#reylo com

[i-am-mldy]

reylo may be a whole dumpster fire for some of yall but before you pass judgement on girlies like me who still hold on to this ship for dear life, understand that the best smut I've ever read in my life were reylo fics. maybe then youd understand where im at

[nellasbookplanet]

Isn't it funny how today it’s pretty common belief on here that the idea of 'cringe' and shaming of people who like 'cringe' things is bad. That the big fandoms back in the day that people like to make fun of - superwholock and john green books and twilight and homestuck and whatever was popular at the time - certainly had elements very deserving of critique, but how that critique largely drowned under people pointing and laughing at, the mostly teen girl, fans. Like, we are pretty agreed that this was bad, right? That it’s cruel to actual people and makes it difficult to have genuine conversations about the actual flaws of the media and fandoms in question, right??

And yet here we are today and I see people doing the exact same thing to newer fandoms with the defense that the fans are cringe or, if you're trying to be all moral about it, problematic and possibly evil for liking a popular media. Like, I don’t care about reylo or our flag means death or taylor swift or romantasy novels to any particular extent. I don’t have a horse in this race. But I keep seeing their fans treated as acceptable targets for harrassment or bullying. Posts talking about how immoral they are and then their screenshoted 'proof' is mostly just. Women being passionate about a thing that they love, or god forbid daring to defend it or being bummed about everyone else harrassing them. And I think it's kind of scary how we keep repeating this cycle of designating a media as inherently problematic, therefore all of its fans are problematic, therefore they are deserving of every ounce of mocking and public shaming they get.

[delia-pavorum]

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[mfshipbracket]

I'm sorry to reference the shreksweep but round 1 in the government agencies bracket had some sweeps better than the current standing of shrek/fiona vs reylo. NASA vs ICE was 99 to 1 army vs DE was 1.5 to 98.5 and NPS vs navy was 98.4 to 1.6

are you telling me there was a government agencies bracket here on tumblr dot com. and shreksweep can’t beat nasa.

[alligatorjesie]

Hey that's alright you can block me as much as you like but it wont change anything man. You said some shit things so I'm going to say some shit things to you.

You know what that's fine we can just repost that whole comment so people can see what a shitass you are @blessyouhawkeye

Hey real quick you do realize that reylo is just a really vanilla ass enemies-to-lovers ship if you have a problem with it well good luck man this shit is literally everywhere in media.

Almost like it's a popular trope. Have you never watched a rom com? Woof. I got some news for you brosph.

but you know what since we're on the tangent of 'weird people' in fandoms let's talk about that for a moment.

You wanna know what's weird? There's a lot of finnreys in the reblogs acting positively feral about their ship not being canon

(which idk I watched TRoS that was pretty open ended if your still mad about reylo by the end of that movie that shits on you)

and upset they don't have book deals like the reylos but IDK man maybe the reason finnreys ain't got book deals is because they spend all their time online bitching about how their ship got shafted instead of writing that fucking fanfiction.

You know when the reylos got shafted with the shit show that was EP9 instead of spending the next 3 years complaining they just trucked along in their own fucking sandbox completing their own fucking projects for their own fucking friends.

Fuck Disney we'll make our own reylo with blackjack and hookers and sex scenes.

You mean to tell us you've had more problems with reylos who were just excited to see the story concepts they predicted from The Force Awakens coming true in The Last Jedi and making positive content to reflect that joy compared to the actual nazis on YouTube who flood the platforms with 3 hour long hate videos over how Bree Larson is somehow personally responsible for their dicks falling off?

You remember that one time ethan van sciver said he wanted to kill Chinese people? He's a really popular star wars/comic book YouTuber and he's way more problematic than anyone I've ever met in the reylo fandom.

And guess what he also hates reylo what a shock!

You wanna talk about some unhinged weird behavior allow me to direct you at a rabid finnrey who has told me graphically to kill myself at least 5 times now for the sin of enjoying the wrong part of star wars according to them.

That shits fucking unhinged

Here's some of those death threats these are 100% real by the way:

Obviously Death Threat Warning some of these are quite gnarly.

This user still has an active account.

I've reported them several times but I sometimes feel like the only thing that will get you banned on this hellsite is being trans I swear to fucking god.

This user has spent over 7 years shit posting hate directly into the reylo fandom's tag instead of doing literally anything else to make their own fandom more enjoyable for themselves.

That's weird shit.

What has been hellish is being in this fandom for over 9 years and dealing with the amount of uncalled for vitriol at this very fucking plain flavor baby's first enemies-to-lovers ship.

I only started keeping track of the death threats back in September 2022

It's not even been a full 2 years and I'm nearing 1000.

This is the header for my Tumblr. This is a real number by the way I have every death threat I've gotten since starting this documented on my computer.

It's actually 955 because thepettycunt here just sent me a new death threat so now I gotta update the banner.

fun!

One day I'll make a master post.

Today is not that day.

But let's be very honest here the real number of death threats I've personally gotten are well into multiple thousands across multiple platforms over 9 years.

Just for enjoying reylo.

And I'm a furry and have been since the 90s. I'm use to being told to kill myself from strangers on the internet so color me confused when I join this really basic bitch of a fandom ship only to find the hate towards it somehow fucking worse.

That's some fucking weird unhinged shit.

