#@padawanlost

[padawanlost]

[bo-katan]

GIFTOBER 2023 | DAY 11: PINK

➣ That was some diversion, Sabine. You did the explosion so well, we can see it from here.

➣ Forget the explosion. Look at the color.

[caripr94]

Can you believe that anyone can call themselves a Star Wars fan and say that Vaderkin didn't love Padmé far more than Prince (King) Charles ever loved Princess Diana and wasn't a much better husband? Like, seriously?! That's a low bar!

@legalandnotease @anidala-for-ever @gch1995 @redrikki @wingletblackbird @kittenfangirl20 @padawanlost @riana-one @allronix @darth-jess @padme-amitabha @skywalkr-nberrie @casieyfran @an-angels-fury @spaceymaseyy @kayedium-writes @roselani24 @fanfictasia @marvelstars

[bisexualvader]

hi! can you rec me star wars blogs? please and thank you!

Hi! Here's some blogs I highly enjoy and would recommend, quality content ranging from edits, analysis, art, memes, and reblogs of everything in-between:

@allthingskenobi @barissoffee @bo-katan @ct-tupperware @dailyanakin @dailymaul @darthvaders @duelofthefatesmp3 @fox-trot @gffa @go-see-a-starwar @grandmoffimperial @han-leia-solo @haydanakin @hayden-christensen @padawanlost @padmeamidela @prequelsnet @rebel-ahsoka @rebeljyn @skyguyed @snips-starkiller-stormpilot @star-wars-forever @starwarsblr @starwarscolors @starwarsfilms @starwarsgroup @starwarsotsource @starwarsuniverse @stealingpotatoes @swladies @swlegends @swprequels @swsource @syndullahera @tatooineknights @theclonewarsdaily @thestarwarsdaily @torbins-braid

Additionally I like to follow and peruse these tags for new content/blogs:

#swedit #sw prequels #tcwedit

You're welcome!

[casieyfran]

do you have any new anidala fic recs? i’ve been out of the fandom for a while and need to catch up!

im pretty sure many fans of this fandom has already drop their reccomendations and most of the time it's where i find anidala/vaderdala fics. So I'll just drop it here.

check out their reccomendations!

burntblueberrywaffles

onlyanidala

gemmaswriting

askywxlker

padme-amitabha

Padawanlost

deadwivesclub

Idk about new anidala fics, I'd only joined this fandom just last year so im new. Tho i already run out of fics to read so im pretty sure i can atleast give u one XDD, in ao3 anidala tags have 9,031 works but there will only be like 23+ thats actually anidala centrics so searching for anidala centrics fics is like searching a needle in a haystack. Its maddening in here

But new anidala fics? Heres what i found and read tho since they're new, some of these are still to be in continue.

A Love Story by AmeliaKat

The Echoes of Battlecries and War Songs by no_loose_wire_joke

Suppression by Lady R_A_P

Agony in Sacrifice by invaderspotty

Painted Face by COSMICSKYDALA

the devil wept by littlerosette

Inherited Power (Doesn't mean inherited will) by LPSunnyBunny

Friends of the Bride and Groom by Kay2Es0

Advance Meditation by jupiterfox

Conviction's Journey by CrolynWald

If I Lose Myself Tonight by tea_and_thyme

Road Trip by aleksandriel

Baby, You were the love of my life by bookat99

Eros Turannos by Emerald-Leaves

You can also check natalie1012 bookmarks in ao3 or Natosi Pranja favorite stories in FF.net   I stalk their acc all the time bec they always seem to find anidala/vaderdala centric lol XDDD

You can check this authors too. They wrote numerous anidala that i also adore

Gemma's Writing

WrittinInStone

Rogue Darth Skywalker

shelivesfree

Shawn30

SilverDaye

alonelyturtle

Kay2Es0

aleksandriel

[hayden-christensen]

recently got back into star wars, do you have any blog recs for me? gifmakers or just people who talk about it in general. i love your work BTW! hope you have a nice day ❤️‍🩹

welcome back and thank you! apologies for how late this is I've been super busy recently but @gffa and @padawanlost are two of my favourites when it comes to talking about sw, @starwarsblr for everything and @carricfisher, @obii-wan, @revengeofthesiths, @tuserlivia, @heartssofkyber, @skywalkcranakin, @mulderscully, @rhaenyratargeryen for gifs but also do check the #swedit tag for others!

