#snow bite

[thereforeitwas]

i might be the enemy / but nothing quite hits like you

[eah-mh-aus]

It might just be my love for green × purple designs, but I really like Raven and Draculaura/Snow Bite's designs together

Does Draculaura's dress look a bit weird? Yeah, but it's a gen 1 doll design, so I'll excuse it for that.

Also, the way they look in these pics makes them look like total opposites, and I love it.

[sarcki]

Snow bite 🖤🩷💚

Im honestly really happy with how this turned out! 🩷

Scarytales was One of the best g1 lines, it’s also so nostalgic to me. I think maybe it’s coz the other dolls were in episodes/movies and I still watch them so their designs have more of a presence in my mind, but these designs were only ever used on dolls so it’s more distant 

[trademarkjazz]

Draculaura as Snow Bite from the Scarily Ever After doll line

an example of my 5$ experimental commissions

[angelfangs-666]

i can´t put in words how much i love draculaura and this doll of her. she has my heart. LITERALLY!

[heckyeahmonsterhighdiaries]

draculaura's scary tales diary

[kathdoll]

Adventures of Snow Bite & Elissabat 💜🍏🩷

I may have accidentally scalded my hand doing Draculaura as Snow Bite’s hair today (boil it! boil it!) but at least it came out glossy and cute! I’d love to actually be good at styling doll hair at some point. But for now her little twist back is going to have to suffice.

I wish they’d done more of these twisted fairy tale ghouls, the idea is so fun and this may be my favorite Draculaura ever.

[witchywasabi]

G3 Snow Bite 🍏

[bitterflykiss]

“Hello, little Sheep...tonight, as we get ready for bed, I'm going to read you the story of Snow White, and then we will open some fan mail..." While Aunt Autumn flipped through the water-colored pages, Daffodil often got lost in thought, wondering what it was like to live happily ever after. Was there ever a time when she was happy? How would she know? Before she lost hope, the sound of Aunt Autumn's voice brought her back.

“And so the wicked satyr grew jealous of her little sheep, for her sheep had hair much whiter than the fallen snow, and lips much redder than that of a rose...how dare a sheep compare to that of the queen...so the satyr dressed her sheep in rags and cut short her fleece…”

“The queen’s colleagues laughed and teased…” Suddenly Aunt Autumn's eyes shifted, “But do you know what I think?"

Daffodil looked up at her television, “...What..?" She whispered.

“You might be a little sheep...but you have feelings..." Aunt Autumn looked from the camera then back to the storybook, turning the page with her long nail.

“One day, little Snow was picking flowers in the courtyard but turned around when she saw the huntsman back from the woods. She was certain he would lead her to slaughter, but...he couldn't do it...He didn't care if  the lamb was weak, for her heart was gentle. 

He told little Snow to run away before the queen served her lungs and liver on a plate, so into the woods she went, and into the woods she stayed…"

[glassygaze]

🦇happy spooky season🦇

[metukika]

wheres my post canon adult lost contact with old friends lowkey depressed teru at

[slackerslit]

nothing matters

[stars-and-darkness]

the thing about caitlyn fucking kiramman is that i don't even LIKE her, but i also can't stop thinking about her. she could've been SO GREAT. like in s1 i didn't particularly care about her (she was just ... there. there was nothing offensive about her character, she just didn't stand out among all the others in the main cast), but in s2???? so much of what goes on with her in s2 is just so utterly delicious and right up my alley ... in theory. in concept.

but the execution is just so utterly atrocious, and combined with the rest of s2's general idiocy, it makes me so furious, but i still can't not think about the WHAT IF, ya know?

what if we maybe deferred the magical hive mind robots and the wizard cult and the multiverse to the next show (or never ... never's good) and the focus remained on piltover and zaun. what if we had a season or two more, so that the necessity of a redemption within the next six 40 min episodes didn't bog cait down (or ... you know. no redemption arc. i actually prefer that. let her be evil, lmao.)

