The pull of your energy is palpable. It’s your strongest asset, and everyone feels it the moment you’re near. But at your core is a fear of being known, truly known. You attract adoration towards you, but once they attempt to know who you really are, your violent urges begin to arise. You’ve grown to love the pain that you cause, sometimes you even crave it. A part of you wants to feel guilt, but you smother it, because you know the truth. They are nothing compared to you. Their suffering for your sake will be the most meaningful thing they’ll ever do.
so they’re writing off elnor without letting him meet a cat huh
Not to be “that” person, but imma be that person and say that my Saffi fic co-written with two friends gives Elnor a stuffed toy cat after season one and I didn’t realize at the time that we were being nicer to him than canon would be.
My take after all that we said these past days regarding the way we -as a fandom- portrait Din and Luke in our creations is that if we start telling ppl that canon Luke would never be this or that, we’re forgetting that we’re pairing him with another character from the SW universe. In canon Luke is a single man, he had never been in a relationship as far as the story shows (I’m only taking the movies), he could easily be an aro ace character, which is so good, since representation matters.
Since I do interpret canon Luke as an ace man, that doesn’t stop me from shipping dinluke where Luke experiments sexual attraction, I know my headcanons are not canon, the minute we assigned him a partner we’re far from canon.
Ppl should write and draw whatever they want,still,and this is personal, I find really upsetting when Luke is forced to be a helpless little bird turned into a piece of meat who’s only there to satisfy brutal men’s appetite, and it hurts more when that man is Anakin or Din. In my case, it’s not about purity culture, I do read dark content and I write Dark Luke, my problem is that for a year I’ve seen posts about these machos abusing Luke while I was scrolling the tag, this is not about fanfics, but about posts tagged as dinluke without any bloody TW at all. So, I don’t read fics that explore Din as an aggressor, or Boba Fett, because I don’t enjoy that at all, the poc being treated as predators is really hurtful. Tagging is important, I know how to use tags to avoid triggering content, still, Tumblr dinluke tag was full of that said content (out in the open) and we witnessed how those tropes grew until it became unbearable for some of us.
The good, refreshing, appealing thing about the original Star Wars trilogy is that Luke is not the typical toxic male hero from westerns, imagine being a girl or a boy back in 1977, you go to the theater and see this boy next door, watching the binary sunset, feeling that it could be you, it’s not John Wayne, it’s Mark Hamill, an average boy who craves for adventure, he’s not in love, he’s not there to save the day but in the end he saves it, he’s not the man that turns every head when he walks into a room, he’s awkward, hot-headed, stubborn, inexpert, he’s starting his hero’s journey and he could be YOU.
Star Wars subverted those toxic stereotypes, Leia is a princess, but in the story she’s the one blasting their way out the imperial cruiser, she’s not a damsel in distress, she’s the rebellion leader, she’s the one comforting Luke when they were mourning their people not the other way around.
What we do with these characters it’s up to us, but I think we have a very good, wholesome ground to start creating positive content.
Expressions like “Fandom designated top”, “Pedro Pascal is Latino but he’s not a poc because he’s white”, “Din cut a man in half in that episode so he’s aggressive enough to be an aggressor”, “Dark dinluke is vanilla compared to jangobi or bobaluke” are only reinforcing the sexism, xenophobia, misogyny and heteronormativity in this fandom. So please, listen to each other, I’m evaluating my bias all the time when I read other people’s concerns and I’m learning a lot, so thank you guys for expressing yourselves, it’s been very helpful.
I’ve seen even people who are pro-ao3 say that it should just get advertisers instead of having donation drives, which is. Uncomfortable. The ad-free aspect of ao3 isn’t just about convenience or even about giving fans at least one space where they aren’t bombarded with advertisements, it’s already about protecting ao3 itself.
The thing about hosting ads on your site is that it means your advertisers can influence the content the site hosts, demanding that certain things be removed (or added) and threatening to cut their support if they aren’t listened to. Relying entirely on donations doesn’t just protect users from invasive advertising and marketing, it also ensures that ao3 can continue to exist as an archive that isn’t censored by corporations or banks.
I honestly can’t believe people are so ignorant about how the internet works as to not realize this, but apparently it needed to be said.
