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I like Pomnigoo being a frog because she was originally going to be a frog before Gooseworx decided to make her a clown instead. Frog is official Pomni spirit animal/fursona!

Floating Down the Twizzler River

Just some pomnigoo art for the soul

Been watching Blast of Tempest and Aika seems like textbook haunting the narrative. She's dead before the story even begins. Technically she's not the only main character that's true of, but that's different.

"haunting the narrative" is one of those phrases i wanna put up on a shelf. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that haunt the narrative are dead.

Oh look, all of my favorite Lesbian ships!

But ESPECIALLY Chaggie!

I know tis ironic that the penitent "sinner" in this case is an angel while the object of worship is Satan's daughter, yet there's no couple that fits this archetype better! Vaggie absolutely has dark past to atone for, but because of that past involving religious faith she now looks to Charlie as sort of moral authority. How could Vaggie's devotion not be religious when in addition to having been saved herself SHE LITERALLY BELIEVES PEOPLE CAN BE REDEEMED AND GO TO HEAVEN BY FOLLOWING HER GIRLFRIEND'S TEACHINGS! Charlie is the only one Vaggie believes can get people from literal hell to literal heaven. Charlie is the path to redemption. For Vaggie that hotel is a cult dedicated to her girlfriend.

when a ship involves one character being so utterly devoted to the other that its borderline religious????? when the devoted character is written to be seen as a sinner, or damned, or a non believer??? and the other character an angel or god-like???? i simply eat that shit UP how can you not??

Well, the very first paragraph of There and Back Again does establish "It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

listen hobbit pussy could be mediocre (doubtful) but even if it was it's still followed by a 17 course homecooked meal and the kind of weed that would make sauron scared. lithe beautiful immortal elven pussy has no power compared to the simple, hardworking hobbit. and it goes without saying that you cannot handle dwarven pussy.

Here's a new Amphibia animation I just made today! More teamfourstar audio lol. I didn't make anything until the show ended but I don't think I'll be letting Amphibia go for a while.

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.

I like this Wet Elf look for Charlie

Hey Char Char

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I only realized Amphibiatober was even a thing when I went to make my post yesterday, so I haven't done any others. But When I saw the prompt for today was wedding, I knew I had to do something! Originally I was thinking Sashanarcy, but then I remembered owl house also comes back today, and I had this idea.

I wasn't actively on Tumblr or any other social media while Amphibia was coming out.

I didn't participate in any of these leaks, rumors, trends, or memes.

But I did still have an irreplicable experience. I still had a fandom reacting to Amphibia as it came out.

I made my own fandom. After falling in love with the first season, I invited my best friends over to watch it over several binge sessions. Sometimes on a big tv, but when we could manage it we set up a projector in my yard, made a campfire and had smores. I had watched the first season episode by episode as it was airing and then showed it to my friends all at once. So it was decided that would be the tradition. I watched the second season, and that had to gather all my friends and sit on a couch knowing they were about to see True Colors. I was praised for my restraint in not letting anything about it slip for over a month, and then I let out quite a lot of exasperation with a guttural "I know!" While we were going over everything we'd just seen in a frenzy, I threw in "Remember when Marcy FUCKING DIED!?" because we just had to keep sight of how crazy that was. "Remember when Marcy fucking died?" became a catch phrase/meme in our group and not long after that it became a discord emote.

Once it was time to get together for the grand finale, I was well prepared. They had a better idea of what they were in for after season two, and I knew now how much they'd love it. I had already prepared a "Remember when Anne fucking died?" emote to upload as soon as we finished the final episode. I had taken wooden coasters to my local library and lasercut the image of a member of the Calamity Trio onto each to them. When my friends arrived for the final watch party, I gifted them each one of these coasters, each one with some galaxy-pattern duct-tape on the bottom to help it glide on surfaces and not damage them. After the final episode ended I revealed that was a lie. The duct tape was actually there to hide the fact that each coaster had the adult version of its Calamity Trio member laser-engraved onto the bottom of it!

We were 23 at the time. The same age as Anne, Sasha, and Marcy in that final scene. And we felt connected like they did.

amphibia isnt just a silly cartoon its a whole immersive experience like you just have to be there . watching true colors now isn't the same as watching it after it got delayed, censored, leaked, AND the whole sprig voice in-advance warning hysteria at the beginning of the ep on may 2021 . watching commander anne now isnt the same as watching it with the "in commander anne sasha is revealed to be attracted to women" copypasta plague . watching the finales now aren't the same as watching it when the anne arm amputation one eyed sasha "anne boonchuy dies of overdose at 37 yrs old" thing was going insane . you just had to be there . what im saying is that it was a disney cartoon and we were all on drugs