#kylo ren snippet

[kylosbreedingkink]

“Mindfulness with Kylo Ren”

“Well, that’s an oxymoron if I ever have heard one”

FN-2187 could do nothing but blink at the sign above the door as KN-6724 braced themselves just before the button which would open the door.

Did they really want to do this?

The First Order officers had decided that morale was down, and that to boost it they would hold a week of activities. Each officer had to contribute in their own way, by teaming up with other officers to offer assistance to the lower downs, or by running workshops and team building exercises. It was expected that every single member of the First Order would attend a minimum of three events - but a maximum of five (Couldn’t be getting frivolous, of course) as set out in this.. Activity week.

If they were to ask FN-2187, which they never would, then maybe the needless deaths would do a whole lot more to boost morale than forced attendance to ‘activities’, but he was just a lay person so what would he know?

“How bad can it be?”

“...Do you really want me to answer that question?”

None of the trooper consignment had voluntarily registered for any event, so yesterday General Hux had randomly assigned them. Their morale will be boosted, whether they like it or not, or they will suffer the consequences.

Someone had to be taking the piss with this one though.

[sassinake]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Snoke & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Snoke (Star Wars), Armitage Hux, Han Solo, Chewbacca (Star Wars), Knights of Ren, Original Characters Additional Tags: Character Study, Pre-Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Flashbacks, Visions in dreams, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Trauma, Force Bond (Star Wars), Kylo Ren Angst, What girl?, POV Kylo Ren, Caging, Suicidal Thoughts, Whump, 404 Error Ben Solo Not Found, well maybe if you squint Series: Part 2 of Reylo Short Stories and Novellas Summary:

A week in the life of Kylo Ren before TFA.

This work attempts to answer 2 questions: * Who is Kylo Ren ? * Why did killing his father not empower Kylo Ren like it was supposed to ?

[zombee]

I feel like the luckiest Our Flag Means Death fan in the world after the season 2 finale. By a series of incredible circumstances - including a significant metatextual realization that came in at the 11th hour - it was close to perfect for me.

This essay has everything. Completely normal behavior over a television series. Steven Universe references. The David Jenkins School of Whatever is Best for the Bit. Humbling catharsis.

First: this piece does not exist with the central thesis of “it’s okay to not like something but that’s not the same thing as it being bad.” I feel like thousands of words have already been written on this since Thursday, so I’m going to try to not get too in depth on that.

Second, cards on the table, because it’s relevant and I don’t want to waste your time if this is going to sour your ability to hear me out: I’m an Izzy Canyon hater. For MANY reasons, but from way before the concept of the Canyon existed, (some) Izzy fans pinged me in the same way as Snape/Kylo Ren fans did, and before May 2022 was over I went from genuinely enjoying Izzy’s character and place in the narrative to hating him because his fans made it impossible for me to enjoy him anymore.

(SOME! of his fans. Please don’t keep making me say this, although I’m not going to talk about the Canyon directly anymore after this. I know there are a ton of normal Izzy Enjoyers and even Canyonites, I am literally friends with many of them, please take this all in the good faith it’s intended and if you’re not One Of The Bad Ones then you’re fine! I very carefully don’t go anti-Izzy on main, and when I stopped enjoying his character, I stopped writing him into fics. I’m not trying to be a dick, I just want to be honest. Anyway.)

The season 2 finale made me weep over Izzy Goddamn hands.

ALL season long, I was disgruntled. All season long. I really, truly, DEEPLY appreciated what they were doing with his character and arc, I thought it was wildly on brand for the themes of community/queerness in the show, I saw the vision, I liked it!!! But. I wanted a fucking apology, yall. I needed three seconds of “sorry I called you a slur, Ed :/” and that would have been enough. But I had to let it go. It was poisoning my enjoyment of the whole season, which I loved with very little exception (not none!) and I just had to let it go. I wasn’t getting an apology. That didn’t negate what they were doing with his character.

Yall. They withheld the apology on purpose.

THIS FUCKING SHOW!!!

Let’s go back a bit. I was at the episode 6 + 7 screening, and the breakup shook me. Probably a LOT more than if I had watched it alone in bed at 3am on my laptop - five days of no sleep after NYCC, lots of emotions, seeing it on a big screen with a hundred other intense fans, etc etc - but I did see other folks reacting in parallel ways to me when the episodes aired to the regular public, so maybe I would have felt the same way. Regardless, I was mad at Stede and to a lesser extent Ed. I NEEDED AN APOLOGY FOR THAT FISH LINE. I needed it! “Whativah” autocorrects to “WHATIVAH” in my phone. I was going through it.

(When I rewatched the episode when it aired it was not nearly as bad as I remember, lol)

So now the episode 8 screeners go out and the reviews drop and I think I catch one half-glimpse of a “What a heartbreaking ending!” kind of snippet, and some of my friends who are spoiler fiends unintentionally drop little hints about similar ideas (devastating/heartbreaking/split the fandom) type shit.

And I was a fucking WRECK! about it.

I do love this whole show with my whole chest. I do!!! But I’m not rotted because this is an excellent television show, I’m rotted because two old men kiss each other! On the MOUTH!!! in an excellent television show. You get it, right? I’ve written 700,000 words across almost 100 fics and 98% of them are dedicated to those two men falling in love in different universes. 

