i was going to write a longer, involved thoughtful post about shipping and social justice and writing fanfic and the intersection of all of these things etc in meditative pondering about how i strive to be thoughtful in certain ways,
and then i realized i can really just summarize a lot down, so:
how do i ship anakin/padme?
well the chapter in my pet fanfic where anakin/vader and padme begin their reconciliation is going to be titled "the wife of bath's tale"
if the non-english-major nerds are staring at that punchline, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#Female_sovereignty
also pls note this line in the synopsis:
>The Knight responds by saying that the choice is hers, an answer which pleases her greatly
it just works y'all