#Antis and their Antics

[kyliafanfiction]

Maybe Hindsight is something, but I'm watching Season 2 of Supergirl again, and I agree there were fundamental flaws in the basic construction of how they chose to use Mon-el (and I still don't ship Karamel), but... what he actually does? The way the story uses Kara and Mon-el? Their relationship? It's really good, and it's as much, or even more about showcasing Kara, and her strengths and depths and how she changes Mon-el, as it is about Mon-el and his development.

There was so much screeching about Mon-el back when season 2 was airing, and I always knew it was silly, but I forgot just how silly it was.

[kyliafanfiction]

On it boss

“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real

[junkeboxjunkie]

Reanimated a silly little clip from the Beatles cartoon (I may have spent literally a week making this, and it's not even 10 seconds long 😭)

[spopsalt]

What show's title is vs how it actually is

What the show's title is: She-Ra and The Princesses of Power

What the show actually is: Watch Adora get abused by Cata for 5 seasons straight then date her abuser, also FEEL BAD FOR CATRA

What the show's title is: Helluva Boss

What the show actually is: Watch a gay soap opera while the abuser gets victimized and while the victim gets demonized. Watch the victim form a trauma bond with his abuser. ALSO DON'T YOU FEEL SO BAD FOR STOLAS DONT YOU WANT HIM AND BLITZO TO DATE!?

What the show's title is: Hazbin Hotel

What the show actually is: Watch who is supposed to be the female main character get pushed to the side because men. Get introduced to a whole Lotta plotholes and rushed story telling as we stuff the plot into the last 2 episodes! Enjoy the boring/rushed/toxic romances as well!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

glimmadora vs catradora: making mistakes and taking responsibility

when glimmer hurt adora, adora was allowed to stay mad at glimmer. she was allowed to prioritize her own feelings and not worry about trying to stay on glimmer's good side.

and when glimmer hurt adora, glimmer took the initiative to try and apologize to adora multiple times. she immediately recognized her mistake and felt terribly guilty for what she said. and while she did initially get annoyed after adora ignored her attempts at apology, she still made sure to properly apologize afterwards.

when catra hurts adora, adora is always the one who has to seek out catra and apologize to her or try to console her. adora was never the one at fault in these scenarios, yet she always had to be the bigger person and disregard her own feelings in favor of catra's.

and when catra hurts adora, catra never acknowledges her mistake. she never even looks guilty, let alone try to apologize to adora or make amends. she goes off to sulk because she knows that adora would eventually give in and apologize for something that isn't her fault.

and then the one time catra does make the initiative to seek out adora after a fight, this is what she says:

keep in mind, this was after catra abandoned adora. but sure, glimmadora is toxic.

[kyliafanfiction]

Funny. This means all the people that told me I was weird and creepy before I turned 30 were wrong, right?

Sorry but it’s true, I’ve never met a person over 30 who wasn’t weird and creepy. Young people deserve a safe space away from that

killing myself on the eve of my 30th birthday lest i become a cringe and uncool geezer who is unrelatable to the youths.

[starlight-bread-blog]

Ememy Vs. Abuser: Catradora

Disclaimer: Netflix doesn't allow me to take screenshots. I tried to find clips on Youtube but a lot of these are stolen. And an obvious tw for abuse.

When Catradora antis bring up how Catra abused Adora in seasons 1-4, a lot of people seem to be confused. The go-to defense is the following:

"Catra and Adora were enemies, they were put against each other in many battles. The 'abuse' is just what you'd normally expect from enemies to lovers".

A complelling argument, for sure. How can you expect of Catra to not be violent with someone who was put against her? The answer to this question can be answered through a different question: Why is Catra the abuser? Why not Adora?

What's the difference between an enemy, and an abuser?

1# The aggressor is particularly cruel to their future partner.

Catra doesn't use her claws on real people very often. She mostly uses them on objects or robots (or Shadow Weather's mask).

At times, it's clear tnat she would gain a lot from using her claws, but she doesn't.

One might suggest that it's because she understands the full weight of using them. Whatever the case may be, there is a person she doesn't seem to have these reservations about: Adora.

2# Their intreractions contain emotional abuse.

Catra often blames Adora for things that aren't her fault. She's cruel to Adora, deliberately and viciously hurts her.

She makes mean spirited remarks and belittles her.

Additionally, Catra gaslit her.

And wouldn't you know it, she takes pride in having control over Adora.

3# There is no balance.

As we previously established, Catra has no problem being needlessly cruel to Adora. But is Catra in the same danger? It it at least mutually toxic?

It's not. Adora can fight and defend herself, but won't do more than she needs. Meanwhile, Catra seem to relish in brutalizing her.

Further more, moments that could be considered romantic build up in their own, "spicy" way, are positioned with Catra on top, where Adora has no choice but to comply, where she's stuck there.

4# The aggressor got in the victim's head.

Adora has a guilt complex. That's not a controversial take. She takes too much responsibility and thinks everything is her fault. A lot of this stems from Shadow Weaver, but there's another source.

And Adora is very quick to internalize her cruel remarks.

In Conclusion:

Catra and Adora's relationship can and was abusive during the war. They share specific patterns of abusive relationships even at war zone. Catra hurting Adora isn't all war stuff, it's personal, it's abusive.

[kyliafanfiction]

Sophia is a made up fictional Black person, not an actual human being. She's eViL because Wildbow is a white supremacist, and if you fall for it, so are you.

