#sw fave meme

[anghraine]

For the Ask Game: Leia/female!Han

I don't remember the structure of the meme, to be honest, but I can still answer! I am deeply ambivalent about this ship.

On the one hand: female Han sounds super hot, ngl (100x more than canon Han in my totally unbiased opinion). Just the aesthetic and general dynamic would be way more appealing that way.

On the other: if it was otherwise exactly like canon, I would have the same gripes around Han ignoring Leia's explicit and repeated rejections and the whole "I know what you need and want more than you do" thing. That's still fucked-up between women.

But back to the first: in the wildly unlikely scenario that their scenes had been written with Leia/female!Han, I think that that aspect of Han's characterization and the Han/Leia dynamic are so drenched in tropes around masculinity and heterosexuality that it probably would have leaned into other tropes (undoubtedly some would be homophobic ones! but differently problematic than canon).

And while female Luke is (obviously) much more appealing and interesting to me than female Han, I think it would be fun to envision a female Han who wasn't so 1980. If she was still cool and swaggering some of the time but sometimes landing at tryhard and dorky instead, and a loyal friend etc, but better with consent and not some homophobic stereotype, I would probably find the ship really appealing.

[sunriseverse]

uhhhh 2, 3, 6, 7, 16 for the trash meme! 🗑️ (you don't gotta answer all of them lol)

no no i love ask memes i will answer ALL of them >:) (i will say though that post has an annoying 'uwu fandom Sinful' vibe about it that annoys me. not going to stop me from playing the game though.)

2. now name ur trash ship

this is easy. baizhan from sci. the novel specifically in the show they're fine they're pretty normal. the novel is bad and stupid as fuck though and so novel!byt and novel!zz win the "trashiest couple i like" award (i had to sit through an extra where they have sex on a ferris wheel. er ya pay me damages).

3. and ur really trashy im-going-to-hell ship

different type of trashiness but. yzy/madam jin. i have never read fic for them but 90% of the fandom loathe them meanwhile i'm over here like "if they just left their piece of shit/undeserving husbands and fucked they'd be happier". also i guess they're trashy because they're rich people.

6. who is your trash fave who is so problematic they probably have hate tumblrs dedicated to them 

easy this is jgy. he's not trashy (he has good taste) but he is Le Problematique. i for one think if he did kill that baby it's fine who give a shit. i am 90% certain i've seen actual hateblogs dedicated to him though.

7. what is ur  guiltiest guilty fave fandom

used to be a sw fan and sometimes i'll read barissoka fic even though i think sw sucks shit and everyone involved at this point should be thrown off a cliff. lay that media to REST you've fucked it up enough look at it now it's got a palpatine resurrection and not even an INTERESTING one like the eu gave him.

16. what is ur favourite ridiculous au

does it count if it's one that i've actually written. boyband sha hai au but everything is tonally the same. yes wx is subjecting a teenager to the horrors through the medium of exploitative dance.

[gffa]

14.  Fave Fight THE MUSTAFAR FIGHT IS PURE PAIN AND DRAMATICS AND I LOVE IT THE MOST OF ANYTHING EVER If you’ve ever heard Nick Gillard talk about how he wrote the Mustafar fight, it’s heartbreaking:

And:  “My take on the whole duel was that Obi-Wan is the central character in that duel. He wouldn’t try and kill Anakin. The way I saw that fight was like having a fight with your girlfriend. That she’s just lost it and that she’s coming at you with everything she’s got. […] So you try to defend her as long as you can until she breaks down. Then you can give her a cuddle.“ The reason that fight endures even if special effects look more polished in other movies (though, considering it’s 15 years old, the movie is still gorgeous imo) is because this fight means EVERYTHING. It isn’t just about two Jedi at these incredible heights of their powers or that it was a triumph of choreography and effects, but that this was about everything these two characters couldn’t let continue and it was about the heartbreak of what they meant to each other. This is the climax of the prequels for a reason, that it was the culmination of all the movies, that it came down to these two characters who loved each other so much and it was all burnt to ash, just like everything else around them.  It was about two characters who were supposed to fight side by side, who had fought side by side, we saw them, we saw the way they were in sync with each other, we saw the way their fighters dipped and twirled like they were one, we saw the arcs of their lightsabers coming down on the droids in the elevator like twin images, we saw Anakin refusing to leave Obi-Wan behind, we saw Obi-Wan’s grin when he raced off with Anakin to spring the trap. This was a fight about Obi-Wan desperately trying to get Anakin to come back, that he wasn’t giving this his all because he wanted Anakin to stop and think, to come back out of the dark.  This was Anakin feeling like he had to turn on everyone who loved him because he had gotten lost in the dark and couldn’t admit the terrible things he’d done and was still doing, that they had to agree with him or they were against him, he couldn’t see beyond that and so forced them into these horrible situations. But it’s also a fight that’s about showing us how well these two characters know each other, that the fight just drags on and on and on because nobody knows each other the way these two know each other. They are complements to each other, torn into terrible jagged edged weapons against each other.

