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[catie-does-things]

Omg The Awakening…domesticity bad housewife oppressed walk straight into the sea that’s all I remember from that book

Without re-reading it, it's hard for me to say in hindsight how much of this was the book itself and how much of it was how my English teacher presented it, but the idea that finding meaning in raising your children was some preposterous notion not worth consideration by Serious Women was what filled 16yo me with rage.

We also read The Awakening on the heels of The House of Mirth in Junior year English class, so I was kind of tired of the "strong independent women kills self" ending, especially contrasted with how my teacher had been unable to disguise her disregard for Hester Prynne when we read The Scarlet Letter (which I actually liked). Remember girls, finding a way to make a life for yourself even within the confines of an overly strict society is Not Feminist, real Strong Women contemplate their reflections in the mirror and commit suicide.

I really didn't like my English teacher.

[luke-shywalker]

This week I’m prolly gonna be writing a fic every day and every single one is gonna be about Ben Solo with eye surgery

[askbensolo]

Ask Ben Solo

What’s up, HoloNet! The name’s Ben. Currently 23 years old. I’m the only son of an Alderaanian princess and a Corellian scoundrel, and I have an adopted sister named Rey.

I started this blog when I was fifteen and afraid of becoming a Jedi. To make things worse, I started hearing voices in my head…voices that turned out to be someone who wanted to control me. Luckily, my friends and family got involved, and Snoke seems to have backed off.

I did make friends with some of Uncle Luke’s Jedi students, but I ended up attending the University of Naboo (Go Shaaks!) and got my degree in Journalism, since I’ve always been interested in writing, history, and politics. (Scroll back enough, and you’ll see my cringe pro-Imperial phase from back in the day. Yikes.)

I stayed on Naboo after graduation, and now I write for The Chommell Sector Daily. In my free time I lift weights, write poetry, and fight with people online.

Ask me a question!

—Ben

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Mom: My mother, also known as Senator Leia Organa, also known as Space Mom, also known as Don't Mess With Her. Tough as nails. Also has nice nails.

Dad: My father, also known as Han Solo (or scruffy-looking nerfherder). Isn’t as cool as you think he is, but makes up for it with heart.

Rey: My adopted sister, also known as "Kid". Ten years younger than me. Originally from Jakku. Eats faster than anyone I’ve ever seen.

Uncle Luke: My uncle, also known as Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Is a cinnamon roll.

Ren the Bantha of Indeterminate Gender or Origin: My stuffed bantha friend. Not much can be known about this humble beast, but they are fiercely loyal.

Threepio: My mom's protocol droid. Has foregone enough memory wipes to pass as sentient. Best ignored.

Artoo: Luke’s beeping trash can. Extremely rude.

Chewie: My dad’s best pal. Gives great hugs. Don’t play holochess with him.

Lumpy: Chewie’s son. About my age in Wookiee years.

Darth Vader: My grandfather. It's complicated.

Friends

Fannie: One of Luke's Jedi students, who has since graduated. Twi'lek. My bestie when we were teens. Mom friend.

Amalia: One of Luke's Jedi students, who has since dropped out. Massive Togruta girl. Frenemy.

Treeso: My roommate from college. Gungan. Solid dude.

Sweeper: My archnemesis: the cleaning droid at work that keeps eating my paper notes.

Ugly Raisin Men Who Have Invaded My Mind With the Force

Snoke: Enough said.

Story Events

The Long Night: (2/25/16 - 4/2/16) In which I woke up from a nightmare and couldn’t sleep.

Space Braces: (5/16/16 - 12/7/2017) In which I got braces.

Get Out of My Head: (8/4/16 - 8/28/16) In which Mom left for a diplomatic mission and left me at home with my dad, and I was consumed by fear and darkness.

The Visit: (10/6/16 - 11/5/16) In which Uncle Luke came to visit us.

Sixteen!: (12/3/16 - 12/11/16) In which I turned sixteen.

Life Day 21 ABY: (12/25/16 - 12/26/16) Life Day!

The Impending Future: (9/10/17 - 9/29/17) In which I had an existential crisis about Mom wanting me to become a Jedi, and I discovered Snoke.

