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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...

Was really tempted to try and make an Amphibia ttrpg once, and these would indeed have been the core stats, and this is indeed how they'd be distributed in the main characters.

Amphibia - RPG

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

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Chaggie Religious Trauma Poll

I love Chaggie. Some people find they're relationship boring or plain. They say they don't feel anything at all from Chaggie. They're not boring at all to me! To me they're very spicy and exciting. But me, personally, I have some religious trauma, and I know that's coloring the way I see Chaggie. I have a hypothesis. I think maybe Chaggie matches the fantasies of a lot of people with religious trauma, but doesn't speak to people without religious trauma at all, so they can't enjoy it. Let's see if there's a correlation. Don't hate me if I'm dead wrong! I'm making the poll because I'm uncertain.

*Marcy notices Sasha's back scar and winces* Marcy: I can't believe I did that to you. Sasha: What? Marcy: That scar on your back. It's on you forever and it's because of my mistakes. Sometimes I don't know how you can forgive me for something like that. *Sasha Shrugs* Sasha: Eh, it matches the one I got from Anne *Marcy blinks in surprise at the casual response* *Sasha leans in close, giving a creepy, wide-eyed stare* Sasha: I don't mind having my connection to you two etched into my very flesh.

Sasha loving her scars... scars given to her by her two loves... refusing to cover her cheek scar with makeup to make it less aggressive-looking, refusing to tattoo her back scar... maybe her parents admonish her for not trying to "look prettier" or pretend go go back to normal, and maybe people give her weird looks when she's in the beach or wearing something revealing enough for her whole back to be visible. Maybe her cheerleader friends hesitate to let her back into the squad because these are judgmental teenagers we're talking about, and that scar on her face is big and it freaks them out a little. People she dates always ask about them, and when she feels like answering, she smiles and tells them she had a hard time accepting her scars at first, but now they're happy memories. They're proof of how much she's grown. How she's become the best version of herself. She wouldn't get rid of them for anything in the world.

When she makes her way back to her two loves, she discovers there's no more blissfull feeling than that of Anne's lips on her right cheek and Marcy's lips on her spine.

I mean, how did she even experience that? Because theoretically she should've lived through a whole lifetime in which Madoka didn't exist and Homura never met her. Madoka didn't just alter the last month and a half, she altered ALL time. But Homura was so experienced with time travel (or so in love) that she couldn't forget. So did she just live a whole life with these memories, that she knows can't be real, of saving this girl Madoka who doesn't exist over and over again, as well as inexplicable timestop powers? Or was the Homura we all know just dropped into the new timeline with with all her memories, hopefully not erasing that timeline's Homura, but instead gaining her memories of a life without Madoka in a world without witches.

Wraith arc must've explained all of this I guess, but I've never read it.

Okay but like what do you think Homura was thinking on the day after Madoka became a concept? What did she do on the day she realized her mission was over?

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.

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?!?!?

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.