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happy lesbian visibility week 💋

🚨🚨MAJOR SHE-RA SPOILERS READ AT OWN RISK!🚨🚨

(I don't wanna ruin anything for anyone so I will not post this untill after 5pm today on May 15th)

ITS OFFICIAL!!! THEY KISSED!!! THEY LOVE EACH OTHER (not that we didn't already know that. . .) BUT STILL!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! CATRA IS A PART OF THE BEST FRIEND SQUAD!!! AND CATRA HAS A MAGIC CAT OF HER OWN!!! AND KYLE AND ROGELIO ARE CANON!! (Well kinda. . . ) SCORPIA CAN SING!! LESBIANS!! BOW'S DADS!!! SHADOW WEAVER SAVES CATRA AND ADORA!!!

Also my poor bebe Catra being hurt by Horde Prime and her PTSD kicking in, anyone else notice the shaking hands?? 🥺

Gosh and the constant hand grabbing between people like Adora, Glimmer, Bow, Catra even Shadow Weaver I think.

OOooo and the parallel between the Korra and Asami and Catra and Adora with the hand holding final scene and bright lights.

I can't believe this is the end of She-ra Princess of Power it's such an amazing show that has such good messages, Nicole is truly amazing for making this happen. ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜

Bow: I think that's enough Monopoly for today...

Catra: I hate you!

Adora: Oh?! Well next time don’t steal my monopoly.

Glimmer: Catra, give Adora your two hundred dollars. You landed on her property.

Catra: No! She’s in jail! I’m not going to give money to a criminal.

Adora: That’s not how you play!!!!!

Frosta: What is happening?

Mermista: Shut up, Frosta! You don’t get to talk after stealing my last railroad!

Scorpia: I wish I was never born!

Perfuma: You think any of us wanted this!!!

[ Sea Hawk is just screaming. ]

My Catradora Drawings

Happy family

i cant BELIEVE i never posted this here

Glitradora for a kofi ^^

Destiny part 1 in a nutshell

How could Adora not fall for her?

Glitradora being some snuggly bbs for a kofi :’‘)

catra: i'll fuck you up

adora: you'd look pretty doing it

3/20/20

An Adora icon I made while first getting used to digital art! im a simp for Adora in a hoodie ngl

Some angsty catradora I did earlier! Im pretty happy with it

gahhhh not me thinking about oikawa sayin “hey iwa-chan~” like “hey adora~”

I try the lineart so heres the result :)

Happy Birthday to my favourite idiots,

Adora and Soren!!!

Season 3 was amazing

I’m on the edge of greatness, turning darkness to light...

Small warm up with water colours.

so, listen, when Adora was in the heart she saw a sort of future where she was with catra as Glimmer was with Bow. Now if we look closely we can see both Bow and Glimmer wearing a twin earring just like Angella' s earrings, and after a researching a bit, just like Micah earrings, and Glimmer stared wearing it after she became queen....so what does that mean? That perhaps Bow is King? And they are also wearing matching capes, I just ....AAAAAAAAAH

Also wouldn't it be cool that since there are supposedly four earring ( even if Angella' probably brought hers with her in the afterlife ) that the remaining two went to Catra and Adora, not as a romantic thing but just as a "best friend squad" thing?

spop x article titles

It took ten whole minutes just to find the original post to link

So I did a thing. 

Catra’s a vampire so she could have glowy eyes and hiss at people.

Making Adora’s outfits was SO MUCH FUN (in some her shoes have little cat faces on).

I made actual-cat Catra because I was sad you can’t give Sims hetrachromia. And then labr-adora so she wouldn’t get lonely.

Ima make Perfuma and Scorpia next because they be cute. Then everyone else.

“she was afraid in the end. and she suffered”

can you hear my heart breaking :((((((

understanding catra in taking control s5: ep 6

(lots of awesome people have already said some amazing things about this, but it’s been on my mind a lot especially since i’ve been seeing some anti catra bullshit lately)

first off, i want to say that i don’t think that catra is necessarily handling the situation well, but i often see people saying some crazy shit about how she’s so “ungrateful” to adora for rescuing her or whatever and just generally being incredibly insensitive to her.

you have to remember everything that catra has gone through up until the point. horde prime had just completely violated her body and mind, electrocuting her in the baptismal pool, cutting off her hair, and infiltrating her memories. catra, who is already deeply afraid of the losing control (namely to shadow weaver, who taught her that power and control were necessary to be safe from her abuse), just lost all of her autonomy in the most fucking disturbing, pseudo-religious way possible.

before this, catra fully expected to die. i’ve seen a lot of different takes and i’m relatively open-minded to about what it is that catra thinks specifically when she remembers that scene with her and adora’s younger selves in corridors, but i think that it’s something along these lines:

“all i’ve ever done is hurt adora, and all she ever tried to do was love me instead. i’ve loved her and wanted her more than anyone else, and still all i did was hurt her. adora finally gave up on me, like i deserved all along anyway. but maybe, just maybe, the last thing i do could be for her. maybe that last little piece of goodness in me could live on in her.”

hence the:

“all i do is hurt people. there’s no one left in the entire universe who cares about me.”

anyway, my point is that catra has been through fucking hell :(

adora rescues her, and in the moment, catra is (obviously) relieved, shocked, surprised, confused, even. (“why did you come back? we both know i don’t matter.”)

the confusion is the main thing i want to focus on. catra really truly believes that adora hates her (shadow weaver has conditioned her to believe that she has always been inherently worthless and unlovable), so catra can’t understand why adora would ever come back for her.

catra eventually comes to the conclusion that adora just wanted to feel like a hero. she just came back to rescue catra to prove her virtue or her moral superiority to catra.

so she lashes out. she feels so completely out of control, and bitter with adora for her actions, convinced that there is no way that adora came back for her out of love.

adora handles this like shit. the literal first thing she does is throw the mattress onto the floor, and later slams catra into the wall. adora lashes back at catra, hurt that catra doesn’t “appreciate” adora’s love for her. adora doesn’t even try for two fucking seconds to understand where catra is coming from.

(adora does have a consistent issue with only seeming to be able to empathize with catra’s emotions when catra is weak, vulnerable, and powerless throughout much of series honestly)

ugh and calling her a stubborn brat? like i love you adora, but that makes my blood fucking boil. it is SUCH condescending, shadow weaver-coded language to use toward catra. i understand, catra is being “difficult” or whatever, but god it’s so easy to see why catra is acting the way she is.

and ofc catra is scared of entrapta! obviously, catra wronged entrapta deeply, and catra has never lived in a world with grace and forgiveness. shadow weaver physically abused her all her life, and hordak suffocated her for losing shadow weaver and lying to him about it. catra knows that she hurt entrapta, so naturally she immediately assumes that entrapta is going to fucking kill her the minute she has a chance.

then adora’s reaction is to fucking shove her into the wall and tell her to “grow up”. catra just looks fucking terrified, backed into the corner in her little horde pjs :(

adora backs off for a moment and tells catra that she would respect her wish to drop her off somewhere, catra realizes that adora really could leave her, and immediately rushes to beg adora to stay, kneeling on the ground, reaching up for her hand. something about that whole scene just absolutely fucking breaks my heart.

it kills something in me when i hear people say that catra didn’t do enough for redemption. it’s never what her redemption was ever about. catra is genuinely so, so much more complicated than that. and so is adora! i’m still sad that adora never really made up to catra for some of her shitty behavior.

i don’t believe that their arcs are meant to be done at the end of the show. there’s still so much room for them to grow. and that is what the post canon fics are for lol

oops this ended up being wayyy more of a rant than i intended; i think about catradora all the time :)

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.