#like i'm not anti kylo

[pastel-kaleesh]

Say it with me: you are allowed to watch problematic media, as long as you are aware of the issues and acknowledge them. This is why redesigns, concepts, AUs, and rewrites exist, for you to "fix" the issues and put your own spin.

Thank you for listening to my tedtalk.

[clqoo]

i rant about this at least once a month but here i go again: tdlr: ben solo deserved better and it's incredibly sad how his life was cut off right at the "beginning" of it, and the new movie with rey could be screwed up so easily. the sequels also aren't exactly bad they're just disappointing. ben solo deserved so much better and i cannot stand the fact that he didn't get to live. i cannot stand it, it enrages me, it makes me so sad and it is just soul crushing when you think about it from SO many different levels. right when this poor boy found peace, right when he finally escaped from the chains that had held him down since before birth he dies. because of everything he has done and now has to atone for, because of the constant reminders and guilt he probably would've faced, he probably wouldn't have ever really known peace even afterwards, but i'd absolutely love to imagine that he would've gotten to at least wake up one morning and not feel the absolute crush he probably felt as kylo ren. he died without being granted the chance to show that he was different, he died without getting to live in peace for once, he died without knowing what it is like to be free of continual darkness in normal life, he died with it being his reputation against rey's words and i know for dang sure not everyone believed rey when she probably came out of exegol preaching that ben solo died a hero; and it is absolutely soul crushing. if he doesn't come back in this new movie, i'm gonna absolutely flip. there is no way they will be able to portray rey without her literal dyad, the literal other half of her soul in the force. i feel like this could go two ways: they screw up by trying to please the fandom and fail in the process just like they did with a lot of the sequel trilogy or it ends up being good (maybe even decent) and they mention ben. they have to, right? i just feel like there is so many ways this could go wrong but at the same time i feel like it could go so right if the correct people are involved. not many high hopes though. i love the sequels, i really do, and i feel like a lot of the bad parts of these movies are focused on when in reality they aren't bad movies they're just disappointing. this is very much the top of the list for disappointing, though.

[sad-drake-lyrics]

what my 65yo father has to say about antis:

let me preface this by saying, i literally wish i had what just happened on video to go viral on TikTok. i was shook by this conversation down to my bones; and if you could see my father - a loud old Italian man with dramatic hand gestures - say what he had to say, i think this shit would blow up. but as i was obviously not filming him while we were eating, i will have to relay to you the story with my words.

so i'm sitting eating dinner at the coffee table with my father while watching TV, as Americans often do instead of eating at the dinner table, and since the news was on he started telling me this story that had been recently mentioned on TV once again from maybe ten years ago (it was in 2014, you can read about it here) where these two 12-year-old girls killed one of their friends as a sacrifice to the Slender Man. yeah, real thing. fucked up.

and so my father told me about how they interviewed one of the killer's mothers, and when questioned about where her daughter's motive could've come from, she said something along the lines of: you know, when i was a kid, i was into Stephen King and horror - and so when my kid was into that kind of stuff, i didn’t think it was a big deal.

so, of course, my response was "yeah, being into that stuff isn’t a big deal at all - it's normal - but being a sociopath and murdering someone is not normal; it's fucked up. but there's nothing wrong with being into horror stories - they're just stories meant to entertain - it doesn't make you a murderer to enjoy Halloween - but it would if you put on a Michael Myers mask and went out and stabbed people." and, of course, like any sane person, my father agreed with me.

then, continuing this line of conversation, i started talking about the concept of how "fiction isn’t reality," and how a frightening amount of people don't understand that; and i literally started telling him about antis - people on the internet who attack and harass others over "problematic" or "inappropriate" fictional interests.

i used well-known pop culture examples like: if you're into Game of Thrones and like Jaime and Cersei together or wanted Jon and Daenerys to end up together (i didn't think he would process the term "shipping," but clearly by the end of this conversation i think i was wrong), that people (antis) will say things like "you should die," and that you "support inc*st in real life," and that "you're disgusting."

i also used the examples of "toxic relationships" in pop culture, like the Joker and Harley Quinn, or Kylo Ren and Rey, and how if you’re into those kinds of fictional relationships that people (antis) will say that you "support toxic relationships," and that you are "glorifying abuse," and that it all "must be what you really want and believe is right or good."

