Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@MsUppity - soon. Soon....

Thoughts Before Bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_gwnFSFzv0

I THINK THIS IS IT, Y'ALL! The tops look perfectly brown, the sides are perfectly crumbly, and even the bottoms look perfectly toasted. We might have finally got the yeast rolls down!

I'm not even upset that I burned my fingers by grabbing the 190 degree glass sides of the pan with my bare fingers!

Oh. Oh my. They rose! THEY ROSE! We might have a winning set of yeast rolls, folks!

@filby @ami_angelwings - I do know that in earlier drafts, the character much more serious and spoke normally. There was still some slapstick, but it was toned down.

@ami_angelwings - I have a response to a fan theory with my own Fan Theory.

I'm a big believer trhat Jar Jar Binks had a far bigger role to play in the prequel trilogies, but that was scaled back after the backlash about his character. BUT..he wasn't a secret Sith Lord.

I believe Jar Jar had the role Senator Organa had through Episode 2 and 3.

I'm a big believer that Jar Jar was going to be a goofy character in Episode 1 (which he was...faaar too goofy), and in Episode 2 going to be the senator that gives Emergency Powers to Palpatine. He still does, in Episode 2, but I believe his part was cut far far far back. Imagine Jar Jar being the one who sees the Clones being sent off to war and banging his fist on the ship instead.

If you swap Episode 3's Organa with Jar Jar, you have a redemption arc for him. He's trying to help the Jedi during the massacre (and the cut "start of the rebellion" scenes in ROTS), and it makes a nice redemption. Organa would take Leia at the end, of course, not Jar Jar.

I think the backlash against Jar Jar was so harsh and so loud that Lucas cut his role down to the bare minimum in 2, and then just left him to two miniscule cameos in 3.

@Polychrome @socketwench - My Dirty Pair OVA crashed while compiling it. :(

My last three months:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14v0tMQuWeo&t=16s

A little something for Star Trek day.

During the heyday of Star Trek Fan Productions, I considered doing a webcomic called "Star Trek: Redskirts."

The idea was that there were an elite team of women Starfleet Marines (based from the team sent down in the TAS episode, The Lorelei Signal), who had absolutely nothing to do because Starfleet missions tend to be peaceful. Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

It would also explain Chekov's absence in TAS as he joined to the group to get a start on his security career which is where we see him in ST:TMP. No gender change for Chekov (at least not past the first episode), but he was in the red minidress because the Redskirts were proud of...well...their red skirts.

I'd started work on the first episode, and since it was going to be a love letter to TAS, I'd started work on making some high resolution plates of Filmation backgrounds to use in the comic. Then Paramount came down on Fan Productions and given that I remember how Paramount came down on Star Trekker in the 90s I kind of abandonned it.

It wasn't all for naught, though. I recycled some ideas in the Lower Decks spec script I wrote a year or two back. Which was at least something nice to do on a weekend.

A little secret about Madison (the blonde on the left). She was originally going to be written as trans. Not in the closet, but not really outting herself. Why? Doesn't really matter in the future. The only clues that she would be trans is a certain amusement at Chekov being self-conscious of the uniform on the team.

It's funny how I often say my favorite Street Fighter II is Super Turbo. But I almost never play the arcade version. Why? I love the mechanics, but the difficulty level borders on MK2 levels of cheating.

The Japanese version, however, plays more like the other SF2 versions, while maintaining the mechanics of Super Turbo. And the Japanese difficulty is what most of the home versions are based off of. So instead of the arcade version, I'll play the Playstation, or 3DO or PC versions (the PC is the most nostalgic, but the 3DO music is the best).

This post brought to you by Jenn attempting to play Super Turbo on MAME and getting her ass handed to her by Ken. Again. And again again.

(I swear I was good at the arcade version back in the day, I swear it....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t48Myt5t4O0