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sokkalore · 3 years

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You're probably tired of people whining about this to you but I HAVE to get it off my chest, I've finally found my people. My God, I was starting to feel like I was insane for not liking the manhua (like at all). I genuinely feel bad when I'm in the minority, I feel like there's something wrong with me. I've felt like this for months and I really tried to force myself to change the way I felt towards the art because it's everywhere and I can't even interact with the fandom without it hitting me in the face constantly. There's this other BL manhua "Here U Are" and I remember literally being addicted to the way it was drawn for some reason but the TGCF manhua makes me feel weirdly overwhelmed (by all the colors and the detailed backgrounds, it's perfect for separate art pieces but when it's supposed to be a comic it's like... where do I even look) and extremely uncomfortable (with the faces especially and the ooc stuff) and I know how dramatic this sounds but it's the truth and I feel like it has even affected my perception of the story and Hualian and kinda ruined them in my eyes. It's more about the way the fandom treats their manhua version I guess, it's canon after all but like... How do you not notice the inconsistencies and the ooc stuff? And why do they have to treat the donghua like that "donghua hc is crying rn/could never" "manhua x would wipe the floor with donghua x" and so on. (this bothers me because it's a large majority of people saying this). It's especially frustrating to me because I love the donghua and the way it potrays xl and hc and just the whole story. And I'm sorry but hc's manhua potrayal lowkey disgusts me. Also no I don't hate starember but they're literally the official manhua artist... And look, I don't care if a gay ship consists of a super feminine shy petite guy who only bottoms and tall sexy dominant guy who only tops, as long as these are their canon characters then fine. It's not a bad thing, people like this exist irl. But my god when you change the way characters are/behave canonically to fit this criteria it's just like... Uhh. And I still can't get that post from STARember with the glasses and "the top should be a top and the bottom should be a bottom" (or instead of "should be" it was "look like a" something along these lines, they used the chinese slang for it the numbers 1 and 0). Dude... Is this all these characters are good for? For real? Anyway this is long as fuck, I can say even more things but whatever, I'm just tired

sorry this is from the other day and i just got to it but like yeah seeing how people are reacting to my tweets about the new art, there are a lot of people it seems who don’t like starember and are uncomfortable with their art but don’t say anything because it feels like the majority of fandom will dogpile them which sucks a lot..

however in that vein, me talking about it on twitter led to a lot of people also talking about how they were uncomfortable but didn’t know how to/were scared to say it and even people who praised it earlier and are now like …….. oh wait what the fuck (not excusing the latter i think it’s kind of pathetic to have to be Told something blatantly racist is… in fact racist but the point being here that i guess people are capable of listening if people point it out). idk i’m not gonna shut up about it if it has Any effect at all in making the fandom aware of starembers blatant colorism/racism bc rn… it’s not. not openly at least

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rosebloodcat · 3 years

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A Harry Potter Confession/Rant

Ya’ll are free to ignore it if you want. I’m putting it under a Read More so it won’t clog up the dashes of anyone who doesn’t care about it. If you DO click the Read More, be warned, this got really frigging long.

Firstly, I want to say I love Harry Potter. Like, I really love it and it means a lot to me.

It was an introduction to fantasy for a lot of people. It’s created amazing communities, connected people around the world, and spread a ton of wonderful, uplifting messages.

The kind of power that comes from Love, that something as simple as caring can make huge difference for another person.

Harry Potter has gotten a lot of people to think critically about the world around them, and reminded them that things aren’t always as wonderful as they first appear.

It touches on things like racism and classism in a way that people can understand. It tackles things like morality and how it is different for every person who sees it. That doing what’s right wasn’t easy, and sometimes even the best intentions could make things worse instead of better.

The stories are amazing and suck people in. The foreshadowing is done well in each book and lends itself to the stories in subtle and fantastic ways.

No one had written a series like hers and took off as well as what she’d created. There had been other Magic School-type stories before, but she’d found the right channel to send it out. And now it’s something everyone can name and talk about.

