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a post will have 500 notes and only 48 of them will be reblogs. i promise you that reblogging something will not ruin your aesthetic on this utterly swagless website.

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So you caught up then?

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Baze/Chirrut in the Context of Chinese Culture

aka “Look for the Force, and you will find me” and the Giant Middle Finger towards the Chinese Inequalities

So a couple of weeks back, I saw this video of an interview of Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen, in which someone asked them about Baze and Chirrut’s relationship. They said a lot of things, mostly teasing, but the video ended with Donnie smiling and saying, “They’re very good brothers.”

My immediate, visceral reaction is bull-fucking-shit. And a sense of absolute glee because I know he knows that he’s talking bullshit.

I’ve been thinking for the last couple of weeks about why it’s bullshit. This post is the result. It’s pretty long, so: tl;dr Chinese culture is about extremely structured and strict societal relationships, and Baze and Chirrut’s smashes that all into pieces to show how people can be equal and not fit into boxes.

Disclaimer: I grew up in a staunchly Chinese family in a Chinese-majority country and grew up consuming media from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. But I did not grow up in any of those places. My country of origin is pretty damned Westernised. If I get anything wrong, please tell me.

I have brought my tl;dr to a new fandom and I still keep it under a cut.

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Donnie’s martial art has a sense of artistry and performance that tells you so much about this character. There’s an elegance. There is a heroicism, a nobility to the way that that man moves and the way that he knocks out stormtroopers. -  Allison Shearmur, a producer of Rogue One A Star Wars Story

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Etain and Teykin

Commission for the lovely @orchardsong of her OC and Etain!! Thank you so much for commissioning me I loved working on this!

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Space dads

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Chirrut-leather bag.

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guardiana (bazechirrut/di) memes 2/? | pre-relationship era

alderaani sapphic visits jedha and suffers from bisexuality

longsuffering assassin defeated by his too-curious situationship

me & chirrut ended up bonding surprisingly quickly, and now baze is left to deal with the consequences (unfiltered chaos)

baze dragging us back home for the 5 billionth time this week

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Mer!dads

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i'll love this old man couple forever i guess

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Right click -> save as -> my friend 🥰

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Khofar (as seen in The Acolyte 1x04 | Day) | Brendok

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Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005, dir. George Lucas

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"how i see my partner" but with soldi bc why not