lj-writes:

lj-writes:

Waiting for them to call my name, hoping they never do arrgh why do I get so stupidly nervous about dental exams

I’M SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT I THOUGHT MY FEMALE DENTIST WAS AN OLDER NURSE 😂

Wow they have a lot of fancy equipment here no wonder it’s a multi dentist practice –it just makes sense, they can share the equipment as well as the space

My appointment went okay, not the best news but about what could be expected and probably better than I deserved. Get regular exams if you’re able, don’t be a dumbass like me who waits until something hurts.

I don’t get why people think Finn both being a military leader and having the Force is somehow strange for Star Wars. After all, we have a rather outsized example of this already.

It’s not just the combination of Force and military abilities either, but also the characters’ story positions. Finn being the “war” part of the triad gives him the position Leia should
have occupied in the OT, the character with ties to both the military
and the Force who embodies what the war is about: The human face of the
Empire’s atrocities, the survivor who chose to fight. Leia should have
been the central figure of the war and not Han’s plus-one on what
were essentially his plots and missions.

Done right Leia would have been
more like Katniss in The Hunger Games, damaged and traumatized from her
experiences, inspiring by her story and example. RO tried to shoehorn
Jynn into Katniss’s Mockingjay role except it never worked because Jynn
didn’t have the representative story. Obviously the Mockingjay figures
were Cassian and the Jedhans (Bodhi, Chirrut, Baze), but yet again SW
shied away from giving center stage to victims of wide-scale atrocities.
It shied away again with Finn in TLJ.

This refusal to have central Mockingjay figures, I believe, reflects SW’s basic ambivalence as a franchise that is more comfortable with destined saviors than with exploited and destroyed peoples saving themselves. Maybe that comes of SW being a USAmerican franchise dealing with fascism, the contradiction of a country that is fundamentally fascistic and imperialistic trying to tell itself a story of being antifascist and anti-imperialist. America can’t face the full implication of truly upending its fascist underpinnings, in fiction as in reality. Instead the brutal form of fascism is replaced by the “soft” fascism of worshipping benign supermen.

Then along comes JJ Abrams, someone in a position to know the contradictions and falsity in the story America tells about itself. He shows the New Republic’s compromise with fascism destroying it morally as well as physically, a year ahead of the 2016 election. He shows how the worship of the Skywalkers as the chosen line gave us Kylo Ren. He gives us Finn, one of the First Order’s victims, as a strong and central figure.

Finn in IX could be the character that Leia could have been–the one who ties it all together, the military plot and the Force plot, the story of war with the story of spirituality and morality. He could be the character that embodies both the evil of the First Order and the determination, on a personal, visceral level, to fight it. He could be the character that brings audiences face to face with what it means when people who are considered expendable in the quest for greatness stand up and fight back. He could solve the Star Wars dilemma and finally break the vicious cycle of destruction the galaxy far, far away has become trapped in. I certainly hope so.

(Spun off from a discussion with @fuckyeahrebelfinn [link])

#and this is exactly why I believed Finn and Rey’s seperation in TLJ could’ve been brilliant #bc Leia should’ve been the character to introduce Finn to this role in the ST #but then RJ…. whatever the fuck #now that one movie was wasted I’m afraid we can’t get into the politics of this the way we should have

That speculation was not baseless at all, given that John was saying in July 2017 that Finn would be in “another form of training” alongside Leia (link). This is so wildly out of line with what we saw in TLJ that I have to wonder if John was led to believe TLJ was going to be a different movie altogether. Or maybe it’s the way his answer was edited and the “alongside General Leia” comment wasn’t meant to go together with the training comment at all. It’s still really weird and yeah, either way a big opportunity was lost to have Finn interact with and learn from Leia.

digitaldiscipline:

lj-writes:

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This is unbelievable. Jemel Roberson was stopping an active shooter situation and the police shoot him?

Let’s play “guess the ethnicity of the unnamed officer fucko who shot him.”

mace-windu-appreciationweek:

Mace Windu: We’re here to arrest you.

Palpatine: *murders the other three Jedi there*

Palpatine: *literally using a DEADLY force move against Mace Windu*

Mace Windu: *defending himself, because if he stops for even a MOMENT he will be killed by the lightening he’s redirecting*

Mace: Anakin this man, who is literally actively trying to kill me in such a way if I stop this defensive stance I will die, is too dangerous to live. He is currently ACTIVELY trying to kill me, right now.

Anakin: This isn’t the Jedi way.

Anakin stans and people who hate Mace for no reason: SEE Mace is BAD and WRONG, him insisting that a man who just murdered three of his fellows and is STILL actively attempting to murder him as the scene takes place means it’s just like Anakin beheading a disarmed and non-resisting Dooku. MACE IS BAD!!!1!

A white hair tangled in my broom is somehow sadder than one on my head.

quasi-normalcy:

unicornempire:

elencaorange:

Twitter

This is some truth laid down right here boy.

Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so

I also don’t see why people don’t consider Watership Down. Just because it’s voicework? The internet loves to go on about Mark Hamill’s voicework, and rightfully so, so you’d think people would consider Boyega having a leading role in a big-name adaptation of a beloved book would be considered success. (Moth)

themandalorianwolf:

It’s just cause there is a large margin of people who just don’t want John to succeed period. John Boyega’s net worth is literally just the same as Daisy Ridley’s, 6 million, so it’s not about money. He’s gotten just as many big name acting gigs, so it’s about acting chops, and John has proved that he’s one of the most talented up and coming actors there is. It’s honestly just cause he’s black that he goes through this type of rubbish. Black folk will always be under the microscope when it comes to being in a mostly white fan community that has never had a black protagonist.

thelastjedicritical:

I just found this folder full of TLJ promo pics I had saved back when I still believed this movie could be good and I briefly remembered that feeling. Oh wow, how glorious that was and how ruthlessly it was destroyed…

Looking back at the pre-TLJ posts is quite a trip. I spent weeks after the release in shock that they could have treated Finn like that.

themandalorianwolf:

iamreysolo:

from-naboo-to-jakku:

Han: I had a little girl once, you know. She would have been about your age actually.

