i am half agony, half hope

Kate | 35 | Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Chinese. | Mostly Star Wars. Multishipper extraordinaire. Rose Tico is my entire world. I'm mainly here for her. I run @haysianrose. My edits are tagged #cathrynemoon edits (tag link, archive link). My edits for @haysianrose are tagged #haysianrose edits (tag link, archive link). | My Inej-centric Shadow and Bone sideblog is @inejmylove.

[cathrynemoon]

Rey and Rose wed at Varykino. (x)

REYROSE WEEK 2023 | @reyroseweek ↳ Day 4: Jedi/Senator AU

[hexjulia]

[neolithic hottie who's been easing back into the modern dating scene]: so when he said he was a pot caster i thought he was a good artisan with a reliable income. But turns out he just talks to himself all day mostly. People don't even come to listen and he doesn't know shit about ceramics. Sometimes one of his friends is there though.

[One eyed priest-king who's been frozen in the ice for 10 000 years next to a mammoth but is starting to thaw]: girl no wayyyyy. What is slip casting a pot btw. The use of that technique (not to be confused with slipware) purportedly only dates back to the Tang Era (618–917).

[hexjulia]

[cornish tin miner from 3000 years ago]: my deposits may have played a key part in the advances of sophisticated kingdoms and states more than 4,000km (2,485 miles) away. #myDeposits.

[whereareyourightnow]

@swshows Week: Day 5 - quotes

[itsfelixiguess]

[starlitmyre]

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Based on this post (the list is being updated)

I’m unstoppable

[vielens]

[tatooineknights]

MARK HAMILL & CARRIE FISHER (1976)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Hosio Hirotta aka ニコ (Nico) aka Hirotta Hosio (Japanese, based Tama, Tokyo, Japan) - 知りたいんだ。 (I want to know), 2025, Drawings: Pen + Ink

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP is a Mauritanian student based in Beijing, and she joined the first Across Latitudes cultural exchange festival at China University of Geosciences. Cnetizens say she rocked both her traditional Mauritanian attire and Chinese hanfu. (cr 艾米 Amy)

[hayden-christensen]

#HIS SIGNATURE MOVE

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Obi-Wan Kenobi - Part V (2022) Ahsoka - Part Five: Shadow Warrior (2023)

[anferneesuellcosplay]

Juyo/Vaapad 😡⚔️

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

[yiliy]

I just watched a fantastic video about what attachment actually means in Star Wars. It might reframe the way you think about the Jedi, Anakin, and the whole conversation around love in the first six movies.

The Value of the Jedi - Love, Attachments, and Amatonormativity

For me personally, one of the biggest takeaways for me was learning the word amatonormativity (means society treats romantic love and marriage as the ultimate, default goal of a meaningful life.) The video digs into how that assumption shapes the way we interpret the Jedi’s teachings, and how it leads us to project our own cultural biases onto the actual story George Lucas is telling.

It isn’t a short video and it’s packed with thoughtful analysis:

how Jedi philosophy gets misunderstood

why “attachment” isn’t the same thing as “love” and is always one-sided

why romantic monogamy gets treated as more important than friendship, community, or family

how Western cultural norms shape the way we rank relationships

and how all of that affects the way we judge Anakin’s fall

It’s also a goldmine of quotes, citations, and resources if you ever want solid support for your thoughts on the Jedi Order in the first six Star Wars films.

[gffa]

I'm a quarter of the way through this video and--

Someone get me out of this club because I'm crying right now.

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

i hope everyone is ready to celebrate International Down With Cis day on April 4th.

[communistkenobi]

happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!

[perenial]

happy 10 years to the Down With Cis bus!

[hotvampireadjacent]

Happy 11 years of Down With Cis Bus!

[spacelaura]

Wondertwins, oh how I mourn what you could have been 😭

[what-even-is-thiss]

The meme version of Edward Cullen as a man who is obsessed with snails and moss is infinitely more interesting than the version of him in the actual twilight books.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If Edward Cullen was a man who was obsessed with the small intricacies of the forests of Washington state and enjoyed foraging and taking pictures of snails he would actually be the most unique and interesting vampire character in modern literature but instead he’s an overprotective bitch whose main personality trait is that he hates himself.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Bella would also be way more interesting if she was watching this guy swerve the car over to the side of the road to take a picture of some cool moss and chewing on poisonous herbs like gum because his vampirism makes him immune and going “oh I can’t not fuck him”

[darkvoidtrash]

Where can I see that? Or is it just you hallucinating Edward's?

[what-even-is-thiss]