Okay, But The Radio Demon Has Also Shown Himself In A Normal Form

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...

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?

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.

More Owl House has finally come out so I've finally made a comic again!

I didn't love the ways the last ones looked, so I tried to sylize this a bit more in hopes of making something that looked like a successful attempt at whatever style it was going for.

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

You wait for the art book to come out next year!

What do i do with my life now

Always imagined one of the girls pointing this out like "Let me be clear, this is not a fight to protect my planet from being conquered. I'm fighting to keep my city from being nuked by our own government in order to stop you. There's no winning this for you. It's just a question of whether I also lose."

Kinda extrapolating in a nitpicky way from a single line but with Andrias's 'One life for thousands' thing like. LA has a population in the millions. I think Andrias straight-up has no idea how hugelarge Earth is. Thousands seems reasonable for a large population center to him.

Listen okay bear with me LISTEN. Amphibia is canonically roughly the size of Australia. which is only about FIVE PERCENT of Earth's surface landmass. Like Team Imperialism was already COMEDICALLY underprepared to actually invade Earth let alone actually WIN but this is hysterical.

Like there'd be a lot of civilian casualties + it's not like anyone would just let them invade but also, despite the vast gulf in tech, on the whole between sheer size and SO Many other factors (I have a truly bloated draft laying around Somewhere talking about these factors. Somewhere), Earth would have chewed the invasion up and spit it out like particularly cheap gum.

And what about Darcy you ask? Easy, they were going off of ~1000 year old data which was. whew. iirc human population around 1000 AD was estimated as like. A fraction of a percent of our modern global population. Ole Darce was more interested in tech and military capabilities rather than raw numbers and other seemingly basic bitch intel that supposedly would be less of a factor in the case of Alien Technological Superiority (which lol. lmao. bro ur just as dead if they kill u with a pointy stick or with a scifi railgun)

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 am NOT normal about these! I project this onto any ship where one of them is super powerful and pure and probably the chosen one, and the other has evil in their past and can be like a penitent sinner before their god! And that's pretty much all my favorite ships! But like, espeeeeecially Varlie and Madohomu! Baggie and Homura are both SO replacing the god they've lost faith in with their perfect Lesbian goddesses! And they both believe they're horrible sinners unworthy to be in the presences of their beautiful goddesses. But I'm gonna tag the ones I project it onto too.

My favorite relationship dynamic in fiction is a worshipper and their God. Not a literal God, but their God. The only thing in the whole world that matters to them. I will live for you, I would die for you, I would kill for you. My only moral compass is You. You can do no wrong in my eyes and I will never stray from your side. I was born to meet you and to love you. You are the only being I pray to. Your life isn’t just my passion, it’s my religion. You don’t think you’re anything special but you don’t see what I see. You don’t see that you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel this way. You don’t understand how beautiful you are to me and I will devote my entire life to making you understand and accept it.

In four years?... She very well could have made a friend or two. Just because they're not there now doesn't guarantee they never were...

Because they died during extermination.

Could've even been killed by... someone Charlie knows. How f'ed up would that be?

something i realized a while back, so we know that pre-canon charlie and lucifer barely had a relationship and only interacted with each other if needed and we know that lilith disappeared 7 years ago and only meets vaggie 3 years ago and from what we know charlie doesn't really have anyone else other than them and the others at the hotel

so that means for 4 years charlie was almost completely alone with the only person she had left only even calling her if he needed her to do something for him