So it just did not even occur to me the “heartbreak/devastation/fandom split” would be about anything but Gentlebeard.

Another piece of this that was fucking me up - David Jenkins and his “satisfactory” ending biz. My brain was reacting like this show was ENDING ending, even if I knew logically! that this is just season 2!!! And I wasn’t ready for that, because what if it wasn’t personally satisfying, and I’m a mess about it? Why was I so worried about not liking it? I’d liked the whole season! Even if they didn’t nail the landing I wasn’t going to stop writing fic or hanging out with my pirate community & friends. 

…is what I kept trying to tell myself, but the way anxiety disorders work is funny like that lol. What if I did stop writing fic and hanging out in pirate spaces? That would hurt much more than a show I like disappointing me. And for anyone who’s having that experience with ofmd s2, I’m so very, very sorry. It sucks and that’s where my epiphany came from on Wednesday before the finale.

Because it has happened to me before.

I flit from hyperfocus to hyperfocus, as ya do when you’re spicy, but the last thing to get its hooks in me PROPERLY like pirates was Steven Universe. And I did NOT like the way the regular season ended!!! (I actually really did like most of Future; that’s not what I mean. I mean season 5). I don’t like how they handled the Diamonds, tldr; I think the scope of their villainy got too out of hand, and I was left grieving the thing that had meant enough to me I ran a fan convention for four years based around it. 

Side note: imagine if I had channeled the hyperfocus of almost a million words of fanfiction into an American OFMD con instead. We could have made magic :( I did consult with Our Con Means Death though so I am at least a teeny tiny bit of that one!

I did not like the way Steven ended… but I do respect the story they were telling and think they told it well.

I’m still sad about it. Steven is still one of my most beloved, it will always be beautiful and great to me, but that experience did and does sully my memories. There is so, so, so, SO much more good than bad from being in that fandom, and I cherish it. And I hope, if you’re having this experience with OFMD right now, that you’ll find similar comfort.

But, like I said at the top, “it’s okay to not like something but that’s not the same thing as it being bad” has been belabored already by people better at writing about it than me. I just had the incredible privilege to remember my brush with lower case T trauma and having that experience in my last REALLY big deal fandom. That’s why I had been so extra anxious about being disappointed. Because it happened to me before. It helped so much to connect those two.

So the finale happens, and it’s actually about twelve hours of me going from “eh, rushed but fun, whole season was great” to “THIS MAYBE IS THE BEST SHOW OF ALL TIME, ACTUALLY!”

BECAUSE THIS SHOW MADE ME CRY OVER IZZY FUCKING HANDS!!!!

They literally told me this was the story they were telling this season. “Men can change” “The end  of piracy” “Ed leaving Blackbeard behind (ish).”

As for me? I didn’t get an apology for the fish. Instead, I got “Sorry I was a dick.” “You weren’t a dick. Life’s a dick.”

Just… fuckity BAM. THREE FUCKING SENTENCES resolving that fight. Saying so much in so little.

In real life, should these two men have an actual conversation about this shit? Sure!!! But that’s not how OFMD tells its stories!

It works in symbolism. It works in vibes. It works in an hour’s worth of content into each half-hour episode, and for how much lamenting I have done about the pacing, I would prefer that 100x to having to stretch it out too much.

I have said since March 24, 2022 that OFMD wields anachronism as a weapon. First and foremost, it’s fucking funny, but in addition to that, it’s stating clearly: “This is a fantasy world. This is not real history. This show is about romance (and so much more than that), and the rest is just VIBES!!!”

Sometimes vibes can be historical accuracy. Sometimes vibes can be true emotional poignancy. Sometimes vibes can be Ed finding his sunken leathers in the sea, changing underwater somehow, and coming out of the ocean like the Birth of Fucking Venus, because water and rebirth and mermaids and shit is all very prominent this season. And ALSO, and this is very important! BECAUSE IT LOOKS FUCKING COOL!

I don’t want to do much real Izzy meta here. It’s been said by others, and better than me. But it was telegraphed and it was symbolic – he was the paragon of Traditional Piracy in season 1, for goodness’ sake, and Traditional Piracy is Toxic Masculinity, and he was a part of Blackbeard and Ed had to leave Blackbeard behind (yknow, ish), and he got this ABSOLUTLEY FUCKING LOVELY! storyline about appreciating what a (queer) community can do, and god fucking shit fucking dammit… most of all, best of all (for me), was Buttons landing on Izzy’s grave at the end. Men can change. And Izzy DID!!! He did it for Ed. For love. For community. I am puzzled by “it’s fucked up to use Izzy to further Ed’s storyline” because… this was Ed’s season, in the way that season 1 was Stede’s. And Ed cannot be removed from piracy as a whole (neither can Stede!) so to have this old, set in his ways, coded-queerphobic character blossom to the point he can give this gift to Ed and to piracy… idk man. I just find it so fucking beautiful.

It is okay not to like what they did. It’s okay!!! It’s okay, and it’s okay to mourn, and while it’s not okay to do [insert vile behavior here], it’s okay to carefully examine what you think is “bad writing” vs “what you would have preferred to happen” and give good-faith, textually-based criticism on that.

