Kelly Marie Tran & Rose Tico

A blog for all things Kelly Marie Tran and Rose Tico, with a large side of Veronica Ngô Thanh Vân, Paige Tico, Jessica Henwick, Jessika Pava, Ming-Na Wen, Fennec Shand and Asians in Star Wars. Run by @cathrynemoon. My edits are tagged #haysianrose edits (tag link, archive link). If you like Rey/Rose, check out @reyroseweek!

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Kelly Marie Tran wearing a gold áo dài by Thai Nguyen Atelier for the annual Gold Gala in Los Angeles on May 10, 2025.

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The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, 2025)

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Five, Bracket 7

Iris West-Allen (The Flash) vs. Rose Tico (Star Wars)

Iris West-Allen

Rose Tico

Voting ended on10h

Propaganda below the cut:

Iris West-Allen:

Fandom calls her a bitch and annoying for daring to challenge Barry and to be his love interest while being a black woman.

She is sweet but doesn't take shit from her father or love interest and she is a great journalist and a terrible cook (iconic).

Honestly I am overwhelmed thinking about it. To start, the CW didn't even try to protect Candice Patton from online harassment and threats, to the point that she almost left after season 2 it had gotten so bad. Literally every single time Iris challenged any other character on anything fandom called her manipulative, or a bitch, or controlling, or accused her of gaslighting. When she had to make hard decisions, she was called cold/emotionless by some and somehow too angry/mean at the same time (hmm, I wonder why that is). She was accused of "weaponizing" her personal relationships to get what she wanted regardless of the actual circumstances. And to top it all off, the creators and many of the writers were white men who clearly did not get that Iris wouldn't just be getting pushback for being a woman. Way too many times the fact that she was a Black woman navigating her circumstances was completely ignored (e.g. another characters comments towards her came off as racist, not only sexist, and that should have been acknowledged). I gave up on the show entirely after a point, so I am not sure if the writing got better wrt Iris but maybe someone else knows.

IF IRIS WEST ALLEN DOESNT WIN THIS WHOLE GOD DAMN TOURNAMENT. To this DAY there is a LARGE section of the fandom that violently wants her dead. they claim she single handedly ruined the show and ignore the terrible writing around… Quite literally all of it. If the show is so much as MENTIONED. ANYWHERE. you’ll get a swarm of people going “wE aRe tHE fLaSH” even if IRIS ISNT MENTIONED AT ALL. Her character got hate the SECOND Candice Patton was casted; with people claiming Barry (the white mc) “looked better” with Caitlin (a white woman); and I’m mentioning this because I don’t think you can divorce the misogyny leveled at Iris from the racism she’s subjected to. It’s misogynoir. But that said— the fucking fandom’s always just CLAMBERING for reasons to hate her. She’s annoying, she’s a bitch, she shouldn’t have rejected Barry, ‘actually it’s good that the men in her life didn’t tell her important information that (lethally btw) affects her life because she’s RECKLESS and would just throw herself into danger if she knew everything!’ <- same people often claim not to be misogynistic btw. Also their evidence is always a single time in season 2 that she got in a dangeorus situation (while working as an investigative journalist) and called Barry to get her out of it. SHE WAS DOING HER JOB! THE ABILITY TO CONTACT BARRY PROTECTED HER; AND GAVE HER THE TOOLS TO PROTECT HERSELF‚ REALLY. those mfs just want her dead or sidelined. Cause ohhhhhh that’s when they start to hate her even more. In season 4, not only does she not die (in S3) like they wanted her to; she’s given AGENCY and the ability to cement her place in Team Flash. She doesn’t get forced into the role of a love interest. She’s an active character and she helps with superhero and non-superhero stuff. And you know what, by all definitions she is a full-on hero. Because her ideas saved the day MULTIPLE times that season alone (Enter Flashtime‚ anyone? did you mfs want Central City blown up by a nuke?). In fact; Iris saved the entire world in the end of season 4 with her belief in Marlize Devoe. And then later on? Saves the ENTIRE MULTIVERSE by almost single-handedly convincing Ryan Choi to help them in Crisis On Infinite Earths. ALSO almost everything people hate on her for… is just blatantly incorrect. iykyk; there’s MANY examples. so Iris is a case where I will wholeheartedly say: FREE MY GIRL SHE DID NOTHING WRONG! I could go on! And I’m sure others will. The Iris West Allen fanclub doubles as a defense club. Because Iris West-Allen is kind‚ intelligent‚ passionate and compassionate‚ beautiful‚ brave (remember when she jumped off a fucking building to save her husband?), sometimes a little too selfless… She doesn’t take shit but she is INCREDIBLY forgiving at the same time. She built a media empire from the ground up and won a fucking pulitzer. She has an amazing fashion sense and on a CW SHOW! She has an unwavering belief in people and humanity (THAT HAS SAVED THE WORLD/UNIVERSE AT LEAST THRICE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED). She has been through SO. FUCKING. MUCH it’s actually unfair— but! In the end she got the happy ending she deserved with her husband and friends; and will continue to kick ass with her literal media empire. Her treatment in the show was more than questionable at times, and her treatement by the fandom FAR moreso; but she got her fucking happy ending at least. and I’m happy for her for that. Vote Iris West-Allen! Because she deserved and DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER FROM THIS FANDOM.