and my fucking 65-year-old father literally goes: "I don’t understand. It’s a TV show. Don't they know it’s fake?"

queue my jaw dropping to the fucking ground because i'm like. YES. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT PRO-SHIPPERS ARE TRYING TO SAY AND THESE PEOPLE DON'T GET IT.

he was flabbergasted, my pals. the shock in his eyes was incredible to behold.

and, oh boy, that isn't even the best part, guys.

my father then says, "Don’t tell me it’s like that with anime too?"

and i said, "it's worse with anime."

and i fucking swear to you - no joke, on my life and baby Jesus' cradle - again my 65-year-old father looks at me and says, “It’s a fucken cartoon."

... ... ...

... i can't ...

i can't end this post better than that.

[agirlking]

It was your post dfjkdfljal I'm used to tumblr devolving into people loathing me for disagreeing with why people do or don't like a character so I was being careful. I'm glad you're chill about it, I'm not used to that xD

'I don’t think she was purposefully stalking him. At least not in the beginning. There was also completely different person who had said it was her fault that his father died and his clan was taken and I kind of thought… what the hell?' Definitely not stalking him intentionally at first, I don't THINK so, at least now, I assume she was after food after her group all got killed and she wasn't overtly prepared to survive alone.

I think by the time he tried to leave her with Raka she had made that call, she was clearly trying to pull away to get Noa. Doesn't change that I think she's fascinating and the more I think on it the more I understand her and question if I wouldn't do the same if put in her extreme situation, but I think a DEGREE of intentional planned out manipulation was there, which always puts me off of relationships to an extent, depending how it's handled, whether platonic or romantic.

(I really hope the sequel will focus more on what draws them to each other and if it addresses that I'll let it go. I really love the IDEA of their friendship, it was actually one of the things I looked forward too most from previews, I just wish there felt like more was done to make me BELIEVE it.)

As for the fault thing, that's another area I just wish Noa's reaction felt a tad more realistic and human - uh... sentient human level intelligence ape, to me. It's not Mae's fault for Proximus' actions, it certainly doesn't absolve him, but it was her presence that helped Sylva/Silva (how tf do you spell his name I keep seeing both) find Noa's village. After the IMMENSE trauma Noa went through, I kept kinda waiting for him to have a moment of "if she wasn't there this wouldn't have happened" and ideally be able to process it. I love Noa, he's sweet, but at times he almost feels like he's lacking in reasonable flaws, outside of some annoyance at Mae before he knows she can talk. Again I hope maybe the sequel will be able to slow down and properly focus on the probably very complex feelings both of them have in regards to each other.

I actually filmed a video about 2 hours ago (not a plug, I do not post them publicly nor will I due to valuing my privacy) for my friends about how I realize I adore that Mae is allowed to be "unpleasant" and flawed and strong (but not the cliche and often itself sexist idea of a Strong Female Character (TM)) in the way male characters often are. So I'm now there with you!

I think about how Mae is presumably someone I'm supposed to like but she stalked Noa with the intention of manipulating him, wants to kill his entire species, tried to drown his family, and had the GALL to show up with a gun to say goodbye to him.

[atla-confessions]

People will call every male character a metaphor for "the female experience" or "female coded" (whatever that means because they just pick the most unlikeable annoying edgy bad boys and say this, I don't know what they think I'm supposed to have deeply in common with Geto or Kylo or fucking Snape??), but when you have a character that has to suppress all her emotions because the misogynistic men in her life have told her to be seen and not heard and who is awkward and hides her emotions behind sarcasm or a false demureness because her father has forced her to do so, who is asked what she wants most in the world and just wants to cuddle in arms she feels a little warmer and freer in and eat something sweet, who doesn't like being screamed at for the crime of "being talked to by a man" but shuts down at an extended fight because she doesn't want to get into it either, who fully expects to just be killed the very first time in her life she ever acts out, she's called a fake unrealistic unrelatable harpy who has no reason to act or feel any way she does, and actually doesn't even feel anything, and even gets fatshamed by the same feminists who'll call their male faves Honorary Women. Or a girl who gets jealous sometimes or lashes out and says things that go too far in her anger like mocking a blind girl or telling her brother he didn't love their dad mom, because the bond she had with her mother and the guilt she feels for her death and the loss she feels for her father's absence and the starry-eyed awkwardness she has in love especially towards crushes she's scared or losing the same way she lost other loved ones, because she tries to be hopeful and talks about that, because she misses her mom and talks about that, because she has a crush on two nice boys who give her hope and make her feel safe and it goes a bit awkwardly both times, and call her the worst thing ever and even go out of their way to undermine all her drive and post-series accomplishment and life because they hate her for not picking the boy they had a crush on themselves?

