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Orestes, Euripides (tr. Anne Carson)

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Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I’m starting to realize Han is kind of awful.

While they do have some cute moments. I don’t find him to be a good match for Leia. She’s smart, politically minded, independent and feisty… critical to the Rebellion, trained in diplomacy from a young age. He’s insecure, rude, and crass, and he’s constantly demeaning to her when he is nothing more than a common smuggler. I hate when he says his line about avoiding female advice, I hate the way he constantly ignores her feelings but is rewarded by the narrative for it, I hate how he is constantly insecure and comparing himself to Luke and making their relationship all about him.

Leia is my favorite blorbo of all time… and for a long time I wanted to like her with Han, since she is so sweet on him. But she deserves better than that. (Or at least she deserves more interesting forms of horror.) I’ve come to find there’s so many other relationships of hers which are far more compelling. It’s a shame how emphasized hanleia has become when there’s the potential of her dynamic with Vader, her Imperial adversaries such as Tarkin… such messy and fascinating possibilities for the princess of Alderaan and leader of the Rebellion.

Meanwhile hanleia is toxic, but not in a compelling way, and the hanleia fandom refuses to see them as anything but wholesome, which can be really irritating.

The best part of the Han/Leia relationship is when Leia spends basically 1.5 movies telling him how much he sucks. But girl… why did you stop? 😭😭

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Beloved

Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher

Characters: Luke Skywalker and Princes Leia

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for your prompt: lukeleia where luke tells leia he almost fell to the dark side because Vader threatened to use her against him

Leia let out a shaky exhale against Luke’s chest. “I’ve already told you, I don’t care about blood.”

“Leia. It’s more than that…”

“Tell me. I can handle it.”

“It’s about Vader. He taunted me, and it worked. I attacked him, I almost killed him.”

“That doesn’t sound like you,” Leia said after some consideration.

“No. It’s not.” Luke agreed.

“What did he say?”

Luke’s entire body grew tense. “He threatened to come for you, to turn you.”

They stood in silence for what seemed like an eternity.

“But, you didn’t kill him?” Leia tried not to sound disappointed.

“No.”

“Isn’t that what matters then? You ultimately made the right choice?”

“My feelings for you are dangerous if they can be used against me so easily.”

Leia pulled away from him, breaking his gentle hold on her. Despite all her diplomatic training, she failed to hide her feelings.

“Why do I have the feeling you’re going to say something stupid?”

Luke smiled at that. “I should leave.”

“Leave? The Alliance still needs you, I still need you, even if—“

Luke pulled her back into his arms.

“This hardly seems fair!”

“I know.”

“But you’ve already decided, haven’t you?”

“I have.”

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No one’s ever really gone.

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Our lovely wonder twins.

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I know what you are going to say. I changed my hair. It’s nice that way.

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Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill on set of the original Star Wars movies

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI) (1983) dir. Richard Marquand

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Oh, I hadn’t seen this top one before! Slightly different version of the one I’ve more commonly seen (below), but with open eyes, big cute smiles, and no shadow on her nose. Ah, they’re so cute. :D 

Sometimes I wonder how many pictures of these two out there exist that I’ve never seen because they just haven’t ever been published…  Like, there are quite a few from this photoshoot…

But I want moooooore.

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There may be something there that wasn’t there before. 

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Luke and Leia's relationship had awakened something in me when I first saw Star Wars and learned they were twins <3

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you put your arms around me and I’m home

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I can’t wait for the Frozen Crosswalk Musical

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Please don’t remind me to feel Believe me, the danger is real

You don’t know the things that I can do Keep your distance ‘cause, I can’t lose you

I can’t lose you, try to see

I’m trying to tell you that I can’t lose you, like before As much as I wish I can’t open that door

If you loved yourself the way I do Then you’d see why I can’t lose you

[Full Song]

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I got the chance to see the national tour of Frozen Broadway this weekend and this is pretty much how “I Can’t Lose You” ends- with Elsa just as desperate to embrace Anna as Anna is to hold Elsa- and in the final notes they step into one another as Anna wraps her arms around her sister, finally. It absolutely struck me how fiercely they gravitated towards each other, and yet, still- with her hands being the most dangerous conduit of her magic- Elsa can’t let herself touch Anna.

It was such a powerful moment, and I’m still devastated.

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Things I need from F3: Anna in a ponytail with a sword. That’s it.