For me, the great thing about Harry Potter was the doors it opened.

How modern fantasy for kids could be written. How a magical community could work in modern world (along with all the good and bad things that were in it). How something as amazing as magic could stay hidden for as long as it had (and the effects it had on everyone involved).

It’s community and the people mean so much to me, and it’s become a strong center to my own views and life.

But that doesn’t mean I’m oblivious to it’s flaws.

Looking at the way the world works, and the relationships of the people in it, gives a very clear view of Rowling’s flawed world view.

And people have written entire essays on all the flaws of her writing, so I don’t think I really need to go into tremendous detail about them all. But I think I can sum the basic idea of it pretty well.

Yes, she can write a great story. But that doesn’t mean she wrote a great world. (As all of her post-story retconning shows.)

Looking back, I openly admit many instances in the books had red flags that showed how bad things actually were.

From character relationships to the corrupted government, the racism and classism, the sexism and abusive undertones. Even just the shitty tracking of things between stories and blatant ignorance of how schools and societies should function!

There are so many flaws and screw ups I can hardly keep track of them all.

So many of the character relationships read as abusive or horribly fractured, that would leave more broken hearts and hurting feelings than should be let stand.

Ron/Hermione is one “couple” I can think of. They’re constantly fighting and at each other’s throats, and had only ever tried to get along due to being friends with Harry.

They’d be that couple who would always be fighting and breaking up with each other and separating, then forcing themselves back together because “This is how love it supposed to be, right? We always fight because we love each other. It’s why everyone said we were like an Old Married Couple. Right?”

(No, that’s not how it works. I know some people still ship them, but I feel like they’re better off friends than lovers. It’s less hurt for them both.)

Or Mrs Weasley, who ruled her house with an Iron Fist and would force her family to follow whatever plan she had set up for them.

From destroying the twins projects and trying to force them into a Ministry job, or her obsessive coddling of Ron and Ginny, or even forcing her husband to not talk about his hobbies/passions and making him need to work in the shed just to enjoy things he liked.

She drove of BOTH of her oldest sons away from home with her overbearing nature, yet so few people seem to see the problems with that.

Remus and Tonks getting together out of grief and just about falling apart when she got pregnant. I honestly don’t know if they were in love or were just together to deal with their grief. (Which would definitely cause problems later down the line if they’d lived.)

(And let’s not get into Harry and Ginny. I think that’s one pairing that everyone else has already beaten into the ground.)

The fact that all of these are the GOOD GUYS, the people that usually show some form of ideal the writer has, says a lot about how Rowling thinks love should be.

The Ministry is so blatantly corrupted and poorly planned, it’s a wonder the Wizarding World hadn’t just flat-out collapsed on itself yet.

Rowling goes out of her way to argue against everything she’s set up that would have made it possible to save the Wizarding World from it’s own corruption. From ways to get around the Truth Serum to blocking people from entering minds to find the truth.

She’s making thousands of excuses for why she didn’t use her own tools to make things easier for her character, but the actual reason is simple. So simple that if she just said it, she could have avoided all the problems people had with it.

She wanted a corrupt government for the story she was writing.

That’s it. That’s why there were no trials with Veritaserum. Why prisoners weren’t interrogated by people who could preform Legilimancy. Why no one had to swear magical oaths to prove they were telling the truth or weren’t on the Dark side.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but if she had just said that instead of making excuses, I would have been fine with that. Sometimes, as writers, we have to admit that the reason we didn’t do things that would have made it better for our heroes is because we needed things to go bad.

AND THAT’S OKAY. Not every story needs to have a million well thought out arguments for why the bad guys were able to get as far as they did. Sometimes we just need to say “they were really corrupt/clever” and that’s fine.

Rowling was really bloody lazy, had no idea how to do things practically, and had a ton of sexist/racist/toxic views that she really should have just kept her mouth shut about.

