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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Really enjoy this comic!! Looking forward to more.

Why yes, I am making a fix it comic for Rise of Skywalker. The ending crushed me, so in this comic I promise you good times! I promise you a happy ending!

The entire thing is written and will be about 60 pages, in three parts. This is the first 4 pages of Part I.

Enjoy and mourn.

Pages 5-8 are here.

hello! i’ve decided to compile a list of most of the reylo fics i’ve read and saved somewhere along the line and share it with you all, some of these are probably well known, but i still want to share them because these fics mentioned have been my coping mechanism throughout my whole obsession with star wars and reylo. so thank you so much to the fic writers who continue to deliver amazing stories and beautiful characterisations of these characters we all know and love. i will update this post whenever i read another fic that i do like, and personal favourites will be marked with an asterix ( * )  also please be careful of any trigger warnings in the fics mentioned, they should all be tagged on the fics themselves.

the fics are under the cut

updated: 04/02/20

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hello! i’ve decided to compile a list of most of the reylo fics i’ve read and saved somewhere along the line and share it with you all, some of these are probably well known, but i still want to share them because these fics mentioned have been my coping mechanism throughout my whole obsession with star wars and reylo. so thank you so much to the fic writers who continue to deliver amazing stories and beautiful characterisations of these characters we all know and love. i will update this post whenever i read another fic that i do like, and personal favourites will be marked with an asterix ( * )  also please be careful of any trigger warnings in the fics mentioned, they should all be tagged on the fics themselves.

the fics are under the cut

updated: 04/02/20

Keep reading

Reblog if Fan Fics are just as valid as Fan Art

Affirmation for writers, please!!

Likes do nothing!!

happy happy joy joy!!  Lurve kitteh sillehness!!!!

🎥 by theghostog

I knew his grandfather. And his mother. She was an incredible woman. [x]

My Reylo doodles (36/?)

This is how the story end, thank you. 

My Reylo doodles (36/?)

This is how the story end, thank you. 

Thank you Adam for bringing all you had to this role. You made us all fall in love with you all over again with your dashing good looks, perfect smile and mesmerizing acting ❤️

THEY ARE HEARING US. This right here is why we must stay strong and fight for Ben Solo.

CBR

Star Wars: Why Reylo Outrage Inspired #ReleaseTheJJCut

Despite the much-anticipated kiss, the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker angered many Reylo fans. Here's why.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had raised the hopes of Reylos, fans who longed for Rey and Kylo Ren to end up together in the end, healing the wound inflicted on the galaxy two generations earlier by Emperor Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker. The marketing certainly hinted at such and, at least for less-invested viewers, the film delivered on its promise of romance: Reylo (and Bendemption) did occur, and Rey and the redeemed Ben Solo shared a passionate kiss, which is why it may be so perplexing for the general audience that Reylos hated the ending. Two weeks after the release, they're still mourning on social media, and demanding for Disney to #RealeaseTheJJCut, a reference to an edit that would have delivered the conclusion they wanted, and purportedly what director J.J. Abrams intended. So, what happened, exactly?

While romance is certainly not a new concept to Star Wars, it was never depicted from the perspective of a woman. However, The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi made moves to remedy that: The camera stays with Rey when she interacts with Kylo; the lighting, music and the chemistry between the actors drew in many women. The trope being trapped was "enemies to lovers," a classic of romance literature. In The Force Awakens, Kylo is infatuated with a "lowly scavenger," despite himself and his training. In The Last Jedi, the two characters establish a connection that goes deeper than their pasts, ripe with wedding imagery from around the world, before separating again.

The comparisons with the doomed romance of Anakin and Padmé popped up. If the tragic lovers of the prequel trilogy married in the second movie and died in the third, surely the sequel would turn it around, allowing the last descendant of Anakin Skywalker to fix what he had broken and to triumph where he had failed.

It's easy for a certain segment of the audience to dismiss the power of romance, but it remains most lucrative literary genre in the world. Romance writers master the art of the promise and the delivery, which is a happy ending for the main couple. There are tragic romantic novels in which one or both of the lovers die, but that's not what Disney was promising with Episode IX. From that perspective, The Rise of Skywalker punishes the male lead by killing him the moment he chooses to save the love of his life. Abrams and his co-writer Chris Terrio were going for a parallel with Return of the Jedi, but that movie was never promoted as having romance at its core, and Darth Vader didn't have his entire life in front of him.