But I want to remind you over and over and over again, this show works on vibes. It tells its stories leaving many, many, many gaps. There are many things I would have liked to see, and y’know what? I would have told the Izzy story differently. I would have personally done it differently. But it’s not my show! It’s not my show, and I am humbled and delighted to remember that, and to appreciate Our Flag Means Death for what it is and not what it isn’t.

Other words have been written better than I could about the 18 months between seasons 1 and 2 and what that does to us as rabid fans with expectations of how things will go. Millions and millions and millions of words have been written about OFMD, fictional and non, and that is going to color our expectations and experience. We had built it up SO MUCH in our minds and along the way I think some of us forgot (INCLUDING ME!!!) that it is first and foremost about Vibes.

The vibes of Izzy’s death are about rebirth and forgiveness and leaving traditional piracy behind. And he got to die in Ed’s arms, knowing (HAPPILY!) that he had been wrong, and giving Ed the gift of letting him know he is loved, and being a part of something. We had a funeral but we also had a wedding. The only constant is change. Men, piracy, Blackbeard; it all changes. And Izzy found peace in that.

Before my last point, I want to @ myself on things I felt versus realizing in the end it is (I will say it until I’m blue in the face) about vibes.

· I was convinced they left Buttons’ transformation ambiguous because they wanted to leave room for it not having been real. NO!!! It is real, until they decided it isn’t. Magic in the OFMD universe? Fucking why not!!! IT’S SYMBOLIC!!! IT’S IMPORTANT TO ED’S STORYLINE AND THE CENTRAL THESES OF THE SHOW!

· I was unhappy, and still am a little, about the Polycule Situation, but now that I realize Oluwande is Zheng’s Stede… I am less so. The Zheng : Auntie :: Ed : Izzy vibes, btw? Fuckin immaculate.

·        Obviously they touched on Stede/Ed’s “killing people trauma” but I’d reallyyyy like Stede to address it, and even though I think Ed’s is left on a very satisfying note, I’d like him to dip a bit more into it as well. But if they don’t, oh well! It’s not like they ignored it, they just didn’t have a Deep Dive like I Wanted Them To!

· They didn’t deal with Ed throwing Stede’s shit away. They just ignored it! Stede started to collect new trinkets, and I believe that was as much about giving the audience back the old feeling of the Revenge as it was anything important (not to say it wasn’t also important thematically!!!). Just like Ed going back to his leathers is both Extremely Important thematically and about putting Taika back in the leathers because that’s what Blackbeard should be wearing for the epic final scenes for the sake of visually keeping the show consistent. That’s Blackbeard’s uniform.

· Stede’s frilly little outfits my beloved. God I hope they give him back some of his frippery in season 3. I think they will re: cursed suit BUT his journey this season was about something else, so!

· Ed’s stupid little non-profit non-apology, oh my god. It was so funny. And there is a transition from eps 5 to 6 where Ed is back in his leathers and the crew is more comfortable around him. They didn’t have to have him do a Real Apology, it’s implied it was all settled. What was the timeline? A day? DOESN’T MATTER, BABY, VIBES!!!

· Lots more, I’m sure, but now that I’ve tried to let it all go, I’m remembering less of what I wanted and appreciating what I got!

And, last point here, I think it is also very very very important to remember that a lot of people are normal about this show. In fact, WAY more people are normal about this show than aren’t. And that is EXTREMELY! IMPORTANT!!! because otherwise it wouldn’t be profitable and we all know what would happen then. We are the core of it, to be sure. Without word of mouth that stems from our intensity, this show would not be NEARLY as successful as it is. I truly, truly believe that.

But.

Do normies need deeply emotional discussions dissecting the central relationships? No. What normies need is Ed and Stede running dramatically toward each other on the beach and kissing. And I am happy, so fucking happy, to realize that’s what I need too. I’ve got fanworks for the rest.

I love this fucking show and this fucking fandom and its fucking creators so much. Fuck.

[meetingyourmaker]

Kylo Ren and the Ancient Evil

Comic snippets of vampire Rey who survived in the future. She's probably a million years old but still feels like the convenience store worker from 2019.

[abbonation]

Kylo spits a glob of saliva onto the tips of his fingers while on his way to your pussy, the next thing you hear is a lewd squelch as his two middle fingers stretch open your walls.

“Fucking christ, this little cunt is the perfect fit for my fingers,” He nearly scoffs looking down at you through the dim starlight in his bedroom.

Kylo starts by flicking the ends of his fingers against the top wall of your pussy, then moving his other hand to press down on your belly above your uterus, sparking a carnal flutter around your clit and sending chills up your spine.

“I can feel your pleasure, angel,” Kylo grunts, “Tell me how I make you feel,”

“Mm.. fuck. So- so good Ky, you’re so good Kylo,”

At your praise he licks his lips and refocuses on your spread legs. Ren quickens the pace of his fingers slightly and then you feel it..

Warm and tingly, like a blanket fresh out of the dryer. Familiar and warm, yet always exciting- a buzz settles over your skin and moves it’s way from your scalp through to your finger tips and, finally, settles on the hood of your clit. It stops you in your tracks and you feel your cunt pulse around Kylo’s fingers.

“Yes, that’s it,” he says, “Now do you see what the force can do?”

A wet kiss on your thigh-

“The power it can give a person..”

