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This is following the KyloTrashForever drama. There is already so much hate in this world. Instead of attacking her and encouraging others to, why wasnt your first thought “maybe I should reach out’. Maybe a simple conversation would help her see why we are upset. Im out of space, but please think next time. Words leave impressions and some of the thinge sent to her are vile.

Observe the levels of dishonesty here. “There is already so much hate in the world,” conflating the hatred that some groups of people get just for existing with the criticism that someone got for their freely chosen harmful behavior. See also how this anon talks about my “attack” and supposed encouragement of attacks by others with the author getting harassed, thus slyly and falsely accusing me of being a ringleader of a harassment campaign.

In doing so anon obfuscates the fact that my “attack” consisted of reacting to parts of the fanfic on my own blog and my posts consisted 90% of quotes and descriptions of the author’s own words (link). If quoting this author’s words is enough to be considered an attack on her character, then maybe the problem lies with the author’s words and not the fact that someone quoted her?

And no, I have not reached out because I am not interested in contacting her in any way and I don’t encourage anyone to do so. Nor do I owe this person my time and energy to educate her and make her a better person.

Besides, I was 90% sure the author would not be receptive and it would be a total waste of my time. I was proved right, as seen when a reylo shipper did exactly what you suggested and very politely and reasonably reached out to the author in an exchange documented by @captainamericagf (link). So tell me again why did this person deserves the benefit of my doubt or my time?

An AU

Rey Dameron anxiously awaits her brother’s return. When he is nowhere to be found, she flies to Jakku after him. She doesn’t find Poe, but she finds his droid, chasing a man wearing his jacket. The man, who calls himself Finn, explains that he rescued Poe from the First Order only for Poe to die in a crash. Rey is furious but has no time to mourn because her ship is destroyed, forcing her to run with Finn and BB-8 in a junk ship that she recognizes as the one General Leia always told her about: the Millennium Falcon. After escaping Jakku, Rey apologizes for being angry with Finn, since it wasn’t his fault Poe died. Who should they run into next but Han Solo, the owner of the Millennium Falcon! Han recognizes the name Dameron and agrees to help them. But first they have to deal with two gangs Han owes money to. Rey, being more experienced in dogfighting than using a blaster, needs a little help from Finn, but both of them are able to fend off the gangs, thanks to an ingenious plan by Rey to release the rathtars (pretending that that was the plan all along and not something far less reckless.) Chewie is wounded, but Rey has had experience as a pilot since her brother taught her to fly. When they get to Takodana, Finn tries to leave. Rey begs him to stay, if only for the sake of Poe’s memory, but Finn says he’s done all he can and nothing he can do will bring Poe back. Rey and Han have everything covered, they don’t need him. Rey, crushed, watches him leave, then follows voices into the basement, discovering a box with what she recognizes as a lightsaber– but whose? When she touches it, she has a vision and sees a man wielding it. The dark figure he’s battling, the droid he lays his hand on– his robotic hand– make her realize this lightsaber is Luke’s. Realizing she’s tapped into the Force, she realizes just how desperately the Resistance needs the map. She runs off in search of Finn to tell him what she’s discovered, but is captured by Kylo Ren, who takes the lightsaber. Finn hears screaming and sees a vision in the sky of a red flame quenching stars and planets. Finn duels a trooper with a riot control baton using a pole he finds and manages to knock the trooper into a wall, not realizing he used the Force to do so. He sees Kylo Ren’s ship and immediately assumes (senses) Rey’s on it. He goes to D’Qar with the Resistance and finds out Poe is alive! He tells him Poe what happened. The Resistance plans a mission to rescue Rey and destroy Starkiller Base, using Finn’s intel. Meanwhile, Rey escapes. She runs into Finn and Han and goes with them to set charges to weaken the reactor. They witness Kylo Ren murder Han Solo and chase him into the forest to confront him. Rey Force-pulls Luke’s saber from Kylo Ren and duels him, but the saber is knocked from her hand. While Rey defends herself with the Force, Finn picks up the saber and uses it to distract Kylo Ren. Kylo Ren Force-throws Rey into a tree and duels Finn, wounding him. Rey comes to Finn’s rescue and picks up the saber, dueling Kylo Ren and wounding him. She goes to Finn’s lifeless body and Chewie picks them up in the Falcon. The medics tend to Finn while Poe promises his sister he’ll look after him. Rey Dameron flies off in the Falcon to find Luke Skywalker in hopes that he will help her understand her abilities more fully and restore hope to the fight.