The vitriol aimed at Mai and Katara makes me so angry, especially when it comes from Fandom Feminists who'll contort anything they personally like to be feminist and anything they hate to be anti-feminist regardless of logical throughlines. Just had to rant a bit. Phew.

X

[darklinaforever]

I'm perplexed when I see Pro Reylo and Anti Oshamir saying that Reylo is the love of light while Oshamir is the antithesis to the dark side when... no ? Reylo has never been about the light side of the force, but about the balance between the two. Between the dark and light side. Throw the Sith and Jedi in the trash. The idea of ​​creating something new, different, bringing back to the concept of Gray Jedi. And Oshamir, even if it is done differently, comes back to the same thing. The idea of ​​being free to use your power however you want. Free from rules. The power of two (really reminiscent of the concept of Reylo's dyad). Not only that, but it seems obvious that by these words, Qimir is far from being a Sith. He says the Jedi would call him that, not that he is one. And not only do these ideas seem to differ in some ways, but he also doesn't exhibit the typical behavior of a Sith. Qimir has a fragility, a gentleness and a respect for Osha which obviously recalls Ben Solo / Kylo Ren (beyond the aesthetics of the helmet) who was not a Sith. We also saw that not really real Sith have this type of behavior. So Qimir seems to be in a grayer area and he's pulling Osha in that direction. Not to mention that there is the whole entirely plausible theory that Qimir and Osha were originally the Knights of Ren. And even if they're on the dark side later, maybe originally it was just supposed to be something just different from the Jedi and the Sith, freeing from the rules. Some sort of new order, like Reylo was supposed to do. Yes, Oshamir is actually darker than Reylo, but we also have a huge similarity at the very heart of what the relationship was supposed to be. Both Reylo and Oshamir are meant to be different from the other classical orders of the force. They have differences, yes. But to say that they are complete antitheses of each other, don't be kidding.

[askbensolo]

Happy Halloween, my dudes!

Meet Paige and Rose, my mom's usual go-to sitters for Rey.

"'Sitters?'" I laughed. "What are you—a loth-cat?"

"Well, they can't be my babysitters, because I'm not a baby!" Rey huffed.

...Anyway. Paige is my age. Rose is eighteen...and also? Weirdly obsessed with me.

"You're Ben Solo!" Rose said when she first laid eyes on me. "The Ben Solo!"

I get that often enough that I kinda like to milk it, just a little bit. I struck a cocky stance. "Yeah, that's me—son of Alderaan's last princess, nephew of the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker—"

"—and author of Ask Ben Solo. I've read your entire blog. Four times."

Ooh. Oooooh.

Cringe.

Rose spent the entire night glued to my side, asking me questions about things that had happened in my teenage years that even I don't remember—but, hey! I finally found someone who wanted to listen to all 15,000 words of my KOR OC's tragic backstory!

Also—hi, Rose. Since I know now that you're probably reading this.

"Drop the lost Ask Ben Solo files, Ben! Please!"

"The—the what?"

"Your college memoirs! Your fans deserve to know everything that happened in those mysterious five years of silence!" Rose lowered her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "Me. I'm 'your fans.'"

"Uhh...I'll consider it," I chuckled.

...I wonder how many of my anons were literally just Rose Tico.

Paige is much less social than her sister. I tried talking to her a couple of times, and it didn't really go anywhere—you ask Paige something, and she'll answer you with like five words and go silent again. She kinda has the quietness of someone who's been through hell...and, maybe, hasn't quite made it out yet.

Seems nice, though. And like a good big sister. She kept Rey (and Rose) (okay, fine, AND me) from running into traffic like, ten times.

