Tag: padmé amidala

ekjohnston:

demandingbillydolls:

One thing I kinda take issue with in the whole Fanboy Takes on the Prequels Discourse is this:

What often seems to come up in discussing Anidala is: “Of COUSE Anakin loved Padme. She’s HOT. But why oh why did Padme love Anakin? He’s immature and whiny and cries a lot and has emotional breakdowns”.

Does anyone else notice the weird disparity here?

In this discourse, Anakin is permitted to be (at least initially, if not only) interested in Padme because of her looks. Padme, however, could only conceivably be (again, at least initially) interested in Anakin for his *personality*.

Tbh Hayden and Natalie are both ridiculously beautiful people, and I think AOTC did its job of articulating why the characters would care about each other beyond the fact that they’re both so pretty, but it seems like (apart from the fanboy aversion to the melodrama and plethora of romance tropes in the love story–Right down to a damn balcony scene with Anakin in a romance-novel-style open shirt) there’s this cultural undercurrent that Padme’s physical attraction to Anakin doesn’t matter. Because women, am I right? Men are the visual ones *sarcasm*.

Honestly, it just annoys me every time I see it pop up. Yeah, dive in and try to discuss why certain things in AOTC weren’t deal breakers or red flags for her, or if you felt they should have been, or whatever the case may be–that’s actually an interesting conversation imo that often gives a lot of insight into Padme’s character–but don’t imply that her attraction doesn’t matter or is irrelevant to their relationship. It’s not.

Padmé’s “oh no, he’s hot” moment in AotC is, like, LEGENDARY, tbh. And they’re both so bad at Talking to People (Outside of Work) that she says THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE. It’s glorious. I love it.

kazaikos:

I apologize for the humungo post, I wanted all the images together in a master post instead of separate installments.

Remember the Jedi Knight Japanese Dictionary I posted about, with the artists Chifuyu Sasaki and Naoko Kawano? Well, @ciette on tumblr actually purchased the book (so lucky!) and was so kind in letting me see the inside by scanning all the A/P images. I haven’t gotten the book myself yet (I will someday, hopefully) but getting these scans was a major relief as I’m not all over the place wondering what I was missing out on. To top it off, it was right near my birthday; such a great gift! I wanted to post these one the 16th but circumstances made it too difficult. I’m just happy all over. I did my best; ran them through lots of filters, and with some personal touches, I think I just about re-created the look as they are in the book.

For more inside, check out ciette’s post as she also shares images from the Padawan Learners Dictionary. 😀

Lots of Love.

shorelle:

we found love in a hopeless place ϟ

one of the things I love most about Star Wars is that it is, very strongly, a story about love – whether it’s romantic, filial, or platonic; as something that can be both horribly destructive and something that can save galaxies… and this song cover makes me want to explode into a million colours. (I’m sorry for the disproportionate Endor, I realised too late that this composition doesn’t make any sense ;_;)

rennydraws:

These Star Wars drawings of mine have been around for a while… I’ve seen them re-posted SO MANY TIMES, uncredited, misinterpreted… but as owner I’ve never really made a post with all of them, so here it is.
And, once and for all: these were made for fun and for having a good laugh in imagining Anakin and Padmé dealing with little Luke and Leia.

I’d never want to change the canon, honestly.
But hey, having fun is good. For the record, most of these were made almost two years ago in about a hour or so during my breaks between a hell of a job I was doing back then.
So, nasty part of the Star Wars fandom, please stop being so damn serious about it! Thank you 🙂

With that being said, thank you very much to all of the people who enjoyed these on Deviantart, or reblogged the uncredited posts with putting a link to the original ones and stuff. Thank you!! 🙂

Hope you enjoy these oldies! 😀