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I watched Mickey 17 and I liked it a lot

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A Glimmadora take on the Tall Lesbian, Short Lesbian meme I commissioned from @napstachill.

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another thing i've noticed with glimmadora and c//a is how they are always positioned during an argument or a fight.

glimmer and adora are always on the same level. apart from their general height differences, neither is positioned above the other so as to indicate a power imbalance.

this is because adora and glimmer are equals. when arguing, adora doesn't always have to back down. both of them get mad at each other but neither of them are actively trying to hurt the other. glimmer never tries to restrain adora or otherwise make her feel helpless or weak. adora was never at glimmer's mercy.

now look at pretty much every single single frame where adora and catra are in an argument or actively fighting.

and whenever they are at the same level, catra always finds a way to knock adora down so that she is beneath her.

don't believe me?

that's her way of making sure adora stays in line. of making sure that adora remembers that catra always gets the last word and always has power over her. and clearly it hasn't changed in s5.

catra had no reason to knock adora down at that moment. they weren't even fighting, or at least, adora wasn't trying to fight catra. but at this point, it was a habit for catra, a habit that she clearly wasn't trying to grow out of.

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okay fuck it ‼️ glimmadora appreciation post ‼️

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So I came across a very... interesting post regarding the fact that C//A are not sisters, so I decided to debunk it for fun. I won't mention the person's username or comment on their original post

I'm gonna make a little hypothetical scenario here.

Imagine if the kids in the Horde were all high school students who were all put in the exact same class and had the exact same teacher (Shadow Weaver). Except, Adora and Catra were the only two students who knew Shadow Weaver both as a teacher and an adoptive mother.

The scenario above is exactly what's happening here. It doesn't matter that everyone grew up in the Horde. What matters is that Adora and Catra were the only ones who were raised by Shadow Weaver specifically as her adopted daughters, and the only ones who saw her as a (toxic) mother. Not to mention all the canon sources that state C//A are sisters, but I guess we're gonna ignore those.

To fix this issue, all the writers had to do was to have Adora be raised by Hordak, and Catra by Shadow Weaver. That's it, problem solved. The ship is no longer incestuous because Catra and Adora, in this scenario, were raised in the same place since childhood, BUT BY TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. There would be no goldenchild/scapegoat dynamic. There would be no jealousy on Catra's part regarding the fact that she thinks Shadow Weaver will never "love" and "cherish" her the way she "loves" and "cherishes" her sister.

If she was just their caretaker, then why do Catra and Adora have a goldenchild/scapegoat dynamic that mirrors sibling rivalry? Why does Adora admit to Glimmer that Shadow Weaver raised her as a mom would? Why is Catra filled with genuine happiness after Shadow Weaver caresses her cheek? Why does she gently touch that spot and smile? Why is Catra so heartbroken and furious when her mind basically tells her: "Shadow Weaver betrayed you." Why does Catra immediately give up her potentially happy life with Scorpia once she reveals to her that Shadow Weaver once again chose Adora over her?

Like... this rivalry is at the heart of C//A. Not romance, but rivalry between two adopted sisters who have a toxic and abusive adoptive mother.

And no, whether or not you cut ties with your toxic parent, that doesn't erase the fact that they were indeed your parent. A parent who raised both you and your sibling since childhood.

I'm gonna make a parallel between Spop and TAWOG. So, Gumball was raised by his biological parents, Nicole and Richard, and, at one point, Darwin joined the family (just like Adora "found" Catra) as his adoptive brother (but brother nonetheless).

What does this mean? That Gumball and Darwin are brothers, and that Adora and Catra are sisters.

Uhm... no. Close friends ≠ siblings, unless everyone admits that they see each other that way. Then they wouldn't consider a romantic relationship in the first place, unless there's some confusion present. For example, person A admits their feelings for person B, and person B says: "Ew no way, I see you as a brother/sister!" But at some point, person B's feelings change into romantic ones and they get together. See the difference between this, and the relationship between Catra and Adora?

Goofing off with someone, teasing them and being close with them doesn't automatically make that person your brother or sister. But being raised in the same environment, by the same person, since you were a child, that is incestuous.

