Me: Ehh, it’s Star Wars, pronunciation doesn’t matter. Also me when someone says Mare-uh Jade:

Second eye is done. I have worn glasses since first grade and now I'm having an identity crisis every time I look in a mirror. So that's fun. Am down to the 1.75s in readers though.

thinking about this again, as I often do

With a handful of exceptions in AOTC (lake & meadow dresses) Padme's costumes in the prequels are technically impressive but not beautiful or elegant. I realize that was the point in TPM and ROTS had the pregnancy but I don't think an overwhelming reliance on 'clunky' did the character any favors.

I was already starting to feel out of sync with the fandom back when I quit blogging, so even though I actually enjoy TikTok I think I’m happy to leave making them to others. I did my time.

Fun fact: if you get a detached retina at 22, decades later you too could find yourself the youngest patient getting cataract removal surgery.

Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before https://theonion.com/disney-promises-star-wars-fans-a-new-era-of-blind-stabs-at-what-they-seemed-to-like-before/

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

An immigrant didn't take away people's vaccines, Bobby. You did.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

I can't believe people still try to pull that "If everyone knew about this open secret, why didn't they say something?" As if you can just publish accusations of sexual misconduct because you heard a rumor and there's no risk of retaliation or blowback

The difference between Pedro and an AI is that Pedro will never lie to you.

For the record, I am okay with this on multiple levels. gizmodo.com/star-wars-ma...

Culture Crave sucks: aftermath.site/culture-crave-...

“By naming the film The Mandalorian And Grogu, Disney is leaving money on the table from consumers who have no idea who Grogu is but would immediately take out their phones and buy a ticket for any movie of any genre with ‘Baby Yoda’ in its title,” said report author Heather Flynn

Happy ThinkGeek Remembrance Day to all who celebrate.

I love y'all but you gotta learn the value of saying "that's dumb" and then moving on with your day

I realize I should blog the Mara Jade Funko Pop but also I hate it and do not want to know anything more about it. Third year of random and inexplicable Mara merch being dropped in March though.

I pretty much agree with every word of this. Buffy could potentially be expanded on and updated in some interesting ways, but Firefly is over. Let it go.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

The creature.

lord, I see what you have done for others

Happy Year of the Horse everyone.

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I would have been SO MAD if this had happened back then, the YJK series is so bad they actually let it go out of print before Legends became Legends. (Actual attribution for this info in the comments.)

hey did you know that twitter was never "the global town square?" it was never one of the biggest or coolest social media sites, it was just where journos and other wordcels and some celebs hung out so it became fodder for lazy news sites writing up stories based on some guy tweeting something

If you’re an elected Democrat and you can’t point at what ICE is doing right now and say clearly “this is wrong,” then get out of politics immediately.

I’m gonna need the youths to move past this 2016 nostalgia train as soon as possible because that year was… Not it. The vibes were rancid.

Kathleen Kennedy is indeed stepping down from Lucasfilm, Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan are taking over and I remain at shrug. (Now I remember why I stopped doing this.) www.starwars.com/news/lucasfi...

it matters that this is what was said to a man immediately before he decided to murder her

The irate #StarWars blog goblin in my heart would like to remind folks that the “news” that Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down to be replaced by Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan originates in a “prediction” column. It could be true, but it could also just be nothing like the past thousand times.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Regardless of what the streets are saying, MTV has not shut down, though it still remains not so much about music. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

I keep seeing things from folks who are reading/rereading the late EU and I have happily forgotten… So much. I always knew that the sequel trilogy taking a faceplant did NOT make any of that mess any better, but it’s nice to know that newbies can see that too.

I don’t think there’s any reality where Episode IX turned out well. Evading this mess of a script got us the cowardly throw-it-at-the-wall of TROS, but if they’d delayed it (as they should) then COVID would have struck and… I don’t know. A cursed production.

How much could a Christmas bag of threats cost, Michael?

Working on accepting that I am not going to read 100 books this year.

Poe’s “Who talks first?” Is when I knew we were BACK and it was such a relief.

Fandom has this glaring blindspot that the General Audience dwarfs them by factors of magnitude. The GA is taking their kids to see "The Baby Yoda Movie". They don't care about lore. They're going to see it once, have fun, buy toys, and move on. And it's going to make so much money.

Sometimes I think about how as a college student I once drove to Milwaukee with no directions (a place I had been exactly once before) because I remembered what the exit looked like and now there is a screen in my car that is constantly telling me how to get home at all times.

The two major effects of my grandparents leaving Canada for the U.S. are that we basically don’t really do Thanksgiving and I call rain gutters “eavestroughs” and I find that very funny.

More Ron Moore AOL fan interactions from the 90s. The first one deals with fan entitlement - the delusion that every true fan believes as they do and that they have ownership over the show because they care so much.

If you ever see me ranking all the Star Wars movies please know I have done so against my will. (Not because I don’t think there’s a WIDE variety in quality but because I find it extremely tedious.)

My first thought when I saw this was Bell narrating the story as Mary Magdalene as Gossip Girl, which honestly would kinda slap.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk