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vaderdala week is two weeks away!
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People be out here ignoring the PT as if only OT informs the narrative of the entire saga.
“PT is ultimately about the relationship between Anakin and Padmé” — GL.
PT is about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, and how democracy (symbolized by Padmé) dies. It is one half of the saga. It is the tragedy that precedes the triumph in OT. But I guess it’s too much for people who don’t like what PT shows, especially Padmé’s importance in the entire narrative of the skywalker saga. They think it is a stretch to say that had Padmé survived, Vader and consequently OT as it was made wouldn’t exist when the ending of PT (plus the RotS novelization) directly tells us that.
Paraphrased from RotS novel: when Anakin is told he killed Padmé, he thinks how this burns hotter than the lava. Then he thinks about how, on Mustafar, when he should have been thinking about her, when he could have run away with her, he was thinking about himself—telling us how if Padmé was alive, suited Vader would choose her at the drop of a hat. Vader exists because Padmé died; why Sidious was able to mould him into OT Vader because of how much he loathes himself.
But I guess Padmé is just a side character, and we are just “overcorrecting” her narrative weight. Some self-proclaimed Padmé “fans” really be something. Guess I am wrong to follow the source text and creator commentary.
hello there and welcome to vaderdala week 2026!! the event will be happening april 15th-21st. looking forward to seeing everyone's amazing submissions. all art forms are accepted! tag @vaderdalaweek and use /#vaderdala week/ and /#vaderdala week 2026/ on your tumblr posts. also please reblog this post to help spread the word!!
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when creating for your prompt or prompts of choice, you are free to interpret them however you wish. two free days were included to give you complete creative freedom. late posting is accepted until the end of april!
DAY ONE - APRIL 15TH | raised as a sith au ▪︎ starship voyage
DAY TWO - APRIL 16TH | mythology ▪︎ free day
DAY THREE - APRIL 17TH | second chances ▪︎ rebel!padmé
DAY FOUR - APRIL 18TH | hurt ▪︎ inappropriate use of the force
DAY FIVE - APRIL 19TH | haunted ▪︎ classical literature
DAY SIX - APRIL 20TH | force dyad ▪︎ empress!padmé
DAY SEVEN - APRIL 21ST | free day ▪︎ mafia au
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hi vaderdala stans!! in order to make things a little more interesting i will be posting polls on some prompt ideas throughout the next two weeks. once all the votes are in, i will select the two most popular prompts from each poll to include on the final list, which will be posted on the 28th of february.
poll 1: vote for your favorite alternate universe ❤︎
raised as a sith au
royalty au
mafia au
siren au
modern au
vaderdala week 2026
excited to announce the first ever vaderdala week here on tumblr! prompts will be announced on february 28th! two prompts will be available for each day. all art is welcome! (fics, fanart, moodboards, poetry, essays, edits, to name a few)
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A woman died of a broken heart because the man she loved died a metaphorical death. A man became a walking corpse because the woman he loved died a literal death.
Yes, I know many woman die because a woman’s death was the best idea one could have ever had.
Yet, yet, oh hear me out!
This woman—this woman did not die that purposeless death. With her last breath, the democracy fell. Her death binds the narrative, haunts it like no other has. She took with her the living breath of the man in hell. This woman died a tragic death but her words echoed across time itself! This woman uttered her legacy with her dying breath, inherited by her son who then redeemed the man in hell.
So, no. No! This woman did not die because her death was the best idea one could have ever had.
This woman is Padmé Amidala Naberrie Skywalker and this woman died because had she lived, the future pre-written would not have survived the narrative test, and would have torn her character to literal shreds.
I want to talk about this scene from the comics where Vader intends to open Padmé's tomb but hesitates and stops.
From Vader's PoV, by that point in the timeline, he has hammered the 'Anakin is dead, the past doesn't matter' so deep inside him , has been reinforcing it for years. Here too, he started with that in mind, like 'I can do it, I don't care about the past'. His will to have his answers, answers he deserves to know about his son, was strong, the strongest will he had in forever as Vader.
But then swiftly devolved to 'everything is in the past, everything..is..in..the..past, every..thing..is..in..the..past..' as memories stream in. And he stops.
Ultimately, he couldn't do it. It was one of those moments where he realises once again that, no matter how much he tries, Padme will forever haunt him.
Like she did in this scene. Memories of her laughing with him which blacken over to her choking, gasping, and pleading on Mustafar as he held her in his forcehold. Memories of Padmé, which he had suppressed for so long, were now flooding through the cracks that had been developing since the moment he learned of Luke, overpowering his will with just one slip of his. The sudden outpouring of memories and the accompanying distant but terrifying pain and guilt and regret, which he had been keeping at bay for years, froze him.
And such a strong realisation after a long, long time too, combined with where he is now grappling with the idea that their love did bear fruits. Their son was alive and well. I saw it as a moment of his darkside will being challenged and defeated. It was one of those early deepening of cracks as Anakin begins to surface little by little as he confronts the past, his actions in the past he had refused to face properly before.
Personally, just to point out that Padmé's memories are buried in the deepest crevices of his mind. For them to pour out so readily when confronted with just her tomb, Vader had been denying, suppressing both Anakin's and his love and grief.
Leading up to the RoTJ climax, more and more such cracks deepen. When Sidious decrees Luke's death, the cracks open wide for enough light to shine through, enough for Anakin to burst through. To Luke and his redemption.
