#You don't look like her (Anakin & Sabe)

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[ WALL ] ― your muse pins my muse against the closest wall. (From Sabé)

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Anakin hadn't seen Sabe in nearly a week. He had sent her to handle some Senate things in his place, because well, he hated that. That was the whole part of this taking the Emperor's place, that annoyed him. He didn't mind the rest of it. He was a Sith and he was fine with that. Some of the time, he had to admit that he was probably a hybrid of who he was, then and now. But, it was well known, that he had taken down Palpatine.

Sabe was not the shadow now. She was his right hand, especially when it came to politics. But, she also was pregnant and they had gotten married quickly.

If he was honest, the only thing that scared him more than politics and all that, was Luke and Leia.

They were running now and talking, well for the most part. Sometimes, he felt like Leia was this powerful storm like he was and Luke was calmer. They had just gone down, when he finally heard her come in.

When she comes in, he moved to press her against the wall, glad he could still safely do so. "You left me alone with those tiny terrorists again." His lips moved down her neck.

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Pretty much how Anakin & Sabe or Vader and Sabe always start.

“i’ll kill you.” are we about to kiss 

[vodika-vibes]

Sabe’s got this, she’s only gotta us all her skills to assassinate Anakin, stage Padme’s death & escape

Lol, right? Easy. It'll be fine.

Anakin steps into the home he shares with Padme, and is surprised to see her standing in the kitchen, "I'm home, Angel." He says. "How was your day?" Padme glances at him, "I've been sick most of the day, so I made some tea to settle my stomach." She smiles at him, the same soft, pretty smile that he fell in love with, "Would you like some?" "Of course." Anakin takes a seat at the table, and watches as Padme pours herself a mug, and then him, before she sits across from him and slides his mug across the table to him, "Where are your handmaidens?" He asks. "I dismissed them for the day," Padme says absently, as she sips her tea and then sets the mug back on the table, "I knew you were going to be back soon. I'm surprised you didn't pass them." "They must have used the front door." "That must be it." Anakin drinks his tea. It's sweet, sweeter than what Padme normally makes him, but he suspects that it must have something to do with the pregnancy, so he bites his tongue. It's really bad though, so he drinks it quickly, without tasting it. "Oh. You're done already. Would you like some more." Padme asks. "I wouldn't want to drink all of your tea, Angel." He replies immediately. Padme just hums and takes another small sip. "You're drinking it rather slowly." "I'm being careful," She replies, "I'm hoping it doesn't come back up." "Ah. Of course." Fifteen minutes later, Anakin starts noticing something odd. He can't feel his hands, and the force feels muted, almost muffled. Not to mention a sudden pain in his head, and his chest. "Are you alright?" Padme asks. "Yeah, just...exhausted." She smiles at him, "You should lay down and take a nap then. You're probably feeling my exhaustion." "That's a good idea." Slowly Anakin pushes to his feet, and he only gets a few feet away from the table before he collapses to the ground, "Kriff-" He manages to roll over onto his back and stares blearily at the ceiling. Padme stands over him, something cold on her face, "We never approved of this relationship," She says, her voice sounding different, "Padme rushed, but it was her choice, so we supported her. Right up until you helped destroy the Democracy that she loved so much." "Padm-" "No." There's some movement, "You claimed that you loved Padme, but you never bothered to get to know her sisters? To the point where you can't tell me from Padme? Disgusting." She shakes her head, "The poison will finish it's work shortly. Your heart will stop, and no one will be here to call for help. You will never hurt another person." "Palpatine-" "Don't you remember?" Sabe asks, "The houses belonging to senators are shielded to keep people with the force from peeking on us. No one is going to know what happened." She vanishes for a moment, and returns looking more like Sabe and less like Padme, "Good bye, Anakin Skywalker. May the gods grant you what you deserve." On Alderaan Older Ahsoka and Little Ahsoka watch the news coming from Coruscant with heavy hearts, and when the emergency broadcast comes across the news, announcing the deaths of Senator Padme Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, they immediately run to the council to share the news.

[vodika-vibes]

Ashanii & Caleb: Where is Cal? Is he safe? Is he alright?

Ashanii and Caleb are like, "The third part of our muskateer group is missing and may be hurt. 🥺🥺🥺"

Meanwhile, everyone else is like, "We have to prepare to continue the war, and try to convince the planets that the Empire is evil, and also free the remaining clones that are enslaved as well as free the imprisoned."