A thrust against the mattress below you-

—————

Lol here’s an unedited snippet of a story bouncing around in my brain. Lemme know if you wanna see more! :)

[caughtthedarkness93]

Another Acolyte post. Spoilers. Keeping it minimal, but there'll be stuff about episode 5 and you should really watch episode 5 with as little info as possible holy shit. And I have no idea what to make of this. It's something I need to think about.

But at about 28 minutes into Episode 5, when Darth Teeth is talking to Osha, there's a snippet of music that sounds like Kylo Ren's theme. Seriously. Listen to that bit in the episode. It's played on a higher horn - I'm not sure which specifically, but it's a very clear melodic idea. Then listen to this.

This is one of the most clear and isolated examples of it I can find, the low brass clearly stating it. I'm not crazy, right? I have no idea what to make of this. You don't quote a theme that clearly without a good reason. But I'm sure I heard it. And I need someone smarter than me to help me out here because even though I'm sure I'm not crazy, I certainly will be if I don't have a good answer to this one.

[satans-codpiece]

Darkfic Enjoyer here. please share some of your dark thoughts since you said you only unleashed your demons in only one fic of yours >:)

With Ramattra, you mean? Because EY doesn't even come close to releasing demons as compared to a lot of stuff I wrote with Kylo Ren or Michael Myers.

I just never really got a lot of darkfic inspiration for him? I honestly haven't in quite a while-- I dunno if that's better commentary on my relationship with my recent string of blorbos or on my mental health lol. Because the potentiality for darkfic with Ramattra is right there.

TW: Noncon, kidnapping, paralysis/forced to watch, injury, probably more

I briefly started a hard noncon fic where Reader is injured and/or pinned in the wake of a Null Sector attack and Ramattra unleashes some of that pent-up rage on them. Lots of Ramattra using his strength to keep Reader still and him talking about how this is justified by the simple fact that they are human and deserve to suffer as so many omnics have.

But I just didn't have the drive to write it?? There's so many WIPs I have with him that I want to finish but can't force my awful brain to look at for more than a few minutes at a time, but with the noncon fic I wrote a little bit and then my brain was like mmm, no. not this flavor. I still love reading noncon with Ramattra, I just don't have that drive to write it.

Hell, even, a Reaper/Reader noncon fic (with Sombra/Ramattra noncon in the background) was of higher interest to me than Ramattra/Reader noncon.

(For interested parties: where Talon is done using NS so Reaper & Sombra are sent to deal with Ramattra & Reader, but in particular Reaper's more than happy to make a point on what happens to people who betray Talon. so Sombra disables Ramattra-- but makes sure that he's awake and aware of what's happening as Reaper attacks Reader, with maybe some unwanted wireplay so that he's forced to cum watching it).

But with Megatron it comes so naturally. The very first thing I wrote with him was “Mmm, fabricating desire in exchange for your own survival is hardly the worst idea your species has had.” Literally the first line of dialogue my muse spat out to me was him accusing (and approving of!!) Reader trying to seduce him so that he wouldn't kill them.

And everything I have written with him since then-- which is all unfinished or no-context snippets that idk if I'll post-- has involved some degree of fuckedupness.

Megatron/Reader mutual noncon + Starscream/Megatron/Reader where Starscream catches Reader & forces them to suck off a regular gun. And Reader's humiliated and scared and just so confused as to why Starscream has this regular human gun laying around- until they realize it's literally Megatron stuck in a new alt mode that they've been polishing with their tongue. To which Starscream giddily fucks them with Megatron's barrel and the whole time Reader is terrified because... what does an overload look like for a gun? Also, Starscream's motivation is much more centered on Megatron, Reader is completely incidental and just gave him an opportunity.

Megatron & Knock Out discussing the mental health implications of kidnapping a human for morale (everyone is jealous of the Autobots' pets obviously). Namely, Reader is having a bad time of it- who wouldn't?- and Megs suggests to KO that he'd rather kill this high-strung human now and replace them with one more... agreeable before the crew gets attached. KO (who is already attached) insists that Reader will feel better as they get acclimated.

During the events of Rock Bottom (TFP), it's Reader who finds Megatron. They, naively, agree to help him (because it's the right thing to do TM) in exchange for his promise that he won't harm any of the other humans or autobots in the mine. Of course, he just kidnaps Reader at the end instead. When they're furiously kicking the inside of his jet form, he'll insist he didn't lie; they weren't harmed, were they?

Not really super dark in the way any of the above are, but literally just a little dubcon-y drabble with Reader & Megatron making out and Megatron's denta cut Reader's lip. And Reader tries to back off, but Megatron is so fucking horny about it that he holds them still and kisses them harder.

And that's just what I've written. I've also toyed with Facsimile!Reader where Megatron fucks you because why not, you exist only to serve the decepticon cause and, well, you basically feel like a human on the inside and he's curious. Super fucked up not because of the dubcon but more in tone, that you entire existence is for obeying him and serving him and dying for him and you're okay with that.