A ton of the issues in Harry Potter go back to this.

Her researching skills were terrible even when the things she needed to look up would have been as simple as looking at the weekly paper. (The price/value of gold is literally something you can look in the weekly news paper to find.)

She never looked at how culture differences would have effected things when she talked about “international” magics and said things that were just plain stupid because of her lack of research.

(The Mahoutoko School of Magic. ”Mahoutokoro” literally translates into “Magic School”, meaning the school is called “The Magic School, School of Magic.” I don’t think I need to explain why that’s stupid.)

She had no idea how to arrange a schooling/class schedule and was completely oblivious to how understaffed her magical school was. None of the class schedules made sense, none of the arrangements made sense, and even the number of students in the school makes no sense.

(Without getting into how many schools of magic there are in the world when you consider the size of the human population.)

Then, of course, there are the racist/anti-lgbtq+ stereotyping done through the magical beings of HP. From Goblins to werewolves, there’s a lot of poor, negative, and outright offensive representation wrapped up in there. (Really, her Anti-Trans stuff is just the tip of the iceberg there.)

That said, I still really love Harry Potter.

I know it’s flawed. I know there’s a ton of bad shit wrapped up in it. I’m not saying people should excuse it.

It’s a flawed work by a flawed person, and people should remember that.

We shouldn’t try to erase or ignore those flaws by trying to explain them away or claim someone else wrote it. Because that allows for complacency.

It implies that we can excuse these things in other works if we like them enough and that they aren’t problematic. If we can ignore them in one place, we can ignore them in other places. That they aren’t as bad if we can pretend they aren’t there.

And that is a problem. People need to accept that, just because they don’t like something, they can’t just disregard it and act like it isn’t there.

It’s real. It’s there. And we need to acknowledge it.

But just because the series isn’t perfect doesn’t mean people can’t still enjoy it.

We shouldn’t magnify the bad things in it until that’s all that can be seen. Because that would erase all the good things people have come away with from this series.

People shouldn’t be shamed or put down for liking Harry Potter.

There are people who’ve discovered importing things about themselves because of Harry Potter. People who found strength to get past difficult and traumatizing events in their lives. People who have found their best friends and even love because of their connection to this series.

There are even people who have found the confidence to embark on their own writing and artistic journeys because of Harry Potter. That it inspired numerous wonderful and amazing things created by it’s fans.

And I think that’s just as important as all the flaws that Rowling’s stories have.

We can still love something while admitting that there are bad parts to it. Books and media don’t have to be perfect. They don’t have to be utterly flawless to be considered “enjoyable”.

We don’t need to act like everything has to be black and white, perfectly defined good and evil, to be good. We can still love things while accepting that there are problems with it.

I just wish more people could understand that.

TLDR: Just because Harry Potter is a flawed, imperfect series written by a flawed, imperfect (and kinda shitty) person doesn’t mean people can’t still like it. And I really wish more people would accept that.

#rosie rants #rosie rambles #harry potter #world of harry potter #wizarding world #jk rowling #I just really needed to go off #a lot of the hp confessions I've been reading have been getting to me #so I needed to let this out

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possibilistfanfiction · 3 years

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Tbh it’s been so refreshing to read your thoughts on football in general and especially the uswnt. So many ppl after the loss focused on vlatko, his choices, and whatever tactical mistakes were made while i (and it seems u too) see the olympics as a microcosm of much broader societal issues. it’s kinda insane how so many ppl can ignore everything that’s been going on and expect some players to go on like usual while it’s blatantly clear that so many players dont give a fuck about their teammates or poc and marginalized communities in general. Anyways, been appreciating your thoughts amd writings for many many years now so thanks <3 wish u and ur lil fam all the best whatever u decide 2 do in the future

thank u!!! i do agree that some tactical choices were extremely confusing to me but jill always confused the fuck out of me too bc she just hated cp so much so like... those players individually are so talented tactics are what they are; it's clear that there wasn't cohesion or joy, no matter what the tactics were

in general yah!!! i learned like two weeks ago that the olympics were created by a eugenicist & i was like 'lmfao of course they were' bc it seems like most things that gauge performance (the sat, for example) were usually made by like ... literal nazis :/ so i think when u take the formula of like ... nation states funding performance that is absolutely dependent on the ability of the body .... like it's a mess. its always going to be a mess

