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Y’ALL!!!!! This chapter had me invested word for word I couldnt stop reading start to finish!!! This truly feels like a canon novel my wife is so talented 😭

Hello there! At last I’m happy to say that a new chapter of “Luminara and Barriss” is now available ! It’s been too long since I’ve been able to write and enjoy my barrissoka tumblr community 💙💚 Hope you all enjoy! 🥰

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35394673/chapters/175382816

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Y’all…

I truly did not think we’d make it this far but here we still are.

We’re hoping to make it to the top ten and I believe repeat votes are allowed and encouraged for those who already voted. You guys are the best and I am so grateful to have my Tumblr family by our side ❤️

Vote if you want lesbians as America’s favorite couple!!!! Here is the link:

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Hey, sorry to bug you but I wanted your opinion.

Would you say Superman is essentially Clark Kent and he puts on the Kal-El persona when needed? That seems to be the difference between Clark and Batman.

Hmm well varies depending on the version of Superman. But yes I do believe Clark Kent is essentially his core but Superman isn’t just a persona. I do think Kal El an ideal Clark wants to live up to if that makes any sense. Very good question, thank you for the ask!

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We made past the first round to the top 20!!!! Keep the votes coming if you believe lesbians should be America’s Favorite Couple! Thank you to those who have voted 🥰

(@jedimasterbailey on tumblr is my wife for those who don’t know 🥰)

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Bailey and I would be honored to have anyone’s vote ❤️ We found each other on Tumblr so it just makes sense to share this here too. Voting starts today

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The ultra femininity oozing from this art is gorgeous. Even if I wasn’t a huge J7 shipper I would be in awe of how pretty this is ❤️ literally what I think when I picture lesbianism

and i hold a piece up to the light hold a piece up to my eye found a missing piece from my set found a person i'd not met

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found out poob has a channel broadcasting voy 24/7 so heres what ive been up to lately

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Can someone PLEASE make fanart of Janeway and Seven of Nine being domestic with a siamese cat just peacefully sleeping in Seven’s lap and a black lab resting at Janeway’s feet

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This article puts to words why Seven always resonated with me as well as with a lot of LGBTQ+ people. It talks about her body autonomy and her relationship to her physicality. Great article, i highly recommend for Seven of Nine fans.

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In the 2015 Voyager Panel, somone asked if Kate read fanfiction and then she turns to Jeri

And then Jeri leans toward Kate and they laugh.

Y'all J7 shippers, Kate and Jeri been knew.

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Ok all these new Superman posters look amazing BUT WHERE IS MY LOIS LANE POSTER 😭

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I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi - like my father.

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I got my issues with Andor and they still stand but these past few episodes were great.

But I especially gotta say I think Dedra Meero is probably one of the best villains I have ever seen up there with Darth Vader. She is one of my favorite characters in Star Wars now.

We have not gotten such a human yet atrocious character since Anakin/Vader. She commits truly evil acts and is fully aware of it but rationalizes by believing it was Ghorman was doomed with or without her leadership. Her thought is to make the best of it by reaping the benefits of being the “finger that pulls the trigger” but we see her in agony afterwards with that decision.

It very much reminded me of Anakin Skywalker and how he was aware of what he was doing but rationalized it to benefit his selfish desires.

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Spoilers for Tales of the Underworld!!!

OMG I LOVED THE VENTRESS EPISODES THEY WERE AMAZING, SECOND BEST TO DOOKU’s TALE

But… I gotta say… from the way Ventress was revived someone at Lucasfilm be reading my fic A Master’s Gift cuz that is literally how I brought Barriss back almost word for fucking word

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I was Wookiepedia-ing Luminara the other day and discovered that she’s only about a year older than Obi-Wan. They totally would’ve grown up in the Temple together, and I now headcanon that they are total sibs and that even circa the Clone Wars Obi-Wan still slips and calls her Nara in front of the Council sometimes.

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Ok now I am able to elaborate why I do not like Andor. Between work and just needing time to process, I couldn’t immediately find the words.

So if you don’t like looking at Andor negativity I suggest blocking the anti andor and andor criticism tags. That’s what I do when I don’t want to see negativity on something I enjoy (instead of bullying people in the comments).

So to start with, the dialogue in Andor takes up way too much time essentially repeating itself and inflates the scene by a lot. In fact the very first episode literally has maybe 4 scenes in the span of 50 minutes.

Now my attention span is pretty good. I like a good slow paced show but things still need to be happening. Andor fixates on one thing for the longest time and it’s part of what adds to the boring critique of the show.

The scene with the Krennic’s meeting for example, I pretty much figured out what it was going for pretty quick since, the Empire being evil, it’s not hard to see the kinda shit they’d pull just from a little context. But instead this whole thing stretches almost all the way to the end of the episode.

When the essentials needed were already in place. Introduce Ghor, Empire wants to mine it for a mineral needed for the Death Star, use propaganda to dehumanize the Ghormans so no one stands in the way.

Now I’m not saying quickly go through that and be done, I’m just saying it did not need to use up so much screen time through the use of repeptitive and tiresome dialogue.

Also, I find that Andor spends a lot of time on obstacles that really nothing to the plot such as the rebels that killed Cassian’s partner.

As to the almost rape scene, that just really should have come with a warning. If Order 66 scenes in Kenobi get a warning, then a rape scene definitely should. I get what people say in that it’s not something the Empire would be above. But here’s the thing, that is pretty obvious given if genocide and slavery are ok, then an imperial officer is likely to use his power in such a twisted way.

