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REYLO: The Animated Musical TEASER

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I think most reylos think Kylo and Rey share a force bond , I like the idea too I'm just not sure how they could show it in the Movie do you or any other reylo have a idea?

Hey there Anon! :D 

Ohhh force bonds quite a popular trope within our ship indeed! How they would convey it though is an interesting question. I think the way they could show it is the same sorta way they did with Darth Vadar and Luke. Although it wasn’t a force bond, the audience could tell that the two characters were connecting with one another via the force, like sensing each other’s presences. 

For Kylo and Rey it could be done similarly. The force bond could also be shown by them hearing each other’s thoughts, seeing each other despite being light years apart, feeling one another’s emotions, possibly tapping into one another’s dreams and other things like that. It would probably be done quite subtly. 

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fic: take this weight (shared is halved)

(Reylo, canon AU, rated Explicit, moodboard by mcal)

“You know how to wear a cape, I’ll give you that.”

Long practice meant that even without a mask Ben was able to keep his face straight, his expression blank. “Where-”

“No hug for ‘Unca Wanwo’?”

When an injured Rey flees to Bespin, Ben isn’t too far behind.

injury

this or that (nothing between)

snarls

shared

making an entrance

optics

liminal

venom

faceless

crossroads

the game

the social whirl

plans and plots

a parting

festivities

elsewhere

hollow

bottled up

games, and promises kept

reunion

a lingering pause

a familiar name

indigestion

on the verge

sweet

ready

roots intertwined

guilt

a return

on ice

off-kilter

division

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The Darkness Without You - A Post-TROS Fancomic

Thank you for reading my fancomic! I’m a newbie artist, and I’m well aware my art isn’t perfect, so I’ll ask you to please take it easy on me. But I was inspired to draw this, so I hope my less-than-perfect art style doesn’t detract from the experience too much.

This fancomic started out as a fic I was going to post on Ao3. But I’m already writing a Star Wars AU and a Ben Solo series, so I didn’t have the time and mental energy for another book. Plus, it just wasn’t working out the way I wanted it too. The fic was wordy and lacked the je ne sais quoi it needed to feel…right.

Seguir leyendo

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. 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 (detail close up)

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i m currently in the middle of 4-5 projects none of which i can share yet 🧵

instagram: @winterofherdiscontent

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Redamancy .

twitter | instagram | society6 | redbubble

This piece had almost got to be the cover of my upcoming artbook “FLORAISON” before I changed my mind. 

For anyone who’s interested, the pre-order is coming really soon!

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Dark Rey and Rey ❤

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uh oh. I’m back on my Victorian Reylo train again. Thankfully, @galacticidiots and I are on the same wavelength and I might draw more of Duke of Ren Ben Solo and Lady Rey…

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If I can only have one complaint about TLJ is that Rian should have just let Rey take Ben’s hand if only to watch JJ try to wrestle his way out of that wet paper bag for EP9, the talentless fuck.

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Theme from Inktober 2020 - 12.Slippery music: Evanescence - Going Under

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Theme from Inktober 2020 - 12.Slippery music: Evanescence - Going Under

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Christmas Fics

Moodboard by the incredibly talented @cruelerintentions

Here are some holiday themed Reylo Fic's to help us through the end of 2020.

Oh hey, these are all Modern AU ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Enjoy!

Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow by greyorchids | @grey-orchids | Explicit | 10k | One shot | Modern AU | Christmas | Enemies to Lovers | co-workers | Family Dinner | Author!Ben | Editor!Rey | Rey POV | Rey is an editor, eviscerating Ben Solo's novel. Their constant verbal sparring comes to a head when Rey is unexpectedly invited to Ben's Family Christmas dinner. Too much wine and too much tension leads to a steamy conclusion.

Dancing in a swirl of golden memories by hi_raeth | @eleanor-writes-stuff | Teen | 9k | One shot | Modern AU | Christmas | Ex-lovers | Fake-dating | Pining | Getting-back-togther | Rey POV | Ben needs a date to appease his parents this Christmas, his ex-girlfriend/kinda-friend Rey is down to help him out. | Normally ex-lovers isnt my jam but, oh my god, I absolutley love the backstory for these two.

A place to go by delia-pavorum | @delia-pavorum | Explicit | 52k | Complete | Modern AU | Snowed in | Christmas | Strangers to lovers | Sharing a bed | Cabincore | Canada | Multi POV | Rey is a teacher trying to have some peace and quiet over the holidays. Ben is a writer trying to run from his problems. They both end up snowed in at Luke's cabin. | This has got to be one of my all time favourite fics (top 5 for sure). Their dynamic is so engrossing and the charcterization and backstory feel so genuine. With beautifully written prose, an attention to detail that adds a richness and some *chef kiss* smut. I would pay money for this fic.

