#it's the same way you americans talk about communism/socialism as if people aren't dying under capitalism to this day

[darthlenaplant]

Is that why I essentially fell out of love with Kylux? (Or that was at least one factor) And now I'm even MASSIVELY annoyed with it. How did that one even happen?

[Insert the "we just don't know" bird]

I will be completely honest with y'all, I just elected to disregard anything about the "canon" (whatever the fuck is that supposed to be anyway) that I don't like, and focus exclusively on the things that I do like.

I've been saying this for years, fanfictions are more often than enough WAY BETTER than anything they throw at us in the bookstores (especially those in the German speaking realm), and that's why I mostly just read fanfics. (Also because there's more and way better representation than just "tragic trans person/gay couple that dies at the end" or "the trans aspect is literally the only part of the story" or "what the fuck is a non-white person anyway".)

Where the fuck did I even want to go with that?

Oh yeah! Disregard the shit the media throws at you and only talk to your fellow fans about the things that your little circle likes.

I for example like to talk about the FO being employing some sort of Techno-Terror, but who says that they couldn't change? Yes, they have massive firepowers, but what is their stance on renewable enrgies and recycling? Just because they were formed by the remnants of the Empire, who says that they have to be the exact same? There are so many things to explore, and only limiting or binding oneself too strongly to the source material is just boring.

Tbch, I NEVER liked sub Hux, and at some point in the last two years I essentially got somehow "violently allergic" to it, I just nope out of the tab. I do make a point of never flaming a content maker, if I don't have anything constructive to add (and style* is not a technical error) I say nothing. I just (try to) avoid it. If I encounter it anyway, I just shake my head and move on.

*) neither is the placement of a person in a picture really a technical error, I didn't want to say "composition" though, since there CAN be actual technical errors there, just like in perspective, lightning, movement/wind direction and anatomy.

Urgh. I can’t seem to shake my inner conviction that all Kylux is now domestic violence. I can’t look at sub!Hux stuff without worrying about heteronormativity and that toxic tendency to laugh at and belittle anyone who isn’t the physically strongest man in the room. I feel queasy about consent in a relationship where one character holds all the power and the other has every reason to suppose they might die if they don’t say yes. 

But otoh I can’t look at soft!Kylux or dom!Hux stuff without feeling like it’s wish fulfilment and Kylo can’t be trusted not to lash out with the Force or fists at any moment. 

I’m not honestly sure - after all the background material - that Hux is the character I took him for either. I mean, I’ll forgive him blowing up five planets, but I won’t forgive him being incompetent.

I’m still hoping for and expecting him to attempt to kill Kylo in Ep IX, but I’m slightly afraid that they’ll make him do it stupidly and I don’t think I want to be emotionally involved for that.