#it's hard to know what is a reasonable™ topic to bring up with friends when you keep gaslighting yourself into thinking you have never had a

[kiseiakhun]

Are My Emotions Valid Or Am I Just Having An Unreasonable Reaction To A Neutral Statement

[vsnotresponding]

I’m here for the ask game.

1 Ira

9 sher

13 sher & karma <3

42 Ira

53 karma

50 sher

i love doing this so much thanks lyn <3

1- What’s the lie your character says most often? (ira)

honestly, ira doesn't really lie. she says stuff as she thinks it and doesn't try to soften the blow.

you could count telling Hamza she's "not going to get into trouble" or "going to stay put" or "no I did not hid that bunch of insects on your bed why do you ask" as lies I guess but they both know she's lying so i guess there's that

9- Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive? (sher)

if only he could learn to plainly give love huh, wouldn't that be neat.

I feel that once he learns to he'll be a gentle love kind of dude, specially to karma, in fear of fucking up and hurting others. (he gets called out about it, even by karma). it is a journey™ and it mostly happens after púlsar but he'd eventually give tough love when necessary (mostly to sadaf. she's a little brat. she's also like 5. some would call it parenting)

as for himself, he's extremely tired of the tough 'love' his father gives him :) also he's already hard enough on himself he could use some gentleness

13- When do they fake a smile? How often? (sher and karma)

Sher? every fucking day of his fucking life. on a meeting? fake smile. talking to his father? fake smile. talking to karma? extra biggest fake smile. he always has his assholey smirk on his face. and. it. falls. the. second. he's. alone.

karma did use to fake a smile a lot when his mom was still alive. he didn't want to worry her about his problems so he told her everything was okay (it wasn't). now he just doesn't have reasons to pretend to be okay or happy anyways so he doesn't even bother :)

42- If invited to a TED Talk, what topic would they present on? What would the title of their presentation be? (ira)

REASONS WHY INVITING ME TO DO A TEDTALK WAS A BAD IDEA. A TED TALK BY ME (IRA)

that's,,, that's it. and this is only in the very unlikely case she would accept the invitation. like, she has the knowledge to give a ted talk about creations and how it all works, and that was probably the reason she got invited for starters, but 1. she's not very good at explaining it, 2. she's not a speech giving person, and 3. she's not talkative at all (unless she's bored and her voice is the only thing she has to distract bother others)

53- Who would / do they believe without question? (karma)

not sher lmao that's for sure

this question actually took me a while to answer. he doesn't think he can trust his friends (garvan, emhi, áine) because he feels like he's not a priority to them/ feels isolated from them and their dynamic and he'd rather keep his thoughts to himself.

during púlsar he ends up trusting 100% in ira ride or die. it's mostly out of guilt of all ira goes through (partly because of his own actions so he's compensating) (my boy is full of guilt what can i say) and he also has no reason not to trust her 100%

50- What belief / moral / personality trait do they stand by that you personally don’t agree with? (sher)

i don't personally agree with how he's going about everything actually, but it's not like he knows another way. he's trying his best. which isn't great. but he's trying

apart from that, the fact that he's being so careful to bring change when people are literally dying my dude hurry up who cares about protocol

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

Andor is a fantastic show and I’m delighted to find I was wrong to worry but also if I go to the tag I find exactly the takes I was dreading:

1. people saying “oh it’s so much better than Rogue One”:

 of course, this is objective, but... no? They’re just different things, one was a self-contained ensemble war film and the other is a serialised spy thriller, what’s not clicking? This is like saying “The Americans is so much better than 1917″ like. this means very little they’re different media with completely different concepts, topics, themes...

also: Rogue One is actually also quite political and quite nuanced, it just doesn’t bother spelling things out as much. A show will naturally take time to do this, because it *has* more time.

a lot of people just hated Rogue One because it wasn’t what they’d come to expect from a Star War: no Skywalkers, strictly no Jedi, no lightsabres little to no goofy antics, very little dramatic Vader content. This never made it a bad film - and, as people are starting to discover, also doesn’t make it a bad Star Wars film. It’s just more focused on one side of the universe - the actual warfare, the politics, the dirty work - stuff that was always in the story, just mixed in with the more lighthearted/more fantasy-oriented things. Consider that maybe it wasn’t a bad movie, just a movie that disappointed you.

2. “Oh now I finally care about the people in Rogue One”

first of all, see above

Rogue One gave you plenty of reasons to care, actually, they just weren’t excessively telegraphed and large chunks of the audience apparently didn’t pick up on the character work and came out complaining that “the characters were flat and hard to relate to”.

3. “Diego is really bringing his A game for the show”

he was always this good, you guys were just mean (or had no... whatever reading comprehension for movies is)

4. “oh Cassian is so much more interesting in this”

controversial opinion alert, but... he’s actually *less* interesting in this, I think? (tangent under the cut)

In the film, after his first three scenes, here’s what you knew about Cassian: resentful of the system and his place in it (the look he gives the guy who bumps into him on Kafrene), deeply morally conflicted but uncompromisingly loyal to the cause, compassionate but ruthless, good with people, damn good shot (see: killing his informant on Kafrene), thinks on his feet (the trick with the gloves), does his homework (Jyn’s interrogation), obedient soldier, emotional restraint (talking to Draven), capable pilot, Friend of Droids(TM), observant/very aware of his surroundings, bordering on paranoia, but also willing to take a risk to make the mission run smooth (in the shuttle when Jyn takes his blaster)...

meanwhile on the show, nine episodes in, I picked up on the following: looking for his long-lost sister so there’s some familial love/protectiveness there, similarly for Clem whom he seems to have admired, good-ish with people and a decent manipulator (talking the alien tough guy down), a bit of a ladies’ man maybe (but on amicable terms with his ex), observant, thinks on his feet, generally capable with weapons and technology, good pilot. A bit cocky maybe.

I’m sure I’ve missed some, but... honestly I’m surprised people seem to find him more interesting because I’d argue what we’ve seen of his character so far isn’t actually very interesting? What happens to him is super interesting, but (at least after the first three eps) there isn’t much internal conflict in the character. If I wasn’t hyper invested in the character already and if he wasn’t played by Diego Luna... I’d find him a pretty boring main character, I think. The only moments that were genuinely intriguing to me about the character were “I’m here to win and walk away” because that’s such a specific thing that he knows is hilariously unrealistic... and now ep 10 when he made the guards get on programme (because a spy with a vindictive streak is... probably not long for this world - and also because it contrasts so nicely with Cassian’s incredible restraint during most of R1 that only slipped for a *second* after Eadu. So even that isn’t interesting to me purely on its own merit I guess)