#but reylo will always be that to me

[itspileofgoodthings]

always thinking about when I was talking to a friend about IX about Ben’s death and she said “there was a whole lifetime in his smile” and I just. think about that forever.

#reylo #i know that like. nobody cares. and all the reylos have left/unfollowed in the way of scattering fandoms and I’m still at the restaurant #sitting in the corner I haunt #but reylo will always be that to me #anyway there WAS a whole lifetime in his smile 😭😭😭😭 #the thing about Ben and Rey is that they were simply and ultimately so quiet and so private #like. just the two of them in all the world #and for them to be stuck in the hugest of franchises in the most controversial of sequels in the most disappointing of final installments #just makes me love them more. #I’m a fighter. I’m a lover AND a fighter #anyway it’s just. I know #he just. it’s all there on his face. Breaking through the mask of his suffering and his dysfunction and all of his choices #just shining out for one perfect moment before he slipped away

[io-lu-art]

Idk who needed this, but here ya go....

(I did.)

Sneak peak, because I have mercy for your poor timelines :'D

Full song after the page break:

Not me procrastinating both my post tlj fanscript and every thing else important in my life with more random reylo...

It took me a while to figure out the context in which this could actually happen. Probably Ben Solo fighting with the Resistance, trying to prove and redeem himself and make things right. He'd feel the pressure to do it all by himself until it would crush him completely. Rey would remind him to take a break (unintentional Hamilton reference this time! lol I swear on my heart, body and soul) and keep him grounded.

I am not comparing Ben to Hamilton btw, in case it comes across like I am. My head is just very random sometimes.

Don't mind me dropping the video of the actual performance at the very end, because ⭐Phillipa Soo⭐ everybody!

Edit: as requested, AO3

#hamilton musical #that would be enough #reylo #crossover #i guess #but also #au #probably #question mark #I listened to Hamilton on repeat for two days and it got me thinking #and these are my thoughts #because i can't stop thinking about these two #had some pretty messed up days and Hamilton got me through them #as always #rey nobody #redeemed ben solo #ben solo #ben solo deserved better #Youtube #lin manuel miranda #phillipa soo #Spotify

[d3sertdream3r]

Me when amazing characters get garbage storylines from writers that don’t deserve them

#WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME #Why can’t my faves get to be happy 😭😭😭 #christopher lightwood #CoT spoilers #gracetopher #ben solo #reylo #oliver queen #arrow #olicity #danaerys targaryen #GoT #doctor who #hiccup and toothless #httyd 3 #tony stark #avengers endgame #dean winchester #supernatural #wanda maximoff #I’M DONE

[emeraldspiral]

Remember that glorious period between late 2019 and early 2020 when Reylo and ZADR were both among the top 10-20 ships on Fandometrics for several weeks? Because I sure do.

#my first and latest #etl hyperfixations #reminding me that i have always had exquisite taste #reylo #zadr

[orthopoogle]

You know, I’ve become a big defender of women’s media (Twilight movies, Victorian romance genre, romance novels, etc.) deserving their place in pop culture without ridicule, but it always got on my nerves when Reylo shippers started up the whole “People only hate Reylo because it’s for women, and society hates things that are for women!!!” song and dance when the sequels were coming out.

Like yes, Twilight faced a lot of insanely over the top backlash back in the day compared to, say, the Transformers movies, and an honest assessment of much of this backlash can be boiled down to, “12-year-old girls like this thing, so it’s stupid and problematic.” But the difference is that something like Twilight or the 2005 Pride & Prejudice or One Direction’s music has a specific target audience in mind, and that target audience is teen girls and women. These properties are made specifically for the female audience to consume, which doesn’t necessarily exclude boys or men from liking them, but the male audience isn’t typically who the creators of these properties are actively trying to reach.

