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Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi (2017), dir. Rian Johnson

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The theme of this is ‘I have no idea what I’m doing’ - Adam Driver for Breitling.

#adam driver

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Rey and Kylo ready to set fire to the throne room of Snoke.

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Rec: Amnesia/Memory Loss

On request, here are some fics in which Rey or Kylo experience memory loss and have to deal with the aftermath. Suggestions welcome! 

Masterpost

+ - fic is mature/explicit

* - fic is incomplete

Multichapter:

+ Waiting for the Dark by phainopepla

+ Seldom All They Seem by ambiguously

* Ego Eris by again_please

+ Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot by thewayofthetrashcompactor (BriarLily)

An Empire’s Fall by czechia

+ Fugue by Elywyngirlie

*+ Your face, so sweet and tragic by elenlith

* A Moment’s Peace by HeavensStorywriter

All For You by reddies_spaghetti

+ Staring into the Sun by Tiara_of_Sapphires

* The Dark Places Between Stars by anythingtomakeyoustay

*+ A Second Chance by swoopswoop

* Ashes of Eden by LadyLionhart

+ Splintered by daxcat79

*+ Footnotes by Camucia

+ Conscience and Unconciousness by pontmercy44

+ Remnants Of Ben And The Things Rey Forgot by EllieCarina

* Equilibrium by Trisa Slyne

+ Opus No. 4 by BebeUnit

Sunblossom by kuresoto

*+ bellyache by unerv

* Pieces by lizzygrace12

*+ Free to Fall by uselessenglishmajor

*+ Under Lavender Skies by senti_renai

*+ Please don’t remember by Trueffle123

Released from the Shadows by sunshineflying

*+ Kill It If You Have To by RebelWren

* The Resurrection of Kylo Ren by MrsViolet

A Long Stop on a Short Trip by czechia

* Skywalker’s Heir by KeyToCastlesInTheAir

a promise of grace (under silver-grey skies) by meritmut

Series:

+ The Storm series by inthegrayworld

+ The Crossroads series by nymja

+ The Ties that Bind series by Avdal

Oneshots:

damnatio memoriae by bam_cassiopeia

Altruism by quietuniverse

Day’s Eye by cuddlesome

+ A Life Told By Strands by mweerden

i’d do anything to make you stay by krakeneggs

+ give me a run (a run for my money) by Like_A_Dove

#fics by others

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MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

(Kylo Ren sketchdump 3/?)

#art

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Rey, gazing at the sunset, dreaming of something better…  I feel like a lot of people in our world can identify.

A wonderful piece of fan art by Aurore Folny.

FIVE

HUNDRED

THIRTY

NINE

DAYS

UNTIL

EPISODE IX

#art

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rey…

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“Rey from nowhere,” Luke Skywalker calls her. A hero no one seems to know and very few seem to understand with a name that sounds like a shaft of light but is only one letter away from “grey.” She is a character designed to be ambiguous while at the same time designed to convince the audience that she not only belongs in this world, but that she’s so entrenched in it that she deserves to be held up as its champion. Much of this is accomplished through the script and the acting, but as in all good costume design, a great deal of it is conveyed through the clothes on her back. Costume designer (for both TFAand TLJ) Michael Kaplan had the same tasks set before him as the writers, director and actress herself did: to make you believe she belonged here and that she was a worthy character to root for.

#star wars #rey #very interesting read!

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Criteria for being a Star Wars fan 2018 Edition

Like Star Wars

Respect all the Star Wars family

Don’t be a bigot

Accept that it’s a fictional space opera

Don’t be a petty little bitch

Chill hoe

#this seems like a no-brainer #but I'm always surprised how many people don't follow these basic lines

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— ben x rey, the last jedi.

#beautiful!

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she sensed Kylo’s excitement, and his hunger—as if he were a beast finally freed to confront its tormenters

#this is also part-fear lashing out before he can get hurt again #this is someone who's only just broken free of his abuser in the most awful way #look at that second gif oh my goodness #he's trying to cope with what he's just done #knowing he doesn't have the time for anything because the guards are almost upon him #so he becomes feral and lashes out

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‘It was an interesting process that I had never done before, to be able to tell a lot of story without actually being seen. And then what is the difference when he takes off his mask? What do you find?’

#adam driver #I loved this process in which you fully expect him to be a certain way #and then it gets turned on its head as soon as he unmasks

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hellow sinners

#nsfw #art

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I’m so fascinated by Luke’s arc in The Last Jedi and the negative response to it because the latter reveals so much about the former.

Luke’s true failure is not that he tried to kill his nephew. Because he didn’t. Igniting his saber over Ben “and for the briefest of moments” believing that it’s possible for him to save those he loves from destruction is a moment of weakness, and Luke comes breathtakingly close to falling into the darkness of killing a defenseless boy who up to this point has done nothing wrong. But he doesn’t fall. The moment passes and he doesn’t kill him. He conquers the temptation because he understands the horror of that potential action and wants no part of it. Everyone is right. Luke Skywalker would never and could never kill his nephew. And he doesn’t!! do it!!

