Actual scenarios that canon EU books could feature in the gap between VIII and IX

- Hux urging Kylo to make an advantageous political marriage to solidify his leadership of the galaxy and gain the First Order some badly needed funds, but Kylo refusing to play ball because he will never be over Rey. Amusing scenarios where Hux attempts to steer Kylo into disastrous matches with wealthy heiresses ensue, sending Kylo into a spiral of misery.

- Unbeknownst to the First Order or the Resistance, Rey and Kylo arrange to do a covert deal over their Force bond and engineer an in-person meeting at a high-society function that requires them both to wear gorgeous and extravagant formalwear.

- Rey and Kylo getting conspicuously sentimental over propaganda posters showing the likeness of the other person (it’s particularly easy to envisage Kylo maintaining a private collection of Rey memorabilia).

- Kylo attempting to impress Rey with decrees and edicts that he thinks will appeal to her, only for her to be horrified by his interpretations of her wishes (for example, I could see Kylo going after Unkar Plutt and arranging for his public execution to be broadcast over the Holonet).

- Kylo issuing an obscenely large reward for Rey’s capture and her re-activating the Bond purely to tick him off for causing her no end of bother in the form of legions of bounty hunters chasing her across the galaxy.

- Kylo inviting Rey to the Lake Retreat of the Naberrie family on Naboo (under the pretext of a diplomatic discussion) and clumsily attempting to re-enact his grandparents’ courtship, with variable results.

okay but #1 is a trope i LOVE. i actually remember this escaflowne fic from like...15 years ago where van’s advisor was trying to marry him off to some rando princess and he was too busy brooding over hitomi to give a shit and aaaaghhhh i would kill to see this with reylo

SIGHS LOUDLY IN BUCKYNAT

If you are outraged and disappointed with The Last Jedi it’s because you never understood the story in the first place.

Someone needs to talk to Kylo… About how to romance a woman… And not be a dumbass. XD

Takes after his god damn grandfather

unfortunately ben gets it double; his father’s idea of flirting was basically pulling on leia’s space buns

so I’m pretty much buzzing over the jane eyre comparison so as someone who has analysed this novel endlessly I have some initial unpolished thoughts I gotta get out here….

So remember how Rochester has to basically be emasculated (contentious opinion I know but lmao) at the end by losing his sight to ‘even out the playing field’ between him and jane, along with her finding her family and financial independence through the inheritance…..so what if the playing field has to be evened between rey and kylo and he loses a limb or something similar whilst she finds her heritage (kenobi or palpatine or no-one it doesn’t matter).

THIS WOULD MAKE SENSE I AM FREAKING OUT WHILST ASCENDING

so @kuresoto just made it even angstier with a ‘what if kylo loses his sight and then slowly regains it with rey like rochester’ au and I’m not getting any work done for the rest of the day whilst I cry

No one is going to make me hate this movie just because I’m a Reylo or things didn’t go the way I predicted or thought I wanted.

The only thing that’ll make me hate this movie is if I feel the story doesn’t move me and make me think and question and push me emotionally. If I come out of that theater going, “DAMMIT RIAN, YOU MADE ME SOB. YOU MADE ME LOVE IT, AND YOU MADE ME HATE IT,” ….. then that’s all I need.

The best stories are those which challenge you. I haven’t seen it yet – I don’t know for sure how much “Reylo” is in it, or how much sexual tension or romantic subtext there is. I don’t know for sure how I’ll interpret Kylo’s actions.

I don’t know but. What I’ve heard is that it’s fucking fantastic and that those things ARE in there. So, we’ll see.

Being negative or making judgments that you hate something before you’ve seen it is peak entitlement, and I am seeing it all over my dash and in my inbox. You were ready to skewer antis if they were pissed about a redemption arc or overt Reylo romance. Well, we didn’t get those things and now it’s all negativity, and “I don’t know what to do…”?

Creators don’t owe us anything in particular. It’s up to us to give it a chance or make up our minds.

I’m excited for the film. I’m a lifelong SW fan. Being a shipper isn’t going to change my excitement for the franchise that defined my childhood. I hope it enhances how I feel about the ship though – whether it ends up ultimately being canon or no.

I hope @thecatsesthetics metaphorically chokes on their own disappointment  when watching TLJ and that Star Wars is ruined for them forever because they deserve it.

