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The key to understand sabedala imo is that is completely onesided and that is very tragic as Sabé never really fully knew Padmé. She was perhaps under the impression that she knew Padmé like no one else, except maybe other of the handmaidens (i'm convinced there was a lot of jealousy in between the handmaidens), but it turned out that no, she didn't knew Padmé as well as she thought she did, and for her that's probably her biggest failure because her mentality is that of having to copy Padmé in the best of her capacity and sharing similar thoughts and ideas.

But the sort of intimacy Sabé thinks they had is a illusion, a lie, and honestly I think is more interesting and would make sense if she never realized this, not even after Padmé's death. She went on thinking they were soulmates of sorts and changed her name legally, whereas Padmé didn't even tell her she married. For Padmé the kind of intimacy Sabé wanted was impossible because these are her employees and her decoys, they're there to die on her place.

Who Sabé really knew and probably actually fell in love with, was Queen Amidala, not Padmé, because after all the facade and identitiy fuckery, even Sabé got lost in the tunnel vision of Queen Amidala vs Padmé.

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Can you imagine the sheer amount of horror and panic for the rebels if Padmé decided to be evil and "yeah, okay, you know what, let's cut Palpatine's head and let me see what I can do to fix this galaxy my way"?

No no like they're like "The Chancellor tricked us, almost all the jedi are dead, there's no republic anymore, but there's still hope! There's still a fight in us, there's still---!" and they see Padmé, with Anakin/Vader following her close with raging, horrible, yellow eyes, but what's more scary is that Padmé is just smilling? With a sith so close to her? Padmé, he's- he's a murderer, Padmé? Why are you giving him pats- Oh damn, he's the father, oh damn-.

"We're doomed" the rebels mutter when they realize Senator Amidala- wait, what? Is Empress Amidala now? Okay-.

Yeah, okay, theorically she would be a better choice than the bastard of Palpatine. But at the same time she's so loved, so clever as a politician and Anakin is so devoted to her that forming a rebellion against her would be twice as hard. Even more when she actually originally was one of the founders of that very same rebellion? And General Skywalker is insane now, and he's very insane about her too, and he's very murderous and did I say insane? and...

What, all the highly trained look-alikes handmaidens are now secret service? Well that's...complicated, but...What, Naboo supports her? The whole planet? That's not so much of a shock, but...Bail, wait, listen to yourself, Bail what are you saying, she's evil now, stay with us, Bail. Okay, well, you might have a point-

"We're doomed." The rebels mutter again as they facepalm at the most cheesy and dumb royal wedding between the worst power couple in existence and the Organas are guests of honor and the groomsmen/honor guard are a chained General Kenobi, an astromech and a protocol droid.

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Brainstorming some concepts

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You know, sometimes I think about the fact that we never met a Chibiusa who had a truly good childhood. Mostly talking about a childhood with present, loving and caring guardians and parental figures. (Less about people trying to kill her and stuff, though I'm sure that as its effects as well)

Like idk wtf Usagi and Mamoru have got going on in Crystal Tokyo, they get possessed by a more asshole version of themselves, but they don't feel like the Mamo and Usagi we know from the series grown up. They suck at parenting, it's canonically shown. And not even in the funny ahaha trying parent, no, they are BAD parents.

I also don't know what the inners are doing, finding literally anything else to do but taking good care of this neglected child.

Idk, just things that make me think about the Chibiusa we got to meet and the one who is synonymous with the person we know as Chibiusa.

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as teen gfs .//_//.

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portraits for future reference

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How do you feel about the idea of gay couples "pushing sexuality" when hetetonorativity meant that we had to reacted to straight couples only ipeven if we weren't completly straight. Why should we be only allowed to relate to one idea of sexual presentation? They think it's pushing an ideology, but would it be fairer to say that it's fighting against a doubke standard?

