“She glanced down at his hands wrapped around hers. Hands that had murdered innocents, hands that had held the blade that struck down his father, ripped open her best friend, and met hers in battle. But it was those same hands that had trembled as they reached for her fingertips, hands that had given her more pleasure than she knew possible, hands that steadied her now.”

Written by @erickawrites​ 

Illustrated by @jenniferladybug​ (me!)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21870838/chapters/62161444

Spoiler art below the cut!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

@nancylovesreylo​@gwendy85​

OH MY GOD CAN THEY RELEASE THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE REYLO KISS ALREADY PLEASE !?!?!?!?

I did something…….

There now you guys can relive your reylo babies fantasies ……….

Imagine Ben in the WbW, and as time converges, Ben says “I’ll come back for you sweetheart” - which is when Rey hears it in TFA.

(Disclaimer: I don’t have any firsthand knowledge of the world between worlds, so sorry if any of this isn’t possible. I like it anyway )

I keep thinking about how SW treats “jedi” as the ultimate power for good. Rey has to be a jedi, Leia had to be a jedi, and Finn has to be force sensitive so that he can eventually become a jedi. “Gray” characters like Han can have a shady past, but the narrative uses this to signal to the audience that they wouldn’t ever make him a jedi. We never expect Han to be able to use the force. Same with Poe, to some extent.

Idk about you, but idolizing of the Jedi kinda makes me side-eye. The idea that only truly good and blameless people - whose faults are not even their own but passed down by family - can use an ultimate force for good…I don’t know. I’m probably reading too much into it. But I think that’s why I liked Kylo/Ben’s character and Rey Nobody. Because they both challenged that notion in their own way.

The gold medallion in the trailer is the medal Han and Luke receive after the battle of Yavin!

I think those are men’s hands, what do y’all think?

Edit: apparently my trailer resolution wasn’t nearly high enough because it seems pretty obvious those are Leia’s hands now that I’ve seen it in HD

It’s all in the hands??

Hands up if you’re tuning into the live stream!

So…. we gonna talk about how the background of the poster looks like this:

It’s All About The Hands.

By now, everyone’s heard this statement.

Everyone is also familiar with these two moments from The Last Jedi:

These two scenes have always stuck out to me and after Mark’s tweet it got me thinking about other hand references in the Star Wars universe.

These scenes come to mind immediately:

Anakin and Luke both lose a hand. This isn’t necessarily “unusual” in the Star Wars galaxy. Jedi looove cutting hands off and we see it a lot. I believe it’s actually a named maneuver used when learning lightsaber fighting.

I do find it interesting that Mark’s tweet included a video that shows Luke’s mechanical hand:

I suppose that could just be a coincidence.

For a while, I didn’t find anything that referenced hands in a way that felt important… until I watched Star Wars Rebels and boy, do I think there is some SERIOUSLY important stuff there…

The episode A World Between Worlds is probably pretty familiar to most Star Wars fans but I think there are some really significant similarities to scenes in The Last Jedi.

In the episode, Ezra uses an ancient tablet to decipher how to open and close the world between worlds (which for anyone unfamiliar is an interdimensional portal that shows and allows a person to alter time).

Here’s a shot of the tablet and mural Ezra has to interact with in order to reach the world between worlds:

Each hand represents a figure from the Mortis arc, father, daughter, son. The son, the clenched fist, is the embodiment of the dark side of the force- violence, anger, greed. The daughter, or the outstretched hand, represents the light side- peace and selflessness.

We’ve already seen the clenched fist in The Last Jedi, but we’ve also seen the outstreched hand here:

Do me a favor and stretch your hand out. The natural position of the hand is similar to Ben’s, with the thumb rolled forward. Pushing the thumb to the top of the hand, like Rey has, requires intention, it’s almost uncomfortable, but it matches the position of the daughter’s hand on the tablet exactly.

In Rebels, Ezra seems to close the portal by extending the daughters hand against the image of the son’s fist. I would argue that Rey is doing the exact same thing for Ben. Who knows what might have happened had Luke not interrupted them.

And let’s add the fact that both Kylo and Rey dress similarly to the figures of the son and daughter.

I think we’ve seen something similar to the world between worlds in The Last Jedi too, in the cave mirror scene.

When Ezra first enters the portal, we see a ghostly image of what we know is on the other side:

That seems pretty similar to this:

What’s really interesting to me is that seems to be happening in “real time”, with the figure on the other side mimicking Rey’s hand position. Adds a whole other possible interpretation to “What girl?”

Interesting Theory

https://www.inverse.com/amp/article/53464-star-wars-episode-9-rumor-kylo-ren-helmet-theory-leak

Kylo Ren’s New Helmet in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ Might Be a Secret Twist

That’s a wrap!

Hearing that filming for Episode IX has finished has left me with a profound melancholy. It’s the same feeling I get when I start the final chapter of a book series I’ve been deeply invested in. There’s a strange grief in knowing your time with characters you’ve come to love is growing shorter and shorter with every word. Every step forward seals the fate of those characters into a finite and unchangable history.

I am not ready to let go.

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!

Check out this gorgeous art work from the 2019 Star Wars celebration…

Credit: Cristiano Siqueira

Star Wars and Mardi Gras

Here’s Pt. 2 showing all the amazing things I caught at the New Orleans sci-fi parade

I really loved this about the parade, it was VERY Leia centric

More of the Star Wars stuff….

MY MOST FAVORITE!

They really like stickers, so many stickers

Holy water from the Supernatural crew and a wand from the Harry Potter’s

This cracks me up

All the other stuff, look at that puzzle!!

It was seriously a great time, every Star Wars fan should go to this parade!

