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always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal
Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.
Since I'm in my early Star Wars EU fandom feels lately, here's a key point that has bugged me ever since the (very valid imo) decanonization: We do not and did not care what George Lucas thought about Mara Jade.
(Probably not everyone, but for the circles I ran it? It was beyond irrelevant and barely if at all a topic of discussion. We simply did not care!)
There's a lot to hate about the turn fandom took when it came to the sequel era, but by far the most baffling to me came very early on, seeing a bunch of (previously quieter) EU fans come up and start talking about GL caring about the EU at all. (Most EU fans I knew were all like "yeah, that tracks" when the word came down. They'd been telling us it would happen for YEARS. YEARS. Why even come up with a canon levels system if it WASN'T?) The same exact thing would have happened with Legends if GL himself had been in charge!
But Mara marrying Luke Skywalker? Sure, Lucas clicked a box approving it at some point, but I don't think that's any kind of evidence because nothing he EVER said so much as implied that he actually cared about anything happening in what was for him a category of merch. Sure, it meant a lot to us but our priorities are not his.
And that is fine. Maybe this is the rebellious Catholic schoolgirl in me but I don't need the creator of the franchise to approve of what drew me into it. I am not and have never been a filmmaker/millionaire and I'm guessing you aren't either. That man thought we needed hundreds of hours of The Clone Wars, a show I am simply incapable of watching at length. It's clear we had very different priorities when it came to Star Wars. As we should! As a fan, you do not need to prioritize the same things the Powers That Be do. This is fandom, not a job.
And hell, if George's opinion means Dave Filoni never takes her back out of the toy box for his own purposes... I am still okay with that. Better we have brand new characters - Shin Hati, Reva, Jyn Erso, maybe even Rey if you squint - that have (intentionally or unintentionally) bits of Mara in them than a Mara herself constrained by fan expectations of books written decades ago for a very different franchise and a very different fandom.
Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.
While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.
On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:
On some of her work in Star Wars:
On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:
On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:
On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:
On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:
On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