Paige didn't wear a costume. Rose dressed up as Senator Jar-Jar Binks (and now that I'm a Nabooian citizen, I found that sort of...distasteful, but I chose not to comment on it).

I dressed up as my KOR character, Kylo Ren. He has a super-cool scar on his face that is totally not the result of a slippery-bathtub-shaving-accident. Also—he? And the Dark Lady Revan? Are so totally married and in love or whatever.

Not because I’m into that sap, of course. Just because I want Revan and Kylo to have insanely-overpowered evil Sith babies together. (REVLO FOREVER, I will not tolerate anti-Revlo hate on this blog, BYE.)

Rey, as promised, dressed up as Emperor Palpatine, and had a Force-lightning prop she had made out of cellu-board. "Goooood, gooooooood!" she cackled whenever someone filled her bucket with candy. Despite being a wiry little thirteen-year-old girl, the Palpatine character seemed to come really...naturally to her. Weird.

Well, Happy Halloween!! Rey and I are about to have a candy-eating contest—and I have to prove to her that I ain't boring now just because I got old.

[anetherealpoetess]

a rings of power haladriel spoiler from a certified critic and my humble predictions for the finale:

so here is the full review from the critic, but it opens thus:

Deep into Star Wars: The Last Jedi, shortly after defeating the Supreme Leader’s highly trained elite guards, the anti-hero Kylo Ren extends his hand out to the protagonist Rey and asks her to join him. Together, he says, they can rule the galaxy. He pushes her to confront her greatest fear and assures her that she means the world to him. On the whole, the scene is both epic and intimate. A similar moment occurs late in the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as the series’ two most central forces clash in a swordfight. Sauron (Charlie Vickers) reiterates his desire to make Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) the queen of all Middle-earth. There’s nothing he wants more—and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to have her by his side.

on the one hand, okay; we really are repeating the ending of season one. on the other hand, i will always love sauron's obsession with galadriel being so overt a thing. the critic seemed to enjoy the confrontation (a running theme in reviews) but took umbrage with clunky dialogue undercutting the emotions, which ... yeah. the rings of power is intent on being a traditional high fantasy, but it's better when grounded in the modern (like sauron using darvo tactics and language on celebrimbor for chilling effect, rather than the stilted, pseudo-poetic declarations the show often attempts which does undercut the emotion.)

as for my predictions, i fear adar is mortally wounded and returns to galadriel her ring in the hope of helping her defeat sauron. i would love adar to live but fear he's a goner. i would also hope that galadriel keeps the nine rings, and next season is sauron hunting her down to retrieve them, but since the show seems intent on degrading galadriel at every turn, she probably gives up the nine to him during their confrontation (granting the incels permission to spend another two years whining about how everything is her fault) and flees.

i'm not here for the plot though. i am just here for the vibes, the beautiful villains, and sauron's profane and seductive worship of galadriel.

[frumfrumfroo]

The Acolyte ship is an evil/evil dynamic, so I would argue it's not meaningfully the same thing as Reylo. But I think they are trying to pander to it a little bit, yes, completely missing the point of what made the ship attractive. He's very violent with her in a way Kylo Ren never was with Rey which I just find really sad. That was never the draw for me personally (and strangulation is a hard line for me, which is why I don't really like Anidala, even if I ship it cosmically).

But the fact that they cast someone very conventionally attractive as the bad guy is really funny. Like we're all shallow airheads who only liked Kylo Ren because he was hot.

Really?? So is it pure visuals or do people think the characters will actually push each other in a positive direction?

I do get a little disgruntled at people's 'that's all reylo is' shitposts about finding the villain hot or finding threatening/strangulation hot or whatever. I realise these are jokes mocking antis for getting so up in arms about very standard bodice ripper tropes which have been hugely popular forever and it's fine, but that's not at all what reylo is to me.

I talked a long time ago about how I'm not really a villain fucker and don't generally like that many etl pairings. Pretty much for the same reasons I don't like rival-shipping and because, like you, I'm not into the violence. It's not a deal breaker for me if there's violence between the ship before they develop a connection, obviously, but I don't find it titillating and don't want to see the violence itself portrayed as sexual. I can't stand hate as sexual tension and etl ships are very prone to that.