I’ve been thinking about this moment a lot lately….

The heartbreak on Rey’s face is devastating. A single second or two of film but you can feel the lifetime of hope and grief and longing that has defined Rey. In one tiny instance you see what Rey knows she is losing and her fear of what’s to come next.

And yet, there is no rage or hatred in her expression. She hurts for Ben. Again, she shows compassion that could only spring from an often disregarded depth of strength that few possess. It’s so incredibly powerful.

She recognizes the potential of the moment as well. She slowly raises her hand, perhaps to slow time before they together decide the path that is to come. It’s as if there is a moment in which she believes she can simply will Ben to be the person she needs, but all the while understands that he isn’t. In some ways, I think it’s a beautiful mirror to the moment where Luke stood over Ben as he slept.

I think part of what has drawn me into this story so fully are these types of moments. In just a second, you really feel the tension of knowing how much is balanced on the thinnest edge, in just that single moment before reality falls to one path or another.

There have been so many moments like that throughout this storyline. That kind of story telling engages the viewer so much more deeply, to be able to see those “if only” moments and to comprehend their consequences so much more fully. It creates a sense of ownership in the viewer, that burden of knowing the pain and loss that might have been spared but for the difference of a single second.

You have too much of your father’s heart in you, young Solo.

I had been convinced we were going to get a title announcement at the very least during the Super Bowl. We figured out a few days ago that that wasn’t going to happen.

The got me thinking, when would they do it? It seems pretty obvious the trailer will probably be released at the Star Wars Celebration in April but that’s SO FAR AWAY.

I really think they’ll do the title announcement before but something like that usually coincides with some other major event.

Seems like Valentine’s Day is the only “major event” or holiday between now and April?

At first I was like, “That would be weird.” but then I thought, “What if it was released on VALENTINE’S DAY.”

Be still my reylo loving heart…..

Does anyone else get a racing pulse when you think about how the title reveal for Episode IX might happen ANY DAY NOW.

So let me get this straight….

Rey, who:

Did not like having her hand held

Did not kiss Finn on the mouth when thanking him and leaving OR when finding out he came back to save her

Did not kiss Han on the mouth for a job offer

Did not kiss Maz on the mouth for helping her

Did not kiss Luke on the mouth for agreeing to train her

Did not kiss Chewy on the mouth for copiloting or letting her Fedex herself to Kylo

Did not kiss Leia on the mouth for reassuring, leading, or training her

Literally never showed any sign of such questionable personal boundaries

Was brought back from the dead by the person who:

She daydreamed about touching

Felt an electric shock for

Was literally the soulmate of

Got flustered when seeing half nekked

Begged and pleaded to join her

Called HER HOME

And immediately kissed him because:

That’s what friends do to say thanks?

She’d been an ungrateful bitch up to that point?

She’s clearly the biggest cock tease in the galaxy?

Of all the delusional, unsupported, nonsensical, unmitigated bullshit…

What if this made a baby……?

#Should have let Rian do Episode IX.

#NotMyEpisodeIX

I’m too young to have seen Return of theJedi in theaters so it’s nice of JJ to remake it

Also, CrossFit Jabba:

JJ Abrams sucks at Star Wars. ‍♀️

Two days to go and I’m just going to leave this little gem here:

#lowkeyhorny

Does anyone else think the title of Episode IX might be referring to Anakin?

Hear me out:

I don’t think it’s only talking about Anakin. I think it could end up being a lot of different things when it’s all said and done. I think that could fit with JJ’s style.

Like most of you, I think Skywalker is going to become a title, the name of the next generation of force users.

I was thinking about the movies in terms of symmetry though. I could see the last movie tying to the first in some way to “close the circle” or show them as bookends to the plot.

Since we’ve seen most of Anakin’s origin story already there’s really only one mystery left to explore, the circumstances of his conception. That would take the last movie quite literally back to the VERY beginning.

The comic series revealed that it was Palpatine and not the force that created Anakin and it’s an interesting coincidence that Palpatine is going to play some roll in the final movie.

For an idea of how, here’s a fun fact from Aftermath: Empire’s End

Palpatine created sentient droids and infused his knowledge and memory into them which is so.creepy.

I’m wondering if Rey finds one of them in the wreckage of the Death Star?

I’d imagine it could have a pretty serious impact on how he views himself and his family too for Ben to learn that they had always been pawns in Palpatine’s greater plan. Maybe even to the point that Ben turns from the dark side? He’s felt pulled in different directions his whole life and learning of this level of manipulation might actually be freeing for him.

It would also be an interesting juxtaposition to the importance placed on Rey’s heritage throughout the sequel trilogy.

Just some thoughts…

The Rise of Skywalker

I did a post similar to this a long time ago but I think it’s worth a revisit now that we have a title and the trailer has confirmed a few rumors.

I’ve always though the way Kylo was referenced in the movies in regards to his mask was interesting:

The Force Awakens

The Last Jedi:

There’s a progression from creature to child.

There’s an ascendency (a.k.a. rise ) in that progression from an animal or something inhuman (creature) to a person though a young, immature, or undeveloped person (child).

We see that Kylo’s helmet is repaired th Episode IX though we have no true confirmation that he wears it.

I’m inclined to believe he does because there’s this precedence set in the first two movies that shows his character development through his relationship to the mask and how people perceive him in it.

If the pattern holds, I think Ep. IX will show Ben becoming something beyond human. Going from creature to child to something like just man or Jedi to me isn’t a big enough pattern of growth when you consider creature to child.

He would have to become something mythical.

I think that Skywalker is going to become a title, not just a family and that Ben will be the ultimate example having both the bloodline and whatever quality will define the title.

Something like a legacy or a legend.