Racists will always be mad. But now an entire new generation of black kids get to grow up with black Jedi that aren't just Mace Windu. Bell Zettifar. Kai Brightstar. Yord Fandar. Mae Aniseya. Kelleran Beq. This isn't even all of them but they are in the biggest medias.
I was scrolling through merch and saw kids Kai Brightstar costumes for halloween and my heart exploded remembering when I was in a walmart years ago near halloween and a little black boy ran past me to scream at his mom that he could be Falcon for Halloween. When I was baby sitting my chinese friends little brother and showed him Keenan Kong Chinas Superman and he said "So I can be Superman for Halloween?" Like he at age 10 already thought he couldn't be.
This matters. All the negativity doesn't matter because so many star wars loving families and kids are getting to tune in and for the first time in their lives see so many people reflecting them. Their hair being celebrated and styled completely casually on TV. Their softness and power. Their importance and impact.
Even in Young Jedi Adventures Bell Zettifar spends the episode with Kai teaching him about patience and not being reckless. Bonding together and being a positive almost sibling like relationship. There's a black Princess in the show as well.
Regardless of all the hate and negativity this is so so so important and I tear up thinking about all the little kids and older fans finally seeing this because I know its already brought me to tears
Jade: Truth or dare?
Kit: Truth.
Jade: How many hours have you slept this week?
Kit: Dare.
Jade: Kit, you have to sleep.
Kit: Uggghh, I hate this game.
this is me, wbu?
Kit: Jade, you like are an angel with no wings Jade Jade: So like a person...? What's you're thinking there Kit Kit, trying to recover: EVER HEARD OF A SIMILE, JADE??? I MEAN WHAT-
questions have been answered and I love that all of these people were in the same room.
New (old) Willow cast pics courtesy of Amar Chadha-Patel's Instagram here
the rest ep is like all of my thoughts and musical preferences and put together, as well as amazing harmonies, spectacular instruments, incredible emotion, and just. The rest. This is the most perfect thing I have ever heard right now
Kit: We are here because there is something wrong with society!
Elora: See, you’re always saying there’s something wrong with society, but maybe there’s something wrong with you.
Kit: If there is, then society made me that way.
Kit: You look... beautiful today.
Jade, blushing: Oh. Than-
Kit: Ha! April Fools!
Kit: You look beautiful everyday!
Kit, to Jade: I may not get the same amount of daily sleep as you do, but can you do THIS?
Kit: *gets up and immediately faints* Jade: OMG KIT WHAT THE-
So. I recently read The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson, which was such a great book. I really enjoyed it. However, I'm not quite sure why but I felt like the authors were trying to hint at something romantic going on between Iris and Alice, or the beginnings of such a thing. There was a lot of describing how the two of them held hands sometimes and comforted each other in this way that I personally felt was a bit more than platonic. Of course, I know that such things can certainly be just that, platonic, but it just felt like more than that while I was reading it. I honestly sometimes felt like I was being queerbaited, if thats a thing, like if its possible to be queerbaited, but I felt really strange reading it. Alice and Iris just seem to have so much chemistry and do a lot of hand holding and there's so much stuff about how after they fought they really missed each other. I don't know whether I'm just reading into things too much, but it really seems like there's something going on there to me.
They/them, INFP, Aquarius | many obsessions | life is life-ing so basically on hiatus :(
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