culture expertise.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! New Maul figure based on the new show!!!!! #StarWars

I’m looking for podcast recommendations: Star Wars, video games, books, pop culture, long run times, diverse voices. I really enjoy the Friends at the Table extended universe already, but am not really looking for actual play, more for academic-flavored crit

"Cretaceous Thriller" Sinocalliopteryx: the bird-swallowing dinosaur 🪶

This is how you blurb

The Twilight Company symbol on my X-wing helmet is still one of my favorite things I've painted. Pretty proud of pulling off that gradient effect with spray paint cans 🫡

Incredible mail day 👏 so excited for Visions season 3! Thanks Star Wars 🫶

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Making some good progress on original short fiction tonight — solidifying worldbuilding, nailing down the MC’s psychology, and writing a lot of dialogue

Throwback to my concept of Finn as a Jedi Master.

being sick gives me some cool metaphors. there is a sound in my throat like a stuck zipper

Nobody ever says "I wish I'd played more video games" when they die. Video games haven't been around long enough. I may be the first to say it.

The Mountain Crown by Karin Lowachee has a timelessness to the writing style I’m really enjoying, a focus on detail and movement of both dragons and people

The length of the Dooku-Anakin-Obi-Wan fight scene in the Revenge of the Sith novelization is possibly why I thought all fight scenes should contain that level of detail. Stover talks about the Chancellor’s rescue section taking up 34 of 129 pages in the script, thus the pacing being Like That

🌌 Wookieepedia's looking for help from collectors! If you have the Trials of the Jedi postcards featuring Bell Zettifar or Porter Engle, we’d love clear front-and-back images to use on Wookieepedia for documenting the set - send a DM or reply if able to help! #StarWars #TheHighRepublic

I sincerely believe that if you gave the five most lofty literary novelists the ability to write novelisations of, say, star wars, with absolutely no creative restrictions or directional guidance whatsoever besides a note saying "go nuts," we would get actual great art

On what would have been his 50th birthday (I wish he was still here so I could tease him), take a minute out of your day to read about John Bierly in his own words. He was the best person in the world, and he was an even better friend. ❤️ johnbierly.com

Reading beyond the headline, I'm mostly struck by how much the purported wide-open horizons here resemble the way people outside of fanfiction describe it, e.g., "Fan fiction writers put Batman on the bridge of the Enterprise." The shallow wacky mashup or what-if that basically stops there.

I’m not burnt out on Star Wars. I’m burnt out on a lot of other things, and now I have time to see what it’s like not to be.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Between con and church this morning I’m feeling very encouraged about using my time without a day job (however long it lasts) to pursue more Star Wars work and query a lot of fiction. When I have down time I’m going to use it 🙌

the thrill of showing a con badge and getting let in to a roped-off area

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Some books are just meant to be, ya know? Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong. ✨

Congratulations @kristinbaver.bsky.social on your upcoming Insider fiction!!

heading out to NYCC. this is something like my eleventh year

Somehow, my morning exercises must still happen on the first really cold day of the fall

Revenge of the Sith came out in May of course but the tragedy has an October energy that suits the wind blowing the dead leaves off the trees

Mushed together some inspiration of fossil evidence of predator skeletons with visible tail spike damage from stegosaurus and modern wildlife photography of deer going about with the stuck heads of rivals on their antlers-macabre but fits the month! #paleoart #paleosky #stegosaurus