Rose Tico Deserved Better

My sideblog for all things Rose Tico: meta, fic recs, pics, gifs. All Rose ships are valid. Send me your Rose-centric fic recs, art, thoughts, gifs, moodboards etc. #RoseTicoDeservedBetter

[saturnw0lf]

it's easy to be really down about the star wars sequels, but t his photo of kelly marie tran crying and hugging a fan cosplaying rose has always been really sweet to me

[originalleftist]

She always seems like just the sweetest person, with so much enthusiasm for Star Wars despite how much of the fan base and ultimately Disney treated her, and frankly neither Star Wars nor its infamously toxic fandom deserved her.

[celebrityroom]

[byjove]

there is this controversy going on on TikTok where a girl made a video about how she is unemployed and disabled due to currently going through cancer treatment and how the loss of SNAP benefits was going to effect her. and the MAGA crowd found her and ripped her to shreds because she was a young “healthy-looking” girl with dyed hair. the most baffling part was all of the people saying things like “My dad had cancer and he worked EVERYDAY until he died! No excuses, you lazy bitch!” which is soooo wild. it is crazy how many members of the conservative ‘blue collar’ crowd love to brag about being fucked over and killed by capitalism. that is not a flex, quite the opposite, if anything that is insanely pathetic and sad. maybe your daddy would still be alive if we had socialized medicine and better sick leave policies but no, he worked himself to fucking death and you want a 20 something young woman to die the same pathetic fate. we need to start telling these people ‘that is so sad, I feel sorry for you’ instead of pretending this is in the scope of good work ethic. because it’s fucked up the things they’re going through and patting themselves on the back for. maybe if they felt less proud of being fucked over by the system, they’d work to change it.

[thenablade]

You need to realize these people can’t be saved because they don’t want to be saved and want everybody else to suffer the way they/their family did. Best to let them suffer.

[byjove]

No? I think that attitude is how the left got its reputation as elitist and against the everyman in the US. If someone is told from birth their only value comes from the labor they can provide, they’ll believe it and they’ll externalize that belief. That person who is working themselves to death has a family, has children who will be excited to repeat their father and grandfather’s cycle of being exploited into an early grave. You have to keep trying. I’m saying this as someone from Appalachia. ‘Best to let them suffer.’ is antithetical to worker’s rights and human rights in general.

[byjove]

These people will be like “I’m about to be the 3rd generation in my family to die an early death after working in a coal mine my entire adult life.” and these heartless ghouls will be like “Well, you deserve it. You’re nothing.” which is exactly what their bosses tell them.

[tobermoriansass]

remember you vague-posting roseh/ux sometimes. i don't get it; tell me the vision. at least what yours is

she bites his finger and then bites his dick off <3

okay no but more seriously: "the otomok system, that brings back memories" is such a chilling little line, when you take it along with her canonverse lore, both in the TLJ film where she says:

The First Order stripped our ore to finance their military, then shelled us to test their weapons.

and from the novel the last jedi: bomber command -

The people of one village, Sebris Gamma, refused to go along with the new orders. The Gammans told the First Order that they’d been an independent mining collective since the Republic days and meant to stay that way. We cheered them on – until the First Order bombers came to Sebris Gamma. They dropped ground-penetrating bombs loaded with incendiaries that burned the Gammans alive. A week after Sebris Gamma, our parents put us on a supply ship to Botajef.

there is something very compelling to me, personally, about her being forced to look at the man who probably had a hand in colonising, then destroying her homeworld and orphaning her and then figure out what next. there is also something very compelling in her realising that the man who is a monster was made a monster by some very specific processes - in canon, hux is the son of brendol hux who pioneered a system of essentially raising up child soldiers and its implied hux was raised the same way. what can she do with such knowledge? why must she be responsible for holding that knowledge? will killing him bring back her family? will beating the living shit out of him change anything? will solving him solve the mystery of why her world was destroyed the way it was? will solving him allow her to undo the past? how can she make sense of such monstrosity, of her world and of the cruel disposability with which her family and her people were treated?

lots of metaphors occur to me here. its both the metaphor of the ways in which power and cruelty intersect and inflict world-destroying harm on a person and one person trying to make sense of it by trying to fuck the thing that destroyed her world into making sense again. its also the metaphor of colonialism and the descendants of colonial violence constantly scouring their colonial overlords and the past to try and make sense of the ways in which they've been warped as people, all because of this violence.

its about trying to gain mastery over this, somehow, and impose some logic and control and ordering over it. its about recognising that there's no way to do so & that the violence never disappears; that something is unforgivable and yet despite the deeply unforgivable wounds, that rose tico might be able to move past that and find some understanding. its about the nasty and ugly feeling that maybe hux understands exactly what was done to rose and her people better than anyone else could possibly imagine, because hux was on the frontlines giving the orders to drop bombs on them. its about imagining that by fucking him, she could tame him and therefore tame the monstrous system that destroyed her world. its about imagining that by fucking him, she could be fucking the first order over. she could be more powerful than the system that destroyed her life. its the vague hope that the past could be undone by salvaging one monster and turning him into something else.

