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[skywailer]

Hi!! I absolutely love your blog and icons. Could I please request some Anakin skywalker icons? xx

Thanks for the message!  Here you go.

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[skywailer]

Will you still visit us on Tumblr after you move?

Physically I may move, but my spirit is trapped here.

[skywailer]

you're an angel 🥰

I’ve been exposed.

[skywailer]

exereylokiss

Exogol, Exegol, more like XOXO reylo

[skywailer]

Ben is babie.

I don’t know how to consolidate this with the following, also true, statement:

Ben is babe.

[skywailer]

almost cried today thinking about reylo baby and what Ben would be like as a dad 😭

he’s that dad who secretly reads every book containing the word “baby” while Rey is asleep, who does any and everything it takes to make his child feel safe and balanced and so, so loved. There would be no shortage of Ben the Dad discreetly baby- and force-proofing the house, telling stories to the womb until eventually he’s tucking that kid in every night and reading bedtime stories (stories they enjoy almost as much as dad does), and gently and eagerly teaching them how to make model ships and all kinds of little gadgets- and learning very quickly what a bad idea it is to tell your kid where the tools are. He would be that dad who is always looming in the back of school functions while Rey cheerleads, the kind of dad that, in public, people don’t think much about besides “oh he’s tall”, because he’s not loud about parenting. He just wants to listen, quietly worrying and just as quietly adoring that kid from the moment he hears the words “you’re going to be a father”. Quiet as it is, his love would be so loud the entire Force just sings with it.

In other words: me too, anon. Me too.

[skywailer]

I'm surprised that you're a Reylo shipper

Well, I started this blog years ago specifically to make dramione (an enemies to lovers pairing) graphics, which evolved into destiel (another somewhat enemies to lovers, but softer pairing) with sprinkles of bellarke, Pride & Prejudice/Jane Austen writing and gothic novels like Jane Eyre, so I don’t understand where this is coming from. I have always advocated for the redemption and rehabilitation of wayward characters, and found compassion for people in need of it because I saw myself in those characters.

When I started watching Star Wars as a kid, I was invested in Anakin and Padme’s story and devastated to see them fall apart the way they did. So, in watching the sequel trilogy, I saw the promise of a double-fold redemption and healing process with the relationship of Rey and Ben since both characters were suffering from similar feelings of isolation, abandonment and abuse. Actually, they are the absolute epitome of my favorite fictional pairing because they grow and heal from knowing one another (rather than just a one-sided repair job like dramione can be seen as). If anything, I was always a reylo, before Rey or Ben as characters were even conceived.

[skywailer]

Is that post about Lucas basing SW on Vietnam and Nixon entirely accurate though? I've also heard him say somewhere that he did take some inspiration from Nazi Germany for the empire. I googled it and yes, he has said as such. The stormtroopers and other empire officers in particular take inspiration from German stormtroopers and the SS. "SW is an examination of how democracies allow themselves to become dictatorships." The space battles in A New Hope were based on filmed WW1 and WW2 dogfights.

Star Wars takes inspiration from all of the above, and one of the things I thoroughly enjoy is how it meshes various aspects from our history of war: ie genocide, nuclear warfare, mental conditioning, and the politics of it all. The issue that the post you’re referring to is bringing up is how people fixate on the German/Nazi aspects, generalizing by calling The Empire/First Order “literal space nazis”, especially in order to shame people who want complex narratives about war and its affect on those involved. This fails to properly acknowledge how Star Wars is a commentary on what people, from any reach of the galaxy, are willing to do when they believe it’s for the right reasons.