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Known For (yapping about)

• Animation
  
  • Legend of Korra - Babbled about the show so much in Fanfare (here!)it inspired me to just start posting my immediate thoughts over on tumblr. Check them out if you need help sleeping!
  
  
  • The Last Airbender - Check out the rewatch over in Fanfare!
  
  
  • Star Wars: Rebels - Yah, it isn't Clone Wars in its last couple seasons, but there's been improvement! Fanfare Page
  
  
  • Animated movies in general - I love animation.
• Other stuffs!

New Stars Wars Canon Consumed
Please feel free to ask me questions about any of the new entries into the new Expanded Universe that are listed below:
Books

• Aftermath- Events immediately following the end of Return of the Jedi told through brief excerpts spliced within an overall story surrounding new heroes against the dying Empire, as well remnants of that Empire convening to discuss the future of Palpatine's shattered power. (Review of this book here).


• New Dawn - a background novel of how Rebels characters Hera and Jedi Kanan first met each other (review here).


• Tarkin - a background of Grand Moff Tarkin, as well a buddy adventure with Darth Vader (Review here).


• Lost Stars - a nostalgia filled telling of the romance between two childhood friends who find themselves joining the Empire prior to A New Hope and ending after the Battle of Jakku (review here).


• The Weapon of a Jedi - a short story about Luke Skywalker learning how to better wield the Force and his lightsaber, set shortly after A New Hope. (Review here)


• The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary - factoids on all the major and minor characters, and more from the film.(Short Review here.)


• Before the Awakening - three short stories about Finn, Poe, and Rey, prior to the events of The Force Awakens(Review Here).


• Heir to the Jedi - a Luke Skywalker adventure set after the Battle of Yavin. (Review here.)

Marvel Comic Books

• Star Wars - the current ongoing series set after A New Hope.(On going reviews here)


• Darth Vader - the current ongoing series set after A New Hope.(On going reviews here)


• Shattered Empire - a mini-series following two characters from the end of Return of the Jedi through for a number of months thereafter (review here).


• Lando - a mini-series concerning an adventure in Lando Calrissian's past prior to the Original Trilogy. (Review here.)


• Princess Leia - a mini-series concerning Princess Leia after A New Hope.


• Kanan: The Last Padewan - an ongoing series about the past of Kanan from the tv show Rebels.


• Chewbacca - a limited series about Chewbacca set during the Original Trilogy and his encounter with a teen girl in need of help.(Review here!)


• Obi-Wan and Anakin - limited series about an adventure between the Jedi Master and Padewan prior to Attack of the Clones.

Star Wars Television

• Rebels - The Adventures of the crew of the Ghost in a time period just before A New Hope (On going reviews here).


• Clone Wars - The CGI animated television series which followed the conflict of the Clone Wars set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Quotes
"...America went off the track somewhere - back around the time of the Civil War, or pretty soon afterwards. Instead of going ahead and developing along the line in which the country started out, it got shunted off in another direction - and now we look around and see we’ve gone places we didn’t mean to go. Suddenly we realize that America has turned into something ugly—and vicious—and corroded at the heart of its power with easy wealth and graft and special privilege…. And the worst of it is the intellectual dishonesty which all this corruption has bred. People are afraid to think straight—afraid to face themselves—afraid to look at things and see them as they are.

We’ve become a nation of advertising men, all hiding behind catch phrases like ‘prosperity,’ and ‘the American way.’ And the real things like freedom, and equal opportunity, and the integrity and worth of the individual—things that have belonged to the American dream since the beginning—they have become just words too. The substance has gone out of them—they’re not real anymore..." -Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

"In fact, this contagious superstition is not confined to the cities only, but has spread its infection among the neighbouring villages and country. Nevertheless, it still seems possible to restrain its progress."
-Pliny the Younger, A Letter to Emperor Trajan, Epistulae, Book X, XCVII, 1st Century, A.D.

Historic Joplin - A blog on the fascinating history of Joplin, Missouri.