Blame it on the Mistletoe by deedreamer, HopelesslyReylo | @deedreamer | Explicit | 24k | Complete | Modern AU | Co-workers | Teachers | Christmas | Family Dynamic | Rey POV | Rey gets invited to her co-worker's christmas dinner which is promised to be filled with all things christmasy, it's a shame that she hates Christmas and is secretly crushing on said co-worker. | SO. WELL. WRITTEN. Great characterization (everyone! especially Leia), Great dialouge/banter! Steamy AF. Love the family dynamic! Very organic feeling story.

Baby, Please Come Home by v3ryvelvet | @v3ryvelvet | Explicit | 6k | One shot | PWP | Modern AU | A/B/O | Devoted Reylo | Office Party | Multi POV | Newly married (and mated) couple Rey & Ben get an unexpected suprise while Ben is at his Office Christmas party... (It's Rey's heat). | I was expecting this to be more fluffy rather than the insanely hot smut fest it is. And there is a tiny, hilarious cameo that made me cackle!

Mistle-Oh-No by KyloTrashForever | Explicit | 15k | Complete | Modern AU | Christmas | Mistaken identity | Enemies to lovers | Co-worker dynamic | Rey POV | Okay I thought this was gonna be straight up asshole Ben Solo but its smitten Ben Solo. Soft and fluffy with *chef kiss* flirting.

The Smash Before the Splash by HarpiaHarpyja | @thisgarbagepicker | Explicit | 27k | Complete | Modern AU | Christmas | Festivus | Co-workers | Office dynamic | Bets and wagers | Office xmas party | One-night-stand (sure jan) | Rey POV | Rey tries everything to convince office grump Ben Solo to participate in this year's polar plunge. She definitely bit off more than she can chew. | Well constructed, brilliantly written fic with great prose and dynamic characterization. The writting is so good halfway through I knew I was gonna have to look up this authors other works.

Silver and Gold by Daisyflo | @reylolujah | Explicit | 10k | Complete | Modern AU | Strangers to lovers | Buying-jewlery-instead-of-flirting | Rey POV | Leading up to Christmas Ben continuously returns to the little jewelry store Rey works in to buy more and more jewelry. | So adorable and fluffy!

Lessons & Carols by angharabbit | @angharabbit | Explicit | 7k | One shot | Modern AU | A/B/O | Christmas Eve | priest!Ben | Librarian!Rey | "Forbidden" love | Rey POV | It's Christmas eve and some asshole Alpha is ruining Rey's evening. Her petty revenge does not go as planned. Meanwhile Father Ben's shitty night takes an unexpected turn for the better. | Steamy and funny with great chemistry.

Moodboard by @cruelerintentions (her moodboards are gorgeous-- check them out!)

Tis the season...

Not necessarily Christmas themed, but some lovely fics set in the Winter.

The man, the stallion, and the wind by voicedimplosives | @voicedimplosives |Explicit | 17k | One shot | Modern AU | Strangers to lovers | Road trip | Snowed in | Sharing a bed | Alternating POV | While roadtripping across Canada, Rey picks up hitchhiker Ben who is running away from his problems. | Love, love, love this story. Well written with interesting backstory and steamy smut and delicious chemistry. And it's set in Canada too!

mountain at my gates by KyloTrashForever | Explicit | 26k | Complete | Modern AU | A/B/O | PWP | Snowed in | lumberjack!Ben Solo | Engineer!Rey | Tropes galore | Rey POV | Omega Rey gets stuck in the middle of nowhere with no suppressants, good thing woodsman Ben is there to help her out. You can guess where this is going.

Hanging by a Moment by crossingwinter | @shmisolo | Explicit | 44k | Complete | Modern-ish AU | 2000s | Funerals and Wakes | Strangers to lovers | Family Dysfunction | Chronic Illness | Angst with HEA | Misunderstandings | Ben POV | Ben comes home after years away for his father's funeral to deal with his gold-digger step mother. But nothing is what it seems, and this week away will turn his life upsidedown. | Another one of my all time favourite fics. The story, the tension, the emotion! Brilliantly crafted with great charcterization.

Happy Reading!

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✨ Chapter 32 ✨

He’d already told her that she’s not allowed to suck on sugar quills while he’s lecturing. He’d been so darkly angry when he said it, back in the early days. Because she’d distracted him while he was lecturing.

Well. There’s just something about fate that begs to be tempted.

✨ read on ao3 ✨

✨ AD edit by @kylos ✨

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Somebody left me a very nasty review on For Everything There Is a Season, the fic in which married SasuSaku split up because of trauma. It’s fucking with my head, since I’m currently leaving my spouse because of trauma. They said they were happy I abandoned the story. Which, I didn’t abandon it, even though I haven’t updated in a long time.

