#Gardulla

[mixelation]

sometimes people are like "i did a ton of research for this fic" and i think "what on earth were you researching?"

so if i ever act confused about this. remind me of the time i downloaded three separate books to figure out what fucking planet a character was born on.

they all have different answers, BTW

[humanoidhistory]

Today was the day I learned female Hutts look like this.

[adragonsfriend]

Shmi Skywalker measures volumes of blood in wupi of Gardulla’s gambling debts.

Admiral Piett counts his colleagues lives in cycles of Lord Vader’s respirator.

<- the summary of an absolutely gut wrenching one shot I will probably never write

[sw5w]

Anakin Waits

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:41:39

[anakinsafterlife]

Part three of this thing has managed to squeeze its way onto the internet.

[engagemythrusters]

darth sidious/gardulla the hutt

[arolou]

harbinger

Relationship: Anakin & Shmi

Rating: T

Word Count: ~3k

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, All The Way Up Through Attack Of The Clones, Planet Tatooine, Tatooine Slavery, Canon Typical Lack Of Autonomy, Angst, Mother-Son Relationship, Canonical Character Death, Anakin Skywalker’s Tusken Massacre, The Force, Anakin Skywalker Is A Harbinger Of Death, Unfortunate Force Abilities, Non-Graphic Violence, Hello And Welcome To The Sadness Bath

Anakin is three years old the first time he feels someone die.

It’s a strange, terrifying feeling, something halfway between a dream and reality, an ache that’s almost physical but not quite. The room is dark when his eyes snap open, the last wisps of the vision dissipating into the night and phantom pain clinging to the very edges of his awareness. His chest feels hollow, like someone cut him open, scooped his heart out, and then replaced it with sharp, cold nothingness.

“Mama,” he croaks when his mouth remembers how to speak, painfully sitting up on his sleep mat. His mother is fast asleep only a few feet away, the dark circles under her eyes visible even in the dim, flickering light from the kerosene lamp. “Mama, something’s wrong.”

Being the Force's favorite child is, at times, a curse rather than a blessing.

AO3 link in reblogs!!

[kitsune024]

Star Wars Fanfiction

Within Halls of Golden Rot by EmeraldHeiress

Obi-Wan almost flinched. The intonation was all wrong. Though Anakin had said those same words many times a day, every day since had come to the temple, Obi-Wan had never heard it sound like that. He never wanted to hear it again.

Or: Anakin confronts his past in the worst way.

Chapter's: 1/1

[beasanfi1997]

The Hutts are only the minor characters in Star Wars and because Disney disliked them

[call-me-schmidt]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shmi Skywalker & Beru Whitesun, Beru Whitesun & Her Mother, Shmi Skywalker & Beru's Mother, Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Beru Whitesun, Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun, Cliegg Lars/Shmi Skywalker Characters: Beru Whitesun, Shmi Skywalker, Beru's Mother, Anakin Skywalker, Watto (Star Wars), Cliegg Lars, Owen Lars, The Whitesun Family, The Darklighter Family, Gardulla the Hutt Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, Female Friendship, Coming of Age, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, Tatooine Slave Culture (Star Wars), Tatooine Culture, Planet Tatooine (Star Wars), Mos Espa, Tusken Raiders (Star Wars), During Canon, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Developing Relationship, Mentors, BAMF Beru Whitesun, Shmi Skywalker Deserves Better, Politics, Hutts (Star Wars), Implied threat of non-con Summary:

Sometimes you just know, Pim has said to Beru, sometimes you can just tell. Shmi came to Pim to exchange her information for news of a younger sister, Merel, sold as a teenager to a shipping company, but though Pim had nothing for her and knew nothing of Shmi at all, Pim still said: stay, rest a while. 

And from that first meeting have grown many things, none of which Shmi Skywalker or Pim Whitesun ever discuss openly, some of which Beru may - in time - inherit. But right now she will make tea.

[foiblepnoteworthy]

Me: wow it's fun writing sth serious again it's been a minute

Also me: what if a throw in that funny bit where Gardulla eats a load of babies

[adragonsfriend]

Use this one trick to instantly fix all childhood trauma (Jedi Masters don’t want you to know this)!!!!!

That is what every “if Obi-Wan had just— *adds one extra scene to canon* —then Anakin would’ve had perfect mental health and never listened to Palpatine at all,” sounds like to me. Look I am not an expert on any kind of psychology at all let alone early childhood development but,

It is possible to do your very best to help or raise someone and still have bad or imperfect outcomes, especially when you have someone actively, secretly working against you (cough cough Sith Lord of the month cough), (for many reasons, but in this case particularly), because unravelling the mindset built in early childhood is hard, actually.

Coming at this from the “raised in a safe and loving environment” side of things, it took me years to figure out and internalize that my friends whose parents weren’t as great as mine were functioning in an entirely different landscape when it came to their interactions with adults.

Many years ago when I was in middle school a friend (acquaintance? idk I think most people thought I was annoying) told me that her ankle kept giving out and causing her pain. I asked if she'd told her parents so she could rest or go to the doctor. She told me she had, but her mother either hadn't listened or refused to help. My (approximate) responses?

