#it wasnt a conscious decision

[haemosexuality]

im rewatching she-ra and naturally im gonna want to write about it a lot. starting by breaking down the catradora conflict origin story scene from s01e02 the sword part 2

people have said this before but the most important thing to keep in mind here is how different their understanding of whats going on is. theyre both approaching this with completely different views and so they misunderstand what the other means.

Adora: There's no time. We have to put a stop this.

Catra: What? Why?

Adora: Because this is a civilian town. Look around! These aren't insurgents. They're innocent people.

Catra: Yeah, sure. Innocent people who kidnapped a Horde officer. Now come on, let's get you back to the Fright Zone. Shadow Weaver is freaking out. [laughing] It'd be funny if she weren't such a terrible person.

so immediately theres two things i wanna say about this part, about how catra reacts to stuff. first off, something we learn about catra throughout the whole show and especially in the portal-alternative-reality, is that shes big on Pretending Nothing Is Wrong. whenever shes feeling upset or angry about something, she will start joking around and acting like shes just totally super chill guys, dw ("Ugh, whatever. It's not like I even care. I just wanna get out of this dump at some point before I dieee of boredom). Shes acting like that in this scene. Adora was missing for hours, shadow weaver was breathing down her neck and threatening her, she was already worried adora might have left at this point. she cant let adora know how worried she was tho, so shes all jokes and fast paced conversation. To Adora, tho, it just looks like catra doesnt care, like she doesnt understand the gravity of the situation.

and the other thing is that honestly? I dont think catra does care. about the town, i mean. i think catra was ready for war in a way adora never was. theyre both seeing combat for the first time here, and adora hates it. training for war is completely different than being in the battlefield, and adora couldnt handle it. face to face with it she couldnt tolerate seeing people suffering and dying, houses being burned down, a whole village destroyed. when the horde brainwashed adora into thinking they were only doing the necessary to save etheria, she completely and fully believed it, and when faced with the reality of the horde she immediately realized how wrong that was. Catra, tho, could not care less. she never believed in what the horde said, she knew full well what the horde did, so this isnt a surprise for her. and i do think shes naturally a bit sadistic, or at least growing up among the violence of the horde made her so. either way, shes seeing battle here for the first time and shes completely fine with it. doesnt even spare it all a second glance. why would she care about these people she never met if the most important thing in the world is right here in front of her? (i think even if adora hadnt left that night and went into the battlefield as a force captain, she wouldve ended up deserting. she cant stand seeing people suffer and she cant stand not saving them. shes too good, too selfless for that. catra isnt.) (also she is so ready to kill at all times. she loves violence. i once saw someone say how shadow weaver thought adora was the "cutthroat, ruthless warrior" when that was actually catra and they were totally right)

adora is also trying something futile here, she doesnt need to explain to catra that the horde is bad and hurts innocent ppl because catra has known that all her life

Adora: Catra, no. I can't go back. Not until the Horde leaves this town alone. You have to help me.

Catra: What are you saying?

Adora: I’m saying, this is wrong. They've been lying to us, manipulating us. Hordak, Shadow Weaver, all of them.

Catra: Duh! Did ya just figure that out? Manipulation is Shadow Weaver's whole thing. She's been messing with our heads since we were kids.

(the captions in the pics are slightly wrong, nvm that.) everything i said before. adora just realized all of this, while catra has always known, probably because the abuse adora suffered was more manipulation-and-brainwashing, while shadow weaver always made clear to catra that she didnt give a shit about her, so she suffered physical abuse with little attempt to convince her this was fine.

the "what are you saying?" is one of the things that show how different their perspective is. adora is talking about going against the horde and helping the town, while catra immediately gets more personal. what do you mean? are you saying that you might leave the horde? leave me?

Adora: How could you possibly be okay with that?

adora means, how could you be ok with the horde lying about its actions, and killing innocent people? how could you be ok with the horde raising us to do the same? and catra hears, how could you be ok with shadow weaver and hordak abusing us?

Catra: Because, it doesn't matter what they do. The two of us look out for each other. And soon we'll be calling the shots. Now come on, can we go home already?

catra replies: because, i love you. because you have my back and i have yours. because nothing really bad can happen as long as we have each other, remember? and soon enough, we'll be powerful enough that they cant hurt us anymore. Adora hears, because i dont care about these people dying, the only thing thats important is you and i. and anyways, soon its gonna be Us killing them, isnt that good? lets go back home to the evil murder place.

