#Versé

[jewishcissiekj]

you know what? I don't *transparent pngs your handmaidens*

[wlwanakin]

the queen trilogy by ekj is like aggressively fine and i have many bones to pick but i think one of the biggest issues i have with it is that they had the absolutely golden opportunity to really expand on cordé and versé and make their deaths more impactful + shed light on padmé’s subsequent grief and then they just. did not do that

[alexversenaberrie]

Versé ~ handmaiden-slicer of Senator Amidala

Versé was recommended by Panaka to join Senator Padmé Amidala's new cohort of Handmaidens. She was a top-notch slicer and used her talents in Amidala's service in more ways than one, as shown on the painting.

Versé was formerly known as Versaat, and was the niece of Mariek Panaka, a captain in the Royal Naboo Security Forces and the wife of Captain Quarsh Panaka.

Versé and her fellow handmaiden Cordé were killed when the ship they had traveled to the planet Coruscant on was destroyed by the bounty hunter Zam Wesell in an attempt to kill Amidala and prevent her from voting against the Military Creation Act.

On the painting, she and her fellow handmaiden Cordé are shown just before the landing, with Versé speaking to her aunt Mariek.

#star wars paintings  |  SW Paintings | #star wars handmaidens

Handmaidens: Yané I Sabé | Eirtaé | Motté | Ellé

[juliearchery107]

And then there's Dooku...

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at The Emperor*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws two at the Fetts*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at the assassin lady that failed to kill Padme*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws eight at all of Padme's handmaidens*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at the dinosaur Jedi that did nothing but get shot down by Jango*

Dooku: What about me?

Lucas: You don't

[sw5w]

I Am Grateful You Are Here, Master Kenobi

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:08:42

[majestativa]

The black angel has handed me the black onyx cup from which the cerebral drink boils sinisterly.

— IWAN GILKIN ⚜️ La Pensée, featured in Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, (1994)

[rollinginmoondust]

Aftermath

Day 4 of @starwarssapphicweek Handholding with Versé/Cordé/Dormé

Throughout the movie, they continued to hold hands, even when their hands were sweaty. Halfway through the movie, Dormé watched as Cordé made patterns on Dormé's hand with her nails. Versé had fallen asleep, clutching Dormé’s other hand. Her drool landed on Dormé’s hand. Dormé wished she could say she cared, but honestly, she didn’t. She just wanted her loves to be okay.

She also wanted Clovis to turn into dust and never bother her senator again. She wanted this universe to get its act together. But holding her lovers’ hands, and watching a movie was good enough for now. 

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[surprendslejour]

[la-cafeina-de-tus-ojos]

Te besé,

y después de eso,

te versé, te versé,

y te volví a versar…

[coovieilledentelle]

La pause Thé ...

Recette de thé réchauffant pour un mois de novembre des plus douillets 🍂🤎🍁

Nous aurons besoin de :

Orange - environ 3 tranches

Pomme - 3-4 tranches ou plus si désiré

Cannelle - 1 bâton

Menthe - 3 brins

Thé noir ou vert si désiré

Miel ou autre édulcorant au goût

Préparation : Laver les fruits et la menthe, laissez sécher, coupez l'orange et la pomme en tranches. Ajoutez-les à la théière pour l'infusion, ajoutez un bâton de cannelle et du thé en vrac (facultatif). Versez de l'eau bouillante dessus et laissez infuser 5 à 7 minutes et laissez les arômes se développer. Après quoi, nous ajoutons du miel et versons dans des tasses, le miel versé peut être ajouté immédiatement dans la tasse 😉 Et c'est tout, profitez de l'arôme et du goût chaleureux de notre thé ❤️

Profitez de votre thé !

