Excerpts from my year in review:

omg your queue tag 😭

thank you 🥺😘

Why are you so awesome???

You are TOO SWEET OMG 😭💯💕

farfartothewestofeverywhere replied to your post “Raspberry ice cream with chocolate and strawberries. A perfect...”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Thank you!

My musings/headcanon on Rey as an introvert and Finn as an extrovert, for finnrey Friday! Gifs courtesy of: (drumroll...y'all are so talented!)

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Rey’s grown used to silence. She swims in it as she scavenges. It’s her constant companion in the AT-AT. The first time she faces down Unkar Plutt, she looks at him directly, and says exactly nothing as he gives her far too little for her treasures.

Rey’s grown accustomed to solitude. Solitude’s a different beast, though it’s a close cousin to silence. Solitude is a fact of her existence. Silence is a plan, an ally, a weapon under the right circumstances. She has to live as she does - always on the edge of hunger, in a tough town. She’s not required to talk about it.

To me, this is why we spend a long time with Rey onscreen before she speaks, and when we do hear her speak, it’s in a foreign language. It’s also why she keeps her reasons for wanting to go back to Jakku to herself (“none of your business, that’s why”). It’s not that Rey is hostile - far from it. She’s just comfortable existing without words.

When Kylo Ren abducts Rey, and she escapes, she’s frightened, but focused. She’s crept around corners before, she thinks, as she eases past stormtroopers. She’s scaled walls on her own, and she holds the memory in her mind as she squeezes into cracks unseen. She’s back into the familiar pattern of look, look again, then wait, then run.

When she sees Finn and Han and Chewie her first reaction isn’t joy, it’s shock. She has to take a minute to process that others are here, and she’s dumbfounded. These people don’t owe her anything, and yet they’ve come back - because Finn couldn’t rest until they found her.

Finn’s grown up surrounded by people, but not able to speak his mind. The minute he breaks away from the stormtrooper role, he feeds off the energy of others, revels in it. This is why the first exchange between Poe and Finn is so powerful. Finn’s ready to jump, ready to trust, even ready to help a complete stranger. He forms an instant bond with Poe, enough that he feels Poe’s “death” as a profound loss. Finn talks to everybody - to Rey, to BB-8, to Han, to Poe, to Maz. He’s eager to be part of a team, part of something bigger than himself.

He’s also, frankly, in love with Rey. She’s his lodestine, his north star, and he’d do anything to get her back once she’s gone. Lie to a roomful of resistance fighters? Check. Pretty much wing it when he gets to the base? Check. Pull a gun on his former commander? Check. He’s worried about what’s happened to her, wants to make sure she’s safe, and knows she’s loved, as soon as he sees her. She steps into his arms quietly, and he holds her tight like he never wants to lose her again.

farfartothewestofeverywhere replied to your post “Hello! Seeing pictures from your blog on my dash always makes me...”

I second what anon said! :)

And now you need to stop with the cute messages because it’s getting ridiculous.

i just want to let you know i agree 10,000% with the notes in that last post.

I’ve had so many girls sit around me and talk about how “disgusting” they are because they “haven’t been to the gym a week” or “ate soooooo much at dinner tonight,” when I maybe haven’t had time to go to the gym in months or literally just ate more than the girl did. and I realize they don’t mean to hurt me, and yet they do anyways. if they think they are so disgusting for eating half a philly cheesesteak, what do they think of the fact that I just ate the whole thing? you know one comment like “oh my god I am SO FULL I am never eating that much again” is fine, but I’ve honestly had to sit through people go on and on about how horrible they are as a person for eating something. they don’t seem happy when they are saying these things and neither am I!!!!!! people need to learn to filter what they say. it’s okay if they think it in their head. it’s not a healthy way to think, and I suggest trying to change the thought process, but saying it to the people around them just makes it worse. people have no idea whose feelings they are hurting.

for anyone interested in this topic, I recommend reading Renee Engeln’s article from the ny times, the problem with fat talk and then the letters to the editor about this article.

the article makes a great basis point about how research shows that talking to each other about how we don’t like our bodies actually makes us feel worse.

the letters to the editor expand upon this idea and point out the fact that not only does it make ourselves feel worse but also that “fat-talk statements reinforce the oppression of people who meet the socially constructed definition of ‘fat.’”

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farfartothewestofeverywhere reblogged your post So I made a thing.

Wait, seriously?!? O_O

James Neal, obviously.

I approve haha ;) thank you

Can you post that picture you used to have as your background? I loved that. (I mean I love your current background, it's my desktop, lol) Love your blog, btw.

Just posted it!! :) and thank you so much!!