[jessicas-pi]

Can you do mandolREYian (I think I spelled that right) for the ask game

OOOOH yes ok

SO, this is a Mandoverse/Sequels AU where Rey is rescued and adopted by Din Djarin and Bo-Katan shortly after the Mandalorian S3 finale. (She's several years older than in canon, which is why that works timeline-wise.) She has a fun and crazy childhood (including a bestfriendship with poe dameron that leaves a lifelong impact on her sense of humor and sarcasm levels. this is relevant) until the poodoo hits the fan and everything falls apart. cue the sequel trilogy, but with fifteen times more shenanigans and silliness!

Here's a snippet!

They stared at each other from beneath their own helmets. “So,” she said, after fifteen or so seconds. “Who talks first, you or me?” He stood up, slowly pacing in a circle around her, and when he spoke, his voice was badly distorted. “That is the second time in two days someone said that to me.” The irreverence seemed to irritate him, which was just fine by Rey. “Who was the other one? Was it Poe? I bet it was Poe.” “It is no concern of yours…” He stopped. “…Din Rey, Clan Kryze.” She hadn’t gone by that name in years, and hearing it froze her in place. “What did you call me?” “Your name.” Rey tried to untense her shoulders and even her breathing. “How did you know that?” “You might say that I am…” He paused, then reached up and took his helmet in his hands, sliding it off with a hiss. “…an old friend.” Silence hung like a fraying thread between them as familiar dark eyes stared straight into hers, even through her helmet’s visor. She slumped backwards, armor clattering against the table. Rey stared at the ceiling, waiting for her brain to compute this. And she burst into laughter. “You are so dead, Ben.” He scowled. “My name is Kylo Ren.” “Oh my gosh. That’s adorable,” she said flatly. “You even gave yourself a new name. You’re really leaning into the goth phase, aren’t you?”

[these-are-the-first-steps]

(unrelated snippet- rey working under an assumed name while leading what was left of a shattered resistance, finally caught, after years of the universe thinking rey was dead)

They had been paraded out like prized sheep for the execution, half of them silently weeping, the other half with clenched fists. It was only Jenha who stood, now, as still and composed as the center of a storm. She did not cry, she was not tense. If anything, she looked a bit…nervous? Anxious. Like she was anticipating something, something big. Her eyes darted around despite being pointed at the floor as the officer read off their names and what they were about to die for. Formalities.

I wish they’d just get it over with, Kes thought to himself.

It was then that Jenha looked over to him, giving him a slight frown. He replied with a half smirk- the irony of it all was the only thing he had left, why not let him have it?

When suddenly, like the storm finally arriving, a sea of black swept in, Jenha’s head suddenly snapping up, and every officer clicked their heels to attention. Only the man reading their obituaries was left engrossed in his task- a mistake, perhaps, as he suddenly found his panel go dead and he had nothing left to read. As he looked up in confusion, he was met, face to chest, with a fully armored Kylo Ren.

“S-sir!”

“Who gave the order to execute the prisoners?”

“I-It was—“

“I don’t care what their name is. Arrest them. Now.”

“S-s-sir??”

“For superseding my explicit orders. Do it. Now.”

“Yes sir!”

As the man scurried away, Kylo Ren’s head snapped towards them. The mix of emotions was thick- were they going to be spared? What was even going on? Some crying had turned to shaking. Whether that was from relief or a new kind of fear you couldn’t tell.

Kylo Ren’s helmeted face swept the line and examined each of the frightened faces. Of course it would land finally on the only person having no reaction at all to the entire scene. Jenha remained as calm as ever- calmer, in fact, if that were possible, as even the small amount of tension that had been there before seemed entirely drained from her now. She seemed almost…relaxed?

Her head had stayed bowed, and Kylo Ren seemed to observe her for several curiously long moments before, almost hesitantly? why?, stepping towards her. Cautious steps. Yes, Jenha was their leader for years, but did she really merit this sort of what seemed to be begrudging respect from the man who controlled their universe?

“Name,” he declared. Despite the order, it was not barked. It was almost said quietly. Kes was feeling increasingly more alert by the second.

Jenha, of course, did not reply.

“Name,” he repeated again. Tension began to fill the room once more. Jenha may have been their leader, but to make Kylo Ren repeat himself twice? She truly had balls.

“Jen—“ Kes began quietly, but with a quickly raised hand, she cut him off. Kes didn’t understand- whatever was going on, if it could be used as an opening to save their lives, shouldn’t she play along to at least see where it goes?

But she stopped him. And instead, slowly, very slowly, she raised her head. And looked, straight into the masked eyes, of Kylo Ren.

Despite the voice modulator, they could hear him draw a breath, and then another, she did not blink as she stared into the void of the mask as a ragged sigh came through next. Suddenly his hands lifted, and almost like a reflex they all flinched away from him. But Jenha did not move, her face was set, a perfect expressionless mask of her own as Kylo Ren’s fingers instead fumbled with the sides of his helmet, with an out of place clumsiness, until there was a loud hiss as the front of it disengaged and the next thing they knew they were suddenly face to actual face with their flesh and blood Nightmare.

Everyone gawked at him. But the only person he looked at, bewildered and almost shocked, was Jenha.

His face rippled with minute expression as he stared at her. Jules jumped as his helmet dropped to the floor with a clang. Jenha never broke her gaze, but now that they were eye to eye her vision, quite plainly, wandered across this man’s face. He look another step towards her, and even bent down. He was getting down to her level and Kes was nervous now. What was going on? Would he have to pull Jenha away from this monster? But looking at her squared up to him without a hint of question in her posture, he knew that he not only could not get in her way, but that something more was surely going on here.