I'm here for the B&tB of it all, personally. To me reylo is about hope, healing, and compassion. About two lost and lonely souls truly seeing and recognising each other when no one else did and helping one another become their best, most authentic selves. They free each other from bondage and pain.

If Ben were actually a Sexy Bad Boy or DFP, I wouldn't ship it. Him not being that is the entire reason it appeals to me. If he'd seen her as a rival or resented her in the way people often write in fics, I wouldn't ship it. He never hated her and she stops hating him as soon as she realises he's not a monster, their attraction comes from a place of sympathy and curiosity on both sides not from jealousy or covetousness--that's why they're OTP. This is among the many things tros fucked up.

[olderthannetfic]

This anon: https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/773869485005357056/httpswwwtumblrcomolderthannetfic773454611598?source=share

I'm loving how everyone in the notes is proving my point for me. The wank the original anon reported hinges on the idea that all white men are interchangable and if you like one you like them all, but of course everone in the notes, no matter what they're attracted to, is disagreeing with my own personal ranked list.

The wank works on the basis that there is X amount of shippiness to go around, and it will be evenly split between all characters played by white men. So when a cast has 2 white men, Hux and Kylo, each gets x/2 shippiness, and raceswapping in a third would get x/3 shippiness for each. Which anyone with a brain knows is bullshit, but it was fun to get you all to demonstrate it :)

If casting a white guy, any white guy, to play Finn would have gutted Reylo because the only reason for a het ship is to mash the chick with the nearest white dude, then you guys woudln't be in the notes going "huh, I don't really see how Gleeson is supposed to be hot" , you'd be arguing that my list is meaningless because all the actors on it are equally hot.

And if an actor being white is all it takes, then how come there's no Rey/Hux ship? It's almost like they know character dynamics and chemistry and physical appearence actually *do* play a part in it (unless they're about to dredge up some 19th century anti-Irish propaganda, but that's a little too easy to spot as bad faith).

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[perfectfangirl]

Please understand this in itself is not ship hate itself, I couldn't care less what people ship, just mere observation. But are Kylo and Rey not related? Maybe that is why people were butthurt about it. While Lucy and Cooper are not, so people won't bat an eye.

hello, op! no, kylo ren and rey are not related. but in the beginning, it was something a lot of antis [or just cautious people from the *last* time this almost happened 😅] were speculating on. kylo ren is the grandson of anakin. rey is a little harder to explain but rey is of palpatine [by way of technicality of the force in relation to her parents]. if you squint she could be interpreted as his granddaughter but truly she's like the child of a clone almost and not really a "natural" child of his by any means. all this to say, the skywalker and palpatine canonically has not crossed streams in the cinematic universe before this for there to be relation of the two. trust me when i say i've been in fandom trenches with [canonical] consanguineous ships and the writers definitely hated all us equally in the end so lmao. i'll have you know op, and you're not gonna believe this but. lucy has canonically been depicted as having a relationship with her cousin, chet, in the show. people are way less angry about that, actually rotf but any who people hated reylo primarily because it was enemies to lovers type trope and there was lots of fighting and moral questionability going on not unlike ghoulcy [typical star wars romance 💀] anyways, i didn't interpret this question as ship hate, i'm glad you asked it, actually ❤️

[piglet26]

Rey Solo... Rey from Jakku.... Rey No one... anything but Rey Skywalker.

The Last Jedi simply revealed that Rey was a "nobody" – perhaps the most shocking and least expected outcome for the Rey lineage debate. It was a perfect twist in our heroine story despite people seeming desperate for her to be connected to some man already in the franchise.

Daisy Ridley has even expressed her frustration with the Rey’s lineage debate multiple times, “I love that Rey is such a great character, they’re like: ‘No, no, she has to be… she has to be-’She’s her own person! Let her be her guys, let her live."

Exactly! Why did people care so much? Maybe initially, it was fun to hypothesize. However, once the reveal came out people actually liked that she was fresh, a brand new start instead of just nostalgia, or, a way to continue on a males legacy. We have Ben Solo for that, or, at least we did.