& specifically w the uswnt, yes!! ur right that the way they treat their teammates/refuse to do literally the bare minimum to signify that they support that actual existence & survival of their teammates ... it's incredibly telling. "america's team" leading the "fight for equal pay" -- it's so messy. our starting lineup has one Black woman consistently starting (crystal, love her!!); i have only seen cp speak ONCE about how if you're not talking abt race in the conversation of the wage gap, you're not having an accurate conversation. i learned TODAY that like over a third of trans ppl earn under less than $10k/year so ... it's just like so wild how powerful neoliberalism is to me. there's very little actual class solidarity, & these women are some of the most able-bodied people in the world lol. i guarantee if you asked maybe any of them to engage in a conversation around anti-fat politic (ontologically & systemically), it would be a no-go. (in my heart i think tobin is like one mariame kaba podcast away from being a full abolitionist but lmfao)

& i think ppl are also so unwilling to be like, hey, actually standing & participating as a white player in the anthem *is* racist. like... i genuinely hate the united states deeply, so i would be straight up like facedown on the ground during the anthem lmfao but. it is racist. if ur standing literally NEXT to your teammate, a Black woman, in cps case a queer Black woman,,, & u choose to signal the OPPOSITE of solidarity, that is absolutely racist. whether or not that was ur 'impact' ... so yah to me it does matter who does the anthem & who doesn't; their reasoning only made it worse when they defended themselves (defending the military rly sent me lmfao like y'all!!!! come On!!). ofc i think in a lot of ways also the anthem thing is definitely empty but carl* for example running her mouth abt it knowing full well what she was stepping into put cp & crystal in literal danger? i won't even get into how pinoe's queerness is only accepted bc of her other positions of privilege bc ppl will lose their minds on here (not a reflection of pinoe, just a reflection of absolutely capitalism hellscape) but like. it's funny bc i genuinely wanted them to win LOL but i also can see thru the fucking curtain for what the uswnt is, the olympics are, the us is

also thank u!!! we're headed back to socal soon so looks like daily ocean swims for me n char. dissertating for my wife so that sucks for her lmao but me n my girl are gonna have a great time i hope

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medschoolash · 4 years

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so i'm a casual reylo fan and i just have to say your tweets about this whole JB/twitter shit storm are soooo on point. threatening a lawsuit/getting parents involved is embarrassing, but these antis/sjws on twitter making up these insane false narratives about reylos being racist toward JB/KMT/OI when it was white dudebros who hate reylo just as much is INSANE yet all these people with exactly negative 10 critical thinking skills are falling for it

I also consider myself a pretty casual reylo since I haven’t engaged with the fandom nearly as much as I used to engage with fandoms in the past so it’s been pretty interesting watching everything unfold. It’s also been interesting to navigate this entire thing as a black woman who loves reylo.

When it all first started I thought it was genuinely ridiculous all around. Though I could see how you could interpret the joke as sexist, which is completely subjective, I thought to make it a big deal, especially on a holiday, was a little over the top. I also thought the subsequent response to the pushback was also over the top since it could have easily been ignored. It was also weird when John himself has expressed how easy it should be to ignore those sorta things because they don’t truly matter. What started as a stupid childish IG fight on NYE turned into this completely insane twitter scandal where people from every corner of the internet needed to chime in on fandom racism in star wars without knowing hardly anything about it besides what they saw in several false viral tweets, while also not addressing fandom racism in star wars at all since most of the vitriol was about reylo as a ship. The narrative went from “this joke is sexist you should reconsider” to “fuck off Its a joke people need to not take it so seriously” to “well since you wanna talk shit your ship is trash” to “everyone who ships this trash ship is racist and John is fighting back against imaginary racist comments he never actually responded to”. The next thing you know people were claiming that people who ship reylo were the root of all racism in star wars and that’s somehow by telling the world you think reylo is toxic we can end this racism once and for all and that’s where I just had about enough of it.

