#kylux is real

[akwardtractor]

Oh and if we look over here we can see an ancient art piece originally created in January of 2021!

[hux-and-gay]

And for any Kylux AU: only slightly spicy (I'm containing myself 😅), but I'd love to see Kylo kissing Hux's neck.

(Or, to give you options: Hux in a skirt, because that's pretty much always on my mind, and Kylo doing something of your choice, in that situation...ogling Hux. Feeling him up. Admiring him lovingly. Anything! :) .)

I FINALLY FUCKING DID IT

Not even kidding I restarted this ask Luke 3 times with different concepts each time

(I did not draw the shadow I’m not that talented)

I might post the scrapped ones at some point bc it included a poem. There was supposed to be an nsfw version of this but I’m tired so maybe another time

No shadow version:

Okay well there aru a shadow but whatever you get it

the lyrics are from the song Tyrant by the bravery I totally didn’t just need to fill space bc it looked weird

am I satisfied? Idk man art if weird 😂

anyway thanks this was fun to draw okay goodbye

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[whatcha-reading-today]

Fanfic spotlight: what's real or isn't | brawlite

Hux just bought a house and it totally isn't haunted by a Kylo Ren monster that wants to bang his brains out. A great gothic story and the tags are great, 'void blowjobs', kudos that that.

Read it here:

Author: brawlite

Fandom: Star Wars

Main characters: Kylo Ren (monster) and Hux

Author's description: Hux's new house is not haunted. It isn't.

Word count: 57,398 words

Rating: E

Complete: Yes

[argent-gale]

Oddly Nostalgic

I got a notification one of my blogs turned 7 yo today.

I haven't been on here in months but it got me reminiscing a little.

About how I'd eagerly await those reblog/like notifications.

About how I'd squee when I got a message notif.

I remember when I lived/breathed TWD and SW. Those fandoms injected a spark that made life so much more interesting.

I remember writing fics. Getting recs. BEING recd.

I remember chatting people overseas until legit 2 am my time on a worknight.

I'm not really involved in any fandom right now. My online fandom friends have drifted away. People I used to talk to multiple times a day have just...disappeared.

I get sad because I remember how it used to be. So fun. I remember thinking how boring my life was before I got so involved in my fandoms. Now that I'm not in them anymore it makes me sad because my life is once again dull.

I wish I could get excited over things again but I just can't.

I scrolled through my feed and saw some old "faces" and smiled remembering. I guess I should be grateful I had that time at all.

I packed away all my fandom merch and will probably sell/give it away. I spent so much money on that stuff, lol.

Anyway, just musing today.

[kyluxtrashpit]

The thala-siren has fallen! No titty on titty action I suppose. The mouse droid as also seen a surprising boost as of late - will that continue? We will have to see!

Rules are the same: each poll will run for a day, with the least number of votes getting eliminated (and a tiebreaker poll occurring if there are multiple with the same low score). This is entirely for funnies, so I hope y’all will find it as hilarious as I do lmao

[wulfhalls]

i'm blaming you and your kylux posting phase for making me going through a kylux phase again and not only that, also having to come to terms with them still hitting so hard. they were just perfect, i will die on that hill

it's so humiliating I know 😭😭😭✋️ like oh dummy still hasn't moved on from like 3 mins of screen time from almost a decade ago?? thicc dummy dumb still gets invested in a dynamic that has fuck all to do with anything even resembling canon post those 3 mins of screentime?? SAD!!!!

[kylo-skywalkerr]

I know a lot of the SW comics aren't canon, Dark Empire especially since Boba's alive in a different way + many more details, but Kylo's backstory makes a lot more sense with this particular set of comics.

One thing I feel like the sequels didn't get right was that it didn't show enough about the corruption of Ben Solo. About why Leia and Luke sensed something awful within young Ben. You can't tell me Luke would look at a 6 year old boy and see him as irredeemable when Vader was in his perspective.

With comic context, it makes more sense. Here's the exchange between Leia and Palpatine when he tries to claim her as an apprentice due to her more upfront and occasionally aggressive way of handling things:

(Side note: The line about him being able to enter one of his clones additionally justifies Snoke's existence.)

