to live for the hope of it all

Tania, 1989, Nothing & Everything. Maybe one day I'll find myself in the isle of Eroda.

[gotasenseivebeenbetrayed]

TAYLOR:

You've got some tricks up your sleeve

HARRY:

I've no more tricks up my sleeve

TAYLOR:

Can I ask you a question?

HARRY:

Go forth, ask questions later

[jyn-mother-fucking-andor]

Thinking a lot about the ending of Andor and my own little head canons.

Honestly, the more I sit with it the more I think that both things can be true in that Cassian loved Bix but also is at peace with how they left things. Of course he misses her. Of course he thinks about her. Of course he wonders what their life could have been. And yet, once she’s gone, he just seems so much lighter.

There’s no question that they loved each other deeply and that he was devastated when she left. How she left. But ultimately so much of their relationship was him “saving” her or trying to protect her from the empire, from her trauma, from herself. The poor man was exhausted and was desperately clinging to the idea of a life with her that he couldn’t see the life they actually had. How isolated they were together, even on Yavin 4. While I take some issue with the way Bix left him, the “I’ll wait for you” speech, and the pregnancy… I’m grateful that she took that step back. Sometimes the most profound act of love towards another person is to let them go. She loved Cassian but I think she was also honest with herself about what their relationship had become. That ultimately they were not in a space to be healthy together.

When we see Cassian about two years or so after she’s gone, he’s more relaxed than we’ve seen him in the entirety of when they were together. He has built a little life for himself, a community, a home on Yavin 4. Maybe isn’t exactly what he envisioned, but it’s the life he needs. Sure, he’s lonely but he also just seems to be at peace. When Vel tells him to reach out to Bix, he shrugs. He says maybe but it feels like he’s saying no. Why? Because he’s moved on! He’s finally feeling like he can let her go, that their story is over. I’m sure he still has love for her but it’s shifted into something else and he’s found peace with her on his own way.

Then Jyn comes along.

She’s so different from Bix and yet the love she feels and the heart she brings to the rebellion reawakens something in Cassian. Hope was fading away, then there she was, bringing it home. It knocks the wind out of him and you can see it in every look he gives her. He’s impressed and terrified and transfixed. She’s a walking hurricane and yet she’s his mirror. She’s the echo in his shadow. Jyn’s the partner he needs to make that last push against the rebellion. As Luthen said, they burn for a sunrise they’ll never see and it’s a beautiful thing that they can hold each other when the end does come.

In that final scene, we learn Bix’s fate and see that she also found a home and community as well. She gets to take solace in knowing that in making the choice for her and Cassian, she saved him in a way. She saved herself. She finally found her peace. I like to think she met someone and that they reignite something she felt was long gone or that she’d never have after Cassian. I hope she was able to move on too and that they help her raise her baby and that she feels seen and cared for and loved. Of course she’ll tell her child about their father and the legacy he left behind with the rebellion. But at the same time, I have no doubt that that child will grow up in a better world because Bix left.

Who knows, maybe if the Rogue One team had lived, maybe Cassian and Bix would have reconnected? Maybe. Maybe not. But I like to think that if they had, it would be as friends. Sure, their family wouldn’t be the most conventional and there would undoubtedly be some awkwardness in the beginning, but they’d find their way. They’d co-parent and I do honestly believe that Jyn and Bix would have a lot of respect for one another and would be great friends. Jyn would love that child like her own and would be a bad ass step mom.

All this to say, at its core, Rogue One and Andor (pretty much all of Star Wars for that matter) is all about hope. Hope through rebellion. Hope through friendship. Hope through love in all forms.

[fire-and-hemlock]

This is what I've been trying to articulate coherently to myself. Cassian's relationship with Bix is so imbalanced in the way that he's giving so much of himself to protecting and saving her - it's not a bad thing, but it's not sustainable to create a relationship of equals, because there's almost a sense of obligation in the way he loves her. He'll always see her as someone he needs to protect, someone who needs his care - even when she's processed her trauma and is trying to move on and grow. Whereas Jyn - she's so much more his equal. If they'd survived Scarif they would have been partners, equals - challenging each other, free to keep choosing to be together.

[wadozoro]

thinking about the jyncassian death heart at this fine hour

[romantic-revolution-romy]

This is a small excerpt from Diego's interview with journalist Ana Claudia. (@andorerso , thank you for previously sharing the link to this interview with us ❤️‍🔥).

