Oh Damn. I Feel Like There Was A Reason I Looked Up Conquest Rule 63... But I Don't Remember It Now.

This made me laugh so hard I must reblog

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.

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People who don’t ship madohomu actually really confuse me ,like I feel it’s so obvious and once you find out what homura’s wish was it just feels painfully obvious . But hey people have their own opinions and I can’t change that even though I wish I could.

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Pls pls pls share this and tell as many people as you can. The more people openly opposed to this bill the better.

Ignore the tags I’m trying to spread this as far as I can

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.

You've heard it before

And you might not like hearing it again

But this is what the ideal relationship looks like.

I think another part of the problem is that watching Madoka Magical kind of puts you in exposition mode. Let's be honest, some new part of the actual mechanics of how magical girls work is explained nearly every episode, so I can't blame portions of the audience too much for thinking that's what was happening when Kyoko told her story. You're always anticipating being told some new fact about how this twisted system works, though the fact that Sayaka didn't believe her maybe should've been a giveaway that this was different.

do you know what it is, i feel like it's a misunderstanding of why sayaka's and kyoko's wishes turned out poorly. kyoko's fucking self rationalization of the world needing to be balanced and her stuff about fucking never making wishes for other people is eaten up by so much of the audience without second thought and its insane to me maybe it's because not everyone has read different story but the reason kyoko's wish "goes bad" has nothing to do with the child who made it wanting to help her family and entirely to do with the fact that her father is a piece of shit like come on. yeah let's take the traumatised 15 year old completely on her word when she says it's her fault that her dad fucking murdered her family because we are incapable of reading between the lines

I love them like this. Vicious Catra is the nervous sweetheart and innocent Adora is the sex freak.

My hand slipped. 🫢

CUUUUUTE!!!

Adora's POV

A small Catra animation ( im making and edit with my own drawings and some small animation idk how to call that)