Talking up a storm about Adora and Catra (link to Mastodon thread) only confirms my initial impression that Catradora is Finn/Slip if they had been a lot closer and Slip had lived (there’s also a lot of Nines and Zeroes in Catra, too). Despite what some random anti-anti yelled at me before blocking me (wtf?), Catradora isn’t about one of them abusing the other but rather about two victims who were torn apart by favoritism, fell into an unhealthy but stable dynamic as a result, and are still dealing with the fallout.
Yeah, those leaks about Finn and Poe going off on an unrelated subplot are bloody bs. It’s A. too early for leaks with the filming timeline and B. John and Daisy already confirmed they’d be shooting together, and that will talks that John and Adam were sword training together and that Gleeson said he had been filming with Adam so far, I think it’s safe to say that any leaks of separation are Reylow propaganda.
“The new She-Ra isn’t what I want women to look like, which means she looks like a man! The show has different sexualities and body types, what SJW garbage! How am I supposed to jack off to this?”
“The one black director of Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse is a leftist on Twitter who supports antifa! That means this movie is SJW soyboy propaganda! I’m boycotting!”
“MCU Captain Marvel doesn’t have an ass and doesn’t Smile Enough! Brie Larson is an SJW with a cunty looking face! And why does this Marvel Rising cartoon exist? This is just feminazi shit like in the comics!”
“Star Wars is about Mary Sues and SJW shit now! It’s ruined!”
“What is happening to the entertainment industry?!?! Wahhh SJW feminazi cuck snowflake libtard soy ruining everything!!!!”
Reysky stans reaction to the leak about Rey fixing Anakin’s old lightsaber display in glaring light why I don’t trust the ones who profess to care about Finn. Because not a single one of the raised any objection to the selfsame leak shoving Finn into a side plot, that the whole plot of IX is supposed to be about building a conflict between Kylo and Rey and that the final battle are between these two as well.
They were all too busy flipping out over the “confirmation” that Rey fixing the lightsaber means JJ is changing her background and making her a Skywalker.
So no, I do not trust reysky stans post TLJ, no matter how much the profess to love Finn. Because they’ll throw him and his character under the bus at the first hint that white girl is special, celebrating all the while.
If that’s the actual plot they can count me out. It sounds boring as shit.
Is there any kind of non-shippy fic exploring Rey and Kylo’s Force bond? Because honestly, that whole Force bond is ripe for dramatic exploration (think Ezra Bridger and Darth Maul), but it definitely throws me off any interest in reading it if there’s a mutual romantic feelings element. (I wouldn’t even be that keen on Kylo having one-sided feelings~ for Rey, given the whole “blame her for Snoke’s death and later order her ship to be shot down and also try to kill everybody in the resistance” thing.)
Honestly, the Force bond stuff has a lot of fic potential for not-at-all-romantic Rey and Kylo. Not something I’d want to see in episode IX, but in fic it would be fascinating to explore the idea that Rey tapping into Kylo’s Force-abilities is something that can be affected and even stopped… and that Rey might have to re-learn how to do certain things in the Force for herself once the Force-bond is severed. Or that Kylo could tap into what Rey knows by using that Force-bond, and he attempts to harm the Resistance with what he learns.
People posting fic to AO3 need to learn that the & represents a non-romantic connection. In other words: there are multiple reylo fics using the tag Rey & Kylo Ren that should instead be tagged Rey/Kylo Ren.
Seriously there is not enough genfic about Rey and Kylo, and not enough genfic in general though that’s another (if related) complaint. Her becoming more powerful through the Force Bond is in fact an interesting idea that should have been shown and dealt with in the movie, and I think it also serves as a metaphor for the way people can hesitate to cut off unhealthy ties because they gain something through them–including survival itself. Like maybe Kylo threatens to cut the bond himself when Rey rejects his offer, warning her that she will lose her accelerated learning and will be defeated, giving her a real choice to make and actual suspense. She would in fact start losing, but the ship getting cut in half would save her much like the planet falling apart in TFA saved him. And then there would be other fallout later, Rey has to find harder but ultimately more lasting ways to train, Kylo uses information he gleaned from the Bond as you say. Like, give me actual consequences, choices, and tension. I did like that the idea of Kylo Ren as some poor misunderstood woobie was thoroughly trashed and Rey had one of the better arcs in the movie having to grow beyond her insecurities that he preyed on, but the execution was weak compared to the potential of the idea.
Here’s a tribute video I made to one of my favorite Star Wars characters of all time! Seriously, props to John Boyega for bringing this character to life. It’ll be great to see him in the sequel to TFA come next year for IX! It took for years, but better late than never for a proper sequel.
Patreon reward of Finn and Rey’s twin daughter and son practicing with lightsabers! I think I have drawn future kiddos for a ship before, but it’s been a really long time.
At first they appeared only as random bystanders, obstacles to be avoided. Then there were more of them, and more, and more. Men and women and children, and suddenly FN-2187 could see only them and not the enemy hiding among them. He could see only those innocents, and in that moment he no longer pull the trigger. [excerpt from Before the Awakening]
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