@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “15-year-old baby goth me…”
I was surprised to but I keep picking my brain and I really dont think I have. I’ve planned a couple but they didnt end up happening.
Huh. They just got away from you I guess.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “15-year-old baby goth me would be very disappointed that it’s taken me…”
BUT AT LEAST ITS DONE! (Omg I think…I still havent written vampire smut…what’s the matter with me??)
Well, almost done. I can probably post tomorrow if I work on it tonight. 🙂
Also have you really not written vampire smut? That’s really surprising to me. I know you’ve done werewolves before but I thought you did vampires, too.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “Hey can you rec any blogs that specialize in posting Star Wars fanart?…”
I didnt think there would be anything quite as good as the archive but I’ve been able to find modest equivalents for a couple other fandoms and I really need more Star Wars, especially sequels. (That and more non-stucky MCU art). These sounds great, I’ll take a peek and definitely follow at least a couple. Thank you!
It just really bothered me when I looked through my whole queue and there wasn’t a single SW piece in there.
lol. No Star Wars is a tragedy. My queue has been really lacking in spn recently so I’m gonna have to raid a few blogs, too. lol. You’re welcome and I hope you find plenty of fun art!
Oh boy, uh… maybe? Here’s the thing, if you’re looking for something like @theroadsofararchive for Star Wars you’re not going to find it. This isn’t one fandom, it’s six fandoms in a trench coat all biting and kicking each other. There’s overlap between different segments, but it’s hard to find and you probably won’t find one place that’s just nice gen art or gen art + all ships. That being said, I do know of a few that do post a lot of fanart with specific tilts that aren’t very prone to fighting.
@gffa is a very pleasant blog with lots of Prequels and Clone Wars art, gifs, and meta.
@stop-tfa-ship-wars is mostly Sequel stuff but they do post Clone Wars and Rebels art from time to time. The blog is mostly art but everything is tagged. The only issue is that they don’t post very frequently.
@finn-appreciation is another good one. Obviously with a Finn focus but I figure that’s probably something you’d like. Finn art, Finn ships, Finn gif sets, all very lovely and pleasant.
@finnroseflowers a finnrose blog with lots of nice art and love for both characters together and individually.
Other than that, I can’t think of many blogs that just focus on fanart. I’d say try to keep an eye out for appreciation blogs, because they tend to focus on art and characters.
If my followers know of Star Wars blogs that focus on the art please feel free to reblog and add them or reply and add them.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “I miss people.
Hello People, what have you been up to? Good things?…”
So. Sleepy. But otherwise more or less okay. Nothing interesting unless you find playgrounds fascinating. You?
I’m sorry you’re tired 
that sucks. I’ve just been trying to get myself together lol. Been a little under the weather but other than that I’ve been doing pretty well. I’d ask if your kiddos have been enjoying going to the playground but that seems like a bit of a no-brainer lol.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “Would you ever write Kylo Ren x anyone other than Rey, and if so, who?”
I was wondering your views on Kylux. That answers that question, I guess. I had been thinking Kylo/Finn would be interesting, and I love the idea of Phasma/Kylo. I might also, ahem, have had a couple of not so okay thoughts about Luke/Kylo…
Yeah, it’s not even for any real reason, it just doesn’t appeal to me as a ship. Other iterations, like cutthroat rivals, friendly rivals, hell even best friends are fine in my book, I just don’t ship it romantically/sexually.
Finn/Kylo is so interesting to me. The juxtaposition, the potential for AUs to ride that “well we used to know each other but now we don’t and there’s Tension” train into a million different stations (former lovers, business associates, childhood friends, ect)… yeah. I like it. (And it doesn’t hurt that John Boyega is delicious.) And Phasma/Kylo has a lot of potential, imo. There’s not a lot of fic out there for that one and it’s a freaking shame. (Neither of these ships have many fics, actually.)
It’s funny you mention that because I ran across a whole bunch of Luke/Kylo fics the other day when I was browsing through author’s works. They looked a little darker than what I was in the mood for at the time, but they’re out there. I’m curious what you would do if you decided to do a fic like that?