Originally, this was going to be a very brief post; I agree with the thrust of what you're talking about re: depictions of gay couples in the media, because everyone on Tumblr who isn't part of one of the weirdo reactionary circles believes some variant of that, it's 2025. The rest of the post was going to be me expressing confusion regarding the specific exigence of this ask, like why you chose to ask me in particular this question now in particular. But there's an element of your wording in the back half that I'd like to unpack a little more, because it touches on the core of how I conceive of issues like this: I think the distinction between "pushing an ideology" and "fighting against a double standard" is arbitrary and ultimately basically entirely down to who's currently got control of the framing. I firmly believe that "Fighting a double standard" as you've described it is the same thing as "pushing an ideology," it's just that by doing so you're pushing an ideology that I agree with, making normative claims about how the world ought to be that I agree with. (You can't claim with a straight face, for example, that Steven Universe wasn't advancing a normative argument about how the world ought to be with the specific way in which it handled its queer themes, and you'd look silly if you tried.) The actual slight of hand with the conservative framing is not that it falsely accuses progressives of having an ideology, it's that it's designed to frame ideology only as something that other people have-their own ideology they consciously or unconsciously render invisible, via framing it as "what's natural" or "common sense" or whatever. Fish who don't know that they're wet, sometimes deliberately.

I frequently encounter progressive rhetoric that, in response, attempts to usurp that unquestioned "common sense" status ("We don't have an ideology, we have empathy! Basic human decency!") and I think there are situations where that can be rhetorically effective- particularly in situations where a progressive stance can be backed up by existing commonplace moral frameworks like "live and let live" or "treat others how you would want to be treated" and so on. But I also don't think that it's actually true, and I think it can unintentionally cede ground by validating the conservative attempt to make "ideology" a dirty word. It's ideology all the way down, and I think it's better to render your opponent's ideology legible and force them to defend it on its own merits (which they usually can't) rather than to lie and claim that you don't have one either. Otherwise I think you run the risk of siloing yourself in a bubble where your positions are taken for granted, your understanding of the general principles that your progressive stances are supposed to be based on gets eroded, and you have bad theory of mind for why your enemies believe what they do instead of the Self-Evidently-True Things that you believe. And having good theory of mind for your enemies is important if you want to effectively grind the bastards into the dirt!

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I think it's really interesting that the traditional superheroic moratorium on killing was codified at the editorial level for basically the most despicable, censorious, two-faced moralizing reasons possible, but ultimately wound up as one of the more self-justifying, durable and admirable elements of the archetype.

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I do think that that Hussie quote about how all Marvel comics for the past several decades are functionally fanfiction is basically true, but I also think that the "collaborative," built-with-some-expectation-of-shuffling-and-torch-passing nature of the project also makes it probably uniquely difficult to identify the exact point where that changeover actually occurred. Canon of Theseus

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can't take you seriously if you call anidala a nothing burger cause messianic prophesied hero who was once a slave and ex child queen turned senator in a dying system defying a religious institution's laws and societal expectations by loving each other with a dash of courtly love is the coolest concept ever actually

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Happy Valentine’s Day to all my fellow Han/Leia shippers ❤️❤️❤️

Words by Beth Revis, Illustrations by Sophie Li

From the book, “Someone Who Loves You” 💕

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Ok so a while ago I thought about a MelJayVik Wicked AU and I think it's crazy how perfectly it fits based on their characters and even parts of the overall story.

Viktor as Elphaba Mel as Glinda Jayce as Fiyero Ambessa as Madam Morrible Singed as The Wizard Sky or Orianna as Nessarose Heimerdinger as Doctor Dillamond

I mean, Ambessa literally gets interested in Viktor's powers similarly to Morrible with Elphaba's. Her and Singed also work together, mostly thinking on how to use him for his own benefit. He created shimmer, which gave Viktor's his powers, similarly to the Wizard's green elixir (I guess Viktor is purple here). And one could argue Singed has a somewhat fatherly relationship with Viktor.