Adora: I'm not going home, Catra. I can't. Not after everything I've seen. Come with me. You don't have to go back there. We can fix this.

adora says: im starting to realize now how wrong i was about everything. we're not the good guys, and i cant stand for that. i cant stand around and watch people get hurt. i cant stand around and watch you get hurt. lets leave, together, and have a better life, please. lets do the right thing.

Catra: Are you kidding? You've known these people for, what, a couple of hours? And now you're just gonna throw everything away for them?

catra hears, shes willing to leave me. after everything i did for her, all that i took, all of these years of us being together, she would still leave me. she would break our promise. she would leave me behind.

and then she straight up electrocutes adora. ok

she says it was a reflex, but i dont know if i believe her. i dont think she likes hurting adora (not physically. not by this point, anyways), but i do think that shes the type to lash out when upset and immediately regret it, then feel guily about it. which just makes her more upset. :(

Catra: Oh, man. That was a lot stronger than I thought. Are you okay?

Adora: Why are you doing this?

Catra: Because you left me! And if I don't bring you back, Shadow Weaver’s gonna have my head. So, enough with your weird little identity crisis and let's go home already. Or do I need to zap you again?

thats the last time they talk. adora gets teleported away by glimmer, and when they see each other again, its clear that they both made their choice.

the moment adora showed catra she was willing to leave her, there was no coming back for them. because catra would never get over that. she'd spend all her life in that hellscape, putting up with abuse and bullying and probably so much more we dont get to see, because of the promise adora made her. and, in her eyes, adora was ready to leave her on the first opportunity that came up. that hurt. that broke her. and that released something really ugly inside of her.

cue in 2,5 years of homoerotic rivalry and trauma. ok post over if you read this i hope you liked it <3 bye

[feketeribizli]

do you think marci being bald kick-started the grid going bald y/n

hes ahead of the curve hes ahead of everyone... unfortunately i think its a curse that takes a few people every winter break (remember sharls haircut last year lol)

marc is the opposite actually hes growing his hair out for winter 😁 dont know how fast hair grows but if he stops touching it up like late september then there should be something on top of his head for the cold...

[sparklecarehospital]

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[pixelatedboombursts]

Both Kamado and Volo suck, the difference is that Volo gets sent to gay baby jail and Kamado to “you remind me too much of my shitty dad for me to actually look at your actions from a justified pov” jail.

[junequeer]

I think people get so obsessed with making sure they're gendering people correctly that they forget that autonomy exists. Like, purposeful misgendering is bad bc you are denying someone their right to autonomy. It's not bad bc you were wrong. Do you understand? It doesn't matter if you don't want to misgender your closeted friend. It doesn't matter if you think someone is an egg. It doesn't matter if you think a dead famous person was trans. Do you understand? They chose, or are choosing, to live their life going by those pronouns. Yeah, sure, maybe a dead celebrity was trans, but you don't get to decide that for them and you don't get to assume you know their pronouns better than them. Maybe those people knew they were trans and still wanted to go by different pronouns publicly. I don't care if it was just to avoid transphobia! Those are what they decided, and you don't get to decide they were wrong, or that they just didn't realize they could be trans, or that they made the wrong choice. That was the choice they made and I don't think you have the right to disrespect it. You don't have the right to decide that they actually were just too helpless or too scared or too repressed to know how they wanted people to talk about them.

[kaurwreck]

It's actually really appropriate that bsd happened to me because I learned about the Sengoku period of Japan from Samurai Warriors. I was moé Oichi in the very first dream in which I exercised volitional control over the dream narrative and environment.

[kutyaharapas]

[reading shoujo manga] sighs dreamily. i wish i knew what romantic love felt like

[mgsdeltasnakeeater]

ohh

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

How come you're over Louis' solo career? Any reason in particular?

nooo, no particular reason :)) just listening to different music again

[worldsmostcasualmpregfan]

writing is genuinely so fun i feel craaaazy

[mymoshangthoughts]

something i think about with regards to og!shang qinghua

i totally think he smashed mobei jun's face in with the rock

like okay the scene plays out basically the same, except instead of thigh-hugging, the original goods was groveling and hiding and dodging and only BARELY managed to survive for long enough for mobei jun to faint

so here he is, surrounded by corpses and a fainted demon and theres this big ass rock over there and he's like "yeah, thats the pragmatic thing to do"

but see, airplane and the original goods both vastly over-estimated the ability of a rock to kill a demon lord. so yeah, mobei jun has a nasty broken nose and he wakes up feeling like death warmed over in the middle of the woods but he's alive (this is btw the exact reason that the system was willing to let airplane do it, bc it wasnt gonna kill mobei jun anyway and it was what the og goods did)

and he was JUST conscious enough to see the original goods bash his face in

so mobei jun is sitting there like "okay, yeah, so imma find that fucker and imma enslave him and then when he runs out of use to me, imma kill his ass" because he's angry enough right now that simply killing og!shang qinghua just does Not feel good enough

and their relationship over the years is basically a big game of cat and mouse with them trying to fuck each other over. mostly the original goods trying to kill mobei jun and mobei jun just like "no imma wait to kill him until AFTER ive had a thorough revenge but fuck he makes it tempting to kill him right now" and og!shang qinghua highkey actually reminds him of his uncle. they're both the two-faced type who can smile to your face and stab you in the back and he's sorta thinking "if i cant resist killing one stupid human until the opportune time, how am i going to not kill my uncle??"

