Howdy! It’s me, Chip. You may know me from being insane about Star Wars and its lesbians. Here’s where you can find my stuff:

• my stories - I write about gay people (Velcinta, Rhaenicent, a few random others)
• my gifs - I’m getting better (don’t scroll past the 2024 ones)
• my shitpost blog - I run Andor Shit Daily. We have a good time.
• my twitter - Help me get noticed by the Star Wars account please
• my bluesky - Nothing funny to say for this

And just for fun, some other random posts of mine I like to keep close at hand below the cut:

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If we were getting for velcinta right now what keero is getting…..i would have already kool-aid manned through the walls of my apartment

This is truly going to be an insane season of television and I am so here for it

I cannot stop laughing. This is insanity. HOW is that the first clip we get 😂😂😂

vel being the annoying “little snag” in cinta’s life of rebellion is something that can be so personal

i just think it would be so fucking cool if i could go a full day without getting a headache

streets are theorizing that velcinta break up/get separated when vel stays with luthen’s rebels and cinta joins up with saw and i just have to say, that is exactly how my one fic was gonna go if i actually wrote the whole thing. alas, my brain is bad but i just need that to be on the record

perfect coworker relationship in a nutshell:

“okay, don’t kill me”

“don’t tempt me”

five paragraphs of text got me wanting to write whole fics again yippeee

Faye Marsay - Vel Sartha

Mon Mothma’s cousin, Vel Sartha, straddles the line between scrappy rebel and polished Chandrilan socialite. For actor Faye Marsay, that’s been a delicate balance. “I think in Season 1 we saw, yes, she was a rebel. And, yes, she was very strong and her mind was on the rebellion. But, you saw her softness.” When Vel wasn’t leading the Aldhani heist or tracking targets for Luthen, she was reconnecting with Mon and stealing quiet moments with her girlfriend, Cinta Kaz. “We saw a side of Vel that was, I think, quite vulnerable.”

In keeping with the theme that each character is dealing with their own personal and private rebellion, Vel’s fight is partially to break free from her privileged upbringing. “She’s from a wealthy background, a very traditional — one might say conservative — background. And I think that never worked for her,” Marsay says. “There’s a real disconnect from her upbringing. She didn’t want to be a part of that world. Obviously, she’s gay and I think her rebellion is about finding a place that she’s comfortable in a world that reflects who she is.”

The only family members we’ve seen her interact with are Mon and Leida Mothma. But off screen Marsay is grateful to be a part of the larger Star Wars family. “I feel very lucky to be a part of the family. She’s compelling. On the one hand, you could look at her as just kind of a cold soldier for the rebellion. But there’s real heart there to Vel. and There’s a real conflict inside her about who she is and what she needs and what she wants.”

Varada Sethu - Cinta Kaz

In contrast to Vel, Varada Sethu’s deadly Cinta Kaz is more focused on the task at hand than on her personal desires. “Cinta Kaz is first and foremost a rebel and that’s how she prioritizes herself. She has constructed herself into a soldier against the Empire,” Sethu says. “I think it’s her identity. Her whole life’s purpose is to fight the Empire. And then there’s a little snag that’s come across, which is Vel. I think [Cinta] struggles to acknowledge that it’s OK to have that attachment.”

In Season 2, Sethu reprises the role, but promises Cinta’s black and white thinking will be challenged in new ways. “This season, I think it’s more fighting for a quality of life,” she says.

(just some stuff I had to share from the StarWars.com introduction to Andor season two cast)