Oh, sure! Phasma and Finn are at the top of the list but I’d be open to pretty much anyone else (with the exception of Hux but that’s neither here nor there). But yeah, Kylo/Phasma would be fun to work with, I think.
Thanks!
Really, Rey should have known better. She never should’ve said anything about never having been to a beach. If she hadn’t, Finn wouldn’t’ve said that he’d never even seen outside the county, and Poe certainly wouldn’t’ve made it his personal mission to get them both to some remote island in the Caribbean where there’d been more water than Rey could even fathom.
“What kind of best friend would I be if let my two favorite people go the rest of their lives without experiencing fresh piña coladas in real coconuts?” He’d said.
And piña coladas there were And mojitos. And various other fruity drinks that packed more punch than they let on, all between frolicking in the sand and kayaking out into the crystal clear water. It would have been a perfect vacation.
But of course, it’s never been that simple for Rey. Simple would include not waking up in her hotel room tucked into Poe’s chest, a very distinct pattern of bruises marring his collar, and absolutely no memory of what had happened the night before. She really couldn’t’ve cheated on her boyfriend with his best friend, could she? She wasn’t that drunk was she? And where was Finn? He was going to be so pissed.
And as if on queue, the door clicks and Finn comes through the door, cardboard tray of coffee in his hands.
Rey shoots up off the bed, kneeing Poe in the gut as she goes. Poe groans, rolling over off the bed and onto the floor. Rey chances a glance at herself and. blessedly, she’s still dressed.
“Finn! I – Good morning! Where’d you go?”
Finn eyes her, then bed and Poe who’s dragging himself up off the floor with a groan. He shakes his head and chuckles. “Coffee. And breakfast,” he shakes the paper bag in his hand, “figured you two might need a little hangover cure.” To Rey’s surprise there’s no heat to his words. If anything there’s… amusement?
“I – yes, that’s thoughtful of you,” she says. “We got… pretty drunk yesterday didn’t we?” She looks over her shoulder at Poe, who’s leaning against the bed, clutching his head. He looks like he’s been hit by a truck.
“You…” Finn pauses, alternating his gaze between the two of them. “You don’t remember anything that happened last night, do you?”
Rey struggles to stammer something out.
Finn just smiles, the easy way he always does. “Breakfast first. Explanations later.”
Rose stands before her groom, Finn is his name, silently reminding herself that this was a good idea, no matter what Paige had said. They needed someone on the inside, someone to get tactical information back to the D’Qar Kingdom and who better to do that than the wife of a general?
But as Finn bends to kiss her he brushes his lips past her ear, whispering so that only she can hear: “I know who you are and what you’re hear for and so do they so if you want make it through the week we’re both going to have to run.”
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “I’m just gonna say this:…”
I wonder if it comes from the same place that glorifies Dark Side stuff and has resulted in Hux/Kylo Ren having more almost double the number of fics as Finn/Poe on AO3? Like, Star Wars fans as a group – forget about individuals here – seem to be a more racist, misogynistic crowd than many others.
And the frequency with which I see merch for the dark side EVERYWHERE has hit the point it makes me profoundly uncomfortable both as a consumer and as a mom. Like…why would I want to dress my kid as a Stormtrooper?? WTF kind of message is that???? Yet everyone acts like this is totally normal? The whole thing is so weird to me, tbh. And you know I like Star Wars, but something is off in all this. Like the anti-Nazi message got lost somewhere along the way and it’s instead become something of a haven for white supremacists. And again it’s far from everyone but we all know it doesn’t take more than a small percentage to be really awful people for it to really make a general impact.
Both actresses deserve better.
Okay. I’m gonna try to do my best with this because it’s actually really complex. The Star Wars fandom isn’t just one fandom, not really. Being as big and as multi-media as it is and with the old EU and the new EU, no two SW fans are the same and no two clusters of fans are going to focus on the same things. This is a fandom that spreads across decades and multiple platforms. It’s really hard to get a read on the demographics because of that. SW tumblr, for example, skews female but SW reddit skews male and both have very different reasons for acting and reacting the way that they do, regardless of whether or not the results tend to wind up the same.
