May The Force And The Horse Be With You

Just a super nerdy girl horsing around in Canada...

[coach-taylor]

“My mom used to say she never knew where Princess Leia ended and Carrie Fisher began. She went from being an unknown actress, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, to Princess Leia. She was imperfect in many ways, but her imperfections and willingness to speak about them are what made her more than perfect. My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind and say things that might have made most people uncomfortable, but not me and not you. That was why she loved you, because you accepted and embraced all of her. She loved you. She loved these movies. And she loved this force called Leia. It’s not about what you were fighting—it’s how you fought it. How you resisted. In our world, Star Wars became a religion and a way of life. I wanted to be here with you because I know you feel the same way. Secondly, she taught me that if life isn’t funny then it’s just true, and that is unacceptable. And finally, she taught me by her own example, that the most evolved person is seemingly a contradiction—they are both the strongest and the most vulnerable person in the room. And that was her. That is Leia.” - Billie Lourd speaking about Carrie Fisher at the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando

[theplaylistfilm]

Since childhood I have been faithful to monsters. Because monsters, I believe, are our patron saints of blissful imperfection.

Guillermo del Toro

[thoughtkick]

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.

Frida Kahlo (via thoughtkick)

[morphinepudding]

All female, multi-species, lapsed padawans Knights of Ren.

[duvarg]

Star Wars Books Timeline 

[lueminous]

Ok we’re all convinced that Kylo won’t last long as supreme leader. Hux would rather way shit than live with kylo upstaging him and is already planning a coup lbh.

That being said, however, I do think Kylo might try to be a “benevolent” leader. It was implied he disagreed with Starkiller and the destruction of the hosnian system. Whenever he lashes out it’s after a perceived betrayal. It’s always personal for him. So now we have this highly emotional dude who I believe deep down had good intentions but ofc being with Snoke and the FO these ideals of his have become perverted over time. Not helping this is the additional bitterness and disgust he feels towards his family.

Ben has the resources of the first order at his disposal. He could try to use them for what he perceives to be a good cause. We won’t be getting a Palpatine 2.0 with him who only relishes in destruction and power. TLJ makes it clear in his offer to rey that he wants to start something new. And I think it’ll be this rather than his tendency to act out whenever he’s emotional that will lead to a lot of dissent within the First order.

[red-applesith]

100% agree.

[lariren-shadow]

I 100% agree and think the coup that Hux would lead is because Supreme Leader Kylo Ren is actually trying to organize the galaxy and make reforms. Kylo is very much let the past die, I have a feeling he would want to stop all planet and city destroying technology because it’s old fashioned. How about we also reform the Stormtrooper program, look what happened with FN-2187.

There’s a potential plot line of what the galaxy actually needs IS Ben Solo/Kylo Ren’s leadership. He has the ideas his mother taught him as well as the knowledge he’s gained (nerd had a calligraphy set you bet he also read history books). I would love a rescued from a coup Ben/Kylo being proped up by the Resistance because they realize his ideas are right. He would be kicking and screaming about working with them but they would be just as annoyed as he is.

Meanwhile Rey is standing there smirking going “I knew you’d turn.”

[a-jedi-in-grey]

How great would this plot line be??

[paisleydrawrs-deactivated201903]

The Last Jedi needed like 150% more Kylo and Rey eye-f*cking and ass-kicking.  

[a-jedi-in-grey]

Hats off to this gorgeous art! 😍

[reylohues]

Rian Johnson on how Kylo went into the throne room knowing he was going to betray Snoke because of his connection with Rey

[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[neddythestylish]

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

[grace-and-ace]

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

[coldalbion]

Reblog for disability commentary.

[oockitty]

That last paragraph is absolutely important.

[a-jedi-in-grey]

The most important thing you’ll today...

[reylo]

Reylo Recommendation List

The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reylo fanfic recommendations. 

*** = Newly added recs.

Pre The Force Awakens

Stories that take place during or before the events in TFA. These are AU’s which have Rey and Kylo/Ben meeting before TFA. Events of TFA may or may not take place within the stories.

Don’t Leave Me by YumKiwiDelicious

In My Ten Years by brittlelimbs

Ja'ak by Trebia 

Like Young Gods by diasterisms (Sword of the Jedi Series)

Ten Years of Rey by Articianne 

Together We’ll Be Legends by Scribomaniac (Broken Bridges Series)

What She’s Worth by g_girl143 

Within Monsters by AnonymousMink 

Post The Force Awakens/Pre The Last Jedi

Stories that take place during or after TFA and were started before The Last Jedi’s release. Some stories may include canon from The Last Jedi.

