#support womens wrongs

[erika-xero]

Minthara Baenre and Zilira for @dancing--lights! Thank you so much! Oh, this piece was tons of fun and I absolutely love how it turned out. I rarely do rendered/painted commissions and it is always a delight to come back to this art style! And I love Minthara's design and she seems like a character that I would like a lot (even though I still havent started BG3 myself, bc I got stuck in Oblivion Gates again LMAO). A little close-up under cut!

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[sircattt]

Gender swap Dale!! All of her crimes are forgiven now 🛐

[oatpaws-silly-kittys]

I LOVE EVIL WOMEN‼️‼️‼️

[ellipsiseffervescent]

I am once again going to talk too much about Rebellion

and how people don’t understand Homura. Here I would like to address the reasons why people call Homura evil/the antagonist, which is usually their reason for disliking Rebellion. My blog has basically morphed into an obsessive discussion on why that movie is my favorite and elevates the story, so I’ve covered a lot of these topics before, but I hope to make things more comprehensive here.

I’ve seen some people call Homura “corrupted” by the part of her that is a witch. Two thoughts on that:

Rebellion goes out of its way to show you that witches are not inherently evil. They have experienced serious pain and are spreading that pain before Madoka’s sacrifice. However, if this meant that witches were inherently evil, then why are Sayaka and Nagisa not? They are still witches- that’s why their witch forms are still a part of them.

Also, in Rebellion, Sayaka warns Madoka’s essence to not fear Homura, as “she’s the one who’s most hurt”.

I think that people misunderstand the theme of what a witch is overall. A witch is an inevitable reality of magical girls because being a girl in a patriarchal/Kyubey system is CRUSHING. The transformation into a witch is a coming-of-age step into womanhood. It comes from the culmination of mistreatments and systemic oppression girls inevitably become overwhelmed by. This isn’t to say that all women are forever overwhelmed, but it is an unpleasant reality that most women become awoken to. Think of the resolution of the Barbie movie, for instance, where (BARBIE SPOILERS) the characters need to “wake up” the others to the suffocating reality of living in a patriarchy. Same principle, honestly.

I also think that people sometimes interpret the Christian imagery in a stereotypical “good vs evil” way than looking at the situation, especially when it comes to Homura’s demon label and Madoka’s sacrifice.

I’ve talked about this a lot so I won’t go into too much detail, but I believe that the series is going out of its way to create its themes around the dark reality of the self-sacrificing nature of girls. For a brief recap:

Making wishes for someone else is considered taboo

Madoka mattered as a girl. Throughout all iterations of pmmm and its sequels, Madoka laments on the tragedy of magical girls vanishing from the world without anyone knowing and says in Rebellion that she would never want to go anywhere where she couldn’t be around her friends and family. Her mom had plans for them when Madoka grew up, her brother remembers her, and it drives Homura insane that she’s the only person who remembers the other timeline. Madoka was always worried that she wasn’t good enough at anything to have a place in the world and I truly have a hard time believing that this series is saying that young girls who don’t feel they have value anywhere else are best served to sacrifice themselves into oblivion. That’s basically been the history of women, forever.

Homura calls herself a demon because, “[Madoka] was sacred as a god and I couldn’t help but pull her from heaven and undermine her.” Throughout the Wraith Cycle, Homura commits herself to honoring Madoka’s sacrifice and new world order, so the phrase “and I couldn’t help but pull her from heaven undermine her” is, I think, more of a reflection of her self-loathing for going against Madoka’s wish and less of a true admission of evil, because I don’t think that Madoka’s erasure from the world was ever an okay thing. I think people get too hung up on “demon-bad” without thinking of the nuances of the imagery. I don’t believe that Madoka’s godhood is inherently good, and I don’t believe Homura’s demonhood is inherently bad. I think that Madoka’s godhood is more an alignment with self-sacrifice, and Homura’s demonhood is an alignment with desire, and I think that too much of either is a bad thing. It’s why they both needed to come together to eviscerate the Kyubeys.

I think that the label of “demon” makes Homura irredeemable to people and I think that people are deeply unforgiving of the not so pretty things that make us human. I’ve seen that a lot of what I assume are younger users are completely unforgiving to girl characters who go through things and make mistakes. I’m not even talking about Azula defenders (though I think there is a nuanced conversation there) but the Catra-type haters. As others have pointed out, ya’ll about women’s wrongs until a girl suffers a time loop to try to save the love of her life (who, lest we forget, begs Homura to shoot her in one timeline) and her friends and almost loses her mind by being the only person to remember the love of her life in the timeline that ya’ll think was the good one. I even hesitate to call it “toxic yuri” until the last movie comes out. Now, this isn’t to say that Homura has made no mistakes. I think the fact that her rewriting of the world to include the Kyubeys is going to be a BIG mistake on her part, and she did pull the identity of Madoka away from the Law of the Cycle against her wishes. But I think that to take everything Homura has done to try to save Madoka and even give Madoka the power to become the Law of the Cycle and say that she is irredeemable or toxic because she is traumatized…. It’s heartbreaking to me.