But Andor did what Andor does and spent a long time with a drawn out fight where we see Bix forced into positions that the officer was definitely going to take advantage of. I would have been fine with the implication of what was going to happen. He gets too close, she says no, a fight breaks out but it could have ended much sooner.

Andor just seems to thrive on gratuitous suffering and personally that just aint what I watch Star Wars for. It’s the character choices AFTER the suffering that make Star Wars what it is. A New Hope, the movie from 1977, made the Empire’s evil pretty fucking clear for me, as did all the movies since and other media.

Star Wars has always been about the choices you make in harsh circumstances. When Owen and Beru were killed, the focus was on Luke’s horror snd his choice to join the Rebellion snd become a Jedi.

When Alderaan was destroyed, the focus was on Leia’s commitment to end the Empire once snd for all.

In Empire, Han being tortured and Leia’s pain, the focus was on Luke because he had to choose what he would do from the visions.

The prequels were all about Anakin reacting to the pain and loss around him and what he chose to do about it.

The suffering itself was never the point of Star Wars. But Andor just really seems to focus on that more than anything. Poor Bix seems to exist to get tortured and sexually assaulted and send messages in a panic. Cassian seems to exist to grt stuck in situations where the people around him hinder his goals. He does eventually get shit done but only after a painful long time of the people around him deliberating and starting pointless fights. And don’t yall even about the Rebellion infighting, that can be done without spanning 3 to 4 whole fucking 50 min length eps.

I guess the reason why I enjoy Mon Mothma’s scenes is probably that there is the most movement and character work there. We see her struggle to send funds to the Rebellion, we see her reaction to how her family feels about her as she is focusing on creating a better galaxy for them.

The focus is on her CHOICES and how feels about them. She doesn’t always feel good about it. She puts her daughter in an arranged marriage in order to secure money for the Rebellion. This kills her inside because she knows it is wrong yet it’s for the greater good. She knows her friend has to die because he is a loose end so she lets Luthen do the dirty work and she hates herself for it and hence the dance scene where we see who she is becoming and how she hates it.

Believe or not, I’ve been accused of being elitist for enjoying her scenes the most 🙄 same with enjoying Dedra, I’ve been called fascist for that one (misspelled as fashist I believe 🤣)

Dedra is an enjoyable character because she wants to move the plot forward in the slowness and corruption of the Imperial bureaucracy. She is the typical loyal Imperial officer with no mind to financial obstacles. Syril is her pathetic counterpart. The whole dinner scene with his mother was genuinely very entertaining because this is the most direct the dialogue has ever been.

The show tends to do the little trick with dialogue where it talks about things without being direct and leave the audience to figure it out. Now this is effective at times but honestly when overused it just becomes repetitive because I have long figured out the direction of where the scene is headed and I’m just having to hear about it over and over again for the sake of it sounding intelligent and indirect.

Where this type of dialogue thrives is with the Mon Mothma scenes where she is in public and literally cannot speak about the Rebellion too openly.

But when it’s between just two characters like Cassian and Bix, it’s just tiring and long.

So yeah, I find the boring and very gratuitous. And before anyone comes for me saying “you knew what you were getting into”, dude, it’s fiction, I’m allowed to try something out and want to review it for myself. If you love the show then good for you, but I’m sick of being told that anyone who doesn’t like the show is stupid. I literally have a degree in writing, I’m going off of what I know down to the theory.

But you don’t even have to have that. If I think the show is bad, guess what? I’m not fucking brain dead. I have reasons for that. I’m sick of the superiority complex that the Andor fandom seems to be stuck in.

All of Star Wars is about making choices right and wrong. Fascism is one of the circumstances that the characters are put in. So is the corrupt Republic in the prequels. So is the terrorist like First Order in the sequels.

Pain and suffering are part of it. But it never needed to be gratuitous for me to see the sacrifices the characters have had to make. Maybe for some like the Andor fandom it does add by being as realistic as possible, but for others like myself and plenty more, we get it. Real life puts us through enough, I would rather not see the nitty gritty crap be made gratuitous. For me it comes off as trauma porn especially having been through sexual assault and watching that one scene. Implication would have been fine.

Plus Andor is genuinely not what a lot of people enjoy Star Wars for. Fantasy and mysticism is a huge part of the franchise and Andor doesn’t have that. Yet when people bring that up as a reason they don’t care about the show, the fandom hits us with “well they never marketed themselves that way”. But why should that matter? We’re not blaming the show being different, it’s just simply not what we enjoy Star Wars for. And that should be ok. People enjoy different things.

I mean I accept that some people enjoy the realism in Star Wars. I can’t really argue with a difference of pure preference. But it needs to go both ways. I’m sick of this hive mind mentality where because so many people love this show no one is allowed to criticize it at all and you’re dumb if you dont like it. Since when does popularity mean something is good??

Like i said, if you dont like seeing criticism thats ok, just block. Thats the grown up thing to do instead of hurling insults and refusing to acknowledge that different opinions exist even ones you dont like.

Anyway, I’m tired and need to go to my real life job but just needed to further explain myself since apparently I’m “braindead” for making a post that simply stated I didnt like what I saw without elaborating because god forbid the show is on a work night for me and I can’t really get into fiction analysis mode when I deal with people all day. I guess I’m not allowed to simply post my opinion and feelings without making a whole ass essay these days.

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