if Star Wars had the internet Anakin would fall down an alt right pipeline so fast it’s not even funny. thought 1 is this doesn’t change the plot at all cuz he already said shit like that. thought 2 is him accidentally confessing to mass murder by posting to the wrong account

A Partial Fix-it AU based on Thought 2

Picture this. It starts as your regular crack filled social media AU, clones and jedi posting things, laughing, whatever. They’re doing it because the propaganda people thought it would be a good idea, but they are generally having fun with it, maybe there are some plans to use the exposure for good things like accountability and public sympathy etc. Maybe incorporate some actual scenes so that’s available as an option for later in the plot, or maybe it’s all done as documentation/social media format.

Anakin’s public account is popular for him being hot and ‘cause of existing “Hero with no Fear” propaganda. He mostly posts action shots taken by r2 or the 501st or activities with Ahsoka, nothing particularly deep, just fulfilling the assignment. Most of the jedi do a bit more activist photography, highlighting damage and deaths, or places in need of aid, but Anakin’s account isn’t far out of the norm, except in how much attention it gets.

you: Palpatine shipped anidala so that he would have more leverage to make Anakin fall and to drive another wedge between Anakin and the jedi and Anakin… Anakin… Anakin…

me, a feminist intellectual: sure but Palpatine shipped anidala specifically because it was a way to try and hobble Padme's political career by giving her a deeply unstable boyfriend to distract her from his corruption

Why not both?

Padme was Palpatine´s political apprentice and Anakin was his coveted Sith apprentince, he maybe realized why I don´t put together my favorite people while I lovingly plan their undoing for stopping my plans to conquer the galaxy for 10 years?

Palpatine is a political genious but he is also petty, can get attached and is sadistically cruel. I can see him doing this while genuinely liking both Padme and Anakin, he probably wanted a force dinasty out of them.

That said I believe Padme and Anakin were already friends for circunstances unrelated to Palpatine, so his influence mostly made sure their relationship ended in tragedy.

it's both, yeah. that's what I meant my saying anidala specifically, ergo he was going to pick someone to use against Anakin, and why not kill two birds with one stone by choosing Padme?