PS– this AU means Poe would be Finn’s brother in law when Finn and Rey end up together, which Finn would be ecstatic about.

L.J.: Also anon submitter has said Rey would be a Latina in this AU. I nominate María Mercedes Coroy (link).

lj-writes:

You know, there are a lot of reasons The Last Jedi is objectively bad, but “modern art is bad because it rejects objective standards in favor of subjective self-expression” is not one of them. I won’t be posting the submitted video (link if you want to see it for yourself) because it’s intellectually dishonest in using a sheen of scholarly credibility to push a political agenda of modern Western cultural decadence. See a blog post that picks the video apart and particularly calls out the selective and misleading quote of art historian Jakob Rosenberg (link).

Ironically, Rosenberg was born in Germany and was fired as part of the purge of Jewish curators in 1937 before he immigrated to the United States (link, see page 3 of PDF), where he spent the rest of his career teaching art history at Harvard University and as a curator at the Fogg Art Museum (link). He was, in other words, a target of exactly the kind of rhetoric that blamed the decadence of the modern West on international intellectuals and makers of culture. He did not deserve to have his name associated with this shit. Seriously, anyone harping on the good old days of Western civilization  activates my fight-or-flight response.

Oh look, Hitler’s well-known hatred of modern art and how degenerate it is! (Link, link, link, link, link) Here’s one from a site that’s actually sympathetic to his views and talks about “the societal effects from modern art’s
inversion and destruction of beauty” (link via donotlink).

And before anyone tries to put words in my mouth, I’m not saying anyone who doesn’t like modern art is a Nazi. If you like classical art more than modern art, more power to you! There’s a universe of works you can love and enjoy. Whether your reasons are critical or pure taste, that is entirely your prerogative.

What’s insidious and intellectually dishonest is not the failure to enjoy modern art, it’s the lie that modern art doesn’t have objective standards behind it and represents a fall from some mythical heyday of Western civilization. You can agree or disagree with the standards and theory behind modern art all you like, but you can’t simply ignore and distort the reams of theory to push an agenda  of modern decadence. That’s what I object to, the dishonesty of this rhetoric and the horrific ends it has been used for and could potentially be used for again.

You know, there are a lot of reasons The Last Jedi is objectively bad, but “modern art is bad because it rejects objective standards in favor of subjective self-expression” is not one of them. I won’t be posting the submitted video (link if you want to see it for yourself) because it’s intellectually dishonest in using a sheen of scholarly credibility to push a political agenda of modern Western cultural decadence. See a blog post that picks the video apart and particularly calls out the selective and misleading quote of art historian Jakob Rosenberg (link).

Ironically, Rosenberg was born in Germany and was fired as part of the purge of Jewish curators in 1937 before he immigrated to the United States (link, see page 3 of PDF), where he spent the rest of his career teaching art history at Harvard University and as a curator at the Fogg Art Museum (link). He was, in other words, a target of exactly the kind of rhetoric that blamed the decadence of the modern West on international intellectuals and makers of culture. He did not deserve to have his name associated with this shit. Seriously, anyone harping on the good old days of Western civilization  activates my fight-or-flight response.

If that anon doesn’t GTFO with that “won’t you please think of the racists?” rhetoric. Reylows don’t give half a fuck when John is attacked on Twitter or IG or when their fellow racist fucks attack black Finnrey fans, but we’re supposed to care that some disgusting racist’s fee-fees are hurt?

I’m disturbed by the fact that this author refuses the acknowledge the harm she did while being loud about her distress over pushback to her fic. As others have pointed out, she is the only real person and the hers are the only feelings that matter. The lack of empathy is mindblowing.

Well obvs if Rey was a Dameron she’d be Latino too and cast as such.

lj-writes:

Anyone have thoughts about this? I mean maybe I’m not one to talk, I did recast Rey as Kawennáhere Jacobs in my alternate sequel trilogy after all, but I’ve also seen racebends of Rey being pointed out as racist.

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@dasakuryo Good point! For Afro-Latina Letitia Wright (Guyanese British) would work like you said, and she has experience being the headstrong little sister too XD

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My personal favorite though is the other suggestion you made in chat, Guatemalan indigenous actress María Mercedes Coroy.

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