I’m sure there are plenty of people are gonna look at me sideways for deciding to address how stupid and blatantly false the narrative people tried to paint about reylos was but I couldn’t be bothered to care when I know that I’m the kinda person that actually takes racism in media and real-life seriously instead of using it to wag my finger at anything I don’t like in media. I actually loathe how people in fandom trivialize racism to make themselves feel better about something they don’t like and I ESPECIALLY loathe it coming from nonblack folks who know that labeling something as racist is a sure-fire way to get black folks on board with your crusade like we’re all a bunch of perpetually angry attack dogs waiting to pounce on your behalf. It’s just tiring to see all the time.

my dad always told me to be the kinda person who stands for what’s right instead of who’s right so that’s why I’m at this point now. The facts show that people took John’s trolling in response to the backlash and made it into this narrative about fandom racism that actually absolved the actual culprits of responsibility for their actions. People who are blatantly anti reylo got to pretend they had a legitimate reason to be anti while also pretending they actually care about the racism the cast has experienced when they don’t they just wanted to look like they do. I hate how people can say literally anything on twitter or tumblr and as long as it includes the right buzzword and can incite the most anger people will run with it no matter what. I want to see racism in fandom addressed but I don’t want to see people be intellectually dishonest in the discourse in a way that allows the true racist to skate free all because they can’t stand a ship. When that happens it undermines the entire conversation and something that serious deserves better than that.

At the end of the day It really sucks that I had to watch horrid behavior against people who look like me be used as a weapon in a childish fight that ultimately boiled down to nothing besides ship preference and the need to find someone to be angry at for what people perceive as slights against a ship they like or a character they like. Meanwhile, the violently racist people who actually have attacked John and KMT (and I’m not saying no reylo has never sent john racist hate before but the idea that they have been the majority and originated it is blatantly false) are still out there spewing their hate and are actually feeling pretty emboldened at the moment since TROS gave them literally everything they could have wanted.

#answered #sw discourse #Anonymous

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honeylikewords · 4 years

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Talk to me about tros!!!! I need to know about Poe!!

Okay, I’m finally sitting down to answer this anon, and a few things before I start!

1. Most of what I’m going to say will really only make sense if you go see The Rise of Skywalker yourself. While it’s far from a perfect movie, it’d take way too long for me to try and transcribe everything that happens in the film, and the context and nuance of certain scenes. So, yeah, while it’s not a good movie, if you’re invested in seeing how the movies have played out, you should probably go see it yourself.

2. I have some... mixed feelings about the movie. I also know that what I don’t like, I can choose to ignore; despite the disappointments of the series, I don’t have to take Rian or JJ’s bullshit as MY canon. I get to decide what I do and don’t adhere to as canon. Everyone else has their own varying scales of how they respond to canon-- some are super adherent to canon, some don’t care about anything at all-- and that’s fine. So although I have beef with how all this unfolded, I also know that I can take my love that I have for the characters (and all the potential that The Force Awakens had) and carry that on through my own interpretations, re-writes, et cetera, and I can choose to ignore the poor decisionmaking on the parts of Disney and Rian/JJ/who-the-fuck-ever.

3. This ask is very open-ended, so I’m going to have to put some parameters down for myself because otherwise I’d get too overwhelmed with the breadth of information I’d need to present about TRoS. A comprehensive review would be really hard to write out, so I’ll just list some initial impressions (I haven’t been able to see it a second time, but likely will in the near future), and some of the relevant Poe-related issues in the films. If you wanna know more, feel free to send in more specific questions (specificity can help, because with my neurotype, I can easily be overwhelmed by large, “general” questions, and getting more granular can help me rein in and focus on a specific idea)!

