If Sidious going around possessing people has to be a thing, I want Sidious to possess both Ben and Rey just so we can see Adam and Daisy act evil. And yes, the validation of “It would’ve been perfectly possible for Kylo Ren to be a scary bad guy to rival Vader, that’s just not the story they were telling” would be great, though fanboys would probably interpret it out the ass again and whine that THIS was the Kylo they wanted for four years and why was it only a short scene wah-wah-wah
yeah, better not get our hopes up re: clowns finally getting the difference between irredeemable villain and conflicted sad boi, lmao. That’s never gonna happen, and might potentially spawn even worse takes. But both Adam and Daisy would kill it, given the opportunity to act evil/possessed.
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Can you imagine them changing the lighting/shot framing to make Adam’s face look more sinister. Or if the first time we see a smile on Kylo’s face, it’s a cruel, malevolent smile, and his entire body language changes and you realize it’s not Ben there anymore at all. And then imagine once Sheev “leaves” him, the shuddering way Ben would come back to himself, horrified
DEAR GOD.
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We prob shouldn’t put any weight on creator comments during marketing, but JJ did say what Adam did in this movie was fun and I can imagine playing a cackling evil villain for a scene or two being pretty fun...
HMM!!! *eye emoji*
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Imagine a dark twist on the TFA unmasking scene, like if Rey curtly asks Ben to take off the mask, but this is after a scene where Ben has been acting very strange, and when he takes the mask off this time he’s obviously under Sheev’s control and it’s aesthetically the opposite of TFA
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR SCENE (don’t get me wrong, I fucking love horror vibes, and would read the SHIT out of it in a fanfic. But I fear it would be too scary in the actual movie? Too upsetting, frankly.)
recently i came out to my friends and it went really well except one of my friends watches a lot of videos from this one trans med youtuber so she's a trans med as well. i'm worried that she thinks i'm a "trender." it doesn't really seem like she takes me seriously. i worry that i'm not nb enough bc i still look like a girl even if i'm trying to present otherwise and i still do a lot of traditionally femme things. but at the same time i'm afraid she judges me for binding/using they/them (1/2)
(2/2) like she's thinking all of the shitty things the little voice in my head tells me like "you just want to feel special" even though i know that's not true. she hasn't actually said anything like that, but i'm just worried. the few times anything about my gender has come up has been awkward other than my original coming out. i do get dysphoria and i'm not really comfortable talking about it bc i know i'll end up focusing on it. i hate feeling like i have to prove how nb i am
If this is a good friend, then it’s always worth opening up a dialogue and straight up asking her what her thoughts are. Sometimes people do the right thing and do confront harmful beliefs they have when they realize how it impacts someone close to them. There is a possibility that your friend has been re-thinking how she feels since you came out and part of the reason things are so awkward is due to this confusion. If you want to salvage the friendship at all, you definitely need to air out all your doubts and concerns.
Because if your friend really is a tr@nsm3d, if she really does disbelieve your identity, if she really does judge you for how you feel about your gender... then she’s not really a good friend and she’s not worth keeping. It’s not worth you suffering these doubts and feeling uncomfortable being your honest self around her even after you’ve already come out because you feel you have to or whatever else negative or martyring thoughts are keeping you down.
Tr@nsm3ds are not right. Tr@nsm3ds spout off, at their core, harmful anti-trans beliefs. They are bitter, unhappy people who believe 100% that misery loves company and if they’re not happy, then you’re not allowed to be either. They are violent people who put the blame of their suffering on other trans folk instead of where it actually belongs: cissexism and cisnormativity and rigid gender roles and bigotry and hate.
You are valid whether or not you have dysphoria. Your feelings are valid. Your gender is valid. You don’t have to prove yourself, and anybody who demands that you do is simply not worth the gift of your precious time. There is really no such thing as a “trender”. Your pronouns and presentation are amazing. You get to be you. You do not have to make yourself smaller for the comfort of others.
I really hope that the talk goes well with your friend, but if not, then I hope it gives you closure. You deserve a space in which you can confront your self-doubt and work on overcoming it.
