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[mirrorofliterature]

i’ll be your parachute | anidala | fix-it | padme amidala centric | angst | rated: t | 4.8k | chapter 2/?

Padme Amidala believes the Republic is doomed, her job is redundant, and her husband, Anakin Skywalker, is dead. Mid-mental breakdown about her definitely dead husband, she accidentally calls her sister, Sola Naberrie.

It saves the galaxy.

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the second chapter of my anidala padme centric fix-it fic just dropped! come for the yearning, stay for the politics in a corrupting democracy, which definitely does not remind me of any contemporary state.

enjoy!

Edit: My Permission Statement for Transformative Works of my fic.

chapter 3 is also out!

[raviposting]

wake up gang a new ship bingo dropped, anyway send me a pairing and I’ll answer!

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[arctic-hands]

[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]

[spaceofentropy]

One correction:

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

happy disability pride month. can we PLEASE stop forgetting that anakin and luke, the two literal main protagonists of star wars, are both canonically disabled

[vibrantstarfire]

i just don’t get it. where are all the women. where are all the women in your fanfictions. are they all out of town? did they all go on vacation together? do they all have a dentist appointment at the same time?

[zeetannas]

people will go onnn about how a man’s flaws makes him so nuanced and interesting and then act genuinely confused when u feel the same way about a woman…

[mirrorofliterature]

Luke learns about his grandmother young.

Not his Nana - he has known Nana forever, with her kisses and hugs and smiles - his other grandmother. His dad's mum.

His grandmother who died before he was born.

Shmi. Shmi who had the kindest soul and warmest smile, even when she had nothing. Grandma.

Whenever his Dad talked about his mum, there were tears in his eyes.

When Luke and Leia were seven, they went to Tatooine with Mum and Dad, the planet Dad hated, simply to visit his grandmother's grave.

Luke misses his grandmother, still, now at 19, that dull ache of family he never got to meet never going away.

Luke is 19 when he learns how his grandmother died.

"Did the Jedi know Shmi was still a slave?"

Shmi became free two years before her untimely death.

His mother smiles, sadly. "Yes. They knew. The old Jedi Council was rigid to the point of heartlessness, as you know. Grandma had helped their own, and Dad missed her fiercely, but the Jedi expected him to forget his own mother. They could have made sure she was free of slavery. They didn't."

"Right," Luke says, mouth dry.

Shmi's life did not matter to the galaxy.

But it mattered to his family.

Luke never knew his grandmother Shmi.

And in this universe, Luke Skywalker does not want to be a Jedi like his father before him.

He wants to help people.

Like his grandmother before him.

[to-orrr]

here are some more cats 🍓

[doodledogart]

lost that little r2 unit :T

[kogarashi-art]

Just so you know, Tumblr friends, if you ever tag me for a writing/art/screenshot/whatever game and I don't play along, I do still appreciate the tag and would still love to be tagged again in the future if you think of me. I just don't always have something to give for a specific tag prompt, or I'm too busy at the moment.

💕💕💕💕

[mirrorofliterature]

some people need to recognise that writers and artists are simply other members of the fandom community and can curate their fandom experience just like anyone else, including blocking people, because blocking people whose takes irritate you instead of silently seething is generally more pleasant

[sprucebluw]

Luke Skywalker before the art fight begins

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride! this dragon is gay <3

[catmask]

one thing about tumblr users isthat they love to disagree with posts. another thing is that they love to do is disagree with things that were not even in the post as if they were

[martymcphly]

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[vintxgemiseries]

count me outs

[kipine]