Both Jenha and Kylo Ren’s eyes ran over each other. Jenha’s stone mask of before was starting to slip as her mouth twitched and her eyes seemed to widen and narrow as carefully as she could manage. And Kylo Ren….well, the mask he wore began to make more and more sense as this man slowly became an open book of emotion. He seemed to struggle with himself, his breaths increasingly shallow, and were those tears? in his eyes?

Jenha had made it her career to only inflict large losses on the First Order. Was their leader really that moved to finally have this dangerous woman in his control?

But then Kylo Ren lurched forward, and his hands clutched at Jenha’s shoulders. Kes could see his long fingers dig into her, almost like he was grabbing on for support.

“Jenha…” Kes began quietly. Just say the word, boss, and we’ll do all we can to mob this guy for touching you.

“Jenha?” Kylo repeated, a breathy question. His eyes narrowed in a pale confusion and he blinked repeatedly as if trying to clear his vision and also make sense of what he was seeing- or perhaps even trying to force himself to see something he was too afraid to.

Jenha looked back at him, her own eyes misting slightly as if she couldn’t look away.

“You know my name,” she replied back, quietly, with a weak, almost defeated smile.

Kylo’s grip on her shoulders somehow became even tighter.

“Say it,” he gritted out. But Jenha’s small smile only grew. “SAY IT!!” he shrieked out, shaking her now, composure utterly lost.

Her smile faltered, and she looked at him with a strange expression Kes couldn’t even name. Until, finally, she spoke.

“…Rey. It’s Rey.”

There was a broken cry when Jenha, Rey?, was suddenly pulled towards Kylo Ren’s chest. Her people cried out, scared for her life. Was he killing her? But his face was buried in her loose hair now, the puffs from his breath billowing the strands, as he seemed to engulf her. Almost as if he wanted to press her into and through himself.

Jenha stood still, she did not resist him, she did not fight back. She let this all-powerful man who had everything hold her as if she were the last and most precious thing in the universe. It was then Kes saw as her hand twitched, and actually lifted, slightly, bumping into his side. Her fingers opened, and she clutched, albeit weakly, to his clothing. After a moment, her grip tightened, and she seemed to push at his stomach, just enough to give the hint, and like an obedient pet, he seemingly obeyed.

They parted, and there was space between them now, but his arms did not drop from around her and her hand did not leave his side. And they stared at each other now so dangerously that it hit Kes like a blaster bolt.

He had seen this look before on the faces of Yun and Aria. These two, Jenha and this killer of all they held dear, were in love.

But not any kind of love he’d seen before. Yun and Aria had been delicate and almost bashful. But these two…Kes looked into each of their faces. There was fierceness, a desperation, a disgusting amount of longing in the way they held each other, and also, above all a veneer of hate. There was also, Kes noted, relief.

This was insane. There was no proper logic to any of this. Jenha and the man she spent every single day trying to destroy? But didn’t he say she had another name? What did she say? Rey?

“Rey…” Kylo gasped at their leader again.

Yes. And there it was again, on her face, that look of relief.

Nothing happening before them made any sense right now, but there was one thing he could absolutely say for certain- all of them were definitely 100% in serious trouble.

[anotherbluesunday]

✨WIP Tag Game✨

I’m definitely checking you’re fic out @michiganstray because you got me hooked! Thank you for tagging me too! I’m super excited to share this teaser with everyone. 💜💜💜

Alrighty, first Tag Game of the new year and y’all picked a good time because I’m writing the epic close to my ficlet Myth. Like I’ve said before, this story was inspired by a string of prompts, the rain, and a song. The final chapter name “Myth” captures all the more intense lyrics of the Beach House song, namely these six lines: “If you built yourself a myth, you’d know just what to give?”, “Can’t keep hanging on, to what is dead and gone.”, and “Materialize, or let the ashes fly!” I don’t want to give away too much. I want this final chapter to be emotionally and mentally cathartic for all who read it because the goal is to make you feel. What that means to you is up to you and your heart. But I want it to be something that leaves you all feeling your humanness pulsing through you like a current.

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Now, here’s the snippet.

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I didn't want to remember but I would and this alone felt like a death sentence.

So I kept it to myself. Fell in this spiral that was less like a swan dive and more like the aftermath of a mid-air collision. I gave Wednesday bits here and there to keep her floating in calm waters because she had no place navigating this wasteland with me. It was dishonest especially considering how we had promised to always tell each other when something was wrong. But this was where I drew the line. If what I thought had happened was what had actually happened to me then there wasn't any way I could tell her. Not entirely. And even if entirely, not right now. Not while she had millions of other things stacking up on her plate that was already full.

Staring at the wall a moment longer, I could almost make out the form of another. The shape of my tormentor. My accuser. My devil in white. I distinctly remember the color and it being draped in some way on them because it made their red hair stand out. Red hair and red nails. Slowly, this creature was coming out from the shadowed rafters like a reaper and I was lying there in wait as if I were set to die that afternoon. But it wouldn't come and drag me by the throat to my grave just yet. There was too much of this show left for it to do that.

Another minute turned into two turned into thirty until I made myself get up.