4. Also, this post isn’t going to be friendly to R*ylo or people who straightwash Poe/are only interested in him as a straight guy. R*ylo is fucking gross, and I’m gonna rip it apart in this post, and Poe isn’t straight. I try not to be too aggressive on here (I’m generally not very aggressive at all!), but the fandom is just so toxic and vile at times that I feel like I need to put my foot down on these topics and say a firm “no” to R*ylos and Poe straightwashers. Oh, and I’ll be talking about the racism in the movie, as well as in the fandom, so buckle up for that, too. So consider this the “bigots begone!” spell as I wave my wand and attempt to shoo them all away!

Anyway...

From here down are spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. If you’re interested in seeing the movie spoiler-free, please scoot waaaaay past this post! Last warning!

And, with that out of the way, here we go!

Alright, here’s a list of stuff as it occurs to me. I’m almost overwhelmed with information, so it’s hard to condense my thoughts, but I’ll try my best!

1. The whole Zorri thing was a fucking nightmare, but not as bad as it could have been. It was really bad, believe me, but, like, it can be ignored easily (though if you’re anything like me, it’ll still leave a sour taste in your mouth). Like I predicted, Zorri was introduced to straightwash Poe and effectively quash any queer interpretations of his character and relationship with Finn.

But, like, Poe and Zorri had no chemistry. It was almost embarrassing; they were clearly trying to work the “badass woman” angle, but, eh, she was just, basically, a minor blip on the radar; incredibly boring, incredibly useless, and just, like, a “sexy lamp” that could easily have been replaced. She added literally nothing to the film and was blatantly just an insert to try and prevent people from being able to make the case for a queer Poe. But, too bad, Disney! Poe is pansexual, dumbasses!

Oh, and while I’m on the topic of Poe’s queerness, I should add that I’m not really a big FinnPoe, myself; when it got big after the release of The Force Awakens, if felt like just another creepy Tumblr fetishization of male relationships, so that really set the tone for how I’d see it in the coming years. It’s grievously oversexualized on this site, but I also respect that, for many actually queer fans, the ship represents seeing themselves in Star Wars, and I do totally see their bond as canon. I completely acknowledge that Oscar wanted to represent the queer fans who wanted his character to be queer, and in that way, FinnPoe is definitely canon in some form!

So, I do have a complex relationship with FinnPoe, in that it’s not my personal favorite ship (I vastly prefer FinnRey, since I never really felt that Finn and Poe had a romantic tension, but felt that Finn and Rey did), but I do respect the importance of it for queer fans and for trying to push at the limitations a major series like Star Wars has had for so long. Star Wars has been dominated as a straight, cishet, white man’s fandom; it’s time other people got a chance to love it and see themselves in this vast universe, too.

The cast also seems to be leaning into FinnPoe as a form of protest against censorship and homophobia in the fandoms and film world. They’re using their positions as major film stars to push back and say “hey, queer folks belong here, too”, and that’s so great!

But, anyway, the point is, Zorri sucked, and Poe’s not straight. He’s certainly capable of being attracted to women, but he’s not a straight dude, because he’s equally capable of being attracted to men and nonbinary people as well.

Thankfully, Zorri and Poe never actually form a relationship in TRoS. He jokes about asking for a kiss, she tells him to go, and then he, at the end, sort of motions his head as if to say “wanna go kiss?” and she, again, tells him no, which he shrugs off. It’s pretty shitty, but easy to ignore.

Anyway, Poe is pan, Finn is pan, Lando is pan, Luke Skywalker is gay and nonbinary, Rey is nonbinary and probably ace, maybe interested in girls, I’m still ironing my hcs for her out, and no one can stop me! Go ahead and try to kill me, Disney (and homophobic Star Wars fans); if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

2. Poe’s “backstory” is such a fucking trainwreck. They basically tried to nix a bunch of what was already canonically established in order to, get this, make Poe a drug dealer.

