Oh my goodness....when I tell you I just built a Japanese castle for them and just finished putting together Mariko's character in my own Sims save...lol I'm glad I'm not the only one inspired like this! lol

Excuse me while I scream into the void about how good this looks!

Things I love about The Last Jedi

Part I. Also in no particular order.

Overall, Captain Phasma is an underwritten character. She’s visually cool but doesn’t really have much else going on. That being said, I LOVE her face reveal. I heard in some behind the scenes commentary that they discussed what kind of hideous/unusual/terrifying features she might have, but I think the normal, human face is the most interesting and profound choice. Sometimes we like to think that evil is foreign--that only someone completely different could possibly commit acts of atrocity--but evil actually looks just like us.

This is one of the things I really loved about the Clone Wars series in general. I feel like when you meet the clones in Episode II, you briefly see a montage of them younger, but then you see them helmeted only. It's so dehumanizing to have one's face hidden in such a manner. You forget they're truly just men underneath when you are never shown their faces. Masks can be use to hide a wide variety of things really. For Phasma, and many of the storm troopers during the time of the Empire that genuinely signed up to support the Emperor's regime, it was that evil can look just like any normal person out there. For the clones, it was to hide their humanity at all, to ease the consciences of those who would seek to use them as soldiers and wished to deny that they were truly men, born and given no choice but to fight.

I have a new favourite batshit rail idea

Please build it for the funny please please please

You're right. I SHOULD be able to take the train from Minneapolis to Berlin.

@laughingphoenixleader

Someone wants to win 10 extra points for having longest route and it shows.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RINGS OF POWER 1x02 — Adrift

The Rings of Power rewatch: 1x02

if my parents had named me sheev i’d be evil too honestly

this is just what happens when you don’t pay your workers the fact that your boss was a sith is just a lucky coincidence

Don't let Filoni fool you, this was the real Clone Wars ending and all the clones are actually fine and order 66 never happened

I honestly beleive that arla fett or some other ancient fett had blonde hair and its a recessive gene. When you make enough sentients from the same generic code you're bound to let recessive genes shine through, like blonde hair. Clones can have naturally blonde hair, but its rare. REX is a NATURAL BLOND

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I think that what they did with Sabine and Ezra's reunion was perfect. I will not be elaborating at this hour of the night because I need to go to sleep.

The Rings of Power rewatch: 1x02

The Rings of Power rewatch: 1x02

THE GOAT HIMSELF

Anakin Skywalker, almost 30 years late, rocking up with a starbucks and a point to prove, “You are going to finish your training and then I am going to finally be a master, even if it kills us.”

“…you’re already dead.”

“Sounds like a ‘you’ problem Snips 🤷🏻‍♀️”

Rexsoka. Yeah, it's my ship. Still.

I mainly just lurk here, reading fanfic and enjoying the memes. But the angst of the last few has given me the courage to dive in and say a few words.

First, let me clear the air: Rebels was when I started shipping Rexsoka. Prior to their reunion on that show, it had never ever occurred to me to ship them. Despite having read the novels.

So, yeah, look, I totally get the opposition to shipping early Clone Wars Rex and Ahsoka. She's a child. He's a child too, arguably, although his accelerated maturation makes everything super messy. The military structure and fact that Rex is basically a slave means its got power issues galore. Then for those in the US, there is the whole 18 year old age of consent thing (noting, for good or ill, it's 16 most other places). I get why this squicks people. It's the SanSan of Star Wars.

But people grow up. Even on TV.

Season 7 Ahsoka is 17 going on 18, and effectively an adult. She's commanded armies, and just spent a year living and working independently. She is also obviously mature and, frankly, animated that way. Rex is a long term friend, they love and care for each other, and by the end of the season, she basically risks everything for him, and he for her. The episodes are also written in a very obviously shippy way, with the gazing, the chats, the meaningful converstions, the hand holding and the tears. Not to mention that sad, moonlit reunion in Tales of the Jedi.

And although I dont think it matters much, by this time, even taking Rex at double chronological age, the gap is pretty mild by fantasy standards. 17-18 and about 28, about the same as Buffy and age-corrected Angel, and way less than Han and Leia.

Fast forward to Rebels, and we have two mature adults with a shared history and goals, who love, trust and admire each other, share common interests, and are amongst the most important people in each other's lives. It's a believable and natural thing for that to progress to something more. The challenges to their relationship are things like, for Ahsoka, the lingering memory of the Jedi code and Anakin and Padme's destructive passion, and Rex's rapid aging, status and limited life experiences. It is those kinds of emotional and external barriers and their shared trauma that make the romance so interesting.

Season 7 + and Rebels Rexsoka is classic friends to lovers, and one of the nicest, softest and most realistic relationships in Star Wars. The opposition to it, and moraliatic shaming of those who like is, is something I simply don't get. It's bizarre. There are heaps of ships that are far, far more problematic (including Anikan/Padme) that don't get this hate.

Like, anti dudes, what exactly *is* the problem here? I suspect the it's that some people just want to get their hate on.

The recent flashbacks? Yeah, that one in Mandalore complicates thing, but I doubt they had stomping on shippers in mind when they cast Ariana, as I have seen suggested elsewhere. The more likely scenario is that - at about 14 yo when this was filmed - she was totally perfect for the first flashback, and is perfect for playing young Ahsoka going forward. Even setting aside that she is an amazing actress, she's insanely athletic and can duel weild light sabres while knee walking though a twist. She's also already tied to Disney. She wasn't quite right for the part, and, I agree, it does make watching it in light of the fanfic a bit uncomfortable. But, it's not just a shipper issue. Putting an Ahsoka that looks and sounds like that in the episodes with the Martez sisters and Bo Katan is weird af too, and doesn't work. I doubt it is meant to.

Story-wise, the best and only real take is that the flashbacks aren't live action replays. The Mandalore scene doesnt even chronologically match what happened (Ahsoka is so fighting Saxon in that scene, which never happened). They are visions about Ahsoka and Anakin and their relationship, not live action replays. Both remember her as a child caught up in a war. Smoke, the fog of war, flashing lights and dying, faceless clones.

And Anakin and Rex.

What I take from these is that in Ahsoka's mind, and Anakin's too for that matter, Rex is always there for her. Standing in the chaos, calm and confident in himself and in her, and looking badass as heck. With an older Ahsoka it would have absolutely been smoking scene from.her pov, and no way was it written otherwise. As an older Ahsoka remembering, it's hot. As younger Ahsoka, he's there as her protector and friend.

Do I do ever think this ship will play out on screen? Not, no explicitly. And, yeah, it probably is harder now because of that vision (although if they ever do film a younger Ahsoka series, they will undoubtedly be casting a young actor for Rex). But I don't think that was intentional, and I think that much has changed. It was always intended to be an "open for interpretation" relationship, written with the possibility not excluded. And I am good with that. Indeed, I prefer it. Star Wars has a truly dreadful record with romance and, besides, too often cementing subtle or ust-based ships kill them. I just hope this hasn't, because it's still my ship and I love it.

I'm a double date truther