Stomach growling and skin and bones feeling particularly exposed to this crippling sense of humanness, I washed up first. Begrudgingly stood under the hot water and rinsed off the perfect combination of Wednesday's sweat and faint traces of her rose body oil. My therapist was quick to warn me of the road this relationship could travel down during our session yesterday. Said that for now it sounded healthy and supportive but that it could devolve into a codependency if we weren't careful. And I understood where Dr. Kinbott was coming from. Could see where there may be mild concern with a watchful eye waiting for the first signs of smoke. But Wednesday and I were conscious of this too.

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Okay, I’m tagging both writers and artists because I want to see some gifsets that are WIP’s or hear what ideas they got for upcoming ones so yeah. lol.

I’m tagging @tastethesetears @remusjohnslupin @mistressvera @wednesdayandherhyde @michiganstray (in the words of Kylo Ren, MORE!) @darling-gemini @broken-everlark @gardenoblues @thelovelybookworm (because I also need more of what you’re cooking)

Happy writing/giffing and tag away!

[kylosbreedingkink]

A snippet from a FinnLo story I am working on, incredibly slowly.

The premise is a canon AU but Kylo is in some sort of winter soldier-esque situation with the First Order. Initially willing if now regretting. Finn is the sorry sod who keeps coming across him.

Stories planned out but like everything, I just can't seem to sit down and write it.

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This time, FN-2187 did jump, stepping back several places. The figure was now staring at him, eyes big, brown, and wet. Skin shining with sweat and dirt. It felt like the air itself was humming around him and as though the other figure could see right into his soul, as though the stormtrooper helmet failed at its main task of keeping his individuality hidden.

He got a strange sense of being Seen and Known, a feeling indescribable, accompanied with an aching pressurenat the back of his skull.

It stopped as abruptly as it started as the figure yelled out and hunched back over himself, right hand reaching over to a restraint around his left forearm holding him to the chair, as dark as everything else in the room. Easily missed before, but now there was a small red light pulsing, the man tensing in time with them.

He knows he should leave. But curiosity and the need to help keep him rooted to the spot. Until the man yells out once more, and the mousedroid assisting him on his cleaning task comes flying at his head.

He gets out just as he hears the man scream in agony, and wonders what he just saw.

[silver-tangent]

Hot take: the actual plot of the sequel trilogy isn’t bad, they were just executed so poorly…

Palpatine had a secret plan to be reincarnated through cloning, and Sith sorcery? The books did it. People liked the books.

Luke is fearful his nephew has too much Anakin in him, and almost kills him, causing his nephew to feel betrayed and join the dark side? Sounds absolutely dumb when you don’t tell the audience that there’s a Sith out there… but Palpatine was secretly alive. He gave Anakin and other Jedi false prophecies for decades. It’s absolutely believable that Luke, not knowing there are any Sith out there, could be deceived by the dark side clouding his judgement, and could be manipulated (through the force) to kill his nephew, but is strong enough to resist at the last second, but Kylo Ren wakes up and sees him and it’s too late… that’s not a betrayal of Luke’s character, it’s in line with Palpatine’s MO and could have been a major hint of who was pulling the strings… IF THEY MADE IT CLEAR IN THE MOVIES THAT LUKE WAS BEING MANIPULATED.

Luke becomes a flawed old man who goes into hiding? Not the future we want for him, but it could have been a great story if we got more substance.

There are only a few changes that could have redeemed the movies even a little bit.

Reveal Palpatine in the second movie, giving symmetry to the plot twist model presented with Empire Strikes Back, and giving a whole final movie of time to explain how he did what he did, instead of one line in the last 90 minutes.

Leia sacrifices herself at the end of Last Jedi instead of Amilyn Holdo, an Admiral we barely know and are much less attached to. Carrie Fisher died during filming. We all expected Leia to die, but that’s not an expectation to subvert, it’s a respectful send-off. Leia should have been the sacrifice to save her brother.

Luke’s death should be more substantial than a force projection. He could die, but probably in a fight with Sidious at the end of movie 2 or climax of movie 3.

Reylo was terribly executed. You would have to completely rewrite all of their scenes together and write more of them if you want it to exist… it was bad… It was unnecessary. We don’t need a romance.

Instead of Kylo’s redemption being to heal Rey and die, and Rey taking the name Skywalker… let Rey die in the final battle. Kylo’s redemption is the defeat of Sidious… Kylo Ren would then have to face the extremely awkward and complicated task of returning to the rebellion with Rey’s corpse, and convincing them he’s a good guy. That’s a lot of character development to work through, even if we only get snippets of it.

Kylo is Ben Skywalker. He is the Skywalker who rises.

Give John Boyega the role that he and the fanbase was promised. Give Finn a story and a lightsaber. Tell us more about him, don’t just scrap almost all of his key moments.

[cas-backwards-tie]

Here's The Deal...

So here's the deal... I have been pursuing my real life goals and accomplishments the past two years. This summer I have about a month and a half before I have to go into essentially a work-study opportunity which is going to help propel the rest of my career. What does this mean?

Though I know I've always been sparse when it comes to getting things out and finishing projects with my writing, I think that perhaps it might be worth it to post the drafts, snippets, imagines, WIPs, and ideas I've had over the years either in store in my drafts, or in my docs. I have stuff ranging from either Supernatural, DC Comics, ADCU of course, TUA, and of course some more recent developments on the Marvel, Grishaverse, and DBH content I'd been putting out. The question is... would anyone be interested in that?

