#pademic

[anintroverteddarling]

Might be too busy to upload the video I mentioned so Imma yeet some doodles I made at school ... ... ... I can't believe this is what I do when bored:

These are very cursed Eddie doodles because why not?

[lupinusalbus]

[kingonews]

REFORMES DANS LE SECTEUR DES MEDIAS : LA PADEM –BENIN EXHORTE LA HAAC A UNE DEMARCHE INCLUSIVE AU DOCUMENT FINAL

Déterminée  à promouvoir les valeurs de la presse béninoise et à lui redonner ses lettres de noblesse,la  PADeM-Bénin travaille sans relâche. La plateforme des promoteurs et acteurs pour le développement des médias à travers un communiqué en date du 18 octobre 2023 a invité la haute autorité de l’audiovisuel et de la communication à une démarche inclusive au document final proposé par l’ensemble…

[partitionis]

normal enough:

hey uh what the fuck:

[vikingpoteto]

50?

Thanks for asking!

[projectdreamwalker]

I approve this message.

Some more badass ladies

[tennessoui]

Vos, using his psychometry on Anakin early in the hanahaki fic: you are so messed up that I cannot even tell what you are feeling. It's just [static] [incoherent screaming] [murder] [?translationotfound?] [murder] [hunger] [cat!] [Obi-Wan-Padem-Ahsoka-Obi-Wan-Mae-Obi-Wan] [murder?] [murder]

^vos in the hanahaki au after using his psychometry to feel Anakin’s feelings for 2.7 seconds

[raleighrador]

Most fics I have read - even/especially the very good ones - that include Anakin having a relationship with Obi-Wan after Mustafar (or AUs where something similar to Mustafar occurred) are almost always frustrating to me. At least unsatisfying.

Anakin having any kind of positive relationship with Obi-Wan post Mustafar always seems to rely on a level of introspection and self awareness that frankly my head canon of Anakin is totally incapable of.

Anakin is not a forgiving person, even at his best. He is kind and generous but not forgiving. He remembers every slight (real or imagined). He holds onto those memories and lets them fester.

He also remembers all the good. He never forgets them. He cherishes them and polishes them and places them on a pedestal.

It's why (and a symptom of) he's so fucked in the head when it comes to his most important relationships.

He has no synthesised view of Obi-Wan or Padme or Palpatine or Luke. They are all of the things they have ever done to or been to Anakin.

What changes is the weighting Anakin gives to each of these things, with a massive recency bias.

I don't see how Anakin, in the full knowledge that Obi-Wan is the man who cut off his limbs, set him on fire, left him to burn, left him for Sidious to find, and then stole and separated his children before Padme's body was cold...

Could ever forgive him.

The why's and the intentions and who deserved what just wouldn't matter to (my head canon) of Anakin.

In lieu of self-awareness many fics give Anakin basically limitless self loathing. So instead of dealing with Obi-Wan or Padme or whatever he just hates himself so much that he doesn't have time to hate Obi-Wan anymore.

There is a lot I like about this (narratively/as entertainment) but I think the thing it misses is that is how Anakin worked prior to Mustafar anyway. He already hated himself almost limitlessly and he still found the time and energy to hate Obi-Wan.

After Mustafar he would have so much more justification for that hatred and resentment. So why would his self loathing get in the way?

The longer the timeline of these stories aligns to canon the more true this becomes.

I think by the time you get to Ghost Anakin at the end of ROTJ the things he would regret most are (in no particular order): choking Padme, handing Luke to the Emperor, torturing Leia, chopping off Luke's hand. MAYBE he regrets Alderaan but only in as much as it made Leia sad and means she hates him.

And he would likely blame everyone and anyone but especially Obi-Wan for this.

If Leia's surname was Skywalker, if they weren't separated, if Luke wasn't lied to about who Vader/Anakin was, if the Jedi hadn't filled Luke's head with lies and trained him as a weapon etc.

The rest of it? I just don't know that Anakin would really regret that much of it. I don't think he would see much difference - even with hindsight - between what he did as Vader in service of the Empire and what he did as Anakin in service of the Republic.

