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twinterrors29 · 4 months

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the specific Naboo religious sect that Padme belonged to believed very strongly in reincarnation

so the first time Darth Vader is introduced to Princess Leia of Alderaan once her father finally relents and allows her to take over his position in the Senate, when he takes note of her resemblance and looks up her birth date, his first thought is not "Padme's daughter survived"

it's "Padme reincarnated as the Princess of Alderaan"

he finds this conclusion fitting, and of course immediately pledges his loyalty to her

Leia doesn't know what this menace to society's deal is, and honestly doesn't care, and decides to use this to her advantage by telling her father

Bail, of course, is biting his nails thinking that Vader has figured them out, but thankfully no

this is about the time that Sabe and her fellow handmaidens show up, so Vader introduces them to Leia and they all naturally reach the same conclusion

when Ben distantly senses the disturbance in the Force and drags the whole Lars family off to come investigate, Darth "Anakin Is Dead" Vader takes one look at young Luke and doesn't even try to ask about his birth date (or, conveniently, his last name) before assigning him as "Anakin Skywalker Reincarnated"

Ben, hidden in the next room with Bail, is face-palming as hard as possible to try to distract himself from that particular shit show

and now that 'Padme' and 'Anakin' are in the same room, Vader of course tries to ship them, with Sabe's passive support

Bail, sweating: maybe,,, we should not encourage that,,,

Vader: Why.

Bail, full of hypocritical shit: uh,,, he's not suitable, for the future Queen of Alderaan

which only serves to offend Vader, because what, Baby Me isn't good enough for Baby My Wife now?

so Bail throws in a faked relationship with a certain spice freighter captain he hired on the spot to fill the role of his daughter's secret boyfriend

before Vader can get upset about Baby Padme dating someone who isn't Baby Anakin, Sabe eyeballs this dude with no official birth records and asks, what DID happen to Kenobi? or maybe that Captain Rex fellow from the war?

causing Bail to nearly stroke out, as he KNOWS that neither of those men are even dead, and in fact one of them is choking on his spit in the other room as he listens in!

(this fake-dating effort additionally backfires, not that anyone realizes it yet, because both twins start actually dating this scruffy-looking nerf-herder)

of course Vader immediately questions why Sabe suggested that Captain Solo might be Kenobi, and got hit with Sabe's "well, Skywalker was always psychosexually fixate on Kenobi, and all of us knew he was the hot one even if Padme settled for Skywalker"

Vader: ...What. Was that thing you said. About Skywalker.

Sabe: yeah, Skywalker literally couldn't shut up about the guy, even while he was having sex with his wife, luckily she was into that if you know what I mean

Vader: ...

Vader: no, that is the perfectly normal level of interest to have in Kenobi

Sabe, remembering the way Darksiders always seemed to fixate on Kenobi: ...uh-huh, riiiight

Vader decides he's Not Dealing With That, and pours that energy into his fixation on Finding Kenobi in order to kill him about it

Ben, one too-thin wall away, is seriously considering letting that happen so he doesn't have to hear any more of this

but, of course, eventually Sidious notices Vader's interest in the young Senator Organa

and Sheev Palpatine was, interestingly enough, from the same sect as Padme

which means that he quickly puts together what Vader has concluded about Leia as a reincarnation of Padme Amidala

but unlike Sabe (and Vader, who has seriously deluded himself), he is keenly aware that Anakin Skywalker can't have actually reincarnated into that farm boy who's spending all his time with the Senator now

so he's able to (correctly, for once) conclude that Luke must be Anakin and Padme's kid, who somehow survived all these years

and since the child survived...

well, he starts to eye Sabe a little more closely, and wonder how he can fit this into his plans for the galaxy...

#star wars #reincarnation #padme amidala #leia organa #darth vader #anakin skywalker #sabe #handmaidens #luke skywalker #obi wan kenobi #owen lars #beru whitesun #han solo #darth sidious #chancellor palpatine

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gffa · 1 year

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Padme & Handmaidens | illustrated by Kei Zama & Rachelle Rosenberg

#padme amidala #sabe #handmaidens #comics

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rattyexplores · 4 months

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Beautiful handmaiden moth.

25/03/23 - Amata sp.

NSW:SB - Wollongong, botanical gardens

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fiatluxillustration-portfolio · 1 month

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Digital Sketchbook - Queen Amidala Handmaiden's Disguise

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𝙵𝚒𝚊𝚝 𝙻𝚞𝚡 𝙸𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

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haggishlyhagging · 1 year

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“So, how does male supremacy succeed, when females outnumber males and are longer-lived than them? The answer is that het women support it. Males couldn’t continue their crimes against the earth if women didn’t collaborate with them. Patriarchy couldn’t exist without them. Males need females for their very creation and for their survival.”

-https://bevjoradicallesbian.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/chapter-two-heterosexualityselling-out-is-not-compulsory-2/

#patriarchy #handmaidens #female separatism #female oppression

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tenshichan1013 · 3 months

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frozen germany winter in arendelle

#disney #frozen #broadway #frozen broadway #frozen the musical #frozen germany #instagram #behind the scenes #handmaidens #queen iduna #lucy-marie fitzgerald #lydia boulton #inge teeuwen #lucina scarpolini #cait lin forret #meltem Ürküt #daisy darvill

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writingthroughthenight · 3 months

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Lesser Fates - Decks of Destiny

#caraval #fates #ouabh #stephanie garber #bookish #writing through the night #night writer #apothic #jester mad #chaos #castor valor #handmaidens #unwed bride #lala #lala lagrimas #szynkaaa #priestess priestess #pregnant maid #decks of destiny

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a-day-of-spilled-thoughts · 7 months

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#dialogue #webtoon #a day of spilled thoughts #quotes #loyalty #the spark in your eyes #handmaidens

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sniperct · 1 year

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Chapters: 12/26 Fandom: Frozen (Disney Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elsa (Disney)/Original Female Character(s), Anna/Kristoff (Disney) Characters: Elsa (Disney), Anna (Disney), Original Female Character(s), Kristoff (Disney), Agnarr (Disney), Iduna (Disney), Hans (Disney), Sven (Disney: Frozen), Queen of the Southern Isles (Disney) Additional Tags: Retelling, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, What-If, Handmaidens, Trans Female Character, Lesbian Elsa (Disney), Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, royal affairs, Grief/Mourning, Hans is a Charming Asshole, Anna Gets High On Painkillers, Canonical Character Death, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, for now, Hand Touching, Sister-Sister Relationship, Friendship, Anna and Hans are a thing (briefly) Summary:

With Elsa pulling further and further away from the people who love her, Queen Iduna acts on a hunch, bringing in a maidservant for Elsa in the hopes that someone near her age might help her come out of her shell.

Unsure if she'll even succeed, Céleste works bit by bit to help Elsa help herself and to open back up to Anna. And Elsa begins to remember that there are good, warm things in the world, if she'll only let herself have them.

But falling in love is simply not allowed, so they must only dance around each other, yearning for that which they cannot have.

#elsa #frozen #elsa x oc #handmaidens #femslash #fanfiction #snipefic

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shelikescloth · 1 year

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Won Star Wars trivia last night by being the only one who got the final question right, cuz it was basically identify these 6 glup shittos & you bet the two teams of nerd boys didn’t know their handmaidens

#naboo girl gang #get with the girlboss agenda #shoutout to my partner who knows his sequels better than me though #Dorme #queen's shadow #handmaidens #padme #May the Fourth Be With You #Star Wars #Padme Amidala #naboo handmaidens #4 of the 6 were women so maybe you should care about female characters

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twinterrors29 · 8 months

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Padme and her handmaidens adopting tiny Ani as their collective little brother after The Phantom Menace would have been adorably perfect

#star wars #the phantom menace #handmaidens #padme amidala #anakin skywalker

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impoliticwestie · 7 months

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One Flight Up: Poseidon's Handmaidens

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rattyexplores · 10 months

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Dead Handmaiden

Unidentified, genus Amata

19/03/23

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fiatluxillustration-portfolio · 10 months

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“Whatever else you could say about Anakin Skywalker, he might just be the most genuine man in the whole galaxy.”

