Tilly🦋🍂 is on The Hunt for Ben Solo

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Bluesky’s #1 William Blake poster honk honk I love the library 🦋 https://archiveofourown.org/users/Tilly_Wizard/works My gender is horsegirl 🐴 she/her 🇦🇺 Uniting ✝️ “Every thing that lives is Holy"

//fandom discourse I hate when people talk abt lacking "representation" in FANwork as if it was a producer-costumer relationship,not an OPEN playground for hobbyist. I get you can't make a movie or even publish a novel. But I don't believe you that you can't write a drabble or draw a stick figure

Y’all expect us to be happy about a diminushed Rey with a retconned background, saying shit like “I will earn Luke’s saber”, having her power ~explained away by a Palpatine bloodline, with writers that think her calling herself a Skywalker is what she needs to be happy? Gtfo

this week has made me the most optimistic that I've been since the election that we're going to get out of this intact, or some vague approximation thereof (whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first) a thread

Maybe the idea someone pushes won’t work. Lots don’t! But just saying “nah” and then logging off isn’t the smart hip take so many seem to think. It’s just lazy defeatist doomerism that guarantees the worst outcome. At this point, please either constructively contribute or be silently doomery.

I’d challenge everyone who says “sure, this is a great idea but it’ll never happen” to: 1. Stop being defeatist to yourself. 2. Stop trying to demotivate those who are pushing for a better future. 3. Better invest the time you waste saying “can’t have nice things!” thinking abt what we CAN do.

Skill + joy at the same time is of course utterly delightful, but if I have to choose a favorite between a flawed, joyful piece of art and a technically-perfect but soulless one, I choose the joyful one every time.

Do you ever look at the moon and think, Oh that's the same moon Wiliam Shakespeare looked at, and Frida Kahlo, and Jesus, and Grace Kelly, and I still haven't done the washing up, where did the last hour go?