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Do you have a list or a chart of Padmé’s handmaidens? I love them all but it’s difficult to keep the names straight…

Sure! I did read a sort of guide book a long time ago that listed all the previous handmaidens Padmé had but that was awhile ago and will take me some time to dig back up. But overall there were 13 handmaidens:

There was Sabé, Rabé, Eiraté, Saché, Yané, Cordé, Dormé, Versé, Karté, Moteé, Ellé, Duja, and Teckla Minnau.

All for different reasons. Some played the role as Padmé’s decoys (mainly Sabé) some were in charge of Padmé’s wardrobe and makeup, putting together her whole looks, some were in charge of personal care e.g hygiene and grooming, some were there for their combatant skills, and some for domesticated reasons e.g cooking and cleaning, and some were just there to serve as Padmé’s personal escort.

[wlwanakin]

could you explain to me in your opinion what exactly saw padme in anakin to fall for him? in aotc it came like out of nowhere after three days knowing him, anakin then commited tusken genocide and padme was ready to forgive him despite her strong sense of justice, to me it just feels very off and diservicing to her, how wasnt that a deal breaker for her

i’ll gladly explain!! and i’ve spoken briefly about how i view padmé’s reaction to the tusken massacre before, but i’ll elaborate here too.

i think the key things to remember when looking at anidala from padmé’s perspective are a) love is by nature pretty irrational so you’re never gonna be able to fully rationalize padmé’s love for anakin, b) padmé is a deeply lonely person in a career that requires her to distance herself from others and sacrifice authenticity, c) padmé met anakin when he was an enslaved child and she was a teenaged queen dealing with an unprecedented crisis and he played a key role in solving that whilst showing her extreme kindness and selflessness, and d) as of the beginning of aotc, padmé has just narrowly escaped death and lost two of her devoted handmaidens who she also considered to be her friends. these are the big things informing her mindset and her perception of anakin throughout the film.

i think one thing that trips people up even before they go to tatooine is that anakin is just weird in aotc, but the thing is that that’s what made padmé fall for him. she’s been in politics since she was a child, and politics is a field that requires inauthenticity by default, and in padmé’s case that’s to an extreme degree because she spent her teen years putting on the queen amidala persona and the anonymous handmaiden persona, then the minute that was up she became a senator and senator amidala is not as dramatic a persona but it is one nonetheless because politics and diplomacy require that. her entire life since she was fourteen has been spent playing roles, surrounded by others also playing roles, and she’s a severe workaholic working under a sense of moral obligation so unlike some people in the same field might she doesn’t really have a life outside of this. and here comes anakin, who she’s already fond of because of the kindness he showed her and her people when he was a child, and he’s so unlike any of the people she’s surrounded by because he is earnest to a fault. he’s socially stunted, he’s abrasive and combative, he doesn’t give a shit about niceties or diplomacy, he says every weird thing he thinks before he even finishing thinking it, and can you imagine how refreshing that must be to someone whose entire social life is just her staff and fellow politicians who are all inauthentic by nature? and on top of how appealing that is on its own he’s also hot, and he still shows that he cares for her, and he gives her space to be authentic as well. he jokes with her, he speaks openly about his emotions and gives her room to do the same, he treats her like a person rather than a figurehead. it’s a perfect recipe for romance, really.

so it’s important to note that, for all these reasons, she was already in love with him before they even left naboo, and that informs all her actions throughout the last half of the film. it’s also important to note that she is carrying the guilt and grief of cordé and versé’s deaths on her shoulders as well as all the strange emotions that come with a near-death experience. and that’s the mindset she’s traveling to tatooine with, knowing that anakin might be on the verge of a monumental loss himself. and then the worst case scenario happens and she does see him grieving, and she understands to an extent what it’s like to experience a loss that feels like her fault. it’s the opening scene of the film! so she sees his volatile grief and that doesn’t scare her off because his vulnerability and depth of emotion are part of what drew her to him in the first place since she is someone who has long been denied access to such vulnerability. and all this gives her immense grounds to sympathize deeply with him by the time he confesses to the massacre.