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SkyJade fans: we don't talk enough about how absolutely deranged the year 10ABY was for Mara Jade specifically.
Because at the end of the Thrawn campaign (~9.5ABY), Luke gives her his father's lightsaber.
Which he treats as a normal coworker interaction / gentle encouragement to join his Jedi Academy.
This is, for the record, COMPLETELY INSANE behavior.
Sir. This woman VERY recently had an inescapable psychic kill command for you lodged in her skull courtesy of the Emperor. And your response to resolving this situation is apparently:
“Here, take my dead father’s laser sword.”
:)
Luke is operating on spiritually earnest farmboy logic here, but Mara — who is bad at emotions in general and especially bad at affection directed at herself — is nevertheless, like many women, dimly aware of this thing called BOUNDARIES and decides maybe she should not immediately go do Jedi training with the incredibly intense blond man handing her meaningful family heirlooms after one shared military campaign.
Now, the Doylist explanation for all of this is obviously that the EU authors in this era were barely coordinating.
But the Watsonian result is hysterical.
Because while the rest of the cast is dealing with assorted disasters with the Imperial Civil War and Dark Empire Trilogy, Mara quietly kriffs offscreen to pursue Jedi training.
Not with Master Skywalker.
No.
With Kyle Katarn.
And if you know the timeline, this is SO funny because circa 9.5–10ABY Kyle is basically an independent-study self-certified Jedi Master whose primary qualifications are:
surviving
owning a lightsaber
and aggressively tomb raiding Sith ruins
This is peak Jedi Knight era Kyle. His entire educational and life philosophy is basically, “I found this in a crypt and it probably won’t kill me.”
So Mara, in an effort to avoid one emotionally complicated Jedi, accidentally apprentices herself to another Jedi whose emotional range is approximately that of a very honorable brick.
And naturally this culminates in Mysteries of the Sith, where Kyle immediately gets too cocky poking around Sith artifacts on Dromund Kaas and falls to the dark side.
Which means poor Mara spends her gap year dragging THIS IDIOT back from corruption.
(Should this perhaps have given her an early warning sign about the Exar Kun situation brewing at Luke’s Academy in the Jedi Academy Trilogy? You would THINK.)
But WAIT. Because this is ALSO the year of Dark Empire, my very favorite and absolutely deranged year of the Legends timeline.
So imagine this from Mara’s perspective.
You flee the emotionally earnest not-quite-love-interest Jedi by going to study under another Jedi who immediately starts having Sith Artifact Problems.
And then somewhere in the middle of this nonsense you get the news bulletin:
“By the way, Luke Skywalker got yoinked away by some kind of inexplicable Force storm and has apparently resurfaced as the military commander of the Reborn Emperor’s Operation Shadow Hand.”
And Mara’s just standing there like:
“... the REBORN WHAT.”
So during the events of Mysteries of the Sith, Mara successfully drags Kyle back from the dark side through what is, functionally, the Power of Friendship.
Like yes there are Sith artifacts and Force visions and actual mechanics involved, but emotionally the plot is basically:
“Kyle, stop licking cursed tomb walls.”
“No.” *lick*
“Kyle PLEASE.”
And somehow it works.
So Mara presumably exits this experience going:
“Great. Wonderful. Fantastic. I have now personally managed one emotionally constipated Jedi man having Sith Problems. Time to go talk down or put down Skywalker.”
And she’s probably mentally preparing herself for the world’s worst intervention road trip.
Like:
“Apparently if I don’t supervise Jedi personally they start freebasing Sith artifacts within thirty business days.”
Except then she gets back and —
Oh.
Luke already came back with his sister's help.
Apparently it was a phase.
Wonderful.
Excellent.
I DON’T have to solve every problem myself.
But then the VERY NEXT YEAR, 11ABY, the New Republic looks at this man — this VERY RECENTLY RECOVERED FROM A SITH APPRENTICESHIP man — and decides:
“Yes. We should give him government support to found a religious boarding school for Force-sensitive children.”
Insane institutional decision-making.
And Luke, who has learned absolutely nothing about normal interpersonal pacing, immediately circles back around to:
“Hey Mara :)
“do you want to come train at my Jedi Academy :)”
SIR.
From her perspective you vanished into evil hyperspace weather, joined your dead fascist dad’s evil wizard cult, and got government funding to open a school less than a year later.
And maybe the craziest part is that she STILL eventually marries him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you are playing with an imaginary toy in an imaginary sandbox. fandom is all about having fun and letting your imagination run wild. canon is only a suggestion, not a rule. how much of canon you will follow, if any, is entirely up to you.
please stop trying to apply rules on hobbies and something that’s supposed to be your comfort place and a form of self-care.
“is it okay if I think this” “is it okay if I imagine that” it’s YOUR little world that you create for yourself and your own enjoyment. you literally do not need strangers’ opinions or permission when it comes to a hobby that doesn’t harm or affect anybody in real life. again, it’s YOUR imagination, YOUR world, YOUR creation. you have all the power and the freedom to:
headcanon whatever you want, however you want
ship whatever you want, however you want
write whatever you want, however you want
draw whatever you want, however you want
create whatever you want, however you want
reject whatever you want, however you want
as long as you’re not harming anybody in real life, how you have fun with fictional characters and your imagination is no one’s business but your own’s.
last but not least: fiction is not, and will never be, a reflection of your real-life moral compass. what you like in fiction does not reflect who you are in real life as a person. kill that cop in your head.
I should also add--were it not okay to disregard canon sexualities, slash fandom would not have come into existence until very recently, and so much LGBTQ fanwork and fan enthusiasm would either not have come into being or been kept away from others who enjoyed it. Fandom is a space where any aspect of characterization can be reimagined. Every once in a while, something's going to get bent in a direction that others don't enjoy (and sexuality is far from the only area in which that is true)--but what it offers is the opportunity for you to bend it back in your own way, and bend whatever else you want along with it.
i think a lot of people internalized the misogynistic idea that “men are rational and women are emotional” and just went “that’s true… but it’s a good thing!” instead of saying “that’s obviously bullshit and we shouldn’t perpetuate this belief in any form”
I was able to browse Fanfix throught the wayback machine, thank to the link on Club jade and I was wondering: what were the fics everybody knew about in fandom? Or always got recommended?
I find early internet fanfictions fascinating 😃
I can only really speak to the Luke/Mara space because everything else has just kinda slipped my mind.
From my (highly biased) perspective, the most popular and influential early L/M fic was BY FAR Stuff by Gheorge2/rthstewart, which is also really THE Club Jade fic. Obviously there are many other stories in our archive but I think that's the one that had the most clear influence. And yes, it's even on AO3.
I'm pretty sure the whole Jedi Master/Farmboy dichotomy for Luke that ran RAMPANT in early L/M fics either started with Stuff or was popularized by it, to the point it was common in fics that came several (fic) generations later by folks who may not ever had read Stuff.
Now Stuff is VERY CJ - a kind of snarky GenXness that was a little bit ashamed (hiding novels in the underwear drawer) but also embraced the inherent goofiness of Star Wars itself (the "melodramatic space trash"/Duke and Tara, which was Kevin J. Anderson shade in addition to the obvious Hercules/Xena inspiration.) It did not resonate with everyone THEN, no idea how it goes now.
The WEIRDEST CJ fic is probably Samizdat, but I'm not sure that one ever broke containment. I also remember The Long Road Home getting a lot of love.
Another popular (and controversial) fic - which was in itself influenced by Stuff - is/was not on our archive: As Simple And Complicated As All That by Xia Sang Li, which actually became a massive (for then) series. This was one of the first actually explicit L/M fics (seriously explicit - Stuff was racy at the time but super tame now) to really take off and it was super influential back in the Yahoo mailing list days. I don't think it's online anymore but was on Fanfix at some point. (I think it may have been taken down, and then put back up later? Maybe? But tbh I'm not sure.) From what I can recall - and here's a mention of it I saw here on Tumblr a few years ago - I don't think this one would have necessarily aged well. But I also don't remember a ton about the actual plot(s).
Last minute add after reading above link: Xia Sang Li's Livejournal is still up and some of it is there. She was apparently reposting it in 2006 but never finished doing so. (I don't think I knew about this at the time? Even in the LJ days this was history.)
I can't say if Stuff has aged well - I haven't read it in years - but if Ruth felt comfortable putting it on A03 in 2013, it can't be THAT bad. I do love that it presents Luke and Mara as real equals, mocks the profic of the time, and even kinda predicts the eventual official Force bond? Crazy work for 1995/6.
I KNOW there are other eldritch L/Mers out there so if anyone else has any memories of this era please add on/jump in/etc. Pretty sure there's a post around here somewhere that links Waybacks of some of the archives connected to the Yahoo lists that followed this era/the FFN purges but I can't find it.

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Apollo 17 vs Artemis II
Despite everything, it's still you.
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That's really cool actually
#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry
@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.
must be so frustrating to be luke skywalker and have pulled off the first successful “i can fix him” and you can’t even prove it bc the him dies 5 min later
”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me

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The mortifying ordeal of being a Star Wars fan: Not only do you have to admit that you’re a Star Wars fan, you have to know things about Star Wars. Nerdy bullshit things about Star Wars. And you have to submit to the horrific misery of wanting to tell other people about the Star Wars things you know. Not only are you burdened with knowledge about Star Wars, you have to drag around the heavy weight of wanting to talk to other people about Star Wars. It’s soul-crushing.
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