Dreamwars: A Star Wars fandom chat community

Hi!

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?

Hi!

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.

Welcome to your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game. The topic for this week has been Skeleton Crew, if you've missed it.

Have fun!

Welcome to your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game. The topic for this week has been "trade", if you've missed it.

Have fun!

Welcome to your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game.

Have fun!

Welcome to the Monday chat corner.

The topic of this week is the movie Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the last film of the Original Trilogy.

It's interesting to consider, that the Return of the Jedi, having come out in 1983, has been "the last Star Wars movie" for sixteen years. The Revenge of the Sith has been "the last one" for ten years, and The Rise of Skywalker is now five years old.

In retrospect, what do you think about that trajectory? Or if you're (un)lucky to have been a fan during one or both of those gaps, how did it feel back then? And how are you feeling about that last stretch?

Welcome to the Monday chat corner.

This week's topic is the Darth Bane trilogy, written by Drew Karpyshyn and published 2006-2009.

Has anyone read this one? What are your thoughts?

My only impressions from the Wookieepedia articles are "what happened to that middle cover?" and "hm, Karpyshyn, isn't that the guy who every Revan fan hates?" :D

Welcome to your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game.

This week's theme were the games Fallen Order and Survivor, if you've missed it.

Have fun!

Welcome to your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game.

Have fun!