Thank you.

Thank you so much. Would you like the truth or an artfully crafted lie?

If guns were more easily available in Canada—like, if I could walk into Wal-mart and walk out with a handgun—I know, deep inside, that I would not be alive.

Ah. The “proud non-reader of books”.

Rebels was amazing! I miss it so much already. And it feels very good to have some company!

Between the last three movies (but especially TLJ) and Rebels I have finally been enjoying new Star Wars output for the first time since like ‘94 and I feel so alone.

I’m fairly certain that this isn’t the reference you were actually making, but I couldn’t help but think of Steve vs Todd from Stargate: Atlantis.

I was vaguely left-leaning as a teenager (helped that I was—and still am, I guess!—queer). I’m now closer to 40 than to 30, and I’m turning into a truly crotchety “old” liberal. A lot of this could be that chronic illness has left my future and finances and, you know, ability to stay alive very uncertain.

Heir to the Empire came out when I was 10 or 11. I read it. I read all of the EU novels until Vector Prime (hiss! boo!), which came out before I turned 20. I read them all, passing up the opportunity to read a lot of other genre novels... even though, at the time, I knew they were terrible. I was a preteen and…

I’m the whitest white girl you’re ever gonna find, and as such, other white people feel super comfortable being racist around me. I spent 5 years working in an optometrist’s office in Calgary, and let me tell ya: my white co-workers were very happy to unleash their racism as soon as our First Nations patients walked…

Franklin looks utterly, utterly darling. Oh my gosh, that little face! I can definitely see where he could be manipulative, looking up at you all “Who me?” “Oh, my life is so hard”, all that. My experience has often been that boy dogs are more affectionate than the girls, and that they can get super attached to one…

Aw, I’m glad I made you laugh today, especially at work. :) I’m not sure we’ve interacted much, but I’ve been around Jez for a decade now and read a lot of your comments and have learned a lot from you!

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Can you explain this a little more for me? I’m certain you’ve got a good point in here, but it’s just out of my grasp. I have ADD and spend most of my limited TV time doing something else at the same time, especially during ads, so I don’t quite have the context for the ads themselves. :)

That is an horrifically morbid quote, but dear lord, it is exactly how I felt with the flu, especially the second time around.

I’ve only missed the flu shot twice; both years, I came down with the flu. The first time I was afraid I was going to die. The second time... honestly, the second time I was afraid I wasn’t going to die. I was sick for nearly two weeks. After that all passed, the respiratory symptoms lingered, for a solid month longer.

If my chips don’t crunch, I throw them away because they’re fucking stale.

I think it’s possible that the worst thing that came of the EU is this tendency of Star Wars fans to think that Star Wars is A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. If you can separate the EU from the movie saga (plus Clone Wars and Rebels), um, well... yeah, no, Star Wars has never had that “solve all the mysteries!…

I wonder how these “omg there are so many superhero movies waaahhh!” folks would have survived, say, the 60s, and all the cowboy movies.

Does your ire for this practice get spread to the Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, etc, as well?