Now the tragedy of this (and honestly the reason that so many people interpret this moment as Luke Skywalker’s actual Fall) is that the timing of Luke’s moment of weakness, and even more pertinently the timing of the moment he actually overcomes the temptation of the dark side like the good man that he still is, literally could not have been worse. Ben wakes up, sees his uncle looming over him, (completely understandably) assumes the worst, and responds instantly with violence and passion. The tragedy isn’t that Luke tried to kill his nephew; it’s that his nephew thought he did. The results of this moment for Ben- though founded on an incomplete and skewed understanding of the situation- are the same as if that understanding had been the whole truth. The trauma is as real and and as damaging, the chain of events set in motion by this moment as catastrophically heartbreaking as if Luke really did try to kill his student, his nephew, while he was literally defenseless and sleeping.

But the damage done to Ben Solo by this moment doesn’t change the fact that this moment isn’t actually Luke’s true failure. Luke’s actual fall is that he is so horrified by how close he came to killing his nephew, so appalled by how precariously he teetered right on the edge of the darkness he thought he’d conquered that he retreats, shuts down, shuts himself off from the force, and falls into self-doubt so complete it practically is despair. It is despair. That is Luke Skywalker’s fall- not the fact that he was so horrified by a vision of personal destruction and loss that violence and anger gripped him and urged him to fight back but then ultimately had the strength and the virtue to pull himself back from the edge of that darkness, but the fact that he never allowed that falling into darkness is human. His fall is believing that a moment of darkness that he didn’t and ultimately never intended to act on was as bad as actually committing the crime itself, that it was a fall and corresponding chain of events for which he was wholly responsible. Luke tries to take on responsibility  and guilt that isn’t his, and because he tries to do that he cannot bear the weight of it. It is not his guilt to carry and so of course he cannot bear it. He gives up and retreats. He believes he is the monster that he never actually was.

And the thing that kills me about this whole thing and that I think is brilliant and heartbreaking and frustrating all at once is that the response from (a fairly loud subsection of) the audience to Luke’s arc demonstrates that it is completely reasonable and in character for Luke to fall into this trap of hating himself and doubting himself on the most fundamental level. It is the very fact that so many readings of this movie took Luke’s lightsaber moment with Ben as his tragic flaw- and loudly proclaimed it was out of character because Luke would never!!- that reveals exactly why Luke actually fell into such despair and self-doubt. Luke and the audience make the same mistake. Luke knows how “out of character” this moment of darkness was, so out of character that he cannot even bring himself to believe that he didn’t actually do it (even though he didn’t actually do it!). A man who kills his nephew in his sleep is so far from the man Luke Skywalker believed himself to be that the horror of coming so close to becoming that man rocked him to his very foundation. The reaction to Luke’s arc for many star wars fans was the impassioned conviction that it had ruined Luke’s character because it ignored and betrayed the very thing that Luke Skywalker would never do. But the arc doesn’t ignore this fact; it is built on it. It rests solidly on the foundation of what Luke would never do and it is that very reality which catapults Luke into his actual and tragic failure in this movie- the failure to forgive and trust himself for experiencing- and briefly but not ultimately giving into true and powerful temptation.

There is a reason that Luke’s reintegration with the Force and with his family, the restoration of his self-confidence and his hope takes the entire movie. Every cry that Rian Johnson committed character assassination and ruined countless childhoods brilliantly illuminates why. If large sections of the audience cannot watch Luke Skywalker contemplate a wicked act for “the briefest of moments” without being overcome with a horror so strong it doesn’t even let them see the moment where the darkness passes and the light and goodness triumph, why would the man himself be able to? Why would his confrontation with the darkness and the knowledge that he was a flicker away from falling into the abyss- coupled with the fact that he had to watch the consequences of a crime he did not commit play out anyway- not shake him to his core and destroy him so completely that he can’t help but convince himself that he did in fact do the thing he would never do? For every cry of “Luke Skywalker would never!” Luke himself had to face that same reality and when he realized that he almost did the thing he would never do, of course he broke down and wondered “If Luke Skywalker would never, then who am I now? Because I almost did.”

#tlj #meta by others #I loved Luke's arc #and this post hits home in so many ways -- such a beautiful way to represent the character

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I think it says a lot about certain parts of the fandom that they completely ignore that REY is the one who said “they were nobody” first, in regards to her parents. They ignore what Rey has to say and instead hyper focus on Kylo’s too blunt way of reinforcing what’s Rey has already said.

#meta by others #very true #he's being her reality check #and yeah sometimes that is tough love #but I don't think he genuinely set out to hurt her by saying it