Padmé comes from a beautiful fairytale planet ruled by benevolent queens, a privileged world of luxury and leisure, where the sociopolitical structures designed to keep the peace (apparently) function as they are meant to, at least more or less.
Anakin comes from an ugly barren planet ruled by ruthless gangsters, a harsh world of slavery and violence, where the only rule of law is that of the greedy and powerful over the weak, and there isn’t even the faintest veneer of social nicety to cover this.
Palpatine comes from the same world as Padmé, and outwardly operates by the same rules - gentility, respectability, sophistication. But in reality, he’s much more the sort of ruler Anakin is familiar with - cruel, domineering, power-hungry. He puts the nice face of Naboo on the tyranny of Tatooine.
No wonder Anakin follows him so readily.
#ugh
#couldn't agree more
dark green is a nice color. underrated
#definitely one of my favorites too
Hi! Super random but you mentioned in one of your tags a piece of rots concept art of Padmé protecting the twins in a hospital from Vader, and I've looked all over but can't find it anywhere. Do you have a link for it?
by derek thompson! one of my favs. first appears in paul duncan's "the star wars archives" iirc, to quote his twitter: "Before the script was written, the design team was given the freedom to imagine possible scenarios. Here Derek Thompson has Vader find Padmé and their babies, and use the Force to dispatch the Jedi protecting them."
𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐔𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐍 as 𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐘 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐄
Favorite Hairtstyle (58.9%), Season 3-Season 4 COBRA KAI.
𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐙 as 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍/𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍
from TVE's Isabel. Season 3, Episode 9.
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question: which hp character do you identify with most?
me: hedwig. the answer is and will always be hedwig.
nocturnal
enjoy receiving and sending mail
and being useful to people i love
person i love most: harry james potter
do not take advantage of my kindness; show gratitude or else you will feel my cold disdain
can hold a grudge for chapters
harry james potter is my fav…i dwell with him in his sadness & hoot at his victories
but… but. sometimes he is such an idiotic little shit and i want to die from secondhand embarrassment on his behalf. i don’t even know what to do except ruffle my feathers at him.
it would also be nice if he didn’t put himself in danger all the damn time
compassionate jerk
still love him though. cannot help it, because he’s my son
really, he needs me to protect him
also, i am better than all my counterparts. imbeciles
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep feeling of affection; and looking back on the girl she had been she knew that it was her mother who had made her what she was.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, excerpt from The Painted Veil
Harry after surviving someone's attempt to kill him: Still better than living with the Dursleys