#reylo child

[msuolo]

parenthood

[derpysith]

Rey meeting her future family

[windemere-wicklow]

If i had every nickel my heroine-villain ship wore black and white like it’s their wedding

I’d had two. It’s not much but it’s weird it happened twice.

(Right Image from saurondrielz tumblr)

[its-tea-time-darling]

rewatching star wars and REYLOOOOOOo!!!!! I FORGOT HOW INSANE ThEY ARE!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!

Kylo: Can you see my surroundings?

Rey: You'll pay for what you did.

Kylo: I can't see yours. Just you.

[theladyship]

… I’m not convinced BUT we know there’s gonna be a 15 years time jump, probably for reasons…

the more i rewatch rise of skywalker, the more i’m convinced of the “rey is pregnant” theory

mark my words- one of the kids she’s mentoring in the new movie will be hers and ben’s

[music-thestrongestformofmagic]

anti kylo fans include short-w saying poe was han and leia's son and they replaced him as their son

Poe Dameron is a grown-ass man who already has badass Rebel parents named Shara Bey and Kes Dameron, thank you very much.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Kinda sad when you realize both the sequel trilogy and The Acolyte started off good with a lot of potential...only to end up messing up completely when deciding appealing to a toxic part of the fanbase was a better idea.

[supremeprince-bensolo]

i see enzo vogrincic as reylo baby

Okay wow!! He does look like Adam!

[kylosporg]

Love it too

that new 65 teaser came out and us reylos worked fast

but also i love this idea 😩❤️❤️

[msuolo]

[derpysith]

"You're father was a weak man! Pathetic even for someone who was Vader's descendant. If he only fully embraced the dark side, then maybe he wouldn't have died in your mother's arms."

[scarysanctuary]

is this a safe space...? can i admit that when i first watched The Rise of Skywalker i actually enjoyed it? That's not to say i ever thought it was amazing cinema or something, and there are plenty of flaws and silly things to make fun of, and decisions that i wish they didnt make, but i actually never understood the level of hatred with which i saw people talk about it.

[nachosncheezies]

Wait wait wait

Disney has added a CANON 'Jacen'????

Dude.

[antotheethnographer]

Ship wars in my tumblr? More likely than you think.

Everyone of you is pretty and smart and the best, don't worry. Take your ship-based ethnocentrism and question it, my dudes. Go hug your fellow romaione, dramaione stan. Wholesome-ship-dynamics person, go take the hand of your enemies-to-lovers-to-therapy partners-to-my parents lil' guy. We are all cringe here, there's no need get our collective nickers in a twist.

I know some of people have a... very high self identification with shipping and antishipping to the point of being part of their personality, but there are better reasons out there to hate someone's guts. Like, have you met any nazis lately?

We all like to think that people who ship our notp are delusional, but are we not the same?

You, multiple individuals reading this, see any controversial/crack/unpopular ship you don't like getting hate, and you think it's justified because they're annoying, inmoral or whatever label you prefer, so the people doing the hating have the moral high ground. Buuuut it's usually hardcore fans of other equally cringy ship doing this, or some snobbish dudebro (gender neutral) whose understanding of concepts like mythology or transformative work are self-serving or limited, usually framed by some ambitious ideal of The Craft of StorytellingTM that's only undestandable by like-minded individuals and not by uncritical and shitty shippers.

Do you guys see where I'm going with this? All this sides sound like religious zealots, worst case scenario. People go preaching equallity and world peace and what not, and then act like any good old sectarian of your favourite christian variety.

Oh, and Lèvi-Strauss contacted me by means of hierofanic nature (came to me in an email). He says you should really check out works on the social aspects of storytelling and the importance of seemingly secular narratives to put the perceived chaos of the universe into order, which is related to our social and cultural organization.

(Besides the sarcasm, and surprisingley enough, sociological, anthroplogial and literary studies of religious beliefs have a lot to teach us about how we face the more secular aspects of our social lives. You should really check it out, random person reading my rant.)

Or you know, keep annoying eachother without reaching full-blown and multidrectional attempts at bullying. That's nice enough. You do you, and that's what's important.

[despairoftheendless]

It's so funny whenever YouTube sponsors these right wing propaganda videos because 9/10 it's a grown man pitted against either a university student or in this case a literal child, never someone of equal standing

It's tailor made for people whose biggest power fantasy is to just tell off random middle schoolers and have everybody clap afterwards, It's the right wing's version of that reylo mom post

[anima-nostrae]

Why shipping is so intensely hated in older fandoms?

Because of my person being entrenched in both the Rings of Power and Star Wars (sequel trilogy and the Acolyte specifically) fandoms and conversations online, I have noticed a curious thing happening. Now of course, I am aware all of it has been taking place for a long time before that, but recently a pattern has been developing.

Notably, the hate “shipping” or “shippers” had been receiving in online spaces.

Using both fandoms I already mentioned as a sort of trial group, let me illustrate what I mean by a “pattern” - but first, let’s try to define the whole shipping thing.

The basic thing to understand about it is that not everyone would explain it the same way. I would assume the most universal understanding of it would mean “shipping” to be simply wishing for two characters to become a couple at one point or another in the story. In that understanding, this might also manifest in some people’s minds as “I want these two to kiss” as well as “I want these two to have sex.” Which is true.

Which is also a very flattening description of the phenomena.

People are shipping characters that canonically hate each other, that don’t know each other, that come from two different media altogether. People are shipping characters that have minimal interactions, but these in themselves have that specific element about them, that little umph that normal people would call “chemistry”, so they want to see more from them. Most of the time, and I do mean most of them, not all, these opinions and jokes on the internet are just that.

There was a post about it, one which I cannot find anywhere but in the recesses of my mind, but it made a point to say shipping wasn’t this overly sexual thing where the fans partook in the practice simply to see their favourite characters engage physically before their eyes, but because there was something about the both of them, some strange, mirroring quality that made their interactions simply irresistible to witness, be them anything. A fight scene, a conversation, a mention.

Ones that come to mind are, more recently, Haladriel, *Rings of Power’*s Galadriel and Halbrand-version-of-Sauron, Oshamir, The Acolyte’s main characters, and Reylo.

Of course, Reylo.

We have noticed this, yes? How, most of the time, people that enjoy dynamics between various characters are called “insane”, “stupid”, “child-like”, and how they are blamed for writers partaking in generally controversial choices because “they are just caving-in” and “pandering to shippers”?

This is a feminism - adjacent piece, and quite a short read actually!