I Don't Disagree, But I Feel The Burning Desire To Assert That The Anahiri Age Gap Is ONE YEAR. Tahiri

I don't disagree, but I feel the burning desire to assert that the Anahiri age gap is ONE YEAR. Tahiri is 14 and kisses Anakin 2.0 who is 15.

Edit: we're both wrong, it's 2-ish years, lol. It's 14 and 16, I think? Not sure when their "OMG we're gonna die" kiss happens, but I'm pretty sure Edge of Victory has Tahiri at 13? I know SbS has Anakin 2.0 around 16.

(he doesn't make it past 16 and she's still in love with him at 34, which is.... no comment)

(Don't get me started on her relationship with Jacen, though. It's heavily implied to be dubcon at BEST. He goes Sith and suddenly becomes a gigantic scumbag, even though he has an incredibly hot baby mamma RIGHT THERE, willing to take him back if he decided to not be evil anymore)

((yes I *might* have a *tiny* crush on Tenel Ka, however could you tell))

(((ok, all the HanLeia kids AND their originally intended SOs are hot, this is not my fault)))

And based on the actors' ages Kylo was a wholeass adult when Rey was like... 8, so don't just @ legends, canon has this shit too. (not to mention the incest undertones due to the fact that they're basically the Disney counterparts to the Solo twins...)

Age gap becomes less of an issue as characters age, as well. Think of it as fractions.

Anidala originally had a gap of 14/9, or 1.5555, and when they married, it was at 24/19, or 1.2632. At the time of ANH, they would've had a gap of 43/38, or 1.1316. The 5-year gap becomes progressively smaller as time passes. In general, if following the half plus six rule, they're fine to marry at their canon ages.

I think people's problems with Rexsoka is not only does he look like an adult, despite being younger, but also that the physical age gap is getting wider despite time passing. 22/14 = 1.5714, and 42/24 = 1.75, etc. I don't dislike the ship (I personally mildly ship them, mostly because I'm more of an old EU girlie, but they're one of the new!canon ships I actually like), but I can see why others might not choose to ship, especially since she's technically his boss?

(and there's the whole "clones aren't sentient" thing used to justify lack of rights in TCW, which might be considered a consent issue/power imbalance?)

In defense of rexsoka again.

Why do people get mad at rexsoka. Star Wars couldn’t make a normal relationship if they tried. Every relationship either has an age gap, a power imbalance, or both. Some age gaps are barely legal, some are not legal.

Here we go:

• Anakin and Padmé have a power imbalance; a 9 year old slave and 14 year old queen. And they get married at 19 and 24

•Han Solo is 32 and Leia is 19. And in legends, don’t get me started on their kids. Han and Leia have 3 kids in legends: Anakin Solo, Jacen Solo, and Jaina Solo.

•Jaina Solo’s Jedi master, Kyp Durron, has a weird dynamic with her. Kyp and Jaina like each other romantically and flirt with each other. When she’s 15-17 and he’s in his 30’s. age gap AND power imbalance. (Also, Kyp is friends with Han Solo. Both Han and Leia know about Kyp’s relationship with their daughter but are only upset because Kyp lied to Jaina and tried to bring her to the dark side. They’re fine with the 16 year age gap tho)

• Tahiri Veila is 13 and kisses Anakin Solo who’s 16, and Jacen Solo who’s 17.

•Hera Syndulla is 18 Kanan Jarrus is 22 (from a canon book called “A New Dawn”, takes place before rebels)

•Also in legends/EU, we got a clone, Darman, who married a Padawan named Etain Tur-Mukan. So the clone x padawan trope already exists.

• Jango Fett and Sheeka Tull have a relationship when she’s 18 and he’s 25.

• ALSO REVAN AND BASTILA SHAN ARE LIKE TWENTY YEARS APART. In KOTOR, Bastila is like 20 and Revan is like 38.

And these are just a few, from canon and legends/EU. I’m not saying two wrongs make a right. But I am saying that antishippers treat rexsoka shippers like criminals, but literally every relationship in Star Wars is just as bad. Not a single normal relationship in the entire galaxy.

batman!Vader is something I never knew I needed

(also, I know James Earl Jones voiced Vader, but someone else did all the walking around in the suit and I don't know who to add to tags)

My favourite Star Wars set photos (part 2)

Majestic Carrie Fisher in buckets

Is he….is he Batman?

This is super cute. Also, the height difference

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As I never viewed R2 as a Skywalker, I consider myself feeling completely justified in not really viewing Rey as one either.

(unless she's Jaina in the AU, lol)

((at this point, I think Jacen's lost his right to the name too; re: what happened to Mara))

(((the characters in-universe are much nicer than me, Tahiri's my favorite and I wouldn't have welcomed her back like HanLeia and the Order did)))

Might get cancelled for this one

Rey is a Skywalker. Star Wars is, at its core, about found family. Rey is part of the Skywalker found family, and if you ignore that, then technically speaking, you shouldn't view R2 as a Skywalker either

If only Westeros had family counseling, none of this would have happened.

😭😭😭

Fic idea:

I recently discovered that the show Inhumans exists, and I know that it's not popular or anything, but I want Luna to exist. So. Instead of dropping Crystal off in the middle of nowhere and having her meet some human dude at the end of the series, make it so her escape leaves her injured and Lockjaw drops her in fox's X-Men universe sometime between days of future past and apocalypse. She doesn't remember anything and Peter finds her, they become friends, fall in love, we get baby Luna, and then they can parent together?

(I can't really remember why they got divorced in the comics but I think it had to do with political stuff and not talking things out because they kept having to focus on aforementioned political stuff--if she's in the wrong universe and there is no inhumans politics, they stay together, at least for a while longer)

((Anyone can write it if they want, as long as I get tagged; who knows maybe I'll have time this summer in between my commitments)

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I haven’t read Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy in ages but I used to have and still have a very clear shot by shot film opening of it set to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of the Nobles” in my head from when I was about 15 years old.