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Also i dont know if you guys have ever seen medieval beekeeper garb, but:

Imo one of the best things the Star Wars prequels did was establish how much Anakin/Vader *wanted* he and Padme’s baby. Because if it HAD been written as him never knowing she was pregnant, or not caring much because he was Too Much of a Man in War to really give a shit that he was going to have a kid (both of which are things people have suggested would have been *better* somehow), I don’t think it would have added as much to his relationship with Luke as it did. Vader doesn’t love Luke just as an extension of Padme, or in an obligatory, familial way, or even as a last connection to the person he was way.

alright so it’s annual donation drive time over on AO3, and I’ve already seen the usual “this is ridiculous/this is shady/what are they doing with all that money” so here’s your yearly reminder:

you know what I was gonna keep it to myself but actually this isnt what people are upset about. Ao3 is a fucking cesspool full of child porn, racism, and every other kind of fucked up thing you can think of. They have repeatedly disregarded peoples concerns about racism, pedophilia, and abuse in these works being fetishized and have gone so far as to protect these racist, pedophilic, abusive fics from being removed despite how they hurt people. The site should be taken down for harboring pedophiles and predators.

AO3 is a platform for free speech for writers. But it still requires writers to put in tags for problematic subjects, which people can just block and ignore if they wish to. They don’t shove it in your face. They don’t endorse it. They give you the option to just not look at the things you don’t like, and they make it really easy too.