It’s a little more complex-- the idea is that Poe was a pilot for a group of pirates for about six years, from the age of 16 until he was 22-ish, and ran Spice, the drug in Star Wars-- but it’s also not. It’s really bad.

Way to take a canonically noble, hardworking, Latino character and reduce him to the most shitty, racist stereotype imaginable. I’ve already complained about him not needing a “dark” past, but this? This is somehow worse than him being, like, a bounty hunter, because it carries political implications and is just such a stock, trash stereotype that we don’t need in this world or in our fantasies. It’s ridiculous, and I refuse to acknowledge it.

Worse yet, it’s said that Poe “ran away from home” to join the pirates to “avoid responsibility” at age 16... dude, Poe has been shown in EVERY PRIOR CANONICAL APPEARANCE TO CRAVE NOTHING BUT RESPONSIBILITY. Yes, he’s a hothead, but he’s responsible! He wants to labor and take on caring for others because he’s a hardworking, compassionate, headstrong man! Ugh!

I could go off forever about this, but I’m already feeling myself grinding my teeth, and for the sake of my blood pressure and psychological wellbeing I’m not going to make myself go feral over it right now. Deep breaths, K, deep breaths...

3. In things I did like: Poe got promoted to general, and he made Finn a general alongside him. He really grew into his position, and I’m so proud to see him as General Dameron of the Resistance. He deserves it.

4. Poe and Finn had SO many good scenes and such great chemistry. I loved seeing them bounce off each other, and their relationship made me laugh and smile and feel warm, even as everything else was falling apart. I love my boys!

5. Poe gets grossed out by bones. Canon. Love a squeamish king.

6. Oh, ugh, I just remembered that they tried to frame Poe and Rey as having an aggressive relationship with each other and I rolled my eyes. How dumb can they be? Ugh. I don’t even have the energy to try and unpack how ridiculous all that is. More deep breaths...

7. In terms of the worst thing to happen in the movie... R*ylo, like, gets shoehorned in. Honestly, looking back at all the predictions I made a few months back, I’m entirely right; everything I predicted came to pass. This included.

It was shitty and bad and nearly all the cast has spoken out against it now that their contracts with Disney aren’t as binding, and seeing it happen on the big screen was just... oh my god, it was horrifying.

It really was.

But thankfully, Kylo died, so the ship can’t really continue! Yeehaw!

8. I actually did like parts of the ending. I’ll talk about that more if anyone asks more specific questions, but right now, I’m kinda burning out because of the wide net this ask casts, so I’ll have to defer for the moment.

At any rate, it all happened exactly the way I thought it would, bleh. Like, so much shit in the movie went down exactly the way my TRoS predictions post said, it’s almost scary.

Honestly, though, just running through all this is exhausting me; I really can’t make myself go through it all in this particular format. So, I’ll just leave this here as it is, and if anyone has any specific questions-- what I thought of specific moments, characters, scenes, etc-- send an ask! But this is all just really wide and general and burning my brain out to try and process it all again, so more specificity in future asks might help me stay more on track and not get overwhelmed trying to explain every single thing all at once.

I have tons and tons of thoughts about it, ranging from what I loved to what I’d have done different about the whole series, but I just don’t have the psychological wherewithal to make myself write everything out in one giant, dense, indecipherable post: it’s just all too much, so I’d need to break it down into smaller, more specific questions.

This probably isn’t a super-satisfying answer, but feel free to just send specific asks and I’ll answer them, no matter how many! It just helps to have a specific line of thought to follow, so feel free to ask about each individual thing and I’ll try to answer!

Thanks!

