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[ID: Star Wars droids BB-8 and R2-D2 stand next to each other in near-darkness. Text on the image gives the same details as below.]

By apaladinagain (yet_intrepid on AO3)

Quite Adrift

Fandom: Star Wars (Sequels / Poe Dameron Comics)

Ships: Gen. BB-8 & Ivee, C-3PO & R2-D2

Rating: G

Length: 400 words

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: BB-8 and C-3P0 (R2-D2 and Ivee are crucial but absent)

Additional tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Droid Feels (Star Wars), POV BB-8 (Star Wars), Pre-Star Wars: The Force Awakens

"I must say," C-3P0 starts instead, and BB-8 braces himself for some inane observation about organics cancelling meetings. But— “I must say, at times those R units truly are something else.” (In which droids talk to droids about droids.)

A commission for @c-3poh-dear! he got me to (finally) get around to some of the Poe Dameron comics for this missing scene she requested. this was a delight; I cried; droids and rebellions are so good, etc. I’m still taking commissions (for a variety of fandoms) - check out the info here if you’re interested :)

read on AO3!

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bodhimcbodeface replied to your post: cheesethesecond replied to your post: rey and finn...

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meanwhile everyone in Black Squadron is just this post

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cheesethesecond replied to your post: rey and finn for kidmeme?

I am losing it at the idea that Finn just names anything he is given responsibility for naming “Poe”

up until now it was a secret expression of his crush! when he named his little pet fish Poe he didn’t think anyone would find out! and then they all ASKED and he couldn’t manage to lie and he was going to pass out from sheer embarrassment but everyone thought it was a GREAT opportunity to make fun of Poe, so it turned out fine! 

and look, he was not PLANNING to name the baby Poe! but he also was not anticipating that Rey would seriously keep calling her Plant Baby! that’s not okay! he’s using lots of exclamation points in his brain! and she puts him on the spot! he hates that! why do people always put him on the spot! why is she LOOKING AT HIM LIKE THAT, Poe is a TOTALLY NORMAL NAME!

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bodhimcbodeface replied to your post: rey and finn for kidmeme?

oh my god i love this

@lucasfilm show us the forbidden finnrey accidental baby acquisition movie

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rey and finn for kidmeme?

Name: well, she’s some kind of plant-resembling species that they find in a no-man’s-land and cannot 100% identify, and she is too young to talk. Rey calls her Plant Baby. Finn is offended. “do you have a better idea for a name?” says Rey. Finn has never named anyone before. all the babies he has known did not have names. “uhhhh, Poe,” he says, and Rey is not impressed.

Gender: do plant-resembling species have genders? this baby is currently using she/her pronouns, which is also Rey’s decision. Finn is offended. “do you have a better idea?” says Rey, and they argue about the merits of raising a child as gender-neutral in a heavily-gendered society that will bully them for it, while trekking through no-man’s-land with Plant Baby Poe.

General Appearance: a baby, but also maybe a plant? there are some leaves. we are not sure. 

Personality: says “oo-gah” a lot, and sometimes “bluh!”

Special Talents: Plant Baby Poe can smile! she only spits up once. any photosynthesis abilities are, as yet, undetermined.

Who they like better: Rey. Finn is SO offended.

Who they take after more: well, nobody, in appearance. temperament-wise, Poe, which is really for the best (and which Finn claims as evidence.)

Personal headcanon: Rey becomes much better with babies after Finn suggests that they are kind of like droids, just more breakable and in need of feeding.

Face Claim: uh, this baby groot plant pot?

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also in case anyone’s curious about why I was talking abt Star Wars at my therapy intake appointment it went like this: the therapist and another clinician and I were going over my history and we were wrapping up and the other clinician was like “so what do you enjoy doing?”

me: well I like poems and young adult novels. and Star Wars.

other clinician (with no idea what she’s getting into): oh, do you like the new ones?

me: yES omg they’re so important to me --

my therapist: *perks up and makes an excited noise*

me: except I will fight people about Luke’s characterization in TLJ --

my therapist: *makes more excited noises*

me: why on earth they would possibly think that YODA should be the one to talk about OPPOSING THE JEDI ORDER is BEYOND ME, Yoda is the epitome of all the problems with the Jedi order --

other clinician: that’s a viewpoint I’ve never heard before

me (remembering that this is not why I came to this appointment, but struggling to contain myself) : I would like to MURDER Yoda --

my therapist: *looks delighted*

anyway I think this bodes well.

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bodhimcbodeface replied to your post : I keep seeing screencaps of that post that’s...

Okay, I see what you mean, but I always interpreted that post as ONLY having to do with his jediism (which he clearly does like as a spiritual practice, if he rebuilt the order), and not with his politics. His politics are certainly not neoliberal but I always thought the post was meant to be purely metaphorical in that regard.

ghdkjlff I mean part of my frustration has to do with the fact that, just based on what we actually see in the OT, it makes no sense for Luke to rebuild the order unless there’s like -- a bunch of people hounding him to do it. the strengths of Luke’s character (his reckless compassion, his intuition and strong conscience, his determination to think for himself rather than thoughtlessly comply) are pretty directly opposed to everything the Jedi order represented by the time we see it in the PT, as well as what Yoda tries to teach him

in OT canon, Luke succeeds BECAUSE he doesn’t listen to Yoda or Obi-Wan. he succeeds BECAUSE he doesn’t align with jedi ideology or concern himself with preserving what is no longer useful. I think this post gets at what I’m trying to say here better than I could:

Anakin’s fatal flaw wasn’t his anger or his pride or his love for Padme. It was his deference. Luke is a good man because he refuses to compromise his morality just because some one else told him his should. Anakin fails as a good man specifically because he repeatedly compromises on things he knows are wrong. He gives in to his mother and Qui-Gon’s urging to leave Tatooine. He gives in to Obi-Wan’s orders to forget his dreams and his mother. He gives in over and over and over during the Clone Wars until, by the time of RotS, he no longer even knows how to listen to his own moral compass. As Vader, he is exactly the man the Jedi told him to be: unquestioningly obedient to authority with no attachments except the Force.

Luke is the exact opposite. He rejects the teachers of his ‘wise masters’ and insists, outright and without shame, on doing things his way. And he succeeds where they failed. Not by being a good solider (good soldiers fallow orders), but by being a good man.

(redrikki)

Luke doesn’t have a neoliberal approach to Jedi tradition or belief, not in the actual text of the OT. if anything, TLJ Luke has moved away from a critical leftist framework, not towards one.

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a spotify ad, trying to get me to see some new kung fu panda thing: join master po and his friends --

my brain, which loves star wars: POE DAMERON IS A JEDI WHAT