…CLAUDIA: But, as a fan, I have to ask one question. I always had the impression that there was a very special connection between Cassian and Jyn Erso in Rogue One, even if not romantic (because they didn’t have time), but in that elevator, it felt like there was a kiss we didn’t quite see. Now, knowing everything we know about Cassian and Bix, was it just romantic imagination? [Diego starts laughing] Don’t break my heart.

DIEGO LUNA: Without a doubt, Rogue One takes on new meaning when you watch Andor. But you also have to accept the complexity these characters have, and how it reflects in Rogue One, allowing them to be contradictory. I’ll let you answer the question yourself because I think all the information is there now. You have all the tools to decide what that moment, and every moment in Rogue One, means, and what lies behind the words he says and the choices he makes. [laughs] The only thing I can tell you is that yes, Rogue One becomes more complex once you have Andor in mind.

CLAUDIA: Okay, I’ll stick to my imagination: there was a moment, I’m a romantic, and after all, those were their last moments…

DIEGO LUNA: [laughing] …I’m a romantic too! I’m a romantic, and I think Cassian is a romantic, even if he doesn’t seem like it.

[It’s official: Diego Luna has allowed me to fantasize about the elevator kiss between Cassian and Jyn! Laughs]

CLAUDIA: So now I have more hope that it wasn’t just imagination. But… knowing what we know now from Andor’s final surprise (which we won’t mention here), do you think Cassian would have done anything differently if he had known?

DIEGO LUNA: [surprised, then after a long silence, reflecting]

I don’t know. That’s a good question… I think not, I think not…

CLAUDIA: It’s something that changes Rogue One’s ending quite a bit…

DIEGO LUNA: Yeah! [thinks some more] But I don’t think so. I don’t think Cassian would have done anything differently, but, well, we’ll never know…

…Well, Diego leaves the choice up to us, and that’s wonderful 😏 And I love Diego's embarrassed laugh when he's asked about the elevator scene ☺️

P.S. It’s so heartwarming to see journalists who are RebelCaptain shippers. Ana Claudia, I officially adore you, and thank you so much for asking Diego these questions ❤️

[ace-race-ace]

MY CHESTAPPEN HEARTT 💔

He sound like he’s getting emotional 🥲 Maxie’s going to miss him so much

[karlmarxverstappen]

they kind of were married for 4 years. damn.

[willgrahamscock]

YOURE 30???????

yeah I mean i've been posting on tumblr since 2011, I'm part of the geriatric tumblrinas

[willgrahamscock]

#you started blogging when I was 2

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reblog if you need a hug

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a much needed hug

[spelldealer]

do the kids today even know about azlyrics? the calming lavender?

[the-pink-album]

This blog will always feel like home. This is the place I return to when shit happens. There’s so much of a certain period of my life…

I often mourn the loss of that time. I can’t say life is bad now, bc in many ways it isn’t. But here was the last place I felt young and hopeful.

I have none of that hope left. The years took that from me. I know now that some things are not meant to happen in your life, and it’s not the end of the world, but I can’t also pretend it doesn’t hurt…

And this is all to say, the things I loved here, the people I share that time with, were very special and dear to me. I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately, wanting to come here to get glimpses of that time back…

It feels surreal that I finally come back because of something terrible. But 1D represented joy to me, Liam and Harry were my faves back then. I remained a Harrie because Harry was the reason I ended up attached to 1D… but Liam. I wish so many things have gone differently for him… but that’s life.

And today? All those good memories, feel so far away, and they will remain just that. That time… is never coming back.

[noukeeeh]

you know the post that's like: one day I'll be 45 at a party and ill hear a one direction song and ill be dancing my heart out because I never learned to love anything as much as I love one direction?......... yeah.......thinking of that right now

[roguecurls]

guess I’m just gonna sit here and miss one direction for the rest of my life

[papiercranes]

*rolls eyes in fond*

[perstappen]

[the-pink-album]

[the-pink-album]

I’m never gonna get over how much I love Lana’s video for “Nathional Anthem”

The whole thing is so good. The looks, the feeling, the nostagia… everything

And the monologue she does at the end… it always gives me the chills

[lestappenfiles]

Max & Checo | Monza 2023.

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