#go see a star war

[ninquetolliel]

[swashbucklery]

Out of curiosity why do you ship sabine and shin ?

Okay anon so I am trying to figure out how to approach this ask because I know that this fandom has a real problem with bad-faith actors looking to troll Wolfwren shippers and I do not have the patience to deal with that, but also I do want to talk about them because they're lovely.

So. If you are asking because you're a troll, the answer is that I'm a big mean lesbian who likes ruining Star Wars and gets off on making innocent fanboys cry, #sorrynotsorry, it's part of my Terrible Queer Ruining Agenda and I am going to be doing it every second Tuesday until society as you know it has crumbled into gay dust.

If you're not a troll: because they hit this very particular combination of Trope Buttons that makes me ever so happy, anon!

Because it's about - like, there are ships that I love because they are a type of loving partnership that entrances me, where I see myself or see the type of love that speaks to my soul and want to enjoy the process of rolling around in it like a cat in nip. Then there are ships that I love because I'm attached to a particular character where like - this blorbo deserves the world and that includes a healing love, a warm love, a love that cultivates a space for them to rest after the harsh world around them has bruised them ever so.

THEN there are ships where - the dynamic fascinates me and I want to dig deeper into it. Where it's not about cultivating love as much as it is taking what's on screen to its gayest and most extreme possible endpoint, and that's where Sabine/Shin really gets me.

It's about the deep obsession of nemeses and the way that can feel inherently queer. It's about the ways that they are both mirrors and opposites. The way that Sabine carries so much anger and self-loathing and shame and guilt in her little heart and constantly pretends that she doesn't. The way that limits her throughout the series is riveting to me.

It's the idea of Shin, who in may ways is a more successful Jedi but in other ways is a sad, lonely little weirdo who has no community except for this weird old man and pretends that she's fine with it but can't be.

The way that they are both successes and failures in ways that mirror each other, the way that they orbit each other as nemeses and fight constantly but in their darkest moments have a weird little glimmer of - not love, but the beginnings of compassion.

And I have seen lots of writers and artists who look at that glimmer and see it as the beginning of a 200k slowburn story where they bicker and argue and slowly tenderize each other into being people who can be vulnerable, who learn to soften their prickly edges to fit around each other. And that's wonderful, and that's a beautiful way to ship Sabine & Shin.

For me, it's more about digging into that weird, fucked up little place of what if they didn't. What if they stayed fucked up and didn't soften but those orbits got closer and closer together. What if it wasn't toweringly romantic what if the orbit was the path of a comet colliding with a moon. What if that was somehow what each of them needed even though they both hated needing it. What does it feel like to confront the fact that sometimes our desires and what we want our desires to be don't align? What would it be like to envelop that in the complex ten-dimensional web of denial that both of them embody; desiring but pretending not to desire, indulging but pretending not to indulge. How far could that go before it hit a crisis point? What would that crisis point be?

There are so many stories there and that's fascinating and a thing that I find fun to explore in fiction, anon. If that's not for you, that's totally alright but there might be other dimensions that I described above where they ping with your interests more.

Or, they might just not be for you, and that's also okay.

[stillknowntobequitevexxing]

[kply-industries]

"Today, instead of the nightly news, I'm just going to talk about Star Wars for an hour or so."

[machinenerding]

Zorii Bliss impossibly shares a drink with Mando 🍹

[valiantnomore]

not me watching a playthrough of Star Wars Droid Works (1998)...

[darlingjmiller]

do you play games 3+ years after their release date or are you normal?

[secondhandbagofholding]

I talk a lot of shit about Disney. Because, well, Disney sucks. BUT Andor was one of the most enjoyable experiences I’ve had watching Star Wars media since I was a teenager watching the original trilogy.

[ninquetolliel]

me: I DOn't trust this lady me: OH-HO-HO She's a double agent! NICE! me, not two minutes later: wait, she's a triple agent?

[swashbucklery]

Everyone in the notes of those Ahsoka Sabine/Shin posts like ohh this will never happen look. LOOK.

It's not about me accurately predicting what Disney's George Lucas' Star Wars Ahsoka will do with these two women, and correctly shipping them in advance of being given permission to do so thus getting a Good Grade In WLW Shipping. (A thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve, etc)

It's about recognizing the inherent homoeroticism of both the Master/Padawan and Jedi/Sith dynamic and leaning into it

It's about the ways that both sides of the force mirror each other and the ways that can be deeply deeply sexual once you stop taking the Lore so literally

It's about how THEY STABBED EACH OTHER, the lingering moment of penetration and awe and disgust and panic, the fear and relief and anger and desire blended together. WHO WOULDN'T HAVE SEX DREAMS ABOUT IT.

Also, most importantly, if I had to sit through whatever the fuck Rey and Kylo had going on in those last two movies, I can have two homoerotic force-sensitive Extremely Unwell Women and smash them together like little gay Barbies. As a treat.

[fonmythenmetz]

The most powerful force user to ever live (smol)

[ninquetolliel]

#space fight club for minors i guess

Din Djarin is insane. this guy takes his magic 50 year old baby to fifth grade fight club like “my baby wants to fight” and this 11 yr old kid goes uhhhhh dude im not gonna fight a baby he's the size of a rotisserie chicken and Din is like ohhhh ho ho, I just decided my baby's gonna kick your ass extra hard now. and then the baby does a double somersault and completely annihilates him at paintball. funniest shit I've ever seen

[raphaerolo]

wlw codywan anyone?

[drawnbythestream]

Obi-wan and his friend Bant Eerin having a sad moment after certain events

[swedenis-h]

They went together au! (X)

[qimir-the-stranger]

We get it, Disney. We get it.

Star Wars is not for women.

Star Wars is not for Black people.

Star Wars is not for Asian people.

Star Wars is not for Queer people.

Star Wars is not for anyone who is marginalized and has different lived experiences.

Nope. Star Wars is ONLY for cishet white men. We hear you loud and clear. We know you don’t care about us at all.