Chalactan Formalwear Round 2 :^)

when the world needed him most, he returned

noise cancelling headphones aren’t enough i need everyone to die

it is so so cool how the first ever mention of padme comes at the tail end of rotj, just a half-memory from leia (“beautiful, kind…but sad”) that luke desperately clings to. and then the first ever onscreen appearance of padme comes from a screen-within-a-screen as she threatens the trade federation (“its queen amidala herself!”) in queen regalia so elaborate it masks her identity. we see padme through the eyes and faded memories of others before we get to know her as a human being. she barely steps out of that imperial queen persona for the whole of tpm, and then by the time we do get to see who padme really is and what she’s like with the queen mask off (aotc, rots), we find out she is, in fact, the sum of both her kids. she is endlessly forgiving and very smart and she burns for justice but is forever marked by war. she is her son, she is her daughter. you have this urge to see more of padme throughout the films, then by the time she’s telling vader she sees the good in him, you realize you’ve known her all along:) and luke’s response of “i have no memory of my mother, i never knew her” hits a million times harder, because he didn’t need to know her to carry out her legacy. it’s loose and a bit clunky but this is the magic to star wars releasing in backwards order, you get to find out padme never died!

Codywan is a gay ship for gay people.

Obikin is a gay ship for straight people. (Derogatory)

Kanera is a straight ship for gay people.

Anidala is a straight ship for straight people.

No i won‘t elaborate

i love sith!obi-wan as much as the next person but also, consider: obi-wan being the most stubbornly light-side jedi of all time

through a holocron, anakin and obi-wan come face-to-face with the darkest versions of themselves. anakin, of course, sees a monster. darth vader at his most extreme, murderous and even sadistic in his cruelty, not just violent but enjoying the vicious power his violence grants him. he's like a demon brought to life, the dark side in its purest form, malevolent and evil

meanwhile, obi-wan is still obi-wan just slightly worse. obi-wan but with like a bit of a drinking problem and he's let himself go a little. obi-wan but he's gotten addicted to world of space warcraft and is chugging more space mountain dew than might be ideal. The Darkness Within is just obi-wan indulging his self-destructive tendencies and maybe being a bit more of a bitch than he already is, turning up scruffy and less well-groomed than og obi-wan but still absolutely, unmistakably in the light

dude is incorruptible. a beacon of light, stubbornly staying light no matter what life throws at him.

(naturally, obi-wan is still horrified by "evil" obi-wan. dude is listening to his albums on speaker phone. he is so inconsiderate)

Found in my mother's freezer... What do you think might be inside??

I got an MCAT practice question about pheromones which means no one can tell me my fanfiction addiction is harming my education ever again

"padme enabled anakin" ppl just don't get it. She wanted to be him almost as much as she wanted to be with him.

i think it’s prettty important that padme is the one who says “to be angry is to be human.” padme, the person who, throughout the entire saga, is allowed to express her anger the least. she stays composed when decrying the senate. she balances feeling betrayed by anakin with trying to talk him down. padme’s been a diplomat since 14. it would take years of unlearning for her to access anakin’s naked, messy rage. and for her to assert that volatility is part of being alive? padme knows she’s been denied her humanity. and she can only hope for moments of escape: she can never regain it completely.

Loving star wars is a curse and perhaps a mental illness of some kind

Palpatine never stops getting obliterated by Padmé his entire life. Like imagine you’re trying to do evil advisor political things and then there’s this child queen cutting you off at the pass every time. Oh okay no worries you try and assassinate her but then she gets even more politically adept and then seduces and marries the guy you’ve been working really hard to groom. Rats! But no problem, because now she’s dead and you’ve succeeded in making her husband into your metal fleshmachine murdersub but—SURPRISE! Turns out she’d been hitting that freakazoid raw during every wartime conjugal visit and now you’re getting your ass kicked by not one but TWO of her kids, which, given they both have 50% of her DNA, is like kind of like getting your ass kicked by a genetically combined total of 100% Padme Amidala. Crazy.