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I'm usually neutral about jo*nerys, but I found the S7 spoilers very off putting. My biggest worry is that jo*nerys will be overbearing to Jon's identity arc. He will have no breathing room to digest and explore the implications r+l=j has on him and his identity because from the very start Dany will be involved, so it will be, 'oh my god rhaegar and lyanna are my parents not ned..OH MY GOD I FUCKED MY AUNT.' It will be about complicating a romance, rather than just about Jon and his parentage.
This is a valid concern. We have been waiting for Jon to react to this reveal since season one, and now... it has the potential to become more about Dany than about Jon himself. Well, not about Dany per se, but about their relationship. I would hate it if the crucial identity issues coming with the parentage reveal were eclipsed by ship-related angst.
note that this would also apply if the show was headed towards a j*nsa endgame. In that case, the risk would be making jon’s parentage a mere plot device to pave the road for jon/sansa and allow jon to be able to *feel things* for his sister-turned-to-cousin. Then again, I suspect grrm always intended the parentage reveal to be heavily tied to Jon’s romantic arc, see asoiaf’s original outline. So it’s complicated---the romantic aspect isn’t necessarily extraneous to the reveal, but I’m simply not confident the show will handle it well.
anyway, I thought about the spoilers over and over again and I’ve concluded I’m okay with most of them... except the boat sex. Not only it sounds incredibly corny and cheap, but J*nerys sex in general is one of those things I wish were delayed to the final season, if anything to give the audience an emotional peak to look forward to. I’d also prefer it if Jon developed feelings for Dany while knowing they’re related, as opposed to his finding out later, when the deed is done.
Anonymous said: What I hate is when people dismiss things with an iron hand and state their opinions as if they're fact. It's so condescending and far reaching the way they will present their speculation as the only truth or what 'makes sense'. I hate it when people do it to J*onsa shippers and as of recently, I hate it when some J*onsa shippers do it with Joen//ys. I think you handled it well though and wish most shippers were like you :)
aww thanks! :))
personally I have a live and let die attitude towards this sort of wank. It’s par for the course in ship-centric fandoms, so I don’t get mad or anything. there’s a moment when a ship is growing but is still relatively small and there are all those brilliant metas and analyses being like “what if the story is actually going in this direction? here are some possible hints, and hey, don’t you think this makes A LOT OF SENSE for both characters and for the overall story?” And when it’s like that, it’s good. At that point, it’s still about presenting neutral fans a possibility, an alternative to the dominant narrative. Then the ship gets bigger and bigger, you start regurgitating the same theories over and over until they start looking like facts, you begin reacting with anger and “not a true fan!” arguments to people voicing perplexity and advising for caution, and before you realize it, you are the dominant narrative. And you alienate other fans. It’s just a cycle that exists in almost every ship with *some* (real or perceived) possibility to become canon.
to be clear, I enjoy meta, and I don’t think it’s cool to tell other fans that they shouldn’t care for canon validation or learn to enjoy their ship independently from it. There are thousands different ways to fandom, and caring for canon and speculating on how your ship could possibly “happen” is just as legitimate as other approaches are.
however, when fans of the ship repeatedly tell you that you’re going overboard with spec, the wise thing to do is take it into account. when your spec is heavily based on another (canon or soon to be canon) ship being treated horribly by the narrative, you might want to revise it. another thing to keep in mind is that the amount of meta, foreshadowing and textual “hints” for a ship aren’t directly proportional to the chances of said ship “happening”. There’s plenty of examples in fandom of ships you could write entire academic essays on, that were never “canon”.
and finally, romantic subtext is HEAVILY subjective and easily misinterpreted. as someone who’s noted and abundantly discussed how the j*nsa scenes were shot in a way that weirdly suggests romance, I also feel it’s important to realize that certain visual tropes and camera angles and shit are ubiquitous in modern media, and are used to convey a wide variety of things that fall under the umbrella of “intense, troubled dynamic” without being necessarily about romance.