With this context, it makes sense that Ben's family would sense something very wrong with him. Palpatine is an irredeemable evil, simply corrupt because he eroded himself until there was nothing left but that evil. Luke, in a moment of fear, was going to end Ben Solo's life to stop the growing evil that was within him. Another thing it explains is why he always heard Palpatine's voice in his head. It was Ben's mind, but he was not alone. Palpatine tormented another Skywalker boy until he had him running into his arms once more, this time using Snoke.

These comics were released in 1991. In fact, while researching this, I found out that this comic was potentially an inspiration for the sequels, which makes this even more disappointing. These comics were great. They set up a great potential, but they run into the issue of execution.

The sequels had great ideas and characters to explore, but expecting the audience to simply know where your story is coming from is a bit dumb. This is the meat they should have shown in TFA, not throwing us into the halfway point of a story where everyone's favorite characters are plucked off one by one.

Yet I still very much enjoy the flavor that this adds to the life of young Ben Solo, who never had a damn chance from the moment he was conceived. For the love of god, someone get this wretched old man away from this poor family.

[samaspic31]

I talk a lot of shit about the sequel trilogy, but I can never deny the hilariousness of the kylux dynamic. Gay fascist losers who suck very bad and fail constantly

[general-fox-hux]

Kylo Ren: First impressions get locked in forever.

Kylo Ren: When I first met Hux, he said something that slightly rubbed me the wrong way.

Kylo Ren: Since then I've loved working with Hux, and he's frankly wonderful.

Kylo Ren: But I hate him.

[akwardtractor]

This year @dirtbag-linecook-kyloren and I worked on a Kylux Big Bang! Please enjoy chapter one, where Ben learns he might be a she and gets dunked on by her new crush, English teacher Hux.

[hux-and-gay]

I’m going to eat his face off

[paramountives]

HI. NEW CHAPTER OF SILLY LITTLE STAR WAR FANFICTION.

p.s. this will take u to chapter four. if you have not read chapters one two or three, i’d recommend doing that. <3

[kyluxtrashpit]

I was gonna wait and hype it up a bit more but you know what, the thing is done, let's just fucking do it. Behold, chapter 1 of the thing. New updates will be posted weekly on Saturdays until complete

[fridayincarnate]

Tell me about Hux and Cardinal?

HUX AND CARDINAL

I'm so glad you asked. I suspect that the only reason they're not a bigger ship is that Cardinal is a book character who hasn't shown up onscreen. (Yet.)

The dynamic Brendol creates between Hux and Cardinal echoes the one Snoke later creates between Hux and Kylo, and it goes back WAY further. I'm convinced this is deliberate both on the author's part and in-universe on Snoke's part.

Cardinal is one of the first stormtroopers recruited into the First Order when he and Hux are both children. Hux's father gives Cardinal all the praise he denies Hux, which is a really sore spot for Hux because Cardinal embodies the idealized physical masculinity that Brendol constantly berates Hux for lacking (too weak, too skinny). But Cardinal is trained to obey Hux's orders even though Hux is younger and Cardinal sees him as "spoiled" and "soft." Despite all the praise Brendol showers upon Cardinal, Hux gets the real power. It's a real brains/brawn dichotomy that makes each feel inferior to the other's strengths. But this works out great for Brendol, for a while - better that they're both focused on earning his approval than realizing how well they complement each other.

Sound familiar?

I also think it's very likely Cardinal was Hux's first crush. I have no evidence for this whatsoever. But their closeness and enmity could be the start of a pattern that Hux later repeats with Kylo. Plus, a side effect of Brendol criticizing Hux's physique and praising Cardinal is that Hux would have been... very aware of Cardinal's physique. Prime gay awakening "do I want to be him, or do I just want him?" material.

The fraught power dynamics between them are interesting in a way that's quite different from Kylux, though.

By the time of the Phasma novel, Hux outranks Cardinal significantly. Also consider this unsettling passage that shows the effect of Cardinal's conditioning on his opinion of Hux:

He's clearly reciting propaganda here, but how deeply ingrained is it? Is he just repeating lines back to himself or does he fully believe all of this? Depending on how literally you take this passage, this pairing could get quite twisted and dark.

Yet even here, Cardinal displays an undercurrent of resentment towards Hux. And while Hux sees Cardinal as an obedient subordinate, I don't think he's outgrown his envy and the sense that he didn't measure up to Cardinal. This in no way neutralizes the power Hux holds over him, but the duality of their relationship is fertile ground for exploration. Their history and present are inextricably intertwined. No one knows Hux quite like Cardinal does.

