Desire.

this is why we're still fighting!

also why i won't hear anything about how "the petition won't work" because:

that's what the incels are saying to lower morale

it obviously works or else these incels wouldn't make 6 counter petitions

the sheer number of signatures alone is why the media take notice of the campaign (to renew a supposedly unpopular show) and start calling out disney & LF for not protecting their POC and queer talents

please sign if you haven't and share if you can

-quietly resurrecting this account to post this-🙈Am I good at drawing people? Not really😂But here is my humble chibi drawing of oshamir 🥹I love them! I hope you guys like it🫶

Art(c)Me

the hand that drops his helm fists gently in her locs, holding her to him as she drags him closer by his cloak, closer, closer, never close enough

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A rainy kiss for all you lovely people. I know we're having A Time right now but this fandom has been so invigorating to me as an artist and it's full of the coolest and most talented people and I'm happy to be part of it.

Star Wars is not for women.

Star Wars is not for Black people.

Star Wars is not for Asian people.

Star Wars is not for Queer people.

Star Wars is not for anyone who is marginalized and has different lived experiences.

Nope. Star Wars is ONLY for cishet white men. We hear you loud and clear. We know you don’t care about us at all.

Here is just ONE example from the same troll account. 👀👇

I mean, seriously?

The audacity.

The caucasity.

Cancel the cancellation of this series that brought us an amazing story !

erm...

i saw people mentioning that if the acolyte is gone they "at least want qimir" to be brought back into something in star wars... like a show where he's the main character and osha is no longer relevant and tbh i don't really get that take. why a show focused 100% on him? what purpose would it serve to remove her? who would that make happy? (btw, the answer is racists + misogynists)

qimir's story and osha's story are intertwined now. i understand that we want to know his backstory (of course!) but if the acolyte were to continue then surely we would have gotten to know more about his past (and how darth plaguies ties in) regardless. you wouldn't need to erase osha and mae to see more of qimir. he's obviously not just a side character anymore.

the second season was supposed to have more of the stranger anyway — think of the implications of the last couple shots of osha and qimir holding the saber together. joining one another. it's about the two of them now. seeing how her story plays out wouldn't take away from his.

i'd kinda rather not get a second season at all than see them erasing osha/mae from the narrative for no reason other than to appease assholes. it's so messed up. love manny jacinto an insane amount (INSANE AMOUNT), but some of the things that some ppl are saying are lowkey fucked up and if you took a second to think about it maybe some of you'd realize :/

cus it's weird! it's weird that you'd be chill with them getting rid of osha! it's weird that you're saying you'd be fine with that erasure! it's weird because it wouldn't even benefit the story or add to it, you'd just be removing a part of it!

People calling for more Qimir without Osha betray the quickness with which they'll make a sacrifice to the dumbest and most basic misogyny in our culture. It's fucking gross and you know it.

Osha and Qimir are intertwined. The entire season was about them ending on that shot of them looking at the sunset together.

This is the first SW project helmed by and about a woman, for women and anyone who has ever been marginalized by SW fandom. Kill the part of you that would give that up just to have a male character take precedence. I love Qimir as much as the next fan but come ON.

Do you hear yourselves? Why do we love him in the first place? Because he wants HER. HE WANTS OSHA.

The incels of this fandom don’t want SW stories that decenters men (especially white cishet men) and that caters to the Female Gaze, so it’s hardly surprising that they don’t want any SW story about two twin sisters who are played by the same curvy, Black and Queer actress.

Remember how this fandom treated Kelly Marie Tran before AND after the release of The Last Jedi? The amount of racist, misogynistic and fatphobic comments that antis kept sending her way was so insane that she had to delete all of her social media.

And instead of speaking out against all of the blatant bigotry thrown her away, Disney chose to remain silent and even decided to write her out of The Rise of Skywalker. That’s why I’m not surprised that some people want a repackaged version of The Acolyte without Osha and Mae.

And it also doesn’t escape my notice that those same people want a version of Qimir (played by young, handsome Asian man) that strips away his sensuality and vulnerability. Two things that we — the audience — would never have seen if it weren’t for his relationship with Osha.

She is as vital to his story and character arc as he is to hers, but these fanboys don’t think villains should be allowed to be human and complex.