[shinsyl]

“An afternoon in the garden”

Painted on procreate [2020.05]

Have a beautiful day!

[rosalie-starfall]

THIS IS THE ZELDA SPELLMAN CONTENT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!

[hajsndskskmsnxndn-deactivated20]

a big part of the reason i love howl so much is bc he honestly looks like a bi girl

[hajsndskskmsnxndn-deactivated20]

the haircut, the big shirt tucked into the pants, the dangly earrings...

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Breakfast with friends!

[softsaphs-blog]

it’s never too late to come out. even if you already have before; our identities can change as we do, and although it may feel like it, you aren’t wrong for adapting new IDs as you see fit

i’d much rather have people come out two, four, or five hundred times, however many they needed, instead of feeling forced to ‘settle’ for labels that no longer apply to them. be true to yourself, and give others room to do the same

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

*soaks my p***y in rose water overnight*

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

mary berry: Well im definitely getting the rose.

paul hollywood: Me too, but its just slightly - check in the middle right there - underbaked.

me: 😬

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

guys its pastry. I censored it because I’m shy about my baking

[boybrdr-deactivated20230204]

hey pastry has six letters and p***y has five 😬

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

it was a typo

[bruitist]

[blackness-by-your-side]

[queens-be-like]

This made my day 💖

[queens-be-like]

imma reblog this again just because 36 followers was gone after this post, ain’t nobody gonna judge them but god so get your racist ass outta here

[dreamyblackchild]

I’m glad to see interracial relationships that aren’t just black and white couples. That first one made my heart flutter with glee. 

[o6eiyrskb4hg7rix8hih-deactivate]

seeing somebody’s domesticated wizard: wow, I love how well maintained and sleek his beard is! what product do you bathe him with? and what a lovely, clean, and silky robe… does he know any spells?

seeing a feral wizard in the wild: absolute running for life because it smells the raw ground beef in my knapsack

[acquaintedwithrask]

op i have a question

[labyr1nthian]

[tiktoks-we-like]

[softwaring]

today’s raspberry harvest

[kakashi-vibes]

took the kids out for boba and my card got declined so sasuke pulled out his platinum card and paid for all of us. can you believe. sasuke the twelve year old. i want to die

[bobbyrogers]

’Don’t Touch My Crown’ is my ongoing portrait series exploring the unearthly richness of our origins and beauty of Black hair // Portraits by Bobby Rogers

[bloodraven55]

Everyone’s been talking about the big moments in Catra’s redemption arc, and rightly so, but I just want to mention a few smaller moments which I loved because they were just as vital to making it work.

First, when she saves Glimmer Catra says she’s doing it for Adora, not Glimmer. But there are few other moments which suggest otherwise. Catra visits Glimmer’s cell even when they’re not talking, showing that she’s not only going to see her because she’s lonely.

Horde Prime also calls her out on feeling sorry for Glimmer, much like he called her out on still caring about Adora before, and Catra doesn’t deny it. In fact her face gives her away much like it did before too.

And this is backed up further by the fact that Catra goes out of her way to get Glimmer the cake she mentioned wanting in their previous talk.

She was trying to downplay her selflessness to Glimmer so that Glimmer wouldn’t convince Adora to come back for her, but Catra clearly didn’t only save Glimmer for Adora, she did it because she’d genuinely come to care about her as well.

Second, throughout this entire season Catra’s single greatest fear is that Adora will end up sacrificing herself to stop Horde Prime, but when she realises exactly what he’s doing to the people on Etheria, she actively encourages Adora to stop him.

It’s obvious that she’s truly concerned about the damage Horde Prime is causing, which makes a lot of sense when you remember that Catra has experienced being chipped herself. She doesn’t want anyone else to have to go through what she did.

Third, the importance of this scene is obvious but I want to touch on something specific about it. Entrapta is about to leave here, ready to move past everything that Catra did before, but Catra still stops her so that she can thank her and apologise.

This is huge, because it would have been so easy for Catra to just let Entrapta brush it all off instead of bringing up her own mistakes and taking responsibility for them, but she makes the hard choice anyway, because she knows it’s the least Entrapta deserves from her.

Fourth, this moment is pretty funny but also incredibly important. Catra tells Adora she’s working on her anger management, and follows it up with concrete action seconds later. She doesn’t just promise to do better, she actually does the work to change her behaviour.

