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Title: At The Helm
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] jaybendt
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: one image
Characters/Pairing: Kylo Ren, Finn, Rey
Warnings/Notes: -
Creator's Summary: A totally self indulgent fanart piece because I’ve been obsessed with the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie. Featuring Kylo Ren, Finn and Rey’s respective props.

Reasons for reccing: The Force Awakens sets up this idea of the past and the trauma it inflicts on the future generations and that theme carries through to varying degrees throughout the sequel trilogy. And I think the way the past affects the future can best be seen in these three characters with Kylo holding onto Vader’s helmet, Finn being a stormtrooper, and Rey carrying around an old Rebel pilot helmet. This is a really great piece that highlights that theme and how it carries through with these three characters.

Link: https://jaybendt.tumblr.com/post/143065585503
[personal profile] gettinggreyer
Title: How The Last Jedi Defies Expectations
Creator: Pop Culture Detective
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: 20:49 minutes
Characters/Pairing: Poe Dameron, Finn, Luke Skywalker
Warnings/Notes: TLJ-Positive
Creator's Summary: The Last Jedi is a movie that’s designed to defy fan expectations. Nowhere is this subversion more evident than in the way the film handles its three male heroes: X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, renegade Stormtrooper Finn, and legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker.

Reasons for reccing: This is a good analysis about how TLJ expertly defied and subverted expectations, specifically in regards to its male characters. And how a lot of the anger against this film (not all) is because of the ways the male characters are portrayed to be more vulnerable rather than perfect power fantasies and how the male characters are challenged by the female characters. This is a great analysis that examines how TLJ subtly talks about femininity and masculinity and the ways it challenges traditional masculinity.

Link: YouTube
gettinggreyer: (Kylo Ren)
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Title: -
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] thekesselrun
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: Three images/gifs
Characters/Pairing: Finn
Warnings/Notes: -
Creator's Summary: I think he’s just an active member of the Resistance now. [In] episode Eight, he couldn’t decide what team he was fighting for. But since then he’s made a clear decision. - John Boyega in Vanity Fair for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Reasons for reccing: This is a really lovely and aesthetically appealing graphic edit that celebrates Finn and his newfound identity as a hero of the Resistance.

Link: https://thekesselrun.tumblr.com/post/189194953654/
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Title:
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] arsanimo [twitter.com profile] arsanimo [instagram.com profile] arsanimo

Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Characters/Pairing: Finn/Rose Tico
Warnings/Notes: The Rise of Skywalker-Era Outfits
Creator's Summary: I just want them to be happy!

Reasons for reccing: I really loved this ship in TLJ and this is just some adorable fanart of this pairing :3

Link: Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram
gettinggreyer: (Kylo Ren)
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Title: The Skywalker Lightsaber
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] red-applesith
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 
Characters/Pairing: Rey, Kylo Ren | Ben Solo, Finn, Reylo
Warnings/Notes: N/A
Creator's Summary: The Skywalker saga is coming to an end and I spent virtually four years hiding in the shadows to avoid the discourse (™). Well, to that I say no more! Rey isn’t a Skywalker! Finn is important even if he’s not a Jedi and Ben Solo is going to redeem himself! 

And to rest my case below is a long thread about the Skywalker Lightsaber, the place of each character in the sequel trilogy and their narrative function. Buckle up!

Reasons for reccing: A very thorough meta that analyzes the journeys and character arcs of the three main characters of the sequel trilogy through the lense of the Skywalker Legacy Saber. The writer has some really great analysis here and has a strong understanding of basic storytelling and fairy tale tropes which serves as a powerful basis for the writing of Star Wars. The meta is concise and easy to understand and even uses some humor at times to get its point across.

Link: https://red-applesith.tumblr.com/post/188110767712/
[personal profile] gettinggreyer
Title: N/A
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] littlecorvusdraws [twitter.com profile] little_corvus
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: three pages
Characters/Pairing: Finn/Poe Dameron
Warnings/Notes: -
Creator's Summary: a quiet little comic I made for my Finn fanzine

Reasons for reccing: The art is stunningly beautiful and the little story within the short comic does a fantastic job of portraying Finn’s development and change, from his sheltered and harsh life within the First Order to his new life in the resistance. And that development is portrayed through his intimate conversation with Poe under the starry sky. It’s a lovely romantic setting and a great piece for Finn.

