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This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.

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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - Retro Teaser Poster

My fucking mantra

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

"Disney is now also at “square one” in terms of how to get audiences and fans excited about Star Wars movies again. Now, that was always going to be a challenge after the Skywalker Saga wrapped up, since the next Star Wars movies presumably won’t involve the core Skywalker/Solo characters. But Disney’s Star Wars franchise is now A) on the defensive, B) in a position of having much of their prior goodwill erased as a result of a deeply compromised (and seemingly crafted to appease YouTube trolls and/or potentially disingenuous alt-right mobs) “series finale.”

That’s the cruel irony of all of this. The Force Awakens ($2.068 billion), Rogue One ($1.056 billion), The Last Jedi ($1.333 billion), Solo ($394 million) and The Rise of Skywalker earned around $5.88 billion worldwide, pushing the whole Star Wars series (counting reissues but not accounting for inflation) past the $10 billion mark. Alas, all of that goodwill and earned credit, because even Solo got decent reviews and positive audience scores, has been more-or-less washed away in the aftermath of The Rise of Skywalker. As my father likes to say, “trust is a must or your game’s a bust.”

Had they at least made Rise of Skywalker a “yes, and…” sequel to Last Jedi and Force Awakens, or at least given us a “Skywalker Saga finale” that worked as meat-and-potatoes entertainment regardless of its story choices, Lucasfilm and Disney would be better off. They now in a position where Disney’s Star Wars franchise is a $5.9 billion wash. It made money and earned some new fans, but it’s now, like DC Films after Batman v Superman, going to have to start from scratch in terms of making Star Wars exciting again. In an attempt to preserve the past, Disney may have just killed the future."

- Forbes

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Example:

Prompt 1: Years after Rey and Kylo are married and trying to live happily ever after, a new Sith Lord rises. Prompt 2: Domestic fluff - Rey and Ben/Kylo celebrate a holiday. Prompt 3: Explicit hand holding

I love when Rey and Kylo banter and spar, but I don’t like outright fighting where they hurt each other. Fluff is fine! I really like when they kiss and makeup.

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I don’t say this with the aim of weaponizing the suffering of others, but I’ve read really sad stories here, of children especially, that should never happen in relation to a Star Wars movie. I think LucasFilm should know about them. I think they should be held accountable to that kind of impact on the people they are supposedly working for.

This is useful information! I hope others will join in writing letters to Lucasfilm to express their feelings about how TROS/the ST/Ben Solo was handled. Will anyone read our letters? Hard to say. Will it make any difference to future stories? Impossible to know. Will we feel better for having done it? Yes. Catharsis is real, and it’s good for the soul. I’ll be writing a letter, and I’ll share it here after I send it. I hope others will too.

I mean, fanboys got their way, didn’t they? I think we need to stop being nice and complacent, and get on them hard (in a respectful way)

Hold my baby always like this, very firm, with all the love, make him feel safe, and never let go.

Hi Reylo Friends, 

 People saying they have physical symptoms like nausea, trouble sleeping, body aches and headaches etc.  That’s your body responding to grief and stress. So if you’ve felt a little off it’s because your body’s helping you work out the miserableness.

It sucks, it’s hard, and your body is helping you.  Make sure you’re helping it too. If you’re having trouble eating, don’t shoot for a full meal, try and eat little snacks.  Three bites every now and then, or minimal swallowing food like yogurt or soup. Try and go on walks to get your blood flowing, or stretch if you can’t get outside.  Try something methodical with your hands (playing music on an instrument, crafting, cooking even if you can’t eat the food now you can store it for later).

It’s hard—it’s devastating.  It speaks to your heart that you loved this all as much as you did, and it speaks to the power of the story you fell in love with as well. Grief is real and it is grief.  Let yourself grieve, but don’t forget to take care of yourself physically. Don’t “it’s just a movie” yourself.  Because yes, it’s a movie, but just because it’s in your head doesn’t mean it’s not real.  That’s the power of art and fiction and humanity.  Feel your feelings; but remember little ways of taking care of yourself as you do.

Thank you, I needed this.

I can’t get over Star Wars, whats happening?!

BABY BOY BABY

So true. But I guess it is too because they are so afraid to be called socialists that no one even attempt to go a step further into...

Twitter has been a mess lately lmao

it’s time we let rey have it all. let rey have very satisfying friendships and adventures with poe and finn, let her have GIRL TIME with rose where they don’t bring up stupid boys ever and talk about mechanic shit!. let her KICK ASS and be hella powerful, no need to explain because she doesn’t need to PROVE her worth to anyone/attribute it to any bloodline. and finally…LET HER KISS THE STUPID LARGE EMO GOTH BOY. i sAID….LET REY HAVE IT ALL.

Happy Easter.

Let’s kill the idea that the only audience that matters is the one that can pay for the ticket 😉

SAY. THIS. LOUDER!