Top 5 fluffy and wholesome Anidala headcanon? Not *necessarily* cuddly things, but nice things about their relationship. I really adored that one about Padme trying to get Anakin to talk about what he likes in bed because consent is very important to her.
Anakin made their wedding rings sometime after they got married out of a particularly shiny piece of stalactite he found on one of the worlds he visited during some campaign or other. It was Padmé’s most prized piece of jewelry next to the japoor snippet he carved for her when they were children
When Padmé explained to him how much it means to her that he makes things for her himself, with his hands (because, as a Queen and later a politician, she’s received many meaningless expensive trinkets and baubles and things, but they’re all given to her out of obligation or in ceremony or sometimes, as a bribe. She can count on one hand the number of times someone has actually taken the time to make something especially for her, from scratch and out of love, and both have been from Anakin), he never stops. It becomes a way for him to feel close to her when he has to be away from her for long periods of time.
Whenever Anakin was given leave from the front lines, he and Padmé would set off for a holiday on some obscure Mid-Rim world. They’d dress as peasants and assume the identities of the couple they were married as.
They…do not get a lot of sleep around each other when Anakin is home at night. Not because of sex, though that is part of it, but because they just have so much to say to each other. The number of times Padmé has overslept for a meeting the next day because she was up all night cuddling and catching up with her husband would be embarrassing if she had any shame about how much she loved him.
They each have a whole list of places they want to take the other. For Padmé, her’s is more a list of resorts and vacation destinations, because Anakin STILL cannot wrap his head around what a vacation is. Meanwhile, Anakin’s is a list of the top 10, no 15, no 25, no 30–Top 30 Coolest Planets he’s been to that he wants to come back and explore with Padmé by his side later, during peacetime.
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The other day someone said to me that the offer anakin gave to padme to give her the galaxy was OBVIOUSLY a case of him wanting a puppet ruler. and i was like……………..HIM? Mr Anakin Wifeguy? The one who's love language seems to mainly consist of vows of undying loyalty and offers to lay the galaxy at his loved ones feet? Are we talking abt the same guy here?
Yeah, I’m with you, honey. He flat-out says he has no interest in ruling in AOTC. He has a lot of flaws, (so so so so so so many). But one of Vader/Anakin’s good points is his understanding how very bad he would be at ruling the galaxy.
He wants to kneel at her feet and give her galaxies.
Her mistake was begging Anakin to listen to her instead of demanding that he come back with her and kill Palpatine for her.
i had the earth-shattering (for me) realization the other day that if padme had agreed to go Fuck It, We’re Evil Now when anakin offered the galaxy on mustafar, and they fucked off to kill palpatine, there’s no way anakin would’ve retained the name “darth vader.” you’d have a seven foot tall mean little salt and pepper shaker in his shambling iron armor and you’d have to call him lord amidala. lord fucking amidala. i know this is true, i am 100% positive i have correctly interpreted these characters in saying that this would happen, but could you fucking imagine calling darth vader “lord amidala”? christ. that’s insanity
you might as well call him mr. wifeguy. could you imagine obi-wan slumming it on tatooine when he hears whispers of the terrible dark deeds of lord amidala and despite the fact that he’s hearing about how his sonbrotherguyitscomplicatedbestie does a ton of murder now, his first instinct is to roll his eyes literally to the sun and back. ahsoka’s response to hearing the phrase “lord amidala” would honestly just be “that absolute motherfucker”
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Okay but what if SHE wants to be Lord Amidala.
Like Lady Amidala sounds a bit too much like she’s married to the power rather than embodying it herself, Empress Amidala is a bit of a mouthful and anyway she isn’t quite sure she approves of it being an Empire even if she is evil now and also it might bring to pass the audio abomination that is “Emperor Vader,” and she’s been Queen Amidala once already and it was of dubious usefulness. And let’s not get started on Mistress Amidala and Master Vader.
So she’s like why not have my title be Lord too, and Vader, who’s weighing the merits of saying fuck-you to Palpatine by abandoning the Sith for starting his own Order versus saying fuck-you to Palpatine by promoting Padme to Sith Master and to hell with her lack of Force sensitivity, finds the scale tipping in favor of exactly that.
Ahsoka Tano hears that the Empire is now under the rule of Lord Amidala, says “that absolute motherfucker” out loud, and then sees Padme on the newsreel with Anakin right behind her introduced as “Lord Vader” and lets out a shriek that breaks plexiglass halfway down the block.
I really hope everyone reblogging this followed the link and read the article, because it’s larger point is really good
“Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank. Having babies is worse than being mauled by a wampa ice creature or being chopped up by lightsabers and falling into a river of lava. Lucas can write a world like that, and worse, the audience will accept it.
But uteruses aren’t made of malignant magic. Women’s bodies are real physical things that can be studied and understood and when necessary, cured. ”
IDK about everyone else, but I’ve actually been certified as a doula and childbirth educator and worked in women’s health media for most of a decade.
All points valid, but “Help me OB-GYN Kenobi” broke me.
And this is how you can tell a story was written by men because pre-natal healthcare never even occurred to the writer. Women’s insides are a mysterious and magical place that no man either can fathom, or just just not want to think about, so in stories like this they just handwave it away as” dying in childbirth”.
the twins deserve to have telepathic conversations without knowing it. and han deserves financial compensation for having to constantly put up with that
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