Link: Tumblr
[personal profile] gettinggreyer
Title: The Stormtrooper Paradox
Creator: Pop Culture Detective
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: 10:47 minutes
Characters/Pairing: Stormtroopers, Finn
Warnings/Notes: Created before The Last Jedi.
Creator's Summary: The Force Awakens does what no other movie in the long running Star Wars franchise has even done before: it humanizes Stormtroopers. Strangely the filmmakers seem unaware of the rather profound implications their new narrative has for the rest of their cinematic universe.

Reasons for reccing: This is an interesting analysis and criticism of the sequel trilogy. It examines the implications of Finn being a humanized Stormtrooper and what it means--or rather should mean--for the world and franchise of Star Wars. He criticizes the “paradox” of humanizing stormtroopers through Finn, but then jarringly returning to treating the Stormtroopers as “disposable grunts” to be killed and defeated by the heroes.

I find this a really interesting analysis and it is one of my major criticisms of the sequel trilogy so far and the creator of this video does a great job of analyzing and creating a coherent and clear argument. The directors seem to be half-heartedly addressing the humanity of Stormtroopers but have failed to fully commit to the idea. I think this can also be seen in The Last Jedi.

There was a scene that had Finn briefly reunite with an old Stormtrooper he knew on the base, the two share a conversation and the nameless stormtrooper seems to share a friendly camaraderie with “FN-2187,” but the scene is ultimately deleted from the final product. There is another scene, an extended one of Finn & Phasma’s confrontations, which has Finn challenge the Stormtroopers loyalty to Phasma and the First Order and the troopers react by displaying a moment of questioning before being killed by Phasma. These two deleted scenes would have helped further humanize stormtroopers, but they were taken away from the final product. And the Stormtrooper Paradox continues.

Link: YouTube
gettinggreyer: (Kylo Ren)
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Title: Finn vs Kylo and Rey: Let’s talk about Lies
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] nevernerdenoughblog
Rating:
Word Count/Length/Size: Nearly 4,000 words
Characters/Pairing: Kylo Ren, Rey, Finn
Warnings/Notes: N/A
Creator's Summary: I want to make a brief comparison between our three main protagonists, focusing in the way they are written. I would like to make two points in this meta. The first one is that Kylo, Rey and Finn are the protagonists and the second one is that Finn and Kylo are analogues from different realms (Finn is an action hero while Kylo is a dramatic one), while Rey is Kylo’s mirror in the spiritual realm/another dramatic hero. In terms of storytelling, that is reflected in how Finn is written as a hero of an action-based plot and Kylo and Rey as heroes of character-based plots.

Reasons for reccing: This is a bit of an older meta, but it’s one of the best metas I have ever seen that perfectly explains the arcs of Rey, Finn, and Kylo in a comprehensive and poignant way. Tumblr user [tumblr.com profile] fluffycakesistainted calls this meta the “most perfect distillation of the Narrative Trio’s arcs I’ve ever seen” and I think that’s a really apt description of what this meta manages to achieve.

Link: Tumblr
[personal profile] gettinggreyer
Title: The Story of Finn
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] LullabyKnell
Rating: T
Word Count/Length/Size: 26,047 words, 7/7 chapters
Characters/Pairing: Original Stormtrooper Characters
Warnings/Notes: n/a
Creator's Summary: The story they hear is that of FN-2187.

He's a defector – a traitor to the First Order. He's not the first, nor will he be the last, and the First Order expects to retrieve him and end him quickly.

But that's not what happens.


The only thing Stormtroopers own are stories.

Reasons for reccing: This is an absolutely brilliant fic! Finn never makes an actual appearance, instead the story is entirely told from the perspective of Stormtrooper OCs, but they have heard of Finn’s story--the defector, and they become inspired by him. I love the idea of more Stormtroopers like Finn, defectors and normal people who have been brainwashed into loyalty, and this fic gives me all of that. And it does it all so spectacularly well. It’s a brilliantly written fic and one I’d recommend for anyone interested in Stormtrooper culture within the First Order.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5594782/chapters/12891928

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