The Rise of Skywalker then goes out of its way to show how little Rey really cared for Ben, to the point where, after watching the final scenes, it's difficult to assess what impact he had in the plot. The film also does that to[Finn] and Rose, but in the case of Ben Solo it's particularly egregious because he's the last of the Skywalker bloodline. If they were going for Return of the Jedi parallels, they could have included either a funeral or a Force ghost, but the audience is denied that, which is a strange and cruel narrative choice.

Even worse, the ending broke the promise made in the promotional material. Yes, there was a kiss, but it's swiftly punished: The heroine ends up alone in a barren planet; the Byronic hero is never mentioned again. The other side of fandom might argue that Star Wars should have never catered to romance, but they would be the first to complain if a film advertised like Fast & Furious turned out to be a family comedy; false advertising elicits the same kinds of reactions in everyone.

Ben Solo's death, isolated from the romance, is also problematic because he was coded as a conflicted, groomed, abused, abandoned and brainwashed child soldier fighting to break from his programming. The ancillary material supports this, and in Marvel's The Rise of Kylo Ren, it's shown he never attempted to kill Luke Skywalker, he didn't burn the Jedi temple, and he didn't attack his fellow students. It was a set-up designed to turn his family against him and place him within the First Order. Han, Leia and Rey work for two entire movies to try and bring him back. By killing every single character that even attempts to turn around, the film confirms their worst fear -- that the only way out is death.

There'ss another horrifying message lurking in The Rise of Skywalker, however, if you are coming to the film from this perspective: that your family will disown you and forget you the moment you misbehave, replacing you with a "good child." That's exactly what happens to Kylo Ren; despite his efforts to come back as Ben Solo, neither Luke nor Leia nor Anakin help him. Ben has to imagine a conversation with his father to move forward, and in the end, his mother and his uncle replace him with Rey, who becomes their "found child" and assumes the Skywalker name.

But Kylo was filling a different role too -- the monster boyfriend, whose most famous example is Beauty and the Beast. While the original purpose of tales like Beauty and the Beast was to prepare girls for marriages in which they would be under the authority of their (potentially monstrous) husband, the tale evolved, and the monster became a focus for those that society had misunderstood or repressed. It's the grown-up version of little children, who feel powerless most of the time, preferring the Hulk over any other superhero, only with romance, darkness and danger thrown in; it's a way to explore a problematic aspect of reality through fiction. Unfortunately, instead of allowing fiction to play its role for women, the monster boyfriend trope is incredibly policed ("it's toxic!"), a criticism that doesn't extend to monster girlfriends (see Mara Jade's murderous origins and her eventual marriage to Luke Skywalker in Legends).

Many women in Star Wars fandom identified with Kylo Ren for those reasons, and the more the character was attacked on social media ("he killed his father!" "he's ugly, unworthy of being a hero!"), and the more stories about what really happened to him were published, the more affection he drew.

And while we are talking about ancillary material, The Rise of Skywalker contradicts almost every single narrative thread about Kylo published to date, which were hinting at redemption as far back as 2017. Most Reylos engaged with that material wholeheartedly. Despite the amazing talent involved in its creation, those fans view the ending of Episode IX as a slap in the face, and many women feel like they have wasted their time buying into a franchise that ultimately never cared about fulfilling its own promises about happy endings, telling a complete story, or even offering hope and compassion to the characters that needed it the most.

However, all of that might have been better received had the film been generous with the heroine, the first woman to be the primary protagonist in the Skywalker Saga. For two and a half movies, it even looked to be a story in the fairy-tale tradition, with a poor orphan discovering her inner power, defeating an unspeakable evil, forging friendships and, ultimately, finding the love of her life and becoming the leader of her people.

Instead, The Rise of Skywalker leaves Rey effectively where she started, on desert planet, taking with her someone else's droid and someone else's name. She doesn't grow, and she doesn't even confront or integrate her inner darkness. Rey, who had been wonderfully feral up to that point, becomes a creepy Stepford smiler.

That, in a nutshell, is why Reylos are angry, despite getting their space kiss. For many, The Rise of Skywalker felt like a bad punchline after a long con from Disney, and Star Wars has the bitter taste of a franchise that accidentally tapped into women's interests but had little interest in them as intelligent viewers engaging with the material.

