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Initial Ideas for Reylo Fanfic

This is based on a combination of my own ideas, things I’ve seen in other Reylo fanfics I’ve liked, and my own interpretations of events in TFA and other “new canon” Star Wars media, as well as some speculation and leaks from the hard-core Star Wars community on Reddit and YouTube. Any advice and input would be appreciated.

Reylo fanfic ideas

Starting circumstances:

Rey is on Jakku with Luke Skywalker on Ach-To, meanwhile Chewbacca and R2-D2 have returned to the Resistance base.

Kylo has been brought to Supreme Leader Snoke's mobile command center in the Unknown Regions by General Hux

Finn is receiving medical treatment at new Resistance headquarters where Poe, Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C3-PO and others have taken up residence.

The story begins immediately after the events of the Force Awakens. An uncomfortable silence falls over the galaxy as the First Order retreats into the Unknown Regions to lick their wounds and prepare for the next phase of their war with the Resistance. Meanwhile, Rey seeks training by Master Luke to become a Jedi. Simultaneously, Kylo begins the last phase of his training with Supreme Leader Snoke. The First Order attack on the Hosnian system left the Republic crippled, but now painfully aware of the threat the FO poses – therefore remnants of the Republic military and government have joined forces with Leia's Resistance in order to combat the FO. However, with the arrival of these new players, Leia's control over the organization diminishes and bureaucracy takes over.

Some thoughts on starting circumstances (unfinished):

Rey and Luke:

Initially Luke will refuse to train Rey, telling her to go back to where she came from, that he is busy. He meditates and ignores her for three days straight, before finally rousing and instructing her to do menial chores. (This is inspired by a practice used by Buddhist monks to deter uncommitted hopefuls. You may have seen it in the movie Fight Club.) This carries on for weeks until finally Rey demands an explanation for everything. Luke sighs and recounts the tale of Ben's fall to the dark side, and his own struggles with the darkness. He points out her own susceptibility to the dark side and warns her against impatience, revealing he had secretly been training her all along through the chores he assigned her (Also Buddhist tradition, seen in The Karate Kid). Now however, he agrees to begin training her in earnest in the ways of a Jedi.

Luke is on Ach-To to discover the lost secrets of the original Jedi philosophy. He believes that through time, the Jedi ideals had been corrupted and that this resulted in the Order failing the galaxy, failing his father and his nephew, and that the secret to restoring order to the galaxy lies in finding the hidden secrets of the first Jedi.

Luke is hesitant to reveal anything about Rey's past and parentage, Rey Palpatine/Kenobi/?

Any help and input, other ideas from the Relyo community at large would be greatly appreciated.

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Reylo Fic? Please give feedback

I’m thinking of writing a Reylo fanfiction. I’ve been writing for quite some time and I have a background in fanfiction in other fandoms but I am curious because I am new to the Reylo community. So to any who would be kind enough to respond, I would like to know:

• What would you like to see in a Reylo fic? What would you like to see more of, or what would you like to see that hasn’t been done to your knowledge?

• What are common mistakes, misconceptions or portrayals you disagree with that you see in Reylo fics?

• Insofar as plot goes, would you prefer to see a Reylo story that does a divergent time line idea, or attempts to predict accurately what the events of Episode 8 will be?

Any other thoughts, ramblings, advice etc would be appreciated.

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Fandom is not your safe space.

Nor should fandom be your safe space. Fandom is for people to explore all sorts of possibilities in fiction and art. Not all of those possibilities are going to be fluffy, “wholesome,” “healthy,” “uplifting,” or whatever other adjective the Morality Brigade here on Tumblr wants to trot out.

Fiction is not reality. Depiction is not endorsement. No, it may never be “just a movie/fic/artwork,” but that does not make it reality. Fiction serves particular purposes, and one of them is to permit us to vicariously experience certain dangerous or otherwise unpleasant things safely.

If you believe that the purpose of fiction is to “uplift” us and fiction that does not is wrong and bad, congratulations: You’re a right-winger. (Or maybe you’re on the extreme left. When you get that far out to the ends of the spectrum, it doesn’t matter.)

If you think that anyone who writes or reads noncon is a rapist or rape apologist, you are too stupid for words. If you think that anyone who ships an incest ship or an adult/teen ship is an apologist for incest or pedophilia, you are too stupid for words.