I know you made this shit post just to be a shit poster so don't take this too personally I'm sure at this point you already think I'm unhinged and rightfully so

maybe I am

but after the 100th death threat I just stopped giving a fuck so you'll just have to forgive me but it's real buck ass wild to be called 'weird' when I've never sent death threats to people over fictional ships and none of my reylo friends have done that shit either but I am almost 99% sure if you look though the history of any single person who reblogged this post bitching about reylo you'll find they have a history of doing that shit.

You can pick any one. Odds are they have anti reylo posts going years back and at worst some of them have straight up told people in this fandom to kill themselves.

I can look through YOUR history OP and see You're a huge pile of shit towards reylos!

Go on pick one out at random and have a go. It's a fun horrible way to spend a afternoon.

And before anyone brings it up because people who hate reylo always do;

'what about that one time reylos harassed John Boye-'

a group of women telling John Boyega the things he's saying are sexist towards his female coworker who had already been harassed off social media a few years prior and asking him to do better isn't the harassment you think it is.

You can find that 'reaction' video John made to the reylos on google and watch it yourself. No one is being racist but they are all asking him to stop making sex jokes on his female coworkers behalf and expressing disappointment in him. In fact he even had to reused quite a few of the quotes because I think about halfway through making the video he realized he just didn't have that much material and the things people were saying were pretty fucking mild.

And I'm not sorry. Asking a adult man to hold himself accountable for the shit he says is not on the same level as the far fucking worse shit the over arching star wars fandom has done well before reylo was even a twinkle in anyone's eye

Lastly one more thing and I'm done I swear and I'm going to apologize in advance because I'm gonna sound really spicy and I guess I kinda am but not in a mean way more in a really fucking confused way

but what the fuck do you mean jenny nicholsons reylo videos are unhinged?

They're the fucking same as the rest of her videos.

Is there something less unhinged about a nearly 4 hour long video about a failed fantasy RPG theme park over a 1 hour long video about how star wars episode 9 was absolute dogshit?

Jenny makes cringe videos about cringe shit. That's her brand.

She's voiced her enjoyment of reylo very early on... I think back in The Force Awakens days? So why are you surprised she would talk about the subject at length in detail? She bought a stuffed porg larger than herself and documented collecting it on video for her channel.

Yeah man she probably likes reylo.

Most people who like TLJ do.

What... what the fuck do you mean her reylo videos specific are unhinged?

I'm sorry but if known racist and sexist YouTuber doomcock can spend 6 hours complaining about TLJ because Rey don't make his dick hard like Luke Skywalker does and he's going to make his refusal to reflect on that issue our fucking problem I don't think Jenny is unhinged for complaining about the inarguably bad movie that was the rise of skywalker for less time than the movie's total runtime.

I'm not even mad I'm just really confused by your statement.

[pleas3pretendimnothere]

Still dealing with chronic illness issues, but that's okay! I was able to read what I was!

The Sword of Summer & The Hammer of Thor

By Rick Riordan - I read the first two books in Riordan's Magnus Chase trilogy, and as usual, I have little to say that hasn't already been said! Riordan continues building his mysterious universe of delightfully fun and silly young adult characters navigating their lives as the children of gods. I'm a huge fan of Norse mythology, and this series dives right into that stuff...

The first two Magnus Chase books are just like the rest of Riordan's works. Each follows a new adventure amongst unlikely friends who suddenly encounter some sort of doomsday timeline--something terrible is about to happen, and this time our team only has three/four/five days to stop it! It's a familiar script, but if you're familiar with Riordan, you know not to take the books too seriously. You go in to meet colorful characters and learn obscure facts about godly mythology. They're guilty pleasure novels, but somehow, Riordan is always able to attain stakes. Characters gain and lose, kill and die. That, I believe, is what make his worlds most endearing.

My biggest shock of this series? The representation. A homeless hero. A deaf best friend. A Muslim partner. And a genderfluid love interest. My jaw was consistently on the floor, and I was once again absolutely thrilled with Riordan's commitment to inclusion. Thanks to cheery, playful dialogue, it never comes off as forced, and I will never not recommend Riordan's work to people of all ages. RENT IT!

Love, Theoretically

By Ali Hazelwood - All right, I have to be honest. I'm in a book club with a friend, and we love bad books. We previously read Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis and had a great laugh. Published Reylo fanfic? Unbelievable. We had to know what happened. That book was so strange and...upsetting (a sex scene where the MC is uncomfortable the whole time? Wow, that's sooo hot...). So my friend insisted we read another book from Hazelwood...

I admit, I am not the target audience for books like these, but I really hated this one. Hypothesis was fun because of the Reylo of it all. But Theoretically? Bland, slow, and incredibly unrelatable (to me, at least). Incredible average. I don't enjoy fanfic, nor do I enjoy relatable-girl rom-com reads. This book was made to be disliked by someone like me. The constant mentions of Twilight. The persistent, quirky thoughts of cheese. A seemingly perfect love interest with exclusively perfect friends. A quirky family that's...actually also pretty perfect. And an absolutely, objectively perfect ending. Come ON. I was ASLEEP.

At least reading all the different ways Hazelwood could skirt around using the word "vagina" kept me laughing. If you like plain, inoffensive, modern-day romance, sure. Read it. Whatever. But I prefer more turmoil in my love stories, stuff that goes beyond "It's so hard to just be myself...". SKIP IT!