A huge part of the issue, from what I’ve seen, doesn’t have much to do with Ky/uxers. From what I’ve experienced, there’s extra pressure on those shippers to “properly demonize their faves” and to get upset when others who happen to be fans of either Kylo or Hux don’t seem to be doing the same thing. I do think there’s an element of “two white dudes to ship” that does contribute to the popularity (because it is the most popular ST ship on Ao3). In that respect, I do think that there’s an issue. However, there is a very loud and aggressive contingent of fans that don’t appreciate people who write F/nnP0e the wrong way. There is a very aggressive contingent of fans who will harass multishippers and refuse to interact with certain fans just on the basis of who their faves are and what they ship, to the point of cutting folks off from enjoying art, often because of fear. The fandom itself can and does sour folks from enjoying certain ships and characters. Now, of course I don’t doubt that there are certain implicit biases some people have that lead them to like ky/ux over f/nnp0e and that’s definitely an issue but I’m hesitant to say that that’s the whole problem, just from the way I’ve seen folks act.
To be completely honest with you, I think there’s two main factions that cause a lot of strife for this particular trilogy. One is on the side of “star wars is the most progressive thing to ever progressive and Rose Tico is anti black because she tazzed Finn and everyone who likes Kylo is a nazi” and the “star wars has been cucked by the sjws and it’s not cool anymore because Rey’s a mary sue”. The end result is the same, unfortunately. Both factions create this toxic environment where it’s okay to harass people or suicide bait them or just be a huge monster because those folks over there are wrong and need to be punished. Granted, the tumblr faction seems to focus more on individuals than the reddit faction (for lack of a better term) does but the vocal minority is very vocal and cruel.
And I do think the fandom as a whole tends to be more racist and misogynistic. The shit leveled at KMT is abhorrent. The shit I’ve seen leveled at Kathleen Kennedy is abhorrent. I’ve seen black r3ylos called slurs. I’ve seen jewish r3ylos called antisemitic slurs. And I’ve seen those things justified as either “criticism” or totally justified for some ass-backward reason or another. The scary thing, to me, is that the people who claim to be against abuse and racism and misogyny are all for it when it’s up against someone they don’t like. The people who are fine with using racist and misogynist language against others while claiming to be against those things are people I find more on tumblr than anything else.
As far as the darkside and all that goes, I honestly don’t know. I understand your concerns. I’m just very hesitant to blame the franchise for making the bad guys look cool because… well… that’s kind of the point. You want your bad guys to be iconic and you want to sell toys. If you have a group of kids playing Star Wars in the backyard, not everyone is going to be playing Luke. I do get the fact that the villains are nazi-coded is uncomfortable and troubling, though. I’m hoping that it will vary when the ST is done and they move on to whatever the next thing is. Maybe then we’ll get bounty hunters or something else. Maybe there is a correlation there, but I’d have to take a closer look at all that crap and I really don’t want to.
When TFA came out I wasn’t super into Star Wars. I was, however, much more active in certain circles online, like the refutation of anti-feminism and the affirmation of feminism. Anti-feminists latched on to SW hard. It was the biggest tragedy in the world because their precious childhood was being ruined by women and black men and their villains weren’t even cool anymore (too feminine was the argument). If you’ve been watching that from g@mer g@te to present, you’ll see how the rage of fanboys has morphed into alt-right sympathy or support. That’s troubling as fuck. According to this article I read about a week ago, the same fans who took credit for attempting to tank The Last Jedi’s Rotten Tomatoes score also tried it with Black Panther. I personally think that the unchallenged racism, sexism, ect ect has been given a fertile ground to grow in. There’s an element of ownership that combines with the toxicity that’s already there to create a stew of disgusting and potentially dangerous vitriol.
Just from what I’ve seen and experienced, it comes on two fronts. I can’t honestly say which is worse, though. I just know that there’s a mountain of shit.
And you’re right. The actresses deserve better.
And you know, maybe some of this is my responsibility, too. I don’t reblog this stuff. I’ve been holding off because I really don’t know anyone in the SW fandom at this point and I feel like throwing that kind of stuff on my dash might get overly negative, but maybe I should. I’ve been struggling with what to say and when for weeks, but maybe this is my breaking point.
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