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.

[haysianrose]

God is not the only one who gets to be limitless here After all is not a rose before it blooms still raw potential?

— Work in Progress, by Kelly Marie Tran

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Four, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rose Tico

Dawn Summers

Voting ended onAug 6

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.

Dawn Summers:

Fandom punishes her for the crime of being a 14 year old girl

often thought of as annoying and a bad addition to the show for just being a teen girl going through it

love you dawnie <33 i did hate you on my first watch as a teen girl i was too close to the subject but now i love you

People hate her because she is “annoying” read: Teenage Girl

Hilarious and smart. She handles learning she is a Key to open a magic portal remarkably well and loves so deeply. <3

It makes me deeply uncomfortable seeing a bunch of middle aged people mostly men go on and on about how annoying this teenage girl was. Saying they would kick her out of their house because she had feelings about losing every one of her caregivers and being emotionally neglected. Like I really hope these people don’t have children. It’s honestly amazing that girl wasn’t more screwed up and acting out more. Like it’s been over 20 years and people will not get over her yelling get out. It also just comes off as so weird because I guarantee these people were far more annoying than her as a teen. It’s my leading theory to why people hate her so much.

Dawn Summers is a character where I kept waiting and waiting for it to become clear why people hated her so much, and it literally never came. There is one (1) episode in which I find her unlikable and it's a season 6 episode where she's really fucking going through it, like everyone else that season. A guy I know has called her his least favourite character in fiction and I'm standing here like SHE DID LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG!!! SHE WAS A TEENAGER WITH NO POWERS HAVING TO DEAL WITH MONSTERS EVERY WEEK!!!!!!! Like I would react poorly too if I learned I was retconned into existence as a key and all my memories are fake and then my sister sacrificed herself so I could live a normal life and also there are vampires everywhere. Dawn Summers all the way baby.

Dawn Summers is the literal definition of a teenage girl who was/is hated because she’s a teenage girl. She isn’t even like a lot of other characters on here where she’s genuinely really flawed but it can be hard to have a nuanced discussion about her because of fandom misogyny she’s just a teenage girl. Too the people who think she’s annoying I have news you were just as “annoying” at 14 and you probably would have been more annoying going through everything she went through.

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Bad Decisions - Fanfiction and Other Resources

Fanfiction:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79401266/chapters/208366831

Main Fanfiction Poster (made on Canvas by me):

Bad Decisions Pinterest Board:

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Bad Decisions Tentative Fanfiction Soundtrack Playlist:

Jackie x Rose Playlist:

Rose Tico's Music Playlist:

Jackie Lawson's Music Playlist:

Jackie x Rose Collage (made by me on Shuffles):

Bad Decisions Mock DVD Cover (made by me on Canvas):

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Four, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rose Tico

Dawn Summers

Voting ended onAug 6

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.

