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rose | she/her | chaotic cartoon cringe sideblog

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

i love pearl stevenuniverse as much as the next gal but there’s no way in hell she actually ate that cookie cat. 

she waited until steven walked out the door and immediately turned her head all the way around like a owl and spat it directly into the trashcan

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

artist’s rendering

[taffybuns]

im sorry if this has already been done adhfkljsdgf i just remembered this meme exists-

[cowboyclassical]

Adventure Time episodes will be called shit like "This World Is An Illusion And Soon We Will All Be Gone" and then the plot is just Finn n Jake helping PB hit monsters with sticks or something

[jackenzie]

Adventure Time episodes will be called shit like "Bungus" and then the plot is an old man only tangentially connected to the main characters will reflect on their life and their regrets before finally coming to terms with the tragedy that once consumed them and dying peacefully

[reythemandalor]

[luckysevenart]

this is an hommage to one iconic tumblr post

[telltaletypist]

it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that i stan the problematic catgirl from she ra

[telltaletypist]

"she's just kylo ren for women" kylo ren wasn't this funny

[mildlyupsetzebra]

[rosequart]

last year it was like "catradora is the best cartoon wlw representation ever, rupphire is now obsolete" and today it's all "lumity is the best cartoon wlw representation ever, catradora is now obsolete" like have you guys considered that representation doesn't work like this, at all

[rosequart]

it's insane that this is even a common discussion point now, when back in 2014 the korra/asami handholding scene made the fandom go nuclear. and i have to keep reminding myself that 2014 was seven whole years ago (nearly a decade!)

[rosequart]

idk maybe instead of treating gay representation like an arms race, consider being normal instead! love and light

[bewilderedbird-deactivated20231]

Get yourself a partner that takes your traumatic experiences seriously.

[elibobara]

they just like tech

[fujifingerz]

REFERENCE

[roseiaghost-deactivated20220105]

We’re in the home stretch of the hard times / We took a hard left, but we’re alright.. 

here to scream about Catradora and say thank you to the whole She Ra team for making my gay hopes and dreams a reality. truly masterful storytelling from beginning to heartfelt end!!!

[geageaart]

I forgot I had drawn this like, months ago

[missbliss12]

Glimmer and Catra.

Inspired by this image by @catradora.

I wanted Glimmer and Catra to discuss forgiveness after they returned to Bright Moon. Thus, a little post-finale comic about loving and growing. 

(Also, a little Catradora.)

[missbliss12]

After the final battle, Adora’s friends learn about her long-held wish regarding Catra.

A little celebration of love and that wonderful sarcastic unicorn, Swift Wind. I wish you all the happiness in the universe.

[pricklyalpaca]

Heart of Etheria 

[faelapis]

hot take, because i love being in spop discourse jail: adora’s feelings for catra isn’t some nuanced repressed homophobia masterpiece. it’s just sloppy and rushed, because the goal is to reward catra for being on the “right” side, be damned how we get there. the writing always revolved around catra first. the comfort zone of the writing is catra’s angst. catra is the character who “matters.”

adora’s feelings or agency barely matters, nor does the fact that their relationship was equally uneven from the childhood friendship that they so love to romanticize - catra demanding emotional support and holding adora to an unfair and unreasonable promise without giving any of that in return. 

for a character like adora, who is so defined by the most basic of insecurity narratives, they sure do love to brush that aside when it comes to catra’s role in it: expecting adora to be a certain way, while also blaming her for stepping outside that role. over and over and over again. 

catra’s whole problem is that she is obsessed with her own agency. not just controlling the horde, but controlling adora. that’s the only way she feels safe.

all of which makes it all the more frustrating how the writing then turns around and insists that not only is catra’s love for adora a selfless force, it always was and she’s the one who “truly” wants what’s best for her. it’s an insult to literally every other character who cares about adora, because the show can’t resist the melodrama of perfect soulmates even when it doesn’t work. (it’s also frustrating how catra’s need for agency is shoved aside & she’s basically just there to shout “adora!” after corridors, but that’s a story for another day).

adora, who was moving on and genuinely making healthier connections outside the horde, being told - really forced - by the narrative that actually, she was still secretly in love with catra, despite how uneven that relationship was and how firmly the character they wrote in s3-s4 showed otherwise… isn’t a sign of genius subtle symbolic writing. it’s not about internalized homophobia. it’s just forcing the conclusion they want, because it’s what would make catra happiest. and that’s all they ever cared about.

spop being nominated for an emmy for best promotional material (aka best commercial) is extremely fitting, because it’s good at making “moments.” it’s good at turning to the audience and saying “please clap” at the right time, knowing when and how to evoke Feels. it knows where it wants to go, it just doesn’t know how to get there. it falls apart when you try to follow the logic and motivations of the characters from episode to episode, in the vain hope that they’re building towards a natural conclusion. 

i actually like those aforementioned “moments” better without context, in gifsets and twitter clips, than when i watch them in the show. it’s more effective the less i think about it. they’re nice clips, but… they do not build naturally. all of which is to say that i think spop has a lot of good moments, loosely tied together by a rather meh plot and shallow emotional manipulation.