Well, What Else Does He Have Two Dicks For?

madoka loves her swagless cringefail lesbian disaster gf

Is it bad that before I finished reading your sentence my brain autocompleted it "himiko as her pokemon"?

desperately need someone to draw ochako as a pokemon protagonist and himiko as her rival

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

My hand slipped. 🫢

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.

WAIT! Did Vaggie grow her hair out in hell because there's nothing there that can cut it!?

Why am I only learning about the Mid-March mini holiday season here on Tumblr? We've got Pi day, followed immediately by the Ides of March, followed immediately by the day Homura resets the timeline to in Madoka Magica, and no one told me!

I'd bet it was a direct order from Catra!

ok scorpia's excuse for making a mess of the files in s2e3 is that she has inconvenient limbs for handling documents, but here?! here she's just tossing them behind her on purpose!!! was respecting shadow weaver's files not covered in force captain orientation?!?!?

Anti-Chaggie shippers fym they have no chemistry? They’re so cute pls 😭 Wish I had what they had

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

Well of course they don't respect or understand the familial love they're taking away from her. No one's ever loved them that way.

Something about the way both Sasha and Marcy are constantly trying to keep Anne away from both her families... so much can be read into that... the way those two have absolutely no regard for the concept of family, the way they want to own her entirely, the way they can't seem to understand her and sympathize with what's important to her...