and basically it's just like..... lowkey shizaya (drrr!) vibes between them? and look, mobei jun is Very satisfied when he finally kills that worm og!shang qinghua but he also feels a certain loss because even though theres srsly no love lost between them, the original goods was basically mobei jun's companion for longer than anyone else in his life (enemy? frenemy? rival????) and it's just a sort of weird empty feeling after he's dead

and i just like thinking about how Different their relationship was because i like thinking about all of the changes that airplane accidentally created because he really didnt know that much about their original relationship. og!shang qinghua was such a footnote in the novel that there really wasnt any time spent on "oh yeah, og!moshang has a super weird hateship and shang qinghua did backstab mobei jun but that wasnt actually NEW, og!shang qinghua tried to kill off the king of the north at least once a month or so"

anyway i think the distinctions in the relationships are important for moshang reasons, because airplane and og!shang qinghua ARE different people, so they had to have made different decisions over the years, and those differences are why mobei jun was very much in love with airplane and not in love with og!shang qinghua

(altho i do enjoy og!moshang, but i will die on the hill that their relationship is different and whatever love might exist between them would be different. my hcs might not represent accurately how og!moshang's relationship was canonically but i just think it's important to make those distinctions)

but all these thoughts lend themselves to "what if pidw!mobei jun met airplane!shang qinghua?" because look, if they really were collaborating for so many years, he would KNOW og!shang qinghua. and as such, it wouldnt take him long to be like "okay but you're seriously NOT shang qinghua tho?!?!" and i love his confusion. like i dont think he'd show up and be like "guh, shang qinghua, gotta kill that rat again", i think he'd show up and be like "......well thats definitely shang qinghua's skin but that sure as fuck isnt shang qinghua"

and look, i want the chaos of that.

pidw!mobei jun and svsss!mobei jun discussing why the fuck shang qinghua is a completely different person and coming to their own conclusions (also naturally realizing a thing or two about cucumber-bro bc thats the other big notable change between worlds. bing-mei is fine, pidw!mobei jun always know that bing-ge is secretly pathetic)

also potential for kidnapping? like pidw!mobei jun nabs airplane with the intention of learning just who the fuck he is. leaving absolutely no room for discussion bc he's determined to figure this shit out. or maybe he just approaches his other self directly. or fuck it, if he goes straight to bing-mei because he's like "okay this is above my pay grade, boss of this dimension will prolly have an idea of whats happening"

also double penetration with two mobei jun's and one airplane lmfao. look im a simple man with simple pleasures

altho on the note of og!shang qinghua, thinking about this diabolical fuck does have my inner villain fucker thoroughly entertained and i wanna think about au's with both airplane and og!shang qinghua in play

there's always the good ol' sibling au's (which will always make me scream to the fucking sky "why the fuck wasnt airplane given a NAME so that i dont have to make one up for him!!!"), those definitely have the appeal of i can keep airplane!shang qinghua's design the same

so lets go with.... shang jingqi (original flavor) and shang feiyu (airplane), for simplicities sake while i explore stupid au ideas lol

so lesseee shang feiyu is born as shang jingqi's twin but since qinghua is a courtesy name and he doesnt actually know og!shang qinghua's birth name, he just knows that ONE of them is supposed to become "shang qinghua" and get killed by mobei jun. and look, he tries really hard not to get attached to his twin. he's used to keeping emotional distance from family, this should be fine, easy even. his twin even has a sort of asshole personality. so if he just doesnt get attached to shang jingqi and just lets the og plot eat up his twin, everything will be just fine and he can live a peaceful life, right? RIGHT???

