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I'm a bit surprised that tec didn't do the Easter post first. Well, before we get inundated with ears and fishnets, does anyone mind if I started this time? (One cupcake, two cheesecakes and a cinnamon bun, with an Easter basket! Everyone brush well after all this sweetness....)

That's fair. I liked the Republic Commando series, but a few felt there was quite a bit of Author Soapboxing about how the Jedi Order had lost their collective way, etc., etc., even as it deftly retcon-patched some of the pre-Prequel Trilogy bits (such as Callista Masana and her pre-Purge...

I'm only going back to 200X with this -- wait a minute....

...unless you're Karen Traviss, mind.

Not that Actual Genetics plays that much of a role in this (though writers have tried, especially with X-23), but if they do share gene sequences (as we're trying to figure out elsewhere in the thread) then Cyttorak's involvement shouldn't really much matter. On the flip side, of course...

Familial relationships in the Marvel Multiverse are notoriously prone to retcons -- just ask 616-Quicksilver, who in universe has said that he does not wish to hear from any more randos offering Yet Another Twist regarding his parentage -- but I believe that the comics versions of Xavier and the...

Yes, the "Jamaican Colours beat Pimp Cane" (as My Way Productions put it) scene was the other then-well-known example. Cain Marko, however, is not immune to his half-brother's ability, hence the helmet.

(Slightly narrows eyes in Timothy Zahn)

And self-intimidation is the bane of creatives. It likely doesn't help that I'd been a long time away from writing any sort of fiction until my surgical convalescence in 2021. Since then I've been trying to make up for things, mostly little Star Wars set pieces (my first new work was a...

AO3 seems to be the "big league" of derivative-work display. I'm not sure myself how that came about -- perhaps from Marvel and Trek alternate-continuity fic writers, perhaps cross-pollination with Tumblr. At any rate, one local friend of mine is on both, though I myself don't know if my efforts...

Okay, so, we had ourselves a moving of abodes -- so that was a bit of a time. But everything is now more or less in order, and the new place looks something like a home. Work/life balance, alas, is slipping somewhat. There's been some disposal and divestment. More from my family than from...

Well, it was all too brief a run, but I liked McDonough/Patyk's run on the Dreamwave second miniseries and ongoing-for-10-issues. Aside from replacing Sunbow Shockwave with Marvel Shockwave ("Logic dictates that I am badass"), things felt very similar to the cartoon -- right down to Shrapnel's...

The blossoms are on the trees, the streets and parks and university boulevards of my city are turning pink once again. You know what that means -- I wonder if MSCHF will put out an update for Tax Heaven 3000. At any rate, here's a playthrough video I found. And from the player, this...

I wonder who Mel Brooks got to sculpt them? They weren't 3.75 scale like the Kenner SW figures of yore (George probably made that a stipulation -- yes, there was an agreement with LFL regarding the making of the film), but they didn't look something just thrown together, either.

Considering that a lot of Transformers fiction (outside of the live-action films) from mid-2002 onwards have Optimus engaged in a perpetual struggle of either Robot vs. Self or Robot vs. The Legacy of the Primes, I suspect we're seeing a fan-catharsis play out here. People think it's great...

This is where we get into the whole Ringer-style pretention of The Journal of the Whills being a notional source document for the saga we know.... Anyway, we know from multiple explanatory tomes (The New Essential Chronology, The Essential Atlas, The Essential Guide to Warfare) that humanity...

"Nothing can withstand the power of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!!"

Scott has the misfortune of being Older Than His Years (I recall that the contemporary 1990s comics run pegged the age of his 616 counterpart as "twenty-f--". Of course, Earth-616 has something of an elastic timeline, as do the rebooted Fox movies.). Burdens of team leadership and all that.

I would laugh, but....