Moreover, this perception of Homura as irredeemable flies in the face of all this Christian imagery. Throughout the entirety of Rebellion’s ending (and as you’ll see further down) Madoka assures Homura that she loves her no matter what, that she is always there for her. Madoka in her fullness can see in intimate detail what Homura endured for her- literal YEARS of suffering yet never giving up- do you really think Goddess Madoka can’t and shouldn’t forgive Homura? Are the “good” guys in Christianity not all about forgiveness?

And finally, the real reason I made this long ass post: Homura and Rue from Princess Tutu are parallels. For those who don’t know: in Princess Tutu, the character Rue transforms into an “evil” persona- Princess Kraehe, daughter of the Crow. While Rue is convinced that she is now an agent of evil, the main character Ahiru/Duck insists that she is not. Also important to note is Rue may not rewrite the universe, but objectively commits more women’s wrongs than Homura. She rips the shards of emotion from her lover’s breast and tries to sacrifice innocent people’s hearts to her father, but the story does not paint her as condemned or irredeemable. She’s been lied to, groomed, and traumatized. She’s not an evil person, she’s a girl trying to navigate horrible circumstances, like Homura. Rebellion creates these parallels because Homura is forgivable and it wants you to know that.

So anyway, first parallel is the outfit. Demon Homura is SOOOOO inspired by Kraehe it HURTS:

And finally, Rebellion went so hard to reference this scene:

PLEASE put on sound they translate it differently but here she says "homura chan is homura chan"

so yeah if you stuck around thanks! love u muah

[maspers]

Chidori: wakes up "I… don't remember anything…" Junpei: crying "Don't worry, that's fine. You just got a little tired, that's all. Nothing you need to worry about." Chidori: "I was… hurt? Did someone hurt me?" Junpei: "You're going to be fine, nobody hurt you. You can rest." Minato: in the most blunt way possible "Takaya shot at you, Junpei jumped in the way of the bullet, and you pumped him full of insane persona juice to save him." Junpei: "WHAT? NOT COOL, MAN! WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE HER LESS STRESSED- Chidori are you okay?" Chidori: "Takaya…" eyes abruptly widen in realization, then harden with rage "Junpei?" Junpei: "Y-yes?" Chidori: "Here is the plan. We are going to hunt down Takaya Sakaki. You will hold him down. I will dismember him with my axe. We will toss his unrecognizable corpse into the sea." Junpei: "Okay… glad to see you remember, that plan sounds a bit violent though, I'm not sure…" Chidori: "Then we will graduate high school, go to college, get married, and have at least two children. We will be the happiest people on the planet. All I ask is Takaya dies. PAINFULLY." Junpei: "You know what, I'm suddenly on board with this." Minato: turns and leaves "My work here is done."

[mearcairz]

quick zelda doodle, gonna try to do a full piece soon!

[flyeatspeople]

Pillars of Eternity thoughts today but unpopular opinion I love how much Xoti and Pallegina hate each other and there's nothing you can do about it, I support WLW which includes WLW vs WLW

[nums-bird]

"Spare us.Oh spare us please"I CRIED.SPARE THEM PLEASE 😭😭

[gay-furry-poseidon-lover]

do Calypso haters know that sky daddy and trident man have done so much more and so much worse, and also that none of them are real... also your bbygirl Odysseus literally did infanticide...

In her Epic songs theres really nothing that suggests Calypso did what yall hate her for. we can enjoy Zues and Poseidon's characters while also knowing that they did bad things, why must we emphasize so intensley how bad Calypso every time she comes up?

There are so many different retellings and translations and versions of these myths, and Epic the musical isnt meant to be entirely accurate to whatever youd consider The Odyssey Canon. (Jetpack)

Anyways i support women 💜

[calledbyflowers]

what is this like powerscaling but for morality bullshit?

why r u pitting two bad bitches against each other?

nobody asked u

i luv testing the limits of hte human body

amy dallon is v clearly a homophobic caricature of a lesbian and to engage w her character as presented in worm in a "straight" (pun intended) way that isnt explicitly reading against the grain of the original work is to replicate the homophobia of the original work. to call her "evil" without questioning the canadian suburban consciousness that birthed her and why it made her that way and exploring the world of potentialities of understanding her character is lazy and dumb

amy dallon isnt a real person. shes never hurt anyone. she doesnt exist. its all makebelieve

amy and riley r gfs and they r kissing each other while doing medical malpractice

[sainthowlzon]

The princess will see you now

[smallmediumproblems]

Having season 3 of Red Valley follow Clive was honestly a no-lose scenario. Clive winning at life is great because he may be a little trash fire of a man, but he sure hasn't become any less entertaining to hate-watch since we met him. Clive losing in any way shape or form is great because, returning to exhibit A: he is a little trash fire of a man.

[vaguelyaperson]

I don't think the bnha fandom is as insane about togachako as we could be tbh

[whoelsewantedtobegingerbitch]

Watching supernatural for the first time: season 2 episode 15 mystery girl dressed in white told a professor she was his student to get into his office and he started making out with her whatever she's about to do he lowkey deserves it

[thekimspoblog]

Started watching "The Regime". It is very much the kind of show this blog was asking for, but not to the point it feels redundant or encroaching on the story I want to tell. Highly recommend.

[justabarbiegirl05]

Lena Luthor could of burned down the whole world and committed crimes more heinous than anything Lex had even thought of and I would still love and support my evil queen.