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frith_in_thornsSo I finally got to see Star Wars! Ellie and I went with her dad, now that we're up here in The North for Christmas. (There have been three hailstorms so far. The North is a scary place.)
It was WONDERFUL. I have super-enjoyed going back through my flist and reading everyone's reaction posts! As a result, however, I feel I don't have enough new to say to bother making a reaction post of my own :P
So first I read a lot of fic on AO3, and then I found the kink meme. Which is at http://tfa-kink.dreamwidth.org/1082.html. I was deeply amused by how I found myself accurately predicting during the film which the two breakout pairings would be -- normally I'm rubbish at this. And obviously Finn/Poe is absolutely everywhere on the meme, mostly with them being SUPER CUTE. I feel like I have some questions about how Poe's "voice" is generally written -- but I didn't really get too good a read on him from a fic-writing pov, and will have to watch it again for that. I was a bit worried that Finn would end up not getting much love from fandom, so I'm really relieved that's not the case.
And then there's the *other* pairing... Kylo/Rey. I was thinking while I watched it that I could see potential for it being a rivalship, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite so huge! And cracky. Omg, the emo and crack is hysterical. I love how NO ONE including the actual story really takes Kylo seriously. Like, the vast majority of the Reylo prompts and fic are Rey domming/pegging him. And I'm extremely happy all this exists, even though I don't actually read it myself XD Also you've all seen Emo Kylo Ren's twitter account, right? Fandom's general characterisation certainly converges towards it.
Other things: I'm suprised and pleased by how Phasma (Finn's female stormtrooper boss) keeps showing up in prompts and fic! And Jessika Pava, one of Poe's fellow fighters. (Rey/Jessika seems to be gaining a foothold...) And now there's a Darkside OT3 of Kylo/Hux/Phasma to mirror the Lightside OT3 of Rey/Finn/Poe.
Basically, I'd entirely forgotten how much fun it is to be in a big and UTTERLY RIDICULOUS fandom! And this one right now is so BOUNCY and EXCITED and everyone is just being nice and having fun. I know where I'm building my little bunker this year!
(I will make myself some icons when we eventually get back to Oxford.)
(Someone replied to a particularly ridiculous Reylo prompt on the meme with "TRASH FOR THE TRASH GODS! and it's still making me laugh.)
(Merry Christmas everyone!)
It was WONDERFUL. I have super-enjoyed going back through my flist and reading everyone's reaction posts! As a result, however, I feel I don't have enough new to say to bother making a reaction post of my own :P
So first I read a lot of fic on AO3, and then I found the kink meme. Which is at http://tfa-kink.dreamwidth.org/1082.html. I was deeply amused by how I found myself accurately predicting during the film which the two breakout pairings would be -- normally I'm rubbish at this. And obviously Finn/Poe is absolutely everywhere on the meme, mostly with them being SUPER CUTE. I feel like I have some questions about how Poe's "voice" is generally written -- but I didn't really get too good a read on him from a fic-writing pov, and will have to watch it again for that. I was a bit worried that Finn would end up not getting much love from fandom, so I'm really relieved that's not the case.
And then there's the *other* pairing... Kylo/Rey. I was thinking while I watched it that I could see potential for it being a rivalship, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite so huge! And cracky. Omg, the emo and crack is hysterical. I love how NO ONE including the actual story really takes Kylo seriously. Like, the vast majority of the Reylo prompts and fic are Rey domming/pegging him. And I'm extremely happy all this exists, even though I don't actually read it myself XD Also you've all seen Emo Kylo Ren's twitter account, right? Fandom's general characterisation certainly converges towards it.
Other things: I'm suprised and pleased by how Phasma (Finn's female stormtrooper boss) keeps showing up in prompts and fic! And Jessika Pava, one of Poe's fellow fighters. (Rey/Jessika seems to be gaining a foothold...) And now there's a Darkside OT3 of Kylo/Hux/Phasma to mirror the Lightside OT3 of Rey/Finn/Poe.
Basically, I'd entirely forgotten how much fun it is to be in a big and UTTERLY RIDICULOUS fandom! And this one right now is so BOUNCY and EXCITED and everyone is just being nice and having fun. I know where I'm building my little bunker this year!
(I will make myself some icons when we eventually get back to Oxford.)
(Someone replied to a particularly ridiculous Reylo prompt on the meme with "TRASH FOR THE TRASH GODS! and it's still making me laugh.)
(Merry Christmas everyone!)
