Actual Palpatine Content vs Tag Ratio Low

The problem with being a Palpatine fan is that most of the 10,175 AO3 fanfics with him in the tags aren't really about him, as is clear from their tags and/or summaries. So they either:

* don't mention the character at all or only mention him briefly in the story(and no, I don't want to comb through the ridiculous number of fics about Anakin and Obi-Wan to try to find the .02 percent that Palpatine actually has a significant role in).

* interpret the character in a way I am either excessively bored by or exceedingly loathe (usually both). While I understand entirely why some people might find it cathartic for their fave to drop-kick Palpatine out of his 19,678 story Coruscant office window, I am just not interested in reading the 19,678th iteration of that.

I'm actually fine with stories where Palpatine is not the main protagonist but still a significant character interpreted in a way I can find enjoyable or interesting. I'm writing a story like that myself (Cut Strings), and have read a number of stories that also fall under this category. Angles I can find interesting for Palpatine include:

* He is a major or main antagonist

* Redemption arc (these are honestly very rare for him)

* Lampooning the character via traits actually depicted for him in the canon.

* Headcanons or character changes that nevertheless do not completely dispose of the canon for Palpatine or the situation surrounding him. Preferably the author will still be able to demonstrate that they are familiar with and appreciate at least some significant portion of the canon for this character. If this connection does not exist in the work, I will consider the Palpatine in the story as essentially an OC, and am unlikely to be interested. While I like many OCs in fanfic, and can even enjoy them in and of themselves, I prefer the author not try to pass them off as a canon character.

Padme Amidala: An Underappreciated Character

Honestly wish there were more fic for Padme that weren't one of the following:

* Look at how girlboss she is!

* Focused on how sexy or sweet her romance with Anakin is. I just have zero interest in either of those depictions of this relationship.

* Focused on a relationship between her and Obi-Wan. Just not interested in the dynamic between these characters.

* Shallow morality play intended to show how morally compromised she is as a character. Yes, I think she does a lot of morally questionable things. No, I don't need a story on that that approaches morality with all the complexity of a Goofus and Gallant comic.

What I really want is:

* Politics! Padme is a politician. Show me the character actually doing her thing--the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly.

* Focused on her relationships with characters besides Anakin or Obi-Wan. Palpatine or Ahsoka, for example.

* Approaches to the character that aren't either uncritical hero worship or shallow 'your fave is problematic' gripe.

She has a considerable role in Cut Strings because I feel her political role is often sidelined in stories for...other things, and I wanted to know about at least one story that doesn't do that.

In terms of canon authors, E.K. Johnston may be permanently stuck in girlboss mode regarding her depiction of this character (and Ahsoka tbh), but at least her Queen's Shadow novel shows Padme in full politicking mode. She essentially just has the opposite issue with Padme that Lucas had in Revenge of the Sith. One of them displays a very imperialist and colonialist understanding of feminism, and the other thinks Padme should be barefoot and pregnant and uninterested in depicting much of anything of her beyond her brushing her long hair.