Once Sabe finishes her story she looks around the room, some of the Masters look impressed, namely Master Windu and Master Koon, while Master Kenobi looks grieved. She straightens her spine, "I'm not going to apologize for what I did-" "No. You did the right thing." Master Kenobi says, sounding pained even as he admitted it, "It's an impressive thing you did. You're incredibly lucky that Anakin didn't realize what you were doing." "Yes, I know I am." Sabe's shoulders slump, "With respect, Master Jedi, we're exhausted. We want to help Padme have these babies and the go somewhere no one knows us. Will that be allowed?" "Of course. We do not kidnap children, Miss Sabe," Master Koon says patiently, "As soon as Miss Padme is healthy, you can all do what you like." His voice is kind, "You've done more than your duty, young lady. You can leave the rest to us." "Thank you." Sabe says with a sigh, before she offers a polite bow, and then sweeps out of the room to join her sisters. "So," Mace says as he folds his hands in front of his face, "Where do we go from here." He glances at Ahsoka, "I don't suppose you have any advice?" "I wish I did. Vader being dead...it changes a lot. Not to mention things are happening so much sooner than they did for me-" Ahsoka shrugs, "I would recommend, though, as soon as we're able, to claim Kamino." "Hm...a fine plan. Plo, Obi-Wan, I want the pair of you to work with Ahsoka to work out a plan for taking Kamino." Mace says, "Work with the Commanders, I'm sure they have a plan."

[corruptedforce]

Anakin is way too fertile, for his own good, and sex education was not taught at the Jedi Temple, so birth control is a good thing, if it’s covered by the person he’s with, because I have a ship, where he has 3 pregnancies and a child now, plus Luke & Leia.  Don’t underestimate the power of the man’s fertility, and she was on birth control for at least two of those.

[helbertinelli]

What kind of emotion do you think Vader has for Sabe?

I only read the 2020 Vader comic so idk what they're doing now. I don't think Vader would feel any emotions for Sabe other than the fact that she resembles his wife. But he wouldn't have the same feelings for her as he does for Padme. He also can't kill her out of his devotion to Padme because she triggers too many memories of Padme for him. I don't think they can be friends, maybe allies. Definitely not lovers. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm kinda wary of comic book writers pushing Sabe around Vader so much... she's not Padme no matter how much she looks like her, but I guess writers like her because she's what they want Padme to be. The warrior stereotypical "strong female" character.

Idk if this is what's going on in the comics too, but I'm tired of canon writers trying to push Sabe on either Anakin or Padme. It's annoying and it makes me dislike her as a character.

[sniperct]

3, 18, 21, 22

3) What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)

Oh now this is a hard one lol Not that they don't exist but braining it rn is hard.

Plus a lot of those kind of scenes are parts of WIPs!

I can say the scene where sylvanas tells jaina she loves her in HoD is like, 75% of the reason that fic exists.

There's a scene in my very first sylvaina fic, the one I started before LR, that I will one day get to write. But I'm not sharing it ;)

There's a scene where Lara Croft has nightmares related to her guilt over how many people she's killed, and Mercy rescuing Widowmaker in the Tolkien AU.

Oh! Okay yeah this may never see the light of day. Star Wars, sabepadme, Padme Lives AU.

context: She becomes the face of the rebellion, but no one knows what she looks like because Sabe crafted her a mask. "The galaxy believes amidala has died." "Who shall I be?" "Liberty."

Anyway it's the inevitable Vader/Liberty meeting. Something something floor collapses and they're trapped together. I'll just share my notes where I often sketch out a scene:

padme keeping her distance, can feel the hatred seething off of vader, can feel the hatred of him in herself, has her pistol trained on him, neither moves though padme suspects she's a dead woman anyway and vader is likely biding his time

vader talks about how much of an annoyance she is, she gets snippy with him, argue, padme reveals something that only she and anakin could have known and…

vader's lightsaber clatters to the ground and he fell to his knees before her. 'Padme…?' and she stared, a sick feeling in her heart, before she reached out and removed vader's helmet, and stared into Anakin's eyes. They were yellow and hateful and yet they were anakin's and padme stifled a sob before removing her own mask. vader's eyes flickered, and for the most brief of moments he was anakin 'he told me I killed you' padme just kneels in front of him, cupping vader's face, and yes, yes her love for him was real, but that was a long time ago and this man was not her anakin but she'd been right, there was still GOOD in him she feels him press his lightsaber into her hands and he says 'I once told you that my lightsaber was my life'. and now, now while that goodness was there, now, before darkness could prevail again, padme did not hesitate in activating the lightsaber. She had loved him a long time ago and yet it was like cutting her own heart out

18) Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

Not really! At least nothing I've ever really written down. I might have considered some ideas, and I suppose TECHNICALLY Handfuls of Dust was originally going to be an AU before I decided to make it an actual sequel. But it wouldn't have been written otherwise.