Star Wars? It’s not meant for the same demographic. Women enjoy Star Wars and have been fans of it ever since it came out, but we’re not the main target audience for this property. Taking something that’s gender neutral/more male-leaning like Star Wars and all of a sudden trying to make it all about appealing to a specific group of women who enjoy mushy romance stories is going to warrant backlash against the new stories and fans. There’s this sense of, “Now wait a minute, y’all are taking something that’s ours and trying to steal it for yourselves. We’re not happy about that!” This isn’t inherently misogyny, this is just understandable frustration over a franchise seemingly switching gears and trying to abandon its original fanbase entirely to appeal to a completely different one.

To go back to the Twilight example, Stephenie Meyer turned down an original movie deal for the first book, because the studio wanted to turn her story into an action movie with motorcycles instead of a sappy teen romance. That wasn’t the story she wanted to tell, and that wouldn’t appeal to tween and teen girls the way she was aiming for, so she said no. Imagine if someone took Twilight and tried to make it a brutal action movie that’s aimed towards the teen boy market. Sounds stupid and pointless and against what the original creator sought out to do, right?

#I say all this as a casual Reylo shipper #the way a lot of the shippers wanted Star Wars to all of a sudden become Romance Novel In Space was always laughable to me #I’m sorry but y’all don’t get to stomp in and suddenly demand everything change to fit YOUR specific tastes #and then cry mIsOgYnY whenever you rightfully experience pushback

[darkside-skyguy]

I don't know how to put this into words exactly but I kind of feel like there's this idea engrained in the Strong Female Character trend that goes along with the whole "she don't need no man" thing where a woman is not allowed to be changed or effected positively by romantic love at all. Like, she should be independent and self-sufficient to the point that romance is just a side bonus and not consequential to her personal growth in any way! (Romance almost as a reward for her independence? For being Strong?) And I think that's completely false and disingenuous. Because sometimes the impetus for change or finding meaning in one's life is love. Sometimes love is the thing that saves a person. It doesn't have to be, by any means, but also doesn't not have to be. It's unrealistic and stupid to ignore the significance of romantic relationships for fear that the woman will somehow be made worse or weaker for loving someone.

#this was specifically prompted by a post i saw on a play i watched recently and loved #where op said they wished the woman hadn't been prompted to action because of her love and instead because of.... something else? #and idk it rubbed me the wrong way #because it was a love story #and sometimes love is the point!!!!!! #actually love is always the point and not just romantic love okay #but this can also apply to a lot of things #and because this is my star wars blog i'm going to link it back to reylo and how people were so pissed that rey might have a love story #specifically a love story with an unsuitable person #and how amazing it would have been to explore how the love between ben and rey changed both of them for the better #how rey's love saved ben #and how it saved her too #so.... yeah #alyssa rambles #reylo

[k1rishiki]

two things that have to be understood about yona of the dawn is that it has a thriving enamel pin market, and that the makers of said enamel pins seem to have read a different manga than me

#why is hak twice yona's size and also why is her hair so long. she cuts it in VOLUME TWO of THIRTY NINE (last i checked) #also why's she always damsel in distress-y. she started to get her shit together and toughen up by the 3rd volume (like i said. there are 3 #in english so far). the straight girls projecting reylo dynamics onto yotd scare me #romeo.txt

[teratophilex]

I went from thousands of well written, long chapter, deeply planned and executed fanfiction, new chapters and whole new fics uploaded almost DAILY, when I dabbled in Reylo pre-covid.

Now i stand mid-calf in the blood of old fandoms and dead ships with no more than 10 pages of A03 results.

I was a fool, I miss it so much

#me refreshing the zelgan tag to see no updates again #reylo was a fucking treasure trove of adult fanfiction the sex scenes were abundant #ive found literally just one zelgan that is multi-chapter and ongoing #I miss always having something to read but my interests are so specific #also every M-E rated fics in the zelgan tag have a 50/50 chance of being a cuckfic or a ganlink centric polyfic that ignores zelda entirely

[supremeprince-bensolo]

I just realised Leia took Ben’s hand and now I’m deep in Ben Solo & Reylo feels 😭

#leia organa #ben kenobi #ben solo #reylo #obi-wan kenobi #obi-wan series #kenobi series #kenobi spoilers #everything always reminds me of ben solo doesn't it? #'I did want to take your hand #ben's hand' #deep in feels rn #mytxt