More than a shocking twist created just to subvert expectations, the Rey “no one” reveal encapsulated The Last Jedi’s perfect message – anyone could be the hero of their own story.  Rey’s realization was that her heritage don’t matter ... all that matters is who she chooses to be now. Rey’s legacy didn't need to be defined by Luke or Leia, which would leave her free to start her own story - hell, Star Wars to have a future. On the other end was Ben/Kylo Ren, who did come from the mighty Skywalker family and hailed as the son of heroes and wanted to escape that legacy.

Then here comes JJ "Nostalgia Kind" Abrams and Chris Terrio. Terrio here “We also thought that Rey’s arc cannot be finished after Episode VIII. You can leave Episode VIII and say, “Well, now, Rey is content. She’s discovered her parents aren’t Skywalkers, or whatever, and that’s fine.” But so much of her personal story was about where she came from, what kept her on Jakku all those years and the trauma that shaped her. We see quite strongly in Episode VII that something mysterious and troubling happened to her. Although she did get some answers in Episode VIII, we didn’t feel that that story was over. We felt that there were still more questions in Rey’s head about where she came from and where she was going. So, that was the other big idea that we had to address in this film. Rian’s answer to, “What’s the worst news that Rey could receive?” was that she comes from junk traders, and that’s true. She does come from junk traders; we didn’t contradict that.” No, you just went back to what you wanted in the beginning.

By the end Rey takes on not only the Skywalker name but she looks over two suns which brings me to the point of this essay...... if Ben wasn't going to be there, then she should have taken last name. Rey Solo.

What's irritating about LucasFilm/Disney is their desire to appease everyone. I don't give a damn about the antis, nor should they. Reylos were a big support group for the films and mightily invested. TROS came off as trying to please everyone. If we really think about, with the exception of the end of Exegol, the Rey and Kylo interactions lacked depth and intimacy. Perhaps it's just not the style of JJ Abrams and Chris Terrio, who did support the pairing.

While I'm 100% convinced Reylo was planned, all the creators seemed very open to adjusting if it wasn't working. Hence why Finn and Poe were both open considerations, especially Finn. I don’t think Adam or Daisy intentionally played up any sexual tension in their scenes together to give us an impression about something in TFA.  I think it just happened.  Early bird Reylos picked up on it.  Some critics, including the one who wrote the TFA review for Time magazine, picked up on it. Rian Johnson picked up on it too and the rest is history.

Leia’s behavior's is odd for entire decades. Being a trained Jedi herself, she could have taught her son - instead she sent him to his uncle( Oh wait, that was a retcon). Han was either helping with the Resistance or off doing something shady. From the novels we learn that Ben heard his parents arguing and talking about him like he was a monster ever since he was a child, and that when he was sent away this seemed to confirm to him that something was wrong with him and had to be fixed. (From the novels we also learn that he actually had no ambition to become a Jedi and wanted to be a pilot - true Skywalker and also Solo that he is -, but he had no say in the matter.)

For both Ben and Rey, their journey is about letting go of childhood trauma and discovering their own independence. Ultimately it's about their pairing being both emotionally healing AND a balance in the force. They are a DYAD after all. I saw all this to say, he is her closest personal connection and impact through the 3 films. Leia is her master but we don't see that, it happened off camera.

Terrio says that the decision to have Rey take on the name “Skywalker” was a way to show that “you can choose your ancestry.” Which is not true and also a strange thing to say considering.

Which brings me to the correction of this tricky trail. Pay Adam Driver want he wants and reunite the dyad.

[littleglowingwolf]

Writing Masterpost

Hi! I'm littleglowingwolf and I write things. I'm just getting back into fic writing after a long time so there will be more soon!

Dragon Age 2

a taste of the sun [in progress]: E-Rated. Canon-based Fenris x Hawke. Yearning, inadvisable friends with benefits, sad smut, idiots in love.

Hawke blazes like a sun: blinding and warm. Fenris, all scars and silence, is a moth. She is his light, he her steady shadow.

Dragon Age Inquisition

Inquisitive Hearts [completed]: E-Rated. "Inquisitive Hearts" was the in-universe harlequin romance novel featured in Overgrown by @luzial and as such is just 4 chapters of mostly-uninterrupted smut.

