Interesting Devil

Why am I only learning about the Mid-March mini holiday season here on Tumblr? We've got Pi day, followed immediately by the Ides of March, followed immediately by the day Homura resets the timeline to in Madoka Magica, and no one told me!

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...

You've heard it before

And you might not like hearing it again

But this is what the ideal relationship looks like.

WAIT! Did Vaggie grow her hair out in hell because there's nothing there that can cut it!?

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)

Chaggie Religious Trauma Poll

I love Chaggie. Some people find they're relationship boring or plain. They say they don't feel anything at all from Chaggie. They're not boring at all to me! To me they're very spicy and exciting. But me, personally, I have some religious trauma, and I know that's coloring the way I see Chaggie. I have a hypothesis. I think maybe Chaggie matches the fantasies of a lot of people with religious trauma, but doesn't speak to people without religious trauma at all, so they can't enjoy it. Let's see if there's a correlation. Don't hate me if I'm dead wrong! I'm making the poll because I'm uncertain.

YESSSSS!

I always felt people underrated how much the Horde Prime lifestyle contributed to Catra's hange of heart.

Catra was always about rugged individualism and believed in a brutal meritocracy she could rise through.

She hated the Princess Alliance and its message of peace and love because she felt like it made everyone conform to their positive vibes and lose their own individuality. Because they treated everyone well, she thought it left people without a reason to strive to be exceptional.

But then she got involved with Horde Prime and learned what it was ACTUALLY like to be stripped of your identity and to be kept from being your best.

And she realized how wrong she'd been before.

Hive Minds creep the fuck out of me. As somebody that values their autonomy and individuality, that level of “connection” to others is just too frightening for me.

No wonder Catra betrayed Horde Prime and saved Glimmer. She took one look at that “community” and metaphorically shit herself. As anyone would or should.

HORDE PRIME: “Little sister”

*visibly shivers*

That was not going to be her future. Subjugation was never on Catra’s bucket list. It’s why she kept running off on her own to try to “defeat” Adora. It was purpose. Trying to convince herself of her own self-worth - even in the eyes of her friend-turned-enemy. Horde Prime really frightens Catra because he wants nothing from her but total allegiance and domination via Hive Mind.

They found the one thing that would scare her so thoroughly that she would drop the act of being the villain and fight for what’s right,… for who she loves.

I'm trying to make comics for a lot of my favorite shows too. I have a lot of ideas, but I know my art isn't so great. Hopefully people still find them fun enough and my art gets better over time.

Both Adora and Catra, and their relationship, and their story has one of the best feminist statements and subtext in all media of the past century. I may write an essay just about that . Essays. Plural.