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mirror | Writes | Reads | she/her | Multi-Fandom | Lover of Vaccines, Nuance, and Queerness, Hater of Fascism | Not interested in fandom debates

[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!

[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]

[mirrorofliterature]

there's this weird uwufication of the clones and jedi's relationship common in pro jedi circles which is so odd when you remember that the jedi were canonically actively complicit in the clones' enslavement.

[itsis0k]

when tiny meets tiny

my little underworld children im gonne die im gonna die im gonebdie

[mirrorofliterature]

padmé is not going to mention to any senators that her sister is visiting lying by omission is going to go hard.

just finished drafting chapter 4 and already thinking of the plot beats of chapter 5. chapter 4 + 5 are kinda the lull with sola visiting, and then things ramp up a bit with chapter 6.

[mirrorofliterature]

pooja wants to follow in padme's footsteps

isn't that cute?

“She really looks up to Aunt Padme,” Sola adds, face soft. “Sometimes Pooja says she wants to go into politics, too.”

Padme swallows.

No one should want to follow Padme. They should let her footprints sink into the sand and disappear into oblivion, never to be followed.

Politics is a cursed path. 

[mirrorofliterature]

it is so weird to have people being parasocial about you, I block liberally on tumblr because I want to curate my feed, bless your heart

[treefey]

"I want my media to be historically accurate"

Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?

Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.

[mirrorofliterature]

I'll just continue to make silly little posts on tumblr don't make me write.

[mirrorofliterature]

one key reason why anidala are ideologically similar: they are both, at their cores, deeply compassionate people who simply want to help make the galaxy better.

alas, they were born when the republic was dying, but in another life.

their compassion would not have been quenched prematurely.

[mirrorofliterature]

padmé was not 'fucked up' for choosing to enter politics, she was compassionate and wanted to help people so she decided to enter politics because she believed it was the best avenue to do so, which on naboo was completely culturally normal to do at a young age. whether or not that is a 'good' cultural norm is a question for another day, but padmé was passionate about politics and completed the youth legislative program like other young people on naboo and successfully got elected. just because a 14 year old wouldn't necessarily do that on earth because we generally don't let people that young run for office, does not make padmé's incredibly self-sacrificial and, indeed, noble decision to enter politics and give herself to the people of naboo in service at a young age 'fucked up' and by pathologising her behaviour that way, you are forgetting that she was simply participating in the system other people created because she cared about helping others. you are calling a girl 'fucked up' for being compassionate about serving people, and I personally find that an odd interpretation of the story :/

[jackabbot]

i know i say this often but i cannot say it loud enough: people who comment on fics, people who reblog posts and engage with fanworks are the people who generate community and without them fandom would be nowhere, so truly thank you for your presence, you make the world go 'round <3

[mirrorofliterature]

I treated some people with way too much good faith and nicely after they implicitly called me insane. why did I do that. don't do that.

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?