Just glorious:
And because I can't resist a good Poe pun.... okay, okay, and also because I am trash:
The LGBT Hero We've Been Waiting For?
Friday, May 20, 2016
Fan Art Friday
I've been noticing some really nice Poe fan art recently. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Saturday, May 14, 2016
"Poe has a lot of love to give."
Submitted for your consideration: a short interview of Oscar Isaac from Collider at a premiere of X-Men: Apocalypse, and his answer at 1:00 about the rumors of Poe's romantic entanglements in Star Wars. It's either some very charm-soaked poemosexual affirmation or some really evil baiting.
But even if it's baiting, it's easy to forgive if you pretend, when he looks directly into the camera, that he's winking and flirting with me. I mean, with you. As in, with a hypothetical audience member.
But even if it's baiting, it's easy to forgive if you pretend, when he looks directly into the camera, that he's winking and flirting with me. I mean, with you. As in, with a hypothetical audience member.
Nevermind, he's definitely flirting with me.
Setting a Course for the Malin System
As a life long Star Wars fan, I've always gotten a special thrill the handful of times I've been to Star Wars filming locations. Like when I went for my first hike in the Marin redwood forest after moving to the Bay Area, all I could do was picture Rebel commandos sneaking through the underbrush (and yes, perhaps regrettably, Ewoks). I also completely geeked out on a ferry trip across Lake Como where we could see the Villa del Balbianello, which served as the filming location for Padme's home in the Naboo Lake Country.
It turns out that I've made another filming location pilgrimage, but only in retrospect...
As reported by the BBC, Star Wars fans in Ireland are currently freaking out as filming begins on the very northernmost tip of the island, near the village of Malin Head. And we were in the Malin area last July: I was in the exact place where Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, and Adam Driver are filming right now! Obviously, we had no inside knowledge when we toured the area that the coastline along Banba's Crown would be an active Star Wars filming location just 10 months hence. I guess the Force was with us!
The explanation of why my husband and I were in that remote region of Ireland is kind of a long, convoluted backstory that involves a friend's really epic globetrotting 40th birthday party and legendary Irish hospitality.
We seized the opportunity to visit Ireland when we received the invitation, especially when it involved visiting a part of the country that we likely would have no occasion to ever visit in the future. So we took advantage of our time there, visiting the handful of tourist destinations, like the Doagh Famine Village (yes, it's as sad and campy/weird as it sounds), hiking around Banba's Crown, and a pint and a meal at The Seaview Tavern.
Little did we know that in May 2016, Malin would become an epicenter for Episode VIII hype as what appeared to be a Millennium Falcon set appeared on the coastline about a mile from Banba's Crown.
I am so thankful that we were invited to that birthday party, that we were able to attend, and that I'm just now getting that special thrill of treading the same earth as denizens of a galaxy far, far away.
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| OMG Padme's summer home. Also, please note that Lake Como is drop-dead gorgeous. |
It turns out that I've made another filming location pilgrimage, but only in retrospect...
As reported by the BBC, Star Wars fans in Ireland are currently freaking out as filming begins on the very northernmost tip of the island, near the village of Malin Head. And we were in the Malin area last July: I was in the exact place where Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, and Adam Driver are filming right now! Obviously, we had no inside knowledge when we toured the area that the coastline along Banba's Crown would be an active Star Wars filming location just 10 months hence. I guess the Force was with us!
The explanation of why my husband and I were in that remote region of Ireland is kind of a long, convoluted backstory that involves a friend's really epic globetrotting 40th birthday party and legendary Irish hospitality.
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| Friend's birthday party, private home on the tidal inlet just south of Malin. |
We seized the opportunity to visit Ireland when we received the invitation, especially when it involved visiting a part of the country that we likely would have no occasion to ever visit in the future. So we took advantage of our time there, visiting the handful of tourist destinations, like the Doagh Famine Village (yes, it's as sad and campy/weird as it sounds), hiking around Banba's Crown, and a pint and a meal at The Seaview Tavern.
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| The beautiful coastline off of Banba's Crown. |
Little did we know that in May 2016, Malin would become an epicenter for Episode VIII hype as what appeared to be a Millennium Falcon set appeared on the coastline about a mile from Banba's Crown.
I am so thankful that we were invited to that birthday party, that we were able to attend, and that I'm just now getting that special thrill of treading the same earth as denizens of a galaxy far, far away.
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| "Eire." Rock graffiti near Banba's Crown. |
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