Dawn Summers:

Fandom punishes her for the crime of being a 14 year old girl

often thought of as annoying and a bad addition to the show for just being a teen girl going through it

love you dawnie <33 i did hate you on my first watch as a teen girl i was too close to the subject but now i love you

People hate her because she is “annoying” read: Teenage Girl

Hilarious and smart. She handles learning she is a Key to open a magic portal remarkably well and loves so deeply. <3

It makes me deeply uncomfortable seeing a bunch of middle aged people mostly men go on and on about how annoying this teenage girl was. Saying they would kick her out of their house because she had feelings about losing every one of her caregivers and being emotionally neglected. Like I really hope these people don’t have children. It’s honestly amazing that girl wasn’t more screwed up and acting out more. Like it’s been over 20 years and people will not get over her yelling get out. It also just comes off as so weird because I guarantee these people were far more annoying than her as a teen. It’s my leading theory to why people hate her so much.

Dawn Summers is a character where I kept waiting and waiting for it to become clear why people hated her so much, and it literally never came. There is one (1) episode in which I find her unlikable and it's a season 6 episode where she's really fucking going through it, like everyone else that season. A guy I know has called her his least favourite character in fiction and I'm standing here like SHE DID LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG!!! SHE WAS A TEENAGER WITH NO POWERS HAVING TO DEAL WITH MONSTERS EVERY WEEK!!!!!!! Like I would react poorly too if I learned I was retconned into existence as a key and all my memories are fake and then my sister sacrificed herself so I could live a normal life and also there are vampires everywhere. Dawn Summers all the way baby.

Dawn Summers is the literal definition of a teenage girl who was/is hated because she’s a teenage girl. She isn’t even like a lot of other characters on here where she’s genuinely really flawed but it can be hard to have a nuanced discussion about her because of fandom misogyny she’s just a teenage girl. Too the people who think she’s annoying I have news you were just as “annoying” at 14 and you probably would have been more annoying going through everything she went through.

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Wild Talent

@whumperless-whump-event Day 23: All Hands On Deck: Multiple caretakers / Travelling while injured / "Hold on a little longer." Star Wars, Rey Skywalker, Finn, Rose Tico, Poe Dameron.

~

Rey sat by Finn’s bed, calmly centring herself on the here and now by juggling some smooth rocks she always carried in a tiny pouch.

The rocks stood for those who mattered to her - three sea-washed pebbles from Ahch-To and two from D’Qar.

But in her other hand she held on tightly to the sand-pitted stone from Jakku, occasionally turning it over as she waited.

She cast a side-glance at the other person waiting. Poe Dameron hadn’t left Finn’s side either, but he sat between their mutual friend and the current reason for Finn’s state of unconsciousness.

Rose Tico was very battered. She’d already had one Bacta-tank treatment and would probably need more in the not too distant future, but for now she lay on the other bed in the tiny medbay.

‘Tell me again. What happened?’

Poe stifled a sigh. He could and did completely understand Rey’s question - he was asking it too. He shifted slightly to see her better and flushed a little at her knowing smile.

‘We were scouting the ruins, the three of us plus about half a dozen others. One of the long-range probes detected movement and the General sent us to check it out.’

Dameron stared at something unseen, and Rey knew he was remembering.

‘There wasn’t supposed to be life on the planet but something…something towered over us and before we could do anything it had collapsed the wall before it, right over Rose, Zuri and Nanuq.

‘They didn’t stand a chance. And the Finn screamed Rose’s name and ran to the pile.

‘I didn’t know what was happening at the time, I thought it was an earthquake or something, but the the rubble just exploded everywhere.

Most of it went back, away from Finn and myself, and landed on the creature, killing it outright. But some came our way. Bandu and I caught the worst.’

Poe gingerly raised his elbow to illustrate his broken collarbone. It had been healed but would be fragile for a couple of days. Rey nodded, impatient to here the rest of the tale despite this being the third recounting Dameron had given her.

‘Finn just collapsed on the ground right there. We checked the three over but Zuri and Nanuq were gone and Rose was barely hanging on. So we fashioned two makeshift cots and it was all hands on deck between carrying the pair and those of us injured in the blast.

‘That’s it, really. We had to journey a bigger distance than we would have liked but eventually we made it back to base camp, got to Medical and were treated. Despite not getting injured no one can wake Finn, though.’