All those flourishes and twirls and kicks and it’s not just badass that they can’t land a hit on each other, that these are two incredibly trained Jedi, it’s not just the WHIRLING DEATH IF THEY MOVE SO MUCH AS A CENTIMETER OUT OF PLACE, it’s not just that AMAZING move in that last gif where Anakin twirls his saber BEHIND HIS BACK AND THEN JUST KEEPS GOING and that Obi-Wan deflects every single swing and never really launches his own because he’s trying to get Anakin back-- It’s about how well these two characters know each other, what it means that they can read each other so well that neither of them gets so much as a singe mark until the very end, when Anakin overestimates himself and Obi-Wan finally has to put a stop to it. Nothing has ever matched the sheer emotional weight of this fight for me, nor the sheer DRAMATICS OF SETTING IT ON A LAVA PLANET, GOD, THE PREQUELS WENT HARDCORE AND I LOVE THEM FOR IT

[lieutenantivant]

1, 3, 7

1. Fave movie: I unironically, totally, honestly adore The Last Jedi, although I've found the fandom Discourse surrounding it emotionally draining and unpleasant to the point I don't particularly enjoy talking about it any more, which is a shame.

Least fave movie: Attack of the Clones. It's not even close. It alternates between being absolutely horrid and immensely boring.

3. Fave TV ep: Rebels ep! As a massive Hera stan I absolutely love Homecoming, as we get a really good look into Hera and how growing up in a family of fighters during a war forged her affected her.

And it's great that they make Cham Syndulla, the Free Ryloth resistance hero we met in TCW a complex figure: a renowned strategist with a bad case of tunnel vision and major shortcomings as a father, reacting to his wife's death by throwing himself obsessively into fighting the Empire to avenge her, and forgetting that still he had a grieving little girl badly in need of comfort and her only remaining parent. The scene where Hera tells Ezra about this is heartbreaking, and you can see from it why she regards her crew as family and doesn't like them leaving her. *smacks Cham* Still, I do like how they each get a chance to air their grievances and, despite Cham being a jackass and sabotaging the mission, become close again by the end, because Cham finally listens to Hera (and tells her he's proud of her! Sweet parental validation!)

Also, Kanan acting like a flustered teen meeting his girlfriend's dad and getting his crewmates's names wrong when introducing himself to Cham is hilariously adorable and one of the rare times I find him likeable.

Least fave TV ep: Also Rebels, The World Between Worlds. I will forever die on the hill that Ahsoka should have been killed on Malachor by Vader, as that was both the natural and most beautifully tragic conclusion to her arc and the Anakin/Ahsoka relationship. Having Ezra step back through time to save her from Vader's lightsaber is a giant cop-out that retrospectively seems to have been done as a way to make the search for Ezra not be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Also because she's a creator's pet. Ugh. (Season 4 of Rebels in general just sucks.)

7. Fave species: TWI'LEKS TWI'LEKS TWI'LEKS.

Aside from the fact they are by some margin the coolest and prettiest species with their lekku and rainbow colours, what I love most about them is they are a proud people who fight against anyone trying to slap chains on them or put a boot on their neck (even Oola, the original dancing girl, wouldn't meekly submit to the gross Jabba).

Least fave species: The Hutts. Disgusting, slimy, crimey, space slug things.

[passionesolja]

I ain’t even got a caption idea. Just thinking about this photo

[takestothesky]

me, after watching anakin turn dark side in the s7 trailer:

[avarkriss]

OF COURSE my fav fic is of castles and magic ❤️❣️💕💕♥️💖❣️❣️❤️💗♥️💞💖

I love that you love it oh my gosh  😭 😭 😭

You and Julia have re-inspired me to get my butt in gear on finishing that epilogue for it, I hope you’re having the beautiful day you deserve 💕

[shotaroosakis]

I made another one

[captainshyguy]

fives?

[sallyisdrawing]

Sabine Wren in 2E! (Twitter request)

[neon-junkie]

It’s fair to say I lost my shit

[gffa]

2.  Favorite Star Wars Planet THERE ARE MANY PLANETS THAT ARE SO INCREDIBLE IN SW SO HAVE SOME MORE OF ME CRYING OVER SW PLANETS. BECAUSE ONE POST WASN’T NEARLY ENOUGH.

[bo-katan]

Darth Vader & Obi-Wan for the Star Wars Ask Thing. :)

Darth Vader- Who’s your favorite villain?

Easily Darth Vader. He is the only villain that I actively am yelling "fuck them uuuupp" with a grin on my face and I am a total slut for that rogue one scene, y'all know which I'm talking about. Its not that I agree with his actions but I just absolutely love him as a character, especially after reading the Vader, SW, and Doctor Aphra comics. And in viewing his character in the fictional world that he exists in, i love how destructive he is. But also, Anakin's entire story is just so beautifully tragic I just

Obi-Wan- What’s your favorite battle?

Already answered here but if I were to choose a different one, I love the Battle of Jakku (though i havent read the Aftermath series yet) because of the way it is described in Lost Stars and in Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down.

Star Wars ask meme

[messier51]

10 favorite movies, tagged by @illuminahsti​

tagging anyone in #meta saloon who wants to do the thing

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

I did the thing!

Nana nana nana nana na na na

I'm completely fucked

Completely fucked

[princely-affairs]

if you're still doing the expression meme: satine 2B