if they had spent the time and the effort into actually exploring her inner world in order for us to see her slow descent into fascism, it could've been SO GOOD. if they had taken this kind, painfully naive yet so well-intentioned girl who descended down into zaun and saw the suffering inflicted by the system she herself has benefited from her entire life, put her through an event that actually challenges both her ingrained kindness and the newly-formed awareness of the oppressive dynamic that permeates the society she lives in and then asked the question: is caitlyn kiramman the sort of person who can suffer a huge personal loss like her mother due to this exact oppressive dynamic and still come out recognising that it's a symptom of the system her mother, PERSONALLY, propagated?

and if the answer is no, like s2 attempts to do, if, as someone much funnier than i am said somewhere on this webbed site, she takes zaun lives matter out of her instagram bio ... that's okay. hell, for me, a known enjoyer of characters who are terrible people, it's excellent. it takes the s1 character i didn't much care for and makes her into someone i would be extremely intrigued by.

but ... that's not what happens. or rather, an arc that would require a lot of work to do justice is so condensed that she goes from 0 to 100 in one 40 min episode, and i understand why it's so hard to swallow for so many people. and the worst part is that i can SEE the outline of what could've been, and it makes the switch that much more jarring. cait seemed to be going in one direction, until the memorial attack when she did a complete 180. worse than that, when she decided to form her sexy lil copaganda war crimes task force, she immediately pulled out the big guns.

(i have seen ... so much discussion on how much harm unleashing the grey on zaun actually did, and in case my opinion is somehow relevant to this discussion let me just come out and say:

how do you think gas works? we are shown, explicitly on screen, cait and the war crimes gang release it in the streets of an underground city where her family controls the vents. i think any discussion that doesn't conclude with yes, caitlyn did in fact bring unfathomable harm to hundreds if not thousands of people is a waste of time.)

more than that, while cait herself doesn't live in our world, the creators who wrote and animated this, and the viewers who saw it do, and we all have a cultural awareness of chemical warfare and its associations. it's insane to me that people go against common sense to defend her here, both because i don't think it can be defended unless you have a HEAVY case of fave-can-do-no-wrong goggles on, but also for me personally because ... why would we want to? she's finally being interesting.

all that said, and i cannot overemphasise this enough, gassing zaun should've been a moral event horizon for cait. it should've been the point at which even the people around her--most notably, bloody VI--turn on her. it should not have been the very first thing she does.

hell, she establishes the task force specifically BECAUSE she believes that the council attack, in mel's own words, was an act of one deranged individual, and she wants a small force that can extract/kill jinx, rather than a full-scale invasion that is going to harm innocents. so WHY is the first thing she and the task force do EXACTLY THAT?

the war crimes task force should have been shown to struggle in zaun for an extended period of time, during which cait grows more strained, as do her relationships with her loved ones. she should have been shown struggling with ptsd from the dinner party and guilt over not taking that shot at jinx when she had the chance. vi is the one who convinced her not to--what if she finds herself blaming her for that. what if vi (this post isn't about her so i'm struggling so bad not to derail it completely but oh my poor girl what did they do to you) is pulling away from her, more and more conflicted about what they're doing, both on a systematic level as enforcers rampaging through the undercity and on a personal level as an older sister (just give me vi actually struggling with being an enforcer, PLS, give me her feeling cornered and seeing no other way forward, give me SOMETHING). it would bring in an interesting bit of interpersonal conflict for caitvi that isn't predicated on cait fucking punching vi only for it to never come up again.

point is, we should have seen cait struggling under the weight of being the head of her house, the weight of expectations, the weight of her guilt, we should have seen her barely holding together and feeling like everyone in her life is against her (again! vi!), BEFORE she makes the choice to unleash the grey, to do exactly what she formed the task force to prevent, to take something her mother built to actually do some good (pls insert all the arguments why the kiramman vents are fucked up actually here, i'm too tired to bring them up) and turn it against zaunites, in her mother's memory.

moral. event. horizon.

