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WAIT WAIT WAIT PLEASE LET ME PROCESS MY EMOTIONS

It hasn't been confirmed by LF yet, but I'm still quaking

but can you actually imagine ben & rey meeting up for the first time after who knows how long in TROS and they’re both so on EDGE — rey‘s been blocking the bond and struggling to connect with the Force and ben’s been out looking for her and trying to reach out only to hit a wall every single time — so they’re both angry and frustrated and out of balance and now that they’re finally face to face the bond snaps open and everything comes pouring out and they’re both like, “FIGHT ME” except it quickly turns into “KISS ME” because let’s be real, all this aggression is simply a very serious case of pent up UST

tldr; ANGRY RAIN KISS RIGHTS

netflix casting ben barnes as one of the hottest characters in YA is a power move

So…. do we all agree that this is the big turning point in the movie? And assuming this is all from the same scene, isn’t it interesting how he’s wearing the helmet in the artwork but not in the film footage? 

ok but what if we REALLY get a kiss between Rey and Ben? I mean are y’all sure you can handle it without screaming/crying/fainting because tbh these 4 years have been the longest foreplay ever and I think I bottled up so much excitement and expectations while AT THE SAME TIME trying to keep my expectations low to avoid being disappointed that I think I’m ready to explode any minute now and I could just as well die if they really kissed on screen and they’ll have to drag my dead body out of the theater

A rant about Rey.

I'm so sick of the entire Mary Sue debate. It's ridiculous! And this bullshit right here is the straw that broke the camel's back!

Here was my response to that dudebro-

Aside from pissing me off, this interaction also got me thinking...

What I told him about her life was absolutely true and it only takes 1/2 a working brain cell to realize that... Rey grew up in hell.

Niima outpost is a bona fide shit hole. It's the kind of place where the most famous ship in the galaxy can be hidden in plain sight... for years! The kind of place where people sell children. Where people ignore a teenage girl being attack in the middle of the city market... or worse, find it entertaining.

Rey is rather plain looking and shapeless when we meet her... and that was not by accident. Daisy is a beautiful young woman who can turn heads walking down any street in the world... but the difference of appearance between her and Rey are as marked as those between a peacock and a peahen.

The heartbreaking truth is, this is as much a defense tactic as it is a statement of Rey's poverty. She's 19... even if she was a late bloomer she's spent, at least, the last few years having to worry about being seen as a desirable woman... because if someone stronger, more clever, or sufficiently devious enough took an interest in her she could and likely would have been sexually assaulted, raped and/or murdered... the chances of her having never been AT LEAST sexually assaulted are very slim...

She fights every fight like her life depends on it. Even when it's a simple robbery... of something worth zero money to her... did you notice how fast she went from "stop that" to complete savage beast mode on the thugs Unkar sent? It was instantaneous the moment that thug grabbed her. That's panic fighting, pure survival instinct. She's been grabbed before... and it's apparently left her with the effects of lingering trauma.

Did you see how she didn't hesitate to attack, with intent to kill, Kylo the first three times that met? She's had to fight for her life before. Enough to have conquered the panic to the point she can fight effectively. That means she's done it A LOT.

Rey is no sweet cinnamon roll, nor some overpowered bimbo... she's a survivor living in one of the foulest pits of hell that the GFFA has to offer.

Sure, she's a decent person... but make no mistake, she is absolutely willing to cut a bitch. She is a stone cold killer. We don"t know her body count, but anyone with eyes can see that she didn't hesitate and she didn't bat an eyelash at killing that first stormtrooper in the forest before Kylo found her. She'd have done the same to him if not for the fact that he was a Jedi.

Which brings me to the point where they actually do meet...

When he took off that helmet and introduced his real PERSON to her you can't help but wonder why the fuck the big bad guy would do such a thing.

But, if you watch the scene that follows you can see him become more and more fascinated by her with every passing second.

I didn't watch him when I saw this movie at the theater, I watched her. She was emoting beautifuly... terror, panic, revulsion... I can see why someone could see this scene as akin to rape... they'd be wrong, but I CAN see how they've come up with that.

Guess who else wasn't looking at him during this scene? Rey wasn't either.

You know when else she wasn't looking at that incredibly expressive face of his?

When he first got a load of her.

The novel states and it's actually pretty easy to see if you look for it, that Kylo Ren was surprised by and impressed with her from the moment she opened fire on him in the forest.

Yup. He was a goner from the word go. He didn't take her because it would be just as easy to get the map from her as it would be to get it from the droid... frankly the data chip would have been infinitely more useful than a 30 second, unfocused memory... no he took her because he felt incredibly drawn to her. He took her because she intrigued him. He could feel there was something different and special about her. He was so distracted by her and elated to have gotten her under his control that he didn't give even a fraction of a shit about finding the droid or Luke anymore... he actively didn't want the droid anymore because that would have robbed him of his excuse to keep her around and investigate her mind... the perfect cover for his sudden, urgent, NEED to learn everything about her and figure out why he felt so "inexorably drawn" to her.

Watch his face after she says the bit about Vader... he's scared shitless... but he's not afraid for his life... he's scared because he didn't find out why he was drawn to her, and now it was a way more powerful draw... and it felt incredible... like nothing he's ever felt or seen or heard or read about...

