As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you

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[clockworkbee]

—Epilogue, City of Bones (2007) by Cassandra Clare

[clacesource]

ac 🎨: fiore.giallorosso

[jadorepadmes]

Love in Naboo. 🌺

[kingcats]

[mortsubiteart]

Quick sketch

[her-tear]

SPIRITED AWAY (2003) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[pasdetrois]

Farewell, stranger, she said. Think of me sometimes when you are in your own land. She knew she would not see him again in the morning. The ship was leaving at first light. This was the end. Odysseus said: All the days of my life I shall remember you, Nausicaa. You gave me my life.

L'Odissea (1968) dir. Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa

[didanagy]

NATALIE PORTMAN as ANNE BOLEYN

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (2008) dir. justin chadwick

[mirrorofliterature]

the generally pr* jedi people who think that padme seduced anakin away from his true family, the jedi, really need to stop and examine their internalised misogyny and also consider rewatching the films!

[losthavenmine]

Eric Bana as Hector Troy (2004)

[favfemfits]

Peacock Gown

Padmé Amidala — Star Wars: Deleted Scene

This look... Mm. Another scene that shouldn't have been deleted. The colors!!! Also love how pissed she looks at Anakin lmao.

[mirrorofliterature]

some people seem to have access to an alternate version of the phantom menace where obi-wan likes and dotes on anakin.

that's cool, but that's fanon, not canon. in canon, obi-wan is like 'did we pick up another pathetic life form :/' 'the council is right' [smiling in the script when anakin is rejected from the jedi order] 'he's dangerous [in earshot]

like godspeed your fluffy aus, but you do know they are fluffy aus, right?

for people liking anakin we have:

shmi

qui-gon

padme

the naboo handmaidens generally

r2d2

jar jar binks

his tatooine friends (e.g. kitster and waldo)

for people disliking anakin we have:

25-year-old grown man obi-wan kenobi who has a grudge against a kid who just got freed from slavery.

[mirrorofliterature]

'anakin considered the jedi his family it's canon!' lol. lmao, even.

anakin at the start of ROTS, suitcase packed: time to hightail it out of my jedi robes and start a family with my beautiful wife on naboo, see you suckers! have fun with your failing institution <3

[riana-one]

Anakin Skywalker had a loving mother for the first nine years of his life.

He not only left her behind with no certainty they would ever see each other again, but as a SLAVE.

His first induction to the Jedi Order was being forced to be tested and interrogated for hours by an unsmiling group of 'masters' who plainly call him a liar, pick apart his psyche, and tell him missing and fearing for his mother means untold suffering.

The only one that was close to a good guardian was Qui Gon Jinn who dies at the end and Anakin has to fearfully ask what was going to happen to him at he watched the body be burn.

In AotC, he tells Obi Wan that he is the closest thing to his father and his master proceeds to take a shot and chastise Anakin for not listening to him.

His continuing nightmares about his mother, who Anakin thinks is still a slave, are denounced and downplayed because the Jedi are not a family.

They specifically avoid family ties and in their dogma consider them a source to the Dark Side.

That is their entire recruitment process where they only take infants or very small children and forbid any communication or contact with the birth families.

Nothing about Anakin's character or Force sensitivity was up for question, just the fact at nine years old and knowing his mother made the Council reject him.

In RotS, Anakin firmly rejects Obi-Wan's that the Jedi were his family.

He had a mother.

In the novel, he thinks he has a wife and will have a child after that line.

The movies aren't that long and the dialogue is fairly simple, but it still is amazing how some fans want to twist the canon around because they can't handle that the Jedi were not the unquestioning Perfect White Hats.

[the-far-bright-center]

Finally, he said, "He's my friend, Obi-Wan." "Yes," said Obi-Wan softly. Sadly. "I know." "If he asked me to spy on you, do you think I would do it?" Now it was Obi-Wan's turn to fall silent. "You know how kind he's been to me." Anakin's voice was hushed. " You now how he's looked after me, how he's done everything he could to help me. He's like family." "The Jedi are your family—" "No." Anakin turned on his former master. "No, the Jedi are your family. The only one you've ever known. But I'm not like you—I had a mother who loved me—" And a wife who loves me, he thought. And soon a child who will love me, too. — Revenge of the Sith novelization

Ah, yes, so 'canon' that the canon says exactly the opposite...

[mirrorofliterature]

the amount of anidala fans who insist anidala are 'weird' or 'freaks' - words with negative connotations that denounce their love - because their romance is intense, unconventional, courtly, mythic, and really demonstrates what unconditional love actually looks like, fascinates me

people see a romance that doesn't fit the stereotypical romance tropes, and instead is two people intensely loving each other, willing to do anything for each other, and call their very human emotions, their courtly otherworldly romance, 'weird' and 'freakish' and 'crazy', because stopping to think and analyse anidala in their genre context and to mistake the unconventional for abnormal is... striking to me, and shows how narrow general ideas of romance are beyond the conventional

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

#does this make any sense? also padmé is not weird she is different and intense and compassionate: her dedication to democracy and anakin is incredibly impressive #it's unusual #that doesn't render it weird #anidala is quite a… romantic ship that honestly people invent 'freakishness' for that is quite frankly ooc because god forbid you ship a 'vanilla' ship between two secretly married adults who love each other and respect each other and have the best possible relationship in their circumstances #the 'padmé is weird!' truthers lowkey unnerve me. she is extraordinary. she is the symbolic representation of ideal democracy and the moral heart of the story. she is a larger than life character in a mythic story and you call her 'weird' because you are assessing her by earth's standards instead of the story she is in? I don't get it #people forget that 'weird' and 'freak' are… generally not nice ways to describe someone and seem to be a crutch for actually describing these characters and ships and what makes them different from the conventional #does this make any sense? I saw a snarky post by someone who thinks padmé's character's 'seasoning' is weirdness no it's her fruitless relentless dedication to democracy and her husband and her mask #stop inventing new traits to make padmé interesting or anidala 'freaky' (e.g. padmé being attracted to violence which is completely contradicted by the movies). they already are compelling. find ships that fit your tastes instead of forcing ships to fit your tastes #the people who are here for the on screen ship are tired of it #you are pathologising their love and being often a tad misogynistic by insisting that padmé has to be 'crazy' to have such faith in her husband #it's called fucking unconditional love (tags via op)

[welightthewaysource]

Alicent Hightower in House Of The Dragon 1x07| Driftmark

[mirrorofliterature]

why is it always padmé who is the 'freak', 'weirdo', 'crazy', and 'insane' for loving anakin intensely and unconditionally? because she is a woman and her love is romantic? but not luke for his unconditional love of anakin? who trusts so deeply in his father's innate goodness and love for him he risks his life just as padmé does? but the fandom doesn't call him weird, or a freak, or crazy.

there is a thread of subconscious misogyny threaded through this fandom and it runs deep.

why do people pathologise padmé's love, but not luke's? people are unable and uncomfortable by what padmé's unconditional love for anakin means: that she sees him at his worse, accepts it, empathises and does not let his worse moment define him and stop him from being a good person, then marries him, and on mustafar, tries to get him to return to being a good person after committing atrocities - she never excuses his atrocities, never thinks he was right, but she loves him.

only a 'crazy' woman could do that, apparently. only a 'freak' could enter into a secret marriage.

padmé is not crazy or a freak for loving anakin.

[gilbertpiercee]

Elena Gilbert | The Vampire Diaries — 3.01 ‘The Birthday’