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you are one of the very few people in anti reylo community with some common sense

Depends on what the “community” is. A lot of vastly different people object to the ship/shippers for different reasons and we have a varied range of opinions. Probably the one thing all antis agree on is that they are against the idea of this ship becoming canon. Some are of the opinion that it shouldn’t be shipped even as a fanon/crackship/darkship, which does not describe me or most of the people I know. Some antis dislike shippers’ racist, misogynistic, abuse apologist, war-crimes apologist etc. etc. arguments and content, and I think most of my anti posts are in this vein. Some believe shippers deserve to be harassed and suicide baited, a stance no decent person agrees with. I think the essay Fiction, Reality, Fandom, and Adulthood: a media academic and CSA/incest victim’s account (link; incest, CSA, grooming, self-harm, and abuse warning) perfectly represents my stance on the issue. A quote:

I don’t think it’s too much to ask people to have a degree of responsibility for what they put online, especially in a community so full of young people. That doesn’t mean dictating what people create: it means accepting that you have influence over other people, and if you’re not willing to admit that, maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be posting online.

Imagine if Luke is on his island, blaming himself for Kylo Ren and the disappearance of his daughter, and suddenly this random girl who reminds him too much of himself shows up. He knows he can’t be a teacher to this girl. He already failed his nephew, his daughter. He’ll just fail Rey. But then Rey, angry and hurt, goes into a cave for answers and pleads with the Force to show her her parents and Luke’s face appears. Imagine Luke’s real face when she tells him his daughter is still alive.

I’m not a huge ReySky advocate but that would still have been better than the mess TLJ gave us.

I feel like reylo won’t happen because it won’t be shocking to the audience. Everyone seems to be expecting Kylo to pull off a redemption, to make out with Rey, to get his happy ending. It would be more shocking to them if Kylo didn’t get his undeserved redemption, if Finn, Poe, Rose, or anyone else got with Rey, and if Kylo either simply died or got locked in prison.

We live in a world where white men are given infinite benefits of the doubt, where white mass shooters are taken safely into custody while innocent Black people are shot by police. SW is a franchise that has the precedent of Vader as a war criminal and mass murderer who was “redeemed,” as Kylostans love to remind us. Everyone and their grandmother can see a Kylo Ren redemption coming, which is exactly the expectation that both JJ and, rather redundantly, RJ set up and then fucking wrecked. The shock was not that the power-hungry murderer-torturer-genocidaire went on being exactly those things, but that the nice Skywalker boy refused the redemption that was handed to him on a silver platter. Twice. It’s the same thing with romance: we expect a white guy to be the romantic hero and hence we get reylow and the strenuous insistence that somehow Kylo Ren is the male lead of the franchise against the evidence of everything that actually happened in the movies.

Reylow and Bendemption are not unexpected in any sense. They are in fact everything that global pop culture has primed audiences to expect. That’s why fandom is the way it is. The true subversion would be to show the white fascist murderer be held accountable for his actions and to make it clear that he is not, in fact, entitled to the forgiveness, love, and emotional labor of the people he hurt over and over and never actually cared for. Large sections of the audience will predictably melt down if that is the endgame. Now that’s actually subversive and unexpected.

If you ask me the whole thing with the pro-abortion add stinks to high heaven. Agenda Project is in no way affiliated with PP, they’re a nothing left wing advocacy agency and the add in question is over three years old. This comes right at the heels of the political right in the US having taken a severe beating in the midterm election and now trying all they can to suppress as many left votes as they can. Not saying the add is above criticism, but the timing of it all stinks.

Trying for a distraction after an electoral rout? How shocking and unpredictable.

random question – do people cheer in movie theatres in Korea? I see lots of Americans talk about people cheering especially during movies like Star Wars but in Canada that is just not the done thing. You are supposed to be quiet in the movie theatre!! I’ve only ever been in one movie theatre where someone cheered and that was the first x-men movie when Wolverine was introduced and “Northern Alberta” flashed up on the screen there was one woo! from the front.

We don’t cheer or clap either, unless it’s a children’s movie and the kids get rowdy or something. Laughing is a whole separate thing, of course.

I have a valid fear that my family may actually like The Crimes of Grindlewald and won’t understand why I won’t. They don’t know why I’m not excited to see it even though we all liked the first one. In fairness I haven’t explained but these same people roll their eyes at the fact that I hate The Last Jedi so much.

Yeah, it might be a good idea not to see it or talk about it with them. It’s fine if they like it themselves, but why can’t they understand others might not?