Charlie: Well I Get My Looks From My Father, So "devilish" Is Technically Accurate.

I like this Wet Elf look for Charlie

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catradora and the perfect victim complex

(i literally fucking think about this all the time so this just gonna be a rant lol)

i really, truly think that people in general don’t put the effort into understanding characters who are imperfect victims. for them, it destroys the appeal of victimhood. victimhood (especially when the victims in question are girls, women, femme presenting people, etc.) needs to be beautiful and tragic. think characters like ophelia, snow white, odette, juliet, the lisbon sisters. otherwise, their victimhood is no longer attractive.

catra is an imperfect victim. shadow weaver’s abuse did not make her soft, weak, timid, or fragile. it made her bitter, angry, and resentful.

i once saw a catra anti saying some bullshit about how they might’ve liked catra more if the writers had spent more screen time showing shadow weaver abusing her, specifically her when she was a kid.

this person wanted to see catra’s pain as beautiful. they wanted to see her ONLY as a child to be pitied, the little kid who cowered in fear instead of fighting back, and not have to acknowledge catra’s more complicated character traits.

i also think this is why these same people often talk like they love adora, like “adora deserves better than catra” and all that shit. adora (to them) is easier to see as a perfect victim. shadow weaver’s abuse made her obedient and self-sacrificing. it made her put others before herself, even to the point of fucking death. adora is selfless and brave. she’s so determined to be a perfect hero, to protect people, to care for people, to love people. these traits are easier to romanticize. it makes her seem beautiful.

if you ask me, this is a really fucked up way of viewing adora. i don’t love adora bc she’s a “perfect victim”, i love adora bc she, like catra, is also flawed. adora’s determination to be perfect leads her to abandoning catra. her inability to empathize with catra leads her to behaving the way she did in taking control. adora isn’t fucking perfect.

(for context i do also think that catra was in the wrong in that episode too, but i feel like we don’t talk enough about how badly adora was handling the situation. like seriously girl catra is here basically telling her “i don’t trust you bc i don’t believe that you could ever love me bc i’m inherently fucked up and unlovable” and adora’s immediate reaction is to blow up at her. it makes sense given what adora has just done for her, but it’s another example of adora being incapable of empathizing with catra. also calling her a stubborn brat? yeah uh that wasn’t funny adora, especially not with the ways that shadow weaver talked about catra.)

but i love that adora is flawed, and i love that catra is flawed. they’re not archetypes. no real person experiences abuse like they did and comes out perfect. catra’s intense fear of abandonment and resentment issues are a very fucking real response to the way she was traumatized. regardless of how ugly it is.

at the end of the day, i think that people can’t wrap their brains around this concept and refuse to empathize with imperfect victims bc they don’t want to admit that they, too, are imperfect victims. the perfect victim isn’t real. it’s a fucking myth.

in real life, people are messy and complicated, like catra and adora. it’s why i love them :)

ugh i could literally go on about this FOREVER i swear.

You've heard it before

And you might not like hearing it again

But this is what the ideal relationship looks like.

Happy Anniversary to Catra and Adora! I don't have any art or fanfic or interesting thoughts to share, but I just feel like I need to post something for such a momentous occasion as the Catradora Kiss-versary before the day is out! Crazy that was four years ago. Here's to the kiss that saved the universe!

the line says something about "prime's unyielding grip"

in the "don't go" fanfic

and honestly -

very symbolic to me as a lesbian raised in a mormon household.

i wonder sometimes if it's intentional; but either way, the metaphor for me is prime as some sorta deity -

and the unyielding grip? just feeling like that.

exactly like that.

and omg this - defiance of the kinda religious rhetoric meant to put a pin in people and be who they are only within the parameters of who they are allowed to be -

"you made me in your image, but i am more than that"

quite possibly the most intensive rejection of that rhetoric in the entire show and it's delivered by hordak! wth! like that's why i made that post about catra calling hordak by his name when she's tryna rescue glimmer - it got a bit slammed but dude c'mon - tell me that doesn't make sense

loss of identity, loss of self and even just being able to sense your own feelings -

that's clones. that's chipped. that's strict & abrasive censorship. & i'm genuinely sorry if i offend anyone - but that's bull shit.

the rainbows. the love. the glittery bits in the air just cause magic.

that's - well, that's magic.

cause that's what love is. and to me sometimes i think that's all the show's main msg really is.

and it's being screamed from the rooftops.

love is magic dude. powerful magic. y'all know that tho, i'm preaching to the choir here haha.

but even hordak and entrapta deserve it, honestly. dude is so moved by how much he cares for her he'd rather try and toss horde prime off the same platform hp made catra fall off of.

hell. yeah.

& entrapta spent almost a full season on beast island dude like - adora doesn't push him away after she legit murks hp's weird unsettling singularity-type consciousness out of existence - she doesn't try and reprimand him or get angry. she smiles at him and lifts him up. that's it.

cause just like everyone else in the damn galaxy, he's finally free. and that's all she ever wanted for anyone, on etheria or otherwise.

<3

from an old incorrect quote. It’s great that the journal not only clarified that Sasha’s eyes are blue but that Anne and Marcy absolutely love looking at Sasha’s eyes

Both Adora and Catra, and their relationship, and their story has one of the best feminist statements and subtext in all media of the past century. I may write an essay just about that . Essays. Plural.

Okay, but The Radio Demon has also shown himself in a normal form

And a giant, "full demon" form!

And maybe even a medium form as well?

This shows that overlords do, or at least can, have a similar system of alternately sized forms! But that begs the question...

Is Zeezi (Missi Zilla) walking around in one of the larger forms? Or, the far better option...

Is THAT her small, "normal sinner" form!? Implying the existence of a larger, possibly genuinely Kaiju-sized, full demon form!

Something I Noticed..

So from what we've seen, all the Sins have 3 forms, each in varying sizes.

Their Small and Medium forms are pretty much the same appearance wise, and seem like they're used for daily convenience. With their Small form being the size of an average demon. And their Medium form being about two or three times that.

Then they have their Large, or 'Full Demon' forms, in this state they tower over any other type of demon, along with parts of their body transforming. This seems like it's the one that actively used for battle as they unleash their full power.

Viv recently said that Lucifer is bothered by how short he is. So I find it's lowkey hilarious that Lucifer also has 3 forms. But he

NEVER.

GETS ANY.

BIGGER.

Source @38:28

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Hazbin Hotel Live Q&A with Cast

Hazbin Hotel Creator Vivienne Medrano interviews some of the cast (Erika Henningsen, Amir Talai) of Prime Video’s hit new series, Hazbin Hot

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

Let's be real, there's no way the U.S. government wouldn't be researching portals back to Amphibia to exploit its resources.

I always wanted to make a fic or comic about Anne becoming a secret government agent (while posing as a mild-mannered herpetologist) just so she could sabotage that project. Or to find a way back herself.

So yeah, that'd be a pretty good opportunity for her to become besties with Mr. X

My most random headcanon is that Anne somehow ends up becoming besties with Mr. X