(I’m going to actually see it first) – fearlessstateofmind backup

rookbodhi:

here’s the Rogue One Prediction based on my tfa experience:

rogue one comes out. chirrut/baze and bodhi/cassian immediately explode across the internet, spawning hundreds of pieces of fanart and fanfiction every day. jyn/cassian is less loved because het ships don’t have the same mass appeal (especially if one of them is a person of color) but a sizable amount of people ship them regardless. people start watching tcw for saw gerrera and discuss fancasts for steela (his sister). you can’t go anywhere without seeing wholesome posts about the heroes and the cast. and it’s great for like a week

then discourse starts about people’s lazily stereotypical portrayals of the movie’s characters of color in fanworks. the beast, jyn/krennic, rears its ugly-ass head as shippers frantically try to defend their ship against the disgusting antis. edgy fans worship the empire officials rather than the members of the rebellion. all the while galen/krennic insidiously lurks in the background.

after two more months nobody does anything with chirrut, baze, bodhi, or cassian anymore, because they don’t know how to maintain their interest in characters of color or ships involving characters of color. galen/krennic becomes the biggest ship on ao3 with over 1000 more fics than the previous top ship. everyone changes their urls back to xXsteverogers69Xx. the pure age of rogue one is over. we block the grossest shippers and settle in to wait for episode 8