Words on their own mean nothing if you don’t back them up with your actions, and it’s crucial that Catra doesn’t just say she’s going to work through her problems, but actually puts the effort in to make real changes and better herself.

Fifth and last, Catra reassures Netossa about Spinnerella, even though they have no prior bond and she knows Netossa still has every reason to hate her, simply because she feels bad for her and wants to make her feel a little better.

What all these moments have in common is that they show Catra expressing sincere empathy for other people. Her feelings for Adora may have been a big factor in her initial desire to improve, but Adora is definitely not the only thing Catra cares about.

tl;dr - Catra doesn’t just choose to stop being bad, she consciously makes the effort to start being good as well, and that’s why her development this season feels so satisfying and well earned.

[fairymascot]

this is gonna be a controversial take mayhaps, but i…. love shadow weaver. not as a PERSON, mind you, but as a character? she’s so fascinating!

i think the biggest key to her character is thst everyone expects abusive parents to be completely void of affection for their children, but that’s rarely the case. even shadow weaver– twisted, manipulative, and selfish as she is, still cares about the kids she’d fostered. even twenty years later, she jumps in to save micah, despite him wanting to do nothing with her. and she saves catra, too, and tells her she’s proud of her, despite spending her whole life making catra feel like garbage.

here’s the thing, though. it doesn’t cancel that out. nobody expects you to go ‘OH, well, shadow weaver was actually such a sweet loving person the whole time’. being abusive to your kids, making them suffer, and caring about them – in some twisted way or another – is not mutually exclusive, and i find it extremely mature of she-ra’s writing to acknowledge that.

abusive parents very rarely know they’re abusive. they’re not thinking ‘i love making this kid suffer and fucking them up psychologically for the rest of their lives’. most of them choose to remain completely unaware of the effect their abuse has, and most of them, if you asked, would probably describe themselves as a perfectly good, hardworking parent. shadow weaver is just the same. even though everything she’s ever done has been in favor of obtaining power for herself, she’s ALWAYS had justification for it. she’s always talking about how it would benefit a bigger cause, and i really do think she’s convinced of it herself. as far as she’s concerned, she’s only ever done the ‘right thing’. her raising of catra and adora is no different.

when she was held captive before being sent to beast island, and buttering catra up? telling catra all this stuff about how she always saw herself in her, and was simply trying to make her strong through ‘tough love’? of course she was saying what catra wanted to hear in order to get her to do as she wished. but i don’t think she was just making that stuff up, either. she certainly held unreasonable anger and resentment towards catra, simply for failing to meet adora’s golden standard, and maybe for reminding her too much of herself, as well. but it doesn’t cancel out the fact she did, ultimately, consider her a daughter figure.

i don’t know, i think it’s such a refreshing take. shadow weaver is a horrible, abusive, egocentric person – but she isn’t a sociopath, she’s not wholly devoid of empathy. and she proved that when she gave up her life to save her girls– but in the same breath, she proved she never really changed right to the end.

in shadow weaver’s mind, she never did anything wrong, and she died the way she lived: just trying to be a good mother, just doing the right thing for the greater cause. she never apologized to catra, never showed remorse, never even acknowledged how thoroughly she screwed her up. her last words were a smug ‘you’re welcome’. her perception of herself remained egocentric and disconnected from reality, but her big heroic act did contribute to saving the day in a major way. i’m not even sure you can call that a redemption, but i think this is as close to one as shadow weaver should’ve been able to get. and i love it.

[gar-eldar-ferret]

And one of the saddest parts about her sacrifice, in my opinion, is that maybe she realized a little bit. Maybe she *could* have been redeemed, much, MUCH later down the road. But we’ll never know, and more importantly Catra and Adora will never know, because she’s gone now. Not just Shadow Weaver died, but any chance however unlikely, of her becoming better died with her

[kemonododo]

Catradora antis are rare but I'll still fight them.

[goldenbirb]

realistic parts of the babysitters club (2020): the various problems that come with different ways of parenting, dawn and claudia starting a revolution against economic classism, the diversity, dawn being annoyed when her mom sees someone she knows in the grocery store for the hundredth time,

unrealistic parts of the babysitters club (2020): how their outfits in every episode were COUTURE!!! have you ever seen a middle school child?? or been one????