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At least my fingers are capable of reblogging this even when my mind has been melted beyond recognition. And no, it's not from staring too long at the red hot lava fields of Mustafar.

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May the Fourth be with you!

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"You know that only works when I do it, right?"

Me: 🫠FULLY AWARE! 🫠

"You're trying to Jedi Mind Trick me.

You know, that only works when I do it, right?"

Hayden Christensen for Monopoly Go commercial

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First Line Game

Tagged by @padmeanddorme, thank you for giving me a fun little break in the insanity that is my life right now!

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don't be shy and share anyway!

Changing the rules a lil bit and putting the first lines of my wip updates (as a way of saying im working on them i promiseeeee) :))

I'm going to follow @whayjhey's change-up to the rules because I too am still slowly working on quite a few projects that I promise are not abandoned! :D

Interlude (Chapter 13): It’s not for the sake of Padmé’s modesty that Dormé lingers for several minutes after MD-33 emerges from the residential wing.

2. Festival (Part VI): Sola gasped aloud when she sees her little sister descending the main staircase in the ebony twin of her sweater dress.

3. Revelations (Chapter 15): Padmé tried not to openly stare when Anakin reappeared, but her husband had a habit of making an entrance, and this time was no exception.

4. From A Certain Point of View (Palpatine): I picked the wrong girl; she was supposed to become the new mother figure to Anakin, not become the actual mother of his children.

5. Afterglow (Part 3): The faintest press of her palm sends him skittering sideways, Padmé’s laugh a melodic backdrop to his involuntary gasp and the rhythm of his heels slipping across the marble floor.

6. Discovery (Prologue): The High Council sat in stunned silence as Coruscant's lone sun sank below the horizon, plummeting the elite members within the pinnacle tower of the Jedi Temple into darkness.

7. Fireside/Remedy (One-Shot): The thunderstorm arrives without warning, its whipping winds and forked lightning so simultaneously mesmerizing and terrifying that Anakin can hardly believe soft and beautiful Naboo can harbor such dangerous ferocity.

8. Six Degrees of Shuura (One-Shot): Fruit - Even before Anakin tries shuura fruit for the first time, he already knows he's going to love it.

9. Five Things Anakin Learned After He Married Padmé (One-Shot): Padmé is a heat-seeking missile when she sleeps.

10. Handmaiden (fever): The Corellian flu sweeps through the halls of the Rotunda, consuming everyone in its path like lava flowing and spewing unchecked down the blackened plains of Mustafar.  

Tagging (no pressure to play!): @darth-jess, @skywalkr-nberrie, @sammys-magical-au, @now-you-sound-like-a-jedi, @rose-arwen-padme + anyone else who wants to play along!

PS: Now there's 10 open Word documents staring expectantly at me even though it's past my bedtime... Oops!

First Line Game

Tagged by @kayedium-writes, thank you!

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don't be shy and share anyway!

Changing the rules a lil bit and putting the first lines of my wip updates (as a way of saying im working on them i promiseeeee) :))

make me wanna make you fall in love (ch18) - Padmé took a quick glance at the clock before squeezing her eyes shut.

got sunshine on a cloudy day (ch2) - For someone who's very much determined to keep living for a precocious but otherwise adorable kid, Anakin really wanted to die on the spot.

could be the story of another us (ch3) - PADMÉ (TEXT) Hey, did you happen to see our schedule this week?

a jedi academy au ive been meaning to write (oops) - Had Anakin known that his first day (at what he already decided was a stupid school) would turn out the way that it did… he would’ve never agreed to have come here in the first place.

young queen and a jedi au ive also been meaning to write (oops) - She sees him first.

^ supposed sequel to that (oops) - He steps closer, just enough for him to show off how much he's grown over the years. 

another modern anidala au featuring my two fave dorks with two completely different personalities - It’s convenient, Padmé swears.

tagging: @aleksandriel @padmeanddorme @politicalprocrastinator @thescreamsofinnocents @missbehave-onnaboo ++ anyone who wants to do this

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The resounding cheer for this man--after two decades of scorn--will never not bring me to tears. 🥹

The way everyone cheered 😭😭😭

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The warning I just gave to my toddlers is 💯% something Padmé would have said while parenting the twins.

"Noooooo, we're not having a lightsaber fight in the driveway yet. You both need a lot more coordination and spatial awareness before I'm allowing that."

The way she would pointedly ignore Anakin's disappointed look the way I did my husband's is also on brand.

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Someday I'll Write It: (Interlude, Chapter 16 Dialogue Teaser)

Ext. Grand Army of the Republic Navy, Starfighter Docks

Anakin jumps into the open cockpit of a Delta-7 Aethersprite, his obvious excitement falling when Padmé shakes her head at his outstretched hand.

Anakin: I can't leave you out here on the landing pad all by yourself. It's against my mandate.

Padmé: *exasperated* I can't fit in there with you!

Anakin: *confidently surveying the cockpit* We can fit.

He offers his hand again to assist Padmé up.

Padmé: Flying tandem is illegal, Anakin.

Anakin: *grinning devilishly* Only if you get caught.

He settles into the lone pilot's chair and pats his lap invitingly. For one second, Padmé doesn't move until...

Padmé: *muttering* Goddesses above, help me.

She gathers her skirts in one hand and reaches for Anakin with the other.

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I need to pre-order this like yesterday!

‼️‼️‼️"So, what do you get in this deluxe edition? Well, the book itself is upgraded with “an acetate jacket with foil stamping, a paper over-board book case, gilded and stained edges, illustrated full-color end papers, and a red satin ribbon market.” Most crucially, though, the text has “over 150 annotations” from Stover, giving readers a rare glimpse into the mind of the author who made us think differently about this story.‼️‼️‼️

And really, that’s the best kind of celebration the Revenge of the Sith‘s novelization could have. Even 20 years later, there’s still few movie novelizations that take the approach Stover did—Revenge of the Sith is more than just a retelling of the movie you know, beat by beat of it’s script (with some changes, depending on the drafts the writer had access to). It grants a layer of interiority that adds depth to its characters and world, and Stover’s lavish prose amplifies the mytho-poetic underpinnings of Star Wars to weave the inevitable tragedy of the Jedi Order and Republic’s falls into something far grander. There is a reason people can still quote lines of narration from this book two decades later: it’s a perfect complimentary text to the movie, a grand celebration of one vision of it, told and presented in a way that really does treat it like some long ago fable."

Source: https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith-novelization-re-release-matthew-stover-2000585943

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 69 Mentions & Highlights

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Bring tissues. Here's the whole chapter.

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 68 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 64 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 60 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 50 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 46 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 45 Mentions & Highlights

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Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear Chapter 29 Mentions & Highlights

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A little bit of context for this one since it genuinely made me laugh: Mon Mothma is trying to recruit votes to pass an act that would see the Emperor's complete power rightfully restored to the Senate. She needs more votes, so she is currently approaching the Separatist systems that are to be reinstated in the "new" Imperial Senate. This was her witty retort to a Separatist leader who is still hurling accusations that the Republic's power "failed" the ailing Separatist systems that seceded.