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Okay so I just got off the phone with them. I talked to a trans girl named Aurora & she was super helpful! She gave me a few doctors to talk to & encouraged me to seek therapy instead of just rushing to get my pills. She literally found a trans friendly therapist in my town & I would definitely recommend giving them a call!

GUYS COME SEE THIS!!!!!! I didn’t know about this, come look!!!!!!

it literally would not be right to ever not reblog this

For any trans followers I have. Stay safe and know you are loved

For my fellow trans followers. 👀👌

It’s ready for Pre-Order now. They’ll be on frosted purple acrylic. I’m very excited to see them in person.

It mystifies me that so many people are so opposed to villains with any kind of nuance. At what point did that become a bad thing? Was there a vocal group of people whining about Zuko or Iroh back when Avatar was airing? I love villains who are giving understandable reasons that they are the way they are. Narratives where neither side is 100% good or 100% evil are some of the most interesting to watch. It’s very easy to mess up a villain sob story meant to make you sympathize with them, but Hordaks was done absolutely perfectly in my opinion. It even went so far as to explain some of the weirder aspects of his character that I had noticed before the reveal and it’s relevant to the main plot and themes of the show.   As a general "Fantasy Tyrants" fan (Emperor Mateus, Thranduil, etc. I have a type) I usually have absolutely no defense for most of them. A majority of characters in this trope are given flimsy or at best understandable but not excusable reasons for being the way they are. But with what Hordak’s situation is, I can’t even justify him being in the “Fantasy Tyrant” trope at all, much less understand why people can be so vehemently angry at his character for daring to be more than generic villain.  Spoiler for some later season of Voltron below. I forget which: I’ve always had a special sympathy for clones. Maybe its because I grew up with Tales of the Abyss as a huge influence on me, but the existential horror of being an artificially created copy of someone else has always been super interesting to me. That’s why the absolute botching of Clone Shiro from Voltron upsets me so very much. (They spent a whole season with him at least. Why did no one care that he died? You guys played D&D with him. Pretend like you care!) So I was absolutely thrilled when She Ra revealed Hordak to be a clone and really took advantage of it and all the absolute horror of his situation. How anyone can look at his situation and only see “Fantasy Dictator. He might as well be Hitler” is beyond me. (especially while defending Catra. I think she’s an interesting character but wow does she make every wrong, horrible decision after being given multiple chances to change from several unreasonably patient sources.) He’s been horrendously abused and brainwashed to believe it was correct to the point he was thrown away for a chronic illness and could only believe it was his fault for not being good enough. He’s more of a “damsel in distress” at this point than any kind of a villain. (Please let Entrapta save him. It’s too tragic if he just stays gone. The idea genuinely upsets me.) I could ramble for days about my feelings but I already feel like I wasn’t as eloquent as I’d like to be. Probably because I can’t sleep properly anymore due to quarantine madness. I’m just real tired of people getting unreasonably angry at people for liking fictional characters in an unrealistic setting. I was sick of it with the Diamonds in Steven Universe and I honestly didn’t expect people to do it to Hordak of all people when I got into She Ra. He went handily from “generic villain with a cool aesthetic, why are people upset about this very underplayed kid cartoon idea of a war?” to “genuinely one of the most tragic characters in a cartoon.” 

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I finished my keychain design finally. Go check them out if you like Good Omens!