i guess i kind of understand why people think her reaction to anakin’s confession is a bad character moment or a disservice or whatever, but it’s actually one of my favorite padmé moments for a lot of reasons. it makes sense to me that under the circumstances padmé would underreact to the crime being confessed. she has a strong sense of justice but she also loves anakin and understands what he’s feeling, she knows him and knows his immense capacity for goodness because she’s witnessed it, and above all she is an idealist. she is driven by immense compassion and that is something that can be misapplied and it isn’t inherently virtuous. she can look past anakin’s crime because she sympathizes deeply with the emotions that motivated it, and because she knows him well enough to know that he isn’t defined by this level of cruelty and she has no reason to believe he’ll make a habit out of it considering the remorse he’s expressing, and quite simply and selfishly because she loves him. it isn’t a morally upright moment for her but it doesn’t have to be because this streak of hypocrisy she has is really interesting and makes her feel more human than if she was just a paragon of virtue.

so after that really crazy week? week and a half? geonosis happens, and this is padmé’s second super close brush with death in like a month, and her love confession comes in a moment right before what’s supposed to be an execution because of course you’re gonna grab life by the tits if you only have like five minutes of it left. and near-death experiences are very perspective shifting things, and she just had two super close together and anakin just had one right along with her and is about to be shipped off to the chronic near-death experience that is Fighting In A War, and she is very madly in love with him and he is the only person she can be herself around, and after all that and lifetime of repressing and sacrificing her entire self for public service she says fuck it and lets herself have this one selfish thing and marries him. and that’s really all of it, nothing was a dealbreaker because padmé really truly loves anakin and almost died twice and also almost lost him and he gives her something no one else ever could and she wants that. and after the whirlwind she just experienced she’s gonna take it.

and even with all this aside i think it’s important to give padmé as a character space to be irrational because she is, at the end of the day, a character, and not a real person or even an audience insert. and she’s a character in a shakespearean space opera on top of that, one where an exorbitant amount of guys cope by doing mass murder. her love interest is one of those guys and he’s also constantly off his rocker about everything all the time, so why can’t she be a bit off hers too, yanno? anakin and padmé’s relationship is almost transcendentally intense, and that just wouldn’t work if the intensity weren’t on both ends. and padmé loves just as intensely as anakin does, it’s just more focused and less outwardly fiery. and her moral oversights are part of that intensity.

[je-suis-ronflex]

J'ai été payé aujourd'hui et j'ai eu mon salaire normal + un rattrapage de ce qui ne m'a pas été versé en décembre + un rattrapage depuis septembre de la prise en charge employeur d'une partie de la mutuelle, j'ai l'impression d'être Crésus je suis tellement en train de claquer de l'argent à tour de bras c'est indécent

[coolvieilledentelle]

Autrefois, j’étais belle, j’attirais les regards, Sur mon glorieux passage, les hommes se retournaient, Le monde et ses égards, oui, tout m’appartenait ! À présent, je suis vieille, j’ai perdu mon pouvoir. J’ai reçu bien des roses ; leurs épines m’ont blessée, Après les jours heureux suivaient les nuits glaciales, J’ai affronté déserts, tempêtes, et chacals, Et sans jamais plier, j’ai lutté, supporté. Mais tous ces coups du sort, reçus en pleine face, En laissant sur ma peau, d’indélébiles traces, Ont fortifié mon âme, comme un muscle qui travaille. Elle devenait plus belle, après chaque bataille ! Et vous tous qui pensez, sa beauté s’est fanée, Emportée par le temps, eh bien vous vous trompez, Car de cette sombre pierre qu’était mon cœur, avant, Les intempéries de la vie en ont fait un diamant. Derrière mes yeux, délavés par tant de larmes versées, Et mes paupières ridées, usées par les tourments, Se cache mon âme... Regardez-la, et vous verrez, Comme je suis belle, bien plus belle… qu’à vingt ans !