It is none of your business what other people write, draw, and ship. Let me repeat that: It is none of your business what other people write, draw, and ship. You do not get to tell them they’re “trash,” you do not get to concern-troll them with passive-aggressive nonsense like “love yourself more uwu,” and you absolutely do not get to harass them off Tumblr or elsewhere.

Also, their past trauma or lack thereof is none of your business, either. Nobody has to present their “cred” as a rape or incest survivor before they’re allowed to enjoy fanworks that don’t meet with your approval. Total strangers don’t owe you their backstories. For that matter, not even your friends owe you every detail of their backstories. Mind your own business.

Don’t want to see all this “problematic” content on your dash or elsewhere? Unfollow people. Learn how to use Tumblr Savior, XKit, AO3 Savior, and similar tools. Control your own online experience. It is not the responsibility of others on this site to take care of you, who are a total stranger to them. Given how heavily female Tumblr skews, such demands are nothing but reinforcement of the expectation that women are supposed to take care of everyone else but themselves. (Yes, women are still oppressed as a class, even before you factor in intersectionalities.)

It’s amusing how some of you have the “courage” to dogpile, harass, and stalk others on this website whose taste doesn’t meet your oh-so-pure standards. People who create fanworks are soft, easy targets to kinkshame, aren’t they? Especially when, again, most of them are not cis straight men. Women have been policed and shamed throughout history for exploring their own sexuality — including by other feminists. The 1980s were full of feminists policing other feminists:

Often conflated with radical feminism, antiporn feminism grew out of radical feminism in the late ‘70s and early '80s—as did its counterpart, pro-sex feminism. The feminist porn wars of the '80s are largely forgotten to the general public by now, but at the time they were heated, divisive, and intensely personal. In 1982, Bar­nard College’s Center for Research on Women held a conference called “Towards a Politics of Sexuality,” which was picketed by antiporn feminists for including explorations of s&m and overall pro-sex viewpoints along with discussions of race and sexuality as well as sexual history (many of which were published in the 1983 anthology Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality).

Yes, sex-positive feminism was eventually co-opted by patriarchal forces, but it started out because a great many feminists were heartily tired of radfems telling them they were “traitors” and “brainwashed” for liking anything but the blandest, most euphemistic, and most painfully egalitarian erotica. (If you like that sort of thing, more power to you. Your tastes don’t make you better than the rest of us.)

Getting back to the here and now, I don’t see you going over to 4chan or Reddit with these morality campaigns. More importantly, I don’t see you organizing to go after big media corporations, especially those whose TV shows, movies, and books help form the toxic backdrop of misogyny, racism, rape culture, homophobia, transphobia, and similar bigotries behind everyday modern life. The occasional blogpost calling out this animator or that author, no matter how many notes it gets, is not the same thing as an organized campaign.

No, harassing David Gaider off Tumblr doesn’t count, not when Bioware makes more of an effort with social justice in its games than any other game company does. You can scream all you want about how “allies suck.” You need them in the real world, beyond the hothouse environment of Tumblr. If people in general could be trusted to do the right thing for the right reasons all the time, without pressure, there would be no need for any kind of activism at all.

Nor does screaming “pedophile” at John Green and insinuating that any grown man who reaches out to teenage girls is “creepy.” Yes, his “cool dad” act is annoying, and his books leave a lot to be desired. Have you considered that such outreach is part of his job as a YA writer? Have you also considered that stigmatizing men for trying to be mentors to adolescents, when you have no evidence that they’re actually perverts, reinforces traditional gender roles?

Tl;dr: Fandom is not your safe space. Tumblr is not your safe space. AO3 sure as fuck isn’t your safe space. People will post things you don’t like in all three spaces, which they have every right to do. Get over it, grow the fuck up, take responsibility for your own mental health, and stop confusing your oversized sense of entitlement with “social justice.”

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I don't know why, but to me artistic talent is one of the most attractive things in the world.

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For the "freaks"

There are two kinds of people: freaks and closeted freaks. Embrace your inner oddness, your unconventionality and weirdness. Do not let the world tell you that you have to fit into an archaic role dictated by gender, sexuality, race, religion or nationality. Choose to be yourself fully, without limitations or labels.