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10: What does your URL mean?

It’s from Don’t Speak by the Jonas Brothers

Per Catholic doctrine, true contrition (the kind you can confess to in a sacramental context) is “sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again." And honestly? I saw zero proof that Kylo Ben is (a) sorrowful, beyond his aggrieved sense that killing his father didn’t really get him anywhere, (b) detests any of his prior actions, including the war crimes, or ( c) would be willing to swear he wouldn’t do them again, since the only difference between “Kylo Ren” and “Ben Solo” seems to be who he’s willing to murder. 

Which means that from a religious perspective, he is not contrite, cannot truly confess, cannot be forgiven in persona Christi, and is (to borrow a phrase) fucked.

phil: is it just me or are they all like.....gay

HELLO it’s always luke skywalker loving hours in this blog so let’s go here are my top reasons why i love luke skywalker in no particular order:

his righteousness: literally every single thing he ever did as a character (at least in the films bc i know jack shit about the eu AND excluding tlj l m a o) he did as an act of kindness, or as something derived from his inherent righteousness!!! like he found out the droids his uncle’d bought belonged to some other dude he didnt even know and he INSTANTLY thought abt giving them back. like the guy could’ve been a serial killer and he didnt care he just wanted 2 do the right thing! when he saw leia’s hologram he immediately thought holy shit ive gotta help her and he literally cruised through the galaxy to do so. he went the extra mile to help those in need...esp. the ppl he cared about on every chance he got and tbh we should all be more like him in that matter

um the fact that i’ve always perceived him as gay: this one’s a little more personal but i think many el gee bee tees see some of themselves in him and that’s always something nice to see and have, even if it was never explicit!!! like i saw a post earlier today abt how revolutionary it was for luke be Like That back when the first star wars was released bc every action movie with a male protagonist at that time followed the macho man archetype and luke is literally the polar opposite of that. i dont know which demon possessed george lucas to make him write luke in that way bc im sure he was OBLIVIOUS of what he’d done and we all know luke was supposed to be his self insert so...whatever demon it was, thank you. neat job. also the fact that mark hamill endorses gay luke skywalker makes my heart grow warm. 

how loving he always was: i think this goes hand in hand with his righteousness or maybe one thing blooms from the other but regardless of the order of things...his fervent love for his friends and the ppl he cared about was baffling to me. and now that my understanding of love has changed and maybe even evolved to a higher level i find that luke’s loving feelings were a CRUCIAL part of his character. a building block...dare i say his very FOUNDATIONS!!! luke skywalker wouldn’t be luke skywalker without the intensity of the love he felt for all the things he cherished.

his fashion sense: goes hand in hand with his gayness because no cishet could ever dress like That. i can’t even pick a favorite outfit of his because they’re all iconic!!!! tatooine farmer boy chic? timeless. xwing flight suit? invented fashion. bespin fatigues???? E P I C. and i wont even get started with the black chanel suit from rotj bc that’s....too powerful and we all KNOW it is.

the thing about Ben’s death is that if DLF hadn’t set him up as a reverse Anakin I would have been fine with a heroic sacrifice. Fuck, if they’d killed him in a way that made sense I would have still been pissed but I would have been able to appreciate it. 

I told myself after getting spoiled that I could be ok with Ben dying, assuming it would be done well. But it wasn’t. He died not because it was the only option, but because JJ isn’t a character-driven writer and he wouldn’t know how to handle a HEA for Ben Solo (thats a whole other rant so i wont get into it). 

Rey dying was a plot contrivance to make it seem like Ben’s death made sense. There was no reason for her to die. You could say that all that power was too much for one person- but there was no reason for it to be one person wielding it. JJ tossed Ben into the pit so he couldn’t help Rey kill Palpatine. He made Rey a Palpatine not only to give her the character motivation to kill him that Ben already had, but also, more so, to appease sexist fanboys. 

Disney was so scared shitless of a bunch of alt-right white supremacist incels that they changed the trajectory of their movie. They were too chickenshit to make the bare-minimum statement that a woman of color deserves to be a main character in a Star Wars movie that they removed Rose Tico from all narrative importance. They couldn’t even give us a meaningful gay kiss, even when they could have been piss babies anyway and edited it out for China. 

When I look down the line of decisions that are connected to Ben’s death, it ends with DLF bending to the will of bigotted shitheads.