Adora and Glimmer didn't grow up together and they don't share the same mother. Angella was Glimmer's mother, and Adora's mother figure. There is a difference.

These two girls did NOT grow up in the Horde together, they did NOT have a sibling rivalry, they did NOT have a goldenchild/scapegoat dynamic, their arc was NOT about standing up to their abusive adoptive mother.

Angella was a mother figure in Adora's life (and in Bow's life, too), but she was not her, or Bow's mother. Shadow Weaver was Adora and Catra's mother, until the end. Why? She. Raised. Them. She. Taught. Them. Everything. They. Grew. Up. With. Her.

*deep sigh*

Okay? Okay.

Alright, I'm getting tired at this point. So long story short:

Shadow Weaver was Micah's mentor and mother figure

Shadow Weaver was Glimmer's mentor (why tf would she view her as a mother figure??? It was out of despair that Glimmer had to learn from SW, not genuine affection. Also she still had her biological mother???)

Angella was Glimmer's mother

Angella was Adora and Bow's mother figure (which ≠ incest for the abovementioned reasons)

Shadow Weaver was Adora's adoptive mother (still a mother)

Shadow Weaver was Catra's adoptive mother (still a mother)

About that "argument"... the underlying issues and insecurities Adora and Glimmer acted out are literally present between Catra and Adora, so... yeah.

Case closed, goodbye.

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glimmadora appreciation post!

i can't believe they weren't a canon couple. like PLEASE LOOK AT THESE.

(I don't know if this expression exists outside of Brazil, but it's like they say: "they had the knife and the cheese in their hands and didn't do anything with it".)

there's a lot more moments i could add (including the hot springs scene), but tumblr has that limit of 10 images per post.

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I have to make more rescue bots memes fr

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i’m watching only murders in the building season two right now

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(I’m a fragging genius this is so funny to me)

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I notice a trend

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I love this image with all my heart because it truly encapsulates both of their characters perfectly and if I ever needed to explain these two and their dynamic I could just show you this picture and there you go, now you get it.

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i made a post a while ago talking about spop characters’ noses and i want to elaborate on that.

because while, yes spop is diverse in their characters, one thing i’ve noticed is that apart from skin color and sometimes hair texture, the poc characters do not look poc.

let me explain:

netossa and bow are the two notable black characters in spop. but the only thing that gets the point across that they are poc is their hair and skin color. it’s like the creators of spop doesn’t know that different races and ethnicities have different facial structures and features.

i’m not saying you have to make them look like a caricature or a stereotype, but maybe don’t give your poc character eurocentric features?

let’s take a look at other shows/movies that have poc characters with actual poc features, not just dark skin and vaguely curly/wavy hair.

some of these characters aren’t even human, like amethyst and garnet, but you can see that they were supposed to be poc, not just because of their hair or skin color (i mean come one, they literally have pink and purple skin) but because of their features. same goes for the other characters - their nose shape. their lips, their facial structure, it’s all based off of actual black people.

and these are just black, half-black or black-coded characters. we can take a look at some of the other characters in spop:

now, be honest. when you first watched the show, did you know that these characters were supposed to be asian or asian-coded?

because i didn’t. and i know for a fact that many other people didn’t.

maybe you did realize that mermista was supposed to be indian or south asian, but even then, i’ve seen people assume that she’s black, because it’s not quite clear when all we have to go off of is her skin tone and hair.

and this is why it’s so important to highlight facial features when it comes to poc representation. because you can have a character with dark skin and curly hair, and they could easily be black, latina/latino, south asian or even east asian.

dark skin and curly/wavy/textured hair appears across a lot of different races and ethnicities, so they are the most basic feature you could use when designing a poc character.

but coming back to asian characters, let’s take a look at some good character designs.

see how easy it is to actually give poc characters features that actually communicate their origins, instead of taking a white character and slapping on a different skin tone or hair type? and none of these characters look like caricatures, they just look like real people.

i’m just saying. you can’t blame this on “aRtStYLe” either because a lot of the good examples i’ve shown are not hyper realistic. they’re just realistic enough for people to look at these characters and think “hey, they look just like me”.

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How I felt reading Lost Light

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Good mentoring 👍