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I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t. I am such a goddamn sucker for poly ships lately.
I want to explore how hungry for companionship Finn is; how surely he’s never been alone in his life but also he has never been really loved, as a person. He has been one of a unit for so long; surely they were his bosom comrades, surely he never lacked for closeness, but equally surely they were all discouraged from anything expressing too much individualism. He’d have no idea of romance or sexual exclusivity or the normal dynamics of people allowed to make choices about their companions and privacy.
I want to explore how starvation of everything has made Rey unsure of how interpersonal relationships are even supposed to work; how she’s got no real notion of how healthy consensual sexual and romantic relationships work, and how easily by comparison she picks up on platonic love and blossoms with it.
And Poe– he has to have really seen some shit in his lifetime, he must be pretty beat-up and worn down and especially in the face of the losses they’ve recently sustained, he’s got to be pretty devastated, even personally bereaved. But how much would he feel he had to take onto himself, to not show these babies he’s going to feel sort of responsible for; surely, he’d feel, they have so much already to bear, and his relationship with them must be that of an older sibling or even maybe a parent and how long could he keep that up before Rey, who can feel so clearly, and Finn who has spent his whole life keeping interpersonal peace in close quarters, would see right through him?
But I’m in the middle of two epic fics with another already backburnered, and another crying out to get completed with the serial numbers filed off, plus a looming possibility of RL job changes. Could I write a short story? Probably not. Would I get sucked into another epic and cry? Maybe. Will I chance it?
Really, it comes down to whether someone else says what I feel needs to be said.
Please, this is a plea for good fic recs, because I wandered thru the tags last night and jfc kylo ren is in every fucking story. I don’t honestly give a fuck about him, clearly the canon material is going to deal with him at length. I’m not worried. Sure he is meant to be appealingly fucked-up but we will hear *all about it* in the main movies so I have zero need to see that delved into or explored in any way. Chill, guys.
I am convinced that neither canon nor fandom will do Finn’s emotional arc justice. Finn in particular is gonna get shoved aside and is gonna stand around being cute a lot. I want him to get to have complicated emotions, and I’m relying on you, fandom, to do it.
And even if you do it’ll probably inspire me because you’ll say almost everything I want but not quite. That’s usually how this goes.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t. I am such a goddamn sucker for poly ships lately.
I want to explore how hungry for companionship Finn is; how surely he’s never been alone in his life but also he has never been really loved, as a person. He has been one of a unit for so long; surely they were his bosom comrades, surely he never lacked for closeness, but equally surely they were all discouraged from anything expressing too much individualism. He’d have no idea of romance or sexual exclusivity or the normal dynamics of people allowed to make choices about their companions and privacy.
I want to explore how starvation of everything has made Rey unsure of how interpersonal relationships are even supposed to work; how she’s got no real notion of how healthy consensual sexual and romantic relationships work, and how easily by comparison she picks up on platonic love and blossoms with it.
And Poe– he has to have really seen some shit in his lifetime, he must be pretty beat-up and worn down and especially in the face of the losses they’ve recently sustained, he’s got to be pretty devastated, even personally bereaved. But how much would he feel he had to take onto himself, to not show these babies he’s going to feel sort of responsible for; surely, he’d feel, they have so much already to bear, and his relationship with them must be that of an older sibling or even maybe a parent and how long could he keep that up before Rey, who can feel so clearly, and Finn who has spent his whole life keeping interpersonal peace in close quarters, would see right through him?
But I’m in the middle of two epic fics with another already backburnered, and another crying out to get completed with the serial numbers filed off, plus a looming possibility of RL job changes. Could I write a short story? Probably not. Would I get sucked into another epic and cry? Maybe. Will I chance it?
Really, it comes down to whether someone else says what I feel needs to be said.
Please, this is a plea for good fic recs, because I wandered thru the tags last night and jfc kylo ren is in every fucking story. I don’t honestly give a fuck about him, clearly the canon material is going to deal with him at length. I’m not worried. Sure he is meant to be appealingly fucked-up but we will hear *all about it* in the main movies so I have zero need to see that delved into or explored in any way. Chill, guys.
I am convinced that neither canon nor fandom will do Finn’s emotional arc justice. Finn in particular is gonna get shoved aside and is gonna stand around being cute a lot. I want him to get to have complicated emotions, and I’m relying on you, fandom, to do it.
And even if you do it’ll probably inspire me because you’ll say almost everything I want but not quite. That’s usually how this goes.
