i love you. i always have.

Scorpia for Pride 2021! 

This–

–is not going away.

You can try all you want to get rid of it.

You can try to demand the network takedown shows that allow this.

You can try to ban your children from watching those shows.

You can even try to take the TV away and demand your children read a book.

But here’s what you can’t take away.

You’ve told your kids their entire life that this is wrong, perverted, and disgusting. The worst part being that your kid is even like the characters above.

But for a brief moment, they were told the opposite was true.

They were told that there is nothing wrong with who they are or who they like.

They were told that this one thing about them doesn’t change who they are.

They were told that in this dumpster fire of a planet, that they are not alone.

And at that moment, they are happy and at peace.

And you can’t take that away.

Again, you can try, and for a while, it might seem like you succeeded.

But your child will always come back to that moment.

Hell, your child might even make stories of their own, featuring characters that can give the same feeling they felt all those years ago.

And kids who will see those characters will continue to make more themselves.

To make others feel like they are heard in a way they never did before seeing some goofy cartoon aimed at children.

And that’s why this isn’t going away.

DON’T LEAVE ADORA!! ✨❤️🏳️‍🌈

“Behind my eyes a familiar child 

All I wanted growing up was for something I loved to love me back

I wanted to see the characters I loved, love in the ways I felt completely alone in loving

I wanted the characters I loved to be messy like me, and make mistakes like me

I wanted the show I loved not to lead me on, or wink at the thing I so desperately wanted to see

I wanted to cheer for a love story and not just have it live in my head as a “what if”

And at 30 years old I finally fucking got what I had always needed to see. I finally had a show that loved me back the way I had always wanted.

So yes I’m obsessed with the princess cartoon.

may i offer you some catradora in these trying times

[ID: A digital bust portrait of Katara coloured in blue tones. She faces the viewer with a stern expression and her hands are raised near her face with water floating between them. She’s wearing the top section of her hair pulled back while the rest flows around her, covering her chest and shoulders so that only her hands and necklace are visible. Her hair loopies are braided. End ID.]