Seventeen!: (12/3/17 - 12/11/17) In which I turned seventeen.

Life Day 22 ABY: (12/25/17 - 12/26/17) Life Day!

A Week With Luke: (12/21/17 - 1/7/18) In which my mom made me spend a week at Luke’s Jedi school.

An Awkward Situation: (4/26/18 - 7/15/18) In which I thought my best friend Fannie was going to ask me out. Like, on a date.

About Amalia: (7/16/18 - 8/7/18) In which I accidentally started a chain of rumors about Amalia, Luke’s mysterious and hardest-to-get-along-with student.

The New Roommate: (4/24/24 - current) In which my roommate Treeso moves out and I have to find someone to take over his lease.

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[margindoodles2407]

i would personally like to give @luke-shywalker a gold star for making me care about kylo ren

I know I've alluded to this before but I wanted to make it ~official~

[ben-is-solo]

Did you know...

...that the relationship between Kylo and Rey can be interpreted as purely platonic, and still be just as powerful?

They may not be biologically related to one another, but each of their central struggles revolves around the issue of family. Each feels as though their family has abandoned them, and interestingly enough, each deals with feelings of abandonment in regards to Han and Luke (Kylo feels that they failed him as family members, and Rey wishes they could have seen her as a surrogate daughter.)

The void left in each of the characters’ hearts is due to a lack of strong, platonic bonds with family. Rey is desperately trying to fill the void; Kylo is desperately trying to destroy it. They’re two halves of the same, and this struggle over family is something that consumes them so much that it takes precedence over any romantic possibility.

While each wants the other, it doesn’t have to be in a sexual sense. Rey was abandoned by her parents, so in a subconscious way of rewriting the past, she assumes the role of “parents” (becoming almost an extension of Han and Leia as they were in TFA) and vows not to abandon Ben. Kylo killed his father under Snoke’s orders, but in his own way of rewriting the past, he refuses to kill Rey—if he can turn her, he can “replace” his family (whom he will inevitably have to kill if he stays on this trajectory) with Rey (whom he won’t have to kill, if she turns).

Both characters see one other as a way to either fulfill or destroy their need for family, and this does not need to be accomplished through romantic or sexual means. In fact, taking their quasi-sexual encounters at face value, they don’t seem to show that much interest in each other. When Rey offers Kylo her hand, expecting him to fully grasp it, he touches only a single fingertip to hers with the minimal amount of contact possible. When Kylo accidentally treats Rey to some circumstantial eye candy, Rey asks him with annoyance if he has a cowl he can put on. To read romantic or sexual interest into these encounters is to apply a subjective interpretation.

Just because the characters are not biologically related doesn’t mean that they can’t be read as having a platonic, or even familial, relationship. Many non-shippers make the mistake of dismissing their relationship entirely, but the relationship between Rey and Kylo is significant as a reinterpreted reincarnation of the relationship between Luke and Vader, and arguably just as platonic.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Tag game!

Tagged by @im-fairly-whitty

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better

Current Top 3 Ships:

1. Eugene x Rapunzel - Tangled

2. Can I cheat and put “my Arcana OCs with their LIs”? x)

3. Steven x Connie - Steven Universe (Future)

Last Song: Unstoppable - Sia

Lipstick or Chapstick: I only wear chapstick when I put lipstick on, which is rarely because I bit my lip a lot and I get worried it will just get on my teeth

Last Movie: The Court Jester -- A great old Danny Kay musical that I’d highly recommend to anybody in a Princess Bride mood

Reading: Sheesh, I haven’t read a real book in a while :/ So...Howl’s Moving Castle--Audio Book? (and like, the scriptures too I guess x)

tagging: (If you want too :) @radioactivepeasant @alreadyinmotion @herbalisia @kittandchips @the-reverse-mermaid @vladabi @willow-s-linda @luke-shywalker @elizastarkart

[crvmommy86]

Then and now...Luke Skywalker 💕🙂💕

My SideShow Collectible Luke Skywalkers 💜

@supermacaroniandsqueezeblr @lightsidecalling @speedyflowerhologram @harrisonfangirl @tato0ine-luke @culturevulture73 @skywalkerfangirl77 @luke-shywalker @luke-is-very-gay

[treenahasthaal]

Star Wars, 1977. 

