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um... hi

i kinda forgot i had a page here

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CHAPTER 139 SPOILERS

goodbye, eren

i'm just-

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sometimes i really want to argue with ppl on this site but then i check their bios and it always says shit like 'xem/xir demiromantic poly lesbian. transfemme autistic vriska kinnie. part of a system. communist. death to terfs' and decide that im not going to since ive already won

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i understand that y'all are angry about sasha's death, but really, everyone in aot killed somebody. reiner, bertold and annie killed marco, zeke killed erwin, in some point, and i'm not even speaking about hundreds of others that were hurt by them; but y'all don't hate them for some reason.

reiner has ptsd, and gabi is brainwashed. she just had no choice, and also she always admired with reiner, that described sasha as a true heartless monster just because she was eating a potato... like, she didn't have any good examples. gabi was raised in nazi society and that made her what she is.

oh, trust me, if eren was on her place he would do the same, cause these character are very alike. both impulsive, hot-tempered and extremely stubborn. and yeah, speaking of eren... he arranged fucking genocide. so, it's weird to like him and hate her. i like both. she didn't deserve all this shit because she murdered somebody. everyone in aot is murderer. some of them just don't kill characters that you like, so you're able to forgive them.

gabi has a hard time. her object of admiration (reiner) wanna kill himself. zeke betrayed marley. falco is protecting "demons from paradise". her home is destroyed by eren yeger. her trust to people is trampled, her oultook is falling apart. she's only a child. it's hard for her to handle all of this.

& if you read manga, you know that actually she's gonna change.

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— ❝You were never like them. You only thought you were.❞

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— ❝You're a beautiful monster.❞

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catradora and villaneve just killed me

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a redraw in honor of atla

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"hi, eve" is smth like "hey, adora"

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YOUR HONOR THEY’RE CANON

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❝people gonna say

«if you need a break, someone'll take your place».

people gonna try

to tell you that «you're fine» with dollars in their eyes.

don't let them fuck you, honey,

don't let them try,

don't let them hurt you, baby.❞

— Melanie Martinez, Recess

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Catra 10 years later at the next Princess Prom

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Implying Catra’s Physical Abuse

Abuse and how it shapes people is a major recurring thing in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. The two protagonists were raised by the same woman, and the different ways she abused them took them down two very different paths. Shadow Weaver’s abuse left each of them with disordered views of the world and their place in it, not to mention extremely maladaptive coping mechanisms.

While the emotional abuse of both Adora and Catra is obvious, it’s clear Catra has endured a lot more than Adora. Not only does she have to deal with a barrage of insults and degradation, she’s also abused physically. And while it’s never actually portrayed onscreen, it is heavily implied that Shadow Weaver beat Catra when she was a child, possibly even beyond childhood. While this may seem like an especially dark take to some, it’s blatantly obvious to anyone who’s been abused in that way. The indicators are all there.

SPOP’s creators did a phenomenal job of making the extent of the abuse very clear without actually showing it. Much of the credit for that goes to the stellar voice acting of AJ Michalka and Lorraine Toussaint, but the writers put the words in their mouths, finding ways to imply violence between the lines. Perhaps most impressive is how much of this is accomplished with subtlties in animation, which is what I am going to focus on most in this post (partly because it’s so gifable, and partly because it’s so damn good).

With no further ado, let’s examine this evidence in detail.

Frequent lower-tier physical abuse

Physical abuse isn’t just about blows, it’s about the violation of someone’s physical autonomy. Shadow Weaver physically abuses Catra in other ways all the time in season 1. The regularity with which she grabs, shoves, or throws Catra is disturbing, to say the least.

She also restrains and/or controls Catra’s body with magic on several occasions. Not only that, we know this has been going on since she was a child.

Not only are these behaviors physical abuse on their own, they also imply that Shadow Weaver may have abused Catra in even worse ways offscreen. This is especially true when combined with other clues, which I’ll go into now…

Catra’s body language around Shadow Weaver (and vise-versa)

Catra is clearly terrified of Shadow Weaver throughout much of the first season, even after she’s been promoted. Her body language is very defensive at a distance, and she cringes/shrinks away whenever Shadow Weaver gets too close.

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