Rey nodded. She mentally stacked the rocks on the small table beside her and concentrated on Finn.

He didn’t look like the frightened stormtrooper she had met on that fateful day. Rather he looked far older, wiser maybe. Certainly more determined than before…

Snippets of their time together whirled around her brain - hiding on the Millennial Falcon, watching Ren kill Hans Solo and more - but it was the destruction of Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana that settled in the forefront of her mind.

He’d used Luke’s lightsaber like he’d been training all his life. Yet as far as she was aware this had been the first time he’d ever seen one let alone wielded one. Other non-Jedi could use them but it still took a lot of training.

Other things she’d seen and heard while with Finn suddenly slotted into place and Rey sat forward suddenly, startling Poe who went white and leapt to his feet.

‘What’s wrong?!’ ‘Sorry! Sorry…nothing’s wrong as such.’

Dameron sat back down heavily. He wasn’t sure he could take many more surprises today.

‘What was Finn doing?’ ‘Sorry?’ ‘When the rocks exploded. What was he doing?’ ‘You mean apart from screaming for Rose?’ ‘Yes. Specifically his arms.’ ‘Um…he was moving debris so…digging. I’m not sure where you’re going with this.’ ‘I know what’s wrong with him!’

And Rey jumped up and headed to the droid station. She quietly conversed with the droids for a short while before returning to her seat with a lighter heart and a genuine smile on her face.

They both watched as the droids began to change the nutrient and fluid feeds and lowered the temperature slightly around Finn before they checked on Rose and then returned to their base.

‘So…are you going to tell me?’

Rey’s smile turned into a grin that lit up her face and deepened her dimples. Poe couldn’t help but grin back.

But before she could answer Finn gave a groan.

All attention focused on Finn as he fought his way back to consciousness. They waited excitedly and eventually Finn’s eyes fluttered several times before opening with another groan.

‘Finn! Glad to see you back buddy!’ ‘Poe? Wha…what happened?’ ‘What do you remember?’ ‘Rey? When did you…ROSE!’

With that Finn attempted to bolt upright only to be hit by dizziness and nausea. Both Poe and Rey rushed to stop him and ease him back down gently, but as they pulled back Finn grabbed Dameron’s arm and held him tight.

‘Tell me! Please!’ ‘Rose is right here!’

He shifted out the way to let Finn see and was rewarded with the man sagging back, completely exhausted already.

‘We’re on our way to rendezvous with the General’s ship so Rose can get better attention.’ ‘Is she going to be ok?’

Poe looked to Rey, and Finn immediately tensed.

‘Hold on a little longer, Rose. Help is coming.’

Finn’s plea was softly spoken but they all heard it and for a few minutes there was silence until Finn spoke again.

‘Why am I so tired? I didn’t get injured…did I?’ ‘No, you weren’t injured.’ ‘Finn…what was going through your mind when the wall collapsed?’ ‘I just needed to get Rose out. That’s all I remember.’

Rey nodded. She smiled at him before dropping her bombshell.

‘You used the Force to clear the debris.’ ‘Wait…no, that can’t be right. If not a Jedi!’ ‘Jedi are just people trained to use the Force in certain ways. You have a wild talent that I suspect has been latent in you and you called on it in your time of need. It’s not unheard of.’ ‘Oh.’

Finn blinked as he took in Rey’s words. Then he turned to her, a serious look on his face.

‘I guess you better train me then.’ ‘I guess I should.’

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Three, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Piper McLean (The Heroes of Olympus / Riordanverse)

Rose Tico

Piper McLean

Voting ended onJul 29

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.

Piper McLean:

fandom HATES her for being mildly sometimes annoying. they act like shes killed puppies when her greatest crime is being a girl and a bit annoying. fandom literally adores a man who's actually hurt innocent children but dog piles her for being a 'pick me' just because she is unhappy with the gender roles assigned to her EVEN THOUGH SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE PICKEDD!!!!!!

Shes my favourite girl ever she's iconic, she steals cars, she's lovely, and she's one of the very few indigenous reps in popular kids books. when my 7th grade class was reading the percy jackson books everyone hated piper but little 12 year old me LOVED her and i'm in super hell forever because fandom hates her too.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Three, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Piper McLean (The Heroes of Olympus / Riordanverse)

Rose Tico

Piper McLean

Voting ended onJul 29

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.

