Cursed : Here It Is Arthur And Nimue

me: is fine being single, understands i am still capable of love, is in no rush, doesn’t like relationships that much

stupid brain:

Okay, putting a flower crown on serial killers harms absolutely nobody. When was the last time someone was actually injured by a serial killer, the 50s? Sorry if you think this is a trend, but putting a circlet of flowers on top of a real human being that drove a 5 inch steel knife into an innocent persons beating heart can be qualified as self expression. Learn it. PS. I play reaper in overwatch and talk like solid snake when Im on the phone. I could hack the stock market if I needed to. Bye

i cant decide what my favorite line of this is

Oh Adam

a soulmate is a person that won’t complain about any of my music when i put my ipod on shuffle

"Secret" tv spot!!!

Rian Johnson,

Years ago you served our fandom in The Last Jedi. Now we beg you to help us in our struggle against tragic ending of The Rise of Skywalker. I regret that I am unable to present our request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I’m afraid Kathy’s mission to bring you back on board has failed. 

We have placed information vital to the survival of Ben Solo into your hands. You must see this boy safely delivered back to his soul mate. This is our most desperate hour. 

Help us, Rian Johnson. You’re our only hope.

But not resolving a romance with a Big Damn Kiss isn’t a non-ending, not necessarily. Ben and Rey’s relationship could have a resolution that isn’t explicitly romantic, and it would still be a resolution. It’s possible to redeem Kylo, bring closure to his relationship to his family, give Rey fulfillment of her heroic arc, give her a happy ending where she’s gotten rid of her bad blood with Kylo, has her friends and has completed her coming-of-age, but not have a kiss or w/e be part of it.

Not when their relationship is the main thrust of the conflict, not when their arcs are married. The romantic tension is already there, their relationship cannot be resolved without addressing it. This is the ‘business partners’ take on TLJ and it is, imo, nonsense.

What is a happy ending for Rey? Belonging, family, open-eyed unconditional love. Can’t it be with friends and the Resistance? No, she was given that instantly without effort and it gave her no clarity or fulfilment. What pushed her to growth and acceptance? Ben. What does she want? Ben.

It isn’t a ship thing, okay, this is a plot thing. A really big, huge plot thing. It’s not on a ‘will Our Hero and the Tough Spunky Gal kiss at the end or nah?’ level. The relationship between Rey and Kylo Ren is formative to the fabric of the story regardless of what kind of relationship it is and the filmmakers had to decide what it was going to be before moving forward. On the brainstorming whiteboard you’d have: ‘what is the story about (hope, compassion)’, ‘who is the protagonist, why her’, ‘what does she want’, and ‘how does she relate to the Skywalker saga’, ‘what are the stakes’? The answers are all closely related. If the answer to ‘what does our protagonist have at stake with the villain/legacy/thematic lynchpin?’ wasn’t ‘she falls in love with him’, it would have to be something equally melodramatic.

As for Ben, his purpose as a character is to ‘finish what [Anakin] started’. He is the Skywalker so he is there to raise questions about identity and destiny, but as the Skywalker he is also the personification of the moral conflict at issue in the story and has a Fisherking relationship to the entire galaxy. To break the cycle of generational tragedy and to vindicate the faith and hope of all the heroic characters that healing is possible and the galaxy can be renewed, Ben has to be in a position to have children and be equipped to raise them. The implication of children to carry on and renew is necessary for a happy ending.

@benperorsolo has a great post on this and @fluffycakesistainted has some good ones on the Skywalkers. My tag ‘the legacy’ has an extensive, if disorganised, catalogue of how I think this stuff works and why I think that.

But the place of the romance is pivotal. This is the salvific, unconditional love of this trilogy. This is why our protagonist is not a Skywalker, because it’s not platonic. Rey Nobody only makes sense because platonic love has failed and an outsider was needed to get the galactic royal family back on track. Anyone can be a hero in SW, but the divine mandate to balance the Force is a burden still attached to Anakin Skywalker and will be accomplished by healing his legacy. If the generational trauma is healed, the mythic purpose of the Skywalkers is fulfilled and we can move on to other stories.

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo was a complex character, not a straight out “villain,” which would add meaning to the Reylo kiss if you learned to pull your head out of your backside.

Me:

You have that look in your eyes, from the forest. When you called me a monster.