Balance by NotSoJollywood 

catastrophe by day dreaming dreamer 

collect first, think later by thefudge

Dark Prism by whythokylo (OpalElephant) 

don’t open your eyes yet by day dreaming dreamer 

Equilibrium by RayShippouUchiha 

Forms by Trebia 

He Knows He Needs to Stop by Perry_Downing 

*** Icarus Ascending by Ohtze 

Interstellar Transmissions by LovelyThings, ricca_riot 

i saw you in the wild (you were nervous, you were furious, you were very sure-footed) by diasterisms 

Morning in the Burned House by diasterisms

PREY by KagamiSorciere 

In My Bloodstream by EllieCarina 

It’s Better If We Just Pretend by Ellensama 

landscape with a blur of conquerors by diasterisms

*** Let It In by KagamiSorciere

Seldom All They Seem by ambiguously 

Set in Stone (Counterbalance) by The_Falcon 

Shatterpoint by diasterisms 

Sky Marked Souls by AnonymousMink 

Slow Burn by Des Darling 

The Danse Macabre by Rellie 

The Death of Kylo Ren by nymja - (Crossroads Series)

The Moon, the Sun, and the Star Inbetween. by Silvershine 

The Proof of It All by machinewithoutfeelings

The Stormtrooper’s Handguide On How To Handle An Insufferable Boss by cazzy 

The Wolf by Smutmaker_heartbreaker 

To Kingdom Come by diasterisms (Sword of the Jedi Series)

Thwarted by Perry_Downing

variations on a theme of you by diasterisms 

Post The Last Jedi

Stories that take place during or after the events of The Last Jedi.

*** A Sepulcher of Prayer by Articianne, holocroning 

Ashes, Ashes by Alania 

ashes in our wake by anythingtomakeyoustay 

Footnotes by Camucia

Gravity by NotSoJollywood 

*** my wildest wind (come blow into my room) by meritmut

The Bond That Ties Us by moontear 

Unbidden by Perry_Downing 

*** Whispers in the Penumbra by dustoftheancients, holocroning

*** Whispers In The Night by LadyBee

World In My Eyes by sasstasticmad 

you’ve helped me find my way (through the wild and wonders) by TheJGatsby 

AU - Alternate Universe

Alternate universe stories. Most don’t take place in the Star Wars universe. Example, modern AU, medieval AU, supernatural creatures AU. 

Because You’re There by diasterisms 

i heard your castle sighing by bam_cassiopeia 

Mirrorbright by diasterisms 

Nine Lives by on_my_toes 

Satan Wears A Rolex by AquaWolfGirl

Siren’s Song by DragonWhiskers 

The Down and Outs by AnonymousMink, Rellie 

The Girl and Her Dragon by Thelittlescrimshaw 

The Only Exception by CartoonJessie 

The Seventh Bride by destinyofamerath 

The Vampire of Starbucks by AnonymousMink 

The World In Its Dark Grace by tyrantsandcreampuffs 

Whom Hades Seized by nightsofreylo 

[jadelotusflower]

This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever: The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh. You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down. You don’t even have lungs anymore. … You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you. Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that it hideous. … You remember the dragon that brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s blood. You remember the furnace of Vader’s fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth - And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker. … You killed her. You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself… It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith - Because now your self is all you will ever have. … In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself - And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker. Forever…

 - Revenge of the Sith, Matthew Stover (via imperialarchon)

[reylo]

Reylo Recommendation List

The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reylo fanfic recommendations. 

*** = Newly added recs.

Pre The Force Awakens

Stories that take place during or before the events in TFA. These are AU’s which have Rey and Kylo/Ben meeting before TFA. Events of TFA may or may not take place within the stories.

Don’t Leave Me by YumKiwiDelicious

In My Ten Years by brittlelimbs

Ja'ak by Trebia 

Like Young Gods by diasterisms (Sword of the Jedi Series)

Ten Years of Rey by Articianne 

Together We’ll Be Legends by Scribomaniac (Broken Bridges Series)

What She’s Worth by g_girl143 

Within Monsters by AnonymousMink 

Post The Force Awakens/Pre The Last Jedi

Stories that take place during or after TFA and were started before The Last Jedi’s release. Some stories may include canon from The Last Jedi.

Balance by NotSoJollywood 

catastrophe by day dreaming dreamer 

collect first, think later by thefudge

Dark Prism by whythokylo (OpalElephant) 

don’t open your eyes yet by day dreaming dreamer 

Equilibrium by RayShippouUchiha 

Forms by Trebia 

He Knows He Needs to Stop by Perry_Downing 

*** Icarus Ascending by Ohtze 

Interstellar Transmissions by LovelyThings, ricca_riot 

i saw you in the wild (you were nervous, you were furious, you were very sure-footed) by diasterisms 

Morning in the Burned House by diasterisms

PREY by KagamiSorciere 

In My Bloodstream by EllieCarina 

It’s Better If We Just Pretend by Ellensama 

landscape with a blur of conquerors by diasterisms

*** Let It In by KagamiSorciere

Seldom All They Seem by ambiguously 

Set in Stone (Counterbalance) by The_Falcon 

Shatterpoint by diasterisms 

Sky Marked Souls by AnonymousMink 

Slow Burn by Des Darling 

The Danse Macabre by Rellie 

The Death of Kylo Ren by nymja - (Crossroads Series)

The Moon, the Sun, and the Star Inbetween. by Silvershine 

The Proof of It All by machinewithoutfeelings

The Stormtrooper’s Handguide On How To Handle An Insufferable Boss by cazzy 

The Wolf by Smutmaker_heartbreaker 

To Kingdom Come by diasterisms (Sword of the Jedi Series)

Thwarted by Perry_Downing

variations on a theme of you by diasterisms 

Post The Last Jedi

Stories that take place during or after the events of The Last Jedi.