The idea that women are too old to read smut once they reach their mid-20’s is deeply rooted in patriarchical ideas of gender roles. Women in their 20’s must get married and stop desiring sex from anyone but their husbands, or to not “desire” sex at all but to perform sexually for their husbands. The idea of women reading and writing romance novels has been seen as dangerous for as long as romance novels have existed. Male scholars have been complaining about it for decades because women having and acting on sexual desires threatens a very old status quo.

So: are you a woman over 25? Do you participate in fandom? Do you read or write smut? Then congratulations, you’re participating in a long tradition of threatening the very foundations of the patriarchy. Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re “too old” to do any of that. Ignore them and keep on smashing.

It made it past the 5000 signature mark!!!

Let’s get it to 7500!!! For Ben Solo and Adam Driver. Really, for all of Star Wars since TROS isn’t the satisfying conclusion we wanted it to be.

Hero x Villain ships are not the same as abuse.

Having a villain change and develop so that they can be in a healthy relationship with the hero is okay. Enemies to friends to lovers is a pretty common trope.

Reimagining the scenario so that they can be happy together is okay. Your AUs aren’t trivializing abuse, they’re imagining a scenario in which things could have worked out differently.

Even if you do portray their relationship as unhealthy, you aren’t supporting abuse. It’s okay to explore these dynamics through fiction.

This has been a PSA.

please reblog this if you think/want ben to come back

i’m trying to prove a point :)