[redrikki]

I know you don't Star Wars post much anymore, and idk what kind of feelings you have about the franchise and the fandom atp, but I just wanted to tell you that seeing your old posts about Anakin and the Jedi pop up in my deepdive tumblr searches is so refreshing. Crazy how you were expressing all my current feelings and opinions 5+ years ago lol. Wish I had been active then. I often feel extremely alienated in this fandom for having opinions similar to the ones you used to post about, and so seeing those posts is so incredibly validating. It's so frustrating to try to analyze the themes of childhood trauma present in the franchise only to be told by other fans, over and over again, that you're interpreting media incorrectly lmfao. Sorry if this is weird or overbearing in any way, I just wanted to reach out to tell you that those things you wrote forever ago about a silly space drama really do mean a lot to me.

I haven't been into Star Wars for a while, mostly because of where Disney took the franchise, but I'm glad my old takes could bring you pleasure and validation. Fandom can be a pretty rough space. Finding the right people to hang out with can make all the difference. Look through my blog for folks I used to reblog a lot like @padawanlost and make friends from there. Don't be afraid to block folks or step away from fandom if you need to take a breather. Stay safe out there.

[crystalshined]

// I’ve been thinking about this post by padawanlost a lot…. Because I don’t agree with it.

RE: “Their (Anakin and Tru’s) friendship ends because Tru is a bad friend who expected the worst from his friend, a bad Jedi who didn’t practice compassion, understanding and forgiveness”

RE: “Tru is a bad friend because he was no evidence of Anakin’s *actively* sabotaging anything. his only ‘crime’ was to eavesdrop on a conversation”

Tru had a bad faith reading of Anakin’s actions, because Anakin spent 10 books in rivalry with Ferus, and especially from the beginning of the Korriban mission Anakin was bent on proving that he is better than Ferus.

"Anakin!" Tru exclaimed. But Ferus and Anakin were past listening to their fellow Padawans (...) "I've got news for you," Anakin said. "You won't be the one to find Omega. I will. I'd bet on it." The remark seemed to burst out of him without his directing it.

Anakin was so preoccupied with his goal of finding Granta on his own, that it put the rest of the group at disadvantage, before Tru’s lightsaber even broke 

"Our mission is to find Granta Omega," Anakin said. "You had things under control, so I went after him (...) "Tru was wounded, I was helping him, and Darra had to face off against a dozen droids, but everything was under control?"

He is putting his need to catch Granta over the well-being of the other padawans already. It puts a strain on Tru’s and Anakin’s friendship as followed by:

He sneaked a look back at Tru. His friend looked strained and unhappy. (...) Tru's friendship was very important to him. But Tru had to understand what was important to Anakin, too.

This is Anakin stating that Tru doesn’t understand him. This is Anakin narrating: my friend is important, but catching Granta and proving I’m superior to Ferus is More Important. – So I wonder, who is a bad friend here, really?

And honestly, Anakin chasing after his wants while leaving Tru in the background is not new. He did this during Galactic Games too, but back then Tru just helped Anakin get what he wanted, so I guess THEN he was ‘a good friend’.

He had more important things to do — like check out the Podracers. (...) "I'll catch up with you later," he told Ferus and Tru. "I have something I need to check out first." Disappointment clouded Tru's silvery eyes. "Oh?" Anakin knew that Tru had been looking forward to spending time with him, too. (...) He turned to go, and Tru leaned over and spoke softly in his ear. "Transit Red, end of the line." So Tru did know where he was headed. "You're a good friend," Anakin said as he dashed off

Tru secretly covering for Anakin during the games so he can check out illegal podrace doesn’t translate to me into ‘jedi who lacks compassion or understanding’ in fact it is an amazing example that Tru was trying to be understanding of Anakin all along.

So, back to the lightsaber drama

Tru reads Anakin’s lack of action as deliberate sabotage, because he was around to witness Anakin and Ferus clash since book 2. On Korriban it escalated to cause problems already (the droid battle where Tru got wounded) It gives Tru a reason to jump into these conclusions.