Factotum

By D.M. Cornish - Okay, now this is the stuff I love! Can't sing enough praises for Cornish's series, and this finale does not disappoint. Like the two books preceding it, Factotum struggles with pacing at times, but otherwise, it's another fascinating thrill in a horrifying world. I may have teared up a bit at the end.

I'm a sucker for huge fantasy. I love gothic settings, and I love a heartfelt parent-child relationship story. I would die for this series' main character, and so would all of his caretakers. He must be protected, and in this finale, our poor MC is being actively hunted. As the reader, you just want this young boy to be safe, to follow his dreams and go about his life, but never has he been more in danger. It was scary and violent, and I had so much fun--even when our little boy was being mind-tortured.

Great, high-stakes action. Beautiful prose. Mesmerizing world with monsters and kings and gods. Delightful artwork, and loveable characters. Bloodborne for kids, and now one of my new favorite book series in the gothic/fantasy genre. I'm just desperate for more. By all means, do not overlook this little series from the 2000s. BUY IT!

[quoteablebooks]

Genre: Fiction, Adult, Paranormal, Romance

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Content Warning: Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Confinement

Summary:

Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch—only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.

Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is out at night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, cares about her art, and asks about her day. And he doesn’t look half bad shirtless, on the rare occasions they’re both home and awake. But when Cassie finds bags of blood in the fridge that definitely weren’t there earlier, Frederick has to come clean...

Cassie’s sexy new roommate is a vampire. And he has a proposition for her.

*Opinions*

Tl:dr - Absolutely delightful and compulsively readable rom-com 

This is another social media influence and I needed a bit of a palate cleanser after a couple of fantasy novels back to back. I then proceeded to read this entire novel in two days and had a wonderful time with it. If you want a romance with a strong plot, this is not the book for you, but if you want a story that reads like a 90s sitcom romance, complete with scenes that feel as if they should have a laugh track in the background, I would recommend this novel highly. As I said above, it was extremely delightful. 

As one might guess from the title My Roommate is a Vampire, the plot of this novel revolves around Cassie Greenburg responding to a too-good-to-be-true ad for a roommate on Craig’s list and moving in with a centuries-old vampire, though she is unaware of that at the time. Part of the charm of this novel is that the reader is well aware that Fredrick is a vampire, so watching Cassie navigate his interesting personality quirks is more endearing than the reader screaming at her to see all the signs. I also appreciate that Levine also had the big vampire reveal about 35% into the novel. After that, it is a series of rather comical scenes of Cassie attempting to teach Fredrick about the 100 years of etiquette that he missed while he was asleep. Again, the plot in this is very light and it is more watching Cassie and Fredrick dance around each other while denying what they feel for one another. The ending was highly ridiculous, but somehow fit the overall tone of the novel so it didn’t bother me too badly. 

Cassie is a rather relatable character in a romance, which I appreciate. She is in her late 20s, early 30s creative that is cobbling together part-time jobs in an attempt to survive while working on her art. She takes public transportation, collects trash for her multimedia art, and lets her attraction to Fredrick cloud her judgment on a couple of occasions. While her bad past with a couple of other relationships is hinted at, whatever happened in those relationships is never elaborated on in this novel. I like how her story ended, but it was a little too butterflies and rainbows that I would usually enjoy. However, this whole book was just so lovely that it was the perfect ending. 

We get to know very little about Fredrick other than the text messages and journal entries that are at the beginning of the chapters. He was a bit more of a caricature than an actual character except when he is being exceptionally sincere with Cassie. He is so interested in learning about her art and praising her for things that she doesn’t see in herself that it is swoon-worthy. Now, I heard rumors that this might have started as a Reylo fic, but truly I didn’t see it in the relationship. I did not picture Adam Driver when reading Fredrick’s description other than the focus on how large his hands are, which seems to be a physical attribute that Reylo writers seem to focus on. Well, that and how large his chest was, but that can be any male love interest. 

The romance between the two of them was rather sweet, though not super deep. The first time they kissed and the makeout session in the bathroom had me kicking my feet in excitement. Again, as this is a lighter romance, the discussion of immortality and its complications were glossed over. Also, there is no lore given for vampires and only a vague mention of some of the rules around them. Still, there was something charming about Cassie’s unending patience and Fredricks's earnest love of her that I couldn’t stop reading. The way that Fredrick’s need for blood and the sex scenes were handled was also done well. 

Overall, this is a fun and light read that is light on plot but still a compelling read. Levine hints in the novel that there might be a companion with Reginald and his human accountant, but I am not sure I care enough about Reginald to check it out. This is a 3.5 read rounded down to a 3 because while I really enjoyed it at the moment I read it, I doubt a lot of it will stick with me and this is probably not a story I would read again. Still, I highly recommend this if you like romances and enjoy a story that doesn’t take itself too seriously. 

[cassiefisherdrake]

A lot of those "aughboohoohoo BOOKTOK BAD AND SCARY" posts just make me laugh so damn much because every single time they list like 1 (one) book that is written objectively poorly and clearly a reylo rewrite but then every single other one they list is just being horny for monsters or otherwise having funny weird kinks written for the funny weird kink niche audience. as if tumblr is not The Monsterfucker Webbed Site™️. "AHHHH BOOKTOK WANTS TO FUCK THE MINOTAUR!!!" so does half of tunglr dot com. like. you're saying you wouldn't wanna get down bad about the lonely monster who is desperate for even an ounce of affection after being trapped for years as a sole outcast and also has a sick pair of horns? grow up

[afterblossom]

Hey there! I was wondering if the A World Between Worlds piece would be sold on your website, either as an original or print. It fits the anesthetic of one of our rooms perfectly (and I love your work in general - the reylo calender is on my wall already).

