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2018 taught me that a) it’s important to tell people you love them and b) there’s many different ways to say it

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the thing is ☝️ we are introduced to padme as the ultimate cog in the republic (soon to be imperial) machine . she is 14, queen of a whole planet, and easily manipulated. she is used as a weapon by palpatine blatantly and no one cares. padme has to be stoic, monotone and come up with a winning battle plan at 14 or everyone she knows dies. she does the impossible and it doesn’t even matter because that was what palpatine wanted!!

is it not that classic star wars “poetry” then, for her to die resisting the help of machines, for once allowing herself to fully feel? does it not rock that the first time we hear padme truly scream is on her deathbed, refusing to live in a galaxy so cruel it’s denied her this right?? fuck “died of sadness” jokes. fuck “palpatine sapped her life force” theories . padme could only find catharsis in death & that’s her whole character !!!

the movie parallels padme’s death with vader’s birth for a reason!! both were swept into palpatine’s machinations as children and now are adults in the godawful position of having to either embrace the machine fully or die. the cold, sterile hospital environment shows padme at her most emotional and unguarded. the gritty surgery room leaking blood and rage shows vader transformed into something sleek, industrial. obi-wan is by padme’s side, unable to even tell her anakin is dying: palpatine is by anakin’s side, telling him about padme’s death with obvious glee. one is having trouble tapping into the right emotion, the other can manipulate emotion all too well. it’s about exploitation and struggling to exist as a full human. if you even CARE

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segretecose

friendly reminder that YOU 🫵 can make even the most relaxing innocuous activities into high stress situations if you’re mentally ill enough. always believe in yourself and your incapacity to conquer catastrophic thinking!

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menlove

interesting how transmascs & transfems alike think losing weight is the answer to pass as our chosen gender.... almost as if fat people are never Truly afforded a passing gender regardless of trans status. as fat people we are never Truly seen as Men or Women. anyway fuck that notion & if u think u need to lose weight to pass that's the devil talking

i'd also like to point out that this is a problem with people seeking to present androgynously. even androgyny must be skinny in the eyes of the world. in order to even be a person outside of gender, you mustn't be fat

i want fat nb folks to know that you aren't any less of a person or any less androgynous for being fat

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80% of "passing" is having enough money to purchase the clothes and services that will allow you to pass. Please stop holding being able to stealth up as the pinnacle of trans achievement. That place belongs to surviving. It belongs to finding joy. It belongs to love and community, not people who are rich enough to have professional makeup artists and tailors.

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xenasaur

also, some people just won't pass. that has to be okay. some (myself included) do not even want to pass. that also has to be okay.

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bowelfly

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

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pansyfemme

being someone’s loser boyfriend would legit be so gender affirming for me. i was meant to be a guy who sucks

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