Martine Hadjedj

[sw5w]

Naboo Guards Down

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:03:31

[ethereal-skies-forum]

ROYAUME DE BRASÉA 🔥

DEVISE : Le feu forge la valeur.

INSPIRATION(S) PRINCIPALE(S) : Afrique du Nord-Est (couloir nilotique, Soudan et Nubie égyptienne à l’époque de Koush).

FORME DE L’ÉTAT, RÉGIME : État unitaire, monarchie absolue de droit divin.

DÉCOUPAGE ADMINISTRATIF : 4 nomes (Ywara, Teneke, Irewak, Irku).

PLUS GRANDES VILLES : Kaladmekki (capitale), Jebeldawi, Amanguni, Igsharti.

ALLIANCE(S) : République de Kyanós.

CLIMAT : Globalement aride (désertique au nord, tropical de savane au sud).

GENTILÉ : Braséenne, Braséen.

*Ces zones géographiques ont servi d’inspiration à certaines étapes du processus de création mais l’État n’en est pas une copie exacte.

———

〖 DESCRIPTION GÉNÉRALE 〗À l'origine, quatre royaumes indépendants coexistaient sur le sol braséen : Ywara, Irewak, Irku et Teneke. Lorsqu'un peuple venu du Continent s'est aventuré jusqu'en Staraceste avec comme volonté de coloniser l'île, ils n'ont eu d'autre choix que d'unir leurs forces pour repousser l'envahisseur et récupérer le contrôle de leurs terres. C'est suite à l'unification de ces royaumes qu'est né l'État de Braséa tel qu'on le connaît aujourd'hui, gouverné par une lointaine descendante d'une figure majeure de la résistance au moment de l'invasion. Cependant, bien que la menace hranride ait donc été écartée il y a de nombreux siècles, le royaume ne connaît toujours pas la paix et se retrouve actuellement impliqué dans une terrible guerre qui l'oppose à l'État qui a été son allié par le passé : l'empire Garyanith. Nul ne sait quelle quantité de sang devra encore être versée avant qu'un accord ne parvienne à être trouvé.

〖 ⚠️ ÉCUEILS QU’ON VEUT ÉVITER 〗Ce disclaimer s’explique encore une fois par une volonté de notre part de nous distancer d’un schéma trop commun en fantasy : un.e auteur.ice occidental.e s’inspire d’un pays non occidental pour une région de son propre univers et décide oh surprise d’en faire "l’antagoniste" principal, le royaume "barbare" qui attaque ses voisins sans raison outre le "plaisir" de faire la guerre, sans réaliser que cette vision est imprégnée de biais. Il nous semblait donc important de mentionner que même si le royaume de Braséa est reconnu comme une puissance militaire redoutable dans tout Staraceste (ce qui fait aussi écho à son inspiration principale, le royaume de Koush), il est loin de se limiter à cette seule caractéristique (au même titre que les autres, il est riche de sa culture, de ses ressources…) et le peuple braséen n’est pas un peuple "va-t’en-guerre". Cette réputation guerrière lui vient avant tout de la résistance dont il a fait preuve lors de l’invasion hranride car, avec le Northunyre, il est l’un des seuls États de l’île à s’être farouchement battu contre les troupes coloniales. En lisant la chronologie de Braséa, vous comprendrez également que la guerre que le royaume mène actuellement contre l’empire Garyanith ne s’explique pas par une simple volonté d’étendre son territoire : c’est un conflit aux origines bien plus complexes (mais on en dit pas plus pour pas vous spoiler tout de suite non plus 🫢) . En bref, les braséen.nes ne sont pas les "méchant.es assoiffé.es de pouvoir" de l’île. Cet univers n’est de toute manière pas divisé de façon aussi manichéenne.

『 NOTE ↝ D’autres précisions sur le lore de chaque État suivront bientôt mais on reste disponible pour répondre à toutes vos questions en attendant ! Dans le prochain post : présentation générale du royaume de Hevenbyre. 』