thelastjedicritical:

shannanigansandmisadventures

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“Finnrey would be racist over Finnrose if Finn and Rose had mutual…”

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I don’t trust this anon… I never saw that many antis against finnrose prior to TLJ because a lot of people wanted to wait and see what happened. I could be wrong, but the people that were usually hating finnrose simply because of racism were the people that hated that poc were included in the films to begin with. Finnreys were pretty okay with the ship until the movie’s actual release.

I didn’t see this in our circles – which of course are just some antis, we have to keep that in mind – either. Rather many were excited by Rose, wrote metas about her that went FAR beyond her being anyone’s love interest, and were hoping for her and Rey to get along, so that there wouldn’t be some stupid love triangle with jealousy (thanks RJ for hinting at that DUH) the actual anti Finnrose attitude developped only after the movie was out. However I do know some Finnrey shippers I don’t have much contact with see Rey as the sole center that should get the guy over anyone else, so I won’t doubt that the anon came across such people. Also we have to remember many antis aren’t actual Finnrey shippers, so the question is again “who are antis?”

Yeah, I think it’s important not to get defensive and be “see no evil, hear no evil” like I’ve seen reylows get. People in our immediate circle may have been excited about Rose and the possibility of Finnrose, but we know a lot of antis are toxic and racist as hell. I’ve seen at least one such anon calling Rose a downgrade sent to a reylow, and it made me want to throw up. People can have bad experiences with antis even if we haven’t personally done or seen those things. We don’t get to call people liars just to uphold our pure self-image (not to mention antis are anything but pure and should define no one’s self-image lmao).