Out of a combination of spite and not wanting to clutter up the main religion tags I have a new tag to contain the discourse spawned by, and this is true, reblogging a gif where Thandie Newton thanks God with a feminine pronoun. See the #alexa play god is a woman tag for the madness.
It’s a reference to a post I saw going around where Han tells Finn “That’s not how the Force works!” and Chirrut’s voice says from a distance, “That’s exactly how it works!” (Link) To be fair there are times I type the tag and then press post by mistake instead of queue, in which case that’s literally not how it works XD
Sure thing! Would the usual #anti reylo tag do or would you like something else like #reylo mention #reylo leak or so on? (I also really need to get better at tagging asks in general.)
When you read a review in comic form that has nothing good to say about TLJ, is critical of the treatment of Finn and Poe, points out the numerous continuity and plot holes, thinks Kylo Ren’s shirtless scene was terrible forced humor and sees nothing sexual about it whatsoever, and is blistering about just how incoherent Rose’s character was:
I think of it and treat it as a reclaimed slur, especially when used by women. I remember promising to tag it as “gendered slur” a while back, something I have been… very bad at keeping to. Honestly if you object to the use of the word this blog probably isn’t for you, since I use it like every other word lmao.
i’m yelling because daisy was literally talking about how it was hard not being a ‘team’ with john for this movie because people responded so well to them together. she KNOWS y’all are out there shipping finnrey. she was NERVOUS to go away from that coupling because of the way people would respond. i can’t believe how obvious rey and kylo’s intersection is at this point. my wig has been launched into orbit.
this is funny because none of this is factual as you statement implies but is in fact 100% supposition on your part.
let’s not forget that when daisy did have an instagram account she got harassed by anti finnrey folks for posting a pic of her friend on his birthday. but yeah sure, daisy’s real life friendship with john doesn’t factor in when talking about wanting to work with him. she’s must be super excited about her awkward work relationship with adumb dryer.
Imagine ignoring Daisy’s friendship with John this studiously and talking about finnrey like it’s some weird crackship that makes her nervous. Some industrial strength projection going on in this post.
Op your wig is certainly… not on your head.
hi 🙂 welcome to my blog. happy hour is from 5-7 pm
If you don’t want finnreys responding then maybe don’t tag it finnrey.
When did I crosstag, though? I crosstagged into a ship tag once criticizing the ship, apologized when called on it, and took it out of the tag. If you tell me which one I’m crosstagging I’ll fix it, but I assure you it was not done on purpose.
What’s the betting that what nonny considers crosstagging is actually them being incapable of searching Tumblr properly.
I would bet money it’s a reylo who hasn’t learned the magic of the # symbol, because we get so many of them yelling in our properly tagged posts about supposed crosstaging. But of course it’s easier to call people monkeys in anons than actually learn to use Tumblr.
So yeah… I am here in peace just to tell you that please do NOT crosstag in the REYLO tag .
¿How not to do it? Well…very simple
When you tag something like “anti reylo” your post is going to appear in the reylo tag. But… If you tag it as “antireylo” (yeah with no spaces between the words) we will not see your reasons or shit posts about our OTP. So yeah be smart.
Thanks (not really)
Search for #reylo instead of reylo and your problems are solved. Learn to use tumblr before you accuse others of crosstagging.
Not at all, anon! I’ve removed the DID tag, and for good measure multiples and plurals as well. I’m very sorry about my inconsiderateness, I’m not always clear on the boundary between tagging for my own purposes and what might show up in the general tags. I’ll be more careful in the future.
What happens when you’re told, “Don’t think about the elephant?” Chances are, you’ll immediately think of an elephant.
I think that’s the problem with the Light Side of the Force as we have known it: So many of the doctrines and practices of the LS, such as the Old Jedi way of not forming attachments, are premised on resisting the temptations of the Dark Side.
If your goal is not to turn Dark, then what are you going to be thinking about? The Dark Side. This is why puritanism of all stripes is destined to fail, because it’s consumed more with what it’s against (sex! rock ‘n roll! murder!) than what it’s for (eh, love and peace I guess?).
Anakin Skywalker’s story from the prequel trilogy is a prime example of this in the Star Wars saga, walking into the one place you were determined not to go. Intentionally or not, the prequels were an indictment of the Jedi way.
I think similarly, trying not to turn to the Light Side has a polarizing effect on those who turn to the Dark Side of the Force. You can see this with Kylo Ren in the new trilogy, thinking too hard about how not to go Light and then running to bugfucking extremes in the other direction.
The results of such extremism, in turn, are so horrific that the other side becomes understandably all the more preoccupied with, you know, NOT BEING THAT HELL NO and, again, being more anti-Dark than anything else. This doesn’t make the LS morally equivalent to the DS, but it does mean that LS practitioners can fall into the trap of puritanism.
Going to extremes seems to be a major theme of the upcoming movie, The Last Jedi, and Adam Driver who plays Kylo Ren has discussed mass murder committed by “both sides” (maybe this is his character’s perspective, I don’t agree with it) and how he took inspiration from the absolute moral certainty of terrorists in playing his character. As director Rian Johnson has repeatedly said the movie will showcase moral ambiguity, it’s a safe bet that we’ll see the good guys go to extremes, too, something we have also seen in Rogue One.
We can reliably tell where many of the characters old and new fit into this increasingly polarized galaxy: Leia, Poe, Holdo, Rose, Paige, and others on one side, Snoke, Kylo Ren, Phasma, and Hux on the other.
Other characters, on the other hand, stand in notable contrast to the characters whose allegiances are well known. Luke, the character we thought was the Rebel to end all Rebels and the Jediest of them all, not only stayed away for years but still seems reluctant to join the fight. Rey is definitely Resistance-allied, but is still trying to find her place in all this. “DJ,” a new character, is a cynical outsider who’s only in it for the creds.
Then there’s Finn, who has been in and rejected the First Order and fought alongside the Resistance, but as of the beginning of TLJ is not a committed fighter. Like Luke, he’s wounded from past experience; like Rey, he’s still figuring himself out after his life was turned upside down; and like DJ, he is cynical of causes in general, something I have previously discussed.
In a universe of absolutes Finn stands out with the other uncommitted characters for his refusal, at first, to choose a side. Turning against the First Order does not mean he automatically chose the Resistance, though he has worked with them.
Interestingly, for someone who rejected absolute evil he seems to have very little to prove. He’s not obsessed with trying not to be evil, or with trying to be good by fighting evil. He suffers the undeserved shame of the abused, but he’s not consumed by it. He doesn’t beat himself up over killing Stormtroopers to defend himself or wonder if that makes him as bad as them, a lack of self-flagellation that some fans have criticized him for. He doesn’t agonize over whether he might be a bad person for lying to the Resistance so he could go back for Rey.
Finn is, in other words, the opposite of a puritan. He refuses to do evil, and that’s enough. He’s not consumed by the thought of it. He tries to be good to the people he meets and distrusts causes and grand theories.
Finn is most definitely not Dark Side, but he’s also not the Light Side as we’ve come to understand it, an anti-Dark puritanism. He allegiance, I believe, is to the Balance as near as I understand it, a goodness that is defined by what it supports, not what it opposes, a space that has room for human ambiguity and fallibility without fear of turning to irrevocable evil.
It’s significant to me that right after his arguably most morally questionable and admirably badass decision was revealed–that he had lied to the Resistance to come get Rey–Finn immediately brings up tho Force to a livid Han.
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