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[peppermintjonas]

[aquaedits]

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[thislove-isglowinginthedark]

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[blindedbythelightt]

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10: What does your URL mean?

It’s from Don’t Speak by the Jonas Brothers

There's a lot that you don't notice when you read between the lines the future's out of focus, when you're blinded by the light. It’s a hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times

[notbecauseofvictories]

hi! i have a question about the kylo ben redemption for you. a lot of what i personally like about the arc has a lot to do with my love for liturgical (episcopalian mind you but) metaphor. i really love your writings on catholicism and i was wondering if you had any thoughts relating to that and/or why you didn't like the arc presented if you felt like sharing :)

Per Catholic doctrine, true contrition (the kind you can confess to in a sacramental context) is “sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again." And honestly? I saw zero proof that Kylo Ben is (a) sorrowful, beyond his aggrieved sense that killing his father didn’t really get him anywhere, (b) detests any of his prior actions, including the war crimes, or ( c) would be willing to swear he wouldn’t do them again, since the only difference between “Kylo Ren” and “Ben Solo” seems to be who he’s willing to murder. 

Which means that from a religious perspective, he is not contrite, cannot truly confess, cannot be forgiven in persona Christi, and is (to borrow a phrase) fucked.

Do not get me wrong, I love that horrible murder man! He’s awful and my favorite! I could stand around all day and talk about Kylo Ben’s monstrosity and failure to be anything more than a battering ram of bad decisions. But “feeling sort of vaguely bad you upset your not-girlfriend” is not a redemption arc, and almost-smiling once is not going to convince me of anything.

[phousetour]

dan and phil at ii meet and greets was literally just their eyes widening as they went "oh you mean youre GAY gay?"

phil: is it just me or are they all like.....gay

dan: ...did we do this? is it our fault?

[kakashibestie]

i'm having big loving luke skywalker feelings in this chilis can you please talk about your favorite things about him

HELLO it’s always luke skywalker loving hours in this blog so let’s go here are my top reasons why i love luke skywalker in no particular order:

his righteousness: literally every single thing he ever did as a character (at least in the films bc i know jack shit about the eu AND excluding tlj l m a o) he did as an act of kindness, or as something derived from his inherent righteousness!!! like he found out the droids his uncle’d bought belonged to some other dude he didnt even know and he INSTANTLY thought abt giving them back. like the guy could’ve been a serial killer and he didnt care he just wanted 2 do the right thing! when he saw leia’s hologram he immediately thought holy shit ive gotta help her and he literally cruised through the galaxy to do so. he went the extra mile to help those in need...esp. the ppl he cared about on every chance he got and tbh we should all be more like him in that matter

um the fact that i’ve always perceived him as gay: this one’s a little more personal but i think many el gee bee tees see some of themselves in him and that’s always something nice to see and have, even if it was never explicit!!! like i saw a post earlier today abt how revolutionary it was for luke be Like That back when the first star wars was released bc every action movie with a male protagonist at that time followed the macho man archetype and luke is literally the polar opposite of that. i dont know which demon possessed george lucas to make him write luke in that way bc im sure he was OBLIVIOUS of what he’d done and we all know luke was supposed to be his self insert so...whatever demon it was, thank you. neat job. also the fact that mark hamill endorses gay luke skywalker makes my heart grow warm. 

how loving he always was: i think this goes hand in hand with his righteousness or maybe one thing blooms from the other but regardless of the order of things...his fervent love for his friends and the ppl he cared about was baffling to me. and now that my understanding of love has changed and maybe even evolved to a higher level i find that luke’s loving feelings were a CRUCIAL part of his character. a building block...dare i say his very FOUNDATIONS!!! luke skywalker wouldn’t be luke skywalker without the intensity of the love he felt for all the things he cherished.

his fashion sense: goes hand in hand with his gayness because no cishet could ever dress like That. i can’t even pick a favorite outfit of his because they’re all iconic!!!! tatooine farmer boy chic? timeless. xwing flight suit? invented fashion. bespin fatigues???? E P I C. and i wont even get started with the black chanel suit from rotj bc that’s....too powerful and we all KNOW it is.

his determination: okay like we all know george lucas intended for him to follow the OG hero’s journey from Whiny Boy to Man™...and like in a way he kinda did follow it???? but i think we could dive deeper into it. anh luke was just DESPERATE for a way out of his monotonous life (he was also 19 so like...lmao) and in the process he found something much greater!!!! he found out abt the force and found friends and found out the first puzzle pieces of a past that at that moment had been nothing but a blur to him. like imagine the excitement he must’ve felt. the fear. the pain. THE GRIEVING. luke skywalker died three times and was reborn three times. the boy from tatooine died after the death star trench run. a young man with enough drive to defeat an entire Empire on his own was born. then that young man was confronted with like the hardest truth he would EVER learn abt himself and he let it kill him. because he knew once he was reborn again, he would become his best self. never did he waver on what he thought he needed to do in order to become it. he knew there was good in his father so he went and confronted him. he was ready to literally DIE right there because he was sure vader would save him. they saved each other in the end. all thanks to luke and his determination.

[lorsanbitch]

i personally think his death worked in the series but like - you're so right about them having to bring him back in some way at some point? they're gonna want another trilogy in 15-20 years and they can't do that ??? without some sort of retcon ???

the thing about Ben’s death is that if DLF hadn’t set him up as a reverse Anakin I would have been fine with a heroic sacrifice. Fuck, if they’d killed him in a way that made sense I would have still been pissed but I would have been able to appreciate it. 

I told myself after getting spoiled that I could be ok with Ben dying, assuming it would be done well. But it wasn’t. He died not because it was the only option, but because JJ isn’t a character-driven writer and he wouldn’t know how to handle a HEA for Ben Solo (thats a whole other rant so i wont get into it). 

Rey dying was a plot contrivance to make it seem like Ben’s death made sense. There was no reason for her to die. You could say that all that power was too much for one person- but there was no reason for it to be one person wielding it. JJ tossed Ben into the pit so he couldn’t help Rey kill Palpatine. He made Rey a Palpatine not only to give her the character motivation to kill him that Ben already had, but also, more so, to appease sexist fanboys. 

Disney was so scared shitless of a bunch of alt-right white supremacist incels that they changed the trajectory of their movie. They were too chickenshit to make the bare-minimum statement that a woman of color deserves to be a main character in a Star Wars movie that they removed Rose Tico from all narrative importance. They couldn’t even give us a meaningful gay kiss, even when they could have been piss babies anyway and edited it out for China. 

When I look down the line of decisions that are connected to Ben’s death, it ends with DLF bending to the will of bigotted shitheads.

WOW sorry about that rant, I’ve just got a lot of Emotions about TROS