"So it's not actually that bad then?"

"You should tell her again."

"Are you sure you explained it right?"

The only explanation I could comprehend at the time was that there must have been some unclear communication about the situation or its severity--if her mother had understood she was in pain, she couldn't possibly have just not done anything about it? Adults are responsible, caring, etcetera! They wouldn't do that?!

With more experience, I've come to understand better, and learned to respond in kinder, more helpful ways, but the shift in mindset was not and is not intuitive.

And I had the luxury of figuring all that out whilst being safe myself. Coming from the other direction, being in danger and trying to figure out why other people act like the world is safe? I can't say for sure, but I imagine it’s a lot more complicated.

Point with regard to Star Wars being, it really is harder for Anakin, coming in later, to acclimate to the Jedi ways and thought processes than it is for his peers who grew up in the safe environment of the Temple. And whatever arguments people want to have about how much psychology and therapy exist in the Star Wars universe, or how much “Jedi just do cognitive behavioral therapy” (not totally inaccurate, but reductive on several levels), no matter what the answers to those questions, it will still be harder for Anakin.

There is a reason the council changes its mind on training him only after he is suddenly famous and the Sith are proven to be back. When Anakin was not in significant danger of being snatched up by someone else, it was genuinely probably the easier and safer option—for him and everyone else—for him to live a different life.

The Jedi are not necessarily fully prepared for a child with Anakin's history, and, there is nothing bad about living an ordinary life. Anakin would not have been somehow unforgivably robbed by living life as a mechanic or an engineer or something, rather than being a Jedi.

Anakin is a victim of many things in his life—Sidious, Watto, Gardulla, Tatooine’s everything, his own conscious choices—but he is not a victim of malice, incompetence, or idiocy by the Jedi just because they couldn't—in only a decade or so—help him fully and perfectly unravel the mindset he developed in his early childhood. If there was any lack of qualification on their part, it was one they were aware of—but which was outweighed by the danger of little Anakin getting kidnapped out of normal-kid elementary school.

Being brought up in and around slavery absolutely made him more vulnerable to Sidous and became the basis of their dynamic as master and apprentice. Acting like the trauma that affects his mindset and actions for his entire life can be obliterated just by making minimal changes to the plot is wild to me.

And don’t get me wrong, fics and headcanons can do whatever they want, not everyone wants or is trying to write a deep psychological character study (also fanfic and even fiction in general cannot and should not be held to any standard of realism if it's not serving the story and the author)—simple fix-it’s (my love) are fun and an excellent short-cut to other things like happiness and fluff (my other loves)—but don’t act serious about the idea that adding one conversation about his feelings or one extra explanation about Jedi philosophy would automatically lead to Anakin having perfect mental health outcomes and always making good decisions.

Disclaimer (if the ones throughout weren't enough) : please go forth and do whatever you want. the moral of this post is actually just that (1) you won’t convince me, (2) I wanted to talk about this, (3) the clickbait title was too funny not to post, (4) i literally can't open my mouth without phrasing things like i'm in the middle of a heated debate, and (5) i continue to not be an expert in early childhood development—my evidence is very literally anecdotal

[sw5w]

You Are Free

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:12:09

[galactic-rhea]

Ok ok, but imagine Obi-Wan being tired and just you know, exhausted with this little kid that is Anakin, and he just half joking, half hoping it works, tells him something like

Obi-Wan: "Anakin, do you know what we do with padawans that don't obey and behave badly?"

Anakin: -quiet because he goes through a miriad of options being a slave once, probably thinking about a beating or something, which probably wouldn't surprise him that much- What?"

Obi-Wan: "Master Yoda eats them."

And Obi-Wan smiles, because it's such dumb thing to say, maybe it's even a common joke between padawans, or something. But then he sees Anakin going all pale and still and wide-eyed, because this kid, in fact, belonged to Gardulla the hutt, who actually ate slaves.

And now Obi-Wan is panicking because his padawan is being unresponsive and in the force he completelly blocked himself.

[sad-trash-hobo]

You know what. I get why Anakin went to the darkside. You're gonna show me the Phantom Menace and hear Qui Gon tell Anakins mother that he isn't there to free the slaves, just pick up her son on a whim. And then to have him go and return Jabbas son, JABBAS SON, back to him? After he was owned by Gardulla? And no one says that that was inappropriate to have him do. And then in the Zygeria arc for Anakin to be upset about slavers, as he should, and Obi Wan tell Ahsoka that Anakin and his mother were sold into slavery so it's a touchy subject for him. He wasn't even sold into slavery. He was born into it! And this was Obi Wan, Anakins supposed brother? Shocking that Anakin would feel so betrayed and undervalued that he would go to the dark side. Anakin shouldn't have ever been a jedi. He should've been in therapy on Naboo with his wife. I love you Obi Wan, but you really did fail and I also hate you, in this essay I will-

[swan2swan]

Nothing puts Star Wars "Good Writing" vs "Bad Writing" into perspective faster than reading mid-to-later-age EU material, why are Darth Plagueis and Gardulla the Hutt scheming to bring podracing to Tatooine, why is the Boonta Eve Classic actually a Sith Scheme when you peel back the layers???