so much (for) stardust

"i asked chatgpt!" yeah well i asked rocky and he said ♪♫♩♫♪♩ ♫♩♩♫♪ ♫♪♩ ♩♪♫♩♫ ♪♫♪

I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.

ok lololol i told myself i'd put these essays together before posting critiques of critiques but this was so stupid i just have to post lol i saw a tweet where someone posted a response to JJ Abrams being quoted as saying he'd wished Hux's character got to be explored more onscreen, and this person replied saying JJ's an idiot because "Hux was poised to try to overthrow Kylo by the end of 8" ...That is not Hux's character lmao!!!!! That is not in character for Hux to do! It is not in character for Kylo to want to be the Supreme Leader! Kylo has no right to run The First Order! He has no authority over Hux or The First Order without Snoke! Snoke was funding The First Order, The First Order could not exist without Snoke's money. Kylo Ren was absconded at 15 and lived under Snoke's thumb all that time until now... Kylo Ren doesn't have any fucking money. Kylo Ren's whole world revolves around Snoke, he was groomed by him while still inside his mother's womb. Kylo Ren spends every scene we see him share with Snoke trying his best to please and impress Snoke because Snoke is the most important person in the world to Kylo, he even venerates Snoke to others when Snoke is not present, he fights with Hux over who can impress Snoke more because both of them see Snoke as a surrogate father figure in their own ways. Hux snarls at Snoke even though he is powerless against him, Kylo Ren never shows active defiance of Snoke, like even when he does defy him ie. when he refused to allow Hux to destroy BB-8 because Kylo wanted to bring the map to Snoke to impress him over focusing on stopping the enemy from finding Luke; Kylo isn't defying Snoke because he disagrees with him. When Hux disagrees with Snoke you SEE. IT. ON. HIS. FACE. and he knows Snoke can see it too, and he's fully aware that the only reason he doesn't get punished for acts of insubordination like that is because Snoke is in no way shape or form threatened by Hux whatsoever because he's physically meek and cannot use the force. And like, I'm sorry, but I really do think that JJ and Domhnall were developing one of the most fascinating Star Wars characters to ever exist and I just DO NOT THINK that a character that is heavily implied to be a csa survivor(also I think the very FIRST representation of MALE sexual abuse survivors in Star Wars??? PLEASE inform me if I'm wrong!) that went through absolutely unimaginable abuse at the hands of his father, other adults, and peers, was meant to be portrayed being placed back into a position where he is being abused by an authority and for comedic effect no fucking less. I really do think that there was more to Hux and the politics 7 set up that we just never got to see because of 8. I do not think Hux was ever going to fight Kylo Ren for the position of Supreme Leader and I do not think Kylo would have had any interest in overthrowing Snoke that early into the story to begin with.

This entire Fandom has me in a chokehold

I wish irl grinding was as fun as in videogames tbh. Like yeah i need to go to work a thousand times but after that i have enough materials to buy a house. But alas, houses arent real

Oh my gods these are all absolutely fantastic