This goes for LJ-Writes too, who once hopped on my post about my father dying of cancer to make a jab at Reylo then said I was “using” my dad’s death to excuse “ignoring fandom racism”.

Also, anyone who has ever called us a Nazi, slurred shippers of color or targeted Adam Driver or Rian Johnson. I hope your inner fan - presuming you even are one - dies inside when you watch TLJ and you rage quit the internet.

i don’t usually do this, but u know what it’s fcking tuesday and i had to see this in my notifications so let’s go

But that’s not what the OP of the post in question said, is it? No the OP excerpted PART of an interview wildly out of context to assert that Driver joined the military to get revenge on “evil brown people”, and then a host of people not only unthinkingly reblogged it but stand by the OP’s baseless claims because at this point y’all would literally rather co sign the stupidest most unthinkingly-trivializing-grave-political-matters-for-fandom-wars-on-tumblr bullshit than admit that y’alls critical thinking skills have been irreparably hampered by y’alls hate for a fictional character so much that y’all have to twist and bend and reach for reasons to hate the actor who portrays that character too.

Also, do y’all know how movies work? Cuz it’s kind of the job of the director - in this case Rian Johnson - to fully flesh out ALL the characters and make you see things from their perspective because that’s what heightens the emotional stakes of a narrative. It’s okay if you DISLIKE that perspective, but own your dislike and its subjective nature instead of throwing the words “genocidal” and “nazi” around like they’re going out of style. TFA very clearly laid out Kylo as a troubled, bordering on sympathetic, antagonist/villain. Subsequent material has explained how he was targeted by Snoke and that his path to the Dark Side is not as straighforward as we might believe. And moreover TFA clearly and explicitly laid out the parallelism between him and Rey as well as their mutual symbolic importance to the trilogy. It’s not the fault of other fans if y’all ignored the actual text of the movie in favor of projecting some weaksauce tumblr sj manifesto from 2012, nor is it the fault of kylo/reylo fans that a bunch of people read that dumbass white feminist article about The New Trio and took it as gospel instead of seeing the writing on the wall.

Y’all sound wack as hell getting this much of a stick up your ass about mfcking Star Wars of all things, and for the record it’s reeeeeal annoying to see y’all foaming at the mouth with your cheap analogies about “genocidal” and “nazi-coded” characters in STAR WARS when some of us are actually from countries where genocide and civil war are happening, actually have friends in/from Iraq and Iran, are actually part of the communities that were violently impacted by the post-9/11 racism that OP so casually invokes to score notes capitalizing off a wave of popular hate against a character who, really as far as Problematic White Dude Characters go, is pretty fucking tame. Your interpretation of a thing is not the only interpretation, and it’s not even the interpretation that’s being supported by the text. Drink some almond milk, reacquaint yourselves with your critical thinking skills, read a book or two and maybe take a fim studies class. peace. 

*marries this post*

u know that skit chelsea peretti does with the “i love nerds” t-shirt? where she talks about girls who wear those t-shirts and how she’d like to force them to date an actual zit-faced sweaty engineer?

WELL i wish i could drag some of yall outside in the fresh air and stick ur face into reality

cuz honestly, recklessly calling everyone a neo-nazi is gonna reach a height where any sort of nuanced commentary will be seen as “siding with the aryans” or some such shit. AND IT IS ASININE because we are actually DOWNGRADING and NORMALIZING fascism by applying it to EVERY NARRATIVE WE DON’T LIKE IN A GODDAMN FICTIONALIZED UNIVERSE. 

if u wanna critique something, critique THE MILITARY COMPLEX that influences so many young people DAILY. stop posturing in your sainthood and understand that no one is exempt from the world we live in. 

Adam Driver at the Japan premiere of The Last Jedi (via sleemo)

This was the Christmas family photoshoot I’ve been waiting for

So tol ><

okay but asking “why are reylos all educated people with professional careers” implies that you yourself are puerile and uneducated, which you don’t comprehend because you are puerile and uneducated

all reylos are dumbass 18/19 year old Starbucks baristas with a weird fetish for foot-looking Adam Driver and still operate under 2012 tumblr humor so idk who fooled you and told you that y’all were “young and successful professionals” because none of you are even remotely like that lol

ok 19-year-old child “dudethatsgaybro”