simon: I was closeted and not ready to come out and martin was threatening to out me to the entire school if I didn’t help him slightly inconvenience you
simon’s friends: okay but wHY
simon:
Leah: you were setting me up to get my heart broken!
Simon, a clueless gay who had no idea she was in love with him:
martin: I didn’t think people still did shit like that
yes i have headcanons that rey is lesbian and finnpoe is alive but i still would be fine w/ finn & rose just for the love of all gods in the universe please don’t make reylo a thing
optimistic liberal reformist college freshman luke who believes the jedi order can be rebuilt once again if we all follow the light side this time
vs
radicalized anarcho-marxist
retired professor luke who knows that reform won’t solve the problem that jedi ideology is fundamentally broken and will continue to repeat a cycle of boom and bust
btw if you ever feel embarrassed about putting too much of yourself into your characters or inserting yourself too obviously into your story, please remember that lin manuel miranda read a book about alexander hamilton and then wrote and directed an entire broadway musical where he himself starred as an extra-sexy singing and dancing version of the guy. and he got a whole bunch of awards for it, too.
also while we’re here, what is this weird trend of straight writers portraying lgbtq characters like “it was so obvious, absolutely everyone knew” like if there’s one thing i know it’s that i’m forever underestimating the ability of straight people to be completely fucking oblivious to queer people existing
i fucking love fanfiction like it literally caters for every need, whether you’re wanting 2k of cute couples snuggling on the sofa, a thing of epic length with an awesome plot or a piece of writing that is literally just pages of your favourite characters banging each other whoever invented fanfiction is my fave
starry-eyed 