"I wondered," Tru said. "When we got back here, I wondered if you knew. I saw how you froze in the tomb.” (..) “But then I thought about how you feel about Ferus, how angry you had been. You would want him to get in trouble, even if it meant exposing me."

Tru’s issue with Anakin here is: “If you knew it will happen, why did you freeze and do nothing about it. You did this to get us in trouble on purpose.” –  Would you not be upset if your friend didn’t help you, just because he hates your other friend? (And I remind you the consequence of this petty conflict was that Darra died and she really wouldn’t if they cooperated better.)

Tru wants Anakin to explain himself.

Anakin is not able to explain himself, and it is what causes their friendship to break for good. It is caused by them not being able to understand and trust each other anymore. Mutually.

"You're looking at this all wrong," Anakin said. But how could he explain? He couldn't admit that he knew that Tru's lightsaber was broken because he couldn't explain why he'd forgotten to tell him to readjust it. He still didn't know how he'd forgotten something so crucial. Tru would think he'd deliberately forgotten it. There was nothing he could say to convince him otherwise, because he himself didn't know.

From Anakins POV Tru turned against him and sided with Ferus so Tru won't understand his explanations. From Tru's POV Anakin let Darra die to get Ferus in trouble, and because Anakin doesn't explain anything Tru walks away believing it.

—

I also disagree with notion that Jude’ writing is bad because only Anakin is blamed and Tru and Ferus got off without consequences.

Jude is not blaming Only Anakin ™. It is Tru Veld who is blaming Anakin and antagonizing him because he is upset with him. If you look outside of their personal drama, Jude is noting that The Council made a mistake sending the padawans on this mission in the first place:

Adi Gallia nodded. "We have reconsidered our decision to speed up the trials for chosen Padawans. We fear we put too much pressure on them." "We need additional Jedi, it's true," Oppo Rancisis said. "But we see now that we cannot rush readiness." "Our mistake, it was," Yoda said.

—

RE: “Tru – the padawan who couldn’t fix his own lightsaber and was caught lying to his master – got off scott free.”

RE: ““tru veld took no responsibility and tried to blame someone else””

The council censured Tru, which… I’m not sure what we are expecting the council to do to Tru, since the Jedi do not hand out punishments they lecture and teach in hopes you get better (and it is for example a whole reason the military pushed for Ahsoka to get expelled so that she can get ‘punished’ for ‘killing’)

"You are not here to be punished, least of all by yourself," Obi-Wan told him. "I must go on living," Ferus responded. "That is my punishment."

Ferus’s punishment was self-inflicted. This does not mean Anakin and Tru had to do the same as Ferus and leave the order.

In the end, none of the padawans got anything out of the Korriban mission except bad experience. They did not get promoted to become Knights, they lost their friend Darra, Ferus left the order with massive guilt, Anakin lost a friend (multiple, if you count Darra), Tru also lost a friend (multiple friends) and was formally answering for lying in front of the Council. He did take responsibility!!

[padawanlost]

[halfagonyandhope]

love your pfp!

Thank you! It’s by the fabulous @padawanlost :)

[caripr94]

Look what the news site for Disney has the audacity to say. In case you didn't have enough proof that they consider Hayden Christensen as nothing more than nostalgia bait.

Just when this guy is getting some respect and drawing in fans to their media, Disney is considering kicking him to the curb. And all they can say as an excuse is basically "we don't have any more stories for him" and "he's getting too old to make him look young". After they made up a canonically inconsistent adventure to drag desert hermit Obi-Wan into, CGI'ed up a 70-year-old Mark Hamill to play a mid-20s Luke Skywalker, and brought Palpatine back from the dead to cram into their sequel trilogy finale.

On the bright side, at least they can't butcher Hayden!Anakin anymore like they've done in these recent shows. But on the other hand, it gives me more reason to see Disney Lucasfilm crash and burn so that someone else can rebuild it from scratch and bring Hayden back in to give him the respect he deserves.

