And thus began the greatest inside/running joke in the galaxy

Wedge Antilles: Okay, we have to find a way out of here. Kell Tainer: Burn down the building. Face Loran: I have an idea, but we’re going to need a tugboat. Wedge Antilles: Tugboats and arson, that’s all I ever get from you guys.

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Crimes of Fashion

Which of these fashion crimes from a Star Wars Legends property is your favorite?

The rejected designs for Mara Jade’s wedding dress, which included a computer-generated dress, a “traditional” design from a Hutt, a neo-Imperial design with a black cape and hood (Leia: “Yes, but the bride doesn’t want to look like the father of the groom”), and one design that was simply a thong and a large bow, which Mara refused to try on (Star Wars: Union comic)

Wes Janson’s cape that he had specially made for him on Adumar, adorned with flatscreen panels that played a holo of “a line of Jansons, arms linked, doing high kicks like a dancing chorus” (X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar)

Leia Organa’s Kabray dress – which, due to a luggage mixup, was the only dress she had to wear to an important diplomatic banquet – after a group of enthusiastic Zeltrons “fixed” it (read: cut it to pieces and added glitter) to make it more in keeping with Zeltros fashion and to hide the stains on it (Star Wars #95, original Marvel comics)

Prince Isolder of Hapes’ outfit when presenting the Hapan Consortium’s 62 gifts (plus himself, gift #63) to Leia Organa on Coruscant: “He wore a silver circlet that held a black veil in front of his face, and his long, blond hair fell down around his shoulders. The man was bare-chested except for a small silk half-cloak fastened with silver straps…” (The Courtship of Princess Leia)

The disguises for “Yokel Group” (Wedge Antilles, Myn Donos, and Face Loran) of Wraith Squadron, who for a mission dressed up as a group of stereotypical backwater tourists who had traveled from Agamar looking for brides, wearing shirts with loud prints, clashing shorts, and mismatched hats. “Sir, permission to kill Face?” “Granted. But keep your hat, like Face says” (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)

Hobbie Klivian’s dress outfit to meet the perator of Cartann, “a riot of lines and angles…every hem of every garment was decorated with trim of eye-hurting yellow, making it almost a dizzying experience to look at him walk.” As Hobbie said: “There are three types of dress clothing…the type that offends the wearer, the type that offends the viewers, and the type that offends everybody. I’m going for the third type” (X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar)

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

The greatest treasure in the Star Wars collection I finally have the space to unpack and store properly isn't my beloved giant Wedge and Biggs figures, nor is it my Ewan MacGregor autograph, nor even is it my precious MicroMachines set for Heir to the Empire. No, it is far and away the folder full of early '00s print-offs from Aaron Allston's website:

This is like....you can pinpoint the exact moment she discovered fandom!! You can see how floppy the paper was from the ink when I printed out the pictures :')

Yup, Aaron said 'Star Wars canon is whatever you want it to be'. He also changed Hobbie's hair colour though, so maybe he just had a thing about Hobbie.

He also hosted a bunch of fanart, which was my first exposure to the genre and which I utterly ADORED. Here are some by Jenny Kauer and Sixten because they include my blorbo Janson:

Do you think, if there’s an April fools day in the Galaxy far far away, would Jacen make silly jokes to Tenel Ka as ever, would Jaina boop Jag on the nose, would Tahiri play a prank on Anakin, and call him a dummy afterwards?

Would it be the best day for Face, the best and the worst day of Wes, and the worst day ever for Wedge?

Would Luke and Mara joke with each other, and end up laughing and kissing affectionately? Would Han try to play a joke on Leia and fail miserably, as they are again doing their lovely little argument about who’s outsmarting who?

And imagine instead of saying “April fools”, people will repeat what Grievous has said to Obi-Wan…“You fool!”

And Obi-Wan would continue his lecture on “who’s more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?”

If so, then this universe could be a lot happier than it was before, even when it can only last for a day in each year.

Ok I’m going back home next week for spring break and my house has all my books in it except for the ones I can’t live without that I brought with me to college and apparently I need to reread some books so

Spring Break Reading List

Valiant Sarah McGuire (I know I own it but I don’t remember reading it so this is for you @kanerallels )

Wraith Squadron Again (legends my beloved)

Fellowship of the Ring (I will and very much shall try to the best of my ability I will attempt to get through it I’m really gonna do it this time)

People that keep telling me to read books: am I missing anything???