(insert here something about how jinx turning the grey back onto piltover should've been a major moment for HER, and something to actually lock in all those unconnected and thematically insignificant cait-jinx parallels. how we should've seen her struggling just as much with her own rage and hate, which all stems from guilt--because cait isn't the only one who lost a parent that night. how that moment should have been a CHOICE jinx makes, not just a terrorist attack but the moment in which she chooses to fight for zaun--for selfish reasons, of course, because she's not an idealist, she's not a revolutionary--but does her motivation really matter if the result is an actual resistance movement? look, i have even more thoughts on jinx than i do cait, and if i go on i'll never stop so let's just--let's just go back to cait.)

instead, the gassing is the first thing she does, it's shown to us within a single music video, and then she's being hailed as a dictator. and as rushed a job as the first three episodes do in establishing how she got there, what really pisses me off about cait in s2 and what prompted me to furiously type up a post about a stupid cartoon when i should be translating latin texts for class is ... what now?

the timeskip between ep 3 and 4 is the most fascinating bit here! here's where she's at her angriest--her guilt is eating her alive, because she didn't take that shot, because she alienated vi (what a nice way to say she punched her and left her curling up in pain, alone, wow), everything that made her angry is still there, she still sees jinx's face in her nightmares, except now she has the ultimate power. she has avenues opened up to her that she didn't up until now, and she has ambessa whispering in her ear, fuelling her rage for her own purposes.

this should have been caitlyn at her worst. just as angry as before, just as guilty, but with the full power of a city under martial law under her fingertips.

in a world where we have revolutionary!jinx, we could've had the scene where cait lets ambessa put the Cloak of Dictatorship around her shoulders intersped with flashes of jinx digging out silco's old coat and shrugging it on. caitlyn's cloak hangs heavy and just keeps dragging her deeper underwater as she chokes on her own rage, but jinx nuzzles into the collar of her coat. caitlyn's cloak is a shackle; jinx's coat is a comfort as much as a promise.

in a world where we have revolutionary!jinx, we could've had cait have actual war on her hands.

(it doesn't even have to be jinx. i mean, i WANT it to be, but the war could happen without her, too. i just need IT to happen instead of arcane age of ultron.)

and this could do wonders for her character from so many directions--it could fuel her hatred more because zaunites aren't just rolling over as they did when she gassed them, now they're fighting back, and they're fighting dirty. it could push her deeper into ambessa's embrace because she sure as hell doesn't know anything about warfare, so isn't it lucky she has a decorated general as her mentor?

this is where i get to one more thing i'd have loved to see and that's ... no redemption. not every villain needs redemption, and they sure as hell don't need it to be sympathetic.

because arcane only had two seasons to work with, and because we HAD to have cait redeemed by the end, we get to see none of what would realistically have been her worst era. instead, when we meet her again in ep4 she is already tired, already done with all this, already disillusioned with ambessa. the most interesting part of her arc is completely skipped over in favour of a "redemption arc", and i use the that phrase HIGHLY ironically, given that it was less of an arc and more of someone from the writers' room pointing a gun at my forehead and threatening to shoot if i didn't agree with them that she was redeemed now and that it's all roses and daisies from now on.

ultimately ... i don't WANT her redeemed, but if we must, then i wish more thought and time and effort went into it, just as i wish it did with her descent.

and you know what? caitlyn as the main villain of s2 might've fit nicely into the whole theme of monster you created from s1. of how revolutionary ideas are significantly easier to hold onto when someone you love isn't at stake. you know, all the things that would make the big-collar-and-injured-eye visual parallels s2 draws to silco actually make a lick of sense.

s2 cait stumbles through a multi-season arc in nine episodes, and about as gracefully as a broken-legged foal.

[alistairlowee]

[buttercups-revenge]

!Long post because I DO love writing about how unhinged Snow is and how he loves shooting himself in the foot—

Remember in Catching Fire when Snow just APPEARS in Katniss’ house to threaten her before the victory tour like the ghost of hunger games past?