[thepapernautilus]

my review of hurricane wars is that 450 pages in I had to throw the book across the room to pace my house like a caged animal only to pick it up, read the next paragraph, and go right back to pacing. the rats are feasting. it feels like 2018 and I have no idea what a coronavirus is and I'm up at 2 in the morning reading about two people falling in love over and over again in the dim light of my phone screen. I feel alive

#me after devouring that entire book in one sitting: more please #it's such a rare treat to get to read your favorite story retold in such a way it all feels exactly as new and wonderful as the first time #god the chemistry was absolutely fucking electric #alaric ossinast you will always be famous #my husband wants to read it LMAOOO we'll make a reylo out of you yet baby #when i tell you i am skulking back to the heartbreak prince as we speak #what a book man #the hurricane wars #thea guanzon

[tinyleia]

It's the year of our lord 2023 en I'm still pissed about Ben Solo

that's all from me for today folks 🔫

#personal #I started Ahsoka today and sw content always gets me in my feels about him #and reylo in general lol

[triplicatedrhymes]

i think the recent uptick in fanfiction published as novels is a blight because it gives way for half-baked characters who look and act like hollow shells of preexisting characters. as well as that, there are incredibly different standards for what makes a novel good and what makes a fanfic good

#its white noise #i saw a similar post by a terf so. i made my own ^_^ #because i dont want to give terfs a platform on my blog #but i do think fanfic to published novel is a horrible idea and blurs the lines between literature and fan creation #if i could i'd go back in time and prevent 50 shades of grey from ever fucking happening #also the fanfic that gets published is never of anything good. #its time for me to be Shallow but it's always some fuckin dumbshit like reylo and destiel

[hiriaeth]

The funny thing about that Rey news is that North American audiences are so misogynistic that this will flop without rey*o so we will see how this goes

#mcu does not support female led franchises period #they always make the least amount of money and Rey isn’t as popular as they think #it’s reylo that’s the appeal and that so funny to me

[reachexceedinggrasp]

How do you feel about Reylo these days? Do you still read fic? (I know I have a similar taste to you about Reylo fic, which makes finding it hard to begin with). Also, have you rewatched TLJ since TROS? I tried doing it but it hurt too much. Hope you are doing well, still love reading your old posts and your new posts as well.

I haven't read any fic in a while, but I certainly will again. I'll always love the ship, but as you say, it's pretty difficult to find fic that has everything important going for it set in the canon universe. I've read mountains and mountains of reylo AUs that I enjoyed, but when it comes to canon verse, the pickings are slim. I got frustrated and depressed about it, so I haven't been looking lately.

I haven't, not in full. It's going to be a long time.

Thank-you! 💖

#even in the reylo fandom the Wrong About SW and bad takes on redemption are legion #to say nothing of characterisation or the dynamic #and there's a lot of popular rey tropes which always bothered me that bother me 34287438927 times more now #I used to begrudgingly overlook some stuff but there's zero tolerance for anything that whiffs of tros attitudes these days #and I guess I really genuinely am the only person who cares this much about Ben's resolution with Luke bc my fic is the only one of its kin #afaik #and it gets way less hits than the one with Leia #the reylo fandom turning on Luke like it's the fictional character's fault fanbros suck bums me out

[onewomancitadel]

Literally like the self-restraint I have not sharing every single time I watch the Power of One Reylo fanvid is frankly incredible and I want a medal and a parade

#why are you here. #something... inside me... has always been there. and now it's awake #like the whole thing is a masterclass in fanvidding like I go crazy every time I notice a new detail like it's CRAZY #reylo for tag blocking

[writingwife-83]

I’m gonna be a broken record and once again apologize for taking quite a while to update. But hey, thanks for all the kudos and subscriptions on AO3! Really appreciate that! 🥰🙏🏻 I’m adding a touch more drama and conflict in this chapter, so read on!

#reylo #medieval au #fic: look at me #as always #would love to hear your thoughts