Thank you for all your beautiful work, I always love seeing it!

Yes you can buy them in my Society6! https://society6.com/art/a-world-between-worlds?utm_campaign=2574&utm_source=sharedlink&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ddp_from_ddp

[dramionediscussion]

Hi Asks!

How do you feel about the growing number of writers who are getting book deals through fanfic?

I can't really explain why, but it kind of makes me sad. I know the authors themselves truly love fandom and they deserve all their current and future success. But a cynical part of me hates the way literary agents are looking in on fandom and picking off the best of the best, it feels so manufactured.

(Also, how writers are often pressured to take down their fic before they publish their original works. Like it's something to be ashamed of, or they're 'too good' for this world once they make it big).

I think it is cool. It's awesome that authors are being approached and given deals from writing fanfiction.

But I agree with you. It does feel like they are being shamed for their fanfic by being made to take it down. Very rarely do you see authors mention that they started off writing fanfic and tell you about it. Most times, people still look down upon fanfics, so when readers hear that the author started with that, they think the author isn't good enough to write a "proper novel". Also, when people find out that an author's novel was originally based on fanfic, they immediately dismiss the story, thinking its silly or bad quality.

EL James wrote 50 Shades based on her Twilight fanfic. Obviously, there are issues with that story and its editing, but people were quick to laugh at it because it was fanficton. That writer of the After series wrote her story based on a Harry Styles fanfic, which people mocked. A very famous rom-com author, Ali Hazelwood, wrote her first book, which was super popular, from a Reylo fanfic she did. When people heard about that after the book was released and loved, it did make them look twice at the author's work and put off other people from reading her stuff. (Her second novel was just as great, so people quickly forgot her Reylo days and realized that she is a really talented author).

But there is nothing wrong with fanfiction. It's a fantastic way to develop your writing skills. There is nothing to look down upon. And publishers should let the author leave their stiff online, don't remove it, and have that author pretend that this is not where they came from.

- Lisa

[candiid-caniine]

Ofc! I'd say you should go back to it, but it is very difficult sometimes and I'll be like half the way into something and be like "is this worth then 10 kudos on ao3?" And the answer is usually probably not but nobody else is writing what I wanna read so may as well. Believe it or not finding trans inclusionary fanfics where a cis male character is a submissive bottom is very hard even on Tumblr dot com and ao3. 😩

oh lord, tell me about it. fanfic rant below

so part of why I stopped doing fanfic was I got super tired of writing cishet, neurotypical, and (to a lesser degree) white erotica lol. I'm not cis, het, NT, or white. so seeing myself in my work, esp as I leaned fully into being trans, was harder.

/context: I was writing reylo lmaooo. I got rly into kylux and have like 12 smoking hot wips in my drafts but kylux gets v little interaction and...am attention whore lol. kylux was bigger before hux got killed off I think :/

my fic "bootlicker" was a way to kind of break from that and queer reylo as much as is possible, but I lost interest because just...the fandom doesn't really *want* queer, neurodivergent reylo. and I have no interest in writing anything but star wars fanfic. mainly bc Adam drivr is one of the only cis men I am attracted to (and sometimes I trans kylo ren in my wips bc vibes)

anyway,, nobody asked lol but damn it can be so fuckinn hard. I have a lot of wonderful beautiful followers who will read most anything I write, but not rly interact, and plenty of equally wonderful followers who know what they like and it's so *not* what I want to be writing now. also valid.

I'm so sorry I don't even actually like rey that much I'm imagining myself fucking AD every single time I write her lmao

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

A) From the beginning I have allowed anti-propaganda that I interpret to be in good fun. I have not reblogged the posts that I see as particularly mean-spirited. I don't think "sleazy punk" is particularly mean-spirited and other Glennfuckers agreed with that assessment.

B) You, yourself, have called real actual human beings, not fictional characters, but the real other people on this website, "delusional" and "delulu" for not finding Glenn Close sexy. Even if sexiness was not an arbitrary measure, (which it is), that would not be appropriate behavior. Hyperbole is the name of the game here on tumblr dot com, but delusions are something real people experience in real life, and with over 6250 votes on this poll, odds are there's been a couple people who have seen this post who have first-hand experience with delusions. That's why I ignored that "propaganda" but reblogged, say, someone threatening to blow up the website if Lovelace loses, because I find that to be successful hyperbole in the sense that it is nearly impossible to see through.

On that note, and this one is not directed at you reylo-and-behold, someone threatened to kill themself in the tags if their fave lost and I am asking everybody to please not say that. I don't care if it is a joke, please keep it off of the polls.

Sexiest Podcast Character — Scripted Champion vs Unscripted Champion

[doomsdaymademecry]

Never Go Back. Capítulo 7

He subido el capítulo 7!!! Os lo dejo a continuación. Aquí tenéis un enlace.

Capítulo 7: De cómo Rey llegó al ala médica y soportó a su acompañante.

Rey se quedó inmóvil en la camilla sin saber qué pensar.

