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80s baby. 90s kid. belizean🇧🇿american🇺🇲princess👑. native los angelena. howard u alum🦬. tv aficionada. trope connoisseur. disnerd.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · Mar 31

#byronic #monsterromance #villainromance #batb (ladygeeksmedia.com/2022/10/31/w...) via @ladygeeksmedia.bsky.social

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 8h

HA! 😆

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 8h

Isn't it basically the same fandom?

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

She really do look like she in concert, lol. Or auntie at the function 😄

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

...is this supposed to be relaxing? 🫤

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TY 🪷 @tyblack.bsky.social · 2d

They evolve over time. Stories change over time. Archetypes might mean one thing to people in one time and something else in another. Like these are not solidified, persistent symbols.

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Mela Yela @melayela.bsky.social · 16d

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

"creatively bankrupt"? Bc I can't figure out what "creatively corrupt" would mean.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

Anakin went thru all that just for his grandson to die at an even younger age than he did. 🙃 #starwars #bensolo

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

That's basically radicalization. Except Anakin didn't even go that far, since he'd always cared way more about people and personal relationships than ideologies and politics. That's what caused him a lot of conflict within the Jedi Order.

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and he cared about Obi-Wan around the times of "OWK" and "ANH". But yeah, when he did care about anything it was personal shit, not Sidious's political agendas. Especially since Vaderkin HATED him, lol.

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

He was spiritually dead as Vader, so no, he didn't gaf about anything, lol. Not until finding Luke.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

Also, writerly speaking, "redemption = death" is often used as an easy and convenient (and lazy) way to heel-face-turn a character but avoid dealing with the aftermath (or implications of the aftermath, if the story's over) or writing an atonement arc.

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

"dying is easy, young man. living is harder."

fredsherbet @fredsherbet.bsky.social · 3d

“You don’t have to die for a cause. You can live for it” 1000x yes!

TY 🪷 @tyblack.bsky.social · 3d

Like that's so fundamentally Star Wars. Saving what we love. Saving each other. Rian nailed it when he didn't let Finn sacrifice himself, but the choice was still there. He chose a side.

But you don't have to die for a cause. You can live for it.

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TY 🪷 @tyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Like... Lol... Even if a story is explicitly about fascism, nine times out of ten the story is about more than just "fascists bad, rebels good"

There's something more personal and cathartic under the surface, something anyone can relate to that's raw and human and achingly truthful.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

TY 🪷 @tyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Note to self: just block and move on. Even if they seem to be reasonable at first.

TY 🪷 @tyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Jessie, with all due respect, there is nothing random about bringing back Ben Solo, the last Skywalker, the prince of Alderaan, grandson of Queen Amidala, and the love interest of the main character of the Sequel Trilogy, in a franchise where "no one is ever really gone."

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

But yeah, Ben's story was even more singularly personal and internal, while Anakin's was heavily mired in galactic politics via the Jedi Order, Sheev's grooming, TCWs, his relationship w a Queen/Senator, and basically being the human symbol of the Order's and Republic's downfall throughout the PT.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

2) "Vader who very much has a political opinion (Padme is concerned by that)" -- 'The old man who's been grooming me since I was 10 says so and so' does not count as genuine political opinion.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 1d

1) "he genuinely doesn't really care about the politics or state of things" -- I mean hello, it's right there on his Byronic anti-hero checklist. ...

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 2d

They treat the fake stuff like the real stuff--usually while not contributing to their actual real life communities at all. Keyboard "activism" at its most clowny. 🤡

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 2d

Personally, I didn't really ship them like, lol they're terrible people. More like, messed up and stunted people who are part of a terrible regime.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, Keeros (myself included) were mostly just having a good time.

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j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 2d

A good rule of thumb, if it's a fantastical fairytale, don't bother. It is NOT asking that of us, lol (even if certain allegories are there in subtext or visual shorthand), or to treat it "realistically".

j🧡aleese @twirl4mek.bsky.social · 2d

Mhmm. Khan isn't a "redeemable" villain, doesn't have a love interest he goes fuzzy for, so he and stanning him aren't "problematic". 😴