#pre tros

[flilisskywalker]

Damerey fans, they just announced there will be a post TLJ Rey/Poe story in the book Stories of Jedi & Sith :) 

[emperorren]

Where do you think Rey could be at the beginning of TROS? I was thinking she’d be a fully-trained Jedi already like Luke was at the beginning of ROTJ, but with the new comic showing she’s struggling with the Force I wonder if something else is going on. Like maybe that scene in the D23 teaser where she throws her saber is because she struggling with her training or her control of the Force?

So the Allegiance comic is implying that Rey feels like she "lost" her Force power and is failing everyone around her. This is really interesting because it seems like once she closed the “door” on Ben, she started having difficulty in using the force. Well she did “awakened” her powers and gained force knowledge/abilities through her bond with Ben, so shutting off the bond is also shutting off the power she gained from it?Or she is so out of balance because of what happened between her and Ben?

Yes yes yes. From the little I’ve seen, I’m really happy about Rey’s portrayal in the comic, and I think it’s a good indication of where she’ll be at the beginning of TROS. She’s angry. She’s doubting herself. She’s frustrated (and once again she’s working her frustration through performative violence against a proxy target, and we know from TLJ that that frustration is directly caused by Kylo):

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She’s suffering from imposter syndrome and identity issues (how relatable!):

She doesn’t sleep well, she has trouble focusing, and she seems somehow weaker and less in control of the Force now, which she fails to use against the horned bull monster. Technically, it might be because she’s troubled and the effort to keep the bond closed is distracting her. But from a meta perspective, rejecting her shadow (Ben) is making her weaker, not stronger. (Same goes for Ben, only ten times worse.)

They’re stronger when they’re together. The Force sings when they’re together. The Force is in turmoil, opening chasms in the ground, breaking lightsabers in two when they fight.

The bond is a good thing for both. Rejecting the bond is not, for neither. As Chelsea (@northgalis) said on Twitter, this further proves how the antis’ interpretation of TLJ as Rey's overcoming a toxic relationship with Ben and becoming a complete, self-fulfilled hero in the end is just... canonically incorrect and thematically wrong. It’s not that Rey wasn’t right to reject Ben in that particular moment; she was. But it can’t last long, and in the end, it will be like forcing herself to only use one half of her body. Rey’s always had the Force, but her active, adult relationship with it is intrinsically connected to Kylo. He’s the one who awakened her powers and helped her grow in them. The bond is a quintessential aspect of how Rey experiences the Force. And Kylo, without Rey, has always been devastatingly unbalanced, in pain, desperate to find peace and mental focus, to stop being “torn apart”. The moment they met, the moment the bond was formed between them, is when they found their true powers and their true adult selves.

The jungian subtext is so evident.

[ladyofidril]

There was a sudden thunderstorm, and they had to take shelter. Even listening to the rumbling growl of thunder up above and the hard patter of rain, Poe thought, despite himself, of when he and Ben had had sleepovers. When the rain pattered down on the Damerons’ roof, and the two boys had hot chocolate and watched adventure holos.

Kriff, where had that gone?

”You’re shivering,” Kylo said, frankly.

Poe sighed. “It’s a little cold.”

”Sit with me.”

Poe supposed he didn’t have much of a choice, and he would admit that when Kylo slung his cloak about Poe’s shoulders, it felt warmer than it had any right to feel. It felt a lot, Poe thought, like resting in the wings of a great beast. Though this beast wasn’t entirely evil. That Poe knew. Mostly he just seemed angry and sad.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[laurasinele]

So, I went through a bipolar episode (still going? who knows!) and I couldn't concentrate enough in any of my wips, so I picked up @kyluxxoxo Summer Fest and did a thingy.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I did Bug, Heat, and Ripe. Went for crack but it turned out fluff with an itsy bitsy tiny bit of angst.

[grippysockssss]

Advice For My Fellow Merry Men!

Ok, so here’s the sitch. I am extremely dysphoric about my facial hair (or lack thereof). I watched a few YT vids, but the one that stuck out the most was one from a drag king.

Mascara is your best friend (well, it does have MASC- in the name, now, doesn’t it?)

Mascara is designed to pick up tiny hairs and colour them the colour of the liquid.

TL;DR: For a beard, apply mascara to your face like you would with your eyelashes.

Y’all are lookin’ handsome today!!

Here are some selfies of my results!

[cosleia]

You're kinda, sorta, basically, pretty much always on my mind.

“Oh really?” Rey spat, but she couldn’t quite muster the venom she was going for. She knew what he was saying was true; he’d proven it over and over again this past year, appearing to her like this at the most inconvenient times, forcing her to duck out of meetings and meals and even her training with Leia to shout at him to leave her alone. I’ll find you, he always said, and it was a threat but it sounded like something else.

And now he was in front of her again, seated this time, hair in disarray, eyes downcast, fingers playing together, and the words had tumbled out of him as if he, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, was uncertain, or shy, or nervous.

She had worked so hard to hate him, because that seemed like the best way to keep him away, because he was wrong and he didn’t listen to her and he had hurt, killed, so many people, including his own father; but she didn’t hate him, she could never hate him, and as she stood over him and he looked up at her, she wished with her entire being that he would abandon the horrible life he’d chosen and come to her not as a conqueror, not as Kylo Ren, but as the man she knew he could be: Ben Solo.

[reylosqueen]

The time has come!

I have blacklisted literally everything. No more scrolling through the reylo tag or really anything Star Wars related until I see tros next week!!!! I will still post every once in a while tho

[scooterpengie]

Ben wearing a festive cloak. That’s it that’s the whole comic.

Actually I was inspired by my stuffed cat toy, Angus, because he was wearing a Kylo Ren outfit but with a Christmas cape 😅

This seems to be the most festive thing I could come up with so if you wanna send me xmas-y Reylo ideas, go ahead!