Mel is a popular politician who knows how to use her influence, yet has always wanted her mother's approval and was denied it, similarly to Glinda with Madam Morrible. And Ambessa shows up wanting to work with her and promising to give her the validation she wanted just as they are about to enter a war.

Fiyero Jayce, well, he's one of the few people who actually care about Viktor and doesn't push him to the side, while also hitting off pretty quickly with Mel... Ends up getting involved in military work that's meant to oppress the people (Zaunites) who are actually the victims (Elphaba/the animals), even if he didn't intend to.

One could argue for a pure JayVik AU with Jayce as Glinda but I honestly think Mel works even better, especially with her mommy issues paralleling Glinda and Morrible, while Jayce is still close enough to Fiyero lol. And I might be crazy but I have this idea in my mind of having seen some cute MelVik art where Viktor was somewhat feminine despite it being het which I think is cute for the Melvik of it all and as a parallel to Gelphie. Plus both of them are mages (though Mel was actually the one born as such in this case).

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In the Sith-raised au how does Anakin react to Maul being revived and going to make a criminal empire?

Does he feel betrayed that Maul would not come back/betray Palpatine’s plan

Or does he think of joining Mail but decides against it

Or does Maul try and fail to convince Anakin to join crimson dawn

Well, first I think I have to explain that in this AU, Obi-Wan didn't manage to -seemingly- kill Maul in TPM; (but Maul ended wounded enough for him to be forced to flee).

Alas, it isn't until several years laters, when Anakin and Maul have already developed some sort of...bond, that Obi-Wan -apparently- kills Maul, which is why Anakin hates Obi-Wan in this universe lol.

That said, I explained here a little more how their dynamic is; but when Maul finally shows again at first AnakinVader is mostly overjoyed to find his evil big bro alive,,,and then Maul just tries to kill him, which Vader barely manages to survive and now that hurts.

But also, they were raised as sith and thus under the pretense that eventually only two would remain. Maul did had some mild hope that the two sith remaining would be himself and Vader; but Vader is hm, clearly a bit too loyal to Sidious and Dooku since, after all, they raised him, and his loyalty is his strong suit. Problem with Vader boy is that he would rather have the little sith group remain alive, he's too indecisive and divided to make a choice unless he's pushed to the edge; which is why Maul decides that the best course of action is just to kill him.

Vader doesn't feel as betrayed about the murder attempt, actually, because his fucked up mind sees murder to be better than being abandoned. And from his POV Maul left him all alone with Dooku and Sidious, who are just constantly tormenting him, like Maul was the closest to genuine comfort, in fact at times if it hadn't been for Maul is probably little Ani would have died.

So his issue is precisely that; Maul leaving him all alone with their awful parents and not even a "hey, vader, wanna join my new crime group? we all are still evil but you might escape the constant torture"; not that he tried to ask either (but to be fair, the murder attempt seems like a fairly reasonable motive to believe you aren't wanted).

In a very fucked up way that only reinforces Vader's idea that he only truly has Sidious, like the only person that really won't leave him. oof

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the comics version of how darth vader found out luke was his son is honestly superior just bc how funny it is. like pov u are the most feared sith lord alive. the plan for galactic domination is going swimmingly. then the x wings show up. you humor them, and jump in a ship of your own. they are no match for your piloting skills. and that is true. except for one with a death wish. who somehow outmaneuvers you and blows up the death star. you meet him again, and what is that? a lightsaber? your lightsaber? what is the meaning of this? obi wan kept it? and obi wan gave it away so freely? & to this street rat rebel scum? you immediately have a new arch nemesis. you must know his name. you will not rest until you know his name. and then boba fett is spilling the tea, saying his name is skywal—oh. OH. fuck

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capable of kindness.

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Image description: it's a cartoon illustration of Usagi from Sailor Moon. She's in her Sailor Moon uniform, she's holding on hand up, pointing at the "Sailor Moon" logo. The glove on that hand is not finished transforming, the ribbon is in the middle of wrapping itself around her hand. The lettering above her read "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon" and "Naoko Takeuchi". End of description.

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