also its just hot to think of her domming him.

idk, the appeal to me sits in the same emotional place that is drawn over and over to various shades of incest and noncon fic, you know? enemies to lovers of this scale and scope lies on the relatively "politically acceptable" end of that scale of affective pleasure for me. but its all ultimately trying to make sense of the same thing, unveil the same thing, undo and re-bottle the same thing. they're both bound together by an act of great evil and now they have to work out how to balance the scales of cosmic justice when that rebalancing is impossible. as my friend @caracalliope put it: in fic you can take a sliver of that injustice and try to reverse it or intensify it, and that's what eroticism is - it's reversal or exaggeration. but also the eroticism comes from the friction of whatever is happening between them in bed, and the big ugly thing that can never be changed.

which is also part of the appeal from hux's pov - how does he walk back from having committed such world-destroying evil, consciously, over and over again? can he walk back? can he be a better man? why be a better man for this girl specifically? what would it take for that to be genuine? i mean, what does actual and genuine redemption and deradicalisation look like? what would it take to push him to do that work? how can i push the canon to the point where hux looks at this girl whose life he's destroyed and experiences guilt for the first time? what comes next? there is a wish-fulfillment fantasy buried in there; a political one. there is something appealing in imagining utopia, in which some of the thorny violence of colonialism can begin to be deconstructed or defeated in a meaningful way, instead of lingering and festering in the side. or at least, a moment of control over it. its a great way to ask political questions and answer them without having to wade through theory and practice, but entirely surrendering to a childish id.

tl;dr: striking them together like little flints makes my favourite fictional sparks & it makes for hot and fun porn writing!

[drag-tween]

'Star Wars' Actress Kelly Marie Tran Opens Up About Why She Came Out Publicly: 'It's Bigger Than Me'

'Star Wars' actress Kelly Marie Tran, who appears next in 'The Wedding Banquet,' spoke to 'Them' about coming out as queer, and how it's 'bigger than' her

[tardis-technician]

I know we do Doctor Who here but she’s too iconic not to mention

[manny-jacinto]

why did no one tell me that kelly marie tran was playing a cowboy named rose in sweet tooth season 3????

[grymorfinon]

Knives Out 3 should just be the cast of The Last Jedi but all with different accents than their normal ones and all playing wealthy douchebags. Except for Kelly Marie Tran who plays the protagonist character.

[girl-among-mts]

Will never be over the fact that Kelly also ships GingerRose. How lucky is this fandom ☺️

[ultimateanna]

Star Wars - Rose Tico

[frenchublog]

GingerRose part1 for @lilithsaur

[swladies]

ROSE TICO in THE LAST JEDI

[meetingyourmaker]

Rey and Rose Talking about Stuff

Just chilling and hanging around.

[keiraincognita]

I have three words to describe what – or more to the point who – I want to see in the next Benoit Blanc mystery movie:

Kelly

Marie

Tran

Make it happen, Rian Johnson.

[geek-ramblings]

[headspace-hotel]

If you learn and put into practice a SINGLE thing from my blog, it should be this: the most important work YOU can do to prevent mass extinction is not "Buy Different Product" or "Buy Product Differently."

Instead, it involves going outside and looking at the land immediately surrounding you physically and understanding that you have been appointed its protector, and then learning working contacting messaging organizing planting teaching informing organizing organizing organizing to take care of it.

There are old ladies with no email address in your community that are handing out more native plants than you knew existed, there are nature preserves and wildlife parks literally like on their knees begging for volunteers, you have neighbors and friends and acquaintances and family that you can teach and inform, there is at this very moment someone else in your community that would LOVE to start a community garden.

Learn to grow native plants and you can literally just hand them out to strangers for free and everyone loves it

I started volunteering at a nature center and now I have more contacts than I know what to do with. literally just look up anyone working in ecology or conservation in your area and email the crap outta them.

you can organize with members of your community to protect a vacant lot or a random pond or to put in foot paths or get rid of invasive species in a park or anything

[ladyshinga]

[dracophile]

Madames and Monsieurs. Poirot has seen much evil in the world, but the evil of this man is in a category all it’s own. His crimes are those of which Poirot cannot speak of in polite company, and they stretch the limit of discretion and manners. And he flees his persecution but cannot resist to remind the world of his existence. To brag about the money his filth has brought him. To try and, how you say, “flex” on a girl who’s concern is for the future of this planet by touting his many fast cars. But she is not so easily cowed and came back strong against his crude message with one of her own. Poirot may not condone the language, but he cannot deny it may have been called for. And there, there he let his hubris lead him to make his mistake. In his video, there, there is his pandora’s box. It does not look like much, it is after all a pizza box and such food is popular among the masses today. But this box…this box proved where he was hiding away. What hole this rat crawled into!

[terriwriting]

I claim no deductive prowess on my part, Watson. Our quarry is a braggart and a fool and he has proclaimed his location for all the world to see. But the prey is still afoot, dear doctor, and we must be swift. Bring your pistol.