I'm such a perfectionist at times when it comes to things like this, that... I'm even doubting if I should post this halfway through writing this. HOWEVER, I will say that some things will be incredibly brief. And for that purpose, it's exactly why I'm asking if anyone would be interested in reading/seeing these things. If so, I can post them, and even tag people. I'm just curious, since, I haven't written for some of these fandoms in a while, but am wanting to get back into writing over the summer, that perhaps it might be worthwhile. What do we think?

tagging: (forever taglist) @ohdamnadam , @safarigirlsp , @jynzandtonic , (mutuals+ ppl I think would be supportive) @kylo-ren-writes , @itsaconquestofimagination , @leatherboundbirate , @purplebtsmagic , @morby , @reylokisses , @thepilotanon , @maybe-your-left , @direnightshade , @glassbxttless , @mariesackler , @caillea , @wayward-rose (people whose fandoms it'd effect + above) @mrswhozeewhatsis , @sacklerscumrag , @formerly-anonhamster , @clumsycopy , @xenteaart , @driversmutbucket , @in-silks-and-flesh-and-leather , @barbers-glimmerin-darlin , @millenialcatlady , @floral-and-fine , @sithlordintraining , @moonlightsolo , @ussrootcanal , @callmehopeless

Maybe also just a reason to tag my mutuals and get back in connection with them cause I'm in a place now that I'm graduating and less busy that I can be a better friend and get connected again. <3

and if I didn't tag you, that doesn't mean you're not included. These are just some people I've thought of, or like, or were connected to present or in the past, and have also supported me. <3

[whorevader]

After somehow resisting four doses of melatonin out of sheer job related anxiety i decided to officially write down my tierlist of canon:

1. Core six movies, always. Perhaps Originals slightly more than Prequels but by a hair

2. Novelizations and legends material always for characterization and most of the plot but i havent read much so i reserve the right to revoke this statement

3. Clone wars 3d for plot ONLY except ahsoka who for obvious reasons does not violate her own character constantly

4. Disney canon pre-both trilogies is whatever ig as in it doesnt make me seethe

5. Snippets of the secret good TFA i thought we would get that still exists as a ghost in my head where finn is the protagonist, rey is a clone of shmi skywalker born from palpatine experimenting with anakin-cloning unable to replicate force-immaculate conception and thus only his reproducing his genetics which are just shmi's (real catholic lore about what would happen if you cloned jesus), and kylo ren doesn't exist or if he has to he's a woman

6. I really tried to find anything fun about them enough to justify 123ing it but honestly any other Disney canon mid and post-both trilogies isnt real in the slightest. except for manny jacinto being a hot dark side user existing vaguely in my brain's sw history somewhere ig

[moondirti]

thank you for tagging me @yeyinde <3

WIP GAME

post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how ridiculous or non-descriptive. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it.

[ animalic ; chapter 6 ] miguel o’hara

[ the dionysian ] kylo ren

[ a burning hill ] kylo ren

(i was revisiting my star wars fixation before spiderverse came out, if it isn’t obvious)

no pressure tags: @pettyprocrastination @sprout-fics @ghostaholics @honeydjarin and anyone else who wants to give it a go<3

[madamebaggio]

Hogwarts AU requests!

Attention, shippers!

I am opening requests for Hogwarts AUs!

Is there someone you’d like to see walking around the hallways of Hogwarts and getting into some mischief? Well, today is your lucky day!

I am opening requests for Hogwarts AUs!

Please, read the rules carefully before submitting a request.

Requests have to be submitted as an “Ask”, just so it’s easier for me to keep track of them.

The relationships don’t need to be romantic. It can be a friendship/platonic ship. So please, remember to say what is the choice.

ROMANTIC SHIPS ONLY FROM MY SHIP'S LIST. I won't be accepting any ships that aren't on my list, I'm not taking submitions for new ships this time.

Information you must provide for your submission:

Ship (Name and movie/TV show (in case of crossover) and relationship (platonic or romantic) )

What are they doing? Studying together, playing quidditch, having detention…

They don’t need to be students, necessarily. If you want the characters can be teachers (but let’s not get into teacher/student romantic relationships, please!)

You can choose a House for them if you want to, if it’s not relevant to what you want it’s also okay. I can also pick the House if you prefer.

If they are prefects, quidditch players, or are in a specific year let me know, but it’s not necessary if you don’t have anything in mind.

Prompts are optional. If you have a dialogue or scene prompt you want to add, it’s up to you. If there’s a song, a picture, or a gif you relate to this and you want to share, please do.

I won’t write:

snippets with real people (Tom Hiddleston, Margot Robbie and so on)

about movies/shows that I’ve never watched (Vikings, Avatar, BBC Merlin and so on)

Harry Potter characters. This is only for ships that are not from that world.

Characters I strongly dislike. (Joker, Kylo Ren, Diego Hargreeves… )

Anything but pure fluff.

I reserve myself the right to decline prompts based on these. If you have any doubt about any of the rules, you can always DM me ^^

I’ll start those as soon as I finish the other requests.

Let me know if you have any questions.