It’s started. Three black Finn fans have deleted. I will be following suit. I’m not going to stay where people who look like me and my family are obviously not wanted. I feel for John Boyega. This was supposed to be his big break. I’m not giving Disney another dime of my money and LF can burn to ashes. I’ve finally taken the hint and a lot of other black fans are going to follow us. I hope LF enjoys its white fanbase. Hope them making sci fi great again was worth it.

I have literal tears in my eyes. I wish I had an argument to convince you to stay but I don’t. Take care of yourself and I hope you find a worthier fandom or other hobby for your time and money. I wish you all the best.

the dude who made the SDCC posters is so full of shit. first he prefaces it by saying it has nothing to do with race despite acknowledging he’s a white man who has never not been represented. he says there’s no poe or finn on the cover because they aren’t part of the “skywalker legacy”- yet rey random is the forefront? yet obi wan and quigon are on the phantom menace one? the only thing that’s keeping me sane about these reylos jerking off in the comments is the fact that it’ll never be canon

Fuck him for thinking Finn and Poe carrying on the legacy of resistance and hope isn’t part of the Skywalker legacy. He’s missed the entire damned point of TFA and TLJ if he thinks the Skywalker legacy has anything to do with blood anymore–in fact he’s bought into the very point of view these movies were advocating against.

This is exactly the kind of white liberal I fucking hate, the type that says “it’s not racist unless I say it is” and refuses to do any kind of introspection while giving lip service to it. Yeah, he, a white guy, gets to define racism. I hope Finnrey becomes canon in Episode IX and he cries white tears along with the Reylows over Rey kissing a Black man. Fuck them all sideways, seriously.

CW anon discussing racism and antiblackness under the fold:

That’s pretty disturbing, if not surprising. Holy shit.

Guys the schedule of filming IX is about to start less than a day where I’m at. And I can’t help and wonder of what trio’s looks are going to be.

*screaming* People this is not a drill!

You know in the end of tlj were we finally had Rey and Finn scene of them hug together. Well there is a Reylo art of Rey hugging not Finn but FUCKING kilo run they erased Finn and drew kilo just to have that moment. Geez can they just stop. It’s really annoying how reylow just see a pic of Daisy/Rey with Finn/John and erase him over Adam/Kilo.w

Reylows: FINN AND REY HAVE NO ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY WHATSOEVER

Also Reylows: But replace Finn with Kilo and it’s peak romance 🙂

hey, 19 year old mexican fan over here. SO I recently joined a show fandom, but i seem to have fallen into a rarepair hell, and the problem its that fans are either antis (which i find stupid cuz is Not based on abuse or violence, nor is it racist or sidelines a person of color, its literally the crackiest of crackships, isnt even canon) or some of the shippers are.. let just say that the girl i followed for most content turn out to be obsesed for the creepiest psychopath of the show.

(Part2) still me, sorry. But another thing i noticed its that a
huge part of the fandom are (mostly) white lesbians. And you see, theres
a canon romantic relationship between a white man and a dark skinned
black woman, but everyone seems obsessed with shipping him with the show
lead, a canon gay albeit white man. And yes, the blogs are not openly
racist toward her but the slash pairing its the one with the most ao3
works, posts, fanart. And she gets only an ocasional post, or part of an
ot3,

(Pt3) or even an Ot4, cuz the lead has a canon love interest.
And, i dont know, maybe im just exagerating, cuz there are many girls
who arent white, and fans seem to love her in general, but then again
its pretty obvious which ship they prioritize and prefer (the white
slash ship, even if the shows ends with the guy betrays the other
because he loves the girl so much, choosing her over his best friend,
the lead), or that she should haven been a lesbian. Fandoms (even the
queer ones)are the worst

Wow, aside from a few details this could be The Walking Dead TV show, The Flash or a bunch of other fandoms. Why you gotta be so predictable fandom smh

You know back in the day when Twilight existed and fangirls created this team call Team Edward and Team Jacob shit and twilight girls are debating who Bella should be with like with a white pedophile man who lived a century or a native protective man who cares ad support and they’re about the same age. But anyway it remind me kind of like how it is now, where we Team Reylow and Team Finnrey and Team Stormpilot. Just saying since IX is the last sw sequel.

