Littlewinnypsyco - Sugar-free Cookie

I don’t know if something like this already exists, but I felt that I needed this so here you go XD

TLJ: rey’s parents were nobodies. she doesn’t descend from some ancient bloodline. her strength is not attributed to some (male) ancestor, it comes solely from herself.

TROS: *makes rey a palpatine*

me:

TLJ: rey’s parents were bad people who sold her. this is thematically important to her whole arc about finding her identity. in order to grow and mature as a character, she must let go of the idealised picture of her parents she has in her head and the harmonious infancy she never had. she wants her parents to be good, noble people, and by having them be bad nobodies, we force her to change and grow, to create her own place in the universe/her own identity. 

TROS: actually rey’s parents were G O O D  P E O P L E who sold her to ~protect~ her uwu

me:

TLJ: we killed snoke to make room for the actually interesting conflict, the one between the conflicted supreme leader kylo ren and the resistance, his mother and rey.

TROS: *brings back palpatine*

me:

TLJ: the jedi failed. they were arrogant and stuck in their ways. they were so terrified of the dark side that they turned a blind eye to the darkness rising with palpatine. they deal in absolutes. it is time to let this flawed order die. we must learn from our past mistakes. failure is the greatest teacher.

TROS: rey is a jedi now

me:

TLJ: rey and kylo have a complicated relationship. they are beyond physically fighting each other, they now have to figure out their emotional conflict on how they are going to navigate their force bond connection and ambiguous feelings as supreme leader and resistance fighter. 

TROS: *more lightsaber fight nonsense*

me:

TLJ: rose is a self-assured, determined character, an integral part of this story. she acts as moral authority to finn, helps him find his purpose in the resistance and embodies hope, resilience and fighting for the right cause.

TROS: *1:16 minutes of screen time*

me:

TLJ: rose and finn share a kiss

TROS: …y'all hear sumn?

me:

me @ disney, jj abrams, chris terrio or whoever is responsible for this mess:

Me: *watching Start Trek TOS on Netflix*

Netflix: Skip Intro?

Me: Excuse.. excuse me??! EXCUSE ME?  DO I LOOK like i want to skip th– *cue music*

Me:  

Me: *screaming, my cat flees the room* da daaaa, da da da da daaaaaaaAAA, DA dA DAAAAAAAAA, da da da da DAAAAAAAAAAA, DA DAAA, dadadadadada dDAAAAAAAAA, DAAAAAAAAA, DA DA DAAAAAA, DA DA DAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Me: Don’t you DARE ask me again, Netflix

gays be like "this is my comfort film" and it's Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Have you read these KakaSaku Classics?

So much exciting stuff is going on in the fandom these days, but have you had the chance to read these old multi-chapter KakaSaku “classics”? All were written in 2010 or before and were plenty popular (just check out their review counts!).

Will of Fire by cynchick (M, 222k words, complete)

Respect and Understanding by ronny-of-yore  (M, 93K, complete)

His Fault by ronny-of-yore (M, 52k, complete)

Feeling You by cutecrazyice (M, 65k, complete)

Dirty Deeds by Serenanna (M, 250k, incomplete)

Fated by leafygirl, @leafytoo (M, 125k, complete)

A Lesson in Chemistry by leafygirl (M, 73k, complete)

A Poor Imitation by leafygirl (M, 89k, complete)

The Nature of the Game by leafygirl (M, 112k, complete)

The Last Hirameki by leafygirl (M,168k, complete)

Coffee Shop by leafygirl (M, 28k, incomplete)

Duty Before Honor by Silvershine, @silvershiner (M, 157k, complete)

The Window by Silvershine (M, 165k, complete)

Seven Days by Silvershine (M, 69k, incomplete)

House of Crows by Silvershine (M, 401k, complete)

Scarlet Scroll by Silvershine (M, 95k, incomplete)

Simple Things by Caitiy (T, 224k, complete)

Stripped Bare by J-Pop Princess (M, 295k, complete)

Some Light Reading by J-Pop Princess (M, 46k, complete)

Double Edged by nimblnymph (M, 347k, complete)

Winner Takes All by clearheart (M, 98k, complete)

Underwear by thatreevesgirl (M, 47k, incomplete)

A Marriage Inconvenienced by lulu42, @itslulu42 (M, 101k, complete)

Sinch in Time by Blade Rewind (M, 298k, complete)

Fade In by hasu86 (M, 69k, complete)

What the New Year Brings by Shippertrish (M, 140k, complete)

Which have you read? Which do you want to check out now? Let me know! And don’t forget to leave reviews for these OG KakaSaku authors! :D

Thanks to @raizagabriel for the beautiful gif.

I can’t find it in me to finish this thing so BOOM you get the sketch. My transformers obsession is a very real thing and it goes DEEP. I’m like a biohazard. THIS is my FAVORITE doomed yaoi.

Neteyam being desperate for Aonung’s attention

The Rise of Kylo Ren

Okay so, just read the last issue of The Rise of Kylo Ren and here is everything we have learned from this comic:

1. Ben did not destroy Luke’s temple. Palpatine did, and somehow he gaslighted Ben into thinking he was responsible.

2. Ben thought he killed Luke but it was in self-defense, but he still feels enormously guilty about it.

3. Ben did not kill ANY of Luke’s other students that night. He was instead relentlessly hunted by a small group of them across the galaxy, including one (Voe) who had a particularly large chip on her shoulder wrt to Ben and feeling inadequate in comparison to his Force-abilities.