*** A Sepulcher of Prayer by Articianne, holocroning 

Ashes, Ashes by Alania 

ashes in our wake by anythingtomakeyoustay 

Footnotes by Camucia

Gravity by NotSoJollywood 

*** my wildest wind (come blow into my room) by meritmut

The Bond That Ties Us by moontear 

Unbidden by Perry_Downing 

*** Whispers in the Penumbra by dustoftheancients, holocroning

*** Whispers In The Night by LadyBee

World In My Eyes by sasstasticmad 

you’ve helped me find my way (through the wild and wonders) by TheJGatsby 

AU - Alternate Universe

Alternate universe stories. Most don’t take place in the Star Wars universe. Example, modern AU, medieval AU, supernatural creatures AU. 

Because You’re There by diasterisms 

i heard your castle sighing by bam_cassiopeia 

Mirrorbright by diasterisms 

Nine Lives by on_my_toes 

Satan Wears A Rolex by AquaWolfGirl

Siren’s Song by DragonWhiskers 

The Down and Outs by AnonymousMink, Rellie 

The Girl and Her Dragon by Thelittlescrimshaw 

The Only Exception by CartoonJessie 

The Seventh Bride by destinyofamerath 

The Vampire of Starbucks by AnonymousMink 

The World In Its Dark Grace by tyrantsandcreampuffs 

Whom Hades Seized by nightsofreylo 

[electricitybetween]

Yeah, my boyfriend’s pretty cool But he’s not as cool as me

[a-jedi-in-grey]

Not the best picture, but this here captures a rare moment. These two nuggets usually aren’t too friendly with each other, so it was nice to see them hanging out. #standardbred #standardbredsofinstagram #norwegianfjordhorse #horsefriends

[likemmmcookies]

Holy shit. This beautiful Reylo man came up with this INSANE Snoke theory and I kind of love it.

[a-jedi-in-grey]

Everyone must READ THIS!!!!

[the-savior-and-the-pirate]

SW Movies + Locations

[sw-daydreamer]

Ben understood Luke’s sacrifice

Luke knew he would die, and did it anyway.

How do we know Ben understood this? And why does it matter?

Luke Force projects himself on Crait to face Ben, in a Space Western like showdown, where dirt has become salt and stings the bleeding wounds of Ben’s psyche.

But Luke is not there to save him. No!

He actually says it twice, to Leia first, then to her son. He is there to admit his guilt to the person that was hurt the most by his actions. “I failed you Ben, I am sorry”

He is there to atone.

Facing Ben, means facing the tragic moment he thought he should kill his nephew and finally taking responsibility for ALL the consequences. He is  giving Ben a chance to act on his anger in a cathartic and healing way as @huntedbyacreature  explained, but doing so, he is also punishing, literally sacrificing himself, because he knows, this will kill him.

He is taking away the guilt that Ben could have felt if he had truly killed him, while still allowing him to release his resentment. Watch Kylo/Ben pouring all his hatred into  striking Luke’s image,  where he appears exactly the same as the day he raised his lightsaber to his nephew. Luke is not only taking Ben back to this moment, but  himself too. He is accepting of his fate, by lowering his lightsaber this time.

At the end of the showdown, we see Ben realising: 

                         ‘that man’ is only a ghost image of his uncle.

As he understands this, he whispers ‘No’…

                       Ben knows that Luke is now dying.

During his first Force connection with Rey, when he sees her he says:

“You’re not doing this. The effort alone would kill you”

Ben knows that such Force projection is at the cost of one’s life!

I think this barely audible no, was not said in anger and frustration but in shock at understanding Luke’s sacrifice, which is meant to help Ben heal his wounds and compell him to face the guilt of killing his  father.

A little more on the context:  The entire planet is covered in salt layered over a bleeding like earth. The colour red is striking against the  white mineral. Salt hurts when placed on a wound but is also used  to disinfect and cleanse.

Salt is traditionally seen as a symbol of life, friendship and healing.

The planet is, in a way, a metaphor for guilt and the pain that has to be endured during the healing process.

So I am coming back to my theory that Kylo/Ben experiences an epiphany at the end TLJ.

He has cleansed the gaping wound that created Kylo Ren, therefore the healing process can start.  He is now ready to face his own sins, instead of focusing on his anger and those who wronged him.

          No more excuses. No one else to kill. Just him and his conscience.

                                          He is not saved …YET

                            But Redemption is coming…

[a-jedi-in-grey]

Luke faced Ben in atonement for “the incident”, knowing that the act of projection would be his own end. Ben could finally release the hurt / resentment he’s carried all this time, that’s made him who he is, but without the guilt of actually killing Luke. Ben can now begin to heal and find redemption. *cue episode ix*