Uhm...

I mean, she's not real, that's true, and she's a psycho because Wildbow wrote her that way, that's true (That is how fictional characters work) but it doesn't follow inherently from there that Wildbow is a white supremacist.

That's a lot of assumptions and leaps of logic you just glide over. Writing a character who is black as a psycho is not inherently racist. There's some racist stereotyping baggage in how he describes Sophia sometimes, true, but that's more 'accidental linguistic baggage in the English speaking world due to longstanding heavy racism and still present low-key racism nearly omnipresent in our society' than deliberate malice

I don't think the evidence supports the idea that Wildbow is any more racist than your average well-intentioned nominally progressive white canadian guy who doesn't self-examine much.

Which is to say he no doubt has unexamined baggage and notions, but he does try and he certainly isn't white supremacist.

Also, like, what do you mean by 'fell for it'? She's fake. All she exists as is the writing on the page. There's no deeper reality there than what she has on the page. It's fun to construct deeper realities for characters using the text (as I do for Amy), and if you want to do that for Sophia, sure, go for it, but the text as written, the character as she exists, is pretty fucking delusional.

We can discuss whether or not writing a character like Sophia represents some broader issues, especially when you add in characters like Skidmark and Thomas Calvert and how they're written, etc, but the character herself is still a fucking psycho.

Not sure I can really call this 'hate' because it's not, per se, but it definitely gets a -5/10 for just... generalized stupidity.

[caramelarr0w055]

Finn redesing

Hi my anti C// A friends, i came back with a Finn redesing, if you don't know who is Finn i explaine to y'all. Finn, sadly, is C///A fanchild Nate ( she-ra's creator) made but I rededing them as a glimmadora fanchild and this is the result ^^ 🫧💕🧋🌙. I hope you like it and don't forget to follow my friends who are part of the anti C//A comunity: @spopsalt , @anti-spop , @anti-catradora-collection , @anti-catradora-receipts , @spop-romanticizes-abuse , @catra-slander-club and @my-nitpicking-self follow and support them please :D

[kyliafanfiction]

The only way me as an author would react to people shipping stuff from my work, whatever the ship, apart from delight, is if they were shipping something very incomprehensible to me, or the like, and even then, it would be 'did I do something different than what I intended with my writing or are fans just being fans?

Like, if I set out to make character X utterly repulsive and not even in a fun way, as a character, and write nothing that I think can even be remotely read as romantic or sexual or whatever between X and Y, and I find out X/Y is the juggernaut ship of the fandom, I would at least want to know what I wrote that made people think that makes sense.

But I wouldn't be morally outraged over people doing something weird and "gross" with my characters.

someone: but how would you feel if you were an author and people were shipping your characters in gross ships?

me:

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[junkeboxjunkie]

i haven't drawn this ducky in... how long has it been? two years? well that stops now!!!!!

[spopsalt]

Catra and Adora: Lived in the rebellion together since they were kids, saw the same person as a mom, have the golden child/scapegoat dynamic and were called siblings by voice actors and official character sheets

C//a stans whenever someone calls them siblings:

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

the relationship adora deserved:

the relationship she got:

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

I need to know what Rangi was doing in the North Pole.

Like girlie was gone for like almost a year. How long was she and Hei-Ran in the Fire Nation when they sent that letter? From the reactions at the party, it seemed like it was recent.

So like, how did Rangi get promoted? Did she do online Messenger Hawk courses (even tho the Hawks hate the cold)? Did she leave for a bit to do something? She left her mom (lol I doubt it)? Why didn't she messenger hawk Kyoshi if she was outta the tundra? If she did leave how soon was it? Did she leave the NWT when her hair still needed to grow back? Or was it after it grew back?

I need to know if my girlie was drinking her sorrows away while doing pushups next to her comatose mother ok????? TT0TT

Like gimme an SoK prequel where it flips back and forth between Kyoshi and Rangi's perspectives. And in Kyoshi's chapters she's battling daofei and tongue lashing a politician. And in Rangi's chapters she's battling her depression and the nearest penguin. Narrative duality!

[kyliafanfiction]

I guess I'm gonna have to ask every Anti I see if they're high.

I tried marijuana and (hear me out) it gave me some interesting insight into how purity culture minds might work.

While I was high, the boundary between thought and act/speech felt very flimsy. I was fully aware of what I was thinking without acting on, but thoughts actually felt emotionally identical to speech or actions.

I played a video game and when I thought nice things about other players it felt exactly identically the same as putting those thoughts into a public text chat. Ditto negative or uncharitable thoughts. I noticed that another player's character was very attractive and it felt exactly and precisely the same as hitting on him. Thinking that his character was cute felt skeevy and wrong, because it would have been inappropriate to send a perfect stranger a horny DM in a context where it wasn't reasonable to expect that he was looking for ERP.

Similarily, I got a little annoyed with another player's habit of running ahead of the group, and that felt exactly the same as if I'd called him rude names in public. And I appreciated yet another player's friendly chat, and that felt exactly the same as if I'd told her so, even though during all of this I said absolutely nothing in chat and no one noticed me at all (unless they noticed that I was playing poorly beause duh, I was high).

So if antis have that lack of distinction between thought and deed as their baseline, then that explains (but does not excuse) why they're so keen on thought police nonsense. It doesn't excuse it because if you aren't zonked out of your gourd, you can intellectually understand that thoughts aren't deeds even if they feel that way in the moment.

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