I don't understand why people keep looking for flaws and faults in Anakin and Padmé's relationship when Lucas was pretty clear the flaw was Anakin's profound and unregulated fear of loss. Fear of loss led to Anakin making the wrong decision, i.e., turning to the darkside. This wrong decision then led to everything else.
Their love did not have and did not need to have (toxic) flaws, rather the idea itself runs contrary to the tragedy. I have repeated this before but toxic love does not inspire the actions that their love did.
A deep, intense love triggered Anakin's fear of loss and led him to losing himself and his beloved. His inability to accept the impermanence of life took everything away from him in a matter of days. A deep, intense love broke Padmé's heart yet kept her faith in her beloved till the very end, to the point that their son echoed it. Mustafar was the device meant to establish how powerful the darkside is that it twisted even this deep love.
Lucas was crystal clear on all of the above themes. The tragedy is true love getting twisted by the darkside. The tragedy is that Anakin executed the very fate he wanted to prevent.
The tragedy is that happiness was always just a hand away had Anakin taken it.
The tragedy is that Anakin never intended for the tragedy to happen.
“Meeting on the Naboo Stairs // Final Goodbyes”
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Anidala Week Prompts!
Hey Anidala fam! Hope this post reaches you in perfect condition. If you haven’t had the chance to take a skim through our Carrd yet, which has listed all of the prompts that will be included for this year’s Anidala week, here’s a show for what you’re working with and signing up for! We hope these prompts speak to you and strike your artistic vision no matter what form it takes! It’s a creative and colorful bunch this year so do with it however you please, so long as you play by the rules 😘 best of luck and we can’t wait to see what you all cook up!
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@Anidala haters,
Padmé being 14 and growing an attachment, building a bond, and feeling a connection (emotionally and spiritually) with Anakin at 9/10 yo isn’t actually that hard to believe and isn’t as uncommon as you assume. (They’re literally kids in a galaxy far far away. They’re not from your middle school.) and them going their own ways for 10yrs without any contact doesn’t mean her connection to him wasn’t real. She literally kept the Japor Snippet he made her in all that time they were separated because it became something so precious to her. Anakin helped save her home world, she herself says she could never forget him and that she’ll always care for him. Even when they didn’t think they’d see each other again (namely Padmé) they still held each other in such high regards and looked back on each other with great adoration and affection, even long before it became romantic.
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What Anidala actually is like:
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bro is just a simp for his wife.
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You are an annoying, selfish bureaucrat and I hate you and everyone else at this stupid party.
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Bonus #2: you know from just these 3 panels who's on top.
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Bonus #3: I'm putting these ones in here because they did things to me. How can a man go from submissive to hot in just one panel?
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Don’t really know where the idea that Anakin and Padmé idealizing one another comes from and insisting they never loved one another truly. Padmé saw all of Anakin’s worsts and still decided to marry him, she looked past Anakin’s dark deeds and adamantly claimed there was still good in him. (She literally even admits in the ROTS novel that she’s not blind to his flaws and loves him all the more for it.) Anakin loved Padmé because he could see through her facade as Queen of Naboo, saw that she wasn’t only some politician or some important figurehead that is invincible and can do anything, he saw that she always carried the weight of the galaxy on her shoulders and she couldn’t always handle that. He saw her as a HUMAN who needed her fair share of support and peace. He was the only one from out all the people in her life that saw her as Padmé and not the Queen of Naboo, or Senator Amidala. He saw all her sides. The sides that was diplomatic, the sides that weren’t as merciful, the sides that even argued with him, and just saw all of HER, and only her, and still wanted to support her in everything she did and love her anyway.
That’s nothing like idealization.
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“Why would Padmé choose Anakin when Obi-wan was right there” maybe because Anakin is truly the only person who ever understood her as their humanity was taken from both of them at a very young age and they have rolls to fill that very few people can ever understand.
Maybe because Obi-wan is 11 years older than her (he was 25 in TPM and Padmé was 14) and also Obi-wan is so rigid in his worldview whereas Padmé isn’t. She sees light in the dark, and dark in the light, and Obi-wan cannot comprehend this. Anakin embraces both sides of himself.
I also think Padmé choosing Anakin says a lot about Padmé as a person, but I think it also says a lot more about who Anakin was. He’s got cringy ass pickup lines but he is raw, he is passionate, and he does not shy away from what he feels even when it’s possibly wrong. Even when it’s definitely wrong. And Padmé always has to hide what she’s feeling in her line of work, so being with someone like Anakin allows her to embrace the full experience of being alive, the full range of emotion, and she isn’t judged for it by him, because he feels it all too.
They are both extremely passionate people.
Anakin’s love burns brighter than anything in the universe, and while it is his downfall, it is also his saving grace. That light never truly is extinguished within him.
Padmé chose Anakin because they were two halves of a whole. Because there was no choice. They found themselves in each other.
really don’t know how you can watch the scene in tpm where palpatine talks directly in padme’s ear in front of the senate, and she’s begging for the galaxy to care about her people dying, and he’s boldly manipulating her into calling that vote of no confidence, she looks like she’s about to burst into tears, absolutely no one is helping her, no one but this evil evil man, and think the prequels portrayed padme as exclusively comfortable & confident in the role of queen. they’re action movies yes, she’s an action hero who is brave and charges into battle, but they are also tragedies. padme is a tragic character. part of that tragedy is her at 14 being put in charge of a whole planet and falling prey to a dark lord’s manipulations. do i wish this element was expanded upon in the movies? yes of course. but i will never understand people acting like it’s not there at all. she was 14. in aotc she says she was too young. it’s right there