#messages #anonymous #gif warning #rise of skywalker spoilers #star wars spoilers #the rise of skywalker spoilers #ros spoilers #tros spoilers #spoilers #sorry i kinda burned out midway through this but i could feel myself getting a tension headache just listing off all the shit i hated and li #like there IS stuff i liked about the movie there's also just so much nonsense garbage that happened and i just. im just #i need more specific questions to help me limit myself from ranting about EVERYTHING and going nowhere #so if you want to know more PLEASE send some asks about specific things #(it's just for the sake of my brain health and helping me stay focused aaa)

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translesbiansamus · 7 years

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on a different note

other than Orisa & Efi being delightful today has been so shit it’s just more third wheel bullshit strewn about the day (i noticed that my college friends will almost only talk to each other if able, if one of them isn’t there they might talk to me, or if one of my friend’s boyfriend is there she’ll talk to him almost exclusively and my other friend will talk to me. is there such thing as a ‘friend hierarchy’? cos this feels like a friend hierarchy. i am the backup friend.) and i just started remembering stuff from last year that really stressed me out and now it’s stressing me out again just stuff that points to my college friends not really caring that much about me one particular incident where i was trying to shut up a racist on Facebook (with little success cos i am not good with words and racists i guess can’t read since they were making hypocritical, circular arguments) and college friend comes in to defend the racist basically breaking up the whole argument and telling the racist her opinions are valid and fair like??? no they weren’t? she was being blatantly racist! and not even in a pseudo-intellectual way like some assholes do!! so like i get to learn that my friend is excessively apologetic towards bigots (really hasn’t changed as far as i can tell, doesn’t come up often tho. course, if the bigot is being aphobic or ableist or something she’ll get real mad but otherwise...time to play devil’s advocate!!! try to see it from their point of view!!! uwu) despite being a lovely person, AND that she’d rather be nice to a bigot than help out her friend who really could’ve used some support there. glad i’m such an important person in their life. course the racist sent me a private message afterwards saying shit about how i was dumb (like, unintelligent dumb) and ignorant and on the bad side of history, which that’s a fun message to get after the kick in the stomach of being sidelined like that oh and they started everything off with some shit like “there’s only one race, the HUMAn race” which is really just another way of saying “i don’t see race” which is fancy way of saying “i’m a fucking racist and i deny responsibility for it” they referenced race specifically several times after saying this, of course, even claiming to be the victim of racism despite being white. and this is one of those few times i tried to directly confront her about it but it went nowhere. I can’t speak my mind without getting shut down, it feels like also feels like people sometimes like to take advantage of the fact that i can’t communicate very well and need time to organize and clarify thoughts and just today the two of them had a small misunderstanding which resulted in a lot of love and support going back between the two of them as they tried to remedy the problem, which was nice to see, even if i did try to reach out to see what was going on but was ignored so i kinda just had to watch it happen with no ability to help but i just couldn’t help but think about literally crying myself to sleep 2 feet away from the both of them a couple of days ago without getting so much as a glance. i know it sounds dramatic and shit but literally that’s what happened. ugh i know it’s really selfish but it’s getting to the point where i feel like it’s justified and i don’t know if that’s good or bad at least one of them makes attempts to reach out, sometimes. i really do appreciate that even if i suck at showing it another thing i’m trying to do better at, with mixed results it is difficult to reach out to them when i see them reach out to each other and others fairly easily and then not to me, no matter how much i tell myself that i gotta reach out if want them to reach out too. even though i feel like i have? i can’t remember.. on a somewhat more petty note (keyword “more”), I also keep getting reminded that they both have boyfriends which makes me feel all jealous and useless since i doubt i will ever find anyone who would want to date me and like also fits the other eight million prerequisites that aren’t even related to if i like them or not can’t really do anything about that tho apologies to anyone who even ignores the ignore tag to read these, i must seem like kind of an asshole i have never felt comfortable with conflict and i can never articulate myself well enough to get anyone to see my points so i just resort to venting about stuff here tldr; i’m sad and selfish and jealous and i want love

#vent #ignore #i know i forgot something i was gonna vent here about too but i cannot remember #so might be a part 2 later #much to everyone's dismay

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