Honestly The Sequels Could Have Been Fixed Very Easily If Tlj Wasnt Such A Cluster Fuck Ofill Do Whatever

honestly the sequels could have been fixed very easily if tlj wasn’t such a cluster fuck of “ill do whatever the fuck i want” with just a couple of simple plotlines:

-rey had to be luke’s long lost daughter. why? it explains why he was missing at the beginning of tfa: he’s looking for her. he doesn’t want to believe she’s dead, even after years of searching and finding nothing. even leia has given up the search, but not luke (he is and always will be the character that doesn’t give up on family.) but the search has driven him a little insane, at this point he’s kinda desperate. then this random girl shows up, sent by leia to train with luke. luke doesn’t want to train her, he’s told leia that he’s not going to train another generation of jedi to die again. not until he finds his daughter at least (which is an excuse). there you have the whole resented hermit sequence, but change it up. instead of all in a single island, luke jumps from planet to planet in the unknown regions, following clues that lead to nowhere, and rey struggles to keep up. she follows him anyway, she wants to train, she wants to defeat kylo to avenge han and protect finn.

- rey still has a force bond with kylo but it’s because of their familial relationship. she’s the only one in the family who kylo doesn’t consider himself betrayed by -she was just a kid when the temple burned. revelation: it was kylo who put her in jakku. he killed his classmates, but he wasn’t able to kill his little cousin. so he hid her, erased her memories, and gave her a new name. he promised he would come back for her, when the galaxy was in order. there you have explanation of why kylo asks “what girl” like he knows her, and why rey is waiting for her family to come back for her. you have there the explanation of kylo’s remaining light, that light that calls to him: it’s rey who has been calling out into the stars for years with no answer. 

- luke finally relents and trains her. he sees himself on rey, how he had to insist to yoda to train him. you can insert here all his thoughts about the old jedi order, about how he tried to do things differently and still failed. how he thinks this is the end of the jedi. you can also insert here hopeful rey saying she won’t fail him, but luke isn’t a trustful kid anymore. he trains her but keeps her at an arm’s length. 

- because of that, he holds back on her training. rey eventually confronts kylo and loses, and he reveals the truth to her. rey has her identity crisis and world shattering moment. have the next movie be about her mending her relationship with luke, how he was so focused on finding a ghost he couldn’t even see when she was standing in front of him. have him then give in and face leia, and join the good fight. rey now has this family legacy she doesn’t know how to handle. have that be an important motive in her relationship with finn, whose identity is entirely self made. have rey be an adopted daughter, probably an orphan from the galactic civil war who luke found as a baby and adopted as his own. her family is a chosen family, like finn’s. 

- you can also insert here luke training finn and this being a conflict with rey because he can’t be objective with her like he’s with him. finn has a bigger goal in mind: freeing the stormtroopers from the first order, and that’s the kind of bigger cause luke can easily get behind. rey’s conflict facing kylo hits too close to home. maybe the resolution is leia training rey. 

- have poe be relevant throughout his relationship with leia and by extension with kylo. explore how poe grew up in the rebellion and when his parents died leia more or less adopted him. show me kylo being incredibly resentful and jealous of poe, how he felt sidelined as a kid and how in his eyes poe isn’t special, he shouldn’t get more attention from his mother! have poe’s conflict be about how he knew kylo as a little kid and to see him transformed into this monster hurts deeply. how a simple non-force sensitive man like poe “replaced” leia’s son.

idk how i would resolve this in the end but SEE you don’t need that many changes to make the goddam trilogy work. palpatine can be back or whatever the big baddie is not what’s important here. 

Crack AU where Anakin can all of a sudden hear the background music that we all hear. Those pleasant chats with Palpy become a lot more ominous. Though Anakin admits that the fights have become a lot more epic. Thoughts?

Hahahahaha. Love it!

And okay, my first though was “and the galaxy was saved because even Anakin Skywalker would struggle to keep trusting Palpatine with that music playing in the background”

Anakin think he’s gone COMPLETELY insane (maybe he’s finally been electrocuted too many times and its fried his brain). He doesn’t tell anyone though because he can still fight just fine just… everything is a lot more musical. He doesn’t want to be thought crazy and taken off the front lines.

Once he figures out what the various musical cues mean he actually finds them useful in figuring out how dangerous a situation is. Also battles are so much cooler now and boring landscapes are slightly less boring because at least now they have mood music. Yep, he can live with this.

(Although he is always confused why the ominousness that is The Imperial March starts playing at some of his decisions)

A world without trans people has never existed and it never will.

Seriously just search (Trans History).

Here are some examples:

"Sumerian and Akkadian texts from 4,500 years ago document priests known as gala who may have been transgender. In Ancient Greece, Phrygia, and Rome, there were galli priests that some scholars believe to have been trans women.

Roman emperor Elagabalus (d. 222 AD) preferred to be called a lady (rather than a lord) and sought sex reassignment surgery, and in the modern day has been seen as a trans figure. 

Hijras on the Indian subcontinent and kathoeys in Thailand have formed trans-feminine third gender social and spiritual communities since ancient times, with their presence documented for thousands of years in texts which also mention trans male figures. Today, at least half a million hijras live in India and another half million in Bangladesh, legally recognized as a third gender, and many trans people are accepted in Thailand.

In Arabia, khanith today (like earlier mukhannathun) fulfill a third gender role attested since the AD 600s.

In Africa, many societies have traditional roles for trans women and trans men, some of which survive in the modern era.

In the Americas prior to European colonization, as well as in some contemporary North American Indigenous cultures, there are social and ceremonial roles for third gender people, or those whose gender expression transforms, such as the Navajo nádleehi or the Zuni lhamana."

In conclusion. Being trans is not a fad and it isn't going anywhere just because some crazy religious nut jobs say we don't fit into their abusive hateful world views. We are here and always will be. So get used to it. 👋😘

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I don't think fic writers know how much they matter

Do you know how many times you distracted me when I was hurt or lonely? Do you know how many times a line or a scene from fanfic marked me so much that I remembered years later, even though I can’t recall my own phone number? 

Even if the fic isn’t perfect or popular or multi-chaptered… Sometimes there’s just one sentence that changed me.

You, miles and miles away, changed me.