By the way, that's from the infamous robe scene, in which Hux drapes himself across his furniture in a robe and gives off a vaguely slutty vibe. For an audience of one. Cardinal. I'm just saying.

I could go on, lol, but I'll cap it here for now.

Thanks so much for asking! It's such a rarepair (fewer than twenty fics on AO3! what!) and I'm determined to change that lmfao. Literally ask any time and I will keep going, hahaha, and it'd absolutely make my day to see other people talking about these two.

[blodyhands]

First post ! I don't fully understand tumblr yet so bear with me. But the star wars sequels brain rot is real and I need to share this shitpost I made with the world ! Enjoy some probably ooc kylux crumbs and phasma. Because I love her very much .

[olderthannetfic]

i saw this post today where this person was talking abt fandom racism and was pointing out some real issues within my fandom and favorite ship that I too had noticed… but then kept bringing it back to the lack of one particular other ship they liked, when it's like, no that's not the problem, and that ship is unpopular because those characters have zero romantic or sexual chemistry and barely any scenes together. (it was really funny that someone had reblogged this to take their 'lack of seeing this one character in a sexual way in fic miiight be racist' complaint to be like 'i think you're right! we should have more fic about [a long list of different ships involving that character with people they have ACTUAL chemistry with].' it was really funny. ofc op totally missed the point they were making there.) anyway i just feel like way too many useful conversations about this stuff are ruined by people making it about shipping or other really subjective fandom preferences. i get that this is because something like 'number of fics X ship or character has on ao3' is an objective measure, and something like 'level of orientalism in how a lot of people are writing this desi character' is not, but i wish people would realize it tends to alienate more people that it converts. and ime, it's often the people who maybe would most benefit from hearing those criticisms (e.g. are writing unintentionally racist stuff in their works, and are someone who would want to know about that and how to do it differently) who tune it out the second you make it into insulting their shipping preferences.

i mean, there WAS some real racism in the star wars sequels fandom, including among the fanfic/shipping side. not just the shitty dudes harassing kelly marie tran. we saw the really bizarre 'predator' language people directed at john boyega just for making some joke posts on instagram about disliking reylo and its shippers. it was the very classic racist thing where people see something as automatically more threatening when a black man does it. ....but how many people had already tuned all that out because the people most outspoken about the racism in the fandom kept reducing it to 'if you ship reylo over finnrey, or kylux over finnpoe, you're a racist'? it's like a boy who cried wolf thing. if you've shown that you can't uncouple serious discussions and concerns from just being pissy that your otp is not more popular, people are going to see you as someone who can't be taken seriously and then ignore you when you do have a real complaint. it's like how i'm sure that some of stitch's essays are thoughtful and important, but i have no desire to read stuff by someone who is infamous for harassing people just for what they ship. i don't feel like i can take any of that person's judgments about fandoms i'm not in, for instance, seriously.

that's not to say fandom preferences in shipping can't ever be influenced by racism (or other 'isms') but is it ever really *that* specifically that is the problem, or the broader pattern it is part of? and i feel like 'maybe fandom is a little too focused on het and slash ships between two young skinny conventionally attractive white people' is a message more people are open to than 'your specific white M/M or F/M otp is racist'

anyway it reminds me of the stuff i've seen sometimes in academic fandom studies about how you can't really honestly study a fandom where you're deeply mired in its discourse - you need to focus your work on fandoms that you're familiar with but not in that way. and i think that maybe also applies to some of these discussions about fandom racism and misogyny. maybe you're just going to have better takes on something when you're not deeply invested in other unrelated arguments about it, like about which ship is the most popular. like i could not care less about star wars shipping and have zero take in reylo vs. finnrey, so that's why i feel like i could trust my perception that the way a small minority of reylos were posting about john boyega's instagram posts was racist. it didn't matter if he was genuinely being a jerk to them or about their ship. he obviously wasn't a 'predator' and it was pretty telling language for a group of largely white people to use about a black man making fun of their ship on a different social media site.

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The laying pipe thing was blown so out of proportion, yes. Call it sexist, sure, but it wasn't fucking predatory.