Piper McLean:

fandom HATES her for being mildly sometimes annoying. they act like shes killed puppies when her greatest crime is being a girl and a bit annoying. fandom literally adores a man who's actually hurt innocent children but dog piles her for being a 'pick me' just because she is unhappy with the gender roles assigned to her EVEN THOUGH SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE PICKEDD!!!!!!

Shes my favourite girl ever she's iconic, she steals cars, she's lovely, and she's one of the very few indigenous reps in popular kids books. when my 7th grade class was reading the percy jackson books everyone hated piper but little 12 year old me LOVED her and i'm in super hell forever because fandom hates her too.

[enkisstories]

A spy trapped

I remembered my Hux/Rose pretend marriage fic and added a new chapter. The scam is off, the "couple" could go separate ways again, but then the arrival of an enemy forces them to work together for a while longer.

Have an outtake:

Now the holograms of the other parties sprang into being. On Ajan Kloss, Rey was sitting in a tent, surrounded by blurred out Resistance members, one of them listening in, the others going about their business. That shadowy figure was most likely Ben, but he wasn’t fully identifiable via the duo’s resuscitated and now barely clinging to life holocam. On the Finalizer, Finn, Poe and Mitaka were seated around an end table in the Captain’s private quarters, datapads and tea cups between them. On Kef Bir, Armitage and Rose were hunkering under the same blanket in the kyber-lab’s antechamber, sharing warmth and emotional closeness.

“You…” Mitaka turned to look Finn into the eyes. “You told me they were a couple. Then you told me they are not. Now I see they are. But tell you what: the baffled look in your face comforts me a little.”

“Rrrrrrright?”

Hux didn’t pay that assessment of his love life or lack thereof much heed. With the holos surrounding him, he could only think about how bad the situation was for the First Order: He was sharing a room with Rose and every breath of Mitaka’s was witnessed and interpreted by both Resistance Generals. Only the Resistance, safe in their headquarter, had no element of the other faction in their midst, what gave them a huge advantage. Only they could plot in peace.

[...]

“Anything else that came from your expedition?”

“In fact, yes! I suggest to use the Death Star instead of the marriage as our alliance’s unifying element. It would be less of a person-cult and more of a symbol: for the First Order of what came before, what we have to elevate ourselves over. And for the Resistance of something their predecessors have destroyed. We should establish a base here, rotate personnel in and out. The usual proceedings.”

Hux felt Rose shuffle by his side. Was that a reaction to what he had said or would she have shifted position anyway? And if it was a reaction, than in what way? For some reason the man didn’t dare turning his head and just checking his companion’s mimic.

[...]

“Well, I must say that the original plan would have worked”, Hux addressed Rose after everyone had logged off again. “But there’s no more need to pretend to be in love.”

Rose nodded eagerly. “We’re free now.”

“…yes.”

“Do you understand what that means?”

Freedom? No direction. Chaos. Separation.

“That you can leave”, Hux said. He hadn’t expected Rose to smile at that. Maybe he had only imagined a bond growing between them. When he was brutally honest with himself, then he had to admit that his own socialization wasn’t much better than Ben’s and that one had gotten raised by a crazy monk in isolation from his tenth year on, only to get taken under the wing of an incomplete clone of the Emperor’s. So what did he know!

Rose pulled free from the blanket, but the moment she was no longer constrained by it, she reached out and wrapped it around her companion, saying: “Free people can make choices.”

“How do you make sure they make the right ones, if not by limiting their options?”

Rose’s smile turned wistful. “That is the question, right? There has to be some sort of framework, not to constrict, but to support and protect. Armitage Hux! I WANT to discuss this with you and I wish to get to know you as a person. It would be so much more than we believed you to still be capable of.”

Hux’ yawning was timed inconveniently, it made him look as if dismissing Rose’ words, but he managed to smooth the lapse over by producing a smile of his own and besides, Rose would have noticed that he was sleepy, not bored.

“Tomorrow”, he said.

“Yes, tomorrow!”