@jady2007 @lovesdaryl @bespinfatigues @luke-shywalker @threadsketchier @brotherskywalker @kaelinaloveslomaris @ladylerxst @tatooineknights @tato0ine-luke 

[rabm]

luke shywalker

[threadsketchier]

11 Questions

Tagged by @ta-dala , THANK.  :D

1. What is the “craziest” thing you’ve done for the love of something?  Paid $500 for an all-inclusive con registration that included the weekend pass along with an autograph and brief meet-n-greet with hey kids it’s Mark Hamill.  Even though I’d already met him before, shhhhhhhhh.  :p

2. What is your ultimate bucket-list travel destination?  Don’t have one, because I’m just not a really travel-y person on my own initiative.  The couch is strong with this one.

3. Cats or dogs?  Kittehs!  :3

4. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?  Not here anymore, the people in this city are so damn rude and entitled...but I care less about the “where” and more about being financially secure.  Just somewhere in the northern latitudes where I’m not allergic to any of the native plants and people are nicer.

But if we’re talking temporarily, then nowhere, because the fact that I have to return home would just bum me out.  :p

5. Write me a piece of advise that you’d go back and give to your younger self.

PLS DON’T SPEND UR MONEYS LIKE WATER KTHXBYE.  (See question 1.)

6. Share one sentence of something you’ve written and tell me why you like it.

In the void between stars, time did not unfold in any meaningful way to the tiny, transient beings who spent their lives flitting across incomprehensible distances measured only in light-years and parsecs. Each world, moon, asteroid, and station had its own orbit and axis and gravitational anomalies to mark their calendars by. It was easy for a fringer to lose track, deliberate or not. Time was anchored in dirtside meetings, in shipments and payments due, in message packets, in sentences and escape attempts, and–if they lived long enough–in strands of graying hair, accumulations of scars, thickening waistlines, dimming eyes, slower reaction times and aching joints that couldn't quite flex as well when dodging and running and firing.

Yeah, OK, that was way more than one sentence but it really needs the whole paragraph for the context to work.

I...liked it because it sounds a lot more cerebral than I intended, with me just trying to bullshit my way through saying something slightly deep about smugglers, lol.

7. Can you still love/be a fan of something/someone and be critical of a choice or decision? Why or why not?  I guess so, because I can even be critical about OT Star Wars but I still lurve it.  (Also, all of us humans are, y’know, messy and flawed and complicated.  Problematic ≠ irredeemable hellspawn.)

8. Rogue One. Dead or alive?  ;)  ALIVE N’ KICKIN’ YO.

9. You can only eat one food the rest of your life. What is it?  Uggggggh, it’s not even worth picking something, because even if it was my favorite food in the world I’d get sick of it real quick and then I’d despair of eating at all.

10. Give me your Desert Island Discs list.  The 6 Star Wars saga soundtracks would take up 6 spots so that just about blows it all.  XD  The other two slots I guess I’d reserve with Rob Dougan’s Furious Angels and either a compilation of Tchaikovsky’s works or Craig Armstrong’s Piano Works, I’m a little torn between them.

11. What is your favorite curse word?  Pendejo.  XD  (Spanish for “stupid” or “idiot.”)

Ummmmmmm...I take it I’m supposed to come up with a new round of 11 questions, oh no...*sweats*

Would you rather develop the magical ability to fully write every single fic idea you’ve ever had or instead have the opportunity to write one single profic novel that you had total control over?

What’s your favorite clothing item?

If you drink coffee, what’s your favorite variety?  Light, medium, or dark roast, preferred region?  Regular ol’ coffeemaker, espresso, French press, pour-over?

Do you like thrift store shopping or nah?

If you could describe yourself as a cake, which cake would you be?  :D

Has any music inspired you in your fandom works?

What food is The Worst™ for you?

What is one decision you’ve made in your life that you’re really content with or proud of?

Would you prefer to sprout wings and fly or be able to breathe underwater?

What’s a really special fandom memory for you?

If you had a slogan, what would it be?