I love many, many stories of STAR WARS’ DARTH VADER AND HIS BIO-KIDS, but there’s a special place in my heart for the complicated, difficult relationship between Anakin and Leia, given the parallels and contrasts that are so much thornier and yet similar than either of them would want to admit. So, when @neenne requested a set of recs for the two of them, I was delighted to go through and shove the ones I’ve read so far (I’ve still got a pile of them to get through!) because I LOVE THEM AND I LOVE THIS FANDOM A LOT. STAR WARS - VADER/ANAKIN & LEIA FIC RECS: ✦ Siren Song by madame_alexandra, anakin & leia, 1.8k    Lord Vader has a crippling headache, and the source of it fascinates him. ✦ The Tyranny of Kinship by amarielah, anakin & leia & ahsoka & cast, 23.6k wip    The presence of an Alliance mole aboard the Death Star leads to Bail Organa learning quickly of his daughter’s capture. With the dissolution of the Senate, only one option remains for him to save her life: telling Vader the truth of her parentage. ✦ Father’s Heart by FernWithy, anakin & leia & ocs, 38.8k    During Princess Leia’s teenage years, she discovers a friend in an unlikely – and disturbing – person: Lord Vader. ✦ And There Shall I Find by ambiguously, anakin & leia, 5.6k    After her shuttle crashes on a desolate world, Leia has only one person to keep her company. ✦ Another World, A Better World by HiNerdsItsCat (HiLarpItsCat), anakin & luke & leia & cast, 13.4k    Like any decent Jedi Temple, of course, there were traps: Leia and Luke are both pulled by the Force into their own respective fantasy worlds, where everything is perfect. However, they’re not the only ones stuck in a false paradise: Darth Vader is trapped in a dream of his own… and the three worlds are beginning to merge into one. ✦ Just a Little Bit of History Repeating by victoria_p (musesfool), anakin & leia, 3.7k    “I’m in charge of security, Your Highness,” Vader said, haughty and automatic, and had to shove away a sudden onslaught of memories. It was this building, he thought, and the presence of a small brunette senator with a smart mouth. That was all. ✦ The War at Home by victoria_p (musesfool), anakin & leia, 1.4k    He’s been there for all her other losses, so it feels right for him to be here for this one, too. ✦ Drowned in Moonlight by scarletjedi, anakin & leia & cast, 3k    Leia Dies. What, like that was going to stop her? ✦ Out of the Darkness and Into the Sun by Spongyllama, anakin & luke & leia, 2.7k    Luke is desperate to keep his father alive after Endor, but he’s the only one who thinks Vader should be allowed to live. ✦ There’s Still Time to Change the Road You’re On by victoria_p (musesfool), anakin & luke & leia, 3.6k    “Time travel? Are you kriffing kidding me?” ✦ And There Shall I Find by ambiguously, anakin & leia, 5.6k    After her shuttle crashes on a desolate world, Leia has only one person to keep her company. ✦ Clarity by Orange_Clown, anakin & leia, 1k    By the time that the Imperial Forces landed on Hoth, Leia was the only one left on the base. ✦ deep as a secret nobody knows by victoria_p (musesfool), leia & anakin & obi-wan & luke & han & bail & cast, 6.3k    “If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you’re Padmé Amidala’s daughter.” ✦ Edges of the World by glompcat, leia & luke & anakin & padme & han & ahsoka & ventress & sana & bail & breha & obi-wan & cast, 228.4k wip    Leia Organa finds herself stuck in a strange alternate/parallel universe where the Empire never came to exist. Meanwhile, trying to navigate a galaxy ruled by the Sith weren’t exactly the Jedi Trials Leia Skywalker had expected. ✦ On the Day Before by victoria_p (musesfool), vader & leia & mon mothma, ~1k    Darth Vader eavesdrops on a very interesting conversation. ✦ On the Third Day by victoria_p (musesfool), anakin & bail & breha & leia, 3.4k    Vader’s patience has run out. ✦ Carmine by AceQueenKing, anakin & leia, 2.7k    The Princess stirs, waking; her eyes catch him at her door and her face darkens, ready for a fight. ✦ The Trick is to Keep Breathing by AceQueenKing, anakin & leia, 3.3k    She’s older now, and so is he. Far older now. She wonders: will he have lost any power with his age? Will he be shorter, weaker? An old man on a ventilator? It’s hard to imagine that he won’t still be dangerous. But then, that’s exactly what she’s counting on. ✦ Hear Me by crowleyshouseplant, anakin & leia & luke & cast, 3.2k    Leia struggles to reconcile Luke’s experience with his father and hers with Darth Vader. ✦ may you inherit his light by notbecauseofvictories, anakin & leia & bail, 2.5k    In this, as in many things, Leia is her fathers’ daughter. ✦ In Which Vader Discovers He is a Father by glompcat, anakin & luke & leia & cast, 27.7k    A collection of (mostly self-contained) AUs where Vader learns about his kids earlier than he did in the canon timeline. Exploring both that moment of initial discovery, and the way the story unfolds after Vader finds Leia and/or Luke. ✦ learn to live with what you can’t rise above by victoria_p (musesfool), anakin & leia, 1.9k    Leia doesn’t have time for the ghost of her dead father, except when she does. ✦ daughter of mountains (the flesh and bone remix) by darlingargents, anakin & leia, 1.4k    Vader was Leia’s father, too. To die by his side would be the greatest honour. ✦ Grave Accents by primeideal, anakin & leia & mace, time travel, 1.5k    In retrospect, Mace decided, it had mostly been Qui-Gon’s fault. He was measured enough not to blame the master for the entire state of affairs; after all, it was not Qui-Gon but chance or the will of the Force that had brought young Leia to Jedha. ✦ Legacy by myrlendi (thehistorygeek), luke & leia & obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & cast, time travel, 134.9k wip    Three months after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker goes in search of a rumoured Jedi temple in a secluded part of the Mid Rim. He finds within the temple nothing but a strange artifact, which unexpectedly brings him much closer to the Jedi of old than he ever thought he would be. ✦ I Won’t Disturb the Slumber of Feelings That Have Died by Darkmagyk, anakin & leia, 1.6k    Leia Organa is no angel. ✦ Flesh of My Flesh by igrockspock, anakin & leia, 3.6k    Leia was not adopted. She was stolen in the middle of the night and registered to House Organa with forged papers. This was kidnapping, a class one felony, and her parents could be executed – unless she returned voluntarily to her rightful father. Immediately. A man called Grand Moff Tarkin explained this to Leia when she was eleven years old. ✦ Leave Me, Oh Love by AceQueenKing, han/leia + anakin & leia, 3.2k    “No offense,” she said, “but I’m not in the mood to deal with you right now.” “Leia-” Vader said, but she held up her hand. “Of all the dead people in my life, you really are the one I least want to see right now.” FULL DETAILS + RECS HERE!

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Reylo. As. Hell.

Star Wars Planets–

                                           –are an entire galaxy of beautiful.

Masterpost of Reylo Fanfic Recommendations

I’ve finally been able to compose a list of my favorite Reylo fanfics. Some are still WIPs (those that are will have a ** after the title). I’ll continue adding to this list in the future. Please note that almost all fics are rated M or E.