Killing the Jedi younglings probably sits in its own category. However, I maintain that Anakin would believe this was an acceptable price to save Padem IF it worked.

That might be his biggest regret - that none of it worked, that he lost Padme and his children anyway.

But any time travel force shenanigans where Vader uses the dark side to yeet himself into the past such that he can save Padme etc.

He would think that was a good deal.

There is the final (meta) element to all of this which is that Anakin's eventual forgiveness of Obi-Wan seems to generally function more as a narrative tool to assuage Obi-Wan's guilt, rather than some kind of real character development for Anakin.

And TBH I just want Obi-Wan to suffer/don't cate about him but that is another post.

I do however have sympathy for this - because I think Anakin is really, really hard to write.

A "redeemed" Anakin in my mind isn't one who suddenly becomes some kind of virtuous rules based utilitarian like the Jedi aspire to be, like Obi-Wan is.

A redeemed Anakin is one who chose his son, chose his family. A redeemed Anakin is one who was finally put in a position where choosing his family WAS the greater good. Anakin chose to save Luke - and kill Sidious - for the exact same reason and applying the exact same logic he applied to every other major choice he ever made.

And I don't see that Anakin as ever getting over what Obi-Wan did to him and his family. At best I see him not killing Obi-Wan because it would make Luke sad.

[25kitkat]

Palp trying to turn Anakin and make him loose trust in his support system and Most important people ™

Says something about obi and and Pademe which involves cheating and general misleading things...

Anakin who is in a stable long term poly relationship with Obi Wan and Pademe: " I sure hopes so...it be really awkward if they weren't"

Or

" Wait, did someone say they aren't in love with each other!? Who's talking shit about them?! I need names NOW!!?"

[ld-666]

StarvWars au where Anakin is meant to bring balance by having Sith and Jedi coexist together

He starts seeing the ghosts of sith from when the dark jedi first came to Korriban and enslaved the people there. Then suddenly, Anakin can only understand the sith language, he sees slugs on his fellow jedi but can't tell them, and the order doesn't know what to do. He then encounters a Nautolan woman speaking the language so he follows her to find out what language he is speaking in and discovers that she is actually a sith, (I haven't come up with a name yet) he also learns some dark secrets of the order when she asks why the jedi can't just let her and her people live, thinking that he was hunting her.

Anakin explains that he has no idea what she's talking about and so she uses the dark side of the force to show him everything that the jedi did to Korriban and the people called the planet home by showing the memories of them.

He is horrified by what the jedi have done and pledges to fix it, of course she doesn't believe him till he shows her how to get into the temple undetected and how to get information from the jedi database. She starts teaching him how to properly tape into the dark side and use it for good. He sees his future and disguises himself as Vader to help those the jedi won't and expose the truth. So only Palpatine knows it's him but can't do anything about it without exposing himself as Darth Sidious. Though he gets exposed anyway. So Pademe' is elected Supreme Chancellor as she actually cares about the people and she immediately starts making sure that corruption never takes root again. This might end up being a fix it fic but why not?

[thecelestiallegacies]

The little home things. Cliff fighting off burnout and getting bored with meditation. Minerva started painting and calculating her compatibility with a microwave and ignored the fact that Pademe had been into her since day one.

[issy5316]

Another au?

The calamity of Grimsborough,a so call "Curse" pademic in Grimsborough where every year someone have to die.

Fortunately,the calamity stopped...

But That's in the past,now the calamity return and killing someone in a span of each month or in each week

rosa: i'm guessing us victims are the sacrifices.

chad: ;-;

anton: damn, we'll die.

dan: or maybe we kill people :)

chad: :(

henry: >:(

[sphyricalypoetic69]

Im just imagining your vision

twizzling my 3rd eyesionary's

formulative affliction

Vocabularium' dielectric tele-pademic

barometrifocal spasms per-fixations

sensual synchronization a temporal projection

through elation and durational duality

of two distinct emotionally spoken and

co-motionaly potent

Potentially omnipotent and complex telepathy

that really applies to the combatant transluidty

to the silhouette of an essenceiquential beauty unbeknownst to any other..