Rey: What happened to her?

Han: She was … she was taken from me.

My favorite thing on Tumblr right now. ♡

I might love Rey Skywalker, but Rey Solo is just as amazing 😉

diversehighfantasy:

imagine-mystrade:

jewishcomeradebot:

Why does Rey intended to try and bring Kylo back to the Light? She makes it clear to Luke that she’s doing it for the Resistance’s sake when he still refuses to return after offers him the lightsaber for the second time.

But why would the Resistance ever need Kylo? Even without any kind of training Rey kicked his ass. She “borrows” Luke’s books, presumably to use them as a reading course for brushing up on Jedi skills. With that she’d be more than able to kick his ass again.

If the Resistance has her it’ll never need Kylo, Ben or whatever he might choose to call himself.

Except, the Resistance doesn’t have Rey does it?

She had no plan on joining forces with the Resistance after they deliver BB-8 to them, only wanted to go back to Jakku. In TLJ her two constants while she is with Luke is to consistently ask him to return with her and try to get information about or word to Finn. And her last words to Finn in TFA is that she believes they’ll see each other again.

In fact she seems intent on dispensing with her errand as quickly as possible so she can return to the Resistance so she can return fast. Last she had a chance to really talk to Finn he made it clear he had no intention of becoming a part of the Resistance or stick around, for all she knows he’ll be gone the moment he’s up and about.

She has no intention of sticking around with the Resistanc, she just want someone else who can deal with all of this and when Luke refuses to return, Rey turns to Kylo as her second option. If she can turn him back to the Light then she can dump the Resistance and all this Force nonsense in his lap and fly off into the sunset with her new boyfriend – the only living person who cared enough for her to make sure she was safe and free even at great cost to himself – and enough knowledge that she doesn’t create mishaps with her new abilities.

I think a lot of people miss this, tbh. Rey was looking to get back to Finn. You get the impression that Rey felt that the “Luke issue” was not that he was depressed, necessarily, but that he was somewhere no one could find him and that as soon as he was found and told that the First Order was killing people, he’d just come back immediately. She likely thought she’d be on Ahch-To only long enough to find Luke, tell him the deal, help him back his stuff, and then head back to the last reported position of the Resistance fleet.

It’s still bad writing for her to assume that Kylo is the last hope. Why not try to find Maz, who is Force Sensitive, though not a trained Jedi? Maz said in TFA she knows the Force, and I think she probably knew her way around a lightsaber. She’s obviously worried about Finn. He’s out of the woods in TFA (which is another continuity shitball courtesy of Rian Johnson), but not conscious. It’s clear she wants to return to him. I think she also wants to help rid the galaxy of the First Order, but I think she thought her part in it was to scoop Luke up and bring him to where he could help. The whole “There’s something inside me that’s awakened” is Rian Johnsass’s projection bullshit that had no place in this movie.

If you look at Rey as the actual protagonist of her own arc, her story is like a classic Odyssey; like Odysseus the goal is to get back home (Finn has replaced Jakku as her belonging place). She faces a string of mental and physical challenges to reaching that goal, including breaking through to an uncommunicative Luke, finding the lightsaber, learning Force control, facing herself in the cave, and, of course, Kylo Ren, who tries to Siren-song her to the Dark Side, and the physical battles with the Guards and the FO ships at Crait.

Holy shit this adds a whole new meaning to the look Rey gave Finn and
Rose. It’s like Odysseus braving gods, witches, monsters and what have
you to come home to Penelope, only to find her beleaguered by suitors.
Finn has a new commitment to the Resistance and at least one new
friend–perhaps girlfriend?–that he cares about very much. Rey doesn’t
know how hard he tried to keep her safe and meet up with her, and we
don’t know if the deleted scene where he saw BB-8′s recording is canon.
The deleted scene being canon would explain much about his attempt to
leave, but there’s also dramatic irony in the two of them being like
ships passing in the night, each pining for the other while being
unaware the other feels the same. It’s the classic “mutual unrequited
crush” situation, except with magic, lasers, and fascists.

And
now Luke is gone and Kylo has refused yet again to return to the light.
Rey is the only known Force user left to fight for the Resistance, and
Finn, who had asked her to come with him, is staying of his own free
will. In TFA it was Finn who said “Come with me” and Rey who told him,
“Don’t go.” In TLJ it was Rey who was fighting her way to his side, for
the chance to say “Come with me” with a clear conscience, and now both
the needs of the universe and Finn himself are telling her without
words, “Don’t go.”

As Rey watches Finn and Rose, is she
regretting the fact that she didn’t go when he asked? Wondering if she
might be the one he would be tucking in if she had left with him? But
also realizing that this isn’t just about the two of them, they can’t
ignore the threat of the First Order and now they are both enmeshed?
Wondering if they will ever be able to live free of the looming menace
and the moral obligation to fight it, whether they will both make it out
alive to think about a future together, doubting whether the two of
them together is even on the table for him anymore?

Like John said on Twitter (link here), that look said it all.