Like I'm pretty sure Jaina going undead was something I considered for LR originally

21) What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)

Depends on which stories. When I visualize a scene I typically imagine it as an animated or live action scene. Most of my larger fics would be best in a mini-series type format. I prefer animation in 75% of all cases, though I'd love for Starlight to be live action.

22) Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

I do sometimes. I can't think of any that I hate and I enjoy rereading most of them. Sometimes it's like 'wow I really wrote this? amazing!'

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♡ (from Sabé for Anakin)

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If there was one thing that Anakin Skywalker should have realized when he was nine and told his master that he really didn't see a point in so many rules, he would have saw coming his complete disregard for the Jedi code, in general.

When he was first taken to Theed as a child, Sabe had sneaked him into the kitchen, when he couldn't sleep. She had also treated him like a person. They had naturally stayed in contact, over the years.

He often told her about his quest to become a Jedi, constructing lightsabers, going with Obi-Wan, little known facts that he told no one else. She did the same. It was something they had done for years. She had been Padme's shadow, but he had managed to sneak out of the temple to see her more than once, anytime she was in Coruscant.

One night when he was around fourteem, he wrote her and told her in detail, how he felt and how he'd always felt. They had decided to meet up in a couple weeks. He had managed to sneak out again and they were alone in Padme's penthouse. He was quiet, and so was she. He spoke first.

"So um what I said, it's true, I just am scared of throwing up if I say it again. It's always been you. I'm not supposed to like girls but I like you."

Watching her carefully, he looked for any reaction, before she leaned in and kissed him and he accidentally poked her in the eye. "Sorry. Does that mean you agree?"

She smiled at him. "I like seeing you too and if you don't poke me in the eye, you can kiss me." He leaned in again and bumped her nose, to which she pushed back.

He finally spoke. "Here, why don't you kiss me?"

She smiled at him. "Good plan."

[bibliophileiz]

I haven't seen Phantom Menace since college (when it came out in 3-D and was exceptionally terrible, lol) and watching it again now it's not as bad as I remembered.

Which isn't to say it's good.

Thoughts:

In general, I think the overall plot is a good one. It's the details in the execution that aren't great. The child actors (including sometimes Natalie Portman) are not great, the dialogue is pretty bland and Jar Jar doesn't work any better now than he did in the '90s (in fact he might be worse).

But the podracing is great, and some of the casting is really good. Baby Keira Knightley (who had to have been 12 when this was filmed) does a great job shelving her natural talent accent to play just a wooden bureucratic Natalie Portman. (This sounds mean about Natalie Portman. I usually like her a lot, just not really in this.)

I also think Andy Secome, who plays Watto, does a pretty good job. Also Warwick Davis is in it??? He doesn't have anything to do, but he is there if you want to play Where's Waldo (Where's Warwick).

Also, and I remember noticing this as a 6-year-old in the theater the first time I saw it, but Ewan McGregor as young Obi-Wan Kenobi is *chef's kiss.* Baby Iz watching this for the first time was trying to figure out how they made Alec Guiness look so young.

But the best has to be Pernilla August, who plays Shmi and who should have won a goddamn Oscar, she breaks my heart in this movie. Her line delivery is really good (especially considering some of the dialogue), and her facial expressions, i mean, gawd. This is a woman who involuntarily brought a child into this shitty, shitty world and all she wants is for him to be free and have a future, and that desire clearly battles with her fear for his safety, from the podracing to leaving with Jedi to help finish their secret mission. And in the end she gives up everything so that he can go off into the stars with strangers who think he's special but they don't know him like she does, and she's just left alone, with nothing, on Tattooine, and URRRGGGHHHHH.

Anyway, Shmi is my favorite character and Anakin is such a useless little fuckboi who didn't deserve her, he should have gone back and rescued her the first time he got Jedi leave.

(although I'm not sure Jedi have leave. Which is just one more way the organization in the prequels is supremely fucked up)

Hmm, what other things are good about this movie?