4. Ben wanted to go home to Leia but felt he couldn’t because he didn’t think she would believe him.

5. Snoke was just casually in his head having full-on conversations with him when he was at least 11 or 12 years old, feeding him lies about his family and how they didn’t really give a shit about him.

6. Ben killed one of the Jedi students hunting him by accident.

7. He turns to the Knights of Ren because he literally feels like he doesn’t belong anywhere else.

8. He openly acknowledges that even Snoke only cares about his legacy and not himself as a person.

9. HE DOES NOT WANT TO KILL ANYONE. Even after he joins the KoR, he goes out of his way to avoid killing if possible… until it’s no longer possible.

10. He did not “fall to” or “choose” the dark side – he was gaslit and pushed into it. Treat someone like a monster long enough, they will start to believe it.

11. Ben doesn’t think he’s “special”. He just wants to be treated like a normal fucking person.

12. The first person that Ben killed on purpose was Ren, the leader/founder of the Knights of Ren, thereby facilitating his fall to the dark.

13. Leia felt his fall…

14. … AND SO DID LITTLE BABY REY

15. Ben finally killed Voe after he killed Ren.

16. Ben’s preferred mode of drawing his saber was from over his shoulder, like at the end of TROS.

17. He bled his kyber crystal while shirtless, and he squeezed it so hard that it cracked.

18. He never did anything wrong, ever, in his life, and they still let him die.

I just rewatched the prequel trilogy for the first time in YEARS and I have to say, they were nowhere near as bad as I remembered.

I mean, yeah, the direction was shit and made the actors seem like they’re awful (which they aren’t, most of the cast is made of very decent actors) and the writing was kind of ridiculous but the story? The story is amazing.

And it really just reminded me how horribly everyone in Anakin’s life failed him, with the exception of Padmé.

Obi-Wan did love Anakin like family but he should have fought harder to keep Anakin more distanced from the Jedi and from the Senate when it became abdundantly clear that he was too unstable to handle it. But he, and the rest of the Council, just saw this unbelievably powerful young man and they used that power.

Most of all, they (and Padmé) should have opened their eyes and seen that he was being manipulated by Palpatine. But instead, they encouraged him to get closer and closer to Palpatine to spy on him and report back.

And they left him in the clutches of Palpatine who gave him everything he wanted - someone who believed in him, who didn’t exclude him without reason, who didn’t discount his feelings. They failed Anakin in exactly the same ways that Ben was failed so much later.

Watching the prequels again also really cemented why I hated how the sequel trilogy ended. Anakin’s life was nothing but pain, loss, failure, and disappointment. He never had a chance against everything that happened to him.

Anakin’s tragedy continued through the original trilogy where we see him truly stripped of his humanity, always abused by his Sith master.

And despite that, we see Anakin redeemed at the end, but only through death. At the very least though, his death is genuinely mourned. His loss is felt deeply by his son who, despite it all, still loved him. Anakin is forgiven and he is allowed to come back as a Force ghost. And he comes back as Anakin, not Vader. The young, vibrant man he once was who died as soon as Vader was truly born.

And therein lies one of the many ways that the sequel trilogy was so incredibly unjust to Ben Solo. Like Anakin, he was tormented his entire life. He was manipulated and abused. Everyone who should have protected him failed to do so and Ben was lost, giving rise to Kylo Ren.

But, unlike Anakin’s change into Vader caused Anakin to die, Ben was simply lost behind Kylo Ren. He was torn between the two sides rather than entirely lost to the dark side. He was more primed for redemption than Anakin could have been.

Kylo Ren actually tried to shake loose the things that kept him bound to the light, unlike Anakin who had everything ripped away from him. And despite Kylo Ren’s efforts to sever the light that was causing him so much pain, he was NEVER able to succumb completely.

So strong were his innate ties to light and goodness that he could not give in even if he tried. He wore a mask trying to convince the world and himself that he was solidly evil, but it was a facade that no one entirely believed.

Palpatine was able to fairly easily bring Anakin into the darkness. But even with all his efforts, all his desire to possess this last Skywalker, he could never own Ben Solo.

So strong were his ties to the light that he could never bring himself to harm Rey. He didn’t even kill Finn when he easily could have - why? Was it his innate goodness? Was it that he knew killing Finn would hurt Rey deeply?

His lightsaber was the perfect way to express his anguished personality. Unstable, over heated, unusual. Always shimmering with a passion and energy not typical for a lightsaber, whether it was a Sith saber or a Jedi saber.

Like Rey, he was neither a creature purely of light or darkness. Both were perfect mixtures of grey.

And then, we lose Ben Solo.

It is beautiful because he saves the woman he loves so much.

It is also abrupt, unexpected, and unceremonious.

He is not mourned.

He is not remembered.

He is just gone.

He was made to be mourned and remembered less than even the most evil characters we see. His loss is treated with less concern than anyone ever gave to a red shirt in Star Trek.

His life and his death are both devoid of meaning.

The boy, lost and broken, who was failed by everyone who should have protected him. The boy who crawled from the pit of death to answer the call of the light. The boy who so desperately wanted to be free of pain that he was willing to break his own heart.

The Skywalkers - all of them - deserved better. But especially Ben Solo. His life was reduced to nothing. His death was reduced to nothing. His redemption was reduced to nothing.

And that is my biggest beef with the end of the sequel trilogy. I loved the prequel trilogy because it humanized Anakin in preparation for his redemption. The sequel trilogy humanized Ben Solo in preparation for ... nothing. Just an unceremonious death and to be forgotten by everyone.

He deserved better.