Inquisitor Sister Jeanne balances the weight of leadership, faith, and forbidden desires. With the rugged Captain Andor and the enigmatic Magister Gaius pulling her heart in two directions, and the charming Protector Crowe stirring unexpected thoughts, Jeanne must decide if her duty to the Maker outweighs the call of her heart—and body. Inquisitor Sister Jeanne balances the weight of leadership, faith, and forbidden desires. With the rugged Captain Andor and the enigmatic Magister Gaius pulling her heart in two directions, and the charming Protector Crowe stirring unexpected thoughts, Jeanne must decide if her duty to the Maker outweighs the call of her heart—and body.

Dragon Age: Veilguard

would you still love me if i was a worm? [completed]: E-Rated. I wrote this as an act of anti-fascism. Yes it is about getting deep dicked by a being of light.

The spirit in front of her twirled once, a happy little thing. Her nakedness seemed to please him. Solas was no longer speaking to her in words - as long as one of his pulsing branches made contact with her skin, she could feel his will, his meaning. She took a step forward as one of the tail tendrils slipped between her legs and tickled her thigh. She felt safe. Relaxed. Intrigued.

Star Wars Episode 7 - The Force Awakens

The Nature of Light [in progress]: E-Rated. Sub!Kylo Ren x Reader. Kylo Ren asks you to help him train in an unconventional way.

His smirk has faded, but you grip his hair harder. It feels soft in your hands. He isn’t resisting. “You may be a leader of men, but here, with me,” you rasp, “you are nothing. You are less than nothing. You will lick my boot and you will thank me for the privilege.” You cannot believe these words are coming out of your mouth but it feels… right. “Is that clear, Knight of Ren? You spit out his title like it’s an insult.

The Buzzing [complete]: T-Rated. A brief piece about Kylo Ren and self-injury.

Callouses eventually formed on his palms, so he moved to his arms. He stole a piece of scrap metal from a mechanical bay and brought it back, where it lived in his bunk, hidden under a mattress. At first he just held it tightly in his hand, willing it to break the skin. His hands just fell asleep. The buzzing always came back.

[samonroegf]

CALLISTA’S RULES AND GENERAL INFO.

currently writing for : check masterlist!

what i won't write : major character death, eating disorders, male reader, suicide, lactation kink, incest, feet, ships, scat, raceplay, dom!reader, pegging, necrophilia/pedophilia/etc., vomit, orgasm denial, edging, omegaverse, anal play.

what i will write : au's, fluff, angst, smut, stepcest, size difference, daddy kinks, degradation, dacryphilia, somnophilia, breeding kink, thigh riding, dry humping, creampie, corruption kink, fingering, hair pulling, praise, degradation, d/s power dynamic, humiliation kink, oral sex, impact play, choking, overstimulation, pain, free use, dom!character.

possible : pregancy, disabled!reader, piss kink, knife play, age gap, body worship, cum play, mommy kink, threesomes, wound fucking, sex toys, fauxcest, bondage, hate sex, exhibitionism.

radfems/terfs/trans exclusionist/ace exclusionists, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, trump supporter, pro genocide. radqueer/pedo/aam/map/transid/pro-contact paraphilia, anti furry, anti neo/xeno prn, against self diagnosis, demonize pds. ( if u think narcisstic abuse is real plz die and stop demonizing my disorder ), hazbin hotel/helluva boss blogs, vivziepop supporters. ed/sh/gore.

if you fall under any of this plz kill yrself and get off my page, i hate you.

i interact and will eventually write dark content / dead dove do not eat, and i interact with alot of nsfw content, please feel free to block me to protect your peace.

i block freely so if youre blocked, you probably just had an opinion i didnt like (btw thats the purpose of the block button).

i hate adam driver and kylo ren, do not talk about him to me. i will rage block you.

i have npd & bpd, sometimes I'm very empathetic and sometimes i have no empathy. I'm also austitic and that makes me come across like a bitch sometimes.

this is a star wars and hayden christensen blog only.

[so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site]

I love Dream but he can be dark, he can be cruel and he's done some very unforgiveable and monstrous things. He is not your average good guy or heroic character. Yes sometimes he can be the most kindest, empathic and wonderful conceptual being but he can be the opposite and it makes sense since Dream is made up of every wonderful, fantastical, magical thought, imagination and dreams but he's also made up of the disturbing, the vile and the monstrous.