Or also if anyone has book recs in general so I can stop re re reading pride and prejudice and republic commandos

Tyria, what the hell did you do? What incident is he refererencing?

Could we just gush to each other for a while about Wraith Squadron? I didn't think anyone out there loved those books as much as I do

WE COULD AND SHOULD GUSH ABOUT WRAITH SQUADRON

There are jokes in those books that still live rent-free in my head. Lunch and Dinner Squadron; non-confiscatable bar fight pen/laser scalpel; "I'm afraid we're going to have to amputate"/"well the part of you that seems to be malfunctioning is your HEAD" -- and those live alongside the wrenchingly palpable tragedies? Like on one hand I think I learned about telegraphed ironic tragedy through the narrative of Jesmin Ackbar (niece of the legend himself; exceptionally talented pilot; can't get placed on a squadron because no one wants to be responsible for her death -- so of course she is dead by the end of the first book). On the other hand...holy fuck me shit was I blindsided by Ton Phanan. I was reading these at a young enough age that it simply had not occurred to me that he could possibly die -- not after all the room he gets in the narrative, not after all the investment in his survival. Not when he makes such good jokes. But no. That's it. That's the hole that's going to be in your heart for the rest of this book and the next.

And he charges us, via Face, his dearest friend, with learning how to fucking live?

Hot damn. Talk about formative stories.

@stellanslashgeode posts the new chapter of Way of The Mynock earlier today, which includes a hunky Thakwaash commando.

A few hours later, what do I see got released as the newest Star Wars audiobook?

The book that originated the Thakwaash.

Falynn: You're old and weak lol

Wedge: Square up, kid, we're racing in space tractors

Wes Janson: I made cookies Wes Janson: A pile of cookies could spit in my mouth if they wanted to Wes Janson: I want to be humiliated by a pile of chocolate chip cookies Wes Janson: I want chocolate chip cookies to fuck my wife Wedge Antilles: Looks great, Wes! Wedge Antilles: Gonna ignore all that stuff you said though

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Favorite Wraith Backstory, part 1

In the Star Wars Legends novel X-Wing: Wraith Squadron, Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson put together a new kind of group for the New Republic Navy – a combination commando unit and starfighter squadron. To conserve resources, Wedge and Wes recruited the initial members of the squadron largely from pilots who had promising skills, but had been identified as misfits or at risk of washing out of the New Republic navy.

Wedge, Wes, and ten other pilots with a variety of skills and backstories made up the original roster of Wraith Squadron (initially known as Gray Squadron).

Of these five original Wraiths to join Wedge and Wes, whose backstory is your favorite? (We’ll ask about the other half of the roster in part 2.)

Falynn Sandskimmer, an ace Y-wing pilot from Tatooine who was extremely sick of being compared to a certain X-wing pilot from Tatooine, and often got charged with insubordination for voicing her low opinion of Luke Skywalker and other famous Rebels.

Voort “Piggy” saBinring, a Gamorrean who had been genetically engineered for high intelligence and mathematical abilities, so skilled that he could do navigation calculations without an astromech and was an expert in pattern recognition; he had been charged with insubordination because other officers kept attempting to start fights with him, and merely blocking their punches was enough to get charged.

Myn Donos, a Corellian sniper and pilot who was the lone survivor when his former squadron, Talon Squadron, was ambushed; Talon Squadron was lured into the ambush thanks to false intelligence planted by Imperial agent Gara Petothel, and Donos was so troubled by the incident that he no longer would wear the Corellian bloodstripes he had earned previously.

Kell Tainer, an ace pilot and demolitions expert from Alderaan whose father, also a pilot, panicked during an early mission for the Rebellion and tried to flee, forcing Wes Janson to shoot him down and prompting Kell’s family to change their name due to his father’s reputation for cowardice; he constantly sought to be the best and to somehow make up for his father’s failings.

Jesmin Ackbar, a Mon Calamari and the niece of Admiral Gial Ackbar; Jesmin was a gifted pilot and communications expert but kept getting assignments way beneath her abilities, because nobody wanted to be the commanding officer who got Admiral Ackbar’s niece killed.

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In terms of having their collective shit together, Alphabet Squadron makes Wraith Squadron look like Rogue Squadron

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