En el ascensor se había sentido desprotegida, el tiempo sin comer ni beber pasaba factura y se mantenía en pie a duras penas. Cada vez que el aire atravesaba su garganta era como si se la raspasen con papel de lija. Se esforzaba por respirar. Aun encima de soportar lo mal que se encontraba, no podía huir de su captor, y nada le gustaba menos que saber que su vida dependía de aquel monstruo. Para colmo, le costaba mantener el equilibrio, por lo que cuando Ren dejó de prestarle atención se tambaleó hacia delante. Una ola de repulsión le invadió en el momento en que la atrapó con el brazo, sobre todo porque  había actuado de manera instintiva, lo que aumentaba su sentimiento de indefensión.

Todo aquel rato le había sujetado usando la Fuerza, igual que la primera vez que se vieron en Takodana. Sus poderes habían crecido en los últimos meses, pero seguían sin equipararse a los de Ren. En la Starkiller sobrevivió por los pelos, si a él no le hubiera alcanzado el disparo del bowcaster no podría afirmar lo mismo.

Al salir del ascensor se sorprendió. En contra de lo que esperaba, no iban de camino a un encuentro con Snoke. Una hilera de Stormtroopers, que hacían turno para entrar en una sala, empezó a mirarles, volvieron a sus quehaceres de golpe y no hacía falta ser un genio para saber a quién se debía el cambio de actitud.

Donde peor lo pasó fue en la sala de desinfección. Rey sabía de sobra que si no cerraba los ojos sus retinas se quemarían; sin embargo, la perspectiva de aguantar en una sala a oscuras con Kylo Ren a su lado le aterrorizaba. Pudo sentir cómo él sondeaba sus emociones, oliendo su miedo, probablemente se regodeaba en él. Podría matarme cuando quisiese y yo no sería capaz de defenderme. Pensó en su momento.

 La condujo a paso rápido hasta una puerta con cierre codificado. Rey intentó mirar qué datos introducía, pero su cuerpo lo ocultaba y ella no se podía mover: Ren seguía controlándola con la Fuerza.

Le había confundido a sobremanera escuchar a Kylo Ren ordenar a un droide que se encargase de su salud. ¿Por qué le ayudaba? Debía saber que si mejoraba su estado le resultaría más sencillo escaparse. Rey le miró a los ojos, tratando de averiguar a qué venía aquello.

- Pensabas que no iba a encargarme de que tratasen tus heridas.- le espetó en respuesta a lo que pensaba. Rey no pudo rehuir su perplejidad, lo había dicho como un “¿qué clase de persona dejaría a alguien en tu situación sin cuidados?” entre líneas.

Le sostuvo la mirada con enfado, si se creía que iba a tragarse sus manipulaciones se equivocaba. Kylo Ren pareció analizarla durante unos segundos. Antes de que le diese tiempo a contestar un droide salió de la pared y le pidió que se echase en una plataforma. Pese a su recelo, obedeció al droide y se tumbó en la plataforma para que le examinase.

- Señorita, estoy encontrando indicios de desnutrición severa.

Pues claro, un par de meses bajo el tutelaje de Luke y la protección de la Resistencia no van a arreglar las secuelas de años malviviendo a base de porciones.

Lo que el droide había detectado Rey lo sabía de sobra, sin embargo empezó a sentirse sorprendida.

El droide debía haber dicho algo porque levitaba sobre ella con un vial lleno de un líquido transparente, una pena que no le hubiese escuchado. No le gustaba cómo pintaba la situación. Dudaba que la sustancia fuese dañina, pero si se trataba de un anestésico quedaría más indefensa que antes. A Ren ni siquiera le haría falta sujetarla para que no huyese. Por primera vez en años volvía a sufrir un ataque de pánico, no quería que la anestesiasen, necesitaba aferrarse al poco control que le quedaba. Pero en cuanto el spray entró por sus vías respiratorias empezó a sentirse adormilada, como si alguien le forzase a relajarse y no pudiese evitar ceder.

De pronto, la Fuerza a su alrededor recuperó la normalidad. Ren se había ido, soltándola, tal y como había imaginado. Casi suspiró aliviada, de no ser por el tubo que el droide introdujo a través de su nariz. Aunque no dolía, la sensación resultaba extraña y molesta. Intentó retorcerse, en vano. Sus músculos no respondían a ninguna orden, manteniéndose destensados. En circunstancias diferentes se habría dejado hacer, disfrutando de la tranquilidad, pero no podía escapar a la alarma que resonaba en su cabeza gritando: “peligro”.

Cuando acabó de sondarla el droide comenzó a pulular por la habitación en silencio, ocupándose de monitorizarla y a saber qué más.

El sonido de los ventiladores y las luces de los hologramas que la rodeaban parecían invitarle a un sueño profundo.  Al final Rey se dio por vencida y cerró los ojos.

Todo había adquirido una apariencia difusa en los límites de su visión, como si alguien hubiese cubierto sus ojos con un velo. Le recordaba a lo que vio al tocar el sable de Anakin Skywalker en el castillo de Maz. Caminaba decidida a través de unos pasillos oscuros, el sonido de sus botas resonaba por los corredores de forma imponente. Alguien la había enfadado. No podía poner un dedo sobre el motivo concreto, pero el responsable pagaría por sus actos. Entró en lo que parecía una sala de vigilancia, donde las imágenes de celdas, hileras de stormtroopers, naves estacionadas en un puerto de Star Destroyer y cientos de cosas más se mostraban repartidas entre hologramas y monitores, controlados por una veintena de Stormtroopers. Se acercó a un Stormtrooper que lucía un uniforme plateado y una capa, la distinción imaginó que se debía a un rango superior. La… ¿mujer? Sí, algo en su mente le aseguraba que lo era. La mujer se giró, dispuesta a atenderle.

