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feel like zoey would post shit like this

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I never had the courage to ask if you wanted to be.

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MIRA ♡

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GUESS WHAT PEOPLE!! WE WIN!!!

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mooore zoemira doodles ! the 2nd pic's from a roleplay i've been doing w/ a friend in this rp server :D

if you squint hard enough, rumi's the purple heart :)

i sweaaar i'll start posting more after exams. which is like. after next week. i miss drawing polytrix guys

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[‼️slight spoiler warning‼️]

post-movie sappy comic of huntrix adapting to rumi’s new form 💖💖💖✨

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Tiger Rumi sketches that I spent too long rendering 🐯 I JUST THINK that Rumi should get to be a big tiger demon that her gfs can cuddle with alright

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The Matriarch Isn’t the Villain. She’s the Mirror

I often hear a discourse where Celine in K-pop Demon Hunters, Alma in Encanto and Ming in Turning Red are seen as vilains. They’re the ones who restricted the younger generation, hurt them, and are ultimately responsible for their pain, trauma and self-doubt. They’re framed as the real villains of the story. But I’d like to differ.

These are stories of intergenerational trauma. They are women who survived, repressed, and tried to protect their families the only way they knew how: through control, perfectionism, and emotional suppression.

And yet, when the next generation begins to reclaim joy, freedom, softness — they become the obstacle. Not because they’re bad people, but because they’re scarred. Their minds cling to survival strategies, unable to recognize that the environment has changed.

Alma is still stuck fleeing the colonizers.

Ming is still afraid of her true self.

Celine believes that fear and mistakes must be hidden.

It’s not about hating these characters. It’s about how unprocessed trauma twists love into control. How survival, unexamined, turns into rigidity. These women were never given space to process their own pain and they project it onto their daughters and granddaughters.

And here’s something we rarely say enough: intergenerational trauma can create toxic patterns but that doesn’t always mean there was abuse or conscious harm. Even when their love becomes suffocating or controlling, these women are not necessarily “abusive parents.” They are daughters of silence, fear, and sacrifice. And they were never taught another way. It’s important to make that distinction, especially in a world that often pushes a binary, punitive reading of family dynamics.

They’re the product of a generation that was told to endure. But endurance without healing becomes its own kind of violence.

What’s powerful in these stories is that they don’t end in vengeance. They end in confrontation and transformation. The confrontation is necessary: the younger generation refuses the silence. Refuses the shame. Refuses to carry a burden that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

The house is destroyed in Encanto.

Mei accepts her full self.

So does Rumi.

And in the best cases, this confrontation allows the elder to soften too. Alma opens up. Ming listens. And I’m hoping in the sequel, Celine will open too.

Maybe that’s also why these stories speak so deeply to POC audiences. These aren’t stories about cutting ties. They’re stories about how hard it is to transform them, to protect ancestral bonds while refusing to perpetuate inherited pain. In many racialized families, collectivity, loyalty, and intergenerational duty are sacred... even when they come at the cost of personal boundaries.

And sometimes, Western individualist frameworks read these tensions as dysfunction or villainy. But for us, they’re just the difficult truth of growing up and trying to do better.

These women aren’t villains. That would be too easy. They embody the fragile, necessary work of bringing change without breaking the thread. These stories are about refusing to inherit their pain without reflection. Because love, without accountability, is not enough.

These stories show us that each generation has something to learn from the next. And the new generation must also break free from the chains they inherited while preserving what is meaningfull.

But it’s not just their story.

One day, we’ll be the older generation.

And we’ll need to be humble enough to learn from the ones after us.

So don’t be a fool.

We may be Mei, Rumi, or Mirabel today.

But tomorrow, we could be Ming, Celine, or Alma.

And when that time comes, we’ll realize how hard it is to unlearn what once kept us safe.

So let’s have compassion for all these characters.

Because these stories show us not just how the cycle of generations works, but how it can make us better, stronger, and more connected... if we’re all willing to go through the change.

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If you’re curious, I’ve written more on K-pop Demon Hunters:

A post on the mental health themes woven through the songs — right here.

A breakdown of Celine-Rumi in comparaison to Gothel–Rapunzel dynamic — here.

An analysis about Rumi, Jinu, and the danger of sinking together — here.

Some book recs for each of the K-pop Demon Hunters characters — here.

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they're so dumb zoey make more

I love drawing silly faces on them, it's like a canon

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their tooth gaps uauauauwuwhehshdbe

huntrix in school ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

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what the absolute hell is wrong with you op

Bad End

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two's company (but they want a crowd) is my everything since i started yesterday i fear it'll stick to me for months.

i am so mad for missing out i could've had shit DRAWN much earlier. THE SKATING, RUMI SICKNESS, COOKING/BAKING SCENES, DUDE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IS SO DRAWABLE OH MY FUCK. ONCE I FINISH IT, MY POSTS WILL BE FLOODED WITH THE SCENES WATCH ME.

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fake dating >>>>

inspired by this tweet

twitter | bluesky | insta | 🔞 patre0n

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'Ride With Me' (2024) was a hit single recorded and released for Huntr/x' world tour.

Its lyrics center on teamwork, helping each other reach new heights, and celebrating friendship.

A common misconception, this single was not in fact hastily conceived as an excuse for the author to design racing jackets to match Rumi's outfit in the movie.

Additional doodles that didn't make the cut

WIPs (added more content to previous post)

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PS shout out to the Huntrix black room discord for being bros while i lose my mind about this jacket

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yup you're right !! that's actually why I thought about making this :D

it's their red week. dad bobby to the rescue. will write a fic about this trust

the first time all three girls had their period at the exact same time, he def panicked, cancelled every meeting, searched the whole internet (he'd ask celine for help only on desperate measures) , and then bought whatever he thought the girls needed (had unnecessary stuff)