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Alone. There’s no team. It’s only her.

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i fear i may never get over her

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“you need to accept what you are leaving behind...”

Luthen and Kleya cost all my tears today😢

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Andor Make It Stop | Who Else Knows?

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it’s because i’m always under some damn curse

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Elizabeth Dulau in Andor S02E10

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partagaz listening to nimik's manifesto and than killing himself? what a move.

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Okay, much more to say later, but amid a final arc where I found a lot to love, it is a real bummerooski to have Andor end on the laziest final shot I could have imagined, as a culmination of what I can now say feels to me like the show's most fumbled character arc. I tried to withhold final judgment on this season's handling of Bix until I'd seen the full narrative, but having reached the end, I can say that very few choices the writers made for her felt either internally coherent or ideologically compelling. The whiplash between arcs two and three was wild, and while I held out hope we would see in arc four that Bix had actually left Yavin to get involved in the fight on a different front/in her own way, the move to return her to Mina-Rau makes her first arc seem even less continuous with the rest than I'd thought. And beyond being a cliché, the final shot of her holding a baby we take to be Cassian's is such a depressing turn to reproductive futurism that it makes other parts of the season retroactively worse for me.

To whit, Cinta's death. I was split on it when it happened, and again, I tried to leave myself open to my feelings shifting as it became contextualized in the whole; but the heteronormativity of ending the whole series on The Child as the final figure for hope makes killing off one of the show's queer lovers feel like a bigger failure of political imagination.

There is a small balm for this, for me, in the final scene between Vel and Kleya, where Vel, a cousin, offers Kleya, an adoptive daughter-of-convenience, the non-lineal solidarity of "having friends everywhere." I would have loved to end on a scene like that, which turns the code phrase of this season into a way of understanding how mutual care and resistance work fuel each other. But in a show that has otherwise been much more daring and thoughtful about the tableux it creates to embody the hope of building a home, the final shot we got seemed to me to set a horribly conventional horizon for what could have been more radical politics.

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kleya marki character of the century. everybody else shut the fuck up

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Andor Make It Stop | 2.10

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having my dead boyfriend’s baby so i’ll always carry a piece of him is now a banned trope. yeah i just got the emergency alert

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what an incredible day to be a kleya marki stan

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taking your own advice is so hard. it’s “make bad art” this and “kill your perfectionism” that until i sit down with an idea i like. the i have to execute it perfectly Or Else

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and another thing. please don't put in the paper that 28 children laughed at me

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/ some punishments are worse than other punishments.

/ i think we are a match.

🦞 the lobster, hayffie version.

🎨 art prompt for day 4 of hayffie week 25: au drawing.

i apologize for accidentally posting this on day 1 and having to delete then & repost today 😢