Le pidió explicaciones por algo, pero el sonido de la conversación se distorsionó hasta el punto de no entendía el intercambio de palabras. Fuera lo que fuera, la respuesta le cogió por sorpresa.

Justo cuando más le picaba la curiosidad, el sueño empezó a nublarse hasta sumirse en una oscuridad plácida.

Se despertó en paz. Lo que quiera que el droide hubiese hecho con ella, le había dejado mucho mejor de como había venido. Para empezar, la habitación ya no giraba. Además de eso, no le dolía la cabeza y al traga,r la saliva no le desgarraba la garganta, la neblina que antes bordeaba todo había desaparecido. Tomó una respiración profunda y un par de minutos para disfrutar de la calma. Algo en un rincón de su mente se deshacía en una emoción placentera entre la curiosidad y el entretenimiento, desconocía la causa, pero tampoco iba a quejarse.

- Señorita, - el droide se dirigió a ella - ahora que ya ha descansado, me gustaría hacerle un par de preguntas para completar su historial. Estas preguntas son totalmente rutinarias y no se difundirá su respuesta, solo se usarán para mejorar su tratamiento.

Rey se lo pensó, y decidió negarse a la petición. Puede que el droide no pretendiese nada malintencionado, pero con Ren la historia cambiaba.

Kylo Ren irrumpió en la habitación como si le perteneciese, le echó una mirada inquisitiva, analizando su lenguaje corporal, Rey fingió no haberse percatado ni de su presencia. Se sentó frente a ella. La idea le divirtió, su enemigo visitándola mientras le trataban, parecía un chiste malo que deformaba su relación en algo cordial. Justo entonces le desveló el tiempo que había empleado golpeando la puerta, y por poco se atraganta con su propia respiración. Se dio prisa en recuperar máscara de estoicismo, al tiempo que se preguntaba cómo se había dejado llevar por la ira de ese modo. Soy un verdadero fracaso, he tirado por la borda todo lo que Luke me explicó sobre el equilibrio. He decepcionado a todos los que confiaban en mí, no solo no estoy consiguiendo inteligencia sobre la Primera Orden, sino que ni siquiera me sé controlar…

Como si pudiera leer sus pensamientos, él se encargó de reafirmar su inseguridad.

- No estás hecha para ser una Jedi, nadie que intente tirar una puerta a puñetazos lo está.

Aprovechó la conversación con Ren para proyectar sus frustraciones en algo y, en la medida de lo posible, desahogarse.

- En realidad estaba llamando a la puerta para ver si alguien me dejaba salir. Devuélveme mi sable láser y te demostraré cómo tirar una puerta abajo.

- Mi sable láser querrás decir. - respondió con ese tono altivo y condescendiente que le caracterizaba. - ¿Qué te hace pensar que te lo mereces?

La conversación prosiguió y cada vez que él le contestaba ella sólo se enfadaba más, le encontraba desquiciante y repulsivo. Eso creía, hasta que le dijo algo que no se esperaba.

- Claro que no, con o sin ella sigues siendo un monstruo.- escupió de manera venenosa.

- Sí, tienes razón.- contestó convencido al tiempo que se levantaba.

A Rey se le vino a la mente el momento en que se quitó la máscara cuando le interrogó. No supo qué pensar al descubrir que el rostro escondido debajo pertenecía a alguien joven y atractivo, por un momento dudó de si, en el fondo, podía existir bondad en aquella criatura. Su primera impresión de él se consolidó cuando acabó con la vida de su padre. Sin embargo, aquella respuesta y su comportamiento le habían traído de vuelta esa intuición: le corría sangre por las venas, había más que oscuridad en su interior.

¿Por qué me ha ayudado? Pensó descolocada.

- Porque mereces mi respeto y algo más que morir como una chatarrera sin nombre.

¿Le había leído la mente? Demasiada información que procesar, primero le confirmaba que se veía a sí mismo como un monstruo y ahora que la respetaba, que para él, pese a ser enemigos, su existencia significaba algo.

Le empezó a costar mantener su respiración tranquila. Un batallón de emociones le oprimieron el pecho mareándola más que antes de llegar al ala médica. Ira, miedo, dolor, culpa, resentimiento, tristeza… tanta tristeza… soledad, compasión. La habitación giraba a un ritmo violento y errático que se acompasaba con el de su pulso taquicárdico. Sus emociones llegaron redirigidas propinándole un bofetón. Necesitaba aire. Se sentía como un micrófono al acoplarse con un altavoz.

De golpe, nada.

Rey tomó aire como quien ha estado a punto de ahogarse. Sus ojos se habían atascado con lágrimas del agobio y lo abrumador del momento.

¿Qué demonios acaba de pasar?

Se quedó inmóvil sobre la camilla, totalmente en blanco.

