Tumblr linkspam (January)

[anghraine]

I am terribly behind on my linkspam and general ... being here and not on Tumblr, ugh. (Partly this is because I had half a meta post I really wanted to write in the DW draft and didn't want to lose it. Staff, a multiple drafts function would be super useful. And partly it's because I was on hyperdrive in January.)

So anyway, January on Tumblr--



Text posts:

- weight loss ads can stfu
- a Victorian English lady has thoughts on the American Civil War
- my 8tracks stats have the Anakin Skywalker seal of approval
- visiting author is basically SNL Kylo Ren
- old grudges never die
- creepy heterocentrism (the creepy was not actually the heterocentrism, it was both)
- f_fa highlights: on abuse!!!!~ concern-trolling, a very nice articulation of Vader/Kylo Ren's ethical position wrt their respective allies' respective superweapons, Ben Organa is maybe not exactly suited to the Dark Side,
- speaking of Ben Organa
- speculating about Rey's birth name
- a collection of interconnected quotes from P&P is now one of my most popular Austen posts on Tumblr
- I've written Darcy and Elizabeth's first kiss as taking place later in their engagement, and I'm perfectly happy with it as a headcanon, but ... lbr
- redemption =/= forgiveness
- I still like P&P1 /shrug
- Vader's redemption
- not sure if people trying to reduce Kylo Ren to one-dimensional evil have actually seen Star Wars
- there's a really cool podcast that got into the music in TFA
- I've despised the idea of Luke = Padmé for a long time, but I actually think Kylo and Rey have quite a bit in common with her
- so. many. villains.
- if I never see another "well, Finn got out, so there's no excuse for literally every single other person in the First Order" post, it'll be too soon
- ditto on the Dark Side fanwank
- Kylo Ren and the Force
- oh, Skywalkers
- I get why people want Ben and Rey to be siblings rather than cousins, but the idea that cousins can't have meaningfully close relationships à la siblings is bizarre
- how does moral agency work???
- SKYWALKERS, UGH
- pressuring other women to consider themselves trash is totally progressive, y'all
- yes, Obi-Wan and Yoda keeping Vader's real identity a secret from Luke is shitty
- the Luke/Leia kiss that usually gets forgotten, despite being actually sincere (incest cw. duh.)
- Luke and Anakin vs Showtime!Cesare
- personal ranking of Borgias characters and Bennet sisters
- what if Vader discovered a young Luke?
- moral quandary of accountability etc
- response to an ask about Leia's names
- possibility of other redemption arcs (still feels like a trap tbh)
- Ben's name in the FO
- source of "Kylo"
- Obi-Wan using Darth
- Kylo in VIII
- on villain apologia
- ideas for a P&P/SW fusion
- my total rejection of the idea that mental interrogation in SW = rape
- explanation of the Borgia apocalypse
- there's always some SJ justification for why liking villains is badwrong
- again, on the Kylo Ren wank = every villain wank ever, not anything specific to his character
- Mrs Reynolds' thoughts on D/E
- Luke is not like Padmé version infinity.eternity
- my position on Ben's backstory
- another on the Kylo Ren moral panic
- Vader and Alderaan links and why people continue to associate him with it
- Kylo Ren and Hosnian
- how much time between ANH and ESB
- the broadsaber
- the Dark Side and the One Ring
- Korra and tropes
- sadly, Poe and Rey can't be siblings
- Lady Catherine's sources
- Finn and Force-sensitivity: 1 & 2

Meta:

- more detailed post on villain apologia
- fashion in P&P/P&P3
- character parallels in TFA
- tbh I don't get virtually all the confusion about the background in TFA
- a consideration of the musical motifs of Star Wars
- Ben is not Anakin
- interpretations can be valid without being particularly good ones
- Luke and Vader recs
- Luke and Leia recs
- Luke/Anakin similarities: x; where Ben fits in, x
- on ~subversive~ nasty heroes
- a response to a post about Ben's motivations vs Anakin's
- agency and eldritch darkness
- a response to a dumbass message about how Kylo should be one-dimensionally evil bc Rey and Finn are resilient and then another from the same person
- summary of the woobie debate
- on the woobification of villains who don't have tragic pasts
- thoughts on the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- ultimate meta: meta on writing meta
- the "don't be afraid" line
- actually seriously considering why Darcy is perceived as a ~bad boy~
- there's a defence of slave Leia that I angrily reblogged with a list of times Carrie Fisher denounced it; belatedly, I discovered that my response had circled around Tumblr (apparently Rainbow Rowell reblogged it? lol). And then someone came into my inbox "correcting" my post and demanding receipts, so I supplied them.

Recs:

- Finn/Poe (but mostly BB-8)
- Leia pain
- Borgias/Star Wars fusion, with the characters from The Borgias in the roles of SW characters, but with altered to match their own personalities - it's the exact opposite of how I imagined the fusion (which was SW characters in Borgias roles, with Anakin somewhat artificially installed as Jedi grandmaster, Leia as his right hand, Luke disastrously married for an alliance, Mace Windu furiously working against them, Han as an assassin suborned by Leia, etc), but really enjoyable (incest cw, ofc)
- a Reylo fic that I mostly love for the A+ ghost!Anakin

Fic:

- Pemberley drawerfic about Elizabeth finding Darcy attractive :P
 

Comments

[rj_anderson]

THANK YOU! There's stuff in here I didn't catch even when I was still on Tumblr, so I look forward to much reading.

[anghraine]

You're welcome :)

Yeah, Tumblr's shitty programming cuts out a lot of material, especially if you have a busy dash. DW is vastly better!

(Though multiple drafts and image hosting would be nice!!!)

[thatvolyova]

Wow, nice! You have a lot of patience to write all this out! I somehow missed the creepy & heterocentrism post. This professor is... a frothing Tumblr SJ post come to life.

[anghraine]

Heh, well, it took a month to get around to it! But I had some free time and no brain power, so it was a nice way of passing the time.

And yeah, it really was. My other professor is, too (though, simultaneously, the stereotype of villain stans that people wave around too). Part of the reason Tumblr is so frustrating is because I want to wind down from RL but it's mostly just a less-informed version of it. Bleh.