@tragicfantasy-girl, @nerdychristianfanboy, @roselani24, @fanfic-lover-girl, @fanfictasia, @gch1995, @riana-one, @marvelstars, @vaderdala1541, @wingletblackbird, @padawanlost, @redrikki, @kittenfangirl20, @rebelnurse, @friendlyneighborhoodgeek, @the-average-procrastinator, @clawedandcute, @the-far-bright-center

[caripr94]

Why do I get the feeling that as horrified as Padmé was at Vaderkin's manifested Dark Side and his plans for galactic domination, she was also quite tempted to join him, even if just to be with him, and horrified and torn apart by those feelings of temptation?

@vaderdala1541 @kittenfangirl20 @roselani24 @nerdychristianfanboy @an-angels-fury @anidalalover99 @anidala-for-ever @padawanlost @tragicfantasy-girl @marvelstars @gch1995 @wingletblackbird @abla-soso @riana-one @redrikki @goldens0422 @padme-amitabha @ontherocks21 @allronix @the-far-bright-center @fanfictasia @clawedandcute @spaceymaseyy @casieyfran @kayedium-writes @ursa-majora @fanfic-lover-girl

#no thoughts just suitless vader

[starwalkertales]

Ten songs, ten people

Rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up, then tag other people.

Thank you @fulcrum843 for the tag! 🥰

1. Sam Smith - unholy

2. Pu Shu - pingfan zhi lu

3. Jason Chen - tonghua

4. lil Nas X - starwalkin

5. U2 - beautiful day

6. Mayday - paidui dongwu (party animal)

7. Jolin Tsai - shuo ai ni

8. Zhou Jielun - bencao gangmu

9. Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe

10. My chemical romance - teenagers

No pressure tags! 😘

@ineffableobikin @padawanlost @a-nakins @haydennation @haydenfannews @haydewan @fieryredhead29 @haydanakin @star-wars-forever @starwarsfilms + everyone, who wants to do it!

[padawanlost]

A love letter to Prequel fans...

On March 24, 2017 – 7 years ago – I created a blog called padawanlost. I did so after YEARS of feeling like the star wars fandom did not want me. As some of you may know, I fell in love with the Star Wars Prequels during my teen years, after a viewing of Attack of the Clones made me realize that those movies would mean more to me than a momentary fixation. At the same time, it was not easy being a prequel fan. Everywhere I looked it seemed the world was telling I was stupid for loving the prequels, for sympathizing with Anakin, for crying during Revenge of the Sith or for listening to Across the Star over and over again. So it was easier to stay away….

Until 7 years ago, after a couple of years on tumblr, I finally found some fans who seemed to share my love for the prequels and its characters. And they gave me courage to join the fun, start a conversation and finally build a space where I could say unapologetically say: I love the prequels, I’ve always loved the prequels and I’m done with the hate!

So, instead of going all self-congratulatory, I want to use this opportunity to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to all prequel fans. You are the best part of star wars. The bravest, the kindest, the most resilient fans I had the honor of knowing. I love sharing my passion for the prequels with you. Thank you for every like, for every question, for every interaction. It means the world to me.

For the majority of my life I’ve been a Prequel fan, and today I can honestly say the last 7 years have been the best of it. The most fun I ever had with star wars. It wasn’t the blog itself that made it fun, it was you guys! Your beautiful gifsets, edits, artwork, fanfics, metas and jokes are what keep me going even after over 20 years of fandom. And your brilliant, passionate defense of the Hayden, Jake and the prequels in general are what makes me proud of calling myself a prequel fan.

Thank you, for the last 07 years. Thank you, for loving and defending the prequels. Thank you, for being here even if we never directly interacted.

From the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU!

[padawanlost]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis…was a dark lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise…he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians… to create… Iife. He had such a knowledge ofthe dark side…he could even keep the ones he cared about…from dying. He became so powerful…the only thing he was afraid of was��Iosing his power. Which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. It's ironic. He could save others from death…but not himself.

[caripr94]

The only problem is that he's brunette instead of dark blond. But otherwise, it's pretty spot on!

@padawanlost @vaderdala1541

The Padme and Anakin field scene, but make it Studio Ghibli! Happy May the 4th, everyone! <3