#legends posting

[forcewound]

one of the best things you can make a female character is really bad at interpersonal relationships

[elli-incarnate]

Have we as a fandom ever talked about how Callista Ming, Luke Skywalker's primary other-than-Mara love interest in the Legends canon, was apparently just casually using Sith essence transfer by another name?

Callista Ming

Callista Ming, originally known as Callista Masana, was a Human Jedi Knight from the planet Chad during the waning years of the Galactic Rep

Luke Middle Name Skywalker, you just got off your "come back from the Dark Side after killing Sidious a second and then third and then maybe even fourth time" arc and you somehow didn't recognize that your body snatching fiancée was using essence transfer?

[saraa-lancee]

This is a bit random but I just watched a video call someone had with Caity (as part of a con over the weekend) and when asked about how she felt about Avalance becoming moms, she said honestly she wasn’t too into the idea at first. One of the reasons she mentioned was that it was kind of like the masculine part of her didn’t want to go full female like that, getting pregnant and just becoming a mom, which reminded me of your genderqueeer Sara headcanons (assuming I haven’t gotten the wrong person haha).

Yes, you have the right blog haha. Also, sorry if this response is way longer than you bargained for, I've been thinking about it a lot

And I super agree! (I haven't seen that video yet just for the record) but I had a very... visceral reaction when they announced it was Sara that was pregnant and since then I've had some time to think over the 'why'.

I do think part of it is that gender thing because I have kind of identified with Sara as nonbinary or gender queer, if femme leaning (a lot like me in real life, tbh. One point for self projection probably). And I know this is almost definitely a flawed position but- i feel like a lot of that masculinity that remains *will* be sacrificed in the face of Happy Glowing Radiant Mother image that just... isn't Sara to me.

I feel like in general they have feminized Sara a lot-- she now wears a full face of make-up constantly, and her "everyday" clothes tend to be very feminine (and cleavage showing) compared to arrow and season 1 (and a little season 2)-- and I honestly am in the minority but I loved how she dressed lol. Her "other" outfits tend towards feminized masculinity-- think of Ray and Nora's wedding. When I think of like, peak Genderqueer Sara (I'm drafting a piece about it actually) a good example is Nates Dads funeral (I can't remember the episode title off the top of my head, but that episode).

She even (in my opinion) talks and acts more "feminine", and not at all like she used to. Her mannerisms themselves are very different from the character I fell in love with tbh.

The first part of the episode I was genuinely saying to myself like, I don't want them to have kids (I'm tired of lives, especially females lives, revolving around kids), but at least its Ava not Sara. Maybe it's something about the vibes, but Ava gives off very Pregnant Mom vibes (if that makes sense). Sara being pregnant just feels so out of character to me, especially in a character who has expressed how damaged she feels (I know traumatized people can want-- and obviously deserve- kids, but part of it is also that saras had no "recovery time" from trauma after bodily autonomy trauma.

(This is only cursorily related but it matters to my analysis of why I was so upset) And I can't stop thinking about how badly Sara didn't want to get pregnant. How she sobbed and hid and was terrified of being pregnant. And how she got pregnant literally from a kiss because of alien clone biology (still not over that...). Sara literally has no say in her own body and has no consent on the show anymore, which really bothers me.

[forcewound]

i find it deeply hilarious that nobody in luke’s life ever met or saw yoda and he’s just this nebulous little green guy that luke keeps referencing and quoting disjointed sentence fragments years down the line. yeah from dagobah

[forcewound]

under my regime tekli the chadra-fan will achieve the same if not more prominence and veneration in american households as baby yoda

[forcewound]

“it’s political suicide. pulling out now is reckless when their entire planet’s economy is tied to the galactic alliance. typical corellian bravado.”

“i just wish everyone would try harder to get along! we’re stronger together, that’s what the jedi say. like a really good marriage.”

“do you think jacen solo is still open for private press inquiries? no questions, no clothes. that man could force choke me any day.”

“big was on centerpoint station.”

[forcewound]

we need a wookiepedia page for rpf (legends)