Hmmm...gonna tag @ta-dala a third time CUZ WHY NOT ;D and @tatooineknights @thetaoofzoe @culturevulture73 @tato0ine-luke @kaelinaloveslomaris @binarysunset @beyourowndensity @bisexualprincessleia @jadelotusflower @thatginchygal @celinamarniss @siths-sirenia @teagrl @luke-shywalker @lukeleiahan @goodisnotsoft @admfirmuspiett @jedihafren @klcthebookworm only if y’all feel like it!

[catie-does-things]

luke-shywalker replied to your post “some people (me)????? ship reylo ironically?????? to cope???? with the...”

How does one ship something ironically? I want to learn how.

I’m not really invested in the pairing, and I’m fully aware of the issues it has, but I will gladly ship it 1.) out of spite for what this franchise and this fandom have become and 2.) because if Rey is not a Skywalker then her marrying into the family is the next best thing.

So all those metas about how Reylo is super romantic and the best ship ever? Hardcore disagree. All those metas about how Reylo is super problematic and the worst ship ever? Also hardcore disagree. Reylo is the fire that will burn this fandom to the ground, and at this point, that’s a good thing.

[askbensolo]

Happy New Year, Ben! I hope it treats you well! Learn lots from your uncle and most importantly STAY SAFE!! :D -Level

Thanks, Levs! I’ll try to stay as safe as I can possibly be around a group of adolescents with fatal laser swords!I brought your space blanket to school. It kept me and Ren nice and cozy last night along with the heated one, and it gives some color to my otherwise drab surroundings.Oh yeah. Speaking of drab surroundings. Did I mention there’s no plumbing here? I mean, no refreshers. At least, not what I would consider a refresher. First thing I saw when I went outside this morning was a bunch of guys trying to see who could projectile-urinate the farthest over a nearby ridge.I did not participate, and instead made the long trek to the outhouses on the other side of camp. Which, apparently, none of the other boys do, but kriff it—my mom raised me better than that.Wish I could write more, but I have to go soon to eat breakfast and then go to morning group lesson. See ya.

[margindoodles2407]

why uh.

why does she look like that.

@luke-shywalker is it in any way concerning that i saw this and immediately thought of you

[ben-is-solo]

Rey: ...Can you put on a cowl or something

Kylo: *blank asexual stare*

[lesbianakins]

Thank you for tagging me on this, @dottiechan ! Rules: list 20 facts about yourself and then tag 10 other blogs you’d like to get to know better! _____________________________________________________ 1) My Birthday is October 1st. 2) I absolutely adore everything about Star Wars. 3) I first watched Star Wars when I was twelve. 4) My parents hated Star Wars, but they decided to show it to me when I was twelve so that I could know something about pop culture. 5) They were horrified when I loved it. (Lol) 6) When my dad first watched Star Wars, in theaters, the film broke mid-way. He said his favorite part of it was when the film broke. 7) I have never been to Celebration, but I really really want to go to one. 8) I have a cat. 9) My best friends are obsessed with the youtubers Dan and Phil. 10) I was valedictorian of my middle school. 11) I love reading. 12) Sometimes I write (sometimes fanfic). 13) The first Tumblr I followed was @luke-shywalker 14) I love science, in particular astrophysics. 15) I'm fluent in English and French. 16) I'm almost fluent in Spanish. 17) I love nature and camping. 18) I love all animals. 19) I am one with the Force. 20) The Force is with me. I tag: @spaceanakin, @luke-shywalker, @anidalafeelss, @anakinskydala, @ahsoka-snips-tano-lives, @ahsokamyqueen, @ahsokamylovely, @snips-and-skyguy, @tato0ine-luke, @ekjohnston

[treenahasthaal]

(Treena)

I have been doing some digging around in the house and came across a cassette tape. One of the things on it was this from a Media West Con some time in the 1980s. Those of us who write fan fiction will understand.  I converted it to MP3 as I just wanted to share so that others can enjoy. 

It is about Han, but we Luke Skywalker fans will get the joke. 

Sorry for the poor quality... 

@lovesdaryl @ladylerxst @threadsketchier @tatooineknights @kaelinaloveslomaris @sskywallker @luke-shywalker @windona