Clearly your the light in my heart and mind forever clerical and substrative

The Ethical Pursuit of Happiness

MASrJ

Photo credit-- mr.vikashyadav75

[rjalker]

the first half of the meme. the second half will be done when I actually get beyond page 4 of the book.

[ID: The first two panels of the Anakin and Pademe meme, with Anakin now labled, "Vikki", with a question mark, saying, "Straight Lines are the most oppressed people in Flatland.". Padme is now labeled "Me", and is smiling while replying, "This is commentary on White Feminism, right?". End ID.]

(pro tip: if you think Straight Lines are the most oppressed people in Flatland you need to reread it.)

I think Vikki should visit the local elementary school.

[yridenergyridenergy]

Would it be too much to ask you to make a summary/list of features of the live venues you've been to in Japan? I mean stuff like does it have lockers, are there barriers in the standing area, does it require drink fee, etc. Whatever comes to your mind that has the potential to be useful for other fans, it doesn't have to be ultra detailed ofc. I'd really appreciate it! And btw thank you for the live reports!

Hello! Sorry for the late reply. I was taking time to consider my reply, but with the imminent sale of tickets for the next tour in Japan, I reflected more about this and figured that there aren't that many differences between some venues anyway, so I don't need to describe every single location.

Essentially, I was pleasantly surprised by the installation of barriers inside Zepp venues. I only went to the Zepp Nagoya since Japan reopened after the COVID-19 pandemic, but it seemed to be the same at Zepp Haneda too, so I assume it's common to all Zepp venues now. Hopefully they don't remove those after Japan relaxes its health & safety measures to pre-pademic levels, as the barriers are great to prevent being squeezed violently by the mass of people from behind, and if you are close to a barrier on your side or in front of you, it is something to hold onto during headbanging sessions or jumps.

Otherwise, experiences like what I had at KBS Hall, where there were no barriers and way too many people in a small-capacity space, are something that I want to avoid a lot. In the past, Studio Coast was like that, and Namba Hatch had such tendencies, so the similarity to North American venues turned me off and I preferred less popular venues outside of the two main cities in Japan.

I can't remember a venue that was awesome when it came to sight, for example with the back being inclined upward so that everybody can see. Only seated halls offer that to a certain capacity, but either Kanazawa Cultural Hall or Nagano's actually seemed to dip in the centre before curving upward in the back. But seated halls tend to be way bigger, so I assume that people on the balcony and in the back (typically exclusive-ticket-holders, ironically) see Lego-sized Dir en grey members.

In my mind, my last experience at Club Citta got it crossed from my list of potential preferred venues because you really can't see much below the waist, and it got so hot in there.

Yokohama Bay Hall has two huge pillars on the sides that suck.

No clue about drink fees, but I never attended a Japanese concert where people had drinks. I only saw that in North America.

Hm quite sure that they have a cloak service or coin lockers at all venues. I never use them though: I want to waste zero time with that as I enter the venue to occupy the best spot possible, and I don't want to stand in the cold by putting stuff away in lockers too early.

Many venues unfortunately closed during the pandemic, such as Club Fleez , Studio Coast, Nakano Sunplaza and Akasaka Blitz. As you can see from Dir en grey's November tour list, we're basically stuck with either seated halls or Zepp franchises. And Namba Hatch of course.

If you have any specific questions, feel free! And thank you for even reading my reports!

[obi-wkenobi]

I have a question, have you heard about a Obikin fic where the force sends obi Wan back in time for another chance and he's goes back to a little before he met anakin (I believe) and essentially goes through the original story except opens himself up to Anakin and helps him. Instead of Anakin falling in love with Pademe, he falls in love with obi Wan over time.

Apologies if that ask was a bit of a mess, I've been searching AO3 for a while and can't seem to find the story again, you don't have to answer if you don't want to though! Happy whichever Holiday you may celebrate ✨

hi anon, I don't tend to read time travel fics so i'm sending this out into the obikin community. hopefully someone will be able to help. 😊