And so it ends...--Where Legacy of the Force went wrong--Spoilers ahead I got addicted to Star Wars when I was 13 and 24 hours later, I had written my first fanfic. It was pathetic and made Leia a Mary Sue and ignored pretty much every law of good writing, but I was 13 and didn't know any better.

The Committee to Re-Elect Palpatine So, what exactly got Palpatine to stay in office so long? First of all, how often were elections held? In Revenge of the Sith, 3 years after Palpatine is allotted "emergency powers," Obi-Wan refers to him as a Chancellor who has stayed in office long

Quick note on new title You may have noticed that this blog is no longer called "All things relative." I got rather tired of that and decided to quote one of my favorite characterizations of Han that I've ever written. In it, Leia is trying to find a stalling technique and Han

Galactic Busboy and other concepts--what makes minimum wage in the GFFA? Musings on the GFFA equivalent of minimum-wage jobs.

Top 10 A friend recently asked me for my Top 10 Fanfic Recommendations. SInce she also asked my roommate, I had a few that I had to leave out for the sake of not overlapping, but here are the ones I decided on.

The regent policy--a look at Naboo politics and what might have been So, I've probably mentioned this before, but I'm writing a story called Lest Ye Be Judged. Actually, it's a rewrite, since the original version was written in 250 single-spaced pages before the release of Episode III. The new version has been ongoing

Oops... I forgot to say how cool C4 was. If you want full details, go to my normal blog at ishneedsalife.blogspot.com. Even though no one but the Truly Dangerous Company crew, one filmmaker and a moderator from theforce.net noticed me, I had a lot of fun.

The fanzine revolution My first brush with "true" fandom was in locating fanfiction in the most random places on the internet. Then I got addicted to fanfix.com and started submitting my own works in 1997. Somewhere just after The Phantom Menace was released, I got an offer

Like, totally, look out for me at C4! Okay, so it would take a major event for me to go to Los Angeles and, yes, it is happening. To whit, the marvelous Truly Dangerous Company is going to be showing ALL of the Pink 5 films on May 27. And I do mean all, including Return of Pink 5, Volume 3.

May the Fourth Be With You and your little parody too... Since this is May the Fourth Be With You day and it's the 30th year of fandom for some (including my parents), I decided to write a song parody. The original song is "I enjoy being a girl" from Flower Drum Song.