#Shmi Skywalker

[skyguy8108]

I loved this scene because it reminded me of The Phantom Menace. Padmé is like Fern, she needed help when she was in a very bad place and she found good people that were willing to help her because they could and they did not want or expect anything in return.

SKELETON CREW, Episode 8 | "The Real Good Guys"

[stealingpotatoes]

AU where Anakin and Owen are actually brothers like we deserved in the films. Nothing about the plot changes it just makes everything like 20% sadder. (Plus space wizard farmer family shenanigans).

I honestly believe half-brother Owen could give Anakin enough of a reality check for this to be a fix-it au LOL

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[spiderbae2319]

We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

[stars-n-spice]

Happy Mother's Day :)

To all the wonderful space moms of the galaxy 🩵💫

[basileia-deep]

(tags by @electrical-banana)

There's more serious things that are issues with the author of the YA Padmé books, but 'actually 🤓Padmé did try to free Shmi' will always be something that really annoys me because it obviously stems from criticisms of Padmé's character on the internet.

Instead of digging in to why Padmé didn't try to find Shmi - digging in to thematically appropriate ideas of being part of a system that makes it actively hard to enact change, the idea that the problems in the Republic are so vast that extremely important values get lost in the day to day fight, that Padmé herself is a person with privilege with the blind spots that brings, that you can be a person with the best of intentions and yet fuck things up (literally the theme of the prequels) - we're told that she did! And it was important to her!

Just not important enough to her for it to be mentioned in any of the movies, or relevant enough for Padmé to tell Anakin the highly pertinent information that Shmi was not with Watto and could not be found, when Anakin was trying to make sure Shmi was safe and not suffering like in his dreams.

[nothing-but-flowers88]

The Skywalker chin dimple got my crying rn

[galactic-rhea]

Quick Shmi drawing.

Do no separate her from her baby, please.

Got inspired from a painting of the virgin Mary and Jesus : )

[grumfield]

…but she treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart

quick doodle of mommy and her babykin

[im-yotsu]

Child of the force

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[gffa]

Darth Vader: Sith Lord | Randy Martinez & Rick Burchett

#THIS PARALLEL IS FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE I'M FINE

[helgy1718]

They're like animals. And I slaughtered them like animals!

he has so many issues, idk if I can fix him tbh

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Shmi in tpm always has dignity, and her agency is emphasized, it's noteworthy. She's still not a main character- she's a role and a messenger more than a person in some ways- but her words and her choices are given respect by both the narrative and the main characters. She conveys several of the central themes and messages of the movies- and the entire series, bookending Vader's eventual choice. When Anakin wants to race, she is the one one who's permission he needs. She and Qui Gon speak quite extensively about Anakin going to the temple, and it's only with her permission that he asks Anakin, and then it's only with her encouragement that agrees. She's constricted by the harshest of circumstances, but her choices are some of the most important of the movie.

And she has this dignity about her.

[phoenixyfriend]

"Why didn't the Jedi help Shmi after TPM?"

Why didn't Padmé.

Ignoring the expanded universe stuff about Qui-Gon sending the expensive lens or Padmé dispatching Sabé years later, so long after that Cliegg had already met, wooed, and saved up to free Shmi himself, why did Padmé not include "paying back the slave woman who helped me save my planet" in her post-invasion plans?

The Jedi have budgets that are regulated, to some unknown degree, by the Senate. Sure, there's probably some discretionary spending, but an Entire Slave would be flagged. Not a purchase you can hide easily! They're also NOT supposed to operate in Hutt Space unless undercover OR as official Republic envoys.

Padmé? Literally a queen. In the same galactic neighborhood. Has inherited wealth. Probably has room in her staff for a mechanic or something. Can easily justify freeing Shmi to her cabinet as payment for services rendered; remember, that Nubian hyperdrive was paid with Anakin's winnings, meaning they came at the cost of Shmi's freedom.

The real answer is that George Lucas needed Shmi to still be on Tatooine in AotC, and never bothered to expand on how Shmi was freed, himself, so other people took up the slack.

But if we ask why the Jedi didn't free Shmi, then I think we also need to ask: why didn't Padmé?

(I love Padmé. I fully believe she would have sent someone to free Shmi after Naboo was in order post-Invasion, and that it was just an oversight or even plot necessity from G Lucas. I just dislike the double standards of hating on the Jedi for not helping when Padmé is right next door and has That Cash Money.)

[stealingpotatoes]

gigachad qui gon would never leave shmi in slavery. source: i said so

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[catchcrows]

"Anakin is gone. I am what remains."

[bisexualvader]

"Now be brave, and don't look back."