AUTHORS: if you recognize your fic and I don’t have you tagged please let me know so that I can add you!

See Part 2 of my master list of Reylo fic recs HERE

See Part 3 of my master list of Reylo fic recs HERE

Modern AU

The Hypnotist by @pandoraspocksao3

Fire Away by @reylolujah

Bedroom Hymns ** by @drnucleus

Effloresce **by @greyofjakku (modern AU Kylo is a tattoo artist/Rey is a floralist)

Father Knows Best (modern AU with daddy Ben Solo)

Conscience and Unconsciousness (modern AU) by pontmercy44

Respite by @waterlilyrose (modern AU)

A Proposal By Any Other Name by @lucidlucy (a modern AU where Rey is in a relationship with Finn, but then she ends up on an adventure with Kylo which sets her on a completely different path)

Disconnect by @reyloday (modern AU where Reylo are YouTubers)

The Escort by @grlie-girl (Pretty Woman AU)

Serotonin & Dopamine (modern AU) by pontmercy44

Epithumia (modern Professor Ren AU) by pontmercy44

Unexpected (modern Reylo baby AU) by pontmercy44

A Matter of Honor by @adoctoraday24

Stranger Than Fiction by @daxwashere

When We Were Young by pontmercy44 (Sweet Home Alabama AU)

Play to Win by @commandercait

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by @wewantreylo

We Could Plant A House, We Could Build A Tree by @likeadove

Country Roads by @waterlilyrose (Logan Lucky AU)

Remedy by @nite0wl29 (Catch and Release AU)

Parallel Lines by @nite0wl29 (HS Teacher Plaidam/Student AU)

In His Element **by @loveofescapism

For Better or Worse **by @loveofescapism

Make A Splash by @reylocalligraphy

This Is Where You Left Me **by @wewantreylo (TIWILY AU)

KAGTSRTHR by @reyofdarkness

Canon Compliant/Divergent

Crossroads by @gizkasparadise

Snare by @carasstarwarsmusings

Something to Love ** by @carasstarwarsmusings

The Island ** by @renandrey

Sword of the Jedi by @kylorenvevo

Within Monsters by @anonymousmink

Disparate Pieces by space_trash_princess

A Collision of Stars by dustoftheancients

The Way to Tomorrow by @the-reylo-void

Translucence by @reylo-solo (Senator Ren fic)

Mirrorbright by @kylorenvevo (Senator Ren fic)

Commemoration by charlottecagain

Landscape With A Blur of Conquers ** by @kylorenvevo (arranged marriage fic)

Sunless Shadows by cypris

Thwarted by @perrydowning (the original Renperor fic 😉)

Resist (arranged marriage fic) by @alicecantescape

Interstellar Transmissions by ricca_riot and LovelyThings

Your Reclamation, Then and Gravitational Lensing (no longer available on AO3, but I do have the PDFs available upon request)

Caved the Reylo series by riot3672

The Descendants by @waterlilyrose (Beauty and the Beast AU)

Powerless **by @perrydowning

Across the Stars by @nite0wl29 (Beauty & the Beast AU)

Historical AU

The Vows They Made by @hauscrashburn (medieval AU)

She Who Would Be Queen by @mygrandmathinksimsassy (an arranged marriage fic, but please note that Reylo are cousins in this fic to go with the historical accuracy among royals)

Post-TLJ

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Wisdom by @cosmo-gonika

Permanence by @faithren (even the KoR ship Reylo!)

Unbidden ** by @perrydowning

Exile by @darth-ernzo

Reydar

It’s Better If We Just Pretend ** by @ellensama

Variations On A Theme of You by @kylorenvevo

Reylo AU

Nocturnal Studies and Other Peculiar Magic by @waterlilyrose (Harry Potter AU)

Lubido Lunares **by @27vampyresinhermind (Reylo witch AU)

Creature of Darkness by @bunilicious (Sleepy Hollow AU)

The Witch King **by @nite0wl29 (LOTR AU)

“Two sides of the same coin.” — J.J. Abrams. Art by Paul Shipper for Empire Magazine

“…She is suddenly aware of her child’s mind and spirit: She senses pluck and wit and steel blood and a keen mind and by the blood of Alderaan is this one going to be a fighter!

Wait.

He?

It’s a boy…”

   -Aftermath Life Debt by Chuck Wendig

Catstronaut!!