-Padme Amidala Trilogy

#del rey #del rey star wars #star wars #star wars quotes #star wars books #star wars book quotes #book quotes #bookblr #starwarsblr #padme amidala #queen amidala #padme amidala quotes #padme amidala books #queens shadow #queens hope #queens peril #naboo #handmaidens

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haggishlyhagging · 11 months

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Stanton and Anthony deplored the conservatism of those in the American Woman Suffrage Association, but the members of the 'American' equally deplored what they perceived to be the 'alienating' policies and practices of the ‘National.’ To members of the American, the fact that the journal of the National was to be called Revolution, when they were trying to establish their respectability, was most disturbing and some of them expressed their dismay. Writing to Susan B. Anthony about this, Stanton said: ‘The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest revolution the world has ever known or will know. To bring it about is no child's play. You and I have not forgotten the conflict of the last twenty years — the ridicule, persecution, denunciation, detraction, the unmixed bitterness of our cup.’ Stanton was not prepared to 'gloss over' the elements of confrontation, nor the naked operation of power; she wanted to force it out into the open rather than to mask it with a cloak of respectability: 'A journal called the Rosebud might answer for those who come with kid gloves and perfumes, Stanton said, to lay immortal wreaths on the monuments which in sweat and tears others have hewn and built; but for us ... there is no name like the Revolution' (Stanton and Blatch, 1922, vol. I, p. 74-5). And for the American Woman Suffrage Association there was to be no association with the formulators of such sentiment for many years.

In Eighty Years and More Stanton says that she and some of her friends were frequently criticised for their behaviour — and often by women who were reaping the rewards of those fifty years of struggle. Such critics suggest, Stanton says, ‘If these pioneers in reform had only pressed their measures more judiciously, in a more ladylike manner, in more choice language, with a more deferential attitude, the gentlemen could not have behaved so rudely for so long’ (Stanton, 1898a, p. 167). But Stanton makes no apology for being unladylike — in her analysis, no one ever relinquished power because they were asked — no matter how nicely!

Like some of her predecessors, she was often frustrated by the actions of women, and like them, she refused to blame women for the circumstances over which they had no control. Yet she fervently wished that women would look to each other - and not to men - if it was approval they needed. Again and again she tried to make it clear that it should not be important to women to be acceptable to men and that if all women became ‘unacceptable’ and defined their own terms of their own existence, much of the battle would be won, because men would have no alternative but to ‘accept’ unacceptable women - or go without! She deplored the strategy of being 'feminine' to achieve women's rights, because she thought that it was ultimately self-defeating. Not only would it not achieve the desired aim (partly because the more feminine women acted the more evidence they provided of their unfitness for public office — which was where men started, to begin with), but such masquerading and repression also did violence to oneself. There was no self-esteem to be gained as far as Stanton was concerned, from acting in a 'feminine' fashion; it left one feeling shabby.

Her unashamed intention was at times to frighten men, to insist that they would have to change, to demand that their privileges and their images of themselves should go. Her verve, her mockery and her wit are constantly present and she was not at all reluctant to make a joke at the expense of a man (behaviour that is customarily called man-hating in a male-dominated society where men make up the rules and do not see themselves as 'funny'). That she did sometimes on the most public of occasions make a man and his foibles the butt of the joke is no doubt one of the reasons she was called a man-hater (see Gail Parker, 1975), but it is one of the reasons I enjoy some of the incidents she recounts.

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them

#elizabeth cady stanton #women’s rights movement #feminist history #womens history #womens suffrage #handmaidens

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tenshichan1013 · 3 months

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frozen london dream team

#rebecca cove #jemma revell #instagram #behind the scenes #servants #handmaidens #coronation day #disney #frozen #broadway #frozen broadway #frozen the musical #frozen london

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