Yes, exactly! Honestly, even without delving deeper into potential motivations or biases that he might have been written to have, his basic, on-the-page actions are pretty extreme! Banishing your girlfriend to 10,000 years of torture in hell for saying "no" is incredibly dark! The fact that Desire is able to casually toss the insult "Killed any girlfriends lately?" might also be a hint that Nada isn't the only one. Also his best human friend started the transatlantic slave trade, and the woman who, per Lucien, broke his heart like no other is a brutal murder-loving witch who is also probably transphobic. Something about "you reflect the company you keep" there...

Really, it's weird to see people get all defensive of Morpheus when he makes other notorious "problematic fandom boyfriends" like Anakin Skywalker, Kylo Ren, or pre-character-development MCU Loki seem like tame, sane options! Sure, those guys could kill you, but none of them seem able or keen on ruining your after-life as well!

And as for what you say about how he embodies the collective thought... I suspect that The Sandman Companion's darker and less charitable claims about Morpheus having racist and sexist tendencies were *intended* as a reflection of that. After all, if general culture nowadays has a racism and misogyny problem, then a being made of the collective subconscious thoughts of a culture might also have a racism and misogyny problem. I haven't read the excerpts from the Companion in full context yet (haven't yet reached that chapter in my own copy) BUT the Companion's analysis does appear to fumble in that it flips the script: rather than Morpheus reflecting society's biases, instead society's biases are the result of Morpheus' anger towards Nada warping all of reality to permanently curse all people "like Nada" to have terrible fates. So rather than him reflecting reality's issues, he CAUSED them to exist! That makes him WAY worse!

I'm hoping to examine the evidence for this further once I get to that part of The Sandman Companion, because yeah, that's some "yikes" writing if it's supported by the actual text.

So yes, Morpheus is canonically an incredibly dark character, and the intent of his writing may paint an even worse picture still. He can be good and caring and loving when he wants to be, but to ignore that he's just straight up evil sometimes would be to ignore canon.

EDIT: Also, I feel the need to point out that a lot of this is about BOOK Dream! The show already appears to be attempting to stop any "Dream is racist" issues by having his sister, niece, and nephew all now be black, and changing his trusted confidant Lucien from being a white man to being Lucienne, a black woman. While the show isn't free of its own possible moments of accidental anti-black writing, it definitely seems to be making a concentrated effort to avoid interpretation of Dream himself as prejudiced in the same way that the books might suggest.

[darklinaforever]

So, I don't deny that Ohsmir is his own ship different from Reylo. This is definitely the case. Acolyte knew how to create his own story for this relationship.

But as I said, beyond being a bit the same archetype of couple and therefore having inevitable similarities, what I mean is that just like Reylo exists thanks to Bastila & Revan while being his own thing, Oshmir exists thanks to Reylo while being his own thing (although for me, they should stop using the Kylo Ren / Ben Solo theme song for Qimir and just create one especially for him...)

Do you understand ?

People complain about the comparison to Reylo, but it's pretty inevitable in the end with this context.

Especially with those who allow themselves to continue to spit on Reylo to put Oshmir on a false footing.

Disliking Reylo and liking Oshmir is completely valid.

But consciously spitting on Reylo to raise Oshmir, when without Reylo, this ship would probably not exist as such, that cannot be done. It's inappropriate.

And again, I have not spoken of those who now allow themselves to spit again on the physique of Adam Driver and prize that of Massy Jacinto.

It's simply disgusting.

Also, I maintain, for me the Star Wars postlogy was very good written until the Rise of Skywalker where they decided to screw up all the character arcs built / set up in the other 2 movies.

Honestly, I'm disappointed, I thought Oshmir would be an opportunity to bring the Reylo stans and other Star Wars fans together again, and in the end, some Oshmir stans are still waging war with the Reylo stans, and I don't understand why.

In the end, we are all in the same side.

Literally I already see antis emerging with the same arguments as for Reylo, and let's not talk about those who object to the swimming scene just as was the case for the shirtless force bond scene of Kylo Ren / Ben Solo in The Last Jedi... (It's crazy to see how angry people get over nothing... 🙄)