Después de un rato, el ciclo nocturno de la nave entró en funcionamiento, lo que significaba el uso del modo de ahorro de energía en el suministro eléctrico. Las luces disminuyeron el brillo. Rey buscó con la mirada el destello rojo del piloto de algún sistema de vigilancia, al no aparecer por ninguna parte llegó a dos conclusiones: estaba en la unidad médica personal de Ren y sólo se podía acceder a la puerta mediante una clave que desconocía.

El droide médico, que descansaba en una esquina, abandonó el modo reposo y se acercó a ella. ¿Habría detectado alguna anomalía en sus constantes?

- Rey.- la voz susurrante de Finn se escapó a través del droide.

Debo de estar volviéndome loca…

- Se suponía que esta era la habitación correcta.-murmuró la voz de… ¿Poe Dameron?

- Shhh… si nos hemos equivocado y nos escucha alguien Rey correrá peligro.-dijo la voz de Leia en la distancia.

No, no me lo estoy imaginando.

- ¿Finn? ¿Me oyes?- Rey se puso de lado hablando directamente al droide.

- ¡Rey!-exclamó su amigo. Escuchó el sonido de un golpe por el altavoz, probablemente Poe propinándole una colleja. Finn prosiguió hablando en voz baja- ¡Gracias al creador que te hemos encontrado! ¿Estás bien? ¿Te han…?

- No, no me han torturado.-respondió anticipándose a Finn.

- Rey, soy Leia. Hemos hackeado los sistemas del Star Destroyer en el que te retienen y estamos intentando diseñar un plan de huída. La nave va muy protegida y bien escoltada.

- No podemos mandar un escuadrón a por tí sin que nos hagan polvo- Poe interrumpió a Leia, su voz cargada de frustración. Rey imaginó que él y Finn intentaron persuadir a Leia para organizar una misión de rescate y que ella se había negado. No quiero que la gente muera para sacarme de aquí, con algo de suerte podría escapar por mi cuenta.

- Necesitamos que resistas durante un par de semanas, hasta que bajen sus defensas y hayamos estudiado una ruta segura para que puedas escapar.-explicó Leia, ejerciendo, como siempre, de la voz de la razón.

- La idea es que un X-Wing cubierto por un escuadrón se cuele en uno de los puertos de aterrizaje para que puedas subirte y huír. - añadió Finn- Pero es injusto que tengas que esperar cuando podrían hacerte daño en cualquier momento, basta con que digas la palabra y…

- Finn…-Leia le avisó en un tono imponente.

- No os preocupéis, sé cuidarme sola. Esperaré hasta que todo esté listo, prefiero que os aseguréis de que nadie salga herido.

- Rey… prometo que vamos a sacarte de ahí cuanto antes.-dijo Finn, más para sí mismo que otra cosa.

- ¿Dónde estás ahora?-preguntó Leia, devolviendo la conversación al tono original.

- En una unidad médica privada. La puerta tiene un cierre único que se acciona con una contraseña, por el modelo imagino que usa un encriptamiento avanzado, con una alarma en caso de intento fallido. Posiblemente controles biométricos y un armazón al que solo se puede acceder con la puerta abierta, así que no puedo desmontarlo.

- Asegúrate de salir de ahí en una semana como máximo, si para cuando se ponga el plan en marcha te siguen reteniendo ahí nos será imposible llegar a tí.

- ¿Cómo supisteis en qué habitación estaba?

- Eso corre a cuenta de Luke, él fue quien siguió tu rastro en la Fuerza.

- ¿Luke está con vosotros?-Rey no salía de su asombro. Luke Skywalker ha regresado, va a ayudar a la Resistencia.

- Sí, sabía que estabas en peligro, y con B… Kylo Ren abordo no podía dejarte sola. Gracias a ti Luke ha vuelto.

- Rey no supo qué decir. Una sonrisa de oreja a oreja se apoderó de su rostro por primera vez desde que había caído en las garras de la Primera Orden.

- Rey, no vamos a poder quedarnos mucho más sin que descubran la conexión.-dijo Finn, sacándola de su ensimismamiento- Pero… acuérdate de que no nos hemos olvidado de tí y que vamos a rescatarte…-el sonido empezó a desvanecerse- ...que la Fuerza te...acompañe... Rey…

La habitación se volvió a quedar sumida en silencio. A pesar de permanecer en las tripas de un Star Destroyer, que Kylo Ren la mantuviese en su punto de mira y la posibilidad inminente de que alguien le arrancase sus secretos de la cabeza, Rey siguió sonriendo. Había esperanza, Rey podía agarrarse a eso y no se soltaría.

- Que la Fuerza esté con vosotros también.

[typesomesensetome]

Reylo Winter Sports AU

Rey's Winter Game (T)

[leben-s-freude]

uni has been stressing me out and i still have two term papers due BUT i’m gonna take time off today to read the love hypothesis because you gotta support the published reylos where you can!

[alligatorjesie]

Hey real quick you do realize that reylo is just a really vanilla ass enemies-to-lovers ship if you have a problem with it well good luck man this shit is literally everywhere in media.

Almost like it's a popular trope. Have you never watched a rom com? Woof. I got some news for you brosph.

but you know what since we're on the tangent of 'weird people' in fandoms let's talk about that for a moment.

You wanna know what's weird? There's a lot of finnreys in the reblogs acting positively feral about their ship not being canon

(which idk I watched TRoS that was pretty open ended if your still mad about reylo by the end of that movie that shits on you)

and upset they don't have book deals like the reylos but IDK man maybe the reason finnreys ain't got book deals is because they spend all their time online bitching about how their ship got shafted instead of writing that fucking fanfiction.