But it makes me want to delete all my stories and never write again. I’m in such a fragile place right now that I can barely get out of bed in the morning. It’s like readers don’t think that authors are actual people who might be hurting. Just bc we facelessly write our fics doesn’t mean we’re not real.

I have two and a half chapters of TLYLB and one of TVOTE written, and I’m afraid to post any of them. Because I know assholes will leave me mean reviews, some of which could hit home really hard right now, and I can’t take it. I was suicidal a week ago.

I wish I could turn off reviews for a while. Even though the vast majority are kind, there are enough mean ones that I’m afraid to read any. I feel so pitiful getting upset over a rando on the internet, but I’m barely holding it together and I can’t handle more pain at the moment. 

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💖 Reylo and Porgs 💖

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as much as i love vader getting to fuck palpatine over, as much as i think it's the best thing, and as much as i love AUs where everyone gets together to curbstomp the emperor, i always wanted to see an AU where palpatine dies unexpectedly from the complications of being a bitch just because:

palpatine never intended to die, in my mind, he just aimed to prolong his life through sith bullshit ad infinitum, so i don't think he ever officially established a successor or even a method of transitioning power. i think everyone collectively assumes vader is his heir, on account of vader being the only person with the horrendous job of actually having to talk to the emperor directly all the time. but there's not anything binding except for the fact that if darth vader wants the imperial throne, he can crush the litany of people who would like to stop him like bugs, and i think everyone would assume in turn that vader - a guy who is famous for his frothing at the mouth about the empire's Divine Vision For The Galaxy - would want the throne.

this is, categorically, false, because every single time he's thought about killing palpatine, he had someone else he wanted to hand the throne. this is an awkward situation in which everyone is waiting for vader to stake his claim on the throne in the immediate aftermath of palpatine's death, and vader's like [automated breath] i..... have...... rebels.... to kill......... but i think, as horrific at diplomacy as vader is, he's at least savvy enough to know that the second he corrects everyone and tries to cede the throne, the infighting as everyone makes a play for the throne would cause a ridiculous amount of unrest. so he can't just cede the throne, but he's next to incapable of being functional without serving His Imperial Majesty's Divine Vision, and he needs to choose a successor as fast as possible and then he can possibly consider finding a ditch to lay down in because his one last attachment to the mortal plane died.

i know it'd be more reasonable for vader to kick punt someone like tarkin at the throne, but consider that vader is, fundamentally, unreasonable. and at this point in time, he's also famous for being kind of a religious zealot, and he would absolutely choose this particular time of all the times to trust in the force. so he meditates, considers the sane options, but the force keeps lingering on senator leia organa from alderaan - and it's doing that because she's secretly his daughter, but he doesn't know that, and theoretically this is enough ahead of ANH that he doesn't even have an inclination that she's a rebel spy. but if the force wills it.

so leia, all of eighteen years old, is named empress by darth vader and he doesn't have the grace to tell her he's going to name her empress first, he just kind of goes in front of the imperial senate and does it. i think it would be utterly hilarious if vader handed the empire over to the rebels without knowing it, handed the empire over to his daughter without knowing it, and now leia has to figure out how to safely un-empire an empire while being empress without causing too much chaos.

which is not a job made easier by the wheezing war criminal who keeps kneeling in front of her and asking, "what is thy bidding, my master," because leia has unknowingly inherited the weirdest position in relation to vader anyone could have, and he's kind of relying on tradition to cope. i really just want you to imagine an ongoing bit where one of vader's cybernetic arms gets wrecked while he's suppressing a coup organized against the new empress, and he leaves it like that for weeks because palpatine always had to clear off significant changes like replacement prosthetics, and he keeps waiting for leia to do it. she finally snaps at him to just go and get it fixed, and vader's thrown into an array of distress because that is NOT how this works!!! his MASTER clears off his medical procedures, it ALWAYS works like that, and leia's confusion is bone-deep, because obviously that only makes sense to vader.

wouldn't vader notice the empire getting un-empired by the new secretly-a-rebel empress, you wonder. i would say that he probably wouldn't, because as horrific as palpatine was, he was also all of vader's will to live, up until the moment leia shows him a singular basic courtesy - like not being weirdly involved in the process of vader getting a new arm - and vader decides that he is going to froth at the mouth about Her Imperial Majesty's Divine Vision, instead, until she sees fit to grant him death.

i just think it would be really funny if leia had to deal with learning that vader, on top of being omnicidal and a war criminal, is also just really ridiculous as a person, and very annoying but in a sad way.

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A preview of part 7 - cause I’m quite happy with panel 2 (as for make out - not yet I’m afraid, this is PG-13🙂, besides Ben is still injured BUT there will be cuddles and kisses in Scene IV, I promise.  And sorry to leave you in such a moment, I’m working as fast as I can)