furry for catra!

Like, you think Shadow Weaver should have had a redemption arc?

As far as she’s concerned, she did.

Basically everything she does after defecting to Brightmoon is just her methodically ticking off every box on the “redemption arc” checklist in the most awful, cynical way imaginable.

Like, she even manages to turn heroically sacrificing herself into a passive-aggressive guilt trip, in the process denying the audience the simple catharsis of seeing a bad guy go down – leaving us stuck with the knowledge that she went out smugly confident that she’d completed her redemption arc and was officially on the side of the angels, and nobody’s ever going to be able to challenge that narrative because she immediately blew herself up.

A lot of analyses put the start of Catra’s self-reinvention later in the narrative, but I think where it really starts is the moment when Catra asks Glimmer to kill her, and Glimmer says no.

I remember the minute It was like a switch was flipped— I was just a kid who grew up strong enough To pick this armor up And suddenly, it fit God, that was so long ago, long ago, long ago… I was little, I was weak and perfectly naive And I grew up too quick Now you won’t see all that I have to lose And all I’ve lost in the fight to protect it I won’t let you in, I swore never again— I can’t afford, no, I refuse to be rejected

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Here I am, pry me open What do you want to know? I’m just a kid who grew up scared enough To hold the door shut And bury my innocence But here’s a map, here’s a shovel Here’s my Achilles’ heel I’m all in, palms out, I’m at your mercy now and I’m ready to begin I am strong, I am strong, I am strong enough to let you in.

Yes its 1:30 in the morning, yes I was listening to sea shanties and yes it's still mermay, so this it what I gotta do 🏴‍☠️💕

Another addition to pirate shenanigans

I think bc Mermista is still a princess, she only goes full pirate on the weekends or vacay. Just for the chaos of it

*sings sea shanties of love*

If I see one more person call this couple heterosexual I will break your knee caps