dyadlatte

Just a Reylo girlie 🩵🦋

[marinersubmariner]

fortunate son

[leonielovesofficial]

To me, the Skywalker story has always felt like something bigger.

It began with Anakin, a child whose birth was surrounded by mystery and the Force itself.

Over three generations, the Skywalkers became intertwined with the fate of the galaxy. They shaped wars, inspired hope, fell into darkness, and fought their way back to the light. Their choices changed lives.

Ben Solo was the last Skywalker by blood. His ending has never felt complete to me.

Rey carrying the Skywalker name is meaningful, but her deepest connection was not to Luke or Leia, the generation before her. It was to Ben Solo through the Dyad. With him gone, Rey was left alone once again.

And that is where I felt something was missing. Hope.

The very thing that has always stood at the heart of Star Wars, just as the Skywalkers have. A story that taught us that no matter how far someone has fallen, they can still choose the light.

Darth Vader made that choice in the end.

Ben Solo did too.

But while Vader's story reached its conclusion, Ben's felt as if it were just beginning. And then it stopped.

I'm not saying I need a simple happy ending. I'm saying that a family that has been at the heart of this saga for decades deserves a conclusion worthy of everything that came before.

This is why I believe the Skywalker legacy still has one final chapter left to tell. 🦋

[thisisartbylexie]

Reylo AU Bingo - L1 - Soulmates

I had a hard time with what this might look like, but since the dyad is supposedly even stronger than that, I went ahead and put a quiet post-canon-au moment, involving tattooed red string of fate. I have a million Pinterest saves from my wedding/engagement photography days, and so I was inspired for this quiet moment. 

These two deserve all the quiet moments possible. 

[thisisartbylexie]

@spookystardustreveries requested Reylo for Kissing Prompts #13: Butterfly kisses against the other’s cheeks.

It’s SUPER hard to draw butterfly kisses, but I ended up getting carried away and really wanted to see this one in color. 

[tinywitchdraws]

“You’re not alone.” “Neither are you.”

Finally did some Reylo fanart for the first time in forever on stream tonight! <3

[algomeyla]

This is how it should have been all along

[rhaenyrastormborn]

Friendly reminder that Rey and Ben’s souls are forever intertwined and his last words were “I will always be with you”

[itspileofgoodthings]

tfa gave me the two lost children meeting each other on a green planet, breaking into each other’s minds, discovering each other’s scars, dancing in a whirlwind of color and snow in the middle of a forest, the dark asking the light to stay and the light savagely cutting him down in response! 

tlj gave me the heady, reckless adolescents forced by circumstances to talk to each other!! to discover gentleness and compassion in the midst of their snark and tension-filled gazes! it gave me violence tangled up with love and desire!! hope for belonging and family side-by-side with poor communication, fear, the pain of not really knowing who you are or what you want!! it gave me the dark on his knees, regret on his face, while the light shut the door with sadness and bitterness in her heart!! 

and tros gave me tired adults caught in the trap of their past, slowly being worn down by the rhythm and cycle of their violence, circling each other in the same old patterns, the raging sea tossing them around each other again and again until finally violence carried the light over the edge past the (seeming) point of no return and showed the emptiness of this weary cycle. then suddenly it gave me softness. healing. clarity. peace. communication. the light telling the dark you are enough exactly as you are. it gave me: i did want to take your hand. it gave me: i love you. i know. i save you. i save you right back. death cannot stop true love it can only delay it for a while. 

the sequel trilogy gave me all. these. things. and I will be glad forever.

[fandomlilibeth]

Good boy’s sweater <3

[earstwo]

- s.l. grey / inspiration

[reyloversum]

Like I lived my whole life Before the first light

Hozier - First Light

[itspileofgoodthings]

always thinking about when I was talking to a friend about IX about Ben’s death and she said “there was a whole lifetime in his smile” and I just. think about that forever.

[jalapeno-hummus]

[dyadlatte]

Fandom has been overwhelming for me for a long time now. I deeply miss the early days. In an effort to reclaim fandom space for myself that feels good, I am going to focus on sharing what I love and hope that it attracts others who love the same things I do. No more discourse, no more following accounts that are misaligned. Creating what I miss about fandom, right here.

Why I love Reylo:

Two lonely, feral people who have spent their entire lives being used by everyone else suddenly finding the one person who looks at them and actually sees them. She's all sun and grit and stubborn hope, but underneath there's this aching fear of being nobody and being left behind again. He's all sharp edges and rage and theatrics, but underneath there's this soft, devastated boy who never got chosen in the way he needed.

They are each other's mirror. The one person who understands what it's like to hold this much power and pain at once. It's not a simple story of redemption or corruption, it's this holy, wild, dangerous middle space. He is drawn to her light because it brings out the good he's buried. She is drawn to his darkness because it mirrors the rage and hunger she's never been allowed to admit. Together they're integrated in the grey, the balance. A dyad not of two half people becoming whole, but two people who can stop pretending they are only one thing.

Despite everything, they are always turning toward each other. Reaching for each other across the universe, back to back in the throne room fight, him giving her everything he has left because he has finally chosen love over legacy.

They have always carried each other around in their souls, and running into the parts of themselves that they weren't ready to integrate, in each other.

I feel like Reylo fandom has shifted over the years from a deep, soulful connection that we wrote meta about to "hot enemies to lovers" and neither is better or wrong (believe me, give me all the smut) but I personally want to cultivate a fandom space that includes more of the former again.

Long story short, if this resonates with you, Hi! :)

[thetenderest]

ben in rey's college t-shirt (slutty little crop top, real tight) / rey in ben's college hoodie (massive)

[leonielovesofficial]

Merry Xmas to those who celebrate and may their love be around you.

Art by Pandacapuccino

[reyloversum]

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