So with all the hype of The Last Jedi spoilers, I’m not sure why no one is realizing that we’ve known for months what’s going to happen because it’s all in @streetsolo fanfiction Signs and Smoke Signals trilogy: A Flare in the Dark/A Candle in the Night/A Glow in the Dawn story she posted on ao3.

Proof? spoilers under cut as per request

1. Phasma’s staff. In chapter 10 of Flare, Phasma starts training the Reader to fight with a staff. The chapter was posted in January 2016 before any marketing material came out about Phasma even having a staff or fighting with one.

2. Force bond between Kylo and Reader - okay, probably not that big since that can be in a lot of Reylo fics but throughout the story, Kylo moreso than Reader has “visions” of the future together, similar to like how it was when he and Rey touched hands, visions of a “potential” future, like things that might happen or might not depending on how you choose to act

3. Force dreams/communication between Kylo and Reader - in TLJ, Snoke does something that allows them to communicate long distance. This happens in the story too, when their relationship is long distance, which is a really weird coincidence that it’s not just that they can communicate, but it’s because of Snoke.

4. Reader goes willingly to Kylo on Snoke’s ship to bring him back - happens both in TLJ and in the second story, A Candle in the Night, and then they are both taken to Snoke. The same exact premise just with slightly different context.

5. Snoke claims to be able to read Kylo’s mind yet Kylo is able to block him from viewing his thoughts to launch an attack against him - happens in The Last Jedi in the throne room and in A Glow in the Dawn when they are getting ready to fight him. (Snoke puts up much more of a satisfying fight in the story)

6. BIG ONE - In the story, Snoke orders Kylo to kill Reader. TLJ - Snoke orders Kylo to kill Rey. In both versions, Kylo makes a show of it but doesn’t actually go through with it. In the story, both Kylo and Reader try to grab the lightsaber (but it doesn’t snap in the story version) But BOTH conflicts, in the story and the film, end with an explosion rocking the ship and knocking them both temporarily unconscious. That is a REALLY big coincidence since they were in the same lightsaber frozen scene when that happens

7. Poe’s arc- Poe becomes Captain in A Glow in the Dawn and takes over the Resistance after Leia becomes ill. He is riding a Fathier at the end of the story, although Poe never rides one in the film. Leia grooming Poe for the leadership role means the characters go through similar arcs in the film and the story. Not totally revolutionary, but still noteable.

8. In the story notes, she talks about working with an engineer called “JAM” to help figure out the wiring of the lightsabers and other technology that she used to build a weapon called the Flare (named after first story). In the visual dictionary that leaked, the descriptions of a First Order weapon is almost word for word what she wrote in the story

There’s probably more there but this is all I can think of for now

I have no idea what this means, but if it’s a coincidence, it’s a REALLY big one. And it’s weird because Flare was written from January - February 2016, Candle was February - April 2016, and then Glow took forever to finish up but it was before all of the trailers or anything came out. I don’t know how to explain this.

Link to story, see for yourself: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5815693/chapters/13402072