Knowing now his obsession with Covey girls and not loving their partners, these lines are a helluva lot more impactful.

(“Peeta. How is the love of your life?” he (Snow) asks.

“Good,” I say.

“At what point did he realize the exact degree of your indifference?” he asks, dipping his cookie in his tea.

“I’m not indifferent,” I say.

“But perhaps not as taken with the young man as you would have the country believe,” he says.

“Who says I’m not?” I say.

“I do,” says the president. “And I wouldn’t be here if I were the only person who had doubts. How’s the handsome cousin?” (Catching Fire, 7))

Snow openly states that he DOES NOT believe that Katniss is capable of actually loving Peeta. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s because of his bizarro obsession with Lucy Gray).

Meanwhile, she has risked her life MANY times to save Peeta, thinks about his dreamy eyelashes, and the biggest reason she does not think about him romantically is BECAUSE of the situation that Snow has put them in!!!

(“I want to tell him that he’s (Peeta’s) not being fair…That I can’t explain how things are with Gale because I don’t know myself....That if I do have feelings for him (Peeta), it doesn’t matter because I’ll never be able to afford the kind of love that leads to a family, to children. And how can he? How can he after what we’ve just been through?” (The Hunger Games, 373))

Snow asks about Gale because he remembers Billy Taupe, and sees Katniss’ indecision around him as infidelity toward Peeta. He is MAD projecting. Even if Katniss WAS as deeply obsessed with Peeta like she pretends to be, I doubt that Snow would recognize it.

Further, when Katniss tours 8 in Mockingjay, people in the Districts ask her especially about Peeta (“Despite his controversial interview with Caesar, many ask about Peeta, assure me that they know he was speaking under duress.” (Mockingjay, 81). PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICTS BELIEVE THEIR LOVE STORY IS REAL. Maybe not all of them, but enough that INJURED rebels are insisting to Katniss that they know he is being tortured, and know how hard it must be for her. Even THEY are able to recognize her love is real.

In projecting his shit onto Katniss, Snow has prevented her from realizing her actual love for Peeta, because he emphasizes her need to PERFORM rather than to feel love. And he emphasizes this BECAUSE he STILL does not understand how love really works, only how to manipulate and control. If Katniss had more space and time, (and if a DISGUSTING AWFUL OLD FASCIST MAN wasn’t OBSESSED with her needing to perform love toward Peeta), there is a good chance that she would have figured out her love for Peeta faster and more organically!!!

ADDITIONALLY (I do so love slam dunking on coriobimbam): the fact that snow makes it seem like (or genuinely BELIEVES) their stunt with the berries is THE thing that causes the revolution is so telling to me.

It is the LOVE that Katniss and Peeta have for each other that led them to take the berries in the first place:

(“No, you can’t kill yourself,” I say. I’m on my knees, desperately plastering the bandage back onto his wound.

“Katniss,” he says. “It’s what I want.”

“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he (Peeta) dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out. (The Hunger Games, 343))

BEFORE she thinks about outsmarting the gamemakers, BEFORE she thinks of revolution, she is DESPERATE to save Peeta. The people in the Districts aren’t seeing the BERRIES as the rebellion, they’re seeing the love that these two have, DESPITE the horrible situation they are in (the situation that SNOW HAS PUT THEM IN), as the revolution. They see that these two act OUT OF LOVE, not out of maliciousness, and THAT is what inspires them to rebel.

AND SNOW DOESN’T GET IT!!!!!!! His (any fascist’s?) inability to understand love, to understand compassion and self-sacrifice, hell maybe even just FRIENDSHIP is what leads to his downfall.

TLDR: snow ‘s inability to understand love and his NEED to project his issues (in an UN-FUCKING-HINGED manner) onto Katniss and Peeta are what led to his downfall.

[qwertycake]

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