That's Rough, Buddy

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

that everytime Kylo Ren (Ben) and Rey are together in the same place (except for the force bonds because they’re not physically together) Ben always at some point ended up kneeling towards Rey?

Interrogation room:

Just right after he met her, he is kneeling watching at her

Chewie’s shot:

He fell kneeling and the next thing he does is looking towards Rey

Fighting Rey:

She hit him and he fell kneeling and looking at her

Throne room (aka red room):

Right after the elevator scene when she is towards Snoke, he kneels behind her, and again, he is looking at her (even while she is being tortured by Snoke in front of him)

Right after the battle of Crait:

His most famous kneel, at the end of TLJ (although that it’s during a bond, I included because they’re pretty close in the same place, she is right outside behind the mountain in the ship towards him) again, he’s eyes are on her

Always the same leg, the right one

Fun fact:

Genuflection or genuflexion is the act of bending at least one knee to the ground. From early times, it has been a gesture of deep respect for a superior.  The Latin word genuflectio, from which the English word is derived, originally meant kneeling.

The act of kneeling or deference (also called submission) is the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one’s superior. Deference implies a yielding to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of reverence.

The custom of genuflecting arose out of the honor given to kings.

[Hela, all-powerful from her extended time on Asgard, slam dunks Thanos and stabs him with approx. 86000 swords and melts down the infinity gauntlet to put sick gold tips on her horn crown]

As brothers are they joinēd heart to heart;

But Cupid hath not struck them with his bow;