Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Anonymous asked: W for the fandom meme?

From this ask meme!

W: List five favorite characters from five different fandoms

Does this mean…one character per fandom, or five characters per fandom?  I’m doing five characters per fandom.  Plus some rampant cheating.

MCU

Jessica Jones

Luke Cage

Claire Temple

Steve Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

+ Elektra Natchios as Honorable Mention since I just spent eight hours of Defenders crooning over my murder girl

Animorphs

RACHEL, A THOUSAND TIMES RACHEL

Tobias

Ax tied with Jake

Eva

…Cassie but she and I have some major ethical differences, thus the tie with Marco

+ Elfangor and Loren as Honorable Mention because I will take any opportunity to remind the whole world how much I love them

Star Wars

Rey

Finn

Poe Dameron

Leia Organa

…and all of Rogue One because I am a filthy cheater

Star Trek

JANEWAY

Jim Kirk

Nyota Uhura

Seven of Nine

Spock tied with Bones McCoy

X-Men

Rogue

Kitty Pryde

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Gambit (Remy LaBeau) tied with Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

helookslikeafriend:

i love that Baze’s cynicism is totally divorced from negativity

he’s like god is dead so we all gotta be extra good to each other y’hear?

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ohstardustgirl:

apocryphist:

honestly, i think jyn erso gets a bad rap over the whole “it doesn’t matter when you don’t look up” business. like, honestly? she spent her whole childhood as a soldier in The Most Hardcore rebel cell, Saw Gerrera’s Partisans, only to be abandoned by them at 16. that mix of trauma and devotion, only to lose them like her first family and home? to know nothing for years except the fact she was ultimately expendable to the rebel cause? 

yeah, no wonder that the first firefight we see her in on jedha, her priority ends up being a civilian child. 

also, Jyn never really put that line into practice. she was mostly saying that to get under Saw Gererra’s skin, to get back at him. in actuality, she was willing to fight a squadron of stormtroopers for something as minor as a little girl’s cat, and she wasn’t exactly a law abiding citizen of the empire to end up in an imperial prison camp.

she may have spent several years as a criminal, disconnected from the rebel alliance, but like…so did han, guys. he was older than her, too, before ever joining the rebellion, and we all still love han solo. so why give jyn so much shit for it? 

This. Thank you.

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vrabia:

pipedreamcorps:

Be the person Chirrut Îmwe would want you to be

i love this because it covers the full spectrum from ‘kind to baby animals’ to ‘24/7 ready to deck a fucking nazi’

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lyresandlasers:

I love the Han Solo comparisons that everyone made for Cassian during promo for Rogue One and then it totally bait and switched that Jyn was actually the vest-wearing, mercenary asshole who reluctantly joined a noble cause and got a crush on a rebel with pretty brown eyes and a stick up their ass. 

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mylordshesacactus:

So me and @alexkablob watched Rogue One and I think I can put into words what resonates so much this time. I realize other people have said this already more eloquently than me but…

While everyone I’ve seen agrees that R1 is fucking gorgeous, the main thing I’ve seen from people who don’t personally like it is that the total party kill is too dark, too depressing, it doesn’t feel like Star Wars exactly; that Star Wars is about hope and good triumphing over evil despite the odds. And look, Rogue One is heavy. You don’t have to personally like that, that’s fair.

But there is one thing that I have to contest. Because….Rogue One is about hope.

The good guys win.

They win. They pass hope like a baton, bloody fingers to sweaty palms, sprinting forward and trusting that someone will manage to slip it into their hand before it’s too late.

The message of Rogue One, the reason I adore it for its quietly unflinching look at sacrifice, isn’t the dark-and-gritty People Die In War, Don’t Be Naive. Its message is…look. Look at humanity. Look at what we do, what we are capable of. The beauty of hope, the love and the faith we have for one another. Look at what courage and compassion accomplish. All the hatred, all the brute force in the galaxy can’t match that simple, silent strength. The Empire fails.

A dark, gritty movie would be: the Empire wins. Or the Rebellion wins but the cost was too high, it wasn’t worth it. Rogue One says, yes, it was. That soft rising music over the entire end of that relay race, from the moment the plans beam out. It’s quiet, and sad, and solemn–and triumphant. 

It says: it’s over. It’s done. It’s all right. It’s all right. It’s all right. You’ve done enough. Breathe. This was worth it.

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Anonymous asked: I was watching Rogue One the other day and the hammerhead ships are one of the most fantastically human responses to things I've seen in a while.

humansarespaceorcs:

Admiral Raddus: That goliath of a star destroyer’s been disabled, let’s smash into it with a hammerhead!
Profundity Crew: *Looks suitably confused*

Raddus: We can smash one ship onto another and blow up the shield generator in one move!
Crew: That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, how would that possibly work?
Raddus: Do you know what group pilots the hammerhead?
Crew: That’s the Aldeeran Reds, a human cre….    ahh… *Gives the order*

a very short star wars meta

uncle-whisky:

jumpingjacktrash:

in the first movie, when leia got rescued, she was expecting some kind of actual military operatives with things like a plan and an exit strategy and a working vehicle. this is why she was so salty about instead being rescued by basically the duke brothers and an angry carpet in a past-warranty space winnebago.

like when the bad guys capture a diplomat you’re supposed to send mission impossible, not cheech & chong

Leia wanted a full D&D party, and what she got was a Rogue with no Bluff, a wizard who left his spell sheet at home, and a barbarian who made charisma his highest score.

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