I write those
@rewritingripley
articles. Defender of Plagward. “It’s the only Peter Pan that anyone's ever made." PFP thanks to
@nightfurycyare
. she/her
Adding to reporting by
@cbouzy
&
@TaylorLorenz
, YouTubers incl. TheQuartering, Geeks+Gamers, & Nerdrotic dominate networks of users driving racism against
@LOTRonPrime
. These channels have been at the center of harassment against POC actors & fans for yrs. When is enough enough?
This will not surprise many in fandom, but here’s another data point: Yes, the same YouTubers who incited harassment against Kelly Marie Tran, Moses Ingram are also connected to harassment against
#RingsOfPower
cast, a network analysis of 1k tweets finds.
I regret to inform you that “Glass Onion” is actively bad. I will discuss first the actual writing of the movie followed by the politics of it. Both suck. SPOILERS follow.
Love everything SW rn, but worth pointing out that a big reason we’re not seeing backlash is b/c none of this content puts us on a fem gaze heroine’s journey where the woman is the one picking up skills, dealing w/ internal battles & a sad back story, & ultimately being a hero🤷♀️
If you’re a woman who has participated in online fandom before, you probably know this story. For everybody else, here is a summary of what it's like: 4 years of data, ~400 screenshots, > 500k data points, and > 9k words nobody should ever have to write.
The fact that this is relevant multiple times a week is why I've lost all hope for Western art and the audience's ability to consume anything beyond kids shows and Marvel
Dear LOTR fandom,
I know you know but reminder to deal w/ your alt right problem now or be yet another fandom responsible for turning a blind eye to the inevitable organized mass harassment of marginalized fans, creators and actors.
Signed,
A burned out Star Wars fan
Yeah, I will be that person….
The world did not say The Last Jedi was garbage. The world loved The Last Jedi. Some gamer YouTubers and far right grifters with large platforms thought The Last Jedi was garbage.
star wars makes an original show with new characters, you say “woke”, they make a show with legacy characters, then you say “garbage”. then they make a new show that you all ask for, and now you say “terrible”, like if don’t enjoy star wars anymore then stop watching.
Just a thought: when fabricating an account in an established fandom, perhaps consider that some of us keep historical backlogs of every tweet mentioning said fandom.
I searched ~1.8M tweets from 2015-2020 relevant to "Reylo" & "The Last Jedi." There is no lemonado.
The dyad being explored more as a video game mechanic than an actual plot point in the movie it originated from is exactly what I would expect from a film that was essentially a 2 hour toy commercial.
The dialogue in this scene is disconnected. C-3PO is taking one last look at Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan and nobody can convince me otherwise until I'm in that theater and I see with my own eyes that I am wrong.
Jason Isaacs is really out here in 2021 saying that my obsession with Peter Pan is because I was attracted to him at 13 and please help I have never been so called out in my entire life 😭😭
When basically only women are attracted to the villain, discourse is hostile. Ppl ask “this is disgusting, how can this be allowed?” This is explained w/ false claims that fiction impacts how “little girls”/women act IRL. These women **must** be psychopaths or abuse apologists.
When men are attracted to the villain, discourse is accepting. Ppl ask “this is interesting, why is this villain attractive?” This is explained using science&the understanding that fiction is exploratory. Nobody assumes “little boys” will be manipulated by the big bad sexy vamp.
Hey remember in The Lord of the Rings when Arwen ended up with Aragorn, Éowyn ended up with Faramir, and Sam eventually ended up in the Undying Lands with Frodo and nobody was left in a desert alone with ghosts and dead soulmates?
I need to know how Plagueis felt when Qimir just shows the f up with a girl in his arms & tucks her in to bed & lays out her clothes & makes her soup.
#RenewTheAcolyte
*Totally understand that women/non-cis/LGBTQA are attracted to Lady Dimitrescu. But straight cis-men have been heavily involved in the thirst vs somebody like The Darkling or Kylo Ren who are mainly romanticized by women/LGBTQA. This makes a huge difference in the discourse.
I get ppl are not educated on what it takes to set up social platforms, but to enable the resources for this, AO3 would need to start VC funding, raise millions, transfer power from volunteers to investors & then likely sell to like. Mark Zuckerberg. Trust me you don’t want this.
I dislike giving this account attention but I need the ppl still following SRS who think they are leading some kind of online progressive crusade sticking it to shippers to please please please realize what they have become a part of & whose views they are supporting
It should be crystal clear that policing what women enjoy in fiction — especially if the policing is because of what women like sexually — is the absolute cornerstone of misogynistic and patriarchal thinking.
Well it’s sad hours and I’m upset we were robbed of Ben and Finn acknowledging their shared experiences as brainwashed war dogs for the First Order. They really could have had a scene fighting together against the institution who hurt them their whole lives.