I really love that two teenage girls (Natalie and Keira -- yes, I know their real names are Padme and Sabe, fuck off, it's Natalie and Keira, and they should hang out more) basically come up with the entire third act on their own because they're tired of waiting for these fuckin old white men to solve their problems for them.

also the final space battle is cool but it needed less dialogue from childactorAnakin

(similarly, the gungun battle would have been fine and i think their space ball weapon thingies are kind of cool, but there needed to be WAY less jarjar and i can't figure out why anyone thought he would make a good foot soldier, let alone a general)

and the lightsaber battle has SUCH. AN EPIC. SCORE. ominous choirs over lightsaber sounds are something i didn't realize i needed from my star wars

(Actually there are a weirdly high number of similarities between this movie and Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)

And Darth Maul is very cool and should have come back in the sequels.

But the pacing's not very good. Also apparently Liam Neeson hated working on this movie and it shows

So those are my deranged thoughts on Phantom Menace. Now I'm staritng Attack of the Clones (which does NOT have as good a plot) and I'm trying to figure out why Padme's dying decoy thinks she's failed her?? Like, she didn't plan on getting blown up, and clearly if the plan was to keep Padme from getting blown up, then it ... worked.... Which is obviously shitty for the decoy, and Padme should be apologizing to HER

I have a feeling I'm going to be more disappointed in this one than in Phantom Menace.

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Anakin about Sabe. He would literally find her always. They just get each other.

@mayxthexforce

when ur muse is just so in love with another muse that it’s ridiculous

[helbertinelli]

What do you think are the biggest problems with EK Padme books?

I'm going to link this post from @padme-amitabha where she talks about the issues with the EK Padme books: https://padme-amitabha.tumblr.com/post/641362028845465600/what-are-your-thoughts-about-queens-shadow-and

I personally never read the books so my dislike of them comes from reviews I've seen from Padme fans (who are trustworthy). My main issue is that it seemed like EK hated Padme (the character GL created) and she tried to "fix" her so that Padme would fit her own liking or at least the TCW version of Padme (which is a different character than Prequels!Padme). It just seems like another case of she didn't understand the character (as many SW fans and creators still don't) so she tried to reinterpret Padme in a way that made sense to her. As with other Disney!Padme versions, it did seem like the EK books tried too hard to divorce Padme from being feminine (such as making sure everything in her wardrobe serves a functional purpose). It's not uncommon for a woman to like feminine things and be a competent character. It's actually sexist to claim that you're only serious if you act like a male.

Also, the author kinda gives me vibes that she hates Anakin and Anidala (I think I saw a review for her new Padme book that supposedly had Anidala in it and their relationship was just glossed over when the relationship is a significant part of Padme's character and of her development, not to mention it's basically the entire backbone of SW as a whole). You can't hate Anakin and Anidala and write Padme well. I also didn't like that the books seemed to push for Sabe being in love with Padme. The handmaidens and Padme were more like sisters and I'm tired of the idea that only romantic love is strong and familial and platonic love is somehow lesser. Also it's super creepy that Sabe woulf be into a person who looks almost identical to her (just my own opinion). Oh and I hated that they brought in that gaping plot hole, Rush Clovis. Dude doesn't fit into the timeline established by GL for Padme. Padme wouldn't date that creep anyway. Idk why Disney tries so hard to make Clovis happen.

[helbertinelli]

Don't hate anidala! I think you shouldn't look at tumblr metas etc because tumblr people don't know how to behave or even understand a complex character. I also hate Fix It fics because they're not fixing anything, they're just ruining it by simplifying the story and characters.

I hate fanon Anidala. I hate how Anakin has to be turned into a dumbed down, harmless version of himself for people to be able to reconcile that he and Padme should be together.

I hate how Padme has to act like some sugar daddy or other demeaning sexist stereotype to Anakin in order for people to be able to say that she’s not a sexist depiction of a woman.

I hate that Padme isn’t just allowed to be in love with Anakin without fans having to come up with some crazy theory about how he mind-tricked her, or stole her from Sabe, or she just wants a pretty boy she can fuck.

I hate that Anakin’s canon relationship with Padme is viewed as abusive even though it wasn’t that until the very end when he fell to the dark side.

I hate that they have to turn him into an useless man-child and they always turn Padme into some stereotypical strong female character™ unfeeling bitch.

I hate how fans try to turn Anidala into Padme being demeaning to Anakin and Anakin having no power in the relationship in order to live out their weird fantasies of always treating people like objects.

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Vaderkin/Anakin & Sabe

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Anakin/Sabe, also Vaderkin

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Anakin and Sabe