I Feel As If I Was Conned… They Baited Women Into Liking Star Wars With Rey Being The Perfect Cinderella

my Princess Leia piece for Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy 

she’s forever stuck taking care of these girls

Rey, After. (part 2)

Rey continues to wrestle with healing old wounds in the Force by restoring the violent planet of Tatooine. Ties into my World Between Worlds Ben Solo series.

Part 1 here

World Between Worlds Ben Solo

My professor is telling me I have to practice my Beethoven more meanwhile I spend my whole afternoon arranging the Mandalorian theme for piano and cello (excuse my rogue RH pinky, she is daydreaming of soft!Din)

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

I love them

“Women do not simply have faces, as men do; they are identified with their faces. Men have a naturalistic relation to their faces. Certainly they care whether they are good-looking or not. They suffer over acne, protruding ears, tiny eyes; they hate getting bald. But there is a much wider latitude in what is esthetically acceptable in a man’s face than what is in a woman’s. A man’s face is defined as something he basically doesn’t need to tamper with; all he has to do is keep it clean. He can avail himself of the options for ornament supplied by nature: a beard, a mustache, longer or shorter hair. But he is not supposed to disguise himself. What he is “really” like is supposed to show. A man lives through his face; it records the progressive stages of his life. And since he doesn’t tamper with his face, it is not separate from but is completed by his body – which is judged attractive by the impression it gives of virility and energy. By contrast, a woman’s face is potentially separate from her body. She does not treat it naturalistically. A woman’s face is the canvas upon which she paints a revised, corrected portrait of herself. One of the rules of this creation is that the face not show what she doesn’t want it to show. Her face is an emblem, an icon, a flag. How she arranges her hair, the type of make-up she uses, the quality of her complexion – all these are signs, not of what she is “really” like, but of how she asks to be treated by others, especially men. They establish her status as an “object.”

Susan Sontag, The Double Standard of Aging

Lainey Molnar

Star Wars: A Life Day Carol, or, the latest random AU that originated from an sketch session on instagram