Reylow isn’t a normal shipping war situation, though. With Twilight there were two potential romances set up, though it was clear Bella was overwhelmingly attracted to Edward. With Reylow there’s NO romance set up and people are being asked to ignore the romantic overtones between Finn and Rey. Plenty of Finnpoes whose ship would theoretically be “helped” by Reylow are anti Reylow and pro canon Finnrey.

Also this hardly needs to be said but neither Bella x Edward nor Bella x Jacob is a parallel for Reylow nor Finnrey. Both of those guys were pretty creepy and possessive if I recall correctly, and neither wanted to destroy Bella and everyone she loves like Ren does.

Visual

similarities

really

this

this?

Notice how I don’t have to dishonestly erase and ignore the actual context of Finn and Rey’s interactions in order to make these? That’s because these are the beats of an actual meet-cute and not disingenuous distortions of canon. I am critical of how violently Finn was struck in the face and how it was played comedically, but it is part of a common pattern with these stories.

Yes, the Rey and Kyle visuals could look similar if you took their scenes out of all context while disregarding the characters and stories–and that’s the point. These shitty “parallel” posts are attempts to sanitize the context of the originals, as though kidnap, torture, and manipulation constitute a normal meet-cute.

Also isn’t it interesting how these posts disregard an actual “Reylow” parallel where the Light Fury is trapped and terrified, then appears to be borne away against her will? For all that shippers insist the abduction was romantic as hell, it seems they don’t like actually acknowledging Rey’s pain and fear…

…or the fact that this means Kyle’s actual parallel in HTTYD 3 is this wavy-haired douche dressed in black.

Also saying “they’re kid’s movies” to discourage critique is an ass move. Do you think children are immune to issues like abuse and violence in real life? You don’t think children, like the rest of us, use stories to understand and cope with their lives? I know I relied on fiction as a child to deal with things I couldn’t tell people and didn’t even have the vocabulary to express. If anything children’s media need to be scrutinized more, not less, for the ways they’re framing these and other issues.

You’re also a raging hypocrite if you’re fine with kidnap, torture, and manipulation being disguised as a cute and harmless romance and being deliberately put in the tags for a children’s movie (especially when many of the shippers openly admit the ship is a kink for them), but think the people who criticize that practice need to “chill a little.” Fuck. Off.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard for those shippers to acknowledge that he’s a villain. I have an oc I ship with Thrawn (they’re the same species and about the same age) who is a minor antagonist herself. One of the first things I wrote for them was a scene where someone asks her about what he’s done and she just flat out tells them that if they want to hold him accountable for it, she won’t stop them. Because it’s not her job to protect or redeem him.

Yeah I mean… I think the entire universe has told them by this point, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with liking a villain?? There’s no need to twist canon, justify war crimes, or throw actual people under the bus just to lust over some square dude??

I suspect it’s purity wank for some of them, as in nothing they like can be problematic because they are perfect. I suspect also that some really want to see Kyle Ron as justified because of a desire to justify their own or others’ entitlement, abuse, and violence.

Also God bless your OC. I love women who know exactly what they want without any illusions. You go girl, get that sweet blue ass and don’t let anyone shame you for it.

This is probably a dumb question but… is their a way to stop reylow taking over everything?

One thing I’ve been doing is calling them out when they put irrelevant content in the tags I go to, and blocking the worst offenders. A lot of shippers aren’t out-and-out jerks, just ignorant of the effect of their overtagging and crosstagging, and when called on it could change their behavior. The ones who won’t, well that’s what the block button is for.