#mostly mad

[thefudge]

unpopular opinion, sorta

all these TLJ novelization spoilers kind of got me riled up because

THE MOVIES SHOULD’VE INCLUDED SOME OF THIS SHIT instead of burying it under 100 layers of subtext

like u telling me it’s canon leia and han were afraid of ben as a kid and didnt know how to handle him, and talked about him behind his back like he was a monster??? at age 10?? THIS IS IMPORTANT AF.  instead of dwelling on this in the movie, we only get it in the novelization. NOPE. this irks me because well, it makes TFA and TLJ look fucking flimsy. and it makes it look like they underwrote kylo ren’s character. it gives antis ammunition to say “nah, he was happy & loved, he just turned out bad when he was sent to luke’s”. btw, this ALSO makes han and leia look like chumps because we never get to explore the conflict in-depth so it’s either that a) kylo’s perspective is selling us lies...which...no...why would he invent a conversation between his parents about him, or b) a force!strong person like leia shouldnt’ve had any kids cuz apparently no one can handle this shit when the force is involved

this just points more and more to the force being a flawed concept in both philosophy and execution and again, MAYBE we should’ve focused on this more in the movie. like where was grey jedi??? where was balance???

SECOND, the fact that rey can tap into his powers and borrow them via bond SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE MORE EXPLICIT. because lots of anti reylo folks say she’s just naturally better than him and can whoop his ass no matter what. which man, i love rey but FALSE. she’s strong but she gets her technique from him! that’s not the death of feminism, jfc, they’re working as a team! it’s a breath of fresh air she’s not some mary sue who just inherited her powers via plot-convenience. and this makes her a better character because she manipulates the bond in a way that is useful to her, while still having genuine feelings for kylo. complexity!! nuance!!! what i am here for!!! instead, half the time both TFA and TLJ frame it like she’s just a goddamn messiah natural. when...we all know what happened to that other messiah, anakin....

again, i’ve been in the trenches with this ship and i know what im talking about when i say we had to fight so much BS about how it was all in our heads. the fact that these pretty damn important details are only included in the book makes it easier for antis to tear down our arguments. 

i’ve seen other spoilers with reylo moments (and while i’m thrilled about them), some of them feel like a cop-out. like here, we couldnt commit to this dynamic entirely and go into some uncomfortable places, so u got a book instead

star wars isn’t art-house. it’s supposed to have a clear enough narrative to follow. i’m not saying i need everything spelled out, but wow, when the novelization is 80% more character-oriented than your movies, that’s a problem.

and i love TLJ, but they gotta do better in episode 9 if they wanna untangle this han/leia/ben/rey mess for me 

and if these novelizations are not supposed to be included in canon, then promote them differently, cuz it makes your movies look bad

[terriblydrawnparahumans]

“I didn’t trust the harness we’d grabbed from the physio center.  Not enough to hold someone for me.  She was strapped with her back to my front.” (Ward 2.2)

Yep, I messed up. The worst part is, I don’t have time to redo this right now. I’ll post it, but will hopefully get back to fix it in the future. 

[ankle-breaker-101]

Just to let any dedicated followers and my moots know, I will be unavailable from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm CST for the next 4 days.

(Not including today.)

[mostlymadbrewing]

Toot

[ominouslygay]

For reasons I will not be discussing, I am upset.

[corrupted-willy]

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[stopcallingmeapollo]

This insurance bullshit is so frustrating.

I’m trying to file an appeal (possibly the first of three, possibly useless) and there’s no fucking information anywhere about what they need beyond a release of information, who to send it to, just...anything. I know it’s deliberate too, they don’t want to make it easy for me to fight for coverage which is absolutely fucked. We pay so much for this goddamned insurance and what does it get us??? A fucking flu shot and not much else. Fuck.

[freyadragonlord]

Thoughts on what’s happening in Italy right now

When people talk about famous sismic zones, they mention California or Chile or Japan. Everyone knows those places have earthquakes quite often.

Italy is currently living through some very distructive earhquakes. Three events in the last 48 hours pretty much distroyed a couple of towns, miraculously without victims (people had luckily got scared after the first, smaller one, and got out of their houses before the bigger ones arrived). Two months ago, another earthquake obliterated two or three little towns in another zone of Italy, although not that far from these last ones. Three hundreds people had died.

People do not expect Italy to be a sismic country. Not even italians, somehow.

And yet, it doesn’t happen that rarely. Seven years ago, my hometown was destroyed by a similar event, also with 300 deaths. And there’s more. Only during the 20th century, hundeds of thousands of people have died because of Earthquakes, and still, in those last few days, I hear my fellow citizens ask, “why is this happening now??”

This had been happening for centuries, we could go back to Pompeii itself, and god knows how many times before that.

Then why are people so surprised? Why isn’t Italy known for being a country at risk?

Why every time an eartquake happen, we have to find out that hundreds of people had died because the houses hadn’t been built to be safe? What the hell is wrong with this country?