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They don’t think Finn could be talked to because they’re racist pieces of shit that got their jollies seeing s black man brutalized and out in their place. I love your blog but I have no idea why you waste time with this reylo loving racist?

Yeah I heard WAY too much of this racist and antiblack apologia in the wake of tlj. I argue back and have since tlj, in the hopes of exposing how repugnant and bankrupt these “arguments” are. It’s honestly scary how eager people are to defend the tasing.

Just saw a post on here where RJ was responding to a tweet about Luke’s character being badly executed in TLJ. He was basically like ‘go & watch the OT, Luke is the same!!!111”. I genuinely cannot understand how someone can think that? Luke always kept fighting & trying to help people he loved.

And that’s why I take a dim view of RJ as a filmmaker, not only because he’s bad but because he’s arrogant. He doesn’t take feedback, he doesn’t even think he has room for improvement. Compare him to JJ, who is at the TOP of the industry right now yet freely admits he made mistakes with his record-smashing mega-hit TFA. RJ is like PT-era George who thinks he’s perfect and won’t listen to anyone, except with far less reason. I hate those “visionary” auteur types.

The advent of Symbrock is the nail in the coffin that people will ship my (dragon) villain with his sentient pet cobra if my WIP ever gets big. Don’t get me wrong it’d be healthier than and make more sense than Reylo but I don’t want people shipping a dragon with. a literal snake? I mean it wouldn’t be as problematic as Voldegini but still

Well, I guess people might see enough of a kinship between dragons and snakes to make a cross-species ship viable

Can you explain the meme about terfs and the word queer posted from your queue?

Terfs and exclusionists dislike the inclusiveness of the word queer. Terfs hate that it includes trans and nonbinary people, and exclusionists dislike its inclusion of aces and aros. Calling queer a slur and discouraging its use has become a common rallying point for these two groups, who are just two different flavors of exclusionists (the “e” in terf stands for “exclusionary”). Even exclusionists who push back against the vile transphobia of terfs sometimes give support to terfs by, say, supporting shit like “Lesbian not Queer” which was literally the follow-up to “Get the L Out” which was the successor to “Drop the T.” There’s a clear evolutionary chain where transmisogynists started hiding their transphobia behind campaigning against “queer,” and exclusionists are eating it up. You can see it happen in real time in this discussion (link) where an exclusionist who disagrees with terfs unwittingly gives them cover.

Guilt– feeling bad for doing the bad thing. Remorse– wishing you hadn’t done the bad thing. Repentance– changing yourself so you won’t do the bad thing again. Redemption– being forgiven after you’ve repented. When Kylo Ren actively tramples his own remorse, you know the other two things aren’t going to happen. He showed that by mocking Luke, asking if he’d come to save his soul. You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved. Not from making evil choices anyway.

That’s a great breakdown! If I understand it correctly redemption isn’t about human forgiveness but being right in the eyes of God, so in SW terms it would mean returning to the Light. And big as Christianity is on the “Jesus saves” thing, even there the person has to make the choice to repent.

Oh, yeah, I figured that’s what you meant. “Pride” as some would call it is just someone not disrespecting themself, which is always seen as worse for men of color by white audiences. Obviously some guilt is helpful, but only in the same way that some anger is helpful: if it motivates you to do the right thing. (Moth)

I think that might be why pride is such an important point of Black and LGBTQ+ activism. When you are told you should be ashamed of yourself for who you are, loving and taking pride in yourself become radical acts.

Kylo Ren is an excellent fake Christian, but TLJ!Rey is an excellent real one. Which makes no sense because there was nothing in TLJ to explain the sudden change. We could have had Rey learn a great lesson about forgiveness and redemption— BEFORE going to Kylo Ren, explaining her motive— and in failing learning that just because you forgive someone doesn’t mean they will change, because they have their agency. But no, Rey is suddenly an altruist for no reason.

It would have made a hell lot more sense if it were because of Finn, someone she already knows and loves. She wanted Finn to be safe, and she wanted to foist the burden of being the Jedi on Luke so she could be with Finn–and to “Ben” when Luke refused. Rey’s own psychology as someone who spent a lifetime forced to play nice with people who mistreated her also explains her actions (link). Her brief belief in Bendemption would also have been way clearer if it were shown that she was thinking about how Finn turned away from the FO (link).