That night Hux went to sleep in the room next to the artificial crystals, that were not tainted, but not as stable as one wanted, and an enemy, but felt safe like he hadn’t in longer than he could recall.

[xvivinx]

"I wish I could put my fist through this whole lousy, beautiful town."

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Kira Yukimura (Teen Wolf)

Rose Tico

Kira Yukimura

Voting ended onJul 18

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

Kira Yukimura:

Some fans hated her for replacing Allison (white) as Scott's love interest when she is Asian. Other fans reduce her to a cheerleader for their m/m fics.

Kira is so sweet and starts out feeling awkward and out of place but grows in confidence as the show goes on. But she also struggles with her inner kitsune and its violence. She left the show too soon!

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Kira Yukimura (Teen Wolf)

Rose Tico

Kira Yukimura

Voting ended onJul 18

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

Kira Yukimura:

Some fans hated her for replacing Allison (white) as Scott's love interest when she is Asian. Other fans reduce her to a cheerleader for their m/m fics.

Kira is so sweet and starts out feeling awkward and out of place but grows in confidence as the show goes on. But she also struggles with her inner kitsune and its violence. She left the show too soon!

[enkisstories]

My four paras were in a group when I told them all to nap, assuming each would find their own bed (or any bed, there were four on the lot).

Rose and Armi opted to do this instead.

[foxy8810sworld]

Raven's Peak, Chapter 5 of Forced Impressions is up now on AO3, check it out here...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84604736/chapters/233008556

Evie is overwhelmed by emotions after rememebering that her real name is actually Rose. Her turmoil is made worse by the news that one of her fellow stormtroopers has gone missing and she suspects one of the Hux brothers may be responsible. She will have to have her wits about her if she is to survive long in the cut throat world of the First Order.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Jean Gunnhildr (Genshin Impact)

Rose Tico

Jean Gunnhildr

Voting ended onJul 3

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

Jean Gunnhildr:

The fandom misogyny in Jean's case is not merely the nagging-mother-ification of a young woman in her early twenties just trying to hold things together, but a simultaneous hostility towards any meaningful discussion of the misogynistic writing that surrounds her. The fandom's victim blaming of a character whose labor has been exploited, and whose role in the narrative has been dimished in order to uplift male characters in her vicinity, continues to make the Genshin fandom as a whole an incredibly hostile place for any kind of meaningful discussions of misogyny within the writing or narrative, and continues to perpetuate cisheteronormative understandings of fandom by insisting that those who like her Must Be (Cishet) Men.

Guy who is normal about Jean Gunnhildr voice Jean is sososososo cool and I love her so much. She's a terrible guardian who sends a child to solitary confinement (being grounded) for blowing up entire ecosystems, because not only is she the only person who seems to (correctly!) think of this as an actual problem but because she's a 20-smth year old who had a child dumped on her, and who sees being disallowed to leave her room for hours at a time as normal because she was raised the same way. She's fully capable of taking down entire squads of ancient war robots all by herself but is overly harsh on herself for being messy about it because she wants to preserve the history behind them. She's one of the first people in the game to talk about the mysterious lost kingdom that is the key to like a good 60% of the game's lore. When she was a child, she was once told that she didn't need to be absolutely perfect in everything she did, so the next few times she turned in homework she intentionally got a question wrong to make sure she wasn't perfect. There's a legend in the city that the first words everyone in her family learned to speak were a committment to putting the city/nation's wellbeing above her own. Her parents went through a divorce when she was a child leaving her and her younger sister with an awkward distant relationship well into (at least Jean's) adulthood. She meets the god she's been worshipping since she was a child, the god of freedom, while he is in a disguise, figures out that he is that very god soon after speaking to him, and keeps his identity secret anyway, only confirming that she's realised when he asks. Her god vaguely mentions one of his tenets in a conversation, and she quotes the exact scripture he is referencing. Her favorite food is mushroom pizza and she's born on pi day (get it? pi day? like a pizza pie?)

The person who submitted Jean had a lot more to say, that first piece of propaganda is actually just the TL;DR of a much longer explanation. But tumblr is simply refusing to post the whole thing, so if you want to read the rest of their propaganda, you can do so here.