You know when the reylos got shafted with the shit show that was EP9 instead of spending the next 3 years complaining they just trucked along in their own fucking sandbox completing their own fucking projects for their own fucking friends.

Fuck Disney we'll make our own reylo with blackjack and hookers and sex scenes.

You mean to tell us you've had more problems with reylos who were just excited to see the story concepts they predicted from The Force Awakens coming true in The Last Jedi and making positive content to reflect that joy compared to the actual nazis on YouTube who flood the platforms with 3 hour long hate videos over how Bree Larson is somehow personally responsible for their dicks falling off?

You remember that one time ethan van sciver said he wanted to kill Chinese people? He's a really popular star wars/comic book YouTuber and he's way more problematic than anyone I've ever met in the reylo fandom.

And guess what he also hates reylo what a shock!

You wanna talk about some unhinged weird behavior allow me to direct you at a rabid finnrey who has told me graphically to kill myself at least 5 times now for the sin of enjoying the wrong part of star wars according to them.

That shits fucking unhinged

Here's some of those death threats these are 100% real by the way:

Obviously Death Threat Warning some of these are quite gnarly.

This user still has an active account.

I've reported them several times but I sometimes feel like the only thing that will get you banned on this hellsite is being trans I swear to fucking god.

This user has spent over 7 years shit posting hate directly into the reylo fandom's tag instead of doing literally anything else to make their own fandom more enjoyable for themselves.

That's weird shit.

What has been hellish is being in this fandom for over 9 years and dealing with the amount of uncalled for vitriol at this very fucking plain flavor baby's first enemies-to-lovers ship.

I only started keeping track of the death threats back in September 2022

It's not even been a full 2 years and I'm nearing 1000.

This is the header for my Tumblr. This is a real number by the way I have every death threat I've gotten since starting this documented on my computer.

One day I'll make a master post.

Today is not that day.

But let's be very honest here the real number of death threats I've personally gotten are well into multiple thousands across multiple platforms over 9 years.

Just for enjoying reylo.

And I'm a furry and have been since the 90s. I'm use to being told to kill myself from strangers on the internet so color me confused when I join this really basic bitch of a fandom ship only to find the hate towards it somehow fucking worse.

That's some fucking weird unhinged shit.

I know you made this shit post just to be a shit poster so don't take this too personally I'm sure at this point you already think I'm unhinged and rightfully so

maybe I am

but after the 100th death threat I just stopped giving a fuck so you'll just have to forgive me but it's real buck ass wild to be called 'weird' when I've never sent death threats to people over fictional ships and none of my reylo friends have done that shit either but I am almost 99% sure if you look though the history of any single person who reblogged this post bitching about reylo you'll find they have a history of doing that shit.

You can pick any one. Odds are they have anti reylo posts going years back and at worst some of them have straight up told people in this fandom to kill themselves.

I can look through YOUR history OP and see You're a huge pile of shit towards reylos!

Go on pick one out at random and have a go. It's a fun horrible way to spend a afternoon.

And before anyone brings it up because people who hate reylo always do;

'what about that one time reylos harassed John Boye-'

a group of women telling John Boyega the things he's saying are sexist towards his female coworker who had already been harassed off social media a few years prior and asking him to do better isn't the harassment you think it is.

You can find that 'reaction' video John made to the reylos on google and watch it yourself. No one is being racist but they are all asking him to stop making sex jokes on his female coworkers behalf and expressing disappointment in him. In fact he even had to reused quite a few of the quotes because I think about halfway through making the video he realized he just didn't have that much material and the things people were saying were pretty fucking mild.

And I'm not sorry. Asking a adult man to hold himself accountable for the shit he says is not on the same level as the far fucking worse shit the over arching star wars fandom has done well before reylo was even a twinkle in anyone's eye

Lastly one more thing and I'm done I swear and I'm going to apologize in advance because I'm gonna sound really spicy and I guess I kinda am but not in a mean way more in a really fucking confused way

but what the fuck do you mean jenny nicholsons reylo videos are unhinged?

They're the fucking same as the rest of her videos.

Is there something less unhinged about a nearly 4 hour long video about a failed fantasy RPG theme park over a 1 hour long video about how star wars episode 9 was absolute dogshit?

Jenny makes cringe videos about cringe shit. That's her brand.

She's voiced her enjoyment of reylo very early on... I think back in The Force Awakens days? So why are you surprised she would talk about the subject at length in detail? She bought a stuffed porg larger than herself and documented collecting it on video for her channel.

Yeah man she probably likes reylo.

Most people who like TLJ do.

What... what the fuck do you mean her reylo videos specific are unhinged?

I'm sorry but if known racist and sexist YouTuber doomcock can spend 6 hours complaining about TLJ because Rey don't make his dick hard like Luke Skywalker does and he's going to make his refusal to reflect on that issue our fucking problem I don't think Jenny is unhinged for complaining about the inarguably bad movie that was the rise of skywalker for less time than the movie's total runtime.

I'm not even mad I'm just really confused by your statement.

i genuinely hope in my lifetime to never experience anything like the reylo phenomenon ever again. something about that ship either attracted people who were weird or made people weird, and either way existing on internet spaces while it was at its peak was hellish.