Dreamwars: A Star Wars fandom chat community

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it's Legends week, and I bring you another random bit out of the vault: Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell, an audio drama set between Episodes IV and V, released in 1983 "on both record album and cassette tape", which just makes me giggle. Star Wars on vinyl?!

I don't suppose any of you have encountered this one, but if so, please share! Otherwise, feel free to go on any tangent you like - from vinyl to events of 1983 (the eponymous video game crash perhaps?).

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Since since nine of the planned twelve episodes have aired, maybe you'd like to talk about the second season of Andor?

Are you watching? What do you think of it so far?

Have you rewatched the first season and if yes, what was that like - discovered something you've forgotten, changed your mind about something,...?

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This week, the topic is "jokes and humor", any way you'd like to interpret it.

What's your favorite joke or funny scene in SW? Which movie (or other piece of media) you consider funniest?

Does SW fit your sense of humor - and if not, what would you like to see?

Bring your memes! Do you have a favorite? (something something high ground...)

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Topic for this week: *Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi, aka the middle movie of the Sequel trilogy.

Any special feelings about this one, this time around? Would you watch this movie if...

• you were bored and it came up on the TV? (Pretend that you still own a TV that receives broadcast programming.)
• a friend/partner/child wanted to see it?
• they were doing a screening in the local cinema?
  • and you got free tickets?
• you had free time and wanted to treat yourself?
• someone held a gun to your head? :D

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The topic this week is the "HoloNet News podcast", which was created in 2008 to tie in with the 3D animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

I haven't given it much time, but this might actually be lost to time already: both the original site and the iTunes feed mentioned on Wookieepedia are gone.

I suspect nobody here has listened to it, but...maybe? Or, would you be interested?

Since this is such a niche topic, feel free to talk about anything related to Star Wars and podcasts. Do you listen to some? Do you have recommendations?

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This week, the topic is "Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear", a novel by Alexander Freed that focuses on the first year of the Empire as experienced by Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Saw Gerrera.

This is a very fresh book: it was released this February. Have any of you read it, or plan to?

Alexander Freed is an established Star Wars writer with several well-received SW novels to his name - would that recommend or detract from this book for you?

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this is supposed to be a "general topic" week, so lets go really general: "red".

What's your first thought when you think "Star Wars" and "red"? Do you have a favorite red costume, or location? If you had to pick the "most red" character, who would it be, and why?

(Or, if you want to go extra spicy: Star Wars and communism?)

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The theme for this chat corner is "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens", the first movie of the Sequel trilogy. It was released in December of 2015 (nearly ten years!), and directed by J. J. Abrams.

Any thoughts, feels, or opinions you'd like to share about this movie?

Alternatively, if you'd like a more abstract prompt: what's your strongest SW-related memory from 2015?

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This is a themed chat corner. The topic is: the magazine Star Wars Gamer., which ran bi-monthly from 2000 to 2002 and covered all kind of SW gaming, both digital and tabletop.

Paper magazines! That's a blast from the past...

Hi everyone,

an update: I'm going to move the "chat corner" posts into an alternating bi-weekly schedule, both on Monday. That means that there will be only one Chat Corner a week, on Monday; there will be a theme one week, then a free-for-all the next one, then again a theme, and so on.

In the last few months this comm has been even more quiet than usual. And that's understandable! DW is a quiet place in general and Star Wars fandom lives mostly on Tumblr these days. But I'm starting to feel that if the purpose of this comm is to keep a SW fandom feel present here on DW, making a million of nearly-dead posts kind of defeats that purpose.

So, lets slow things down a little, and we'll see how that goes.

Also, remember that if you have something SW-related you wanna share with others - a rec list, interesting discussion topic, or what have you - you can always make a post of your own!

A few more thoughts:

First: You've probably noticed that there isn't any "guaranteed reply" policy on the chat corners. I know other DW events do that, and maybe some of you would be more likely to comment if you knew you're not yelling into the void... but to me those mod replies always felt a bit phony, even if they were well-meant. If the mod has nothing to say they have nothing to say, and it shows. It also ends up looking like the mod is offering a service in a sense, and... idk. It's just iffy.

Second: shout out to people who've been commenting week after week! And by "people" I mean "mainly yourlibrarian" XD - I can't remember a chat corner you've missed, seriously, that's dedication!

I don't exactly think I ought to say "thank you for your effort" - it sounds as if we all ought to make that kind of effort, "work hard on your participation", as if it were a chore and oh hell no, fandom shouldn't be a chore! But at the same time, yeah, it's really impressive and it helps to keep the community alive, and yeah, I'm thankful. IDK. Socializing is difficult.

Third: do we have lurkers? If you're a lurker (a person who follows an online community but does not participate), raise your hand :D

I've been thinking that the themed chat corners might be entertaining in a "hmmm, interesting" sense - a thing someone might like to see on their reading page, but not know/care about enough to comment. Of course, I have no way to prove that theory!

Fourth: Researching the chat corner themes, I've found so many weird and interesting Star Wars stories. I admit I'm running out of steam a bit (probably obvious, ha), but this has definitely been one of my best fandom ideas.