But. Nope.
I find it fascinating that movies about girls’ sexual awakening like Labyrinth or 2003 Peter Pan are not commercial successes at times of release but then grow to become generational “classics.” I worry, though, that new generations will have no stories like this of their own.🧵
This is the film that unlocked a macguffin using another macguffin aligned just precisely with another macguffin, which led to another macguffin, so I promise anything of any consequence in this film was an accident in editing.
Did you know? In The Rise of Skywalker, as Finn and Rey’s conversation fades into Kylo’s Force connection with Palpatine, Palpatine words “the Jedi apprentice” linger on an image of Finn
Men rely heavily on “hysteria.” It’s not just that women are immoral for liking villains, but they are deranged perverts. Women spread this sexist ideology among other “fem”-dominated communities, seemingly w/o realizing its sexist origins. (see: the entire dynamic of Tumblr).
In our society, a woman (cis or non-cis) understanding her desire is terrifying. It’s dangerous. It’s deranged. It’s sin. We have come a long way — but the differences between how we treat men exploring attraction in fiction and women reveals how far we still have to go.
If I was Rian Johnson knowing this and receiving all of these death threats in the name of George Lucas’s vision, I would have lost it a long time ago.
The new book "Star Wars Fascinating Facts" delivers on that title with this one: in George Lucas' 2012 treatment for the sequel trilogy, Luke died in Episode VIII.
#StarWars
But for boys and men, villains loved by them receive universal praise, the world leans into the sexualization as good fun (which it is!!), & nobody is told they will become an abuse victim or school shooter for liking a giant vampire lady.
Women exploring sex — especially through “Not Pure” characters — is directly opposed to traditional misogynistic conditioning. By exploring sex, power, attraction via fiction like men are “allowed” to do, women can understand a lot about their desires and themselves.
I scraped the
#ShadowAndBone
(+ related) tags and broke down top characters and ships from ~87.7k tweets. These tweet counts are representative of trend only and ONLY include tweet counts from the official hashtags.
TOP CHARACTERS (spoiler alert: the hot bad man won):
It’s almost as if reylo hate actually has its roots in toxic male-driven fandom culture & hating a popular thing that attracted new, non-male fans is a reflection of the hate & misogyny that infiltrated SW fandom following Rey’s debut in TFA... 🤔whomst could have known? 🤔🤔
This is a perfect example of why the “live in peace” narrative is 90% of the time dangerous and/or disingenuous BS. When ppl say “we must find peace” it so often means “the side I agree with needs to apply more force and authority and the opposing side must accept.”
Just so we're clear, a good 25% of the reason I trust Rian Johnson is because when he chose to self insert himself in a film, his self insert was a small child with a broom.
Making “Skywalker” some aspirational metaphor ignores the true tragedy of the family&dusts them under the rug. Rian’s approach was much smarter imo b/c it was not only legends like Luke Skywalker who inspired the orphan kids. It was Rose, Finn, anybody who saved what they loved.
Sitting here eating those crispy noodles thinking about how Rian Johnson didn’t put so much beautiful death & rebirth symbolism in TLJ just for the Jedi to be deemed righteous, Luke Skywalker to be God, Rey to end up back in a desert, and the boy every OT char died for to be dead
WILD to me that The Acolyte checks all the boxes for things star wars fanbois have wanted (like pulling cool shit from legends) but they're such effing snowflakes—they can't handle a token white guy & tons of beautiful women
racist misogynists really ruin their own happiness
“Luke Skywalker would never consider killing his nephew for a split second to save his sister!!” the fanbros scream as they watch Luke Skywalker hack off his father’s hand & consider killing him for a split second to save his sister.
I love how a large # of Luke Skywalker fans started death threating&harassing Rian Johnson & that--rightfully--did not apply to all Luke Skywalker fans. A handful of Reylos do unacceptable things&suddenly it applies to all of us. I wonder....what the difference is here...🤔
@RobBobUK5
@balancedpadawan
My thought watching Ep 1 was if a female Mando rode a Blurrg as quickly as the Mando did, we would be seeing tweet storms on why it’s poor char dev
I saw
#GlassOnion
finally & M A N do I have thoughts.
@rianjohnson
’s use of the whodunit, a genre driven by the search for truth, to summarize the crisis of truth in the digital age is brilliant & there’s one scene in particular that’s so bold in its commentary, I audibly gasped.
Remember when we thought this death star fight was surrounded by water because it was meant to reverse and heal the fall of Anakin fought surrounded by flame 🤡
I do appreciate in fem gaze coming-of-age/sexual awakening stories when the creators just look at the purposefully attractive “dangerous-but-not-to-her” character and go “cool, cool....put him in the sexiest pants you can possibly find.”