but ofc he gets attached. bc even tho shang jingqi has a shitty personality and might actually be the original shang qinghua who backstabbed mobei jun and deserved what he got--look, thats HIS treacherous asshole and shang feiyu is ATTACHED okay

so shang jingqi and shang feiyu BOTH wind up joining cang qiong because shang feiyu isn't gonna just leave his twin to die but also he doesnt wanna die so he's really trying to figure out a third option to figure out how the fuck to dodge this all shang-murderfest thing when one day his brother comes home from a mission like "so i might have murdered a demon lord with a rock??" and shang feiyu is going to FREAK OUT bc either that was mobei jun and he is Not Dead and Coming For Their Asses or it WASNT mobei jun and its someone who would make mobei jun Very Angry if was harmed and shang feiyu is ready to hug as many thighs as he needs to so that they can get out of this alive!!! but shang jingqi already has a bit of a murder-boner for mobei jun, even moreso when he realizes theres like Chemistry between mobei jun and his brother and just Nope. that aint happening.

shang feiyu: i am trying to keep you alive wiLL YOU PLZ STOP TRYING TO PISS OFF THE DEMON LORD?!

shang jingqi: and IM trying to protect your ass from demon cock, thank me later

shang feiyu: ?!?!?! WHAT DOES THAT WHAT

[stari-hun]

Welcome to another insane post, it’s time to make several of my interests kiss and hold hands.

If Raoul and Christine weren’t religious then the entire story of poto would’ve happened similarly to the way a lot of people say they’d react today. Like the public idea of scars and what a true sign of the devil is is FAR different than what it was. The problem she has with the Phantom is the murder thing yeah, but another huge part of it is his looks at the end of the day and the entire story has a lot of massive themes towards the importance of what religion does to your mind and outlook on life. She also grapples a bit with sympathy for the phantom despite in the end deciding that she can no longer feel pity for someone who’s made the conscious decision to hurt the world in the same way they’ve been. A difference to Curly but that’s also because the genres are different, and Curly is from a total death type of series.

I have too many Curly posts to wanna rehash my thoughts.

Kakania has a position of Isolde’s therapist and from that standard, like Curly, she has responsibility in her own victimization. She’s Isolde’s therapist and actively left her unchecked out of trust for her and the idea that “oh I don’t visibly see Isolde breaking down, she’s nothing like other hysterical patients I see. The rumors of the Dittarsdorfs are all exaggerated after the tragedy with her mother. People simply love to gossip.” Kakania is like Curly in the way that their actions and support of a person have directly hurt them and others due to their blind trust in said person. Isolde is NOTHING like Jimmy but man… Kakania girl what were you thinking. Actually she’s not certified, she WASNT thinking. The oversight and ignorance both of them show towards their immediate circle when they DO show warning signs is an important theme to them. They’re both very good people with good hearts, but ignorance is a sin that can hurt others, and they’re feeling the results of that.

[youngbugandtonystank]

I found you via your OLDD age of ultron opinion, and it genuinely made me so seen?? Or smt bcs the whole scene with thor and tony JUST MADE ME BAFFLED??

Like I was in shock when thor choked him and how no one did anything, so really this is jyts me asking for more age of ultron opinions, or really any opinions with tony & the avengers!!

man i'm about to fight with some idiots in my inbox for answering this lol

1 Ultrons corruption

Im still baffled about how no one seems to understand why Ultron got corrupted, they just go to 'Tony bad'. Upon activation he quickly assesses humanity and concludes that humans are a threat to earth 💀

They tend to forget that Vision worked and thats what Tony wanted from the beginning. Visions creation was influenced by Tony and Bruce but also by the human elements within them and was heavily shaped by JARVIS. The turning point was the mind stone which was a crucial part of Visions creation but instead of driving him toward destruction like Ultron it provided him with a sense of compassion, morality and understanding of humanitys redeeming qualities

The difference here is that Vision had JARVIS (Tony's creation) as a stabilizing force whereas Ultron had only his own corrupted interpretation of reality (seeing humans, war and more). JARVIS had years of learning through interaction with Tony and over time developed an understanding of human emotions. J was not just a machine, it learned from Tonys experiences and emotions adapting to them over time and this shaped how it acted and thought. The problem with Ultron wasnt just with the AI itself or the way Tony and Bruce built it, Ultron viewed humanitys flaws as the source of the problem basically his 'human example' came from the internet and human history, full of examples of greed, violence and war... kinda like the world we're living in now lol

2 Wanda's comment about Tony not knowing the difference between saving the world and destroying it

...

hahaha!

WILD coming from her. This belief was not directly inherited from Tony but was a result of Ultrons own corrupted logic and perception of reality. And let's not talk about some of her choices because... the quote would perfectly fit her. Also Cap trusting what this girl he barely knew at the time said instead of Tony... i knew his rat ass belonged to the 1940s. Also, Tony didn't kill her parents, OBADIAH STANE did. Obadiah was the one manipulating the system, dealing with dangerous people and profiting from war, not Tony. Just like Bucky didn't kill Tony's parents because he wanted to, he was brainwashed. None of them enjoyed the consequences of these actions

But guess who did?

