We tried not to walk too heavily

Why Finn is the Best Character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The Toast - The Toast (via fridayfelts)

          ‘ can you fly a TIE fighter? ‘

                             ‘ i can fly anything. ‘

My aesthetic is painstakingly recreating accurate outfits worn by 6′3″ helmeted male characters and then taking off my helmet and ruining people’s lives. 

My goal with my genderbend cosplays is to make movie producers question why every character wasn’t a woman instead. 

YES

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ok but has anyone considered… stormtrooper memes. stormtroopers with injokes. stormtroopers quietly passing along little nudges and references while they’re standing guard or patrolling endless hallways. hux pausing halfway through a speech, suspiciously— he just heard a very tiny, staticy giggle. like,

Finn accidentally slipping into stormtrooper memes while with the Resistance and getting some odd looks.

Finn trying to explain to them why their Force-using manchild deadly enemy destroying property in a rage is funny and getting some more odd looks.

Finn feeling a little knot in his gut when he realizes he’s never going to be able to tell these jokes again. How’s he even going to connect to these people enough to make them laugh when they’re all scared shitless? How’s he going to carry his entire squad around in his head when he can’t even speak their language anymore?

Meanwhile Rey’s standing there squinting suspiciously at a pinecone.

Okay but Rebels who see Finn being upset and making a concerted effort to figure out meme culture. Rey and Jessika talking it out while Jessika is teaching Rey the cultural miscellany of Resistance and pilot culture.

Rey being the first one to get it, because she synergizes what Jessika’s telling her and what Finn’s explaining and realizes, this is all communication around communication, the key point is shared understanding, and then she starts making her own, with Jessika, and Finn picks it up, and soon the whole base is in on this bastardized mix of stormtrooper meme and purely Resistance meme and a ridiculous combination of the two.

And then they interact with stormtroopers and something goes on in the background on the First Order side and a Resistance soldier asks, “Is Kylo Ren having a moment?” and there’s muffled laughter and an absence of blasterfire from the stormtroopers.

Pretty soon there’s a whole code that stormtroopers and resistance soldiers can use to communicate. “Nothing to see here, move along” means “I’m ignoring you on purpose, don’t shoot me,” and “I’m KR’d” means “I want out, please capture me.”

From the Rebel side, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi” becomes “throw me a bone here” in either direction to ask for a favor; “That’s no moon” means “you’re walking into a trap here/we’ve got a secret weapon you won’t like.”

Okay, I was expecting someone to pick this up, but damn, this is even better than I hoped.

tfw your crew is just as extra as you are

just thinking about that lieutenant on starkiller who started freaking out when hux wasnt around

We’ll see each other again. I believe that. Thank you, my friend.

There is green inside you, desert child. 

Fanart of Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I felt the way Harrison Ford looked when Rey said she didn’t think there was so much green in the universe. ;___; and hence, this. :)

P.S. if you’ll be going to Anime Expo in LA this year, you can get a print of this at my table! ;) 

This seems to fit beautifully with the drabble I wrote here about Rey, and seeds.

#The recognition#The start of it all#The man fighting off the light#acknowledging the man fighting off the dark#I love it#They start with fire around them fully masked#and end in the snow literally face to face (via @fistoffight)

undivided attention (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

So these two, the two Finn was going to work for so that he could run away. When we see Finn leave with them, even the first time I saw it, I remember noticing that they were leaving arm-in-arm and I was like, “oh, they’re a couple! Awww.” 

Upon closer inspection the one character has a peg leg, so the other character is probably just helping him with the stairs. It also occurred to me that the one actor could just be helping the other actor in a very cumbersome suit (assuming they’re costumes).

But I still like to think they’re a couple.

(And then when the first order came a blew everything up I was all, “oh no, did the happy couple get away? I hope so!”)

HOLY SHIT I’M GLAD SOMEONE ELSE THOUGHT THEY WERE A CUTE COUPLE OF WEIRD ELDERLY ALIEN SMUGGLERS

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Have some scraps of me doing false starts for the Rey/Finn part of We shake and we shudder.

When they spar, Finn feels at ease. He knows how to judge a strike and counter it without armor and a display to tell him odds and angles and velocities.

His whole life used to be detailed simulations of battle — with restricted times to eat, sleep and bathe. He enjoyed sparring when it was introduced, it was just another game that he quickly learned the rules to.

Rey is like… Well, he wouldn’t know how to tell her, but Rey is a lot like Nines.

Training is just training, but Rey makes every strike like she means it. Even though they’re friends and they can see each other’s faces. Rey’s face flushes with blood when she sweats. Finn read about the damage that wind and solar radiation can do to skin. He wonders how Rey managed to survive on Jakku unarmored without becoming covered in more scars than skin.

Maybe the need to armor was simply another First Order lie.

Finn’s not sure he will ever sort all the lies from the truths he was taught since his first memory. Not everything is as obvious as this.

Her body is a tool. Her hands were a wrench and pliers, before she traded for real tools. Her legs and back and arms have been winch and lever to lift pieces of metal twice her size out of her way. She still turns screws with her fingers and cuts wire with her teeth.

Her body is a weapon. Her staff is not an extension of herself, she is an extension of her staff. And now Luke Skywalker himself teaches her to feel the weight of a lightsaber and follow it, to move where it moves. She is training herself to be a saber now as well as a staff.

But when she uses her hands to touch Finn’s hands, Rey doesn’t know what her body is anymore.

“The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was ‘Return of the Jedi.’ I can remember seeing Darth Vader’s helmet come off. The shock of that moment.” - Oscar Isaac.