Star Wars Prequels!

I grew up with the disparate influences of the LOTR and Dune books and Bollywood films and all of those have received varying levels of hatred for their dialogue not following modern Western storytelling conventions (“smooth” naturalistic dialogue, pop-culture quip laden exchanges, etc. The latter I’ve started to call “Whedonism” writing, because it was particularly popularised via Joss Wheldon’s work). Just recently I was reading a review of the first Dune book that was complaining about the “stiff” dialogue and the “sterile” characterization and I realized that a lot of people just don’t know what to *do* with writing that falls outside of a narrow band of style.

Me, I immensely enjoy forms of dialogue that follow grand, opera-like conventions, with nary a quippy “Whedonism” in sight. Dialogue that works like a tone-poem. Dialogue that’s allowed to kick “smoothness” straight to the curb, in service of rawness (and anyone who whinges about Anakin’s dialogue seriously hasn’t gone through a love-confession by way of inexperienced teenage boy. 'Awkward’ is their default mode of communication. It’s just that Western cinema canon trained viewers to expect smooth, suave leading men, not broken youths with little interaction outside of a monastic order and more trauma than a combat veteran).

Also, these film critics completely and utterly missing the entire point of what the Jedi are supposed to be in the PT (the ossified remnant of a once-great monastic order, now immensely diminished and disconnected from the social and political realities around them) is supposed to make me say “oh, these people have FANTASTIC reading comprehension and I’m going to trust them for media analysis?” This is what happens when your critics are people who spent dscades masturbating themselves to a froth over their fantasies of what the Jedi / the Old Republic / Anakin would be like and were faced not with grand romantic ideals, but highly flawed people and broken, barely-functional institutions.

This is one week set apart from the rest of the year that will be entirely dedicated to Padmé and Anakin, in the form of — ART! You are invited to show your love for this pairing using any artistic expression of your choice, be that; drawings, edits, videos, gifs, literature etc. This means all fanworks are accepted, from the traditional art and fic to videos or playlists, anything you make, we want to see. Be creative, and take your muse wherever it leads you! This is not a contest of skill, but an event to showcase our appreciation for literally how much we cannot contain our love for this couple (it’s not something to be suppressed, believe us!) What will happen is between the dates of May 4th to May 10th there will assigned themes. Please do not start submitting works until these dates. As has been practice for the past few AnidalaWeeks, this year there will be two daily themes, to encourage a greater number of works from even more participants. Any and all levels of involvement are welcomed, from posting everyday to only having something for one of the days. The most important thing is to have fun and share your love of Anidala!

Anidala Week 2021 Themes:

Day 1 - May 4th: Headcanon/Missing Scene OR Favorite Scene

Day 2 - May 5th:  Canon Divergence OR Favorite Canon work

Day 3 - May 6th:  Mythology/Fairy Tales OR Favorite Touches

Day 4 - May 7th: Modern AU OR Favorite Trope

Day 5 - May 8th: Fusion/Alternate Fandom OR Favorite Quote

Day 6 - May 9th: Time Travel OR Favorite Parallel

Day 7 - May 10th: Free Day As is Anidalaweek tradition, the last day is a free day. No prompt or theme, make whatever you want to make!

Sith Obi-Wan

Anakin & Obi-Wan in Season 7:

already missing this… s7 really didn’t have to do us like that :’) 

I know it’s the prequels but none of y’all asked for

Mace Windu