3 Tony's emotional investment in Peter was ultimately one of the most self sacrificial parts of his character arc

Like it or not, Tonys death was partly the result of the pain he carried from his failure to protect Peter during the snap. By investing emotionally in Peter, Tony made himself vulnerable. His concern for Peters well being made him open to loss in a way he hadnt been before. He could have kept his distance emotionally like in hoco maintaining his usual guarded self reliant attitude but with Peter, Tony made a conscious decision to invest deeply, knowing that it would open him up to the possibility of great personal loss. Tonys fear wasnt just about the universe being destroyed, it was about Peter being taken from him. That was the ultimate self sacrifice, he allowed himself to love and care for someone else knowing that it would hurt if he ever lost them. Loving Peter killed him lol curse of the spidermen father figures

You see, in this moment, Tony didn't know he was gonna die soon:

[johnnycrass]

im a high action person i like to see things get done i have clear goals and i take any step necessary to reach them. so it makes me genuinely truly actually angry to deal with anyone who is unaware of how to do something AND not willing to learn. its one thing to not know! ignorance is normal. but its different for u to just give up. like u are soooooo fucking useless. ur gonna wait for someone else to come around and do it???? ur gonna wait for help?????

when the bail bonds guy picked me up and dropped me at the place my car was impounded at, my phone was dead and i was getting burned in the texas sun. the tow lot wasnt even open yet. the only thing standing between me and my sunscreen + charger was a chainlink fence with barbed wire on it, and some cameras facing it. everything i owned was in the car except my keys which were in the tow office. there was an opening in the fence, which was watched over by a camera, big enough for my body to slide thru sideways. it was that or crawl under, in the dust. i pulled my body thru the opening while looking right in the camera so they knew it was a conscious decision. walked to my car, climbed under it to where i keep a magnetic box attached to the bottom of the car that has a car key in it. opened the car, got my bag holding my sunscreen and charger, threw away my expired food, and walked back thru the opening in the gate to sit on the bench and wait for the tow guy to come to work. when he did finally clock in, he was so mad. first thing he said to me was "who gave you permission to go to your car?" i didnt say anything. if u didnt want anyone to slip thru the fence, then mend it. and why are you starting work at noon?? he wouldnt accept credit card to pay to get my own car back, so i had to walk to an ATM. it was a cool 94 degrees fahrenheit. i got my money i paid my shit and i drove out of there

the magnetic box on the bottom of my car was put there by me... i had two copies of my keys made.... i made extra copies of the house keys also... you can, and should, just do things without anyones permission or blessing or whatever ..

[greensupremetangerine]

PSA that harassing, bullying, and kicking a person out of a fandom is toxic behavior. A difference in opinions does not warrant anonymous hate, and claiming it wasnt that bad and there's no proof because they didn't post the hate doesn't retract the fact that something happened to make them deactivate their account.

Fandoms are supposed to be places of community, enjoyment, and celebration of a mutually liked piece of media. There isn't room for hate, because the concept of a fandom does not naturally account for it.

If someone says something you dont like, it does not give you the right or responsibility to "put them in their place" or "teach them what's right" or whatever. A person is allowed to have their own thoughts and opinions. You can retort, discuss, disagree, hell you can even block them, but for the love of god don't single them out and make them a villain. It doesn't automatically make you the right side if they stop talking.

Also, the anonymous button isn't for keeping the blame off yourself. It's not for sending a dozen death threats while still looking pretty and proper on your blog. The person recieving anons has no way to disengage from the conversation. They cannot block, the best they can do is disable anons and stop the kind, shy people from asking silly questions or hope you give up and stop. The last resort is completely deleting your account, and again, its not a sign of your victory, it's a sign of the fandom' loss, and it is a sign that you are the vicious aggressor.

If youre struggling to stop doing these things, by no means am I a saint or a therapist, but removing yourself from the situation and letting yourself breathe, even for a moment, will probably help a lot with your relationships and mental health. I'm a believer that people can change and it is in human nature to do so, even if it's hard. It's a conscious decision to be a good person (I'm not calling you evil) and being a kind person is fulfilling in amazing ways.

tl;dr don't harass people :( it doesn't give you the high ground and it makes the fandom a worse place.

[calebwittebane]

ive made a point of never acknowledging or saying anything about Nining Leven but i did just realize id worn my socks with planes on it yesterday. wasnt a conscious decision and i fear this might be a test of my resolve that im failing by telling you about it