That my friends, with a shiver down his spine to mark the occasion, was the moment he realized that she was his ONLY equal in the entire galaxy... and he wanted her. Like a trophy, yes, on the surface, where he could acknowledge and accept it - but also on a deeper level... on the level of a unique being who had found the only other of it's type in existence... on the level where Adam wanted Eve.

Rey missed 100% of that... just like a lot of the fandom... just like I did upon first viewing.

In fact she missed every bit of him falling in love with her... allllllllll the way up to this moment

Yep... even says so in the book... she had no inkling that he had actual, real, deep feelings for her.

Not even when this happened-

She was clueless.

And guess what else she didn't know? She didn't know he was physically attracted to her until this moment-

It never occurred to her that he might want ALL OF HER... because she only found out 10 minutes ago (a LONG ten minutes!) that he felt ANYTHING towards her besides a desire to shape and control her Force training and abilities.

It was a lot to take in all at once... especially considering that she was still so terrified of him that she tried to kill him 18 hrs ago!

She had hoped she could convince him to go home to his mother and his family... to return to the light... to fight the good fight... she never even suspected that he had fallen in love with HER... the lonely, scrappy, unwanted, abandoned, flawed, unlovable dessert rat... not her powers.

I think she misjudged him terribly from start to finish.

She has no idea when she closes that door in his face that his feelings were hurt but not changed... that they were real and not some fucked up manipulation tactic.

That naked vulnerability is why they chose Adam Driver... Kylo's feelings for Rey are alive and well... that's why the last time we see him he is bowing under the weight of massive amounts of grief.

Same Energy

— or, two (2) emotionally constipated idiots on their way to get the girl

none of yall know what propaganda actually is, do you?

♔ favourite character meme ♔

    ↳ emotions [2/3]: Kylo Ren + (Rey +) 😡 & 😍 [insp.] 

But in the Saga of Larten Crepsley, he and Wester looked at each other confused. “They had never seen a deep gaze in any man’s eyes” roughly translated, but still there

*walks in*

*walks onto stage*

*grabs microphone*

*breathes in to prepare*

*looking down at the confused audience*

“Larten is bi”

*The crowd cheers as I drop my mic and enter the shadows of where I once came*

The Star Wars couples’s outfits in the movies with the first kiss. 

White and Black.

Ben subtly looking Rey up and down is the best thing ever 

Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens (2015) dir. J.J. Abrams

reylo + the phantom of the opera | parallels

She did say “becoming besties with you was the best thing” in an interview she & Adam did together. Like stated previously; they’re both very busy doing different things. That doesn’t mean they’re not friendly or friends.

I feel like Adam and Daisy aren’t friends but just have like a, cordial professional relationship. Which is absolutely fine! Not everyone in the cast will be personal friends. I just hate to see people get their expectations up, because I frankly don’t think Daisy is going to go see his play

you know there are varying levels of friendship, right? no one is saying they’re best friends (Adam doesn’t seem like he has the time or personality for a whole lot of best friends anyway lol) but they’re friends enough that Daisy has called him to ask for career advice before and gone for ‘a drinky-poo’ with him at the pub while they were filming and Adam has said he could ‘listen to her talk all day.’

and if she doesn’t go to Burn This, it’d most likely be because of a scheduling issue. it’s not just about Adam and Daisy, it’s a critically acclaimed Tony-nominated play that not one but two of her costars are in, and Oscar and Rian and other people she knows have also gone to see and probably recommended to all their friends, and Adam’s performance in it is quite frankly ART and something other artists want to witness even if they’re not his friend

The Rise of Skywalker reylo poster inspired on the Pride & Prejudice movie poster (link in the comments)

And we’re back in the forest with the story we really care about, the focus of the story which is Rey and Ren. – J.J. Abrams

Pick your fighter  ໒( ♥ ◡ ♥ )७

Adam Driver and Selena Gomez at the 72nd annual Cannes film festival

Because the power behind every action comes from the individual. Doing away with guns will stop no one from going out there and finding another way to murder mass groups of people. What will we be left to defend ourselves with? Just like abortion, it’s a heart issue. Believing that guns are the problem and not people is a heart issue. Believing it’s okay to murder babies is a heart issue. Period.

Thoughts and prayers…

Adam Driver and Selena Gomez at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival

The Force Awakens // The Last Jedi

Can we just talk about the fact that Adam happily accepted a reylo fanart yesterday? According to the artist, he had a huge smile on his face when he saw the picture.

:’)

Throne Room Scene & proof that Ben whispered “Rey” at his near death situation with the praetorian guard

I did not expect Skywalker to be so wise. We will give him and the Jedi Order the death he desires. After the Rebels are gone, we will go to his planet and obliterate the entire island.

we are alike, he said,

as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.

the truth of it rang through me.

like calls to like.

It’s one of those “feel good” songs that’ll get a ton of radio play but holds no substance.

No offense to Taylor Swift but the lyrics ‘I’m the only one of me, baby that’s the fun of me/you’re the only one of you, baby that’s the fun of you’ aren’t…wonderful.

The very air between them bent and wavered as Snoke harnessed the Force and made it his weapon. Rey thrashed in pain, screaming and seeking an escape that didn’t exist. Kylo could feel Rey’s pain and panic, a bright roar in the Force that overwhelmed all else—even the dark presence of Snoke.